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A message you just sent can reappear in the composer if the panel reloads right after the send. Found while investigating a CI failure in remount.it.test.ts; reproduced deterministically on unmodified main.

Root cause — a lost update, not a lost timer

The trace showed the duplicate text is not a second transcript (there is exactly one data-conciv-root); it is the composer, repopulated with the sent text.

Two facts drive it:

  1. The server already clears the draft on send — packages/core/src/chat/run.ts:497 deletes the row.
  2. There are two 300 ms debounces in series: an AsyncDebouncer in use-composer-draft.ts in front of WebStorage.setItem, and another in draft-storage.ts in front of the RPC.

Timeline on unmodified main (ms from composer fill, polling rpc.drafts.get):

0ms    FILL
289ms  ""                     pane write of the pre-fill empty draft
527ms  SEND (server deletes the row)
596ms  NULL                   server-side delete landed
656ms  "probe message text"   the pane's debounced write lands AFTER the delete and resurrects the sent text
1185ms ""                     the clear finally arrives, 600ms later (300 ui-kit + 300 pane)

The stale row exists for ~530 ms. Any pane mounting in that window restores the sent text. On CI the send click took 831 ms, putting it inside the window — which is why CI caught it and a dev machine does not (locally fill→send is ~3 ms, so both writes coalesce into a single trailing write of '' and the row never holds the text).

The fix

One rule applied at both hops: a clear is never debounced, and it cancels anything pending. Once the composer empties, no write carrying the sent text exists anywhere in the pipeline.

draft-storage.ts moves from the bare debounce() helper to new Debouncer (the navigation-storage.ts idiom) because the helper returns a bare function with no cancel/flush.

Debouncing exists to avoid a write per keystroke; clearing has no keystroke pressure, so it loses nothing.

Explicitly not done: a teardown dispose() flush. That would push the stale text out after the server's delete and make the bug more likely, not less.

What remains open

drafts.set carries no monotonic stamp (unlike navigation.set's updatedAt), so a write already in flight when the server deletes can still land afterwards. Closing that needs a contract change and is not attempted here. The window goes from "a full debounce chain, ~530 ms, deterministic" to "an in-flight round trip that must overlap the delete".

Coverage

draft-send-remount.it.test.ts drives the real widget: fill, pause past the first debounce, send, reload, assert the composer is empty and the text appears exactly once. The reload is timed off observed server state rather than a wall-clock guess.

Revert-check: reverting both files puts it red with the CI failure shape (toHaveText('') receiving the sent text); restored, --repeat-each=3 green. A pane-only fix also goes red — the clear does not reach that layer until the ui-kit debounce elapses, which is why both hops are touched.

remount.it.test.ts stays green. Full embed suite: 103 passed.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue where sent messages could reappear as stale drafts after reloading or remounting the chat.
    • Empty composers now clear saved drafts immediately, while active drafts continue to save automatically.
    • Prevented empty composers from creating unnecessary saved drafts.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage confirming sent messages appear once and do not return as drafts after a panel reload.
    • Added coverage for draft creation after the first user-entered text.

…sage never returns

A draft write pending in a debounce timer outlived the send: the composer clear
travelled through two 300ms debounces (composer persistence, then the pane draft
storage), so the write carrying the sent text landed after the server deleted the
row on send, and a pane mounted in the next few hundred ms restored the sent text
into the composer.

Both layers now write a cleared draft immediately and cancel anything pending, so
no write carrying the sent text can be in the pipeline once the composer clears.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Draft persistence now clears empty composer state immediately instead of delaying it. Non-empty drafts remain debounced. End-to-end tests verify that sent messages do not return as drafts after reload and that initial empty composers do not write drafts.

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Draft clearing

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Composer draft persistence
packages/ui-kit-chat/src/behaviors/use-composer-draft.ts
The composer identifies cleared drafts, cancels pending writes, and persists cleared state immediately.
Pane draft storage
apps/conciv/src/pane/draft-storage.ts
Pane storage uses Debouncer for non-empty drafts and persists cleared drafts immediately through the extracted persist function.
Draft persistence validation
packages/embed/tests/e2e/draft-write-churn.it.test.ts, packages/embed/tests/e2e/draft-send-remount.it.test.ts, packages/embed/tests/e2e/transport-reprobe-retry.it.test.ts, .changeset/wet-pugs-invite.md
The tests verify write behavior, send-then-reload clearing, and retry input. The changeset records a patch release for @conciv/embed.

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The change prevents sent text from being restored as a composer draft by cancelling pending writes when the composer is cleared. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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  • conciv-dev/conciv#513: Both PRs modify pane draft persistence, including attachment persistence and cleared-draft handling.
  • conciv-dev/conciv#524: Both PRs modify embed end-to-end draft-testing helpers, but they cover different behaviors.
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packages/embed/tests/e2e/draft-send-remount.it.test.ts (1)

30-34: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add a test for an RPC write already in flight.

The 350 ms wait starts the composer write at about 300 ms, but the pane debounce cannot fire until about 600 ms. This test covers cancellation of pending pane work. It does not cover the unresolved case where rpc.drafts.set has already started before send.

Hold a pre-send draft-save request open, send the message, then release that request after the server clear. Assert that the persisted draft remains empty.

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In `@packages/embed/tests/e2e/draft-send-remount.it.test.ts` around lines 30 - 34,
Extend the remount draft-send test around sentTextReappearsAsDraft to hold an
in-flight rpc.drafts.set request open before clicking Send message, release it
only after the server-side draft clear completes, then verify the persisted
draft remains empty. Preserve the existing debounce/pending-work coverage and
use the test’s existing request interception and draft-state helpers.
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Inline comments:
In @.changeset/wet-pugs-invite.md:
- Line 5: Update the release-note wording to describe clearing drafts
immediately when the composer empties and cancelling pending persistence writes,
without claiming that an already-started write can never restore a stale draft.

In `@packages/embed/tests/e2e/draft-send-remount.it.test.ts`:
- Line 39: Update the composer assertion in draft-send-remount to use
toHaveValue('') instead of toHaveText(''), so the textarea’s current value is
validated.

In `@packages/ui-kit-chat/src/behaviors/use-composer-draft.ts`:
- Around line 28-34: Fence stale persistence across both draft layers: in
packages/ui-kit-chat/src/behaviors/use-composer-draft.ts lines 28-34, ensure an
active local-storage write cannot commit after writer.cancel() and the cleared
draft write; in apps/conciv/src/pane/draft-storage.ts lines 64-89, serialize or
version rpc.drafts.set operations so stale server writes cannot commit after a
clear.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/embed/tests/e2e/draft-send-remount.it.test.ts`:
- Around line 30-34: Extend the remount draft-send test around
sentTextReappearsAsDraft to hold an in-flight rpc.drafts.set request open before
clicking Send message, release it only after the server-side draft clear
completes, then verify the persisted draft remains empty. Preserve the existing
debounce/pending-work coverage and use the test’s existing request interception
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Clear a draft the moment the composer empties, so a sent message can never come back as a stale draft after a reload or remount.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Limit the release note to pending writes.

The implementation cancels pending writes, but it does not fence an already-started persistence write. Replace “can never” with wording that describes immediate clears and cancellation of pending writes.

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In @.changeset/wet-pugs-invite.md at line 5, Update the release-note wording to
describe clearing drafts immediately when the composer empties and cancelling
pending persistence writes, without claiming that an already-started write can
never restore a stale draft.

await expect(page.getByRole('dialog', {name: 'conciv chat agent'})).toBeVisible({timeout: 30_000})
await expect(page.getByText(ASSISTANT_TEXT).first()).toBeVisible({timeout: 30_000})

await expect(page.getByRole('textbox', {name: 'Message the conciv agent'})).toHaveText('', {timeout: 30_000})

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Use toHaveValue('') for the composer assertion.

The composer renders a <textarea>. toHaveText('') does not check its current value.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@packages/embed/tests/e2e/draft-send-remount.it.test.ts` at line 39, Update
the composer assertion in draft-send-remount to use toHaveValue('') instead of
toHaveText(''), so the textarea’s current value is validated.

Comment thread packages/ui-kit-chat/src/behaviors/use-composer-draft.ts Outdated
A clear that empties an already-empty draft now writes nothing at either
hop, so a pane mounting with an empty composer no longer issues an rpc
draft write on every mount.

The transport reprobe test used to reach its unreachable-engine state
through that incidental draft traffic: under fetch transport the widget
only learns the engine is gone when a call fails, and the post-send draft
clear happened to land after the rpc hold. It now types into the composer
after the hold, so the call it depends on is one the test causes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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