fix(web): no-project drafts follow load balancing#31049

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Problem

With load balancing on, a thread started with No project always stays on the primary machine. The composer never shows Auto balance, while threads in a project shared by several machines are balanced. Fixes #31048.

Change

ChatView excluded scratch drafts from automatic routing (canAutoBalanceEnvironments), because the machine the balancer picks may not have its "No project" folder yet, and the routing effect could only retarget to a project that already exists.

  • ChatView drops the scratch exclusion. Balancing for a draft without a project now uses the same settings, weights, and candidate checks as any other project.
  • useDraftEnvironmentRouting sends the balancer's pick through the path the manual machine switch from #15356 already uses (moveDraft): it opens the scratch project on the picked machine if needed, then retargets the draft with environmentSelection: "auto". The existing guards for stale or superseded switches apply to both.
  • If that machine cannot open its folder, the draft settles on its current machine, so balancing does not retry on every render.
  • While the folder opens, later choices still win:
    • When the folder is ready, the move only commits if the picked machine is still a balancing candidate. If you attach a file or reference a thread on another machine in the meantime, the move is dropped, and balancing picks again or stops.
    • Choosing Auto balance cancels a manual switch that is still opening its target.

Sending already waits on needsLoadBalancing and on a pending machine change, so a message can't go out while the folder is being opened.

Scope and approval

Triaged bug: #31048. The fix is small, one problem, web only (2 source files, 1 test file). Contracts, the server, providers, and mobile are unchanged; mobile has no load balancing.

Verification

New useDraftEnvironmentRouting.browser.test.tsx, with the store, balancer, and scratch opener stubbed at the module boundary:

  • Fails on main (Number of calls: 0) and passes with the fix:
    • it moves a no-project draft to the balanced machine, opening that machine's folder exactly once;
    • it keeps the draft on its machine when the balanced machine cannot open one.
  • Fail on the first commit and pass now (added after review):
    • a balanced move is dropped when a file is attached, or a thread on this machine is referenced, while the folder opens (one table, two rows);
    • Auto balance wins over a manual switch that is still opening.
  • vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck, and the React compiler check pass. One test fails: ChatView.browser.test.tsx › "a new draft does not load its reserved thread before the server lists it" times out on a remote 404 in my environment. It fails the same way on unmodified main.

Live walk in T3's Browser panel. The setup was two real environments on one Linux box, each with fresh state outside a git work tree:

  • A is vp run dev, set to "Less often".
  • B is a headless serve paired through Settings → Environments, set to "Prefer".

I pressed Ctrl+Alt+N (New thread without a project) twice on head 9304400: first with main's two changed files swapped back in, then with this branch.

  • Before: the draft stays on A, and only A gets a scratch folder. The composer shows A's name, with no Auto balance.
  • After: the composer and the header show Auto balance, and B's scratch project is created at that moment. The persisted draft moves to B: its environmentId and loadBalancedEnvironmentId are both B's id, and environmentSelection is auto.

The persisted draft (t3code:composer-drafts:v1), with A = c787d5d5… and B = 06534c30…:

1before {"environmentId":"c787d5d5-…","environmentSelection":null,"loadBalancedEnvironmentId":null,"logicalProjectKey":"c787d5d5-…:/tmp/…/homeA/scratch"}
2after {"environmentId":"06534c30-…","environmentSelection":"auto","loadBalancedEnvironmentId":"06534c30-…","logicalProjectKey":"06534c30-…:/tmp/…/homeB/scratch"}
3B projection_projects: cdd39a5e-… /tmp/…/homeB/scratch created 18:13:10Z (B had no projects before)
Load balancing: A "Less often", B "Prefer"Before (main): draft stays on AAfter: Auto balance, routed to B
SettingsBeforeAfter

Not checked: the desktop app (same web code), and sending a real provider turn after the move. The send path after a machine change is the one #15356 verified.

Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, running in T3 Code.

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  • fix(web): no-project drafts follow load balancing80ed7cd
  • fix(web): balanced no-project moves respect later routing choicesba0a8a8
  • fix(web): drop a balanced no-project move whose target is no longer a candidate9304400
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Walkthrough

Automatic environment balancing now applies to eligible scratch drafts. ChatView evaluates draft state, attachments, and file references. Manual and automatic moves share a flow that checks whether requests remain current and opens a scratch project when needed.

Changes: Scratch draft routing

Layer / File(s)Summary
Automatic balancing eligibility
apps/web/src/components/ChatView.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.logic.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
resolveAutomaticEnvironment uses readiness, environment availability, load-balancing state, attachments, file references, and branch or worktree state. ChatView uses this resolver and enables auto-environment controls when multiple environments are available. Tests cover file-link and web-link cases.
Shared draft-move flow
apps/web/src/components/chat/useDraftEnvironmentRouting.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/useDraftEnvironmentRouting.browser.test.tsx
Manual and automatic moves share checks for scope, send state, draft identity and promotion, and automatic candidate membership. A current automatic move that cannot open a scratch project records the draft’s current environment. Browser tests cover successful and unsuccessful opens, lost eligibility, and competing moves.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

mermaid
1sequenceDiagram
2 participant BalancingCandidates
3 participant useDraftEnvironmentRouting
4 participant ScratchProjectOpening
5 participant DraftStore
6 BalancingCandidates->>useDraftEnvironmentRouting: Provide settled candidate
7 useDraftEnvironmentRouting->>ScratchProjectOpening: Open folder for selected environment
8 ScratchProjectOpening->>useDraftEnvironmentRouting: Return project or no project
9 useDraftEnvironmentRouting->>DraftStore: Apply move if request remains current

Possibly related issues

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: External image Low · up to 46796

Scratch drafts that contain typed @ file mentions can still be moved to another machine where the file does not exist. The scope is narrow and the manual switch already behaves this way. Detect these mentions before merging or accept the gap explicitly.

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Title checkPassedThe title clearly and concisely describes the main change: enabling load balancing for drafts without a project.
Description checkPassedThe description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the behavior change, implementation, linked issue, tests, observed results, limitations, a…
Linked Issues checkPassed[#31048] ChatView no longer excludes scratch drafts from automatic balancing. It exposes Auto balance when multiple environments and load balancing are available. useDraftEnvironmentRouting sends …
Out of Scope Changes checkPassedThe changes stay within the linked web behavior. ChatView.logic preserves automatic-routing restrictions for attachments and scratch file references. The routing refactor shares the existing manual …
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[#31048] ChatView no longer excludes scratch drafts from automatic balancing. It exposes Auto balance when multiple environments and load balancing are available. useDraftEnvironmentRouting sends the selected environment through moveDraft, opens the scratch project when needed, and retargets the draft with environmentSelection: "auto". The added browser tests cover successful routing, scratch-project open failure, stale candidate changes, and Auto balance superseding a manual switch. The implementation meets the linked issue's web coding requirements.

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The changes stay within the linked web behavior. ChatView.logic preserves automatic-routing restrictions for attachments and scratch file references. The routing refactor shares the existing manual move path and adds guards for asynchronous balancing. The related unit and browser tests verify these rules. No unrelated product area or excluded file change is identified.

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External image Minor · Discard an automatic move when its winner changes · useDraftEnvironmentRouting.ts:201-220

apps/web/src/components/chat/useDraftEnvironmentRouting.ts:201-220 External image Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Discard an automatic move when its winner changes

If the selected machine’s snapshot expires while its scratch folder opens, another candidate can become the winner. The pending move still accepts the old target because it remains a candidate. It then marks that target as balanced, so the draft stays on the superseded machine. Recheck the winner before settling the move and allow routing to select the current winner.

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6Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/chat/useDraftEnvironmentRouting.ts
7around lines 201 - 220:
8Update retarget and its isCurrent guard to verify that target.environmentId is
9still the current automatic-routing winner before applying or marking the move
10complete. If the winner has changed, discard the stale move and let routing
11select the current winner; preserve the existing candidate and draft-state
12checks.

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8- Line 1271: Update the load-balancing condition in ChatView around
9hasMultipleEnvironments to keep a saved no-project draft on its current machine
10when its prompt contains a scratch-file reference selected with @, or preserve
11that reference’s machine when routing; do not rely only on the attachment guard,
12since ChatComposer stores this selection in the prompt rather than as an
13attachment.
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18Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/useDraftEnvironmentRouting.ts:
19- Around line 201-220: Update retarget and its isCurrent guard to verify that
20target.environmentId is still the current automatic-routing winner before
21applying or marking the move complete. If the winner has changed, discard the
22stale move and let routing select the current winner; preserve the existing
23candidate and draft-state checks.
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……@@ -1269,7 +1268,7 @@ export default function ChatView(props: ChatViewProps) {
12701269 draftId &&
12711270 !envLocked &&
1272- canAutoBalanceEnvironments &&
1271+ hasMultipleEnvironments &&
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External image Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Keep scratch file references on their machine.

A saved no-project draft can contain a file selected with @ before load balancing starts. ChatComposer stores that selection as a path in the prompt, not as an attachment, so the attachment guard does not stop the move. (raw.githubusercontent.com) The selected machine can then receive a path that does not exist in its scratch folder. Keep such drafts on their current machine, or preserve the reference’s machine when routing.

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6Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx at line 1271:
7Update the load-balancing condition in ChatView around hasMultipleEnvironments
8to keep a saved no-project draft on its current machine when its prompt contains
9a scratch-file reference selected with @, or preserve that reference’s machine
10when routing; do not rely only on the attachment guard, since ChatComposer
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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Leaving this as is. The manual machine switch already moves a no-project draft to another machine's scratch folder without inspecting @ references, and this PR makes Auto match it. Balancing also settles once per draft (loadBalancedEnvironmentId is set), so this needs a saved draft with references that later re-enters Auto. Handling scratch-path references for both routes would be a separate change.

@maria-rcks Understood. We can leave this unchanged in this PR.

Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for scratch-file references in both manual and automatic moves?

You are interacting with an AI system.

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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Merged current main into this branch (merge commit, no rebase). The only conflict was ChatView.tsx, where main reworked the composer block. I kept main's version and reapplied this PR's change: canAutoBalanceEnvironments removed and its three uses gated on hasMultipleEnvironments. vp run check:changed passes, including the new useDraftEnvironmentRouting browser tests.

On CodeRabbit's outside-diff note about useDraftEnvironmentRouting.ts:201-220 (winner changes while the scratch folder opens): no change. isCurrent already requires the target to still be a balancing candidate, so the draft lands on a connected machine with a usable provider. Discarding the move to chase a newer winner would open a second scratch folder.

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External image Unverified finding Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

Static analysis flags props.onRouting?.(routing) as a render-phase callback. Move the call into an effect or switch to a ref.

The call runs on every render. In the last test, the callback assigns routing. This write is idempotent, so the test is not unstable. The pattern still breaks React's rule that render must stay pure.

A ref-based harness removes the diagnostic. Alternatively, call onRouting from a useEffect. Use the same approach in all tests that read the latest routing.

If this rule runs in CI lint, the file fails it. I did not find evidence that it does.

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8- Line 1527: Update the pre-balancing check that iterates over
9prompt.matchAll(COMPOSER_LINK_DESTINATION) to detect typed @ file mentions as
10well as serialized file-link destinations, so drafts with either form receive
11the existing portability handling while balancing is pending. Add regression
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1524+const URL_SCHEME = /^[a-z][a-z\d+.-]+:/i;
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1526+export function promptHasFileReferences(prompt: string): boolean {
1527+ for (const [, destination] of prompt.matchAll(COMPOSER_LINK_DESTINATION)) {
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Detect typed @ file mentions before balancing.

A scratch draft can contain a bare or quoted @ mention while balancing is pending. This check misses it, so the draft can move to a machine where the referenced file is unavailable. Detect these mentions as well as serialized file links, and add regression cases.

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4Update the pre-balancing check that iterates over prompt.matchAll(COMPOSER_LINK_DESTINATION) to detect typed @ file mentions as well as serialized file-link destinations, so drafts with either form receive the existing portability handling while balancing is pending. Add regression cases for bare and quoted @ mentions in a scratch draft.
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Evidence

Web, Chromium, 1280×800 CSS pixels, light theme; fresh synthetic environments with Replay available and data homes outside Git worktrees.

On both commits: connect Primary and Secondary; enable Automatically balance load; choose Less often for Primary and Prefer for Secondary; leave Secondary without a scratch project; close Settings, press Ctrl+Alt+N, and open Run on after routing settles.

BeforeAfter
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Primary stays selected; Auto balance is absent.Auto balance is selected; Secondary's scratch project is created and the draft routes there.
Before: no-project draft stays on Primary without Auto balanceAfter: no-project draft selects Auto balance
Before recordingAfter recording

Read-only runtime checks confirmed Secondary had zero projects initially on both sides, remained at zero on base, and gained the head draft's No project project on head. The head draft's environment and balanced-environment IDs both matched Secondary. A supplemental replay message produced this thread on Secondary:

After: no-project thread runs on Secondary

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  • Attachment/file-reference guards were not exercised; this proof covers empty no-project drafts.