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Problem

Citing text from some assistant messages put the raw link [Assistant quote](t3-citation://v1/…) in the composer instead of a quote chip, with no comment field, and it stayed raw text in the sent message. The citation schema capped each ID at 512 characters, but Pi assistant message IDs nest the thread and run IDs and percent-encode them again at every level, so they grow past 512. The link was built without the check, and then failed to parse without any error.

Reproduced on main (a24ec90) in a fresh web dev server (T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0). With Pi (Claude Opus 5.5), a reply in a project's default thread:project:<uuid>:<uuid> thread (88-character thread ID) got a 533-character message ID. Selecting its text and clicking Cite inserted the raw link with no chip and no comment field. The control was a Pi reply with a 381-character ID in a thread with a 36-character ID, and it got the chip and comment field.

Change

• AssistantCitation now caps environmentId, threadId and messageId at a shared ASSISTANT_CITATION_MAX_ID_LENGTH of 4,096, up from 512.
• The longest href the parser accepts is now computed from every bounded field: text, comment, three IDs and the two context strings, each at the 9-characters-per-UTF-16-unit worst case for percent-encoding, plus 1,000 for the keys and offsets. The old fixed 16k allowance for selectors is gone. Any citation the schema accepts therefore fits under the link limit, so Cite cannot build a link the parser rejects.
• The link format is unchanged, and existing links parse exactly as before. Raw links saved by earlier builds now render as chips.

Scope and approval

Fixes #28075

This was triaged through the automated issue flow.

Verification

• Red test first: round-trips citations of provider messages whose IDs nest the thread ID in packages/shared/src/assistantCitations.test.ts. It uses a Pi-style message ID of 631 characters that nests an 88-character thread ID. On main, collectAssistantCitations returns [] for the serialized link:

  FAIL  packages/shared/src/assistantCitations.test.ts > assistant citation references > round-trips citations of provider messages whose IDs nest the thread ID
  AssertionError: expected [] to deeply equal [ { …(4) } ]
  

  It passes with the fix. The test for the largest possible citation ("accepts complete 8k CJK quotes and comments with maximum-sized source selectors") now uses 4,096-character IDs, so it still covers the real maximum.
• vp test run packages/shared/src/assistantCitations.test.ts: 21/21 pass. vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck of 35 packages, tests).
• Runtime check in the real app, using the same dev server and data as the reproduction, with the fix loaded:
  • Cite on the 533-character Pi message now shows the quote chip and the "Add an optional comment…" field.
  • The raw link saved as a draft on main now renders as a chip in the composer.
  • I added the comment "Which animal containers are mentioned?" and sent the message. It renders as a chip in the sent message.
• Regex: the CITATION_LINK pattern only had its upper bound raised (about 160k to 256,168 characters). It has no nested quantifiers. Malformed inputs of 3,000 tokens take under 0.5 ms; a single unclosed 300k-character link takes about 8 ms. Time grows linearly with input length.
• Not changed here: what the provider receives. The server sends citation links to providers as they are, whatever the ID length. That is the existing [Bug]: Cited assistant quotes reach providers as raw t3-citation links #16327 and is not fixed by this PR.
• Not checked:
  • Before/after screenshots are not attached.
  • The native mobile quote block was not captured. Mobile uses the same shared parser through renderAssistantCitationsAsText.
  • IDs over 4,096 characters still fall back to the raw link. No such ID has been seen; the longest the reporter saw was 684.

Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code in T3 Code), with review by GPT-6.1-Sol (Codex) and Claude Opus 5.5.

Takeover

No code changes; evidence and verification added below. The "Not checked" items above about screenshots and the native mobile quote block are covered by the captures in this section.

Evidence

Before = merge-base 2359643, After = head e3d7260; every Before column is 2359643 and every After column e3d7260. Diff0 marks any nonzero RGB difference (amplified to magenta); DiffT marks channel differences >16/255. Same synthetic seed on both sides (written through the real EventSink), the real dev app from each checkout, T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0. Send uses the bundled Replay (dev) provider, not a live Pi turn.

Environment. Web: Chromium 156/Linux (T3 preview), no device emulation, DPR 2, zoom 1, browser Date constructor frozen at 2026-11-03T01:00:00Z. Native: real Android app on a pooled Pixel 9 (Android 16/API 36), 1080×2424 physical, dark, font scale 0.94, animations off, status bar normalized.

Row	Before	After	Diff0	DiffT
C0 · web 1440×900 dark · 512-char ID control (A ≈2.4s)
W1 · web 1440×900 dark · Cite on 631-char ID (A ≈8s)
W2 · web 1440×900 dark · sent with comment, popover (A ≈26.5s)
W3 · web 390×844 light, rich text off · legacy raw draft after edit/clear/reload (B ≈0:44)
W3b · web 390×844 light, rich text on (default) · legacy raw draft after edit/clear/reload (≈0:49)
W4 · web 390×844 light · sent without comment, quote-only popover (B ≈1:19)
M1 + M2 · Android Pixel 9 dark · native quote without / with comment

Recording A (1440×900 dark; seconds from driver start): 0 select the 512-char source · 1 Cite · 4 Cancel · 5 select the 631-char source · 6 Cite · 10 type comment · 12 Save · 13 paste the identical serialized commented citation on both sides · 15 Send · 25 open the sent chip · 29 Go to source · hold to 34. A-before.mp4 · A-after.mp4

Recording B (390×844 light, rich text off): 0:00 legacy raw draft saved by main's composer · 0:11 pencil · 0:15 type comment · 0:18 Save · 0:22 reopen · 0:25 clear comment · 0:28 Save · 0:32 reload · 0:51 clear composer · 0:53 select source · 0:55 Cite · 0:59 Cancel new chip · 1:02 restore the no-comment draft · 1:06 Send · 1:18 open sent chip. Main has no pencil/Save/Cancel/popover and keeps the raw link. B-before.mp4 · B-after.mp4

Recording W3b (390×844 light, rich text on): 0:10 pencil · 0:14 type comment · 0:17 Save · 0:21 reopen · 0:24 clear comment · 0:27 Save · 0:31 reload · 1:04 clear composer · 1:06 select source · 1:08 Cite · 1:12 Cancel · 1:15 restore the original draft. After the edit, clear and reload, the draft bytes match the ones main saved. W3b-before.mp4 · W3b-after.mp4

What else changed:

• Raw [Assistant quote](t3-citation://…) text in the composer becomes a compact chip, so the composer shrinks (W1, W3); on 1440 the comment editor opens under the selected source and covers part of the next paragraph (W1).
• Sent links labelled "Assistant quote" become chips labelled with the comment or quote, so their bubbles widen; this also applies to the surrounding seeded citation bubbles in every web row. Their popover covers parts of neighbouring bubbles (W2, W4).
• Native: the generic link becomes a quote block plus a separate Comment: paragraph; bubbles grow and move timestamps and copy controls (M1, M2).
• W3b: nine pixels on the send button's shading differ above 16/255 between the two runs; the citation change does not touch that button.
• No other unrelated visual change was found; this is a reviewed observation, not a zero-pixel claim.

Not captured (supplementary, covered at parser level): maximum-size 4,096-char IDs with 8k quote and comment (H1), queue/stash/title/find previews (A1), source-unavailable navigation (N1), and rejected 4,097-char or malformed links (C1). Their parser and caller coverage is in the fixture matrix and base/head parser diagnostic. Native logical viewport and DPR were not measured. At 390 wide, while the comment editor has focus, the composer collapses to its one-line row, which prints the prompt's raw text including citation markup (W3b 1:08–1:12); that row is unchanged by this PR and the same for short IDs.

Rebuild check: the audit rebuilt W1-after from the uploaded seed and driver: 0 of 1,024,000 pixels differ (rebuild, Diff0).

Scripts and fixtures (synthetic, not committed): fixtures.json · seed.mjs · seed-mobile.mjs · web-driver.js · driver-b-retake.js · native-driver.sh · REPRODUCE (A, C) · REPRODUCE (B) · all scripts A/C · all scripts B · driver-w3b.js · REPRODUCE (W3b) · all scripts W3b

Verification log

• Round: evidence-only takeover round 1 on head e3d7260; no code, tests or reviews changed.
• Proof audit pass 1 derived an 11-row fixture matrix; minimum set C0, W1, W2 (recording A), W3, W4 (recording B), M1, M2 (native frame C).
• Captures: A and C in the first pass; W3 and W4 retaken after reload frames kept a "Syncing messages" indicator; W3 retaken with rich text on after audit pass 2 asked for the opposite composer mode.
• Proof audit pass 2: every row sufficient except W3 (rich-text mode); W1 rebuild pixel-identical. Follow-up audit of W3b: rich text confirmed on for both sides, draft recovery, edit, clear, reload and byte preservation pass; the nine send-button pixels are edge rasterization noise (max delta 40). It flagged the 1:08–1:12 Cite → Cancel segment: at 390 wide the composer collapses while the comment editor has focus, and its one-line row prints the raw prompt text. That row is ChatComposer.tsx code this PR does not touch and behaves the same for short IDs; Cancel removing a long-ID chip is shown cleanly in recording B (0:55–0:59), which pass 2 accepted.
• Tests: unchanged; assistantCitations.test.ts 21/21 per the description above.
• CI: 40/40 checks green on e3d7260 at the time of this update.
• Unverified: H1, A1, N1, C1 visually (parser-verified); native logical viewport and DPR; live Pi provider send.
• Evidence by GPT-6.1-Sol (Codex) step agents, led by Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code in T3 Code).

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 7e0a980

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Supports assistant citations whose identifiers exceed 512 characters, with a corresponding bounded URL-length allowance. Existing citation validation and content limits remain in place, keeping the exposure limited.

No code changes detected at 187a9e8. Prior analysis still applies.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: c90b678 · PR result: 187a9e8 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Walkthrough

The citation schema now allows environment, thread, and message IDs up to 4,096 characters. The href length bound accounts for these limits and the context length. The maximum-sized citation test uses the shared ID limit.

Changes: Citation ID limits

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Citation limits and validation packages/contracts/src/assistantCitations.ts, packages/shared/src/assistantCitations.ts, packages/shared/src/assistantCitations.test.ts	The schema sets a shared 4,096-character limit for citation IDs. The href length bound accounts for the bounded IDs and context length. The maximum-sized citation test uses the shared limit.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#28101 reports excessively long nested provider-derived thread IDs. This change raises citation ID limits but does not shorten thread IDs.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#28088 also changes citation ID acceptance for long IDs and citation-link validation.
• pingdotgg/t3code#33124 uses AssistantCitation for reply targets, so its citation format is governed by these limits.
• pingdotgg/t3code#32602 handles citations in draft text; this change affects the ID and href lengths its citation parsing accepts.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check		The schema, parser bound, and maximum-size test support issue #28075. The current diff also adds shortens a long quote label without splitting an emoji in `packages/shared/src/assistantCitations.tes…	Remove the unrelated quote-label test, or provide evidence that quote-label truncation is required to implement issue #28075.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the change: citations now support assistant message IDs longer than 512 characters.
Description check		The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the reproduction, implementation, linked issue, test results, runtime evidence, and re…
Linked Issues check		Issue #28075 requires citations for assistant message IDs over 512 characters to parse and render as quote chips. The schema now accepts all three citation IDs up to 4,096 characters. The href limit i…

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Issue #28075 requires citations for assistant message IDs over 512 characters to parse and render as quote chips. The schema now accepts all three citation IDs up to 4,096 characters. The href limit is derived from the maximum field lengths and percent-encoding expansion. The maximum-size test round-trips a citation with 4,096-character IDs through serialization, parsing, collection, and rendering. This covers the reported 565-character ID and the observed maximum of 684 characters. IDs above 4,096 characters remain unsupported, but the issue's reported cases fall within the implemented limit.

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The schema, parser bound, and maximum-size test support issue #28075. The current diff also adds shortens a long quote label without splitting an emoji in packages/shared/src/assistantCitations.test.ts. That test covers quote-label truncation based on citation text. This PR changes ID limits and href parsing, not quote-label behavior. The test was added after the previous reviewed head and has no demonstrated connection to the linked issue.

Resolution

Remove the unrelated quote-label test, or provide evidence that quote-label truncation is required to implement issue #28075.

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Evidence

Verified the saved raw-citation draft case in the real web client: enter a citation with a synthetic 684-character message ID, reload the draft, and inspect it. Base leaves raw text; head restores a chip with an optional comment editor. On head, add a comment, send, and open the sent chip.

Environment on both sides: Chromium, 1280×800 CSS viewport, light theme, separate fresh databases with identical synthetic replay history.

Before	After
c90b67859a	187a9e88dc
Before recording	After recording: restore, comment, send, open

Seed script · Scenario source, corrected after manual verification

Scope: this proves draft restoration and subsequent comment/send/render behavior. Actual Pi text selection, Cite activation, and source navigation were not verified.

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

• Selecting text and clicking Cite in an actual long-ID Pi conversation was not exercised; the proof uses the explicitly requested saved raw-citation draft case with a synthetic 684-character ID.
• Go to source was not exercised because the synthetic citation does not reference a persisted source message.
• Desktop and mobile were not exercised.
• The scenario runner did not produce a successful proof verdict. The uploaded scenario includes corrected ID length and accessible-name locators but was not rerun after manual verification.