[t3dotgg]

The "Star on GitHub" toast showed right after the 6th prompt. That is when people are most focused, so they close it without reading. A user said they would have engaged if it came during downtime. And when they did click, it only opened a browser tab, where they had to star the repo by hand.

Ask when idle. The toast now waits for 30 seconds with no pointerdown, keydown, wheel, or focus on the window. The window must have focus, and focus must not be inside an iframe or webview. It uses no app state. Every action a user takes (send, navigate, type, scroll) starts with one of those events. The listeners start only after the user qualifies (once per session, not starred), and stop when the toast shows. Waiting on an agent turn counts as idle, which is a good moment to ask.

Star in one click. This copies how Orca does it. "Star on GitHub" now stars the repo through the server's GitHub credential with PUT user/starred/pingdotgg/t3code (new sourceControl.star RPC, guarded by the source-control write scope). On success, the toast closes with "Thanks for the star!". On any failure (no credential, a token or app sign-in that cannot star, or no write permission), it opens GitHub right away. Browsers block a new tab once the click's user activation expires, which can happen when the star call is slow. In that case only (navigator.userActivation.isActive is false), the button changes to "Open GitHub" for a fresh click. Desktop always opens through its bridge. Links keep noopener,noreferrer. As with the existing star check, the server's account may not be the user's on a shared server.

Idle, then asks	Click expired, asks again

Proof:

• Focused tests: the toast test fails without the idle wait or without the frame guard, and covers star success, opening GitHub on failure, and the "Open GitHub" click once the activation expired. The driver test covers PUT returning true only on 204, and no request for a malformed repository.
• In the dev app with the Replay provider, a real key press 20s after the 6th send moved the toast to 30.0s after that key.
• With a real gh login, sourceControl.star returned true for this repo (already starred, so nothing changed) and false for a missing repo.
• With no GitHub login, clicking the toast opened https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code in a real new tab right away and saved the dismissal. With navigator.userActivation.isActive forced to false, no tab opened, the button changed to "Open GitHub", and its click opened the repo.

Known gaps, accepted to keep this small: input inside an unfocused iframe, pointermove drags, and native menu shortcuts do not count as activity.

Council review

Rounds: 2 (on the idle timer; the one-click star was added after)

Delegate	Round 1	Round 2
Claude Opus 5.5	9/10	10/10
Muse Wonder Full	9/10	9/10
Codex GPT-6.1 Sol	10/10	10/10

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The prompt now waits for idle time, and its button stars directly rather than opening GitHub. These changed defaults need human review, particularly because the star uses the server's GitHub account, which may differ from the clicking user's account.

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Keep a fallback available when opening GitHub fails.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/GitHubStarPrompt.tsx:
- Around line 33-36: In the GitHub prompt’s open handler, do not call close()
before attempting readLocalApi()?.shell.openExternal; keep the prompt available
with an explicit GitHub link or retry whenever opening fails or cannot be
confirmed. Preserve dismissal through the existing close action.

Walkthrough

The change adds GitHub repository starring through the source-control RPC. The prompt now waits for an idle, focused page before appearing and offers an in-place star action with GitHub fallback.

Changes: GitHub repository starring and prompt flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
GitHub star operation packages/source-control-core/src/server/driver.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/server/driver.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/server/driver.test.ts	The driver interface and GitHub driver add repository starring. The GitHub driver validates repository paths and uses GET and PUT requests for star checks and attempts. Tests cover request methods, paths, and results.
Source-control star RPC packages/contracts/src/rpc.ts, packages/contracts/src/clientRpcPermissions.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/sourceControl.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlSignIn.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/observability/RpcInstrumentation.ts	The RPC contract, client command, permission mapping, service, WebSocket handler, and instrumentation register the star operation.
Idle gating and star prompt actions apps/web/src/components/GitHubStarPrompt.tsx, apps/web/src/components/GitHubStarPrompt.test.ts	The prompt waits for 30 seconds without tracked activity while the page is focused and focus is outside an iframe or webview. The action attempts to star the repository, then uses GitHub fallback behavior if starring fails. Tests cover idle gating and action outcomes.

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubStarPrompt
  participant sourceControlStar
  participant SourceControlSignIn
  participant GitHubDriver
  GitHubStarPrompt->>sourceControlStar: Send star input
  sourceControlStar->>SourceControlSignIn: Forward request
  SourceControlSignIn->>GitHubDriver: Call starRepository
  GitHubDriver-->>GitHubStarPrompt: Return star result

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Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Low · up to 419ef

If GitHub cannot be opened, the prompt can disappear without offering another attempt. This is a bounded issue suitable for follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description explains the problem, implementation, verification, screenshots, known gaps, and agent details. It does not provide the required Scope and approval information, such as a triaged issue…	Add a Scope and approval section. Link the triaged issue or approval discussion with the maintainer approval comment. If no prior issue or discussion exists, explain why this focused change qualifies for the exemption.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main changes: idle GitHub star prompting and one-click starring.
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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Resolution

Add a Scope and approval section. Link the triaged issue or approval discussion with the maintainer approval comment. If no prior issue or discussion exists, explain why this focused change qualifies for the exemption.

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✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.6 KiB	21.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

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10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

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• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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[t3dotgg]

Note

🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Theo

Follow-up merged in #29987 (cefb544). A successful one-click star now turns this toast into an in-place "Thanks for the star!" with a one-time confetti burst (skipped under reduced motion). Verified in a dev client with the real star call: the toast updated in place, the burst ran, and its canvas removed itself.

[zhilsinger]

Verdict: Request changes. Your read is correct: the star is made by the server's GitHub account, not by the person who clicked.
Why it's wrong
The button calls a new RPC, sourceControl.star. The server handles it by sending PUT user/starred/pingdotgg/t3code using its own GitHub credential. GitHubCredentials.ts lists the credential sources as settings, app, env and gh, and all of them are server-side.
The server never learns who clicked. The prompt is triggered from useComposerSend.ts with the thread's environmentId, so on a remote or shared environment the star goes to whoever is logged into that machine.
The toast still says "Give us a star" and then "Thanks for the star!", and neither mentions that a different account was used.
A comment already in the file says this account "may not be theirs on a shared server." The old code only read from that account. This PR uses it to write.
The existing "already starred" check has a related problem. If the server's account already starred the repo, the prompt is dismissed permanently for the person using the app. That predates this PR, but the PR builds on it.
Other issues
Arbitrary repo: The RPC payload (SourceControlStarredInput) carries host and repository. The server only checks that the path is shaped like owner/name and doesn't pin it to pingdotgg/t3code. Any client with source-control:write can star any repo as the server's account.
Scope: source-control:write is a broad scope. It now also lets a client act on a third-party social action unrelated to source control.
Tests: They mock runAtomCommand, so nothing covers a remote environment or an account mismatch.
What I'd ask for
Drop the server-side star and go back to opening github.com in the user's own browser session. That's the only way the star is certainly theirs.
If one-click starring is kept, offer it only for the local, primary environment and show the account in the toast, e.g. "Star as @login".