[juliusmarminge]

Problem

Clicking Go to source on a quote taken from a side chat sent you to the side chat's own thread route, so the side chat replaced its parent as the main thread until you switched threads. Reproduced on main (25868ed) in the web dev server: start a side chat with /side, cite text from its reply and send it, then click the sent quote and choose Go to source. The URL changes from /<env>/<parent> to /<env>/<side chat>#assistant-citation=…, the side chat panel closes, and the side chat becomes the main thread. This happens with the panel maximized (as reported) and not maximized.

Change

• The quote chip resolves its source thread. When that thread is a side chat, the link points at the parent thread. Quotes from ordinary threads and forks still point at their own thread.
• The page-level chat view watches for a quote in the URL. When the quote comes from a side chat of this thread, it opens that side chat's tab, and the embedded side chat already reveals the quoted text. If the quote landed on the side chat's own route, which happens when its thread wasn't loaded yet when you clicked, it replaces the location with the parent route and keeps the quote and its activation. This runs once per activation. Closing the tab afterwards is respected, and clicking the quote again reopens it.
• Because the page you land on handles it, Ctrl/Cmd-click, middle-click, reload and back/forward behave the same as a plain click.
• Side chat routes opened without a quote in the URL behave as before.

Scope and approval

Fixes #33137

A focused fix for the triaged bug report: no new setting or behaviour beyond sending a side chat quote's Go to source to its parent thread, where the side chat opens as a tab.

Verification

Before 4c36119 (main) and after fe3ba61 (this branch before the latest main merge; no file this PR touches changed since). Real web dev server per side on a fresh database, seeded through the app with the free Replay (dev) provider; synthetic data only. Headless Chromium 148, DPR 1, no device emulation, URL overlaid on every recording.

Row	Before	After	Diff0
R01 Sent quote, side chat maximized (the report) (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R02 Split panel, repeat, Escape, close and reopen (1440 light)	before	after	start · end
R03 Unsent quote in the composer, click and Enter (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R04 Two side chats; the quote targets the inactive one (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R05 Narrow window (sheet), maximize (800 light)	before	after	start · end
R06 Phone-width web (390 dark)	before	after	start · end
R07 Ctrl, middle, Shift and Alt clicks (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R08 New tab, reload, back and forward (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R09 Side chat thread loads late (labelled harness) (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R10 Source outside the loaded history (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R11 Source inside folded earlier work (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R12 Source message no longer exists (1440 light)	before	after	start · end
R13 Quoted text changed (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R14 History load fails, then retry (labelled harness) (1440 light)	before	after	start · end
R15 Ordinary thread quote (control) (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R16 Fork quote (control) (1440 light)	before	after	start · end
R17 Side chat route without a quote (control) (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R18 Quote in a Markdown file preview (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R19 Quote from another environment (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end
R20 Settings and Usage return drops the quote (control) (1440 dark)	before	after	start · end

Full evidence (steps and timestamps per recording, start and end Diff0/DiffT stills at >0 and >16/255, per-image masks): evidence index. Fixture matrix: fixture-matrix.md. Rebuild: REBUILD.md (seed and driver scripts linked there), per-image masks, pixel counts.

What else changed: start frames, and the end frames of the R15–R17 and R20 controls, have zero changed pixels outside the server-measured "Worked for" duration text, which differs between the two servers and is masked per image from its DOM box. Affected rows' end frames differ by design: before, the side chat becomes the main thread; after, the parent stays main and the side chat tab opens on the quote. Sidebar ages use a clock derived from each server's seed time. R09 and R14 use the production hook, router, store and pane with one injected condition each (a null side chat thread, a failed history request).

• vp test run apps/web/src/lib/assistantCitationNavigation.test.ts apps/web/src/components/sidebar/mainAppLocation.browser.test.tsx apps/web/src/components/chat/citationProcedure.test.ts: 24 passed. The new cases in assistantCitationNavigation.test.ts:
  • a click on a side chat quote lands on the parent, keeps the quote and its activation, and makes the side chat tab active;
  • arriving on the parent URL with a side chat quote and no tab open opens the tab;
  • a quote clicked before its side chat thread loaded moves to the parent with a replace, and history length stays the same;
  • fork quotes stay on their own thread, and unrelated routes or a quote for another side chat are left alone.
• Red proof: with only the link target reverted to citation.threadId, the click test fails with Expected: "/environment-one/thread-parent" Received: "/environment-one/side-chat-one".
• vp run check:changed passes on the final head; CI is green.
• Not caused by this change: opening a quote's URL fresh (new tab or reload) when the quoted reply sits outside the first page of history shows "The cited response is unavailable". This reproduces on main for ordinary threads too, from a read race in citationProcedure.ts, which this PR does not touch.
• The report came from the Windows desktop app; this change is in shared web code that desktop renders, verified here in the web client.

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Side-chat quotes now reveal their source in a tab on the parent thread. The new citation-reveal effect includes a lint suppression that requires human review.

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Walkthrough

Citation navigation now targets a side chat’s parent thread when applicable. When the location and route match the cited side chat, reveal handling opens it in the parent thread’s right panel.

Changes: Side-chat citation navigation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve citation routes apps/web/src/lib/assistantCitationNavigation.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/mainAppLocation.browser.test.tsx, apps/web/src/lib/assistantCitationNavigation.test.ts	Citation routes use the parent thread when the source is a side chat. The citation chip resolves and passes the source thread. Navigation tests pass an explicit shell argument.
Reveal side-chat citations apps/web/src/lib/assistantCitationNavigation.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/lib/assistantCitationNavigation.test.ts	Reveal handling checks the citation and route, then opens the side chat in the parent thread’s right panel. From the side-chat route, it replaces the route with the parent thread while preserving activation state. ChatView invokes the reveal hook and requests citation history only for matching environment and thread IDs. Tests cover reveal behavior and unrelated routes.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#33124: Adds citation embeds with source links. This change updates routing for those citation links.

Suggested reviewers: macroscopeapp

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to fe3ba

Go to source for side-chat quotes now targets the parent thread and opens the side chat tab. No actionable merge-blocking risk is evident from the supplied context.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: Go to source for a side-chat quote keeps the parent thread as the main route.
Linked Issues check		Direct issue #33137 requires Go to source on a side-chat quote to keep the parent as the main thread and show the side chat at the quoted text. assistantCitationRoute uses the parent ID for side-cha…
Out of Scope Changes check		The navigation, route-level reveal, and test changes all support issue #33137. The browser-test argument update supports the changed navigation API. No unrelated change appears in the reviewed summary…
Description check		The description covers the problem and reproduction, explains the change and scope, links the triaged issue, and provides focused test results plus before-and-after visual evidence.

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Explanation

Direct issue #33137 requires Go to source on a side-chat quote to keep the parent as the main thread and show the side chat at the quoted text. assistantCitationRoute uses the parent ID for side-chat citations. revealSideChatCitation opens that side chat in the parent panel and replaces a side-chat route with the parent route while retaining the activation. ChatView wires this reveal behavior, and the reported tests cover parent navigation, late loading, and fork behavior. The incremental diff since the prior review changes only a comment.

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Explanation

The navigation, route-level reveal, and test changes all support issue #33137. The browser-test argument update supports the changed navigation API. No unrelated change appears in the reviewed summary or incremental diff.

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On the description check: Scope and approval now states this is a focused fix for the triaged report in #33137. Before/after recordings are not attached to this PR; each planned row is listed under Verification as not captured, and the changed routing is covered by the tests listed there, with the reproduction run on main. The desktop app was not run; Verification says so.