fix(web): preserve drafts when compacting context

[maria-rcks]

Compacting from the resume banner or context meter was disabled whenever the composer contained a draft. The compact action now sends a standalone command while preserving the draft, attachments, and cursor for the next message.

Verified with a real Codex session: compacted with a draft, then sent it and received the expected reply. A separate check preserved a staged file and inserted text at the original caret after starting compaction. Web typecheck, scoped lint, and 122 existing composer/draft/context-meter tests passed.

Implemented with GPT-6 in Codex.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at fa8e587

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused web bug fix that routes compaction through a standalone command so drafts and attachments remain local, while preserving existing thread-turn and error-handling behavior. The changes are confined to the composer and chat view with no schema, deployment, security, billing, default, or static-analysis impact.

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Context compaction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Composer compaction delegation apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx	ChatComposer now calls the onCompactContext callback instead of injecting and submitting a /compact prompt.
ChatView compaction turn apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx	ChatView allows compaction with unsent drafts, persists turn settings, manages the optimistic message, starts the /compact turn, and handles cleanup on success or failure.

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

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, juliusmarminge, bil0000

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fa8e5

Compaction now runs independently while preserving drafts and attachments. The change appears mergeable with low risk, though the async callback convention and dedicated failure-path tests should be addressed or explicitly followed up.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: preserving composer drafts during context compaction.
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🧹 Nitpick comments (2)

apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx (1)

3102-3102: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Wrap onCompactContext() in void for consistency and to avoid a silent unhandled rejection.

onCompactContext is typed as () => void here, but the underlying implementation in ChatView.tsx is an async function. Two sibling props with the same shape (onInterrupt, onImplementPlanInNewThread) are called with an explicit void prefix elsewhere in this file (handleInterruptPrimaryAction, handleImplementPlanInNewThreadPrimaryAction). Calling onCompactContext() without void breaks that convention. Because the prop type erases the Promise, TypeScript and lint tooling cannot flag this as a floating promise, so if the async handler throws before or outside its internal try/finally, the rejection goes unhandled silently.

♻️ Proposed fix

-    onCompactContext();
+    void onCompactContext();

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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx` at line 3102, Prefix the
onCompactContext() invocation in the relevant ChatComposer handler with void,
matching the existing handleInterruptPrimaryAction and
handleImplementPlanInNewThreadPrimaryAction conventions without changing the
callback behavior.

apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx (1)

6403-6473: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add tests for the standalone compaction turn flow.

No test targets onCompactContext or the "/compact" turn. Add coverage for optimistic-message rollback, resetLocalDispatch, setThreadError, and interrupted-command suppression.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx` around lines 6403 - 6473, Add tests
covering the onCompactContext standalone "/compact" turn: verify the optimistic
user message is removed and resetLocalDispatch is called when the turn fails,
setThreadError receives the failure message for non-interrupted failures, and
interrupted atom-command failures suppress the thread error.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx`:
- Line 3102: Prefix the onCompactContext() invocation in the relevant
ChatComposer handler with void, matching the existing
handleInterruptPrimaryAction and handleImplementPlanInNewThreadPrimaryAction
conventions without changing the callback behavior.

In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`:
- Around line 6403-6473: Add tests covering the onCompactContext standalone
"/compact" turn: verify the optimistic user message is removed and
resetLocalDispatch is called when the turn fails, setThreadError receives the
failure message for non-interrupted failures, and interrupted atom-command
failures suppress the thread error.

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Note

Written by gpt-6-astra on behalf of Maria

Reviewed the non-blocking suggestions. The callback catches its own dispatch failure; adding void is a style-only change. Keeping this PR focused and adding no new test files under the task constraints. Verified the real Codex flow with draft text, a staged file, and caret preservation; 122 existing focused tests and the web typecheck passed.