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What Changed

Replace the inactivity auto-settle switch with Off, All threads, and Threads without a PR on web, desktop, and mobile. The new option excludes PR-linked threads from inactivity settlement while keeping the existing merge and close rules independent. Defaults are unchanged: All threads, three days of inactivity, and settle-on-merge enabled. Existing saved thresholds, disabled inactivity settings, and merge preferences are preserved; excluding PR-linked threads is opt-in.

The exclusion covers manual, created, agent, stack, legacy, and detected branch links; dismissed stack entries do not count. It supports project overrides and connected-environment settings sync, with capability checks for older servers.

Why

The settings could not express keeping long-running work or threads with long-open PRs active while still automatically settling inactive exploratory threads that never produce a PR. Disabling the three-day inactivity rule protected PR work but left those exploratory threads active indefinitely. The new scope makes that combination explicit without needing a PR-state lookup for inactivity decisions.

Related: #5476. This addresses the configurable inactivity behavior, not the separate background-work settlement requirements in that issue. PR-link coverage includes the branch-link path highlighted by #11809.

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Validation

  • 335 focused tests passed across settlement policy/reactor, contracts, shared settings, settings search, mobile settings sync, and scoped writes across mixed server versions.
  • Server, web, mobile, contracts, and client-runtime typechecks passed.
  • Targeted lint completed with existing warnings; formatting and diff checks passed.
  • Dev server provided for manual UI testing; no automated browser or simulator pass.

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  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why
  • I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes

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  • New Features

    • Added automatic settlement options for All threads, Threads without a PR, or Off.
    • Threads linked to pull requests are excluded from inactivity settlement when the “without a PR” option is selected.
    • Added project- and environment-level support for configuring the settlement scope.
    • Mobile and web settings now provide matching controls.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Settings synchronization now preserves compatibility with environments that do not support settlement scopes.
  • Documentation

    • Updated thread-sidebar documentation to describe the new settlement options and behavior.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a new cross-platform setting that changes production inactivity-settlement behavior and propagates through contracts, server policy, synchronization, web, and mobile UIs. It also introduces a default value for the new setting, so the scope and default behavior warrant human review.

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  • apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsThreadsRouteScreen.tsx
  • apps/mobile/src/features/settings/autoSettleSettingsSync.test.ts
  • apps/mobile/src/features/settings/autoSettleSettingsSync.ts
  • apps/mobile/src/features/settings/settings-scoped-server.test.ts
  • apps/mobile/src/features/settings/settings-scoped-server.ts
  • apps/server/src/environment/ServerEnvironment.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadSettlementPolicy.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadSettlementPolicy.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadSettlementReactor.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadSettlementReactor.ts
  • apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx
  • apps/web/src/components/settings/scopedSettings.test.ts
  • apps/web/src/components/settings/scopedSettings.ts
  • apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts
  • docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
  • packages/client-runtime/src/state/sharedSettings.test.ts
  • packages/client-runtime/src/state/sharedSettings.ts
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Walkthrough

The change adds a project-scoped auto-settlement mode for all threads, threads without a PR, or off. It updates contracts, capability filtering, web and mobile settings, synchronization, server settlement policy, sweep detection, tests, and documentation.

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Auto-settlement scope

Layer / File(s) Summary
Settings contracts and capability gating
packages/contracts/..., packages/client-runtime/src/state/sharedSettings.*
Adds sidebarAutoSettleScope with "all" and "without-pr" values, defaults, project overrides, patch validation, and the threadAutoSettlementScope capability. Shared-setting patches omit the scope for unsupported environments.
Server settlement policy and reactor
apps/server/src/environment/ServerEnvironment.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/...
Adds server capability advertisement. The settlement policy excludes PR-linked threads from inactivity settlement under "without-pr". Scope changes re-arm settlement sweeps.
Web and mobile settings controls
apps/web/src/components/settings/..., apps/mobile/src/features/settings/...
Adds three-mode controls, capability checks, project override handling, scope-aware synchronization, and legacy-target patch filtering. Tests cover supported and unsupported environments.
Settlement behavior documentation
docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
Documents the three inactivity-settlement modes and the PR-link rules for "without-pr".

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SettingsControl
  participant EnvironmentCapabilities
  participant SettingsPatch
  participant ThreadSettlementReactor
  participant ThreadSettlementPolicy
  SettingsControl->>EnvironmentCapabilities: check threadAutoSettlementScope
  SettingsControl->>SettingsPatch: write sidebarAutoSettleScope
  SettingsPatch-->>ThreadSettlementReactor: apply resolved scope
  ThreadSettlementReactor->>ThreadSettlementPolicy: resolveAutoSettlementAt with autoSettleScope
  ThreadSettlementPolicy-->>ThreadSettlementReactor: settlement time or null
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 411c1

The new settlement scopes, capability filtering, synchronization, and server policy paths are covered consistently. No remaining merge-blocking risk is identified.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 47.06% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 20 files. (1 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: excluding PR-linked threads from inactivity settlement.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes complete What Changed and Why sections, UI evidence, validation results, and a completed checklist. It clearly explains scope behavior, compatibility handling, and preserved d…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Docstring coverage is 47.06% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 20 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx`:
- Line 2162: Update the “off” branch around mixedAutoSettle to include
sidebarAutoSettleScope set to “all” alongside sidebarAutoSettleAfterDays in the
updateSettings patch. Preserve the existing capability filtering for legacy
targets so the scope reset is removed where unsupported.

In `@docs/user/thread-sidebar.md`:
- Around line 96-98: Update the PR-link classification sentence near the
Settings → General guidance to explicitly include manual, created, agent, stack,
legacy, and automatically detected branch links, while stating that dismissed
stack links are excluded from the classification.

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  • apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsRouteScreen.tsx
  • apps/mobile/src/features/settings/autoSettleSettingsSync.test.ts
  • apps/mobile/src/features/settings/autoSettleSettingsSync.ts
  • apps/server/src/environment/ServerEnvironment.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadSettlementPolicy.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadSettlementPolicy.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadSettlementReactor.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/orchestration/ThreadSettlementReactor.ts
  • apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx
  • apps/web/src/components/settings/scopedSettings.test.ts
  • apps/web/src/components/settings/scopedSettings.ts
  • apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts
  • docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
  • packages/client-runtime/src/state/sharedSettings.test.ts
  • packages/client-runtime/src/state/sharedSettings.ts
  • packages/contracts/src/environment.ts
  • packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts
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tris203 force-pushed the t3code/prevent-settling-open-pr-threads branch from b2c535d to 411c1d7 Compare September 17, 2026 20:07
sheehanmunim added a commit to munimtechnologies/mtcode that referenced this pull request Sep 19, 2026
…vity settlement

From pingdotgg#12258 by @tris203. Coexists with the fork's
auto-settle-pinned-threads setting on web, mobile and the server policy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thanks for the PR. We're not taking changes to the orchestration and provider layers right now: that part of the server is being rewritten for V2, and merging into the current code would either conflict with or be thrown away by that work.

Closing for now. If this is still an issue once V2 lands, please reopen (or open a fresh PR against the new code) and we'll take a proper look.

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