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Fixes #13334.

Problem

The text of a citation comment lives only in AssistantCitationCommentEditor's local state until it is saved or the popover is dismissed (#10831). When a provider question arrives, ChatComposer reuses the prompt editor for the answer: its value switches from the prompt to the pending answer, the controlled-value effect calls setContent, the whole document is replaced, and the citation's node view (with its popover and editor) unmounts. No dismissal fires, so nothing is settled and the draft is lost; once the question is answered the citation is back without the comment.

Fix

The draft is kept outside the node view. assistantCitationCommentDrafts.ts is a small in-memory map keyed by the serialized citation plus its order among identical citations in the document (assistantCitationDraftKey). The node's citeKey cannot be the key: the composer rebuilds its document from the prompt text on every value change and assigns fresh random keys, which is exactly what the question does; the same prompt rebuilds the citations in the same order, so this key survives it, and two identical citations still get separate drafts. The key is prefixed with the composer's target key (the thread or draft it belongs to), so the persistent ChatComposer switching to another thread that happens to hold the same citation at the same position never resumes or discards a draft that is not its own. The serialized citation alone is the fallback for hosts without a document position:

  • the chip writes to it as the reader types (alongside the existing draftCommentRef), and the editor starts from it when it mounts, so an editor that comes back after the question resumes the text;
  • when the popover opens, draftCommentRef is initialised from it, so the dismissal rules from fix(web): keep citation comment when popover is dismissed #10831 treat the resumed text as typed (outside click still commits it, Escape still discards);
  • it is cleared when the comment is saved (Save, Enter, save-and-send, or a committing dismissal) or explicitly cancelled; an unmount leaves it alone. Sending the prompt takes every draft its composer still holds (takeAssistantCitationCommentDraftsForComposer, called from ChatView's send-side reset), so a popover that stayed open through the send, which a comment over the length limit does, cannot hand its text to the next prompt citing the same text; the ordinary, plan follow-up and multiple-model failure handlers restore them together with the prompt (restoreAssistantCitationCommentDrafts).

The popover itself is not reopened automatically; the comment is there when the reader opens it again. The prompt editor stays shared with the answer input, as before.

Tests

AssistantCitationChip.test.tsx: an unsaved comment is resumed when the chip mounts again and saves with that text (fails without the fix), two identical citations keep their drafts apart, and the draft is forgotten after Save and after Cancel; assistantCitationCommentDrafts.test.ts pins that the key is stable for the same citation, distinct for identical ones by order, and distinct across composers, and that a send takes only its own composer's drafts and a failed send gets them back. 18 tests pass across the chip, drafts and dismissal suites; web typecheck and targeted lint are clean. Not verified in a running app: reproducing needs a provider question to land while typing.

Implemented with Claude Code (Claude Fable 5.1).

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Walkthrough

Citation comment drafts use keys derived from citation content, the number of preceding identical citations, and composer scope. The citation chip restores drafts after remounts and clears them after save or cancel. Clearing composer content also clears drafts for that composer.

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Citation comment drafts

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stable citation draft keys
apps/web/src/components/chat/assistantCitationCommentDrafts.ts, apps/web/src/components/ComposerPromptEditorTiptap.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/assistantCitationCommentDrafts.test.ts
The key helper distinguishes identical citations by their count among preceding citations and includes the composer scope. The composer passes the scoped key to the citation chip. Tests cover key stability, duplicate citations, and different scopes.
Draft storage and editor lifecycle
apps/web/src/components/chat/assistantCitationCommentDrafts.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationCommentEditor.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.test.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
The chip reads and writes drafts by key and clears them after save or cancel. The comment editor initializes from a provided draft before the saved citation comment. Clearing composer content also clears drafts for its target. Tests cover restoration across remounts and draft clearing.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatComposer
  participant ComposerPromptEditorTiptap
  participant AssistantCitationChip
  participant CitationDraftStore
  ChatComposer->>ComposerPromptEditorTiptap: Pass composer scope
  ComposerPromptEditorTiptap->>AssistantCitationChip: Pass citation draft key
  AssistantCitationChip->>CitationDraftStore: Read stored draft
  AssistantCitationChip->>CitationDraftStore: Write draft changes
  AssistantCitationChip->>CitationDraftStore: Clear draft after save or cancel
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 14981

Unsaved citation comments can disappear or attach to the wrong citation after citation edits, and a failed send can restore a citation without its comment. These draft-loss paths should be addressed before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 14981

Conversation-scoped keys appear to keep drafts from different conversations separate. No new security issue was established, but recovery after a failed send and the full lifetime of cached drafts remain incompletely verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified exposure is unsaved comment text in the web client’s memory. On the inspected composer path, target-scoped keys and prefix deletion constrain restoration and cleanup to the selected composer.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The composer uses a target-derived scope when creating citation draft keys, and ChatView uses the same target-key function for cleanup. Scoped server-thread identities include the environment; local drafts use their draft ID.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy the coding objective in [#13334]. Citation drafts are stored outside the citation node view. Draft keys include citation identity, duplicate occurrence order, and composer scope. T…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within [#13334]. Production changes implement citation draft persistence, stable draft identity, composer scoping, and cleanup. The added tests verify these behaviors. No unrelated pr…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary fix: preserving an unsaved citation comment when a provider question changes the shared composer.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is detailed and covers the problem, fix, scoping behavior, draft lifecycle, tests, and validation. It does not use the template headings or include the checklist, screenshots, or video…
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🟡 Minor · Clear citation drafts when the composer prompt completes. · assistantCitationCommentDrafts.ts:35-45

apps/web/src/components/chat/assistantCitationCommentDrafts.ts:35-45
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear citation drafts when the composer prompt completes.

AssistantCitationChip keeps an unsaved draft when its node view unmounts. The prompt reset at ChatComposer.tsx:4555-4565 does not clear that module-level draft. A later prompt in the same composer target can contain the same citation, produce the same scope + serialized citation + ordinal key, and restore the old comment when its popover opens.

Clear the completed prompt’s citation drafts in the send/reset owner. Do not change the duplicate-citation ordinal.

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The comment lived only in the editor's local state. When a provider
question arrives the composer lends its editor to the answer, the document
is replaced, and the citation's node view unmounts without any dismissal,
so the text typed so far was gone once the question was answered.

The draft is now kept outside the node view, keyed by the citation, and the
editor resumes it when it comes back; the dismissal rules see it as typed.
It is dropped once the comment is saved or cancelled.
Two identical citations serialize the same, so one could resume the
other's unsaved comment. The composer node view passes its own citeKey.
…rvives a rebuild

The composer rebuilds its document from the prompt text whenever its value
changes and gives every node a fresh random key, so a draft keyed by the
node was lost in the very rebuild a provider question causes. The key is
now the serialized citation plus how many identical ones precede it, which
the same prompt rebuilds identically.
The draft map is shared, so the same citation at the same place in another
thread's composer could resume or discard a draft that was not its own.
The composer passes its target key down and it becomes part of the key.
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