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Fixes #2546.

Four small fixes around the queue and Stop. They share one issue because each one is a gap in the same path: a message between the composer, the queue, Claude's input box and the transcript. Each part stands alone and is a separate hunk.

1. A queued follow-up stays in Chat until its turn. The waiting bubble that feat(chat): show a sent message in Chat at once, before the transcript has it #2258 added for a send at once now also shows when the bridge types a queued message:
   • src/lib/useComposerSends.ts: a send answered with no pending was typed now, also when it went as queue because the turn had just ended. It gets the bubble, the follow and the command chip, as a send at once does. DESIGN.md already says this: a send the bridge "accepts at once (a receipt with no pending item…)" follows the chat to its end.
   • src/lib/useComposerSends.ts: Send now of a held copy records the bubble after its receipt.
   • src/lib/machineSession.ts: a row of this connection removed as sent (the turn-end drain, Send now) records the bubble with the row's text, read before the store drops the row. Its time and baseline come from the frame that showed the row as sending, before its Enter, as a composer send takes them before it submits. So a turn written before the receipt still settles it, and a turn read before the receipt is not taken for an older one. A create request's first message is listed to every attached connection, so each of them shows its bubble, as each showed its row.
2. After Stop, a new message does not bring the stopped one back. src/components/ChatView.tsx: at a local send, the chat keeps the restored text with the conversation page it was read from (the sentOver pattern). The cancelled turn stays out while that page is unchanged, also after the prompt read answers restored: null. The next conversation read drops the turn from the active chain. A restored copy that goes away with no send from this browser brings the turn back, as before.
3. Stop with a queued follow-up keeps the stopped message. server/core/composer.ts, server/core/pending.ts: freeClaudeBox gets automatic. An automatic delivery (the queue drain) no longer clears Claude's restored copy with two Esc presses. The queued row is held with the input_draft note, as over any other draft in Claude's box. The next prompt read gives the stopped message back to the composer. Send now, the user's own action, still clears the copy and sends the follow-up.
   • My earlier sketch threw the retryable pending_wait instead. pending_wait puts the row back to queued and the drain runs again at once (pending-input.ts settle, drainPending's finally). Nothing marks the pane busy, so the drain loops on herdr reads, and the row flips between "Sending…" and "Next turn", until the box changes. A held row does not loop.
4. Clicking Stop keeps the focus in the message box. src/components/Composer.tsx: Stop gets the same onPointerDown that prevents the default as Send (fix(chat): keep focus in the message box when Send is pressed #937). When the turn stops, the same node becomes a disabled Send, and a focused node that is disabled drops the focus to <body>.

Reference apps:

• Part 3 follows Claude Code in its own terminal: after Esc, it puts queued messages back into its input and does not send them on its own. Ovis holds the follow-up for Send now and gives the stopped message back to the composer.
• Part 1 follows the Codex and Claude apps: a message shows in the thread from the moment it is sent.
• Part 2 keeps what the chat already mirrors from Claude Code's terminal: a message stopped before Claude answered is back in the input box, and not in the history.
• Part 4 is the rule Send already has (fix(chat): keep focus in the message box when Send is pressed #937).

Left open in the issue, because each needs a design decision: "Working…" and Stop still drop out for about 0.7 s between the two turns, a bubble for Send now while Claude still works expires after 60 s, and Stop pressed from the keyboard still loses the focus.

This PR touches queued input, so it waits for a real review (AGENTS.md).

Changelog fragment: changelog.d/chat-queue-and-stop.md.

Validation

Red runs use this branch's tests with the src/ or server/ files of main (dac7c6d, or c4cc67d where noted: the files under test are the same in both). Green runs are this branch.

• Part 1, bun test src/lib/useComposerSends.test.ts src/lib/machineSession.test.ts:
  • On main, 3 fail: "keeps a typed row in the chat as a waiting message, timed from when it went out" (no bubble after the sent removal), "Send now of a held copy the bridge answered confirmed…" (no bubble), and "a queued follow-up the bridge typed at once waits in the chat and follows it" (no bubble, no follow).
  • With this PR, 55 pass, 0 fail.
• Part 2, bun scripts/restored-draft-demo-regression.ts (headless Chromium, no herdr), new last case:
  • On main, the first 5 cases pass, then AssertionError: the cancelled turn stays out after the send (1 !== 0).
  • With this PR, 6 PASS, exit 0.
• Part 3, bun run check run bun test --timeout 30000 ./server/pending-input.contract.test.ts, new test "holds a queued message rather than clearing the stopped chat message Claude put back in its box":
  • On main (c4cc67d server), it fails: after the queued row is held, the pane got two Esc bytes (\u001b\u001b) after the earlier message. On a real Claude Code these empty the box, and the follow-up is pasted over the stopped message.
  • With this PR, it passes: the row is held with input_draft, and nothing is typed.
• Part 4, bun scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts, the Send focus case now also presses Stop:
  • On main, 18 PASS, then AssertionError: 390px: pressing Stop keeps the message box focused.
  • With this PR, 27 PASS, exit 0.
• Targeted unit files, 278 pass, 0 fail with this PR (276 pass on main): useComposerSends 31, machineSession 24, sentWaiting 30, SentWaiting 7, pendingMessages 28, PendingMessages 18, pendingStatus 2, messageQueue 7, ComposerRestored 2, server/core/pending 48, claude-draft-send 4, claude-rewind-send 3, pending-identity-race 23, src/conventions 8, server/conventions 12, scripts/conventions 19, changelog-fold 12.
• Contract files, through bun run check run:
  • server/submit.contract.test.ts (the immediate send that clears a restored copy): 105 pass, 0 fail.
  • server/pending-input.contract.test.ts: 106 pass, 7 fail. The same 7 fail on main here, with the new test as an eighth and one timing failure as a ninth (104 pass, 9 fail). Each of the 7 fails on herdr or macOS behaviour on this Mac: herdr closed the connection before answering agent.prompt, the Ctrl+Enter encoding (\u001b[27;5;13~), and the order in which macOS lists a launcher and its agent. CI pins herdr 0.9.3, and this Mac has 0.9.0.
• Browser regressions, the same result on main and with this PR: held-rows-demo-regression 10 PASS, chat-local-send-follow-demo-regression 9 PASS. bun run check run --build bun scripts/pending-pane-switch-regression.ts: 4 PASS, then "Send now after the draft is discarded delivers the message once" times out, on main too.
• bun run typecheck: pass. git diff --check: clean.
• Live evidence from my test runs (an isolated herdr session, Claude Code 2.1.316 with haiku, a test Ovis at feb3ae0, headless Chromium at 1280×800):
  • Part 1: the queued follow-up was in no row, bubble or turn for 117, 226 and 336 ms in 3 of 3 runs, and for 377 to 1186 ms in another setup. "Working…" was gone for 670 to 871 ms.
  • Part 2: the stopped message came back for 783 ms.
  • Part 3: the stopped message ended in no chat row, not in Claude's box and not in the composer.
  • Part 4: the focus was on Stop after the click, moved to <body> when the turn stopped, and stayed there.
• My earlier drain demo (the demo app, a 300 ms delay on conversation reads), run again on this branch: on main, the follow-up is nowhere in Chat for 7 painted frames (2335 to 2697 ms). With this PR, 0 frames.
• Not run here: a live check of this branch with Claude Code. Not run: bun run check fast. It hangs on this Mac in server/usage-login-private. These unit files also fail on main on this Mac: scripts/check, scripts/self-hosted-runner, scripts/install-star, scripts/ci-browser, scripts/ci-browser-parallel, server/codex, server/codex-processes, server/session-history, server/letta, server/remote-entry, server/core/composer-framing, server/usage-login-private, and sometimes server/bridge. This PR touches none of them.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Queued follow-up messages remain visible in Chat as sent messages until their turn begins, including when sent at the end of a turn or after it has ended.
  • Sending a replacement after stopping no longer briefly brings the stopped message back into Chat.
  • When a follow-up is queued at Stop, the stopped message returns to the composer while the follow-up remains queued for “Send now.”
  • Clicking Stop keeps keyboard focus in the message box.

The change records sent queued messages in Chat before their transcript turns appear, keeps cancelled turns hidden while transcript reads remain unchanged, and prevents automatic queue delivery from clearing a restored Claude draft. It also adds regression coverage for Stop focus behavior.

Changes: Chat queue and Stop behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record sent messages in Chat src/lib/useComposerSends.ts, src/lib/useComposerSends.test.ts, src/lib/machineSession.ts, src/lib/machineSession.test.ts, changelog.d/chat-queue-and-stop.md	Confirmed sends and queued rows removed with a sent outcome are recorded as waiting sends. Tests check the send text, timestamp, and queued-send behavior.
Keep cancelled turns hidden during sends src/components/ChatView.tsx, src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx, scripts/restored-draft-demo-regression.ts	ChatView filters a matching final user turn using restored-message text or send-time text while the transcript page is unchanged. Regression scenarios hold reads and check when the cancelled turn stays hidden or reappears.
Preserve restored drafts during automatic delivery server/core/composer.ts, server/core/pending.ts, server/pending-input.contract.test.ts	Automatic delivery passes a flag to freeClaudeBox. When the restored message is in Claude’s input, the queued follow-up is held with input_draft and no additional terminal input is written.
Check focus after Stop scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts, src/components/Composer.tsx	The regression checks that the message box retains focus after Stop. A comment documents the Stop button’s focus behavior; no runtime behavior changes in Composer.tsx.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: devswha

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 9cea1

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Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main changes: queued and stopped messages remain correctly placed, and focus is preserved after Stop.
Description check		The description includes the required Change and Validation sections. It explains the four behavior fixes, links issue #2546, lists passing and failing checks, and identifies skipped validation with r…
Linked Issues check		Directly linked issue [#2546] is open and has four coding objectives. They are grouped below. [#2546, part 1: queued follow-up stays in Chat until its turn] The change summaries state: `useComposerSe…
Out of Scope Changes check		Every changed file maps to one of the four parts of [#2546] or to its tests and documentation: - Source: src/lib/useComposerSends.ts and src/lib/machineSession.ts (part 1); `src/components/ChatVie…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 80.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentati…

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The description includes the required Change and Validation sections. It explains the four behavior fixes, links issue #2546, lists passing and failing checks, and identifies skipped validation with reasons.

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Directly linked issue [#2546] is open and has four coding objectives. They are grouped below.

[#2546, part 1: queued follow-up stays in Chat until its turn] The change summaries state: useComposerSends.ts records the waiting bubble for any send answered with no pending, not only for delivery === "immediate"; Send now of a held copy records the bubble; machineSession.ts records a row removed as sent with its text, time and baseline. PaneTerminal.tsx passes pendingRows to ChatView. The targeted tests named by the author cover these paths. I did not read the useComposerSends.ts or machineSession.ts diffs directly.

[#2546, part 2: stopped message does not return after a new send] Verified in the ChatView.tsx diff. cancelledAtSend is set at a local send from restored or the last restored copy, keyed to state.turns. hiddenSend = restored ?? onPage(cancelledAtSend) ?? ... hides the cancelled user turn via shownTurns while the page is unchanged, also when restored becomes null. outcomeRows receives hiddenSend, so no sent row is added for it. A restored copy that disappears without a send from this browser is not recorded, so the turn returns as before.

[#2546, part 3: queued follow-up does not clear the stopped message] Stated in the summaries: freeClaudeBox gets an automatic flag; automatic delivery does not clear Claude's restored copy; pending.ts passes automatic at the dispatchPendingText call; Send now still clears the copy. The pending-input.contract.test.ts case is listed. The server/core/composer.ts diff could not be read (changed blob unavailable), so this part rests on the summary and the author's reported run, not on source I read.

[#2546, part 4: Stop keeps focus in the message box] Stated in the summaries: Composer.tsx Stop has the same pointer-down default prevention as Send. The incremental diff from the previous reviewed head adds only a comment in this file. The Composer.tsx diff could not be read (changed blob unavailable). The previous assessment found this code at an earlier head. The author reports scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts passes with the Stop focus case.

Not addressed and not required: the three open design topics named in the issue and the PR description (the 0.7 s Working gap, the 60 s Send now bubble expiry, and keyboard-triggered Stop focus). The PR description leaves these open, and no coding requirement from the issue covers them.

Unresolved uncertainty: two source diffs (server/core/composer.ts, src/components/Composer.tsx) were unavailable. The author's test results were not re-run here.

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Every changed file maps to one of the four parts of [#2546] or to its tests and documentation:

• Source: src/lib/useComposerSends.ts and src/lib/machineSession.ts (part 1); src/components/ChatView.tsx and src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx (part 1 and part 2 prop wiring); server/core/composer.ts and server/core/pending.ts (part 3); src/components/Composer.tsx (part 4).
• Tests and regression scripts: useComposerSends.test.ts, machineSession.test.ts, pending-input.contract.test.ts, restored-draft-demo-regression.ts, composer-fit-demo-regression.ts. Each covers one of the four parts.
• Changelog fragment changelog.d/chat-queue-and-stop.md, which describes the same four fixes.

The ChatView.tsx diff contains only the cancelled-turn record, the pending-row record for sending, and the matching cleanup. No unrelated logic appears in the diff I read. No change is linked to the open design topics named as out of scope.

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- Line 1432: Update the setCancelledAtSend call so it only replaces the
cancellation record when restored is non-null; leave the existing record
unchanged when restored is null, allowing the state.turns identity check to
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- Line 2071: Update the ChatView flow to derive one shared hidden-send value
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command outcome remains excluded after restored is null.

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Thanks @jpcarranza94. I pushed the review fixes on top of your branch (b5116b3, merged with main and with your 33d6a15 and 9cea130, no force):

• H2: a queue send that arrives once Claude is idle no longer presses Esc over the stopped message Claude put back in its box. It is refused as input_draft, as the drain holds it. Send now and immediate sends still clear the copy. A contract test checks that no bytes were sent.
• H1: a row timed from its latest sending. I kept your rule (a row back as queued or held drops its old time) and your test.
• M1: no bubble for a row removed as sent that this connection never saw sending.
• M2: new optional receipt field typed_now on submit-result. It is set when a queued send was typed at once by this request, or a held-copy resend typed it. A replayed id, a discarded row, or a copy another connection sent answer without it. Clients record the bubble and the command chip only when it is set, so older bridges keep the old behaviour. Protocol types and contract tests are updated.
• M3: the stopped turn is hidden by its identity (timestamp + words, stoppedTurn/endsWithTurn in lib/compose.ts), not by the turns array. It stays hidden until a newer turn arrives.
• M4: the stopped turn is captured while its copy is still in the box (before the send). Your row-start capture (goingCancel) is kept and keyed by that identity.
• LOW: cancelledAtSend resets on a pane switch.

Validation: touched unit tests; bun run check run bun test --timeout 60000 ./server/pending-input.contract.test.ts (115 pass); bun run build + restored-draft-demo-regression.ts (9 PASS, including your two new checks) + composer-fit-demo-regression.ts (12 PASS); UNIT_TEST_WORKERS=4 bun run check fast (success). Each new test fails on 4964d9c.

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Pushed a1aa7ef (with main merged in), one more small maintainer round on top of b5116b3:

• Queued send refused over Claude's restored copy: the input_draft refusal now carries draft/box and records the same confirmation as an immediate send. The composer shows the same refusal UI as for an immediate send, with Clear it / Send it, instead of only the generic note. The contract test asserts the queued refusal names the copy.
• Stopped turn stayed hidden after a refused send: an immediate send that is refused with nothing typed now drops the stopped-turn record it took when it started. Once the user clears or edits the copy in the terminal, the turn shows again. New hook-level test: src/components/ChatView.stoppedTurn.test.ts.

The typed_now compatibility is unchanged.

Validation: touched unit tests; bun run check run bun test --timeout 60000 ./server/pending-input.contract.test.ts (115 pass); bun run build + bun scripts/restored-draft-demo-regression.ts (all PASS); UNIT_TEST_WORKERS=4 bun run check fast (ok).

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Merging into 0.4.22 (fixes #2546, by @jpcarranza94): a queued follow-up shows its waiting bubble in Chat until its turn; after Stop, a new message does not bring the stopped one back; Stop with a follow-up queued keeps the stopped message (the follow-up is held for Send now, as Claude Code itself does); clicking Stop keeps the focus in the message box.

Strict review by the merge pass (queued input; Claude reviewer + Terra 6.1), two fix rounds on the branch:

• HIGH: a queue send arriving once the agent was idle still pressed Esc twice over Claude's restored copy. Now every queued send is refused as input_draft there, with the draft and box so the composer offers Clear it / Send it; no key is sent (contract test asserts no bytes).
• HIGH: Send now on a row the queue already tried kept the first attempt's time, so its bubble expired at once (fixed by the contributor in 33d6a15).
• MEDIUM: a bubble only for a row this connection saw sending; an optional typed_now on submit-result so a replayed or discarded submit gets no bubble (an older server with this client behaves like main); the stopped turn is hidden by its identity and captured before the send, and shown again once a send over it is refused.
  Each fix has a test that fails on the earlier head. Pending-input contract, restored-draft and composer-fit browser scripts and check fast green.

LOW: against an older bridge, a queued send typed at once gets no waiting bubble (as on main); if the exact words of the stopped turn are re-sent before the transcript has the new turn, that row waits for the next read; with no ts on either turn, matching falls back to the text; the held row's note still tells the user to clear the box in the terminal.

CodeRabbit reviewed earlier commits but skipped the latest head; its threads are resolved, and the merge pass's own review (Claude reviewer + Terra 6.1) stands in, findings and resolutions above.