fix(web,mobile): keep assistant replies visible outside Worked-for folds#29859

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Summary

  • Settled turns were keeping only the last assistant message visible and folding earlier ones under Worked for. When the model wrote the real answer, ran tools, then closed with a short note, the answer disappeared until the fold was expanded (screenshot case / #8879).
  • Web and mobile now leave every assistant message outside the fold and still collapse tool/reasoning work under Worked for.
  • Rebuilds the client half of the direction in draft #14698 on current main, without the length heuristic from closed #8075 and without waiting on provider answer-phase metadata from #27991.

Test plan

  • vp test run src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts in apps/web (91/91)
  • vp test run src/lib/threadActivity.test.ts in apps/mobile (46/46)
  • Spot-check in the web client: a turn with answer → tool → short closing note keeps the answer visible while tools stay under Worked for
  • Expand/collapse Worked for still reveals/hides tool and reasoning rows only

Fixes #8879

Review

Reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code): logic verified on web and mobile; dropped the now-redundant terminal-message check; vp run check:changed passes.

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Takeover verification

Merged main without rebasing. Fixed the empty pre-steer fold, updated the existing scroll fixture to fold work, and tightened the imported-work assertion. vp run check:changed passed through Blacksmith, including 177 scoped tests. Real Replay (dev) provider and web client verified at desktop/narrow widths in light/dark themes. Native mobile and Electron remain unverified.

before: earlier prose hidden

after: earlier prose remains visible

work folds while prose remains visible

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Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#8879 Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#28161

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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Earlier assistant replies and progress messages now remain visible outside Worked-for folds on web and mobile. This changes the default collapsed conversation presentation and requires human confirmation of that product choice.

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Walkthrough

Web and mobile settled-turn folding now keeps assistant messages visible while folding eligible work entries. The initial web fold is added only when its first segment contains hidden non-compaction work. Tests update timeline expectations for work, imports, turns, and steer segments.

Changes: Settled-turn folding

Layer / File(s)Summary
Web turn-fold behavior and coverage
apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts
Web folding skips message entries and adds the initial fold only when its first segment contains hidden non-compaction work. Tests cover visible assistant messages and folded work across turns, imports, and steer segments.
Mobile thread-fold behavior and coverage
apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.test.ts
Mobile folding excludes message entries from hidden entries. Tests update presentation expectations for assistant messages and folded work.
Browser fold-expansion scroll test
apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.browser.test.tsx
The expansion test uses 24 completed work entries and no longer advances fake timers after the click.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

  • Issue 8879: The report describes substantive assistant answers hidden by settled-turn folds. This change keeps all assistant messages visible.
  • Issue 28161: The report describes replies hidden by turn folds. This change keeps assistant messages outside the work fold.
  • Issue 17382: The report describes assistant replies hidden by the fold. This change addresses assistant-message visibility, but the summaries do not indicate a change to recovery after expansion.
  • Issue 28775: The report describes assistant text before AskUserQuestion being absent after a turn ends. This change keeps earlier assistant messages visible.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, yash-singh1, maria-rcks

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Assistant prose remains visible outside settled-work folds. The separate superseded-attempt behavior is unchanged; no merge-blocking risk was identified.

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Title checkPassedThe title clearly and concisely describes the main change: assistant replies remain visible outside Worked-for folds on web and mobile.
Linked Issues checkPassedActive direct target: #8879. Closed #8075 is historical context only. The web fold logic now skips every timeline entry with kind "message" when building hidden entries. The mobile logic applies the s…
Out of Scope Changes checkPassedThe source changes are limited to the web and mobile fold predicates and the related empty-fold behavior. The test changes verify visible assistant messages, folded work, steer boundaries, imported wo…
Description checkPassedThe description explains the problem and change, links the related issue, and gives focused test results and UI screenshots. It does not use the template’s exact section headings, but it includes the …
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Active direct target: #8879. Closed #8075 is historical context only. The web fold logic now skips every timeline entry with kind "message" when building hidden entries. The mobile logic applies the same rule to entries with type "message". Tool and reasoning work remains eligible for the Worked for fold. The web and mobile tests cover earlier assistant prose, tool work, steers, imported work, and turns without tool calls. The implementation meets #8879's requirement that folding cannot hide the substantive assistant response.

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The source changes are limited to the web and mobile fold predicates and the related empty-fold behavior. The test changes verify visible assistant messages, folded work, steer boundaries, imported work, and scroll behavior for this feature. The browser test removes timer control and uses layout assertions for the same fold expansion scenario. No unrelated production behavior, heuristic from closed #8075, or unrelated refactor appears in the reviewed diff.

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The description explains the problem and change, links the related issue, and gives focused test results and UI screenshots. It does not use the template’s exact section headings, but it includes the required information, including scope context and verification.

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External image Minor · Keep assistant messages out of superseded-attempt folds. · MessagesTimeline.logic.ts:794

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Keep assistant messages out of superseded-attempt folds.

When a superseded attempt contains an assistant answer followed by tool work, the tool becomes the attempt’s last output. completeSupersededReplyEntryIds therefore does not exempt the answer, and deriveSupersededAttemptFolds can still hide it. Expanding Worked for does not expand that separate attempt fold.

Exclude assistant messages when building entriesByAttemptId:

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1 entry.attempt?.status !== "superseded" ||
2 completeAttemptIds.has(entry.attempt.id) ||
3 unfoldedRunIds.has(entry.attempt.runId) ||
4 (entry.kind === "message" && entry.message.role === "user") ||
5+ (entry.kind === "message" && entry.message.role === "assistant") ||
6 (entry.kind === "event" && entry.projectedItem.item.type === "handoff") ||
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8Exclude assistant messages when building entriesByAttemptId in
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Enable copying for visible earlier answers.

If the substantive answer precedes a closing note, it has no copy button because only the terminal message gets assistant metadata. The closing note’s button copies only the note. Expose a copy action for each visible settled assistant message. (raw.githubusercontent.com)


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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Merged current main without rebasing. Kept the web/mobile prose-visibility change and fixed the empty Worked-for row before a steer when only later segments contain work. The existing scroll test now expands tool work rather than assistant prose, and waits for layout through its assertions instead of advancing fake timers. Tightened the imported-work assertion.

Superseded-attempt folding remains unchanged: it deliberately folds partial interrupted output, independently of Worked-for. Completed replies retain their existing exemption. Per-message copy controls would expand this change's scope, so they remain unchanged.

Verification: vp run check:changed through Blacksmith; real Replay (dev) provider and web client at desktop/narrow widths in light/dark themes. Earlier prose stays visible both collapsed and expanded; tool rows still toggle. Native mobile and Electron were not exercised.

Before:

earlier prose hidden in the baseline

After:

earlier prose visible with work collapsed

work expands and collapses while prose remains visible

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I tested this PR at 3d7853b437 with a simplified copy of a real Claude run (claude-opus-5-5). The run wrote a full summary, made two memory file writes, then ended with a one-sentence note.

On 0.1.7-nightly.20261103.4138, the fold hides the summary and only the note stays visible. With this PR, the summary stays visible. I tested this at the logic level with deriveMessagesTimelineRows, not in the running app.

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Evidence that this PR also fixes a case #8879 and #17382 don't name: the explanation written before AskUserQuestion.

Setup: desktop 0.1.6, macOS arm64, Claude Code provider, claude-opus-5-5. In each test turn the assistant wrote an explanation and then called AskUserQuestion. While the question was pending, the explanation was visible. After the answer, when the turn ended, it folded under "Worked for Ns". The answered-question row stayed visible, because it is exempt at MessagesTimeline.logic.ts:1144. So the thread shows the question and the answer without the context the user answered from. I tested three variants:

  1. text, then question
  2. echo, then text, then question
  3. html_render page, then text, then question (the page stayed visible and the text folded)

On main 3ee5515 nothing exempts the message before a user_input_request. This PR keeps every message entry out of the fold, which covers it. One caveat: when Claude 5.x writes the explanation as a single thinking block (#27238), it is a reasoning entry and still folds. #27271 handles that half. Screenshots below.

Drafted with Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) in Claude Code, via t3 triage.