feat(chat): show provider thinking traces - #11784
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Every adapter that could see a model's reasoning was already mapping it to `content.delta` with a `reasoning_text` stream kind, and orchestration threw all of it away one layer up. Reasoning had no persistence path and never reached a client; the only "Thinking" in the UI was a placeholder spinner with no text behind it. Reasoning now flows through the same segmenting, buffering and finalization machinery as assistant text, under a new `reasoning` message role, so it persists, streams and replays with no new table or transport. In the transcript it is a collapsed brain row that reads "Thinking" while it streams and "Thought for 8s" once it lands, expanding to the full trace as markdown. Cursor and Grok were dropping ACP thought chunks on the floor; both now map them like the other ACP adapters. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughReasoning messages now use a dedicated role and orchestration commands. Provider adapters emit reasoning deltas. Server ingestion segments and finalizes reasoning blocks. Web and mobile clients render expandable reasoning rows. ChangesReasoning message disclosure
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ProviderAdapter
participant ProviderRuntimeIngestion
participant Decider
participant MessagesTimeline
participant ThreadFeed
ProviderAdapter->>ProviderRuntimeIngestion: emit reasoning_text delta
ProviderRuntimeIngestion->>Decider: emit reasoning delta or complete command
Decider->>MessagesTimeline: emit reasoning message
Decider->>ThreadFeed: emit reasoning message
MessagesTimeline->>MessagesTimeline: toggle reasoning disclosure
ThreadFeed->>ThreadFeed: toggle reasoning disclosure
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Older supported clients can fail when opening threads containing reasoning traces, and interrupted reasoning streams can leave completed turns permanently expanded. Resolve the compatibility and folding behavior before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts`:
- Around line 1279-1284: Update startAssistantSegmentForTurn so the reasoning
role advances its segment index monotonically when the base key changes,
preventing later summary/raw segments from reusing finalized IDs. Preserve the
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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx`:
- Around line 2186-2195: Update the reasoning row interaction around the
disclosure header so the header is rendered as a native button, with its
existing expanded state and toggle keyboard behavior preserved. Move the
expanded ChatMarkdown out of the header/button and render it as a sibling,
ensuring Markdown links and file action controls do not bubble keyboard events
into the disclosure toggle.
- Line 648: Update the suspendEndScrollMaintenanceForDisclosure call in the
reasoning disclosure flow to use messageId directly as the scroll anchor instead
of the prefixed reasoning:${messageId} value, while preserving the existing
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Review of the first commit found real defects. Fixed here: - A reasoning block could reopen after being completed. Segment indexes now advance monotonically for reasoning, whose base key alternates when one provider item streams both a summary and a raw trace. - A reasoning delta with no turn id opened a block nothing could ever close. Every close path is turn-keyed, so those deltas are skipped. - A provider reporting a whole block through `item.completed` detail, with no deltas, produced nothing: the snapshot had no open segment to land in. - Reasoning no longer streams token by token even in token mode. The block is collapsed by default, so a command, an event-store write and a fan-out per token bought nothing on text longer than the answer. - The web "Thinking" label never animated: its shimmer needs an ancestor carrying the visible-animation state. - Mobile stacked a second "Thinking" row under the live one, and its settle effect never re-ran for a reasoning toggle. - Placeholder suppression is scoped to the live turn, so a block stranded by a killed server cannot silence the activity row for every later turn. - Both clients anchored scroll restoration to a key that matched no row. - Interactive markdown moved out of the disclosure's button, so Enter on a link inside a trace no longer collapses the row. - Web now formats the duration like every other elapsed label in the app. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.ts`:
- Around line 2155-2161: Update the fallback path around
startAssistantSegmentForTurn to use the stable item identity and check whether
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A provider crash or a server restart mid-block leaves a reasoning message flagged as streaming with no completion coming. Both clients now treat a block as live only while its own turn is, so a turn that settled hours ago cannot keep telling the user it is thinking. Alongside that: - A completion snapshot writes a message id derived from the item, so a repeated `item.completed` rewrites that row instead of adding a second copy of the same trace. - A zero-length block reads "Thought" rather than "Thought for 1ms". - Codex raw traces get the blank line between parts that summaries already had; `contentIndex` was decoded and then ignored. - Web skips an empty trace like mobile already did. - The token-streaming setting no longer claims every token repaints, now that reasoning is deliberately paced a paragraph at a time. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟠 Major · Gate reasoning messages for legacy clients · packages/contracts/src/orchestration.ts:491-499
491-499: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftGate reasoning messages for legacy clients
Providers emit
reasoning_text, andProviderRuntimeIngestionmaps it torole: "reasoning"before persistence. The HTTP and WebSocket thread snapshot handlers return the projected thread without filtering this role. The pre-changeOrchestrationMessageRoleaccepted only"user","assistant", and"system", so clients built from that contract can reject a reasoning-bearing snapshot during decoding. The subscription input and server configuration expose no client schema or role capability for this decision.When a client does not advertise reasoning-role support, return a legacy snapshot that omits reasoning messages. Apply the same compatibility gate to both HTTP snapshots and WebSocket fallback snapshots.
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- Around line 491-499: Update the HTTP thread snapshot and WebSocket fallback
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The assistant-text case failed deterministically in isolation and passed in a full-file run only by scheduling luck: its predicate waited for the reasoning block to settle, which happens one event before the buffered answer reaches the projection. Every reasoning predicate now covers exactly what its test goes on to assert. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Thinking is work, so it folds with the rest of it once a turn settles. Claude interleaves a block with every tool call, so leaving them out of the fold left dozens of "Thought for ..." rows standing beside the "Worked for ..." summary that is meant to replace them. Nothing folds while a turn is live, which is when traces are actually watched. Also aligns the row's liveness test with the placeholder suppression beside it: both now prefer the running turn, so a promptless provider restart cannot make a genuinely live block read "Thought". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Folding thinking with the work was right for a turn that ran tools and wrong for one that did not: a question answered by thought alone collapsed to "Worked for 12s" hiding a single "Thought for 12s". Thinking now follows the rule compaction rows already use — it joins a fold that hides real work, and never creates one on its own. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟠 Major · 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration · packages/contracts/src/orchestration.ts:491-499
491-499: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftAdding the persisted
reasoningrole makes thread snapshots undecodable by supported older clients. Preserve a backwards-compatible snapshot representation or version the protocol before emitting this new role.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 619-620: Update the streaming-message fold guards in
MessagesTimeline logic and threadActivity so stale reasoning messages do not
keep completed turns expanded: count assistant streaming messages, and include
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- Around line 491-499: Update OrchestrationMessageRole and snapshot
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A block left streaming by a crashed provider kept its turn out of the work fold forever. A live turn is already excluded from folding, so only an answer still being written needs to hold one open. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Mobile dropped any empty trace, web only dropped a settled one. The live row is what suppresses the "Thinking" placeholder, so dropping it mid-stream would leave the user with neither. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review of the previous head found three web/mobile divergences and one dead change: - A thought between the answer and a trailing tool call stopped that tool from folding, because the "single trailing activity" rule counts entries and reasoning now joins the group. Thinking no longer counts toward it. - A thought after the answer trailed under it on web while mobile folded it. Web now folds it too. - The row's liveness test used the latest turn whether or not it had settled, while the placeholder suppression beside it used the unsettled turn. Both now read one value, so they cannot disagree. - The previous commit's mobile guard was unreachable: `groupAdjacentActivities` drops every text-less message before the renderer sees it. Reverted. Also records why thread search excludes reasoning, since the CASE above that filter would label a trace as assistant text if the filter were widened. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two regressions this branch introduced, plus the last liveness divergence: - The trailing-entry count was computed per entry inside the fold loop, making it quadratic in a turn's work entries and re-running on every work-log change. It is loop-invariant, so it is counted once. - The row-activity context was keyed on the `latestTurn` object, whose identity changes on every thread-shell patch. Back to the fields it actually reads. - Mobile decided a block was live without checking that the thread was working, so a server killed mid-block left it shimmering on reopen. Same test as web. Covers the fold rules with the cases three rounds of review rewrote: a thought-only turn staying out of the fold, a thought folding with tool work, a lone trailing tool call still folding when a thought follows the answer, and a stranded streaming block not holding a settled turn open. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The feed re-implemented the test inline while the fold derivation kept its own copy. Two copies of this is what let a row and the fold beside it disagree on web; export the one function instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…king-traces # Conflicts: # apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts
…king-traces Keep reasoning traces out of the relocated thread-title helper. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Claude Code usually redacts the chain of thought. Ask the SDK for summarized display and map those blocks onto the existing reasoning-summary stream. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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## What's Changed * fix(web): submit PR comments with Cmd/Ctrl+Enter by @flamboh in pingdotgg/t3code#11994 * refactor(web): centralize pull request icon state presentation by @flamboh in pingdotgg/t3code#11144 * feat(providers): expose native slash commands across clients by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11519 * feat(web): add send shortcut and follow-up controls by @Bil0000 in pingdotgg/t3code#12075 * feat(chat): show provider thinking traces by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11784 **Full Changelog**: pingdotgg/t3code@v0.0.43-nightly.20260916.1811...v0.0.43-nightly.20260916.1825 Upstream release: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/releases/tag/v0.0.43-nightly.20260916.1825
Upstream pingdotgg#11784 added a fourth message role, "reasoning". The fork's hand-written projection row schema hardcoded the other three, so every snapshot read of a thread containing a reasoning message failed to decode. Deriving from OrchestrationMessageRole means a role added upstream cannot silently break the read path again.
…fter the sync Upstream 052c7ae (pingdotgg#11784) adds showThinkingSummaries to the Claude SDK settings object, which left both fork isolation tests red after tonight's merge (they were not in the gate the merge ran, src/personal only). The bot-session assertion stays exact -- every key there reaches a bot, so a sync that adds one should fail until someone decides whether a bot may have it. The normal-thread assertion stops demanding `settings === undefined`, which upstream now owns, and asserts the invariant the fork actually cares about: a normal thread never gets the bot-isolation pair, which would silence the owner's own auto-memory and connectors. Verified by mutation: dropping the `personalBot ?` guard on PERSONAL_BOT_CLAUDE_SETTINGS fails the normal-thread test.
provider reasoning was discarded before it reached a thread. this preserves reasoning as separate messages and renders expandable thinking rows on web and mobile. traces keep their order around tools, finalize when the turn ends, and survive reload. labels are now "Thinking" and "Thought", without thinking durations. existing work-duration summaries are unchanged.
timer removal: matched before and after
same persisted real claude conversation and matching crop. before is
7c93b42159; after is3cfa1d2509. idle time removed, original playback speed preserved.real provider verification
upstream baseline
935c55, captured during the earlier takeover with the same read-only README/gcd prompt: the completed claude work fold contains the tool and answer but no reasoning.recordings use the real provider and web client on head
3cfa1d2509ad2892d87c198e50ba424f2232fbb8, with read-only prompts. clips omit idle gaps and reload splash frames, retain original speed, and crop out the sidebar. antigravity is excluded at maria's request.claude opus 5: live thinking becomes thought, expands and collapses, and remains after reload. tool and answer completed successfully.
cursor auto: real summary and answer, expandable trace, persistence after reload. the earlier opus attempt shown above it hit a plan limit; the successful turn uses auto.
opencode big pickle: three real thought blocks around read-only tools; all finalize, survive reload, expand, and collapse. the earlier deepseek attempt reached its monthly quota; the successful retry uses big pickle.
codex gpt-5.6-sol, high reasoning: a real README/tool and scheduling turn supplied two readable summary parts. both render under "Thought", expand/collapse, and persist after reload. the clip shows the real turn followed by disclosure after reload, with idle time removed at original speed. these are provider summaries; no raw reasoning text was exposed.
configuration caveat: earlier default-route turns returned encrypted reasoning with empty summaries, correctly producing no blank thought row. the successful client capture used temporary summary/display overrides. a separate isolated app-server trial then confirmed that only
model_reasoning_summary=detailedwas sufficient with the same model and route, omittingturn.summaryas T3 does; neither raw-display nor capability flags were needed. default settings returned no summaries in the comparison trial. summary availability still depends on the provider/model/route; no source or persistent configuration changes were made for this retry.grok 4.6: sign-in succeeded, but the real high-effort turn returned HTTP 402, "Grok Build usage balance exhausted". no reasoning arrived. successful grok trace verification requires available account balance.
bandwidth and performance verification
3cfa1d2509: ingestion, HTTP/WebSocket compatibility and transfer budgets, reconnect/pagination, live-buffer overflow, and web/mobile timeline logic.checks and limitations
3cfa1d2509. duplicate requests for a new shared disclosure variant were rebutted and resolved because existing native disclosure semantics and accepted styling are preserved.source and checks are ready for review. textual traces are verified for claude, cursor, opencode, and codex with the configuration caveat above. complete five-provider coverage remains blocked by grok account balance. nothing has been merged.
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gpt-6-astrausing the codex harness.