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Problem

Stashing a prompt that mentions a machine (@ a linked environment) loses that machine. Restore the stash in another thread, or after a reload, and the chip comes back as "This context is no longer available". The machine is not sent with the message. The thread you stashed from also keeps an empty "0 attachments" draft in the sidebar, because the machine stays attached to it.

To reproduce: link a second environment and turn on Linked environments. In a new thread, type @ and pick that machine. Press Ctrl/Cmd+S to stash, open another thread, and press Ctrl/Cmd+S again to restore.

Change

Stashing already saves thread, terminal, review-comment and preview-annotation records, and restore already imports environment records. Only the save step left environment records out. useComposerStash now reads the draft's environment contexts when it stashes, saves them with the other records, and clears them from the draft it stashed, as #18843 did for thread contexts.

Scope and approval

This is a small fix for an obvious bug, so it needs no prior issue under CONTRIBUTING's prior-approval section. The stash schema and the importer already support environment records. This change only stops the save step from dropping them. Restore, prompt and chip serialization, attachments and thread contexts are unchanged.

Verification

• New browser test in ChatView.browser.test.tsx: stash a prompt with a machine chip in one thread, restore it in another. The restored draft holds the machine record, and the source draft keeps none. It fails on main (expected [] to deeply equal [ { kind: "environment", … } ]) and passes with this change.
• vp test run src/components/ChatView.browser.test.tsx src/components/chat/ComposerStashMenu.browser.test.tsx src/promptStashStore.test.ts: 13 passed.
• vp run check:changed 82b10d546c1041d8eff40425f076d61f608d518f: format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests beside the change and react compiler all pass.
• Merged with the open fix(web): stashing waits for pasted images to finish compressing #28308 and fix(web): a stashed prompt ending in a skill or file chip restores as a chip #28352: web typecheck passes and their stash tests pass alongside this one.
• Real browser, and the desktop app on Linux and macOS, against two isolated servers holding synthetic data, main against this branch, same steps.

Before: restored in another thread, the chip is unavailable, and the source thread keeps an empty draft in the sidebar.

After: the chip restores as a machine, and no empty draft is left behind.

After: sending the restored prompt carries the machine in the message.

Desktop app on Linux, restored in another project's thread: before, the chip is unavailable; after, it is the machine.

Desktop app on macOS, same steps: before, the chip is unavailable and the source thread keeps an empty draft; after, it is the machine.

Not checked:

• Desktop on Windows: this branch passed the same steps, but the main run could not finish before the test VM ran out of memory.
• Mobile. It has no prompt stash.
• Restoring a stash while an agent question is open. The importer drops machines in question answers, which this change leaves as it was.

Prior PRs

• fix(web): keep thread context when stashing prompts #18843 by saphid made stashes keep thread contexts. This change applies the same pattern to machines.
• feat(context): preserve references across copy paste and stash #10235 by chrisdeeming and feat(context): preserve references across copy paste and stash #11329 by juliusmarminge preserved context references across copy, paste and stash. They closed when that series landed in feat: add inline file previews and attachment chips across surfaces #11265.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 7135dcc

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Stashed prompts now retain their machine mentions and clear them from the emptied draft. This uses the existing stash persistence and restoration flow without changing defaults or triggering machine operations.

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Walkthrough

Composer stashes now include environment contexts from the current draft and clear them after a successful stash. A browser test checks that restoring a stash in another thread assigns the context to that thread’s draft.

Changes: Composer stash context

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stash and restore environment contexts apps/web/src/components/chat/useComposerStash.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.browser.test.tsx	The stash includes the draft’s environment contexts and clears them after a successful stash. The browser test checks that restoring the stash in another thread assigns the context to the new thread’s draft.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested labels: bugfix, size:S

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · up to 7135d

Restoring a machine stash during an agent question loses its machine attachment, requiring it to be attached again. This is a bounded issue for follow-up.

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Follow-up Comments

Keep machine stashes when a question is open.

198-198: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Keep machine stashes when a question is open.

If a user restores a machine stash while an agent question is open, useComposerContextImport.ts drops its environment records. This call then removes the stash, and Line 571 has already cleared the source record. The user must attach the machine again. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Reject this restore before taking the entry, or preserve the records until they can be restored.

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/chat/useComposerStash.ts at line 198:
Update the restore flow around takeStashEntry so a machine stash is not consumed
while an agent question is open; reject the restore before taking the entry, or
preserve its environment records until restoration can complete, so the stash
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