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When Cloud Agent Chat reconnects or the page reloads while a prompt is still in the composer, the draft was held only in React state and disappeared. Drafts were also vulnerable to storage exceptions in private or embedded browser contexts.

Persist the live chat draft in session storage and restore it on mount. Clear it only after a send is accepted, preserve it when the socket is unavailable, and make all draft storage best effort. The existing pre-start failure recovery now uses the same safe storage behavior.

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  • Regression commit: b9376d293c9.
  • Fix head: 6210baa4057.
  • bun test test/session.test.ts: red before the helper implementation (writeComposerDraft is not a function), green after it. Covers round-trip recovery, clearing after accepted send, and unavailable storage.
  • bun run check: passed (typecheck, 27 scripts, 45 tests across 13 bun:test files).
  • Production browser bundles for src/main.tsx and src/gallery-main.tsx: passed.
  • git diff --check upstream/main..HEAD: passed.

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Fixed: Cloud Agent Chat preserves an in-progress composer draft across reconnects and reloads.


Summary by cubic

Preserves the Cloud Agent Chat composer draft across reconnects and page reloads by persisting it to session storage, and makes all draft storage best-effort so private or embedded browsers don't break chat.

  • Restores the draft on mount and writes it on every change, so an in-progress prompt survives reconnects and reloads.
  • Clears the draft only after a send is accepted and keeps it while the socket is unavailable.
  • Swallows storage failures so session storage denial (private browsing, embedded contexts) doesn't affect chat.
  • Pre-start failure recovery uses the same best-effort storage behavior.

Written for commit f794c69. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features
    • Chat drafts are saved as you type and restored when you return.
    • Clearing the composer also clears its saved draft.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Draft saving and recovery continue gracefully when browser storage is unavailable or encounters an error.

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Walkthrough

Chat now restores composer text from storage and saves changes. Session helpers handle draft reads, writes, and clearing, and tolerate storage errors.

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Composer draft persistence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Draft storage helpers and tests
agent-chat/src/session.ts, agent-chat/test/session.test.ts
Session helpers read and write drafts, clear storage for empty drafts, and suppress storage errors. Tests cover persistence, clearing, and failed storage operations.
Chat draft integration
agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx
Chat initializes the composer from the stored draft. It stores nonempty text and removes the stored draft when the text is empty.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Chat
  participant SessionHelpers
  participant Storage
  Chat->>SessionHelpers: Read composer draft
  SessionHelpers->>Storage: Get stored draft
  Storage-->>SessionHelpers: Return stored draft or read error
  SessionHelpers-->>Chat: Return draft or empty string
  Chat->>SessionHelpers: Write changed composer text
  SessionHelpers->>Storage: Store nonempty draft or remove empty draft
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Suggested reviewers: lawrencecchen

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f794c

Draft persistence and send handling show no actionable merge-blocking risk. Storage failures are contained by the recoverable adapter.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to f794c

Draft recovery is limited to the browser session and does not automatically send messages. However, drafts are not tied to their original chat: another chat opened in the same tab can restore that text, and submitting it sends it to the current chat.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · inferred: Automatic restoration uses one draft key without conversation or route identity. Text entered in chat A can therefore reappear when chat B is opened in the same browser tab and origin. A subsequent submission delivers it to B, creating a user-mediated wrong-context disclosure risk. The shared key predates this PR, but continuous persistence and restoration extend this exposure to ordinary live Chat drafts.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure concerns draft text retained within browser-origin and tab storage, then restored into a selected chat. Cross-account, cross-tenant, or independently deployed service exposure was not established by the inspected sources.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The supported disclosure sequence is entering sensitive text in one chat, opening another same-origin chat in the same tab, restoring the shared draft, and explicitly submitting it to the current session. Restoration alone does not transmit the text or grant additional agent authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Restored content is rendered as textarea text. Submission retains the existing nonempty-text and transcript-lock checks; ordinary active-session delivery uses the current session ID and requires an open WebSocket.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — An unavailable ordinary send returns false and leaves the draft intact. Pending-start failure restores the failed prompt and queued replies before returning to Composer. That recovery remains a separate writer to the shared draft key, without a generation check against newer unsent Chat edits.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind automatic draft recovery to its conversation and application-route context, while preserving deliberate provider transfers through an explicit transfer operation.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff changes only composer draft persistence in Chat.tsx, storage helpers in session.ts, and tests. It does not add or alter Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui or Ghostty …
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS: The reviewed range changes only TypeScript/TSX production files and a TypeScript test. It introduces no Swift changes, so the Swift 6 actor-isolation check is not applicable.
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only three TypeScript files: agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx, agent-chat/src/session.ts, and agent-chat/test/session.test.ts. The authoritative diff contains no…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx, agent-chat/src/session.ts, and agent-chat/test/session.test.ts. The diff contains no browser.* socket commands, WebKit/A…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The pull request changes only three TypeScript files under agent-chat and changes no .swift files. The custom check applies only to production Swift changes that add or move expensive synchronous …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed The diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cache. Chat previously initialized the composer to an empty string; it now reads the intended sessionStorage draft. The pre-existing `dr…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes composer storage reads/writes and best-effort error handling. The added production code contains no sleep, timer, polling, delay, retry backoff, or wall-clock wait. Existing sessi…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed The production diff adds only constant-time session-storage reads, writes, and removal in agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx (lines 60, 88-89) and agent-chat/src/session.ts (lines 331-355). It int…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The pull-request diff changes only three TypeScript/TSX files: agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx, agent-chat/src/session.ts, and agent-chat/test/session.test.ts. It changes no Swift code, so it…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The reviewed diff changes only TypeScript and TSX files: agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx, agent-chat/src/session.ts, and agent-chat/test/session.test.ts. It introduces no Swift code, `@concur…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The pull request changes only three TypeScript files: agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx, agent-chat/src/session.ts, and agent-chat/test/session.test.ts. The review-scoped diff contains no Swift…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS. The review-scoped diff changes only three TypeScript files under agent-chat: Chat.tsx, session.ts, and session.test.ts. It contains no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, …
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only Chat.tsx, session.ts, and session.test.ts. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files, so it introduces or materially changes no production Swift logging.
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds draft persistence and guarded storage operations. It does not add or change user-facing error, alert, API error, command output, or recovery text. The only added strings ar…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The PR changes draft persistence and storage error handling. It does not add or materially change product-facing copy, locale keys, catalogs, or message files. The added test text is exempt test conte…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only TypeScript and TSX files: Chat.tsx, session.ts, and session.test.ts. It introduces no SwiftUI changes, so the SwiftUI state and layout failure conditions do n…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed The review-scoped diff changes only TypeScript and TSX files under agent-chat, plus TypeScript tests. It introduces no Swift architectural change, so the Swift-specific failure conditions do not apply…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed The pull request changes only agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx, agent-chat/src/session.ts, and agent-chat/test/session.test.ts. It contains no Swift changes and does not add or modify any cmux…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The pull request changes only three intentional source/test paths: agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx, agent-chat/src/session.ts, and agent-chat/test/session.test.ts. The diff adds hand-written …
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The pull request changes only TypeScript files: agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx, agent-chat/src/session.ts, and agent-chat/test/session.test.ts. It changes no Swift file under a production `S…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving Cloud Agent Chat drafts across reconnects.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the problem, resulting behavior, implementation scope, validation commands, changelog entry, and known limitation. It does not use the template's Testing heading and omits the…
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🟡 Minor · Use writeComposerDraft before switching models. · Chat.tsx:127

agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx:127
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use writeComposerDraft before switching models.

switchHarnessModel writes to sessionStorage before compose(). If storage denies the write, the uncaught exception prevents the switch. The new effect's guarded write does not protect this direct call.

Proposed fix
-    sessionStorage.setItem("agentui.draft", text);
+    writeComposerDraft(sessionStorage, text);
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Review comment at @agent-chat/src/components/Chat.tsx at line 127:
Update the draft write in switchHarnessModel to use writeComposerDraft with
sessionStorage and text, so a storage write failure does not prevent compose()
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- Line 127: Update the draft write in switchHarnessModel to use
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- Line 60: In Chat, replace the duplicated draft read, write, and removal logic
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export function Chat() {
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const [text, setText] = useState("");
const [text, setText] = useState(() => draftStorage.getItem(composerDraftKey) || "");

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Optionally use the composer-draft helpers in Chat.

Chat.tsx duplicates the read, write, and remove logic implemented by readComposerDraft and writeComposerDraft. No checked-in rule requires this change, and current behavior is equivalent. Using the helpers would keep future draft changes in one place.

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-  const [text, setText] = useState(() => draftStorage.getItem(composerDraftKey) || "");
+  const [text, setText] = useState(() => readComposerDraft(draftStorage));
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (text) draftStorage.setItem(composerDraftKey, text);
-    else draftStorage.removeItem(composerDraftKey);
+    writeComposerDraft(draftStorage, text);
   }, [text]);

Include readComposerDraft and writeComposerDraft in the ../session import.

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const [text, setText] = useState(() => draftStorage.getItem(composerDraftKey) || "");
const [text, setText] = useState(() => readComposerDraft(draftStorage));
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