fix(web): choose a connection for threads without a project

[Bil0000]

Closes #15292

Allow a new No project thread to run on a selected connection, including a remote server.

• Reuse Run on in the composer and thread details.
• Prepare Scratch on the selected server and keep the same draft and prompt.
• Cancel stale switches and block moves with local attachments.

Verified with 265 focused tests, targeted lint and type checks, green CI, and the running app with two isolated server connections. Switching kept the draft and prompt. No agent turn was started. Native mobile is outside this PR.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This change adds a cross-machine workflow for no-project drafts, including remote scratch-project creation, asynchronous draft retargeting, and new connection/attachment state handling. Its focused tests reduce risk, but the new user-facing capability and execution-location side effects merit human review.

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Walkthrough

Scratch drafts can move to environments with a scratch workspace. The hook opens the target scratch project and retargets eligible drafts. ChatView provides environment choices, blocks sending during a move, and prevents moves when attachments are present.

Changes

Scratch Draft Environment Switching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Create and validate scratch draft moves apps/web/src/hooks/useScratchProject.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useScratchProject.test.tsx	The hook opens a target scratch project before retargeting an eligible draft. Tests cover successful moves, rejected destinations, errors, attachments, and stale requests.
Wire environment selection and move state apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbar.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md	ChatView lists scratch-capable environments for scratch drafts and blocks environment changes during sends. It prevents moves with attachments and disables sending during a move. The sidebar instructions describe choosing a machine and where the thread and files remain.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatView
  participant useScratchProject
  participant ScratchProject
  participant DraftStore
  ChatView->>useScratchProject: moveScratchDraft(target environment)
  useScratchProject->>ScratchProject: open target scratch project
  useScratchProject->>DraftStore: retarget eligible draft

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to dd581

Draft moves clear their pending state on navigation, check destination connectivity before retargeting, and block sends while switching. No concrete merge-blocking regression is established.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to dd581

The change keeps connection selection explicit and includes safeguards against stale switches, disconnected destinations and moving local attachments. No introduced security issue was established, but authorization and some concurrency behavior were not fully verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The security-relevant scope is the moved draft, its prompt and subsequent execution on the selected configured connection. Selection can now direct a projectless draft to a remote Scratch workspace; the inspected path does not establish access to arbitrary unregistered servers or additional credentials.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — User-selected environment identity is carried into Scratch preparation and scoped project lookup before draft ownership changes. Existing Scratch creation already used this preparation path before the PR; the new caller adds draft retargeting rather than a new RPC mechanism. Server-side authentication and ownership enforcement remain unverified in this review.
• observed — The selection handler refuses changes while a send is in flight. During a marked Scratch move, both ChatView's send handler and the composer's disabled-submit path block sending, including inspected direct annotation and automatic resend routes. These checks do not independently establish a synchronous lock before React renders movement state.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Failed preparation, stale completion, changed draft identity, observed disconnection or late attachments leave the original draft mapping intact. Cancellation invalidates the retargeting operation; the inspected code does not roll back Scratch project preparation already performed on the destination.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 20.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
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 identifies the main change: choosing a connection for threads without a project.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, change, verification, and UI evidence. It references issue #15292, but does not include explicit maintainer approval or explain why the change qualifies without p…

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/hooks/useScratchProject.ts:
- Line 43: Update isMovingScratchDraft in useScratchProject to require both a
matching draftId and that movingDraft.request matches moveRequest.current, so
invalidated requests are excluded from the moving state. Add a test that returns
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- Line 117: Update moveScratchDraft to recheck the destination environment’s
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[PixPMusic]

Confirmed this fixes the reported No project host-picker bug in #15292.

Before / after verification

Reproduced in T3 Code’s Browser panel with two isolated environments named Laptop and Remote server. Both captures use the same draft, project data, dark theme, and 1280 × 800 viewport.

• Before: main at cfdff56f7b3c9c931ae368224041aa14825649fd. Selecting No project retains Remote server but removes the host picker.
• After: the same worktree with PR fix(web): choose a connection for threads without a project #15200’s patch from dd58107652fac6ef25f258902c67bcbb2ce515b2. The No project picker remains available; switching to Laptop and back to Remote server succeeds.

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Focused verification: vp test run apps/web/src/hooks/useScratchProject.test.tsx apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbar.logic.test.ts apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.test.ts — 234 tests passed across 3 files.

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Note

Grok responding on behalf of Julius.

Superseded by merged #15356 (fix(web): no-project drafts can switch machines), which lands the same No project / Scratch machine-picker fix. Closing this as a leftover competing PR; the matching bug report #15292 is being closed against #15356.