refactor(approvals): persist title+options on channel/sender approval tables

getAskQuestionRender used to hardcode the card title and option labels
for pending_channel_approvals and pending_sender_approvals in the
DB-access layer, duplicating wording that already lived in the approval
modules. That caused a visible drift between the initial card title —
picked per event in channel-approval.ts ("📣 Bot mentioned in new chat"
vs. "💬 New direct message") — and the post-click render, which
always showed the constant "📣 Channel registration".

Mirror the pattern already used by pending_approvals: add title /
options_json columns on both pending_*_approvals tables via migration
013, have the approval modules write them at creation time, and let
getAskQuestionRender just SELECT.

- Migration 013 ALTERs the two tables to add title + options_json.
- PendingChannelApproval / PendingSenderApproval types and their
  create functions grow the two fields.
- channel-approval.ts / sender-approval.ts normalize options once
  and pass both title and options_json into the insert.
- getAskQuestionRender drops the hardcoded render objects and reads
  the stored values.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/db/migrations/013-approval-render-metadata.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+/**
+ * Persist ask_question render metadata (title + options_json) on
+ * `pending_channel_approvals` and `pending_sender_approvals`, mirroring the
+ * columns migration 003 / module-approvals-title-options added to
+ * `pending_approvals`.
+ *
+ * Before this, `getAskQuestionRender` hardcoded the title + option labels
+ * for these two tables in the DB-access layer — duplicating wording that
+ * also lived in the approval modules and causing a visible drift between
+ * the initial card title ("📣 Bot mentioned in new chat" / "💬 New direct
+ * message", chosen per event) and the post-click render ("📣 Channel
+ * registration", constant). Storing the render metadata alongside the row
+ * lets both sides read from the same source.
+ */
+import type Database from 'better-sqlite3';
+import type { Migration } from './index.js';
+
+export const migration013: Migration = {
+  version: 13,
+  name: 'approval-render-metadata',
+  up(db: Database.Database) {
+    db.exec(`ALTER TABLE pending_channel_approvals ADD COLUMN title TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT ''`);
+    db.exec(`ALTER TABLE pending_channel_approvals ADD COLUMN options_json TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '[]'`);
+    db.exec(`ALTER TABLE pending_sender_approvals ADD COLUMN title TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT ''`);
+    db.exec(`ALTER TABLE pending_sender_approvals ADD COLUMN options_json TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '[]'`);
+  },
+};

src/db/migrations/index.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { migration009 } from './009-drop-pending-credentials.js';
 import { migration010 } from './010-engage-modes.js';
 import { migration011 } from './011-pending-sender-approvals.js';
 import { migration012 } from './012-channel-registration.js';
+import { migration013 } from './013-approval-render-metadata.js';
 import { moduleApprovalsPendingApprovals } from './module-approvals-pending-approvals.js';
 import { moduleApprovalsTitleOptions } from './module-approvals-title-options.js';
 
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ const migrations: Migration[] = [
   migration010,
   migration011,
   migration012,
+  migration013,
 ];
 
 export function runMigrations(db: Database.Database): void {

src/db/sessions.ts

@@ -194,32 +194,20 @@ export function getAskQuestionRender(
     | undefined;
   if (a?.title) return { title: a.title, options: JSON.parse(a.options_json) };
 
-  // Channel-registration approval — options are fixed constants.
+  // Channel-registration + unknown-sender approvals persist title/options_json
+  // the same way pending_approvals does — just SELECT and return.
   if (hasTable(getDb(), 'pending_channel_approvals')) {
-    const c = getDb().prepare('SELECT 1 FROM pending_channel_approvals WHERE messaging_group_id = ?').get(id);
+    const c = getDb()
-    if (c) {
+      .prepare('SELECT title, options_json FROM pending_channel_approvals WHERE messaging_group_id = ?')
-      return {
+      .get(id) as { title: string; options_json: string } | undefined;
-        title: '📣 Channel registration',
+    if (c?.title) return { title: c.title, options: JSON.parse(c.options_json) };
-        options: [
-          { label: 'Approve', selectedLabel: '✅ Wired', value: 'approve' },
-          { label: 'Ignore', selectedLabel: '🙅 Ignored', value: 'reject' },
-        ],
-      };
-    }
   }
 
-  // Unknown-sender approval — options are fixed constants.
   if (hasTable(getDb(), 'pending_sender_approvals')) {
-    const s = getDb().prepare('SELECT 1 FROM pending_sender_approvals WHERE id = ?').get(id);
+    const s = getDb().prepare('SELECT title, options_json FROM pending_sender_approvals WHERE id = ?').get(id) as
-    if (s) {
+      | { title: string; options_json: string }
-      return {
+      | undefined;
-        title: '👤 New sender',
+    if (s?.title) return { title: s.title, options: JSON.parse(s.options_json) };
-        options: [
-          { label: 'Allow', selectedLabel: '✅ Allowed', value: 'approve' },
-          { label: 'Deny', selectedLabel: '❌ Denied', value: 'reject' },
-        ],
-      };
-    }
   }
 
   return undefined;

src/modules/permissions/channel-approval.ts

@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ export async function requestChannelApproval(input: RequestChannelApprovalInput)
     : senderName
       ? `${senderName} DM'd your agent on ${originChannelType}. Wire it to ${target.name} and let it respond?`
       : `Someone DM'd your agent on ${originChannelType}. Wire it to ${target.name} and let it respond?`;
+  const options = normalizeOptions(APPROVAL_OPTIONS);
 
   createPendingChannelApproval({
     messaging_group_id: messagingGroupId,
@@ -127,6 +128,8 @@ export async function requestChannelApproval(input: RequestChannelApprovalInput)
     original_message: JSON.stringify(event),
     approver_user_id: delivery.userId,
     created_at: new Date().toISOString(),
+    title,
+    options_json: JSON.stringify(options),
   });
 
   const adapter = getDeliveryAdapter();
@@ -151,7 +154,7 @@ export async function requestChannelApproval(input: RequestChannelApprovalInput)
         questionId: messagingGroupId,
         title,
         question,
-        options: normalizeOptions(APPROVAL_OPTIONS),
+        options,
       }),
     );
     log.info('Channel registration card delivered', {

src/modules/permissions/db/pending-channel-approvals.ts

@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ export interface PendingChannelApproval {
   original_message: string;
   approver_user_id: string;
   created_at: string;
+  /** Card title shown at creation and re-used by getAskQuestionRender on click. */
+  title: string;
+  /** Normalized options (JSON-encoded NormalizedOption[]) — same shape persisted on pending_approvals. */
+  options_json: string;
 }
 
 export function createPendingChannelApproval(row: PendingChannelApproval): void {
@@ -24,11 +28,11 @@ export function createPendingChannelApproval(row: PendingChannelApproval): void
     .prepare(
       `INSERT INTO pending_channel_approvals (
          messaging_group_id, agent_group_id, original_message,
-         approver_user_id, created_at
+         approver_user_id, created_at, title, options_json
        )
        VALUES (
          @messaging_group_id, @agent_group_id, @original_message,
-         @approver_user_id, @created_at
+         @approver_user_id, @created_at, @title, @options_json
        )`,
     )
     .run(row);

src/modules/permissions/db/pending-sender-approvals.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ export interface PendingSenderApproval {
   original_message: string;
   approver_user_id: string;
   created_at: string;
+  /** Card title shown at creation and re-used by getAskQuestionRender on click. */
+  title: string;
+  /** Normalized options (JSON-encoded NormalizedOption[]) — same shape persisted on pending_approvals. */
+  options_json: string;
 }
 
 export function createPendingSenderApproval(row: PendingSenderApproval): void {
@@ -26,11 +30,13 @@ export function createPendingSenderApproval(row: PendingSenderApproval): void {
     .prepare(
       `INSERT INTO pending_sender_approvals (
          id, messaging_group_id, agent_group_id, sender_identity,
-         sender_name, original_message, approver_user_id, created_at
+         sender_name, original_message, approver_user_id, created_at,
+         title, options_json
        )
        VALUES (
          @id, @messaging_group_id, @agent_group_id, @sender_identity,
-         @sender_name, @original_message, @approver_user_id, @created_at
+         @sender_name, @original_message, @approver_user_id, @created_at,
+         @title, @options_json
        )`,
     )
     .run(row);

src/modules/permissions/sender-approval.ts

@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ export async function requestSenderApproval(input: RequestSenderApprovalInput):
 
   const title = '👤 New sender';
   const question = `${senderDisplay} wants to talk to your agent in ${originName}. Allow?`;
+  const options = normalizeOptions(APPROVAL_OPTIONS);
 
   createPendingSenderApproval({
     id: approvalId,
@@ -102,6 +103,8 @@ export async function requestSenderApproval(input: RequestSenderApprovalInput):
     original_message: JSON.stringify(event),
     approver_user_id: target.userId,
     created_at: new Date().toISOString(),
+    title,
+    options_json: JSON.stringify(options),
   });
 
   const adapter = getDeliveryAdapter();
@@ -126,7 +129,7 @@ export async function requestSenderApproval(input: RequestSenderApprovalInput):
         questionId: approvalId,
         title,
         question,
-        options: APPROVAL_OPTIONS,
+        options,
       }),
     );
     log.info('Unknown-sender approval card delivered', {