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Problem

Stashing a prompt that mentions a machine (@ a linked environment) loses that machine. Restored in another thread, or after a reload, the chip comes back as "This context is no longer available", the machine is not sent with the message, and the source thread keeps an empty "0 attachments" draft in the sidebar.

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. While an agent question is open, restoring a stash that holds a machine is refused with a message and the entry is kept, since an answer carries no machines.

Scope

A bug fix for lost data: a stashed machine mention is dropped. A small fix for an obvious bug, so it needs no issue under CONTRIBUTING's Fix a bug section (prior-approval); I found no report of it.

Verification

To see it on Linux web: pair a second environment in Settings, Connections, and turn on Labs, Linked environments. In a new thread type @, pick that machine, press Ctrl/Cmd+S, open another thread and press Ctrl/Cmd+S. On main the chip is unavailable and a "0 attachments" draft stays in the sidebar.

Main b5b4705 first, then 021a340 (6655361 merged with that main). Web in the Browser panel; Linux desktop from each revision's build on Xvfb, every key and click an X event sent with xdotool. The new tests fail with main's useComposerStash.ts, and their question checks fail without the guard. Re-checked 2026-11-13 on 021a340 with main b5b4705.

Web, main b5b4705: chip unavailable, draft left behind.

Web, 021a340: the Build box machine chip, no draft.

Linux desktop, main b5b4705: chip unavailable, draft left behind.

Linux desktop, 021a340: the machine chip, no draft.

Question open, web, main b5b4705: after answering, chip unavailable and stash empty.

Question open, web, 021a340: restore refused, entry kept.

Question open, web, 021a340: after answering, restored with the machine.

Not checked:

• Mobile. It has no prompt stash.
• macOS and Windows 11 desktop: not run on 021a340. My runs there were on 7580e88, before main was merged into useComposerStash.ts.
• Restoring after a reload, and restoring while an agent question is open on desktop and mobile.

Method and more captures

• Revisions: main b5b4705 (CI push run green), 021a340: one merge of that main into 6655361 (one conflict in ChatView.browser.test.tsx, the import lists, both sides kept). 6655361 runs the open-question guard again after the stashed-file check and adds a test for it. The earlier merge 7cc778b kept both lines at the stash clear in useComposerStash.ts: the environment clear and main's reply-to clear.
• The stash schema and the importer already support environment records; prompt and chip serialization, attachments and thread contexts are unchanged.
• Restores went into an existing thread. Servers: built servers (vp run build:desktop) in bwrap with a private /run, hostname "Test machine"; the second server, "Build box", paired as a saved connection. The scripted Replay (dev) provider's Multi turn and Question scenarios gave the existing threads. On desktop, the app's debugging port (CDP) read element positions and state, scrolled targets into view and opened the Settings route for the connection setup; every scenario step was X input. On web, a short script in the page opened the Settings route and the Add environment form for the same setup; every scenario step was typed, clicked or pressed in the Browser panel. The desktop runs used a private D-Bus session with a scratch gnome-keyring, since the app stores saved connections in the system keyring.
• Code that ran: the client bundle holds ?.environmentContexts??[] once on main and twice on 021a340.
• The two new browser tests in ChatView.browser.test.tsx fail with main's useComposerStash.ts, because the page never shows the message "Stashed machines can't go in an answer"; with only the open-question guard removed they fail the same way. Tests on 021a340, Node 26.12.1: vp test run src/components/ChatView.browser.test.tsx src/components/chat/ComposerStashMenu.browser.test.tsx src/promptStashStore.test.ts: 22 passed, main's new chat view tests included. vp run typecheck in apps/web passes. vp run check:changed against b5b4705: format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests beside the change and react compiler pass.

Web, main b5b4705: the sent message shows the chip as unavailable.

Web, 021a340: the sent message carries the machine.

Linux desktop, main b5b4705: the sent message shows the chip as unavailable.

Linux desktop, 021a340: the sent message carries the machine.

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 save and clear draft environment contexts. Restoration is blocked when user input is pending and the stash contains an environment record. Browser tests cover rejection, stash retention, and restoration into another thread.

Changes: Composer stash context

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Save and clear environment contexts apps/web/src/components/chat/useComposerStash.ts	The stash includes the draft’s environment contexts and clears them after writing the stash entry.
Guard restoration during pending input apps/web/src/components/chat/useComposerStash.ts, apps/web/test/fakeEnvironment.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.browser.test.tsx	Restoration is rejected when user input is pending and the stash contains an environment record. The browser tests check that rejection retains the stash and that restoration into another thread succeeds. The fake environment supports pending user-input requests and deferred asset URL requests.

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Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#32324: Both changes use pending user-input state in the composer stash flow and update the fake thread fixture.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 66553

Stashed prompts keep their machine mentions. Restoring them is refused while an agent question is open, and the stash is retained. No merge-blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(web): a stashed prompt keeps its machine mentions" matches the main change. The PR saves environment-context records when a prompt is stashed, clears them from the stashed draft, and re…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description follows the repository template closely. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each is substantively filled in. The Problem section states the expected behavior…

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The title "fix(web): a stashed prompt keeps its machine mentions" matches the main change. The PR saves environment-context records when a prompt is stashed, clears them from the stashed draft, and refuses restores of machine-bearing stashes while an agent question is open. The title names the primary bug fix and uses a conventional commit format.

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The description follows the repository template closely. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each is substantively filled in. The Problem section states the expected behavior and reproduction steps: stash a prompt with a linked-environment mention, restore it in another thread, and observe the unavailable chip and leftover draft. The Change section explains the save-step fix and the open-question guard, and why both are needed. The Scope section classifies the PR as a bug fix and explains why no issue is linked. The Verification section lists focused tests, manual checks on web and Linux desktop, observed before/after results, and items not checked. It also includes before/after screenshots, as the UI-change rule requires. The title follows the conventional commit format in the PR objectives ("fix(web): a stashed prompt keeps its machine mentions"). Minor gaps remain. The Scope section gives no linked issue, though the author gives a reason. The description ends with the model and harness line, which the template asks for. The overall description is detailed and mostly complete, so it passes.

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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
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preserve its environment records until restoration can complete, so the stash
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apps/web/src/components/ChatView.browser.test.tsx:198
Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Keep machine records when restoring during a question.

If the destination has an active question and lacks the machine, the importer skips the machine record after restore removes the stash entry. The source record is also cleared, so the restored draft has an unavailable machine reference.

Preserve the machine record or defer taking the entry until restoration can preserve it. Add a focused regression test.

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.browser.test.tsx at line 198:
Update the restore/import flow so an active question with a missing destination machine does not cause the machine record to be discarded when the stash entry is taken; preserve the record or defer taking the entry until restoration can retain it. Add a focused regression test in the ChatView browser tests that verifies the restored draft retains an available machine reference in this case.

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- Line 198: Update the restore/import flow so an active question with a missing
destination machine does not cause the machine record to be discarded when the
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Verified in a real dev environment

verified unchanged head 9ed7a84e6e821095260b052f1d4288c66e94681d on a disposable linux vm using the dev web client, repo Playwright, /usr/bin/google-chrome, and real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local proxy. no mocks, fixtures, replay provider, or demo data.

• reproduced on github/main at 76b3e3390e: stashing a machine mention in a new draft and restoring in another thread produced Unavailable context and left the source machine-only draft behind.
• on the pr: the same prompt restored with a Machine chip and the source draft was empty. both the restored draft and a stashed prompt retained the machine across reloads.
• sent the restored prompt to Codex. its response identified the linked peer as fd5f8104-e786-404a-a876-6d8c5a5bcca1, with the correct machine label. this exercised client serialization, server context resolution, and provider receipt.
• asked Codex to open a real question with blue/green choices. restoring a machine stash showed "Stashed machines can’t go in an answer" and kept the entry. answering blue completed the provider turn; restoring afterward kept the machine intact.
• created the project through the app, pointing at a real git repository. linked a separate isolated server runtime through settings. only one web dev server ran at a time. the pr used an isolated copy of the app-created main data for matching captures.
• Blacksmith: 15/15 existing tests passed across ChatView.browser.test.tsx, ComposerStashMenu.browser.test.tsx, and promptStashStore.test.ts. the runner initially lacked Chromium; installed it and reran successfully. the head also has 31/31 successful CI checks. no code changes or pushes were needed.

before, on main:

after, on the pr with the same data:

real Codex question, refused restore with the stash kept, answer, then successful restore:

Not verified

native desktop, native iOS/Android, macOS/Windows, T3 Connect/tunnel routing, and providers other than Codex were not exercised. both environments ran on this linux vm over loopback, so cross-machine networking is unverified. no performance claim is made.

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@maria-rcks I ran the question-open restore on the web client in the Browser panel, with a stash that mentions a second test machine and a destination thread whose agent question came from the Replay provider's Question scenario. On 7580e88 the restore took the stash entry, and after the question was answered the prompt came back with the machine unavailable and no entry left to retry. On 9ed7a84 the restore shows "Stashed machines can't go in an answer" and keeps the entry, and once the question is answered it restores with the machine chip intact. Not checked: desktop and mobile for this state.

7580e88, the destination with the question open, then the restored prompt after answering:

9ed7a84, the refusal with the entry kept, then the restore after answering:

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I merged main into 9ed7a84 to clear the conflict in useComposerStash.ts, keeping both lines at the stash clear.
The new head c6bcd2e adds one test for the CodeRabbit review's question-open case; nothing else changed.

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- Around line 175-178: Recheck pending user inputs after attachment verification
completes and before takeStashEntry in the restore flow. Use a live read of the
current pending-input state rather than the pendingUserInputs value captured
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I merged main into 6655361 to clear the import conflict with #36390 in ChatView.browser.test.tsx, keeping both sides' tests.
The new head 021a340 leaves the stash code unchanged from 6655361.
Since the verified 9ed7a84, the branch also includes main's stash updates and re-checks questions after file verification, with regression tests.

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Evidence

Both sides: real web app, fresh synthetic data, real linked/saved second server, Replay provider, light theme, 1280×800 viewport.

Steps: insert a machine mention → Ctrl+S → restore in another thread → send. Repeat with an agent question open; answer and inspect the draft before pressing Ctrl+S again. Finally repeat with notes.txt, opening a question while real file verification is held pending, then releasing that request unchanged.

On base, the question path preserves the prompt text behind the question UI but loses its machine context. The captures below show that exposed draft before any further shortcut. Head retains the stash until answering; only head then needs another restore. Final stills have no refusal toast.

State	Before — 8cb551a3ce	After — 8de5c86fca
Restored in destination; source draft indicator
Sent message
Immediately after answering, before another Ctrl+S
Restore if stash remains; no extra shortcut on base
Question opens during file verification: after answering
File race: final prompt
Normal and open-question interactions	Before recording	After recording
Question opens during file verification	Before recording	After recording

Seed script · File-verification timing gate. The gate delays the real verification request without replacing its result.