feat(settings): edit any scopable setting as a project override

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Selecting a project should let you override any setting that supports it, from the same rows that edit the environment default, and show what took effect. Previously only five settings had project overrides, each through its own bespoke UI on a per-category project editor, and several pages still forced a single environment where the header selection should decide.

The Settings breadcrumb now ends with the targets a change applies to: Settings / Section / Environment / Project, using the same quiet menu triggers as the thread header and usage page. Every row that maps to a project-scopable server key edits either the environment default or a project override, depending on the project crumb, and writes fan out to every selected environment. A layers icon beside each server row's title carries the state (built-in default, set on the environment, project override, mixed) and opens a compact per-environment chain (Project / Environment / Default, winning row highlighted); no caption line is added when narrowing, so rows keep their height. When the selected environments disagree, the real control stays in place with Mixed as its placeholder and picking a value applies it everywhere (switches show a centred thumb and turn on for everyone). At environment scope the chain also lists the projects that override the key with their values: a name jumps the breadcrumb to that project and Reset all makes them follow the environment again, since editing an environment value never touches project overrides.

Page layout follows the model: Actions is a section on the Project page rather than a category (actions belong to a project); the default merge method moves to Source Control as a server setting with a project override; per-checkout sidebar grouping leaves the Project page, whose device toggle already lives on General. Providers and Diagnostics are per machine, so they show the representative environment; the Devices and Source Control discovery sections do the same and name that environment in their title. Device-local rows always render and ignore the selection; Appearance, SnapShots and Connections have no scope crumbs. The per-category project editor and its hand-rolled source inspectors are replaced by the generic scoped hooks. Thread creation on web and mobile and the pull request panel read project overrides through the shared resolver; the panel keeps the client-local per-project merge method map as a fallback until the server has a value, so choices made on an older release keep applying. An older client on the same environment keeps reading the project aggregate's scripts after a newer client resets them; that view lasts one release, like the derived legacy maps.

Depends on #10636 on #11176. Absorbs the former #10638.

Verification: web settings test suite (40 files, 413 tests), scope, search, inheritance and override-listing tests, web and mobile typecheck, changed-file lint, knip. In the built app paired against a local environment and cups: General at All environments shows Mixed for Workspace with the amber icon and the chain per environment; selecting a project marks scopable rows and writes projectSettingsOverrides[projectId] on each environment (confirmed in settings.json); Reset all from the chain removed the key from three project entries and left their other keys; Providers and Diagnostics open directly on the representative environment; Source Control shows the merge method row and its discovery sections at every scope; the Project page shows name, icon, actions, checkouts and removal.

Evidence

Head df7292457a. Before is main (05d4042) with the same two projects in a fresh base dir; after is this head paired with a second environment (cups). Same viewport and scroll.

Before: General	After: General

Before: Projects	After: Project

Model: Claude Fable 5.1 (generic overrides, page audit, chain popover) and GPT-5 (scope navigation). Harness: Claude Code and Codex.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ No successful main baseline artifact is available yet. This run establishes the initial measurement.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	13.6 KiB	—	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	7.1 KiB	—	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	6.6 KiB	—	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	57.1 KiB	—	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	10	—	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	13.6 KiB	—	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	7.0 KiB	—	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	6.5 KiB	—	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	57.8 KiB	—	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	9	—	21	✅

Baseline: unavailable · PR result: df72924 · 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: 113.9 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.6 KiB

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR restructures settings around environment, project, and checkout scopes. It adds category-specific project settings, source indicators, dynamic navigation, and an Actions route. It also hardens asynchronous script saves and adds custom aggregate labels to the model picker.

Changes

Settings scope and project defaults

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Project defaults and source resolution apps/web/src/components/settings/...	Adds category-specific defaults, source resolution, mixed-state handling, environment validation, and grouped project updates.
Scope-aware search and routing apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch*, SettingsSidebarNav.tsx, SettingsScopeNotice.tsx, apps/web/src/routes/*, apps/web/src/routeTree.gen.ts	Adds scope validation, capability-aware navigation, project and checkout targets, and the /settings/actions route.
Settings presentation and documentation apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsLayout.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ui/button.tsx, docs/user/project-settings.md	Updates mixed-state rows, multiline buttons, environment-default links, and project-settings documentation.

Project script editor save lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Request-scoped save handling apps/web/src/components/projectScriptEditor.tsx, apps/web/src/components/projectScriptEditor.test.tsx	Blocks duplicate saves, ignores stale completions, preserves current errors, disables controls during saves, and handles cancellation and unmount cleanup.

Aggregate model picker label

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Custom picker trigger apps/web/src/components/chat/ProviderModelPicker.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ProviderModelPicker.test.tsx	Adds triggerLabel support and verifies that custom aggregate labels hide representative model indicators.

Priority: ➖ Normal — Impact reflects medium issue severity.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, t3dotgg

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SettingsSidebarNav
  participant settingsSearch
  participant SettingsRoute
  participant ProjectDefaultsSettings
  SettingsSidebarNav->>settingsSearch: resolve scope and available sections
  settingsSearch->>SettingsRoute: provide category and target scope
  SettingsRoute->>ProjectDefaultsSettings: render category-specific settings

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The settings migration is broadly mergeable, but equivalent model selections can incorrectly appear mixed and hide trait controls, while a test-file lint issue may still need correction.

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apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectSettingsPanel.logic.test.ts (1)

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Move this import to the top of the file.

The @t3tools/contracts import sits after every describe block. Hoisting keeps the code working, but the placement is unusual and the common import/first lint rule rejects it. The PR runs changed-file lint, so this can fail CI.

♻️ Proposed fix

 import { describe, expect, it } from "vite-plus/test";
 
+import { EnvironmentId, ProjectId } from "`@t3tools/contracts`";
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 import {
   projectBooleanOverrideTargets,
   projectGroupTitleNeedsUpdate,
 } from "./ProjectSettingsPanel.logic";

-import { EnvironmentId, ProjectId } from "`@t3tools/contracts`";

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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsScopeNotice.tsx`:
- Line 33: Update the label construction in SettingsScopeNotice to use
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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectSettingsPanel.logic.test.ts`:
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