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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions apps/web/src/components/chat/turnDetailAnnouncement.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ describe("turnDetail", () => {
expect(turnDetail(entries, undefined, null).activity).toBe(activity);
});

it("cuts a long step without splitting an emoji", () => {
const edit = work("edit", { itemType: "file_change", changedFiles: [`${"a".repeat(111)}😀z`] });
expect(turnDetail([prompt, edit], undefined, null).activity).not.toMatch(/[\uD800-\uDFFF]/u);
});

it.each<{
name: string;
entries: ReadonlyArray<TimelineEntry>;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -297,6 +302,12 @@ describe("nextTurnDetailAnnouncement", () => {
).toEqual(["T3 Code: Tests pass in web. See the docs"]);
});

it("cuts a long message without splitting an emoji", () => {
const long = { ...said("long", true, true), text: `${"a".repeat(1999)}😀z` };
const [spoken] = speak("messages", [frame(null), frame(null, [long])]);
expect(spoken).not.toMatch(/[\uD800-\uDFFF]/u);
});

it("says a step again after waiting on the user", () => {
expect(
speak("everything", [
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21 changes: 15 additions & 6 deletions apps/web/src/components/chat/turnDetailAnnouncement.ts
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Expand Up @@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ const ACTIVITY_MAX_LENGTH = 120;
// Parsing is synchronous, and nobody listens to a longer message through a live region.
const MESSAGE_MAX_LENGTH = 2_000;

/** The first `maxLength` code points of `text`, or null when it has no more than that. */
function cutText(text: string, maxLength: number): string | null {
if (text.length <= maxLength) return null;
const characters = Array.from(text);

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Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Avoid building a full code-point array for long messages.

cutText calls Array.from(text) on the full message whenever the message is over the limit. The function keeps only the first 2,000 code points, so this allocates one entry per code point of the entire message. Assistant responses can be long, so a very large message can cause a noticeable client pause.

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Iterate over the string with for...of and stop after maxLength + 1 code points. Return null when the text has no more than maxLength code points. Otherwise, return the first maxLength code points. This keeps the current return contract and avoids the full-array allocation.

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/chat/turnDetailAnnouncement.ts at line 40:
Update cutText to count code points by iterating over the string and stop after maxLength + 1, rather than building a full array with Array.from. Return null when the text is at most maxLength code points; otherwise return only the first maxLength code points, preserving the existing return contract.

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return characters.length > maxLength ? characters.slice(0, maxLength).join("") : null;
}

// On screen these labels are a path or a query beside an icon.
function withVerb(work: WorkLogEntry, label: string) {
if (work.itemType === "file_change") return `Editing ${label}`;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -66,7 +73,8 @@ function stepLabel(work: WorkLogEntry, workspaceRoot: string | undefined): strin
const label = liveWorkEntryLabel(work, workspaceRoot, true).replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();
if (label === "") return null;
const spoken = withVerb(work, label);
return spoken.length > ACTIVITY_MAX_LENGTH ? `${spoken.slice(0, ACTIVITY_MAX_LENGTH)}…` : spoken;
const cut = cutText(spoken, ACTIVITY_MAX_LENGTH);
return cut === null ? spoken : `${cut}…`;
}

/**
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -189,11 +197,12 @@ export function nextTurnDetailAnnouncement(
previous.messages.get(message.id) !== true &&
(message.fresh || previous.messages.has(message.id)),
)
.map((message) =>
message.text.length > MESSAGE_MAX_LENGTH
? `${markdownPlainText(message.text.slice(0, MESSAGE_MAX_LENGTH))} More in the thread.`
: markdownPlainText(message.text),
)
.map((message) => {
const cut = cutText(message.text, MESSAGE_MAX_LENGTH);
return cut === null
? markdownPlainText(message.text)
: `${markdownPlainText(cut)} More in the thread.`;
})
.filter((text) => text !== "")
.map((text) => `${MESSAGE_AUTHOR}: ${text}`),
activity:
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