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188 changes: 123 additions & 65 deletions frontend/src/views/chat/MessageComposer.tsx
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Expand Up @@ -239,15 +239,12 @@ export function MessageComposer({
suppressed,
}: Props) {
const [draft, setDraft] = useState("");
// The single file staged for the next send (issue #1682). v1 carries one
// attachment per message, so a fresh pick replaces the last rather than
// appending — the wire (`Vec<Attachment>`) already allows more when the UI
// grows to it. Held WITH the scope-bound delete that must clean it up (see
// `PendingAttachment`).
const [pending, setPending] = useState<PendingAttachment | null>(null);
// Up to the server's bounded maximum of twenty files can ride one message.
// Each keeps the delete callback for the company scope that owns its node.
const [pending, setPending] = useState<PendingAttachment[]>([]);
// Mirrors `pending` for the unmount cleanup below, which needs the latest
// value inside a closure captured once at mount.
const pendingRef = useRef<PendingAttachment | null>(null);
const pendingRef = useRef<PendingAttachment[]>([]);
// Whether this instance is still mounted, checked after every `await`
// (issue #1682, codex review finding). Without it, an upload that lands
// after the operator has already navigated away resolves into a
Expand All @@ -273,6 +270,7 @@ export function MessageComposer({
const [uploading, setUploading] = useState(false);
const [attachError, setAttachError] = useState<string>();
const fileInput = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null);
const [dragDepth, setDragDepth] = useState(0);
// What the draft currently resolves to. Reconciled on every edit, so editing
// or backspacing through a chip un-mentions it rather than leaving a ping
// for somebody whose name is no longer in the message.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -404,13 +402,18 @@ export function MessageComposer({
// upload stays live on the server, charged against the workspace quota
// forever. Centralized here so every one of those paths — not just the
// Remove button — clears the same way.
function clearPending() {
function clearPending(nodeId?: string) {
// The node was created under the company whose delete is stored beside it
// (see `PendingAttachment`) — never the latest callback, which may already
// be bound to a scope this node does not belong to.
pendingRef.current?.delete?.(pendingRef.current.reference.nodeId);
pendingRef.current = null;
setPending(null);
const removed = nodeId
? pendingRef.current.filter((item) => item.reference.nodeId === nodeId)
: pendingRef.current;
for (const item of removed) item.delete?.(item.reference.nodeId);
pendingRef.current = nodeId
? pendingRef.current.filter((item) => item.reference.nodeId !== nodeId)
: [];
setPending(pendingRef.current);
}

// Unmounting still holding a pending attachment (closing the thread panel,
Expand All @@ -421,7 +424,7 @@ export function MessageComposer({
// mounted still frees the node in the company that owns it.
useEffect(() => {
return () => {
pendingRef.current?.delete?.(pendingRef.current.reference.nodeId);
for (const item of pendingRef.current) item.delete?.(item.reference.nodeId);
};
// eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps -- unmount-only, see above
}, []);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -478,7 +481,7 @@ export function MessageComposer({
const result = onSend(
text,
deliverableChoice ? intent : undefined,
pending ? [pending.reference] : undefined,
pending.length > 0 ? pending.map((item) => item.reference) : undefined,
// Preserve absent-versus-empty: a loaded directory that resolves no
// spans intentionally sends [] to suppress host fallback extraction.
mentionables ? sending : undefined,
Expand All @@ -489,54 +492,49 @@ export function MessageComposer({
// the shell's optimistic bubble already carries it — WITHOUT deleting the
// node yet (unlike `clearPending`): whether it is actually claimed is
// still pending on `result` below.
pendingRef.current = null;
setPending(null);
pendingRef.current = [];
setPending([]);
setAttachError(undefined);
// If the caller reports whether the send journaled (issue #1682, codex
// review round 4), clean up an attachment only on an explicit `false` —
// the host definitely never saw it. `undefined` (ambiguous: a network
// drop, a timeout — the message may have landed anyway) and `true`
// (definitely landed) both leave the node alone. A caller that returns
// `void` has nothing to reconcile here.
if (inFlight && result instanceof Promise) {
if (inFlight.length > 0 && result instanceof Promise) {
void result.then((sent) => {
if (sent === false) inFlight.delete?.(inFlight.reference.nodeId);
if (sent === false) {
for (const item of inFlight) item.delete?.(item.reference.nodeId);
}
});
}
}

/** Upload the picked file and stage its reference as the pending chip. */
async function onPickFile(e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) {
const file = e.target.files?.[0];
// Reset the input so re-picking the same file fires `change` again.
e.target.value = "";
if (!file || !uploadAttachment) return;
// A fresh pick replaces the staged one (v1 carries a single attachment) —
// the replaced upload must be cleaned up, not silently orphaned.
if (pendingRef.current) clearPending();
/** Upload picked or dropped files sequentially and stage every successful one. */
async function addFiles(files: File[]) {
if (!uploadAttachment || files.length === 0) return;
const room = Math.max(0, 20 - pendingRef.current.length);

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Serialize attachment batches before calculating capacity.

Paste and drop can call addFiles while another batch awaits uploadAttachment. Each call reads the same pending count on Line 516. With 19 staged attachments, two one-file paste events can both proceed and stage 21 attachments.

Each invocation also clears uploading independently. The first completed batch can enable send() while another batch still uploads. The late files can then remain staged for a later, unrelated message.

Queue or lock batches. Calculate capacity when each queued batch starts. Keep uploading true until all queued work settles. Add a regression test with overlapping paste or drop events.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@frontend/src/views/chat/MessageComposer.tsx` at line 516, Serialize addFiles
attachment batches so each queued invocation calculates capacity from the latest
pending count only when it starts, preventing concurrent batches from exceeding
the 20-attachment limit. Keep uploading true until all queued work settles, and
add a regression test covering overlapping paste or drop events.

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const selected = files.filter((file) => file.size > 0).slice(0, room);
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P1 Badge Serialize attachment batches before calculating capacity

When another paste or drop occurs while a previous addFiles call is awaiting uploads, both calls calculate room without reserving each other's in-flight files because paste/drop remain enabled during uploading. The batches can therefore stage more than 20 files, and either batch's finally can set uploading false while the other is still running, allowing a partial or over-limit send. The server rejects more than 20 attachments before journaling, while ChatView.send reports the rejection as ambiguous and these uploaded nodes are not cleaned up, leaving the message unsent and the files charged against workspace quota; serialize additions or reserve capacity across all active batches.

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if (selected.length === 0) {
setAttachError(room === 0 ? "A message can carry at most 20 files." : "Empty files and folders can't be attached.");
return;
}
setUploading(true);
setAttachError(undefined);
try {
const reference = await uploadAttachment(file);
// The upload went to the scope whose `uploadAttachment` this closure
// captured. If the composer unmounted, OR the scope moved while the
// upload was in flight, no chip can hold this reference and no send will
// claim it — the next send would post an old company's node id to the
// new one. Free the node through the callback bound to the company that
// owns it, and do not stage it (codex review finding).
if (!mountedRef.current || scopeDeleteRef.current !== deleteAttachment) {
// No chip left to hold the reference and no unmount left to fire, so
// this continuation is the only place that can still free the node it
// just landed (codex review finding on #1682).
deleteAttachment?.(reference.nodeId);
return;
for (const file of selected) {
const reference = await uploadAttachment(file);
if (!mountedRef.current || scopeDeleteRef.current !== deleteAttachment) {
deleteAttachment?.(reference.nodeId);
continue;
}
const staged: PendingAttachment = { reference, delete: deleteAttachment };
pendingRef.current = [...pendingRef.current, staged];
setPending(pendingRef.current);
}
if (files.length > selected.length) {
setAttachError("Some files were skipped: messages accept 20 non-empty files.");
}
// Store the delete bound to THIS render's scope beside the reference:
// the upload went to that company, so cleanup must target it too, even
// if the scope moves before the chip is cleared (see `PendingAttachment`).
const staged: PendingAttachment = { reference, delete: deleteAttachment };
pendingRef.current = staged;
setPending(staged);
} catch (err) {
if (!mountedRef.current) return;
// The filename is operator content — the message says an upload failed
Expand All @@ -547,6 +545,30 @@ export function MessageComposer({
}
}

async function onPickFile(e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) {
const files = Array.from(e.target.files ?? []);
e.target.value = "";
await addFiles(files);
}

function onPaste(e: React.ClipboardEvent<HTMLTextAreaElement>) {
if (disabled || !uploadAttachment) return;
const files = Array.from(e.clipboardData.items)
.filter((item) => item.kind === "file")
.map((item) => item.getAsFile())
.filter((file): file is File => file !== null);
if (files.length === 0) return;
// A screenshot copied from the clipboard is a real attachment. Prevent the
// browser from inserting a useless object replacement character or local
// filename, while ordinary text paste keeps its native behaviour.
e.preventDefault();
void addFiles(files);
}

function carriesFiles(event: React.DragEvent): boolean {
return !disabled && Array.from(event.dataTransfer.types).includes("Files");
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P2 Badge Gate drag-and-drop on attachment support

In the thread composer, ThreadPanel.tsx intentionally supplies no uploadAttachment, but this predicate still accepts file drags whenever the composer is enabled. It consequently displays “Drop files to attach them,” prevents the drop's native behavior, and then addFiles immediately returns without uploading anything. Include uploadAttachment in this eligibility check, as the paste and paperclip paths already do, so unsupported composers do not advertise and silently discard the action.

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}

function onKeyDown(e: React.KeyboardEvent<HTMLTextAreaElement>) {
// While the picker is open it owns these keys. Enter in particular PICKS
// and does not send — a person mid-`@name` is choosing somebody, not
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -617,7 +639,37 @@ export function MessageComposer({
// compact copy stays unlabelled so the tour can't anchor on the wrong one.
data-tour={compact ? undefined : "chat-composer"}
>
<div className="relative rounded-xl border bg-card shadow-sm focus-within:ring-2 focus-within:ring-ring/40">
<div
className={cn(
"relative rounded-xl border bg-card shadow-sm focus-within:ring-2 focus-within:ring-ring/40",
dragDepth > 0 && "border-primary ring-2 ring-primary/40",
)}
onDragEnter={(event) => {
if (!carriesFiles(event)) return;
event.preventDefault();
setDragDepth((depth) => depth + 1);
}}
onDragOver={(event) => {
if (!carriesFiles(event)) return;
event.preventDefault();
event.dataTransfer.dropEffect = "copy";
}}
onDragLeave={(event) => {
if (!carriesFiles(event)) return;
setDragDepth((depth) => Math.max(0, depth - 1));
}}
onDrop={(event) => {
if (!carriesFiles(event)) return;
event.preventDefault();
setDragDepth(0);
void addFiles(Array.from(event.dataTransfer.files));
}}
>
{dragDepth > 0 && (
<div className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-0 z-20 flex items-center justify-center rounded-xl border-2 border-dashed border-primary bg-card/90 text-sm font-medium text-primary">
Drop files to attach them
</div>
)}
{pickerOpen && (
<MentionPicker
entries={rows}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -646,25 +698,29 @@ export function MessageComposer({

{/* The staged attachment (issue #1682), shown above the box the moment
its upload lands and cleared on send or removal. One chip in v1. */}
{pending && (
<div className="flex items-center gap-2 border-b px-3 py-1.5">
<Paperclip className="size-3.5 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground" aria-hidden />
<span className="min-w-0 truncate text-xs font-medium" title={pending.reference.name}>
{pending.reference.name}
</span>
<span className="shrink-0 text-2xs text-muted-foreground">
{formatBytes(pending.reference.size)}
</span>
<Button
variant="ghost"
size="icon"
className="ml-auto size-6 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground"
aria-label={`Remove ${pending.reference.name}`}
title="Remove attachment"
onClick={clearPending}
>
<X className="size-3.5" />
</Button>
{pending.length > 0 && (
<div className="flex flex-wrap gap-1.5 border-b px-3 py-1.5">
{pending.map((item) => (
<span key={item.reference.nodeId} className="flex min-w-0 max-w-full items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md bg-muted px-2 py-1">
<Paperclip className="size-3.5 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground" aria-hidden />
<span className="min-w-0 truncate text-xs font-medium" title={item.reference.name}>
{item.reference.name}
</span>
<span className="shrink-0 text-2xs text-muted-foreground">
{formatBytes(item.reference.size)}
</span>
<Button
variant="ghost"
size="icon"
className="size-5 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground"
aria-label={`Remove ${item.reference.name}`}
title="Remove attachment"
onClick={() => clearPending(item.reference.nodeId)}
>
<X className="size-3" />
</Button>
</span>
))}
</div>
)}
{attachError && (
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -694,6 +750,7 @@ export function MessageComposer({
ref={input}
value={draft}
onChange={onChange}
onPaste={onPaste}
onKeyDown={onKeyDown}
// A click or an arrow can move the caret into (or out of) an existing
// `@name` without changing the text, so the query is re-read on
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -814,6 +871,7 @@ export function MessageComposer({
<input
ref={fileInput}
type="file"
multiple
className="hidden"
aria-hidden
tabIndex={-1}
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