fix(web): no-project drafts can switch machines

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No-project drafts could not switch machines because each machine's Scratch folder has a different path and never belongs to the same logical project. The web machine picker now lists connected machines that support Scratch, creates the destination project on first use, and retargets the draft while preserving normal project grouping.

Scratch switches also move the draft's logical-project mapping. Sending waits for first-use setup, and stale setup cannot overwrite a later draft or project choice.

Verification at bcded2f1f040fc99bdc402f9bbc5c1a90e0bda72:

• Web typecheck, formatting, focused lint (no errors), and all 347 existing BranchToolbar, ChatView, and composer draft-store tests passed on Blacksmith.
• Two real sandbox environments paired through Settings > Connections. A fresh No project draft retained its exact prompt through composer machine switches A → B → A and the header switch to B.
• Submitting the preserved prompt through the client completed a real Codex turn in B's Scratch directory.
• Interrupting only A's browser websocket preserved a second prompt. The header machine selector recovered to B, where another real Codex turn completed. The composer machine selector is hidden while the source reconnects; this recovery check covers the header selector.

Video evidence

21-second recording of the draft switches and preserved prompt. A uses the cloud icon and B the desktop icon; both retain their actual t3 labels. Provider dispatch and disconnected-source recovery were checked separately, outside this recording.

nps-draft-machine-switch.mp4

Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code; continued with GPT-6 Astra in Pi. Browser recording and provider verification by GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex.

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Verdict: Approved at bcded2f

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized web bug fix that lets no-project drafts switch machines, creating a machine-local scratch project only when explicitly selected. Existing project behavior remains unchanged, and the asynchronous transition is guarded before sending can resume.

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ChatView lists environments with scratch roots for scratch-project drafts. When a selected environment has no scratch project, ChatView opens one asynchronously before retargeting the draft. Scratch drafts do not use automatic environment balancing, and sending is blocked during preparation.

Changes

Scratch environment handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Build environment options and gate load balancing apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbar.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx	Environment options allow a null project ID. Scratch drafts list environments with scratch roots and do not use automatic load balancing. Balance results without a project ID are ignored.
Prepare the destination and retarget the draft apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx	ChatView validates draft and request state before retargeting. If the destination has no project, ChatView opens a scratch project asynchronously. Sending is blocked while preparation is pending.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant ChatView
  participant ScratchProject
  participant Draft
  User->>ChatView: Select environment
  ChatView->>ScratchProject: Open when destination has no project
  ScratchProject-->>ChatView: Return opened project
  ChatView->>Draft: Retarget if request remains valid

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bcded

When a persisted offline Scratch draft is opened with its project cached but its server configuration missing, other machine-local Scratch workspaces may not appear in the picker. The limitation is confined to that cache state, so merge risk is low.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to bcded

Switching machines can now create a destination project and change where a draft will be sent. Explicit selection, permission checks and stale-request guards limit the observed exposure. No security bypass was established, but connection identity and interrupted-operation behavior lack complete end-to-end validation.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The newly reachable destination scope is the configured connected environments advertising Scratch support, rather than arbitrary remote machines. Manual selection can redirect subsequent draft submission to one such environment. The current offline source may remain visible, but other environments without an available Scratch root are excluded.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Scratch creation requires orchestration-operate scope. The authorization middleware checks the connection session's scopes before the handler, and the client request uses its environment supervisor's current session, failing when no session exists. This supports the inspected authority path without establishing complete credential provisioning or environment-identity binding coverage.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Superseded completions cannot overwrite or clear a newer request. Setup failure or interruption returns no destination; project-observation timeout releases its subscription and returns failure through the opener. The matching completion clears pending state without moving the draft. Server bootstrap and conflict handling provide reuse across retries and racing creation.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx:
- Around line 4307-4309: Track the pending scratch-project selection started by
openScratchProject and block onSend until it settles; before applying the result
with retarget, recheck that the draft still targets target.environmentId and
that envLocked is false.
- Around line 2648-2650: Update the scratch identity logic used by ChatView so a
cached active project that was identified as scratch remains scratch after its
environment disconnects; do not rely solely on scratchWorkspaceRootFor when it
returns null. Preserve the existing behavior that excludes disconnected
environments from the selectable environment list.

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