feat(web): open a project's browser tabs in its own profile

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Problem

Every new browser tab used the one global default profile, whatever project the thread belonged to. When an agent called preview_open in a work project, it could land in the personal profile's logins, and the only fix was to flip the global default by hand before each switch.

Change

A project can now pick its own profile under Settings → Integrations → Browser with the project selected. It is stored client-side (browserProjectProfileIds, keyed by the physical project key like the sidebar grouping overrides) alongside the browser profiles. browserDefaultOpenProfileId now takes the thread ref and resolves the thread's project override first, then the global default. Manual opening paths use it: the panel's Browser button, links from chat and terminal, and files. The client also reports per-project defaults to each connected browser server; agent preview_open resolves the thread's project from the server projection before choosing its profile. A draft thread resolves through its draft's project. A deleted or incognito override falls back to the global default, the same rule the global default already follows. An explicit profile from the add-tab menu still wins. When checkouts of one project disagree, the row shows "Mixed" and the reset arrow clears all of them.

Surfaces:

• Desktop: the new row shows only with a project or checkout selected, next to Agent browser access. Settings search only offers it on desktop.
• Web and mobile: no new project settings control. The desktop client reports overrides for server-owned agent tabs.
• Providers: all of them. Manual opens resolve client-side; agent opens resolve on the browser server.

Scope and approval

Closes #13254. The maintainer triage accepted the feature and proposed this shape (client-local per-project profile resolved in browserDefaultOpenProfileId, explicit add-tab profile still wins, #9704's profileId argument kept separate): #13254 (comment)

Verification

Maintenance against current main: 25 focused client tests and 36 server browser tests pass, including project override and deleted/incognito fallback coverage. Web, contracts, and server typechecks pass, as do scoped lint and formatting.

• New browserDefaults.test.ts cases: project override, draft thread, and fallback for other projects, deleted profiles, and incognito. Earlier preview open and automation tests passed, with clean web and contracts typechecks.
• Checked in an isolated desktop dev build seeded with a copy of real data. With Personal as the global default and Work set for one project, a new tab in that project opened in Work (confirmed by the tab's partition), a tab in another project stayed on Personal, and resetting the row sent the project back to Personal.
• No new browser or device verification during this maintenance pass; the screenshots below are from the original implementation.

Before: with a project selected, Browser only has the agent access toggle.

After: a Browser profile row under it.

A new tab in that project opens in Work. The toolbar badge shows it because it differs from the global default.

Original implementation by Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code in T3 Code. Merge maintenance and server browser integration by GPT-6-Astra via the Codex harness in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a project-level browser profile setting and changes both user- and agent-opened tabs to select a project-specific browser partition. Because it changes product defaults and propagates behavior across web, server, settings, and preview-opening paths, the change warrants human review.

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Walkthrough

Project settings now support browser profile overrides by physical project key. Preview profile resolution uses the thread’s project profile when available and falls back to the global default. Preview opening paths pass thread context to the resolver.

Changes

Project browser profile defaults

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure project profile overrides packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectDefaultsSettings.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts	Client settings define project profile overrides. Project and checkout settings display the effective profile, show “Mixed” when member profiles differ, and write or remove overrides. The settings search catalog includes the project browser profile option.
Resolve the thread project profile apps/web/src/browser/browserDefaults.ts, apps/web/src/browser/browserDefaults.test.ts	Profile resolution uses the project from a thread shell or matching draft. It selects a configured, non-incognito project profile when available and otherwise uses the global default. Tests cover thread, draft, and fallback cases.
Pass thread context to preview openings apps/web/src/browser/openFileInPreview.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewAutomationHosts.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/openPreviewSession.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/openTerminalLinkInPreview.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/openTerminalLinkInPreview.test.ts	Preview opening paths pass the thread reference to profile resolution. The terminal-link test mock accepts the updated argument.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant openPreviewSession
  participant browserDefaultOpenProfileId
  participant readThreadShell
  participant useComposerDraftStore
  participant readProject
  openPreviewSession->>browserDefaultOpenProfileId: threadRef and defaults
  browserDefaultOpenProfileId->>readThreadShell: resolve thread project
  readThreadShell-->>browserDefaultOpenProfileId: project id or no project
  opt Matching draft provides the project id
    browserDefaultOpenProfileId->>useComposerDraftStore: find draft for threadRef
    useComposerDraftStore-->>browserDefaultOpenProfileId: draft project id
  end
  opt A project id is available
    browserDefaultOpenProfileId->>readProject: read project
    readProject-->>browserDefaultOpenProfileId: project data
  end
  browserDefaultOpenProfileId-->>openPreviewSession: project profile or global default

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Background preview opens can ignore a project’s configured browser profile and use the global profile instead. Address the entity-resolution gap before relying on project profile separation for automation tabs.

Pre-merge checks | 4 | 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 10 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description follows the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It includes the issue approval, focused test results, manual verification, limitations, and UI scre…
Linked Issues check		The description links issue #13254, states that it closes the issue, and records maintainer approval for the implementation direction and scope.
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes match the stated objective: per-project browser profile selection and resolution across manual and agent preview flows, with fallback behavior and desktop settings support.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: opening a project's browser tabs in its configured profile.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/browser/browserDefaults.ts`:
- Around line 137-142: Update browserDefaultOpenProfileId to obtain the thread
shell and its project from an authoritative source before resolving the profile,
so a background thread’s project override is used when those entities are absent
from the registry; preserve the defaults.profileId fallback when no project
override exists.

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• apps/web/src/browser/browserDefaults.test.ts
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• apps/web/src/components/preview/openPreviewSession.ts
• apps/web/src/components/preview/openTerminalLinkInPreview.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/preview/openTerminalLinkInPreview.ts
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