fix(web): composer regains focus when you tab back into T3 Code

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Tabbing back into T3 Code left the input unfocused whenever something else had focus last, such as a button in the pull request panel or the page body. You had to click before you could type.

Now a window focus moves the caret to the composer. It leaves focus alone when a text field, the terminal, or an open dialog or menu already holds it, so returning to the app never pulls you out of a comment box or a picker. Mobile viewports are skipped so the keyboard does not pop up on return.

Verified in the web app: the pull request tab button, the page body, and a clicked header button all return focus to the composer. The pull request comment box, the sidebar search input, and an open actions menu keep their focus.

Created with Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Restores focus to the chat composer when returning to the app, unless focus is already on an input, editable area, semantic textbox, dialog, popup, terminal, or other intentional target.
  • Automatic refocusing applies on desktop when an active conversation is open and the terminal is closed; mobile behavior is unchanged.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for focus restoration and focus preservation across supported interactive elements.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds desktop window-focus handling that restores chat composer focus when the active element is not an editable or transient UI element. Adds viewport, thread, and terminal guards with focused unit tests.

Changes

Composer focus restoration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Focus eligibility contract and tests apps/web/src/components/ChatView.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.logic.test.ts	Excludes semantic textboxes and terminal-owned elements from composer refocusing. Tests eligible targets and exclusions for editable elements, dialogs, and popups.
Window-focus restoration apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx	Tracks mobile viewport state and restores composer focus after a window focus event when an active thread exists, the terminal is closed, and the viewport is not mobile. Cleanup removes the listener and cancels pending animation frames.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8624e

This change restores composer focus on desktop window return while preserving focus for editable and transient interfaces and excluding mobile viewports. No merge-blocking risk is currently identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Window
  participant ChatView
  participant ActiveElement
  participant Composer
  Window->>ChatView: focus event
  ChatView->>ActiveElement: read document.activeElement
  ChatView->>ChatView: check viewport, thread, terminal, and eligibility
  ChatView->>Composer: focus after two animation frames

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description explains the focus behavior, exclusions, rationale, and verification coverage. However, it does not use the required template headings, checklist, screenshots, or video for the interac…	Rewrite the description using the required What Changed, Why, UI Changes, and Checklist sections. Add before/after screenshots and a short video showing the focus behavior, then complete the checklist items or remove sections that are not a…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 25.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: restoring composer focus when the user returns to T3 Code.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The description explains the focus behavior, exclusions, rationale, and verification coverage. However, it does not use the required template headings, checklist, screenshots, or video for the interaction change.

Resolution

Rewrite the description using the required What Changed, Why, UI Changes, and Checklist sections. Add before/after screenshots and a short video showing the focus behavior, then complete the checklist items or remove sections that are not applicable.

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Approvability

Verdict: Would Approve

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The changes narrowly correct desktop window-return focus behavior, with explicit protections for terminals, dialogs, popups, and other text fields. The new predicate is unit-tested and the runtime change stays isolated to the existing composer focus flow.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	13.6 KiB	13.6 KiB	+27 B (+0.2%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	7.0 KiB	7.0 KiB	−4 B (−0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.5 KiB	6.6 KiB	+31 B (+0.5%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	57.1 KiB	57.1 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	10	10	0 (0.0%)	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	13.6 KiB	13.6 KiB	−49 B (−0.4%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	7.0 KiB	7.1 KiB	+4 B (+0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.6 KiB	6.5 KiB	−53 B (−0.8%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	57.9 KiB	57.8 KiB	−88 B (−0.1%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	10	8	−2 (−20.0%)	21	✅

Baseline: 7e03dcf · PR result: 8624ef1 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 113.9 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.6 KiB

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.logic.ts`:
- Around line 1039-1042: Update the active-element predicate in
ChatView.logic.ts to also treat elements with role="textbox" as editable,
preventing composer refocus while they are focused. Add a matching test covering
a focusable semantic textbox.

In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`:
- Line 4997: Update shouldRefocusComposerOnWindowFocus to check
getTerminalFocusOwner() and skip composer refocusing when the focused terminal
owner is "right-panel", while preserving the existing thread, terminal-open, and
mobile checks. Add a regression test covering window focus while a right-panel
terminal button is focused and terminalUiState.terminalOpen is false.

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