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targetUser Refactoring Plan (Revised)

Complete plan to remove targetUser from kontasks, using sessionId for routing

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on 10 Jan 2026, 12:09 am

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🔧 targetUser Refactoring Plan (Revised)

Root Cause: targetUser is used in runtime code but NOT defined in types.
This causes the type errors you saw: "The targetUser property seems to be used in code but not defined in the type."

🎯 Refactoring Goal

Replace targetUser (user-centric) with sessionId (session-centric) for routing kontask notifications. Sessions already know which user is connected.

✅ Keep (User Auth - Out of Scope)

  • Login/logout handling
  • User sessions (konui web sessions)
  • gvFlow.assignees[] - flows track who's working
  • username in WebSocket clients - for auth

❌ Remove (Kontask User Context)

File Lines What to Change
kontask-types.ts N/A No changes needed (already clean!)
kontask-db.ts 108-157 Remove targetUser extraction, assignment, logging
kontask-db.ts 314-316 Remove targetUser update handling
kontask-db.ts 547-557 Remove completeKontask() targetUser reassignment
router.ts 510, 568, 591 Remove targetUser from API responses
router.ts 753-790 Change routing: use sessionId instead of targetUser
router.ts 3585 Remove from list response
console-websocket.ts 726-758 Change notifyKontaskReady(targetUser) → notifyKontaskReady(sessionId)
admin-broadcast.ts 327-335 Remove targetUser from broadcast signature
mcp/server.ts 1501, 1534, 1576 Remove targetUser from MCP tool types
views/layout.ts 942, 1668, 1717, 1831 Remove notification filter, type def, assignee var, CSS
views/kontask-new.ts 134 Remove targetUser: 'claude' from form

📋 Implementation Phases

Phase 1: Fix Types (Stop the Bleeding)

The types are already correct! The issue is runtime code using a field that doesn't exist in types.

Phase 2: Update WebSocket Routing

  1. Change console-websocket.ts to route by sessionId instead of username
  2. Add getClientBySessionId() method
  3. Update notifyKontaskReady() signature

Phase 3: Clean kontask-db.ts

  1. Remove targetUser from createKontask()
  2. Remove from updateKontask()
  3. Simplify completeKontask() - just set status

Phase 4: Update router.ts

  1. Remove targetUser from API responses
  2. Use kontask.sessionId for routing
  3. Remove filtering comments

Phase 5: Clean UI & MCP

  1. Remove from mcp/server.ts tool definitions
  2. Remove from admin-broadcast.ts
  3. Clean views/layout.ts and views/kontask-new.ts

Phase 6: Update Docs

  1. Remove from konui/CLAUDE.md
  2. Update konsole/DESIGN.md and MIGRATION.md

🔑 Key Design Change

Before: kontask.targetUser → lookup WebSocket client by username
After: kontask.sessionId → lookup WebSocket client by sessionId

Console WebSocket clients already have sessionId from connection handshake. This is cleaner because:
  • Sessions are 1:1 with console connections
  • Users can have multiple sessions (future)
  • Kontasks are turn records, not user assignments

📊 Impact Summary

Metric Count
Files to modify 8
Lines to remove/change ~35
Type errors fixed All of them
Breaking changes None (field was undocumented)

This refactoring aligns with gvKontaskSchema.md: "Viewer-Invisible: Kontasks don't track who creates or views them (stateless)"

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Type General
Status Completed
Scope vibetools
Tags kontasksrefactoringschematype-errors
Created 10 Jan 2026, 12:08 am
Updated 10 Jan 2026, 12:09 am
Timing
⏱️ 94.2s
0 tools
● TTFE 0% ● Thinking 100% ● Tools 0%
Created By claude

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