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Settings and Usage open as modals over the thread that opened them. The chat view kept rendering that thread, but the sidebar read the thread from route params, which a modal route does not have. While the modal was open, no sidebar row was active, and the open thread showed its unsent-draft indicator.

The background-target logic from ChatRouteLayout moved into a useShownThreadRouteTarget() hook, and the chat layout and the sidebar now both use it. The sidebar's active row, route thread, draft row and terminal state follow the thread behind the modal. A sidebar that mounts while the modal is already open (for example after resizing across the mobile breakpoint) seeds its state from the thread target that mainAppLocation now records next to the existing modal return href. Navigation does not change. The modal backdrop covers the sidebar, so its rows are not clickable while it is open.

Verification

• apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadRouteTarget.browser.test.tsx: the shown thread stays the one behind Settings and Usage until the user leaves for another page, and a hook mounted while Settings is open still shows that thread. Both tests fail when the hook returns the raw route target, which is how the sidebar behaved before.
• vp run check:changed passes.
• Web dev server with synthetic data, driven by headless Playwright at 1920x1000. Open "Fix login redirect", type an unsent draft, press Cmd+, to open Settings.

Before (origin/main)	After

Before, the row behind the modal shows the yellow draft tint and draft icon. After, it keeps the active row card.

Fixes #28692

Claude Opus 5.5 via T3 Code

takeover verification

merged current main without rebasing, preserving citation hash handling and thread tracking. isolated the existing new-thread unit test from the modal tracker after reproducing its missing citation-export failure. vp run check:changed passed through blacksmith, including 164 nearby tests and five react compiler checks. two independent code reviews approved 18ea572258.

verified the real web client through the replay provider in chrome: settings and usage preserve the active row, hide its unsent-draft indicator, and return to the same draft. account usage retrieval still reports the pre-existing proxy error; native clients and remote connections were not exercised.

scope and approval: maintainer-requested takeover of this focused sidebar bug fix.

verified by gpt-6.1-sol through the codex harness.

addressed the promoted-draft review finding: when promotion removes the draft session, the sidebar now follows its retained redirect, as the chat view does. extended the existing route test, observed it fail first, then pass with the fallback. verified via an actual composer send through replay with incoming websocket frames delayed by one second: settings stayed open after finalization, the draft session was absent, its redirect was present, and the promoted row retained aria-current="page".

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Verdict: Approved at 4d41c88

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The sidebar now retains the displayed thread’s active state while Settings or Usage is open, using shared background-thread tracking. The change is limited to client-side UI context and introduces no obvious material risk.

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Walkthrough

The change records the thread target for the last non-modal location and adds a shared hook that returns that target while an app modal is open. ChatRouteLayout and Sidebar use the hook. Sidebar also passes promoted-draft redirects when resolving active thread routes.

Changes: Modal thread target

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track the modal return target apps/web/src/components/sidebar/mainAppLocation.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useHandleNewThread.test.ts	The location tracker resolves and stores the thread route target when it records a location. The new getter returns the stored target. The test mock provides the getter and modal-page detection.
Resolve and consume the shown target apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadRouteTarget.ts, apps/web/src/routes/_chat.tsx, apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx, apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadRouteTarget.browser.test.tsx	The shared hook returns the modal return target while a modal is open and the current route target otherwise. ChatRouteLayout and Sidebar use the hook. Browser tests cover modal navigation, thread navigation, and Settings already being open when the hook mounts.
Resolve promoted draft targets apps/web/src/threadRoutes.ts, apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx, apps/web/src/threadRoutes.test.ts	Active route resolution uses a supplied fallback thread reference when a draft target has no promoted reference in its draft state. Sidebar supplies the promoted-draft redirect, and a test covers the fallback case.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Router
  participant mainAppLocation
  participant useShownThreadRouteTarget
  participant ChatRouteLayout
  participant Sidebar
  Router->>mainAppLocation: Record location and resolve thread target
  ChatRouteLayout->>useShownThreadRouteTarget: Request shown target and modal state
  useShownThreadRouteTarget->>mainAppLocation: Get modal return thread target when a modal is open
  useShownThreadRouteTarget-->>ChatRouteLayout: Return shown target and modal state
  Sidebar->>useShownThreadRouteTarget: Request shown target
  useShownThreadRouteTarget-->>Sidebar: Return shown target

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to e75de

The change preserves the shown thread behind Settings and Usage. No concrete merge-blocking issue was identified.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the sidebar behavior change while Settings or Usage is open.
Description check		The description explains the problem, the implementation, scope and maintainer approval, and focused verification results. It also reports relevant limitations.
Linked Issues check		Open issue [#28692] requires the sidebar to keep the thread behind Settings or Usage active and hide its unsent-draft indicator. useShownThreadRouteTarget() supplies the shown target to both `ChatRo…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR summary ties the shared hook, modal return-target storage, promoted-draft resolution, and their tests to issue [#28692]. The hook removes duplicated target logic, and the tests verify the…

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Explanation

Open issue [#28692] requires the sidebar to keep the thread behind Settings or Usage active and hide its unsent-draft indicator. useShownThreadRouteTarget() supplies the shown target to both ChatRouteLayout and Sidebar. mainAppLocation.ts stores the modal return target for a sidebar that mounts while a modal is open. resolveActiveThreadRouteRef() also follows a promoted draft redirect. The browser and route tests cover modal navigation, mounting during a modal, and promoted drafts.

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Explanation

The whole-PR summary ties the shared hook, modal return-target storage, promoted-draft resolution, and their tests to issue [#28692]. The hook removes duplicated target logic, and the tests verify the required sidebar behavior. The available whole-PR evidence does not establish an unrelated change.

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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

main merge (2026-11-10)

merged current main at e75deaeb17 with a merge commit, no rebase. the only conflict was the Sidebar.logic mock in useHandleNewThread.test.ts: kept main's pass-through orderItemsByPreferredIds and this pr's mainAppLocation mock. no other code changed. vp run check:changed passed through blacksmith: format, lint, knip, two typechecks, 10 nearby test files, and five react compiler checks. ci is green on this head (22 passing, 9 skipped) and github reports it mergeable. the ui change itself is unchanged since the verification below, so it was not re-captured.

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earlier comment, written by gpt-6.1-sol:

takeover fixup

addressed the promoted-draft review finding at 18ea572258: the sidebar now falls back to the retained redirect after promotion removes the draft session. the extended existing assertion failed before the fix. check:changed then passed all scoped checks, 164 nearby tests and five compiler checks. two independent reviewers approved this head. replay-provider verification confirmed the absent session, retained redirect and active row while settings stayed open across delayed websocket delivery.

merged main with a merge commit and kept both citation-hash stripping and shown-thread tracking. reproduced the resulting new-thread unit-test import failure, then isolated the modal tracker with a four-line mock in the existing test file. pushed without force to the existing head at 7b783b655802cbea687e65fe6724256131f02e40.

vp run check:changed passed through blacksmith: format, lint, knip, affected typechecks, 153 nearby tests, and four react compiler checks. both independent code reviewers approved this head with no findings.

verified the merged web client in chrome through the replay provider: settings and usage preserve the active row and suppress its draft indicator, both close back to the same draft, resizing to 600px and back preserves the row, and switching threads shows the original draft indicator until returning. the existing account-usage proxy error remains; native clients and remote connections were not exercised.

earlier verification of the original head

Verified in a real dev environment

verified as-is at 4d41c8814bba3226a1c1e9a20a88dc1105fcadf8 on a disposable linux boat vm. no code changes or pushes were needed.

• reproduced the bug first on github/main (e6e2ab05cc) in a separate worktree after vp i. used one background dev server at a time.
• drove the real web client with the repo's playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome, at 1920x1000. added a project pointing at the real checkout through the app. completed real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns on main and the pr through the client and local proxy. no mocks, fixtures, or demo data.
• typed an unsent draft, then opened settings and usage using their sidebar buttons. main dropped the thread's active state and displayed its draft indicator. the pr kept the thread active and hid that indicator under both modals.
• closing either modal returned to the same thread with the draft intact. switching to another thread correctly displayed the original thread's draft indicator; returning restored its active state and draft. resizing to 600px and back while settings was open also preserved the active row when the sidebar remounted.
• both existing tests in apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadRouteTarget.browser.test.tsx passed through blacksmith-check. the reported ci status was 34 successful checks, none failing or pending.

runtime observations from the actual client:

main / settings: aria-current=null, unsent draft indicators=1
main / usage:    aria-current=null, unsent draft indicators=1
pr / settings:   aria-current=page, unsent draft indicators=0
pr / usage:      aria-current=page, unsent draft indicators=0
pr / different thread: original aria-current=null, draft indicators=1
pr / return:     aria-current=page, draft="unsent sidebar verification draft"
codex response on main: "sidebar verification ready."
codex response on pr:   "pr provider path verified."

matching conversation and draft in the captures below. the app's normal modal backdrop blurs the sidebar, so the observations above also record its actual rendered attributes and draft indicator. inspected the full-size images and played and sought through the uploaded 12.6-second recording. an animated gif of that recording is embedded below for github playback.

Not verified

• native ios/android clients, electron shell behavior, macos/windows, and relay/tunnel connections were not exercised on this linux vm. the changed web modal flow was exercised directly.
• codex account usage limits could not be read through this vm's local proxy: both main and the pr displayed Codex could not read usage (JSON-RPC -32600). opening and closing usage and its sidebar state were verified despite that pre-existing limitation.

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Minor · Read the promoted thread's route state from the draft redirect after the… · Sidebar.tsx:1022-1025

apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx:1022-1025
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Read the promoted thread's route state from the draft redirect after the draft session is removed.

While Settings or Usage is open, a draft can finalize into its server thread. After that, Sidebar.tsx reads routeDraftThread with getDraftSession, which returns null. The Sidebar then sets routeThreadRef to null. ThreadRouteView still shows the promoted thread through getPromotedDraftRedirect. The promoted row loses isRouteThread and isActive, and its aria-current="page" is removed. The active row no longer matches the thread behind the modal. The state is restored when the modal closes and the route moves to the server thread.

Suggested fix

   const routeDraftThread = useComposerDraftStore((store) =>
     routeTarget?.kind === "draft" ? store.getDraftSession(routeTarget.draftId) : null,
   );
+  const routeDraftRedirect = useComposerDraftStore((store) =>
+    routeTarget?.kind === "draft" ? store.getPromotedDraftRedirect(routeTarget.draftId) : null,
+  );

-  const routeThreadRef = resolveActiveThreadRouteRef(routeTarget, routeDraftThread);
+  const routeThreadRef =
+    routeDraftThread === null && routeDraftRedirect !== null
+      ? routeDraftRedirect
+      : resolveActiveThreadRouteRef(routeTarget, routeDraftThread);

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx around lines 1022 - 1025:
Update the Sidebar route-thread resolution to use getPromotedDraftRedirect when
routeTarget is a draft and getDraftSession returns null, so the promoted thread
remains the active route row while a modal is open. Preserve
resolveActiveThreadRouteRef for existing draft sessions and when no promoted
redirect exists.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx:
- Around line 1022-1025: Update the Sidebar route-thread resolution to use
getPromotedDraftRedirect when routeTarget is a draft and getDraftSession returns
null, so the promoted thread remains the active route row while a modal is open.
Preserve resolveActiveThreadRouteRef for existing draft sessions and when no
promoted redirect exists.

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