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Fixes #12735

Problem

The hover-only X on a sidebar draft deletes the draft in one click. That applies to both new-thread draft rows and thread rows with unsent composer text. There is no confirmation and no undo, and the X sits inside the row's click target. Uploaded attachments were released right away, so the draft could not be recovered.

Fix

Discarding now goes through one shared action, discardComposerDraft, which uses the sidebar undo notice from #12972 instead of a confirm dialog. That fits the triage's "undo toast" option and matches archive, settle, snooze and unpin. A discard shows "Discarded 1 draft, Ctrl+Z to undo", and Undo (or thread.undo) restores the draft's text, attachments and contexts. A new-thread draft also gets back its session and project mapping.

  • Uploads are released only after the undo window closes. Undo re-mints blob previews that the draft store revoked.
  • If the composer has new text by the time you undo, the undo does not overwrite it and reports a failure instead.
  • showThreadUndoNotice gains an optional commit hook. It runs when an entry expires or is superseded, but not when the entry is undone.

Entry points: the draft-row X and the thread-row X in Sidebar.tsx. These are the only discard paths on web/desktop; the command palette and keybindings have none. #10637's draft-row menu will call the same action. Mobile already confirms with Alert.alert. The user docs for the undo notice and thread.undo now list discarding a draft.

Before

One click removes the draft:

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-galwoqjslzlnws6s.oliver-boorstein.workers.dev/f/56f51618cd5e55a7/before-12735.mp4

After

The draft is discarded, then restored with Undo:

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-galwoqjslzlnws6s.oliver-boorstein.workers.dev/f/b4092fe57077b701/after-12735.mp4

Verification

  • vp test run on the new discardComposerDraft.test.ts, showThreadUndoNotice.test.ts and composerDraftStore.test.ts (155 tests) passed. The new tests cover:
    • undo restores a new-thread draft and its mapping without releasing uploads;
    • an expired discard releases uploads and can no longer be undone;
    • undo does not overwrite text typed after the discard, and still releases the old uploads.
  • vp run --filter @t3tools/web typecheck passed.
  • Targeted vp lint and vp fmt reported no errors (only existing warnings in Sidebar.tsx).
  • Recorded with headless Chromium against an isolated dev server on empty state.

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event.stopPropagation();
releaseComposerDraftUploads(threadRef);
clearComposerContent(threadRef);
discardComposerDraft(threadRef);

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🟡 Medium components/Sidebar.tsx:1163

When a draft with uploads is discarded and its content changes before Undo, the failed discardComposerDraft.undo leaves the captured attachments unreleased, leaking pending/server-side uploads. showThreadUndoNotice removes the entry before invoking undo, so its commit hook cannot run later; invoke commit when restoration fails, while still skipping it after a successful restore.

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apps/web/src/hooks/showThreadUndoNotice.ts:36

A failed undo drops the discard entry without running its new commit hook. If the user discards a draft with attachments, then types new content before clicking Undo, discardComposerDraft.undo returns Failure; the group was already removed at line 57, so neither this stale-entry path nor the expiry path can later call releaseDraftAttachments for the removed snapshot. The original uploads continue and any persisted server-side attachments are never released. Invoke commit for entries whose undo fails (while still skipping it after a successful restore).

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When a draft with uploads is discarded and its content changes before `Undo`, the failed `discardComposerDraft.undo` leaves the captured attachments unreleased, leaking pending/server-side uploads. `showThreadUndoNotice` removes the entry before invoking `undo`, so its `commit` hook cannot run later; invoke `commit` when restoration fails, while still skipping it after a successful restore.

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- apps/web/src/hooks/showThreadUndoNotice.ts:36 -- A failed undo drops the discard entry without running its new `commit` hook. If the user discards a draft with attachments, then types new content before clicking Undo, `discardComposerDraft.undo` returns `Failure`; the group was already removed at line 57, so neither this stale-entry path nor the expiry path can later call `releaseDraftAttachments` for the removed snapshot. The original uploads continue and any persisted server-side attachments are never released. Invoke `commit` for entries whose undo fails (while still skipping it after a successful restore).

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🤖 Opus 5.5 on behalf of Oliver

Fixed in 3122490 (squashed into the guard commit). The no-overwrite branch of the undo now releases the discarded attachments before it returns the failure, and the "keeps text typed after the discard" test checks that they are released.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes the existing sidebar discard flow into an attachment-preserving undo workflow and extends shared undo lifecycle handling across production code. Deferred cleanup can be lost on reload or close, leaving pending uploads until a later sweep, so the cross-cutting behavior merits human review.

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Walkthrough

Sidebar draft discard now supports undo. Undo restores draft content and related session state when possible. When undo is no longer available, the action releases the draft’s attachments.

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Draft discard and undo

Layer / File(s) Summary
Draft discard and undo lifecycle
apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/showThreadUndoNotice.ts, apps/web/src/lib/discardComposerDraft.ts, apps/web/src/lib/discardComposerDraft.test.ts
The discard action captures draft state and restores it through undo unless the current draft contains user content. It restores session data and project mappings when applicable. The undo notice supports a commit callback, which releases attachments when undo is no longer available. Tests cover restoration, expiry, attachment release, and preserving text entered after discard.
Sidebar integration and undo notice
apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadUndoNotice.tsx, docs/user/keybindings.md, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
Both sidebar draft-row types use discardComposerDraft. The notice labels discarded actions as drafts and pluralizes by count. User documentation describes draft discard and undo restoration.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Sidebar
  participant discardComposerDraft
  participant ComposerDraftStore
  participant ThreadUndoNotice
  participant AttachmentRelease
  Sidebar->>discardComposerDraft: Discard draft
  discardComposerDraft->>ComposerDraftStore: Resolve and clear draft
  discardComposerDraft->>ThreadUndoNotice: Register undo action and commit callback
  ThreadUndoNotice-->>Sidebar: Show undo notice
  alt Undo before expiry
    ThreadUndoNotice->>discardComposerDraft: Run undo callback
    discardComposerDraft->>ComposerDraftStore: Restore draft state
  else Undo window ends
    ThreadUndoNotice->>discardComposerDraft: Run commit callback
    discardComposerDraft->>AttachmentRelease: Release draft attachments
  end
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 31224

Sidebar draft discard now has undo, and attachments are released once undo expires or restoration is refused. Any remaining risk is small and limited to cleanup of uploaded attachments, so this is mergeable with minor awareness.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 31224

Undo preserves newer draft content and does not appear to expand access or privileges. However, closing or reloading during the undo window can abandon deferred attachment deletion and leave discarded uploads awaiting fallback cleanup.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · inferred: Deferred attachment deletion has no durable owner in the inspected lifecycle. Closing or reloading after discard but before commitment loses the in-memory cleanup callback, so uploaded draft data can remain beyond the undo window awaiting fallback expiry. The base implementation initiated release immediately; this PR introduces the additional interruption window. Unauthorized access is not established.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated change concerns user draft content and its pending uploads in the web client. No new remote attacker entrypoint, cross-environment authority, or privilege escalation is established; the supported risk is longer retention of discarded attachments after interrupted cleanup.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A user can discard an already-uploaded attachment and close or reload before the cleanup timer fires. The client then loses the captured deletion obligation. This supports a retention concern, not a verified unauthorized-read vulnerability.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The changed UI entrypoints retain scoped draft lookup and use the existing attachment-removal command with explicit environment identity. Existing content-conflict checks prevent undo from replacing newer user content.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The attachment queue handles cancellation, late completion, persisted-upload identity matching, and release of replacement uploads. A comment documents a 24-hour pending-upload sweep as fallback cleanup; the sweep implementation and deployed enforcement were not inspected.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Give deferred deletion a restart-safe owner, such as an environment-scoped cleanup ledger canceled by successful undo and replayed idempotently after restart, or an explicitly enforced server-side expiry contract. Avoid persisting draft plaintext merely to retain cleanup obligations.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue [#12735] requires a guard for both sidebar draft-discard controls. Sidebar.tsx routes standalone draft rows and thread rows with unsent content through discardComposerDraft. The shared undo …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The shared undo-notice hook, draft-store export, tests, and documentation support or describe reversible draft discarding for [#12735]. The reviewed diff contains no demonstrated unrelated changes.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: sidebar draft discards can be undone.
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return AsyncResult.success(undefined);
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commit: () => releaseDraftAttachments([...draft.images, ...draft.files]),

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🟡 Medium lib/discardComposerDraft.ts:77

When the page reloads or closes during the 5-second undo window, the persisted discard leaves pending uploads unreferenced but releaseDraftAttachments is never called, so they remain on the server until the sweep. The in-memory notice and its commit timer are lost on unload; persist pending discards and reconcile them on startup, or otherwise release them during unload.

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When the page reloads or closes during the 5-second undo window, the persisted discard leaves pending uploads unreferenced but `releaseDraftAttachments` is never called, so they remain on the server until the sweep. The in-memory notice and its `commit` timer are lost on unload; persist pending discards and reconcile them on startup, or otherwise release them during unload.

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Leaving this as is. If the page unloads during the 5-second undo window, the only cost is a pending upload that the server already reclaims: sweepStalePendingAttachments (apps/server/src/attachmentStore.ts) deletes stale pending attachments, and config.ts runs it. Before this PR, closing the tab with an unsent draft left its uploads to that same sweep. Persisting pending discards and reconciling them on startup would add a second storage path for a rare window that the sweep already covers.

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Grok responding on behalf of Julius.

Closing as superseded by #10637. This PR was the stack base for the discard undo; those changes landed on main inside #10637 (discardComposerDraft + undo notice), which also closes #12735.

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[Bug]: Hover-only "Discard draft" X in the sidebar deletes the draft on one click, no confirmation or undo

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