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Fixes #15676.

When an agent rewrites a workspace image, a later assistant response or work entry can reuse the earlier signed URL and show cached bytes. This gives each assistant message or work entry its own client asset cache identity, including image previews and media actions on web and mobile. Scope stays out of the RPC payload, and the existing filesystem permission checks and environment routing stay in place.

Rebuilt from @ishaanko’s original contribution, preserving their commits and merging current main. Removed the duplicated asset test and redundant tool-output scopes; kept the existing work-log rendering and permission architecture.

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  • One 65-line added test → one 41-line regression in the existing runtime suite. It checks separate signing requests across scopes, reuse within a scope, and resource-only arguments at the stub client boundary. The baseline counterfactual fails that last stub assertion; the real transport already strips unknown fields. The restored selection passes 71 tests, including the existing web/mobile asset permission cases.
  • 143 focused tests across 11 existing files pass after merging current main, plus 874 existing mobile React Compiler coverage cases and 13 web Markdown asset/permission browser tests. Web, mobile (including the iOS modal) and client-runtime typechecks pass; scoped lint and formatting pass with existing warnings.
  • Independent Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex GPT-6 Sol reviews found mobile media-link, native inline-image and iOS video scope omissions; those were fixed. Five full adversarial review rounds completed. Both final reviewers returned no code findings after the file-preview integration; the earlier test conflict resolution retains both cases. Both traced the new bot preview finding and confirmed that inline expansion uses the displayed URL, while media-link opening keeps main’s existing fresh-file behavior.
  • Live headless Linux web: identical 1280×800 fixture, real timeline/Markdown/asset hooks and isolated server signing/serving. Pinned main web sources at ab6be13 show red/red after the file becomes blue; head shows red/blue with distinct URLs. Expanded second image is blue. In-place overwrite and atomic replacement both pass. Expanded reasoning entries and viewed-image tool entries also show the rewritten image independently.

Before — main reuses the old image in the later message:

Before: both messages show red

After — the later message shows the rewritten blue image:

After: first image red, later image blue

Recording: overwrite, later message and expanded preview

Additional head checks:

Expanded reasoning entries load separate image versions

Viewed-image tool entries load separate image versions

The timeline data above is an inert client projection fixture; file bytes and asset requests are real. This does not verify provider emission or persisted timeline updates. The final main integration retains the message-scoped lookups alongside main’s new refresh behavior for Markdown file previews. Chat renderings do not pass that preview mutation token; the captured chat behavior is unchanged. All 13 current Markdown asset/permission browser cases pass. A fallback font was injected for readable headless captures.

This change covers agent-authored assistant responses, reasoning and viewed-image work entries. User-authored Markdown, plan cards, item-inspector reasoning and event-detail Markdown keep their existing shared image URL behavior. Scope partitions cache identity; it does not snapshot historical bytes. Expiry, eviction, refresh, retry, opening a media link and Save/Copy/share reauthorization may load the current file, and atomic replacement can invalidate an earlier capability. Attachments and already unique tool-output images retain their existing identities.

Not verified live: macOS, Windows, Electron desktop, iOS, Android, remote/relay/tunnel connections, native image caches/gallery/video playback, web video playback and Save/Copy/download actions. Device verification is disabled in this environment. Native visual proof remains required before calling the mobile paths ready.

Implemented with GPT-6.1-sol through Codex in T3 Code; tests by GPT-6-astra through Codex; reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5 through Claude Agent and GPT-6-sol through Codex.

Each assistant message, reasoning entry, and viewed-image work row signs its
own asset URL. A later message that shows a file the agent rewrote no longer
reuses the earlier URL whose bytes the browser cached.
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Verdict: Approved at 9d9ba21

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused cross-platform fix that scopes cached asset URLs by message or work entry so rewritten workspace images and media resolve to the correct bytes. The server contract and existing unscoped callers remain unchanged, with cache behavior covered by a runtime test.

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  • apps/mobile/src/components/FilePreviewModal.tsx
  • apps/mobile/src/components/VideoPreviewModal.ios.tsx
  • apps/mobile/src/components/VideoPreviewModal.tsx
  • apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx
  • apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadMarkdownImage.tsx
  • apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadMarkdownVideo.tsx
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  • apps/mobile/src/lib/markdownMedia.ts
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  • apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx
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Asset URL state and refresh APIs now accept optional scopes. Mobile and web Markdown, media actions, and preview flows pass message or work-entry identifiers through scoped asset lookups and preview identities. The client runtime includes scope in query identity but sends only the resource in the URL-creation RPC.

Changes: Scoped Asset URLs

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scoped URL query and request contract
apps/mobile/src/state/assets.ts, apps/web/src/assets/assetUrls.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/assets.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/runtime.test.ts
Asset URL APIs and the client runtime query accept an optional scope. Runtime tests check URL reuse for matching scopes and a new request for a different scope. The RPC request contains only the resource.
Mobile message and work-log scopes
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-work-log.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadMarkdownImage.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadMarkdownVideo.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/messageImageGallery.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/markdownMedia.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/mediaActionsSource.ts, apps/mobile/src/native/SelectableMarkdownText.types.ts, apps/mobile/src/native/useMarkdownImageSource.ts
Assistant message IDs and work-entry IDs pass through Markdown rendering, link actions, image resolution, and media preview handling. Resource-backed image and video sources receive the scope.
Mobile preview and media scopes
apps/mobile/src/components/FilePreviewModal.types.ts, apps/mobile/src/components/FilePreviewModal.tsx, apps/mobile/src/components/VideoPreviewModal.ios.tsx, apps/mobile/src/components/VideoPreviewModal.tsx, apps/mobile/src/state/mediaActions.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/filePreviewGallery.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/videoPreviewSource.ts
File and video preview URL lookups and media-action refreshes pass the scope. Resource-based preview keys include the scope; URI-backed video keys retain their existing format.
Web message scopes and media previews
apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineAssistantRows.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineWorkEntryRow.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatMarkdownMedia.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ExpandedImagePreview.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ExpandedImageDialog.tsx, apps/web/src/components/media/MediaActions.tsx
Web Markdown receives message or work-entry IDs as scopes and passes them to asset lookups, refreshes, and media previews. Expanded image identities include scope, and media actions pass it to URL creation.

Priority: Pending latest changes

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 234bd

The identified cache-identity risks do not block merging: message renderings use scoped URLs, and Save and Copy retain that scope.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 8f821

The change separates cached media identities without granting additional asset access. The inspected paths preserve environment routing and permission checks. Remaining uncertainty concerns permission changes during in-flight requests and platform-specific preview lifecycle behavior, rather than an identified security regression.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated change affects client-local URL and preview state for resources in the selected environment. Scope adds cache entries but does not replace the resource selector, select another environment, or add signing privileges.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Markdown-controlled media still reaches signing through the existing environment and resource boundary. Web workspace resources retain the thread environment, and the shared executor removes scope before crossing the RPC boundary. Direct external URL behavior is pre-existing and unchanged in the inspected diff.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Existing mobile controls remain around asynchronous asset use: sharing checks host-media permission before and after URL refresh, prevents overlapping share requests, and aborts on unmount. File-preview resolution ignores cancelled completions and releases local attachment leases during cleanup.
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Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the primary fix: preventing stale chat images after an agent rewrites a file. It is concise and follows the repository’s conventional format.
Description check Passed The description explains the problem, implementation, scope, verification results, visual evidence, and known limitations. It does not use the template headings or provide an explicit approval stateme…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue [#15676] requires later assistant content to avoid showing a stale cached workspace image. The PR adds a per-message scope for assistant Markdown and a per-work-entry scope for reasoning and vie…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed mobile and web files propagate the asset scope through Markdown images, videos, galleries, media actions, previews, refresh paths, and cache keys. These changes support the same stale-imag…
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Issue [#15676] requires later assistant content to avoid showing a stale cached workspace image. The PR adds a per-message scope for assistant Markdown and a per-work-entry scope for reasoning and viewed-image entries. Web and mobile asset hooks include the scope in the client cache identity. The client runtime test verifies separate signing requests for different scopes and reuse within one scope. The signing RPC receives only { resource }, so the scope stays out of the RPC payload. Existing permission checks and environment routing remain unchanged. The reported web integration evidence shows the later message loading the rewritten image. The implementation does not snapshot historical bytes, but the issue permits the live-reference alternative.

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The changed mobile and web files propagate the asset scope through Markdown images, videos, galleries, media actions, previews, refresh paths, and cache keys. These changes support the same stale-image fix across the affected client surfaces. The runtime regression test verifies the new cache behavior and RPC boundary. Existing unscoped behavior remains for user-authored Markdown and other surfaces identified as outside the objective. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

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This would also fix #15676. Would be nice if this gets merged

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Taking over this one. I will integrate it with current main, retain the filesystem permission checks, and verify that later chat messages load rewritten workspace images. I will push the focused rebuild here while preserving @ishaanko’s commits.

# Conflicts:
#	apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx
#	apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadMarkdownImage.tsx
#	apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-work-log.tsx
#	apps/mobile/src/state/assets.ts
#	apps/web/src/assets/assetUrls.ts
#	apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx
#	apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx
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# Conflicts:
#	apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx
#	apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx
#	apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx
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[claude-opus-5-5] RESPONDING ON BEHALF OF ISHAAN

@juliusmarminge merged main (636f9fb) to clear the conflict and the knip failure from parseTailscaleMagicDnsName, which main already removed.

Main split the code this PR touched into new modules (#22693, #22694, and the timeline split), so the assetScope edits moved with it:

  • ChatMarkdownAssetImage is now in chat/ChatMarkdownMedia.tsx.
  • The message, reasoning, and viewed-image call sites are now in chat/TimelineAssistantRows.tsx and chat/TimelineWorkEntryRow.tsx.
  • Main's new GitHub-media image path is left unscoped, since a GitHub URL doesn't change when an agent rewrites a workspace file.
  • On mobile, AssistantMarkdownContent keeps the scoped link handlers on top of main's thread-chip linkHandlers.

Web and mobile typecheck, runtime.test.ts, lint, and knip:check pass locally.

Main's pingdotgg#24970 keys workspace image URLs by revision, but only right-panel
previews pass one, so chat messages still need their own scope. useAssetUrlState
takes both as an options object; a positional third argument meant scope here
and revision on main. Mobile previews moved to refreshAssetUrl (pingdotgg#25527), which
now takes the scope too.
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[claude-opus-5-5] RESPONDING ON BEHALF OF ISHAAN

@juliusmarminge merged main again (86ff54b). Two things changed:

Web and mobile typecheck, lint, knip, and 121 tests in runtime.test.ts, assetUrls.test.ts, longLivedAssetUrls.test.ts, markdownMedia.test.ts and filePreviewGallery.test.ts pass locally. ChatMarkdownMedia.browser.test.tsx needs Chromium, so CI covers it.

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Main's audio and file embeds call onMarkdownLinkPress(href, true); this branch
put scope before the imageEmbed flag. The merge commit missed this fix.
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ThreadMarkdownImage without MarkdownImageAssetScopeContext, which this branch
renders around assistant messages and reads in ThreadMarkdownVideo.
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