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Problem

When I hold Cmd, the first nine threads in the sidebar show their Cmd+1…Cmd+9 badges, but an unsent draft never does, even though drafts sit at the top of the list. Cmd+1 skips past the drafts and opens the first thread below them. So I can jump to an active thread to answer a question, but there is no shortcut to get back to the draft I was writing.

Steps on main (desktop app, default keybindings):

  1. Start a new thread, type a message, and don't send it.
  2. Open another thread. The draft now shows at the top of the sidebar.
  3. Hold Cmd. Threads show ⌘1, ⌘2, …; the draft row shows nothing, and no number opens it.

Change

Numbered jumps now count the draft rows the sidebar shows. Visible unsent drafts take the first numbers, and threads continue after them in their existing order, capped at nine as before. The badges and Cmd+N use the same list. Draft rows show the same badge as thread rows, in place of the discard button while Cmd is held.

One list of drafts now drives the draft rows, their badges and the jump targets, so the numbers can't drift from what is shown. That list keeps the existing visibility rules: the project filter, promotion and discard, and the open draft keeping the row it had when you opened it. The open draft's row now lives in that shared list, so it also survives opening and closing search. Search already hides draft rows, so while it is open drafts take no numbers and the jumps work as on main. Previous/next thread navigation, selection and snooze are unchanged.

Scope and approval

I'm filing this under the small-fix exception, without a prior issue. Draft rows are listed above threads and open with a click, but numbered navigation skipped them, so they never got a number even at the top of the list. Fixing that means drafts take the first numbers and the threads below shift down, which matches the order on screen. The fix adds no setting and no new shortcut and changes no keybinding. Bindings, conditions and the nine-slot limit are untouched. When no drafts are listed, numbering is the same as on main (see the last row of the table below).

docs/user/keybindings.md now says the jumps count unsent drafts at the top.

Web and desktop only. The mobile app also lists unsent drafts and has hardware-keyboard jumps that skip them, and it keeps that behavior here. It shows no badges, so I left it for a separate change if wanted.

Verification

  • New case in apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.browser.test.tsx. It renders the real sidebar with two unsent drafts, one of them open, and holds Ctrl to check for Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2 on the draft rows. It then clears the open draft's text, opens and closes search, checks that the row and both numbers are still there, and checks that Ctrl+2 opens /draft/<older draft>. On main it fails at the first badge check.
  • SidebarDraftBlock.browser.test.tsx now renders through the shared draft list. It also checks that the open draft keeps its row after its text is cleared, and that the row goes away once you leave the draft. The existing check that typing in another composer doesn't re-render the drafts still passes.
  • vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests and React Compiler checks all pass.
  • Manual check in the dev web app (vp run dev --no-seed, isolated .t3, a demo project with three Replay threads). I ran one script on main and on this branch: start a draft, type a message, open another thread, hold Cmd, press Cmd+1. The jump bindings were set without isDesktop, which the keybindings doc allows for browsers.
main this branch
Holding Cmd with one unsent draft before after
After Cmd+1 opens "Update README badges" (first thread) after cmd+1 opens the draft
No drafts (unaffected) threads are ⌘1–⌘4 no drafts threads are still ⌘1–⌘4, and Cmd+1 opens the first thread

Not checked: the packaged desktop app and Windows/Linux. Labels come from the same keybinding formatter thread rows use, and the jump handler is shared with desktop.

Created with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (T3 Code).

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Verdict: Approved at 84f7454

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Numbered sidebar shortcuts now include visible unsent drafts, with badges matching their on-screen order. The change is limited to navigation and presentation, without sending drafts or changing stored content.

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The sidebar now includes eligible unsent drafts in numbered jumps before threads, except during thread search. Routed drafts retain their arrival-time composer while listed. Tests and keybinding documentation cover draft numbering and navigation.

Changes: Draft jump navigation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Draft selection and row labels
apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarDraftBlock.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarDraftBlock.browser.test.tsx
useSidebarDrafts selects eligible drafts, applies project scope, and sorts drafts by creation time. It captures the routed draft composer when the draft is listed. Draft rows can display numbered jump labels. Tests cover the routed draft’s retained preview after its prompt is cleared and its removal after the route changes.
Sidebar shortcut mapping
apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx, apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.browser.test.tsx, docs/user/keybindings.md
Drafts precede threads in numbered jumps, except during thread search. Shortcuts navigate to a draft or to a thread index adjusted for the draft count. Tests cover numbering and navigation after the open draft’s prompt is cleared. The keybinding documentation describes the draft ordering and search exception.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant Sidebar
  participant useSidebarDrafts
  participant SidebarDraftBlock
  Sidebar->>useSidebarDrafts: Get draft IDs and routed draft composer
  Sidebar->>SidebarDraftBlock: Pass draft IDs and jump labels
  User->>Sidebar: Press a numbered jump shortcut
  Sidebar->>Sidebar: Select a draft or offset the thread index
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Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, utkarshusername

Merge Risk: Low · up to 65f03

The shortcut change is mergeable with a bounded test-coverage gap: add a check that the first thread shortcut still opens the intended thread after drafts take the earlier slots.

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KyrylR and others added 2 commits November 10, 2026 08:49
Unsent drafts are listed at the top of the sidebar but never got a
Cmd+1..9 badge, and Cmd+1 skipped past them to the first thread. Drafts
now take the first numbers and threads continue after them, with the
badges, the jump targets and the draft rows driven by one shared list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
useHandleNewThread now returns defaultProjectFallbackReady (6f8c743),
so the numbered-jump test's mock sets it like the file's other mock does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of KyrylR

Rebased onto main at 4c36119. The rebase had no conflicts, but typecheck failed on main's new defaultProjectFallbackReady field (6f8c743), which useHandleNewThread now returns. The new commit 65f030e sets it in this PR's test mock, as the file's other mock already does. 84f7454 is now 8946ff8 with the same added and removed lines.

#29678 now passes the preview state into the shortcut context. Draft badges and draft jumps read that same context, so the badges still appear exactly when the thread badges do, and the jumps still fire exactly when the thread jumps do.

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apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.browser.test.tsx: 1

100-173: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Test the first thread shortcut after drafts.

Extend the test with a visible thread and a Ctrl+3 binding. Assert that Ctrl+3 opens that thread after the two drafts. The current draft assertions do not exercise the thread-offset branch.

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.browser.test.tsx around lines
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Extend the “sidebar numbered jumps” test with a visible thread following the two
drafts and verify it receives the Ctrl+3 shortcut. Press Ctrl+3 and assert that
navigation opens that thread, preserving the existing draft numbering and
navigation assertions.

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- Around line 100-173: Extend the “sidebar numbered jumps” test with a visible
thread following the two drafts and verify it receives the Ctrl+3 shortcut.
Press Ctrl+3 and assert that navigation opens that thread, preserving the
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