Title the agent's chats and list them under Chat history#1708

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The column header shows the chat's title, taken from its first message. It also has Chat history and New chat.

  • Chat history lists the 30 most recent chats in the current scope, newest first. Picking one opens it.
  • The list comes from listAgentThreadsServerFn, which needs the operate permission.
  • A finished turn refreshes the list.
  • threadTitle skips the page context that rides along with the first message.

Tests: thread-title.test.ts, agent-panel.test.tsx.

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  • New Features
    • Added chat history to the agent sidebar, showing up to 30 recent chats with titles and the newest chats first.
    • Select a past chat to reopen it, or start a new chat from the sidebar.
    • Chat titles are based on the first message, with long titles shortened for display.
    • Chat history refreshes after a conversation ends or is stopped, and offers a retry if loading fails.

The agent panel now supports recent chat history for the current organization. Members can view chat titles, select a prior chat, or start a new chat. The panel refreshes thread history as conversations change. A server function returns up to 30 recent threads for the authorized member and organization.

Changes: Agent Chat History

Layer / File(s)Summary
Thread titles and persistence
dashboard/src/modules/agent/thread-title.ts, dashboard/src/modules/agent/thread-title.test.ts, dashboard/src/modules/agent/persistence.server.ts
Thread titles use user message text, exclude page-context content, normalize whitespace, and truncate long titles. The persistence query returns up to 30 titled threads for an organization and member, ordered by update time and thread ID.
Thread listing API and query
dashboard/src/modules/agent/agent.functions.ts, dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/threads.queries.ts, dashboard/src/collections/data-sources.ts, dashboard/src/collections/data-boundaries.static.test.ts
The server function returns recent threads after checking organization access. The client query caches results for 30 seconds and provides an invalidation helper. The data-source registry and boundary test include the thread query.
Agent panel history controls
dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-panel.tsx, dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-sidebar.tsx, dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-panel.test.tsx
The panel displays chat history, derives the current chat title, and passes selected or newly generated thread IDs through onChat. Tests cover history selection, title updates, and history invalidation after a turn ends or a reply stops.

Priority: โž– Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1sequenceDiagram
2 participant Member
3 participant AgentPanel
4 participant agentThreadsOptions
5 participant listAgentThreadsServerFn
6 participant recentThreads
7 Member->>AgentPanel: open chat history
8 AgentPanel->>agentThreadsOptions: load organization threads
9 agentThreadsOptions->>listAgentThreadsServerFn: request thread list
10 listAgentThreadsServerFn->>recentThreads: query authorized member threads
11 recentThreads-->>listAgentThreadsServerFn: return titled thread summaries
12 listAgentThreadsServerFn-->>agentThreadsOptions: return thread summaries
13 agentThreadsOptions-->>AgentPanel: provide chat history
14 Member->>AgentPanel: select a thread
15 AgentPanel-->>Member: open selected chat
Merge Risk: ๐Ÿ”ต Low ยท up to 985f3

Chat history can show fewer than 30 chats, or none, when recent chats have no usable title, even though older titled chats exist. Access scoping looks correct. This is a bounded display gap that can be fixed as a follow-up.

Security architecture risk: ๐Ÿ”ต Low ยท up to 985f3

History requests are restricted to the authorized organization and signed-in member, and reopening a conversation independently checks ownership. No new authorization bypass was established. Normal sign-out replaces the browserโ€™s cached state, but rapid conversation switching and other session-change scenarios retain some unverified cleanup behavior.

Retained concerns No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • observed โ€” A successful listing exposes message-derived titles, thread identifiers, and timestamps for the requesting actorโ€™s threads in one authorized organization. Existing support access still uses the support actorโ€™s own user ID, not another memberโ€™s history.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed โ€” The deferred cache candidate concerns member-specific results stored under an organization-only key. Normal sign-out performs a document reload, and router creation constructs a new QueryClient, providing counterevidence to reuse across that transition. This does not establish behavior for every same-document or cross-tab session change; the candidate remains unverified rather than an observed disclosure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed โ€” History-list membership is not the authority for opening or modifying a conversation. Both hydration and streaming derive organization/member scope from the authenticated caller and independently check thread ownership, so supplying another memberโ€™s existing thread ID is rejected at the chat boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed โ€” Conversation state is separated by organization and thread, and the chat server propagates request abort into its stream controller. Client-side abort and stale-event suppression when an active conversation unmounts remain unverified; the inspected code does not establish a new cross-identity state leak.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed โ€” Partition cached history by authenticated user or session as well as organization, making privacy isolation explicit rather than dependent on document replacement during identity changes.
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dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-panel.tsxlines 115โ€“116Outdated ยท 17139cbOpen thread
โ€ฆโ€ฆ@@ -68,7 +110,10 @@ function Conversation({ organizationSlug, scope, page, threadId, onNewChat }: {
113+ const queryClient = useQueryClient();
71114 const onChunk = (chunk: StreamChunk) => {
115+ // A finished turn saved the thread: its title and its place in history change.
116+ if (chunk.type === EventType.RUN_FINISHED || chunk.type === EventType.RUN_ERROR) void refetchAgentThreads(queryClient, organizationSlug);
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P2 Badge Refresh history when a turn is stopped

When the member clicks Stop, closes the panel, or switches chats during a reply, the SSE request is aborted and the client receives neither RUN_FINISHED nor RUN_ERROR, so this invalidation never runs even though persistence records the user message and aborted run. A freshly cached history can consequently keep showing โ€œNew chatโ€ and omit or misorder that conversation until an unrelated refetch occurs; invalidate history from the stop/abort completion path as well.

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Fixed in 985f34ab7. History now refetches whenever a turn stops being busy, whether it finished, failed, was stopped, or the panel closed mid-reply. A new test stops a reply and checks that history was invalidated, and it fails without the fix.

dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-panel.tsxline 50Outdated ยท 17139cbOpen thread
โ€ฆโ€ฆ@@ -37,22 +41,60 @@ type PanelProps = {
4348/** One agent conversation; the sidebar picks the thread, and switching Organization or thread swaps in a fresh connection. */
44-export default function AgentPanel({ organizationSlug, scope, page, threadId, onNewChat }: PanelProps) {
49+export default function AgentPanel({ organizationSlug, scope, page, threadId, onChat }: PanelProps) {
50+ const { data: threads } = useQuery(agentThreadsOptions(organizationSlug));

P2 Badge Expose failures from the chat-history read

If listAgentThreadsServerFn fails after its retries, only data is consumed, leaving threads undefined; the header then claims this is a new chat and the history popover is blank without an error or retry action. This makes a failed Remote Read indistinguishable from loading and can leave the feature unusable until a later automatic refetch, contrary to the dashboard data-loading requirement to preserve read failures.

AGENTS.md reference: dashboard/AGENTS.md:L19-L23

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Fixed in 985f34ab7. When the history read fails, the popover now says the chats couldn't load and offers Retry.

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dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-panel.tsxline 51Outdated ยท 7586616Open thread
โ€ฆโ€ฆ@@ -37,22 +41,60 @@ type PanelProps = {
44-export default function AgentPanel({ organizationSlug, scope, page, threadId, onNewChat }: PanelProps) {
49+export default function AgentPanel({ organizationSlug, scope, page, threadId, onChat }: PanelProps) {
50+ const { data: threads } = useQuery(agentThreadsOptions(organizationSlug));
51+ const title = threads?.find((thread) => thread.threadId === threadId)?.title ?? "New chat";

P2 Badge Load the title for chats outside the history window

When a URL or the organizationโ€™s saved localStorage value restores a valid chat older than the 30 rows returned by recentThreads, this lookup cannot find it and labels the populated conversation โ€œNew chat.โ€ Since arbitrary existing thread IDs are intentionally restorable, fetch the open threadโ€™s title separately or ensure the current thread is included alongside the capped history.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L5-L5

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Fixed in 985f34ab7. A chat history hasn't listed takes its title from the member's first message in the loaded transcript, the same rule the server uses. That covers older chats and a new chat whose first turn hasn't finished.

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dashboard/src/modules/agent/persistence.server.tsline 212Outdated ยท 985f34aOpen thread
โ€ฆโ€ฆ@@ -195,6 +196,26 @@ export const agentPersistence = Effect.fn("Agent.persistence")(function* (scope:
209+ updatedAt: agentThreads.updatedAt,
210+ }).from(agentThreads)
211+ .where(and(eq(agentThreads.organizationId, scope.organizationId), eq(agentThreads.userId, scope.userId)))
212+ .orderBy(desc(agentThreads.updatedAt), desc(agentThreads.threadId)).limit(HISTORY_LIMIT);
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Apply the 30-chat limit after excluding untitled threads.

When recent threads have no title, .limit(HISTORY_LIMIT) selects them before Line 213 removes them. For example, 30 untitled threads produce an empty history even when older titled threads exist. Fetch candidates until you have 30 titled threads, or exclude untitled threads in the database query.

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Not changing this. A thread row is only saved by a turn, and a turn starts from the member's message. The composer won't send an empty one, so a chat with no words of the member's doesn't arise from the UI, let alone 30 in a row. The filter only guards odd rows, and pushing the title rule (text parts minus page context) into SQL would duplicate threadTitle for a case that can't occur.

@nick-potts Thanks for clarifying the creation invariant. My finding treated untitled threads as a normal UI outcome, which does not apply here. The defensive filter does not justify duplicating threadTitle in SQL. I withdraw the finding.


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5Learning: In dashboard/src/modules/agent/persistence.server.ts, agent thread rows are saved only by turns that start with a member message. The agent composer does not send empty messages, so normal UI use does not create threads without member text. The title filter in recentThreads defensively excludes odd rows; do not require duplicating threadTitle's text-part and page-context rules in SQL based on an assumed normal-UI accumulation of untitled threads.

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dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-panel.tsxline 85Outdated ยท 24f5aaeOpen thread
โ€ฆโ€ฆ@@ -37,44 +42,99 @@ type PanelProps = {
82+ <Command tabIndex={0} label="Chat history" defaultValue={threadId}>
83+ <CommandList className="max-h-[min(24rem,60dvh)]">
84+ {threads !== undefined && <CommandEmpty>No chats yet</CommandEmpty>}
85+ {isError && threads === undefined && (

P2 Badge Expose background history refresh failures

After history has loaded successfully, a later invalidation can fail while React Query retains the cached threads; in that case isError is true but this threads === undefined guard suppresses both the alert and Retry button, so a newly created or reordered chat silently remains absent from the displayed history. Fresh evidence in the current code is this cached-data condition, which leaves the background-refetch failure path unhandled; show the refresh error alongside the stale items as well.

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Keeping this as is. The alert exists for the case where the member would otherwise see nothing. When a background refresh fails, the list still works, every chat in it opens, and the next refresh (the end of the next turn, or the query refetching on focus) fills in what is missing. Putting an error over a working list would be louder than the gap it reports.

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dashboard/src/modules/agent/thread-title.tsline 19Outdated ยท f71a5c0Open thread
โ€ฆโ€ฆ@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
16+export function chatTitle(words: string): string | undefined {
17+ const text = words.replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();
18+ if (text === "") return undefined;
19+ return text.length <= MAX_LENGTH ? text : `${text.slice(0, MAX_LENGTH - 1).trimEnd()}โ€ฆ`;

P2 Badge Truncate titles at a complete Unicode character

When a long first message places an emoji or another astral character across the 79-code-unit boundary, slice(0, MAX_LENGTH - 1) retains only half of its surrogate pair, so the chat header and history render a replacement character before the ellipsis. Truncate by Unicode code point or grapheme cluster instead of UTF-16 code units.

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  • Title a chat from its first words, and refresh history when a reply stops65e26da
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