feat(conversation): implement a FIFO queue for handling conversationa… - #7179
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…l turns - Introduced `ConversationTurnQueue` to manage conversational turns in a first-in-first-out manner, allowing for non-blocking input during processing. - Updated `CrewRunApp` to utilize the new queue, enabling multiple user inputs to be queued while the assistant processes previous messages. - Enhanced the UI to display queued messages and their statuses. - Added tests to ensure the queue handles input correctly and maintains order without overlapping turns.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds FIFO conversation turn queues. ChangesConversational turn queuing
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant ConversationTUI
participant ConversationTurnQueue
participant Flow
participant ResultDrain
User->>ConversationTUI: submit messages
ConversationTUI->>ConversationTurnQueue: queue each message
ConversationTurnQueue->>Flow: execute turns in FIFO order
Flow-->>ConversationTurnQueue: return result or failure
ResultDrain->>ConversationTurnQueue: read completed futures
ConversationTurnQueue-->>ResultDrain: provide turn result
ResultDrain-->>ConversationTUI: render response and queue state
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| turn.future.set_result(result) | ||
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| def render(future: Future[Any]) -> None: | ||
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| result = future.result() | ||
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| message, future = self._conversation_turn_futures.pop(0) | ||
| try: | ||
| result = future.result() | ||
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Should the queue be part of the UI boundary instead of being a flow feature? My thinking is that the UI already knows when the turn has finished, and when it can send another message.
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| self._conversation_turn_in_progress = self._conversation_queued_turns > 0 | ||
| self._is_streaming = False | ||
| self._current_step = None | ||
| self._enable_conversation_input() |
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Queued input clears live turn display
Medium Severity
Submitting a follow-up while a turn is running still resets _current_step, _is_streaming, _streaming_text, _task_full_output, and _current_llm_text. That wipes the active response from the TUI, so steering a live turn hides the output the user is trying to steer.
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| self._current_step = None | ||
| self._enable_conversation_input() | ||
| if self._conversation_turn_queue is None: | ||
| self._enable_conversation_input() |
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Failed turn blocks further conversation
High Severity
A single handle_turn error closes ConversationTurnQueue for good, and the TUI keeps that closed queue. The input stays enabled, but later submit calls fail with ConversationTurnQueueStoppedError, so the session cannot continue after a transient LLM or network error.
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Queued chat hides failures then crashes
Medium Severity
_chat_with_message_queue records turn exceptions in a callback without printing them, and turns.submit is not guarded. After a failed turn the queue is closed, so the next user line raises ConversationTurnQueueStoppedError instead of the original error, or the real error only surfaces after quit.
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In `@lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/crew_run_tui.py`:
- Around line 930-931: Update lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/crew_run_tui.py lines
930-931 in the conversation-turn failure handling to treat
ConversationTurnQueueFullError as a rejected message: do not decrement
_conversation_queued_turns or mark the session failed. Update lines 969-971 to
settle accounting for ConversationTurnQueueStoppedError without overwriting the
existing _error, preserving the earlier root failure. Add tests covering both
queue-control states.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not classify queue-control outcomes as failed turns.
A ConversationTurnQueueFullError means the new message was not accepted. Line 931 decrements _conversation_queued_turns and sets the session to "failed" anyway. This makes the count incorrect while accepted turns still run.
A ConversationTurnQueueStoppedError means an earlier turn already failed. Line 971 replaces _error with the generic stopped-queue message, so the TUI hides the root failure.
lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/crew_run_tui.py#L930-L931: Handle full-queue rejection without changing accepted-turn accounting or session failure state.lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/crew_run_tui.py#L969-L971: Settle dropped-turn accounting without replacing the earlier failure error.
Add tests for both states.
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In `@lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/crew_run_tui.py` around lines 930 - 931, Update
lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/crew_run_tui.py lines 930-931 in the conversation-turn
failure handling to treat ConversationTurnQueueFullError as a rejected message:
do not decrement _conversation_queued_turns or mark the session failed. Update
lines 969-971 to settle accounting for ConversationTurnQueueStoppedError without
overwriting the existing _error, preserving the earlier root failure. Add tests
covering both queue-control states.
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Changes conversational turn ordering and threading for
handle_turnin CLI/TUI andchat(); failures now abort queued turns, but flows with human feedback are unchanged.Overview
Adds a FIFO conversation turn queue so users can submit the next message while a flow is still responding, instead of blocking until each
handle_turnfinishes.A new internal
ConversationTurnQueueruns turns on one worker thread (default up to 32 pending), preserves submittercontextvars, enforces single-queue-per-flow, and stops pending work with explicit errors after a failed turn (with telemetry for queue/full/dropped cases).Terminal
Flow.chat()routes through the queue when the flow has no@human_feedbackmethods; otherwise it keeps the previous synchronous read/process loop.The crew run TUI wires the same queue into conversational sessions: the input stays enabled during work, queued messages appear in a
#conversation-queuestrip and sidebar/header counts, user lines enter the transcript when their turn starts, and a timer drains completed futures into assistant replies. Session teardown closes the queue and drains remaining results.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit be46127. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.