feat(chat): show pending context handoff when selecting a model

[maria-rcks]

selecting a provider or model that needs a context handoff gave no sign of it until after the next send.

now the timeline shows a "Context handoff pending" row as soon as you pick that model, on web and mobile. switching back to the original model removes it. the row reuses the existing handoff divider, and resolvePendingHandoff in client-runtime decides when it shows. no server changes.

verified on blacksmith: client-runtime handoff tests, formatting, web lint, and client-runtime, web, and mobile typechecks. in the real web app, selecting claude showed the pending row and switching back to codex removed it. native mobile runtime is unverified.

https://uploads-production-47e4.up.railway.app/files/4367baeb-cfc3-4860-8655-7216312956a0/handoff-selection.mp4

model: claude-opus-5-5. harness: claude code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a new pending context-handoff experience to the production web and mobile chat flows, backed by shared provider-continuation logic. It has no server-side side effects or schema changes, but its cross-platform integration changes the existing model-selection experience and merits human review.

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Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

This is a maintainer-requested change to one behavior: a pending context handoff appears immediately on selection and takes precedence over compaction, then disappears if the selection returns before sending. Web and mobile share the pending-handoff calculation; the server guard enforces the same behavior for direct clients and agents. The existing handoff row styling and ordinary compaction after delivery are preserved.

The eligibility decision did not review code and reports no correctness finding. Current CI passes lint, typecheck, build, all test shards, and release smoke. Focused verification also passed 268 tests and exercised selection, switch-back, rejected compaction, handoff delivery, and subsequent compaction through the real web/provider path. Native mobile runtime remains unverified. Two independent final code reviews are in progress.

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📝 Walkthrough

The change adds pending handoff resolution to the client runtime and displays pending handoff endpoints in mobile and web thread timelines.

Changes: Pending handoff flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve pending handoff endpoints packages/client-runtime/src/handoff.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/handoff.test.ts	Adds a resolver that uses the latest started, non-rolled-back run and the selected model. Tests cover provider and model selection cases.
Render handoff rows apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-handoff-row.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/V2LifecycleRow.tsx	Adds shared row components for pending and completed handoffs. The mobile arrow uses the supplied icon color; the web row displays resolved endpoints and failure status.
Connect pending handoffs to thread timelines apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-composer-state.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx	Mobile composer state and web chat resolve pending handoffs from thread and selection state. The timelines render a pending handoff row when endpoints are available.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MobileComposer
  participant resolvePendingHandoff
  participant ThreadFeed
  participant ChatView
  participant HandoffRow
  MobileComposer->>resolvePendingHandoff: projection, selection, providers
  resolvePendingHandoff-->>MobileComposer: endpoints or null
  MobileComposer->>ThreadFeed: pending endpoints
  ChatView->>resolvePendingHandoff: projection, selected model, providers
  resolvePendingHandoff-->>ChatView: endpoints or null
  ChatView->>HandoffRow: pending endpoints

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 94a73

Compaction can occur before a pending handoff, and switching back after a failed provider start can show the wrong handoff. Resolve these behaviors before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 94a73

The inspected changes add a handoff preview without granting new provider authority or changing stored conversation history. However, the reviewed revision does not contain the described compaction safeguards, and the preview does not establish whether context reached a provider after a failed start. These limitations prevent a minimal-risk assessment.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated new reachability is presentation of selected-thread endpoint metadata in both clients. The inspected change does not expand provider execution authority, credentials, tenant scope, or server context-transfer operations.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The preview does not enforce compaction policy. Existing web behavior can dispatch /compact before the user turn, and the inspected server guard rejects empty-conversation compaction rather than pending handoffs. This behavior is unchanged against the PR base, not an introduced bypass.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Existing delivery logic persists pending status before injection, rejects ambiguous repeat injection, and records accepted delivery afterward. Inline delivery provides an unsent restoration path for refusal before prompt acceptance. These recovery controls remain server-owned and unchanged by the preview addition.

Pre-merge checks · 4

Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: showing a pending context handoff when the user selects a model.
Description check		The description covers the problem, implementation, verification results, screenshots, recording, and known mobile-runtime limitation. It does not explicitly document the required issue or maintainer …

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🟡 Minor · Gate compaction on pending handoffs in both clients. · ChatView.tsx:7767

apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx:7767
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Gate compaction on pending handoffs in both clients.

When pendingHandoff is present, manual /compact remains available on web and mobile. On web, stale-context auto-compaction can run /compact before the user turn. The server can accept this compaction through a fresh native session, but it defers the pending handoff context until after the compact operation. This can complete compaction before the pending context is delivered and can leave the subsequent user turn ordered behind that compact run.

Suggested fix

     pendingApprovals.length > 0 ||
     pendingUserInputs.length > 0 ||
-    showPlanFollowUpPrompt;
+    showPlanFollowUpPrompt ||
+    pendingHandoff !== null;

                         hasCompactableConversation={
-                          hasCompactableConversation && !props.isCompacting
+                          hasCompactableConversation &&
+                          !props.isCompacting &&
+                          !props.pendingHandoff
                         }

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx at line 7767:
Update the manual compaction availability condition associated with
manualCompactionProviderAvailable to disable `/compact` while pendingHandoff is
present on both clients. Also gate the web auto-compaction input derived from
hasCompactableConversation so compaction cannot start until the pending handoff
is cleared.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/client-runtime/src/handoff.ts:
- Around line 28-30: Update the run-selection predicate in resolvePendingHandoff
to require an incoming handoff’s delivery status to be injected or inline before
selecting that run as the source. Preserve eligibility for runs without a
contextHandoffId, and continue excluding unstarted and rolled-back runs.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx:
- Line 7767: Update the manual compaction availability condition associated with
manualCompactionProviderAvailable to disable `/compact` while pendingHandoff is
present on both clients. Also gate the web auto-compaction input derived from
hasCompactableConversation so compaction cannot start until the pending handoff
is cleared.

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📒 Files selected for processing (4)

• apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
• packages/client-runtime/src/handoff.test.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/handoff.ts

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Note

Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Re the outside-diff compaction gate in ChatView.tsx and the mobile composer: gating compaction on a pending handoff was intentionally removed from this PR at the maintainer's request. This PR only adds the pending handoff preview and leaves compaction behavior unchanged.