[juliusmarminge]

Problem

On a long, idle Claude thread with on-return idle compaction, picking Codex in the model picker kept the "Compact 250k" chip on the composer. Sending an ordinary message then dispatched an automatic /compact on Codex (idleCompaction: "onReturn") and queued the message behind it. Reproduced on main (e923627) with the browser test below: after picking GPT-5.4 on a cold 250k-token Claude thread, "Compact and send" stays in the composer and the dispatches are /compact then keep going, both on Codex.

Change

ChatView derived the resume-compaction offer from the current conversation's context window while the composer's pick handed the thread off to another provider. The offer now also requires pendingHandoff === null, meaning the send resumes the current conversation. pendingHandoff is the value ChatView already computes for the "Context handoff pending" footer, and it uses the same instance, driver and continuation-group rule as the server. A Claude instance that resumes the same native conversation keeps the offer. A handoff destination never inherits it.

The browser test runs the real AppRoot against the in-process fake environment. To support that, apps/web/test/fakeEnvironment.ts now accepts a provider list, records and acknowledges dispatchCommand, advertises serverResolvedCommandContext as the real server does, and lets a fixture thread carry its own modelSelection and providerThreads.

Scope and approval

Fixes #25943

Triaged via the automated issue flow.

Out of scope: offering compaction when the destination is a different saved conversation that is itself cold (#23086). Main does not offer it there either.

Verification

• apps/web/src/components/ChatView.browser.test.tsx:
  • "sends a GPT-5.4 follow-up on a cold Claude Opus 4.6 thread without compacting first" fails with main's ChatView.tsx (expected document not to contain element, found <button aria-label="Compact and send">) and passes with the fix.
  • "sends a Claude Opus 4.6 follow-up on a cold GPT-5.4 thread without compacting first" passes on both. It guards against an offer leaking onto a handoff destination.
• Whole web browser project: 103 files, 427 tests passed, including the new file. The first case takes about 3.4 s because the test file preloads the code-split ChatView module.
• vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck and tests all pass.

Evidence: harness captures. A real-app capture needs a real 250k-token Claude conversation past its prompt-cache TTL, which cannot be seeded. Each capture is the committed browser test (AppRoot with the fake environment, Chromium, 1400×900, DPR 1, light) with a page.screenshot added before and after the pick. Before = e923627's ChatView.tsx; after = 6ed7750. The setup is otherwise identical.

Row	Before (e923627)	After (6ed7750)	Diff0	Diff (10% fuzz)
Cold Claude thread, GPT-5.4 picked, 1400×900 light
Cold Claude thread, before any pick, 1400×900 light			0 px differ	0 px differ

What else changed in the after-pick row: the Compact chip is gone (intended). The other differing pixels come from animation timing, not the PR: the send button's stage art, a one-pixel edge of the fading model picker, and one mark on the thread rail. With 10% fuzz, 524 px differ, mostly the chip.

Capture driver: the committed test with await page.screenshot({ path: "capture-25943/<side>-claudeAgent-<1-before-pick|2-after-pick>.png" }) inserted before the model-picker click and after the GPT-5.4 button appears.

Not checked: the real app against live providers (needs a cold, long Claude conversation); mobile, which has no on-return compaction offer.

Claude Opus 5.5 (lead, red test, implementation), GPT-6.1 Sol (reviews) in T3 Code via Claude Code.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 28d6b4f

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The change prevents a provider handoff from triggering compaction based on the previous conversation's context usage. Its scope is limited to that pre-send eligibility check, while same-conversation and manual compaction remain unchanged.

No code changes detected at 2b4a2b7. Prior analysis still applies.

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Walkthrough

Resume compaction is unavailable while a provider handoff is pending. Provider-aware test fixtures support a browser test that selects GPT-5.4 from a Claude thread and verifies the follow-up dispatches through Codex.

Changes: Provider handoff compaction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provider-aware fake environment apps/web/test/fakeEnvironment.ts	The fake environment supports configurable provider fixtures, model selections, and provider-thread data in thread shells and projections.
Handoff compaction behavior and browser coverage apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.handoffCompaction.browser.test.tsx	Resume-compaction eligibility now requires no pending handoff. The browser test checks that selecting GPT-5.4 removes the compaction control and sends the follow-up through Codex.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#26142: Scopes resume-compaction eligibility to the selected provider conversation and rechecks eligibility at send time.

Suggested reviewers: yash-singh1

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 2b4a2

The change stops a cold Claude thread from offering compaction when the user switches to another provider, and it comes with browser test coverage. No merge-blocking risk was identified.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		PR #25943 requires two behaviors: a Claude-to-Codex handoff must not inherit automatic /compact, and returning to an eligible saved cold Claude conversation must evaluate that destination and offer …	Implement and test the #25943 requirement for returning to a saved, long, cold Claude conversation. Verify that the destination context is evaluated and that the compaction offer appears when the destination is eligible, without requiring t…

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title is concise, specific, and accurately describes the main fix: preventing compaction when switching a cold Claude thread to Codex.
Description check		The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the reproduction, implementation, linked issue, test results, screenshots, limitations, an…
Out of Scope Changes check		The production change directly prevents a stale resume-compaction offer during a provider handoff. The browser test reproduces the handoff and verifies one direct Codex dispatch. The fake-environment …

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Explanation

The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the reproduction, implementation, linked issue, test results, screenshots, limitations, and tool usage.

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Explanation

The production change directly prevents a stale resume-compaction offer during a provider handoff. The browser test reproduces the handoff and verifies one direct Codex dispatch. The fake-environment changes provide provider fixtures, provider-thread state, and command recording required by that test. These changes support #25943 and do not show unrelated production behavior.

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Explanation

PR #25943 requires two behaviors: a Claude-to-Codex handoff must not inherit automatic /compact, and returning to an eligible saved cold Claude conversation must evaluate that destination and offer compaction. The added pendingHandoff === null guard and browser test support the first behavior. The PR description explicitly excludes the different saved-conversation case, and the reviewed changes contain no implementation or test for that requirement. The same-native-conversation case does not establish the saved-destination behavior.

Resolution

Implement and test the #25943 requirement for returning to a saved, long, cold Claude conversation. Verify that the destination context is evaluated and that the compaction offer appears when the destination is eligible, without requiring the separate #23086 scope.

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[juliusmarminge]

The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

someone else pushed to fix/issue-25943 (head is now 9f65f8d); the pipeline does not build on commits it did not review

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Evidence

Web client, Chromium, 1280×800, light theme, separate isolated servers and matching synthetic cold Claude fixtures. History was created through the app CLI; stopped-server projection edits supplied 250k context tokens and an expired cache timestamp. This proves the client behavior with synthetic state, not creation of that state by a real Claude session.

On both commits: open the cold conversation with on-return compaction enabled, confirm Compact 250k, select Codex, type keep going, and send. Base dispatched /compact first and queued the message; head dispatched only keep going. Both completed their replies. Model names and the picker list are masked for privacy.

Before	After
0d36f2b48e	2b4a2b7e02
Before recording	After recording

Cold-conversation seed script · Captured send requests, sanitized

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

• A naturally accumulated 250k-token native Claude session and real cache expiry were not exercised; matching synthetic projection fixtures supplied the starting state.
• Resuming and compacting the same native Claude conversation was not executed; the eligible compaction offer was observed before switching on both commits.
• Deliberate manual compaction was not separately exercised.
• Desktop shell and mobile clients were not exercised.