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Closes #3528
Closes #3529
Closes #3530

The quick post composer (Waves publishing + comment replies) gets dictation, which the full editor has had for a while. Its toolbar is a fixed non-wrapping row next to the publish button, so there was no sixth slot free.

AI image generation moves into the AI assist sheet to make room. The two AI-badged icons sat next to each other and behaved differently anyway: one opened a sheet, the other jumped to a screen. It is now a card in that sheet, priced from the image endpoint's own 4:3 row as a starting price (the real charge scales with the power tier picked on the screen) and marked with a chevron, since unlike its neighbours it leaves the sheet instead of selecting in place. The card renders only when the caller passes onGenerateImage, so the full editor is unaffected and keeps both its own button and its media_generation disclosure flag.

Expand moves to the end of the row. It leaves the composer for the full editor, so it does not belong between the compose actions.

New toolbar order

mode order
wave image, video, dictate, poll, AI assist
comment image, dictate, AI assist, expand

Dictation sits with the other ways of getting content in rather than with AI assist, so it lands after video in a wave and after image in a reply. It is one shared element rendered in both branches, so the two placements cannot drift apart.

Item counts are unchanged in both modes, so the row width does not grow.

Notes for review

  • Dictation appends rather than inserting at a caret: this composer tracks no selection (no selection prop, no onSelectionChange), so the end of the body is the only position that is always right. The separator logic is in src/utils/dictationInsert.ts with unit tests.
  • The dictation sheet stays open and fires once per recorded segment, and a sheet payload is frozen at show time, so onInsert routes through a ref. A frozen closure would keep writing the draft cache with mediaUrls from before any upload that finished mid-session, and updateReplyCache replaces the whole entry.
  • _handleAiImageBtn now reads commentValueRef.current for the suggested prompt instead of the commentValue state, for the same freezing reason: it is handed into the AI assist payload.
  • Waves stay capped at 250 characters and nothing truncates. A long transcript can leave the counter red and Publish disabled until it is trimmed. That is the same behaviour as typing or pasting past the cap, and silently discarding words that cost Points seemed worse.
  • The composer sets no ai_tools disclosure flag today for either AI path, and usePostSubmitter has no field to carry one, so moving the entry point loses nothing. Worth a follow-up issue rather than scope here.

Verification

node scripts/typecheck.js 0 errors, yarn lint 0 errors (554 pre-existing warnings, unchanged count), yarn test:ci 1002 passed. The new util's tests were checked against three mutants (drop the separator guard, drop the trim, drop the blank-transcript bail) and each one fails them.

Not device-tested yet: no jest test covers these components, so the toolbar layout, the sheet-over-sheet presentation and the Android caret position after setNativeProps still need a build.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an image-generation option to the AI Assist modal, including pricing by aspect ratio.
    • Added dictation support to the quick post composer.
    • Updated the composer toolbar with AI Assist, microphone, and expand controls.
    • Added English labels and descriptions for image generation.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for appending dictated text, including spacing and blank-transcript handling.

… AI assist

The quick post composer is what Waves and comment replies actually use, and it
had no dictation even though the full editor has had it for a while. Its toolbar
is a fixed non-wrapping row sitting next to the publish button, so there was no
sixth slot to put a mic in.

Free one up by folding AI image generation into the AI assist sheet it sat next
to. Two adjacent AI-badged icons were the confusing part anyway: one opened a
sheet, the other jumped to a screen, and nothing on the row said which. It is now
a card in that sheet, priced from the image endpoint's own 4:3 row (a starting
price, since the real charge scales with the power tier chosen on the screen) and
carrying a chevron, because unlike its neighbours it leaves the sheet rather than
selecting in place. The card renders only for callers that pass onGenerateImage,
so the full editor is untouched and keeps its own button and its own disclosure
flag.

Dictation appends rather than inserting at a caret: this composer tracks no
selection, so the end of the body is the only position that is always right. The
sheet stays open and fires once per recorded segment, so the handler goes through
a ref, since a payload frozen at show time would keep writing the draft cache
from a closure whose mediaUrls predate any upload that finished mid-session, and
that cache write replaces the whole entry.

Expand moves to the end of the row while it is being rebuilt. It leaves the
composer for the full editor, so it does not belong between the compose actions.

New toolbar order:
  wave    image, video, poll, AI assist, dictate
  comment image, AI assist, dictate, expand
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Add quick composer dictation and consolidate AI image actions

✨ Enhancement 🧪 Tests 🕐 20-40 Minutes

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• Adds multi-segment dictation to Waves and comment replies with safe draft-cache updates.
• Moves AI image generation into AI Assist with endpoint-derived starting prices.
• Reorders fixed composer toolbars, placing full-editor expansion last.
Diagram

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant Composer as Quick Composer
  participant Dictation as Dictation Sheet
  participant Assist as AI Assist
  participant Pricing as Pricing API
  participant Generator as Image Generator
  alt Dictate text
    User->>Composer: Tap microphone
    Composer->>Dictation: Open with callback
    Dictation-->>Composer: Return segments
    Composer->>Composer: Append and cache
  else Generate image
    User->>Composer: Open AI assist
    Composer->>Assist: Pass image callback
    Assist->>Pricing: Fetch starting price
    Pricing-->>Assist: Return ratio prices
    User->>Assist: Select image card
    Assist->>Assist: Close sheet
    Assist->>Composer: Invoke callback
    Composer->>Generator: Navigate with prompt
    Generator-->>Composer: Insert image URL
  end
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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Add a toolbar overflow menu
  • ➕ Preserves separate direct concepts for AI assist and image generation
  • ➕ Creates capacity for future composer tools
  • ➖ Adds an extra interaction for hidden actions
  • ➖ Introduces a new toolbar pattern into a width-constrained publishing surface
2. Track caret selection for dictation
  • ➕ Allows transcripts to insert at the user's current cursor position
  • ➕ Matches richer editor behavior
  • ➖ Broadens scope into selection state and focus restoration
  • ➖ Raises Android controlled-input and native caret synchronization risk

Recommendation: Keep the PR's approach: grouping image generation under AI Assist clarifies adjacent AI actions without widening the toolbar, while the optional callback preserves full-editor behavior. Appending dictation is the safest behavior until the quick composer intentionally adopts selection tracking.

Files changed (7) +215 / -17

Enhancement (5) +178 / -17
aiAssistModal.styles.tsStyle the image-generation navigation chevron +6/-0

Style the image-generation navigation chevron

• Adds a color-only chevron style so the icon inherits theme coloring without overriding its explicit size.

src/components/aiAssistModal/aiAssistModal.styles.ts

aiAssistModal.tsxExpose AI image generation inside AI Assist +77/-1

Expose AI image generation inside AI Assist

• Adds an optional image-generation card that fetches endpoint-specific pricing and displays a 4:3 starting cost. The sheet closes before invoking the caller's navigation callback, while existing callers remain unchanged when no callback is supplied.

src/components/aiAssistModal/aiAssistModal.tsx

quickPostModalContent.tsxAdd quick composer dictation and reorganize toolbar actions +65/-16

Add quick composer dictation and reorganize toolbar actions

• Adds multi-segment dictation with current-value refs, native input synchronization, and safe draft-cache writes. Routes image generation through AI Assist, reads the latest prompt value, and moves expand to the toolbar's final position.

src/components/quickPostModal/quickPostModalContent.tsx

sheets.tsxType the optional AI image callback +4/-0

Type the optional AI image callback

• Extends the AI Assist sheet payload with an optional synchronous or asynchronous image-generation callback.

src/navigation/sheets.tsx

dictationInsert.tsAdd deterministic dictated-text appending +26/-0

Add deterministic dictated-text appending

• Introduces a dependency-free helper that trims transcripts, preserves existing trailing whitespace, inserts a separator when needed, and ignores blank segments.

src/utils/dictationInsert.ts

Tests (1) +34 / -0
dictationInsert.test.tsTest dictated segment append behavior +34/-0

Test dictated segment append behavior

• Covers empty bodies, whitespace separation, transcript trimming, blank transcripts, and repeated dictation segments.

src/utils/dictationInsert.test.ts

Other (1) +3 / -0
en-US.jsonAdd AI image action messages +3/-0

Add AI image action messages

• Adds English labels for the image-generation card, its description, and starting-price presentation.

src/config/locales/en-US.json

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P2 Badge Move the caret after appending dictated text

On Android, if the user starts dictation with the caret anywhere except the end and then resumes typing, this text-only setNativeProps update does not place the caret after next; React Native 0.79's ReactTextInputManager.updateExtraData preserves the previous distance from the end. Because the transcript was appended, the caret can therefore land before or inside the dictated segment, and the next keystroke splits it. Update the collapsed selection to next.length along with the text.

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Correct, and fixed in bd85677.

Confirmed against ReactTextInputManager.updateExtraData in this repo's RN 0.79.5: when the current selection is collapsed it computes selectionOffset = textLength - getSelectionStart() and then selectionStart = update.getText().length() - selectionOffset, so the caret keeps its distance from the END rather than its position. With a caret at 5 in an 11-char body, appending 9 characters lands it at 14, which is inside the segment just added.

Both programmatic writes in this composer now hand the collapsed caret over with the text, matching what the markdown editor already does at markdownEditorView.tsx (setNativeProps({ text, selection }); selection is in RCTTextInputViewConfig's validAttributes, so the combined call is enough and no separate setSelection is needed).

Also applied to the AI assist apply path on the same grounds, which you did not flag: it replaces the whole body, so a preserved distance from the end of the old text is meaningless in the new one.

Dictation was sitting with AI assist at the end of the row, which read as an AI
tool rather than a way of getting words in. Move it next to the buttons that do
the same job: after video in a wave, after image in a reply.

One shared element rendered in both branches, so the two placements cannot drift
apart as the row changes again.
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The AI Assist sheet now exposes optional image generation with metered pricing. The quick post composer adds dictation insertion, routes image generation through AI Assist, updates prompt sourcing, and reorders toolbar actions.

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AI Assist image generation

Layer / File(s) Summary
AI Assist image-generation card
src/components/aiAssistModal/..., src/navigation/sheets.tsx, src/config/locales/en-US.json
The sheet accepts an optional onGenerateImage callback, fetches image prices when enabled, and renders a localized image-generation card with a cost and chevron. The card hides the sheet before invoking the callback.

Quick post composer

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dictation text insertion contract
src/utils/dictationInsert.ts, src/utils/dictationInsert.test.ts
appendDictatedText trims transcripts, preserves blank input as a no-op, and joins segments with controlled whitespace. Tests cover these cases.
Quick post dictation and toolbar integration
src/components/quickPostModal/quickPostModalContent.tsx
The composer inserts dictation into the native input and reply cache. The toolbar opens AI Assist for image generation, adds dictation, and places expand at the end.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 02952

AI image insertion may overwrite the draft cache with stale video metadata if a video upload finishes while the assist sheet is open, which could cause an attached video to disappear from the saved draft. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up for this bounded cache-update risk.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant QuickPostComposer
  participant AiAssistModal
  participant PricingAPI
  participant ImageGeneratorScreen
  QuickPostComposer->>AiAssistModal: Open AI_ASSIST with onGenerateImage
  AiAssistModal->>PricingAPI: Fetch image-generation prices
  PricingAPI-->>AiAssistModal: Return aspect-ratio prices
  AiAssistModal->>QuickPostComposer: Show Generate image card
  QuickPostComposer->>AiAssistModal: Select image-generation card
  AiAssistModal->>ImageGeneratorScreen: Hide sheet and invoke callback
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A chevron points to image light
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The changes implement dictation, AI image integration, toolbar reordering, draft-cache cancellation, and dictation tests. The provided summary does not show enforcement of the 250-character Wave limit… Enforce the 250-character Wave limit during dictation insertion. Truncate or reject excess dictated text without silently exceeding the limit, keep the input and character counter consistent, and add tests for over-limit insertion.
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed styles, localization, sheet typing, AI Assist pricing integration, dictation helper, and tests directly support the three linked issues. No unrelated code changes are identified.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title accurately summarizes the pull request's main changes: composer dictation, AI image generation in AI Assist, and moving the expand action to the end.
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1. Frozen image callback drops media ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness
Description
The AI-assist payload captures _handleAiImageBtn at sheet-open time, so if an image/video upload
finishes while the sheet is open, the eventual generator onInsert uses the old
_handleMediaInsert/cache closure and overwrites the draft with stale attachment metadata. This can
remove the newly completed video URL or thumbnail from the saved quick-post draft when the generated
image is inserted.
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src/components/quickPostModal/quickPostModalContent.tsx[R584-585]

+          // AI image generation lives in this sheet now rather than its own toolbar icon.
+          onGenerateImage: _handleAiImageBtn,
Evidence
The new payload line passes a render-time function directly, while the adjacent dictation
implementation explicitly documents that sheet payloads are frozen and routes through a ref.
_handleAiImageBtn installs an onInsert closure over _handleMediaInsert; that handler writes
the generated image through _addQuickCommentIntoCache, whose default video URL and thumbnail are
captured from the render that created it. The quick-post close path first saves the current draft,
but the later generated-image callback dispatches another whole-entry cache update, so its stale
metadata replaces the newer upload state.

src/components/quickPostModal/quickPostModalContent.tsx[245-274]
src/components/quickPostModal/quickPostModalContent.tsx[361-383]
src/components/quickPostModal/quickPostModalContent.tsx[493-529]
src/components/quickPostModal/quickPostModalContent.tsx[560-586]
src/components/quickPostModal/quickPostModal.tsx[12-17]
src/screens/aiImageGenerator/screen/aiImageGeneratorScreen.tsx[133-137]

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## Issue description
The AI-assist sheet freezes `onGenerateImage` when shown. Passing `_handleAiImageBtn` directly lets the later generator insertion retain stale media/video state and overwrite newer draft metadata.
## Issue Context
Use the same current-handler ref pattern already introduced for dictation. Ensure the handler invoked after the AI sheet closes, and the `onInsert` callback it installs on the generator route, are created from the latest quick-composer render.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/components/quickPostModal/quickPostModalContent.tsx[510-529]
- src/components/quickPostModal/quickPostModalContent.tsx[579-586]

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Comment thread src/components/quickPostModal/quickPostModalContent.tsx Outdated
…the AI image callback

Android's updateExtraData preserves the caret's DISTANCE FROM THE END across a
text-only setNativeProps, not its position. So a dictated segment appended while
the caret sat anywhere but the end pushed the caret into the middle of the words
just added, and the next keystroke split them. The AI assist apply had the same
bug and worse odds, since it replaces the whole body and a distance from the end
of the old text means nothing in the new one. Both now hand the collapsed caret
over with the text, which is what the markdown editor already does.

The AI image handler was passed into the AI assist payload by value. Payloads
freeze at show time, so it went through the same ref indirection dictation
already used: it writes the draft cache through closures over mediaUrls and the
video fields, and that write replaces the whole entry.

The reachable window for the stale callback is narrow today, because the Speak
uploader covers the composer with an opaque modal until the moment it reports the
embed. That is a property of the uploader, not of this call, so it is not
something to rely on.
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