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Problem

  • A reader on Desktop or mobile cannot tell that one Inbox report depends on, duplicates, or follows another — the relation is invisible, so the related work is unreachable from those clients.
  • #102884 added five directed link kinds behind a report_link artefact. Web renders them; Desktop and mobile do not.
  • AnySignalReportArtefact never modelled report_link, so the row fell into the unknown-type fallback: plain text, no kind, no reason, no link.

Origin

  • Scout: a custom scout
  • First signal: 2026-09-21
  • Inbox report: open
  • Task started by: auto-start, after the report was rated P3 and ready to fix

Changes

Surface Before After
Desktop activity log Row labelled report_link, body "No preview available." "Report linked" row with the relation badge, the reason, and a link to the related report
Mobile activity Row dropped entirely Tappable row with the relation badge, the linked report's title, and the reason
  • The api-client artefact normalizer gains a report_link branch. Without it every link row fell through to the last-resort path and arrived marked degraded, so the typed row would never have rendered — the type addition alone does not fix the symptom.
  • packages/shared gains a ReportLinkArtefact plus a ReportLinkKind union, and the artefact joins AnySignalReportArtefact.
  • reportLinkKindLabel in @posthog/core maps the five known kinds and humanizes anything else, so a kind the backend adds later still reads as words rather than a raw enum.
  • Both clients route to the canonical report detail (/reports/$reportId on Desktop, /inbox/<id> on mobile).
  • The mobile activity row now falls back to the plain text preview on a degraded artefact, the way the Desktop log already did.
  • Mechanical: the mobile activity filter moved from a two-type || to a type set, and its row label from a ternary to a lookup.

How did you test this code?

  • No manual run of the Desktop or mobile app — neither was launched in this environment. Both render paths are covered by rendering tests instead.
  • New ArtefactLogList.test.tsx renders the Desktop row and asserts the relation label, the reason, and the href of the link. Catches the reported symptom directly: without the new branch it renders the fallback text.
  • New ArtefactReportLink.test.tsx renders the mobile row and asserts the relation label, the reason, and that pressing it navigates to the linked report.
  • Extended activityLog.test.ts so selectActivityArtefacts keeps a report_link, and added reportLinkKindLabel cases for a known and an unknown kind. The unknown-kind case is the one guarding "keep unknown link kinds readable".
  • Extended ReportActivity.test.tsx with one case that a link row is labelled "Report linked", not "Task run" — the ternary it replaced would have got that wrong — and one that a degraded row shows its preview instead of nothing.
  • Extended the api-client "normalizes every backend artefact type without dropping rows" fixture with a report_link row. That case fails without the new normalizer branch, which is what makes it the guard on the real defect.
  • Ran locally: @posthog/mobile test suite, @posthog/ui inbox suite, @posthog/core and @posthog/ui typechecks, check-mobile-types.mjs (no new baseline errors), and biome over the changed files.

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Autonomy: Fully autonomous

Agent: Claude Code, Opus 5

  • Skills invoked: /writing-tests. It moved the link-kind label matrix out of a component render into a pure unit test and folded the remaining cases into existing blocks rather than adding standalone ones.
  • CodeRabbit CLI was not available locally, so the first push had no local pass. Its review on the PR flagged that a degraded report_link would render nothing on mobile — fixed, and following that thread surfaced the missing normalizer, which was the larger defect.
  • Decisions: the first draft rendered the Desktop row with Radix Flex/Badge to match the surrounding file; the desktop guide bans new Radix imports, so it was rewritten on div + Tailwind + the inbox InboxBadge. The link also moved from /inbox/reports/$reportId to the canonical /reports/$reportId, skipping a redirect hop.
  • No duplicate: a search of open PRs for this artefact and for typed report links found nothing covering it.
  • Public artifact: nothing here draws on non-public session material. The link kinds and labels come from products/signals/backend/enums.py in this repository; the test fixtures are invented.

Created with PostHog Desktop from this inbox report.

Desktop and mobile dropped the `report_link` artefact into the unknown-type
fallback, so a reader saw no relation, no reason, and no way to reach the
related report.

Model the artefact and its link-kind union in `@posthog/shared`, add a shared
`reportLinkKindLabel` that humanizes a kind the client does not know, render the
relation, reason and a link in the Desktop activity log, and add the equivalent
mobile row with navigation to the linked report.

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✅ Trunk lane — non-backend lane (fe:product:desktop)

This PR is assigned to the non-backend lane (fe:product:desktop). It does not run backend Python tests and may merge in parallel with PRs in other lanes.

✅ Duplication (Python) — clean

New Python code duplication introduced by this branch. Fails at 70+ tokens in app code, or 150+ tokens when both copies live in test files. Advisory while the gate proves itself: extract a shared helper instead of copying.

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New TypeScript code duplication introduced by this branch. Fails at 70+ tokens in app code, or 150+ tokens when both copies live in test files. Advisory while the gate proves itself: extract a shared helper instead of copying.

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products/desktop/packages/shared/src/domain-types.ts 9 26
products/desktop/packages/core/src/inbox/activityLog.ts 4 14
products/desktop/apps/mobile/src/features/inbox/components/ReportActivity.tsx 2 46
products/desktop/packages/api-client/src/posthog-client.ts 2 33
products/desktop/packages/api-client/src/posthog-client.test.ts 1 27

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@github-actions github-actions Bot added the feature/desktop Feature Tag: Desktop label Sep 21, 2026
Fall back to the shared "Untitled report" label instead of the raw UUID, drop a
redundant nullish coalescing and a redundant margin reset.

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packages/ui/src/features/inbox/components/detail/ArtefactLogList.tsx

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The change adds typed report_link artefacts with supported relationship kinds, target report IDs, and optional reasons. The API client validates and normalizes these artefacts. Mobile and web inbox activity logs retain and render them. Both interfaces display relationship labels, report navigation, and optional reasons. Unknown relationship kinds use humanized labels. Tests cover selection, normalization, rendering, navigation, and fallback labels.

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products/desktop/apps/mobile/src/features/inbox/components/ReportActivity.tsx-37-37 (1)

37-37: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Render degraded artefacts before type dispatch.

When artefact.degraded is true, the API client stores the plain-text preview in artefact.content.content and does not provide report_id. A degraded report_link therefore reaches ArtefactReportLink, which returns null and hides the preview. Handle degraded artefacts before the type switch and render the preview text, matching the desktop activity log.

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In
`@products/desktop/apps/mobile/src/features/inbox/components/ReportActivity.tsx`
at line 37, Update the artefact rendering flow in ReportActivity so degraded
artefacts are handled before type dispatch. When artefact.degraded is true,
render the plain-text preview from artefact.content.content instead of passing
it to ArtefactReportLink; preserve the existing type-specific rendering for
non-degraded artefacts.

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In
`@products/desktop/apps/mobile/src/features/inbox/components/ReportActivity.tsx`:
- Line 37: Update the artefact rendering flow in ReportActivity so degraded
artefacts are handled before type dispatch. When artefact.degraded is true,
render the plain-text preview from artefact.content.content instead of passing
it to ArtefactReportLink; preserve the existing type-specific rendering for
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The api-client artefact normalizer had no `report_link` branch, so every link
row fell through to the last-resort path and arrived marked degraded with its
content replaced by a text preview. Desktop checks `degraded` before the type
dispatch, so the new typed row would never have rendered.

Add the normalizer, fix the test fixture typing that broke the typecheck, and
let the mobile activity row fall back to the preview text on a degraded row,
the way the Desktop log already does.

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products/desktop/packages/api-client/src/posthog-client.ts-1685-1686 (1)

1685-1686: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate report_id as a UUID before creating a typed artefact.

optionalString accepts any string, including whitespace-only and "not-a-report-id". These values pass the normalizer and prevent normalizeFallbackArtefact from running. The web and mobile renderers then use the invalid value in their report navigation targets.

Reject values that are not canonical UUIDs before returning ReportLinkArtefact.

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In `@products/desktop/packages/api-client/src/posthog-client.ts` around lines 1685
- 1686, Update the report-link parsing flow around report_id and
normalizeFallbackArtefact to validate report_id as a canonical UUID after
optionalString; return null for invalid or whitespace-only values before
constructing ReportLinkArtefact, while preserving valid UUID handling.

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In
`@products/desktop/apps/mobile/src/features/inbox/components/ReportActivity.test.tsx`:
- Line 88: Update the fixture in the ReportActivity test to use the declared
SignalReportArtefact type and construct the fallback content shape expected by
normalizeFallbackArtefact, including degraded state and preserved original type.
Remove the AnySignalReportArtefact cast and avoid using a report_link payload.

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In `@products/desktop/packages/api-client/src/posthog-client.ts`:
- Around line 1685-1686: Update the report-link parsing flow around report_id
and normalizeFallbackArtefact to validate report_id as a canonical UUID after
optionalString; return null for invalid or whitespace-only values before
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A link whose `report_id` is blank or not a UUID passed the normalizer and became
a dead navigation target. Send it down the fallback path instead, so the reader
gets the text preview.

Also type the degraded-row test fixture as the `SignalReportArtefact` the
fallback normalizer actually returns, rather than casting a link row into it.

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This PR hasn't seen activity in a week! Should it be merged, closed, or further worked on? If you want to keep it open, please remove the stale label – otherwise this will be closed in another week. If you want to permanently keep it open, use the waiting label.

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This PR was closed due to lack of activity. Feel free to reopen if it's still relevant.

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