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fix(web): make Cmd+Z undo work from the composer and hold the notice on hover - #14339

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What changed

The thread Undo notice can now be used with Cmd+Z / Ctrl+Z from an empty composer that has no edits to undo. Composer text and deleted drafts keep their own undo history, while native text fields and terminals retain their shortcuts. Hovering the notice holds it open; leaving restarts its five-second timer.

The composer reports its actual editor history instead of guessing from input timestamps. Sends and thread switches clear stale history in place, keeping the editor mounted and focused. Each draft gets its own editor history identity:

  • A pending answer uses the existing environment/thread/request/question identity, so undo cannot restore a previous question's answer into the current answer or the normal prompt.
  • A queued-message edit uses its per-run edit draft, so undo cannot bring the thread's normal draft into the queued edit, or the reverse after leaving edit mode. This applies on server threads and on draft routes whose server thread already exists.
  • A draft becoming a server thread keeps the same history identity.

The notice releases its hover hold when it disappears so the next notice can expire normally.

These changes cover the shared web client and its desktop wrapper. User guidance for sidebar Undo and keybindings is updated. Changing a draft's machine clears its previous undo history while retaining its text; this minor limitation remains. Existing promotion behavior can move a mid-text caret to the end and is not changed by this PR.

Verification

At head f18d2fa (rebased onto main fed41fa):

  • vp test run src/composerDraftStore.test.ts src/components/ComposerPromptEditor.undo.test.tsx src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadUndoNotice.test.tsx src/hooks/showThreadUndoNotice.test.ts src/lib/editableFocus.test.ts in apps/web: 5 files, 172 tests passed. These cover mounted editor history and focus, history grouping after a reset, history scope keys, the notice hover hold, and editable undo ownership.
  • The new composerUndoHistoryKey tests failed before the queued-edit fix: the queued edit shared the thread draft's key on server routes and, with an intermediate rule, on draft routes.
  • Web typecheck, scoped lint (no new warnings) and formatting checks passed.

Earlier client observations, all candidate-only and made before the rebase and queued-edit fix:

  • At bb03435c10, with disposable fixtures, an empty-history composer restored a settled thread. Undoing a deleted draft restored its text and kept the thread settlement and notice intact.
  • On a later published revision, a real two-question Codex request kept each populated answer separate under Cmd+Z.
  • A promoted draft kept its undo history.
  • A real pointer hover kept the notice visible for more than six seconds, and the notice expired five seconds after the pointer left.

Not verified: no client run exists at this head. Queued-message edit isolation is covered by unit tests only. IME, the desktop Edit-menu accelerator and Windows/Linux keyboards were not exercised.

UI proof at this head is missing. Two attempts to record current before/after media through T3's built-in preview lost the preview automation host mid-capture (PreviewAutomationNoAvailableHostError), so no current recording is claimed. The clips below are historical and predate the history/focus repair and the queued-edit fix.

Historical UI evidence

Before, base revision 2a23c30ea60: the empty focused composer blocks thread Undo and the notice expires while hovered.

Historical before: empty composer blocks thread Undo and the notice expires during hover

After, earlier published revision c6d4d6542fe: thread Undo works from the empty composer and the notice stays while hovered.

Historical after at c6d4d6542fe: thread Undo and notice hover behavior

These GIFs sample real recordings at 6 fps and include injected captions. Source recordings: before WebM · earlier after WebM.

Original implementation by Claude Sonnet 5.5 in T3 Code. Readiness repairs by Codex workers and GPT-6 Astra in the Codex harness through T3 Code. Queued-edit fix by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code through T3 Code. Independent review by Claude Fable 5.1 (earlier repair) and GPT-6.1 Sol, high reasoning, Codex harness through T3 Code (rebase and queued-edit fix: approved with no actionable findings).

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes the default Cmd/Ctrl+Z behavior and coordinates undo history across the composer, thread/draft switches, global shortcuts, and sidebar notice timers. Because the change is cross-component and stateful rather than a small isolated correction, it warrants human review.

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Composer undo history is scoped to the current draft identity and can be reset explicitly. Thread undo shortcuts check editable undo ownership. Undo notices remain visible while held by the pointer and expire five seconds after release.

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Thread Undo

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scope composer undo history
apps/web/src/components/ComposerPromptEditorTiptap.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ComposerPromptEditor.undo.test.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx
The editor accepts a history scope key, registers undo availability, and resets history when the scope changes or controlled content is cleared. The chat composer and font preview supply scope keys. Tests cover undo behavior across clears, edits, and thread changes.
Handle undo shortcuts based on editable ownership
apps/web/src/lib/editableFocus.ts, apps/web/src/lib/editableFocus.test.ts, apps/web/src/routes/_chat.tsx, docs/user/keybindings.md, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
editableOwnsUndo checks registered editor history and text content. The chat route handles thread.undo in a capture-phase listener and prevents the event only when undo succeeds. Tests cover editable ownership. The documentation describes shortcut behavior.
Pause Undo notice expiry while hovered
apps/web/src/hooks/showThreadUndoNotice.ts, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadUndoNotice.tsx, apps/web/src/hooks/showThreadUndoNotice.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadUndoNotice.test.tsx
The notice component holds expiry on pointer entry and releases it on pointer leave or cleanup. The hook pauses expiry while held and starts a fresh five-second timer when released. Tests cover expiry while held, release, unmount cleanup, and reset behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant KeyboardEvent
  participant ChatRoute
  participant editableOwnsUndo
  participant undoLatestThreadAction
  KeyboardEvent->>ChatRoute: Capture keydown
  ChatRoute->>editableOwnsUndo: Check editable target undo ownership
  editableOwnsUndo-->>ChatRoute: Return ownership result
  ChatRoute->>undoLatestThreadAction: Invoke when thread.undo matches
  undoLatestThreadAction-->>ChatRoute: Return success or failure
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The prior risk of Undo moving text between pending answers is resolved at this head; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains from the reviewed change.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to fc891

The changes strengthen separation between drafts, questions, and threads while retaining safeguards against stale or repeated undo actions. No introduced security issue was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns complete downstream authorization coverage and some transition timing, rather than an observed bypass.

Retained concerns
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Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • observed — Thread undo is shared across sidebar, header, and menu actions and can restore a consecutive group of same-kind actions across multiple threads. The new composer shortcut invokes that existing displayed group rather than selecting a thread from composer content.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — No introduced cross-target restoration or arbitrary-target thread action was established in the inspected path. Composer content does not select the notice action, question and ordinary draft writes remain separate, and scoped history reset removes the prior editor-history route between destinations. This conclusion does not establish complete backend authorization coverage.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Undo claims use a token keyed by action kind and thread key. Display and invocation filter stale claims; invocation removes the group and finishes its current claims before awaiting restoration, preventing repeated invocation of the same group.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Restoration failures and rejected promises are reported without reactivating consumed claims; interruptions are excluded from failure reporting. Expiry finishes remaining claims, and notice disappearance or unmount releases the hover hold. The restoration failure handling predates this PR.
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