Add a shortcut to archive a thread

[atimmer]

What Changed

Add thread.archiveCurrent so the current thread can be archived without leaving the keyboard.

• Bind mod+shift+a when the in-app terminal is not focused.
• Add “Archive current thread” to the command palette.
• Reuse the sidebar archive flow so success navigates to a fresh draft and failures show an error toast.
• Ignore repeated keydown events so holding the shortcut archives exactly once.

Why

The existing Cmd+1, Cmd+2, etc. shortcuts make switching threads fast, but stale threads still require pointer interaction to archive. This keeps the entire switch-and-clean-up workflow on the keyboard.

UI Changes

Before

Searching for archive on upstream main returns no matching command.

After

Searching for archive on this PR shows “Archive current thread” with ⇧⌘A.

Interaction

The shortcut archives the active thread and navigates to a fresh draft.

archive-shortcut.mp4

Verification

Automated

• vp check — passed
• vp run typecheck — passed
• vp test run apps/web/src/lib/chatGlobalShortcuts.test.ts packages/contracts/src/keybindings.test.ts packages/shared/src/keybindings.test.ts — 121 tests passed

Manual GUI verification

Verified in a disposable, paired T3 Code environment at head 3759679409cf:

• Active thread + mod+shift+a: archived once and navigated to a fresh draft.
• Command palette: “Archive current thread” is visible and archives successfully.
• New-draft route: shortcut is a no-op with no toast or browser side effect.
• In-app terminal focused: shortcut does not archive the thread.
• Held shortcut/repeat stream: exactly one archive event and no spurious failure toast.
• Running thread: “Failed to archive thread — Cannot archive a running thread.” toast appears.
• Three selected sidebar threads: context menu shows “Archive (3)”; all three archive with no error toast.

Evidence is captured locally as before-command-palette.png, after-command-palette.png, after-archive-shortcut.png, after-archive-toast.png, terminal-focus-noop.png, hold-chord-single-archive.png, multi-select-selected.png, multi-select-archive-result.png, and archive-shortcut.mp4.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes
• I included a video for animation/interaction changes

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Note

Low Risk
Focused UX and keybinding wiring reusing existing archive behavior; no auth or data-model changes.

Overview
Adds thread.archiveCurrent so users can archive the active thread from the keyboard without using the sidebar.

mod+shift+a is registered as the default binding (when the terminal is not focused), documented in user keybindings, and validated in contracts/shared tests. Chat route global shortcuts handle the command by calling attemptArchiveThread on the routed thread; draft routes no-op.

attemptArchiveThread is moved into useThreadActions (archive + failure toast), replacing duplicated logic in the sidebar. The command palette gains Archive current thread when a server thread is active, wired to the same helper.

shouldIgnoreChatGlobalShortcutEvent centralizes ignoring defaultPrevented and repeat keydowns so holding the chord does not archive multiple times.

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Note

Add thread.archiveCurrent keyboard shortcut to archive the active thread

• Adds a default keybinding mod+shift+a for thread.archiveCurrent (when terminal is not focused) via keybindings.ts and the contracts schema in keybindings.ts.
• The global shortcut handler in _chat.tsx calls attemptArchiveThread on the current thread, skipping repeated or already-handled keydown events via the new shouldIgnoreChatGlobalShortcutEvent guard.
• The command palette in CommandPalette.tsx surfaces an "Archive current thread" action when a thread is active, advertising the same shortcut.
• attemptArchiveThread is extracted into useThreadActions.ts and shows a stacked toast on non-interruption failures; the sidebar now consumes it via props instead of its own local implementation.

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Verdict: Needs human review

This PR adds a new keyboard shortcut for archiving threads. An unresolved review comment identifies that the new shortcut bypasses the archive confirmation dialog, creating inconsistent behavior for users who have that setting enabled. This behavioral inconsistency warrants human review.

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[atimmer]

@juliusmarminge I was on a holiday, but I have now force pushed from my local fork to bring this PR to mergable status.

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Archive shortcut skips confirmation

Medium Severity

The new thread.archiveCurrent shortcut and command-palette action call attemptArchiveThread directly, so they never consult confirmThreadArchive. Sidebar archive and multi-select still prompt when that setting is on, so users who enabled archive confirmation can still archive the current thread immediately from the keyboard or Cmd+K.

Additional Locations (1)

• apps/web/src/components/CommandPalette.tsx#L1006-L1019

 

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[atimmer]

This is intended

[atimmer]

Rebased onto current main and ported to the new command-palette bus architecture, since the palette context this originally hooked into was replaced upstream. The archive action now registers in the current palette action list, with toast/error handling consolidated in useThreadActions. Same shortcut and behavior: mod+shift+a.

[atimmer]

Closing this, because I use the new settled workflow and that has a keyboard shortcut after #8089