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feat(projects): choose where New project creates repositories - #32480
New project can now create repositories in a configured folder on the selected environment. Leaving New project location empty preserves <T3 home>/projects. Add project starts in remains the folder browser's initial location.
The setting is per environment and editable on web, desktop, and mobile. The shared server service resolves the destination for every named-project creation. Existing repositories stay where they are. Changes and clearing the setting apply to the next creation without restarting the server.
A follow-up commit sends the resolved destination in settings updates, so connected clients no longer show a stale preview after the setting changes or resets.
Before and after
Captured on macOS from isolated test state and disposable folders, not the live installation.
Baseline settings
Configured creation destination
Verification
Real web client: created Folder Location Proof under /tmp/t3-folder-demo/new-projects/folder-location-proof. Verified the folder, README, icon, and initial Git commit on disk.
In the same browser session, saved /tmp/t3-folder-demo/live-preview, closed Settings, and opened New project. Its preview immediately showed the new destination without a page reload or reconnect.
The new shared-client regression failed before the follow-up because the destination was undefined after a settings update. It passes with the fix and checks that unchanged settings retain their object identity.
vp test run packages/client-runtime/src/state/serverConfigProjection.test.ts apps/server/src/project/ManagedProjectFolders.test.ts apps/server/src/ws.test.ts: 37 tests passed. Creation tests cover a custom folder, name collisions, and clearing the setting to restore the default destination.
vp run check:changed passes on the latest commit.
Review fixes: mobile saves unsent directory drafts when you leave the screen, and the web New project location row shows Reset when environments disagree.
Native iOS verification has not yet completed. Windows, Android, relay/tunnel connections, and unavailable or unwritable destinations have not been manually exercised.
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New project always created folders under <T3 home>/projects, so people who
keep repositories elsewhere ended up with projects in two places. A new
per-environment "New project location" setting overrides that root
(with ~ expansion); empty keeps today's behaviour. The server derives
ServerConfig.newProjectsRoot from it, so the existing path previews on
web, desktop and mobile follow the setting. Editable on web and mobile.
Refs pingdotgg#14973
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The change adds a per-environment setting for the location used to create new projects. The server resolves the configured path, uses it for named project folders, and sends the resolved root in settings updates. Web and mobile settings screens expose project-location controls.
Changes: New Project Location
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Summary
Define and edit the project location packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsServerControlsRouteScreen.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts, docs/user/project-settings.md, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.restore.browser.test.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsServerControlsRouteScreen.test.tsx
The settings schema adds newProjectDirectory. Web and mobile Threads settings expose project-location controls. The web settings support mixed values, path normalization, search, and restore defaults. Documentation describes the setting and its empty-value default. Tests cover mixed-value restore labels and the mobile input mock.
Resolve the root used for project creation apps/server/src/project/ManagedProjectFolders.ts, apps/server/src/project/ManagedProjectFolders.test.ts
ManagedProjectFolders resolves a configured directory, expands home-directory syntax, and uses the existing root when the setting is empty. Named-folder creation uses the resolved root. Tests cover custom and default locations.
Propagate the resolved root in config updates packages/contracts/src/server.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/serverConfigProjection.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/serverConfigProjection.test.ts, apps/server/src/ws.test.ts
Settings update payloads can include newProjectsRoot. The server resolves and sends the root, and the client config projection applies it while retaining the current value when the payload omits it.
sequenceDiagram
participant ServerWebSocket
participant ManagedProjectFolders
participant ClientRuntime
ServerWebSocket->>ManagedProjectFolders: Resolve root from settings.newProjectDirectory
ManagedProjectFolders-->>ServerWebSocket: Return newProjectsRoot
ServerWebSocket->>ClientRuntime: Send settingsUpdated with settings and newProjectsRoot
ClientRuntime->>ClientRuntime: Apply server config projection
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Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge, t3dotgg
Merge Risk: Low · up to 77cc0
The new-project location setting works on web and in the server, and changes apply to the next creation. On mobile, an unsent directory draft can be saved to a different environment after the environment filter changes. Mobile also has no way to reset environments with differing directories to the default. Both are narrow edge cases that are worth fixing before merge but do not block the feature.
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The title "feat(projects): choose where New project creates repositories" matches the main change: a per-environment setting that controls the destination folder for named-project creation. It follows…
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The description covers the problem being solved (choosing a creation destination), the change, scope with links to related proposals and PRs, and verification with commands, results, and screenshots. …
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The title "feat(projects): choose where New project creates repositories" matches the main change: a per-environment setting that controls the destination folder for named-project creation. It follows conventional commit format and is specific. The changeset adds the setting across contracts, server, client-runtime, web, mobile, and docs, all of which support this title.
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The description covers the problem being solved (choosing a creation destination), the change, scope with links to related proposals and PRs, and verification with commands, results, and screenshots. It does not follow the template headings exactly: it has no explicit "Problem" section and "Scope" is framed as a feature proposal, which conflicts with the template's rule that only bug fixes are accepted and that the scope must link the issue showing the bug. The author states the PR is a draft pending maintainer approval. The template asks for a conventional commit title, which is met. The model and harness are named at the end, as the template requests. The main gap is the template's scope requirement, since this is a feature and the description does not link a bug issue or a maintainer request. Because the description is mostly complete, the check passes, but the resolution should note the scope mismatch.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/project/ManagedProjectFolders.test.ts around
lines 342 - 346:
Extend the test for folders.resolveNamedProjectsRoot to cover a configured root
beginning with "~/"; assert that it resolves relative to the user's home
directory, while keeping the existing absolute-path assertion.
352-357: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
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Reject relative paths in newProjectDirectory.
path.resolve resolves a relative value, such as projects, against the server process cwd. The destination then depends on where the server was launched. The server accepts any trimmed string from the client. Require an absolute path, or resolve relative values against home.
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Review comments at
@apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsServerControlsRouteScreen.tsx:
- Around line 418-431: Update the directory input flow in
SettingsServerControlsRouteScreen to retain trimmed, unsent drafts and save them
when the page is exited, even if Android Back hides the keyboard without
triggering onEndEditing. Follow the established draft-retention and exit-save
behavior in BranchNamingSettings, preserving the current no-op behavior when the
draft matches the saved value.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx:
- Around line 1564-1581: Update the New project location SettingsRow to provide
a reset action when mixedNewProjectDirectory is true or
settings.newProjectDirectory differs from its established default. Have the
action reset newProjectDirectory to that default, including when the
representative value is already default but environments are mixed.
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/project/ManagedProjectFolders.test.ts:
- Around line 342-346: Extend the test for folders.resolveNamedProjectsRoot to
cover a configured root beginning with "~/"; assert that it resolves relative to
the user's home directory, while keeping the existing absolute-path assertion.
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Failed pre-merge checks:
- Description check:
1. Add a "Problem" section. State the problem in one or two sentences. Include
the current behavior, the expected behavior, and the steps or environment where
the need appears.
2. Under "Scope and approval", link the triaged issue or the discussion that
contains explicit maintainer approval of direction and scope, with the approval
comment. Discussion #14973 is pending approval, so this requirement is not met
yet. Obtain maintainer approval before the PR leaves draft status, or explain
why an exemption applies under the configured rules. A new setting alone does
not qualify for the exemption.
3. Under "Verification", state anything not yet checked. The description already
lists iOS, Windows, Android, relay/tunnel, and unwritable-destination gaps, so
keep that list.
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Relative paths resolve against the server working directory.
path.resolve resolves a relative value such as projects2 against the process cwd. Cwd differs between desktop and CLI launches. The same setting can then create projects in different places. Settings UIs do not validate that the value is absolute. Resolve relative values against config.baseDir, or reject them.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx:
- Line 555: Update the restore confirmation’s “New project location” condition
so it reflects whether any environment has a custom location that restore will
clear, not only the representative settings.newProjectDirectory value. Keep the
confirmation aligned with the locations actually affected by restore.
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Resolve relative newProjectDirectory against a stable base.
path.resolve on a non-absolute value uses the server process cwd. A relative setting such as projects resolves differently depending on how the server starts. The setting is also sent to remote clients as a resolved root. Reject relative values, or resolve them against home or config.baseDir.
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verified unchanged head c5a1783e9209dfc66c59343daa012c8987274729 on a disposable linux boat vm, using playwright from the repo dependencies and /usr/bin/google-chrome against the real dev web client. only one dev server ran at a time, with task-local state and no mocks or seeded data.
baseline github/main at b48b8ea2a0019b3d38de09406fe8be820dd8df15: no new-project location setting; creating "location proof" used the default projects directory.
pr: settings → threads → new project location accepted ~/location-verification/custom projects. the preview expanded the home directory, and creation produced a real committed git repository there.
real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns ran through the composer. the first checked its working directory/git root and wrote/read verification.txt. a later turn confirmed that changing the setting left the existing thread and file in their original repository.
changing the location updated the next preview and creation without reload/reconnect. duplicate names produced location-proof-2. reset restored the default projects directory and creation succeeded there. "add project starts in" independently opened the folder browser at /home/user/.
blacksmith: 40 existing server/client-runtime/mobile tests passed, plus the existing restore-settings browser regression (1 test). github reports 22 successful and 6 skipped checks at this head, with no failures. no source changes were needed.
native ios/android clients, the electron shell, macos/windows path behavior, multiple environments with mixed settings, relay/tunnel connections, relative paths, and unavailable/unwritable destinations were not exercised. other providers were not exercised. the recording and screenshots cover the linux web client; native mobile behavior is not established by its passing tests.
takeover update, 2026-11-15
merged current main at cc4160c without rebasing, preserving both the directory setting and main's diacritic folding. pushed head 77cc099 to the existing contributor branch without force.
fixed the real relative-path finding: a relative new-project location now resolves against the environment's home directory instead of the server launch directory. absolute paths, home expansion, and empty/default behavior are preserved. the added assertion failed before the fix; blacksmith now passes check:changed, including lint, typechecks of 37 packages, and 136 tests. two independent reviewers approve this head. no mobile source changes were needed.
real chrome client verification: saved takeover-relative-projects, confirmed the preview under /home/user, and created two local git repositories there. the second used the collision suffix -2. both have initial commits. no remote repository was created.
native mobile, electron, windows, relay/tunnel, and unwritable destinations were not reverified in this pass. prior evidence above remains historical.
This PR changes the test suite by +1 test cases (browser +1, unit 0, server 0).
New browser test files: apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.restore.browser.test.tsx.
Each browser test file costs CI seconds of module loading before its first test runs; a unit test costs milliseconds.
Keep tests that would fail for a real reason, and test logic below the UI where it can be. See Testing.
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- Line 458: Update the directory input and exit-save comparisons that use
`uniformDirectory` so a mixed selection remains distinguishable from a saved
empty directory; clearing the input or entering only spaces must apply the blank
reset to all selected environments. Add a focused mobile settings regression
covering this mixed-directory case.
- Line 453: Update the directory draft tracking and saveDirectoryDrafts flow so
each draft records the environment selection it belongs to. Before saving,
discard drafts whose recorded selection differs from the current targets, while
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Do not save a directory draft to a different environment selection.
directoryDrafts stores each draft with only its text and saved value. When the environment filter changes, the input remounts, but its unsent draft remains in the ref. At screen exit, saveDirectoryDrafts uses the current targets. If the old and new environments both have an empty saved value, the draft passes the over check and can be written to the newly selected environment.
Record the target with each draft. Discard the draft when its target no longer matches the current selection.
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Review comment at @apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsServerControlsRouteScreen.tsx at line 453:
Update the directory draft tracking and saveDirectoryDrafts flow so each draft records the environment selection it belongs to. Before saving, discard drafts whose recorded selection differs from the current targets, while preserving the existing saved-value check.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Distinguish mixed values from a saved empty directory.
When selected environments use /a and /b, uniformDirectory returns "". If the user clears the input, this comparison suppresses the blank patch. Entering spaces also trims to "" and does nothing. The exit-save comparison has the same problem.
Retain the mixed-state distinction so an edited blank input resets all selected environments. Cover this case in a focused mobile settings regression.
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Review comment at @apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsServerControlsRouteScreen.tsx at line 458:
Update the directory input and exit-save comparisons that use `uniformDirectory` so a mixed selection remains distinguishable from a saved empty directory; clearing the input or entering only spaces must apply the blank reset to all selected environments. Add a focused mobile settings regression covering this mixed-directory case.
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New project can now create repositories in a configured folder on the selected environment. Leaving New project location empty preserves
<T3 home>/projects. Add project starts in remains the folder browser's initial location.Scope and related work
The setting is per environment and editable on web, desktop, and mobile. The shared server service resolves the destination for every named-project creation. Existing repositories stay where they are. Changes and clearing the setting apply to the next creation without restarting the server.
A follow-up commit sends the resolved destination in settings updates, so connected clients no longer show a stale preview after the setting changes or resets.
Before and after
Captured on macOS from isolated test state and disposable folders, not the live installation.
Verification
/tmp/t3-folder-demo/new-projects/folder-location-proof. Verified the folder, README, icon, and initial Git commit on disk./tmp/t3-folder-demo/live-preview, closed Settings, and opened New project. Its preview immediately showed the new destination without a page reload or reconnect.vp test run packages/client-runtime/src/state/serverConfigProjection.test.ts apps/server/src/project/ManagedProjectFolders.test.ts apps/server/src/ws.test.ts: 37 tests passed. Creation tests cover a custom folder, name collisions, and clearing the setting to restore the default destination.vp run check:changedpasses on the latest commit.Native iOS verification has not yet completed. Windows, Android, relay/tunnel connections, and unavailable or unwritable destinations have not been manually exercised.
Built with GPT-6.1-Sol in Codex and Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code. Live-preview fix and evidence by GPT-6.1-Sol in Codex through T3 Code.