eleven / messenger Public

agent: don't let bots reply to typing indicators (#222)

The chat app sends its "…is typing" beat as a relay-only ephemeral msg
frame (type:"msg", ephemeral:true, no id). The bot's frame filter only
dropped non-"msg" types, so ephemeral presence traffic slipped through to
processMsg — and in a DM (replyTrigger "always") the bot answered every
beat before the human hit send.

Drop ephemeral frames in onFrame. connect.op/connect.oauth grants are sent
as normal stored messages, so they're unaffected.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Paul Campbell 4 months ago c2bf7d7ac79e2e38e6c9c39e1778bba9b97f2346 parent afcc8a5

2 files changed, +10 −1

agent/runtime.mjs +5 −1
changelog/2026-07-05-bots-ignore-typing.md +5 −0

diff --git a/agent/runtime.mjs b/agent/runtime.mjs

index d357e41..62d922a 100644

--- a/agent/runtime.mjs

+++ b/agent/runtime.mjs

@@ -525,7 +525,11 @@ export function runBot({ name, session, builtinPersona = "", builtinDocs = "", t

} catch {

return;

}

- if (f.type !== "msg" || !f.thread_id) return; // ignore reactions/edits/typing/etc.

+ // Ignore reactions/edits/deletes/typing, and — crucially — ephemeral frames:

+ // relay-only presence traffic (the chat app's "…is typing" beat, live cursors)

+ // arrives as `type:"msg"` with no id (see hub.go), so the type check alone lets

+ // it through. Without this a DM bot (replyTrigger "always") answers every beat.

+ if (f.type !== "msg" || !f.thread_id || f.ephemeral) return;

if (!keys.has(f.thread_id)) await loadThreads(); // a thread we were just added to

await processMsg(f.thread_id, f.id, f.blob);

}

diff --git a/changelog/2026-07-05-bots-ignore-typing.md b/changelog/2026-07-05-bots-ignore-typing.md

new file mode 100644

index 0000000..3ad5548

--- /dev/null

+++ b/changelog/2026-07-05-bots-ignore-typing.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@

+Bots now wait for you to actually send. In a one-on-one chat with Eleven (or any

+bot), the little "…is typing" indicator was being mistaken for a message, so the

+bot would sometimes fire off a reply before you'd finished your thought. Fixed:

+typing is presence, not a message, and bots ignore it — they only respond once you

+hit send.