fix(web): sending past the resume banner compacts first

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Old Claude threads show a "Resume with less context" banner, but sending a message without clicking Compact still sent the full stale history.

Now, when that banner is showing, sending dispatches /compact right before the message and sends the message with dispatchMode: "queue", so it runs once compaction finishes. Queueing matters because a v2 auto-dispatch into a running /compact is rejected as a steer. The compaction rides the normal send path: the composer is captured and every existing check runs as usual, and if the /compact dispatch fails the draft is restored like any failed send.

Web-only (ChatView.tsx): mobile has no resume banner. Multi-model sends, threads with a held queue (the queued message would stay held), local mode commands, and /compact itself don't compact first.

Before

Banner showing, send: the message goes straight out with all 244k tokens of history.

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After

Same thread and DB state, send: /compact runs with the message queued, context drops 244K → 2.60K, then the queued message runs and Claude replies.

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Verified with a real Claude Sonnet 5.5 thread on an isolated dev server, plus web typecheck, lint (no new warnings) and format on the changed file. Sending while a compaction is already running is covered separately by #12824.

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Verdict: Approved at 972f95e

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused one-file fix that compacts stale resume-banner history using the existing command path before queueing the user's message, while preserving other send modes. An unresolved Medium finding notes that the runtime mode may become stale during the asynchronous flow, so that correctness risk remains separately noted.

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• This verdict was updated automatically after the outstanding correctness findings were resolved. Macroscope did not re-review the code.

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Walkthrough

When the resume-compaction banner is available and the other eligibility conditions are met, ChatView starts a /compact turn before the message turn. If compaction fails, it does not start the message turn. Otherwise, it dispatches the message turn in queue mode.

Changes

Automatic compaction before send

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Compact context before queued send apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx	onSend selects queue dispatch for eligible messages that are not /compact, ignoring case. It starts a /compact turn before the message turn. If compaction fails, it does not start the message turn. Otherwise, it passes the computed dispatch mode to the message turn.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 972f9

If a user navigates to another thread while a send is pending and the send then fails, the failed message text can be placed into the new thread's composer cursor state. The case is narrow and easy to fix with a route guard, so the change is mergeable with that follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 972f9

The change uses the existing message-submission controls and does not show an expansion of access or privileges. The main concern is limited to failure handling: accepting compaction does not guarantee that compaction finishes successfully before the queued message runs.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: Automatic compaction gates the message on dispatch acceptance rather than terminal success. The ordinary queue can advance after non-held unsuccessful terminal states, so an accepted compaction that subsequently fails or is interrupted can allow the message to run without the intended context reduction. Same-provider non-validation failure holds limit, but do not eliminate, this partial-failure behavior.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected change affects the selected thread in the captured environment and adds an automatic context operation under existing turn-submission authority. No broader asset or environment targeting was identified in this caller; tenant isolation and server authorization were not comprehensively verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The added compaction runs after the existing send validation path and uses the same command abstraction as normal submission. Inspected entry checks cover send concurrency, connectivity, hydrated settings, and provider availability; no direct provider or tool invocation is added.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The existing server dispatcher serializes commands and terminal queue promotion with per-thread locks. Receipt replay also checks that a reused command identity belongs to the same thread, limiting cross-thread receipt confusion.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description explains the problem, the change, its web-only scope and exclusions, and the verification results. It includes before-and-after visual evidence. It does not identify a triaged issue or…	Add a link to the triaged issue or discussion with explicit maintainer approval. If neither exists, explain why this is a small, focused fix for an obvious bug.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: sending a message past the resume banner now compacts the thread first.

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- Line 8673: In onSend, preserve the submitted text snapshot across
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Guard failure cleanup against route changes.

The compaction and message dispatch use the captured threadIdForSend, so navigation does not cancel the original send. The failure path is unsafe: it restores the originating draft into composerDraftTarget, but it calls composerRef.current?.resetCursorState(...) on the current route's composer. Guard both the prompt ref and cursor reset with currentRouteThreadKeyRef.current === routeThreadKey.

Suggested fix

-        promptRef.current = messageTextForSend;
-        const retryComposerImages = composerImagesSnapshot.map(cloneComposerImageForRetry);
+        if (currentRouteThreadKeyRef.current === routeThreadKey) {
+          promptRef.current = messageTextForSend;
+        }
+        const retryComposerImages = composerImagesSnapshot.map(cloneComposerImageForRetry);
...
-        composerRef.current?.resetCursorState({
-          cursor: collapseExpandedComposerCursor(messageTextForSend, messageTextForSend.length),
-          prompt: messageTextForSend,
-          detectTrigger: true,
-        });
+        if (currentRouteThreadKeyRef.current === routeThreadKey) {
+          composerRef.current?.resetCursorState({
+            cursor: collapseExpandedComposerCursor(messageTextForSend, messageTextForSend.length),
+            prompt: messageTextForSend,
+            detectTrigger: true,
+          });
+        }

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx at line 9165:
In the send failure cleanup around startThreadTurn, guard both the promptRef
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