feat(web): add opt-in in-app thread notifications

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When T3 Code has focus, activity in another thread can be missed. Add a small toast with the thread title and an Open thread action.

Enable In-app notifications in Settings → General, directly below Thread notifications. It is off by default, saved per device, searchable, and included in Restore device defaults. It works independently of system notification permission.

Toasts and system alerts share the existing event detector and titles for completion, input, approval, and failure. Failure now uses that same path and the existing attention sound. Toasts skip the active thread, background windows, archived threads, and initial or reconnect snapshots. A shown toast replaces the system popup for that event; sound settings still apply. This covers the shared web/desktop client. Mobile push is unchanged.

Verified: 216 focused tests, web type checking, targeted lint and formatting. Chromium checks covered all four states, opt-in persistence after reload, disabled suppression, and 1280px/390px layouts. Browser evidence uses fixture threads with simulated shell updates; it is not a provider end-to-end run.

Before	After enabling in-app notifications

Failure alerts

Model: GPT-6. Harness: Codex.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

ThreadNotificationCoordinator now supports configurable in-app notifications for thread input, approval, failure, and completion events. Focused threads use toasts; backgrounded threads use desktop notifications. Settings, persistence, search, and tests cover the new preference and behavior.

Changes

Thread notifications

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Notification setting contract and controls packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/NotificationSettings.tsx, apps/desktop/src/settings/DesktopClientSettings.test.ts	The client settings contract adds a default-disabled inAppNotificationsEnabled field and patch support. The Behavior settings UI, restore handling, search catalog, descriptions, and persistence fixture expose the preference.
In-app and desktop notification flow apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.tsx	The coordinator detects input, approval, failed, and completed threads. When in-app notifications are enabled and the document is focused and visible, it adds a toast with navigation. Otherwise, supported notification modes create desktop notifications.
Notification behavior validation apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.test.tsx	Tests cover event types, notification modes, focus and visibility, suppression, replay prevention, sound, navigation, and desktop notification metadata.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EnvironmentNotifications
  participant useParams
  participant toastManager
  participant Notification
  participant navigate
  EnvironmentNotifications->>useParams: Read active environment and thread IDs
  EnvironmentNotifications->>EnvironmentNotifications: Detect thread attention or completion
  EnvironmentNotifications->>toastManager: Add in-app toast when focused and visible
  EnvironmentNotifications->>Notification: Create desktop notification when backgrounded
  toastManager->>navigate: Navigate when Open thread is selected

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Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fdfe5

Users can receive an unnecessary system notification for a thread they are already viewing. The issue is localized but should be corrected before merge if active-thread notification suppression is required.

🚥 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 7 functions across 8 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding opt-in in-app thread notifications for the web client.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains what changed and why, documents the UI setting and behavior, includes before-and-after screenshots and failure-state screenshots, and reports verification details. It does not…

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a persisted in-app notification preference and new completion, failure, input, and approval toasts with navigation, spanning the runtime coordinator, settings UI, and shared contracts. The new preference establishes a product default, so the change warrants human review despite being opt-in and well tested.

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The docstring-coverage warning does not need a code change here. This adds no public API, and the repo guidance asks us to avoid narrating control flow that is clear from the source. The focused behavior tests cover the new toast rules.

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

103-132: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exclude the active focused thread from desktop notifications

When an emitted event targets the active thread, the in-app predicate fails. The independent desktop gate then allows Notification delivery when desktop notifications are enabled and permission is granted. This can show an OS alert for the visible, focused thread. Skip the active focused thread before both delivery paths, or add that exclusion to the desktop gate. Use continue rather than return so other events remain processable.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.tsx` around lines 103 -
132, Update the notification event loop in ThreadNotificationCoordinator so an
event targeting the active, visible, focused thread is skipped before both
in-app and desktop delivery gates. Use continue rather than return, preserving
processing for subsequent events.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.tsx`:
- Around line 103-132: Update the notification event loop in
ThreadNotificationCoordinator so an event targeting the active, visible, focused
thread is skipped before both in-app and desktop delivery gates. Use continue
rather than return, preserving processing for subsequent events.

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• apps/desktop/src/settings/DesktopClientSettings.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.test.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/NotificationSettings.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts
• packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts
• packages/contracts/src/settings.ts

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• apps/web/src/components/settings/NotificationSettings.tsx

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Checked the active-thread desktop-alert finding against the current source and the PR base (20363c32c9bfdbf49c2716ef11d1f18483fcc01b). The existing desktop path already delivers regardless of the active route or window focus. This PR adds an opt-in in-app delivery path for inactive threads and preserves the existing system-alert behavior when a toast is not shown. The event detector and titles are shared by both paths.

I am leaving that existing desktop policy unchanged. Adding the suggested exclusion would change system alerts even when the new option is off; placing it before sound delivery would change sound behavior too. That is a separate behavior change from this opt-in toast request. The active-thread toast suppression is covered by the focused tests.