M4b spec: approvals from non-approvers in direct messages go to an approver, with who asked and what

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/specs/2026-09-24-m4b-approvals.md

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # M4b design: approvals over Mattermost
 
-Status: approved by the owner, 2026-09-24, with P16 applied to the brief. It builds on M4a
+Status: approved by the owner, 2026-09-24, with P16 applied to the brief. Changed after the review
+of the same day (owner's decision): approvals asked by non-approvers in direct or group messages
+are redirected to an approver with who asked and their message (section 6). It builds on M4a
 (`docs/specs/2026-09-23-m4a-gateway.md`, section 12 there is the agreed outline) and M3a's approval
 path (`docs/specs/2026-09-18-m3a-decision-path.md`, section 6). Owner's decisions of 2026-09-24,
 changing the outline: **no reactions**, answers are commands only; an `[approvals] users` list
@@ -161,10 +163,33 @@ One thread per accepted `gateway.sock` connection. It reads frame 1 (bounded by
 checks the ids in it, and decides **where**:
 
 - If the session is `mm-<root>` and `state.in_flight` holds a turn of that session, the approval
-  goes into that turn's thread (its channel and root). This covers direct messages and channels.
+  goes into that turn's thread (its channel and root), **unless** the turn was asked by someone
+  who is not an approver in a direct or group message: no approver could answer it there. (In a
+  channel an approver can reply in the thread, so it stays.)
+- A redirected approval (asked by a non-approver in a direct or group message) goes to the first
+  approver's direct channel as a new thread whose **first post** says who asked, where, and what
+  they asked (review of 2026-09-24, owner's requirement: the approver must know who is asking,
+  their prompt, and what Boxmaker is trying to do):
+
+  ````text
+  **Approval 3** was asked by @alex in a direct message with the bot. Their message:
+  ```
+  Read the file /srv/notes/q3.txt and summarise it.
+  ```
+  ````
+
+  The message is the text of the turn that asked (a burst, joined), escaped and fenced like the
+  arguments; it is context, not what is approved, so it is cut at 2,000 characters with
+  `(… <n> more characters)` after the fence. The approval's own posts follow in that thread, and
+  the asking thread gets one line: `waiting for approval <id>: it was sent to an approver`.
 - Otherwise (`bxctl chat`, a session no longer in flight, later scheduled jobs), it goes to the
-  first approver's direct channel (`POST /channels/direct`), as a new top-level post whose own
+  first approver's direct channel as a new thread whose first post says
-  thread is where it is answered.
+  `**Approval <id>** was asked in session `<session>`, which gatewayd does not follow now (a
+  restart, or a session from outside Mattermost).`, followed by the approval's posts.
+
+`gatewayd` knows who asked from the posts it queued: for each session it keeps the author of the
+last message queued, the channel's type, and, when a turn starts, that turn's text; it forgets them
+when the turn ends. They are not in the state file: after a restart the turn is interrupted anyway.
 
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