fix(mobile): a new thread's first send no longer sticks on Starting#25477

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Problem

On mobile, the first message sent in a new thread could stick on "Pending / Starting…". Reopening the thread showed "Thread unavailable", although the server had finished the run and saved the reply. The thread opened normally once its cached state expired, about five minutes later.

Cause

ThreadFeed read the workflow opening (useWorkflowOpening) and the guest share (useThreadGuestShare) by the route's thread id. While a new thread's creation is still queued in the outbox, the server does not know that id yet. useThreadSelection already withholds selectedThreadDetailRef until delivery for exactly this reason: a not-found snapshot is cached as a deleted thread and the subscription parks. These two readers skipped that guard. When the feed's bounded snapshot request reached the server before the creation command committed, the thread was marked deleted on the client for good.

This is a race, so it shows up only some of the time. In the live repro on main, GET /api/orchestration/threads/<id>/bounded returned 404 at 08.324, and the server created the thread at 08.599.

Fix

ThreadFeed takes the guarded detailRef from ThreadDetailScreen (selectedThreadDetailRef, which is null until delivery). Both hooks read through it, like every other detail reader on the thread screen. useWorkflowOpening now accepts a nullable ref.

Test

No new test. The existing ThreadFeed harness (filePreview.test.ts) mocks both hooks, so a test there would only check that the prop is passed through. The live run below is the proof. vp run check:changed passes.

Live verification (iOS 27.0 simulator, iPhone 18 Pro, seeded dev server)

Each run: cold launch, new thread, Claude Haiku, send.

  • main: 1 of 4 runs stuck on Pending / Starting, with the 404 above. The shell showed the server's title while the detail never loaded.
  • this branch: 3 of 3 runs completed. Each /bounded request came about 600 ms after the server created the thread, and returned 200.

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Verdict: Approved at e44c715

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused mobile race-condition fix that routes workflow and guest-share reads through the existing guarded thread reference. It preserves normal-thread behavior, adds focused state-selection coverage, and introduces no schema, deployment, security, billing, or configuration changes.

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Walkthrough

Thread selection now calculates whether a selected thread has a detail reference based on its creation status. ThreadDetailScreen passes that reference to ThreadFeed, which forwards it to the workflow-opening and guest-share hooks.

Changes: Thread detail reference flow

Layer / File(s)Summary
Creation status and detail-reference selection
apps/mobile/src/state/pending-thread-creation.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-selection.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/pending-thread-creation.test.ts
selectThreadCreationDetail selects the pending creation message and returns no detail reference while creation is queued or failed. It returns the thread reference after delivery, and tests cover these states and queued follow-up messages.
Detail-reference wiring and hook handling
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-workflow-opening.tsx, apps/mobile/src/lib/filePreview.test.ts
ThreadDetailScreen passes the selected reference to ThreadFeed, which forwards it to both hooks. useWorkflowOpening accepts a nullable scoped reference and uses a shared null-valued atom when the reference or parent ID is null. Test render setups pass detailRef: null.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

mermaid
1sequenceDiagram
2 participant ThreadSelection
3 participant ThreadDetailScreen
4 participant ThreadFeed
5 participant WorkflowOpening
6 participant GuestShare
7 ThreadSelection->>ThreadDetailScreen: selectedThreadDetailRef
8 ThreadDetailScreen->>ThreadFeed: detailRef
9 ThreadFeed->>WorkflowOpening: detailRef
10 ThreadFeed->>GuestShare: detailRef

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#24344 — The issue describes a newly created thread becoming unavailable before creation delivery. This change withholds the detail reference until delivery.

Suggested labels: bugfix, 📱 Native Change, size:M

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, t3dotgg

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The change withholds thread details until creation is delivered, and no merge-blocking issue was identified.

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apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsxlines 2104–2105Outdated · b3d700dOpen thread
……@@ -2098,12 +2101,8 @@ export const ThreadFeed = memo(function ThreadFeed({
2105- );
2106- const guestShare = useThreadGuestShare(guestThreadRef);
2104+ const workflowOpening = useWorkflowOpening(props.detailRef);
2105+ const guestShare = useThreadGuestShare(props.detailRef);
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4printf '\n--- workflow hook ---\n'
5sed -n '1,90p' apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-workflow-opening.tsx
6printf '\n--- ThreadDetail wiring ---\n'
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8printf '\n--- filePreview test setups ---\n'
9sed -n '400,465p;1340,1400p' apps/mobile/src/lib/filePreview.test.ts
10printf '\n--- relevant tests and mocks ---\n'
11rg -n -C 3 'useWorkflowOpening|useThreadGuestShare|ThreadFeed|detailRef|selectedThreadDetailRef' apps/mobile/src --glob '*test*' --glob '*spec*'
12printf '\n--- applicable guidance ---\n'
13find . -name AGENTS.md -print
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4rg -n -C 8 -F -e 'useWorkflowOpening(props.detailRef)' -e 'useThreadGuestShare(props.detailRef)' -e 'detailRef:' apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx
5printf '%s\n' '--- hook definitions and direct consumers ---'
6rg -n -C 12 -F -e 'function useThreadGuestShare' -e 'export function useThreadGuestShare' -e 'function useWorkflowOpening' -e 'export function useWorkflowOpening' apps/mobile/src packages/client-runtime
7printf '%s\n' '--- mobile tests mentioning the hooks, ThreadFeed, or detailRef ---'
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9printf '%s\n' '--- filePreview test imports, mocks, and relevant render blocks ---'
10rg -n -C 12 -F -e 'vi.mock' -e 'ThreadFeed' -e 'detailRef' -e 'useWorkflowOpening' -e 'useThreadGuestShare' apps/mobile/src/lib/filePreview.test.ts
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13printf '%s\n' '--- test files near ThreadFeed and test utilities ---'
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4printf '%s\n' '--- guest-share hook and rendering contract ---'
5nl -ba apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadGuestShareBar.tsx | sed -n '1,150p'
6printf '%s\n' '--- environmentThreadDetails declaration and atom behavior ---'
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13git show 071239804e375078dd3fae3b14704b4def57e048:apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadGuestShareBar.tsx | nl -ba | sed -n '20,52p'
14printf '%s\n' '--- package test configuration and nearby component-test conventions ---'
15rg -n -C 10 -F -e 'react-test-renderer' -e 'createRoot' -e 'renderHook' -e 'vi.mock(\"@effect/atom-react\"' apps/mobile/src --glob '*test*' --glob '*spec*' | head -260

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Add a real queued-to-delivered regression test.

filePreview.test.ts mocks both hooks, so its detailRef: null fixtures cannot detect this race. Add a focused test that renders the real hooks with detailRef: null, then updates to a delivered ScopedThreadRef and asserts the workflow-opening and guest-share results. Make the test fail against the pre-change main implementation.

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8Add a focused regression test for useWorkflowOpening and useThreadGuestShare
9that renders the real hooks with a null detailRef, updates it to a delivered
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Added in e44c715.

Testing useWorkflowOpening or useThreadGuestShare directly would only show that they skip a null ref. The harness that renders ThreadFeed mocks both hooks, so it cannot show the bug either. The invariant behind this fix is the selection guard, which decides when any detail reader gets a ref. That guard had no test.

The commit moves the guard, unchanged, from use-thread-selection.ts into a pure selectThreadCreationDetail in pending-thread-creation.ts. The new test selectThreadCreationDetail > withholds the detail ref until the creation is delivered checks the queued → failed → delivered sequence: the detail ref is null while creation is queued or failed, and becomes the route ref once creation is delivered. A second case checks that follow-up messages queued on an existing thread do not hold back its ref.

With the guard replaced by detailRef = threadRef, the first test fails. ThreadFeed now reads both hooks through this ref (see ThreadDetailScreen), so the test covers them too.

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@juliusmarminge The selection guard is a reasonable test boundary. Separate hook tests are not necessary for the approach you described. The selector test protects when detail reads become eligible; it does not directly test both hooks.

I confirmed that ThreadDetailScreen passes the guarded ref to ThreadFeed, and both hooks use it. However, the sandbox checkout is still at b3d700d, and it could not retrieve e44c715. I therefore could not verify the new tests or extraction.

Please retry the review once e44c715 is available to the checkout. Verification remains incomplete; this is not evidence of a defect in the added tests.


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  • fix(mobile): a new thread's first send no longer sticks on Starting5c11872
  • test(mobile): cover the thread detail guard from queued creation to deliverye44c715