feat(web): quote chips show what you said about the quote

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When you quote an assistant message and send it, the quote shows up as a chip in your message. Clicking that chip only showed a "View source" tooltip and jumped to the source, so there was no way to read the quote again or see the comment you wrote about it.

Now clicking a quote chip in a sent message opens a popover that shows:

• the quoted text
• your comment, if you wrote one
• a Go to source button, which closes the popover and goes to the highlighted source as before

Long quotes and comments scroll together in one area, so Go to source stays visible below them. The edges fade while there is more to read above or below, using the same native-scroll fade as the command palette and branch picker. Long strings with no spaces, such as hashes or URLs, wrap instead of being cut off.

The chip uses the shared ContextChipPopover that terminal and other chips already use, so it opens and copies like the rest. Chips in the composer are unchanged. Mobile renders quotes as plain text and is not affected.

One visible side effect: the shared popover chip has no 16em width cap on its label, so a sent-message chip now shows up to the existing 64-character limit instead of about 30 characters.

Before

After

Long quotes

Before this commit, a long quote with a long comment made the popover too tall to fit above the chip, so it moved to the side, and an unbroken token was cut off at the edge:

After: the quote and comment scroll together with fades at the edges, and Go to source stays pinned below them:

Opening the popover, scrolling, then Go to source:

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-galwoqjslzlnws6s.oliver-boorstein.workers.dev/f/8ea0c275b2828180/citation-long-scroll-both.webm

Validation

• vp test run src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.test.tsx (4 passed)
• apps/web typecheck and targeted lint
• Checked in a real web client against a fresh dev database with Codex turns: the popover opens, and Go to source closes it, navigates, and highlights the source text. Also tested with a ~300-word quote and a three-paragraph comment containing a 100-character token.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — Sent quote chips now open a new popover with the full quote, user comment, scrolling behavior, and source navigation, while message-collapse behavior also changes for rendered links and citations. These are user-visible changes to existing production paths rather than a purely mechanical or off-by-default change.

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Non-composer citations now display quoted text, an optional comment, and a “Go to source” link in a popover. The quote preview scrolls within a maximum height of 64 units and updates its fade state on scroll and resize. Composer citations retain direct source-link rendering.

Changes

Citation display

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Citation popover and rendering tests apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.test.tsx	Non-composer citations use a popover for citation details and source navigation. The quote preview has a scrollable region with fade state that updates on scroll and resize. Composer citations render the source link directly. The test harness uses real tooltip components and passes the composer prop.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 52628

The citation popover change appears mergeable with owner awareness of a possible, limited observer-efficiency issue; no material user-facing failure is established.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: quote chips show the quoted text and the user’s comment.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem and change, includes before-and-after screenshots and a recording, and reports focused tests and manual verification. It identifies the stacked pull request, but d…

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apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.test.tsx (1)

57-63: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the non-composer citation popover.

mount() always passes composer, so all current tests enter the composer branch. The non-composer branch is reachable from ChatMarkdown, but a regression in its quoted text, optional comment, or “Go to source” action would not fail these tests. Add a non-composer fixture and assertions.

Suggested fix

 vi.mock("../ui/popover", () => ({
   Popover: ({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) => <>{children}</>,
   PopoverTrigger: ({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) => <button>{children}</button>,
   PopoverPopup: ({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) => <>{children}</>,
+  PopoverClose: ({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) => <button>{children}</button>,
 }));
@@
 function mount(onSave = vi.fn(() => true)) {
@@
   return onSave;
 }
 
+function mountNonComposer() {
+  act(() => {
+    renderer = create(
+      <AssistantCitationChip
+        citation={{ ...citation, comment: "why this matters" }}
+      />,
+    );
+  });
+}
+
@@
 describe("citation comment source disappearance", () => {
@@
 });
+
+describe("non-composer citation popover", () => {
+  it("renders the quote, optional comment, and source action", () => {
+    mountNonComposer();
+
+    expect(renderer.root.findByType("blockquote").children).toEqual(["hello"]);
+    expect(renderer.root.findByType("p").children).toEqual(["why this matters"]);
+    expect(
+      renderer.root
+        .findAllByType("button")
+        .some((button) => String(button.props.children).includes("Go to source")),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+});

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.test.tsx
around lines 57 - 63:
Add a non-composer fixture alongside mount in the AssistantCitationChip tests,
rendering AssistantCitationChip without the composer prop and with a citation
comment. Assert the popover displays the quoted text, optional comment, and “Go
to source” action; provide any popover mock required to render that branch.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.test.tsx:
- Around line 57-63: Add a non-composer fixture alongside mount in the
AssistantCitationChip tests, rendering AssistantCitationChip without the
composer prop and with a citation comment. Assert the popover displays the
quoted text, optional comment, and “Go to source” action; provide any popover
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[flamboh]

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@coderabbitai Skipping the non-composer test nitpick. The suggested test renders the chip with mocked popover parts and checks that the JSX contains the quote, the comment, and a button labeled "Go to source". That restates the markup, and this repo asks us not to add render-and-assert-content tests (AGENTS.md, Verifying). The behavior that can break (the popover opening, Go to source closing it, navigating, and highlighting the source) was checked in a real web client, as noted in the PR description.

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@flamboh Thanks for the guidance. I checked AGENTS.md: the Verifying section explicitly rejects tests that mirror the implementation. The suggested mocked-popover test would not verify the interaction behavior.

I withdraw the non-composer test suggestion. The real-client checks reported in the PR description cover the relevant behavior.

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🟡 Minor · Label comment previews as citation comments. · AssistantCitationChip.tsx:128

apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.tsx:128
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Label comment previews as citation comments.

When citation.comment is nonblank, it supplies label, but this branch still calls it “Quoted assistant text.” The button’s accessible label and the popover title can therefore mislead screen-reader users about whose text they are reading. Use the preview’s source to choose the label.

Suggested fix

-        accessibleLabel={`Quoted assistant text: ${label}`}
+        accessibleLabel={`${citation.comment?.trim() ? "Citation comment" : "Quoted assistant text"}: ${label}`}

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.tsx at
line 128:
In the citation preview branch marked by QuoteIcon, use whether citation.comment
is nonblank to distinguish the preview source: label it “Citation comment” when
present and “Quoted assistant text” otherwise. Apply the source-aware label to
both the button’s accessible label and the popover title.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.tsx:
- Line 128: In the citation preview branch marked by QuoteIcon, use whether
citation.comment is nonblank to distinguish the preview source: label it
“Citation comment” when present and “Quoted assistant text” otherwise. Apply the
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apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.tsx (1)

252-257: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use a stable ref callback and an initial fade measurement.

The inline ref callback gets a new identity on every render. Each setFade call re-renders the component. React then runs the old cleanup and the new callback, so it disconnects and recreates the ResizeObserver after each fade change. This is wasteful but converges, because updateFade returns the same state object when nothing changed.

ResizeObserver normally fires once when observation starts, so the initial fade is likely set. Make the callback stable with useCallback. This also removes the repeated observer churn.

-function AssistantCitationQuote({ citation }: { citation: AssistantCitation }) {
-  const [fade, setFade] = useState({ top: false, bottom: false });
-  const updateFade = (element: HTMLElement) => {
+function AssistantCitationQuote({ citation }: { citation: AssistantCitation }) {
+  const [fade, setFade] = useState({ top: false, bottom: false });
+  const updateFade = useCallback((element: HTMLElement) => {
     ...
-  };
+  }, []);
+  const observeRef = useCallback(
+    (element: HTMLDivElement | null) => {
+      if (!element) return;
+      const observer = new ResizeObserver(() => updateFade(element));
+      observer.observe(element);
+      return () => observer.disconnect();
+    },
+    [updateFade],
+  );

Then use ref={observeRef}. The useCallback import is needed.

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In AssistantCitationQuote, memoize updateFade and the observer ref callback with
useCallback so fade state updates do not recreate the ResizeObserver; when the
element is attached, measure its initial fade state immediately and continue
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@coderabbitai Skipping the useCallback nitpick on AssistantCitationQuote. This app builds with the React Compiler (reactCompilerPreset() in apps/web/vite.config.ts). Compiling this file with babel-plugin-react-compiler shows the ref callback and updateFade are created once behind a memo-cache sentinel and reused on every render, so the ResizeObserver is not torn down or recreated when the fade state changes. ResizeObserver also reports the element's size as soon as observation starts, which covers the initial measurement.

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@flamboh Thanks for the guidance. I confirmed that apps/web/vite.config.ts enables reactCompilerPreset().

Given your compiled-output check, fade state changes do not recreate the ref callback or the ResizeObserver. The initial ResizeObserver notification also covers the first fade measurement.

I withdraw the useCallback suggestion for AssistantCitationQuote. No change is needed.

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Learning: In pingdotgg/t3code, apps/web/vite.config.ts enables React Compiler through reactCompilerPreset(). For AssistantCitationQuote in apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.tsx, the author verified that babel-plugin-react-compiler caches updateFade and the ref callback behind memo-cache sentinels. Fade state changes therefore do not cause ref-driven ResizeObserver teardown and recreation. Do not recommend useCallback for this case based only on inline callback syntax. ResizeObserver also supplies an initial size notification after observation starts, which covers the initial fade measurement.

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