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A thread linked to a pull request settles itself when that PR merges. Until now the only way to undo that link was to right-click the original PR URL in the chat transcript, which is unreachable once the message scrolls away and impossible if the link was never written there.

What changed

  • The PR number in both sidebars. Right-click now opens the pull request's own menu instead of bubbling to the thread menu. It carries Copy link, Open on <host>, and, only when that number is the one the thread is linked to, Unlink from thread last and behind a divider.
  • A PR chip in the chat header, beside the git actions. Shows the linked number, coloured by open/merged/closed. Left-click opens it in the right panel, cmd/ctrl-click and middle-click reach the host, right-click gives the same menu. Renders nothing when the thread has no link.
  • docs/user/thread-sidebar.md already described unlinking from the conversation link. It now names the two new places as well.

A pull request merely read off the thread's branch still offers only copy and open. That one is a fact about git, not a choice to undo.

Notes

No server or contract change. thread.meta.update already accepts a null linkedPullRequest and the decider already passes it through, so this is only the missing way to ask for it.

The action is gated on the threadPullRequestLinking capability, so a server that never records a link does not offer to clear one.

Unlinking is given the URL the menu was opened on and re-reads the thread shell before it fires, so a menu left open while the link changes underneath declines instead of clearing the replacement. Same guard the transcript path applies.

Web only. Mobile reads linkedPullRequest but has never written it, so unlinking there is a separate change.

Verification

vp test run apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestLinkContextMenu.test.ts — 5 passing, 3 of them new. Web typecheck clean, lint clean over the changed files.

Before/after images still to come; happy to attach them on request.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Display linked pull requests in the thread header and sidebar.
    • Open linked pull requests by clicking their status, with status indicators and tooltips.
    • Right-click linked pull requests to open them on the hosting service or unlink them from the thread.
  • Documentation
    • Updated thread sidebar guidance for viewing and unlinking pull requests.

A thread linked to a pull request settles itself when that PR merges. The
only way to undo the link was to right-click the original PR URL in the
chat transcript, which is unreachable once that message scrolls away.

Adds "Unlink from thread" to the PR number's context menu in both
sidebars, and a PR chip in the chat header beside the git actions that
shows the linked number and carries the same open/unlink behavior. The
item only appears for the number the thread is actually linked to, so a
PR read off the thread's branch still offers just copy and open.

No server or contract change: thread.meta.update already accepts a null
linkedPullRequest.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The sidebar row's number and the thread header's chip now carry the same
unlink action as the link in the conversation, so the paragraph that only
described the conversation link was no longer the whole story.

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Walkthrough

The change adds linked pull-request controls to sidebar rows and the chat header. Users can open pull requests, view status, and unlink matching thread links through context menus. The menu API, unlink hook, tests, and user documentation are updated.

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Thread pull-request controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pull-request menu and unlink contract
apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestLinkContextMenu.ts, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/useUnlinkThreadPullRequest.ts, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestLinkContextMenu.test.ts
The context menu optionally adds Unlink from thread. The unlink hook clears a matching linked pull request when the server capability is enabled. Tests cover menu construction and callback execution.
Sidebar pull-request context flow
apps/web/src/components/LegacySidebar.tsx, apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx
Sidebar pull-request links intercept right-clicks, prevent row-menu propagation, and open the pull-request context menu with an optional unlink action.
Chat header pull-request pill
apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatHeader.tsx, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/ThreadPullRequestPill.tsx, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
The header displays a linked pull-request number and status. Clicking opens the pull request. Right-clicking opens the pull-request menu. Documentation describes the sidebar and header controls.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ThreadPullRequestPill
  participant showPullRequestLinkContextMenu
  participant useUnlinkThreadPullRequest
  participant updateThreadMetadata
  User->>ThreadPullRequestPill: Right-click linked pull request
  ThreadPullRequestPill->>showPullRequestLinkContextMenu: Show pull-request menu
  User->>showPullRequestLinkContextMenu: Select unlink
  showPullRequestLinkContextMenu->>useUnlinkThreadPullRequest: Pass pull-request URL
  useUnlinkThreadPullRequest->>updateThreadMetadata: Clear linkedPullRequest
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A delayed unlink action from another device can remove a pull request that was linked more recently, so the operation needs server-side conditional update semantics before merge.

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Comment thread apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/useUnlinkThreadPullRequest.ts Outdated
A context menu stays open for as long as it takes to read, and in that
time the agent can write a newer pull request link or another device can
change the thread. Clearing whatever the thread holds by then would
unlink something nobody chose.

The unlink callback now takes the URL the reader acted on, re-reads the
thread shell, and drops the request unless that is still the link the
thread holds — the same guard the transcript path already applies in
ChatMarkdown.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/useUnlinkThreadPullRequest.ts`:
- Around line 38-41: Update useUnlinkThreadPullRequest and the thread metadata
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Closing in favour of #11900.

Upstream shipped the thread<->pull-request subsystem while this sat: thread.pull-request.link / .unlink, the thread.pullRequests array, the linked pull requests right panel with a per-row unlink, and a PR pill in the branch toolbar. This branch was written against linkedPullRequest through thread.meta.update, which is now the legacy path, and against a sidebar badge that has since become the shared ThreadPullRequestBadgeControl. Rebasing it would have rewritten every file in it.

#11900 does what is still actually missing, on top of current main: the right-click menu on the badge itself, routed through usePullRequestLinking so both the new command and the legacy path work. Thanks for the reviews here — the stale-menu race you all flagged is carried over and guarded in the new branch too.

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