fix(chat): preserve assistant responses when folding - #8903
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change updates web and mobile turn folding to preserve substantive assistant messages and agent-spawn activities. Empty assistant commentary remains foldable. Tests cover the updated row ordering and nested-agent behavior. ChangesTurn folding visibility
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Settled web conversations can hide an assistant response that consists of an attachment with no text, preventing users from seeing response content until the fold is expanded. This should be corrected before merge. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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One finding: the neighbouring turn-fold test in this file still encodes the old positional folding behaviour and will now fail.
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Rebased onto current main in be2be75a1. The conflict resolution preserves main’s image-preview and interrupted-turn presentation rules, while retaining this PR’s three visibility guarantees: substantive assistant responses remain visible, blank non-terminal commentary folds, and spawned-agent activity stays separate from ordinary foldable work. Verified: |
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Fold only settled work activity, leaving every assistant message visible. Apply the same folding behavior to web and mobile timelines, including a regression test for a substantive answer followed by short provider commentary. Verify with the focused mobile thread activity test suite.
更新折叠断言，使已完成回合中的助手消息保持可见。 保留仍在运行的子智能体活动，避免父回合完成后隐藏其状态入口。 验证：web 折叠逻辑测试 47/47、mobile 活动测试 23/23 通过。
- 将子智能体元数据作为独立活动边界，完成回合折叠后仍保留其状态卡片。\n- 仅折叠普通工作；空的非终结助手消息仍随折叠处理，避免显示空响应。\n- 同步回滚摘要输入与子智能体卡片断言，兼容最新主分支。\n- 验证：移动端与 Web 折叠逻辑定向测试 202/202 通过；两个客户端类型检查通过。
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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts`:
- Line 624: Update the hiddenEntryIds folding condition in the assistant message
handling so it requires both whitespace-only text and no attachments, preserving
attachment-only messages as visible content. Add a regression test covering a
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Keep attachment-only assistant messages visible.
ChatMessage.attachments is an optional array, and mobile treats attachments as message content. If a non-terminal assistant message has whitespace-only text and an attachment, this condition adds its ID to hiddenEntryIds; the row renderer then skips it when the settled turn is collapsed. Require both empty text and no attachments before folding the message, and add an attachment-only regression test.
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entry.kind === "message" &&
entry.message.role === "assistant" &&
entry.message.text.trim().length === 0 &&
+ (entry.message.attachments?.length ?? 0) === 0 &&
!input.terminalAssistantMessageIds.has(entry.message.id)📝 Committable suggestion
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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts` at line 624, Update
the hiddenEntryIds folding condition in the assistant message handling so it
requires both whitespace-only text and no attachments, preserving
attachment-only messages as visible content. Add a regression test covering a
non-terminal assistant message with whitespace-only text and an attachment.
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Fixes #8879.
Settled turns previously selected the final assistant segment as the sole visible message. A trailing provider progress note could therefore hide the substantive response that preceded it.
Keep all assistant messages visible and fold only settled work activity in both web and mobile timelines.
Verification:
vp fmt --checkon the changed files and focused mobile thread activity tests (22 passing). The focused web logic suite cannot currently load because existing workspace dependencies for@t3tools/client-runtime/codex-markdown-directivesare missing; mobile typecheck also has existing unrelated errors in its workspace.Model and harness: GPT-5 Codex via Codex CLI.
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Timeline presentation changes for all settled turns: more assistant and agent-spawn rows may appear where folding previously hid them; verify chat density and expand/collapse behavior in web and mobile.
Overview
Fixes settled-turn folding so a trailing short assistant message no longer hides an earlier substantive answer (#8879).
Web
deriveTurnFoldsnow collapses only eligible work rows into “Worked for …”; assistant messages stay visible, except empty non-terminal commentary. Agent-spawn, context-compaction, image previews, and post-terminal work still skip the fold.Mobile
deriveThreadFeedTurnFoldshides activity groups (routine tool work), not assistant messages. Agent-spawn activities get their own group viagroupAdjacentActivitiesand are excluded from folds;appendPresentedFeedEntrykeeps them even when they would be filtered as neutral tool noise.Tests on web and mobile assert multi-message assistant turns, blank commentary folding, and spawned-agent rows after the parent turn completes.
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Preserve assistant responses and agent-spawn activities during settled-turn folding
deriveThreadFeedTurnFoldsno longer selects assistant messages for hiding, andgroupAdjacentActivitiesisolates agent-spawn activities into their own groups so they are not merged or folded with adjacent work.appendPresentedFeedEntrynow retains agent-spawn activities even when they would otherwise be filtered as neutral tool-like entries.deriveTurnFoldsretains all nonblank assistant messages while folding eligible work entries; only nonterminal blank assistant commentary is folded. Agent-spawn, context-compaction, image-preview, and post-terminal work entries remain visible.deriveThreadFeedTurnFoldsin threadActivity.ts andderiveTurnFoldsin MessagesTimeline.logic.ts if row counts change.Macroscope summarized 5df854e.
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