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What Changed

Right-clicking a markdown file-link chip in chat now shows the same shared file context menu as the changed-files tree, the diff panel, and the file browser — Reveal in Finder / Explorer / Files and an Open with submenu of the environment's detected editors, alongside the chip's own preview, preferred-editor, integrated-browser, and copy-path items.

The chip keeps a single primary Open in ‹editor› row. Instead of a second top-level Open (default application) next to it, that action now lives inside Open with as Default Application — one obvious way to open a file, with alternatives a level deep. When no editors are detected there is no submenu to fold into, and the shared Open row is dropped entirely: the chip's own open already reaches the default app through preferred-editor resolution, so a second row would be the same action twice.

Fixes riding along:

  • Open with submenu selections now actually dispatch — the chip resolves clicked items one level deep, not just top-level rows, so editor:<id> children work.
  • Shared path resolution reuses isAbsolutePath from terminal-links.ts: Unix absolute paths, C:\… drive paths, and \\server\share UNC paths pass through, while drive-relative C:notes.md stays relative instead of being mistaken for absolute.
  • Bare filename chips (ChatView.tsx) resolve through the workspace basename index before activating shared actions, so Open/Reveal target the indexed file rather than the workspace root.
  • Reveal works in remote mode (the reveal is server-side), and right-clicking anywhere on a diff header — filename, metadata, or blank space — opens that file's menu.
  • Changed-files and diff menus bind to the thread/workspace the rows actually came from: while the list paints a held snapshot of the previous thread, the card resolves its own thread, project, and expansion state; and a branch diff retried at the environment cwd resolves files there instead of the rejected worktree.

The convention is documented for future surfaces in docs/internals/file-context-menus.md; "file chip" / "file context menu" are defined in docs/internals/glossary.md.

Not touched: composer file-mention chips (they live inside the Lexical editor and need environment context threaded into the decorator — listed as a follow-up in the doc) and mobile, which has no right-click.

Stacked on #11842 — merge that first; this diff is only the delta on top.

Verification

  • vp test run src/fileContextMenu.test.ts src/components/ChatMarkdown.test.tsx in apps/web: 60 passed, 0 failed (new cases cover UNC passthrough, drive-relative rejection, Default Application nesting, and no-menu for unresolvable paths).
  • pnpm exec tsc --noEmit in apps/web: clean.
  • Focused lint on touched files: 0 errors, no new warnings vs base.
  • Exercised in a running web client against an isolated home with stub editor CLIs on PATH: right-clicking the bin.ts chip shows Open in Cursor / Reveal in Finder / Open with ▸ / Copy relative path / Copy full path, with Default Application, Cursor, VS Code, and Zed inside the submenu.

UI Changes

Labeled still-state comparison built from real captures (the Before frame is the maintainer's own screenshot of the previous menu; this is a static menu change, not motion):

Before: three ways to open one file. After: one open row, with the default app folded into Open with

After — submenu open, Default Application listed first:

After: Open with submenu holds Default Application plus the detected editors

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  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why
  • I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • File links in chat now use the shared file menu, with options to reveal files and open them with available editors.
    • The default application is available within “Open with” when another editor option is present.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Right-clicking diff headers now opens the file menu even on metadata or blank header areas.
    • Changed-file actions and expansion state now stay associated with the displayed thread during thread switches.

Latest review-fix verification (4746466055): 79 tests passed across MessagesTimeline.test.tsx and fileContextMenu.test.ts; apps/web typecheck passed. Direct SWE-2 Max read-only review exited 0 with no confirmed blocking findings. Earlier verification and media describe prior revisions; no new browser verification was performed.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This change adds new reveal and Open-with behavior to chat file chips while also changing shared file-menu resolution and actions in diff and changed-file surfaces. Its cross-surface production impact is broader than a small self-contained fix and merits human review.

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The pull request updates shared file context-menu path resolution and actions. Chat markdown file links use the shared menu. Diff-panel and changed-file menus resolve targets from the displayed file and thread context.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Path resolution and menu actions
apps/web/src/fileContextMenu.ts, apps/web/src/fileContextMenu.test.ts, docs/internals/file-context-menus.md, docs/internals/glossary.md
Absolute environment-host paths pass through path resolution. When a primary open action and an eligible editor are available, the default-app action appears inside Open with. Tests and documentation cover these menu behaviors.
Chat file-link menu integration
apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx
Markdown file links build shared menu targets and dispatch selected actions, including nested Open with items. The component no longer handles reveal actions locally.
Changed-file and diff menu targets
apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx, apps/web/src/components/DiffPanel.tsx
Changed-file actions use the painted thread’s context. Diff-panel menus resolve filenames from the header when needed and use the rendered branch preview’s cwd.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f49e3

Changed-file actions in a worktree thread can open or reveal a file in the project checkout instead of the displayed worktree. Correct the target root before merging.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx`:
- Around line 2015-2017: Update the click-handling flow around sharedClicked to
resolve editor selections from the Open with submenu by searching submenu
children when the clicked identifier uses the editor:<id> form, then pass the
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- Line 49: Update the absolute-path check in the path validation helper so
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CleanShot 2026-09-14 at 22 47 31@2x

this looks horrible, there's Open in Cursor, Open (with a pen icon?), and Open in... submenu? How many ways is there to open a fucking file hahaha

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Fair — that was three separate ways to open one file. Fixed: the chip keeps its single Open in Cursor row, and the default-app Open now lives inside Open with as Default Application. One open row, alternatives a level deep. When no editors are detected the extra row disappears entirely (the chip's own open already reaches the default app). Fresh captures in the description.

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- Around line 2782-2791: Bind changed-file context-menu actions in
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🟠 Major · Use the worktree as the changed-file menu root.

apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx:2768-2821
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the worktree as the changed-file menu root. CheckpointDiffQuery computes checkpoint diffs with thread.worktreePath ?? workspaceRoot, and the parsed numstat paths remain relative. This caller passes project.workspaceRoot, so the menu can resolve src/index.ts against the wrong root and open or reveal the wrong file.

-            workspaceRoot: project?.workspaceRoot ?? ctx.workspaceRoot,
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Markdown file links carried their own right-click menu with a private
reveal action and no Open with submenu, diverging from the changed-files
tree, diff panel, and file browser. Build their menu from
useFileContextMenu instead: reveal and the Open with editor submenu now
appear beside the chip's own preview, preferred-editor, browser, and
copy actions, and reveal works in remote mode where the old one was
hidden. Absolute environment-host paths resolve directly so links
outside the workspace keep their actions.

The chip already renders "Open in <editor>", so the shared menu's
default-app Open folds into Open with as "Default Application" — one
primary open row plus alternatives instead of three competing open
items. Open with selections now dispatch their child ids, and bare
display paths like "ChatView.tsx" resolve through the workspace index
before an action runs so they target the indexed file rather than
<cwd>/<basename>.

Document the convention in docs/internals/file-context-menus.md and
define file chip and file context menu in the glossary.
Right-clicking a diff header's metadata or blank area produced no menu
because the handler only looked for a data-title node in the click path.
Fall back to the enclosing data-diffs-header's filename like the click
handler does.
While the list paints a held snapshot of the previous thread, the changed-files card mixed the old row's files with the route thread's workspace and repository roots. Resolve the section's thread and project from the painted thread key so the file menu and expansion state follow the rows on screen.
When the worktree cwd is rejected, the branch diff preview retries at the environment cwd, but the context menu still resolved files against the rejected root. Bind the menu's workspace root to the cwd the rendered diff came from.
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The single primary Open action addresses Julius's menu feedback. Closing under the one-problem rule because this also repairs which thread/environment and fallback worktree existing changed-file and diff menus target. Those target-binding defects can be fixed independently of adding the shared menu to markdown chips. Please split that repair from the chip-menu change, keep the necessary shared path handling with the menu, and request reconsideration.

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