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fix(web): queued messages send while their thread is not open - #13764

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A message queued while the agent works only went out if its thread stayed open. Switch to another thread and it sat there until you came back, so all the time away was lost.

Root cause: the queue store is global, but only the mounted ChatView sent from it, and only one ChatView is mounted at a time. The send path also read the model and modes from the live composer, which does not exist for a thread you are not viewing.

Fix

  • QueuedMessageSender, mounted once at the root, watches each thread that has a queue. Reading the thread keeps its detail subscribed, so it sees tool boundaries and the end of the turn on web and desktop. It waits on the same gates as before: connection, live detail, rewind, approvals and questions.
  • sendQueuedMessage is the one send path for queued messages. The watcher and Send now both use it. ChatView.onSend no longer has a queued-message mode (about 100 lines removed).
  • A queued message now carries the model and modes the composer showed when it was queued, so the send reads nothing from the composer.
  • The row stays in the queue as "Sending" until the turn start is on the wire. Stop can still take it back during uploads, but not after dispatch. That replaces the drainGeneration counter.
  • After a queued send that starts a new turn, the next message waits until the server picks that turn up. This reuses the composer's hasServerAcknowledgedLocalDispatch, so two messages do not leave on one boundary.

This supersedes #13122, which fixes the same bug with a second send path next to ChatView's. Here there is only one path.

Closes #13676. Closes #13319.

Verification

  • New tests: a message queued on a thread with no chat view sends when its turn ends. The next message waits for the server and then for a tool boundary. A failed send, once cancelled, does not stall the queue. Stop during an upload starts no turn. A mode changed before queueing is saved before the turn starts.
  • vp test run on the queue, sender and timeline tests: 136 passed. Web typecheck is clean. Targeted lint shows no new warnings.
  • I did not run a live provider turn in the app. The only UI change is the row label, "Queued" to "Sending", while a send is under way.

Mobile has its own queue and is unchanged.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Queued messages send when the agent reaches the next tool call, even while you’re viewing another thread.
    • Queued messages retain their selected model, runtime, interaction, and prompt-effort settings.
    • Messages show a “Sending” status while being sent.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Messages that fail to send remain at the front of the queue for retry with “Send now.”
    • Queued sends wait for pending uploads and required approvals or input before proceeding.

Only the mounted ChatView drained the queue, and only one ChatView is
mounted at a time. A message queued on thread A sat idle after switching
to thread B, and went out only on return.

A root-level QueuedMessageSender now watches every thread that has a
queue and sends through one shared sendQueuedMessage, used by both the
watcher and Send now. Queued messages carry the model and modes from
queue time, so the send no longer reads the live composer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

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Codex Total thread wire 13.5 KiB 13.5 KiB +13 B (+0.1%) 15.1 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire 7.1 KiB 7.1 KiB −5 B (−0.1%) 7.3 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 6.5 KiB 6.5 KiB +18 B (+0.3%) 7.8 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 56.2 KiB 56.3 KiB +44 B (+0.1%) 66.4 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 9 10 +1 (+11.1%) 21 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 13.5 KiB 13.5 KiB −3 B (−0.0%) 15.1 KiB ✅
Claude Thread snapshot wire 7.1 KiB 7.1 KiB −5 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: a21b42c · PR result: cdc9998 · 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: 114.0 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.7 KiB

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This change adds a root-level watcher that can dispatch queued agent turns for threads that are not open, along with a substantial new upload, settings, dispatch, retry, and queue-lifecycle path. Because it changes production send behavior across all queued threads rather than making a small isolated correction, human review is warranted.

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Walkthrough

Queued messages now retain send settings and use explicit send states. A mounted per-thread sender checks when messages are due and dispatches them independently of the active ChatView. The send path applies saved settings and updates queue state after success or failure.

Changes

Queued message dispatch

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queue send states
apps/web/src/queuedMessageStore.ts, apps/web/src/queuedMessageStore.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts
Queued messages store model, runtime, interaction, and prompt-effort settings. The store tracks preparing and dispatching states and updates its send, drain, and removal operations. Tests cover those transitions.
Composer queue integration
apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
ChatView saves send settings when queuing a composer message. It removes queued-message transmission and retry handling from the regular composer send path.
Per-thread dispatch and send
apps/web/src/components/QueuedMessageSender.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/sendQueuedMessage.ts, apps/web/src/components/QueuedMessageSender.test.tsx, apps/web/src/routes/__root.tsx, apps/web/src/state/entities.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx, docs/user/composer.md
The root layout mounts a sender that checks thread readiness and dispatches due messages. The dedicated send function applies saved settings and handles attachments, context, turn start, and queue completion or failure. Queue rows show when a message is sending. The composer documentation describes dispatch at the next tool call.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant QueuedMessageSender
  participant sendQueuedMessage
  participant queuedMessageStore
  participant thread.turn.start
  QueuedMessageSender->>sendQueuedMessage: Dispatch a due queued message
  sendQueuedMessage->>queuedMessageStore: Begin send and mark dispatching
  sendQueuedMessage->>thread.turn.start: Start turn with message and context
  thread.turn.start-->>sendQueuedMessage: Return turn result
  sendQueuedMessage->>queuedMessageStore: Finish or fail queued message
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cdc99

Stopping a queued message during attachment preparation can still change the thread’s settings, affecting a later send. This is a bounded issue to fix or explicitly accept before merging.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR satisfies the confirmed queued-follow-up requirement in [#13676]. QueuedMessageSender is root-mounted, monitors queued messages across threads, dispatches at turn boundaries, preserves queued… Add or verify coverage for [#13319] outside the queued-follow-up path. Ensure an ordinary send to an idle, non-selected thread dispatches without navigation, and ensure the returned thread shows accurate progress and a clear pending state w…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 10 files. 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 describes the main change: queued messages can send when their thread is not open.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the problem, root cause, implementation, verification, linked issues, and scope. It omits the template headings and checklist, and it does not include the required before/afte…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within the linked issue scope. The root sender, extracted queued-send path, send-state tracking, acknowledgement gating, settings restoration, failure handling, status labels, tests, …
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Explanation

The PR satisfies the confirmed queued-follow-up requirement in [#13676]. QueuedMessageSender is root-mounted, monitors queued messages across threads, dispatches at turn boundaries, preserves queued settings, and gates the next message on acknowledgement. Tests cover these paths. The PR only addresses the conditional queue hypothesis in [#13319]. It does not establish or fix ordinary idle-thread sends, accurate elapsed progress after navigation, or clear local/pending submission state. Those requirements remain unmet for [#13319].

Resolution

Add or verify coverage for [#13319] outside the queued-follow-up path. Ensure an ordinary send to an idle, non-selected thread dispatches without navigation, and ensure the returned thread shows accurate progress and a clear pending state when dispatch remains local.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`:
- Around line 8596-8599: Update onSend so composer messages are appended to the
active thread’s queue whenever it already contains pending messages, even if the
session phase is ready. Preserve the existing queue condition and enqueue
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Comment thread apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
- A failed queued send no longer drops the wait on an earlier dispatch.
- Overflow attachments restored after Stop follow the composer's settings.
- A composer send lines up behind a queued message that is still leaving.

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🟡 Minor · Check cancellation before persisting queued settings. · sendQueuedMessage.ts:130-166

apps/web/src/components/chat/sendQueuedMessage.ts:130-166
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Check cancellation before persisting queued settings.

Attachment preparation can yield while the message is "preparing". Stop can drain it during that time, but the settings commands still run before markDispatching returns false. The canceled message can therefore persist model or mode updates without starting a turn.

Add a live queue-state check after attachment preparation and before the first settings command. This fixes the Stop-during-attachment trigger. It does not undo a settings command already submitted; a complete fix for that window requires cross-boundary cancellation or transactional server changes.

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diff --git a/apps/web/src/queuedMessageStore.ts b/apps/web/src/queuedMessageStore.ts
@@
   beginSend: (
     threadKey: string,
     id: string,
     toolActivityId: string | null,
   ) => QueuedComposerMessage | null;
+  isPreparing: (threadKey: string, id: string) => boolean;
   /** The turn start is going out. False when Stop took the message back first. */
   markDispatching: (threadKey: string, id: string, thread: LocalDispatchSnapshot) => boolean;
@@
       );
       return entry;
     },
+    isPreparing: (threadKey, id) =>
+      queueOf(threadKey).some((message) => message.id === id && message.sending === "preparing"),
     markDispatching: (threadKey, id, thread) => {
diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/chat/sendQueuedMessage.ts b/apps/web/src/components/chat/sendQueuedMessage.ts
@@
     });
     assertFilesAllowed();
 
+    if (!queue.isPreparing(threadKey, message.id)) return;
+
     // The server starts the turn with the thread's stored modes, so a change
     // made in the composer before queueing is saved first.
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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/sendQueuedMessage.ts` around lines 130 - 166,
Add a live queue-state check in sendQueuedMessage after attachment preparation
and assertFilesAllowed, but before any settings command; return if the message
is no longer preparing. Add or reuse a queue-state method in the queued message
store that verifies the message is still in the preparing state, so Stop
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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/sendQueuedMessage.ts`:
- Around line 130-166: Add a live queue-state check in sendQueuedMessage after
attachment preparation and assertFilesAllowed, but before any settings command;
return if the message is no longer preparing. Add or reuse a queue-state method
in the queued message store that verifies the message is still in the preparing
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juliusmarminge added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 26, 2026
Merges origin/main (95030dc), the 18 commits after a21b42c.

Conflict resolutions that change V2 code:
- AgentAwarenessRelay: keep V2's publish worker and drain, add main's
  unlinked backoff and requestCatchUp (cloud/http now wakes it). Main's
  catch-up tests are rewritten against V2's relay harness.
- server.ts: keep V2's MCP route wiring, add main's untracedRequestsLayer last.
- Sidebar: V2's sortSettledThreadsForSidebar is dropped for main's shared
  sortSettledThreads (client-runtime, same resolver); its tests moved there
  and use V2's latestRun.
- #13767 cache encode shortcut: not taken. It relies on V1 shells being in
  encoded form; V2 shells hold DateTime values and V2 already encodes
  cooperatively (mobile shell-cache-encoding, #12117). Main's IndexedDB
  "abort" listener fix is kept.
- #13764 queued sends: main's client-side QueuedMessageSender and
  queuedMessageStore stay deleted; V2 queues runs on the server
  (Orchestrator startNextQueuedRun), which already drains unopened threads.
- #13765 / #13756: V1 ProjectionSnapshotQuery and ProjectionPipeline keep
  V2's versions except main's skip of empty attachment-cleanup spans.
- Docs: composer.md keeps V2's queue text; keybindings.md adds
  usagePageOpen to V2's list.
- Deleted-in-V2 V1 files that main modified stay deleted.

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