feat(web): commit and PR generation failures name the model and offer Settings

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Problem

When commit-message or PR-content generation fails, the toast reads "Action failed" and Text generation failed in <operation>: <provider output>. T3 Code does not say which model it ran or which setting chose it. The model appears only when the provider's own output includes it, as Codex's CLI banner does. The user has to work out whether General's text-generation model or Source Control's writer model ran, then find that setting.

To reproduce, set the text-generation model to one the provider rejects, change a file, and commit with an empty message.

Change

• TextGenerationError gains two optional fields: the attempted model selection and the setting that supplied it. Its message now reads Text generation failed in <operation> using <model> (<instance>): <detail>. Errors from older servers still decode. Their toast names no setting, so it shows no Settings button.
• GitManager attaches the selection it used to commit and PR generation failures, and keeps the original detail and cause. An unset, unavailable, or disabled writer falls back to the general model, and the error names that model and setting.
• The web failure toast gains a Settings button. It closes the toast and opens General → Text generation model, or Source Control → Source control writer model when the writer ran, scoped to the acting environment and checkout.
• If the acting project was removed while the toast was open, the link keeps the checkout key. Settings then shows "Select a project to choose one of its checkouts" with no editors. Without the key, the link would open the environment's defaults.

The three layers serve one toast: the contract carries the context, the server is the only place that knows which setting ran, and the web client links to it. Desktop loads the same web component. Mobile has no code change. Its toast shows the shared error message, so it gains the model name and no button.

Scope and approval

Refs #12653. The maintainer triage accepted the request and named this slice: "always name the attempted model + Settings button, then add the 'this was a fallback' origin once the resolver exposes it." Fallback-origin wording and title and branch generation failures (#5359) stay out of this PR.

Verification

Agents ran these checks on a Linux dev box. Before captures are from main 43bd6677, after captures from this branch at b9b37077.

Before (main)	After

The before toast shows the model only inside Codex's output. The after toast names it first and adds Settings.

• Recording, commit to toast to Settings. Settings opened General at "Text generation model", scoped to the fixture checkout.

  after-A1-A2-commit-toast-settings.mp4

• Writer override: the toast names the writer model, and Settings opened Source Control's writer model.

  

• Removed project: with the toast open, t3 project remove deleted the project. Settings then showed "Select a project to choose one of its checkouts". The scope bar reads "All projects", which is existing Settings behavior.

  
  after-R2-R3-remove-then-settings.mp4

These captures come from a web client on isolated dev servers with a fixture repository. The real Codex CLI rejected the configured models, and nothing was mocked. The thread details panel covers the toast on main and on this branch, so each capture was taken with the panel closed. Both pickers show GPT-6-Astra instead of the rejected model. This PR does not touch the pickers.

• vp test run src/git/GitManager.test.ts (apps/server): 120 pass. Five new cases cover commit failures with an unset, available, unavailable, and disabled writer, and a PR failure that creates no PR. With GitManager.ts and packages/contracts/src/git.ts reverted, all five fail.
• vp test run src/git.test.ts (packages/contracts): 10 pass, including the RPC round trip and an error from an older server. With git.ts reverted, the model-context case fails.
• vp test run src/components/GitActionsControl.logic.test.ts src/components/settings/settingsScope.test.ts src/components/settings/settingsScopeNavigation.test.ts (apps/web): 107 pass. With the removed-project fix reverted, 3 of the 5 new scope cases fail.
• Server, web, and contracts typechecks pass. vp lint and vp fmt --check on the seven changed files pass. Lint reports two React warnings in GitActionsControl.tsx that main also reports.

Not checked:

• A PR-generation failure in a running client. The toast code does not branch on the operation, and the server test covers a PR failure carrying the same fields.
• The desktop shell.
• The mobile toast text in a running mobile client.

Model: GPT-6-Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1 (review). Harness: Codex, Claude Code.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Git commit-message and pull-request-content generation errors now include model and setting context. The error contract carries this context through RPC encoding. Text-generation error toasts can provide a Settings action that opens the relevant settings destination.

Changes

Git generation error context and settings navigation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Attach model context to generation errors packages/contracts/src/git.ts, apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts, apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts, packages/contracts/src/git.test.ts	TextGenerationError carries optional model and setting details. Git operations attach the selected model, provider instance, and setting source to generation failures. Tests cover model-selection cases, RPC encoding, and failures that do not create a commit or pull request.
Resolve settings scope for Git actions apps/web/src/components/GitActionsControl.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/GitActionsControl.logic.test.ts	The settings-scope helper resolves environment, project, and checkout context. Tests cover missing, replaced, and cross-environment projects, and a project removed before Settings loads.
Navigate from generation errors to settings apps/web/src/components/GitActionsControl.tsx	Text-generation error toasts add a Settings action when the error has a model setting, the environment ID, and the Git working directory. The action navigates to Source Control or General settings with the resolved scope.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitManager
  participant TextGenerationError
  participant GitActionsControl
  participant Settings
  GitManager->>TextGenerationError: Attach model and setting context
  TextGenerationError->>GitActionsControl: Provide error details
  GitActionsControl->>Settings: Navigate to matching settings with resolved scope

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 23ac5

An unusually long model name can enlarge generation errors and notifications. Bound the diagnostic value; the remaining risk is narrow.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 23ac5

The checked behavior preserves existing authority and rejects missing settings targets rather than opening broader defaults. No introduced security issue was established, but incomplete coverage limits confidence.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated new exposure is configuration-identifying metadata delivered through existing Git error consumers. The navigation destination remains constrained to an acting environment and checkout rather than granting cross-environment write authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The server constructs selection provenance from its generation settings rather than accepting provider diagnostic text as routing authority. The web consumer schema-checks the error and uses the bounded setting label, not the model name or provider-instance identifier, to select navigation.
• observed — Project matching requires the acting environment and, when available, the acting project ID. Missing projects do not substitute another record at the same path. Settings revalidates project, environment, and checkout membership before presenting an editable destination.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The existing stacked-action wrapper retains status invalidation on termination and failure-phase reporting. Error enrichment does not introduce retries, rollback, or additional write steps in this wrapper.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Approvability	❌ Error	The PR adds a user workflow in apps/web/src/components/GitActionsControl.tsx: a generation-failure toast now offers a Settings action that closes the toast and navigates to the relevant settings pag…	A maintainer must review the new Settings navigation workflow in apps/web/src/components/GitActionsControl.tsx before approval.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: generation failures name the model and offer a Settings action.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the behavior, scope, test results, evidence, and unchecked areas.
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.

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The PR adds a user workflow in apps/web/src/components/GitActionsControl.tsx: a generation-failure toast now offers a Settings action that closes the toast and navigates to the relevant settings page. apps/web/src/components/GitActionsControl.logic.ts adds the scope resolution for that destination. This matches the rule “Adds or broadens a directive ... Adds a subsystem or user workflow”; the pull request needs a maintainer’s review.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds model-aware generation errors and a new Settings navigation action spanning the server, shared contract, and web routing/scope logic. Success paths and defaults remain unchanged, but the new cross-layer user-facing workflow warrants focused review.

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