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Follow-up to my #39, and the half of it I should have seen at the time.

#39 keyed the composer by bot id so a half-written message stops following you into the next conversation — the wrong-bot send is real. But remounting also throws the draft away: leave a thread mid-sentence, come back, and the box is empty. I even wrote in that PR that per-bot drafts would work too and picked the smaller change; having lived with it, dropping the text is the part users notice.

So: keep the draft instead of discarding it.

  • New src/lib/drafts.ts — the unsent text per bot (and per room) in localStorage, plus a useDraft(id) hook that is a drop-in for useState("").
  • Composer.tsx — one line and an import. Remounting still isolates threads from each other and still resets the mention picker and dictation exactly as Clear the composer when switching bots #39 arranged; only the text now survives the trip, including across a restart. Sending or emptying the box clears the entry.

Storage is best-effort: a full quota, a locked-down origin, or a garbled value reads as "no drafts" rather than costing a keystroke.

pnpm typecheck && pnpm test pass (101 tests). Also ran it in a packaged build: type to one bot, switch away, come back — the text is waiting; send empties it; quitting and reopening keeps it.

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  • New Features

    • Draft messages are saved automatically while composing.
    • Drafts are preserved separately for each bot or group conversation.
    • Empty drafts are removed automatically when no text remains.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved resilience when saved draft data is unavailable, malformed, or inaccessible.
    • Draft content now remains available when switching between conversations and returning to a previous thread.

milind-soni#39 keyed the composer by bot id so a half-written message stops
following the user into the next conversation. That fixed the wrong-bot
send, but it throws the draft away: leave a thread mid-sentence, come
back, and the text is gone.

Keep the draft instead of dropping it. lib/drafts stores the unsent text
per bot (and per room) in localStorage, and the composer reads it on
mount — so remounting still isolates threads from each other, but the
message you were writing is waiting when you return, even after a
restart. Sending or emptying the box clears the entry.

Storage is best-effort: a full quota or an unreadable value reads as "no
drafts" rather than costing a keystroke.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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useDraft adds safe localStorage persistence for composer text. Composer selects drafts by the active group or bot identifier, allowing text to persist across unmounts and thread changes.

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src/lib/drafts.ts
Added safe draft reads and writes keyed by identifier. Empty drafts are removed. useDraft initializes and persists composer text.
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Replaced local text state with useDraft, keyed by the active group or bot.

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The change preserves composer drafts per bot and room while keeping drafts isolated and clearing them after sending or emptying the box; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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  participant Composer
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  Composer->>useDraft: initialize with active thread identifier
  useDraft->>localStorage: read stored draft
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- Around line 42-44: Update useDraft so resolving localStorage is protected
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Every read and write already treats storage as best-effort, but useDraft
resolved `localStorage` bare during render. On an origin with storage
blocked the getter throws, and `typeof` doesn't shield it — so the
composer would crash on mount exactly where it was supposed to fall back
to an in-memory draft.

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Reviewed against current main: draft keys, storage failure handling, and composer remount behavior are sound. All platform checks pass; combined-tree build and all 159 tests pass.

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milind-soni merged commit 39f0a5e into milind-soni:main Aug 14, 2026
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guilimasp added a commit to guilimasp/OpenMausBot that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
Every patch had rotted across the ten-version jump the stalled sync hid,
so a build would have skipped all seven and quietly shipped an app with
none of this fork's behavior.

Four are gone because upstream merged them (milind-soni#35 dictation language, milind-soni#36
the connected-apps prompt, milind-soni#37 the screen frame, milind-soni#67 composer drafts) or
shipped its own version (milind-soni#68 became upstream's paste chips and file
drop). Deleting a patch upstream now carries is the whole point of the
mechanism.

Three remain and are rewritten against the current code:

- 020 box TTL: upstream landed boxErrorMessage and noEnv since, so the
  retry moves into a createBox helper instead of an inline second call.
- 030 dictation: upstream took the language fallback but not the config
  override, so the patch is now just the {"dictation":{"locale"}} read
  in front of the preferences it already consults.
- 060 pasted images: rewritten around upstream's new composer, whose
  attachment chips fold into the prompt text and so cannot carry an
  image. Images stay a separate strip and reach the driver as their own
  blocks.

typecheck and the full suite pass with all three applied (103 files,
997 tests).
github-actions Bot pushed a commit to guilimasp/OpenMausBot that referenced this pull request Aug 19, 2026
Every patch had rotted across the ten-version jump the stalled sync hid,
so a build would have skipped all seven and quietly shipped an app with
none of this fork's behavior.

Four are gone because upstream merged them (milind-soni#35 dictation language, milind-soni#36
the connected-apps prompt, milind-soni#37 the screen frame, milind-soni#67 composer drafts) or
shipped its own version (milind-soni#68 became upstream's paste chips and file
drop). Deleting a patch upstream now carries is the whole point of the
mechanism.

Three remain and are rewritten against the current code:

- 020 box TTL: upstream landed boxErrorMessage and noEnv since, so the
  retry moves into a createBox helper instead of an inline second call.
- 030 dictation: upstream took the language fallback but not the config
  override, so the patch is now just the {"dictation":{"locale"}} read
  in front of the preferences it already consults.
- 060 pasted images: rewritten around upstream's new composer, whose
  attachment chips fold into the prompt text and so cannot carry an
  image. Images stay a separate strip and reach the driver as their own
  blocks.

typecheck and the full suite pass with all three applied (103 files,
997 tests).
github-actions Bot pushed a commit to guilimasp/OpenMausBot that referenced this pull request Aug 20, 2026
Every patch had rotted across the ten-version jump the stalled sync hid,
so a build would have skipped all seven and quietly shipped an app with
none of this fork's behavior.

Four are gone because upstream merged them (milind-soni#35 dictation language, milind-soni#36
the connected-apps prompt, milind-soni#37 the screen frame, milind-soni#67 composer drafts) or
shipped its own version (milind-soni#68 became upstream's paste chips and file
drop). Deleting a patch upstream now carries is the whole point of the
mechanism.

Three remain and are rewritten against the current code:

- 020 box TTL: upstream landed boxErrorMessage and noEnv since, so the
  retry moves into a createBox helper instead of an inline second call.
- 030 dictation: upstream took the language fallback but not the config
  override, so the patch is now just the {"dictation":{"locale"}} read
  in front of the preferences it already consults.
- 060 pasted images: rewritten around upstream's new composer, whose
  attachment chips fold into the prompt text and so cannot carry an
  image. Images stay a separate strip and reach the driver as their own
  blocks.

typecheck and the full suite pass with all three applied (103 files,
997 tests).
github-actions Bot pushed a commit to guilimasp/OpenMausBot that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
Every patch had rotted across the ten-version jump the stalled sync hid,
so a build would have skipped all seven and quietly shipped an app with
none of this fork's behavior.

Four are gone because upstream merged them (milind-soni#35 dictation language, milind-soni#36
the connected-apps prompt, milind-soni#37 the screen frame, milind-soni#67 composer drafts) or
shipped its own version (milind-soni#68 became upstream's paste chips and file
drop). Deleting a patch upstream now carries is the whole point of the
mechanism.

Three remain and are rewritten against the current code:

- 020 box TTL: upstream landed boxErrorMessage and noEnv since, so the
  retry moves into a createBox helper instead of an inline second call.
- 030 dictation: upstream took the language fallback but not the config
  override, so the patch is now just the {"dictation":{"locale"}} read
  in front of the preferences it already consults.
- 060 pasted images: rewritten around upstream's new composer, whose
  attachment chips fold into the prompt text and so cannot carry an
  image. Images stay a separate strip and reach the driver as their own
  blocks.

typecheck and the full suite pass with all three applied (103 files,
997 tests).
github-actions Bot pushed a commit to guilimasp/OpenMausBot that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
Every patch had rotted across the ten-version jump the stalled sync hid,
so a build would have skipped all seven and quietly shipped an app with
none of this fork's behavior.

Four are gone because upstream merged them (milind-soni#35 dictation language, milind-soni#36
the connected-apps prompt, milind-soni#37 the screen frame, milind-soni#67 composer drafts) or
shipped its own version (milind-soni#68 became upstream's paste chips and file
drop). Deleting a patch upstream now carries is the whole point of the
mechanism.

Three remain and are rewritten against the current code:

- 020 box TTL: upstream landed boxErrorMessage and noEnv since, so the
  retry moves into a createBox helper instead of an inline second call.
- 030 dictation: upstream took the language fallback but not the config
  override, so the patch is now just the {"dictation":{"locale"}} read
  in front of the preferences it already consults.
- 060 pasted images: rewritten around upstream's new composer, whose
  attachment chips fold into the prompt text and so cannot carry an
  image. Images stay a separate strip and reach the driver as their own
  blocks.

typecheck and the full suite pass with all three applied (103 files,
997 tests).
github-actions Bot pushed a commit to guilimasp/OpenMausBot that referenced this pull request Aug 23, 2026
Every patch had rotted across the ten-version jump the stalled sync hid,
so a build would have skipped all seven and quietly shipped an app with
none of this fork's behavior.

Four are gone because upstream merged them (milind-soni#35 dictation language, milind-soni#36
the connected-apps prompt, milind-soni#37 the screen frame, milind-soni#67 composer drafts) or
shipped its own version (milind-soni#68 became upstream's paste chips and file
drop). Deleting a patch upstream now carries is the whole point of the
mechanism.

Three remain and are rewritten against the current code:

- 020 box TTL: upstream landed boxErrorMessage and noEnv since, so the
  retry moves into a createBox helper instead of an inline second call.
- 030 dictation: upstream took the language fallback but not the config
  override, so the patch is now just the {"dictation":{"locale"}} read
  in front of the preferences it already consults.
- 060 pasted images: rewritten around upstream's new composer, whose
  attachment chips fold into the prompt text and so cannot carry an
  image. Images stay a separate strip and reach the driver as their own
  blocks.

typecheck and the full suite pass with all three applied (103 files,
997 tests).
github-actions Bot pushed a commit to guilimasp/OpenMausBot that referenced this pull request Aug 24, 2026
Every patch had rotted across the ten-version jump the stalled sync hid,
so a build would have skipped all seven and quietly shipped an app with
none of this fork's behavior.

Four are gone because upstream merged them (milind-soni#35 dictation language, milind-soni#36
the connected-apps prompt, milind-soni#37 the screen frame, milind-soni#67 composer drafts) or
shipped its own version (milind-soni#68 became upstream's paste chips and file
drop). Deleting a patch upstream now carries is the whole point of the
mechanism.

Three remain and are rewritten against the current code:

- 020 box TTL: upstream landed boxErrorMessage and noEnv since, so the
  retry moves into a createBox helper instead of an inline second call.
- 030 dictation: upstream took the language fallback but not the config
  override, so the patch is now just the {"dictation":{"locale"}} read
  in front of the preferences it already consults.
- 060 pasted images: rewritten around upstream's new composer, whose
  attachment chips fold into the prompt text and so cannot carry an
  image. Images stay a separate strip and reach the driver as their own
  blocks.

typecheck and the full suite pass with all three applied (103 files,
997 tests).
github-actions Bot pushed a commit to guilimasp/OpenMausBot that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
Every patch had rotted across the ten-version jump the stalled sync hid,
so a build would have skipped all seven and quietly shipped an app with
none of this fork's behavior.

Four are gone because upstream merged them (milind-soni#35 dictation language, milind-soni#36
the connected-apps prompt, milind-soni#37 the screen frame, milind-soni#67 composer drafts) or
shipped its own version (milind-soni#68 became upstream's paste chips and file
drop). Deleting a patch upstream now carries is the whole point of the
mechanism.

Three remain and are rewritten against the current code:

- 020 box TTL: upstream landed boxErrorMessage and noEnv since, so the
  retry moves into a createBox helper instead of an inline second call.
- 030 dictation: upstream took the language fallback but not the config
  override, so the patch is now just the {"dictation":{"locale"}} read
  in front of the preferences it already consults.
- 060 pasted images: rewritten around upstream's new composer, whose
  attachment chips fold into the prompt text and so cannot carry an
  image. Images stay a separate strip and reach the driver as their own
  blocks.

typecheck and the full suite pass with all three applied (103 files,
997 tests).
github-actions Bot pushed a commit to guilimasp/OpenMausBot that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
Every patch had rotted across the ten-version jump the stalled sync hid,
so a build would have skipped all seven and quietly shipped an app with
none of this fork's behavior.

Four are gone because upstream merged them (milind-soni#35 dictation language, milind-soni#36
the connected-apps prompt, milind-soni#37 the screen frame, milind-soni#67 composer drafts) or
shipped its own version (milind-soni#68 became upstream's paste chips and file
drop). Deleting a patch upstream now carries is the whole point of the
mechanism.

Three remain and are rewritten against the current code:

- 020 box TTL: upstream landed boxErrorMessage and noEnv since, so the
  retry moves into a createBox helper instead of an inline second call.
- 030 dictation: upstream took the language fallback but not the config
  override, so the patch is now just the {"dictation":{"locale"}} read
  in front of the preferences it already consults.
- 060 pasted images: rewritten around upstream's new composer, whose
  attachment chips fold into the prompt text and so cannot carry an
  image. Images stay a separate strip and reach the driver as their own
  blocks.

typecheck and the full suite pass with all three applied (103 files,
997 tests).
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