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The new sidebar removed the choice to sort active threads by recent messages. This restores that choice while keeping the configured arrangement as the default.

Related request: Ideas discussion #6964 (sort Sidebar V2 threads by recent activity). That discussion has no maintainer decision on direction yet.

Adds Configured order / Last message to the web/desktop sidebar and the iOS/Android thread list options, including the tablet sidebar and older iOS toolbar. Last message uses the latest user message, with creation time as the fallback. The environment persists and broadcasts the choice to its clients. Changes fan out to connected environments that advertise support, and older servers are gated by a capability. Switching back restores saved arrangement keys; dragging into active positions is disabled while message sorting is selected. Pinned, snoozed, and settled ordering stay unchanged. Active move actions are disabled while sorting by message; switching back preserves the saved arrangement.

Validation: 508 focused sorting/settings tests passed, including persistence and broadcasts to two subscribers; web, mobile, contracts, and client-runtime typechecks passed; targeted lint completed with existing warnings. Browser verification on isolated fixture data confirmed message sorting, persistence, and live updates between two clients in both directions. All clients use shared sorting logic and existing thread summaries. The server settings stream carries the preference across local and remote clients. Native iPhone 16 Pro (iOS 18.5) and Pixel 9 Pro (Android 16) builds and verification passed. Android changes were observed live on iOS and web; iOS changes were observed on web. The tablet sidebar and newer iOS toolbar were typechecked but not separately exercised on a device. Desktop packaging and remote/relay paths were not separately exercised.

Before Last message
Before: configured sidebar without sort control After: last-message ordering and sort menu

Configured order restored

Native client Configured order Last message
iOS iOS configured order iOS last-message order and menu
Android Android configured order Android last-message order

Native evidence was captured at d00906dd6; the subsequent main-branch merge passed the focused tests and web/mobile typechecks.

October 2 merge with main (ebe8d2283). Main added the beta Working section, which orders the inbox by return time. The sort choice now applies only when that section is off, and the web sort menu is disabled while it is on. Main also removed the duplicate ordering tests from the web sidebar suite (#14558), so the two last-message cases moved to the shared threadSort.test.ts. After the merge: typecheck passed for web, mobile, server, contracts, and client-runtime; 518 focused tests passed across threadSort, sharedSettings, Sidebar.logic, threadListV2, contracts settings, and serverSettings; vp build for apps/web passed.

Working section check (web, ebe8d2283). Run in the web client against an isolated dev server with fixture data: four active threads with saved arrangement keys and different last-message times.

Working section on: sort control disabled Working section off: Last message restored
Working section on: sort control dimmed, inbox in return-time order Working section off: sort control enabled, inbox in last-message order

Recording (66 s). The captions at the bottom are an overlay added for the recording, not app UI.

  1. Working off, Last message selected: New thread, Fix checkout error, Update setup guide, Improve search results, Prepare release notes.
  2. Working on in Settings: the sort control is disabled and clicking it opens no menu. The inbox uses main's return-time order: New thread, Prepare release notes, Improve search results, Fix checkout error, Update setup guide.
  3. Working off again: the order from step 1 returns and the menu still shows Last message selected.

Not checked: a thread that is actually in the Working shelf (the fixture has no running agents), dragging with Working on, and desktop packaging. The Working section is web-only, so mobile is unaffected.

Native recordings (2x playback): iOS · Android.

Model: GPT-6. Harness: Codex.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a cross-client, server-persisted active-thread sorting capability and changes list ordering and manual-reordering behavior across web and mobile. Its scope spans shared contracts, server synchronization, and multiple production UI paths, exceeding a small bounded additive change.

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Walkthrough

Adds a shared server preference for sorting active threads by configured order or latest message. Supported web and mobile clients expose sort controls, apply the selected order to active threads, and disable active-thread reordering outside manual mode.

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Active thread sorting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preference contract and synchronization
packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, packages/contracts/src/environment.ts, packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/sharedSettings.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/sharedSettings.test.ts, apps/server/src/environment/ServerEnvironment.ts, apps/server/src/serverSettings.test.ts
Adds activeThreadSortOrder with manual and last_message values to server settings. Shared-setting handling filters and resolves the preference using the threadSortOrder capability. Server tests cover persistence and broadcasts.
Active-thread sorting behavior
packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadSort.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadSort.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/threadListV2.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/threadListV2.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.logic.ts
Adds sorting by latest valid user-message timestamp, with creation-time fallback, and retains the existing manual ordering mode. Thread-list builders apply the selected order and bypass pending manual active ordering in last-message mode. Tests cover ordering and saved keys.
Mobile controls and reorder gating
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/use-active-thread-sort.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/home/*, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadArrangementSheet.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadNavigationSidebar.tsx
Adds sort controls to mobile Home and sidebar menus. Mobile list and arrangement paths receive the selected order, and active-thread moves are limited to manual mode.
Web controls and sidebar integration
apps/web/src/hooks/useActiveThreadSort.ts, apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadHeader.tsx, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
Adds the web preference hook and sidebar sort menu. Active-thread reordering and optimistic drop ordering are adjusted for last-message mode. The sidebar documentation describes the sort options and preference sharing.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Sidebar as Web or mobile sort control
  participant useActiveThreadSort
  participant updateSettings
  participant ThreadListV2
  Sidebar->>useActiveThreadSort: select active-thread order
  useActiveThreadSort->>updateSettings: patch activeThreadSortOrder
  ThreadListV2->>ThreadListV2: apply order to active threads
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ebe8d

The sorting change appears mergeable, but the broadcast test should assert that both subscribed clients receive the preference update.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ebe8d

The change is bounded to thread presentation and preserves saved arrangements. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Updates across environments are best-effort, and remote-path and interruption behavior remain only partially verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A sort selection can affect every connected capable environment in the client's target set and the clients receiving those environments' settings. The inspected new payload changes only presentation preference; it does not carry credentials, executable instructions, or arbitrary target identifiers from the sort menu.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The RPC authorization policy assigns serverUpdateSettings orchestration operate scope, while reading settings requires read scope. The preference contract constrains the accepted value, and stream serialization applies client redaction. Capability checks provide compatibility routing, not authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — A failed settings-file write returns before cache update and publication. Startup reloads persisted settings, and the file watcher revalidates under the write semaphore. Persistence and subsequent publication are separate steps, so immediate subscriber delivery after interruption is not established by these recovery mechanisms.
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Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 84.62% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 26 functions across 24 files. (1 skipped: 1…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: sharing thread sort options across clients.
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@Dwite Dwite changed the title feat(web): restore thread sort options feat: share thread sort options across clients Sep 21, 2026
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- Around line 128-134: Render sortControl independently of the hasProjects
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🟡 Minor · Disable active-thread moves when activeThreadSortOrder is… · ThreadArrangementSheet.tsx:477-512

apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadArrangementSheet.tsx:477-512
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Disable active-thread moves when activeThreadSortOrder is not manual.

When activeThreadSortOrder is last_message, ThreadArrangementSheet still enables DragHandle for a server with threadActiveReorder. Its step, section-move, and drag-end callbacks call moveThread, which returns false for active moves outside manual mode. The user can therefore attempt a move with no visible change or error.

Gate only the active-thread affordance. Keep the pinning capability in the condition so permitted pinned-thread moves remain enabled.

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In `@apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadArrangementSheet.tsx` around lines 477
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allow active-thread moves only when activeThreadSortOrder is "manual"; preserve
the pin-reorder capability independently so permitted pinned-thread moves remain
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Main added the beta Working section, which orders the inbox by return
time. The sort choice now applies only when that section is off, and the
sort menu is disabled while it is on.

Main also removed the duplicate ordering tests from the web sidebar
suite, so the last-message cases move to the shared thread sort tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The October 2 merge changes how Last message interacts with the Working section, but the PR says that interaction was only typechecked. Could you add a focused check and short recording showing the sort control disabled with Working on, then the saved sort order restored with Working off? The earlier screenshots and native recordings don't cover this path. This would fill the verification gap.

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apps/server/src/serverSettings.test.ts (1)

326-329: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the second subscriber receives the broadcast.

The test creates otherClientChanges but never consumes it. Add an assertion for the second stream.

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         const change = Option.getOrUndefined(yield* Stream.runHead(changes));
+        const otherChange = Option.getOrUndefined(yield* Stream.runHead(otherClientChanges));
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         assert.strictEqual(change?.activeThreadSortOrder, "last_message");
+        assert.strictEqual(otherChange?.activeThreadSortOrder, "last_message");
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Added the Working section check to the description, with a recording and two screenshots at ebe8d2283.

  • Working on: the sort control is disabled and the inbox uses return-time order.
  • Working off: the saved Last message order returns and the menu still shows it selected.

Recording (66 s). The captions are an overlay added for the recording. Not checked: a thread that is actually in the Working shelf, because the fixture has no running agents.

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Thanks for working on this. We merged the orchestrator V2 rewrite in #2829, and we are closing this PR as part of that transition.

The patch conflicts with the rewrite in apps/mobile/src/features/home/HomeScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadArrangementSheet.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadNavigationSidebar.tsx and 5 other files. Even where the conflict is small enough to rebase, we are asking for fresh PRs against the new base so we can review and verify the behavior in V2.

Sorry for the extra work this creates. If the change is still needed on V2, please rebuild it on current main, verify it there, and open a new PR linking back here. We're closing the current implementation without assuming the underlying request is resolved.

devuterian added a commit to devuterian/t3code-korean that referenced this pull request Oct 3, 2026
Adds activeThreadSortOrder (manual | last_message) to server settings,
advertised through the threadSortOrder environment capability, and shared
client helpers to resolve, fan out, and apply it (sortActiveThreads).

Ported from pingdotgg#12895.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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