Forward the selected persona through the chat proxy

[tomchop]

Step 3 groundwork for agent personas. Found while wiring the UI selector, not by reading the diff.

The problem

/api/v2/agents/stream does not forward the request body. It rebuilds it:

agent_payload = {
    "user_id": username,
    "session_id": message.get("session_id"),
    "text": message.get("text"),
    "model": message.get("model"),
}

A persona sent by the UI stops here. The selector would have rendered, changed the request, and had no effect whatsoever — the failure mode that looks like a model bug rather than a plumbing one.

Why the allowlist stays

The obvious fix is to forward message wholesale. That would be a security regression: user_id is taken from the authenticated request, and a caller who could set it in the body would read another user's sessions. The shape is right; it was just missing a field. Added a comment so the next person does not "simplify" it.

Tests

Two, and both properties were previously unguarded:

• test_stream_forwards_the_selected_persona — verified it fails without the one-line change (1 failed, 3 passed), so it is not vacuous.
• test_stream_cannot_be_told_which_user_it_is — posts user_id: "someone-else" and asserts the authenticated username is what goes out.

The mock scaffolding is the fiddly part and is documented in _mock_streaming_client: httpx.AsyncClient(...) and .stream(...) are both context managers but only the client's is async. stream() is called synchronously and returns the async one, so an AsyncMock in that position produces an un-awaited coroutine instead of a response — which is exactly how the first attempt failed.

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Note

Committed with --no-verify. The pre-commit hook shells out to a host-side uv run ruff, which cannot read this repo's container-created .venv (Permission denied on .venv/bin/python3). Ran the hook's exact commands inside dev-api-1 instead — output above.

Needed by yeti-platform/yeti-agents#12, which reads persona off the request.