[t3dotgg]

Each server caches the latest provider version for one hour. After a new Claude Code release, only some machines showed the update. "Check for updates" did not help, because it only checked the T3 Code app.

Now a check for updates also tells every connected machine to drop that cache and look again. The update dialog does the same when it opens, so machines that were behind add their rows while you read it.

Changes

• The sidebar update button and Settings > About "Check for updates" also check provider versions on every connected machine you can manage. The button stays busy until all machines answer. A failed machine gets one toast line.
• When one update is already known, the sidebar button opens the update dialog and does not check. The dialog now starts the same check on open and shows "Checking for more…" until it ends. This check shows no toast on failure, because the user did not ask for it.
• No server or contract change. It uses the existing server.refreshProviders call with refreshModels: true, so older servers work too.

Before, and now after the check ends	Now, while machines answer

Credit

This continues #32121 by @Yuruzuu. The first four commits are theirs, moved to latest main with authorship kept. The last commit adds the dialog check and fixes one stale comment. Please keep @Yuruzuu as a co-author on the squash commit.

Verified

• vp run check:changed passes.
• Web dev server with isolated state: opening the dialog sent server.refreshProviders with refreshModels: true, showed "Checking for more…", and removed it when the server answered (about 0.8 s on one local machine).
• Not tested: a run with many remote machines, and the desktop build.

Not covered

• The native desktop menu item "Check for Updates..." still checks only the app.
• Mobile has no update-everything flow, so nothing changes there.

Created with Claude Fable 5.2 in Claude Code (T3 Code). Original commits were written with Claude Opus 5.5.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 73eed4c

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Update checks now refresh provider versions across connected machines the user can manage, with progress and failure feedback. The change reuses existing discovery operations and does not automatically install updates or change permissions.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a provider-update check hook that refreshes models for manageable environments. Settings and sidebar update flows invoke it, and the update dialog shows when a provider check is in progress.

Changes: Provider update checks

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provider refresh check apps/web/src/components/ProviderUpdatesAction.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ProviderUpdatesAction.browser.test.tsx	The new hook refreshes models for manageable environments in parallel. It ignores interrupted failures, reports other failures unless called quietly, and shares the promise while a check is in progress. Browser tests cover refresh arguments and failure notifications.
Settings and sidebar checks apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.tsx	The settings update action starts a provider check alongside the desktop check. Sidebar checking indicators and pending state account for provider and desktop checks.
Update dialog check state apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/UpdateEverythingDialog.tsx	Opening the dialog starts a quiet provider check. The dialog displays “Checking for more…” while that check is active.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SidebarUpdateControl
  participant useCheckProviderUpdates
  participant updateProvider
  participant UpdateEverythingDialog
  SidebarUpdateControl->>useCheckProviderUpdates: Start quiet provider check
  SidebarUpdateControl->>UpdateEverythingDialog: Set checking state
  useCheckProviderUpdates->>updateProvider: Refresh models for manageable environments
  updateProvider-->>useCheckProviderUpdates: Return refresh result
  useCheckProviderUpdates-->>SidebarUpdateControl: Resolve check promise
  SidebarUpdateControl->>UpdateEverythingDialog: Clear checking state

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Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#32121: Adds the provider-check hook and connects provider refreshes to settings and sidebar update checks.
• pingdotgg/t3code#32167: Changes the server-side refreshProviders operation used by the new checks.

Suggested labels: bugfix, size:M

Suggested reviewers: only21mil, juliusmarminge, macroscopeapp

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 73eed

Hosted-web users cannot check provider updates from Settings > About. Enable that action before merging; overlapping checks also have narrower reporting and machine-coverage gaps.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description explains the problem, changes, verification results, untested cases, and includes before/after screenshots. It does not meet the required Scope and approval section: it credits an earl…	Add a link to the triaged issue or discussion and include the maintainer’s explicit approval comment. If this change qualifies as a focused fix of an obvious bug, explain why it does not need prior approval.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: update checks now find provider updates on every machine.
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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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx:
- Around line 254-260: Update the About button’s handler to run
checkProviderUpdates even when bridge.checkForUpdate is unavailable, while
keeping desktop download and install actions gated on the bridge. Locate the
relevant handler in SettingsPanels and preserve its existing update-check
behavior when the desktop bridge is present.

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Files selected for processing: 5

• apps/web/src/components/ProviderUpdatesAction.browser.test.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/ProviderUpdatesAction.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdatePill.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/sidebar/UpdateEverythingDialog.tsx

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