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fix(web): switching providers no longer drops the thread's stored effort - #33090
When a browser remembers no options for a thread's own model (another device, cleared site data, a thread started elsewhere), switching the composer to another provider instance and back saves the thread's model with no options, so the thread loses its stored effort and other options. Picking another instance's model and then turning that instance off in Settings also shows the thread's model without its stored effort.
Change
useComposerSelection.ts: a pick of the thread's own provider instance and model, with no options remembered for it, carries the thread's stored options. Remembered options still come first, unchanged from main, and any other model is picked without them. composerDraftStore.ts: draft options now win only for their own instance, so an unsent pick on an instance that is then turned off no longer hides the stored effort.
Scope
Bug fix: lost data. Switching providers and back drops options the user never changed. A focused fix of an obvious bug, so no prior issue; #24872's review flagged the dropped options outside that PR's diff. No contracts, server code, providers or connection modes change. Since main a98bc69, re-picking the model the composer already shows saves nothing and the thread keeps its stored options; this fix applies when the composer shows another model.
Verification
To see it on Linux web: 1. add a second Claude instance in Settings > Providers > Add provider; 2. in a browser that has not picked that thread's model before, open a Claude thread stored at effort High; 3. pick a model on the second instance, then the thread's model again: main shows Medium and saves the thread without its effort.
Re-checked on 2026-11-14 by an AI agent (Claude Opus 5.5) on main 820f620e3d, then on d874dfd62e, each on a Linux desktop dev server named "Test machine" with fresh state, in T3's Browser panel. Two Claude instances ("Claude" and "Claude work") on a placeholder API key, so each thread's first send fails to authenticate but the thread keeps its model and effort. A thread on Claude Opus 5.5 at High, opened in a second, fresh browser context: after a trip through "Claude work" Sonnet 5.5 at Max and back, main showed Medium and saved the thread's model with no options; d874dfd62e showed High and saved nothing, so the thread kept effort: high.
Main 820f620: back on Opus 5.5, the composer shows Medium
d874dfd: back on Opus 5.5, the composer shows High
Not checked: a send through a signed-in provider on d874dfd62e (earlier signed-in Cursor runs on ccc755848a, not repeated); desktop on Linux, macOS and Windows: not run (web code, no platform-specific path); mobile (its own pick code, not changed here); a remembered Low winning over the stored High; a thread stored with no options showing its model's default.
Records, the instance-off case and tests
d874dfd62e merges main 820f620e3d into 5d33b23090. Main 820f620 keeps a thread's options off a draft pick of another model, so the fix's stored options now fill in only when the draft does not pick another model, and its model check uses main's identity rule. 5d33b23090 merged main ca7a9448b8 into b22cdb76b4: main ac18091 makes a seeded draft yield to a started thread's own selection, so the fix's option merge now reads the draft main applies, and the unit test passes the new threadStarted flag with an explicit pick. The fix's own lines are otherwise unchanged. b22cdb76b4 merged main 5f69cac5c9 and adapted the model-pick test to a98bc69; cf8beebc1f merged main bf8e5e61b6 into 42c305bb68, where main's #35110 and #33124 changed other parts of composerDraftStore.ts.
Thread records, read from each test server's database after the trip (modelSelection):
main 820f620e3d, before the trip: {"instanceId":"claudeAgent","model":"claude-opus-5-5","options":[{"id":"effort","value":"high"},{"id":"fastMode","value":false}]}
main 820f620e3d, after the trip: {"instanceId":"claudeAgent","model":"claude-opus-5-5"}
d874dfd62e, before the trip: {"instanceId":"claudeAgent","model":"claude-opus-5-5","options":[{"id":"effort","value":"high"},{"id":"fastMode","value":false}]}
d874dfd62e, after the trip: {"instanceId":"claudeAgent","model":"claude-opus-5-5","options":[{"id":"effort","value":"high"},{"id":"fastMode","value":false}]}
With the Sonnet pick left unsent and "Claude work" turned off in Settings, main showed Medium on the thread's model and d874dfd62e High.
Main 820f620: "Claude work" turned off with its Sonnet pick unsent, back on the thread: Medium
Checks an AI agent (Claude Opus 5.5) ran on a Linux x86_64 laptop, Node 26.12.1: on d874dfd62e, vp test run --project unit src/modelSelection.test.ts (50/50) and vp test run --project browser src/components/ChatView.modelPick.browser.test.tsx pass, as do main's tests beside the changed files, composerDraftStore.test.ts whole included; with main 820f620e3d's useComposerSelection.ts and composerDraftStore.ts, "keeps a thread's stored options while the draft holds options for another provider" fails and the browser test fails at its alias step. vp run typecheck in apps/web and vp run check:changed 820f620e3d pass. vp run scenarios:prove, with a scenario kept out of this PR (two Claude instances on a placeholder key, a browser that forgets the composer's remembered options), fails on 820f620e3d (Medium) and passes on d874dfd62e. Covered by tests only: the alias case (gpt-5-codex) and a different model next to draft options never taking the stored options.
maria-rcks verified the earlier head 00fc14b638here, before #31739 moved where the fix has to sit.
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A draft that held options for any provider hid the thread's and project's
stored options for every provider, so switching providers in the composer
dropped the stored effort and other options of the thread's own provider.
Draft options now win only for their own instance, and the stored options
fill the rest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Provider switching now retains stored thread effort options while allowing draft options to override their own provider instance. Existing provider/model fallback safeguards remain in place, with no change to product defaults.
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Composer option resolution now matches stored selections by model identity, including aliases. Draft options take precedence. Model selection preserves active thread options when the selected instance and model match.
The resolver merges draft and stored options, with draft options taking precedence. It includes stored options when their model matches the displayed model or draft options do not resolve. Tests cover explicit overrides, aliases, and different models.
Model selection preserves active thread options when the selected instance and model match, unless remembered options are present. Browser tests verify the resulting selections.
Switching models now keeps the thread's stored effort in the normal case. In two narrow cases a different model could still inherit that effort: an unsent pick with no draft options, and a custom model whose name matches an alias. The effect is limited and the fixes are small, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness.
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verified unchanged head 00fc14b6387b06947232a40e480ad7fe79f6a3f1 on a disposable linux vm with the real web client, repository Playwright, /usr/bin/google-chrome, and Codex gpt-6.1-sol through the local proxy. installed dependencies with vp i in both checkouts and ran one background dev server at a time.
created the project, provider instance, threads, and real turns through the app. no mocks, fixtures, replay provider, or seeded database. used two available Codex instances to exercise instance-scoped options; Claude was not authenticated.
before: on github/main (bcee0f5d2872ba193c66ed9ba979bbe424f89ff9), opened a real Codex thread stored with high effort in a fresh browser. selected the second Codex instance, set medium, then returned to the original instance. the composer dropped to low. current main also persists model picks immediately, whereas this older PR head keeps them in the draft, so the PR comparison used a fresh thread created on its own head with the same model, high effort, and baseline prompt.
after: repeated that flow on the exact PR head in a fresh browser. high remained selected. sent a message from that composer; the web client's message.dispatch included reasoningEffort: high, Codex app-server received turn/start with effort: high, and the real response rendered.
neighboring behavior: the second instance remembered medium. explicitly choosing medium on the original instance overrode stored high. fast sent serviceTier: priority; switching back to standard sent default. both real turns completed.
focused checks through Blacksmith: cd apps/web && vp test run src/modelSelection.test.ts src/composerDraftStore.test.ts src/components/ChatView.logic.test.ts: 165 passed. GitHub reports 24 successful checks and 7 skipped, with no failures or pending checks. no source changes were needed.
provider protocol transcript, filtered from the running server's actual Codex logs:
after, with the same baseline prompt and initial model/effort:
14-second recording, shown as an animated GIF for GitHub: switch to the second instance, choose medium, return to high, and send a real turn. inspected the capture and checked the uploaded MP4 playback and seeking in T3.
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native desktop shell, iOS/Android, Claude/Cursor and other provider adapters, remote/relay/tunnel connections, and unavailable-instance fallback were not exercised on this linux web pass. the focused existing tests cover fallback-instance behavior; this is not a claim of runtime verification for those paths. no rebase or integration with current main was performed.
@maria-rcks thank you for testing this with real Codex turns. Your run fills the gap our description left open, a send through a real provider. High stayed selected after the trip through the second instance, message.dispatch carried reasoningEffort: high, and Codex received turn/start with effort: high. It also shows the neighboring behavior holds. The second instance kept medium, an explicit pick on the original instance still overrides the stored value, and the fast and standard switch sent the matching serviceTier. Your 165 focused tests match ours.
Your before run on main at bcee0f5 already includes #31739's immediate model-pick persistence and still drops to low, so the bug is still on main. The branch merges into current main without conflicts. As you noted, desktop, mobile, the other adapters, remote connections and a run on the merged result are still unverified.
The stored side keeps main's rule that an existing thread's options, even none, outrank the project's. Draft options still win only for their own instance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Main now saves a pick of the thread's own provider straight to the thread. When this browser remembers no options for that model, the pick went out with none and replaced the thread's stored effort. The pick now carries the thread's own options for its own model. The earlier fix in deriveEffectiveComposerModelState no longer has a flow that reaches it, so it is dropped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d's stored options
Brings back the per-instance rule for draft options. An unsent pick on a provider that is then turned off leaves the composer on the thread's instance without a new pick, and the other provider's draft options hid the thread's stored effort.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…with
Next to another provider's draft options, a draft that picks a different model of the thread's provider no longer takes the stored model's options.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The stored-options check next to draft options now uses the same model identity as the fallback-instance check: static aliases match, custom slugs only match exactly.
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@maria-rcks You verified 00fc14b638. The new head fa16e572e4 is more than a merge of main ab9df1d6ff: main's #31739 now saves a model pick to the thread before the next message, so after the merge my earlier fix in deriveEffectiveComposerModelState no longer took effect when you pick the model again. I added a fix where that pick is built (useComposerSelection.ts) and kept the per-provider rule in deriveEffectiveComposerModelState, now only for the model the options were stored with; it still matters when a provider is turned off before its pick is sent. What the user sees is the same as you verified: switching providers and back keeps the thread's stored effort.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/useComposerSelection.ts:
- Line 172: Update the threadSelection model matching in useComposerSelection so
selecting a canonical model matches a stored alias and preserves its options,
including effort. Keep exact identity matching for custom models, and retain the
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…s its options
The pick builder now matches the thread's model with the same alias-aware check as the composer's stored options, so a thread stored as gpt-5-codex keeps its effort when GPT-5.4 is picked. Custom model slugs still match only exactly.
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@maria-rcks Since fa16e572e4, the new head ccc755848a changes one thing: the pick path now treats a stored model alias (such as gpt-5-codex for gpt-5.4) as the same model, so it keeps the thread's stored options; nothing else changed.
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Minor · Require a model match for stored options. · composerDraftStore.ts:1187
apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts:1187 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Require a model match for stored options.
If an optionless draft pick is the only draft selection, draftOptions is null even when the pick names a different model. While the pick is pending, the composer can display and send the thread’s old effort for that model.
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts at line 1187:
Update the stored-selection condition around selectionsByInstance so stored selections are included only when storedIsShownModel is true, regardless of whether draftOptions is null; this prevents an optionless pick for another model from exposing the thread’s old effort while pending.
Minor · Require exact equality when either model is custom. · composerDraftStore.ts:1264
apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts:1264 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Require exact equality when either model is custom.
A non-custom gpt-5-codex normalizes to a custom gpt-5.4, so stored options can transfer to a different model. Skip alias normalization when either model is custom.
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Update the model comparison using modelIdentity so that if either model is custom, only exact model equality matches; apply alias normalization only when both models are non-custom. Use the existing custom-model classification in this comparison.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts:
- Line 1187: Update the stored-selection condition around selectionsByInstance
so stored selections are included only when storedIsShownModel is true,
regardless of whether draftOptions is null; this prevents an optionless pick for
another model from exposing the thread’s old effort while pending.
- Line 1264: Update the model comparison using modelIdentity so that if either
model is custom, only exact model equality matches; apply alias normalization
only when both models are non-custom. Use the existing custom-model
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Require a model match for stored options (composerDraftStore.ts:1187): when the draft holds no options, the stored options apply as they do on main. I checked the case you describe, an optionless pick of another model on the same instance, against main's composerDraftStore.ts, and it shows the stored effort there too. This PR only changes what happens when the draft holds options, so I left main's rule for an optionless draft as it is.
Require exact equality when either model is custom (composerDraftStore.ts:1264): this comparison is main's own model identity from the fallback-instance rule, moved unchanged into isSameModel. A custom slug is compared by its exact text, and only a non-custom slug is alias-expanded, so a stored gpt-5-codex matches a custom gpt-5.4 only because it expands to that exact slug.
@maria-rcks You verified 00fc14b638; my last note covered ccc755848a. The new head 42c305bb68 merges main cd8fc91a57 into ccc755848a and changes neither fix file (useComposerSelection.ts, composerDraftStore.ts). The one conflict was the test helper fakeEnvironment.ts, where main now has the same thread model field, so I took main's version.
Git resolved every file; the next commit adapts this PR's model-pick test to main a98bc69, after which re-picking the model the composer shows saves nothing.
I merged main again. On main, re-picking the model the composer already shows now saves nothing, so I changed my model-pick test to match. The fix's own lines are unchanged.
Main ac18091 lets a seeded draft yield to a started thread's selection, so the fix's option merge now reads main's applicable draft, both import lists are kept, and the fix's model-selection test passes the now-required threadStarted with an explicit pick.
I merged main again to clear a conflict with ac18091 in useComposerSelection.ts and composerDraftStore.ts. My fix now reads the draft that main applies to a started thread, and its unit test passes the new threadStarted flag. The fix's own logic is otherwise unchanged.
Main 820f620 keeps a thread's options off a draft pick of another model, so the hand-resolved composerDraftStore.ts keeps that guard and the fix's fill-in for the stored model together, and the fix's isSameModel now uses main's composerModelIdentity so the model-identity rule lives once.
I merged main 820f620 into 5d33b23 as d874dfd to clear the conflict in composerDraftStore.ts. The thread's stored options now fill in only when the draft does not pick another model, as main requires, and the fix's model check uses main's identity rule. The fix's own logic is otherwise unchanged.
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Problem
When a browser remembers no options for a thread's own model (another device, cleared site data, a thread started elsewhere), switching the composer to another provider instance and back saves the thread's model with no options, so the thread loses its stored effort and other options. Picking another instance's model and then turning that instance off in Settings also shows the thread's model without its stored effort.
Change
useComposerSelection.ts: a pick of the thread's own provider instance and model, with no options remembered for it, carries the thread's stored options. Remembered options still come first, unchanged from main, and any other model is picked without them.composerDraftStore.ts: draft options now win only for their own instance, so an unsent pick on an instance that is then turned off no longer hides the stored effort.Scope
Bug fix: lost data. Switching providers and back drops options the user never changed. A focused fix of an obvious bug, so no prior issue; #24872's review flagged the dropped options outside that PR's diff. No contracts, server code, providers or connection modes change. Since main a98bc69, re-picking the model the composer already shows saves nothing and the thread keeps its stored options; this fix applies when the composer shows another model.
Verification
To see it on Linux web: 1. add a second Claude instance in Settings > Providers > Add provider; 2. in a browser that has not picked that thread's model before, open a Claude thread stored at effort High; 3. pick a model on the second instance, then the thread's model again: main shows Medium and saves the thread without its effort.
Re-checked on 2026-11-14 by an AI agent (Claude Opus 5.5) on main
820f620e3d, then ond874dfd62e, each on a Linux desktop dev server named "Test machine" with fresh state, in T3's Browser panel. Two Claude instances ("Claude" and "Claude work") on a placeholder API key, so each thread's first send fails to authenticate but the thread keeps its model and effort. A thread on Claude Opus 5.5 at High, opened in a second, fresh browser context: after a trip through "Claude work" Sonnet 5.5 at Max and back, main showed Medium and saved the thread's model with no options;d874dfd62eshowed High and saved nothing, so the thread kepteffort: high.Main 820f620: back on Opus 5.5, the composer shows Medium
d874dfd: back on Opus 5.5, the composer shows High
Not checked: a send through a signed-in provider on
d874dfd62e(earlier signed-in Cursor runs onccc755848a, not repeated); desktop on Linux, macOS and Windows: not run (web code, no platform-specific path); mobile (its own pick code, not changed here); a remembered Low winning over the stored High; a thread stored with no options showing its model's default.Records, the instance-off case and tests
d874dfd62emerges main820f620e3dinto5d33b23090. Main 820f620 keeps a thread's options off a draft pick of another model, so the fix's stored options now fill in only when the draft does not pick another model, and its model check uses main's identity rule.5d33b23090merged mainca7a9448b8intob22cdb76b4: main ac18091 makes a seeded draft yield to a started thread's own selection, so the fix's option merge now reads the draft main applies, and the unit test passes the newthreadStartedflag with an explicit pick. The fix's own lines are otherwise unchanged.b22cdb76b4merged main5f69cac5c9and adapted the model-pick test to a98bc69;cf8beebc1fmerged mainbf8e5e61b6into42c305bb68, where main's #35110 and #33124 changed other parts ofcomposerDraftStore.ts.Thread records, read from each test server's database after the trip (
modelSelection):With the Sonnet pick left unsent and "Claude work" turned off in Settings, main showed Medium on the thread's model and
d874dfd62eHigh.Main 820f620: "Claude work" turned off with its Sonnet pick unsent, back on the thread: Medium
d874dfd: the same steps: High
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d874dfd62e,vp test run --project unit src/modelSelection.test.ts(50/50) andvp test run --project browser src/components/ChatView.modelPick.browser.test.tsxpass, as do main's tests beside the changed files,composerDraftStore.test.tswhole included; with main820f620e3d'suseComposerSelection.tsandcomposerDraftStore.ts, "keeps a thread's stored options while the draft holds options for another provider" fails and the browser test fails at its alias step.vp run typecheckinapps/webandvp run check:changed 820f620e3dpass.vp run scenarios:prove, with a scenario kept out of this PR (two Claude instances on a placeholder key, a browser that forgets the composer's remembered options), fails on820f620e3d(Medium) and passes ond874dfd62e. Covered by tests only: the alias case (gpt-5-codex) and a different model next to draft options never taking the stored options.maria-rcks verified the earlier head
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