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Problem

Selecting text in a chat message and copying it turns the rendered reply back into Markdown. In two cases, blank lines inside a code block get removed:

• A code block in a list item or blockquote. In a tight list item (the common "1. Create the file:" followed by a fence, with no blank line between them), every blank line inside the code is dropped. import os\n\n\ndef main(): is copied as import os\ndef main():. In a loose list item or a blockquote, two blank lines in the code shrink to one.
• **A code block that itself contains a fence**, such as a Markdown example with a nested code block. Everything after the inner loses its extra blank lines and its trailing spaces.

The pasted code is no longer what the agent wrote. This affects Python's two-blank-line spacing, heredocs, YAML, and Markdown inside code.

Change

serializeListItem and serializeBlockquote collapsed newline runs over the whole serialized content, fenced code included. tidyMarkdown already left fenced segments alone for its own collapse. This PR moves that same split into outsideCodeFences and uses it for the list-item and blockquote passes too, so only the prose between fences is normalized.

The split only recognised plain fences. But `codeFenceFor` wraps code that contains in a longer fence (````), so protection ended at the inner ``` and the rest of the block was tidied as prose. outsideCodeFences now closes a fence only at a run of at least its opening length, the CommonMark rule that `THREAD_LINK_OUTSIDE_CODE` in `packages/shared/src/threadLinks.ts` already uses.

Scope and approval

This is a very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so there is no prior issue. Copying is supposed to give back the Markdown that was shown, and the serializer already keeps plain code blocks verbatim at the top level. Code inside a list or quote, and code that contains a fence, were the places it didn't. Both are the same fence-protection split in one file.

Overlap search: the local PR index plus REST searches for copy, clipboard, code block, list, and blank line. The closest match is #24433 (open), which changes code-block copy to drop fences and rewrites tidyMarkdown. It does not touch serializeListItem or serializeBlockquote, so code in lists and quotes would still lose blank lines with it merged. #14778 (merged) fixed list indentation and did not cover this. #17903 and #29233 only change table copy.

Verification

• I extended apps/web/src/markdown-clipboard.test.ts with "keeps blank lines inside a code block in a list item, quote, or longer fence", covering a tight list item, a blockquote, and a code block containing ```js … ```. On main the list case fails because the received output has lost both blank lines:
  AssertionError: expected '1. Create it:\n ```\n import os\n…' to be '1. Create it:\n ```\n import os\n…'
  Before the nested-fence fix, the nested case lost one blank line and the trailing spaces on b() .
• With the fix, vp test run src/markdown-clipboard.test.ts in apps/web passes 7 of 7.
• vp run check:changed passes: format, lint, knip, typecheck (2 packages), tests, react compiler.
• Not checked: a manual copy in a real browser. The change is in the pure DOM-to-Markdown serializer, and the test drives it with the same rendered code-block shape.

Reviewed with sol-loop: 2 rounds with GPT-6.1 Sol on high (one per commit). Sol verdict: approved.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 071a219

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Copied Markdown now preserves blank lines inside fenced code in lists and quotes, including longer backtick fences. The change is limited to clipboard text formatting and leaves stored content and HTML sanitization unchanged.

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Findings

Distinguish prose backticks from opening fences.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/markdown-clipboard.ts:
- Line 63: Update the fence-matching expression used by outsideCodeFences to
recognize opening and closing delimiters only at line boundaries, allowing list
or blockquote prefixes emitted by the serializer. Add a regression fixture with
prose containing a triple-backtick run followed by a fenced block with blank
lines, and ensure the block’s blank lines remain intact.

Walkthrough

Clipboard Markdown serialization now applies whitespace cleanup outside fenced code blocks. Tests cover blank lines in code blocks within ordered-list items and blockquotes, and a longer outer fence around a nested code block.

Changes: Clipboard Markdown formatting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fence-aware Markdown cleanup apps/web/src/markdown-clipboard.ts, apps/web/src/markdown-clipboard.test.ts	outsideCodeFences applies cleanup to prose between matching backtick fences. List-item, blockquote, and final Markdown cleanup preserve fenced contents. Tests cover blank lines and a longer outer fence.

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

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#24433: Changes the same clipboard serializer to protect code contents from prose whitespace cleanup.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: nikitamgrimm, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · up to 071a2

A narrow Markdown input can still lose blank lines from copied code; fix the fence recognition before merging.

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Title check		The title names the main change: copied code blocks keep their blank lines when they sit in lists, quotes, or longer fences. It matches the raw summary, which describes protecting fenced code from new…
Description check		The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, and it follows the conventional-commit title guidance. The Problem section gives…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the main change: copied code blocks keep their blank lines when they sit in lists, quotes, or longer fences. It matches the raw summary, which describes protecting fenced code from newline collapsing in list-item and blockquote serialization and supporting variable-length fences. The title is 86 characters, which is longer than ideal, but it stays specific and conventional.

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The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, and it follows the conventional-commit title guidance. The Problem section gives expected behavior and reproduction cases. The Change section explains the shared fence-protection split and why it applies to list, quote, and nested-fence cases. The Scope section explains why no prior issue exists and checks for overlapping PRs. The Verification section names the focused test, the failing output on main, the passing result, and what was not checked. The description also includes the model and harness attribution the template asks for.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

Verified unchanged head 071a219fa506b9e8d7e5014fb9dc657a2462c1ec against github/main at 61c3794c32 on a disposable Linux VM. Installed each checkout with vp i and ran one dev server at a time with isolated state. Used repository Playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome to add the real Git project, select Codex gpt-6.1-sol, and submit the same prompt through the web composer in each checkout. No mocks, fixtures, or replay provider. Both real provider replies contained identical code.

Selected the rendered assistant reply, pressed Ctrl+C, read the actual clipboard, and pasted into the composer:

• Main removed both blank lines inside the tight ordered-list code block, reduced two blank lines to one in the blockquote, and removed a blank line plus the two trailing spaces after b() inside the longer fence.
• This head preserved all three cases, including the two trailing spaces.
• Nearby behavior passed: top-level code with two blank lines, bold text, inline code, links, ordinary list items, code-only selection without fences, and the code block's Copy code button.

The screenshots show matching provider data above and the pasted list text below. Main loses the spacing between import os and def main(); the PR keeps it.

Existing clipboard tests passed 7/7 through blacksmith-check. vp run check:changed FETCH_HEAD~2 also passed through blacksmith-check, after fetching this head's history into the worker: format, lint, knip, affected typechecks, clipboard tests, and React compiler coverage. GitHub CI is green. No source changes were needed.

Not verified

Native desktop/Electron clipboard integration, macOS/Windows, iOS/Android, other browsers/providers, and remote/relay/tunnel connections were not exercised on this Linux web verification. The pre-existing prose-backtick edge case discussed in review is outside this verification.

The uploaded video plays and seeks in T3's browser player. GitHub renders the external MP4 image syntax as an unsupported image; inline video playback inside the GitHub comment is not verified. Both comment screenshots load correctly.