fix(web): sent messages keep the numbers written on list items#33820

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Problem

Typing 3. foo and 5. bar in the composer shows the items as 3 and 5, and the agent receives them as 3 and 5, but the sent message renders them as 3 and 4. This comes up when answering only some of an agent's numbered questions (for example, the open questions left after a few rounds of a grilling session). The composer draws each item's own marker, while chat markdown follows CommonMark, which numbers an ordered list from its first marker only.

Change

The sent bubble now shows the list as typed, so the bubble, the composer and the text the agent received agree. User message bodies opt in (remarkEnableOrderedListNumbers through extraRemarkPlugins); a shared remark plugin then sets value on any item whose written number breaks the sequence. It runs before list-indentation recovery, and the recovery step applies the same numbering to blocks it reparses, using their own source.

Agent replies, PR descriptions, plans and file previews are markdown written to be rendered, so they keep CommonMark numbering: a README written as 1. 1. 1. still reads 1, 2, 3. In a user message, 1. 1. 1. stays 1, 1, 1, matching the composer and what the agent received. ChatMarkdown's ordered list gutter sizes for the shown numbers, so a jump like 8. to 10. is not clipped.

Nested ordered lists in user messages use decimal markers. Copying rendered lists preserves explicit item values and zero starts. Native mobile rendering is unchanged.

Scope and approval

Fixes the triaged bug #8394 (reproduced by a maintainer). #23369 was closed as a duplicate of this PR.

Verification

  • ChatMarkdown.browser.test.tsx verifies decimal markers at every nesting level in user messages while document previews retain their existing counter styles. markdown-clipboard.test.ts covers explicit values, continuation after a reset, and zero starts.

  • packages/shared/src/markdownPipeline.test.ts: out-of-order items, repeated 1., a list in a blockquote, nested lists, a bullet list after an ordered one, and a list recovered from an over-indented item keep their written numbers when enabled; without the opt-in, nothing changes. The apps/web markdown tests (markdownRenderer, markdownListIndentation, markdown-incremental, markdownStreamBlocks, markdown-clipboard) pass.

  • In a local dev build, pasted 3. ... / 5. ... into the composer and sent it. On main the sent message renders <ol start="3"> with items 3 and 4. With this change, the second item gets value="5" (rechecked after limiting the change to user messages).

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Chat messages preserve the numbers written on ordered-list items, with gutter spacing adjusted accordingly. The change is confined to Markdown presentation and does not alter stored message content.

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Walkthrough

The Markdown pipeline preserves explicitly written ordered-list numbers. User-message rendering uses those numbers for list markers and gutter sizing. Clipboard serialization preserves ordered-list start values and item-level overrides.

Changes: Ordered-list number handling

Layer / File(s)Summary
Capture and retain written list numbers
packages/shared/src/markdownOrderedListNumbers.ts, packages/shared/src/markdownPipeline.ts, packages/shared/src/markdownListIndentation.ts, packages/shared/src/markdownPipeline.test.ts
An opt-in remark transformer records written ordered-list numbers that differ from the expected sequence. Chat Markdown plugin lists include the transformer, and recovered indented blocks apply it when enabled. Tests cover sequential, skipped, repeated, nested, quoted, and indented lists, and verify that item values remain unset when the transformer is disabled.
Render user-message ordered lists
apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineUserMessageRow.tsx, apps/web/src/index.css, apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.browser.test.tsx
User-message Markdown enables number preservation and uses decimal markers for nested ordered lists. The gutter calculation uses item values. Browser tests check list styles in user messages and previews.
Serialize ordered-list start and item values
apps/web/src/markdown-clipboard.ts, apps/web/src/markdown-clipboard.test.ts
Clipboard serialization preserves a start value of zero and resets numbering at parseable item values. Tests check the resulting numbering sequence.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1sequenceDiagram
2 participant UserMessageRow
3 participant MarkdownPipeline
4 participant OrderedListTransformer
5 UserMessageRow->>MarkdownPipeline: Apply enabled remark plugins
6 MarkdownPipeline->>OrderedListTransformer: Process Markdown tree and source
7 OrderedListTransformer->>MarkdownPipeline: Set item values for explicit numbers

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#21008 — The issue describes clipped ordered-list markers from a narrow gutter. This change calculates gutter width using explicit item values.

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#29270 — That PR builds assistant remark plugin sets from the shared chat plugin lists, which this change updates.

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, nikitamgrimm

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Title checkPassedThe title clearly summarizes the main change: sent messages preserve the numbers written on ordered-list items.
Description checkPassedThe description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the issue, the user-message-only behavior, linked issue, tests, observed results, and …
Linked Issues checkPassedIssue #8394 requires sent user messages to retain the written numbers in ordered lists. UserMessageBody opts into remarkEnableOrderedListNumbers, and the shared Markdown plugin sets explicit item …
Out of Scope Changes checkPassedThe plugin, gutter sizing, nested decimal markers, clipboard serialization, and related tests support issue #8394 by keeping written list numbers visible and copyable. The opt-in is limited to user me…
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Issue #8394 requires sent user messages to retain the written numbers in ordered lists. UserMessageBody opts into remarkEnableOrderedListNumbers, and the shared Markdown plugin sets explicit item values when written numbers break the sequence. It also processes recovered lists. ChatMarkdown sizes the gutter from explicit values. The tests cover skipped and repeated numbers, nested lists, blockquotes, recovered lists, and rendering without the opt-in. The nested decimal style and clipboard handling preserve those numbers in user messages and when copied.

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The plugin, gutter sizing, nested decimal markers, clipboard serialization, and related tests support issue #8394 by keeping written list numbers visible and copyable. The opt-in is limited to user messages, so other Markdown retains CommonMark behavior. The reviewed changes show no unrelated work.

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Preserve numbers in recovered ordered lists.

The normalizer can recover an ordered list after a blank line in same-line indented code. For example, "- first block\n\n 3. first\n 5. second" can render the second item as 4.

Apply number preservation to recovered blocks using their recovered source, and add a case to the existing test. Moving the plugin after the normalizer alone would use offsets from the wrong source.

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✅ Confirmed as addressed by @tsapa44

Fixed in e767724c. Confirmed the example rendered 5. as 4.. The numbering now lives in keepOrderedListNumbers (markdownOrderedListNumbers.ts), and the normalizer runs it on recovered blocks with recovered.source, so offsets point into the text they came from. Added the example as a case in the existing test, which fails before the change. The OpenGrep exec hit is RegExp.prototype.exec, not child_process.

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@tsapa44 Thanks for the fix. I checked that the normalizer passes recovered.source to keepOrderedListNumbers and that the regression test checks for "5".

The exec call is on a regular expression, not child_process. I did not run the tests.


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Display decimal markers in nested ordered lists.

For nested items written as 1 and 7, the list-item values are preserved, but the CSS displays a and g. Deeper lists display Roman numerals instead.

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1-.chat-markdown ol ol {
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9 .chat-markdown li + li {
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@coderabbitai on the outside-diff note about nested ordered lists (ChatMarkdown.tsx:1017-1021): leaving it as is. The lower-alpha / lower-roman styles for nested ordered lists in apps/web/src/index.css predate this PR, and on main nested 1. / 2. already render as a. / b.. This change keeps the written position within that style (7. shows as g.). Switching nested lists to decimal would restyle every nested list in agent replies, which is a separate design change outside this fix.

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@tsapa44 Confirmed: apps/web/src/index.css uses lower-alpha and lower-roman for nested ordered lists on main. I agree that changing those styles is outside this PR. Nested lists will preserve the written positions, but not display literal numeric markers.

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verified unchanged head 92bc9a270109384a8dabd08c7ea217cde62c0163 on this linux vm. reproduced on github/main at 9cd7a04797184c92a8f636ae1e918f42c139d850 in a separate worktree first. installed with vp i and ran one background dev server at a time with isolated state. drove /usr/bin/google-chrome using the repo’s playwright dependency. created the project and messages through the app and used real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local proxy, without mocks or demo data.

  • main rendered written 3. / 5. as 3 / 4, although codex confirmed receiving 3 / 5. the pr renders 3 / 5 from the identical message.
  • skipped, repeated, nested decimal, and zero markers remain as written. 8 / 100 fits without clipping. quoted 1 / 4 and over-indented recovered 3 / 5 also render correctly and reach codex unchanged.
  • selected the rendered message, copied it with control-c, and pasted into the composer. explicit values, nested numbers, zero, and continuation survive. reloading preserves the rendered numbers.
  • assistant output with source markers 1. / 1. / 1. still renders 1 / 2 / 3. neighboring bullet lists also render normally.
  • blacksmith ran vp test run packages/shared/src/markdownPipeline.test.ts apps/web/src/markdown-clipboard.test.ts: 18 tests passed across 2 files. the existing head has 30 successful checks, none failing or pending. no source changes were needed.

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