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What Changed

When reading earlier messages on web or desktop, the scroll-to-end button now shows how many messages remain below the visible area, such as “5 messages.” Clicking still returns to the end. The accessible label includes the count and action.

Why

“Scroll to end” gives no indication of how much conversation remains. This follows the interaction in the reference video.

The count includes a partially visible message until its bottom clears the composer. Tool rows and messages hidden inside collapsed turns are excluded; queued follow-up messages count, since they render as message rows at the end of the timeline. If only non-message content remains, the button retains “Scroll to end.” The calculation uses cached virtual-list positions, the measured list header, and the actual composer height, including when the composer collapses. Each scroll lookup is logarithmic.

UI Changes

Captured on lxso2 in Chromium at 1280 × 900, dark theme, using the same synthetic conversation of 24 messages across 12 completed turns. The capture predates the latest rebase and the queued-message predicate; both are measurement-detail changes that leave the rendered UI in the media representative.

Before: the label stays “Scroll to end” as the conversation scrolls.

Before: complete chat pane with scroll-to-end control

Button detail at the first scrolled position:

Before button detail: Scroll to end

After: the same scroll positions show 5, 8, and 2 messages. Clicking returns to the end and hides the button.

After: complete chat pane with remaining-message count

Button detail at the first scrolled position:

After button detail: 5 messages

The primary GIFs retain the entire chat pane, including the conversation and complete composer; only the unrelated sidebar is removed. They are sampled at 15 fps with unchanged playback speed and show the initial scroll through the return to the end. Button details are supplemental stills from the same first scrolled state. Before full-window video · After full-window video.

Before/after screenshots and additional states

Before

Before screenshot: complete chat pane

After

After screenshot: complete chat pane

Singular label

One message remaining

Narrow web layout, light theme

390-pixel web viewport

Verification

  • vp test run apps/web/src/components/chat/messagesBelow.test.ts apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.test.tsx: 174 passed.
  • tsc --noEmit in apps/web: passed (only pre-existing effect-schema suggestions in unrelated files).
  • Targeted lint on the four changed TypeScript files: 0 errors; all warnings pre-existing on main.
  • Browser assertions (captured run): counts match the visible message boundary and fixture order at three scroll positions, including unmounted rows; scrolling changes the count both ways; clicking returns to the end and hides the button. Singular label, viewport resize, 390-pixel light layout, and reduced-motion return-to-end passed.

Web and desktop share this renderer. Electron shell behavior was not exercised separately. No native mobile, provider, or wire-contract changes; the calculation is client-local for local and remote connections.

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  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why
  • I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes
  • I included a video for animation/interaction changes

Model: SWE-2 Max via T3 Code

Coordination trace: T3 thread 592f626c-f9a7-47be-b461-212976e7d07c

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added message queuing during active turns, with automatic sending when conditions are met.
    • Queued messages preserve attachments and context, and can be sent immediately, steered, removed, or restored after interruptions and failures.
    • The scroll-to-end button shows how many messages remain below the current view, with improved accessibility labels and updates for scrolling, streaming, resizing, and overlays.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance for returning to the latest message and queuing messages on web and desktop.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This adds a new runtime message-counting feature to the production chat timeline, including virtualized row geometry, header/composer insets, and scroll and resize reporting. Because it changes shared chat rendering behavior beyond a simple copy or minor UI adjustment, human review is appropriate.

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Walkthrough

ChatView now manages queued messages and worktree setup state. MessagesTimeline renders queued messages and reports messages below the viewport. The scroll-to-end control displays the count, and documentation and tests cover the new behavior.

Changes

Chat queue and worktree state

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queued message lifecycle
apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
ChatView restores, validates, dispatches, steers, removes, and retries queued messages. It preserves attachments and context across interruption, upload failure, and background draft restoration. Worktree setup state now uses recorded activities and route-thread snapshots.
Queued timeline rows
apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx
MessagesTimeline projects queued messages into timeline rows and renders prompt, attachment, context, queue-status, send-now, and cancel controls.
Viewport count reporting
apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/messagesBelow.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, docs/user/composer.md
The timeline counts message rows below the unobscured viewport using inset and header measurements. ChatView displays the count in the scroll-to-end control. Tests cover measurement and virtualization cases, and the documentation describes queued messages and return-to-end behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ChatView
  participant MessagesTimeline
  participant LegendList
  User->>ChatView: Queue or steer a message
  ChatView->>MessagesTimeline: Pass queued messages and action handlers
  MessagesTimeline->>LegendList: Track rows and viewport metrics
  LegendList-->>MessagesTimeline: Report scroll and header metrics
  MessagesTimeline-->>ChatView: Report queued rows and messages-below count
  ChatView-->>User: Render queue controls and scroll-to-end count
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0579f

A queued message can remain hidden while setup is visible. This localized UI defect should be fixed before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: adding remaining-message counts to the scroll-to-end button.
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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts`:
- Line 195: Update the row-position calculation around positionAtIndex so only
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is this really something we need?

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Queued follow-ups render as message rows at the end of the timeline, so
leaving them out under-counts what remains below the viewport.

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@maria-rcks Fair question. The problem it solves: when you're scrolled up reading history while new messages arrive, "Scroll to end" gives no signal whether there's 1 message or 40 below you, so you either keep reading blind or jump and lose your place. The count (the "↓ N messages" pattern from iMessage/Telegram/Slack) makes that one glanceable decision.

Honest scoping: it's a small UX polish, not a fix — ~200 lines including 104 of focused tests, no new UI surface, no wire changes, log(n) lookups on already-cached row positions. If it doesn't fit the direction you want for the chat pane, closing is reasonable and cheap.

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🟡 Minor · Append queued rows on the setup-card path.

apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts:1386-1396
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Append queued rows on the setup-card path. When the agent stage is done but latestTurn.startedAt is not available, resolveVisibleWorktreeSetup keeps the running setup snapshot visible, while worktreeSetupBlocksSend allows a follow-up. The running phase then enqueues the message, but deriveMessagesTimelineRows returns before appending queuedMessages, so the row is hidden.

♻️ Proposed fix
+  const appendQueuedRows = (rows: MessagesTimelineRow[]): MessagesTimelineRow[] => {
+    input.queuedMessages?.forEach((queuedMessage, index) => {
+      rows.push({
+        kind: "queued-message",
+        id: `queued-message:${queuedMessage.id}`,
+        createdAt: queuedMessage.createdAt,
+        queuedMessage,
+        isNext: index === 0,
+      });
+    });
+    return rows;
+  };
+
   if (input.worktreeSetup && !setupHandedOff) {
     ...
-    return attachTrailingToolGroupsToAssistant(nextRows);
+    return appendQueuedRows(attachTrailingToolGroupsToAssistant(nextRows));
   }
   ...
-  const rows = attachTrailingToolGroupsToAssistant(nextRows);
-  input.queuedMessages?.forEach((queuedMessage, index) => {
-    rows.push({
-      kind: "queued-message",
-      id: `queued-message:${queuedMessage.id}`,
-      createdAt: queuedMessage.createdAt,
-      queuedMessage,
-      isNext: index === 0,
-    });
-  });
-  return rows;
+  return appendQueuedRows(attachTrailingToolGroupsToAssistant(nextRows));
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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts` around lines 1386 -
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@coderabbitai Verified the outside-diff finding against source — it is real but pre-existing on main, not introduced here: when worktreeSetupAgentStarted(setup) is true while latestTurn.startedAt is still null, deriveMessagesTimelineRows returns at the setup-card branch before appending queuedMessages, so a follow-up queued in that window is hidden until handoff completes. That is a queue/worktree-setup interplay defect from #11673/#11836 and is out of scope for this PR (the count reads the same rows the list renders, so it stays consistent either way). Keeping this branch to one concern; the fix belongs in a separate change.

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@saphid Thanks for the detailed verification.

This defect is pre-existing and is outside the scope of this PR. The message count remains consistent with the rendered timeline rows.

Would you like me to open a follow-up GitHub issue for the queued-message and worktree-setup interaction?


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Timestamp: 2026-09-16T03:20:49.996Z
Learning: In `apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts`, `deriveMessagesTimelineRows` can hide `queuedMessages` during worktree setup: when `worktreeSetupAgentStarted(setup)` is true and `latestTurn.startedAt` is null, the setup-card branch returns before queued-message rows are appended. This is a pre-existing queue/worktree-setup defect from `#11673/`#11836, not introduced by pull request `#10923`.

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