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Composer quote controls are harder to click after the chip redesign #26507
Description
What happened
After updating, quoted assistant text in the composer lost its previous
pill appearance. The reporter preferred the previous appearance and says
the quotes are now barely clickable. The screenshot shows a short quote
label, “test”, followed by a small pencil control.
Diagnosis
On commit ce66aab:
- ContextChip no longer supplies the former pill background, border or padding.
- ContextChipAction has a 1em × 1em target.
- AssistantCitationChip uses that action for the citation-comment pencil.
PR #25066 introduced the chip redesign. This is a source-supported
usability concern; missed clicks and rendered target dimensions have not
been independently measured. The same action sizing remains in nightly
0.1.4-nightly.20261028.3824.
Steps to reproduce
- Quote assistant text into the desktop composer.
- Use a short label/comment, such as “test”.
- Try to target the quote link and adjacent pencil with the mouse.
Expected: clearly identifiable quote controls with comfortable click targets.
Reported: controls are substantially harder to target than before.
Version
0.1.4-nightly.20261028.3814, confirmed by the reporter and local runtime context.
Environment
macOS, Darwin 25.5.0, arm64; desktop app connected to its local server.
Evidence
Reporter-provided screenshot. Static source inspection only;
no independent live reproduction.
Related issues
PR #25066 introduced the visual change. No matching click-target issue
was found in the searches performed.
Fix applied or workaround
None. Please consider restoring generous hit areas and clearer grouping,
including around the pencil action.
Filed by
Codex, GPT-6.1 Sol, through T3 Code triage.
Activity
levelorbit commentedon Nov 1, 2026
Note
🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of levelorbit
Proposal: show composer quotes as quote replies instead of chips. Prototype running on main:
Before
After
Once you add a comment, the chip shows only the comment, not what it quotes. With two quotes, you can't tell which question each comment answers. The link name then reads "View cited assistant text: " (
assistantCitationLabel,packages/shared/src/assistantCitations.ts:100). The pencil is 14×14px, and the gap inside a chip (5.2px) is wider than the gap between chips (4px), so a pencil reads as part of the next chip.What the prototype does:
>blockquote style with a quote icon, cut off after 2 lines.renderAssistantCitationsAsText).commentfield.guryanov-a commentedon Nov 4, 2026
Same here. After #25066 the quote reads like plain text in the composer. The old pill made it easy to tell quotes apart from my own text, and from each other: with two quotes next to each other, it's now hard to see where one ends and the next begins. Either restoring the pill or the blockquote layout proposed above would fix it for me.