fix(web): play completion sounds without delay#29146
Completion alerts waited two seconds after the client received a completed thread state. Audio was also fetched and decoded only when an alert needed to play, adding a first-play delay.
Notify immediately when the thread shell reports completion, and preload both sounds when a user gesture unlocks audio. Keep completion deduplication and suppression for existing, archived, and stopped runs.
This intentionally removes the continuation grace for completion alerts. A completed run can now notify before an automatic continuation starts. The sidebar's two-second placement grace and server settlement behavior remain in place.
Validation: vp run check:changed passes after merging current main, including 40 affected tests, formatting, lint, unused-code checks, affected typechecks, and React compiler checks. Tests cover immediate completion, duplicate suppression across reconnects, preloaded audio reuse, and retrying failed loads on alerts without retrying on every gesture. Audible timing has not been verified in a live client.
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Verdict: Approved at c0ea965
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Completion alerts now fire immediately, and notification sounds preload during interaction to reduce playback delay. Existing notification preferences and presentation safeguards remain, with effects confined to notification timing and audio loading.
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The notification gate now sends eligible completion notifications immediately and tracks handled completions. Audio unlock preloads both notification sounds, which playback reuses.
Changes: Thread notifications
Layer / File(s) Summary Immediate completion notifications
apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.logic.ts,apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.tsx,packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadInbox.ts,apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.logic.test.ts,apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.badge.browser.test.tsThe notification gate removes its grace-period timer and handles eligible settled completions immediately. The coordinator no longer cancels pending notifications during reconnect. Tests cover immediate completion notices, reconnect behavior, attention, and gate resets. WORKING_EXIT_GRACE_MSremains at2_000but is no longer exported.Audio preload and reuse
apps/web/src/threadNotifications.ts,apps/web/src/threadNotifications.test.tsAudio unlock starts loading both sound assets. Playback shares cached fetch-and-decode promises, and failed loads are evicted so a later attempt can retry. Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes
Change: Bug fix
Possibly related issues
- pingdotgg/t3code#25585 — The change affects the completion-alert path, but does not change the completion-state classification described in the issue.
- pingdotgg/t3code#26886 — The change removes the grace timer, but does not add the settled-thread check described in the issue.
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Check name Status Explanation Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: removing the delay before completion sounds play. Description check Passed The description explains the problem, the implementation, the intentional behavior change, and focused verification results. It does not include a separate Scope and approval section or linked approva… Linked Issues check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Out of Scope Changes check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Full details: Description check
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| … | … | @@ -85,10 +85,29 @@ const buffers = new Map<string, Promise<AudioBuffer>>(); | |
| 107 | + | // Fetch and decode during interaction so the first alert is ready when the thread finishes. | |
| 108 | + | for (const url of [completionUrl, inputUrl]) { | |
| 109 | + | void loadNotificationBuffer(audioContext, url).catch(() => undefined); | |
| 110 | + | } | |
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bash1 sed -n '1,190p' apps/web/src/threadNotifications.ts 2 rg -n 'unlockNotificationAudio|pointerdown|keydown|playNotificationSound' apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.tsx apps/web/src/threadNotifications.ts 3 git diff ddfc4a92edbdc934fede54c32f19be9ff5af1bb4 d608e47bd57529687f10d887c574e30b367473d0 -- apps/web/src/threadNotifications.ts Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
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Throttle preload retries after a failed load.
While the sound-mode listeners remain attached, each pointerdown or keydown calls unlockNotificationAudio. A failed load removes its cached promise, so each later gesture starts new fetches for both sounds. This differs from the previous alert-only retry behavior.
Record failed preload times and skip preload retries during a short backoff. Keep alert playback retries immediate.
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1 +const preloadFailures = new Map<string, number>(); 2 +const PRELOAD_RETRY_MS = 2_000; diff1 for (const url of [completionUrl, inputUrl]) { 2 - void loadNotificationBuffer(audioContext, url).catch(() => undefined); 3 + const failedAt = preloadFailures.get(url); 4 + if (failedAt !== undefined && Date.now() - failedAt < PRELOAD_RETRY_MS) continue; 5 + void loadNotificationBuffer(audioContext, url).catch(() => { 6 + preloadFailures.set(url, Date.now()); 7 + }); 8 }
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✅ Confirmed as addressed by @Yash-Singh1
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Confirmed with a regression test that a failed preload was retried on every subsequent gesture. Preloading now happens only when the audio context is first created. Later gestures still resume audio, and actual alerts retry failed loads immediately. This avoids a backoff timer and extra retry state. The regression failed before the fix; all 40 affected tests and vp run check:changed now pass.
@Yash-Singh1 The firstUnlock guard addresses this finding without a backoff timer. Later gestures still call resume(), but do not preload again. Failed loads leave the cache, so actual alerts can retry immediately.
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