[Fr4nzz]

A newly created server thread can be missing from the live shell long enough for its route to redirect to the start page. Waiting alone also leaves a valid unlisted thread on the draft timeline.

Use the existing environment-scoped detail stream to confirm absence. Pending detail and synchronization errors keep the route loading; usable detail opens the server conversation, including its history and existing server actions. Missing, deleted and archived threads still redirect. Listed threads retain their quiet shell subscription, and reserved drafts retain their existing promotion path.

Rebuilt from @Fr4nzz’s #19724, preserving the contributor commits and merging main. Replaced the boolean availability helper with the existing detail state and added the missing ChatView server-data path.

Scope: this is the existing-behavior bug-fix exemption; it changes web routing only and adds no default feature, schema or workflow.

Verification

• Route and ChatView logic suites: 156 → 158 tests across two existing files; the two regressions fail against the prior route logic and pass on this head. Existing draft promotion coverage remains. The transition case also checks a synchronization error is not absence.
• Relevant route, entity, detail, shell and synchronization suites: 225 passing tests across seven files. Web typecheck and targeted lint/format checks pass.
• Headless Linux web: with a controlled browser fixture omitting one valid thread from the live shell, the actual server detail loads its saved user/assistant conversation and the route stays open. Restoring shell membership preserves the conversation. Actual main redirects to / with the same fixture, viewport and data. Missing, deleted and archived fixture routes each redirect to / on this head.
• The browser fixture holds a shell omission to make the race deterministic; it does not reproduce production timing or start a provider turn. Disposable synthetic state was used because the installed database snapshot has a newer migration history. Generic transport failures and draft promotion are covered by focused tests, not live provider runs.
• Persistent non-404 transport failures can leave a blank loading route until recovery; they do not establish that the thread is missing. Reconnect during the brief shell-lag window may temporarily unmount the conversation.
• Not verified: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Electron desktop, relay/tunnel connections, or real provider execution. The change is web routing, shared by the desktop web surface; native mobile navigation is unchanged.

Two independent review rounds on the full diff (Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex gpt-6-sol) found no code blockers. Removed a redundant terminal-retention line and narrowed one comment after round one.

Proof

Before — actual main redirects away from the valid unlisted conversation:

After — detail opens the saved server conversation while the thread remains absent from the shell:

Recording: open the unlisted conversation and restore shell membership

Implementation: Codex gpt-6.1-sol (high), through T3 Code. Focused test rewrite: Codex gpt-6-astra (high). Adversarial review: Claude claude-opus-5-5 and Codex gpt-6-sol.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 5137d13

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, targeted web routing fix that waits for an unlisted thread’s existing detail state instead of prematurely redirecting, while preserving missing and archived-thread behavior. The added tests cover the new state decisions, and no defaults, schemas, infrastructure, or static-analysis settings are changed.

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📝 Walkthrough

When a server thread is absent from the shell and draft store, the route loads its detail and uses that state to resolve whether the thread is still loading or is missing. The availability check treats deleted, errored, and archived thread details as unavailable.

Changes: Unlisted thread routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Thread availability and render-state rules apps/web/src/threadRoutes.ts, apps/web/src/threadRoutes.test.ts	isUnlistedThreadUnavailable identifies deleted, errored, and archived thread details. After bootstrap, an unlisted server thread remains loading until its detail establishes that it is unavailable. Tests cover these states and existing server-thread and draft behavior.
Route detail loading apps/web/src/components/ThreadRouteView.tsx	When a server thread has no shell or draft record, the route loads its detail and passes its availability to the render-state resolver.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: saphid

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5137d

A newly created thread can avoid the redirect yet remain blank after its detail loads. Resolve that render path before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5137d

The fix changes when thread data is loaded, not who may read it. Existing environment-scoped authentication and read permissions remain in place. No material security regression was established in the inspected paths.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A crafted thread link can initiate an earlier detail read for an unlisted identifier in the selected environment. In the inspected paths, this changes read timing rather than granting additional authority: requests retain the environment's connection credentials and orchestration read permission requirements.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The snapshot loader uses the prepared environment connection's cookie, bearer, or request-bound DPoP authentication. The HTTP snapshot handler requires orchestration read scope. WebSocket upgrade authentication supplies session scopes to the RPC authorization layer, which assigns subscribeThread the same read scope.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The added consumer reuses the environment/thread-keyed atom family with zero live-state idle retention. Definitive deletion clears detail data and removes the scoped cached thread with an ownership guard; the route introduces no separate subscription or cache owner.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
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Title check		The title clearly identifies the web routing bug fix: newly created threads no longer redirect to the start page.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/threadRoutes.ts:
- Line 60: Update the route resolution around `serverThreadExists` to return a
distinct available result when a successful detail load contains a non-archived
projection, even if the shell does not list the thread. Have `ThreadRouteView`
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[juliusmarminge]

Taking over this one. I’ll rebuild the route hydration fix against main, address the valid-unlisted-thread review finding, and verify the redirects with focused tests and live proof. Thanks @Fr4nzz.