[dw3105]

Problem

Provider instance badges take the first character of each of the first two words, so a display name like Codex (hub) gets the badge C(. That is hard to tell apart from the default instance's CO in the model picker.

Change

providerInstanceInitials now treats punctuation as a word break, so Codex (hub) reads CH. It already did this for _ and -. Apostrophes stay inside their word, so Theo's Codex is still TC. Emoji handling is unchanged.

Scope and approval

A small, focused fix of an obvious display bug in one helper, shared by web and mobile through client-runtime.

Verification

• providerInstanceDisplay.test.ts passes 21/21, including new cases for brackets, underscores, apostrophes, and a name that is only punctuated text.
• tsc-rs --noEmit for packages/client-runtime, lint, and format clean.
• I did not capture before/after screenshots of the picker badge.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at b27f069

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, self-contained client-runtime fix that corrects provider badge initials for punctuation-containing names while preserving existing apostrophe and emoji behavior. Its production impact is limited to display output, with targeted regression coverage added.

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📝 Walkthrough

providerInstanceInitials now treats punctuation as a word separator while retaining apostrophes between letters. Tests cover punctuation-separated labels, apostrophes, quoted text, and parenthesized words.

Changes: Provider instance initials

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update initials splitting and tests packages/client-runtime/src/state/providerInstanceDisplay.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/providerInstanceDisplay.test.ts	The initials logic uses punctuation as word separators and preserves apostrophes within words. Tests cover the updated cases.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: ipanasenko

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Changed systems: packages/client-runtime

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Systems and components

• observed — packages/client-runtime (library) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in packages/client-runtime/src/state/providerInstanceDisplay.ts: providerInstanceInitials now removes punctuation as separators, preserves apostrophes embedded between letters, and splits the result into nonempty words; the previous implementation only replaced underscores and hyphens.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/client-runtime/src/state/providerInstanceDisplay.test.ts: Added providerInstanceInitials expectations covering punctuation as word breaks while preserving internal apostrophes, including quoted and parenthesized inputs.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: instance badges now ignore punctuation when generating initials.
Description check		The description includes the problem, change, scope and approval rationale, focused verification results, and agent attribution. It also states that screenshots were not captured; this is a minor omis…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Explanation

The description includes the problem, change, scope and approval rationale, focused verification results, and agent attribution. It also states that screenshots were not captured; this is a minor omission for a small display-helper change and does not make the description incomplete.

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@packages/client-runtime/src/state/providerInstanceDisplay.ts:
- Line 33: Update the word-normalization flow in providerInstanceDisplay to
remove leading and trailing straight or curly apostrophes from each word while
preserving apostrophes inside words. Ensure leading, trailing, and
apostrophe-only labels produce the expected initials, and add regression
coverage for these cases.

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Note

🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Theo

Thanks for this fix. We took it over in #22918 so it can land now: your commit is kept with your authorship, rebased on current main, with a small follow-up commit on top. Closing this one in favor of #22918.