fix(web): messages with quotes or links no longer collapse when short

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A sent message collapses behind "Show full message" when its raw text is over 600 characters or 8 lines. Quote chips store the whole quote, your comment, and the surrounding text in their link, so almost any message with a quote collapsed even when it was only a line or two on screen. File links and context chips (terminal output, PRs, images) also hide their target in the raw text, though only tens of characters each.

The collapse check now measures what is shown: each quote chip counts as its label, and every other Markdown link or chip counts as its link text. The quote chip and the check share one assistantCitationLabel helper, so they can't drift apart. Mobile doesn't collapse user messages, so it isn't affected.

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After

Validation

• vp test run src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.test.tsx src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.test.tsx (230 passed), including new tests for a message with a long quote (and that long visible text still collapses) and one with many file links and a context chip
• apps/web and packages/shared typecheck, targeted lint
• Checked in a real web client: on main the message above collapses, and with this change it doesn't.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 7c569e3

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized web bug fix that preserves existing citation labels while correcting collapse thresholds for messages containing citations and links, with targeted tests and no schema, infrastructure, security, billing, or default-setting changes. A remaining measurement mismatch for some Markdown reference and code-block cases represents a separate Medium-severity correctness risk.

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Walkthrough

Citation chips now use a shared label helper. User-message collapse checks measure visible text after replacing assistant citations and Markdown links with their labels.

Changes

Chat citation labels and message collapse

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared citation labels packages/shared/src/assistantCitations.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.tsx	The shared helper prefers a nonblank comment, collapses whitespace, and truncates labels longer than 64 characters. The citation chip uses the helper.
Visible-text message collapse apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts	The collapse helper measures text after replacing citations and Markdown links with their labels. The timeline uses the helper. Tests cover long citations, file links, and context-chip links.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 51f19

Long messages containing links shown literally in code may not collapse. This is a bounded display issue that can be fixed or accepted before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: short messages containing quotes or links no longer collapse.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, the implementation, the affected behavior, test results, manual verification, screenshots, and the agent used. The scope and approval section is not explicit, but…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Approvability	✅ Passed	This is a focused message-collapse bug fix. The diff changes five source or test files, adds no dependency or configuration changes, and adds no static-analysis suppression. The new shared helper is a…

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts:
- Around line 2111-2121: Update visibleUserMessageText to extract rendered
Markdown link labels using the same parser-backed text as ChatMarkdown, rather
than returning raw label source via the $1 substitution. Apply this to context
links, file links, and ordinary Markdown anchors so formatting delimiters do not
affect the 600-character collapse decision; preserve the existing 8-line
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts:
- Line 2239: Update linkLabels in the message-length measurement so Markdown
links are replaced only in prose, not inside inline code spans or fenced code
blocks; preserve literal code syntax when counting visible text. Keep the
collapse check inexpensive and retain existing link-label handling outside code.

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