fix(agent): refine status output and CLI rendering

Keep status output responsive while estimating current context from session history, dropping low-value queue/subagent counters, and marking command-style replies for plain-text rendering in CLI. Also route direct CLI calls through outbound metadata so help/status formatting stays explicit instead of relying on content heuristics.

Made-with: Cursor

tests/test_cli_input.py

@@ -111,3 +111,33 @@ async def test_print_interactive_progress_line_pauses_spinner_before_printing():
             await commands._print_interactive_progress_line("tool running", thinking)
 
     assert order == ["start", "stop", "print", "start", "stop"]
+
+
+def test_response_renderable_uses_text_for_explicit_plain_rendering():
+    status = (
+        "🐈 nanobot v0.1.4.post5\n"
+        "🧠 Model: MiniMax-M2.7\n"
+        "📊 Tokens: 20639 in / 29 out"
+    )
+
+    renderable = commands._response_renderable(
+        status,
+        render_markdown=True,
+        metadata={"render_as": "text"},
+    )
+
+    assert renderable.__class__.__name__ == "Text"
+
+
+def test_response_renderable_preserves_normal_markdown_rendering():
+    renderable = commands._response_renderable("**bold**", render_markdown=True)
+
+    assert renderable.__class__.__name__ == "Markdown"
+
+
+def test_response_renderable_without_metadata_keeps_markdown_path():
+    help_text = "🐈 nanobot commands:\n/status — Show bot status\n/help — Show available commands"
+
+    renderable = commands._response_renderable(help_text, render_markdown=True)
+
+    assert renderable.__class__.__name__ == "Markdown"

tests/test_restart_command.py

@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ class TestRestartCommand:
         assert response is not None
         assert "/restart" in response.content
         assert "/status" in response.content
+        assert response.metadata == {"render_as": "text"}
 
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
     async def test_status_reports_runtime_info(self):
@@ -122,9 +123,11 @@ class TestRestartCommand:
         session = MagicMock()
         session.get_history.return_value = [{"role": "user"}] * 3
         loop.sessions.get_or_create.return_value = session
-        loop.subagents.get_running_count.return_value = 2
         loop._start_time = time.time() - 125
-        loop._last_usage = {"prompt_tokens": 1200, "completion_tokens": 34}
+        loop._last_usage = {"prompt_tokens": 0, "completion_tokens": 0}
+        loop.memory_consolidator.estimate_session_prompt_tokens = MagicMock(
+            return_value=(20500, "tiktoken")
+        )
 
         msg = InboundMessage(channel="telegram", sender_id="u1", chat_id="c1", content="/status")
 
@@ -132,12 +135,11 @@ class TestRestartCommand:
 
         assert response is not None
         assert "Model: test-model" in response.content
-        assert "Tokens: 1200 in / 34 out" in response.content
-        assert "Context: 1k/64k (1%)" in response.content
+        assert "Tokens: 0 in / 0 out" in response.content
+        assert "Context: 20k/64k (31%)" in response.content
         assert "Session: 3 messages" in response.content
-        assert "Subagents: 2 active" in response.content
-        assert "Queue: 0 pending" in response.content
         assert "Uptime: 2m 5s" in response.content
+        assert response.metadata == {"render_as": "text"}
 
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
     async def test_run_agent_loop_resets_usage_when_provider_omits_it(self):
@@ -152,3 +154,35 @@ class TestRestartCommand:
 
         await loop._run_agent_loop([])
         assert loop._last_usage == {"prompt_tokens": 0, "completion_tokens": 0}
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_status_falls_back_to_last_usage_when_context_estimate_missing(self):
+        loop, _bus = _make_loop()
+        session = MagicMock()
+        session.get_history.return_value = [{"role": "user"}]
+        loop.sessions.get_or_create.return_value = session
+        loop._last_usage = {"prompt_tokens": 1200, "completion_tokens": 34}
+        loop.memory_consolidator.estimate_session_prompt_tokens = MagicMock(
+            return_value=(0, "none")
+        )
+
+        response = await loop._process_message(
+            InboundMessage(channel="telegram", sender_id="u1", chat_id="c1", content="/status")
+        )
+
+        assert response is not None
+        assert "Tokens: 1200 in / 34 out" in response.content
+        assert "Context: 1k/64k (1%)" in response.content
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_process_direct_outbound_preserves_render_metadata(self):
+        loop, _bus = _make_loop()
+        session = MagicMock()
+        session.get_history.return_value = []
+        loop.sessions.get_or_create.return_value = session
+        loop.subagents.get_running_count.return_value = 0
+
+        response = await loop.process_direct_outbound("/status", session_key="cli:test")
+
+        assert response is not None
+        assert response.metadata == {"render_as": "text"}