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Problem

On mobile, one saved draft that fails the draft schema blocks every draft. A draft saved by a newer build with a workspace mode this build does not know is one way to get there. drafts.json is decoded as a whole, so that entry rejects hydration on every launch. The other drafts never load, and every later save fails too, until the file is repaired by hand.

Repro: save a draft in a thread, add one entry to drafts.json with "workspaceSelection": { "mode": "cloud", ... }, relaunch. The thread's draft is gone, and a new edit is never written.

Change

Draft entries are decoded one at a time. An entry this build cannot read:

• stays on disk unchanged, so a build that can read it still finds it;
• still owns its attachment files and pending uploads, so cleanup leaves them alone. Each attachment is read on its own, so one malformed attachment cannot hide the others;
• is replaced once the same composer gets a new draft, whether typed, merged from a share or undone, even if that draft is cleared before it saves. Its files and pending uploads are then released once that save succeeds; if it fails, they stay on the device;
• is removed with its environment, like a readable draft, releasing its files and pending uploads. Sign-out removes cloud environments, so there it is dropped, not archived;
• is removed with its pending task when that queued message is sent, discarded or removed with its environment.

The rest of the document keeps the fail-closed behavior from #9710. A bad schemaVersion, invalid JSON or a read error still blocks saves. The existing test for that case passes unchanged.

Scope and approval

There is no issue for this. It is a small data-loss fix with no new setting or UI, and it awaits maintainer review.

Three choices for maintainers to confirm:

• Unreadable entries are kept verbatim rather than dropped, which keeps fix(mobile): preserve saved work after storage read failures #9710's rule that a failed read never loses saved work.
• At environment removal and sign-out they are dropped, not archived. Archiving them would change the signed-out archive's schema, which decodes whole drafts.
• Only the live drafts map is handled per entry. Signed-out archives, the sticky model selection and model option memory still fail closed, to keep this to one cause.

Verification

Focused tests in the existing apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.test.ts:

• keeps saving drafts when one saved draft cannot be read: one valid draft, and one with an unknown workspace mode, a pending upload and a malformed second attachment. The valid draft hydrates, a new edit saves, the unreadable entry is written back unchanged, and cleanup keeps its file and upload.
• replaces a draft it cannot read once that composer gets a new draft: typing there and clearing it before the save leaves no stale entry.
• drops drafts it cannot read with their environment, also at sign-out: unreadable entries for one environment, by thread key, legacy new-task key and project stamp, go when sign-out archives and removes it. Their file and upload are released; another environment's entry stays.
• Review fixes: replaces a draft it cannot read when that composer is edited before drafts load, releases the files of a draft it cannot read once that draft is replaced, releases a draft it cannot read once %s replaces it and never writes it back, keeps a draft it cannot read and its files when %s cannot be saved and keeps a draft it cannot read and its files when a settings update and then %s cannot be saved (merge, merge undo), and drops a pending task's draft it cannot read with the task's environment. Each fails before its fix and passes after.

All three fail on main, where the whole file fails to decode, and pass with this change. Removing any one of the new rules fails the test that covers it.

Commands run:

• vp test run src/state/use-composer-drafts.test.ts: 88 passed.
• The same for thread-outbox-removal.test.ts, composer-attachment-uploads.test.ts, thread-outbox.test.ts, use-thread-outbox.test.ts and threadOutboxDelivery.test.ts: 74 passed.
• vp fmt --check and vp lint on both changed files: clean apart from one existing warning on an untouched line.
• tsc --noEmit in apps/mobile: passed.

Android emulator, Debug client with JavaScript from main (f12bb6229c) and from this branch (6c3c0c33c9): I typed a draft in a thread, stopped the app, added the unknown-mode entry to drafts.json, and relaunched. On main the composer is empty, a new edit leaves drafts.json byte-for-byte unchanged, and the log shows failed to hydrate drafts and failed to persist drafts. With this change the draft is back, the edit is written, the unknown entry is kept, and the log warns once: kept drafts this build cannot read. The emulator renders in software, so this capture shows the restored draft, not layout.

iOS simulator (iOS 26.5), same steps, main (f12bb6229c) and 6c3c0c33c9: the same results, checked in drafts.json, with the same log lines.

Not checked:

• Attachment ownership and environment removal on a device; the unit tests cover them. Both device runs used this branch after merging current main.
• Web and desktop. They do not use this module.

Prior PRs

• fix(mobile): preserve saved work after storage read failures #9710 by Theo Browne made draft reads fail closed so a bad read cannot overwrite saved work. This PR keeps that rule and narrows the block to the one unreadable entry.
• fix(web): settings save again after a stored value fails decode #19312 by Theo Browne fixed the same class of bug for web settings stored in localStorage.
• [codex] Preserve mobile composer draft failures #3348 by Julius Marminge added ComposerDraftPersistenceError, which this path still uses.

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Walkthrough

Composer draft persistence retains drafts that the current decoder cannot read. Edits and environment or outbox cleanup can remove those drafts. Recoverable attachment references are included in ownership checks and cleanup.

Changes: Composer Draft Persistence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Decode and preserve unreadable drafts apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.test.ts	Drafts are decoded individually. Unreadable payloads remain persisted alongside readable drafts. Hydration and updates remove unreadable payloads for keys edited before or after loading. Tests cover preservation during flush and new edits.
Replace drafts and release attachments apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.test.ts	Unreadable drafts expose recoverable file and upload references. Editing or clearing a draft removes its unreadable payload and releases references no longer in use. Merge and merge undo use immediate writes. Tests cover replacement, persistence failures, and attachment cleanup.
Clean up drafts by environment and outbox task apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/thread-outbox-removal.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.test.ts	Environment cleanup removes matching unreadable drafts and includes their attachments in cleanup. Outbox removal clears the pending-task draft key. Tests cover environment, sign-out, and pending-task cleanup.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#24827: Changes draft hydration and environment cleanup in the same state module.
• pingdotgg/t3code#24116: Adds persisted composer-context schema that can affect whether drafts decode as readable.
• pingdotgg/t3code#25376: Changes draft and environment cleanup for draft-scoped operations.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 6c3c0

Unreadable saved drafts are kept on disk and no longer block other drafts from saving. They are removed when replaced, when their environment is removed, or at sign-out. No remaining merge-blocking risk was found in this change.

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The description covers the required sections. Problem describes the bug: one unreadable saved draft blocks hydration and saves for all drafts, with a repro. Change explains per-entry decoding and how unreadable entries are kept, replaced, released, and removed. Scope and approval explains there is no linked issue and argues it is a small data-loss fix, and it lists three decisions for maintainers to confirm. Verification lists focused tests with observed results, commands run, device checks on Android and iOS, and items not checked. The template's Verification section asks for focused checks; the description meets that. The template's final line asks for the agent model and harness; the description says it was generated with Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code Nightly, so that is covered. The main gap is that the Scope and approval section does not link a triaged issue or maintainer approval, which the template requires for a non-trivial fix. The author argues the change is a small, obvious bug fix, so the gap is a judgment call rather than a missing section. Overall the description is mostly complete.

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Merged main in 6ec1cd6 to clear the conflict in apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.ts, then added one fix in 6c3c0c3.

• Main removed the unused restoreComposerDraftSnapshot, so this PR's handling of it and its test row are gone. Merges and merge undos still replace an unreadable draft.
• Removing an environment keeps main's cancel of running picks for that environment and also drops that environment's unreadable drafts.
• The sign-out test now passes the known environments that archiveCloudComposerDrafts takes on main.
• 6c3c0c3: when a merge, merge undo or environment removal replaced an unreadable draft and the save then failed, a later cleanup of the same file could remove it while drafts.json still referenced it. A failed save now always leaves a retry pending, so that cleanup waits until the save succeeds. The existing failed-save test rows now cover this case.

vp run check:changed passes. With main's versions of the two source files, 12 of this PR's tests fail; with the change, all 88 in the file pass. The Android and iOS before/after captures in the body are retaken on this head.

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Closing this to bring my open PRs down under the new limit. The branch stays on my fork if it is useful.