feat(web): compact-before-send is a chip that shows the token count

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The Compact and send button on stale Claude threads was a big blue split button with a long label. It also hid the most useful number. You could not tell if the thread held 110k or 500k tokens without opening the menu. The context meter is off by default, so most users never see a count.

Now the composer shows a small Compact 27k chip next to the normal round send button:

• On (default, amber): Enter runs /compact, then sends your message. This is the same behavior as before.
• Click it → Full 27k (muted): the next send keeps full history. This replaces the Send with full history menu item.

The choice is per thread. It stays through a failed send, and it clears once its turn starts. The send button tooltip still says what Enter will do. The collapsed mobile-width composer sends directly when Full is selected, and expands first only when it would compact.

Before

After

Proof

Typecheck and targeted lint pass for apps/web. I tested on an isolated dev server with a real Claude Opus 5.5 thread. I lowered the offer thresholds to 1 token and 1 minute locally. That change is not committed.

• The chip showed Compact 24k with aria-pressed=true. A click changed it to Full 24k with aria-pressed=false.
• With Full selected, the message sent with no /compact, and Claude replied. When the offer came back, the chip was on Compact again.
• With Compact on, Enter ran /compact (27.4K → 2.49K tokens) and then sent the queued message, which Claude answered:

Reviewed with sol-loop: 3 rounds with GPT-6.1-Sol on high. Round 1 and 2 fixes are in the later commits. I dismissed one finding with a reason: the choice resets to the visible default when ChatView remounts on navigation. Sol accepted this.

Created with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 345a5f8

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This replaces the existing compact-before-send split button with a compact token-count chip while preserving Compact as the default and retaining the explicit full-history option. Runtime changes are confined to the existing web composer flow, with no schema, security, billing, deployment, or static-analysis configuration impact.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	4.9 KiB	5.0 KiB	+23 B (+0.5%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+23 B (+1.9%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.8 KiB	20.9 KiB	+41 B (+0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	2	+1 (+100.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 30cc788 · PR result: 345a5f8 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The chat composer replaces the one-use full-history send action with a per-thread Compact/Full setting. When full history is selected, sending skips automatic pre-send compaction. The setting clears after a turn starts successfully and remains selected if the send fails.

Changes

Chat history compaction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Per-thread setting and send integration apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx	ChatView tracks the full-history choice per thread and clears it after a turn starts successfully. ChatComposer receives the setting and toggle callback instead of the one-use send wrapper.
Compact/Full chip and composer behavior apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerPrimaryActions.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx, docs/user/providers-claude.md	ComposerPrimaryActions displays a token-count chip when compaction is available. ChatComposer updates mobile compaction behavior for the full-history setting. The Claude provider guide describes the chip.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ComposerPrimaryActions
  participant ChatComposer
  participant ChatView
  User->>ComposerPrimaryActions: Select Compact or Full
  ComposerPrimaryActions->>ChatComposer: Invoke toggle callback
  ChatComposer->>ChatView: Toggle active thread setting
  User->>ComposerPrimaryActions: Submit message
  ComposerPrimaryActions->>ChatComposer: Submit through composer
  ChatComposer->>ChatView: Send message
  ChatView->>ChatView: Skip compaction when full history is selected
  ChatView->>ChatView: Clear setting after turn starts successfully

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Voice-control users may be unable to activate the chip by saying “Full.” The issue is localized and can be fixed before merge or accepted as a bounded follow-up.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerPrimaryActions.tsx:
- Around line 379-380: Update the accessible name on the history control in the
ComposerPrimaryActions component to include the current visible chip label: use
“Full” when keepFullHistory is true and “Compact” otherwise, while retaining the
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W3C WCAG 2.5.3 Label in Name aria-label accessible name aria-description accessible name computation

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**Short answer:** WCAG 2.5.3 is about the control’s **accessible name**, not its accessible description. The visible label text must be included in the name. ([w3.org](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/label-in-name?utm_source=openai))

- `aria-label` contributes to the **accessible name** and can override the name otherwise provided by visible text. So `<button aria-label="Search">Go</button>` has the name “Search”; it fails 2.5.3 because “Go” is missing from that name. ([w3.org](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/label-in-name?utm_source=openai))
- `aria-description` contributes to the **accessible description**, not the name. Adding the visible label there does not make it part of the name for 2.5.3. The October 2, 2026 AccName 1.2 document is a **Working Draft**; it lists `aria-description` in the description computation. ([w3.org](https://www.w3.org/TR/2026/WD-accname-1.2-20261002/?utm_source=openai))
- **Practical fix:** use a name that contains the visible label—for example, “Go to search”—or avoid overriding the name when the visible text already supplies it. ([w3.org](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Techniques/general/G208?utm_source=openai))

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- 1: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/label-in-name?utm_source=openai
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- 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/2026/WD-accname-1.2-20261002/?utm_source=openai
- 4: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Techniques/general/G208?utm_source=openai

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Include the visible chip label in its accessible name.

When keepFullHistory is true, the button displays “Full”, but its fixed aria-label names it “Compact …”. aria-label overrides the visible text in the accessible name. aria-description does not fix this because it is not part of the accessible name. Include the current visible label instead:

Suggested fix

-              aria-label={`Compact ${compactTokens} tokens of history before sending`}
+              aria-label={`${keepFullHistory ? "Full" : "Compact"} ${compactTokens} tokens of history before sending`}

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	aria-pressed={!keepFullHistory}
	aria-label={`Compact ${compactTokens} tokens of history before sending`}
	aria-pressed={!keepFullHistory}
	aria-label={`${keepFullHistory ? "Full" : "Compact"} ${compactTokens} tokens of history before sending`}

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerPrimaryActions.tsx
around lines 379 - 380:
Update the accessible name on the history control in the ComposerPrimaryActions
component to include the current visible chip label: use “Full” when
keepFullHistory is true and “Compact” otherwise, while retaining the token count
and history context.

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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr