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What Changed

  • Uses the environment and project permission fallback for new threads.
  • Adds per-provider-instance permission defaults in Settings → Providers, which take precedence over the fallback.
  • Makes implicit modes follow the selected provider while explicit draft choices remain fixed.
  • Applies the same defaults to fresh web, desktop, and mobile threads without changing existing threads or continuations.

Why

A single carried permission mode causes a Codex choice such as Auto to leak into new Claude threads. Provider-instance defaults allow configurations such as Codex → Auto and Claude → Full access, with one fallback for instances without an override.

Related discussion: #6771

UI Changes

Before

Before screenshot attached in the PR evidence.

After

The after screenshot is attached in the PR evidence.

Verification

  • Focused tests passed across contracts, shared settings, project defaults, server startup, web new-thread behavior, draft migration, and mobile persisted drafts.
  • Targeted contracts, shared, server, web, and mobile typechecks passed.
  • Production web build passed.
  • Browser verification confirmed the defaults persist and a fresh composer changes from Codex → Auto to Claude → Full access.

Checklist

  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why
  • I included before/after screenshots for the UI change

Models: gpt-5.6-sol and GPT-6. Harness: Codex.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added configurable default permission modes for new threads, including provider-specific overrides.
    • Runtime modes now resolve from project, environment, and provider settings, while explicit selections persist across provider switches.
    • Added controls to manage and clear provider runtime defaults.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Mobile tasks now wait for connected environment settings or queue when disconnected.
    • Improved draft restoration, migration, and imported-share receipt persistence.
    • Auto-started threads now use configured runtime modes.
  • Documentation
    • Updated permission-mode guidance to reflect per-thread selection and fallback behavior.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces configurable environment and provider defaults for agent permission modes and propagates them through web, mobile, and server thread creation paths. Because it changes product defaults and affects permission behavior across existing flows, human review is warranted.

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Before

Settings → Providers before provider permission defaults

After

Settings → Providers with a provider permission default

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The change adds provider-instance runtime mode defaults, resolves modes for new web, mobile, and bootstrapped threads, migrates mobile drafts, and updates provider settings, documentation, and tests.

Changes

Runtime mode defaults

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime mode contracts and resolution
packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, packages/shared/src/serverSettings.ts, packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts, packages/shared/src/serverSettings.test.ts
Server settings define global and provider-instance runtime mode defaults. Explicit modes take precedence, and null patches remove provider overrides.
Provider runtime mode settings
apps/web/src/components/settings/ProviderSettingsPanel.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProviderInstanceCard.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProviderSettingsPanel.environment.test.tsx
The settings UI supports global defaults, per-instance overrides, inheritance, deletion, validation, and read-only handling.
Web draft and thread resolution
apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/DraftHeroHeadline.tsx, apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useHandleNewThread.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useHandleNewThread.test.ts, apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.test.ts
Web drafts resolve runtime modes from destination settings and provider selection. Explicit draft selections persist across remapping and provider changes.
Mobile draft migration and task flow
apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/new-task-flow-provider.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/NewTaskDraftScreen.tsx
Mobile drafts accept schema versions 1 and 2, retain share receipts, clear runtime modes when requested, and resolve modes before submission or queuing.
Automatic bootstrap runtime modes
apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.ts, apps/server/src/serverRuntimeStartup.test.ts
Bootstrap threads resolve runtime modes from settings. Non-interrupt settings failures use default settings, while interruptions propagate.
Permission mode documentation
docs/user/permission-modes.md
The documentation describes fallback settings, project and provider-instance overrides, and explicit composer selections.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Composer
  participant ServerSettings
  participant ProviderInstance
  participant DraftThread
  Composer->>ServerSettings: Resolve destination runtime settings
  Composer->>ProviderInstance: Select active or default provider instance
  ServerSettings->>DraftThread: Apply provider, global, or explicit runtime mode
  DraftThread->>Composer: Store or use resolved runtime mode
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Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#10811: Both changes modify implicit new-thread runtime-mode resolution across web and mobile flows and share the provider-instance settings contract.

Suggested reviewers: shivamhwp

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fe41f

The permission-default changes resolve from the applicable thread environment and provider selection, with no remaining concrete merge-blocking risk.

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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding provider-specific permission defaults in settings.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required What Changed, Why, UI Changes, and Checklist sections. It also documents verification results and UI evidence for the settings changes.
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/mobile/src/features/threads/NewTaskDraftScreen.tsx`:
- Line 945: Update the canStart/handleStart flow around
selectedEnvironmentServerConfig so queued text-only drafts can proceed when it
is null, allowing the runtime resolver to fall back to DEFAULT_RUNTIME_MODE
while preserving capability-specific attachment checks. Add a regression test
covering enqueueing with selectedEnvironmentServerConfig === null and the
fallback runtime mode.

In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`:
- Line 8084: Update the runtime-mode resolution at the ChatView
provider-selection call to use the draft target environment identified by
activeThread.environmentId rather than the route settings environment, and
include environmentById in the relevant dependency list. Add a regression test
covering draft retargeting between environments with different runtime-mode
defaults and verify provider selection follows the new target environment.

In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/ProviderSettingsPanel.tsx`:
- Line 907: Update the provider override lookup in the settings selector using
providerRuntimeModeDefaults so inherited Object.prototype keys such as
row.instanceId "constructor" are treated as absent; only use an own, valid
override value, allowing the global-default branch to run otherwise and
preventing invalid input from reaching runtimeModeLabel.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/DraftHeroHeadline.tsx`:
- Around line 196-207: The runtime-mode seeding in the currentDraft fallback
should use one defaultModelSelection resolved from the target environment via
resolveProjectSettings(...).settings.defaultModelSelection, rather than falling
back to the stale project.defaultModelSelection. Compute that resolved selection
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