Shopify / Shopify/roast

Refactor agent provider message handling

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Description

The current mechanism that turns agent provider responses into Message instances (under lib/roast/cogs/agent/providers/) is not optimal and hard to maintain long term.

It would be good to have a better way of constructing the agent cogs' message objects from provider responses.

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Research direction

Start by reading the provider implementations under lib/roast/cogs/agent/providers/ and trace how provider responses are currently turned into Message instances. Identify the shared construction pattern and its maintenance problems before proposing a replacement. Done means agent cogs still receive correctly constructed Message objects through a clearer, more maintainable mechanism.

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Assessment

Tech stack
ruby
Domain
ai
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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