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Add one pinned message per thread, shown as a banner above the transcript - #269

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Closes #268.

What

A pin button joins the message hover actions (next to copy/edit/reactions). The one pinned message renders as a compact banner between the header and the transcript: sender name, one-line truncated text, click to jump to the message, X to unpin. Works in 1:1 threads and rooms; rooms attribute the sender (You or the member bot's name).

One pin per thread — pinning another message replaces the pin, matching iMessage/Messenger mental models and keeping the data model to a single field.

Design

  • pinnedMessageId?: string on BotRecord and GroupRecord, through the existing PATCH allowlists (validated as a message-id shape; null/"" clears so the key drops off the record)
  • The id is stored verbatim and resolved against the transcript at render — a pin whose message was edited to another branch or deleted simply renders nothing. No cross-record integrity to maintain, no migration edge cases
  • Clearing sends "" from the client (the debounced PATCH's JSON.stringify drops undefined), which the server normalizes to unset — same convention the codebase uses for cwd
  • Banner jump reuses the existing focusMessage action (opens a transcript window around the target and scrolls to it) — no new scroll machinery

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Banner live on a real thread (sender + one line, between header and transcript):

pinned banner

Validation

  • pnpm typecheck
  • pnpm vitest run src — 94/94 ✓ · server/store.test.ts — 47/47 ✓
  • New API assertions: pin / round-trip / replace / reject bad shape ("not an id!", 42) / clear via null
  • Manual in the real app: pin via hover button → banner appears with sender + text; the bubble's pin flips to Unpin; X and Unpin both clear it; jump scrolls to the message
  • Same honest note as Render ~~double-tilde~~ spans in bot replies as tap-to-reveal spoilers #267: the spawn-dependent slice of pnpm test currently times out on this machine identically on clean main (verified by stash-and-rerun); unit + client suites are green and CI is authoritative

Prior art: the same pattern (sender-attributed one-line banner, click-to-jump, X-to-unpin) ships in a native macOS multi-agent client I maintain.

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  • New Features

    • Added the ability to pin one message in group rooms and bot conversations.
    • Added banners showing pinned messages, including sender and message text.
    • Select a pinned-message banner to jump to the message, or remove the pin.
    • Pins can be cleared when no longer needed.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added validation to reject invalid pinned-message identifiers with a clear error response.

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Closes milind-soni#268. Threads accumulate exactly the content you keep scrolling
back to — the constraint, the decision, the file path, the answer. A
pin button joins the message hover actions; the one pinned message
renders as a compact banner (sender, one line, click to jump, X to
unpin) between the header and the transcript, in 1:1 threads and rooms.

pinnedMessageId on the bot and group records, through the existing
PATCH paths; stored verbatim and resolved against the transcript at
render, so a pin whose message was edited to another branch or deleted
simply renders nothing. Clearing sends "" (JSON.stringify drops
undefined), which the server normalizes to an unset field.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Walkthrough

Message pinning adds one optional pinnedMessageId to bot threads and group rooms. PATCH routes validate and clear the value. Message controls and banners support pinning, navigation, replacement, and unpinning.

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Message pinning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pin state and PATCH API
server/store.ts, server/index.ts, server/index.test.ts, src/state/store.tsx
Bot threads and group rooms store one optional pinnedMessageId. PATCH requests validate, replace, or clear the value. Tests cover both routes.
Bot thread pin controls
src/components/ChatView.tsx
Bot messages support pin and unpin actions. PinnedBanner shows the sender and message preview, focuses the pinned message, and clears the pin.
Group room pin controls
src/components/GroupView.tsx
Group messages support pin and unpin actions. The pinned-message banner shows the sender and normalized content, focuses the message, and clears the pin.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 517bd

The change adds persisted pinned-message banners and clearing across direct and room threads. Automated coverage still does not exercise the room update path or the empty-string clear request, so a bounded integration regression remains possible and should have explicit owner follow-up.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MessageRow
  participant ClientState
  participant PATCHRoute
  participant Store
  participant PinnedBanner
  MessageRow->>ClientState: Set pinnedMessageId
  ClientState->>PATCHRoute: PATCH pinnedMessageId
  PATCHRoute->>Store: Persist validated pin
  Store-->>PinnedBanner: Return pinnedMessageId
  PinnedBanner->>ClientState: Resolve and focus pinned message
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Possibly related PRs

  • milind-soni/OpenMausBot#259 — Both changes modify bot metadata persistence and PATCH/state update paths, but they add distinct fields and UI features.

Suggested reviewers: milind-soni, claude, aivsomkar

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The implementation meets the main behavior in [#268], but no explicit client test verifies banner resolution for deleted or branch-moved messages. Add client tests for banner resolution when the pinned message exists, is deleted, or moves to another branch.
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Check name Status Explanation
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers the change, rationale, verification, and UI behavior, but it omits the repository checklist.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code changes remain within the linked issue scope: pin storage, PATCH handling, UI controls, banners, and related API tests.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: one pinned message per thread displayed above the transcript.
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284-296: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add room pinning and empty-string clearing coverage.

GroupView clears pins with pinnedMessageId: "", but the test covers only bot pinning and null clearing. Add equivalent assertions for PATCH /api/groups/:id, including empty-string clearing.

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In `@server/index.test.ts` around lines 284 - 296, Extend the pinning tests near
the existing bot PATCH coverage to exercise PATCH /api/groups/:id with a valid
pinnedMessageId round trip, replacement, invalid values, and empty-string
clearing. Assert successful responses and returned group state, including that
pinnedMessageId is absent after clearing, matching the existing bot assertions.
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In `@server/index.test.ts`:
- Around line 284-296: Extend the pinning tests near the existing bot PATCH
coverage to exercise PATCH /api/groups/:id with a valid pinnedMessageId round
trip, replacement, invalid values, and empty-string clearing. Assert successful
responses and returned group state, including that pinnedMessageId is absent
after clearing, matching the existing bot assertions.

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The UI clears a pin with "", and rooms used the same field without an HTTP assertion.

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Addressed the room-pin coverage nit: PATCH /api/groups/:id now has the same pin / replace / invalid / empty-string-clear assertions as bots (517bd7d).

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