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What Changed

Agents can now work with threads as first-class objects through the t3-code MCP server that is already mounted on every provider session:

  • threads_list returns the environment's threads (id, project, title, settled state, last-updated time) with filter: "recent" | "settled" | "active", so an agent can answer "show me what finished recently" from real data instead of memory.
  • threads_create creates an empty thread in the calling thread's project and returns its id.

On the web client, a completed threads_list call renders as an inline card of clickable thread rows (title, relative time, settled check) instead of a raw tool-call row, and each row navigates straight to that thread. A completed threads_create call pops a "New thread created" toast with an Open action.

Scope boundary: mobile renders these calls as ordinary tool rows (no card/toast there yet); desktop inherits the web behavior through its wrapped app; the provider adapters need no changes because the tools ride the existing per-provider t3-code MCP session. Thread payloads are ids and titles only — message content never crosses into the model.

Why

The only way an agent could previously "show" the user a set of threads was markdown prose, which is not clickable and goes stale. The client already holds thread shells with latestTurn.completedAt, so the natural split is: the agent emits typed thread ids, the client resolves, styles, and makes them interactive. This keeps the element library small (two tools), keeps rendering safe (text nodes, navigation restricted to in-environment thread routes), and requires zero per-adapter work.

MCP tool results are normally slimmed to a one-line summary before reaching clients (projectActivityPayload), so the projector now preserves the small structured results of these two tools verbatim as data.structuredResult; every other MCP result keeps its existing summary behavior.

Verification

  • pnpm typecheck (tsgo/tsc --noEmit): passed for @t3tools/contracts, apps/server, apps/web.
  • vp test run in apps/server: ActivityPayloadProjection.test.ts (new tests: structuredResult preserved for Codex- and Claude-shaped threads_list/threads_create results; no fabricated structuredResult for unparseable results), McpHttpServer.test.ts, decider.settled.test.ts, commandInvariants.test.ts, preview toolkit tests — 82 passed, 0 failed.
  • vp test run in apps/web: session-logic.test.ts (new tests: threads_list parse on both adapter shapes, malformed-result fallback, threads_create capture, one agent-created thread per id with failed/declined calls skipped), MessagesTimeline.test.tsx, MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts — 246 passed, 0 failed.
  • vp lint on the touched files: no errors.

UI Changes

The threads card and create-toast are user-visible; screenshots will be attached in a follow-up push on this branch (they require a paired dev client with an agent that has called the new tools).

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  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why
  • I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes

Implementation used GLM (enablers/large) in T3 Code.

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  • New Features

    • Added tools for agents to list recent, active, or settled threads and create new threads.
    • Thread lists display titles, update times, and settled status, with links to open each thread.
    • Agent-created threads now trigger a notification with an option to open the new thread.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling and display of thread tool results across supported activity formats.
    • Prevented duplicate notifications for the same agent-created thread.

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if (agentCreatedThreads.length === 0) {
return;
}
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🟡 Medium components/ChatView.tsx:2876

Opening or refreshing a thread re-emits a "New thread created" toast for every historical threads_create activity, even though none of those threads was just created. This effect passes the entire persisted workLogEntries history to notifyAgentCreatedThreads, while deduplication is only module-local and is lost on reload; track which creation activities have already been notified across the session (or filter to newly observed activities) before notifying.

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In file @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx around line 2876:

Opening or refreshing a thread re-emits a "New thread created" toast for every historical `threads_create` activity, even though none of those threads was just created. This effect passes the entire persisted `workLogEntries` history to `notifyAgentCreatedThreads`, while deduplication is only module-local and is lost on reload; track which creation activities have already been notified across the session (or filter to newly observed activities) before notifying.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a cross-cutting production feature: new MCP tools, persistent agent-created threads, shared activity payload changes, and web cards/toasts with navigation. An unresolved medium-severity finding also reports historical creation toasts on refresh or reload, so the change warrants human review.

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The PR adds threads_list and threads_create MCP tools. It defines their contracts, implements server handlers, projects structured results, and adds web rendering and notifications for listed or newly created threads.

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Threads MCP surface

Layer / File(s) Summary
Threads contracts and MCP tool definitions
packages/contracts/src/threadsSurface.ts, packages/contracts/src/orchestration.ts, packages/contracts/src/index.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/threads/tools.ts
Defines thread surface schemas, limits, tool names, errors, and optional agent creation metadata. Declares and composes the threads_list and threads_create tools.
Server handlers and MCP registration
apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/threads/handlers.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/decider.ts
Lists live threads with filters and ordering. Creates agent-sourced threads through orchestration. Registers the toolkit and preserves the source on thread.created events.
Structured MCP result projection
apps/server/src/orchestration/ActivityPayloadProjection.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration/ActivityPayloadProjection.test.ts
Parses structured results for Threads surface tools from supported MCP payload shapes. Invalid JSON produces no structured result.
Web derivation and thread presentation
apps/web/src/session-logic.ts, apps/web/src/session-logic.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/agentCreatedThreadToast.ts
Decodes thread results, renders listed threads with navigation, and shows deduplicated creation toasts with links to new threads.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPClient
  participant McpHttpServer
  participant ThreadsToolkitHandlersLive
  participant ActivityPayloadProjection
  participant sessionLogic
  participant ChatView
  MCPClient->>McpHttpServer: invoke threads_list or threads_create
  McpHttpServer->>ThreadsToolkitHandlersLive: dispatch toolkit operation
  ThreadsToolkitHandlersLive-->>McpHttpServer: return thread result
  McpHttpServer-->>ActivityPayloadProjection: record mcp_tool_call result
  ActivityPayloadProjection->>ActivityPayloadProjection: parse structuredResult
  ActivityPayloadProjection-->>sessionLogic: provide projected activity
  sessionLogic->>ChatView: derive thread list or created thread
  ChatView-->>MCPClient: render thread navigation or creation toast
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Opening or reloading a thread can show stale “New thread created” notifications for earlier activity. This is a bounded UI correctness issue and is mergeable with owner awareness.

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In `@apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/threads/tools.ts`:
- Line 27: Make ThreadsListTool and ThreadsCreateTool local constants rather
than exported symbols, while keeping ThreadsToolkit exported so the knip check
passes.

In `@apps/web/src/agentCreatedThreadToast.ts`:
- Around line 40-42: Remove the unused resetAgentCreatedThreadToastsForTests
export and its implementation, unless a test genuinely needs it to clear
recentAgentThreadIds between cases; if needed, add a repository test usage
instead.

In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`:
- Around line 2868-2886: Update the agentCreatedThreads useEffect to establish
the initially observed thread IDs without notifying for them, then notify only
IDs that appear in later observations. Persist the baseline across effect reruns
while resetting it appropriately when the active thread changes, and continue
passing genuinely new threads to notifyAgentCreatedThreads with the existing
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const agentCreatedThreads = useMemo(
() => deriveAgentCreatedThreads(workLogEntries),
[workLogEntries],
);
useEffect(() => {
if (agentCreatedThreads.length === 0) {
return;
}
notifyAgentCreatedThreads({
environmentId,
threads: agentCreatedThreads,
navigate: (threadRef) => {
void navigate({
to: "/$environmentId/$threadId",
params: buildThreadRouteParams(threadRef),
});
},
});
}, [agentCreatedThreads, environmentId, navigate]);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fix: avoid replaying "New thread created" toasts for historical threads_create calls.

agentCreatedThreads is derived from the full loaded activity window for the active thread, not just newly-arrived activity. The effect at Line 2872 calls notifyAgentCreatedThreads for every entry in that list whenever it is non-empty. notifyAgentCreatedThreads in agentCreatedThreadToast.ts only dedups by an in-memory Set that exists to stop "a replayed event batch or a re-derived work log" from double-toasting in the same session; it does not distinguish a thread creation that already happened in this thread's history from one that just happened.

As a result, the first time a thread with earlier threads_create completions is opened after a fresh page load, every historical creation in the loaded window shows a "New thread created" toast with an Open action, even though the creation happened earlier. This recurs on every fresh load or reload, because the dedup Set resets with the module.

Track which thread ids already existed the first time this thread's agentCreatedThreads was observed, and only pass genuinely new ids to notifyAgentCreatedThreads.

🐛 Suggested direction (adjust for thread-switch remount semantics)
+  const seenAgentCreatedThreadIdsRef = useRef<Map<string, Set<string>>>(new Map());
   const agentCreatedThreads = useMemo(
     () => deriveAgentCreatedThreads(workLogEntries),
     [workLogEntries],
   );
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (agentCreatedThreads.length === 0) {
+    const threadKey = activeThreadKey ?? routeThreadKey;
+    let seen = seenAgentCreatedThreadIdsRef.current.get(threadKey);
+    if (!seen) {
+      // First observation of this thread: baseline existing creates so
+      // history is not replayed as a live notification.
+      seen = new Set(agentCreatedThreads.map((thread) => thread.threadId));
+      seenAgentCreatedThreadIdsRef.current.set(threadKey, seen);
+      return;
+    }
+    const newlyCreatedThreads = agentCreatedThreads.filter(
+      (thread) => !seen!.has(thread.threadId),
+    );
+    for (const thread of newlyCreatedThreads) seen.add(thread.threadId);
+    if (newlyCreatedThreads.length === 0) {
       return;
     }
     notifyAgentCreatedThreads({
       environmentId,
-      threads: agentCreatedThreads,
+      threads: newlyCreatedThreads,
       navigate: (threadRef) => {
         void navigate({
           to: "/$environmentId/$threadId",
           params: buildThreadRouteParams(threadRef),
         });
       },
     });
-  }, [agentCreatedThreads, environmentId, navigate]);
+  }, [agentCreatedThreads, activeThreadKey, routeThreadKey, environmentId, navigate]);
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In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx` around lines 2868 - 2886, Update the
agentCreatedThreads useEffect to establish the initially observed thread IDs
without notifying for them, then notify only IDs that appear in later
observations. Persist the baseline across effect reruns while resetting it
appropriately when the active thread changes, and continue passing genuinely new
threads to notifyAgentCreatedThreads with the existing navigation behavior.

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