fix(server,web,mobile): messages from a linked environment name the thread that sent them by EtanHey · Pull Request #34721 · pingdotgg/t3code

EtanHey · 2026-11-12T03:49:54Z

Same branch as #34719, which the open PR limit closed; I have since closed older PRs to get under it.

Problem

An agent's t3_thread_send forwarded to a linked environment arrives as the link's client session, so the receiving server records no sender. The folded row says "Agent" and has no "Open thread".

Change

Forwarded calls carry the calling thread in a T3-Sender-Thread header (environment, thread, title), next to T3-Mode-Limit. The receiving server reads it only from linked clients.
sendToThread stores it as the message's linkedSender. senderThreadId still names only a local thread, so wake timing and subagent matching are unchanged.
Web and mobile look the sender up in its own environment and fall back to the carried title. "Open thread" shows only when this client has that environment, as the delegated-from link does.

Scope and approval

One problem: the attribution folded rows already have (#23135) is lost across a link. Fixing it needs the contract, server, web and mobile changes together.

Verification

Each new or extended test fails on main and passes here:

PeerMcpClient.test.ts: the header round-trips through a real peer /mcp, and long titles are cut to whole characters
PeerForwarding.test.ts (existing case, extended): a real forwarded t3_thread_send records the sender on the linked environment
OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts: a linked caller's send records linkedSender
runtimeLayer.test.ts: started and queued messages keep it
MessagesTimeline / QueuedRunsControl browser tests (existing cases, extended): the label, the fallback title, and "Open thread" in the right environment

Typecheck passes for contracts, server, web and mobile. Affected test files pass: server 502, web 111, contracts 12. The full mobile suite passes (3,387).

Before	After

The timeline row, rendered in the browser test runner with a linked sender.

Not checked: a live two-machine run, the steer-redispatch path in EffectWorker (no test reaches it), and a negative test for the non-linked header guard.

Review: GPT-6.1 Sol, 3 rounds on the first commit (the third a narrow check of one fix), then a check of the follow-up commits at c19021b, approved. It found 3 defects, all fixed: the steer redispatch dropped the sender, a single-environment client still saw "Agent", and an unbounded title header could hit HTTP 431. The last two have tests. Macroscope found one more, also fixed and covered by the queued-message case: "Open thread" was gated on the loaded thread list instead of the environment.

Cursor pass: head=39a3e27001 findings=1 (the forwarded-send case did not assert the sender; added).

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…hread that sent them A t3_thread_send forwarded to a linked environment arrived as the link's client session, so the receiving server recorded no sender and clients labeled the folded row "Agent" with no way back to the sender. Forwarded calls now carry the calling thread in a T3-Sender-Thread header, read only from linked clients. sendToThread keeps it as the message's linkedSender (environment, thread, and its title then). Web and mobile look the sender up in that environment, fall back to the carried title when the client cannot reach it, and offer Open thread only when it can. A steer that misses the turn keeps the sender when it is sent again. senderThreadId still names only a thread in this environment. Fixes pingdotgg#34708 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

macroscopeapp · 2026-11-12T03:50:38Z

  await expect.element(page.getByText("Continue where you left off.")).toBeVisible();
 });

+it("names a queued message's sender in a linked environment and opens its thread there", async () => {


The existing queued-message test already covers sender attribution and opening the thread. Could you add the linked sender to that case instead of rendering a separate browser test?

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Done in 39a3e27. The linked sender is now a fourth row in that case and the separate test is gone. Four rows collapse the queue, so the case expands it first.

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macroscopeapp · 2026-11-12T03:50:38Z

    expect(screen.text()).not.toContain("drops the index");
  });

+  it("names a sender in a linked environment it cannot reach by the title it sent", async () => {


This duplicates the existing agent-message rendering case. Could you fold the linked-sender fallback assertions into that case instead of adding another browser test?

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Done in 39a3e27. The linked-sender fallback is now a second message in that case and the separate test is gone.

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macroscopeapp · 2026-11-12T03:51:51Z

+    senderShell?.title.trim() || row.message.linkedSender?.title.trim() || "Agent";
+  // Only a linked environment this client reaches can open the sender's thread.
+  const canOpenSender =
+    senderRef !== null && (row.message.linkedSender === undefined || senderShell !== null);


🟡 Medium chat/TimelineUserMessageRow.tsx:473

Open thread is hidden for linked senders whose thread is omitted from the loaded shell, even when their environment is connected and the thread remains accessible. useQuietThreadShell only checks the loaded thread index, so senderShell !== null is not a reachability check; gate this action on sender-environment availability instead.

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In file @apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineUserMessageRow.tsx around line 473: `Open thread` is hidden for linked senders whose thread is omitted from the loaded shell, even when their environment is connected and the thread remains accessible. `useQuietThreadShell` only checks the loaded thread index, so `senderShell !== null` is not a reachability check; gate this action on sender-environment availability instead.

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Fixed in b0d88a1. Web and mobile now show "Open thread" when the sender's environment is known to this client (useEnvironment / useEnvironmentPresentation), the same check the delegated-from link uses. The queued-message case now has the linked thread missing from the shell with its environment connected, and it fails with the old gate.

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macroscopeapp · 2026-11-12T03:52:36Z

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Verdict: Would Approve

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Linked-environment messages now retain their sending thread’s name and environment for web/mobile attribution and navigation, without expanding permissions. A separate Medium correctness finding flags an overly restrictive Open thread visibility check and remains subject to the configured blocking gate.

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Test Signal asked for the two new browser tests to extend the existing agent-message and queued-message cases instead. The queued case now has four rows, so it expands the collapsed queue first. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>

coderabbitai · 2026-11-12T03:57:36Z

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Walkthrough

The change adds linked-sender metadata to peer MCP calls and orchestration messages. Web and mobile chat projections use that metadata to label sender threads and open them in the referenced environment when available.

Changes: Linked sender attribution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define and transmit sender metadata `packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts`, `apps/server/src/peer/*`	A linked-sender contract records the environment ID, thread ID, and title. Peer forwarding passes caller details to tool calls, which encode them in a request header.
Parse sender metadata and dispatch messages `apps/server/src/mcp/*`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.ts`	The MCP server validates sender headers for linked clients. MCP and thread-management send paths pass available sender data as `linkedSender`.
Retain sender metadata across run paths `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/*`	Dispatch, immediate and queued runs, steering, and queued-message promotion preserve `linkedSender` on messages and user turn items. Tests cover started and queued messages.
Project and display linked sender references `apps/web/src/`, `apps/mobile/src/`	Web and mobile projections retain sender metadata. Chat views use the linked sender title as a fallback and pass its environment and thread IDs to open-thread actions. Linked-environment actions require that environment to be available.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PeerForwarding
  participant PeerMcpClient
  participant McpHttpServer
  participant OrchestratorMcpService
  participant Orchestrator
  participant ChatViews
  PeerForwarding->>PeerMcpClient: Call with sender details
  PeerMcpClient->>McpHttpServer: Tool request with encoded sender header
  McpHttpServer->>OrchestratorMcpService: Invocation with parsed senderThread
  OrchestratorMcpService->>Orchestrator: Dispatch linkedSender
  Orchestrator->>ChatViews: Project message with linkedSender

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#34731: Implements overlapping linked-sender attribution across contracts, server, peer, web, and mobile layers.
pingdotgg/t3code#26846: Changes sender-environment resolution and the open-thread target in the web chat timeline.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, saphid, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b6902

Messages sent between linked environments now keep the sender's thread title and offer an Open thread action when the client has that environment. The earlier concern about malformed titles blocking peer calls has been addressed. No merge-blocking risk is identified.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: messages from a linked environment now identify the sender thread. The changeset adds a T3-Sender-Thread header, a linkedSender field in the contracts, and web and mob…
Description check		The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, and it uses the conventional-commit style for the title. The Problem section states the cau…
Linked Issues check		Objective [`#34708`]: a message sent by t3_thread_send from a linked environment must name the sending thread in the receiving folded row and offer "Open thread" when the client has that environment. Ev…
Out of Scope Changes check		All changed files relate to one problem: keeping sender attribution across a linked-environment forward. Contract, peer transport, MCP header handling (confirmed in the McpHttpServer.ts diff), server …

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title names the main change: messages from a linked environment now identify the sender thread. The changeset adds a T3-Sender-Thread header, a linkedSender field in the contracts, and web and mobile display updates that match this. The title uses a conventional commit format and is specific. It is not vague.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, and it uses the conventional-commit style for the title. The Problem section states the cause and the observed behavior ("Agent" with no "Open thread"). The Change section explains the header, the linkedSender field, and the web and mobile lookup. The Verification section lists the tests that fail on main and pass on the branch, plus the typecheck and suite counts. It also states what was not checked. The Scope and approval section links issue #34708 and explains why the change is one problem. It does not include a maintainer approval comment or a direct link to one. That gap weakens the template's approval requirement, but the description is mostly complete, so this check passes.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Objective [#34708]: a message sent by t3_thread_send from a linked environment must name the sending thread in the receiving folded row and offer "Open thread" when the client has that environment. Evidence at the reviewed head:

Contract: OrchestrationV2LinkedSender (environmentId, threadId, title) and optional linkedSender on conversation messages, user_message turn items, and message.dispatch (per PR summary).
Transport: PeerForwarding.forward sends a sender object when a caller exists. PeerMcpClient.call sets T3-Sender-Thread and truncates the title to 200 code points.
Server receive path: a whole-PR diff read of McpHttpServer.ts confirms withSenderThread reads the header only when invocation.client?.linked is true. It requires exactly three slash-separated components, URI-decodes them, validates against OrchestrationV2LinkedSender, and leaves the invocation unchanged on any failure.
Server send and dispatch: OrchestratorMcpService.sendToThread sets linkedSender (not senderThreadId) for linked callers. Orchestrator, EffectWorker (steer redispatch), and runtimeLayer propagate the field (per PR summary).
Web and mobile: the sender reference resolves through linkedSender. The label falls back to the carried title, then to "Agent". "Open thread" appears for linked senders only when the linked environment is available to the client.
The author reports the listed tests pass. Tests were not re-run here. The incremental diff from the previous reviewed head c19021b to b690287 could not be read because changed blobs are missing from the checkout, so changes made in the latest commits were assessed only through the whole-PR summary and the McpHttpServer.ts spot check. Not checked by the author: a live two-machine run and a negative test for the non-linked header guard. These gaps do not remove the implemented coding requirement. No non-coding requirement applies.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

All changed files relate to one problem: keeping sender attribution across a linked-environment forward. Contract, peer transport, MCP header handling (confirmed in the McpHttpServer.ts diff), server send and dispatch paths, web and mobile rendering, and their tests each map to a step of that path. The mobile filePreview.test.ts mock supports the new presentation hook used by ThreadFeed. The EffectWorker steer-path change extends propagation to a path the author did not test, but it is part of the same attribution flow. No unrelated change was found in the whole-PR summary or the inspected hunk. The incremental diff since c19021b could not be read, so unrelated changes in the newest commits are not fully excluded by direct inspection.

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…ent, not the loaded shell A thread can be missing from the loaded shell while its environment is connected, so gating Open thread on the sender's shell hid it for threads the client can still open. Gate on the sender's environment being known to this client, as the delegated-from link does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The existing end-to-end forwarded t3_thread_send case only checked delivery, so dropping the sender in PeerForwarding.forward would have passed CI. It now checks the linkedSender the linked environment records. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>

… now reads ThreadFeed reads the sender's environment through state/presentation, which loads the connection catalog and its native modules. The file preview test renders ThreadFeed with its state modules mocked, so it mocks this one too. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…s linked calls encodeURIComponent throws on an unpaired UTF-16 surrogate, and a thread title can hold one, so encoding the sender header turned every forwarded call from that thread into a defect before any request went out. Make each part well-formed before encoding it. AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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juliusmarminge · 2026-11-12T05:04:41Z

Evidence

Enable linked environments, link A to B, and create a named sender on A plus idle and active receivers on B. Send immediate and queued handoffs through the real MCP tool. Inspect first with only B connected, then connect A and inspect Open thread. On the fix, Open thread navigated to the correct sender environment and thread.

Real web app, Chromium, 1280×800, light theme; identical synthetic fixtures on fresh databases.

Evidence	Before — 671f854	After — b690287
Both environments connected
Only receiving environment connected
Incoming and queued messages, receiving environment only	Before recording	After recording
Both connected, including queued attribution	Before recording	After recording and sender navigation

Seed driver. AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

Native iOS, Android, and the Electron shell were not exercised; evidence covers the real web client and server forwarding path.
Remote relay and tunnel connections were not exercised; both environments used local HTTP servers.
Real-provider tool selection was not exercised; the driver invoked the actual MCP tool with the active replay sender's scoped credentials.

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fix(server): messages from a linked environment name the sending thread #34731

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