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Adds message editing: a pencil action on your latest message rewrites it and regenerates the AI's response.

How it works

  • Hover the latest user message → pencil. Only offered while the chat is idle with no queued messages — editing is an "at rest" action.
  • The main composer becomes the editor (this is ai-chatbot's current pattern; they moved away from an inline per-message editor, and reusing the composer means attachments, dictation, and the model picker need no duplicate wiring). The message's text is loaded as the draft, a banner explains that sending replaces the previous response, and Escape or the banner's ✕ cancels.
  • Sending resends the same message id. The server already treats a resent user-message id as truncate-and-rerun (the same mechanism behind "Try again"), so the old reply is deleted and a fresh one generates — no new endpoints, no schema changes, zero server-side diff.
  • Attachments carry over. The edited message keeps its original files; anything newly staged in the composer is added. Text is what you're editing.
  • Drafts are never lost. Entering edit displaces whatever you had typed; cancel, submit, or switching threads gives it back.

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Studied OpenCode's revert system and ai-chatbot's message editing before building. OpenCode's version also restores filesystem snapshots to undo the AI's file changes — we have no workspace snapshots, so (like ChatGPT) editing regenerates the conversation but does not undo workspace changes the old reply made with tools.

Client-only change: one new hook method (editMessage, the mirror of the existing retry-resend), edit state in the thread view, a banner + guards in the composer, and the pencil action. Verified: typecheck green, 99 chat tests pass.

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  • New Features
    • Added the ability to edit the latest user message in AI chat.
    • Added an Edit action with a pencil icon for eligible messages.
    • Restores the message text and attached files in the composer for editing.
    • Supports submitting edits, canceling with a button, or pressing Escape.
    • Preserves unsent drafts when editing is canceled.

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React Doctor found 1 new issue in 1 file · 1 warning · score 84 / 100 (Needs work) · 0 fixed · vs main

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src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatMessageRow.tsx

  • ⚠️ L36 Boolean prop combinations are hard to test no-many-boolean-props

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  • src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatAllowanceNotice.tsx
  • src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatComposerReveal.tsx
  • src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatMessageList.tsx
  • src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatMessageRow.tsx
  • src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatPromptContextBar.tsx
  • src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatPromptInput.tsx
  • src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatThreadView.tsx
  • src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/useAiChatPanelController.ts
  • src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/useWorkspaceAiChat.ts
  • src/features/workspaces/state/persisted-store-hydration.tsx
  • src/features/workspaces/state/workspace-ai-composer-draft-store.ts
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The AI chat now supports editing the latest user message. It loads the message into the composer, preserves draft and file state, supports cancel and Escape actions, and resubmits the edited message using its existing ID.

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AI chat message editing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Edit and resend API
src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/useWorkspaceAiChat.ts
The chat hook truncates the transcript at the edited message and resends the replacement with the existing message ID.
Thread edit orchestration
src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatThreadView.tsx
The thread view manages edit state, restores displaced drafts, preserves file parts, validates submissions, and routes edits through editMessage.
Edit controls and composer state
src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatMessageList.tsx, src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatMessageRow.tsx, src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatPromptInput.tsx
The latest user message receives an Edit action. The prompt input supports edit-mode focus, submission, cancellation, Escape handling, status text, and an edit-specific placeholder.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2630e

Editing the latest message can lose attachments already staged in the composer, and attachment-only messages cannot be resubmitted. The PR is not merge-ready until attachment preservation and submission handling are corrected.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant AiChatMessageRow
  participant AiChatThreadView
  participant AiChatPromptInput
  participant useWorkspaceAiChat

  User->>AiChatMessageRow: Select Edit
  AiChatMessageRow->>AiChatThreadView: Start editing message
  AiChatThreadView->>AiChatPromptInput: Load text and enter edit mode
  User->>AiChatPromptInput: Submit edited message
  AiChatPromptInput->>AiChatThreadView: Submit without queueing
  AiChatThreadView->>useWorkspaceAiChat: Resend with original message ID
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// An edit rewrites an existing message — it must never fall through to

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P2 Badge Allow edits that retain only existing attachments

When the latest user message contains an attachment and the user deletes all caption text, the attachment exists only in editing.fileParts, while this pre-edit guard and AiChatPromptSubmit consider only the textarea and newly staged files. The submit button therefore remains disabled, and a programmatic submit returns before reaching the edit branch, even though submitEditedMessage would build a valid attachment-only message from the preserved files.

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const parts = [
...(trimmedText ? [{ type: "text" as const, text: trimmedText }] : []),
...editing.fileParts,
...message.files,
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P2 Badge Count preserved attachments against the edit limit

When an edited message already has attachments, the intake limit still counts only the newly staged draft files, and this concatenation adds all preserved files afterward without checking the combined count. A message with 10 existing images can therefore accept 10 more despite the 10-file policy; at the maximum normalized sizes, hydration consumes its fixed budget on the preserved files first and replaces the newly added files at the end with (image omitted), so an apparently accepted edit can omit the new attachments from the model.

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180-194: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Allow an attachment-only edited message to submit.

The empty-message guard runs before the edit branch. Original file parts are retained in AiChatThreadView.tsx Lines 77-79, not in message.files.

An attachment-only message therefore returns false here and cannot be edited or resent. Pass an hasRetainedEditFiles flag, or include retained file parts in the composer submission payload before this guard.

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In `@src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatPromptInput.tsx` around
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In `@src/features/workspaces/components/ai-chat/AiChatThreadView.tsx`:
- Around line 77-83: Update the edit initialization around setEditing so it
snapshots the current composer file attachments separately from previousDraft
text and isolates them from the edited message; restore that attachment snapshot
when editing is cancelled, submitted, or the thread changes, while preserving
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A pencil action on the latest user message (idle, no queue, and only
when it has text — an attachment-only message has nothing to load and
would trap the user in a dead edit) loads its text into the main
composer, ai-chatbot's pattern: attachments, dictation, and the model
picker come along for free. A slim banner marks the mode and the
message dims in the transcript; Escape cancels; submitting resends the
same message id, which the server already treats as truncate-and-rerun.
Original attachments are kept, newly staged files are added.

The edit freezes the conversation while it's open: regenerate hides
(it would make the chat busy and strand the edit's submit) and the
queue drain holds (a drained turn would land after the edited message
and be destroyed by its truncation). Leaving edit mode by any exit
returns the draft it displaced — the view remounts per thread, now
documented as load-bearing on threadViewKey.

Also unifies how composer header notices appear: AiChatComposerReveal
(the context bar's measured-height animation, extracted) animates the
edit banner, allowance notice, and context bar; the header goes gap-0
since rows self-pad, so the idle composer keeps its exact height.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vy2N9tuKcNPLKgkwyseVxL
The composer draft store now persists text, staged quotes, and ready
attachments through the existing skipHydration harness. Attachments are
tiny {id, name, mediaType, url} records — their bytes are already
server-side by the time a chip renders — so nothing binary touches
localStorage. Chips still mid-upload are dropped at persist time: their
upload dies with the page, and restoring one would show a spinner that
never resolves. Empty slots are pruned so the stored blob stays small.

The message queue deliberately stays in-memory: persisting it would
auto-send stale messages after a reload, a semantic that belongs to the
future durable-inbox design, not a persist flag.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vy2N9tuKcNPLKgkwyseVxL
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export default function AiChatMessageRow({

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React Doctor · react-doctor/no-many-boolean-props (warning)

Component "AiChatMessageRow" takes 4 on/off props (isBeingEdited, isLatestAssistant, isRegenerable…), which is hard to combine & test. Split it into smaller components or named variants.

Fix → Split boolean-heavy APIs into smaller components or named variants so combinations stay testable.

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