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fix(web): seeded models yield to started thread selections - #24619
A seeded composer model now applies only before a thread starts. Started threads keep their own model and traits until an explicit selection changes them. Fixes#21139.
A saved default model could override an existing thread's model, showing a phantom “Context handoff pending” divider and sending the next message to another provider after it was enabled again. Fixes#21139 and addresses the same cause reported in #19956. This complements #19523.
Started threads now keep their actual model and traits until the user explicitly chooses another selection. The composer, handoff divider, new-thread carry and contextual prompt links apply the same rule, including threads with items but no run. Explicitly cleared options stay cleared; unstarted drafts still use their seed. Old draft selections without an explicit-choice flag follow the started thread's model. The shared started predicate also makes item-only threads reserve space for the context-window meter, a small consistent behavior change.
Thanks to @SwiggitySwerve for the diagnosis and original implementation in #21140. Contributor commits are preserved, with main integrated through merges. The takeover moves precedence into the effective-state derivation, retains the existing shallow subscriptions, and fixes both the empty-options fallback and item-only carry findings.
Five PR-added cases were replaced with four behavioral cases in existing test files. The focused eight-file run passes 413 tests. Web typecheck, touched-file formatting and lint pass; lint reports four inherited unused-import warnings. Earlier source-reversion probes reproduced the effective-selection and empty-clear failures. No checks were rerun during publication.
Fresh independent full-diff Opus and Sol round-three reviews found no source blockers. Both verified the fixes for explicit empty options and item-only started classification.
Fresh built-in Browser verification on this exact head passed all nine selection-matrix cases: implicit cross-provider seed, provider disable/re-enable, explicit handoff, traits over a seed, option clearing with and without a prior entry, unstarted seed, item-only carry/contextual link, and dispatch. Thirteen accepted dispatches completed through offline protocol peers. Fresh first-send promotion and a real foreground attachment-claim failure followed by restoration and successful retry also passed.
Publication does not establish current-head CI success; CI and subsequent review remain coordinator follow-up.
Current proof used the Linux web client at 1280×800 with isolated synthetic data and local offline Codex/Claude protocol peers. It did not call real vendor CLIs/APIs or verify native desktop/mobile, relay/tunnel or multi-device behavior. Mobile uses separate draft state and was assessed in source. Worktree-setup failure, background/navigation-during-send and concurrent-edit restoration were not proven. The actual model picker proved option clearing; no native Traits-menu unset action or effort-cycle keybinding was tested. Contextual links used the command palette. The unstarted seed was supplied as a fixture; automatic sticky-writer provenance was not tested.
Before — historical main 6567ffd559, showing the implicit Claude seed and phantom handoff. This is not a fresh capture of the current main baseline.
After — exact published head 093c34f843, showing Codex/Low and no phantom handoff. Fresh matching scenario, with a different synthetic prompt; no current-baseline before/after comparison is claimed.
Current head — actual attachment-claim failure restores the prompt, image and Codex/Low selection:
Current head — retry completes and clears the draft:
Historical interaction recording at 1fd2eebed6, from the earlier comparison against 6567ffd559: explicit model selection and dispatch. This recording is retained as historical evidence, not a capture of the published head.
Implementation: Claude Fable 5.1 via Claude Code in T3 Code. Tests/reviews: Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code and GPT-6.1 Sol via Codex. Browser proof and publication: GPT-6.1 Sol via Codex in T3 Code.
Takeover
Thanks to @SwiggitySwerve for the diagnosis and original work in #21140.
Rebuilt on current main using its extracted composer hook and one shared precedence rule. Traits target the displayed model; explicit empty options stay empty. Editing another model’s traits preserves the remembered default’s own traits. Item-only threads use their own model without changing context-meter spacing.
Evidence
Final head 39f1493f0d merges main 91ea0e18eb. The original matrix captures candidate a514925 against baseline eea9895. Later ef56e48934 additionally preserves sticky model A’s traits when shown model B is edited. The original captures do not prove that additional branch.
Web: Chromium 148 on Linux/Xvfb, DPR 1, 100% scaling; 1440×1000 and 390×844, light and dark. Synthetic isolated state; stale persisted seeds and empty-option clears are labeled harness steps in the real app.
Before — stale draft A overrides the started thread:
After — the started thread keeps B:
Visible changes include removal of the phantom handoff, selection/trait labels and adjacent control spacing, and copied/carried model values. Explicit empty selections now show catalog defaults rather than inheriting the thread's traits; the context-meter predicate is unchanged. Full details and editing provenance are in the index.
Baseline 8525000dce is the immediate parent of the sticky-traits fix; candidate is final head 39f1493f0d. Each revision/sequence/theme/viewport uses a never-used server home and fresh browser storage. The candidate also contains unrelated main merge changes; immediate sticky-state assertions isolate this branch.
Sequence, light/dark at 1440×1000 and 390×844
Baseline
Candidate
Coverage
Actual B Low → High; fresh no-model thread; sidebar return to B
Sticky A and fresh A become High; B retains High
Sticky A and fresh A retain Extra High; B retains High
0/8 clear-action cells: shipped Traits UI has no clear/reset/unset action
The 16 continuous headed-Chromium recordings use ffmpeg x11grab. There are 44 matched checkpoints, 88 settled stills and two full-frame amplified differences per pair (threshold 0 and 16); narrow captures include checked Traits-menu observations. Every recording was independently inspected and the narrow-dark set pair reproduced from fresh state on both revisions. Harness clearing calls the real store transition with null options; it does not establish a native unset gesture. Codex catalog defaults remain visible after explicit options are cleared, and the real High pick also saves the implicit Fast tier. The native interactive-clear requirement remains incomplete.
Verification log
Five focused regression cases fail before their respective fixes and pass afterward. composerDraftStore.test.ts: 69 → 74 cases; other test counts unchanged. The fifth catches traits leaking from the displayed model into a different sticky model, including clearing.
153 scoped tests pass across composerDraftStore, modelSelection, ChatView.logic, chatThreadActions and useHandleNewThread. Web typecheck and formatting pass; touched lint has one pre-existing purity warning.
Rounds 1 and 2: independent GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 full-diff source reviews both returned MERGE / MERGE. Round 2 includes the CodeRabbit sticky-traits correction. No source blockers or sensitive-surface changes; no regex/parser added.
Final proof audit: SUFFICIENT, all 32 cells, including 24 source-preservation equalities without reseeding. Independent head reproduction: open model-picker frame pixel-identical, A-seed eight changed pixels at maximum channel delta 1 (zero above16).
Unverified: Native interactive clear of B remains unproven because the shipped Traits menu has no unset action; the supplement labels all clear steps as harness-only. Native mobile, Electron shell, relay/tunnel and multi-device execution were not tested; their code is unchanged.
CI: Pending on publication; no final-head CI success claimed.
Tests and implementation: Claude Opus 5.5 / Claude Code in T3 Code. Reviews: GPT-6.1 Sol / Codex and Claude Opus 5.5 / Claude Code. Evidence and proof audit: GPT-6.1 Sol / Codex in T3 Code.
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A seeded composer model applies only before the thread starts; after that the
thread's selection wins unless the user explicitly picks a model or changes
traits, and clearing traits does not bring back the thread's traits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A composer draft is seeded from sticky state, project defaults, prompt links,
the command palette, or the new-thread carry. That seed kept overriding a
started thread's own model and traits, so reopening a thread could silently
switch its model or queue a handoff the user never asked for.
The seed now applies only until the thread starts; afterwards the thread's
selection wins unless the user explicitly picked a model or changed traits.
The same rule gates the provider candidate, effective model and options,
pending handoff, prompt-link context, and new-thread carry. Trait changes now
apply to the model the composer shows, and cleared traits stay cleared rather
than falling back to the thread's options.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Started threads now prefer their existing provider/model over implicit draft seeds, while explicit picks still win. This changes the effective default selection for existing conversations and requires confirmation of the intended product behavior.
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Composer model selection now distinguishes explicit draft choices from seeded selections on started threads. Model options are also tracked by model, so trait changes for one model do not replace another model’s sticky selection.
Changes: Started-thread model selection
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Summary
Selection applicability and model state apps/web/src/lib/chatThreadActions.ts, apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts, apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.test.ts, apps/web/src/modelSelection.test.ts
Shared helpers identify started threads and determine whether draft selections apply. Effective model state filters draft selections and options using this rule. Option updates keep per-model options distinct from another model’s sticky selection. Tests cover seeded and explicit selections, started-thread behavior, and trait updates.
Composer provider resolution and model selection use the thread’s started state and the draft’s explicit-selection flag. Pending handoffs use the composer selection only when it applies; otherwise, they use the thread selection. A browser test covers selecting a seeded model on a started thread.
Prompt links and new-thread carryover apps/web/src/components/CommandPalette.tsx, apps/web/src/components/promptLinks/copyPromptLink.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useHandleNewThread.ts
Prompt-link model resolution and provider carryover to a new thread apply the same started-thread selection rule.
On a started thread, clearing a model's traits may bring back the old trait value. The model-precedence fix itself looks sound. Fix the clear case before merge or accept it as a small follow-up.
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The title "fix(web): seeded models yield to started thread selections" follows conventional commit format and names the main change: a seeded composer model applies only before a thread starts, and st…
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The description follows the template's main sections. It has a clear problem statement (a saved default model overrode an existing thread's model, showing a phantom handoff divider), a change explanat…
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The only linked issue is #21139. Its state is closed, and the linked-issue record marks it as historical context only. Under the assessment rules, no active directly linked target remains, so no linke…
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All changed files in the whole-PR summary are under apps/web. Each change connects to the defect in #21139, where a non-explicit seeded model overrides a started thread's model and traits. Groups: (1)…
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The title "fix(web): seeded models yield to started thread selections" follows conventional commit format and names the main change: a seeded composer model applies only before a thread starts, and started threads keep their own model and traits. The changeset (threadHasStarted, draftModelSelectionApplies, useComposerProviderModel, composerDraftStore precedence changes) matches this title.
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The description follows the template's main sections. It has a clear problem statement (a saved default model overrode an existing thread's model, showing a phantom handoff divider), a change explanation (started threads keep their model and traits until an explicit selection), and a scope note linking #21139 as the bug. Verification is extensive, with focused test counts, browser matrix evidence, and stated gaps. It is long and includes author-specific evidence, but the required information is present. The template's 'Scope' guidance (bug fix, not feature, linked issue) is satisfied by the linked closed issue.
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The only linked issue is #21139. Its state is closed, and the linked-issue record marks it as historical context only. Under the assessment rules, no active directly linked target remains, so no linked-issue coding requirements apply. The whole-PR summary (merge base 4c47315 to head 4e1dee6) still shows the reported behavior addressed. threadHasStarted and draftModelSelectionApplies in apps/web/src/lib/chatThreadActions.ts gate seeded draft selections on started state. Those helpers are applied in ChatComposer.tsx, useComposerProviderModel.ts, ChatView.tsx, copyPromptLink.ts, useHandleNewThread.ts, useComposerSelection.ts and composerDraftStore.ts. This result does not depend on that implementation. No source hunks were inspected for this assessment.
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All changed files in the whole-PR summary are under apps/web. Each change connects to the defect in #21139, where a non-explicit seeded model overrides a started thread's model and traits. Groups: (1) shared started predicate and draft-applicability helper in chatThreadActions.ts; (2) composer candidate and effective-state precedence in ChatComposer.tsx, useComposerProviderModel.ts, composerDraftStore.ts and useComposerSelection.ts; (3) pending-handoff selection in ChatView.tsx and ChatView.logic.ts; (4) prompt-link and new-thread carry in copyPromptLink.ts, CommandPalette.tsx, useHandleNewThread.ts and ThreadRouteView.tsx; (5) writer fix in setProviderModelOptions for trait changes, which the issue lists as a related writer gap. The tests cover these paths. One side effect is that item-only threads now reserve context-meter spacing, because the shared started predicate changed. The PR description discloses this as a deliberate consequence. It is not an unrelated change. The incremental heads 8525000 and 39f1493 were not used as the review base. The summary alone establishes this scope.
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- Around line 3057-3058: Update the trait-change handling around `shownModel` so
it keeps the displayed model and sticky selection aligned before `persistSticky`
writes per-model options. When the started thread displays model B while sticky
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Keep sticky options associated with the model whose traits changed.
If a started thread displays model B but its sticky selection remains model A, a trait change writes model B to the draft here. The persistSticky path at Line 3083 then writes B’s new options onto A’s sticky selection. ChatComposer.stepReasoningEffort can trigger this path. A new thread seeded from sticky state can therefore show A with B’s traits. Update the sticky selection and per-model options consistently without overwriting A’s traits with B’s.
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts around lines 3057 - 3058:
Update the trait-change handling around `shownModel` so it keeps the displayed
model and sticky selection aligned before `persistSticky` writes per-model
options. When the started thread displays model B while sticky state still
selects model A, preserve A’s stored traits and associate the changed options
with B rather than overwriting A’s traits.
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Resolve against main's model-pick persistence and option derivation:
threadHasStarted moves to chatThreadActions, setProviderModelOptions keeps
main's always-write shape with the shown-model and sticky-trait rules, and
option derivation keeps main's thread fallback over the gated draft.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The model picker's "re-pick the shown model" check read the draft's seed,
which a started thread does not show, so picking the seed's model did nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 1306: Update the selection logic around modelSelectionByProviderToOptions
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Do not restore thread traits after an explicit clear.
If a started thread stores reasoningEffort: "high", clearing its traits creates an explicit draft selection without options. Line 1306 skips that draft because its options are empty, then restores the thread's "high" option.
An applicable draft entry must suppress the corresponding thread options even when the draft entry has no options. Extend the existing trait-change test to check the effective options after clearing them.
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Update the selection logic around modelSelectionByProviderToOptions so an applicable explicit draft entry takes precedence over thread options even when it has no options; do not skip that entry and fall back to the thread’s traits. Extend the existing trait-change test to verify that clearing traits leaves the effective options cleared.
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Select Claude Haiku 5.5 as the default, disable Claude, start a new thread without touching its picker, and send "first message" on Replay/Showcase. Re-enable Claude and return without changing the picker.
Both sides: real web app, Chromium, 1280×800, light theme, fresh synthetic project, Replay Showcase; tool details hidden.
Base changes to Haiku 5.5 Medium and queues Showcase → Haiku 5.5; head retains Showcase with no handoff. Pairing screens and internal-path fields are masked in recordings.
The reproduction was captured through the unchosen selection and pending handoff; a second Claude turn and the subsequent provider lockout were not exercised.
Trait edits and deliberate model switches were not exercised; this scenario isolates the provider re-enable regression.
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A seeded composer model now applies only before a thread starts. Started threads keep their own model and traits until an explicit selection changes them. Fixes #21139.
Original description by @SwiggitySwerve
A saved default model could override an existing thread's model, showing a phantom “Context handoff pending” divider and sending the next message to another provider after it was enabled again. Fixes #21139 and addresses the same cause reported in #19956. This complements #19523.
Started threads now keep their actual model and traits until the user explicitly chooses another selection. The composer, handoff divider, new-thread carry and contextual prompt links apply the same rule, including threads with items but no run. Explicitly cleared options stay cleared; unstarted drafts still use their seed. Old draft selections without an explicit-choice flag follow the started thread's model. The shared started predicate also makes item-only threads reserve space for the context-window meter, a small consistent behavior change.
Thanks to @SwiggitySwerve for the diagnosis and original implementation in #21140. Contributor commits are preserved, with main integrated through merges. The takeover moves precedence into the effective-state derivation, retains the existing shallow subscriptions, and fixes both the empty-options fallback and item-only carry findings.
Validation at 093c34f843, integrated with main f740a97947:
Current proof used the Linux web client at 1280×800 with isolated synthetic data and local offline Codex/Claude protocol peers. It did not call real vendor CLIs/APIs or verify native desktop/mobile, relay/tunnel or multi-device behavior. Mobile uses separate draft state and was assessed in source. Worktree-setup failure, background/navigation-during-send and concurrent-edit restoration were not proven. The actual model picker proved option clearing; no native Traits-menu unset action or effort-cycle keybinding was tested. Contextual links used the command palette. The unstarted seed was supplied as a fixture; automatic sticky-writer provenance was not tested.
Before — historical main 6567ffd559, showing the implicit Claude seed and phantom handoff. This is not a fresh capture of the current main baseline.
After — exact published head 093c34f843, showing Codex/Low and no phantom handoff. Fresh matching scenario, with a different synthetic prompt; no current-baseline before/after comparison is claimed.
Current head — actual attachment-claim failure restores the prompt, image and Codex/Low selection:
Current head — retry completes and clears the draft:
Historical interaction recording at 1fd2eebed6, from the earlier comparison against 6567ffd559: explicit model selection and dispatch. This recording is retained as historical evidence, not a capture of the published head.
Historical explicit-selection recording
Implementation: Claude Fable 5.1 via Claude Code in T3 Code. Tests/reviews: Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code and GPT-6.1 Sol via Codex. Browser proof and publication: GPT-6.1 Sol via Codex in T3 Code.
Takeover
Thanks to @SwiggitySwerve for the diagnosis and original work in #21140.
Rebuilt on current main using its extracted composer hook and one shared precedence rule. Traits target the displayed model; explicit empty options stay empty. Editing another model’s traits preserves the remembered default’s own traits. Item-only threads use their own model without changing context-meter spacing.
Evidence
Final head 39f1493f0d merges main 91ea0e18eb. The original matrix captures candidate a514925 against baseline eea9895. Later ef56e48934 additionally preserves sticky model A’s traits when shown model B is edited. The original captures do not prove that additional branch.
Web: Chromium 148 on Linux/Xvfb, DPR 1, 100% scaling; 1440×1000 and 390×844, light and dark. Synthetic isolated state; stale persisted seeds and empty-option clears are labeled harness steps in the real app.
D source-preservation supplement · Raw-state ledger
Fixture matrix · Full recordings, timestamps and visible changes · Scripts, fixtures and 110 amplified comparison pairs
Before — stale draft A overrides the started thread:
After — the started thread keeps B:
Visible changes include removal of the phantom handoff, selection/trait labels and adjacent control spacing, and copied/carried model values. Explicit empty selections now show catalog defaults rather than inheriting the thread's traits; the context-meter predicate is unchanged. Full details and editing provenance are in the index.
Sticky-traits correction: partial proof
Candidate desktop-light recording · Scripts and evidence · Independent audit: INSUFFICIENT
Fresh isolated evidence replaces the invalid baseline above for the set branch and adds separately labeled harness-clear proof: proof matrix, captures, steps and timestamps, complete scripts and artifacts, independent recording audit and reproduction. Existing evidence remains available above.
Baseline 8525000dce is the immediate parent of the sticky-traits fix; candidate is final head 39f1493f0d. Each revision/sequence/theme/viewport uses a never-used server home and fresh browser storage. The candidate also contains unrelated main merge changes; immediate sticky-state assertions isolate this branch.
The 16 continuous headed-Chromium recordings use ffmpeg x11grab. There are 44 matched checkpoints, 88 settled stills and two full-frame amplified differences per pair (threshold 0 and 16); narrow captures include checked Traits-menu observations. Every recording was independently inspected and the narrow-dark set pair reproduced from fresh state on both revisions. Harness clearing calls the real store transition with null options; it does not establish a native unset gesture. Codex catalog defaults remain visible after explicit options are cleared, and the real High pick also saves the implicit Fast tier. The native interactive-clear requirement remains incomplete.
Verification log