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Cmd+F did nothing useful in a thread. The timeline is virtualized and loads history in pages, so the browser's find only saw the rows on screen. Desktop had no find at all. Finding an old message meant scrolling by hand.

Now Cmd/Ctrl+F (or Find in thread in the command palette) opens a small find bar over the thread. It finds text anywhere in the thread, including turns that are not loaded yet and replies inside folded work.

Find in thread: a match inside a folded turn from unloaded history, highlighted

How it works

  • Server: orchestration.findInThread returns the matching messages and how many times each one matches. It reuses getTimelinePage's visible timeline index, so fork history, rollbacks, and cancelled queued turns follow the same rules as the timeline. It reads payloads only for matching rows. The newest 1000 matching messages are kept.
  • Client: the bar starts at the newest match, because you read a thread from the bottom. Enter goes to older matches and Shift+Enter to newer ones, and both wrap. To reach a match, it loads older pages until the message exists, opens the turn or attempt fold that hides it, scrolls the virtual row into view, and paints highlights with the CSS Custom Highlight API. No DOM is inserted and no rows re-render.
  • Results refresh when a message arrives or finishes streaming, not on every token.
  • Cmd+F inside right panel surfaces such as diffs and files still opens their own find. Draft threads keep the browser's find.
  • Scrolling by hand at any point, even while older pages load, stops find from pulling the view back, including with scroll keys. The match stays highlighted.
  • ChatView had stopped passing loadEarlier to the timeline in the V2 rewrite. It is wired again, so citation jumps into unloaded history work again too.

Prior art: #16667 and #10439 also search on the server. This version reuses the existing timeline index, not a second recursive SQL copy of the visibility rules, and it returns all match positions in one request, so stepping through matches makes no further server calls.

Not included: mobile (no keyboard find there), and searching tool output, reasoning, or plans.

Verification

  • Real web client against a seeded copy of real data: in a 367-turn thread, "moonshot" appears only in the first turns. Find showed 3/3, loaded older history, opened folded commentary, and scrolled to and highlighted each match. Enter and Shift+Enter wrap. Escape clears the highlights and refocuses the composer. The palette action opens the bar and focuses it. Cmd+F inside the right panel is left alone.
  • Tests: ProjectionStore.test.ts (find follows fork and rollback visibility, and keeps the newest matches), threadFind.logic.test.ts, MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts (fold lookup).

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a new cross-stack thread-search capability, including a database-backed RPC and UI that loads, unfolds, pins, and highlights matches across unloaded history. It also changes the default Cmd/Ctrl+F keybinding and touches authorization code, so the breadth and sensitivity of the runtime changes warrant human review.

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The change adds thread-wide, ASCII case-insensitive message search. It adds a server search API and a chat find bar that navigates to matching messages, including messages in earlier history and folded content.

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Thread-wide message search

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Search contracts and server results
packages/contracts/src/threadSearch.ts, packages/contracts/src/rpc.ts, packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts, packages/shared/src/String.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadSearch.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/auth/RpcAuthorization.ts, apps/server/src/observability/RpcInstrumentation.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts, apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.test.ts
The RPC accepts a thread ID and a 1–200 character query. The server searches user and assistant timeline messages, counts occurrences, and reports whether results were truncated. Queried timeline pages include fork history and select the newest matches.
Find controls and match navigation
packages/contracts/src/keybindings.ts, packages/shared/src/keybindings.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/orchestration.ts, apps/web/src/commandPaletteBus.ts, apps/web/src/components/CommandPalette.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/threadFind.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/threadFind.logic.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadFindBar.tsx, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
The mod+f shortcut and command palette action open the find bar for a server thread. The bar queries the search API, displays result status, and navigates between match occurrences.
Reveal and highlight matching messages
apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/useThreadFindTarget.ts, apps/web/src/lib/assistantTextSelection.ts, apps/web/src/index.css
The timeline loads earlier history when needed, expands folds that hide a result, and scrolls to the selected occurrence. Search matches and the active occurrence receive highlights.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ThreadFindBar
  participant ThreadManagementService
  participant ProjectionStore
  participant MessagesTimeline
  User->>ThreadFindBar: Enter query and navigate matches
  ThreadFindBar->>ThreadManagementService: Request findInThread
  ThreadManagementService->>ProjectionStore: Search queried timeline page
  ProjectionStore-->>ThreadManagementService: Return matching message items
  ThreadManagementService-->>ThreadFindBar: Return match counts and truncation status
  ThreadFindBar->>MessagesTimeline: Set selected message and occurrence
  MessagesTimeline->>MessagesTimeline: Load, reveal, scroll to, and highlight target
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Some searches can lead to a message without highlighting the searched text. This is a bounded find-in-thread issue that should be addressed or accepted before merging.

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Cmd+F opens a find bar for the open thread. The server searches the
thread's full visible history, including inherited fork history, so
matches in turns that are not loaded or not rendered count. The client
loads older pages, opens folded turns, scrolls to the match, and
highlights it with the CSS Custom Highlight API.

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✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider Metric Main baseline This PR Impact PR ceiling
Codex Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 20.9 KiB 20.9 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 29.3 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 2 2 0 (0.0%) 8 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Claude Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket decoded 21.2 KiB 21.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 29.3 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn messages 2 2 0 (0.0%) 8 ✅

Baseline: 5e22256 · PR result: ddb35be · 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: 108.5 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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🟡 Minor · Search only text that ChatMarkdown can render. · ProjectionStore.ts:4828-4839

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts:4828-4839
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Search only text that ChatMarkdown can render.

readTextMatches searches raw payload_json.$.text, so a query such as example.com matches [docs](https://example.com). readAssistantText searches the rendered DOM, which contains docs but not the link destination. useThreadFindTarget then selects the last rendered occurrence when the requested occurrence is absent, which can highlight unrelated text.

Align the server’s searchable text with the rendered message representation. A fallback-only change does not remove the invalid server result.

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Update readTextMatches so its search input matches the text ChatMarkdown
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Closing as superseded. #10439 (find messages and plans in the current thread) just merged into main. It ships Cmd/Ctrl+F find-in-thread on web and desktop, backed by the server, and it covers unloaded history and folded turns, which is the same feature as this PR. Thanks for the work here! If something in this approach is still missing from main, please open a smaller follow-up against main.

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