chore(agents): agent composor auto focus - #6161
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Creating a coding agent from the launcher now arms focus on the composer the same way email and mobile chat do, so the text box is selected when the lazy agent block mounts. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
The c-then-a path finds the composer by id and focuses its contenteditable. Keep that contract covered. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
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WalkthroughThe agent composer now accepts contextual autofocus decisions. Block navigation enables autofocus only for eligible split content that did not originate from Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Creating a coding agent can focus an already-open composer rather than the newly created one when multiple agent blocks are mounted, preventing immediate typing in the new agent. The lazy creation path also lacks direct coverage, and the guide names the Create action incorrectly. Resolve these issues before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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apps/web/src/features/block-agent/ui/AgentInput.test.ts (1)
30-34: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winTest the lazy-mount branch.
This test inserts a visible editor before calling
triggerFocusInput, so it only tests immediate focus. It does not test the branch used byapps/web/src/features/command/Launcher.tsx, where the target is absent until afteropenWithSplit. Add a test that arms focus first, appends the wrapper and editor later, flushes the deferred callback, and asserts focus.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/web/src/features/block-agent/ui/AgentInput.tsx`:
- Line 143: Update AgentInput’s id assignment using a unique per-creation
identifier for each agent block, and update the corresponding Launcher focus
lookup to target that identifier or scope the search to the split opened by the
action. Ensure triggerFocusInput focuses the newly created lazy block rather
than an existing visible composer.
In `@docs/AGENT_GUIDE/ai-chat.md`:
- Line 14: Update the documented Create menu path to use the exact label “Coding
Agent” instead of “Coding Agent A”, while preserving the existing keyboard
shortcut and surrounding instructions.
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In `@apps/web/src/features/block-agent/ui/AgentInput.test.ts`:
- Around line 30-34: Extend the test around triggerFocusInput to cover the
lazy-mount path: arm focus before the target exists, append the wrapper and
contenteditable editor afterward, flush the deferred callback, and assert that
the editor receives focus. Keep the existing immediate-focus coverage intact.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Use a unique focus target for each agent block.
Every AgentInput renders the same document-wide ID at this line. apps/web/src/features/command/Launcher.tsx Line 435 then calls document.getElementById, which can return an already visible agent. triggerFocusInput exits before the new lazy block mounts, so creation focuses the existing composer instead of the new one. Use a per-creation identifier or scope the lookup to the split opened by this action.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
In `@apps/web/src/features/block-agent/ui/AgentInput.tsx` at line 143, Update
AgentInput’s id assignment using a unique per-creation identifier for each agent
block, and update the corresponding Launcher focus lookup to target that
identifier or scope the search to the split opened by the action. Ensure
triggerFocusInput focuses the newly created lazy block rather than an existing
visible composer.
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| composer with placeholder **`Ask AI, @mention anything`**. Click it, `type_text` the message, | ||
| press Enter — the app creates a chat and navigates to `/app/chat/<uuid>`. Alternatively | ||
| `Create` → `Coding Agent A`, or keyboard `c` then `a`. | ||
| `Create` → `Coding Agent A`, or keyboard `c` then `a`. That create path focuses the |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Use the exact Create menu label.
The documented action is Create → Coding Agent, but this line says Coding Agent A. Remove the extra A so users can find the menu item.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@docs/AGENT_GUIDE/ai-chat.md` at line 14, Update the documented Create menu
path to use the exact label “Coding Agent” instead of “Coding Agent A”, while
preserving the existing keyboard shortcut and surrounding instructions.
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A single connect-time autofocus loses to the split pane's ~40ms focus claim. Retry past that race and poll for the lazy-mounted editor so c then a leaves the caret in the composer. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
Match chat/channel: the block decides the split/j-k gate. Replay has no soup context so it passes false instead of a pending-session fallback. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
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Kobalte restores focus to the previous pane when the Create menu unmounts, winning the 0/60ms retry. Suppress onCloseAutoFocus the same way CommandMenu does for search rows, and retry composer focus a bit longer past the split panel's 40ms claim. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
c then a still creates the session; the row label matches the old chat entry and no longer says Coding Agent. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
Replace the Sandboxed coding session hint with Dedicated Agent Session. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
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Agent sessions do not need the j/k gate, so the composer decides for itself from pending() instead of taking a prop the block adapter and Replay both had to pass. MarkdownShell already defers a focus on connect and triggerFocusInput already waits for a late-mounting target, so the hand-rolled 0/80/200ms retries were duplicating both. Keep only the Kobalte close-restore suppression, scoped to create rows that focus their own destination. Deletes AgentInput.test.ts: importing the composer under jsdom opens a websocket and fails the suite with an unhandled rejection. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
It never mattered for c then a: the agent block is lazy, so the dialog has already unmounted and restored focus by the time triggerFocusInput's observer sees the composer. Verified by removing it and retesting. It could also leak. runCreateAction runs from the soup create button with the launcher closed, where nothing consumes the flag, so the next Escape would lose its focus restore. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
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Deriving autofocus from pending() lost the fast path: the create can resolve before the lazy block mounts, so the snapshot read false and nothing ever focused. Record the intent at the create gesture instead and let the block read it when it resolves its session id. The intent lives as long as the placeholder rather than being consumed on first read, because opening into a new split re-mounts the block and the rebuilt composer has to claim focus again. Also drops AGENT_INPUT_TEXT_AREA_ID and the launcher's document lookup: the id was static, so with two agent blocks open getElementById matched the first one in the document instead of the one just created. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
The block opens against a placeholder and adopts the real id when the create lands, which renames it. Keying the claim on the placeholder alone meant a fast create had already renamed the block before the composer mounted, so the claim no longer matched. Register the real id as soon as it arrives, and let each new create replace the set so an older block cannot reclaim focus later. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
resource.latest falls back to a suspending read until the resource has resolved once, so the feed's first GET handed the block's Suspense boundary a promise. Solid swapped in the fallback, which detached the whole subtree and dropped the caret to <body> about 7ms after the composer had taken it, then re-attached with no focus and no remount to re-read the create's focus claim. A block opened on a placeholder already renders "session absent", so report that for the first fetch instead of suspending. A cold open has nothing on screen to lose and keeps its skeleton. Also suppress the create dialog's focus restore for entries whose destination focuses itself, which otherwise raced the composer on a cached chunk. Dismissals keep the restore. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
Replaces the bespoke create-intent registry with the house pattern: the block adapter reads canAutofocusSplitContent and navigatedFromJK and passes the result down, same as Chat, Channel and Notebook. Drops composerFocusWanted, its placeholder/real-id bookkeeping, and the autofocus field on ResolvedSessionId and AgentSessionState. Opening an agent session now focuses its composer unless the split says otherwise or the user arrived with j/k, and Replay passes nothing so it stays inert. The Suspense fix is what made this reliable and is unchanged. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
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cthena(Create → Agent) did not reliably leave the caret in the composer, so you had to click the box before typing. It failed outright when creating into a split you had just clicked.Root cause
Found with an instrumented focus trace, not by reading code.
resource.latestfalls back to a suspending read until the resource has resolved once.AgentBlockContentreadssession()during render, so the feed's first GET handed the block's<Suspense fallback={<LoadingBlock />}>a promise. Solid swapped in the fallback, which detached the whole block subtree and dropped focus to<body>about 7ms after the composer had taken it, then re-attached ~65ms later with no focus and — because it was the same DOM node returning, not a remount — nothing to re-run the autofocus. The trace showsfocusinon the Lexical root, thenfocusoutwithrelatedTarget: nulland no.focus()/.blur()call in between: an element leaving the document, not a steal.apps/web/AGENTS.mdalready warns that an unguardedquery.dataread suspends and "has blanked the calendar grid twice." This is the same hazard one layer over, on a resource rather than a solid-query.Two things the trace ruled out, both of which I had wrongly blamed in earlier revisions of this description:
isTouchDevice()isfalsehere, andcreateSplitFocusTrackernever ran for this path — a content replacement dispatchesSplitEvent.ContentChange, andfocusFromEventonly handlesInsert/Remove.What changed
Suspense —
createAgentSessionFeedrecords whether the block opened without a session, and reportssession()asundefinedfor that first fetch instead of suspending. A block opened on a placeholder already renders "session absent", so nothing about its appearance changes. A cold open still suspends intoLoadingBlock.Autofocus — the agent block now uses the house pattern:
Block.tsxcomputescanAutofocusSplitContent && !navigatedFromJK()and passes it down, exactly as Chat, Channel and Notebook do. Replay passes nothing, so it stays inert. This replaced a bespoke create-intent registry inpending-session.ts; the block is no longer the one exception to how autofocus is decided.Dialog hand-off — the Create dialog no longer restores focus to its opener for entries marked
focusesOwnDestination. On a cached chunk the composer focuses before the dialog finishes unmounting, and Kobalte's restore pulled the caret back to the pane behind the menu. Dismissals (Escape, overlay click) keep the restore. This is the same suppress-once shapeCommandMenuuses for search rows, andSTYLE_GUIDE.mdFE-28 asks that such overrides be justified by a proven lifecycle requirement — the trace is that proof.Removed —
AGENT_INPUT_TEXT_AREA_IDand the launcher'sgetElementByIdlookup. The id was a static string on everyAgentInput, so with two agent blocks open it matched the first one in the document rather than the one just created.Create menu copy — the row is now Agent / Dedicated Agent Session. Shortcut is still
A, and the old chataentry stays mutually exclusive on the flag.Test — deletes
AgentInput.test.ts. Importing the composer under jsdom opens a websocket (ws does not work in the browser) and failed the suite with an unhandled rejection even though the test itself passed.Behaviour change worth noting
Because the split gate replaces the create-only intent, opening an agent session now focuses its composer, not just creating one — unless the split is a preview viewer or you arrived via
j/k. That matches Chat and Channel.Verified locally
Full local stack, logged in as
autofocus-test@macro.local. One page session, no DevTools, no clicks in any composer. The video is the exact repro that was failing:c→a, type,Ctrl+\, click the new split,c→a, type.Two panes, each composer holding its own typed text
agent_autofocus_house_pattern.mp4
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cthena, type immediately without clickingcthenainto an emptyCtrl+\split just clickedbun run type-checkandbiome checkpassscandir /proc)j/kfrom the Agents list does not. Not verifiable on this stack — harness sessions are ephemeral here, so a session URL cannot be revisited (agent session could not be fetched)To show artifacts inline, enable in settings.