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Preserve Cloud chat row measurements when appending turns - #16011

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Appending a turn to a long Cloud chat currently clears every cached row height, disconnects mounted row observers, and rebuilds their refs. Keep those measurements and observers when the turn count grows, avoiding repeated layout estimation and observer setup while older turns are visible.

Retained observers read the current turn count so a row that is now above the visible anchor still compensates its growth correctly. Shrinking history and toggling virtualization continue to reset the cache; unmount removes observers and listeners.

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  • Red: 2ec27d84be6d5cb5c7235b97fc8d9805ff5e3553. From agent-chat, bun run test/virtual-append.test.ts fails with “append must preserve the row and top spacer throughout the layout update”.
  • Green: 0f41fdee2e9a3b37f081e554a8600fe399093b81. The same command passes. The real React hook with controlled DOM measurements preserves its 700 px top spacer and visible row when growing from 30 to 31 turns, with no recreated row observers. A retained row observer also applies the expected 50 px scroll compensation using the new count.
  • Covers repeated append, history shrink, virtualization off/on, and observer/listener cleanup. Pinned react-test-renderer and its types are test-only dependencies; no runtime dependency was added.
  • bun run check passed TypeScript, 24 script suites, and 44 Bun tests across 13 files. Production browser bundles for both entrypoints and git diff --check passed. Bundle output stayed in the worktree's disposable scratch/build-check.
  • A local headless Chrome preview was attempted but timed out. The hook fixture establishes the measured layout behavior; live Cloud/browser verification remains unproven. The sparse checkout omits the root verification script, so checks used the affected package.

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Fixed Cloud chat discarding cached turn heights and rebuilding row observers whenever a new turn is appended.


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Preserves cached turn heights and mounted row observers when appending a turn to a Cloud chat, so reading older turns no longer triggers a full remeasure and observer rebuild.

  • Retained observers use the current turn count to keep scroll compensation correct for rows now above the visible anchor.
  • Shrinking history and toggling virtualization still invalidate the cache; unmount removes observers and listeners.
  • Adds a regression test covering repeated append, history shrink, virtualization toggling, and cleanup, using test-only react-test-renderer devDependencies.

Written for commit c8280a2. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Appending chat turns now preserves the visible position and existing measurements, reducing unexpected scrolling.
    • Virtualized turn measurements update correctly as history grows, and refresh when history shrinks or virtualization is toggled.

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useVirtualTurns retains cached heights and observers when the turn count stays the same or increases and enabled is unchanged. It resets measurement state when the count decreases or enabled changes. Tests cover appended turns, scroll compensation, state resets, and cleanup.

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Virtual turn retention

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retain measurements across appends
agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts, agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts
The hook keeps measurement state when the turn count stays the same or increases, and uses the latest count for measurement. Tests check retained rows and observers, scroll position and compensation, resets after history shrinks or virtualization is toggled, and cleanup.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: lawrencecchen

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c8280

Appending turns now keeps row measurements as intended. In a narrow suspended-transition case, scroll compensation could be skipped. Moving the count update into the layout effect resolves this, and the risk is low.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the primary change: preserving Cloud chat row measurements when turns are appended.
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS. The reviewed diff changes only agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts and adds agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts. It preserves virtual-row measurements and ResizeObserver instances d…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts and agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or production Swift changes, …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only TypeScript source and test files. The authoritative diff contains no production Swift files or Swift blocking-runtime synchronization. The synchronization-like test…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts and agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts. The diff contains React virtual-turn measurement and test-fixture logic, with no `brow…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The reviewed range changes only agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts and agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts. It contains no production Swift changes, so the expensive synchronous Swift load…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS: The diff changes the transient measured-height and ResizeObserver cache in useVirtualTurns. Transcript.tsx uses it only to compute visible rows and spacer heights. No fresh read from disk, d…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed The pull request does not introduce a hacky sleep or fixed wall-clock wait. The production change uses useRef, useLayoutEffect, and ResizeObserver callbacks. It adds no sleep, timer, polling, …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed The production diff adds only O(1) ref/state updates and changes cache invalidation to retain measurements on append. It adds no nested collection scans, per-target rescans, repeated sorting/filtering…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only TypeScript source and a TypeScript test. It introduces no cmux-owned Swift code, so the Swift concurrency modernization conditions do not apply.
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The pull request changes only agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts and agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or Swift concurrency changes. There…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts and agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts. Both files are TypeScript, and the diff contains no Swift source, `…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS. The review-scoped diff changes only two TypeScript files: agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts and agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts. It does not change a SwiftPM package, `Package.r…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only TypeScript files; it adds no Swift production code or Swift logging. The only added logging call is console.log in the TypeScript test fixture `agent-chat/test/vi…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff only changes useVirtualTurns cache retention and measurement callbacks. Its product consumer (Transcript.tsx) uses the result for row rendering and spacer heights, not fo…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts and adds agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts. The production change modifies measurement state and observer handling, with no u…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only TypeScript hook and test files under agent-chat. The authoritative diff contains no Swift or SwiftUI files, and it introduces no ObservableObject, @Published, Geome…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The scoped diff changes only TypeScript files: agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts and agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts. It contains no Swift architecture changes. Therefore the Sw…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS: The reviewed diff changes only two TypeScript files under agent-chat. It introduces no Swift code and no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, or WindowGroup changes. The Swift …
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The diff changes only agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts and adds agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts. Both are intentional hand-written source/test paths. The raw diff contains no logs, s…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The authoritative PR diff changes only agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts and agent-chat/test/virtual-append.test.ts. It contains no Swift files and no changed path under a production `Source…
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const measureCallbacks = useRef(new Map<number, (node: HTMLDivElement | null) => void>());
const measureCacheKey = useRef({ count, enabled });
const countRef = useRef(count);
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update countRef during commit, not render.

React can suspend a transition while keeping the previous content visible. Writing the shared ref during render exposes the pending count to mounted observers. React explicitly prohibits this render-time ref mutation. (react.dev)

For example, with 31 committed turns and the anchor in row 30, a suspended render with count = 30 changes this ref before the reset effect runs. If row 29 then grows by 50 px, its retained observer calculates anchor 29 and skips the required scroll compensation.

Move the assignment to the start of the existing useLayoutEffect, before its early return. This keeps retained observers synchronized with committed counts.

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Review comment at @agent-chat/src/hooks/useVirtualTurns.ts at line 98:
Move the countRef.current assignment out of render and to the start of the
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Review: codex review found unresolved lockfile markers after the main merge. Fixed: removed the markers while keeping the TypeScript dependency; the second review found no correctness defects. Left: scoped checks were limited by missing local dependencies; CI will validate the merged head.

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Merge receipt for c8280a2e70: every check was green at merge (10 verified; 14 skipped by policy). Full suite runs on main after merge.

rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 30, 2026
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ec42b7e fix(cloud): keep the link client's last stderr lines in its exit error (manaflow-ai#16057)
8793407 Keep Cloud terminal prompts intact when resizing (manaflow-ai#15924)
2dbe472 Bound Iroh release gate phases (manaflow-ai#16084)
4df2a40 fix(agent-chat): keep ACP Stop off live turns and quiet cancelled startups (manaflow-ai#16093)
d916e5c Merge pull request manaflow-ai#16006 from manaflow-ai/feat-dashboard-settings-hub-plans
6844b12 coderouter: no empty state while shared accounts are unreachable
7b51cc9 test: an unreachable shared-account service must not show the empty state
0fcbc54 ci: make E2E rescue and video capture fail soft (manaflow-ai#16027)
56b06d1 dashboard: capitalize remaining labels, buttons, and the LLM/CLI acronyms
b76ad61 billing: show the upgrade welcome only once the plan confirms it
2eb9bee ci: simplify macOS pool picker (manaflow-ai#15988)
fe2dd0e Preserve Cloud chat row measurements when appending turns (manaflow-ai#16011)
5ae227e test: a stale welcome link must not hide the upgrade prompt
7e39c92 fix(ios): fall back to memory when the simulator support directory is missing (manaflow-ai#16032)
87c78fe ci: do not wait on a busy producer root for tests (manaflow-ai#16077)
aae7dae test: keep the hosted client's real exports in the coderouter procedure mock
ef01450 coderouter: name an unreachable shared-account service and log account failures
0183942 Settle the session status when Stop cancels ACP startup (manaflow-ai#16081)
d664799 test: an unreachable shared-account service is its own state
1c2d14c Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into feat-dashboard-settings-hub-plans
3fc0c8d billing: one price shape on every plan card; clearer Cloud empty text
167d1a3 test: every plan card shows its price in one shape
d3a63a6 settings: list the subnav's teams from the team catalog
258cd09 test: the settings subnav lists teams from the team catalog
74d2419 billing: say a reason all other plans share once, and no price for a granted plan
aa820ae test: a reason all other plan cards share shows once
504df35 billing: report a downgrade's net credit
7c48432 test: a downgrade credit is net of the new plan's remaining time
952940a billing: plan picker with in-app switching, cancel with reasons, and upgrade prompts
4dc8964 test: Plan & billing defaults to the personal plan
9a69fe7 test: plan picker states and the optional cancel reason
0163f67 billing: in-app plan switch, cancel reasons, and checkout returnTo
31048db test: in-app plan change, cancel reasons, and checkout returnTo
596ff2a dashboard: make Settings the hub for billing and teams, title-case the navigation
ff11627 test: settings is the hub for billing and teams, with title-case navigation

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