feat(web): pin a skill as a composer mode with option+enter - #11343
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A pinned composer skill has to prefix every outgoing message with its $name mention. applyComposerSkillModePrefix does that, skipping text that already carries the mention and text that is a provider slash command, which prefixing would turn into prose the provider never runs.
The composer picker needs alt+enter on a skill row to mean pin rather than insert, so the key handling grows a branch that is worth testing on its own. resolveComposerMenuKeyAction maps a key press to highlight, select, or pin-mode, and falls back to select when alt+enter lands on a row with nothing to pin.
A pinned skill has to outlive a reload, so the composer draft gains a skillMode field with a setSkillMode action, an optional persisted key, and rehydration. It is a mode choice rather than user content, so it does not give an otherwise empty draft a sidebar row, and it is retained exactly the way runtimeMode already is. The storage version is unchanged because an added optional key decodes existing payloads.
Route the composer picker's key presses through resolveComposerMenuKeyAction so Option+Enter on a skill row pins it as the thread's skill mode instead of inserting the mention once. Expose the pinned mode on the composer's send context. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The chip leads the composer's left control row in both the expanded and resting states. Clicking it clears the mode. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The highlighted skill row trades its source badge for the Option+Enter hint, so the row keeps exactly one right-aligned element. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nothing new crosses the wire: the skill mention is prepended to the prompt text at send time, under any effort prefix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The chip is neither the model picker nor a hideable block, so the resting controls measured narrower than they render and kept a trailing block that did not fit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The data-slot check alone would still pass if the badge rendered without that attribute, so also assert the visible label the sibling test requires. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The skill-mode prefix and the ultrathink effort prefix both have to leave a leading provider command alone, and each carried its own copy of the rule. A single startsWithProviderSlashCommand means a later correction cannot reach one prefix and miss the other. The skill-mode prefix also tested its idempotence guard against the raw text while testing the command guard against the trimmed text, so a draft opening with whitespace could take the mention twice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…eady holds The composer subscribes to its thread draft once at the top. Reading skillMode through a second store selector ran getComposerDraft again on every store change, in a component that repaints while the agent streams. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Medium src/composerTrigger.ts:118
Pinning a skill, switching to a provider where it is unavailable, and sending still prepends $<old-name>, so the new provider receives an unknown or literal mention instead of the requested skill. ComposerSkillMode retains only name and label, while the picker discards item.provider, so applyComposerSkillModePrefix cannot verify that the mode belongs to the currently selected provider. Retain the provider identity with the mode and skip or clear the prefix when it no longer matches.
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Pinning a skill, switching to a provider where it is unavailable, and sending still prepends `$<old-name>`, so the new provider receives an unknown or literal mention instead of the requested skill. `ComposerSkillMode` retains only `name` and `label`, while the picker discards `item.provider`, so `applyComposerSkillModePrefix` cannot verify that the mode belongs to the currently selected provider. Retain the provider identity with the mode and skip or clear the prefix when it no longer matches.
| const mention = `$${name}`; | ||
| if (trimmed.startsWith(mention)) { | ||
| const next = trimmed.charAt(mention.length); | ||
| if (next === "" || isWhitespace(next)) { |
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🟡 Medium src/composerTrigger.ts:154
A recalled prompt such as $review\u00a0text is prefixed again, producing duplicate skill mentions and causing Claude to dispatch the wrong mention instead of preserving the prompt. isWhitespace does not recognize the non-breaking space, while the downstream parser treats it as a \s boundary; use the same \s-based check here.
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A recalled prompt such as `$review\u00a0text` is prefixed again, producing duplicate skill mentions and causing Claude to dispatch the wrong mention instead of preserving the prompt. `isWhitespace` does not recognize the non-breaking space, while the downstream parser treats it as a `\s` boundary; use the same `\s`-based check here.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe composer can pin a skill or provider slash command as a mode. The mode persists with the draft, appears as a removable chip, prefixes outgoing prompts, and propagates through normal sends and plan submissions. Keyboard handling, layout measurement, shared helpers, tests, and documentation are updated. ChangesComposer skill mode
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Composer
participant DraftStore
participant ChatView
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Composer->>DraftStore: Store pinned skill or slash-command mode
Composer->>ChatView: Provide mode in send context
ChatView->>PromptFormatter: Apply mode prefix before Claude effort prefix
PromptFormatter-->>ChatView: Return formatted outgoing prompt
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Pinned modes can occasionally leave misleading validation feedback or duplicate a skill prefix after a failed editor update, and the documentation overstates when a mode is applied. These are bounded correctness issues that should be addressed before release. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx`:
- Around line 2893-2902: Move setComposerDraftSkillMode into the if (applied)
branch after applyPromptReplacement, so the draft skill mode is recorded only
when the trigger replacement succeeds; preserve the existing highlighted-item
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In `@docs/user/composer.md`:
- Around line 111-112: Update the composer skill documentation near the
description of the skill chip to state that provider slash commands are an
exception: when applyComposerSkillModePrefix detects one, the original text is
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| setComposerDraftSkillMode(composerDraftTarget, { | ||
| name: item.skill.name, | ||
| label: formatProviderSkillDisplayName(item.skill), | ||
| }); | ||
| const applied = applyPromptReplacement(trigger.rangeStart, trigger.rangeEnd, "", { | ||
| expectedText: snapshot.value.slice(trigger.rangeStart, trigger.rangeEnd), | ||
| }); | ||
| if (applied) { | ||
| setComposerHighlightedItemId(null); | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Move setComposerDraftSkillMode inside the applied branch.
For a choice-only pending question, applyPromptReplacement returns false without changing the prompt. The current ordering still records the skill mode, so the trigger remains in the prompt while the draft store retains the mode. A later outgoing prompt can then contain the trigger and an added $name prefix when it does not already start with that exact mention.
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const { snapshot, trigger } = resolveActiveComposerTrigger();
if (!trigger) return;
- setComposerDraftSkillMode(composerDraftTarget, {
- name: item.skill.name,
- label: formatProviderSkillDisplayName(item.skill),
- });
const applied = applyPromptReplacement(trigger.rangeStart, trigger.rangeEnd, "", {
expectedText: snapshot.value.slice(trigger.rangeStart, trigger.rangeEnd),
});
if (applied) {
+ setComposerDraftSkillMode(composerDraftTarget, {
+ name: item.skill.name,
+ label: formatProviderSkillDisplayName(item.skill),
+ });
setComposerHighlightedItemId(null);
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| setComposerDraftSkillMode(composerDraftTarget, { | |
| name: item.skill.name, | |
| label: formatProviderSkillDisplayName(item.skill), | |
| }); | |
| const applied = applyPromptReplacement(trigger.rangeStart, trigger.rangeEnd, "", { | |
| expectedText: snapshot.value.slice(trigger.rangeStart, trigger.rangeEnd), | |
| }); | |
| if (applied) { | |
| setComposerHighlightedItemId(null); | |
| } | |
| const applied = applyPromptReplacement(trigger.rangeStart, trigger.rangeEnd, "", { | |
| expectedText: snapshot.value.slice(trigger.rangeStart, trigger.rangeEnd), | |
| }); | |
| if (applied) { | |
| setComposerDraftSkillMode(composerDraftTarget, { | |
| name: item.skill.name, | |
| label: formatProviderSkillDisplayName(item.skill), | |
| }); | |
| setComposerHighlightedItemId(null); | |
| } |
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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx` around lines 2893 - 2902, Move
setComposerDraftSkillMode into the if (applied) branch after
applyPromptReplacement, so the draft skill mode is recorded only when the
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| skill appears as a chip in the composer and starts every message in that thread | ||
| with its mention, until you click the chip to remove it. |
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Document the provider slash-command exception.
When applyComposerSkillModePrefix detects a provider slash command, it returns the original text. The skill mention is not added before or after the command. Update the documentation to describe this exception.
Proposed documentation fix
-A pinned skill appears as a chip in the composer and starts every message in that thread
-with its mention, until you click the chip to remove it.
+A pinned skill appears as a chip in the composer. It adds its mention to each message in
+that thread that does not begin with a provider slash command, until you click the chip
+to remove it. Provider slash commands remain unchanged.📝 Committable suggestion
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| skill appears as a chip in the composer and starts every message in that thread | |
| with its mention, until you click the chip to remove it. | |
| Pinned skill appears as a chip in the composer. It adds its mention to each message in | |
| that thread that does not begin with a provider slash command, until you click the chip | |
| to remove it. Provider slash commands remain unchanged. |
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In `@docs/user/composer.md` around lines 111 - 112, Update the composer skill
documentation near the description of the skill chip to state that provider
slash commands are an exception: when applyComposerSkillModePrefix detects one,
the original text is preserved and no skill mention is added before or after the
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A skill answers to a `$name` mention, but Claude Code exposes plugin skills only as slash commands, which answer to `/name`. The mode now records which kind it pinned and derives the sigil from it. Implemented with Claude Opus 5 through T3 Code and the Claude Code harness.
Alt+Enter only pinned a skill row, so with Claude it silently fell through to selecting: the `/` menu lists plugin skills as provider slash commands, and Claude reports no skills at all, leaving no pinnable row in either menu. The shortcut hint and the pin now cover both row kinds, and the chip names the mode it actually sends. Implemented with Claude Opus 5 through T3 Code and the Claude Code harness.
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Pushed three commits that fix a real gap in this PR, found by running it against Claude rather than Codex. The mode only pinned rows of type
Two things worth calling out. A slash-command mode and the Verified with the nine-check headless run on Claude Opus 5 through the |
The mode shipped on web and desktop only. Mobile now offers a Mode button on each skill and provider-command row of the composer picker, shows the pinned mode as a chip above the editor so it stays visible while the composer is collapsed, and prepends its mention to every message the thread sends. New Task is deliberately left out. Its draft does not survive into the thread it creates, so a mode pinned there would lead one message and then vanish. Implemented with Claude Opus 5 through T3 Code and the Claude Code harness.
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Mobile is no longer out of scope. The original PR called the touch affordance an open question, so here is an answer rather than a question. Each pinnable row gets a Mode button, which claims the touch before the row's own press handler so tapping it pins instead of inserting. The pinned mode is a chip directly above the editor, not in the toolbar, because the toolbar is hidden while the composer is collapsed and a mode you cannot see is a setting you cannot undo.
The prefix is applied where the composer hands the message to the outbox, so the optimistic bubble shows exactly what was sent, and the checks that read raw draft text ( New Task is deliberately untouched. Its draft does not survive into the thread it creates, so a mode pinned there would lead one message and then vanish. Carrying it across means widening the persisted outbox message and writing the mode into the new thread's draft on creation, which is a much larger change than the gap justifies. Say the word if you want it and I will do it properly rather than half.
Driven end to end on an iOS simulator: the Mode button appears on the Claude command row, tapping it pins and clears the trigger text, the sent message read Happy to drop these two commits back out if you would rather review the web fix on its own. |
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2471-2482: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winClear provider-input validation when
composerSkillModechanges.When
providerInputfails validation with thecomposerSkillModeprefix, removingComposerSkillModeChiponly sets the mode tonull; it does not change the other effect dependencies. The reset effect does not run, soproviderInputSubmissionErrorremains visible. AddcomposerSkillModeto the dependency list.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Proposed first in Ideas: #11342. Opening the PR alongside it so there is something concrete to look at. Close it freely if the idea is not wanted; nothing here is load-bearing for anything else.
The problem
A skill mention is a one-shot insert.
$reviewgoes into one message and is gone on the next, so keeping a skill in play across a stretch of a conversation means retyping the mention every turn, and the turn where you forget quietly behaves differently.What changed
Option+Enter on macOS, Alt+Enter elsewhere, on a highlighted skill row in either the
$or the/picker pins that skill for the thread instead of inserting it once. The pinned skill leads the composer's control row as a chip, and every message goes out with$<name>in front of it until the chip is clicked.The highlighted skill row trades its source badge for the shortcut hint, so the row keeps one right-aligned element. Every other row is unchanged.
Interaction video, pin through send through clear: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matheustimbo/t3code/pr-assets/composer-skill-mode/composer-skill-mode/skill-mode.mp4
Why it should exist
The mode is fully expressed in the text it produces.
applyComposerSkillModePrefixprepends$<name>to the prompt at send time, informatOutgoingPrompt, next to theUltrathink:prefix that already works this way. So there is no contract change, no new command, no event, no projector work, and the server, the provider, and every other client see the prefix because it is literally inmessage.text. The prefix is also visible in the thread exactly as sent, which is what makes the chip honest rather than a hidden setting.Two guards on the prefix. It is idempotent, so a recalled prompt never takes the mention twice. It leaves a leading provider slash command alone, because prefixing one turns it into prose the provider never runs.
applyClaudePromptEffortPrefixalready carried that second rule, so rather than ship a second copy of a subtle regex the two prefixes now sharestartsWithProviderSlashCommand.onComposerCommandKeywas modifier-blind: Enter, Tab, Cmd+Enter, and Alt+Enter on a highlighted row all selected. Rather than add a fourth branch to a 5900-line component, the key table moved toresolveComposerMenuKeyAction, which is pure and has its own test. Existing highlight and select behavior is unchanged.The pinned mode lives on the composer draft beside
runtimeModeandinteractionMode, so it is scoped per environment and thread and survives a reload. It is not user content, so it never gives an empty draft a sidebar row.Scope
Web and desktop. Mobile is deliberately untouched. It has no modifier keys and its picker is a separate implementation, so the touch affordance is a design question of its own rather than something to guess at here. The prefix helper is in
packages/sharedso mobile can adopt it unchanged if you want it there.One rough edge left in on purpose: in the provider-unavailable composer state the control row is replaced by a single button, so a pinned chip is not in the DOM and cannot be cleared until a provider is back. Sending is blocked in that state anyway and the mode persists, so fixing it meant widening the diff for a state you cannot send from.
Verification
vp test runover the six touched test files, 158 passing.vp lintandvp run --filter @t3tools/web --filter @t3tools/shared typecheckclean, no new warnings or errors.Driven end to end against a real environment with a headless browser, nine checks: the hint shows only on the highlighted skill row and other rows keep their badge, pinning clears the trigger text and closes the menu, the chip survives a reload, clicking it clears the mode. The outgoing frame was captured at the WebSocket boundary and
message.textread exactly"$pstack:poteto-mode reply with exactly: OK".The resting-strip width fix is its own commit:
restingComposerControlsMeasurementsums three specific selectors rather than the cluster's children, so the chip had to be added to it or the strip measured narrower than it renders. Its test was confirmed non-tautological by reverting only the production change, which fails it.Implemented with Claude Opus 5 through T3 Code and the Claude Code harness.
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