fix(web): pending requests wait until you stop typing

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Pending approvals and questions could take over the web composer mid-sentence, hiding the follow-up draft or sending its remaining words as a question answer. New requests now wait while the focused draft is being typed, then appear after 1.5 seconds of idle time, sending/queueing, or blur; each request can be held only once.

The composer keeps its normal draft and submission mode during the hold. Notifications, option shortcuts, providers, contracts, and mobile are unchanged. Desktop uses the same web composer. Mobile has a similar question takeover because it hides the composer slot; that remains outside this PR.

Verified through the real Claude provider and web client: question arrival during typing, idle release, Enter queueing without answering the question, immediate idle requests, option clicks, the 2 shortcut, approval arrival during typing, blur release, and successful approval with draft restoration. Inspected both clips and checked uploaded playback and seeking. Native desktop was not launched separately.

Blacksmith: 7 focused Vitest tests passed; vp run --filter @t3tools/web typecheck passed; lint on the five changed files passed with 0 errors (131 existing-file warnings; the new hook has 0 warnings).

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This production change introduces timer-driven composer state and alters how pending approvals, user-input requests, and sends are routed while typing. The new fixed typing-idle behavior affects existing request flows across the chat composer and warrants review beyond the accompanying state-machine tests.

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• apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/chat/useComposerTypingGuard.ts

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The composer now holds newly arriving approval and pending-input requests during recent focused typing. The guard releases holds after idle, send, or blur. The send context identifies pending-input answers so ChatView can choose the corresponding send path.

Changes

Composer typing guard

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Guard state and lifecycle apps/web/src/components/chat/composerTypingGuard.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/useComposerTypingGuard.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/composerTypingGuard.test.ts	The guard tracks seen and held request IDs, focus, and typing time. The hook handles request updates and schedules idle release. Tests cover holding and release behavior.
Composer takeover and send handling apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx	The composer reports draft changes, focus, blur, and send events to the guard. It withholds held pending-request state and reports whether the send answers pending user input. ChatView advances a pending question only when the send context is absent or indicates an answer.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant ChatComposer
  participant useComposerTypingGuard
  participant composerTypingGuard
  participant ChatView
  User->>ChatComposer: Edit draft or focus editor
  ChatComposer->>useComposerTypingGuard: Report draft change or focus
  useComposerTypingGuard->>composerTypingGuard: Dispatch typing or focus event
  composerTypingGuard-->>ChatComposer: Return held request IDs
  ChatComposer-->>User: Withhold held pending-request UI
  User->>ChatComposer: Send message
  ChatComposer->>ChatView: Provide send context
  alt Answering pending user input
    ChatView->>ChatView: Advance pending question
  else Not answering pending user input
    ChatView->>ChatView: Continue normal send handling
  end

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a2484

Pending requests can still interrupt a draft immediately after type-to-focus or a queued-edit target change. These bounded cases should be fixed before merge if uninterrupted typing is required across both workflows.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a2484

The change delays request presentation without granting approval authority. No new permission bypass or unintended answer submission was established, but failure and interruption timing remains partially verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated exposure is request presentation and send classification within the current composer target. Ordinary sends still require the existing environment operate scope and active-thread checks; the reviewed change does not introduce a new endpoint or credential authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Existing response handlers check environment operate permission and matching request state. Server response execution looks up the request by thread and request ID, requires the resolved projection and a live capability matching the provider session, and requires that session to remain active before forwarding the response.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Send releases the hold before asynchronous completion, so failed-send recovery remains relevant. However, the inspected rollback behavior predates this PR, the editor displays pending custom answers separately from the ordinary draft, and final answer submission uses resolved request-specific answers. These controls do not support the proposed claim that a restored ordinary draft is automatically submitted as a question answer. Exact interruption and recovery interleavings remain unverified.

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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: pending requests wait until typing stops.
Description check		The description explains the problem, change, scope, user-facing behavior, verification steps, test results, and agent details. It does not use the template headings and does not provide an issue or e…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx:
- Line 3738: Update applyPromptReplacement to call onTypingGuardDraftChange when
it successfully changes the normal draft, including the first type-to-focus
character; avoid notifying for unchanged drafts or other prompt modes.

Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/useComposerTypingGuard.ts:
- Around line 25-26: Update the scope-change reset in the composer typing guard
so it clears request history while retaining the current focused state. Keep the
existing state-reuse behavior when the scope is unchanged and continue passing
the reset state to updateComposerTypingGuard.

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• apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/chat/composerTypingGuard.test.ts
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