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Problem

In the mobile Thread settings model picker, Find a model could not find legacy models. Legacy models were removed from each provider group before the search query ran, so typing the exact name of an installed, selectable legacy model (for example Opus 4.8) showed "No matching models" unless Show legacy models was switched on first. The web picker already searches legacy models.

Change

The per-provider filtering that buildThreadSettingsCatalogItems did inline moves into visibleCatalogModels in thread-settings-sheet-state.ts, unchanged, so it can be tested. The fix is one condition there: a non-empty trimmed query skips the legacy collapse, as Show legacy models, Manage hidden models and the Favorites filter already did. An empty or whitespace-only query still collapses legacy models. User-hidden models stay out of search. Provider and Favorites filters still apply.

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Fixes #27573

Triaged via the automated issue flow.

Verification

  • thread settings sheet state > finds legacy models by search without enabling Show legacy models (apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-settings-sheet-state.test.ts) fails on main with expected [] to deeply equal [ 'Claude Opus 4.8' ] and passes here. It also checks that an empty and a whitespace-only query keep the legacy model collapsed.

  • vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (2 packages), tests and the React compiler check pass.

  • Real app, Expo dev client against a fresh dev server (T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0), Claude provider's bundled catalog (Claude Opus 4.8 is legacy), Show legacy models and Manage hidden models off, Opus 4.8 neither selected nor favorited. Same scripted sequence on both builds: blank list → type Opus 4.8 → clear → spaces only → clear → Opus → zz-no-model-27573; plus select Opus 4.8, Save, reopen on the fix.

    Device Before (32ecd71) After (03ec49b)
    iPhone 17 Pro, iOS 27.2, light and dark Opus 4.8 → "No matching models" Opus 4.8 → Claude Opus 4.8 with its Legacy badge; clearing or a spaces-only query collapses it again; Opus lists current Opus 5.5 plus legacy Opus 5, 4.8, 4.7, 4.6 and 4.5; selecting Opus 4.8 and saving keeps it after reopening
    Pixel 9, Android 16, light Opus 4.8 → "No matching models" same as iOS
  • Not attached: the screenshots and recordings behind that table (the upload tool was unavailable on the machine that ran them). Not checked: Android dark theme.

Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code (T3 Code orchestration), reviewed by GPT-6.1 Sol via Codex.

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Taken over from @juliusmarminge (issue-lead PR) for an evidence round. No code changes; evidence and verification added below. This replaces the "Not attached" note above: the device captures are now uploaded.

Evidence

Before 32ecd71726 (merge-base) · After 03ec49bf7f (head). Real Expo dev client (React Native 0.88.0), each revision with its own fresh dev server (T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0), the same synthetic RPC seed, and real authenticated Claude 2.1.303 (13 models, 9 legacy; target Claude Opus 4.8 is legacy, unselected, unfavorited, unhidden). Show legacy models and Manage hidden models are off. The iPhone pairs ran on two simulators side by side, so the status-bar clocks match.

  • iPhone 17 Pro: iOS 27.2, 402×874 pt, DPR 3, 1206×2622 px, font scale 1.0.
  • Pixel 9: Android 16 / API 36, 411.43×923.43 dp, DPR 2.625, 1080×2424 px, font scale 1.0.
  • Diff0: absolute RGB difference amplified ×32. DiffT: maximum-channel difference >8/255. Full screen, no crop or mask.

F02: exact search Opus 4.8. Before: "No matching models". After: one Claude Opus 4.8 row with the Legacy badge. Clearing the query collapses it again.

F02 Before · 32ecd71 After · 03ec49b Diff0 DiffT
iPhone 17 Pro · light Before, iPhone light, Opus 4.8: no matching models After, iPhone light, Opus 4.8: Claude Opus 4.8 with Legacy badge Diff0 iPhone light F02 DiffT iPhone light F02
iPhone 17 Pro · dark Before, iPhone dark, Opus 4.8: no matching models After, iPhone dark, Opus 4.8: Claude Opus 4.8 with Legacy badge Diff0 iPhone dark F02 DiffT iPhone dark F02
Pixel 9 · light Before, Pixel light, Opus 4.8: no matching models After, Pixel light, Opus 4.8: Claude Opus 4.8 with Legacy badge Diff0 Pixel light F02 DiffT Pixel light F02

F03: broad search Claude. Before: 4 current rows. After: all 13 rows, with the selected and favorited Opus 5.5 still first and the nine legacy rows inserted. The options frame is scrolled to the bottom so Runtime and Full access are not under the toolbar.

F03 Before · 32ecd71 After · 03ec49b Diff0 DiffT
iPhone 17 Pro · light · rows Before, iPhone light, Claude: four current rows After, iPhone light, Claude: current and legacy rows Diff0 iPhone light F03 rows DiffT iPhone light F03 rows
iPhone 17 Pro · light · options Before, iPhone light, options After, iPhone light, options Diff0 iPhone light F03 options DiffT iPhone light F03 options
iPhone 17 Pro · dark · rows Before, iPhone dark, Claude: four current rows After, iPhone dark, Claude: current and legacy rows Diff0 iPhone dark F03 rows DiffT iPhone dark F03 rows
iPhone 17 Pro · dark · options Before, iPhone dark, options After, iPhone dark, options Diff0 iPhone dark F03 options DiffT iPhone dark F03 options
Pixel 9 · light Before, Pixel light, Claude After, Pixel light, Claude Diff0 Pixel light F03 DiffT Pixel light F03

Recordings. Every recording follows the same script: blank, Opus 4.8, clear, Claude Opus 4.8, clear, cLaUdE oPuS 4.8 , clear, claude-opus-4-8, clear, then Claude and scroll to the bottom. The per-step timestamps are in the full evidence.

Row Before · 32ecd71 After · 03ec49b
F01–F03 · iPhone light (blank and three-space query stay collapsed) before-iphone-light.mp4 after-iphone-light.mp4
F02/F03 · iPhone light, side by side iphone-light-before.mp4 iphone-light-after.mp4
F02/F03 · iPhone dark, side by side iphone-dark-before.mp4 iphone-dark-after.mp4
F02/F03 · Pixel light before-pixel-light.mp4 after-pixel-light-retake.mp4
F04 · provider filter keeps the hit only under Claude (iPhone light) regression row, not recorded F04-after-iphone-light.mp4
F05–F07 · Favorites excludes a non-favorite legacy model; hidden model stays out of search until unhidden; legacy toggle (iPhone light) regression row, not recorded F05-F07-after-iphone-light.mp4
F07 · iPhone light: query kept, Filter control absent during search F07-iphone-light-before.mp4 F07-iphone-light-after.mp4
F07 · Pixel light: Show legacy models on → off with the query kept; Catalog legacy switch regression row, not recorded part 1 · part 2
F08 · scheduled-task editor: stage Opus 4.8, clear, Cancel keeps original, Save and reopen keeps Opus 4.8 (iPhone light) regression row, not recorded F08-after-iphone-light.mp4

What else changed: nothing beyond the result list. Inserted legacy rows change the group height, separators and rounded border, and they push Options and Catalog down; the content scrolled behind the translucent iOS header changes with them. The F07 iPhone pairs differ by 198 anti-aliasing pixels at the edge of the unchanged Legacy badge (at most 6/255), and their DiffT is empty. Status bars are identical in every iPhone pair. Videos keep live clocks and natural keyboard timing.

Not covered: on iPhone, the Filter control is not shown while a search is active, and Close clears the query, so the "toggle legacy with the query kept" step exists only on Android (Pixel recording above). Native OS clocks are live, while app Date.now is fixed. The supplementary fixtures S01–S09 (empty, loading and error states, update notices, long labels) are outside this change and were not captured.

Seed and drivers (synthetic data only): seed.mts · capture.py · capture-v2.py · drive.py · diff.py · rebuild guide · side-by-side rebuild guide · fixture matrix · full evidence with every step timestamp and contact sheet

Verification log
  • Mode: evidence-only. No code, test or review changes, and head 03ec49b is unchanged.
  • Proof audit pass 1: 8 required rows (F01–F08) and 9 supplementary rows (S01–S09).
  • Captures: 8/8 required rows, done in two rounds. The first round's iPhone F02/F03 diffs showed the live status-bar clock, so the iPhone pairs were redone on two simulators side by side.
  • Proof audit pass 2: all rows sufficient except F02/F03 on iPhone (clock) and F07 on iPhone (no toggle recording). After the redo, F02 is sufficient on iPhone in both themes. Two items were accepted as above: on the F03 rows frame the translucent toolbar overlaps the bottom options in both builds, and the separate options frame shows them clearly; F07's ≤6/255 badge-edge residual. The auditor rebuilt F02 on Pixel at head from the uploaded seed and driver: 158 pixels differ, at most 6/255, and none exceed 8/255 (anti-aliasing at the badge edge). The auditor checked against the code that the iPhone search toolbar has no Filter path while a search is active.
  • Tests: unchanged. finds legacy models by search without enabling Show legacy models is the regression test (see Verification above).
  • CI: 41/41 checks green on 03ec49b. No merge conflicts.
  • Unverified surfaces: none. Both the iOS simulator and the Android emulator ran.
  • Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code (T3 Code orchestration) as lead; proof audits and captures by GPT-6.1 Sol via Codex.

juliusmarminge and others added 3 commits October 30, 2026 12:17
Extract the per-provider catalog filtering in ThreadSettingsSheet into
visibleCatalogModels (behaviour unchanged) and add a test showing that
searching for a legacy model's exact name returns nothing unless
"Show legacy models" is on. This test reproduces #27573 and fails on main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A non-empty search in the mobile thread settings model picker now
includes legacy models without Show legacy models, matching the web
picker. With an empty query legacy models stay collapsed as before.

Fixes #27573

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Approved at 03ec49b

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Mobile model search now includes matching legacy models without requiring the legacy toggle. Default browsing and model-selection safeguards remain unchanged, keeping the change limited to search-result visibility.

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The thread settings model catalog now uses a shared helper to filter and order models. When legacy display is off, a nonempty search query can surface matching legacy models. Tests cover empty, whitespace-only, and matching searches.

Changes: Legacy model search

Layer / File(s) Summary
Catalog visibility and integration
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-settings-sheet-state.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadSettingsSheet.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-settings-sheet-state.test.ts
visibleCatalogModels applies legacy visibility, favorites-only filtering, query matching, and favorite ordering. ThreadSettingsSheet uses the helper. Tests verify that matching searches include legacy models when legacy display is off.

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Issue [#27573] requires name search to surface selectable legacy models without enabling Show legacy models. visibleCatalogModels skips the legacy collapse when query.trim().length &gt; 0, then applies the catalog query and Favorites filter. Empty and whitespace-only queries still collapse legacy models. The caller preserves hidden-model handling, provider grouping, displayed-model handling, and favorite ordering. The regression test covers matching, empty, and whitespace-only queries.

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Nitpick Cover the sheet-to-helper wiring.

165-183: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover the sheet-to-helper wiring.

The added test calls visibleCatalogModels directly. It does not detect a regression where buildThreadSettingsCatalogItems stops forwarding session.searchQuery or filters legacy models before the helper receives them. Add a focused test for buildThreadSettingsCatalogItems with a matching query, showLegacy: false, and current plus legacy models. Assert that the returned catalog items include the legacy model.

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Add a focused test for buildThreadSettingsCatalogItems using a matching search
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@coderabbitai On the "Cover the sheet-to-helper wiring" follow-up: not adding it. buildThreadSettingsCatalogItems is a private function in a React Native component file, and the call site is a direct field-for-field forward (query: session.searchQuery). A test for it would only assert that wiring, which this repo's AGENTS.md asks us not to add. The behaviour that changed (legacy collapse vs. query) is covered by the visibleCatalogModels test, which fails on main.

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@juliusmarminge Agreed. I withdraw the “Cover the sheet-to-helper wiring” follow-up.

I checked AGENTS.md: Line 105 excludes callback-wiring tests, and Line 107 requires testing at the lowest layer that fails on main, without duplicate wrapper tests. The call passes session.searchQuery directly to visibleCatalogModels. The existing test covers the changed legacy-search behavior.

This also matches the supplied repository Learnings. No additional wiring test is needed.


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

someone else pushed to fix/issue-27573 (head is now 86ec23f); the pipeline does not build on commits it did not review

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Evidence

Verified in the real iOS app on iPhone 18 Pro, portrait, light theme, using identical synthetic catalog/preferences and replay thread history on fresh databases. With another model selected, All providers selected, and legacy/hidden management off, open Thread settings and search Opus 4.8.

Before After
b3fdf2b10f 0a6311d36e
Before: No matching models After: Claude Opus 4.8 with Legacy badge
Before recording After recording, including clearing

Clearing the query on head collapses the legacy model again:

After clearing: legacy model collapsed

Scenario/driver · Catalog fixture and harness patch · Sanitized run logs

The paired runner did not finish successfully; these verdicts come from inspected captures across successful app interactions. Spaces-only entry remains unverified because native automation rejected its text read-back. AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

  • Spaces-only query: native fill failed its text read-back check; clearing via the visible Clear text button was visually verified.
  • Android was not exercised; evidence covers iOS.
  • Live provider authentication and model execution were not exercised; the reproduction used a synthetic selectable catalog.

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[Bug]: Model picker "Find a model" search cannot surface legacy models (filtered out before the query runs)

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