feat(web): start new threads with multiple models in separate worktrees

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New threads can send one prompt to several provider/model selections. Each selection starts a background thread in its own worktree, and the composer stays open for the next prompt. Shift-click adds or removes models; a normal click selects one. The trigger stacks provider icons and shows the selected model names, and the branch toolbar selects their shared base without checking out the project. You can send another batch while worktrees start; late failures retain a restore action without overwriting newer drafts.

Multi-model launches require a server that guarantees worktree creation. Empty repositories are rejected before any agent starts, and precreation failures can be retried without duplicating successful launches. Uncertain transport failures keep a duplicate-launch guard until an explicit retry confirmation. Single-model workspace behavior is unchanged.

Verified in the web client with Codex and Claude replies from distinct worktrees, plus light and narrow layouts. Blacksmith: web/server typechecks, scoped lint (no errors), 410 frontend tests, 77 contract/runtime/environment tests, and 7 focused bootstrap cases passed. An overlapping-send check produced four replies from four worktrees; failure recovery passed after navigating away. The picker follow-up passed web typecheck, scoped lint (no errors), and 32 existing picker tests on Blacksmith. Normal click, shift-click, Shift+Enter, two-to-one focus, same-provider selection, and narrow/light layouts were exercised in the browser. Native mobile is unchanged.

Implemented with GPT-6 in the Codex harness.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a substantial multi-model workflow that creates parallel threads, Git worktrees, setup processes, and provider runs, with coordinated retry and cleanup behavior across the web client, server, and shared protocol. The cross-cutting production impact is larger than a bounded additive change and merits human review.

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The change adds multi-model selection and dispatch. Each selected model starts in a separate worktree thread. Required-worktree bootstrap failures now report whether a thread was not created.

Changes

Multiple model dispatch and required worktree bootstrap

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bootstrap contracts and failure handling packages/contracts/..., packages/client-runtime/..., apps/server/src/environment/..., apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/server.test.ts	Adds required-worktree capability and metadata, supports the "not-created" disposition, and rejects invalid required-worktree bootstraps before thread creation.
Multi-model selection UI apps/web/src/components/chat/ModelPickerContent.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ProviderModelPicker.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ModelListRow.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx	Adds multi-model selection state, selection indicators, picker toggling, and composer validation.
Parallel multi-model dispatch apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx	Validates selected providers, starts one forced-worktree thread per model, tracks uncertain submissions, and restores failed selections.
Forced new-worktree toolbar mode apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbar.tsx, apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbarBranchSelector.tsx, apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbarEnvModeSelector.tsx, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md	Propagates forced worktree mode through toolbar controls and documents Shift-click model selection.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ModelPickerContent
  participant ChatComposer
  participant ChatView
  participant Server
  User->>ModelPickerContent: select multiple models
  ModelPickerContent->>ChatComposer: update selection
  User->>ChatComposer: send prompt
  ChatComposer->>ChatView: submit selected models
  ChatView->>Server: start one forced-worktree thread per model
  Server-->>ChatView: return bootstrap results
  ChatView-->>User: show started count or restore failed selections

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• apps/web/src/components/chat/ProviderModelPicker.tsx
• docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
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