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Problem

A thread's composer draft model pick that carries an option the model does not advertise is never released, so every composer send writes the draft's options back to the thread and reverts a change made by t3_thread_configure or another client. The picker keeps showing the draft value, so the user does not see the reversal.

Reproduced on main @ 6577c6b in the web dev app (fresh database, Claude provider), following the issue's steps:

1. Server defaultModelSelection = claude-opus-5-5 with [effort: high, contextWindow: 1m]. Opus 5.5 advertises only effort and fastMode.
2. New thread, send a message. The thread stores [effort: high, fastMode: false]; the draft keeps [effort: high, contextWindow: 1m].
3. The agent calls t3_thread_configure with effort: medium. The thread reads medium; the picker still reads "Claude Opus 5.5, High".
4. Send the next message without touching the picker. The thread goes back to effort: high.

With a default of only [effort: high], the draft is released after the first send and the follow-up send keeps medium.

Change

draftModelPickMatchesThread (packages/shared/src/model.ts), which both the web and mobile draft reconciliations use, now takes the environment's providers. When the catalog lists the pick's model, it compares the draft and the thread after both go through the same descriptor normalization the composer applies when it sends (buildExplicitProviderOptionSelectionsFromDescriptors(getProviderOptionDescriptors(...))). Unadvertised option ids, values the model no longer offers, and the legacy effort: ultracode therefore no longer keep a pick from matching. When the catalog does not know the model, the comparison stays exact, so nothing is released on missing data. The existing fastMode: false rule is unchanged.

The web reconciliation reads providersIgnoringCheckedAtAtom and mobile reads serverEnvironment.providersValueAtom, per draft environment. Drafts already saved with such options are released once the catalog loads; no new persisted state, settings or contract fields.

Scope and approval

Fixes #32019

Verification

• vp test run packages/shared/src/model.test.ts apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.test.ts apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.test.ts: 3 files, 166 tests pass.
  • composerDraftStore modelSelection > releases a seeded pick once the thread runs it without options the model does not advertise (web) and releases a pick once the thread runs it without options the model does not advertise (mobile) fail on main (the draft pick stays [effort: high, contextWindow: 1m]) and pass here.
  • descriptor helpers > ignores options the pick's model does not advertise only once the catalog knows it (shared) covers an unknown catalog (pick kept), an advertised differing option (fastMode: true, pick kept), a value the model does not offer, and a legacy effort: ultracode draft.
• vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (34 packages), tests (4 files, 168 tests) and react compiler all pass.
• Runtime check of the same steps in the web dev app, fresh database each side:

Step	Before (6577c6b)	After (b63f3f3)
Draft pick after send 1	still [effort: high, contextWindow: 1m]	released
Thread after t3_thread_configure effort medium	[effort: medium, fastMode: false]	[effort: medium, fastMode: false]
Composer picker	Claude Opus 5.5, High	Claude Opus 5.5, Medium
Thread after send 2 (picker untouched)	[effort: high, fastMode: false] (reverted)	[effort: medium, fastMode: false] (kept)

• No render code changed, so there are no before/after screenshots. Mobile was checked by the unit test of its reconciliation, not on a device. Not checked: desktop (same web code) and remote/relay connections.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 77a02ec

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Web and mobile now reconcile draft model selections using the provider’s advertised options, preventing stale options from preserving unwanted overrides. Existing pending-update and authoritative-state safeguards remain intact.

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Walkthrough

Draft model matching now uses provider model capabilities to normalize selection options. Mobile and web reconciliation supply provider data when matching drafts against live-thread selections and authoritative shell snapshots.

Changes: Composer draft model reconciliation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Normalize model selections before matching packages/shared/src/model.ts, packages/shared/src/model.test.ts	draftModelPickMatchesThread uses matching provider model descriptors to filter options before comparison. Without matching provider capabilities, it compares the original options. Tests cover advertised and unadvertised options, stale values, and legacy selections.
Supply providers to draft reconciliation apps/mobile/src/App.tsx, apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/use-composer-drafts.test.ts, apps/web/src/appInit.tsx, apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts, apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.test.ts	Mobile and web pass provider data to both model-match checks. Test harnesses supply a null provider atom.

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

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#26046: Moves the same reconciliation subscription to app startup.
• pingdotgg/t3code#31739: Changes the same reconciliation logic to preserve model picks while writes are pending.
• pingdotgg/t3code#24619: Changes how started threads reconcile seeded composer model selections against live thread state.

Suggested reviewers: none23, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 77a02

Draft reconciliation uses model capabilities, and no merge-blocking issue is established. A catalog-arrival test would improve confidence.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description explains the problem, change, and verification in detail. The scope section links the issue but does not show that it was triaged or include explicit maintainer approval. The AI-assist…	Update the scope section to identify the issue as triaged or include the maintainer’s approval comment for the direction and scope. If an agent was used, add the model and harness at the end of the description.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main fix: preventing an unadvertised draft option from reverting agent model changes.
Linked Issues check		[#32019] The shared comparison normalizes draft and thread options against the selected model's advertised descriptors when provider data is available. Web and mobile supply their environment's provid…
Out of Scope Changes check		The provider wiring, pending-selection guard, accepted-selection release, and tests all support the draft reconciliation requested by [#32019]. No unrelated changes are identified in the available who…

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Explanation

[#32019] The shared comparison normalizes draft and thread options against the selected model's advertised descriptors when provider data is available. Web and mobile supply their environment's provider catalog. Existing regression coverage and the reported web runtime check show that a saved draft with unadvertised contextWindow no longer restores stale effort: high after the thread changes to medium. The current update also delays reconciliation while a thread selection is pending and releases the draft after the server accepts the exact selection.

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Explanation

The provider wiring, pending-selection guard, accepted-selection release, and tests all support the draft reconciliation requested by [#32019]. No unrelated changes are identified in the available whole-PR summary or inspected incremental diff.

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The description explains the problem, change, and verification in detail. The scope section links the issue but does not show that it was triaged or include explicit maintainer approval. The AI-assisted note also omits the model and harness required by the template when an agent was used.

Resolution

Update the scope section to identify the issue as triaged or include the maintainer’s approval comment for the direction and scope. If an agent was used, add the model and harness at the end of the description.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ 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	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	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	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 9cd7a04 · PR result: 77a02ec · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

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.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Nitpick comments: 1

apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.test.ts: 1

1348-1348: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Test reconciliation after providers arrive.

The harness always supplies null, so its reconciliation tests cannot detect a regression that ignores provider descriptors. Add one case that starts without providers, supplies a catalog with the selected model, and checks that a saved draft with an unadvertised option releases its model override. Keep the shared matcher’s option-filtering assertions in its existing test.

As per coding guidelines, “In review, ask for a missing test only when it would catch a real regression.” As per path instructions, test at the lowest layer that fails and do not repeat the case in web and mobile copies.

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.test.ts at line 1348:
Add a reconciliation test around noProvidersAtom that starts with no provider descriptors, then supplies a catalog containing the selected model and verifies a saved draft’s model override is released when its option is unadvertised. Keep option-filtering assertions in the existing shared-matcher test.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.test.ts:
- Line 1348: Add a reconciliation test around noProvidersAtom that starts with
no provider descriptors, then supplies a catalog containing the selected model
and verifies a saved draft’s model override is released when its option is
unadvertised. Keep option-filtering assertions in the existing shared-matcher
test.

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Evidence

Evidence recorded in the real web app on Linux Chrome, 1280×800 CSS pixels, light theme, with separate fresh databases and identical synthetic defaults and prompts.

1. Save default High effort with unadvertised contextWindow: 1m.
2. Create a thread and send the Ready prompt.
3. Ask the agent to use t3_thread_configure to change effort to Medium and read back the saved configuration.
4. Observe the picker, then send the same follow-up without touching it.

Before	After
9cd7a04797	77a02ecbce
Continuous recording	Continuous recording
Saved Medium, picker stayed High; follow-up saved High.	Picker followed Medium; follow-up kept Medium.

Recordings preserve timing. Both sides are cropped identically; private identifiers are redacted. Stills passed identical screenshot comparisons more than 500 ms apart.

Shared seed and interaction script · Observed states

Not shown:

• Both origin fetch attempts returned HTTP 503, so origin/main could not be refreshed. The reported base is the requested merge-base computed against the existing origin/main tracking ref.
• Desktop Electron and mobile were not exercised; this evidence covers the real web client.
• Other normalization cases, including stale advertised values and legacy effort conversion, were not exercised because this run followed the specified unadvertised-option reproduction.