feat(web): switch a started thread to another account of its provider - #11718
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a new cross-layer account-switch workflow that changes existing thread/session behavior, persists provider rebinding, may discard resume state, and is enabled by default. Its lifecycle and recovery paths also carry unresolved risks around stale provider events and switching during active work. Not approved because:
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1. Medium — the switch permanently destroys the old account's resume cursor, so switching back also starts fresh (contradicting the confirmation copy)
apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.ts:1898 · apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx:8428
providerSessionDirectory.upsert({ ..., resumeCursor: null, runtimePayload: null }) overwrites the single per-thread binding row, and ProviderSessionDirectory.upsert writes resumeCursor through verbatim (apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderSessionDirectory.ts:140). The cursor for the account being left is not stashed anywhere, and nothing else retains it.
Failing case: a thread runs on claude_work, hits a usage limit, the user switches to claude_personal (confirming a dialog that says "claude_work keeps the conversation it has been running"). Later the limit resets and they switch back to claude_work: the binding now has resumeCursor: null for that instance too, so ProviderService.startSession resumes nothing and claude_work starts a brand-new provider conversation. The original conversation is unreachable from T3 forever, in both directions, after a single confirmed switch — the dialog told them only the destination would start fresh.
Fix: either preserve the outgoing cursor per instance before clearing (e.g. keep it under a runtimePayload.resumeCursorsByInstance[fromInstanceId] key — note ProviderSessionRuntime merges object payloads and already preserves importedTranscripts this way — and restore it when the thread returns to that account), or, if one-way is the intended scope, change the confirm text and docs/user/providers-claude.md to say plainly that the move discards the old account's ability to resume this thread.
2. Low — a reactor-side rejection of the switch never reaches the user, and the client has already moved its model selection
apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx:8442
The client only inspects the dispatch result. The decider accepts the command on stale projection state, and the real validation (binding still on fromInstanceId, target instance resolvable, same driver) happens later in processProviderAccountSwitchRequested, whose failure path only appends a provider.account.switch.failed activity — no toast, no rollback, and no receipt the client could await.
Failing case: two clients (or a web tab plus a stale mobile/web session) switch the same thread concurrently — exactly the race fromInstanceId exists to catch. The losing client's dispatch succeeds, so it runs setComposerDraftModelSelection/setStickyComposerModelSelection for the new account, while the server rejected the move and kept the old binding. The picker now shows an account the thread is not on, and the next turn fails at ensureSessionForThread with "cannot switch from instance … because their provider resume state is incompatible". Same shape if the target instance was removed from config between dispatch and processing.
Fix: reconcile the local selection from the server instead of writing it optimistically — apply it when thread.meta-updated for the thread arrives — or surface provider.account.switch.failed as a toast and reset the draft selection back to activeThread.modelSelection.
3. Low — the user docs now promise a picker action that does not exist on mobile
docs/user/providers-claude.md:34
"An existing thread can still move to another Claude account from its model picker" is written in the shipped product's voice with no surface qualifier, but the mobile composer filters the picker to the thread's own instance group (apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadComposer.tsx:538), so other accounts are not even listed there. docs/user/providers-codex.md:42 gets the same new sentence about being asked before switching. A mobile user following these docs finds nothing to tap.
Fix: say the move is available in the web and desktop apps (as docs/user/ does elsewhere for surface-specific features), or hold the doc change until mobile lands.
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2b0de3b66againstmain, PR body, and repo instructions (AGENTS.mdsurfaces/verification/docs rules). - Contract additions: command and event schemas added to both
DispatchableClientOrchestrationCommandandClientOrchestrationCommand,OrchestrationEventType, and theOrchestrationEventunion; capability isoptionalKey, so older servers omit it and clients fall back to the unselectable behavior. The clientthreadReducerhas no case for the new event but ends in a forward-compatibleunchangedfallthrough, and the server projector does not project*-requestedevents — no gap. - Decider guards:
fromInstanceIdmatch,starting/activeTurnId/queued-turn-start rejection. Reactor guards: durable binding wins over the projected session, cross-driver rejection,continuationKeycomparison for keeping resume state, removed-instance handled viaEffect.option. - Binding write path:
resumeCursor: null/runtimePayload: nullclear correctly throughmergeRuntimePayloadand the upsert SQL;importedTranscriptssurvive the null payload (json_seton'{}').cwdis recomputed per turn byresolveThreadWorkspaceCwd, and a persistedresumeCursor: nullis a pre-existing state thatClaudeAdapter.readClaudeResumeStateandCodexAdapter.isCodexResumeCursorSchemaboth treat as "no resume". - Next-turn path after a switch:
ensureSessionForThreadcomputescurrentInstanceIdfromthread.modelSelectiononce the session is stopped, so the incompatible-instance guard inProviderService.startSessiondoes not fire, andstopStaleSessionsForThreadcleans up any surviving old-account session at the next start. - Ingestion guard: only narrows
session.exited, toleratesundefinedon either side, and the event'sproviderInstanceIdis stamped from the owning adapter instance (correlateRuntimeEventWithInstance), so ordinary exits still apply. Ordering aroundstopSession→ rebind converges either way. - Web wiring: capability read from the active thread's environment config;
matchesLockedProviderstill blocks cross-driver and null-continuationGroupKey(Antigravity) entries;lockedContinuationGroupKeyalready fell back tomodelSelection.instanceId, so the new fallback inonProviderModelSelectmatches existing picker gating rather than widening it;requestConfirmDialogreturningundefined(no host) is treated as "not confirmed". - Ran
vp test runondecider.providerAccountSwitch.test.ts(3 passed),ProviderCommandReactor.test.ts+ProviderRuntimeIngestion.test.ts(146 passed), andvp run --filter @t3tools/web typecheck(no errors; only pre-existing suggestion diagnostics elsewhere). - Not reviewed against a running app; no browser or computer use.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 9 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds provider account switching for started threads. It defines contracts and client commands, validates and applies switches on the server, protects against stale session exits, updates the model picker, and documents provider-specific continuation behavior. ChangesProvider account switching
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant ChatView
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User->>ChatView: Select another provider account
ChatView->>User: Request confirmation
User->>ChatView: Confirm switch
ChatView->>Server: Dispatch thread.provider-account.switch
Server->>ProviderSessionDirectory: Rebind thread provider account
Server-->>ChatView: Update thread session state
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8382-8440: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winThe new cross-account selection branch has no web regression test: existing tests do not exercise the confirmation or assert that confirmation dispatches
switchThreadProviderAccount. Add a focused test for an idle started thread with different continuation keys that confirms the dialog and verifies the switch command payload, so a regression to blocking or ordinary model update is detected.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.ts`:
- Line 1870: Wrap the getInstanceInfo call in the provider account switching
flow with the same Effect.mapError mapping used by ensureSessionForThread,
producing the friendly “Requested provider instance '<id>' is not configured in
this build.” message while preserving the existing failure handling.
In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts`:
- Around line 1639-1643: Update the session.exited handling around the thread
session provider check so every exit cleanup path, including buffered assistant
state, plan progress, background liveness, and thread.session.set, is gated by
shouldApplyThreadLifecycle. Ensure stale old-account exit events perform none of
these cleanup actions while preserving cleanup for valid lifecycle events.
In `@docs/user/providers-claude.md`:
- Around line 32-37: Run the required Markdown formatter with `vp check --fix`
for both documentation edits: docs/user/providers-claude.md lines 32-37 and
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In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`:
- Around line 8382-8440: The cross-account selection flow needs a focused web
regression test. Add a test covering an idle started thread with different
continuation group keys, enable account switching, confirm the dialog, and
verify that switchThreadProviderAccount is called with the expected thread,
source instance, and next model selection payload rather than blocking or
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderCommandReactor.ts`:
- Line 1861: Update the provider-account switch decider and the logic around
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A thread is locked to the provider account that started it. The picker lists the other accounts of the same provider but leaves them unselectable, because their resume state cannot be read by a different Claude config directory or Codex home. Anyone who runs two accounts has to start a new thread when one hits its usage limit. Add a `thread.provider-account.switch` command. The decider only accepts it for an idle thread that is still on the account the user confirmed leaving. The provider reactor stops the running session, rebinds the thread to the new account, drops the resume state when the accounts do not share a conversation, and updates the model selection. The next turn starts a fresh provider conversation while T3 keeps the transcript. The ingestion layer ignores the old account's exit so it cannot reclaim the session. The web picker lets the user choose such an account when the server advertises the capability and asks for confirmation first. Work done by Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reject a switch while the session reports running or a request waits on the user, ignore the whole stale exit of an account the thread has left, finish a retried switch whose binding already moved, and report an unconfigured target account plainly. The web picker no longer offers other accounts mid-turn and stops writing the draft selection ahead of the server. Dialog copy and docs now say the earlier conversation cannot be resumed from the thread. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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thanks for following the request on #9181 to narrow this to manual account switching, and for the safeguards and visual verification. we are closing this because retaining the visible transcript while discarding provider conversation continuity is not the account-switching behavior we want. with separate account storage, switching drops the resume cursor and starts a fresh provider conversation. the old messages remain visible in the thread, but the new account does not receive that history. switching back also cannot restore the earlier provider conversation through this thread. the confirmation explains the reset, but the resulting thread still presents history that the active agent does not have. this proposal responds to our earlier invitation and meaningfully reduces the scope. the remaining objection is that disconnect between the visible conversation and the context available to the agent. closed at the request of @StiensWout. |
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yeah tbh this feature would be super sick @chledowski - so if you could get it working how t3 code is wanting... man that would be awesome. Just the ability to switch mid thread between accounts while keeping context. I think claude already allows this to work natively. Like for example if you go to another terminal, log in to a different anthropic account, then continue typing in your previous claude chat the original terminal it'll keep going as normal. idk if you can do that with codex or not. So maybe implementing this only with claude right now would be fine? |
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What Changed
A started thread can move to another account of the same provider from its model picker.
thread.provider-account.switchcommand. The decider accepts it only for an idle thread that is still on the account named in the command (fromInstanceId), so a stale client cannot move a thread twice.session.exitedafter the rebind so it cannot reclaim the session.threadProviderAccountSwitch, and asks for confirmation before switching. Older servers keep those accounts unselectable as today.Deliberately not included, to keep this reviewable: mobile (unchanged, other accounts stay unselectable there), automatic switching on usage limits, and any migration or replay of the transcript into the new account. Those are the pieces that grew #11047 past 2k lines.
Supersedes #11047. This is the narrower manual-switch proposal invited in the closing note on #9181, and it sidesteps the silent-fork problem #6148 works around by dropping the resume state instead of reusing it.
Why
A thread is locked to the account that started it. The other accounts of the same provider show up in the picker but cannot be selected, because a different Claude config directory or Codex home cannot read the conversation. Anyone running two accounts has to start a new thread when one hits its usage limit, and loses the visible history in the process.
UI Changes
Before: with a thread on one account, the other account of the same provider is greyed out ("Codex is unavailable in this thread. Start a new thread to switch providers.").
After: the other account is selectable, and choosing it asks first.
Full flow (thread on Codex answers, switch to Codex B, confirm, next message answered by Codex B, transcript kept):
Testing
vp test runonProviderCommandReactor.test.ts(4 new cases: move and drop resume state, keep it for a shared Codex home, refuse when the binding already moved, refuse cross-driver),decider.providerAccountSwitch.test.ts(3),ProviderRuntimeIngestion.test.ts(1 new).Checklist
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