fix(chat): Stop and Retry answer the moment you press them

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Why

"stop and retry also seem to take a really long time before showing any UI change is happening."

They're right, and it isn't backend latency. Neither action is slow — both spend their whole window painting nothing, which reads as a hang.

Stop

Deleting the local rawStop() was right: cancelling a read stops nothing server-side, and a button that flips back to Send over a generation still calling write tools and still billing is a lie. But it left the click with nothing at all to show for itself.

reportAbortOutcome is silent on every outcome but 'unconfirmed', so the abort POST's resolved value paints zero pixels. What actually clears the bubble and flips the composer is the chat:stream_complete socket event. So the screen sat unchanged for a full round trip — up to ABORT_SETTLE_TIMEOUT_MS (4s) of deliberate server-side settle on a cross-instance owner — plus socket delivery.

useStopStream now returns { handleStop, isStopping }. The flag is raised synchronously before the await, so the button changes within a frame: spinner, "Stopping…", still the destructive Stop button.

It keeps the exact distinction rawStop got wrong — stopping, never stopped. The reply keeps streaming underneath, the store entry stands, and chat:stream_complete remains the sole authority for teardown. It clears on three paths only:

• the socket landing, read as the stop target disappearing — no second socket subscription, just the one place a live stream is recorded
• an error reaching the abort endpoint
• a bounded backstop (2 × ABORT_SETTLE_TIMEOUT_MS), so a socket that never arrives can't wedge the button

Free consequence: 'not_found' is deliberately silent, so Stop pressed a beat after the reply ended produced no feedback. The stopping state resolving is the acknowledgement that silence can't give.

Retry

Retry never went through the optimistic path at all — regenerate was called bare. So pendingSendConversationId stayed null, displayIsStreaming stayed false for the whole window, and the composer kept an enabled textarea and a Send button while a regeneration was already running. The one visible change was the old assistant bubble vanishing, which reads as "something broke", not "working on it".

Retry now runs inside the same wrapSend a send uses. Wrapped in useCacheMessageActions rather than at each surface's regenerate adapter — that hook is the one shared path every surface funnels retry through, so there's a single place to get it right and nothing to drift, and it covers the server deletes as well as the POST (wrapping only regenerate would leave that round trip unfeedbacked, which is the bigger half of the dead window).

Double-click: the guard is useEditingStore.pendingSends, which wrapSend writes synchronously before it invokes the send — so the whole path from click to registration stays inside one tick and a second click cannot slip between them. (It started as a retryInFlightRef; review rounds 1 and 2 walked it from a boolean to a conversation-keyed Set to the app-wide store, because the dashboard and the sidebar each mount their own instance of this hook for the same conversation. See rounds 1–2 below.) Plus a new retryDisabled prop on the button — separate from disabled so edit and delete stay usable.

The deletes stay awaited — deliberately

The brief asked for these to fire in parallel with the regenerate POST. That would silently corrupt the retry, so I kept the await and documented why at the site:

handleChatTurn rebuilds history from the database, not from the client's messages ("We use database-loaded messages, NOT requestMessages from client"), and nothing server-side supersedes the trailing assistant rows on a regenerate. Race the DELETEs against the POST and the model is handed its own previous answer as the newest turn — nondeterministically, depending on which request hit the DB first.

Also worth noting: the deletes are already concurrent with each other — one Promise.allSettled over N independent requests, not N sequential awaits. The cost is one round trip, and it's no longer invisible.

Verification

Re-run after every review round; the numbers below are from the current tip.

• bun run typecheck from the repo root — 17/17 tasks green, including web#build
• bun run --filter web lint — clean
• bun run --filter web test -- src/hooks src/lib/ai src/components — 6391 passed, 22 skipped. One failure: activity-tools.test.ts, which needs DATABASE_URL and fails on any branch.
• Every mechanism in this PR is mutation-checked, each confirmed red then restored — the original six (flag set after the await; clear-effect removed; backstop removed; error-path clear removed; regenerate called bare again; double-click guard dropped) and everything added since: the shared latch and its conversation keying, the stop-request recording and its absence when there is no target, the stop-epoch bail and its snapshot semantics, the pendingSend release and its === false versus falsy distinction, the release's conversation scoping, the failed-delete gate, its 404 exemption, and the per-row cache restore.
• Rebased onto current master; no conflicts.

Not verified

The perceptual test needs a browser. Verified in code: the flag is set before any await, the button re-renders off it, the streaming bubble is untouched. Not verified: actual paint timing, that the spinner reads as "stopping" rather than "stopped" to a real user, and that the composer lock on retry feels like the send lock. Worth one manual pass.

Review round 1 — Codex (all three addressed in 0c36574ad)

All three were real, and two shared a root cause I had missed: useStopStream and useCacheMessageActions outlive the conversation they are looking at. On the dashboard and sidebar these hooks are never remounted on a conversation switch, so any state keyed to "is something happening" leaks across conversations.

P1 — stopping state leaked to the next conversation. hasStopTarget was a boolean, so Stop A → switch to B (streaming) left it true, the clear effect never fired, and B rendered a disabled "Stopping…" button for a Stop nobody asked for until the 8s backstop expired. Now the state stores which conversation was stopped and isStopping is derived from that identity matching the on-screen target — the switch drops it a frame earlier than an effect could.

Keyed by conversation rather than messageId (deviating slightly from the suggestion): a Stop in the TTFB window names a conversation and only later acquires a messageId, so a message-keyed latch would see its target "change" mid-abort and drop the affordance the instant the stream entry appeared.

P2 — unconfirmed aborts held the button hostage. The helpers return NETWORK_FAILURE rather than throwing, so the catch path was unreachable exactly when release matters most: the user has just been told the generation may still be running and billing, and the only control that could stop it was disabled for 8s. The affordance is now held only on a confirmed aborted; unconfirmed and not_found release it. That also sharpens the not_found acknowledgement — appear-then-settle instead of hanging over a generation the server says already finished.

P2 — retry latch blocked other conversations. One boolean meant a retry awaiting A's DELETEs silently swallowed a Retry click in B — something this architecture explicitly supports ("Both shells can have sends in flight at once"). Now a Set keyed by conversationId: same-conversation duplicates still suppressed synchronously, cross-conversation retries unblocked.

Three tests added, one rewritten, each mutation-checked. Also fixed a latent harness bug the cross-conversation test exposed: the useMessageActions mock built a fresh vi.fn per render, silently resetting its own call count across a re-render.

Re-validated after the fixes: bun run typecheck 17/17 green; 6354 tests passing (same one pre-existing DATABASE_URL failure).

Review round 2 — CodeRabbit (addressed in 7187325e8)

Major — the retry latch was still per-instance. Round 1 keyed it by conversation, which fixed the cross-conversation block, but it was still a useRef — and GlobalAssistantView and SidebarChatTab each mount their own useCacheMessageActions for the same conversation. Two Retry buttons, two refs, neither aware of the other. The server does not cover the gap; stream-takeover.ts says so itself: "two near-simultaneous sends can BOTH find zero in-flight rows and BOTH proceed: two generations, two sets of tool calls, two bills".

The latch is now useEditingStore.pendingSends rather than new shared state, because that store already is this latch — app-wide, keyed by conversation, and written by the very wrapSend this handler calls (synchronously, before it returns, so the click→guard→register path stays inside one tick and a double-click cannot slip between them). Reusing it means one answer to "is a send in flight for this conversation", and it inherits that store's release paths — including wrapSend's 15s safety timeout, so a hung DELETE cannot wedge Retry the way the ref could. It also correctly blocks a retry issued while an ordinary send is in flight, which the ref did not.

The suite's wrapSend stub was a bare passthrough; since the latch now is the pendingSend registration, that silently disabled the guard under test, so the stub is now faithful to useSendHandoff.wrapSend.

Test added — given two hook instances on the same conversation, should run only one retry. Mutation-checked both mechanisms: dropping the guard turns the two-instance and double-click cases red; widening it to any pending send turns the cross-conversation case red.

Re-validated: bun run typecheck 17/17 green including web#build; bun run --filter web lint clean; 6356 web tests passing (same one pre-existing DATABASE_URL failure).

Nitpicks — two applied, one declined. waitFor replaces the fixed microtask drains at the not_found and unconfirmed cases (not at the cross-conversation case, which is a stays true claim waitFor would pass on the first tick without proving; the site now says so). The stopping Stop button moved from disabled to aria-disabled with a guarded click: disabled removes the button from the focus path, so a keyboard user who pressed Stop never heard the relabel — it was swallowing the exact feedback the state exists to give. Declined the kebab-case test-file rename: every component test in both touched __tests__ directories is ComponentName.aspect.test.tsx, so renaming one makes it the only inconsistent name there.

Also folded releaseUnlessAbortConfirmed — a useCallback whose whole body was one conditional, called once, immediately after the await it guards — back into that call site.

Review round 3 — adversarial self-review (4c64c27b7)

A pass over the diff looking for what a reviewer would find next turned up a bug this PR had itself introduced.

A Stop pressed during a retry did nothing, and the generation started anyway. Retry now runs inside wrapSend, so the composer offers Stop for the whole DELETE round trip that precedes the regenerate POST. No stream row exists in that window, and markAbortRequested can only mark rows that are already 'streaming' — so the abort matched nothing, answered not_found (which the UI is deliberately silent about), and the client then dispatched the regeneration regardless. The press appeared to do nothing and cost a generation: exactly the lie this epic deleted rawStop over, reintroduced by the affordance meant to fix it.

handleRetry now snapshots a per-conversation Stop counter before the deletes and refuses to dispatch if it moved. A counter compared against a snapshot rather than a flag, because that needs no clearing and has no race — a Stop pressed before a retry (stop a stream, then retry it: the ordinary path) moves the counter before the snapshot is taken and cannot cancel it. Keyed by conversation, so a Stop in A leaves a retry in B alone.

That makes handleRetry a call that can decline, so it reports whether it dispatched — the contract handleSend already has — and useCacheMessageActions releases the pendingSend when it did not. Without that the composer would render only Stop until unmount, which is the wedge useSendHandoff.releasePendingSend exists for.

Nine tests, every mechanism mutation-checked: the bail, the snapshot semantics, the conversation keying, the recording (present, and absent when there is no target), the release, and === false versus falsy.

Also rebased onto current master (e342d5a66), and corrected one comment that quoted a line as if it appeared in two files when only one has it verbatim.

Re-validated: bun run typecheck 17/17 green including web#build; bun run --filter web lint clean; 6391 web tests passing (same one pre-existing DATABASE_URL failure).

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Review round 4 — CodeRabbit

A failed DELETE still let the regeneration dispatch. Flagged as outside-diff and pre-existing, with an offer to file it as a follow-up; fixed here instead, because round 3 had just given handleRetry the ability to decline, so the failure path is return plus the release that already exists. The point is sharp: the rejections were swallowed into a console.error, which made the awaited ordering load-bearing only when the network cooperated. A row that fails to delete is still in the database, the server rebuilds history from the database, and the model is handed its own previous answer — the corruption the await exists to prevent, reached by another route. It reports rather than staying silent: the cache row is already gone by then, so without a word the user watches their answer vanish with no idea why.

A tautological assertion in round 3's own new test (readStopEpoch('quiet') compared to itself) — it now pins the zero default a caller's first snapshot depends on.

Declined: renaming mockState to MOCK_STATE. It is a vi.hoisted registry whose contents are reassigned every test (const binds the reference, not the value), and every vi.hoisted binding in apps/web is camelCase without exception — middleware.test.ts, form-target-service.test.ts, useToastPreferences.test.ts, ConnectedAppsList.test.tsx, DriveMembers.test.tsx. Reviewer accepted; thread resolved.

Review round 5 — adversarial self-review

The declined-retry release could clobber another conversation's send. Same failure family as round 1's P1 and P2, one level out. releasePendingSend closes over the conversation it was built for but guards on a hasPendingSendRef shared across renders, so the stale copy an in-flight retry closure holds releases whatever send is registered now. Switch conversations and send while a stopped retry is still settling, and that send's pendingSend is cleared out from under it — composer unlocked, Stop gone, generation still running. Now compared against a ref of the live conversation, matching the pattern useStopStream already uses.

Review round 6 — adversarial self-review

Two holes in round 4's gate, both found by asking what a second click does.

404 was being treated as a failure. The route answers Message not found for a row that is already gone — which is precisely the state the delete was asking for. A collaborator or a second tab getting there first would have blocked the retry and raised an error over a no-op. Same distinction markAbortRequested already draws between "nothing matched" and "the write did not happen".

The cache stayed lying. The cache delete is written synchronously so the superseded answer vanishes at the click; on a genuine failure that is a claim the server disagrees with — and the next retry plans its deletes from that same cache, so it finds nothing to delete, dispatches, and hands the model its own previous answer. The same corruption, one click later. The rows now go back, and only the rows the server still holds: handleRetry reports a named outcome carrying the ids whose DELETE failed, so a partial failure does not resurrect rows that really are gone.

That is what made the return value a small union rather than a boolean — every non-dispatch needs the pendingSend released, but only a delete failure also needs the cache restored, and the caller cannot tell those apart from false.

Review round 7 — rebase onto #2419, and CodeRabbit

Rebased onto the merged sibling. CI had gone green, but while it ran master gained 17 commits including #2419 (fix(streams): a second machine can no longer delete a live reply) — which rewrites stream-abort-mark.ts and stream-takeover.ts, the two files this PR's client-side reasoning depends on, plus a migration and an ai-streams schema change. Green checks on a base that no longer exists are not evidence, so I re-verified the premises before rebasing:

• markAbortRequested still guards on status = 'streaming' with no pre-registration of abort intent — so the pre-POST window still has nothing the server can abort, and the stop-epoch is still the only mechanism covering it rather than dead weight.
• The stream-takeover.ts line quoted in useCacheMessageActions still exists.
• stream-abort-decisions.ts and stream-liveness.ts are unchanged by the merge, so the outcome codes useStopStream keys on (aborted / not_found / unconfirmed) are exactly as before — which matters, because the release rule is literally code !== 'aborted'.

Rebased clean, re-ran everything against the real base, and CI is green on the rebased tip.

Typed the retry mock from the real signature (CodeRabbit). handleRetryBase was ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>, so mockResolvedValueOnce accepted any shape and a change to RetryOutcome left the stubs describing a contract that no longer existed, silently. Not hypothetical — that drift already happened in this PR when handleRetry gained a named outcome, and only running the suite caught it. Verified the fix: renaming a RetryOutcome member now fails typecheck in the test file, at three call sites.

A note for the reviewer

Rounds 3, 5 and 6 were self-review, and each one found a real defect in the previous round's fix — uncancellable generation, then a clobbered send, then a corrupt second retry, then an over-restored cache. They shrink each time and they are all in the same area: the error and cancellation paths around retry, which the happy path never touches. Every one is now covered by a mutation-checked test, but the pattern is worth knowing before reading the diff.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Stop now provides immediate “Stopping” feedback and prevents repeated presses while processing.
  • Retry actions lock the composer, offer Stop, and prevent duplicate regenerations.
  • Retry controls remain available for separate conversations when appropriate.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of stop confirmations, timeouts, stream completion, and interrupted responses.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for stopping states, retry locking, duplicate prevention, and timeout scenarios.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds explicit stop-request feedback and retry locking. Stop state flows from useStopStream to chat inputs. Retry actions use shared pending-send handling, stop epochs, and structured outcomes to prevent duplicate or unsafe regeneration.

Changes

Chat feedback and retry flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stop lifecycle state and validation apps/web/src/hooks/useStopStream.ts, apps/web/src/lib/ai/streams/stopRequests.ts, apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/useMessageActions.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/__tests__/*, apps/web/src/lib/ai/streams/__tests__/*, apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/__tests__/useMessageActions.test.ts	useStopStream tracks unresolved stop state and stop epochs. Retries return structured outcomes and skip regeneration when cleanup detects a stop or deletion failure.
Stopping state propagation and rendering apps/web/src/components/agents/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/ai/chat/input/*, apps/web/src/components/ai/chat/layouts/ChatLayout.tsx, apps/web/src/components/layout/...	Chat hooks and layouts propagate isStopping. The Stop control shows a loading state, remains focusable, and rejects repeated activation.
Retry send handoff and concurrency control apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/useCacheMessageActions.ts, apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/__tests__/useCacheMessageActions.test.ts	Retries use wrapSend, inspect conversation-scoped pending sends, suppress duplicates, restore cache rows after failed deletion, and release declined retry registrations.
Retry control rendering and documentation apps/web/src/components/ai/shared/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/ai/shared/chat/__tests__/*, CHANGELOG.md	Retry controls become disabled during streaming. The changelog documents stop feedback and retry locking.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 48ce6

Stop and Retry now show immediate in-progress feedback and prevent duplicate retry actions. No actionable product correctness or availability blocker remains; only localized test-mock typing and naming-rule cleanup follow-up is needed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ChatInput
  participant useStopStream
  participant AbortEndpoint
  User->>ChatInput: Press Stop
  ChatInput->>useStopStream: handleStop()
  useStopStream->>useStopStream: Set isStopping and record stop epoch
  useStopStream->>AbortEndpoint: Request abort
  AbortEndpoint-->>useStopStream: Return abort result
  useStopStream-->>ChatInput: Keep or clear stopping feedback

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Possibly related PRs

• 2witstudios/PageSpace#2018: Both PRs modify chat Stop/retry flow and stream-abort handling.
• 2witstudios/PageSpace#2098: Both PRs modify shared chat retry handling and useCacheMessageActions.
• 2witstudios/PageSpace#2410: Both PRs modify useStopStream and stopping-state feedback.

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apps/web/src/hooks/__tests__/useStopStream.test.tsx (1)

224-224: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Prefer waitFor over a fixed number of microtask ticks.

These three assertions drain the microtask queue with two await Promise.resolve() calls. The count depends on the exact number of await points between the mocked abort resolution and the setState. If an await is added inside handleStop later, these tests fail with a stale-state assertion instead of pointing at the real change. waitFor is already imported and used at Line 274.

♻️ Proposed change for the `not_found` case

     act(() => { void result.current.handleStop(); });
     expect(result.current.isStopping).toBe(true);
 
-    await act(async () => { await Promise.resolve(); await Promise.resolve(); });
-
-    expect(result.current.isStopping).toBe(false);
+    await waitFor(() => expect(result.current.isStopping).toBe(false));
     expect(reportAbortOutcome).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
       expect.objectContaining({ code: 'not_found' }),
     );

Apply the same change at Line 243 and Line 312. At Line 312, keep the releaseA?.() call inside act, then assert the held state with waitFor plus a settled check.

Also applies to: 243-243, 312-312

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In `@apps/web/src/hooks/__tests__/useStopStream.test.tsx` at line 224, Replace the
fixed Promise.resolve microtask drains around the stop-stream assertions with
waitFor, using the existing import. Update the corresponding cases near the
not_found and releaseA flows as well; keep releaseA?.() inside act, then use
waitFor with a settled-state check before asserting the held state.

apps/web/src/components/ai/chat/input/InputActions.tsx (1)

53-67: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider aria-disabled instead of disabled so the stopping state is announced.

The button sets disabled while isStopping is true. Browsers remove focus from a disabled element, so a user who pressed Stop with the keyboard loses focus to the document body. The changed aria-label is then not announced, because a disabled control is not in the accessibility focus path and there is no live region here.

If you keep the element focusable with aria-disabled and guard the handler, the label change is announced and focus is retained. The duplicate-click protection is preserved by the handler guard.

♿ Proposed change

     <Button
       data-testid="chat-stop"
-      onClick={onStop}
+      onClick={isStopping ? undefined : onStop}
       // Disabled while the first Stop is in flight: a second one names the same stream and
       // changes nothing, and an unlatched button reads as "that click did nothing".
-      disabled={isStopping}
+      aria-disabled={isStopping || undefined}
       data-stopping={isStopping ? 'true' : undefined}
       variant="destructive"
       size="icon"
-      className="h-9 w-9 shrink-0 disabled:opacity-100"
+      className="h-9 w-9 shrink-0 disabled:opacity-100 aria-disabled:cursor-not-allowed"
       title={isStopping ? 'Stopping…' : 'Stop generating'}
       aria-label={isStopping ? 'Stopping' : 'Stop generating'}
     >

If you apply this change, update InputActions.stopping.test.tsx Line 19 (toBeEnabled) and the duplicate-click assertion accordingly.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/ai/chat/input/InputActions.tsx` around lines 53 - 67,
Replace the native disabled behavior on the stop control in InputActions with
aria-disabled tied to isStopping, and guard its click handler so repeated clicks
while stopping are ignored. Preserve the stopping label, spinner, and
duplicate-click protection, and update InputActions.stopping.test.tsx
expectations to reflect that the control remains enabled but aria-disabled.

apps/web/src/components/ai/shared/chat/__tests__/MessageActionButtons.retryDisabled.test.tsx (1)

1-4: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Rename this test file to kebab-case.

MessageActionButtons.retryDisabled.test.tsx is a test file, not a React component. Rename it to message-action-buttons.retry-disabled.test.tsx and update explicit references.

As per coding guidelines: “Use kebab-case for filenames (except React hooks, Zustand stores, and React components).”

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In
`@apps/web/src/components/ai/shared/chat/__tests__/MessageActionButtons.retryDisabled.test.tsx`
around lines 1 - 4, Rename the test file from
MessageActionButtons.retryDisabled.test.tsx to
message-action-buttons.retry-disabled.test.tsx, and update any explicit
references to the old filename while leaving the test implementation unchanged.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/useCacheMessageActions.ts`:
- Around line 135-142: The retry latch is local to each useCacheMessageActions
instance, so concurrent retries from GlobalAssistantView and SidebarChatTab are
not deduplicated. Move the conversation-keyed retry-in-flight state into shared
Zustand state, update handleRetry and its cleanup to use that shared latch, and
add coverage in
apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/__tests__/useCacheMessageActions.test.ts around
lines 153-207 that mounts two hook instances with the same conversation ID and
verifies only one retry runs.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/ai/chat/input/InputActions.tsx`:
- Around line 53-67: Replace the native disabled behavior on the stop control in
InputActions with aria-disabled tied to isStopping, and guard its click handler
so repeated clicks while stopping are ignored. Preserve the stopping label,
spinner, and duplicate-click protection, and update
InputActions.stopping.test.tsx expectations to reflect that the control remains
enabled but aria-disabled.

In
`@apps/web/src/components/ai/shared/chat/__tests__/MessageActionButtons.retryDisabled.test.tsx`:
- Around line 1-4: Rename the test file from
MessageActionButtons.retryDisabled.test.tsx to
message-action-buttons.retry-disabled.test.tsx, and update any explicit
references to the old filename while leaving the test implementation unchanged.

In `@apps/web/src/hooks/__tests__/useStopStream.test.tsx`:
- Line 224: Replace the fixed Promise.resolve microtask drains around the
stop-stream assertions with waitFor, using the existing import. Update the
corresponding cases near the not_found and releaseA flows as well; keep
releaseA?.() inside act, then use waitFor with a settled-state check before
asserting the held state.

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[2witstudios]

Following up on the three nitpicks from the last review — two applied, one declined with evidence.

1. waitFor over fixed microtask drains (useStopStream.test.tsx) — applied at the not_found and unconfirmed cases. You are right about the failure mode: the tick count was coupled to the number of await points between the mocked resolution and the setState, so adding an await inside handleStop would have failed those tests with a stale-state assertion rather than pointing at the change.

Deliberately not applied at the third site (the cross-conversation case). That assertion is a stays true claim — A's late abort must not touch B's affordance — and waitFor retries until a predicate passes, so it would succeed on the very first tick without ever proving the state survived the queue draining. A drain-then-assert is the shape that actually tests "still true after everything settled". I left a comment at the site saying so, so the next reader does not convert it.

2. aria-disabled over disabled (InputActions.tsx) — applied, and it is a better point than "trivial". The entire purpose of this state is to announce that the press registered, and disabled removes the button from the focus path, so a keyboard user who pressed Stop loses focus to the body and never hears the relabel. disabled was swallowing precisely the feedback the state exists to give.

It is now aria-disabled={isStopping || undefined} with the click guarded on the handler (onClick={isStopping ? undefined : onStop}) rather than by the attribute, plus aria-disabled:cursor-not-allowed. Tests updated: the stopping case now asserts aria-disabled, a new case asserts the button is not natively disabled and can hold focus, and the second-press case additionally fires a keyboard activation. Mutation-checked both halves — unguarding the click turns the second-press case red; restoring native disabled turns the STOPPING and focusable cases red.

3. Rename the test file to kebab-case — declined. The rule is real in the abstract, but this directory's actual convention is ComponentName.aspect.test.tsx, and it is unanimous: ChatMessagesArea.remoteStreams.test.tsx, CompactMessageRenderer.interrupted.test.tsx, CompactMessageRenderer.toolCallGrouping.test.tsx, MessageRenderer.interrupted.test.tsx, MessageRenderer.toolCallGrouping.test.tsx, VirtualizedMessageList.measure.test.tsx, AskUserQuestionCard.test.tsx, ChatErrorBanner.test.tsx, SpokenTurnGlyph.test.tsx — every component test in components/ai/shared/chat/__tests__ and components/ai/chat/input/__tests__. Renaming one file to kebab-case makes it the only inconsistent name in both directories, which costs more discoverability than the guideline buys. Worth a repo-wide decision, not a one-file exception in this PR.

Re-validated: bun run typecheck 17/17 green including web#build; bun run --filter web lint clean; the touched suites (src/components/ai, src/hooks, src/lib/ai/shared) 1146 passing.

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apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/useMessageActions.ts (1)

215-224: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

A failed DELETE still lets regeneration dispatch, which breaks the ordering invariant documented above.

The .catch at Line 220 swallows each rejection, and Promise.allSettled never rejects. If a superseded assistant row fails to delete, the row stays in the database. The comment at Lines 197-206 states that the server loads history from the database, so the model then receives its own previous answer as the newest turn.

The swallow predates this PR, so this is not a blocker. Consider tracking the settled results and skipping the dispatch when a deletion fails.

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In `@apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/useMessageActions.ts` around lines 215 -
224, Update the deletion flow in useMessageActions so regeneration dispatch is
skipped when any assistant message deletion fails. Preserve the existing DELETE
requests, but stop swallowing failures or track Promise.allSettled results and
gate the subsequent dispatch on every deletion succeeding; retain the current
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apps/web/src/lib/ai/streams/__tests__/stopRequests.test.ts (1)

15-17: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Assert the zero default instead of comparing a read to itself.

The current assertion compares readStopEpoch('quiet') with itself. It passes for almost any implementation. The contract callers depend on is that an unknown conversation reads 0, so a snapshot taken before the first Stop is a valid baseline.

♻️ Proposed assertion

-  it('given no Stop, should read the same epoch twice', () => {
-    expect(readStopEpoch('quiet')).toBe(readStopEpoch('quiet'));
-  });
+  it('given no Stop, should read zero and not move on read', () => {
+    expect(readStopEpoch('quiet')).toBe(0);
+    expect(readStopEpoch('quiet')).toBe(0);
+  });

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In `@apps/web/src/lib/ai/streams/__tests__/stopRequests.test.ts` around lines 15 -
17, Update the no-Stop test for readStopEpoch so it asserts that the unknown
“quiet” conversation returns the zero default, rather than comparing two
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/__tests__/useCacheMessageActions.test.ts`:
- Around line 10-25: Rename the module-level mockState constant to MOCK_STATE
and update every reference to use the new UPPER_SNAKE_CASE name, without
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Outside diff comments:
In `@apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/useMessageActions.ts`:
- Around line 215-224: Update the deletion flow in useMessageActions so
regeneration dispatch is skipped when any assistant message deletion fails.
Preserve the existing DELETE requests, but stop swallowing failures or track
Promise.allSettled results and gate the subsequent dispatch on every deletion
succeeding; retain the current behavior when all deletions succeed.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/web/src/lib/ai/streams/__tests__/stopRequests.test.ts`:
- Around line 15-17: Update the no-Stop test for readStopEpoch so it asserts
that the unknown “quiet” conversation returns the zero default, rather than
comparing two identical reads. Keep the test focused on the initial baseline
contract.

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[2witstudios]

The other two from that review — the outside-diff finding and the nitpick — both landed in 8da749547.

A failed DELETE let the regeneration dispatch anyway. You are right, and it is the more interesting of the two: the awaited ordering above it was load-bearing only when the network cooperated. A row that fails to delete is still in the database, the server rebuilds history from the database, and the model is handed its own previous answer as the newest turn — the exact corruption the await exists to prevent, arrived by a different route. Awaiting something and then ignoring what it said is not an ordering guarantee.

I have fixed it rather than tracked it, because it became nearly free earlier in this round: handleRetry had already gained the ability to decline (a Stop landing during the deletes), so the failure path is return false, the caller releases the pendingSend it registered, and the composer unlocks. No issue needed — thank you for offering.

It does not stay silent, which is a deliberate departure from the console-only line it replaces. useCacheMessageActions has already applied the cache delete synchronously, so on a failed DELETE the user watches their answer vanish with nothing replacing it; without a word they have no way to know why, or that a reload brings it back. So: toast.error('Could not clear the previous reply, so the retry was not started.').

The tautological baseline assertion. Also right — expect(readStopEpoch('quiet')).toBe(readStopEpoch('quiet')) passes against almost any implementation, including one that returns a fresh random number. It now pins the zero default, which is the property a caller actually leans on: the first snapshot a conversation ever takes is before any Stop it has ever seen, so an unknown conversation has to read as a usable baseline rather than as absent.

Two tests added — a failing delete regenerates nothing and reports, and the all-succeed path regenerates and stays quiet. Mutation-checked: dropping the gate turns the failure case red, and so does dropping the toast.

Re-validated: bun run typecheck 17/17 green including web#build; bun run --filter web lint clean; 4972 tests passing across src/lib/ai, src/hooks, src/components/ai (only the pre-existing activity-tools.test.ts DATABASE_URL failure, which fails on any branch).

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apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/__tests__/useCacheMessageActions.test.ts (1)

10-34: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Type the hoisted retry mock against handleRetry so outcome drift fails typecheck.

handleRetryBase is declared as ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>, which is untyped. The tests at lines 265, 284, 300, 327, and 340 pass RetryOutcome literals through mockResolvedValueOnce, so a change to RetryOutcome in useMessageActions.ts would not fail typecheck here. Bind the mock type to the real return type instead.

♻️ Proposed typing change

-const mockState = vi.hoisted(() => {
-  const state = {
-    handleRetryBaseResolve: undefined as (() => void) | undefined,
-    handleRetryBase: undefined as ReturnType<typeof vi.fn> | undefined,
-  };
+const mockState = vi.hoisted(() => {
+  const state = {
+    handleRetryBaseResolve: undefined as (() => void) | undefined,
+    handleRetryBase: undefined as
+      | ReturnType<typeof vi.fn<() => Promise<import('../useMessageActions').RetryOutcome>>>
+      | undefined,
+  };

Based on learnings, "type mocks from the real exported function whenever possible, such as vi.fn<typeof import('module').functionName>() … so export signature changes cause TypeScript compilation failures instead of allowing stale test stubs."

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In `@apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/__tests__/useCacheMessageActions.test.ts`
around lines 10 - 34, Type mockState.handleRetryBase from the real handleRetry
return signature exposed by useMessageActions rather than generic
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In `@apps/web/src/lib/ai/shared/hooks/__tests__/useCacheMessageActions.test.ts`:
- Around line 10-34: Type mockState.handleRetryBase from the real handleRetry
return signature exposed by useMessageActions rather than generic
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[2witstudios]

Applied in bf248bd1b, and thank you — this one earned its keep immediately.

handleRetryBase is now typed as ReturnType<typeof vi.fn<() => Promise<RetryOutcome>>>, and the held-open promise resolves { dispatched: true } rather than void (the cases that hold it are describing a retry that got as far as regenerate, so that is the honest value).

The reason it is worth more than "trivial": this file already suffered the exact drift you describe, inside this PR. handleRetry returned a bare boolean until an earlier round gave it a named outcome, and because the mock was untyped, typecheck stayed silent — the stale stubs were only caught by running the suite and reading the assertion failures. With the binding in place that becomes a compile error instead.

Verified rather than assumed. Renaming a RetryOutcome member ('stopped' → 'halted') now fails typecheck in the test file at three call sites:

useCacheMessageActions.test.ts(277,75): error TS2322: Type '"stopped"' is not assignable to type '"no-conversation" | "halted" | "delete-failed"'.
useCacheMessageActions.test.ts(339,75): error TS2322: ...
useCacheMessageActions.test.ts(370,75): error TS2322: ...

Before the change, that same rename produced errors only in useMessageActions.ts and the tests compiled clean against a contract that no longer existed.

Re-validated: bun run typecheck 17/17 green including web#build; bun run --filter web lint clean; 693 tests passing across src/lib/ai/shared/hooks and src/hooks/__tests__.