feat(web): show settings scope as a sentence at the top of the page

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The environment and project a settings change applies to were picked from the tail of the header breadcrumb (Settings / General / All environments / All projects). Those segments looked like navigation, so users missed that they were choices at all.

Settings pages now open with a sentence: Applying settings for project across/on environment. Each picker is an inline trigger with a dotted underline and a chevron. The underline turns solid on hover and while its menu is open. The header goes back to plain Settings / Section.

• New SettingsScopeSentence, rendered at the top of SettingsPageContainer. It is hidden on device-only pages (Appearance, SnapShots, Connections), as the breadcrumb segments were. The picker menus moved over unchanged from SettingsBreadcrumb.
• New picker tone on InlineButton, so the call site doesn't restyle it.
• "across" becomes "on" once a single environment is chosen. Each connective stays with its picker when the sentence wraps.
• The unavailable/reconnect messages now sit inside SettingsPageContainer so they line up with the sentence.
• docs/user/project-settings.md now describes the sentence instead of the breadcrumb, and notes that device-only pages don't show it.
• The Projects page is where people look for per-project settings, so it now has shortcuts to the two defaults changed most often: the new-thread Model and Workspace. These write to the selected project's override. A friendly note directly under the scope sentence ("Can't find a setting? Keep this project picked above and hop to any other settings page.") points people to the rest of the settings.

Mobile has its own settings navigation and is unaffected.

Before / after (1280×760, /settings/general, same data)

Before (main)	After

After, with the project picker open:

Projects page, with the new-thread shortcuts and the scope note:

Verification

• vp test run src/components/settings/ (45 files, 452 tests)
• Web typecheck, plus lint of the touched files
• Checked by hand in the dev web app: switching project/environment, the "across"→"on" wording, and device-only pages hiding the sentence, and the Projects page shortcuts

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• New Features
  • Settings pages now show the selected project and environment, with controls to change scope. Selections persist across categories and searches, and disconnected environments are marked offline.
  • Project settings now include a dedicated category for default Model and Workspace settings, with an informational prompt for project-specific configuration.
  • Device-only settings pages, such as Appearance, do not show project and environment scope controls.
• Documentation
  • Updated the project settings guide to describe the scope sentence, selection controls, and default selections.

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Settings pages show project and environment scope controls in a sentence above the settings content. The breadcrumb no longer contains scope menus. Project settings include project-specific defaults, and device-only paths suppress the scope sentence.

Changes

Settings scope and project defaults

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scope sentence and picker behavior apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsScopeSentence.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ui/button.tsx, apps/web/src/routes/settings.tsx	Adds project and environment pickers, conditional connective text, unavailable and offline labels, device-only path exclusions, and picker styling.
Settings page scope integration apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsBreadcrumb.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsLayout.tsx, apps/web/src/routes/settings.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectsSettings.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProviderSettingsPanel.environment.test.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/SnapShotSettings.test.tsx, docs/user/project-settings.md	Renders the scope sentence above settings content, removes scope menus from the breadcrumb, updates boundary messages, and revises the documentation.
Project-specific default settings apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectDefaultsSettings.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectSettingsPanel.tsx	Adds a project settings category that reuses the Model and Workspace rows. The project settings page displays an informational alert about the selected project.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SettingsLayout
  participant SettingsScopeSentence
  participant SettingsScopeContext
  SettingsLayout->>SettingsScopeSentence: Render above settings content
  SettingsScopeSentence->>SettingsScopeContext: Read scope and pathname
  SettingsScopeSentence->>SettingsScopeContext: Update scope axis for string selection

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Users on the provider reconnect path cannot change project or environment scope there, although navigating elsewhere provides a workaround.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
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Codex	Thread snapshot wire	7.0 KiB	7.1 KiB	+4 B (+0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.5 KiB	6.4 KiB	−15 B (−0.2%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	56.3 KiB	56.2 KiB	−44 B (−0.1%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	10	9	−1 (−10.0%)	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	13.5 KiB	13.5 KiB	−2 B (−0.0%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	7.1 KiB	7.1 KiB	−4 B (−0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.4 KiB	6.4 KiB	+2 B (+0.0%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	57.0 KiB	57.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	9	9	0 (0.0%)	21	✅

Baseline: d7819c1 · PR result: a8f8b62 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 113.9 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.6 KiB

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds project-level controls for new-thread model and workspace defaults while substantially changing how settings scope selection is presented across the web UI. Those product-default changes and the new user-facing settings capability warrant human review.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsScopeSentence.tsx`:
- Line 95: Update the trigger’s ariaLabel so its accessible name includes the
selected label as well as the existing scope description, allowing users to hear
the current target before changing settings.

In `@docs/user/project-settings.md`:
- Line 3: Update the Settings documentation sentence so it only refers to the
pages that actually show the scope message, and exclude the device-only pages
such as appearance, snap-shot, and connections. Keep the existing “Applying
settings for …” wording, but change the description in the user-facing text to
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