refactor(agent): tighten comments, extract constant, strengthen edge case test

- Extract synthetic user message string to module-level constant
- Tighten comments in _snip_history recovery branch
- Strengthen no-user edge case test to verify safety net interaction

nanobot/agent/runner.py

@@ -933,14 +933,15 @@ class AgentRunner:
                     kept = kept[i:]
                     break
             else:
-                # No user message in the kept window — walk backwards through
-                # non_system to find the nearest user message and keep it plus
-                # everything after it.  Providers like GLM reject requests
-                # where the first non-system message is not ``user`` (error 1214).
+                # Recover nearest user message from outside the kept window;
+                # GLM rejects system→assistant (error 1214).  Budget is
+                # intentionally exceeded — oversized beats invalid.
                 for idx in range(len(non_system) - 1, -1, -1):
                     if non_system[idx].get("role") == "user":
                         kept = non_system[idx:]
                         break
+                # If no user exists at all, _enforce_role_alternation
+                # will insert a synthetic one as a safety net.
             start = find_legal_message_start(kept)
             if start:
                 kept = kept[start:]

nanobot/providers/base.py

@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ class GenerationSettings:
     reasoning_effort: str | None = None
 
 
+_SYNTHETIC_USER_CONTENT = "(conversation continued)"
+
+
 class LLMProvider(ABC):
     """Base class for LLM providers."""
 
@@ -417,7 +420,7 @@ class LLMProvider(ABC):
         for i, msg in enumerate(merged):
             if msg.get("role") != "system":
                 if msg.get("role") == "assistant" and not msg.get("tool_calls"):
-                    merged.insert(i, {"role": "user", "content": "(conversation continued)"})
+                    merged.insert(i, {"role": "user", "content": _SYNTHETIC_USER_CONTENT})
                 break
 
         return merged