fix(web): collapsed reasoning previews no longer process the whole block#23004

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Problem

Opening a thread with a large reasoning trace can freeze web and Electron desktop while rendering a collapsed label. The full Markdown was parsed, then remarkThoughtPreview repeatedly concatenated and normalized the growing text for every fragment, producing quadratic work. This addresses #22985, mirrored as #22988.

Change

Bound collapsed and live preview source parsing to 8,192 characters, and stop transformer traversal after 2,048 characters. Text fragments are joined and whitespace-normalized once per text run. The source lookahead lets ordinary links and inline formatting close before the output cap. Expanded reasoning keeps the complete original text; layout, classes, and expand/collapse behavior are unchanged.

Scope and approval

Fixes #22985

Triaged bug via the automated issue flow; GitCafe mirror #22988.

Verification

Finite lookahead can leave exceptionally long inline constructs or distant reference definitions unresolved, or consume the source budget on hidden markup. Very long formulas can be truncated. These limits affect compact labels; expanded content stays complete. Mobile uses a separate plain-text preview renderer.

Final-head, five-sample medians (Codex proof-audit run):

190k-character fixture / measurement	Before	After
Mixed Markdown, transformer only	9,778.89 ms	0.348 ms
Mixed Markdown, parse + transformer	10,705.35 ms	26.01 ms
10,000 bold fragments, transformer only	9,027.12 ms	0.317 ms

The bold-fragment baseline is the earlier failing test run on this workspace VM (8,525–9,736 ms); its final after samples are 0.235–1.110 ms. Mixed before/after were measured together in the same process against the git-materialized original transformer. The independent Claude audit found comparable mixed medians: 9,990.86 → 0.491 ms transform and 11,012.75 → 25.39 ms parse+transform. The temporary original <200 ms benchmark assertion passes on the final code; retained regressions assert deterministic work bounds rather than wall-clock time.

Synthetic fixtures are exactly 190,000 source characters: 10,000 short bold fragments, plus a second fixture with headings, paragraphs, inline code, bold fragments and lists. Measurements use fresh trees in Vitest on this VM, with parsing outside the transform-only timer. Parse+transform compares the complete baseline input with the final bounded source path. These are isolated CPU measurements, not desktop window timings.

Validation: 23 focused tests pass, including deterministic traversal bounds, whitespace/math/fallback parity, actual collapsed-row source boundaries, live previews and full expanded content. Removing the live source slices makes both added source-boundary guards fail. Focused lint, formatting, web package typecheck, knip and React Compiler checks pass. No repo-wide test/typecheck run. Codex GPT-6.1-Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 code reviews: MERGE. Independent evidence audits by both models: SUFFICIENT. Both reran the final benchmarks and retained tests; historical measurements using the earlier 2 KB source bound are superseded.

Cannot-verify desktop live: no client capture or end-to-end desktop timing was collected. The web/Electron preview path is shared. No dev server or browser was started; live userdata was not modified.

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Implemented with GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness; reviewed and proof-audited with GPT-6.1-Sol/Codex and Claude Opus 5.5/Claude Agent.

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test(web): guard bounded live reasoning parsing84e3de4
fix(web): bound collapsed reasoning preview work9d43b18
fix(web): give reasoning previews bounded markdown lookaheada205052
fix(web): bound live reasoning preview inputc8d6985

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Collapsed and live reasoning previews now limit source text before Markdown rendering. The transformer caps output at 2,048 characters and stops traversal when that limit is reached. Expanded reasoning continues to render the full trace. A new script seeds reasoning-preview fixtures in a specified database.

Changes: Reasoning preview bounds

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bounded preview transformation `apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineWorkEntryRow.logic.ts`, `apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineWorkEntryRow.logic.test.ts`	The transformer adds 8,192-character source and 2,048-character output limits. It truncates text and math, stops traversal when the output limit is reached, and normalizes accumulated text. Tests cover traversal limits, Markdown and math extraction, and fallback behavior.
Bounded timeline rendering `apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineWorkEntryRow.tsx`, `apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineWorkGroupRows.tsx`, `apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineWorkEntryRow.test.tsx`	Collapsed work-entry and live previews limit source text to 8,192 characters. Tests cover bounded previews, parser lookahead, math, expanded rows, and empty-entry labels.
Reasoning preview fixture seeding `apps/web/scripts/seed-reasoning-preview-fixtures.mjs`	The script validates the database path, clones a completed thread for each reasoning fixture, and updates projected thread and turn-item data in a transaction. It rolls back and rethrows if an error occurs.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The fixture seeder can still target the live database through a symlink and can produce incorrectly ordered or incomplete fixtures. Resolve these safeguards before merging.

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Linked Issues check	Passed	For directly linked issue [`#22985`], the PR bounds collapsed and live reasoning source parsing to `THOUGHT_PREVIEW_SOURCE_MAX_LENGTH` (8,192). `remarkThoughtPreview` stops traversal at `THOUGHT_PREVIEW…
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	The changed implementation and tests directly support [`#22985`]. The fixture script creates isolated preview data for validation and refuses the live `~/.t3` database. No unrelated product behavior is …

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	99	+	typeof value === "string"
	100	+	? value
	101	+	.replaceAll(token, newToken)

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When the selected template contains a web-sent message, this transaction rolls back and creates no fixtures because the cloned message and turn-item IDs collide with the original rows' primary keys. swap only changes the thread token and native-* IDs, but web message IDs and their derived turn-item IDs contain neither; remap those IDs and their references, or reject templates whose IDs cannot be rewritten.

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3	When the selected template contains a web-sent message, this transaction rolls back and creates no fixtures because the cloned message and turn-item IDs collide with the original rows' primary keys. `swap` only changes the thread token and `native-*` IDs, but web message IDs and their derived turn-item IDs contain neither; remap those IDs and their references, or reject templates whose IDs cannot be rewritten.

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	16	+	if (NodePath.basename(dbPath) !== "statev2.sqlite")
	17	+	throw new Error("pass <base>/userdata/statev2.sqlite");
	18	+	if (dbPath.startsWith(NodePath.join(NodeOS.homedir(), ".t3") + NodePath.sep)) {
	19	+	throw new Error("refusing to write the live ~/.t3 database");

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Resolve the canonical database path before enforcing the live-database guard.

If the supplied statev2.sqlite path or a parent directory is a symlink into ~/.t3, NodePath.resolve() keeps the alias path. The lexical prefix check can pass, while new NodeSqlite.DatabaseSync(dbPath) opens the live database. The script can then archive all currently unarchived threads and modify the database.

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2	+++ "b/apps/web/scripts/seed-reasoning-preview-fixtures.mjs"
3	@@ -8,16 +8,18 @@
4	//
5	// These are projection-only visual fixtures (orchestration_events is untouched).
6	// Every other thread is archived so screenshots only show fixture content.
7	+import * as NodeFS from "node:fs";
8	import * as NodeSqlite from "node:sqlite";
9	import * as NodeOS from "node:os";
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12	-const dbPath = NodePath.resolve(process.argv[2] ?? "");
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18	if (dbPath.startsWith(NodePath.join(NodeOS.homedir(), ".t3") + NodePath.sep)) {
19	throw new Error("refusing to write the live ~/.t3 database");
20	}
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22	const words = (n) => "word ".repeat(n);
23	const FIXTURES = {

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	173	+	const id = `turn-item:fixture:pr23001:${name}`;
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Derive the reasoning position from stored turn-item positions.

The issue is not that assistant.ordinal uses a different scheme. EventSink normalizes each turn-item payload to the position allocated by TurnItemPositionStore. When the user and assistant positions are consecutive, assistant.ordinal - 1 equals the user’s position.

Because orchestration_v2_turn_item_positions has UNIQUE (thread_id, ordinal), INSERT OR REPLACE removes the user’s position row before inserting the reasoning row. Derive a separate position from the stored user and assistant positions. If no gap exists, shift later positions before inserting the reasoning position.

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6	Review comment at @apps/web/scripts/seed-reasoning-preview-fixtures.mjs at line
7	174:
8	Update the reasoning-position calculation based on the stored user and assistant
9	positions from TurnItemPositionStore rather than assuming assistant.ordinal - 1
10	is available. If those positions leave no gap, shift later positions before
11	inserting the reasoning row so the unique thread-and-ordinal constraint does not
12	replace the user’s position.
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	174	+	const id = `turn-item:fixture:pr23001:${name}`;
	175	+	const ordinal = assistant.ordinal - 1;

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For a completed run containing only a user message and an assistant message, the reasoning fixture shares the user's ordinal, so it sorts before the prompt and INSERT OR REPLACE overwrites the user's position. Assign distinct ordered ordinals to the retained user, reasoning, and assistant items and update their positions accordingly.

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