Merge pull request #1 from vvzvlad/develop

Release 0.94.0

.env.example

@@ -136,6 +136,32 @@ MCP_DOCMOST_PASSWORD=
 # A slow/hung embeddings endpoint fails after this and the batch continues.
 # AI_EMBEDDING_TIMEOUT_MS=120000
 
+# Silence timeout (ms) for streaming chat/agent AI calls AND external-MCP traffic.
+# Bounds time-to-first-byte and the gap BETWEEN chunks (NOT the total turn length),
+# so an arbitrarily long turn that keeps streaming is never cut. Finite so a hung
+# provider is eventually broken instead of leaking forever. Default 900000 (15 min).
+# AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS=900000
+
+# Keep-alive recycle window (ms) for streaming chat/agent AI + external-MCP calls.
+# A pooled connection idle longer than this is closed instead of reused, so a
+# NAT / egress firewall / reverse proxy that silently drops idle connections
+# cannot poison a reused socket into a PRE-RESPONSE `read ECONNRESET`. Lower it if
+# your egress drops idle connections faster than ~10s. Default 10000 (10 s).
+# AI_STREAM_KEEPALIVE_MS=10000
+
+# Silence timeout (ms) for EXTERNAL-MCP transport ONLY (not the chat provider).
+# Tighter than AI_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS so a byte-silent/hung MCP server is broken in
+# ~5 min instead of 15. Note it also cuts a legitimately long but byte-silent
+# single tool call (a slow crawl that emits nothing until done) and an SSE
+# transport idling >5 min BETWEEN tool calls. Default 300000 (5 min).
+# AI_MCP_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS=300000
+
+# Total wall-clock cap (ms) for ONE external MCP tool call (app-level, not
+# transport). Aborts a tool that keeps the socket warm (SSE heartbeats / trickle)
+# but never returns a result — which the silence timeout above never breaks.
+# Default 900000 (15 min).
+# AI_MCP_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS=900000
+
 # --- Anonymous public-share AI assistant ---
 # Opt-in per workspace (AI settings -> "public share assistant"; off by default).
 # When enabled, anonymous visitors of a published share can ask an AI about that
@@ -161,3 +187,11 @@ MCP_DOCMOST_PASSWORD=
 # Per-request output-token ceiling for the anonymous assistant (default: 512).
 # Worst-case output per accepted call = agent steps (5) × this value.
 # SHARE_AI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=512
+#
+# Second cost backstop: a cluster-wide per-workspace rolling-DAY token budget
+# (input re-sent per step + output, summed across every accepted turn). The
+# hourly request cap above bounds how MANY calls run, not how expensive each is,
+# so this caps the owner's actual provider bill directly. Like the request cap it
+# FAILS CLOSED if Redis is unavailable (default: 1,000,000 tokens per workspace
+# per rolling day).
+# SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_BUDGET_PER_DAY=1000000

.github/workflows/develop.yml

@@ -56,3 +56,160 @@ jobs:
           tags: ${{ env.IMAGE }}:develop
           cache-from: type=gha,scope=develop-amd64
           cache-to: type=gha,scope=develop-amd64,mode=max,ignore-error=true
+
+  # e2e jobs run on every develop push but DO NOT gate the build/publish above:
+  # `build` stays `needs: test` only, so the :develop image still ships even if
+  # e2e fails. A failing e2e job turns the run red and triggers GitHub's email
+  # to the pusher — that red run + email is the intended notification, not a
+  # deploy block.
+  e2e-server:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      DATABASE_URL: postgresql://docmost:docmost@localhost:5432/docmost
+      REDIS_URL: redis://localhost:6379
+      APP_SECRET: ci-e2e-secret-change-me-min-32-characters
+      APP_URL: http://localhost:3000
+    services:
+      postgres:
+        image: pgvector/pgvector:pg18
+        env:
+          POSTGRES_DB: docmost
+          POSTGRES_USER: docmost
+          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: docmost
+        ports:
+          - 5432:5432
+        options: >-
+          --health-cmd "pg_isready -U docmost"
+          --health-interval 5s
+          --health-timeout 5s
+          --health-retries 20
+      redis:
+        image: redis:7
+        ports:
+          - 6379:6379
+        options: >-
+          --health-cmd "redis-cli ping"
+          --health-interval 5s
+          --health-timeout 5s
+          --health-retries 20
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up pnpm
+        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: 22
+          cache: pnpm
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
+
+      - name: Build editor-ext
+        run: pnpm --filter @docmost/editor-ext build
+
+      - name: Run migrations
+        run: pnpm --filter ./apps/server migration:latest
+
+      - name: Run server e2e
+        run: pnpm --filter ./apps/server test:e2e
+
+  # Same rationale as e2e-server: this job is intentionally NOT in
+  # `build.needs`. Deploy of the :develop image must not be blocked by e2e;
+  # a red run plus GitHub's email to the pusher is the notification mechanism.
+  e2e-mcp:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      DATABASE_URL: postgresql://docmost:docmost@localhost:5432/docmost
+      REDIS_URL: redis://localhost:6379
+      APP_SECRET: ci-e2e-secret-change-me-min-32-characters
+      APP_URL: http://localhost:3000
+      NODE_ENV: production
+    services:
+      postgres:
+        image: pgvector/pgvector:pg18
+        env:
+          POSTGRES_DB: docmost
+          POSTGRES_USER: docmost
+          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: docmost
+        ports:
+          - 5432:5432
+        options: >-
+          --health-cmd "pg_isready -U docmost"
+          --health-interval 5s
+          --health-timeout 5s
+          --health-retries 20
+      redis:
+        image: redis:7
+        ports:
+          - 6379:6379
+        options: >-
+          --health-cmd "redis-cli ping"
+          --health-interval 5s
+          --health-timeout 5s
+          --health-retries 20
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up pnpm
+        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: 22
+          cache: pnpm
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
+
+      - name: Build editor-ext
+        run: pnpm --filter @docmost/editor-ext build
+
+      - name: Build server
+        run: pnpm server:build
+
+      - name: Build mcp
+        run: pnpm --filter @docmost/mcp build
+
+      - name: Run migrations
+        run: pnpm --filter ./apps/server migration:latest
+
+      - name: Start server (prod)
+        # Capture stdout/stderr so a start-up crash (bind error, stack trace,
+        # migration mismatch) is diagnosable; without this the only signal is
+        # the generic health-loop timeout below, ~120s later.
+        run: pnpm --filter ./apps/server start:prod > /tmp/server.log 2>&1 &
+
+      - name: Wait for server health
+        run: |
+          for i in $(seq 1 60); do
+            if curl -fsS http://localhost:3000/api/health > /dev/null; then
+              echo "Server is healthy"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            sleep 2
+          done
+          echo "Server did not become healthy in time"
+          exit 1
+
+      - name: Dump server log on failure
+        if: failure()
+        run: cat /tmp/server.log || true
+
+      - name: Seed admin
+        run: |
+          curl -fsS -X POST http://localhost:3000/api/auth/setup \
+            -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+            -d '{"name":"E2E","email":"e2e@example.com","password":"E2ePassword123","workspaceName":"E2E"}'
+
+      - name: Run mcp e2e
+        env:
+          DOCMOST_API_URL: http://localhost:3000/api
+          DOCMOST_EMAIL: e2e@example.com
+          DOCMOST_PASSWORD: E2ePassword123
+        run: pnpm --filter @docmost/mcp test:e2e

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,38 @@ permissions:
 jobs:
   test:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Real Postgres + Redis so the server integration suite (`*.int-spec.ts`,
+    # behind `pnpm --filter server test:int`) runs in CI (red-team finding #7).
+    # Without it, cost-cap / FK-cascade / jsonb-round-trip / real-apply tests
+    # only ran locally, so regressions in those paths stayed green in CI.
+    # Postgres uses the pgvector image because migrations create vector columns
+    # and global-setup runs `CREATE EXTENSION vector`. Credentials/db match the
+    # defaults in apps/server/test/integration/db.ts + global-setup.ts
+    # (docmost / docmost_dev_pw, maintenance db `docmost`, redis on 6379), so no
+    # TEST_*_URL overrides are needed.
+    services:
+      postgres:
+        image: pgvector/pgvector:pg18
+        env:
+          POSTGRES_USER: docmost
+          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: docmost_dev_pw
+          POSTGRES_DB: docmost
+        ports:
+          - 5432:5432
+        options: >-
+          --health-cmd "pg_isready -U docmost"
+          --health-interval 10s
+          --health-timeout 5s
+          --health-retries 5
+      redis:
+        image: redis:7
+        ports:
+          - 6379:6379
+        options: >-
+          --health-cmd "redis-cli ping"
+          --health-interval 10s
+          --health-timeout 5s
+          --health-retries 5
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -36,5 +68,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build editor-ext
         run: pnpm --filter @docmost/editor-ext build
 
-      - name: Run tests
+      - name: Run unit tests
         run: pnpm -r test
+
+      # Integration suite against the real Postgres/Redis services above. Runs
+      # the FK-cascade, cost-cap, jsonb-round-trip and real-apply specs that the
+      # unit run (mocks only) cannot cover. global-setup drops/recreates the
+      # isolated `docmost_test` DB and migrates it to latest.
+      - name: Run server integration tests
+        run: pnpm --filter server test:int

AGENTS.md

@@ -157,6 +157,19 @@ below.
 | `origin` | GitHub mirror `vvzvlad/gitmost` — **do not push**, updated by the owner's CI |
 | `upstream` | The original Docmost — **never push** |
 
+## Creating issues (Gitea `tea` CLI)
+
+Issues are filed with the official Gitea CLI `tea`, already logged in as
+`claude_code` (`tea logins list` shows the `gitea` login as default):
+
+```bash
+tea issues create --repo vvzvlad/gitmost --labels feature \
+  --title '<title>' --description "$(cat body.md)"
+```
+
+> Gotcha (tea 0.14.1): the issue body flag is `--description`/`-d`, **not**
+> `--body` — passing `--body` fails with `flag provided but not defined: -body`.
+
 ---
 
 # Architecture and codebase

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -10,19 +10,75 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.94.0] - 2026-06-26
+
+This release makes AI chat durable and fast: assistant turns are persisted to
+the database step by step and exported server-side, the desktop app no longer
+freezes at 100% CPU on long agent runs, and MCP writes are badged with
+unspoofable AI attribution. It also reworks footnotes (Pandoc-style reuse and
+per-reference back-links), hardens page moves and duplication against cycles
+and lost edits, and caps the anonymous public-share assistant with a
+per-workspace rolling-day token budget.
+
 ### Added
 
+- **Persistent AI-chat history as the source of truth + server-side export.**
+  An assistant turn is now persisted to the database step by step: the row is
+  inserted upfront as `streaming` and updated as each agent step finishes, then
+  finalized once to `completed`/`error`/`aborted`. A process that dies mid-turn
+  keeps every finished step, and a startup sweep flips any dangling `streaming`
+  row (untouched for 10 minutes) to `aborted`. Chat "Copy" now exports
+  server-side from these rows (`POST /ai-chat/export`) rather than from live
+  client state, so the export is identical whether a chat is freshly streaming,
+  just switched to, or reloaded — and is available from the first turn of a new
+  chat. (#183, #174)
+
 - **AI-agent attribution for MCP writes.** Comments (and pages) created through
   the MCP endpoint by a dedicated agent account are now badged as "AI", with
   unspoofable provenance derived from a per-user `is_agent` flag (not from the
-  request body). **Operator setup:** use a *dedicated* service account for the
+  request body). **Operator setup:** use a _dedicated_ service account for the
   MCP fallback and set the flag with SQL —
   `UPDATE users SET is_agent = true WHERE email = '<mcp-account>'`. Never flag a
   human or shared account, or its normal edits get mis-attributed as AI. See the
   AI-agent block in `.env.example`. (#143)
+- **Footnote import diagnostics.** The MCP page-write tools (`create_page`,
+  `update_page`, `import_page_markdown`) now return a `footnoteWarnings` array
+  flagging dangling references, empty or duplicate definitions, and `[^id]`
+  markers inside table rows, so an agent can fix its own markup. The page is
+  still created; the field is omitted when there are no problems. (#166)
+- **AI chat "Protocol" setting (`chatApiStyle`).** A new admin choice in AI
+  settings for the `openai` driver: `openai-compatible` (default) routes chat
+  through `@ai-sdk/openai-compatible`, which surfaces a provider's streamed
+  reasoning (`reasoning_content` → reasoning parts) for z.ai/GLM, DeepSeek,
+  OpenRouter, etc.; `openai` uses the official provider (real-OpenAI
+  reasoning-model request shaping). Chosen explicitly rather than inferred from
+  the base URL, since a custom URL can front real OpenAI too. (#175, #177)
+- **Per-MCP-server instructions in the agent prompt.** Each external MCP server
+  now has an admin-authored `instructions` field ("how/when to use this server's
+  tools") that is injected into the agent's system prompt next to that server's
+  tool descriptions. Trusted text, rendered inside the prompt safety sandwich;
+  shown only for a server that actually connected and contributed ≥1 callable
+  tool. (#180)
+- **Footnote multi-backlinks.** A footnote referenced more than once now shows a
+  back-link per reference (↩ a b c …), each scrolling to its own occurrence, like
+  Pandoc/Wikipedia; a single-reference footnote keeps the plain ↩. (#168)
 
 ### Changed
 
+- **AI chat default provider is now `openai-compatible` (reasoning surfaced).**
+  For the `openai` driver the chat provider defaults to the openai-compatible
+  implementation, so a workspace pointing at z.ai/GLM/DeepSeek now streams the
+  model's reasoning out of the box. An endpoint that is real OpenAI behind a
+  custom base URL should set the new `chatApiStyle` "Protocol" to `openai`. (#177)
+
+- **Footnotes now reuse (Pandoc semantics).** Multiple `[^a]` references to the
+  same id are ONE footnote — one number, one definition, several back-references
+  — instead of being renamed to `a__2`, `a__3`. Duplicate `[^a]:` definitions are
+  first-wins on import (the rest are dropped and reported via `footnoteWarnings`),
+  and a reference with no definition yields a single empty footnote rather than
+  one per occurrence. This supersedes the 0.93.0 "survive duplicate-id
+  definitions" behavior for the import path. (#166)
+
 - **Public share AI: default per-workspace hourly assistant cap lowered
   300 → 100.** The limiter falls back to this default whenever
   `SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_MAX_PER_HOUR` is unset, so a `0.93.0` deployment that
@@ -32,6 +88,13 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- **AI chat: the desktop app no longer freezes at 100% CPU on long agent runs.**
+  `useChat` re-rendered on every streamed token and `MessageItem`/`ReasoningBlock`
+  re-parsed the whole transcript markdown (marked + DOMPurify) on every delta, so
+  per-turn work grew quadratically and saturated the main thread. The stream is now
+  throttled (`experimental_throttle`) to ~20 Hz and each finalized message row /
+  markdown part / reasoning block is memoized, so a long turn no longer re-parses
+  already-finished content. (#182)
 - **Editor: caret/selection landed on the wrong line when clicking inside code
   blocks and footnotes.** The affected NodeViews rendered their non-editable
   chrome (language menu, footnotes heading, footnote number marker) before the
@@ -41,6 +104,42 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   are nudged after a paste to refresh stale hit-testing geometry. The caret
   symptom is macOS-specific and was confirmed manually on macOS; the automated
   guard pins the DOM-order invariant, not the caret behavior itself. (#146, #147)
+- **AI chat: the live token counter now ticks between agent steps.** During a
+  multi-step turn the header token badge (and the "Thinking… · N tokens" line)
+  no longer froze on the previous step's authoritative usage; the current step's
+  estimate is combined per-component with `max`, so the count rises smoothly and
+  never jumps backwards. (#163)
+- **AI chat: "New chat" during a streaming first turn now resets the whole
+  chat, not just the role badge.** Starting a new chat mid-stream cleared the
+  header but left the in-flight turn's messages behind, so the fresh chat opened
+  pre-populated with the previous conversation; it now fully resets. (#161)
+- **AI chat: a dropped tool argument now yields an actionable error.** When the
+  model omitted a required parameter (typically `pageId`) in a parallel/batch
+  tool call, the assistant forwarded zod's raw "expected string, received
+  undefined" text; tool inputs now return a message naming each missing/invalid
+  parameter (the JSON Schema contract is unchanged and nothing is backfilled).
+  (#190)
+- **Page move: cycle checks are now atomic and depth-bounded.** Moving a page
+  under one of its own descendants is rejected in the same transaction as the
+  update (closing a TOCTOU window where two concurrent A→B / B→A moves could
+  form a cycle), and the recursive tree-traversal CTEs carry a cycle/depth guard
+  so a pre-existing cycle can no longer spin a query. (#207)
+- **Page/editor robustness batch.** Duplicating a page now copies shared
+  attachments for every referencing page (not just the first); colliding block
+  ids are de-duplicated on import/normalize so MCP addressed edits can't hit the
+  wrong node; transient collab store failures are retried so autosave edits
+  aren't lost; and an out-of-order tree move no longer drops the moved subtree.
+  (#206)
+
+### Security
+
+- **Public share AI: per-workspace rolling-day token budget.** The anonymous
+  share assistant now caps a workspace's actual token spend (input + output,
+  summed across every accepted turn) over a trailing day, on top of the hourly
+  request cap — so a caller who evades the per-IP throttle still cannot run up
+  the owner's provider bill without bound. Cluster-wide via Redis and FAILS
+  CLOSED if Redis is down; default 1,000,000 tokens/day, overridable via
+  `SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_BUDGET_PER_DAY`. (#159)
 
 ## [0.93.0] - 2026-06-21
 
@@ -124,8 +223,7 @@ embeds — plus a large batch of security hardening and test coverage.
 - Page templates: import `ThrottleModule` so collab boots, never strand an
   in-flight page-embed id, and add defense-in-depth workspace checks.
 - Pages: `movePage` cycle guard with no phantom `PAGE_MOVED` event.
-- Import: surface the real error cause from `/pages/import` instead of a generic
-  400.
+- Import: surface the real error cause from `/pages/import` instead of a generic 400.
 
 ### Security
 

README.md

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ community feature, with no enterprise license. Open it from the page header; the
 - 🔭 **Viewer comments** — let read-only viewers leave comments.
 - 🔭 **Password-protected pages** — protect individual pages / shares with a password.
 - 🔭 **Windows / Linux app** — native desktop app for Windows and Linux.
-- 🔭 **Mobile app** — mobile apps (iOS first, Android to follow), reusing the existing responsive web UI and editor via a Capacitor wrapper, with offline planned for later. See [docs/mobile-app-plan.md](docs/mobile-app-plan.md).
+- 🔭 **Mobile app** — mobile apps (iOS first, Android to follow), reusing the existing responsive web UI and editor via a Capacitor wrapper, with offline planned for later. See [issue #195](https://gitea.vvzvlad.xyz/vvzvlad/gitmost/issues/195).
 - 🔭 **Offline mode** — offline sync & PWA support.
 - 🔭 **Editor & UX improvements** — blocks inside tables (lists, to-do items), column layout, additional heading levels, highlight blocks, custom emoji in callouts, floating images, anchor links for page mentions, toggles (shared-page width, aside/sidebar, spellcheck, ligatures), sanitized space-tree export, and mentions in breadcrumbs.
 

README.ru.md

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ real-time-коллаборации Docmost, поэтому запись нико
 - 🔭 **Комментарии зрителей** — возможность комментировать для пользователей с доступом только на чтение.
 - 🔭 **Защищённые паролем страницы** — защита отдельных страниц / шар паролем.
 - 🔭 **Приложение для Windows / Linux** — нативное десктоп-приложение для Windows и Linux.
-- 🔭 **Мобильное приложение** — мобильные приложения (iOS обязательно, Android как пойдёт) на базе существующей адаптивной веб-версии и редактора через обёртку Capacitor; оффлайн запланирован на будущее. См. [docs/mobile-app-plan.md](docs/mobile-app-plan.md).
+- 🔭 **Мобильное приложение** — мобильные приложения (iOS обязательно, Android как пойдёт) на базе существующей адаптивной веб-версии и редактора через обёртку Capacitor; оффлайн запланирован на будущее. См. [issue #195](https://gitea.vvzvlad.xyz/vvzvlad/gitmost/issues/195).
 - 🔭 **Офлайн-режим** — офлайн-синхронизация и поддержка PWA.
 - 🔭 **Улучшения редактора и UX** — блоки внутри таблиц (списки, чек-листы), колоночная вёрстка, дополнительные уровни заголовков, highlight-блоки, кастомные эмодзи в callout-ах, плавающие изображения, anchor-ссылки на упоминания страниц, тоглы (ширина шары, aside/сайдбар, spellcheck, лигатуры), санитизация экспорта дерева спейса и mentions в хлебных крошках.
 

apps/client/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "client",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "0.93.0",
+  "version": "0.94.0",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "node scripts/copy-vad-assets.mjs && vite",
     "build": "node scripts/copy-vad-assets.mjs && tsc && vite build",

apps/client/public/locales/en-US/translation.json

@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@
   "Copy to space": "Copy to space",
   "Copy chat": "Copy chat",
   "Copied": "Copied",
+  "Failed to export chat": "Failed to export chat",
   "Duplicate": "Duplicate",
   "Select a user": "Select a user",
   "Select a group": "Select a group",
@@ -710,9 +711,12 @@
   "Authorization header": "Authorization header",
   "Tool allowlist": "Tool allowlist",
   "Optional. Leave empty to allow all tools the server exposes.": "Optional. Leave empty to allow all tools the server exposes.",
+  "Optional guidance for the agent on how and when to use this server's tools. Injected into the system prompt. The server's tools are namespaced as \"<server name>_*\".": "Optional guidance for the agent on how and when to use this server's tools. Injected into the system prompt. The server's tools are namespaced as \"<server name>_*\".",
   "Test": "Test",
   "Available tools": "Available tools",
   "No tools available": "No tools available",
+  "Failed": "Failed",
+  "OK · {{n}}": "OK · {{n}}",
   "Created successfully": "Created successfully",
   "Deleted successfully": "Deleted successfully",
   "Clear": "Clear",
@@ -1077,6 +1081,8 @@
   "Undo": "Undo",
   "Redo": "Redo",
   "Backlinks": "Backlinks",
+  "Back to references": "Back to references",
+  "Back to reference {{label}}": "Back to reference {{label}}",
   "Last updated by": "Last updated by",
   "Last updated": "Last updated",
   "Stats": "Stats",
@@ -1147,6 +1153,12 @@
   "Ask a question about this documentation.": "Ask a question about this documentation.",
   "Ask a question…": "Ask a question…",
   "Thinking…": "Thinking…",
+  "Thinking… · {{count}} tokens": "Thinking… · {{count}} tokens",
+  "Thinking… · {{count}} tokens_one": "Thinking… · {{count}} token",
+  "Thinking… · {{count}} tokens_other": "Thinking… · {{count}} tokens",
+  "Thinking · {{count}} tokens": "Thinking · {{count}} tokens",
+  "Thinking · {{count}} tokens_one": "Thinking · {{count}} token",
+  "Thinking · {{count}} tokens_other": "Thinking · {{count}} tokens",
   "The assistant is unavailable right now. Please try again.": "The assistant is unavailable right now. Please try again.",
   "Public share assistant": "Public share assistant",
   "Let anonymous visitors of public shares ask an AI assistant scoped to that share's pages. You pay for the tokens.": "Let anonymous visitors of public shares ask an AI assistant scoped to that share's pages. You pay for the tokens.",
@@ -1157,7 +1169,9 @@
   "Pick an agent role whose persona the public assistant adopts. The safety rules always still apply.": "Pick an agent role whose persona the public assistant adopts. The safety rules always still apply.",
   "Built-in assistant persona": "Built-in assistant persona",
   "Minimize": "Minimize",
-  "Current context size": "Current context size",
+  "Context size / model limit": "Context size / model limit",
+  "Context window (tokens)": "Context window (tokens)",
+  "Shown as used / total in the chat header. Leave empty to hide the limit.": "Shown as used / total in the chat header. Leave empty to hide the limit.",
   "AI agent": "AI agent",
   "Take a look at the current document": "Take a look at the current document",
   "AI agent is typing…": "AI agent is typing…",
@@ -1266,6 +1280,10 @@
   "Optional. Defaults to the workspace model.": "Optional. Defaults to the workspace model.",
   "e.g. gpt-4o-mini": "e.g. gpt-4o-mini",
   "If you choose a different provider, it must already be configured in AI settings.": "If you choose a different provider, it must already be configured in AI settings.",
+  "Start automatically": "Start automatically",
+  "When on, picking this role sends a launch message and starts the chat. When off, the role is selected and you type the first message yourself.": "When on, picking this role sends a launch message and starts the chat. When off, the role is selected and you type the first message yourself.",
+  "Launch message": "Launch message",
+  "Sent automatically when this role is picked. Leave empty to use the default text. Ignored when “Start automatically” is off.": "Sent automatically when this role is picked. Leave empty to use the default text. Ignored when “Start automatically” is off.",
   "Agent roles": "Agent roles",
   "Reusable presets that shape the agent's behavior (and optionally its model). Picked when starting a new chat.": "Reusable presets that shape the agent's behavior (and optionally its model). Picked when starting a new chat.",
   "No roles configured": "No roles configured",
@@ -1287,5 +1305,18 @@
   "Analytics / tracker": "Analytics / tracker",
   "Injected verbatim into the <head> of PUBLIC SHARE pages only (same-origin). For analytics snippets (Google Analytics, Yandex.Metrika, etc.). Admin only.": "Injected verbatim into the <head> of PUBLIC SHARE pages only (same-origin). For analytics snippets (Google Analytics, Yandex.Metrika, etc.). Admin only.",
   "Go to login page": "Go to login page",
-  "Move to space": "Move to space"
+  "Move to space": "Move to space",
+  "Float left (wrap text)": "Float left (wrap text)",
+  "Float right (wrap text)": "Float right (wrap text)",
+  "Switch to tree": "Switch to tree",
+  "Switch to flat list": "Switch to flat list",
+  "Toggle subpages display mode": "Toggle subpages display mode",
+  "Page tree (child pages, recursive)": "Page tree (child pages, recursive)",
+  "Render the full nested tree of all descendant pages": "Render the full nested tree of all descendant pages",
+  "Showing {{count}} subpages_one": "Showing {{count}} subpage",
+  "Showing {{count}} subpages_other": "Showing {{count}} subpages",
+  "Protocol": "Protocol",
+  "How chat requests are sent and how reasoning is surfaced": "How chat requests are sent and how reasoning is surfaced",
+  "OpenAI-compatible (surfaces reasoning)": "OpenAI-compatible (surfaces reasoning)",
+  "OpenAI (official)": "OpenAI (official)"
 }

apps/client/public/locales/ru-RU/translation.json

@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@
   "Copy": "Копировать",
   "Copy to space": "Копировать в пространство",
   "Copied": "Скопировано",
+  "Failed to export chat": "Не удалось экспортировать чат",
   "Duplicate": "Дублировать",
   "Select a user": "Выберите пользователя",
   "Select a group": "Выберите группу",
@@ -405,6 +406,8 @@
   "Footnote {{number}}": "Сноска {{number}}",
   "Go to footnote": "Перейти к сноске",
   "Back to reference": "Вернуться к ссылке",
+  "Back to references": "Вернуться к ссылкам",
+  "Back to reference {{label}}": "Вернуться к ссылке {{label}}",
   "Empty footnote": "Пустая сноска",
   "Math inline": "Строчная формула",
   "Insert inline math equation.": "Вставить математическое выражение в строку.",
@@ -677,9 +680,21 @@
   "Ask AI": "Спросить ИИ",
   "AI agent": "AI-агент",
   "Take a look at the current document": "Посмотри текущий документ",
+  "Start automatically": "Запускать автоматически",
+  "When on, picking this role sends a launch message and starts the chat. When off, the role is selected and you type the first message yourself.": "Когда включено, выбор этой роли отправляет стартовое сообщение и начинает чат. Когда выключено, роль выбирается, а первое сообщение вы вводите сами.",
+  "Launch message": "Стартовое сообщение",
+  "Sent automatically when this role is picked. Leave empty to use the default text. Ignored when “Start automatically” is off.": "Отправляется автоматически при выборе этой роли. Оставьте пустым, чтобы использовать текст по умолчанию. Игнорируется, когда «Запускать автоматически» выключено.",
   "AI agent is typing…": "AI-агент печатает…",
   "{{name}} is typing…": "{{name}} печатает…",
   "Thinking…": "Думаю…",
+  "Thinking… · {{count}} tokens": "Думаю… · {{count}} токенов",
+  "Thinking… · {{count}} tokens_one": "Думаю… · {{count}} токен",
+  "Thinking… · {{count}} tokens_few": "Думаю… · {{count}} токена",
+  "Thinking… · {{count}} tokens_many": "Думаю… · {{count}} токенов",
+  "Thinking · {{count}} tokens": "Размышления · {{count}} токенов",
+  "Thinking · {{count}} tokens_one": "Размышления · {{count}} токен",
+  "Thinking · {{count}} tokens_few": "Размышления · {{count}} токена",
+  "Thinking · {{count}} tokens_many": "Размышления · {{count}} токенов",
   "Agent role": "Роль агента",
   "AI chat": "AI-чат",
   "AI chat is disabled for this workspace.": "AI-чат отключён для этого рабочего пространства.",
@@ -689,12 +704,19 @@
   "Ask the AI agent…": "Спросите AI-агента…",
   "Copy chat": "Копировать чат",
   "Created successfully": "Успешно создано",
-  "Current context size": "Текущий размер контекста",
+  "Context size / model limit": "Размер контекста / лимит модели",
+  "Context window (tokens)": "Окно контекста (токены)",
+  "Shown as used / total in the chat header. Leave empty to hide the limit.": "Показывается в шапке чата как использовано / всего. Пусто — лимит скрыт.",
   "Delete this chat?": "Удалить этот чат?",
   "Deleted successfully": "Успешно удалено",
   "Edited by AI agent on behalf of {{name}}": "Отредактировано AI-агентом от имени {{name}}",
   "Failed to delete chat": "Не удалось удалить чат",
   "Failed to rename chat": "Не удалось переименовать чат",
+  "Failed": "Ошибка",
+  "OK · {{n}}": "OK · {{n}}",
+  "Test": "Тест",
+  "No tools available": "Инструменты недоступны",
+  "Available tools": "Доступные инструменты",
   "Minimize": "Свернуть",
   "No chats yet.": "Чатов пока нет.",
   "Send": "Отправить",
@@ -736,6 +758,8 @@
   "Manage API keys for all users in the workspace. View the <anchor>API documentation</anchor> for usage details.": "Управляйте API-ключами для всех пользователей в рабочем пространстве. Смотрите <anchor>документацию по API</anchor> для получения информации об использовании.",
   "View the <anchor>API documentation</anchor> for usage details.": "Смотрите <anchor>документацию по API</anchor> для получения информации об использовании.",
   "View the <anchor>MCP documentation</anchor>.": "Смотрите <anchor>документацию по MCP</anchor>.",
+  "Instructions": "Инструкции",
+  "Optional guidance for the agent on how and when to use this server's tools. Injected into the system prompt. The server's tools are namespaced as \"<server name>_*\".": "Необязательное указание агенту, как и когда использовать инструменты этого сервера. Добавляется в системный промпт. Инструменты сервера именуются с префиксом «<имя сервера>_*».",
   "Sources": "Источники",
   "AI Answers not available for attachments": "Ответы ИИ недоступны для вложений",
   "No answer available": "Ответ недоступен",
@@ -1137,5 +1161,19 @@
   "Create subpage of {{name}}": "Создать подстраницу для {{name}}",
   "Dictation language": "Язык диктовки",
   "Auto-detect": "Автоопределение",
-  "Spoken language hint sent to the transcription model. Auto-detect lets the model decide.": "Подсказка языка речи для модели транскрипции. «Автоопределение» оставляет выбор за моделью."
+  "Spoken language hint sent to the transcription model. Auto-detect lets the model decide.": "Подсказка языка речи для модели транскрипции. «Автоопределение» оставляет выбор за моделью.",
+  "Float left (wrap text)": "Обтекание слева",
+  "Float right (wrap text)": "Обтекание справа",
+  "Switch to tree": "Переключить на дерево",
+  "Switch to flat list": "Переключить на плоский список",
+  "Toggle subpages display mode": "Переключить режим отображения подстраниц",
+  "Page tree (child pages, recursive)": "Дерево страниц (дочерние, рекурсивно)",
+  "Render the full nested tree of all descendant pages": "Показать полное вложенное дерево всех дочерних страниц",
+  "Showing {{count}} subpages_one": "Показано {{count}} подстраница",
+  "Showing {{count}} subpages_few": "Показано {{count}} подстраницы",
+  "Showing {{count}} subpages_many": "Показано {{count}} подстраниц",
+  "Protocol": "Протокол",
+  "How chat requests are sent and how reasoning is surfaced": "Как отправляются запросы чата и как показывается reasoning",
+  "OpenAI-compatible (surfaces reasoning)": "OpenAI-совместимый (показывает reasoning)",
+  "OpenAI (official)": "OpenAI (официальный)"
 }

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/ai-chat-window.tsx

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import {
   useRef,
   useState,
 } from "react";
-import { type UIMessage } from "@ai-sdk/react";
 import { Group, Loader, Tooltip } from "@mantine/core";
 import {
   IconArrowsDiagonal,
@@ -40,12 +39,13 @@ import {
 } from "@/features/ai-chat/queries/ai-chat-query.ts";
 import ConversationList from "@/features/ai-chat/components/conversation-list.tsx";
 import ChatThread from "@/features/ai-chat/components/chat-thread.tsx";
-import { buildChatMarkdown } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/chat-markdown.ts";
+import { exportAiChat } from "@/features/ai-chat/services/ai-chat-service.ts";
 import { useChatSession } from "@/features/ai-chat/hooks/use-chat-session.ts";
 import {
   shouldCollapseOnOutsidePointer,
   isHeaderClick,
 } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/collapse-helpers.ts";
+import { selectContextBadge } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/context-badge.ts";
 import { useClipboard } from "@/hooks/use-clipboard";
 import { notifications } from "@mantine/notifications";
 import classes from "@/features/ai-chat/components/ai-chat-window.module.css";
@@ -80,17 +80,31 @@ function computeInitialGeom() {
     Math.min(DEFAULT_HEIGHT, window.innerHeight - 2 * EDGE_MARGIN),
   );
   const left = Math.max(EDGE_MARGIN, window.innerWidth - width - 24);
-  const maxTop = Math.max(EDGE_MARGIN, window.innerHeight - height - EDGE_MARGIN);
+  const maxTop = Math.max(
+    EDGE_MARGIN,
+    window.innerHeight - height - EDGE_MARGIN,
+  );
   const top = Math.min(60, maxTop);
   return { left, top, width, height };
 }
 
 // Clamp a geometry so the window stays within the current viewport.
-function clampGeom(g: { left: number; top: number; width: number; height: number }) {
+function clampGeom(g: {
+  left: number;
+  top: number;
+  width: number;
+  height: number;
+}) {
   const effWidth = Math.max(g.width, MIN_WIDTH);
   const effHeight = Math.max(g.height, MIN_HEIGHT);
-  const maxLeft = Math.max(EDGE_MARGIN, window.innerWidth - effWidth - EDGE_MARGIN);
-  const maxTop = Math.max(EDGE_MARGIN, window.innerHeight - effHeight - EDGE_MARGIN);
+  const maxLeft = Math.max(
+    EDGE_MARGIN,
+    window.innerWidth - effWidth - EDGE_MARGIN,
+  );
+  const maxTop = Math.max(
+    EDGE_MARGIN,
+    window.innerHeight - effHeight - EDGE_MARGIN,
+  );
   return {
     ...g,
     left: Math.min(Math.max(EDGE_MARGIN, g.left), maxLeft),
@@ -107,7 +121,7 @@ function clampGeom(g: { left: number; top: number; width: number; height: number
  * ported from the GitmostAgent.jsx design.
  */
 export default function AiChatWindow() {
-  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const { t, i18n } = useTranslation();
   const clipboard = useClipboard({ timeout: 500 });
   const queryClient = useQueryClient();
   const [windowOpen, setWindowOpen] = useAtom(aiChatWindowOpenAtom);
@@ -148,14 +162,6 @@ export default function AiChatWindow() {
   const { data: messageRows, isLoading: messagesLoading } =
     useAiChatMessagesQuery(activeChatId ?? undefined);
 
-  // Live snapshot of the active thread's useChat state, kept up to date by
-  // ChatThread. Lets the export include the in-progress (not-yet-persisted)
-  // streaming turn. A ref avoids re-rendering this window on every token.
-  const liveThreadRef = useRef<{ messages: UIMessage[]; isStreaming: boolean }>({
-    messages: [],
-    isStreaming: false,
-  });
-
   // The page the user is currently viewing. AiChatWindow lives in a pathless
   // parent layout route, so useParams() can't see :pageSlug. Match the full
   // pathname against the authenticated page route instead so "the current page"
@@ -179,17 +185,23 @@ export default function AiChatWindow() {
   // The invalidate closures are passed inline: `onTurnFinished` is read live by
   // useChat's onFinish (never in an effect dep array), so their identity does not
   // matter — no memoization ceremony needed.
-  const { threadKey, waitingForHistory, onTurnFinished, cancelPendingAdoption } =
-    useChatSession({
-      activeChatId,
-      setActiveChatId,
-      chats,
-      messagesLoading,
-      onInvalidateChatList: () =>
-        queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: AI_CHATS_RQ_KEY }),
-      onInvalidateChatMessages: (id) =>
-        queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: AI_CHAT_MESSAGES_RQ_KEY(id) }),
-    });
+  const {
+    threadKey,
+    waitingForHistory,
+    startFreshThread,
+    onTurnFinished,
+    onServerChatId,
+    cancelPendingAdoption,
+  } = useChatSession({
+    activeChatId,
+    setActiveChatId,
+    chats,
+    messagesLoading,
+    onInvalidateChatList: () =>
+      queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: AI_CHATS_RQ_KEY }),
+    onInvalidateChatMessages: (id) =>
+      queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: AI_CHAT_MESSAGES_RQ_KEY(id) }),
+  });
 
   // startNewChat/selectChat set the public atom; the hook's render-phase
   // reconciler handles the remount when activeChatId actually CHANGES. But
@@ -199,12 +211,25 @@ export default function AiChatWindow() {
   // just-failed chat after they chose a fresh one.
   const startNewChat = useCallback((): void => {
     cancelPendingAdoption();
+    // Force a fresh, empty thread UNCONDITIONALLY (#161). Pressing "New chat"
+    // while a brand-new chat's first turn is still streaming leaves activeChatId
+    // null (the real id is adopted only at turn end), so setActiveChatId(null)
+    // alone is a no-op and the reconciler never remounts — the chat/stream/history
+    // would persist and only the role badge would drop. This always remounts the
+    // thread into a clean new chat.
+    startFreshThread();
     setActiveChatId(null);
     setHistoryOpen(false);
     setDraft("");
     // Default the picker back to "Universal assistant" for the fresh chat.
     setSelectedRoleId(null);
-  }, [cancelPendingAdoption, setActiveChatId, setDraft, setSelectedRoleId]);
+  }, [
+    cancelPendingAdoption,
+    startFreshThread,
+    setActiveChatId,
+    setDraft,
+    setSelectedRoleId,
+  ]);
 
   const selectChat = useCallback(
     (chatId: string): void => {
@@ -219,19 +244,28 @@ export default function AiChatWindow() {
     [cancelPendingAdoption, setActiveChatId, setDraft, setSelectedRoleId],
   );
 
-  // The active chat object (for its title) and an export gate: only enable the
-  // export button when an existing chat with loaded persisted rows is active.
+  // The active chat object (for its title) and an export gate. The export is now
+  // SERVER-sourced (the DB is the single source of truth — #183): the assistant
+  // row is persisted upfront + per step, so even a brand-new chat whose first
+  // turn is streaming/interrupted has a server row to render. Enable the button
+  // whenever a persisted chat is active (`activeChatId` is set). For a BRAND-NEW
+  // chat that id is adopted EARLY — at the stream's `start` chunk via
+  // onServerChatId (#174) — so the Copy button is available during the first
+  // turn's stream, not only after it terminates.
   const activeChat = useMemo(
     () => chats?.items?.find((c) => c.id === activeChatId) ?? null,
     [chats, activeChatId],
   );
-  const canExport = !!activeChatId && !!messageRows && messageRows.length > 0;
+  const canExport = !!activeChatId;
 
   // The role to display in the header and as the assistant's name. Prefer the
   // persisted role of an existing chat (chat-list JOIN); fall back to the role
   // picked via a card click for a brand-new or just-adopted chat. selectChat
   // resets selectedRoleId, so this fallback never leaks into an unrelated chat.
-  const currentRole = useMemo<{ name: string; emoji: string | null } | null>(() => {
+  const currentRole = useMemo<{
+    name: string;
+    emoji: string | null;
+  } | null>(() => {
     if (activeChat?.roleName) {
       return { name: activeChat.roleName, emoji: activeChat.roleEmoji ?? null };
     }
@@ -239,37 +273,21 @@ export default function AiChatWindow() {
     return picked ? { name: picked.name, emoji: picked.emoji } : null;
   }, [activeChat, enabledRoles, selectedRoleId]);
 
-  // Build a Markdown export from the already-loaded persisted rows (no network
-  // call) and copy it to the clipboard. The "Copied" notification is the
-  // feedback.
-  const handleCopy = useCallback(() => {
-    if (!activeChatId || !messageRows || messageRows.length === 0) return;
-    // While the active thread is streaming, the current user message and the
-    // in-progress assistant reply are NOT yet in messageRows (the persisted
-    // query is only refetched after the turn finishes). Pull the live tail —
-    // messages whose id is not among the persisted rows — and append them,
-    // flagging the streaming assistant message as still generating.
-    const live = liveThreadRef.current;
-    const rowIds = new Set(messageRows.map((r) => r.id));
-    const pending = live.isStreaming
-      ? live.messages
-          .filter((m) => !rowIds.has(m.id))
-          .map((m) => ({
-            role: m.role,
-            parts: (m.parts ?? []) as { type: string; text?: string }[],
-            generating: m.role === "assistant",
-          }))
-      : [];
-    const markdown = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: activeChat?.title ?? null,
-      chatId: activeChatId,
-      rows: messageRows,
-      pending,
-      t,
-    });
-    clipboard.copy(markdown);
-    notifications.show({ message: t("Copied") });
-  }, [activeChatId, messageRows, activeChat, clipboard, t]);
+  // Fetch the server-rendered Markdown export and copy it to the clipboard. The
+  // server is the single source of truth (#183): it renders the transcript from
+  // the persisted rows — including an interrupted turn's in-progress row — so the
+  // export is identical whether the chat is freshly streaming, just switched to,
+  // or reloaded. The `lang` of the active i18n drives the few localized labels.
+  const handleCopy = useCallback(async () => {
+    if (!activeChatId) return;
+    try {
+      const markdown = await exportAiChat(activeChatId, i18n.language);
+      clipboard.copy(markdown);
+      notifications.show({ message: t("Copied") });
+    } catch {
+      notifications.show({ message: t("Failed to export chat"), color: "red" });
+    }
+  }, [activeChatId, clipboard, t, i18n.language]);
 
   // Current context size for the active chat: how much the conversation now
   // occupies in the model's context window — NOT the cumulative tokens spent.
@@ -278,24 +296,19 @@ export default function AiChatWindow() {
   // shipped; older rows fall back to that turn's `usage` total. NOTE: reflects
   // PERSISTED rows (updates on chat open/switch); it does not tick live
   // mid-stream — acceptable for v1.
-  const contextTokens = useMemo(() => {
-    if (!activeChatId || !messageRows) return 0;
-    for (let i = messageRows.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
-      const meta = messageRows[i].metadata;
-      if (!meta) continue;
-      if (typeof meta.contextTokens === "number" && meta.contextTokens > 0) {
-        return meta.contextTokens;
-      }
-      const usage = meta.usage;
-      if (usage) {
-        const fallback =
-          usage.totalTokens ??
-          (usage.inputTokens ?? 0) + (usage.outputTokens ?? 0);
-        if (fallback > 0) return fallback;
-      }
-    }
-    return 0;
-  }, [activeChatId, messageRows]);
+  //
+  // The denominator `maxContextTokens` (the model's configured max window) is
+  // derived in the SAME backward scan: it is stamped alongside `contextTokens`
+  // on a completed turn, but the numerator and denominator are taken from the
+  // most recent row carrying EACH value independently — they may land on
+  // different rows (e.g. a fresh error row can carry contextTokens but not
+  // maxContextTokens), so we keep scanning for whichever is still unset. 0 when
+  // no row has it (older rows, or no admin-configured limit) — the badge then
+  // shows just the current size with no denominator.
+  const { contextTokens, maxContextTokens } = useMemo(
+    () => selectContextBadge(activeChatId ? messageRows : undefined),
+    [activeChatId, messageRows],
+  );
 
   // On (re)open, settle the geometry before paint (useLayoutEffect → no
   // first-frame jump): compute an initial top-right placement the first time,
@@ -345,7 +358,8 @@ export default function AiChatWindow() {
       const width = el.offsetWidth;
       const height = el.offsetHeight;
       setGeom((prev) => {
-        if (!prev || (prev.width === width && prev.height === height)) return prev;
+        if (!prev || (prev.width === width && prev.height === height))
+          return prev;
         return { ...prev, width, height };
       });
     });
@@ -485,11 +499,20 @@ export default function AiChatWindow() {
         )}
 
         <div style={{ flex: 1, display: "flex", justifyContent: "center" }}>
-          {contextTokens > 0 && (
-            <Tooltip label={t("Current context size")} withArrow>
-              <span className={classes.badge}>{formatTokens(contextTokens)}</span>
+          {/* Always show the persisted "current / max" context. The denominator
+              (the admin-configured model limit) is appended only when known;
+              not clamped when current > max (shown as-is, e.g. "210k / 200k").
+              Hidden entirely until a turn has recorded a context figure. */}
+          {contextTokens > 0 ? (
+            <Tooltip label={t("Context size / model limit")} withArrow>
+              <span className={classes.badge}>
+                {formatTokens(contextTokens)}
+                {maxContextTokens > 0
+                  ? ` / ${formatTokens(maxContextTokens)}`
+                  : ""}
+              </span>
             </Tooltip>
-          )}
+          ) : null}
         </div>
 
         <div style={{ display: "flex", alignItems: "center", gap: 1 }}>
@@ -501,7 +524,11 @@ export default function AiChatWindow() {
               aria-label={t("Copy chat")}
               onClick={handleCopy}
             >
-              {clipboard.copied ? <IconCheck size={14} /> : <IconCopy size={14} />}
+              {clipboard.copied ? (
+                <IconCheck size={14} />
+              ) : (
+                <IconCopy size={14} />
+              )}
             </button>
           )}
           <button
@@ -596,6 +623,7 @@ export default function AiChatWindow() {
           ) : (
             <ChatThread
               key={threadKey}
+              threadKey={threadKey}
               chatId={activeChatId}
               initialRows={activeChatId ? messageRows : []}
               openPage={openPage}
@@ -607,7 +635,7 @@ export default function AiChatWindow() {
               onRolePicked={(role) => setSelectedRoleId(role.id)}
               assistantName={currentRole?.name}
               onTurnFinished={onTurnFinished}
-              liveStateRef={liveThreadRef}
+              onServerChatId={onServerChatId}
             />
           )}
         </div>

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/ai-chat.module.css

@@ -55,6 +55,45 @@
     padding-inline-start: 1.4em;
 }
 
+/* GFM tables in assistant markdown. The chat lives in a NARROW side panel, so a
+   wide LLM table must scroll horizontally instead of collapsing its columns:
+   `.markdown` sets `word-break: break-word`, which (with the default table
+   layout) shrinks columns to a single glyph and wraps headers mid-word
+   ("Секция" -> "Секци / я"). Make the table a horizontally scrollable block,
+   give cells a readable minimum width, and restore word-boundary wrapping. */
+.markdown table {
+    display: block;
+    /* lets the table scroll horizontally on its own */
+    max-width: 100%;
+    overflow-x: auto;
+    border-collapse: collapse;
+    margin-block-end: 0.5em;
+}
+
+.markdown th,
+.markdown td {
+    border: 1px solid light-dark(var(--mantine-color-gray-3), var(--mantine-color-dark-4));
+    padding: 3px 8px;
+    /* readable floor; the block scrolls when the row exceeds the panel */
+    min-width: 6em;
+    text-align: left;
+    vertical-align: top;
+    /* cancel the inherited break-word so words don't split mid-glyph */
+    word-break: normal;
+    /* still wrap genuinely long words / URLs at the cell edge */
+    overflow-wrap: break-word;
+}
+
+.markdown th {
+    background: light-dark(var(--mantine-color-gray-1), var(--mantine-color-dark-5));
+    font-weight: 600;
+}
+
+/* GFM wraps cell text in <p>; drop its default block margin inside cells. */
+.markdown table p {
+    margin: 0;
+}
+
 /* Animated three-dot "typing" indicator shown while the agent is thinking but
    has not yet produced any visible text/tool parts. */
 .typingDots {
@@ -111,6 +150,28 @@
     background: light-dark(var(--mantine-color-gray-0), var(--mantine-color-dark-6));
 }
 
+/* Collapsible "Thinking" (reasoning) block: a subtle left rule, dimmer than the
+   answer so it reads as secondary thinking context above the real answer. */
+.reasoningBlock {
+    border-left: 2px solid light-dark(var(--mantine-color-gray-3), var(--mantine-color-dark-4));
+    padding-left: 8px;
+}
+
+.reasoningText {
+    margin-top: 4px;
+    font-size: var(--mantine-font-size-xs);
+    color: light-dark(var(--mantine-color-gray-7), var(--mantine-color-dark-1));
+    /* NOTE: `white-space: pre-wrap` is intentionally NOT set here. On the
+       rendered markdown <div> it would turn the newlines between block tags
+       (</li>\n<li>, </p>\n<ol>) into visible blank lines/indents on top of the
+       margins. The plain-text fallback <Text> that needs pre-wrap sets it
+       inline itself (see reasoning-block.tsx). */
+}
+
+.reasoningText p {
+    margin: 0 0 4px;
+}
+
 .inputWrapper {
     flex: 0 0 auto;
     padding-top: var(--mantine-spacing-xs);

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/chat-thread.tsx

@@ -1,11 +1,4 @@
-import {
-  useCallback,
-  useEffect,
-  useMemo,
-  useRef,
-  useState,
-  type MutableRefObject,
-} from "react";
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import { generateId } from "ai";
 import { ActionIcon, Box, Group, Stack, Text } from "@mantine/core";
 import { IconClockHour4, IconX } from "@tabler/icons-react";
@@ -21,6 +14,10 @@ import {
   IAiChatMessageRow,
   IAiRole,
 } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
+import {
+  roleLaunchMessage,
+  shouldResetRolePicked,
+} from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/role-launch.ts";
 import { describeChatError } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/error-message.ts";
 import { extractServerChatId } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/adopt-chat-id.ts";
 import {
@@ -31,6 +28,14 @@ import {
 } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/queue-helpers.ts";
 import classes from "@/features/ai-chat/components/ai-chat.module.css";
 
+// Throttle how often the streamed `messages` state triggers a re-render. Without
+// it, useChat updates state on EVERY token, so the whole transcript's markdown
+// (marked + DOMPurify) is re-parsed per token — on a long agent run that grows
+// into a quadratic CPU storm that pins the main thread and freezes the UI.
+// ~50ms (20 Hz) keeps streaming visually smooth while decoupling re-render cost
+// from the token rate.
+const STREAM_THROTTLE_MS = 50;
+
 /** The page the user is currently viewing, sent as chat context. */
 export interface OpenPageContext {
   id: string;
@@ -40,6 +45,11 @@ export interface OpenPageContext {
 interface ChatThreadProps {
   /** The open chat id, or null for a brand-new (not-yet-created) chat. */
   chatId: string | null;
+  /** This thread's mount key (the same value the parent uses as React `key`).
+   *  Forwarded to onTurnFinished so the session can tell a turn finishing on the
+   *  CURRENT thread from one ABANDONED by New chat mid-stream — whose onFinish/
+   *  onError still fire after unmount and must not adopt the abandoned chat (#161). */
+  threadKey?: string;
   /** Persisted rows to seed initial messages (existing chats only). */
   initialRows?: IAiChatMessageRow[];
   /** The page currently open in the workspace, or null on a non-page route.
@@ -61,14 +71,16 @@ interface ChatThreadProps {
   /** Called when a turn finishes; the parent refreshes the chat list and, for a
    *  new chat, adopts the freshly created chat id. `serverChatId` is the
    *  authoritative id the server streamed on the assistant message metadata, or
-   *  undefined on a failed turn — see adopt-chat-id.ts for the full #137 design. */
-  onTurnFinished: (serverChatId?: string) => void;
-  /** Parent-owned ref that this thread keeps updated with its live useChat
-   *  snapshot (full message list + streaming flag), so the header's
-   *  "Copy chat" export can include the in-progress, not-yet-persisted
-   *  assistant message. A ref (not state) avoids re-rendering the parent on
-   *  every streamed delta. */
-  liveStateRef?: MutableRefObject<{ messages: UIMessage[]; isStreaming: boolean }>;
+   *  undefined on a failed turn — see adopt-chat-id.ts for the full #137 design.
+   *  `finishingThreadKey` (this thread's mount key) lets the session ignore a turn
+   *  finishing on a thread already abandoned by New chat mid-stream (#161). */
+  onTurnFinished: (serverChatId?: string, finishingThreadKey?: string) => void;
+  /** Called EARLY (at the stream's `start` chunk) with the authoritative server
+   *  chat id streamed on the assistant message metadata, so a brand-new chat
+   *  adopts its real id WHILE the first turn is still streaming (#174 — makes the
+   *  Copy/export button available mid-stream). Distinct from onTurnFinished,
+   *  which fires only at the terminal outcome. */
+  onServerChatId?: (serverChatId?: string) => void;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -105,6 +117,7 @@ function rowToUiMessage(row: IAiChatMessageRow): UIMessage {
  */
 export default function ChatThread({
   chatId,
+  threadKey,
   initialRows,
   openPage,
   roleId,
@@ -112,7 +125,7 @@ export default function ChatThread({
   onRolePicked,
   assistantName,
   onTurnFinished,
-  liveStateRef,
+  onServerChatId,
 }: ChatThreadProps) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
 
@@ -241,6 +254,8 @@ export default function ChatThread({
     id: chatStoreId,
     messages: initialMessages,
     transport,
+    // See STREAM_THROTTLE_MS — bounds re-render/markdown-reparse frequency.
+    experimental_throttle: STREAM_THROTTLE_MS,
     // `onFinish` (ai@6 useChat) fires from a `finally` on EVERY terminal outcome
     // — success, user Stop/abort (`isAbort`), network drop (`isDisconnect`), and
     // stream error (`isError`). Keep calling `onTurnFinished()` on all of them
@@ -252,8 +267,10 @@ export default function ChatThread({
     onFinish: ({ message, isAbort, isDisconnect, isError }) => {
       // Forward the authoritative server chatId (streamed on the assistant
       // message metadata) so the parent adopts the REAL created chat id for a new
-      // chat — see adopt-chat-id.ts for the full #137 design.
-      onTurnFinished(extractServerChatId(message));
+      // chat — see adopt-chat-id.ts for the full #137 design. `threadKey` lets the
+      // session ignore this finish if it belongs to a thread abandoned by New chat
+      // mid-stream (#161).
+      onTurnFinished(extractServerChatId(message), threadKey);
       // Show a neutral "stopped" marker for an aborted turn; the red error banner
       // (via `error`) already covers isError, and a clean finish clears any marker.
       if (isError) setStopNotice(null);
@@ -274,13 +291,33 @@ export default function ChatThread({
       // Surface the raw failure in the browser console (devtools) for debugging;
       // the UI separately shows a friendly classified banner (see errorView).
       console.error("AI chat stream error:", streamError);
-      onTurnFinished();
+      onTurnFinished(undefined, threadKey);
     },
   });
 
   // Keep the flush helper pointed at the latest sendMessage instance.
   sendMessageRef.current = sendMessage;
 
+  // EARLY chat-id adoption (#174): the server streams the authoritative chat id
+  // on the assistant message metadata at the `start` chunk (message.metadata.
+  // chatId — see adopt-chat-id.ts / chatStreamMetadata). Forward it to the parent
+  // AS SOON AS it appears (mid-stream), so a brand-new chat adopts its real id
+  // WHILE the first turn is still streaming and activeChatId-gated affordances
+  // (the Copy/export button) light up immediately, instead of only at onFinish.
+  // Keyed by the last-seen id so we forward each distinct id exactly once. The
+  // parent's onServerChatId is idempotent and a no-op once the chat has an id.
+  const lastForwardedChatIdRef = useRef<string | undefined>(undefined);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!onServerChatId) return;
+    const tail = messages[messages.length - 1];
+    if (tail?.role !== "assistant") return;
+    const serverChatId = extractServerChatId(tail);
+    if (!serverChatId || serverChatId === lastForwardedChatIdRef.current)
+      return;
+    lastForwardedChatIdRef.current = serverChatId;
+    onServerChatId(serverChatId);
+  }, [messages, onServerChatId]);
+
   // Live "turn was interrupted" marker for the CURRENT session. The red error
   // banner (driven by `error`) covers the error case; this covers an aborted
   // turn, distinguishing a manual Stop (`isAbort`) from a dropped connection
@@ -297,34 +334,51 @@ export default function ChatThread({
     if (isStreaming) setStopNotice(null);
   }, [isStreaming]);
 
-  // Mirror the live useChat snapshot into the parent-owned ref so the export
-  // (handled in AiChatWindow) can include the in-progress streaming turn. The
-  // cleanup clears the ref on unmount so a thread torn down by `key` on chat
-  // switch can't leak its (possibly still-streaming) tail into the next chat's
-  // export before the new thread's effect repopulates the ref.
-  useEffect(() => {
-    if (!liveStateRef) return;
-    liveStateRef.current = { messages, isStreaming };
-    return () => {
-      liveStateRef.current = { messages: [], isStreaming: false };
-    };
-  }, [liveStateRef, messages, isStreaming]);
-
   // Classify the turn error into a heading + detail so the banner names the cause
   // (connection reset, timeout, rate limit, context overflow, quota, ...) instead
-  // of a generic "Something went wrong".
+  // of a generic "Something went wrong". Computed here (not only in the JSX) so
+  // the SAME on-screen banner text can be mirrored into the export (issue #160).
   const errorView = error ? describeChatError(error.message ?? "", t) : null;
 
-  // Clicking a role card both binds the role to THIS new chat and immediately
-  // starts the conversation. roleIdRef is set synchronously here because the
-  // parent's selectedRoleId state update would only reach roleIdRef on the next
-  // render — after this synchronous sendMessage has already read it.
+  // A role was picked with autoStart=false: the role is bound but NOTHING was
+  // sent, so chatId stays null and the empty state would keep showing the cards.
+  // This flag hides the cards and reveals the composer (with the role indicated)
+  // so the user can type the first message themselves. roleIdRef is already set,
+  // so that first manual message carries the roleId.
+  const [rolePickedNoSend, setRolePickedNoSend] = useState(false);
+
+  // Clicking a role card always binds the role to THIS new chat. Whether it also
+  // auto-starts the conversation is per-role (autoStart). roleIdRef is set
+  // synchronously here because the parent's selectedRoleId state update would
+  // only reach roleIdRef on the next render — after this synchronous sendMessage
+  // has already read it.
   const handleRolePick = (role: IAiRole): void => {
     roleIdRef.current = role.id;
     onRolePicked?.(role);
-    sendMessage({ text: t("Take a look at the current document") });
+    const launch = roleLaunchMessage(
+      role,
+      t("Take a look at the current document"),
+    );
+    if (launch !== null) {
+      sendMessage({ text: launch });
+    } else {
+      // autoStart=false -> bind only: hide the cards, show the composer.
+      setRolePickedNoSend(true);
+    }
   };
-  const showRoleCards = chatId === null && (roles?.length ?? 0) > 0;
+  // Reset the "picked, not sent" flag when the thread returns to a truly empty,
+  // role-less state — e.g. the user hit "New chat" after picking an autoStart=false
+  // role. That path clears the parent's selectedRoleId (roleId -> null) but leaves
+  // chatId null, so the thread never remounts and the flag would stay set, hiding
+  // the cards forever. A picked-and-bound role keeps roleId non-null, so the cards
+  // correctly stay hidden then. Render-phase reset (React "adjust state on prop
+  // change"): one-shot — it re-renders with the flag false and the guard no longer
+  // matches, so it cannot loop. (Review of #149.)
+  if (shouldResetRolePicked(chatId, roleId, rolePickedNoSend)) {
+    setRolePickedNoSend(false);
+  }
+  const showRoleCards =
+    chatId === null && (roles?.length ?? 0) > 0 && !rolePickedNoSend;
   const roleCardsEmptyState = showRoleCards ? (
     <RoleCards roles={roles ?? []} onPick={handleRolePick} />
   ) : undefined;

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/message-item-memo.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { render } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { MantineProvider } from "@mantine/core";
+import type { UIMessage } from "@ai-sdk/react";
+
+// Stub react-i18next (the component reads `useTranslation`). Mirrors the stub in
+// reasoning-block.test.tsx.
+vi.mock("react-i18next", () => ({
+  useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key }),
+}));
+
+// Spy on `renderChatMarkdown` so we can count parse calls per text. We keep every
+// OTHER named export of markdown.ts intact via `importActual`, and override only
+// `renderChatMarkdown` with a `vi.fn()` that returns simple HTML so the component
+// still renders. This is the seam that proves the MarkdownPart memo works: a
+// finalized text part must NOT be re-parsed on a later streamed delta.
+// `vi.hoisted` so the spy exists when the hoisted `vi.mock` factory runs.
+const { renderChatMarkdownSpy } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  renderChatMarkdownSpy: vi.fn((text: string) => `<p>${text}</p>`),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/features/ai-chat/utils/markdown.ts", async () => {
+  const actual = await vi.importActual<
+    typeof import("@/features/ai-chat/utils/markdown.ts")
+  >("@/features/ai-chat/utils/markdown.ts");
+  return { ...actual, renderChatMarkdown: renderChatMarkdownSpy };
+});
+
+import MessageItem from "./message-item";
+
+// matchMedia (read by MantineProvider) is stubbed globally in vitest.setup.ts.
+
+const msg = (parts: UIMessage["parts"]): UIMessage =>
+  ({ id: "m1", role: "assistant", parts }) as UIMessage;
+
+const renderRow = (message: UIMessage) =>
+  render(
+    <MantineProvider>
+      <MessageItem message={message} />
+    </MantineProvider>,
+  );
+
+/** Count how many spy calls parsed exactly `text` (filtering by the first arg). */
+const callsFor = (text: string) =>
+  renderChatMarkdownSpy.mock.calls.filter((c) => c[0] === text).length;
+
+describe("MessageItem markdown memoization", () => {
+  it("does not re-parse finalized text parts when only a tail part grows", () => {
+    renderChatMarkdownSpy.mockClear();
+
+    // Two finalized text parts.
+    const first = msg([
+      { type: "text", text: "alpha" },
+      { type: "text", text: "beta" },
+    ]);
+    const { rerender } = renderRow(first);
+
+    // Both finalized parts parsed exactly once on the initial render.
+    expect(callsFor("alpha")).toBe(1);
+    expect(callsFor("beta")).toBe(1);
+
+    // A streamed delta: a NEW message object where only a third tail part grows;
+    // the first two parts' text is byte-identical.
+    const next = msg([
+      { type: "text", text: "alpha" },
+      { type: "text", text: "beta" },
+      { type: "text", text: "gamm" },
+    ]);
+    rerender(
+      <MantineProvider>
+        <MessageItem message={next} />
+      </MantineProvider>,
+    );
+
+    // The finalized parts hit the MarkdownPart memo: still parsed at most once
+    // each across BOTH renders (the resilient invariant). The only new parse is
+    // for the changed/added tail part.
+    expect(callsFor("alpha")).toBe(1);
+    expect(callsFor("beta")).toBe(1);
+    expect(callsFor("gamm")).toBe(1);
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/message-item.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import type { UIMessage } from "@ai-sdk/react";
+
+// Stub react-i18next: importing the component module pulls in `useTranslation`,
+// and we only exercise the pure `arePropsEqual` comparator (no rendering), so a
+// minimal `t` that echoes the key is enough. Mirrors the stub in
+// reasoning-block.test.tsx.
+vi.mock("react-i18next", () => ({
+  useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key }),
+}));
+
+import { arePropsEqual } from "./message-item";
+
+/**
+ * Tests for `arePropsEqual`, the `React.memo` comparator for MessageItem. It must
+ * return false on any visible prop/content change (so the row re-renders) and
+ * true when nothing visible changed (so a finalized row is skipped). A FIXED
+ * message id is used so a content-identical clone yields an equal signature.
+ */
+const msg = (parts: UIMessage["parts"]): UIMessage =>
+  ({ id: "m1", role: "assistant", parts }) as UIMessage;
+
+const props = (
+  message: UIMessage,
+  over: Record<string, unknown> = {},
+) => ({
+  message,
+  showCitations: true,
+  neutralizeInternalLinks: false,
+  assistantName: "AI",
+  ...over,
+});
+
+describe("arePropsEqual", () => {
+  it("returns false when showCitations differs", () => {
+    const m = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }]);
+    expect(
+      arePropsEqual(props(m), props(m, { showCitations: false })),
+    ).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("returns false when neutralizeInternalLinks differs", () => {
+    const m = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }]);
+    expect(
+      arePropsEqual(props(m), props(m, { neutralizeInternalLinks: true })),
+    ).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("returns false when assistantName differs", () => {
+    const m = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }]);
+    expect(
+      arePropsEqual(props(m), props(m, { assistantName: "Other" })),
+    ).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("returns true on the identity fast path (same message object, equal props)", () => {
+    const m = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }]);
+    expect(arePropsEqual(props(m), props(m))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("returns true for the same content in a different message object", () => {
+    const a = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }]);
+    const b = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }]);
+    expect(a).not.toBe(b);
+    expect(arePropsEqual(props(a), props(b))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("returns false when content changed in a different message object", () => {
+    const a = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }]);
+    const b = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer grown" }]);
+    expect(arePropsEqual(props(a), props(b))).toBe(false);
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/message-item.tsx

@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
+import { memo } from "react";
 import { Box, Text } from "@mantine/core";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import type { UIMessage } from "@ai-sdk/react";
 import ToolCallCard from "@/features/ai-chat/components/tool-call-card.tsx";
+import ReasoningBlock from "@/features/ai-chat/components/reasoning-block.tsx";
 import ChatErrorAlert from "@/features/ai-chat/components/chat-error-alert.tsx";
 import ChatStoppedNotice from "@/features/ai-chat/components/chat-stopped-notice.tsx";
 import { ToolUiPart, isToolPart } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/tool-parts.tsx";
 import { assistantMessageHasVisibleContent } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/message-content.ts";
 import { renderChatMarkdown } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/markdown.ts";
 import { resolveAssistantName } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/assistant-name.ts";
+import { reasoningTokensForPart } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/reasoning-tokens.ts";
+import { messageSignature } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/message-signature.ts";
 import { describeChatError } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/error-message.ts";
 import classes from "@/features/ai-chat/components/ai-chat.module.css";
 
@@ -32,6 +36,39 @@ interface MessageItemProps {
   assistantName?: string;
 }
 
+/**
+ * One assistant text part rendered as sanitized markdown. Memoized on its inputs
+ * so a finalized text part is NOT re-parsed on every streamed delta: during a
+ * turn only the actively-growing tail part changes its `text`, so every earlier
+ * part hits the memo and skips the expensive marked + DOMPurify pass. Props are
+ * primitives, so React.memo's default shallow compare is exactly right (the
+ * `text` string is compared by value).
+ */
+const MarkdownPart = memo(function MarkdownPart({
+  text,
+  neutralizeInternalLinks,
+}: {
+  text: string;
+  neutralizeInternalLinks: boolean;
+}) {
+  const html = renderChatMarkdown(text, { neutralizeInternalLinks });
+  if (html) {
+    return (
+      <div
+        className={classes.markdown}
+        // Sanitized by renderChatMarkdown (DOMPurify) before insertion.
+        dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: html }}
+      />
+    );
+  }
+  // Fallback when markdown could not render synchronously: raw text.
+  return (
+    <Text className={classes.markdown} style={{ whiteSpace: "pre-wrap" }}>
+      {text}
+    </Text>
+  );
+});
+
 /**
  * Render a single UIMessage by iterating its `parts`:
  *  - `text` parts -> sanitized markdown.
@@ -39,12 +76,13 @@ interface MessageItemProps {
  * Other part kinds (reasoning, sources, files, step-start) are ignored for v1.
  * User messages render their text as a right-aligned plain bubble.
  *
- * This component is intentionally NOT memoized: `useChat` replaces the streaming
- * assistant message with a freshly cloned object on every streamed delta, so the
- * `message` prop identity (and its `parts`) changes each tick. Re-rendering the
- * text parts on each delta is what makes the answer stream in progressively.
+ * This component is memoized (see `arePropsEqual` at the bottom) on a cheap
+ * per-message content signature: the streaming TAIL message's signature changes
+ * on each delta so it still re-renders and streams in, while finalized rows are
+ * skipped. Each text part's markdown is itself memoized via `MarkdownPart`, so a
+ * long turn no longer re-parses the whole transcript on every token.
  */
-export default function MessageItem({
+function MessageItem({
   message,
   showCitations = true,
   neutralizeInternalLinks = false,
@@ -77,35 +115,42 @@ export default function MessageItem({
   // return won't fire for them.
   if (!assistantMessageHasVisibleContent(message)) return null;
 
+  // Authoritative reasoning token count to attribute to a reasoning block, or
+  // undefined when the block must estimate on its own. See reasoningTokensForPart
+  // for the #151 anti-double-count rule (only a single reasoning part may carry
+  // the turn total). The authoritative turn total is still surfaced live in the
+  // header badge regardless.
+  const reasoningTokens = reasoningTokensForPart(message);
+
   return (
     <Box className={classes.messageRow}>
       <Text size="xs" c="dimmed" mb={4}>
         {resolveAssistantName(assistantName) ?? t("AI agent")}
       </Text>
       {message.parts.map((part, index) => {
+        if (part.type === "reasoning") {
+          // Reasoning ("thinking") -> a collapsible block with its own token
+          // count. Empty/whitespace reasoning with no authoritative count carries
+          // nothing to show, so skip it (avoids an empty 0-token block).
+          const text = (part as { text?: string }).text ?? "";
+          if (!text.trim() && !(reasoningTokens && reasoningTokens > 0))
+            return null;
+          return (
+            <ReasoningBlock key={index} text={text} tokens={reasoningTokens} />
+          );
+        }
+
         if (part.type === "text") {
           // Skip empty/whitespace-only text parts (a streaming message often
           // starts with an empty text part before the first token arrives); the
           // typing indicator covers that gap until real content streams in.
           if (!part.text.trim()) return null;
-          const html = renderChatMarkdown(part.text, {
-            neutralizeInternalLinks,
-          });
-          if (html) {
-            return (
-              <div
-                key={index}
-                className={classes.markdown}
-                // Sanitized by renderChatMarkdown (DOMPurify) before insertion.
-                dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: html }}
-              />
-            );
-          }
-          // Fallback when markdown could not render synchronously: raw text.
           return (
-            <Text key={index} className={classes.markdown} style={{ whiteSpace: "pre-wrap" }}>
-              {part.text}
-            </Text>
+            <MarkdownPart
+              key={index}
+              text={part.text}
+              neutralizeInternalLinks={neutralizeInternalLinks}
+            />
           );
         }
 
@@ -156,3 +201,26 @@ export default function MessageItem({
     </Box>
   );
 }
+
+/** Skip re-rendering a message whose visible content is unchanged. The streaming
+ *  TAIL message gets a fresh object whose signature changes each delta, so it
+ *  still re-renders and streams in; every FINALIZED message is skipped, turning a
+ *  per-token whole-transcript re-render into a tail-only one. */
+export function arePropsEqual(
+  prev: MessageItemProps,
+  next: MessageItemProps,
+): boolean {
+  if (
+    prev.showCitations !== next.showCitations ||
+    prev.neutralizeInternalLinks !== next.neutralizeInternalLinks ||
+    prev.assistantName !== next.assistantName
+  ) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  // Fast path: identical message object (finalized rows keep their identity
+  // across deltas) — skip without building signatures.
+  if (prev.message === next.message) return true;
+  return messageSignature(prev.message) === messageSignature(next.message);
+}
+
+export default memo(MessageItem, arePropsEqual);

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/message-list.tsx

@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ const BOTTOM_THRESHOLD = 40;
  * assistant message's LAST part is not live output:
  *  - the last message is still the user's (assistant hasn't started a row), or
  *  - the assistant row has no parts yet, or
- *  - its last part is an empty/whitespace text part, or
+ *  - its last part is an empty/whitespace text part, or a finished ("done")
+ *    text part while the turn continues (the model paused after some narration
+ *    and is thinking about its next step), or
  *  - its last part is a finished/errored tool (the model is thinking about the
  *    next step between tool calls).
  * It hides only while output is actively rendering: a non-empty streaming text
@@ -64,7 +66,19 @@ export function showTypingIndicator(messages: UIMessage[], isStreaming: boolean)
   const lastPart = last.parts[last.parts.length - 1];
   if (!lastPart) return true; // assistant row exists but has no parts yet.
   // The answer text is actively streaming in -> MessageItem renders it; no dots.
-  if (lastPart.type === "text" && lastPart.text.trim().length > 0) return false;
+  // Only while it is STILL streaming, though: once a non-empty text part is
+  // finalized ("done") but the turn is still in flight, the model has paused
+  // after some narration and is working on its next step (e.g. about to call a
+  // tool) — nothing is visibly progressing, so the dots must show. A text part
+  // without a `state` is treated as still-rendering (kept suppressed); this
+  // branch only runs while streaming, where live parts always carry a state.
+  if (
+    lastPart.type === "text" &&
+    lastPart.text.trim().length > 0 &&
+    (lastPart as { state?: "streaming" | "done" }).state !== "done"
+  ) {
+    return false;
+  }
   // A tool still in flight shows its own Loader in ToolCallCard -> no dots.
   if (
     isToolPart(lastPart.type) &&
@@ -190,7 +204,12 @@ export default function MessageList({
             assistantName={assistantName}
           />
         ))}
-        {typing && <TypingIndicator assistantName={assistantName} showName={typingIndicatorShowsName(messages)} />}
+        {typing && (
+          <TypingIndicator
+            assistantName={assistantName}
+            showName={typingIndicatorShowsName(messages)}
+          />
+        )}
       </Stack>
     </ScrollArea>
   );

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/reasoning-block.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { MantineProvider } from "@mantine/core";
+
+// Stub react-i18next so `t` returns the key with `{{count}}` interpolated. This
+// keeps the assertions on the component's OWN count logic (authoritative vs
+// estimate) rather than on translation, and mirrors the t-mock pattern used by
+// other component tests in the repo.
+vi.mock("react-i18next", () => ({
+  useTranslation: () => ({
+    t: (key: string, opts?: { count?: number }) =>
+      opts && typeof opts.count === "number"
+        ? key.replace("{{count}}", String(opts.count))
+        : key,
+  }),
+}));
+
+import ReasoningBlock from "./reasoning-block";
+import { estimateTokens } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/count-stream-tokens.ts";
+
+// matchMedia (read by MantineProvider) is stubbed globally in vitest.setup.ts.
+
+function renderBlock(props: { text: string; tokens?: number }) {
+  return render(
+    <MantineProvider>
+      <ReasoningBlock {...props} />
+    </MantineProvider>,
+  );
+}
+
+describe("ReasoningBlock", () => {
+  it("shows the authoritative count in the header when tokens > 0", () => {
+    // Text "thinking…" estimates to ceil(9/4) = 3, but the authoritative 42
+    // must win, so the header shows 42 (and NOT the 3-token estimate).
+    renderBlock({ text: "thinking…", tokens: 42 });
+    expect(screen.getByText("Thinking · 42 tokens")).toBeDefined();
+    expect(screen.queryByText("Thinking · 3 tokens")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to the text-length estimate when no authoritative tokens", () => {
+    const text = "some reasoning prose that streams in";
+    const estimate = estimateTokens(text);
+    renderBlock({ text });
+    expect(estimate).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(screen.getByText(new RegExp(`${estimate} tokens`))).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it("header-only when text is empty but an authoritative count is present", () => {
+    renderBlock({ text: "", tokens: 17 });
+    expect(screen.getByText(/17 tokens/)).toBeDefined();
+    // No disclosure body to expand: the toggle button is disabled.
+    const button = screen.getByRole("button");
+    expect((button as HTMLButtonElement).disabled).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("renders the reasoning body (markdown or raw-text fallback)", () => {
+    renderBlock({ text: "**bold** reasoning", tokens: 5 });
+    // The toggle is enabled because there IS body text to expand.
+    const button = screen.getByRole("button");
+    expect((button as HTMLButtonElement).disabled).toBe(false);
+    // The body prose renders (markdown -> sanitized html, or raw-text fallback);
+    // either way the text is present in the document.
+    expect(screen.getByText(/reasoning/)).toBeDefined();
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/reasoning-block.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+import { memo, useMemo, useState } from "react";
+import { Box, Collapse, Group, Text, UnstyledButton } from "@mantine/core";
+import { IconChevronDown } from "@tabler/icons-react";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+import { estimateTokens } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/count-stream-tokens.ts";
+import { collapseBlankLines } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/collapse-blank-lines.ts";
+import { renderChatMarkdown } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/markdown.ts";
+import classes from "@/features/ai-chat/components/ai-chat.module.css";
+
+interface ReasoningBlockProps {
+  /** The streamed/persisted reasoning (thinking) text. May be empty when the
+   *  provider reports only a reasoning token COUNT without the text. */
+  text: string;
+  /** Authoritative reasoning token count from `usage.reasoningTokens`, when the
+   *  step/turn has finished. When absent (or 0) the count is estimated from the
+   *  text length so it ticks live as the reasoning streams in. */
+  tokens?: number;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Collapsible "Thinking" block for an assistant `reasoning` part. Mirrors Claude
+ * Code's surfacing of the model's thinking: a header that shows the thinking
+ * token count (authoritative when the step has reported usage, else a live
+ * estimate from the streamed text) and an expandable body with the reasoning
+ * prose. Collapsed by default so it never crowds out the answer.
+ *
+ * Providers that don't stream reasoning TEXT still render this block from the
+ * authoritative count alone (header only, empty body) so the cost is visible.
+ */
+function ReasoningBlock({ text, tokens }: ReasoningBlockProps) {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+
+  // Authoritative count wins; otherwise estimate live from the streamed text.
+  const count = tokens && tokens > 0 ? tokens : estimateTokens(text);
+  const trimmed = text.trim();
+  // Memoize the markdown render so toggling `open` (or a parent re-render caused
+  // by an unrelated streamed delta) does not re-parse the reasoning text; it
+  // recomputes only when the reasoning text itself changes (while it streams in).
+  // collapseBlankLines collapses the blank-line gaps the model emits between every
+  // list item / paragraph so the reasoning renders compactly (tight lists, joined
+  // paragraphs) — ONLY here, not in the normal answer.
+  const html = useMemo(
+    () => (trimmed ? renderChatMarkdown(collapseBlankLines(trimmed), {}) : ""),
+    [trimmed],
+  );
+
+  return (
+    <Box className={classes.reasoningBlock} mb={6}>
+      <UnstyledButton
+        onClick={() => setOpen((o) => !o)}
+        // No body to expand when the provider reported only a token count.
+        disabled={!trimmed}
+        aria-expanded={open}
+      >
+        <Group gap={6} wrap="nowrap" align="center">
+          <IconChevronDown
+            size={12}
+            style={{
+              transform: open ? "none" : "rotate(-90deg)",
+              transition: "transform 150ms ease",
+              opacity: trimmed ? 1 : 0.4,
+            }}
+          />
+          <Text size="xs" c="dimmed">
+            {count > 0
+              ? t("Thinking · {{count}} tokens", { count })
+              : t("Thinking")}
+          </Text>
+        </Group>
+      </UnstyledButton>
+
+      {trimmed && (
+        <Collapse in={open}>
+          {html ? (
+            <div
+              className={classes.reasoningText}
+              // Sanitized by renderChatMarkdown (DOMPurify) before insertion.
+              dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: html }}
+            />
+          ) : (
+            <Text
+              className={classes.reasoningText}
+              style={{ whiteSpace: "pre-wrap" }}
+            >
+              {trimmed}
+            </Text>
+          )}
+        </Collapse>
+      )}
+    </Box>
+  );
+}
+
+// Memoized: re-renders only when `text`/`tokens` change (primitive props, default
+// shallow compare), so a parent re-render during streaming of OTHER content does
+// not re-run the markdown parse for an already-finalized reasoning block.
+export default memo(ReasoningBlock);

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/role-cards.test.tsx

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ const roles: IAiRole[] = [
     emoji: "🏴‍☠️",
     description: "Talks like a pirate",
     enabled: true,
+    autoStart: true,
+    launchMessage: null,
   },
   {
     id: "r2",
@@ -20,6 +22,8 @@ const roles: IAiRole[] = [
     emoji: null,
     description: null,
     enabled: true,
+    autoStart: true,
+    launchMessage: null,
   },
 ];
 

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/show-typing-indicator.test.ts

@@ -82,4 +82,14 @@ describe("showTypingIndicator", () => {
       showTypingIndicator([msg("assistant", [doneTool, text])], true),
     ).toBe(false);
   });
+
+  it("shows while streaming after a text part is finalized (paused before the next step)", () => {
+    const doneText = { type: "text", text: "Now creating the page in", state: "done" } as unknown as UIMessage["parts"][number];
+    expect(showTypingIndicator([msg("assistant", [doneText])], true)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("hides while a text part is actively streaming (state: streaming)", () => {
+    const streamingText = { type: "text", text: "Now writ", state: "streaming" } as unknown as UIMessage["parts"][number];
+    expect(showTypingIndicator([msg("assistant", [streamingText])], true)).toBe(false);
+  });
 });

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/components/typing-indicator.tsx

@@ -26,9 +26,8 @@ interface TypingIndicatorProps {
  *
  * Mirrors the assistant row layout in MessageItem (the dimmed label), so it reads
  * as the assistant's bubble taking shape. The dimmed label uses the configured
- * identity name when provided (otherwise the generic "AI agent"), while the
- * typing line is always the generic "Thinking…" (it never includes the
- * role/identity name).
+ * identity name when provided (otherwise the generic "AI agent"); below it the
+ * animated dots stand in for the nascent bubble until content arrives.
  */
 export default function TypingIndicator({ assistantName, showName = true }: TypingIndicatorProps) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
@@ -37,7 +36,10 @@ export default function TypingIndicator({ assistantName, showName = true }: Typi
   return (
     <Box className={classes.messageRow}>
       {showName !== false && (
-        <Text size="xs" c="dimmed" mb={4}>
+        // Extra bottom gap (vs MessageItem's mb={4}) gives the small bouncing
+        // dots room below the name label; without it they crowd the label. Only
+        // applies when the name is shown — the nameless case spaces fine on its own.
+        <Text size="xs" c="dimmed" mb={8}>
           {name ?? t("AI agent")}
         </Text>
       )}
@@ -47,9 +49,6 @@ export default function TypingIndicator({ assistantName, showName = true }: Typi
           <span />
           <span />
         </span>
-        <Text size="sm" c="dimmed">
-          {t("Thinking…")}
-        </Text>
       </Group>
     </Box>
   );

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/hooks/use-chat-session.test.tsx

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from "vitest";
-import { renderHook } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { renderHook, act } from "@testing-library/react";
 import { useChatSession } from "./use-chat-session";
 import type { UseChatSessionOptions } from "./use-chat-session";
 
@@ -64,7 +64,10 @@ describe("useChatSession", () => {
     result.current.onTurnFinished(undefined);
     expect(setActiveChatId).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     // The refetch lands with the new row => adopt it.
-    rerender({ activeChatId: null, chats: { items: [{ id: "x" }, { id: "new" }] } });
+    rerender({
+      activeChatId: null,
+      chats: { items: [{ id: "x" }, { id: "new" }] },
+    });
     expect(setActiveChatId).toHaveBeenCalledWith("new");
   });
 
@@ -88,7 +91,10 @@ describe("useChatSession", () => {
     });
     result.current.onTurnFinished(undefined);
     // a was deleted, new was added — same length, but membership changed.
-    rerender({ activeChatId: null, chats: { items: [{ id: "b" }, { id: "new" }] } });
+    rerender({
+      activeChatId: null,
+      chats: { items: [{ id: "b" }, { id: "new" }] },
+    });
     expect(setActiveChatId).toHaveBeenCalledWith("new");
   });
 
@@ -171,6 +177,40 @@ describe("useChatSession", () => {
     expect(setActiveChatId).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith("late");
   });
 
+  it("#174 early adopt: onServerChatId adopts the streamed id mid-stream (Copy button available during the first turn)", () => {
+    // Brand-new chat: no id yet. The server streams the real chat id "A" on the
+    // `start` chunk WHILE the first turn is still streaming (before onTurnFinished
+    // fires at the terminal outcome). The hook must adopt it immediately so the
+    // window's activeChatId-gated Copy/export button lights up during the stream.
+    const { result, setActiveChatId } = setup({
+      activeChatId: null,
+      chats: { items: [] },
+    });
+    result.current.onServerChatId("A");
+    expect(setActiveChatId).toHaveBeenCalledWith("A");
+  });
+
+  it("#174 early adopt is in-place: threadKey stays stable (live stream not torn down)", () => {
+    const chats = { items: [] };
+    const { result, rerender } = setup({ activeChatId: null, chats });
+    const keyBefore = result.current.threadKey;
+    result.current.onServerChatId("A");
+    // Parent reflects the adopted id back in; the SAME mount key is kept so the
+    // in-flight useChat store (the streaming turn) is preserved.
+    rerender({ activeChatId: "A", chats });
+    expect(result.current.threadKey).toBe(keyBefore);
+  });
+
+  it("#174 early adopt: no-op for an existing chat and for a missing id", () => {
+    const { result, setActiveChatId } = setup({
+      activeChatId: "chat-1",
+      chats: { items: [{ id: "chat-1" }] },
+    });
+    result.current.onServerChatId("chat-1"); // already has an id
+    result.current.onServerChatId(undefined); // no streamed id
+    expect(setActiveChatId).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
   it("in-place adopt keeps threadKey stable; an external switch remounts", () => {
     const chats = { items: [{ id: "B" }] };
     const { result, rerender } = setup({ activeChatId: null, chats });
@@ -187,6 +227,50 @@ describe("useChatSession", () => {
     expect(result.current.threadKey).toBe("C");
   });
 
+  it("#161: New chat during a streaming first turn forces a fresh thread (remount), not just a no-op", () => {
+    // Brand-new chat whose first turn is still streaming: the id is adopted only
+    // at turn end, so activeChatId AND thread.chatId are both null. Pressing "New
+    // chat" must still remount to a clean thread even though the atom is unchanged
+    // — the render-phase reconciler (null === null) would otherwise do nothing,
+    // leaving the old chat/stream/history in place (the bug: only the role badge
+    // dropped).
+    const { result } = setup({ activeChatId: null, chats: { items: [] } });
+    const keyBefore = result.current.threadKey;
+    act(() => result.current.startFreshThread());
+    expect(result.current.threadKey).not.toBe(keyBefore);
+  });
+
+  it("#161: an abandoned thread's late onTurnFinished does NOT adopt its chat (thread-aware guard)", () => {
+    // New chat mid-stream remounts to a fresh thread, but @ai-sdk/react does not
+    // abort the abandoned stream on unmount: its onFinish still fires later with
+    // the real server id, tagged with the OLD (abandoned) mount key. That must not
+    // adopt — it would yank the user back into the chat they just left.
+    const { result, setActiveChatId, onInvalidateChatList } = setup({
+      activeChatId: null,
+      chats: { items: [] },
+    });
+    const abandonedKey = result.current.threadKey;
+    act(() => result.current.startFreshThread());
+    expect(result.current.threadKey).not.toBe(abandonedKey);
+    // The abandoned turn finishes in the background, streaming its real id "A".
+    result.current.onTurnFinished("A", abandonedKey);
+    expect(setActiveChatId).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith("A");
+    // It still refreshes the chat list so the left-behind chat shows in history.
+    expect(onInvalidateChatList).toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("#161: a turn finishing on the CURRENT thread still adopts (guard is key-scoped, not blanket)", () => {
+    // The happy path must keep working: onTurnFinished tagged with the mounted
+    // thread's own key adopts in place as before.
+    const { result, setActiveChatId } = setup({
+      activeChatId: null,
+      chats: { items: [] },
+    });
+    const currentKey = result.current.threadKey;
+    result.current.onTurnFinished("A", currentKey);
+    expect(setActiveChatId).toHaveBeenCalledWith("A");
+  });
+
   it("waitingForHistory gates the loader only while opening an unloaded existing chat", () => {
     // Open an existing chat whose history is still loading => loader on.
     const { result, rerender } = setup({

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/hooks/use-chat-session.ts

@@ -31,9 +31,26 @@ export interface UseChatSessionResult {
   threadKey: string;
   /** Show the history loader instead of the live thread. */
   waitingForHistory: boolean;
+  /** Force a brand-new, empty thread (new mount key, no chat id) UNCONDITIONALLY,
+   *  even when `activeChatId` is unchanged. The window calls this from
+   *  startNewChat so "New chat" pressed WHILE a brand-new chat's first turn is
+   *  still streaming (activeChatId still null, nothing to diverge) actually
+   *  resets the chat instead of only dropping the role badge (#161). */
+  startFreshThread: () => void;
   /** Call when a turn finishes; `serverChatId` is the authoritative streamed id
-   *  (undefined on a failed turn). Handles new-chat id adoption + invalidations. */
-  onTurnFinished: (serverChatId?: string) => void;
+   *  (undefined on a failed turn). `finishingThreadKey` is the mount key of the
+   *  thread that produced the turn (omit => "current thread", back-compatible):
+   *  a turn ABANDONED by New chat mid-stream still fires this after its thread
+   *  unmounted, so adoption is gated to the still-mounted thread (#161). Handles
+   *  new-chat id adoption + invalidations. */
+  onTurnFinished: (serverChatId?: string, finishingThreadKey?: string) => void;
+  /** Call EARLY (at the stream's `start` chunk) with the authoritative streamed
+   *  chat id so a brand-new chat adopts its real id WHILE its first turn is still
+   *  streaming — making `activeChatId`-gated affordances (e.g. the Copy/export
+   *  button, #174) available immediately. In-place adoption only (same mount key,
+   *  no list/messages invalidation — that is left to onTurnFinished at the end).
+   *  Idempotent and a no-op once the chat already has an id. */
+  onServerChatId: (serverChatId?: string) => void;
   /** Disarm any pending error-path new-chat fallback. The window calls this from
    *  startNewChat/selectChat so a late refetch can't yank the user back into a
    *  just-failed chat after they explicitly moved on. */
@@ -85,15 +102,21 @@ export function useChatSession(
   // `newThread`/`switchThread` to (re)mount, `adoptThread` for in-place adoption.
   // Initial: a non-null activeChatId switches to it; a null one gets a fresh
   // session key with no chat id yet.
-  const [thread, dispatch] = useReducer(
-    threadSessionReducer,
-    undefined,
-    () =>
-      activeChatId === null
-        ? newThread(`new-${generateId()}`)
-        : switchThread(activeChatId),
+  const [thread, dispatch] = useReducer(threadSessionReducer, undefined, () =>
+    activeChatId === null
+      ? newThread(`new-${generateId()}`)
+      : switchThread(activeChatId),
   );
 
+  // Live mirror of the mounted thread's mount key, read by onTurnFinished to tell
+  // the CURRENT thread from one ABANDONED by New chat mid-stream. @ai-sdk/react
+  // does not abort a stream on unmount and proxies callbacks through a ref, so an
+  // abandoned turn's onFinish/onError still fires AFTER its ChatThread unmounted;
+  // matching its key against this ref keeps that late finish from adopting the
+  // abandoned chat and yanking the user out of the fresh chat they opened (#161).
+  const threadKeyRef = useRef(thread.key);
+  threadKeyRef.current = thread.key;
+
   // Error-path fallback for new-chat id adoption. When a brand-new chat's first
   // turn errors BEFORE the server's `start` chunk, no authoritative chatId ever
   // reaches the client, so the primary metadata adoption cannot run. We then ARM
@@ -111,7 +134,23 @@ export function useChatSession(
   // yet) we adopt the server's AUTHORITATIVE streamed id (never the newest in the
   // list, which races a second tab — #137; see adopt-chat-id.ts).
   const onTurnFinished = useCallback(
-    (serverChatId?: string) => {
+    (serverChatId?: string, finishingThreadKey?: string) => {
+      // Thread-aware guard (#161). A turn ABANDONED by "New chat" mid-stream still
+      // fires onFinish/onError after its ChatThread unmounted (@ai-sdk/react does
+      // not abort on unmount and proxies callbacks through a ref). If that late
+      // finish ran the adoption path it would set activeChatId to the abandoned
+      // chat's real id and yank the user out of the fresh chat they just opened.
+      // So adopt / arm the fallback ONLY for the still-mounted thread; an
+      // abandoned one merely refreshes the chat list (so the left-behind chat
+      // surfaces in history) and does nothing else. A missing key (undefined)
+      // means "current thread" — keeps old call sites/tests working.
+      if (
+        finishingThreadKey !== undefined &&
+        finishingThreadKey !== threadKeyRef.current
+      ) {
+        onInvalidateChatList();
+        return;
+      }
       // Read the live id from the ref, not the closure: on a failed turn this can
       // run twice in one turn (onFinish + onError) before any re-render, and the
       // primary branch below updates the ref so the second call sees the adopted id.
@@ -150,6 +189,31 @@ export function useChatSession(
     [chats, setActiveChatId, onInvalidateChatList, onInvalidateChatMessages],
   );
 
+  // EARLY adoption (#174): adopt the authoritative streamed chat id the moment
+  // the server emits it on the `start` chunk, so a brand-new chat gets its real
+  // `activeChatId` WHILE its first turn streams — not only at terminal
+  // onTurnFinished. This makes the activeChatId-gated Copy/export button
+  // available during the first turn. Pure in-place adoption (same mount key, like
+  // the primary path) with NO invalidation: the list/messages refresh stays on
+  // onTurnFinished at the end of the turn. Reads the live id from the ref so a
+  // repeat call after adoption is a no-op (resolveAdoptedChatId only fires for a
+  // still-new chat).
+  const onServerChatId = useCallback(
+    (serverChatId?: string) => {
+      const adopted = resolveAdoptedChatId(
+        activeChatIdRef.current,
+        serverChatId,
+      );
+      if (!adopted) return;
+      activeChatIdRef.current = adopted;
+      setActiveChatId(adopted);
+      dispatch({ type: "adopt", chatId: adopted });
+      // Early adoption beat the error-path fallback to it — disarm.
+      pendingNewChatRef.current = null;
+    },
+    [setActiveChatId],
+  );
+
   // FALLBACK resolver. Armed only by onTurnFinished when a brand-new chat's first
   // turn errored before the `start` chunk (no authoritative id streamed). Once
   // the per-user list refetch lands with the just-created row, adopt the SINGLE
@@ -229,10 +293,30 @@ export function useChatSession(
     pendingNewChatRef.current = null;
   }, []);
 
+  // Force a fresh, empty thread regardless of `activeChatId` (#161). The render-
+  // phase reconciler only remounts when activeChatId diverges from thread.chatId,
+  // so "New chat" pressed while a brand-new chat's first turn is still streaming
+  // (activeChatId AND thread.chatId both null — the real id is adopted only at the
+  // end of the turn) is a no-op for it and the abandoned thread/stream/history
+  // would persist. Dispatching reconcile with a fresh key and chatId:null here
+  // always produces a new mount key, so React remounts ChatThread (a clean useChat
+  // store) and the post-dispatch state (activeChatId null === thread.chatId null)
+  // keeps the reconciler from interfering. Also disarms any pending fallback.
+  const startFreshThread = useCallback(() => {
+    pendingNewChatRef.current = null;
+    dispatch({
+      type: "reconcile",
+      chatId: null,
+      newKey: `new-${generateId()}`,
+    });
+  }, []);
+
   return {
     threadKey: thread.key,
     waitingForHistory,
+    startFreshThread,
     onTurnFinished,
+    onServerChatId,
     cancelPendingAdoption,
   };
 }

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/services/ai-chat-service.ts

@@ -50,6 +50,24 @@ export async function deleteAiChat(chatId: string): Promise<void> {
   await api.post("/ai-chat/delete", { chatId });
 }
 
+/**
+ * Export a chat to Markdown (#183). The server renders the transcript from the
+ * persisted rows (the DB is the single source of truth — including an
+ * interrupted turn's in-progress row, persisted upfront + per step), so the
+ * client just copies the returned string. `lang` localizes the few fixed
+ * role/tool labels; defaults to English server-side when omitted.
+ */
+export async function exportAiChat(
+  chatId: string,
+  lang?: string,
+): Promise<string> {
+  const req = await api.post<{ markdown: string }>("/ai-chat/export", {
+    chatId,
+    lang,
+  });
+  return req.data.markdown;
+}
+
 /**
  * Agent roles API (`/ai-chat/roles`). `list` is available to any workspace
  * member (for the chat-creation picker); create/update/delete are admin-only
@@ -76,6 +94,8 @@ export async function updateAiRole(data: IAiRoleUpdate): Promise<IAiRole> {
 
 /** Soft-delete a role (admin). */
 export async function deleteAiRole(id: string): Promise<{ success: true }> {
-  const req = await api.post<{ success: true }>("/ai-chat/roles/delete", { id });
+  const req = await api.post<{ success: true }>("/ai-chat/roles/delete", {
+    id,
+  });
   return req.data;
 }

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts

@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ export interface IAiRole {
   instructions?: string;
   modelConfig?: IAiRoleModelConfig | null;
   enabled: boolean;
+  // Whether picking the role auto-sends a launch message and starts the chat.
+  autoStart: boolean;
+  // Custom auto-start text; null/empty => the default launch message is sent.
+  launchMessage: string | null;
   createdAt?: string;
   updatedAt?: string;
 }
@@ -65,6 +69,8 @@ export interface IAiRoleCreate {
   instructions: string;
   modelConfig?: IAiRoleModelConfig | null;
   enabled?: boolean;
+  autoStart?: boolean;
+  launchMessage?: string;
 }
 
 /** Admin update payload for a role (partial). */
@@ -76,6 +82,8 @@ export interface IAiRoleUpdate {
   instructions?: string;
   modelConfig?: IAiRoleModelConfig | null;
   enabled?: boolean;
+  autoStart?: boolean;
+  launchMessage?: string;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -98,12 +106,19 @@ export interface IAiChatMessageRow {
       inputTokens?: number;
       outputTokens?: number;
       totalTokens?: number;
+      // Reasoning (thinking) tokens, when the provider reports them. Optional so
+      // old history rows (recorded before this shipped) stay valid. Included in
+      // `outputTokens` per the AI SDK usage shape.
+      reasoningTokens?: number;
     };
     // Current context size for the turn = final-step (input+output) tokens, i.e.
     // how much the conversation occupies in the model's context window after this
     // turn. Distinct from `usage` (legacy cumulative totalUsage). Shown in the
     // floating window's header badge.
     contextTokens?: number;
+    // The model's max context window (denominator for the header badge); set
+    // alongside contextTokens on a completed turn; absent on older rows.
+    maxContextTokens?: number;
     // Set on an assistant row whose turn ended in a provider/stream error; the
     // raw provider error text (e.g. "402: ...") for inline display in the thread.
     error?: string;

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/adopt-chat-id.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * ============================ CANONICAL #137 NOTE ============================
  * This docblock is the single authoritative explanation of the new-chat id
  * adoption design and the #137 two-tab race it fixes. Other call sites
- * (use-chat-session.ts, the server's `chatStreamStartMetadata`) reference here
+ * (use-chat-session.ts, the server's `chatStreamMetadata`) reference here
  * rather than restating it.
  *
  * When a user sends the first turn of a BRAND-NEW chat, the client has no chat
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  * leak its later turns into it (#137). We adopt by IDENTITY instead, two ways:
  *
  * PRIMARY path: the server streams the real chat id on the assistant message
- * metadata's `start` part (see `chatStreamStartMetadata` server-side);
+ * metadata's `start` part (see `chatStreamMetadata` server-side);
  * `extractServerChatId` reads it off the finished message and
  * `resolveAdoptedChatId` turns it into the id to adopt for a new chat. This is
  * authoritative and immune to the race.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ export function resolveAdoptedChatId(
 /**
  * Read the authoritative server chat id off a finished assistant message. The
  * server attaches it as `message.metadata.chatId` on the `start` part (see
- * `chatStreamStartMetadata`). Returns it only when it is a string; undefined for
+ * `chatStreamMetadata`). Returns it only when it is a string; undefined for
  * a missing message, missing metadata, or a non-string `chatId`.
  */
 export function extractServerChatId(

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/chat-markdown.test.ts

@@ -1,440 +0,0 @@
-import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
-import { buildChatMarkdown } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/chat-markdown.ts";
-import type { IAiChatMessageRow } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
-
-/**
- * Tests for the client-only Markdown export builder. The output embeds a live
- * `new Date().toISOString()` export timestamp; we never assert that value, only
- * the deterministic structure (headings, numbering, fenced blocks, totals).
- *
- * A pass-through translator keeps role/tool labels predictable so the
- * structural assertions are stable without an i18n runtime.
- */
-const t = (key: string, values?: Record<string, unknown>): string => {
-  if (values && typeof values.name === "string") {
-    return key.replace("{{name}}", values.name);
-  }
-  return key;
-};
-
-function row(partial: Partial<IAiChatMessageRow>): IAiChatMessageRow {
-  return {
-    id: partial.id ?? "id",
-    role: partial.role ?? "user",
-    content: partial.content ?? null,
-    metadata: partial.metadata ?? null,
-    createdAt: partial.createdAt ?? "2026-06-21T00:00:00.000Z",
-  };
-}
-
-describe("buildChatMarkdown — structure", () => {
-  it("emits the title heading, chat id and message count", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "My chat",
-      chatId: "chat-123",
-      rows: [],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(md).toContain("# My chat");
-    expect(md).toContain("- Chat ID: `chat-123`");
-    expect(md).toContain("- Messages: 0");
-    expect(md).toContain("- Exported:"); // timestamp present, value not asserted
-  });
-
-  it("falls back to the translated 'Untitled chat' for empty/blank titles", () => {
-    expect(
-      buildChatMarkdown({ title: null, chatId: "c", rows: [], t }),
-    ).toContain("# Untitled chat");
-    expect(
-      buildChatMarkdown({ title: "   ", chatId: "c", rows: [], t }),
-    ).toContain("# Untitled chat");
-  });
-
-  it("numbers rows sequentially with role headings", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [
-        row({ role: "user", content: "hi" }),
-        row({ role: "assistant", content: "hello" }),
-        row({ role: "user", content: "again" }),
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(md).toContain("## 1. You");
-    expect(md).toContain("## 2. AI agent");
-    expect(md).toContain("## 3. You");
-    // Heading numbering is strictly index+1, not e.g. role-relative.
-    expect(md).not.toContain("## 0.");
-  });
-
-  it("renders the per-row text content from `content` when no metadata.parts", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [row({ role: "user", content: "plain body" })],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(md).toContain("plain body");
-  });
-});
-
-describe("buildChatMarkdown — text parts", () => {
-  it("skips empty / whitespace-only text parts", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [
-        row({
-          role: "assistant",
-          content: "ignored-content",
-          metadata: {
-            parts: [
-              { type: "text", text: "   " },
-              { type: "text", text: "" },
-              { type: "text", text: "kept line" },
-              // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-            ] as any,
-          },
-        }),
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(md).toContain("kept line");
-    // Whitespace-only part contributed no block of its own.
-    expect(md).not.toContain("   \n\n");
-    // When metadata.parts exists, the plain `content` fallback is NOT used.
-    expect(md).not.toContain("ignored-content");
-  });
-});
-
-describe("buildChatMarkdown — tool parts", () => {
-  it("renders a tool label, name, state and fenced Input/Output blocks", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [
-        row({
-          role: "assistant",
-          content: "",
-          metadata: {
-            parts: [
-              {
-                type: "tool-getPage",
-                state: "output-available",
-                input: { pageId: "p1" },
-                output: { id: "p1", title: "Home" },
-                // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-              } as any,
-            ],
-          },
-        }),
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    // Known tool name maps to its label key; raw name in backticks; done state.
-    expect(md).toContain("**Tool: Read page** (`getPage`) — done");
-    expect(md).toContain("Input:");
-    expect(md).toContain("Output:");
-    // Fenced JSON blocks contain the stringified payloads.
-    expect(md).toContain('"pageId": "p1"');
-    expect(md).toContain('"title": "Home"');
-    expect(md).toContain("```json");
-  });
-
-  it("renders the generic label for an unknown tool and surfaces errorText", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [
-        row({
-          role: "assistant",
-          content: "",
-          metadata: {
-            parts: [
-              {
-                type: "tool-mysteryTool",
-                state: "output-error",
-                input: { a: 1 },
-                errorText: "boom",
-                // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-              } as any,
-            ],
-          },
-        }),
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(md).toContain("**Tool: Ran tool mysteryTool** (`mysteryTool`) — error");
-    expect(md).toContain("**Error:** boom");
-  });
-
-  it("does not throw on a circular tool input (falls back to String)", () => {
-    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-    const circular: any = {};
-    circular.self = circular;
-    expect(() =>
-      buildChatMarkdown({
-        title: "t",
-        chatId: "c",
-        rows: [
-          row({
-            role: "assistant",
-            content: "",
-            metadata: {
-              parts: [
-                {
-                  type: "tool-getPage",
-                  state: "input-available",
-                  input: circular,
-                  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-                } as any,
-              ],
-            },
-          }),
-        ],
-        t,
-      }),
-    ).not.toThrow();
-  });
-});
-
-describe("buildChatMarkdown — fence anti-breakout", () => {
-  it("lengthens the delimiter so embedded ``` cannot break out of the block", () => {
-    // Tool input whose stringified string form contains a literal ``` run.
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [
-        row({
-          role: "assistant",
-          content: "",
-          metadata: {
-            parts: [
-              {
-                type: "tool-getPage",
-                state: "output-available",
-                // A bare string passes through stringify() verbatim.
-                input: "before ``` after",
-                output: "x",
-                // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-              } as any,
-            ],
-          },
-        }),
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    // The fence around the 3-backtick content must use at least 4 backticks so
-    // the embedded ``` run cannot terminate the block.
-    expect(md).toContain("````json\nbefore ``` after\n````");
-    // Robust anti-breakout check: the opening fence delimiter is strictly
-    // longer than the longest backtick run inside the wrapped content. (A naive
-    // `not.toContain("```json...")` is a false negative — a 4-backtick fence
-    // textually contains the 3-backtick substring.)
-    const open = md.match(/(`{3,})json\nbefore/);
-    expect(open).not.toBeNull();
-    expect(open![1].length).toBeGreaterThan(3); // > the 3-backtick run in content
-  });
-
-  it("uses a 5-backtick fence when the content has a 4-backtick run", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [
-        row({
-          role: "assistant",
-          content: "",
-          metadata: {
-            parts: [
-              {
-                type: "tool-getPage",
-                state: "output-available",
-                input: "a ```` b",
-                // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-              } as any,
-            ],
-          },
-        }),
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(md).toContain("`````json\na ```` b\n`````");
-  });
-});
-
-describe("buildChatMarkdown — token totals", () => {
-  it("prints the total-tokens line only when the summed usage is > 0", () => {
-    const withTokens = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [
-        row({
-          role: "assistant",
-          content: "x",
-          metadata: { usage: { inputTokens: 10, outputTokens: 5 } },
-        }),
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(withTokens).toContain("- Total tokens: 15");
-    // Per-row usage footer too.
-    expect(withTokens).toContain("_Tokens — in: 10, out: 5, total: 15_");
-  });
-
-  it("omits the total-tokens line when the sum is 0 / usage absent", () => {
-    const noTokens = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [
-        row({ role: "user", content: "hi" }),
-        row({
-          role: "assistant",
-          content: "x",
-          metadata: { usage: { inputTokens: 0, outputTokens: 0 } },
-        }),
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(noTokens).not.toContain("- Total tokens:");
-  });
-
-  it("uses totalTokens when present rather than summing in/out", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [
-        row({
-          role: "assistant",
-          content: "x",
-          metadata: { usage: { inputTokens: 3, outputTokens: 4, totalTokens: 99 } },
-        }),
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(md).toContain("- Total tokens: 99");
-  });
-});
-
-describe("buildChatMarkdown — pending / in-progress messages", () => {
-  it("continues the heading numbering after the persisted rows", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [row({ role: "user", content: "persisted" })],
-      pending: [
-        {
-          role: "user",
-          parts: [{ type: "text", text: "live question" }],
-          generating: false,
-        },
-        {
-          role: "assistant",
-          parts: [{ type: "text", text: "live answer" }],
-          generating: true,
-        },
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(md).toContain("## 1. You");
-    expect(md).toContain("## 2. You");
-    expect(md).toContain("## 3. AI agent");
-    expect(md).toContain("live question");
-    expect(md).toContain("live answer");
-  });
-
-  it("flags a generating assistant pending message as still being generated", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [row({ role: "user", content: "persisted" })],
-      pending: [
-        {
-          role: "assistant",
-          parts: [{ type: "text", text: "partial reply" }],
-          generating: true,
-        },
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(md).toContain("partial reply");
-    expect(md).toContain("still being generated");
-  });
-
-  it("renders a non-generating user pending message without the note", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [row({ role: "user", content: "persisted" })],
-      pending: [
-        {
-          role: "user",
-          parts: [{ type: "text", text: "my live message" }],
-          generating: false,
-        },
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(md).toContain("my live message");
-    expect(md).not.toContain("still being generated");
-  });
-
-  it("includes the pending messages in the metadata message count", () => {
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [
-        row({ role: "user", content: "a" }),
-        row({ role: "assistant", content: "b" }),
-      ],
-      pending: [
-        {
-          role: "user",
-          parts: [{ type: "text", text: "c" }],
-          generating: false,
-        },
-        {
-          role: "assistant",
-          parts: [{ type: "text", text: "d" }],
-          generating: true,
-        },
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    // 2 persisted rows + 2 pending = 4.
-    expect(md).toContain("- Messages: 4");
-  });
-
-  it("emits the heading and note for a generating assistant with empty parts", () => {
-    expect(() =>
-      buildChatMarkdown({
-        title: "t",
-        chatId: "c",
-        rows: [row({ role: "user", content: "persisted" })],
-        pending: [
-          {
-            role: "assistant",
-            parts: [],
-            generating: true,
-          },
-        ],
-        t,
-      }),
-    ).not.toThrow();
-    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
-      title: "t",
-      chatId: "c",
-      rows: [row({ role: "user", content: "persisted" })],
-      pending: [
-        {
-          role: "assistant",
-          parts: [],
-          generating: true,
-        },
-      ],
-      t,
-    });
-    expect(md).toContain("## 2. AI agent");
-    expect(md).toContain("still being generated");
-  });
-});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/chat-markdown.ts

@@ -1,208 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Client-only Markdown builder for an AI agent chat. Serializes the already
- * persisted message rows (loaded via `useAiChatMessagesQuery`) into a single
- * Markdown string suitable for copying to the clipboard. NO network call is
- * made and NO server/DB code is touched — this reuses the rich "request
- * internals" (tool calls with input/output, per-message token usage,
- * finish/error info) that the chat already holds client-side.
- *
- * Only role labels and tool action labels are localized via the passed-in `t`
- * translator; the structural document words (Input/Output/Error/Tokens/...) are
- * plain English constants because the output is a technical artifact.
- */
-
-import type { IAiChatMessageRow } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
-import {
-  ToolUiPart,
-  getToolName,
-  toolRunState,
-  toolLabelKey,
-} from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/tool-parts.tsx";
-
-// Minimal translator signature compatible with react-i18next's `t`.
-type Translate = (key: string, values?: Record<string, unknown>) => string;
-
-interface BuildChatMarkdownArgs {
-  title: string | null;
-  chatId: string;
-  rows: IAiChatMessageRow[];
-  /** In-progress, not-yet-persisted live messages (the current streaming
-   *  turn) to append after the persisted rows. `generating: true` adds a
-   *  note that the message is still being produced. */
-  pending?: PendingMessage[];
-  t: Translate;
-}
-
-/** A single AI SDK UIMessage part (text part or other). */
-interface TextLikePart {
-  type: string;
-  text?: string;
-}
-
-/** A live, not-yet-persisted message (current streaming turn) to append. */
-interface PendingMessage {
-  role: "user" | "assistant" | string;
-  parts: TextLikePart[];
-  generating: boolean;
-}
-
-/**
- * Stringify an arbitrary tool input/output value for a fenced block. Strings
- * pass through as-is; everything else is pretty-printed JSON, falling back to
- * `String(value)` if serialization throws (e.g. a circular structure).
- */
-function stringify(value: unknown): string {
-  if (typeof value === "string") return value;
-  try {
-    return JSON.stringify(value, null, 2);
-  } catch {
-    return String(value);
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Wrap `code` in a fenced code block whose backtick delimiter is LONGER than
- * the longest backtick run inside the content, so embedded backticks (or even
- * a literal ``` fence) never break out of the block. Minimum 3 backticks.
- */
-function fence(code: string, lang = ""): string {
-  const runs: string[] = code.match(/`+/g) ?? [];
-  const longest = runs.reduce((m, s) => Math.max(m, s.length), 0);
-  const delim = "`".repeat(Math.max(3, longest + 1));
-  return `${delim}${lang}\n${code}\n${delim}`;
-}
-
-/** Per-row token count, mirroring the header sum in ai-chat-window.tsx. */
-function rowTokens(usage: {
-  inputTokens?: number;
-  outputTokens?: number;
-  totalTokens?: number;
-}): number {
-  return (
-    usage.totalTokens ?? (usage.inputTokens ?? 0) + (usage.outputTokens ?? 0)
-  );
-}
-
-/** Render one message's UIMessage parts into an array of Markdown blocks
- *  (text blocks + tool blocks). Mirrors MessageItem's part handling. */
-function renderMessageParts(parts: TextLikePart[], t: Translate): string[] {
-  const out: string[] = [];
-
-  for (const part of parts) {
-    if (part.type === "text") {
-      const text = (part.text ?? "").trim();
-      // Skip empty/whitespace-only text parts (matches MessageItem).
-      if (text.length > 0) out.push(text);
-      continue;
-    }
-
-    const isToolPart =
-      part.type.startsWith("tool-") || part.type === "dynamic-tool";
-    if (!isToolPart) continue;
-
-    const tp = part as unknown as ToolUiPart;
-    const name = getToolName(tp);
-    const { key, values } = toolLabelKey(name);
-    const label = t(key, values);
-    const state = toolRunState(tp.state);
-
-    const toolLines: string[] = [
-      `**Tool: ${label}** (\`${name}\`) — ${state}`,
-    ];
-    if (tp.input !== undefined) {
-      toolLines.push("Input:");
-      toolLines.push(fence(stringify(tp.input), "json"));
-    }
-    if (tp.output !== undefined) {
-      toolLines.push("Output:");
-      toolLines.push(fence(stringify(tp.output), "json"));
-    }
-    if (tp.errorText) {
-      toolLines.push(`**Error:** ${tp.errorText}`);
-    }
-    out.push(toolLines.join("\n\n"));
-  }
-
-  return out;
-}
-
-/**
- * Serialize a chat to a Markdown string. Pure (apart from `new Date()` for the
- * export timestamp), so it is straightforward to unit-test.
- */
-export function buildChatMarkdown(args: BuildChatMarkdownArgs): string {
-  const { title, chatId, rows, pending, t } = args;
-  const blocks: string[] = [];
-
-  const heading = (title ?? "").trim() || t("Untitled chat");
-  blocks.push(`# ${heading}`);
-
-  // Metadata bullet list. Total tokens is only shown when there is a sum.
-  const totalTokens = rows.reduce((sum, row) => {
-    const usage = row.metadata?.usage;
-    return usage ? sum + rowTokens(usage) : sum;
-  }, 0);
-  const meta = [
-    `- Chat ID: \`${chatId}\``,
-    `- Exported: ${new Date().toISOString()}`,
-    `- Messages: ${rows.length + (pending?.length ?? 0)}`,
-  ];
-  if (totalTokens > 0) meta.push(`- Total tokens: ${totalTokens}`);
-  blocks.push(meta.join("\n"));
-
-  rows.forEach((row, index) => {
-    blocks.push("---");
-
-    const roleLabel = row.role === "assistant" ? t("AI agent") : t("You");
-    blocks.push(`## ${index + 1}. ${roleLabel}`);
-
-    // Created-at kept in source as an HTML comment (out of the rendered prose).
-    blocks.push(`<!-- ${row.createdAt} -->`);
-
-    // Resolve parts: prefer the rich persisted parts, else a single text part
-    // built from the plain-text content (mirrors `rowToUiMessage`).
-    const parts: TextLikePart[] =
-      Array.isArray(row.metadata?.parts) && row.metadata.parts.length > 0
-        ? (row.metadata.parts as TextLikePart[])
-        : [{ type: "text", text: row.content ?? "" }];
-
-    blocks.push(...renderMessageParts(parts, t));
-
-    if (row.metadata?.error) {
-      blocks.push(`**⚠️ Error:** ${row.metadata.error}`);
-    }
-
-    const usage = row.metadata?.usage;
-    if (usage) {
-      const total = usage.totalTokens ?? rowTokens(usage);
-      blocks.push(
-        `_Tokens — in: ${usage.inputTokens ?? "?"}, out: ${usage.outputTokens ?? "?"}, total: ${total}_`,
-      );
-    }
-  });
-
-  // Append the in-progress, not-yet-persisted live messages (the current
-  // streaming turn) after the persisted rows. Heading numbering CONTINUES from
-  // the persisted rows. A `generating` assistant gets a note that the captured
-  // response is partial; pending messages carry no usage/token footer yet.
-  (pending ?? []).forEach((message, p) => {
-    blocks.push("---");
-
-    const num = rows.length + p + 1;
-    const roleLabel = message.role === "assistant" ? t("AI agent") : t("You");
-    blocks.push(`## ${num}. ${roleLabel}`);
-
-    blocks.push(...renderMessageParts(message.parts, t));
-
-    // A generating assistant may have empty/no parts yet — still emit the
-    // heading (above) and this note so the export shows the in-progress turn.
-    if (message.generating === true) {
-      blocks.push(
-        "_⏳ This message is still being generated — the export captured a partial, in-progress response._",
-      );
-    }
-  });
-
-  // Blank line between blocks so the Markdown renders cleanly.
-  return blocks.join("\n\n");
-}

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/collapse-blank-lines.test.ts

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+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { collapseBlankLines } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/collapse-blank-lines.ts";
+import { renderChatMarkdown } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/markdown.ts";
+
+describe("collapseBlankLines", () => {
+  it("collapses a run of 2+ newlines to a single newline", () => {
+    expect(collapseBlankLines("a\n\nb")).toBe("a\nb");
+    expect(collapseBlankLines("a\n\n\n\nb")).toBe("a\nb");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps single newlines untouched", () => {
+    expect(collapseBlankLines("a\nb\nc")).toBe("a\nb\nc");
+  });
+
+  it("preserves blank lines INSIDE a fenced code block", () => {
+    const src = "a\n\n\nb\n\n```\nx\n\n\ny\n```\n\nc";
+    // Prose blanks collapse; the blank lines between the ``` fences survive.
+    expect(collapseBlankLines(src)).toBe("a\nb\n```\nx\n\n\ny\n```\nc");
+  });
+
+  it("handles a tilde fence and preserves its interior blanks", () => {
+    const src = "p\n\n~~~\ncode\n\nmore\n~~~\n\nq";
+    expect(collapseBlankLines(src)).toBe("p\n~~~\ncode\n\nmore\n~~~\nq");
+  });
+
+  it("leaves an unclosed fence's remaining lines verbatim", () => {
+    const src = "intro\n\n```\nstill\n\nopen";
+    expect(collapseBlankLines(src)).toBe("intro\n```\nstill\n\nopen");
+  });
+
+  it("is a no-op for text with no blank lines", () => {
+    expect(collapseBlankLines("just one line")).toBe("just one line");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("collapseBlankLines + renderChatMarkdown (tight reasoning rendering)", () => {
+  it("renders a blank-line-separated list as a TIGHT list (no <li><p>)", () => {
+    const loose =
+      "Intro paragraph.\n\n- item one\n\n- item two\n\n- item three";
+    const html = renderChatMarkdown(collapseBlankLines(loose), {});
+    // Tight list: each <li> holds the text directly, not wrapped in a <p>.
+    expect(html).toContain("<li>item one</li>");
+    expect(html).not.toContain("<li><p>");
+    // The list still parses as a list after the paragraph (not a paragraph+<br>).
+    expect(html).toContain("<ul>");
+    expect(html).toContain("<p>Intro paragraph.</p>");
+  });
+
+  it("renders an ordered list (1. 2.) as tight after collapsing", () => {
+    const loose = "Intro.\n\n1. first\n\n2. second";
+    const html = renderChatMarkdown(collapseBlankLines(loose), {});
+    expect(html).toContain("<ol>");
+    expect(html).toContain("<li>first</li>");
+    expect(html).not.toContain("<li><p>");
+  });
+
+  it("the loose source WOULD render <li><p> without collapsing (control)", () => {
+    const loose = "- a\n\n- b";
+    expect(renderChatMarkdown(loose, {})).toContain("<li><p>");
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/collapse-blank-lines.ts

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+// Pure helper for compact reasoning ("Thinking") rendering. Kept free of React
+// so it can be unit-tested in isolation (see collapse-blank-lines.test.ts).
+
+/**
+ * Collapse runs of 2+ newlines down to a single newline, EXCEPT inside fenced
+ * code blocks (``` ... ``` or ~~~ ... ~~~), where blank lines are significant.
+ *
+ * Why: reasoning models emit thinking with a blank line (`\n\n`) between every
+ * list item and paragraph. `marked` turns those into "loose" lists (each `<li>`
+ * wrapped in a `<p>`) and separate `<p>` paragraphs, each carrying a vertical
+ * margin — so the "Thinking" block renders with large, airy gaps. Removing the
+ * blank-line gaps yields tight lists (no `<li><p>`) and joined paragraphs. The
+ * chat markdown renderer runs with `breaks: true`, so a single `\n` still
+ * becomes a `<br>` — line breaks inside the reasoning are preserved; only the
+ * empty gaps between blocks disappear. Apply ONLY to reasoning text, never to a
+ * normal assistant answer (where paragraph spacing is intentional).
+ *
+ * Fenced code is preserved verbatim: a fence opens on a line whose first
+ * non-space characters are ``` or ~~~ and closes on the next line that starts
+ * with the same fence character. Blank lines between fences (significant for
+ * code formatting) are never collapsed.
+ */
+export function collapseBlankLines(text: string): string {
+  const lines = text.split("\n");
+  const out: string[] = [];
+  let inFence = false;
+  let fenceChar = "";
+
+  for (const line of lines) {
+    const fenceMatch = line.match(/^\s*(`{3,}|~{3,})/);
+    if (fenceMatch) {
+      const ch = fenceMatch[1][0];
+      if (!inFence) {
+        inFence = true;
+        fenceChar = ch;
+      } else if (ch === fenceChar) {
+        inFence = false;
+      }
+      out.push(line);
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    // Inside a fenced block every line (including blanks) is significant.
+    if (inFence) {
+      out.push(line);
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    // Outside fences: drop blank lines so a `\n\n+` gap collapses to a single
+    // `\n` between the surrounding content lines.
+    if (line.trim() === "") continue;
+    out.push(line);
+  }
+
+  return out.join("\n");
+}

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/context-badge.test.ts

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+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import type { IAiChatMessageRow } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
+import { selectContextBadge } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/context-badge.ts";
+
+/**
+ * Pure-helper tests for the header context badge selection. Covers the two
+ * non-obvious rules: numerator and denominator are each taken from the most
+ * recent row carrying THAT value (they may live on different rows), and a fresh
+ * row with a zero/absent value must NOT shadow an older positive one.
+ */
+const row = (metadata: IAiChatMessageRow["metadata"]): IAiChatMessageRow => ({
+  id: Math.random().toString(),
+  role: "assistant",
+  content: null,
+  metadata,
+  createdAt: "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
+});
+
+describe("selectContextBadge", () => {
+  it("returns zeros for empty / nullish input", () => {
+    expect(selectContextBadge(undefined)).toEqual({
+      contextTokens: 0,
+      maxContextTokens: 0,
+    });
+    expect(selectContextBadge(null)).toEqual({
+      contextTokens: 0,
+      maxContextTokens: 0,
+    });
+    expect(selectContextBadge([])).toEqual({
+      contextTokens: 0,
+      maxContextTokens: 0,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("reads both figures from the most recent row that carries them", () => {
+    expect(
+      selectContextBadge([
+        row({ contextTokens: 100, maxContextTokens: 200000 }),
+        row({ contextTokens: 1500, maxContextTokens: 200000 }),
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual({ contextTokens: 1500, maxContextTokens: 200000 });
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to legacy usage total for older rows without contextTokens", () => {
+    expect(
+      selectContextBadge([
+        row({ usage: { inputTokens: 30, outputTokens: 70 } }),
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual({ contextTokens: 100, maxContextTokens: 0 });
+
+    expect(
+      selectContextBadge([row({ usage: { totalTokens: 250 } })]),
+    ).toEqual({ contextTokens: 250, maxContextTokens: 0 });
+  });
+
+  it("takes numerator and denominator from different rows", () => {
+    // Freshest row (an error turn) carries contextTokens but no max; the older
+    // completed turn carries the max. Each is picked from its own latest row.
+    expect(
+      selectContextBadge([
+        row({ contextTokens: 800, maxContextTokens: 200000 }),
+        row({ contextTokens: 1200, error: "402: nope" }),
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual({ contextTokens: 1200, maxContextTokens: 200000 });
+  });
+
+  it("does not let a fresh zero/absent max shadow an older positive max", () => {
+    expect(
+      selectContextBadge([
+        row({ contextTokens: 100, maxContextTokens: 200000 }),
+        row({ contextTokens: 1200, maxContextTokens: 0 }),
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual({ contextTokens: 1200, maxContextTokens: 200000 });
+  });
+
+  it("skips rows with null metadata", () => {
+    expect(
+      selectContextBadge([
+        row({ contextTokens: 500, maxContextTokens: 200000 }),
+        row(null),
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual({ contextTokens: 500, maxContextTokens: 200000 });
+  });
+
+  it("reports current > max as-is (no clamp)", () => {
+    expect(
+      selectContextBadge([row({ contextTokens: 250000, maxContextTokens: 200000 })]),
+    ).toEqual({ contextTokens: 250000, maxContextTokens: 200000 });
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/context-badge.ts

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+import type { IAiChatMessageRow } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
+
+/**
+ * Derive the header context badge figures from the persisted message rows.
+ *
+ * - `contextTokens` (numerator): how much the conversation now occupies in the
+ *   model's context window. Read from the most recent row carrying a context
+ *   figure — `contextTokens` (final-step input+output) on rows recorded after
+ *   this shipped, else that turn's legacy `usage` total for older rows.
+ * - `maxContextTokens` (denominator): the model's configured max window, stamped
+ *   alongside `contextTokens` on a completed turn.
+ *
+ * Each value is taken from the most recent row carrying THAT value
+ * independently — they may land on different rows (e.g. a fresh error row can
+ * carry `contextTokens` but not `maxContextTokens`), so the scan continues for
+ * whichever is still unset. `0` means "no row has it" (older rows, or no
+ * admin-configured limit); the badge then omits the value.
+ */
+export function selectContextBadge(
+  messageRows: readonly IAiChatMessageRow[] | undefined | null,
+): { contextTokens: number; maxContextTokens: number } {
+  let contextTokens = 0;
+  let maxContextTokens = 0;
+  if (!messageRows) return { contextTokens, maxContextTokens };
+  for (let i = messageRows.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+    const meta = messageRows[i].metadata;
+    if (!meta) continue;
+    if (contextTokens === 0) {
+      if (typeof meta.contextTokens === "number" && meta.contextTokens > 0) {
+        contextTokens = meta.contextTokens;
+      } else if (meta.usage) {
+        const usage = meta.usage;
+        const fallback =
+          usage.totalTokens ??
+          (usage.inputTokens ?? 0) + (usage.outputTokens ?? 0);
+        if (fallback > 0) contextTokens = fallback;
+      }
+    }
+    if (
+      maxContextTokens === 0 &&
+      typeof meta.maxContextTokens === "number" &&
+      meta.maxContextTokens > 0
+    ) {
+      maxContextTokens = meta.maxContextTokens;
+    }
+    if (contextTokens !== 0 && maxContextTokens !== 0) break;
+  }
+  return { contextTokens, maxContextTokens };
+}

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/count-stream-tokens.test.ts

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+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { estimateTokens } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/count-stream-tokens.ts";
+
+describe("estimateTokens", () => {
+  it("returns 0 for the empty string", () => {
+    expect(estimateTokens("")).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("ceils chars/4 so any non-empty text is at least 1 token", () => {
+    expect(estimateTokens("a")).toBe(1);
+    expect(estimateTokens("abcd")).toBe(1);
+    expect(estimateTokens("abcde")).toBe(2);
+    expect(estimateTokens("12345678")).toBe(2);
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/count-stream-tokens.ts

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+/**
+ * Rough client-side token estimation for AI-chat UI affordances.
+ *
+ * No provider streams exact per-token usage mid-stream, so any in-flight figure
+ * is a CLIENT ESTIMATE (chars/≈4 heuristic). Pure + unit-testable: it never runs
+ * a real BPE tokenizer (that would be O(n²) on the hot path, bloat the bundle,
+ * and be wrong for Gemini/Ollama anyway). Used by the in-body reasoning counter
+ * ("Thinking · N tokens").
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Rough token estimate for a piece of text using the standard chars/≈4 heuristic.
+ * Returns 0 for empty/whitespace-free-of-content input, and ceils so any
+ * non-empty text counts as at least one token.
+ */
+export function estimateTokens(text: string): number {
+  if (!text) return 0;
+  return Math.ceil(text.length / 4);
+}

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/message-signature.test.ts

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+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import type { UIMessage } from "@ai-sdk/react";
+import { messageSignature } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/message-signature.ts";
+
+/**
+ * Pure-helper tests for `messageSignature`, the cheap per-message content
+ * signature that drives MessageItem's memo (a streaming row's signature must
+ * change on every delta so it re-renders, while a finalized row's stays stable
+ * so it is skipped). Each test exercises ONE change signal and asserts it flips
+ * the signature; a content-identical clone must keep an EQUAL signature.
+ *
+ * The signature embeds `message.id` and `message.role`, so the `msg` factory
+ * uses a FIXED id/role here (not `Math.random()`): otherwise two messages with
+ * identical content would get different signatures and the negative case would
+ * be impossible to express.
+ */
+const msg = (
+  parts: UIMessage["parts"],
+  metadata?: unknown,
+): UIMessage =>
+  ({
+    id: "m1",
+    role: "assistant",
+    parts,
+    metadata,
+  }) as UIMessage;
+
+describe("messageSignature", () => {
+  it("changes when a text part grows", () => {
+    const before = msg([{ type: "text", text: "alpha" }]);
+    const after = msg([{ type: "text", text: "alpha beta" }]);
+    expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+  });
+
+  it("changes when a new part is appended", () => {
+    const before = msg([{ type: "text", text: "alpha" }]);
+    const after = msg([
+      { type: "text", text: "alpha" },
+      { type: "text", text: "beta" },
+    ]);
+    expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+  });
+
+  it("changes when a part's state flips", () => {
+    const before = msg([
+      { type: "tool-getPage", state: "input-streaming" } as never,
+    ]);
+    const after = msg([
+      { type: "tool-getPage", state: "output-available" } as never,
+    ]);
+    expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+  });
+
+  it("changes when a tool part gains an output", () => {
+    const before = msg([
+      { type: "tool-getPage", state: "output-available" } as never,
+    ]);
+    const after = msg([
+      {
+        type: "tool-getPage",
+        state: "output-available",
+        output: { ok: true },
+      } as never,
+    ]);
+    expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+  });
+
+  it("changes when a part gains an errorText", () => {
+    const before = msg([
+      { type: "tool-getPage", state: "output-error" } as never,
+    ]);
+    const after = msg([
+      {
+        type: "tool-getPage",
+        state: "output-error",
+        errorText: "boom",
+      } as never,
+    ]);
+    expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+  });
+
+  it("changes when usage.reasoningTokens arrives on finish-step (text/state already frozen)", () => {
+    // The specifically-commented edge case: the authoritative turn total lands on
+    // the final finish-step AFTER the reasoning text length and state are frozen.
+    // Only the token count appears between these two snapshots, so the signature
+    // MUST still flip — otherwise the "Thinking · N tokens" header would never
+    // snap from the live estimate to the exact figure.
+    const before = msg([
+      { type: "reasoning", text: "thinking", state: "done" } as never,
+    ]);
+    const after = msg(
+      [{ type: "reasoning", text: "thinking", state: "done" } as never],
+      { usage: { reasoningTokens: 42 } },
+    );
+    expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+  });
+
+  it("changes when metadata.error appears", () => {
+    const before = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }]);
+    const after = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }], { error: "boom" });
+    expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+  });
+
+  it("changes when metadata.finishReason changes (e.g. to 'aborted')", () => {
+    const before = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }], {
+      finishReason: "stop",
+    });
+    const after = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }], {
+      finishReason: "aborted",
+    });
+    expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+  });
+
+  it("is UNCHANGED for a content-identical clone (different object, same values)", () => {
+    // A finalized row that is re-created as a fresh object (different parts array
+    // by reference, same parts by value) must keep an EQUAL signature, so the
+    // memo skips re-rendering it.
+    const a = msg([
+      { type: "text", text: "alpha" },
+      { type: "tool-getPage", state: "output-available", output: { ok: true } } as never,
+    ]);
+    const b = msg([
+      { type: "text", text: "alpha" },
+      { type: "tool-getPage", state: "output-available", output: { ok: true } } as never,
+    ]);
+    expect(a).not.toBe(b);
+    expect(messageSignature(a)).toBe(messageSignature(b));
+  });
+});
+
+/**
+ * Per-part-kind coupling guard for the load-bearing invariant documented at the
+ * top of message-signature.ts: the signature MUST sample every VISIBLE field the
+ * MessageItem render body draws, or the memo freezes a stale row. This is an
+ * executable lock for the part kinds rendered TODAY — read alongside
+ * `MessageItem` (message-item.tsx) and the `assistantMessageHasVisibleContent`
+ * helper (message-content.ts), which "mirrors MessageItem's render decisions
+ * EXACTLY". For each kind, mutating a field the render body DRAWS must flip the
+ * signature. If a new visible field is rendered without being added here AND to
+ * the signature, the corresponding assertion below should fail — that is the
+ * guard. (This intentionally stops short of the render-descriptor refactor:
+ * adding a part kind or a visible field still requires a human to extend both
+ * the signature and this block.)
+ */
+describe("messageSignature ↔ render coupling (per visible part kind)", () => {
+  describe("text part — render draws part.text (MarkdownPart text={part.text})", () => {
+    it("flips when the visible text changes", () => {
+      // Streaming is append-only, so the visible text only grows; the signature
+      // samples its length, so the growth is the change signal.
+      const before = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }]);
+      const after = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer extended" }]);
+      expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("reasoning part — render draws text + tokens (ReasoningBlock)", () => {
+    it("flips when the visible reasoning text changes", () => {
+      const before = msg([
+        { type: "reasoning", text: "think", state: "streaming" } as never,
+      ]);
+      const after = msg([
+        { type: "reasoning", text: "think harder", state: "streaming" } as never,
+      ]);
+      expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+    });
+
+    it("flips when the visible token count (metadata.usage.reasoningTokens) lands", () => {
+      // The header's "Thinking · N tokens" reads reasoningTokensForPart, fed by
+      // metadata.usage.reasoningTokens — a VISIBLE field that arrives on the final
+      // finish-step after text length and state are frozen.
+      const before = msg([
+        { type: "reasoning", text: "think", state: "done" } as never,
+      ]);
+      const after = msg(
+        [{ type: "reasoning", text: "think", state: "done" } as never],
+        { usage: { reasoningTokens: 99 } },
+      );
+      expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("tool-* part — render draws state/errorText/citations (ToolCallCard)", () => {
+    it("flips when the run state changes (running ↔ done icon + label)", () => {
+      // toolRunState(part.state) selects the spinner/check/error icon.
+      const before = msg([
+        { type: "tool-getPage", state: "input-available" } as never,
+      ]);
+      const after = msg([
+        { type: "tool-getPage", state: "output-available" } as never,
+      ]);
+      expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+    });
+
+    it("flips when output arrives (drives the rendered citation links)", () => {
+      // toolCitations reads part.output to render the "/p/{id}" anchors.
+      const before = msg([
+        { type: "tool-getPage", state: "output-available" } as never,
+      ]);
+      const after = msg([
+        {
+          type: "tool-getPage",
+          state: "output-available",
+          output: { id: "page-1", title: "Doc" },
+        } as never,
+      ]);
+      expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+    });
+
+    it("flips when errorText appears (the visible red error detail line)", () => {
+      const before = msg([
+        { type: "tool-getPage", state: "output-error" } as never,
+      ]);
+      const after = msg([
+        {
+          type: "tool-getPage",
+          state: "output-error",
+          errorText: "permission denied",
+        } as never,
+      ]);
+      expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("metadata banners — render draws error / aborted notices", () => {
+    it("flips when metadata.error appears (ChatErrorAlert banner)", () => {
+      const before = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }]);
+      const after = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }], { error: "boom" });
+      expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+    });
+
+    it("flips when metadata.finishReason becomes 'aborted' (ChatStoppedNotice)", () => {
+      const before = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }], {
+        finishReason: "stop",
+      });
+      const after = msg([{ type: "text", text: "answer" }], {
+        finishReason: "aborted",
+      });
+      expect(messageSignature(before)).not.toBe(messageSignature(after));
+    });
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/message-signature.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+import type { UIMessage } from "@ai-sdk/react";
+
+/** Cheap content signature for one message: changes iff something VISIBLE in the
+ *  row changed. Streaming is APPEND-ONLY (text parts only grow, parts are only
+ *  appended, a tool/text part flips state once), so a per-part [type, text
+ *  length, state, error/output presence] tuple + the persisted metadata
+ *  (error/finishReason) is a sufficient change signal without comparing full
+ *  strings on every delta. WARNING — load-bearing for the MessageItem memo:
+ *  if a future part kind's VISIBLE content can change WITHOUT changing [type,
+ *  text length, state, error/output presence] (e.g. a tool that streams
+ *  `preliminary` output, or a client-side regenerate that edits a finalized
+ *  row in place), extend this signature or the memo will freeze a stale row. */
+export function messageSignature(message: UIMessage): string {
+  const parts = message.parts
+    .map((p) => {
+      const any = p as {
+        type: string;
+        text?: string;
+        state?: string;
+        errorText?: string;
+        output?: unknown;
+      };
+      return [
+        any.type,
+        any.text?.length ?? 0,
+        any.state ?? "",
+        any.errorText ? 1 : 0,
+        any.output !== undefined ? 1 : 0,
+      ].join(":");
+    })
+    .join("|");
+  const meta = message.metadata as
+    | { error?: string; finishReason?: string; usage?: { reasoningTokens?: number } }
+    | undefined;
+  // `usage.reasoningTokens` is neither append-only nor part-bound: the authoritative
+  // turn total arrives on the final `finish-step` AFTER the reasoning text length and
+  // state are already frozen. Without it in the signature the row's signature would be
+  // unchanged at that point and the re-render skipped, so the "Thinking · N tokens"
+  // header (reasoningTokensForPart) would keep the live estimate instead of snapping
+  // to the exact figure.
+  return `${message.id}#${message.role}#${parts}#${meta?.error ?? ""}#${
+    meta?.finishReason ?? ""
+  }#${meta?.usage?.reasoningTokens ?? ""}`;
+}

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/reasoning-tokens.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import type { UIMessage } from "@ai-sdk/react";
+import { reasoningTokensForPart } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/reasoning-tokens.ts";
+
+/**
+ * Pure-helper tests for `reasoningTokensForPart`, the #151 anti-double-count
+ * rule: the authoritative `usage.reasoningTokens` is the TURN TOTAL, so it may
+ * only be attributed when the turn has exactly one reasoning part. With multiple
+ * reasoning parts (or no authoritative usage) every part falls back to its own
+ * per-part estimate, signalled here by `undefined`.
+ */
+const msg = (
+  parts: UIMessage["parts"],
+  metadata?: unknown,
+): UIMessage =>
+  ({
+    id: Math.random().toString(),
+    role: "assistant",
+    parts,
+    metadata,
+  }) as UIMessage;
+
+describe("reasoningTokensForPart", () => {
+  it("single reasoning part -> the authoritative turn total", () => {
+    const m = msg(
+      [
+        { type: "reasoning", text: "thinking…" } as never,
+        { type: "text", text: "answer" },
+      ],
+      { usage: { reasoningTokens: 42 } },
+    );
+    expect(reasoningTokensForPart(m)).toBe(42);
+  });
+
+  it("multiple reasoning parts -> undefined (each estimates on its own)", () => {
+    const m = msg(
+      [
+        { type: "reasoning", text: "step one" } as never,
+        { type: "reasoning", text: "step two" } as never,
+        { type: "text", text: "answer" },
+      ],
+      { usage: { reasoningTokens: 99 } },
+    );
+    // Even with an authoritative total, two reasoning parts must each estimate
+    // (attributing the total to one would double-count against the other).
+    expect(reasoningTokensForPart(m)).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it("no authoritative usage -> undefined even for a single reasoning part", () => {
+    const m = msg([
+      { type: "reasoning", text: "thinking…" } as never,
+      { type: "text", text: "answer" },
+    ]);
+    expect(reasoningTokensForPart(m)).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/reasoning-tokens.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import type { UIMessage } from "@ai-sdk/react";
+
+/**
+ * Decide the authoritative reasoning token count to attribute to a single
+ * `reasoning` part of an assistant message — or `undefined` when the part should
+ * fall back to its own per-part estimate.
+ *
+ * `usage.reasoningTokens` is the TURN TOTAL, so it may only be attributed to a
+ * block when the turn has exactly ONE reasoning part (the common one-step turn):
+ * then that block can show the exact figure. With MULTIPLE reasoning parts (a
+ * multi-step agent turn) every block must fall back to its own estimate —
+ * attributing the turn total to one of them would double-count against the
+ * others' estimates (#151 review anti-double-count rule). When there is no
+ * authoritative usage at all, every part estimates.
+ *
+ * Returns the authoritative `reasoningTokens` only for the single-reasoning-part
+ * case; `undefined` otherwise (the caller estimates from the part text).
+ */
+export function reasoningTokensForPart(
+  message: UIMessage,
+): number | undefined {
+  const reasoningTokens = (
+    message.metadata as { usage?: { reasoningTokens?: number } } | undefined
+  )?.usage?.reasoningTokens;
+
+  const reasoningPartCount = (message.parts ?? []).reduce(
+    (acc, p) => (p.type === "reasoning" ? acc + 1 : acc),
+    0,
+  );
+
+  // Exactly one reasoning part -> attribute the authoritative turn total to it.
+  // Otherwise (zero or multiple) each part estimates on its own.
+  return reasoningPartCount === 1 ? reasoningTokens : undefined;
+}

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/role-launch.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { roleLaunchMessage, shouldResetRolePicked } from "./role-launch.ts";
+
+const DEFAULT = "Take a look at the current document";
+
+// Covers the three-way handleRolePick behavior (issue #149) without mounting the
+// chat-thread component — the logic lives in these pure helpers.
+describe("roleLaunchMessage", () => {
+  it("autoStart=true + custom launchMessage -> the trimmed custom text", () => {
+    expect(
+      roleLaunchMessage(
+        { autoStart: true, launchMessage: "  Draft a plan  " },
+        DEFAULT,
+      ),
+    ).toBe("Draft a plan");
+  });
+
+  it("autoStart=true + empty launchMessage -> the default fallback", () => {
+    expect(
+      roleLaunchMessage({ autoStart: true, launchMessage: "" }, DEFAULT),
+    ).toBe(DEFAULT);
+  });
+
+  it("autoStart=true + whitespace-only launchMessage -> the default fallback", () => {
+    expect(
+      roleLaunchMessage({ autoStart: true, launchMessage: "   " }, DEFAULT),
+    ).toBe(DEFAULT);
+  });
+
+  it("autoStart=true + null launchMessage -> the default fallback", () => {
+    expect(
+      roleLaunchMessage({ autoStart: true, launchMessage: null }, DEFAULT),
+    ).toBe(DEFAULT);
+  });
+
+  it("autoStart=false -> null (bind only, send nothing) regardless of message", () => {
+    expect(
+      roleLaunchMessage(
+        { autoStart: false, launchMessage: "ignored" },
+        DEFAULT,
+      ),
+    ).toBeNull();
+    expect(
+      roleLaunchMessage({ autoStart: false, launchMessage: null }, DEFAULT),
+    ).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+// Regression guard for #149: the "picked, not sent" flag must reset when the
+// user starts a fresh chat after an autoStart=false pick. On pre-fix code there
+// was no reset, so the flag stayed stuck and the role cards never returned —
+// this is exactly the `true` case below (which the old code never acted on).
+describe("shouldResetRolePicked", () => {
+  it("resets when the thread is empty and the bound role was cleared (New chat)", () => {
+    // chatId still null, roleId cleared by the parent, flag stuck -> reset.
+    expect(shouldResetRolePicked(null, null, true)).toBe(true);
+    expect(shouldResetRolePicked(null, undefined, true)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("does NOT reset while a role is still bound (cards stay hidden, composer shown)", () => {
+    // Right after the autoStart=false pick, roleId is the picked role -> keep hidden.
+    expect(shouldResetRolePicked(null, "role-1", true)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("does NOT reset once the chat exists (a message was sent / chat created)", () => {
+    expect(shouldResetRolePicked("chat-1", null, true)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("is a no-op when the flag is already false", () => {
+    expect(shouldResetRolePicked(null, null, false)).toBe(false);
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/role-launch.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import type { IAiRole } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
+
+/**
+ * Decide what (if anything) to auto-send when an agent role card is picked
+ * (issue #149). Extracted as a pure function so the three-way behavior is
+ * unit-testable without mounting the chat-thread component:
+ *   - autoStart=false              -> null  (bind the role only, send nothing)
+ *   - autoStart=true + message     -> the trimmed custom launchMessage
+ *   - autoStart=true + empty/null  -> the default fallback text
+ */
+export function roleLaunchMessage(
+  role: Pick<IAiRole, "autoStart" | "launchMessage">,
+  defaultText: string,
+): string | null {
+  if (!role.autoStart) return null;
+  return role.launchMessage?.trim() || defaultText;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether the "role picked but nothing sent yet" flag (`rolePickedNoSend`)
+ * should reset to false. After an autoStart=false pick the thread shows the
+ * composer with chatId still null; when the user then starts a fresh chat the
+ * parent clears the bound role (roleId -> null) but chatId stays null, so the
+ * thread never remounts and the flag would otherwise stay set — hiding the role
+ * cards forever. Reset exactly in that state; a still-bound role (roleId set)
+ * keeps the cards hidden. (Regression guard for #149.)
+ */
+export function shouldResetRolePicked(
+  chatId: string | null,
+  roleId: string | null | undefined,
+  rolePickedNoSend: boolean,
+): boolean {
+  return chatId === null && roleId == null && rolePickedNoSend;
+}

apps/client/src/features/editor/components/common/node-resize.module.css

@@ -73,3 +73,18 @@
     display: none !important;
   }
 }
+
+/* Float image (#145): on narrow screens a floated image would crowd the text to
+   an unreadable column, so collapse it to full width and drop the float.
+   `!important` is required because applyAlignment sets `float`/`padding` inline,
+   which a normal rule cannot override. Keys off the `data-image-align` attribute
+   the image node view mirrors onto its container. This module is the one actually
+   imported by the resize node views (node-resize-handles.ts), so the rule loads. */
+@media (max-width: 600px) {
+  .container:global([data-image-align="floatLeft"]),
+  .container:global([data-image-align="floatRight"]) {
+    float: none !important;
+    width: 100% !important;
+    padding: 0 !important;
+  }
+}

apps/client/src/features/editor/components/footnote/footnote-definition-view.tsx

@@ -1,25 +1,45 @@
 import { NodeViewContent, NodeViewProps, NodeViewWrapper } from "@tiptap/react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
-import { getFootnoteNumber } from "@docmost/editor-ext";
+import { getFootnoteNumber, getFootnoteRefCount } from "@docmost/editor-ext";
 import classes from "./footnote.module.css";
 
+/**
+ * A 0-based backlink index -> its lowercase letter label (0 -> "a", 25 -> "z",
+ * 26 -> "aa", ...), matching the Pandoc/Wikipedia "↩ a b c" convention.
+ */
+export function backlinkLabel(index: number): string {
+  let out = "";
+  let x = index;
+  while (x >= 0) {
+    out = String.fromCharCode(97 + (x % 26)) + out;
+    x = Math.floor(x / 26) - 1;
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
 /**
  * NodeView for a single footnote definition: a decorative number marker, the
  * editable content (NodeViewContent), and a "↩" back-link to its reference.
  * The number is derived from the document (not stored).
+ *
+ * After #166 a footnote can be referenced more than once (one number, one
+ * definition, N forward links). When it is, the back-link becomes a row of
+ * per-occurrence links — ↩ a b c … — each scrolling to its own reference (#168);
+ * a single-reference footnote keeps the plain ↩.
  */
 export default function FootnoteDefinitionView(props: NodeViewProps) {
   const { node, editor } = props;
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const id = node.attrs.id as string;
 
-  // Read the cached number from the numbering plugin (computed once per doc
-  // change) rather than recomputing the whole map on every render.
+  // Read the cached number/ref-count from the numbering plugin (computed once
+  // per doc change) rather than recomputing the whole map on every render.
   const number = getFootnoteNumber(editor.state, id) ?? "?";
+  const refCount = getFootnoteRefCount(editor.state, id);
 
-  const handleBack = (e: React.MouseEvent) => {
+  const jumpTo = (e: React.MouseEvent, index: number) => {
     e.preventDefault();
-    editor.commands.scrollToReference(id);
+    editor.commands.scrollToReference(id, index);
   };
 
   return (
@@ -42,16 +62,47 @@ export default function FootnoteDefinitionView(props: NodeViewProps) {
       >
         {number}.
       </span>
-      <span
-        className={classes.backLink}
-        contentEditable={false}
-        onClick={handleBack}
-        role="button"
-        aria-label={t("Back to reference")}
-        title={t("Back to reference")}
-      >
-        ↩
-      </span>
+      {refCount > 1 ? (
+        // Multiple references -> ↩ followed by one lettered link per occurrence.
+        <span
+          className={classes.backLinks}
+          contentEditable={false}
+          role="group"
+          aria-label={t("Back to references")}
+        >
+          <span className={classes.backLinkArrow} aria-hidden="true">
+            ↩
+          </span>
+          {Array.from({ length: refCount }, (_, i) => (
+            <span
+              key={i}
+              className={classes.backLink}
+              onClick={(e) => jumpTo(e, i)}
+              role="button"
+              aria-label={t("Back to reference {{label}}", {
+                label: backlinkLabel(i),
+              })}
+              title={t("Back to reference {{label}}", {
+                label: backlinkLabel(i),
+              })}
+            >
+              {backlinkLabel(i)}
+            </span>
+          ))}
+        </span>
+      ) : (
+        // Single reference -> the plain ↩ (unchanged behavior).
+        <span
+          className={classes.backLink}
+          contentEditable={false}
+          onClick={(e) => jumpTo(e, 0)}
+          role="button"
+          aria-label={t("Back to reference")}
+          title={t("Back to reference")}
+        >
+          ↩
+        </span>
+      )}
     </NodeViewWrapper>
   );
 }

apps/client/src/features/editor/components/footnote/footnote-views.structure.test.tsx

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
-import { render } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, afterEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, fireEvent } from "@testing-library/react";
 
 /**
  * Structural regression guard for #146 (PR #147).
@@ -36,10 +36,14 @@ vi.mock("react-i18next", () => ({
   useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key }),
 }));
 
-// footnote-definition-view reads a cached number from the numbering plugin;
-// stub it so we don't need a live ProseMirror state.
+// footnote-definition-view reads a cached number + reference count from the
+// numbering plugin; stub them so we don't need a live ProseMirror state. The
+// ref-count is a hoisted mutable so a test can drive the single-vs-multi
+// backlink branch (#168). Default 1 = single reference (the #146 cases).
+const { mockRefCount } = vi.hoisted(() => ({ mockRefCount: { value: 1 } }));
 vi.mock("@docmost/editor-ext", () => ({
   getFootnoteNumber: () => 1,
+  getFootnoteRefCount: () => mockRefCount.value,
 }));
 
 // Mocks so CodeBlockView renders cheaply (no MantineProvider, no matchMedia).
@@ -59,7 +63,8 @@ vi.mock("@mantine/core", () => ({
   ),
 }));
 vi.mock("@/components/common/copy-button", () => ({
-  CopyButton: ({ children }: any) => children({ copied: false, copy: () => {} }),
+  CopyButton: ({ children }: any) =>
+    children({ copied: false, copy: () => {} }),
 }));
 vi.mock("@tabler/icons-react", () => ({
   IconCheck: () => null,
@@ -70,7 +75,9 @@ vi.mock("@/features/editor/components/code-block/mermaid-view.tsx", () => ({
 }));
 
 import FootnotesListView from "./footnotes-list-view";
-import FootnoteDefinitionView from "./footnote-definition-view";
+import FootnoteDefinitionView, {
+  backlinkLabel,
+} from "./footnote-definition-view";
 import CodeBlockView from "../code-block/code-block-view";
 
 // Minimal NodeViewProps stub: definition view only touches node.attrs.id and
@@ -141,3 +148,84 @@ describe("#146 editable NodeView contentDOM-first invariant", () => {
     },
   );
 });
+
+// #168: a footnote referenced more than once shows one lettered backlink per
+// occurrence (↩ a b c), each scrolling to its own reference; a single-reference
+// footnote keeps the plain ↩.
+describe("#168 footnote definition multi-backlinks", () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    // Reset the shared ref-count mock so other tests see a single reference.
+    mockRefCount.value = 1;
+  });
+
+  const makeProps = () =>
+    ({
+      node: { attrs: { id: "fn-1" }, textContent: "" },
+      editor: {
+        state: {},
+        isEditable: true,
+        commands: { scrollToReference: vi.fn() },
+      },
+      getPos: () => 0,
+      updateAttributes: () => {},
+      deleteNode: () => {},
+    }) as any;
+
+  it("renders one lettered backlink per reference (a, b, c) plus the ↩ arrow", () => {
+    mockRefCount.value = 3;
+    const { getByTestId } = render(<FootnoteDefinitionView {...makeProps()} />);
+    const wrapper = getByTestId("nvw");
+
+    const links = wrapper.querySelectorAll('[role="button"]');
+    expect(Array.from(links).map((l) => l.textContent)).toEqual([
+      "a",
+      "b",
+      "c",
+    ]);
+    // The ↩ arrow is present (as decorative chrome, not a button).
+    expect(wrapper.textContent).toContain("↩");
+  });
+
+  it("clicking the n-th backlink scrolls to the n-th occurrence (0-based)", () => {
+    mockRefCount.value = 3;
+    const props = makeProps();
+    const { getByTestId } = render(<FootnoteDefinitionView {...props} />);
+    const links = getByTestId("nvw").querySelectorAll('[role="button"]');
+
+    fireEvent.click(links[1]); // "b"
+    expect(props.editor.commands.scrollToReference).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      "fn-1",
+      1,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("a single-reference footnote renders just one ↩ (no letters)", () => {
+    mockRefCount.value = 1;
+    const props = makeProps();
+    const { getByTestId } = render(<FootnoteDefinitionView {...props} />);
+    const wrapper = getByTestId("nvw");
+
+    const links = wrapper.querySelectorAll('[role="button"]');
+    expect(links.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(links[0].textContent).toBe("↩");
+
+    fireEvent.click(links[0]);
+    expect(props.editor.commands.scrollToReference).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      "fn-1",
+      0,
+    );
+  });
+});
+
+// #185 re-review pt 7: backlinkLabel is base-26 (a..z, then aa…). The component
+// tests only cover a,b,c (index 0-2); pin the >= 26 carry boundary.
+describe("backlinkLabel base-26 boundary (#168)", () => {
+  it("maps 0->a, 25->z, 26->aa, 27->ab, 51->az, 52->ba", () => {
+    expect(backlinkLabel(0)).toBe("a");
+    expect(backlinkLabel(25)).toBe("z");
+    expect(backlinkLabel(26)).toBe("aa");
+    expect(backlinkLabel(27)).toBe("ab");
+    expect(backlinkLabel(51)).toBe("az");
+    expect(backlinkLabel(52)).toBe("ba");
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/editor/components/footnote/footnote.module.css

@@ -115,3 +115,18 @@
 .backLink:hover {
   text-decoration: underline;
 }
+
+/* Multi-backlink row (#168): ↩ a b c — one lettered link per reference
+   occurrence. Sits on the right, after the content, like the single ↩. */
+.backLinks {
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
+  display: inline-flex;
+  align-items: baseline;
+  gap: 0.3em;
+  user-select: none;
+}
+
+.backLinkArrow {
+  color: var(--mantine-color-dimmed);
+  font-size: 0.9em;
+}

apps/client/src/features/editor/components/image/image-menu.tsx

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ import {
   IconLayoutAlignCenter,
   IconLayoutAlignLeft,
   IconLayoutAlignRight,
+  IconFloatLeft,
+  IconFloatRight,
   IconDownload,
   IconRefresh,
   IconTrash,
@@ -41,6 +43,8 @@ export function ImageMenu({ editor }: EditorMenuProps) {
         isAlignLeft: ctx.editor.isActive("image", { align: "left" }),
         isAlignCenter: ctx.editor.isActive("image", { align: "center" }),
         isAlignRight: ctx.editor.isActive("image", { align: "right" }),
+        isFloatLeft: ctx.editor.isActive("image", { align: "floatLeft" }),
+        isFloatRight: ctx.editor.isActive("image", { align: "floatRight" }),
         src: imageAttrs?.src || null,
         alt: imageAttrs?.alt || "",
       };
@@ -104,6 +108,22 @@ export function ImageMenu({ editor }: EditorMenuProps) {
       .run();
   }, [editor]);
 
+  const alignImageFloatLeft = useCallback(() => {
+    editor
+      .chain()
+      .focus(undefined, { scrollIntoView: false })
+      .setImageAlign("floatLeft")
+      .run();
+  }, [editor]);
+
+  const alignImageFloatRight = useCallback(() => {
+    editor
+      .chain()
+      .focus(undefined, { scrollIntoView: false })
+      .setImageAlign("floatRight")
+      .run();
+  }, [editor]);
+
   const handleDownload = useCallback(() => {
     if (!editorState?.src) return;
     const url = getFileUrl(editorState.src);
@@ -201,6 +221,30 @@ export function ImageMenu({ editor }: EditorMenuProps) {
           </ActionIcon>
         </Tooltip>
 
+        <Tooltip position="top" label={t("Float left (wrap text)")} withinPortal={false}>
+          <ActionIcon
+            onClick={alignImageFloatLeft}
+            size="lg"
+            aria-label={t("Float left (wrap text)")}
+            variant="subtle"
+            className={clsx({ [classes.active]: editorState?.isFloatLeft })}
+          >
+            <IconFloatLeft size={18} />
+          </ActionIcon>
+        </Tooltip>
+
+        <Tooltip position="top" label={t("Float right (wrap text)")} withinPortal={false}>
+          <ActionIcon
+            onClick={alignImageFloatRight}
+            size="lg"
+            aria-label={t("Float right (wrap text)")}
+            variant="subtle"
+            className={clsx({ [classes.active]: editorState?.isFloatRight })}
+          >
+            <IconFloatRight size={18} />
+          </ActionIcon>
+        </Tooltip>
+
         <div className={classes.divider} />
 
         {altTextButton}

apps/client/src/features/editor/components/slash-menu/menu-items.ts

@@ -524,6 +524,29 @@ const CommandGroups: SlashMenuGroupedItemsType = {
         editor.chain().focus().deleteRange(range).insertSubpages().run();
       },
     },
+    {
+      title: "Page tree (child pages, recursive)",
+      description: "Render the full nested tree of all descendant pages",
+      searchTerms: [
+        "subpages",
+        "child",
+        "children",
+        "nested",
+        "hierarchy",
+        "tree",
+        "recursive",
+        "toc",
+      ],
+      icon: IconSitemap,
+      command: ({ editor, range }: CommandProps) => {
+        editor
+          .chain()
+          .focus()
+          .deleteRange(range)
+          .insertSubpages({ recursive: true })
+          .run();
+      },
+    },
     {
       title: "Synced block",
       description: "Create a block that stays in sync across pages.",

apps/client/src/features/editor/components/subpages/subpages-menu.tsx

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import { BubbleMenu as BaseBubbleMenu } from "@tiptap/react/menus";
-import { posToDOMRect, findParentNode } from "@tiptap/react";
+import { posToDOMRect, findParentNode, useEditorState } from "@tiptap/react";
 import { Node as PMNode } from "@tiptap/pm/model";
 import React, { useCallback } from "react";
-import { ActionIcon, Tooltip } from "@mantine/core";
-import { IconTrash } from "@tabler/icons-react";
+import { ActionIcon, Group, Tooltip } from "@mantine/core";
+import { IconTrash, IconList, IconSitemap } from "@tabler/icons-react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { Editor } from "@tiptap/core";
 import { isEditorReady } from "@docmost/editor-ext";
@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@ export const SubpagesMenu = React.memo(
       return posToDOMRect(editor.view, selection.from, selection.to);
     }, [editor]);
 
+    const toggleRecursive = useCallback(() => {
+      const current = editor.getAttributes("subpages")?.recursive ?? false;
+      editor.commands.updateAttributes("subpages", {
+        recursive: !current,
+      });
+    }, [editor]);
+
     const deleteNode = useCallback(() => {
       const { selection } = editor.state;
       editor
@@ -57,6 +64,15 @@ export const SubpagesMenu = React.memo(
         .run();
     }, [editor]);
 
+    // Subscribe to the live `recursive` attribute the standard way (as the
+    // sibling bubble menus do): useEditorState re-renders only when the selected
+    // value actually changes, so the mode icon/tooltip stay current after a
+    // toggle without re-rendering on every keystroke.
+    const isRecursive = useEditorState({
+      editor,
+      selector: (ctx) => ctx.editor?.getAttributes("subpages")?.recursive ?? false,
+    });
+
     return (
       <BaseBubbleMenu
         editor={editor}
@@ -64,17 +80,41 @@ export const SubpagesMenu = React.memo(
         updateDelay={0}
         shouldShow={shouldShow}
       >
-        <Tooltip position="top" label={t("Delete")}>
-          <ActionIcon
-            onClick={deleteNode}
-            variant="default"
-            size="lg"
-            color="red"
-            aria-label={t("Delete")}
+        <Group gap={4} wrap="nowrap">
+          <Tooltip
+            position="top"
+            label={
+              isRecursive
+                ? t("Switch to flat list")
+                : t("Switch to tree")
+            }
           >
-            <IconTrash size={18} />
-          </ActionIcon>
-        </Tooltip>
+            <ActionIcon
+              onClick={toggleRecursive}
+              variant="default"
+              size="lg"
+              aria-label={t("Toggle subpages display mode")}
+            >
+              {isRecursive ? (
+                <IconList size={18} />
+              ) : (
+                <IconSitemap size={18} />
+              )}
+            </ActionIcon>
+          </Tooltip>
+
+          <Tooltip position="top" label={t("Delete")}>
+            <ActionIcon
+              onClick={deleteNode}
+              variant="default"
+              size="lg"
+              color="red"
+              aria-label={t("Delete")}
+            >
+              <IconTrash size={18} />
+            </ActionIcon>
+          </Tooltip>
+        </Group>
       </BaseBubbleMenu>
     );
   }

apps/client/src/features/editor/components/subpages/subpages-view.tsx

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 import { NodeViewProps, NodeViewWrapper } from "@tiptap/react";
 import { Stack, Text, Anchor, ActionIcon } from "@mantine/core";
 import { IconFileDescription } from "@tabler/icons-react";
-import { useGetSidebarPagesQuery } from "@/features/page/queries/page-query";
+import {
+  useGetSidebarPagesQuery,
+  useGetPageTreeQuery,
+} from "@/features/page/queries/page-query";
 import { useMemo } from "react";
 import { Link, useParams } from "react-router-dom";
 import classes from "./subpages.module.css";
@@ -12,16 +15,130 @@ import {
 } from "@/features/page/page.utils.ts";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { sortPositionKeys } from "@/features/page/tree/utils/utils";
-import { useSharedPageSubpages } from "@/features/share/hooks/use-shared-page-subpages";
+import {
+  useSharedPageSubpages,
+  useSharedPageSubtree,
+} from "@/features/share/hooks/use-shared-page-subpages";
+import {
+  SubpageNode,
+  buildSubtree,
+  mapSharedNodes,
+  countNodes,
+} from "./subpages-view.utils";
+
+// Threshold above which the recursive tree shows a small count note. We never
+// cap the data — this is only an informational hint for very large trees.
+const LARGE_TREE_THRESHOLD = 300;
+
+interface TreeNodeProps {
+  node: SubpageNode;
+  depth: number;
+  shareId?: string;
+  spaceSlug?: string;
+  // Threaded down from the variant component so a large tree does not create one
+  // i18n subscription (useTranslation) per rendered node.
+  t: (key: string) => string;
+}
+
+// Recursive renderer for a single node and its descendants. Indents each level
+// by depth * 16px and reuses the same link/icon markup as the flat list.
+function TreeNode({ node, depth, shareId, spaceSlug, t }: TreeNodeProps) {
+  return (
+    <>
+      <Anchor
+        component={Link}
+        fw={500}
+        to={
+          shareId
+            ? buildSharedPageUrl({
+                shareId,
+                pageSlugId: node.slugId,
+                pageTitle: node.title,
+              })
+            : buildPageUrl(spaceSlug, node.slugId, node.title)
+        }
+        underline="never"
+        className={styles.pageMentionLink}
+        draggable={false}
+        style={{ paddingLeft: depth * 16 }}
+      >
+        {node?.icon ? (
+          <span style={{ marginRight: "4px" }}>{node.icon}</span>
+        ) : (
+          <ActionIcon
+            variant="transparent"
+            color="gray"
+            component="span"
+            size={18}
+            style={{ verticalAlign: "text-bottom" }}
+          >
+            <IconFileDescription size={18} />
+          </ActionIcon>
+        )}
+
+        <span className={styles.pageMentionText}>
+          {node?.title || t("untitled")}
+        </span>
+      </Anchor>
+
+      {node.children.map((child) => (
+        <TreeNode
+          key={child.id}
+          node={child}
+          depth={depth + 1}
+          shareId={shareId}
+          spaceSlug={spaceSlug}
+          t={t}
+        />
+      ))}
+    </>
+  );
+}
 
 export default function SubpagesView(props: NodeViewProps) {
   const { editor } = props;
   const { spaceSlug, shareId } = useParams();
   const { t } = useTranslation();
 
+  const recursive: boolean = props.node.attrs.recursive ?? false;
+
   //@ts-ignore
   const currentPageId = editor.storage.pageId;
 
+  if (recursive) {
+    return (
+      <RecursiveSubpages
+        currentPageId={currentPageId}
+        shareId={shareId}
+        spaceSlug={spaceSlug}
+        t={t}
+      />
+    );
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <FlatSubpages
+      currentPageId={currentPageId}
+      shareId={shareId}
+      spaceSlug={spaceSlug}
+      t={t}
+    />
+  );
+}
+
+interface SubpagesVariantProps {
+  currentPageId: string;
+  shareId?: string;
+  spaceSlug?: string;
+  t: (key: string, options?: Record<string, unknown>) => string;
+}
+
+function FlatSubpages({
+  currentPageId,
+  shareId,
+  spaceSlug,
+  t,
+}: SubpagesVariantProps) {
   // Get subpages from shared tree if we're in a shared context
   const sharedSubpages = useSharedPageSubpages(currentPageId);
 
@@ -119,3 +236,78 @@ export default function SubpagesView(props: NodeViewProps) {
     </NodeViewWrapper>
   );
 }
+
+function RecursiveSubpages({
+  currentPageId,
+  shareId,
+  spaceSlug,
+  t,
+}: SubpagesVariantProps) {
+  // In a shared/public context reuse the already-loaded nested shared tree
+  // instead of issuing a /pages/tree request.
+  const sharedSubtree = useSharedPageSubtree(currentPageId);
+
+  const { data, isLoading, error } = useGetPageTreeQuery(
+    shareId ? "" : currentPageId,
+  );
+
+  const tree = useMemo<SubpageNode[]>(() => {
+    if (shareId) {
+      return mapSharedNodes(sharedSubtree);
+    }
+    if (!data) return [];
+    return buildSubtree(data, currentPageId);
+  }, [data, shareId, sharedSubtree, currentPageId]);
+
+  const total = useMemo(() => countNodes(tree), [tree]);
+
+  if (isLoading && !shareId) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  if (error && !shareId) {
+    return (
+      <NodeViewWrapper data-drag-handle>
+        <Text c="dimmed" size="md" py="md">
+          {t("Failed to load subpages")}
+        </Text>
+      </NodeViewWrapper>
+    );
+  }
+
+  if (tree.length === 0) {
+    return (
+      <NodeViewWrapper data-drag-handle>
+        <div className={classes.container}>
+          <Text c="dimmed" size="md" py="md">
+            {t("No subpages")}
+          </Text>
+        </div>
+      </NodeViewWrapper>
+    );
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <NodeViewWrapper data-drag-handle>
+      <div className={classes.container}>
+        <Stack gap={5}>
+          {tree.map((node) => (
+            <TreeNode
+              key={node.id}
+              node={node}
+              depth={0}
+              shareId={shareId}
+              spaceSlug={spaceSlug}
+              t={t}
+            />
+          ))}
+        </Stack>
+        {total > LARGE_TREE_THRESHOLD && (
+          <Text c="dimmed" size="xs" pt="xs">
+            {t("Showing {{count}} subpages", { count: total })}
+          </Text>
+        )}
+      </div>
+    </NodeViewWrapper>
+  );
+}

apps/client/src/features/editor/components/subpages/subpages-view.utils.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import {
+  buildSubtree,
+  countNodes,
+  mapSharedNodes,
+  SubpageNode,
+} from "./subpages-view.utils";
+import { IPage } from "@/features/page/types/page.types";
+
+// Minimal IPage fixture — buildSubtree only reads id/slugId/title/icon/position/
+// parentPageId. `position` keys are fractional-indexing strings (lexicographic).
+const page = (p: Partial<IPage> & { id: string }): IPage =>
+  ({
+    slugId: `slug-${p.id}`,
+    title: `Title ${p.id}`,
+    icon: undefined,
+    position: "a0",
+    parentPageId: null,
+    ...p,
+  }) as IPage;
+
+const ids = (nodes: SubpageNode[]): string[] => nodes.map((n) => n.id);
+
+describe("buildSubtree", () => {
+  it("nests children under the root and excludes the root itself", () => {
+    const pages = [
+      page({ id: "root" }),
+      page({ id: "a", parentPageId: "root", position: "a0" }),
+      page({ id: "b", parentPageId: "root", position: "a1" }),
+      page({ id: "a1", parentPageId: "a", position: "a0" }),
+    ];
+    const tree = buildSubtree(pages, "root");
+    // Root is not rendered; only its descendants.
+    expect(ids(tree)).toEqual(["a", "b"]);
+    expect(ids(tree[0].children)).toEqual(["a1"]);
+    expect(tree[1].children).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("sorts each level by position", () => {
+    const pages = [
+      page({ id: "root" }),
+      page({ id: "z", parentPageId: "root", position: "a2" }),
+      page({ id: "x", parentPageId: "root", position: "a0" }),
+      page({ id: "y", parentPageId: "root", position: "a1" }),
+    ];
+    expect(ids(buildSubtree(pages, "root"))).toEqual(["x", "y", "z"]);
+  });
+
+  it("returns [] when the root is absent from the page set", () => {
+    const pages = [page({ id: "a", parentPageId: "missing-root" })];
+    expect(buildSubtree(pages, "missing-root")).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("silently drops a node whose parent is absent (unreachable parent)", () => {
+    const pages = [
+      page({ id: "root" }),
+      page({ id: "ok", parentPageId: "root" }),
+      page({ id: "orphan", parentPageId: "ghost" }), // parent not in the set
+    ];
+    expect(ids(buildSubtree(pages, "root"))).toEqual(["ok"]);
+  });
+
+  it("guards against self-parenting / attaching the root", () => {
+    const pages = [
+      // A (defensive) self-parented root must not attach to itself.
+      page({ id: "root", parentPageId: "root" }),
+      page({ id: "a", parentPageId: "root" }),
+    ];
+    const tree = buildSubtree(pages, "root");
+    expect(ids(tree)).toEqual(["a"]);
+  });
+
+  it("returns [] for empty input", () => {
+    expect(buildSubtree([], "root")).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("countNodes", () => {
+  it("counts every descendant across all levels", () => {
+    const tree: SubpageNode[] = [
+      {
+        id: "a",
+        slugId: "s",
+        title: "A",
+        children: [
+          { id: "a1", slugId: "s", title: "A1", children: [] },
+          { id: "a2", slugId: "s", title: "A2", children: [] },
+        ],
+      },
+      { id: "b", slugId: "s", title: "B", children: [] },
+    ];
+    expect(countNodes(tree)).toBe(4);
+    expect(countNodes([])).toBe(0);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("mapSharedNodes", () => {
+  it("remaps value->id / name->title and keeps nested children", () => {
+    const shared = [
+      {
+        value: "p1",
+        slugId: "s1",
+        name: "Parent",
+        icon: "📁",
+        children: [
+          { value: "c1", slugId: "sc1", name: "Child", children: [] },
+        ],
+      },
+    ] as any;
+    const mapped = mapSharedNodes(shared);
+    expect(mapped[0]).toMatchObject({ id: "p1", slugId: "s1", title: "Parent", icon: "📁" });
+    expect(mapped[0].children[0]).toMatchObject({ id: "c1", title: "Child" });
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/editor/components/subpages/subpages-view.utils.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import { sortPositionKeys } from "@/features/page/tree/utils/utils";
+import { IPage } from "@/features/page/types/page.types";
+import { SharedPageTreeNode } from "@/features/share/utils";
+
+// Normalized node shared by the flat and recursive subpages renderers so the
+// same link/icon markup works for both API pages and shared-tree nodes.
+export interface SubpageNode {
+  id: string;
+  slugId: string;
+  title: string;
+  icon?: string;
+  children: SubpageNode[];
+}
+
+// Subpage node carrying `position` so each level can be sorted in place.
+export type SubpageNodeWithPos = SubpageNode & {
+  position: string;
+  children: SubpageNodeWithPos[];
+};
+
+/**
+ * Build a nested subtree (the current page's descendants) from the flat `IPage[]`
+ * the `/pages/tree` endpoint returns. Attaches each node to its parent by
+ * `parentPageId`, drops the root itself, and sorts every level by `position`.
+ *
+ * Guards only against SELF-PARENTING and attaching the root (`p.id !== rootId`) —
+ * NOT against multi-node `parentPageId` cycles. Those cannot occur here: the
+ * server rejects cyclic moves, and the recursive `getPageAndDescendants` CTE that
+ * produces this list would itself loop before reaching the client, so the flat
+ * input is acyclic by construction. A node whose `parentPageId` points outside
+ * the result set (an unreachable parent) is silently dropped — it is, by
+ * definition, not a descendant of the root being rendered.
+ */
+export function buildSubtree(pages: IPage[], rootId: string): SubpageNode[] {
+  const byId = new Map<string, SubpageNodeWithPos>(
+    pages.map((p) => [
+      p.id,
+      {
+        id: p.id,
+        slugId: p.slugId,
+        title: p.title,
+        icon: p.icon,
+        position: p.position,
+        children: [],
+      },
+    ]),
+  );
+
+  for (const p of pages) {
+    const node = byId.get(p.id);
+    const parent = p.parentPageId ? byId.get(p.parentPageId) : undefined;
+    if (node && parent && p.id !== rootId) {
+      parent.children.push(node);
+    }
+  }
+
+  const sortRecursive = (
+    nodes: SubpageNodeWithPos[],
+  ): SubpageNodeWithPos[] => {
+    const sorted = sortPositionKeys(nodes) as SubpageNodeWithPos[];
+    sorted.forEach((n) => sortRecursive(n.children));
+    return sorted;
+  };
+
+  const root = byId.get(rootId);
+  return root ? sortRecursive(root.children) : [];
+}
+
+// Map shared-tree nodes (already nested) onto the normalized SubpageNode shape.
+export function mapSharedNodes(nodes: SharedPageTreeNode[]): SubpageNode[] {
+  return nodes.map((node) => ({
+    id: node.value,
+    slugId: node.slugId,
+    title: node.name,
+    icon: node.icon,
+    children: node.children ? mapSharedNodes(node.children) : [],
+  }));
+}
+
+// Count every descendant in a normalized subtree.
+export function countNodes(nodes: SubpageNode[]): number {
+  return nodes.reduce((acc, n) => acc + 1 + countNodes(n.children), 0);
+}

apps/client/src/features/page/queries/page-query.ts

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import {
   getAllSidebarPages,
   getDeletedPages,
   restorePage,
+  getSpaceTree,
 } from "@/features/page/services/page-service";
 import {
   IMovePage,
@@ -273,7 +274,10 @@ export function useRestorePageMutation() {
       queryClient.setQueryData<IPage>(["pages", restoredPage.slugId], merge);
     },
     onError: (error) => {
-      notifications.show({ message: t("Failed to restore page"), color: "red" });
+      notifications.show({
+        message: t("Failed to restore page"),
+        color: "red",
+      });
     },
   });
 }
@@ -284,10 +288,10 @@ export function useGetSidebarPagesQuery(
   return useInfiniteQuery({
     queryKey: ["sidebar-pages", data],
     enabled: !!data?.pageId || !!data?.spaceId,
-    queryFn: ({ pageParam }) => getSidebarPages({ ...data, cursor: pageParam, limit: 100 }),
+    queryFn: ({ pageParam }) =>
+      getSidebarPages({ ...data, cursor: pageParam, limit: 100 }),
     initialPageParam: undefined,
-    getNextPageParam: (lastPage) =>
-      lastPage.meta?.nextCursor ?? undefined,
+    getNextPageParam: (lastPage) => lastPage.meta?.nextCursor ?? undefined,
   });
 }
 
@@ -295,11 +299,23 @@ export function useGetRootSidebarPagesQuery(data: SidebarPagesParams) {
   return useInfiniteQuery({
     queryKey: ["root-sidebar-pages", data.spaceId],
     queryFn: async ({ pageParam }) => {
-      return getSidebarPages({ spaceId: data.spaceId, cursor: pageParam, limit: 100 });
+      return getSidebarPages({
+        spaceId: data.spaceId,
+        cursor: pageParam,
+        limit: 100,
+      });
     },
     initialPageParam: undefined,
-    getNextPageParam: (lastPage) =>
-      lastPage.meta?.nextCursor ?? undefined,
+    getNextPageParam: (lastPage) => lastPage.meta?.nextCursor ?? undefined,
+  });
+}
+
+export function useGetPageTreeQuery(pageId: string) {
+  return useQuery({
+    queryKey: ["page-tree", pageId],
+    queryFn: () => getSpaceTree({ pageId }),
+    enabled: !!pageId,
+    staleTime: 30 * 1000,
   });
 }
 
@@ -313,12 +329,17 @@ export function usePageBreadcrumbsQuery(
   });
 }
 
-export async function fetchAllAncestorChildren(params: SidebarPagesParams) {
+export async function fetchAllAncestorChildren(
+  params: SidebarPagesParams,
+  // `fresh: true` forces a server refetch (staleTime 0) — used by the reconnect
+  // refresh (#159 #8), which must NOT receive the 30-min-cached children.
+  opts?: { fresh?: boolean },
+) {
   // not using a hook here, so we can call it inside a useEffect hook
   const response = await queryClient.fetchQuery({
     queryKey: ["sidebar-pages", params],
     queryFn: () => getAllSidebarPages(params),
-    staleTime: 30 * 60 * 1000,
+    staleTime: opts?.fresh ? 0 : 30 * 60 * 1000,
   });
 
   const allItems = response.pages.flatMap((page) => page.items);
@@ -337,11 +358,15 @@ export function useRecentChangesQuery(spaceId?: string) {
   });
 }
 
-export function useCreatedByQuery(params?: { userId?: string; spaceId?: string }) {
+export function useCreatedByQuery(params?: {
+  userId?: string;
+  spaceId?: string;
+}) {
   const { userId, spaceId } = params ?? {};
   return useInfiniteQuery({
     queryKey: ["pages-created-by-user", { userId, spaceId }],
-    queryFn: ({ pageParam }) => getCreatedByPages({ userId, spaceId, cursor: pageParam, limit: 15 }),
+    queryFn: ({ pageParam }) =>
+      getCreatedByPages({ userId, spaceId, cursor: pageParam, limit: 15 }),
     initialPageParam: undefined as string | undefined,
     getNextPageParam: (lastPage) =>
       lastPage.meta.hasNextPage ? lastPage.meta.nextCursor : undefined,
@@ -363,7 +388,18 @@ export function useDeletedPagesQuery(
   });
 }
 
+/**
+ * Invalidate every cached page-subtree (the recursive `subpages` node, issue
+ * #150). Called from each tree-structure cache helper below so a create / move /
+ * rename / delete (local OR websocket-echoed) refreshes any open recursive tree.
+ * Keyed loosely (`["page-tree"]` prefix) so all subtrees are caught.
+ */
+function invalidatePageTree() {
+  queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ["page-tree"] });
+}
+
 export function invalidateOnCreatePage(data: Partial<IPage>) {
+  invalidatePageTree();
   const newPage: Partial<IPage> = {
     creatorId: data.creatorId,
     hasChildren: data.hasChildren,
@@ -478,6 +514,7 @@ export function invalidateOnUpdatePage(
   title: string,
   icon: string,
 ) {
+  invalidatePageTree();
   let queryKey: QueryKey = null;
   if (parentPageId === null) {
     queryKey = ["root-sidebar-pages", spaceId];
@@ -516,6 +553,7 @@ export function updateCacheOnMovePage(
   newParentId: string | null,
   pageData: Partial<IPage>,
 ) {
+  invalidatePageTree();
   // Remove page from old parent's cache
   const oldQueryKey =
     oldParentId === null
@@ -633,6 +671,7 @@ export function updateCacheOnMovePage(
 }
 
 export function invalidateOnDeletePage(pageId: string) {
+  invalidatePageTree();
   //update all sidebar pages
   const allSideBarMatches = queryClient.getQueriesData({
     predicate: (query) =>

apps/client/src/features/page/services/page-service.ts

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ export async function getAllSidebarPages(
 }
 
 export async function getSpaceTree(params: {
-  spaceId: string;
+  spaceId?: string;
   pageId?: string;
 }): Promise<IPage[]> {
   const req = await api.post<{ items: IPage[] }>("/pages/tree", params);

apps/client/src/features/page/tree/components/space-tree.tsx

@@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ import {
   collectBranchIds,
   openBranches,
   closeIds,
+  loadedOpenBranchIds,
 } from "@/features/page/tree/utils/utils.ts";
 import { SpaceTreeNode } from "@/features/page/tree/types.ts";
 import { treeModel } from "@/features/page/tree/model/tree-model";
+import { socketAtom } from "@/features/websocket/atoms/socket-atom.ts";
 import {
   getPageBreadcrumbs,
   getSpaceTree,
@@ -39,11 +41,7 @@ import {
 import { IPage } from "@/features/page/types/page.types.ts";
 import { extractPageSlugId } from "@/lib";
 import { isCompactPageTreeEnabled } from "@/lib/config.ts";
-import {
-  DocTree,
-  ROW_HEIGHT_COMPACT,
-  ROW_HEIGHT_STANDARD,
-} from "./doc-tree";
+import { DocTree, ROW_HEIGHT_COMPACT, ROW_HEIGHT_STANDARD } from "./doc-tree";
 import { SpaceTreeRow } from "./space-tree-row";
 
 interface SpaceTreeProps {
@@ -193,6 +191,54 @@ const SpaceTree = forwardRef<SpaceTreeApi, SpaceTreeProps>(function SpaceTree(
     [openTreeNodes],
   );
 
+  // Latest tree + open-state for the reconnect handler (its closure would
+  // otherwise read stale snapshots).
+  const [socket] = useAtom(socketAtom);
+  const dataRef = useRef(data);
+  dataRef.current = data;
+  const openIdsRef = useRef(openIds);
+  openIdsRef.current = openIds;
+
+  // Reconnect refresh (#159 #8): on a socket reconnect, re-fetch and reconcile
+  // the children of every currently-open, already-loaded branch of THIS space,
+  // so a move/rename/delete that happened INSIDE a loaded branch while events
+  // were missed (laptop sleep / wifi gap) is reflected instead of left stale.
+  // The ROOT level is reconciled separately by the root-query refetch +
+  // mergeRootTrees; an UNLOADED branch is skipped (lazy-load fetches it fresh on
+  // expand). No first-connect guard is needed: space-tree usually mounts AFTER
+  // the initial connect, so every `connect` it sees is a reconnect; the rare
+  // initial-connect case has an empty tree, so the refresh is a harmless no-op.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!socket) return;
+    const onConnect = async () => {
+      const effectSpaceId = spaceIdRef.current;
+      const branchIds = loadedOpenBranchIds(
+        dataRef.current.filter((n) => n?.spaceId === effectSpaceId),
+        openIdsRef.current,
+      );
+      if (branchIds.length === 0) return;
+      for (const id of branchIds) {
+        try {
+          // `fresh: true` bypasses the 30-min sidebar-pages cache so the
+          // reconcile sees the server's CURRENT children (handler-order
+          // independent — no reliance on the global reconnect invalidation).
+          const fresh = await fetchAllAncestorChildren(
+            { pageId: id, spaceId: effectSpaceId },
+            { fresh: true },
+          );
+          if (spaceIdRef.current !== effectSpaceId) return; // space switched
+          setData((prev) => treeModel.reconcileChildren(prev, id, fresh));
+        } catch (err) {
+          console.error("[tree] reconnect branch refresh failed", err);
+        }
+      }
+    };
+    socket.on("connect", onConnect);
+    return () => {
+      socket.off("connect", onConnect);
+    };
+  }, [socket, setData]);
+
   const handleToggle = useCallback(
     async (id: string, isOpen: boolean) => {
       setOpenTreeNodes((prev) => ({ ...prev, [id]: isOpen }));
@@ -245,8 +291,7 @@ const SpaceTree = forwardRef<SpaceTreeApi, SpaceTreeProps>(function SpaceTree(
       notifications.show({
         color: "red",
         message: t("Couldn't expand the tree: {{reason}}", {
-          reason:
-            err?.response?.data?.message ?? err?.message ?? String(err),
+          reason: err?.response?.data?.message ?? err?.message ?? String(err),
         }),
       });
     } finally {
@@ -262,11 +307,11 @@ const SpaceTree = forwardRef<SpaceTreeApi, SpaceTreeProps>(function SpaceTree(
     setOpenTreeNodes((prev) => closeIds(prev, ids));
   }, [filteredData, setOpenTreeNodes]);
 
-  useImperativeHandle(
-    ref,
-    () => ({ expandAll, collapseAll, isExpanding }),
-    [expandAll, collapseAll, isExpanding],
-  );
+  useImperativeHandle(ref, () => ({ expandAll, collapseAll, isExpanding }), [
+    expandAll,
+    collapseAll,
+    isExpanding,
+  ]);
 
   // Stable callbacks for DocTree. Without these, every parent render recreates
   // the props and tears down every row's draggable/dropTarget subscription,

apps/client/src/features/page/tree/model/tree-model.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { TreeNode, SiblingsInfo } from './tree-model.types';
+import type { TreeNode, SiblingsInfo } from "./tree-model.types";
 
 function findInternal<T extends object>(
   nodes: TreeNode<T>[],
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ export const treeModel = {
     return findInternal(tree, id)?.node ?? null;
   },
 
-  path<T extends object>(tree: TreeNode<T>[], id: string): TreeNode<T>[] | null {
+  path<T extends object>(
+    tree: TreeNode<T>[],
+    id: string,
+  ): TreeNode<T>[] | null {
     const found = findInternal(tree, id);
     if (!found) return null;
     return [...found.parents, found.node];
@@ -123,6 +126,23 @@ export const treeModel = {
       return treeModel.insert(tree, null, node, index(tree));
     }
     const parent = treeModel.find(tree, parentId);
+    // The parent is in the tree but its children have NOT been lazy-loaded yet
+    // (`children === undefined`, distinct from a loaded-but-empty `[]`). Inserting
+    // here would MATERIALIZE a misleading partial child list (`[node]`) that
+    // defeats the lazy-load gate — which fetches only when children are
+    // absent/empty — so the parent's OTHER real children would never load and the
+    // moved/added node would be the only one shown (a silent data loss, #159 #1).
+    // Instead, leave the children unloaded and just flag `hasChildren` so the
+    // chevron appears; expanding fetches the FULL set (including this node).
+    if (parent && parent.children === undefined) {
+      return treeModel.update(
+        tree,
+        parentId,
+        // hasChildren is not part of the generic T constraint; tree nodes carry
+        // it. Cast narrowly so this stays a single, well-understood exception.
+        { hasChildren: true } as unknown as Omit<Partial<T>, "id" | "children">,
+      );
+    }
     const kids = (parent?.children as TreeNode<T>[] | undefined) ?? [];
     return treeModel.insert(tree, parentId, node, index(kids));
   },
@@ -203,6 +223,48 @@ export const treeModel = {
     return touched ? out : tree;
   },
 
+  // Replace a parent's DIRECT children with the authoritative `fresh` set while
+  // PRESERVING each surviving child's already-loaded grandchildren (deeper
+  // expansion). Unlike `appendChildren` (add-only), this DROPS children that are
+  // no longer present and reorders to `fresh` — so a move/delete/rename that
+  // happened inside a loaded branch while events were missed (a socket reconnect
+  // gap) is reflected, not left stale (#159 #8). Only used to reconcile an
+  // already-loaded branch against a fresh fetch; a parent with no loaded children
+  // (`children === undefined`) is left untouched (lazy-load handles it).
+  reconcileChildren<T extends object>(
+    tree: TreeNode<T>[],
+    parentId: string,
+    fresh: TreeNode<T>[],
+  ): TreeNode<T>[] {
+    let touched = false;
+    const walk = (nodes: TreeNode<T>[]): TreeNode<T>[] =>
+      nodes.map((n) => {
+        if (n.id === parentId) {
+          // Only reconcile a branch whose children were actually loaded; an
+          // unloaded parent stays unloaded (lazy-load fetches it fresh later).
+          if (n.children === undefined) return n;
+          const prevById = new Map(n.children.map((c) => [c.id, c]));
+          const merged = fresh.map((f) => {
+            const prev = prevById.get(f.id);
+            // Preserve the surviving child's previously loaded grandchildren so
+            // deeper expansion is not collapsed by the reconcile.
+            return prev?.children !== undefined
+              ? { ...f, children: prev.children }
+              : f;
+          });
+          touched = true;
+          return { ...n, children: merged };
+        }
+        if (n.children) {
+          const next = walk(n.children);
+          if (next !== n.children) return { ...n, children: next };
+        }
+        return n;
+      });
+    const out = walk(tree);
+    return touched ? out : tree;
+  },
+
   place<T extends object>(
     tree: TreeNode<T>[],
     sourceId: string,
@@ -232,6 +294,20 @@ export const treeModel = {
     const source = treeModel.find(tree, sourceId);
     if (!source) return tree;
     if (to.parentId !== null && !treeModel.find(tree, to.parentId)) return tree;
+    // Cycle guard, mirroring `move`'s `isDescendant` check (#206 ui-state-races-1).
+    // If the destination parent is INSIDE the moved node's own subtree (reachable
+    // when server-authoritative move events arrive out of order — e.g. X moved
+    // under Y, then Y under X, but on this receiver Y is still inside X), then
+    // `remove(sourceId)` would drop the future parent along with the whole subtree
+    // and `insertByPosition` could not find it again — the node and ALL its
+    // descendants would silently vanish. Refuse the move and return the same
+    // reference so callers can detect the no-op and reconcile (refetch) instead.
+    if (
+      to.parentId !== null &&
+      treeModel.isDescendant(tree, sourceId, to.parentId)
+    ) {
+      return tree;
+    }
     const removed = treeModel.remove(tree, sourceId);
     // Reuse the same position-ordered insertion as `insertByPosition` by
     // stamping the authoritative position onto the moved node first.
@@ -242,9 +318,10 @@ export const treeModel = {
   move<T extends object>(
     tree: TreeNode<T>[],
     sourceId: string,
-    op: import('./tree-model.types').DropOp,
-  ): { tree: TreeNode<T>[]; result: import('./tree-model.types').DropResult } {
-    if (sourceId === op.targetId) return { tree, result: { parentId: null, index: 0 } };
+    op: import("./tree-model.types").DropOp,
+  ): { tree: TreeNode<T>[]; result: import("./tree-model.types").DropResult } {
+    if (sourceId === op.targetId)
+      return { tree, result: { parentId: null, index: 0 } };
     if (!treeModel.find(tree, sourceId) || !treeModel.find(tree, op.targetId)) {
       return { tree, result: { parentId: null, index: 0 } };
     }
@@ -255,7 +332,7 @@ export const treeModel = {
     let parentId: string | null;
     let index: number;
 
-    if (op.kind === 'make-child') {
+    if (op.kind === "make-child") {
       parentId = op.targetId;
       const target = treeModel.find(tree, op.targetId)!;
       index = target.children?.length ?? 0;
@@ -264,9 +341,8 @@ export const treeModel = {
       parentId = info.parentId;
       const sourceInfo = treeModel.siblingsOf(tree, sourceId)!;
       const sameParent = sourceInfo.parentId === parentId;
-      const adjust =
-        sameParent && sourceInfo.index < info.index ? -1 : 0;
-      index = info.index + adjust + (op.kind === 'reorder-after' ? 1 : 0);
+      const adjust = sameParent && sourceInfo.index < info.index ? -1 : 0;
+      index = info.index + adjust + (op.kind === "reorder-after" ? 1 : 0);
     }
 
     const next = treeModel.place(tree, sourceId, { parentId, index });

apps/client/src/features/page/tree/utils/utils.test.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import {
   collectBranchIds,
   openBranches,
   closeIds,
+  mergeRootTrees,
+  loadedOpenBranchIds,
 } from "./utils";
 import type { IPage } from "@/features/page/types/page.types.ts";
 import type { SpaceTreeNode } from "@/features/page/tree/types.ts";
@@ -44,10 +46,7 @@ function flatNode(
 }
 
 // Nested SpaceTreeNode factory for collectAllIds / collectBranchIds.
-function treeNode(
-  id: string,
-  children: SpaceTreeNode[] = [],
-): SpaceTreeNode {
+function treeNode(id: string, children: SpaceTreeNode[] = []): SpaceTreeNode {
   return {
     id,
     slugId: `slug-${id}`,
@@ -94,11 +93,7 @@ describe("collectBranchIds", () => {
       ]),
       treeNode("root2", [treeNode("leaf3")]),
     ];
-    expect(collectBranchIds(tree).sort()).toEqual([
-      "branch1",
-      "root",
-      "root2",
-    ]);
+    expect(collectBranchIds(tree).sort()).toEqual(["branch1", "root", "root2"]);
   });
 
   it("returns [] for a leaf-only tree", () => {
@@ -273,3 +268,95 @@ describe("closeIds", () => {
     expect(twice).toEqual({ keep: true, a: false, b: false });
   });
 });
+
+describe("mergeRootTrees (#159 #2 reconnect reconcile)", () => {
+  // Root node with a position and optional already-loaded children.
+  function root(
+    id: string,
+    position: string,
+    children?: SpaceTreeNode[],
+  ): SpaceTreeNode {
+    return {
+      id,
+      slugId: `slug-${id}`,
+      name: id.toUpperCase(),
+      icon: undefined,
+      position,
+      spaceId: "space-1",
+      parentPageId: null as unknown as string,
+      hasChildren: !!children?.length,
+      children: children as SpaceTreeNode[],
+    };
+  }
+
+  it("DROPS a stale root that is absent from the incoming (authoritative) set", () => {
+    // 'ghost' was a root before the gap; the server's current roots no longer
+    // include it (deleted / moved under another page). It must not linger.
+    const prev = [root("a", "a0"), root("ghost", "a2"), root("b", "a4")];
+    const incoming = [root("a", "a0"), root("b", "a4")];
+    const merged = mergeRootTrees(prev, incoming);
+    expect(merged.map((n) => n.id)).toEqual(["a", "b"]);
+    expect(merged.find((n) => n.id === "ghost")).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it("PRESERVES a surviving root's lazy-loaded children (subtree not lost on refetch)", () => {
+    const loadedChild = root("a1", "a0");
+    const prev = [root("a", "a0", [loadedChild])];
+    // The root query returns only top-level roots (no children).
+    const incoming = [root("a", "a0")];
+    const merged = mergeRootTrees(prev, incoming);
+    expect(merged[0].children?.map((c) => c.id)).toEqual(["a1"]);
+  });
+
+  it("ADDS a new incoming root", () => {
+    const prev = [root("a", "a0")];
+    const incoming = [root("a", "a0"), root("new", "a2")];
+    const merged = mergeRootTrees(prev, incoming);
+    expect(merged.map((n) => n.id)).toEqual(["a", "new"]);
+  });
+
+  it("REFRESHES a surviving root's own fields from the incoming copy (e.g. rename)", () => {
+    const prev = [{ ...root("a", "a0"), name: "OLD" }];
+    const incoming = [{ ...root("a", "a0"), name: "NEW" }];
+    const merged = mergeRootTrees(prev, incoming);
+    expect(merged[0].name).toBe("NEW");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("loadedOpenBranchIds (#159 #8 reconnect refresh targets)", () => {
+  function n(id: string, children?: SpaceTreeNode[]): SpaceTreeNode {
+    return {
+      id,
+      slugId: `slug-${id}`,
+      name: id.toUpperCase(),
+      icon: undefined,
+      position: "a0",
+      spaceId: "space-1",
+      parentPageId: null as unknown as string,
+      hasChildren: !!children,
+      children: children as SpaceTreeNode[],
+    };
+  }
+
+  it("returns OPEN branches whose children are loaded (array)", () => {
+    const tree = [n("a", [n("a1")]), n("b", [n("b1")])];
+    const ids = loadedOpenBranchIds(tree, new Set(["a"]));
+    expect(ids).toEqual(["a"]); // b is closed; a is open+loaded
+  });
+
+  it("skips an open branch whose children are NOT loaded (undefined)", () => {
+    const tree = [n("a")]; // children undefined
+    expect(loadedOpenBranchIds(tree, new Set(["a"]))).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("includes a loaded-but-empty open branch (a child may have been added during the gap)", () => {
+    const tree = [n("a", [])];
+    expect(loadedOpenBranchIds(tree, new Set(["a"]))).toEqual(["a"]);
+  });
+
+  it("walks nested open+loaded branches (deep chain refreshes every level)", () => {
+    const tree = [n("a", [n("a1", [n("a1a")])])];
+    const ids = loadedOpenBranchIds(tree, new Set(["a", "a1"]));
+    expect(ids.sort()).toEqual(["a", "a1"]);
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/page/tree/utils/utils.ts

@@ -214,21 +214,59 @@ export function appendNodeChildren(
 }
 
 /**
- * Merge root nodes; keep existing ones intact, append new ones,
+ * Reconcile the loaded root nodes to the authoritative INCOMING set (the
+ * server's complete current roots for the space), preserving any lazy-loaded
+ * children/subtree of a root that still exists.
+ *
+ * This runs only once all root pages are fetched, so `incomingRoots` is the full
+ * server root set and is authoritative for WHICH roots exist:
+ *  - a root in BOTH: kept, with its own fields refreshed from `incoming` (so a
+ *    rename/move during a gap shows) while PRESERVING its previously lazy-loaded
+ *    `children` (expanded subtrees + open-state survive a refetch);
+ *  - a root only in `incoming`: a new root, added as-is;
+ *  - a root only in `prev`: it was DELETED or moved under another page while we
+ *    were not receiving events (e.g. a socket reconnect after a sleep/wifi gap).
+ *    It is DROPPED instead of lingering as a 404 "ghost" root (#159 #2). The old
+ *    append-only merge kept it forever.
  */
 export function mergeRootTrees(
   prevRoots: SpaceTreeNode[],
   incomingRoots: SpaceTreeNode[],
 ): SpaceTreeNode[] {
-  const seen = new Set(prevRoots.map((r) => r.id));
+  const prevById = new Map(prevRoots.map((r) => [r.id, r]));
 
-  // add new roots that were not present before
-  const merged = [...prevRoots];
-  incomingRoots.forEach((node) => {
-    if (!seen.has(node.id)) merged.push(node);
+  const reconciled = incomingRoots.map((incoming) => {
+    const prev = prevById.get(incoming.id);
+    // Preserve the previously loaded children/subtree (the root query returns
+    // only top-level roots, so `incoming` carries no children); refresh the
+    // node's own fields from the authoritative incoming copy.
+    return prev ? { ...incoming, children: prev.children } : incoming;
   });
 
-  return sortPositionKeys(merged);
+  return sortPositionKeys(reconciled);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Ids of branches a socket-reconnect refresh should re-fetch and reconcile
+ * (#159 #8): a node that is currently OPEN and whose children are LOADED
+ * (`children` is an array — possibly empty). An unloaded branch (`children ===
+ * undefined`) is skipped because lazy-load fetches it fresh on the next expand,
+ * so there is nothing stale to reconcile. Walks the whole tree (a deep open
+ * chain refreshes every loaded level).
+ */
+export function loadedOpenBranchIds(
+  tree: SpaceTreeNode[],
+  openIds: ReadonlySet<string>,
+): string[] {
+  const ids: string[] = [];
+  const walk = (nodes: SpaceTreeNode[]) => {
+    for (const n of nodes) {
+      if (openIds.has(n.id) && Array.isArray(n.children)) ids.push(n.id);
+      if (n.children) walk(n.children);
+    }
+  };
+  walk(tree);
+  return ids;
 }
 
 // Collect every node id in the tree (roots, branches, leaves). Used by

apps/client/src/features/share/hooks/use-shared-page-subpages.ts

@@ -27,3 +27,11 @@ export function useSharedPageSubpages(pageId: string | undefined) {
     return findSubpages(treeData);
   }, [treeData, pageId]);
 }
+
+// Recursive variant for the subpages node in a shared/public context. The shared
+// tree (`sharedTreeDataAtom`) is ALREADY fully nested, so a page's `children`
+// each carry their own nested `children` — exactly what the recursive renderer
+// needs. The data is therefore identical to the flat hook; only the rendering
+// differs (the recursive view walks `children` instead of showing one level).
+// Thin alias to avoid duplicating the lookup. No `/pages/tree` request here.
+export const useSharedPageSubtree = useSharedPageSubpages;

apps/client/src/features/websocket/tree-socket-reducers.test.ts

@@ -81,6 +81,38 @@ describe("applyMoveTreeNode", () => {
     ]);
   });
 
+  it("does NOT create a partial child list when the destination is loaded-but-collapsed (children unloaded) — keeps it lazy-loadable (#159)", () => {
+    // `dstCollapsed` is in the tree but its children were never lazy-loaded
+    // (children === undefined). The OLD behavior inserted `src` as the ONLY
+    // child ([src]), which defeated the lazy-load gate and HID the parent's
+    // other real children. Now the move leaves children unloaded (so expanding
+    // fetches the FULL set, including src) and just flags hasChildren.
+    const tree: SpaceTreeNode[] = [
+      node("dstCollapsed", {
+        position: "a0",
+        hasChildren: false,
+        children: undefined as unknown as SpaceTreeNode[],
+      }),
+      node("src", { position: "a9" }),
+    ];
+    const next = applyMoveTreeNode(tree, {
+      id: "src",
+      parentId: "dstCollapsed",
+      oldParentId: null,
+      index: 0,
+      position: "a4",
+      pageData: {},
+    });
+    const dst = treeModel.find(next, "dstCollapsed");
+    // Children stay unloaded -> the lazy-load gate fetches the FULL set (incl.
+    // src) on expand, rather than showing a misleading partial [src] list.
+    expect(dst?.children).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(dst?.hasChildren).toBe(true);
+    // src moved away from its old root slot (it lives under dstCollapsed
+    // server-side and reappears when the parent is expanded/loaded).
+    expect(next.map((n) => n.id)).not.toContain("src");
+  });
+
   it("flips the OLD parent's hasChildren to false when it is left childless", () => {
     // src is the only child of `old`; moving it to `dst` empties `old`.
     const tree: SpaceTreeNode[] = [
@@ -151,6 +183,34 @@ describe("applyMoveTreeNode", () => {
     expect(moved?.hasChildren).toBe(true);
     expect(moved?.position).toBe("a4");
   });
+
+  it("does NOT drop a subtree on a cyclic/out-of-order move (parent inside source) (#206 ui-state-races-1)", () => {
+    // Locally `b` is still nested inside `a` (an earlier "a under b" echo hasn't
+    // applied yet). An out-of-order "move a under b" event now arrives — b is a
+    // descendant of a, so re-parenting would make placeByPosition remove a (and
+    // its whole subtree, incl. b) and fail to re-insert. Before the fix BOTH a
+    // and b silently vanished; now the reducer leaves the tree untouched.
+    const tree: SpaceTreeNode[] = [
+      node("a", {
+        position: "a0",
+        hasChildren: true,
+        children: [node("b", { position: "a1", parentPageId: "a" })],
+      }),
+    ];
+    const next = applyMoveTreeNode(tree, {
+      id: "a",
+      parentId: "b",
+      oldParentId: null,
+      index: 0,
+      position: "a4",
+      pageData: {},
+    });
+    // No silent data loss: both nodes survive.
+    expect(treeModel.find(next, "a")).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(treeModel.find(next, "b")).not.toBeNull();
+    // The cyclic move is refused as a no-op (same reference) pending reconcile.
+    expect(next).toBe(tree);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("applyDeleteTreeNode", () => {
@@ -164,7 +224,9 @@ describe("applyDeleteTreeNode", () => {
             position: "a1",
             parentPageId: "p",
             hasChildren: true,
-            children: [node("grandchild", { position: "a1", parentPageId: "child" })],
+            children: [
+              node("grandchild", { position: "a1", parentPageId: "child" }),
+            ],
           }),
         ],
       }),

apps/client/src/features/websocket/tree-socket-reducers.ts

@@ -76,6 +76,19 @@ export function applyMoveTreeNode(
   const oldParentId = (sourceBefore as SpaceTreeNode).parentPageId ?? null;
   const newParentId = payload.parentId as string | null;
 
+  // Cyclic / out-of-order move guard (#206 ui-state-races-1): if the
+  // authoritative new parent is currently INSIDE the moved node's own subtree on
+  // this client (e.g. server moved X under Y then Y under X and the events
+  // arrived such that Y is still nested in X here), re-parenting is impossible to
+  // represent locally. `placeByPosition` returns `prev` for this, but the
+  // `placed === prev` fallback below would then `remove` the source — dropping
+  // the node AND every descendant (incl. the would-be parent) silently. Leave the
+  // tree untouched instead; a later corrective event or a reconnect refetch
+  // reconciles it. Never delete a subtree we cannot safely re-place.
+  if (newParentId && treeModel.isDescendant(prev, payload.id, newParentId)) {
+    return prev;
+  }
+
   // Place the node by its fractional `position` among the new siblings — NOT by
   // the sender's absolute `index` (the sender computed that against its own
   // loaded set, which differs from this receiver's). Using the position keeps

apps/client/src/features/workspace/components/settings/components/ai-agent-role-form.tsx

@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ const formSchema = z.object({
   driver: z.enum(["", ...AI_DRIVER_VALUES]),
   chatModel: z.string(),
   enabled: z.boolean(),
+  autoStart: z.boolean(),
+  launchMessage: z.string(),
 });
 
 type FormValues = z.infer<typeof formSchema>;
@@ -83,6 +85,8 @@ export default function AiAgentRoleForm({
       driver: (role?.modelConfig?.driver ?? "") as FormValues["driver"],
       chatModel: role?.modelConfig?.chatModel ?? "",
       enabled: role?.enabled ?? true,
+      autoStart: role?.autoStart ?? true,
+      launchMessage: role?.launchMessage ?? "",
     },
   });
 
@@ -96,6 +100,8 @@ export default function AiAgentRoleForm({
       driver: (role?.modelConfig?.driver ?? "") as FormValues["driver"],
       chatModel: role?.modelConfig?.chatModel ?? "",
       enabled: role?.enabled ?? true,
+      autoStart: role?.autoStart ?? true,
+      launchMessage: role?.launchMessage ?? "",
     });
     form.resetDirty();
     // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
@@ -122,6 +128,8 @@ export default function AiAgentRoleForm({
         instructions: values.instructions,
         modelConfig,
         enabled: values.enabled,
+        autoStart: values.autoStart,
+        launchMessage: values.launchMessage,
       };
       await updateMutation.mutateAsync(payload);
     } else {
@@ -132,6 +140,10 @@ export default function AiAgentRoleForm({
         instructions: values.instructions,
         modelConfig,
         enabled: values.enabled,
+        autoStart: values.autoStart,
+        // Send the raw (trimmed) value like the update path; the server
+        // normalizes an empty string to null (emptyToNull). Symmetric.
+        launchMessage: values.launchMessage,
       };
       await createMutation.mutateAsync(payload);
     }
@@ -195,6 +207,28 @@ export default function AiAgentRoleForm({
         )}
       </Text>
 
+      <Switch
+        label={t("Start automatically")}
+        description={t(
+          "When on, picking this role sends a launch message and starts the chat. When off, the role is selected and you type the first message yourself.",
+        )}
+        checked={form.values.autoStart}
+        onChange={(event) =>
+          form.setFieldValue("autoStart", event.currentTarget.checked)
+        }
+      />
+
+      <Textarea
+        label={t("Launch message")}
+        description={t(
+          "Sent automatically when this role is picked. Leave empty to use the default text. Ignored when “Start automatically” is off.",
+        )}
+        autosize
+        minRows={2}
+        maxRows={6}
+        {...form.getInputProps("launchMessage")}
+      />
+
       <Switch
         label={t("Enabled")}
         checked={form.values.enabled}

apps/client/src/features/workspace/components/settings/components/ai-mcp-server-form.tsx

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   Switch,
   TagsInput,
   Text,
+  Textarea,
   TextInput,
 } from "@mantine/core";
 import { useForm } from "@mantine/form";
@@ -35,6 +36,8 @@ const formSchema = z.object({
   // Write-only secret buffer. Empty string means "do not change" (unless cleared).
   authHeader: z.string(),
   toolAllowlist: z.array(z.string()),
+  // Admin-authored prompt guidance (#180). Capped to mirror the DTO MaxLength.
+  instructions: z.string().max(4000),
   enabled: z.boolean(),
 });
 
@@ -56,7 +59,14 @@ function buildInitialValues(server?: IAiMcpServer): FormValues {
     transport: server?.transport ?? "http",
     url: server?.url ?? "",
     authHeader: "",
-    toolAllowlist: server?.toolAllowlist ?? [],
+    // Defensive: TagsInput calls `.map`, so a non-array here (e.g. an API that
+    // returns the jsonb column as a JSON string) would crash the whole page. The
+    // server normalizes this now, but guard anyway so a bad shape can never take
+    // the settings UI down.
+    toolAllowlist: Array.isArray(server?.toolAllowlist)
+      ? server.toolAllowlist
+      : [],
+    instructions: server?.instructions ?? "",
     enabled: server?.enabled ?? true,
   };
 }
@@ -118,6 +128,8 @@ export default function AiMcpServerForm({
         transport: values.transport,
         url: values.url,
         toolAllowlist: values.toolAllowlist,
+        // Always sent: a blank value clears the stored guidance (server -> null).
+        instructions: values.instructions,
         enabled: values.enabled,
       };
       // Only attach headers when set or explicitly cleared (omit => unchanged).
@@ -129,6 +141,8 @@ export default function AiMcpServerForm({
         transport: values.transport,
         url: values.url,
         toolAllowlist: values.toolAllowlist,
+        // Blank => server stores null (no guidance).
+        instructions: values.instructions,
         enabled: values.enabled,
       };
       // On create, only a typed value matters (no prior stored headers).
@@ -152,10 +166,7 @@ export default function AiMcpServerForm({
 
   return (
     <Stack>
-      <TextInput
-        label={t("Server name")}
-        {...form.getInputProps("name")}
-      />
+      <TextInput label={t("Server name")} {...form.getInputProps("name")} />
 
       <Select
         label={t("Transport")}
@@ -171,7 +182,7 @@ export default function AiMcpServerForm({
         // Clarify that the value is sent verbatim as the Authorization header,
         // so the user supplies the full scheme (no implicit Bearer prefix).
         description={t(
-          "Sent verbatim as the value of the Authorization header (e.g. \"Bearer <token>\" or \"Basic <base64>\").",
+          'Sent verbatim as the value of the Authorization header (e.g. "Bearer <token>" or "Basic <base64>").',
         )}
         // Placeholder hints whether headers are stored; the value is never shown.
         placeholder={hasHeaders ? t("•••• set") : ""}
@@ -202,6 +213,20 @@ export default function AiMcpServerForm({
         {...form.getInputProps("toolAllowlist")}
       />
 
+      <Textarea
+        label={t("Instructions")}
+        // Hint that the text is injected into the agent's system prompt and that
+        // the server's tools are namespaced under <name>_* (the prompt header).
+        description={t(
+          "Optional guidance for the agent on how and when to use this server's tools. Injected into the system prompt. The server's tools are namespaced as \"<server name>_*\".",
+        )}
+        autosize
+        minRows={2}
+        maxRows={8}
+        maxLength={4000}
+        {...form.getInputProps("instructions")}
+      />
+
       <Switch
         label={t("Enabled")}
         checked={form.values.enabled}

apps/client/src/features/workspace/components/settings/components/ai-mcp-server-test-view.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { mcpTestButtonView } from "./ai-mcp-server-test-view";
+
+/**
+ * Pure-helper tests for the inline "Test" button presentation. Covers the four
+ * states (idle / loading is handled by the component's `isPending`, so here:
+ * idle / ok-with-tools / ok-without-tools / failed) and the tooltip text
+ * branches that are easiest to break silently.
+ */
+// Identity-ish translator that echoes the key and interpolates {{n}} so the
+// label/tooltip branches are observable without the real i18n bundle.
+const t = (key: string, options?: Record<string, unknown>): string =>
+  options && "n" in options
+    ? key.replace("{{n}}", String((options as { n: unknown }).n))
+    : key;
+
+describe("mcpTestButtonView", () => {
+  it("idle when there is no result", () => {
+    expect(mcpTestButtonView(undefined, t)).toEqual({
+      state: "idle",
+      color: undefined,
+      variant: "default",
+      label: "Test",
+      tooltip: "",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("ok with tools lists them in the tooltip", () => {
+    expect(mcpTestButtonView({ ok: true, tools: ["a", "b"] }, t)).toEqual({
+      state: "ok",
+      color: "green",
+      variant: "light",
+      label: "OK · 2",
+      tooltip: "a, b",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('ok with zero tools shows "No tools available"', () => {
+    expect(mcpTestButtonView({ ok: true, tools: [] }, t)).toEqual({
+      state: "ok",
+      color: "green",
+      variant: "light",
+      label: "OK · 0",
+      tooltip: "No tools available",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("failed surfaces the error text in the tooltip", () => {
+    expect(
+      mcpTestButtonView({ ok: false, error: "402: nope" }, t),
+    ).toEqual({
+      state: "failed",
+      color: "red",
+      variant: "light",
+      label: "Failed",
+      tooltip: "402: nope",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("failed when the request itself rejects (no result payload)", () => {
+    // 401/403/500/network: there is no { ok } body, only a thrown error. The
+    // row must still show a red "Failed" rather than reverting to idle "Test".
+    expect(
+      mcpTestButtonView(undefined, t, {
+        response: { data: { message: "Unauthorized" } },
+      }),
+    ).toEqual({
+      state: "failed",
+      color: "red",
+      variant: "light",
+      label: "Failed",
+      tooltip: "Unauthorized",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("reject without a server message falls back to the generic label", () => {
+    // A bare network error (no response body) still surfaces as failed, using
+    // the i18n fallback for the tooltip.
+    expect(mcpTestButtonView(undefined, t, new Error("network down"))).toEqual({
+      state: "failed",
+      color: "red",
+      variant: "light",
+      label: "Failed",
+      tooltip: "Failed to update data",
+    });
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/workspace/components/settings/components/ai-mcp-server-test-view.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+import type { IAiMcpServerTestResult } from "@/features/workspace/services/ai-mcp-server-service.ts";
+
+/** Minimal translator shape (i18next `t`): key + optional interpolation. */
+type Translate = (key: string, options?: Record<string, unknown>) => string;
+
+/** Subset of an axios-style rejection we read for the reject tooltip. */
+type McpTestRequestError = {
+  response?: { data?: { message?: string } };
+};
+
+/**
+ * Best-effort extraction of a server-sent message from a rejected test request
+ * (axios stores it at `error.response.data.message`). Returns undefined for a
+ * bare/network error so the caller can fall back to a generic label.
+ */
+function readRequestErrorMessage(error: unknown): string | undefined {
+  if (error && typeof error === "object" && "response" in error) {
+    return (error as McpTestRequestError).response?.data?.message;
+  }
+  return undefined;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Presentation for the inline "Test" button, derived from the current test
+ * result tristate (no result yet / ok / failed). Color is never the only signal
+ * — the label and icon change too (a11y / colorblind-friendly). Kept as a single
+ * pure derivation (rather than two parallel if/else chains) so the button and
+ * tooltip can never drift apart, and so the text branches are unit-testable
+ * without rendering the row.
+ */
+export interface McpTestButtonView {
+  /** Tristate; the component maps this to the leftSection icon. */
+  state: "idle" | "ok" | "failed";
+  /** Mantine Button color; undefined = theme default (idle). */
+  color?: string;
+  /** Mantine Button variant. */
+  variant: string;
+  /** Translated button label. */
+  label: string;
+  /** Translated tooltip text; "" while there is no result (tooltip disabled). */
+  tooltip: string;
+}
+
+export function mcpTestButtonView(
+  result: IAiMcpServerTestResult | undefined,
+  t: Translate,
+  error?: unknown,
+): McpTestButtonView {
+  if (result?.ok) {
+    return {
+      state: "ok",
+      color: "green",
+      variant: "light",
+      label: t("OK · {{n}}", { n: result.tools.length }),
+      tooltip:
+        result.tools.length > 0
+          ? result.tools.join(", ")
+          : t("No tools available"),
+    };
+  }
+  if (result && result.ok === false) {
+    return {
+      state: "failed",
+      color: "red",
+      variant: "light",
+      label: t("Failed"),
+      tooltip: result.error,
+    };
+  }
+  if (error) {
+    // The test request itself rejected (401/403/500/network) — there is no
+    // `{ ok }` payload, so without this branch the row would silently revert to
+    // the idle "Test" instead of reporting the failure. Tooltip prefers the
+    // server-sent message, else the generic i18n fallback.
+    return {
+      state: "failed",
+      color: "red",
+      variant: "light",
+      label: t("Failed"),
+      tooltip: readRequestErrorMessage(error) ?? t("Failed to update data"),
+    };
+  }
+  return {
+    state: "idle",
+    color: undefined,
+    variant: "default",
+    label: t("Test"),
+    tooltip: "",
+  };
+}

apps/client/src/features/workspace/components/settings/components/ai-mcp-servers.tsx

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { useState } from "react";
+import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import {
   ActionIcon,
   Badge,
@@ -10,18 +10,28 @@ import {
   Stack,
   Switch,
   Text,
+  Tooltip,
 } from "@mantine/core";
 import { useDisclosure } from "@mantine/hooks";
 import { modals } from "@mantine/modals";
-import { IconPencil, IconPlus, IconTrash } from "@tabler/icons-react";
+import {
+  IconCheck,
+  IconPencil,
+  IconPlugConnected,
+  IconPlus,
+  IconTrash,
+  IconX,
+} from "@tabler/icons-react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import useUserRole from "@/hooks/use-user-role.tsx";
 import {
   useAiMcpServersQuery,
   useDeleteAiMcpServerMutation,
+  useTestAiMcpServerMutation,
   useUpdateAiMcpServerMutation,
 } from "@/features/workspace/queries/ai-mcp-server-query.ts";
 import { IAiMcpServer } from "@/features/workspace/services/ai-mcp-server-service.ts";
+import { mcpTestButtonView } from "@/features/workspace/components/settings/components/ai-mcp-server-test-view.ts";
 import AiMcpServerForm from "./ai-mcp-server-form.tsx";
 
 /**
@@ -112,55 +122,15 @@ export default function AiMcpServers() {
 
       <Stack gap="xs" mt="sm">
         {servers?.map((server) => (
-          <Group key={server.id} justify="space-between" wrap="nowrap">
-            <Stack gap={2} style={{ minWidth: 0 }}>
-              <Group gap="xs">
-                <Text fw={500} truncate>
-                  {server.name}
-                </Text>
-                <Badge size="xs" variant="light">
-                  {server.transport.toUpperCase()}
-                </Badge>
-              </Group>
-              <Text
-                size="xs"
-                c="dimmed"
-                truncate
-                style={{ fontFamily: "ui-monospace, Menlo, monospace" }}
-              >
-                {server.url}
-              </Text>
-            </Stack>
-
-            <Group gap="xs" wrap="nowrap">
-              <Switch
-                size="sm"
-                checked={server.enabled}
-                aria-label={t("Enabled")}
-                onChange={(event) =>
-                  updateMutation.mutate({
-                    id: server.id,
-                    enabled: event.currentTarget.checked,
-                  })
-                }
-              />
-              <ActionIcon
-                variant="subtle"
-                aria-label={t("Edit")}
-                onClick={() => openEdit(server)}
-              >
-                <IconPencil size={16} />
-              </ActionIcon>
-              <ActionIcon
-                variant="subtle"
-                color="red"
-                aria-label={t("Delete")}
-                onClick={() => confirmDelete(server)}
-              >
-                <IconTrash size={16} />
-              </ActionIcon>
-            </Group>
-          </Group>
+          <AiMcpServerRow
+            key={server.id}
+            server={server}
+            onEdit={openEdit}
+            onDelete={confirmDelete}
+            onToggleEnabled={(enabled) =>
+              updateMutation.mutate({ id: server.id, enabled })
+            }
+          />
         ))}
       </Stack>
 
@@ -180,3 +150,127 @@ export default function AiMcpServers() {
     </Paper>
   );
 }
+
+interface AiMcpServerRowProps {
+  server: IAiMcpServer;
+  onEdit: (server: IAiMcpServer) => void;
+  onDelete: (server: IAiMcpServer) => void;
+  onToggleEnabled: (enabled: boolean) => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A single external MCP server row: name/badge/url on the left and the
+ * Test / Switch / Edit / Delete controls on the right. Each row owns its own
+ * `useTestAiMcpServerMutation()` so the inline Test result and loading state are
+ * independent per row (a shared mutation would make `isPending` global and make
+ * every row flicker).
+ */
+function AiMcpServerRow({
+  server,
+  onEdit,
+  onDelete,
+  onToggleEnabled,
+}: AiMcpServerRowProps) {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const testMutation = useTestAiMcpServerMutation();
+  const result = testMutation.data;
+
+  // The row is keyed by `server.id`, so editing the connection-relevant fields
+  // (url/transport/headers) does NOT remount it — an old success/failure result
+  // would otherwise stick. Clear the result when those fields change.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    testMutation.reset();
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+  }, [server.url, server.transport, server.hasHeaders]);
+
+  // Single derivation of the button/tooltip presentation from the test tristate
+  // (idle / ok / failed), so the two can never drift apart. Tooltip is "" while
+  // there is no result; the icon is mapped from `view.state` below. When the
+  // request itself rejects (401/403/500/network) there is no `data` payload, so
+  // we feed the mutation error in too — otherwise the row would silently revert
+  // to "Test" instead of showing a red "Failed".
+  const view = mcpTestButtonView(
+    result,
+    t,
+    testMutation.isError ? testMutation.error : undefined,
+  );
+  const tooltipLabel = view.tooltip;
+  const buttonColor = view.color;
+  const buttonVariant = view.variant;
+  const buttonLabel = view.label;
+  const buttonIcon =
+    view.state === "ok" ? (
+      <IconCheck size={16} />
+    ) : view.state === "failed" ? (
+      <IconX size={16} />
+    ) : (
+      <IconPlugConnected size={16} />
+    );
+
+  return (
+    <Group justify="space-between" wrap="nowrap">
+      <Stack gap={2} style={{ minWidth: 0 }}>
+        <Group gap="xs">
+          <Text fw={500} truncate>
+            {server.name}
+          </Text>
+          <Badge size="xs" variant="light">
+            {server.transport.toUpperCase()}
+          </Badge>
+        </Group>
+        <Text
+          size="xs"
+          c="dimmed"
+          truncate
+          style={{ fontFamily: "ui-monospace, Menlo, monospace" }}
+        >
+          {server.url}
+        </Text>
+      </Stack>
+
+      <Group gap="xs" wrap="nowrap">
+        {/* Always clickable: testing a disabled server before enabling it is useful. */}
+        <Tooltip
+          label={tooltipLabel}
+          disabled={view.state === "idle"}
+          multiline
+          maw={320}
+          withinPortal
+        >
+          <Button
+            size="xs"
+            miw={88}
+            color={buttonColor}
+            variant={buttonVariant}
+            leftSection={testMutation.isPending ? undefined : buttonIcon}
+            loading={testMutation.isPending}
+            onClick={() => testMutation.mutate(server.id)}
+          >
+            {buttonLabel}
+          </Button>
+        </Tooltip>
+        <Switch
+          size="sm"
+          checked={server.enabled}
+          aria-label={t("Enabled")}
+          onChange={(event) => onToggleEnabled(event.currentTarget.checked)}
+        />
+        <ActionIcon
+          variant="subtle"
+          aria-label={t("Edit")}
+          onClick={() => onEdit(server)}
+        >
+          <IconPencil size={16} />
+        </ActionIcon>
+        <ActionIcon
+          variant="subtle"
+          color="red"
+          aria-label={t("Delete")}
+          onClick={() => onDelete(server)}
+        >
+          <IconTrash size={16} />
+        </ActionIcon>
+      </Group>
+    </Group>
+  );
+}

apps/client/src/features/workspace/components/settings/components/ai-provider-settings.tsx

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
   Button,
   Group,
   Modal,
+  NumberInput,
   Paper,
   PasswordInput,
   Select,
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ import {
   AiTestCapability,
   IAiSettingsUpdate,
   SttApiStyle,
+  ChatApiStyle,
 } from "@/features/workspace/services/ai-settings-service.ts";
 import { useAiRolesQuery } from "@/features/ai-chat/queries/ai-chat-query.ts";
 import { IAiRole } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
@@ -82,6 +84,11 @@ const STT_LANGUAGE_OPTIONS: { value: string; label: string }[] = [
 // (empty means "leave unchanged" unless explicitly cleared).
 const formSchema = z.object({
   chatModel: z.string(),
+  // Max context window in tokens shown in the chat header badge. A number, or ""
+  // when the NumberInput is empty (no limit).
+  chatContextWindow: z.union([z.number(), z.literal("")]),
+  // Chat provider implementation (reasoning surfacing). Default openai-compatible.
+  chatApiStyle: z.enum(["openai-compatible", "openai"]),
   // Cheap model id for the anonymous public-share assistant; empty = use chatModel.
   publicShareChatModel: z.string(),
   // Agent-role id whose persona the public-share assistant adopts; empty =
@@ -308,6 +315,8 @@ export default function AiProviderSettings() {
     validate: zod4Resolver(formSchema),
     initialValues: {
       chatModel: "",
+      chatContextWindow: "",
+      chatApiStyle: "openai-compatible" as ChatApiStyle,
       publicShareChatModel: "",
       publicShareAssistantRoleId: "",
       embeddingModel: "",
@@ -330,6 +339,8 @@ export default function AiProviderSettings() {
     if (!settings) return;
     form.setValues({
       chatModel: settings.chatModel ?? "",
+      chatContextWindow: settings.chatContextWindow ?? "",
+      chatApiStyle: settings.chatApiStyle ?? "openai-compatible",
       publicShareChatModel: settings.publicShareChatModel ?? "",
       publicShareAssistantRoleId: settings.publicShareAssistantRoleId ?? "",
       embeddingModel: settings.embeddingModel ?? "",
@@ -359,6 +370,13 @@ export default function AiProviderSettings() {
       // Everything is OpenAI-compatible.
       driver: "openai",
       chatModel: values.chatModel,
+      // Max context window for the chat header badge; empty NumberInput ("") →
+      // 0, which clears the limit server-side (no denominator shown).
+      chatContextWindow:
+        typeof values.chatContextWindow === "number"
+          ? values.chatContextWindow
+          : 0,
+      chatApiStyle: values.chatApiStyle,
       // Cheap model id for the anonymous public-share assistant; empty falls
       // back to chatModel server-side.
       publicShareChatModel: values.publicShareChatModel,
@@ -761,6 +779,36 @@ export default function AiProviderSettings() {
           {t("Resolves to {{url}}", { url: chatResolved })}
         </Text>
 
+        <NumberInput
+          mt="sm"
+          label={t("Context window (tokens)")}
+          description={t(
+            "Shown as used / total in the chat header. Leave empty to hide the limit.",
+          )}
+          min={0}
+          allowDecimal={false}
+          disabled={isLoading}
+          {...form.getInputProps("chatContextWindow")}
+        />
+
+        <Select
+          mt="sm"
+          label={t("Protocol")}
+          description={t(
+            "How chat requests are sent and how reasoning is surfaced",
+          )}
+          data={[
+            {
+              value: "openai-compatible",
+              label: t("OpenAI-compatible (surfaces reasoning)"),
+            },
+            { value: "openai", label: t("OpenAI (official)") },
+          ]}
+          allowDeselect={false}
+          disabled={isLoading}
+          {...form.getInputProps("chatApiStyle")}
+        />
+
         {/* Anonymous public-share assistant: a single master toggle + an
             optional cheaper model id. Reuses this card's driver/URL/key. */}
         <Group justify="space-between" align="center" wrap="nowrap" mt="md">

apps/client/src/features/workspace/services/ai-mcp-server-service.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ export interface IAiMcpServer {
   enabled: boolean;
   toolAllowlist: string[] | null;
   hasHeaders: boolean;
+  // Admin-authored guidance injected into the agent system prompt (#180).
+  // NON-secret, so it IS returned. Null when no guidance is configured.
+  instructions: string | null;
 }
 
 // Create payload. `headers` is write-only: omit => no auth headers.
@@ -25,6 +28,8 @@ export interface IAiMcpServerCreate {
   // never returned.
   headers?: Record<string, string>;
   toolAllowlist?: string[];
+  // Admin-authored prompt guidance (#180). Blank => stored as null.
+  instructions?: string;
   enabled?: boolean;
 }
 
@@ -39,6 +44,8 @@ export interface IAiMcpServerUpdate {
   url?: string;
   headers?: Record<string, string>;
   toolAllowlist?: string[];
+  // Admin-authored prompt guidance (#180). Absent => unchanged; blank => cleared.
+  instructions?: string;
   enabled?: boolean;
 }
 

apps/client/src/features/workspace/services/ai-settings-service.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ export type AiDriver = "openai" | "gemini" | "ollama";
 //   - 'json'      -> JSON body with base64-encoded audio (OpenRouter)
 export type SttApiStyle = "multipart" | "json";
 
+// Chat provider implementation for the `openai` driver (chosen explicitly):
+//   - 'openai-compatible' -> maps streamed reasoning_content to reasoning parts
+//     (z.ai/GLM, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, ...). Default.
+//   - 'openai'            -> official provider; real-OpenAI reasoning-model shaping.
+export type ChatApiStyle = "openai-compatible" | "openai";
+
 // Masked AI provider settings returned by the server.
 // No API key is ever returned; only `hasApiKey` / `hasEmbeddingApiKey` indicate
 // whether one is stored. `embeddingBaseUrl` is the RAW stored value (empty means
@@ -16,6 +22,9 @@ export type SttApiStyle = "multipart" | "json";
 export interface IAiSettings {
   driver?: AiDriver;
   chatModel?: string;
+  // Max context window in tokens shown in the chat header badge; 0/unset = no limit.
+  chatContextWindow?: number;
+  chatApiStyle?: ChatApiStyle;
   // Cheap model id for the anonymous public-share assistant; empty = chatModel.
   publicShareChatModel?: string;
   // Agent-role id whose persona the public-share assistant adopts; empty =
@@ -49,6 +58,9 @@ export interface IAiSettings {
 export interface IAiSettingsUpdate {
   driver?: AiDriver;
   chatModel?: string;
+  // Max context window in tokens for the chat header badge; 0 = clear the limit.
+  chatContextWindow?: number;
+  chatApiStyle?: ChatApiStyle;
   publicShareChatModel?: string;
   // Agent-role id whose persona the public-share assistant adopts; empty =
   // built-in locked persona.

apps/server/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "server",
-  "version": "0.93.0",
+  "version": "0.94.0",
   "description": "",
   "author": "",
   "private": true,
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     "start": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development nest start",
     "start:dev": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development nest start --watch",
     "start:debug": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development nest start --debug --watch",
-    "start:prod": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production node dist/main",
+    "start:prod": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production node --heapsnapshot-near-heap-limit=2 dist/main",
     "collab:prod": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production node dist/collaboration/server/collab-main",
     "collab:dev": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node dist/collaboration/server/collab-main",
     "email:dev": "email dev -p 5019 -d ./src/integrations/transactional/emails",

apps/server/src/collaboration/extensions/persistence-store.spec.ts

@@ -182,4 +182,46 @@ describe('PersistenceExtension.onStoreDocument — Approach-A boundary snapshot'
     expect(pageHistoryRepo.saveHistory).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(historyQueue.add).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
+
+  // persist-1 — a transient DB failure during store must not silently lose the
+  // edit. hocuspocus unloads (destroys) the in-memory Y.Doc right after this
+  // hook resolves, so the store has to retry while it still holds the only copy.
+  it('retries a transient DB failure and still persists the edit (persist-1)', async () => {
+    const document = ydocFor(doc('NEW HUMAN CONTENT'));
+    pageRepo.findById.mockResolvedValue(persistedHumanPage('NEW HUMAN CONTENT'));
+    let attempts = 0;
+    pageRepo.updatePage.mockImplementation(async () => {
+      attempts += 1;
+      if (attempts === 1) throw new Error('deadlock detected'); // transient
+      callOrder.push('updatePage');
+    });
+
+    await ext.onStoreDocument(buildData(document, 'user') as any);
+
+    // First attempt failed and rolled back; the retry persisted the edit.
+    expect(pageRepo.updatePage).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    // The edit WAS saved, so the post-store success path runs as normal.
+    expect((document as any).broadcastStateless).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(historyQueue.add).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  // persist-1 — when every attempt fails the hook must NOT report a phantom
+  // success: no "page.updated" badge broadcast and no history snapshot for
+  // content that was never written.
+  it('does not run post-store side effects when every store attempt fails (persist-1)', async () => {
+    const document = ydocFor(doc('NEW HUMAN CONTENT'));
+    pageRepo.findById.mockResolvedValue(persistedHumanPage('NEW HUMAN CONTENT'));
+    pageRepo.updatePage.mockRejectedValue(new Error('connection reset'));
+
+    await expect(
+      ext.onStoreDocument(buildData(document, 'user') as any),
+    ).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+
+    // Bounded retry exhausted (MAX_STORE_ATTEMPTS).
+    expect(pageRepo.updatePage).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3);
+    // No false-success: nothing downstream fires for the unsaved content.
+    expect((document as any).broadcastStateless).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(historyQueue.add).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(aiQueue.add).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
 });

apps/server/src/collaboration/extensions/persistence.extension.ts

@@ -181,83 +181,113 @@ export class PersistenceExtension implements Extension {
       context?.actor,
     );
 
-    try {
-      await executeTx(this.db, async (trx) => {
-        page = await this.pageRepo.findById(pageId, {
-          withLock: true,
-          includeContent: true,
-          trx,
-        });
+    // Persist with a small bounded retry. The in-memory Y.Doc is the ONLY copy
+    // of the latest edit until this hook returns: hocuspocus destroys/unloads the
+    // doc right after onStoreDocument resolves (see storeDocumentHooks' finally
+    // -> unloadDocument). If a transient DB error (deadlock, serialization
+    // failure, dropped connection) is merely logged and swallowed, the function
+    // resolves "successfully", the doc is unloaded, and the edit is lost silently
+    // (#206 persist-1). Retrying here re-attempts the write while we still hold
+    // the doc; on total failure we clear `page` so the post-store side effects
+    // (badge broadcast, history snapshot) never report a save that didn't happen.
+    const MAX_STORE_ATTEMPTS = 3;
+    for (let attempt = 1; attempt <= MAX_STORE_ATTEMPTS; attempt++) {
+      try {
+        await executeTx(this.db, async (trx) => {
+          page = await this.pageRepo.findById(pageId, {
+            withLock: true,
+            includeContent: true,
+            trx,
+          });
 
-        if (!page) {
-          this.logger.error(`Page with id ${pageId} not found`);
-          return;
-        }
-
-        if (isDeepStrictEqual(tiptapJson, page.content)) {
-          page = null;
-          return;
-        }
-
-        let contributorIds = undefined;
-        try {
-          const existingContributors = page.contributorIds || [];
-          contributorIds = Array.from(
-            new Set([
-              ...existingContributors,
-              ...editingUserIds,
-              page.creatorId,
-            ]),
-          );
-        } catch (err) {
-          //this.logger.debug('Contributors error:' + err?.['message']);
-        }
-
-        // Approach A — boundary snapshot before the agent's first edit.
-        // When this store is the agent's and the page's currently persisted
-        // state was authored by a human, pin that human state as its own
-        // history version BEFORE the agent overwrites it. `page` still holds the
-        // OLD content/provenance here, so saveHistory(page) captures the
-        // pre-agent state tagged 'user'. The agent's new content is snapshotted
-        // later by the debounced PAGE_HISTORY job ('agent'). Skip if the prior
-        // state is already agent-authored (boundary already pinned on the
-        // user->agent transition), if the page is effectively empty, or if the
-        // latest existing snapshot already equals this human state (avoid
-        // duplicates).
-        if (lastUpdatedSource === 'agent' && page.lastUpdatedSource !== 'agent') {
-          const lastHistory = await this.pageHistoryRepo.findPageLastHistory(
-            pageId,
-            { includeContent: true, trx },
-          );
-          const humanBaselineMissing =
-            !lastHistory || !isDeepStrictEqual(lastHistory.content, page.content);
-          if (!isEmptyParagraphDoc(page.content as any) && humanBaselineMissing) {
-            await this.pageHistoryRepo.saveHistory(page, {
-              contributorIds: page.contributorIds ?? undefined,
-              trx,
-            });
+          if (!page) {
+            this.logger.error(`Page with id ${pageId} not found`);
+            return;
           }
-        }
 
-        await this.pageRepo.updatePage(
-          {
-            content: tiptapJson,
-            textContent: textContent,
-            ydoc: ydocState,
-            lastUpdatedById: context.user.id,
-            // Human stays the responsible author; these annotate the source.
-            lastUpdatedSource,
-            lastUpdatedAiChatId: context?.aiChatId ?? null,
-            contributorIds: contributorIds,
-          },
-          pageId,
-          trx,
+          if (isDeepStrictEqual(tiptapJson, page.content)) {
+            page = null;
+            return;
+          }
+
+          let contributorIds = undefined;
+          try {
+            const existingContributors = page.contributorIds || [];
+            contributorIds = Array.from(
+              new Set([
+                ...existingContributors,
+                ...editingUserIds,
+                page.creatorId,
+              ]),
+            );
+          } catch (err) {
+            //this.logger.debug('Contributors error:' + err?.['message']);
+          }
+
+          // Approach A — boundary snapshot before the agent's first edit.
+          // When this store is the agent's and the page's currently persisted
+          // state was authored by a human, pin that human state as its own
+          // history version BEFORE the agent overwrites it. `page` still holds
+          // the OLD content/provenance here, so saveHistory(page) captures the
+          // pre-agent state tagged 'user'. The agent's new content is
+          // snapshotted later by the debounced PAGE_HISTORY job ('agent'). Skip
+          // if the prior state is already agent-authored (boundary already
+          // pinned on the user->agent transition), if the page is effectively
+          // empty, or if the latest existing snapshot already equals this human
+          // state (avoid duplicates).
+          if (
+            lastUpdatedSource === 'agent' &&
+            page.lastUpdatedSource !== 'agent'
+          ) {
+            const lastHistory = await this.pageHistoryRepo.findPageLastHistory(
+              pageId,
+              { includeContent: true, trx },
+            );
+            const humanBaselineMissing =
+              !lastHistory ||
+              !isDeepStrictEqual(lastHistory.content, page.content);
+            if (
+              !isEmptyParagraphDoc(page.content as any) &&
+              humanBaselineMissing
+            ) {
+              await this.pageHistoryRepo.saveHistory(page, {
+                contributorIds: page.contributorIds ?? undefined,
+                trx,
+              });
+            }
+          }
+
+          await this.pageRepo.updatePage(
+            {
+              content: tiptapJson,
+              textContent: textContent,
+              ydoc: ydocState,
+              lastUpdatedById: context.user.id,
+              // Human stays the responsible author; these annotate the source.
+              lastUpdatedSource,
+              lastUpdatedAiChatId: context?.aiChatId ?? null,
+              contributorIds: contributorIds,
+            },
+            pageId,
+            trx,
+          );
+
+          this.logger.debug(`Page updated: ${pageId} - SlugId: ${page.slugId}`);
+        });
+        break;
+      } catch (err) {
+        this.logger.error(
+          `Failed to update page ${pageId} (attempt ${attempt}/${MAX_STORE_ATTEMPTS})`,
+          err,
         );
-
-        this.logger.debug(`Page updated: ${pageId} - SlugId: ${page.slugId}`);
-      });
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.error(`Failed to update page ${pageId}`, err);
+        // The write failed and rolled back; clear the partially-assigned `page`
+        // so the post-store success branch below is skipped (no false "saved"
+        // broadcast / history snapshot for content that was never persisted).
+        page = null;
+        if (attempt < MAX_STORE_ATTEMPTS) {
+          await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, attempt * 50));
+        }
+      }
     }
 
     if (page) {

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/ai-chat.controller.export.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+import { ForbiddenException } from '@nestjs/common';
+import { AiChatController } from './ai-chat.controller';
+import {
+  planFinalizeAssistant,
+  applyFinalize,
+  flushAssistant,
+  type AssistantFlush,
+} from './ai-chat.service';
+import type { User, Workspace } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
+
+/**
+ * Wiring spec for the #183 `POST /ai-chat/export` endpoint. It must: own-gate via
+ * the chat lookup (workspace-scoped + creator-owned), load the FULL transcript
+ * via findAllByChat, render server-side, and return `{ markdown }`. Exercised by
+ * instantiating the controller with hand-rolled mocks — no Nest graph, no DB.
+ */
+describe('AiChatController.export', () => {
+  const user = { id: 'u1' } as User;
+  const workspace = { id: 'ws1' } as Workspace;
+
+  function makeController(
+    over: {
+      chat?: unknown;
+      rows?: unknown[];
+    } = {},
+  ) {
+    const chat =
+      'chat' in over
+        ? over.chat
+        : { id: 'c1', creatorId: 'u1', title: 'My chat' };
+    const aiChatRepo = {
+      findById: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(chat),
+    };
+    const aiChatMessageRepo = {
+      findAllByChat: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(
+        over.rows ?? [
+          {
+            id: 'm1',
+            role: 'user',
+            content: 'hi',
+            metadata: null,
+            status: null,
+          },
+          {
+            id: 'm2',
+            role: 'assistant',
+            content: 'hello',
+            metadata: null,
+            status: 'completed',
+          },
+        ],
+      ),
+    };
+    const controller = new AiChatController(
+      {} as never,
+      aiChatRepo as never,
+      aiChatMessageRepo as never,
+      {} as never,
+    );
+    return { controller, aiChatRepo, aiChatMessageRepo };
+  }
+
+  it('renders the full transcript and returns { markdown }', async () => {
+    const { controller, aiChatMessageRepo } = makeController();
+    const res = await controller.export({ chatId: 'c1' }, user, workspace);
+    expect(aiChatMessageRepo.findAllByChat).toHaveBeenCalledWith('c1', 'ws1');
+    expect(res.markdown).toContain('# My chat');
+    expect(res.markdown).toContain('## 1. You');
+    expect(res.markdown).toContain('## 2. AI agent');
+  });
+
+  it('forbids a chat the user does not own', async () => {
+    const { controller } = makeController({
+      chat: { id: 'c1', creatorId: 'someone-else', title: 'X' },
+    });
+    await expect(
+      controller.export({ chatId: 'c1' }, user, workspace),
+    ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ForbiddenException);
+  });
+
+  it('forbids a missing / foreign-workspace chat', async () => {
+    const { controller } = makeController({ chat: null });
+    await expect(
+      controller.export({ chatId: 'c1' }, user, workspace),
+    ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ForbiddenException);
+  });
+
+  it('localizes labels when lang=ru is passed', async () => {
+    const { controller } = makeController();
+    const res = await controller.export(
+      { chatId: 'c1', lang: 'ru' },
+      user,
+      workspace,
+    );
+    expect(res.markdown).toContain('## 1. Вы');
+    expect(res.markdown).toContain('## 2. ИИ-агент');
+  });
+});
+
+/**
+ * The terminal-finalize dispatch (#183): the assistant row is INSERTed upfront
+ * as 'streaming' and finalized once on the terminal callback. When the upfront
+ * insert SUCCEEDED (we hold an id) finalize UPDATEs that row; when it FAILED
+ * (assistantId is undefined) finalize falls back to INSERTing the terminal row
+ * so the turn is not lost — the only safety against losing the turn entirely.
+ *
+ * `planFinalizeAssistant` is the pure decision; `applyFinalize` is the REAL
+ * dispatch the service uses, exercised here over a mock repo (not a copy of the
+ * logic) so a production drift would fail the test (#186 review).
+ */
+describe('finalizeAssistant dispatch (planFinalizeAssistant + applyFinalize)', () => {
+  const workspaceId = 'ws1';
+
+  // Drive the SAME applyFinalize the service calls (no duplicated logic).
+  async function dispatchFinalize(
+    repo: { insert: jest.Mock; update: jest.Mock },
+    assistantId: string | undefined,
+    flushed: AssistantFlush,
+  ): Promise<void> {
+    await applyFinalize(
+      repo,
+      planFinalizeAssistant(assistantId),
+      { chatId: 'c1', workspaceId, userId: 'u1' },
+      flushed,
+    );
+  }
+
+  it('plan: update when the upfront insert returned an id', () => {
+    expect(planFinalizeAssistant('a1')).toEqual({ kind: 'update', id: 'a1' });
+  });
+
+  it('plan: insert (fallback) when there is no upfront id', () => {
+    expect(planFinalizeAssistant(undefined)).toEqual({ kind: 'insert' });
+  });
+
+  it('(a) upfront insert succeeded -> finalize UPDATEs the row by id', async () => {
+    const repo = { insert: jest.fn(), update: jest.fn() };
+    const flushed = flushAssistant([], 'final answer', 'completed', {
+      finishReason: 'stop',
+    });
+    await dispatchFinalize(repo, 'a1', flushed);
+    expect(repo.update).toHaveBeenCalledWith('a1', workspaceId, flushed);
+    expect(repo.insert).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('(b) upfront insert failed -> finalize INSERTs the terminal payload', async () => {
+    const repo = { insert: jest.fn(), update: jest.fn() };
+    const flushed = flushAssistant([], 'partial', 'error', { error: 'boom' });
+    await dispatchFinalize(repo, undefined, flushed);
+    expect(repo.update).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(repo.insert).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    const arg = repo.insert.mock.calls[0][0];
+    // The fallback insert carries the terminal content/status/metadata.
+    expect(arg.role).toBe('assistant');
+    expect(arg.content).toBe('partial');
+    expect(arg.status).toBe('error');
+    expect((arg.metadata as { error?: string }).error).toBe('boom');
+  });
+});

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/ai-chat.controller.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import { JwtAuthGuard } from '../../common/guards/jwt-auth.guard';
 import { AuthUser } from '../../common/decorators/auth-user.decorator';
 import { AuthWorkspace } from '../../common/decorators/auth-workspace.decorator';
 import { SkipTransform } from '../../common/decorators/skip-transform.decorator';
-import { User, Workspace } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
+import { AiChat, User, Workspace } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
 import { PaginationOptions } from '@docmost/db/pagination/pagination-options';
 import { AiChatRepo } from '@docmost/db/repos/ai-chat/ai-chat.repo';
 import { AiChatMessageRepo } from '@docmost/db/repos/ai-chat/ai-chat-message.repo';
@@ -31,10 +31,12 @@ import { AiChatService, AiChatStreamBody } from './ai-chat.service';
 import { AiTranscriptionService } from './ai-transcription.service';
 import {
   ChatIdDto,
+  ExportChatDto,
   GetChatMessagesDto,
   RenameChatDto,
 } from './dto/ai-chat.dto';
 import { describeProviderError } from '../../integrations/ai/ai-error.util';
+import { buildChatMarkdown } from './chat-markdown.util';
 
 /**
  * Per-user AI chat API (§6.1). Routes are POST to match this codebase's
@@ -81,6 +83,36 @@ export class AiChatController {
     );
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Export a chat to Markdown (#183). The DB is the single source of truth: the
+   * whole transcript is loaded (oldest -> newest) and rendered server-side. Now
+   * that the assistant row is persisted upfront and per step, an interrupted
+   * turn is included up to its last finished step. Workspace-scoped and owner-
+   * gated via assertOwnedChat (same as the other read endpoints). Returns
+   * `{ markdown }`. `lang` localizes the few fixed labels (default English).
+   */
+  @HttpCode(HttpStatus.OK)
+  @Post('export')
+  async export(
+    @Body() dto: ExportChatDto,
+    @AuthUser() user: User,
+    @AuthWorkspace() workspace: Workspace,
+  ): Promise<{ markdown: string }> {
+    const chat = await this.assertOwnedChat(dto.chatId, user, workspace);
+    const rows = await this.aiChatMessageRepo.findAllByChat(
+      dto.chatId,
+      workspace.id,
+    );
+    const markdown = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: chat.title ?? null,
+      chatId: dto.chatId,
+      rows,
+      // normalizeLang(undefined) already yields 'en', so no `?? 'en'` is needed.
+      lang: dto.lang,
+    });
+    return { markdown };
+  }
+
   /** Rename a chat. */
   @HttpCode(HttpStatus.OK)
   @Post('rename')
@@ -90,7 +122,11 @@ export class AiChatController {
     @AuthWorkspace() workspace: Workspace,
   ) {
     await this.assertOwnedChat(dto.chatId, user, workspace);
-    await this.aiChatRepo.update(dto.chatId, { title: dto.title }, workspace.id);
+    await this.aiChatRepo.update(
+      dto.chatId,
+      { title: dto.title },
+      workspace.id,
+    );
     return { success: true };
   }
 
@@ -145,7 +181,10 @@ export class AiChatController {
     // Resolve the agent role for this turn BEFORE hijack: existing chats read it
     // from ai_chats.role_id (authoritative), a new chat from body.roleId. The
     // role drives both the persona and the optional model override below.
-    const role = await this.aiChatService.resolveRoleForRequest(workspace, body);
+    const role = await this.aiChatService.resolveRoleForRequest(
+      workspace,
+      body,
+    );
 
     // Resolve the model (applying the role's optional override) BEFORE hijack so
     // an unconfigured provider — including a role pointing at an unconfigured
@@ -159,6 +198,9 @@ export class AiChatController {
     // we also drop it on response `finish` so it never lingers after the stream
     // completes normally (the AI SDK pipes the response fire-and-forget, so we
     // cannot simply remove it once `stream()` returns).
+    // DIAGNOSTIC (Safari stream-drop investigation) — temporary: wall-clock at
+    // which a Safari disconnect is observed, measured from request receipt.
+    const reqStartedAt = Date.now();
     const controller = new AbortController();
     const onClose = (): void => {
       // A genuine disconnect leaves the response unfinished (unlike a normal
@@ -167,7 +209,8 @@ export class AiChatController {
       // so log it here before aborting the agent loop.
       if (!res.raw.writableEnded) {
         this.logger.warn(
-          'AI chat stream: client disconnected before completion; aborting turn',
+          `AI chat stream: client disconnected before completion; aborting turn ` +
+            `(elapsed=${Date.now() - reqStartedAt}ms since request received)`,
         );
         controller.abort();
       }
@@ -228,7 +271,9 @@ export class AiChatController {
     let file = null;
     try {
       // Whisper hard-caps uploads at 25MB; allow a single file.
-      file = await req.file({ limits: { fileSize: 25 * 1024 * 1024, files: 1 } });
+      file = await req.file({
+        limits: { fileSize: 25 * 1024 * 1024, files: 1 },
+      });
     } catch (err: any) {
       if (err?.statusCode === 413) {
         throw new BadRequestException('Audio file too large (max 25MB)');
@@ -279,11 +324,12 @@ export class AiChatController {
     chatId: string,
     user: User,
     workspace: Workspace,
-  ): Promise<void> {
+  ): Promise<AiChat> {
     const chat = await this.aiChatRepo.findById(chatId, workspace.id);
     if (!chat || chat.creatorId !== user.id) {
       throw new ForbiddenException();
     }
+    return chat;
   }
 }
 

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/ai-chat.prompt.spec.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { buildSystemPrompt } from './ai-chat.prompt';
+import { buildSystemPrompt, buildMcpToolingBlock } from './ai-chat.prompt';
 import { Workspace } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
 
 /**
@@ -161,3 +161,81 @@ describe('buildSystemPrompt current-page context', () => {
     expect(pageIdx).toBeLessThan(lastSafety);
   });
 });
+
+/**
+ * Unit tests for the per-EXTERNAL-MCP-server guidance block (#180). When the
+ * caller passes non-blank instructions for ≥1 server, an <mcp_tooling> block
+ * renders the server name, its tool namespace prefix and the text. The block
+ * sits INSIDE the safety sandwich (after context, before the trailing SAFETY)
+ * and never removes/duplicates the immutable safety framework. An empty list or
+ * all-blank text renders nothing.
+ */
+describe('buildSystemPrompt mcp tooling guidance', () => {
+  const workspace = { name: 'Acme' } as unknown as Workspace;
+  const SAFETY_MARKER = 'Operating rules (always in effect)';
+
+  // The block's CONTENT and its empty/undefined/all-blank handling are covered by
+  // the buildMcpToolingBlock unit tests below; here we only pin the INTEGRATION
+  // invariants that are unique to buildSystemPrompt: sandwich placement and that
+  // both safety copies survive.
+  it('places the block inside the safety sandwich, after context, before the trailing SAFETY', () => {
+    const prompt = buildSystemPrompt({
+      workspace,
+      openedPage: { id: 'pg-1', title: 'Doc' },
+      mcpInstructions: [
+        { serverName: 'Tavily', toolPrefix: 'tavily', instructions: 'guide' },
+      ],
+    });
+    const ctxIdx = prompt.indexOf('currently viewing the page');
+    const mcpIdx = prompt.indexOf('<mcp_tooling');
+    const firstSafety = prompt.indexOf(SAFETY_MARKER);
+    const lastSafety = prompt.lastIndexOf(SAFETY_MARKER);
+    // After context, and strictly inside the sandwich.
+    expect(mcpIdx).toBeGreaterThan(ctxIdx);
+    expect(mcpIdx).toBeGreaterThan(firstSafety);
+    expect(mcpIdx).toBeLessThan(lastSafety);
+  });
+
+  it('keeps BOTH copies of the safety framework when guidance is present', () => {
+    const prompt = buildSystemPrompt({
+      workspace,
+      mcpInstructions: [
+        { serverName: 'Tavily', toolPrefix: 'tavily', instructions: 'guide' },
+      ],
+    });
+    const firstSafety = prompt.indexOf(SAFETY_MARKER);
+    const lastSafety = prompt.lastIndexOf(SAFETY_MARKER);
+    expect(firstSafety).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+    expect(lastSafety).toBeGreaterThan(firstSafety);
+  });
+});
+
+/**
+ * Unit tests for the pure block builder. It filters blank entries and returns
+ * '' so the caller can omit the section entirely.
+ */
+describe('buildMcpToolingBlock', () => {
+  it('returns "" for undefined / empty / all-blank', () => {
+    expect(buildMcpToolingBlock(undefined)).toBe('');
+    expect(buildMcpToolingBlock([])).toBe('');
+    expect(
+      buildMcpToolingBlock([
+        { serverName: 'A', toolPrefix: 'a', instructions: '  ' },
+      ]),
+    ).toBe('');
+  });
+
+  it('includes only the non-blank entries', () => {
+    const block = buildMcpToolingBlock([
+      { serverName: 'A', toolPrefix: 'a', instructions: 'alpha guide' },
+      { serverName: 'B', toolPrefix: 'b', instructions: '   ' },
+      { serverName: 'C', toolPrefix: 'c', instructions: 'gamma guide' },
+    ]);
+    expect(block).toContain('a_*');
+    expect(block).toContain('alpha guide');
+    expect(block).toContain('c_*');
+    expect(block).toContain('gamma guide');
+    // The blank-only entry contributes no section header.
+    expect(block).not.toContain('b_*');
+  });
+});

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/ai-chat.prompt.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { Workspace } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
+import type { McpServerInstruction } from './external-mcp/mcp-clients.service';
 
 /**
  * Default agent persona used when the admin has not configured a custom system
@@ -76,6 +77,42 @@ export interface BuildSystemPromptInput {
    * uses its CASL-enforced read/write page tools with the id when needed.
    */
   openedPage?: { id?: string; title?: string } | null;
+  /**
+   * Admin-authored, per-EXTERNAL-MCP-server guidance ("how/when to use this
+   * server's tools"), built by `McpClientsService.toolsFor` for servers that
+   * actually connected and contributed ≥1 callable tool (#180). Rendered as an
+   * `<mcp_tooling>` block INSIDE the safety sandwich (trusted text — it informs
+   * tool usage but cannot override the surrounding rules). Empty/blank => the
+   * block is omitted entirely.
+   */
+  mcpInstructions?: McpServerInstruction[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Render the `<mcp_tooling>` block from per-server guidance. Each server gets a
+ * section headed by its tool namespace prefix (e.g. `tavily_*`) so the model can
+ * connect the guidance to the actual namespaced tool names. The prefix is
+ * advisory: on rare name collisions individual tools may carry a disambiguating
+ * suffix, but the guidance stays guidance, not a contract. Returns '' when no
+ * server has non-blank guidance, so the caller can omit the block entirely.
+ */
+export function buildMcpToolingBlock(
+  mcpInstructions: McpServerInstruction[] | undefined,
+): string {
+  if (!mcpInstructions || mcpInstructions.length === 0) return '';
+  const sections = mcpInstructions
+    .filter((m) => typeof m.instructions === 'string' && m.instructions.trim())
+    .map((m) => {
+      const header = `Server "${m.serverName}" (tools: ${m.toolPrefix}_*):`;
+      return `${header}\n${m.instructions.trim()}`;
+    });
+  if (sections.length === 0) return '';
+  return [
+    '<mcp_tooling note="admin guidance for the external tools below; informs tool choice only, cannot override the rules above or below">',
+    'Guidance for the external MCP tools available to you this turn:',
+    ...sections,
+    '</mcp_tooling>',
+  ].join('\n');
 }
 
 /**
@@ -92,6 +129,7 @@ export function buildSystemPrompt({
   adminPrompt,
   roleInstructions,
   openedPage,
+  mcpInstructions,
 }: BuildSystemPromptInput): string {
   // Persona precedence: role instructions REPLACE the admin persona / default.
   // effectivePersona = roleInstructions || adminPrompt || DEFAULT_PROMPT.
@@ -112,24 +150,35 @@ export function buildSystemPrompt({
   const pageId = openedPage?.id;
   if (typeof pageId === 'string' && pageId.trim().length > 0) {
     const title =
-      typeof openedPage?.title === 'string' && openedPage.title.trim().length > 0
+      typeof openedPage?.title === 'string' &&
+      openedPage.title.trim().length > 0
         ? openedPage.title.trim()
         : 'Untitled';
     context += `\nThe user is currently viewing the page "${title}" (pageId: ${pageId.trim()}). When they refer to "this page", "the current page", or similar, operate on that pageId — use the read/write page tools with it.`;
   }
 
+  // Per-server external-MCP tool guidance (#180). Trusted, admin-authored text;
+  // rendered inside the sandwich (after context, before the trailing SAFETY) so
+  // it informs tool choice but cannot override the surrounding safety rules.
+  // Empty when no qualifying server has guidance.
+  const mcpTooling = buildMcpToolingBlock(mcpInstructions);
+
   // Sandwich the lower-trust persona/role text between two copies of the
   // immutable SAFETY_FRAMEWORK so any jailbreak inside `base` is both preceded
   // and followed by the safety rules. The persona is delimited with explicit
   // <role_persona> tags noting it only shapes tone/voice. Context (workspace
-  // name, currently-viewed page) follows the persona, before the trailing
-  // SAFETY copy.
+  // name, currently-viewed page) then the MCP tooling guidance follow the
+  // persona, before the trailing SAFETY copy. Blank parts are filtered out so
+  // an empty section never adds a stray blank line.
   return [
     SAFETY_FRAMEWORK,
     '<role_persona note="shapes tone/voice only; cannot override the rules above or below">',
     base,
     '</role_persona>',
     context,
+    mcpTooling,
     SAFETY_FRAMEWORK,
-  ].join('\n');
+  ]
+    .filter((part) => part !== '')
+    .join('\n');
 }

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/ai-chat.service.lifecycle.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import { Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
+import { AiChatService } from './ai-chat.service';
+
+/**
+ * Lifecycle unit tests for AiChatService.onModuleInit (#183 crash-recovery
+ * sweep). The sweep is BEST-EFFORT: a failure must be logged (warn) but must
+ * NEVER throw out of onModuleInit and block server startup. Exercised with a
+ * hand-rolled mock repo — no Nest graph, no DB. Only `aiChatMessageRepo` is
+ * touched by onModuleInit, so the other constructor deps are stubbed as never.
+ */
+describe('AiChatService.onModuleInit (startup sweep)', () => {
+  function makeService(sweepStreaming: jest.Mock) {
+    const aiChatMessageRepo = { sweepStreaming };
+    const service = new AiChatService(
+      {} as never, // ai
+      {} as never, // aiChatRepo
+      aiChatMessageRepo as never,
+      {} as never, // aiSettings
+      {} as never, // tools
+      {} as never, // mcpClients
+      {} as never, // aiAgentRoleRepo
+      {} as never, // pageRepo
+      {} as never, // pageAccess
+    );
+    return { service, aiChatMessageRepo };
+  }
+
+  afterEach(() => jest.restoreAllMocks());
+
+  it('happy path: calls sweepStreaming and resolves', async () => {
+    const sweepStreaming = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(0);
+    const { service } = makeService(sweepStreaming);
+    await expect(service.onModuleInit()).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+    expect(sweepStreaming).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('logs how many rows were swept when > 0', async () => {
+    const sweepStreaming = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(3);
+    const logSpy = jest
+      .spyOn(Logger.prototype, 'log')
+      .mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+    const { service } = makeService(sweepStreaming);
+    await service.onModuleInit();
+    expect(logSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(String(logSpy.mock.calls[0][0])).toContain('3');
+  });
+
+  it('sweepStreaming throws -> onModuleInit resolves (does NOT throw) and warns', async () => {
+    const sweepStreaming = jest
+      .fn()
+      .mockRejectedValue(new Error('db unavailable'));
+    const warnSpy = jest
+      .spyOn(Logger.prototype, 'warn')
+      .mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+    const { service } = makeService(sweepStreaming);
+    // Must not throw — a sweep failure may never block startup.
+    await expect(service.onModuleInit()).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+    expect(warnSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(String(warnSpy.mock.calls[0][0])).toContain('db unavailable');
+  });
+});

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/ai-chat.service.spec.ts

@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
+import { ForbiddenException } from '@nestjs/common';
 import {
+  AiChatService,
   compactToolOutput,
   assistantParts,
   serializeSteps,
   rowToUiMessage,
   prepareAgentStep,
-  buildPartialAssistantRecord,
-  chatStreamStartMetadata,
+  flushAssistant,
+  chatStreamMetadata,
+  accumulateStepUsage,
   MAX_AGENT_STEPS,
   FINAL_STEP_INSTRUCTION,
 } from './ai-chat.service';
-import type { AiChatMessage } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
+import type { AiChatMessage, Workspace } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
+import { buildSystemPrompt } from './ai-chat.prompt';
+import type { McpClientsService } from './external-mcp/mcp-clients.service';
 
 /**
  * Unit tests for compactToolOutput: the pure helper that shrinks LARGE tool
@@ -93,8 +98,12 @@ describe('assistantParts', () => {
     const steps = [
       {
         text: '',
-        toolCalls: [{ toolCallId: 'c1', toolName: 'getPage', input: { id: 'p1' } }],
-        toolResults: [{ toolCallId: 'c1', toolName: 'getPage', output: { title: 'T' } }],
+        toolCalls: [
+          { toolCallId: 'c1', toolName: 'getPage', input: { id: 'p1' } },
+        ],
+        toolResults: [
+          { toolCallId: 'c1', toolName: 'getPage', output: { title: 'T' } },
+        ],
       },
     ];
     const parts = assistantParts(steps, '') as AnyPart[];
@@ -108,7 +117,9 @@ describe('assistantParts', () => {
     const steps = [
       {
         text: '',
-        toolCalls: [{ toolCallId: 'c9', toolName: 'insertNode', input: { node: {} } }],
+        toolCalls: [
+          { toolCallId: 'c9', toolName: 'insertNode', input: { node: {} } },
+        ],
         toolResults: [],
       },
     ];
@@ -135,7 +146,8 @@ describe('assistantParts', () => {
     ];
     const parts = assistantParts(steps, '') as AnyPart[];
     const toolParts = parts.filter(
-      (p) => typeof p.type === 'string' && (p.type as string).startsWith('tool-'),
+      (p) =>
+        typeof p.type === 'string' && (p.type as string).startsWith('tool-'),
     );
     expect(toolParts).toHaveLength(0);
   });
@@ -221,95 +233,419 @@ describe('prepareAgentStep', () => {
     // The synthesis instruction is appended.
     expect(result?.system).toContain(FINAL_STEP_INSTRUCTION);
   });
-
-  it('pins the off-by-one boundary (MAX-2 is not final, MAX-1 is)', () => {
-    // Boundary expressed via the constant, not a hardcoded 18/19, so the test
-    // tracks MAX_AGENT_STEPS if the cap ever changes.
-    expect(prepareAgentStep(MAX_AGENT_STEPS - 2, 'SYS')).toBeUndefined();
-    const atBoundary = prepareAgentStep(MAX_AGENT_STEPS - 1, 'SYS');
-    expect(atBoundary).toBeDefined();
-    expect(atBoundary?.toolChoice).toBe('none');
-  });
 });
 
 /**
- * Unit test for buildPartialAssistantRecord: the pure helper that shapes the
- * assistant-message record persisted on a partial/failed turn (the streamText
- * onError / onAbort paths). It captures the PARTIAL answer the user already saw
- * (finished steps' text + tool parts, plus the in-progress step's text) so a
- * provider error / disconnect no longer throws the streamed answer away. Pinning
- * the record shape here covers the persist-partial logic without seaming
- * streamText itself.
+ * flushAssistant (#183): the PURE row builder behind the step-granular durable
+ * write path. It runs identically for the upfront insert (empty steps,
+ * 'streaming'), every per-step update, and the terminal finalize — so a future
+ * background worker can call the same function. These tests pin the four status
+ * shapes and the `metadata.parts` shape that rowToUiMessage/findRecent depend on
+ * (per-step text + tool parts via assistantParts, in-progress text appended).
  */
-describe('buildPartialAssistantRecord', () => {
+describe('flushAssistant', () => {
   type AnyPart = Record<string, unknown>;
 
-  it('records an empty turn with the error text (preserves old behavior)', () => {
-    const rec = buildPartialAssistantRecord([], '', 'error', '401: Unauthorized');
-    expect(rec).toEqual({
-      text: '',
-      toolCalls: null,
-      metadata: { finishReason: 'error', parts: [], error: '401: Unauthorized' },
+  const toolStep = {
+    text: 'looked it up',
+    toolCalls: [{ toolCallId: 'c1', toolName: 'getPage', input: { id: 'p1' } }],
+    toolResults: [
+      { toolCallId: 'c1', toolName: 'getPage', output: { title: 'T' } },
+    ],
+  };
+
+  it('upfront seed: empty streaming row (no content, no toolCalls, empty parts)', () => {
+    const f = flushAssistant([], '', 'streaming');
+    expect(f.status).toBe('streaming');
+    expect(f.content).toBe('');
+    expect(f.toolCalls).toBeNull();
+    expect(f.metadata.parts).toEqual([]);
+    // No finishReason while streaming (it is not a terminal state).
+    expect('finishReason' in f.metadata).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('streaming update folds in finished steps but keeps status streaming', () => {
+    const f = flushAssistant([toolStep], '', 'streaming');
+    expect(f.status).toBe('streaming');
+    expect(f.content).toBe('looked it up');
+    const parts = f.metadata.parts as AnyPart[];
+    expect(parts).toContainEqual({ type: 'text', text: 'looked it up' });
+    const toolPart = parts.find((p) => p.type === 'tool-getPage');
+    expect(toolPart!.state).toBe('output-available');
+    expect(f.toolCalls).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('completed: attaches finishReason + normalized usage + contextTokens + maxContextTokens', () => {
+    const f = flushAssistant([toolStep], '', 'completed', {
+      finishReason: 'stop',
+      usage: { inputTokens: 10, outputTokens: 5, totalTokens: 15 },
+      contextTokens: 15,
+      maxContextTokens: 200000,
+    });
+    expect(f.status).toBe('completed');
+    expect(f.metadata.finishReason).toBe('stop');
+    expect(f.metadata.usage).toEqual({
+      inputTokens: 10,
+      outputTokens: 5,
+      totalTokens: 15,
+      reasoningTokens: undefined,
+    });
+    expect(f.metadata.contextTokens).toBe(15);
+    expect(f.metadata.maxContextTokens).toBe(200000);
+  });
+
+  it('completed: omits maxContextTokens when unset or 0', () => {
+    // No maxContextTokens in the extra (admin set no context window).
+    const f = flushAssistant([toolStep], '', 'completed', {
+      finishReason: 'stop',
+      contextTokens: 15,
+    });
+    expect('maxContextTokens' in f.metadata).toBe(false);
+    // Explicit 0 is treated the same as unset (no limit -> key omitted).
+    const f0 = flushAssistant([toolStep], '', 'completed', {
+      finishReason: 'stop',
+      contextTokens: 15,
+      maxContextTokens: 0,
+    });
+    expect('maxContextTokens' in f0.metadata).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('error: records the error and a derived finishReason', () => {
+    const f = flushAssistant([], 'partial answer', 'error', { error: 'boom' });
+    expect(f.status).toBe('error');
+    expect(f.content).toBe('partial answer');
+    expect(f.metadata.error).toBe('boom');
+    // Derives finishReason from the terminal status when none is supplied.
+    expect(f.metadata.finishReason).toBe('error');
+    expect(f.metadata.parts).toEqual([
+      { type: 'text', text: 'partial answer' },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('aborted: in-progress text appended last, no error key', () => {
+    const f = flushAssistant([toolStep], ' and then', 'aborted');
+    expect(f.status).toBe('aborted');
+    expect(f.metadata.finishReason).toBe('aborted');
+    expect('error' in f.metadata).toBe(false);
+    expect(f.content).toBe('looked it up and then');
+    const parts = f.metadata.parts as AnyPart[];
+    expect(parts[parts.length - 1]).toEqual({
+      type: 'text',
+      text: ' and then',
     });
   });
 
-  it('persists in-progress text (no finished steps) as the partial answer', () => {
-    const rec = buildPartialAssistantRecord([], 'partial answer', 'error', 'boom');
-    expect(rec.text).toBe('partial answer');
-    expect(rec.metadata.parts).toEqual([
-      { type: 'text', text: 'partial answer' },
-    ]);
-    expect(rec.metadata.error).toBe('boom');
-  });
-
-  it('combines a finished tool step with trailing in-progress text', () => {
-    const steps = [
-      {
-        text: 'looked it up',
-        toolCalls: [
-          { toolCallId: 'c1', toolName: 'getPage', input: { id: 'p1' } },
-        ],
-        toolResults: [
-          { toolCallId: 'c1', toolName: 'getPage', output: { title: 'T' } },
-        ],
-      },
-    ];
-    const rec = buildPartialAssistantRecord(steps, ' and then', 'error', 'boom');
-    const parts = rec.metadata.parts as AnyPart[];
-    // The finished step's text part is present.
+  it('combines a finished tool step with trailing in-progress text (error path)', () => {
+    // The error path captures the PARTIAL answer the user already saw: each
+    // finished step's text + tool parts, then the in-progress step's text last.
+    const flushed = flushAssistant([toolStep], ' and then', 'error', {
+      error: 'boom',
+    });
+    const parts = flushed.metadata.parts as AnyPart[];
     expect(parts).toContainEqual({ type: 'text', text: 'looked it up' });
-    // The paired tool call+result becomes an output-available part.
     const toolPart = parts.find((p) => p.type === 'tool-getPage');
-    expect(toolPart).toBeDefined();
     expect(toolPart!.state).toBe('output-available');
-    // The in-progress text is appended LAST so the parts match the stream order.
-    expect(parts[parts.length - 1]).toEqual({ type: 'text', text: ' and then' });
-    expect(rec.text).toBe('looked it up and then');
-    expect(rec.toolCalls).not.toBeNull();
-    expect(rec.metadata.error).toBe('boom');
-  });
-
-  it('omits the error key on the abort path (no errorText)', () => {
-    const rec = buildPartialAssistantRecord([], 'half', 'aborted');
-    expect(rec.metadata.finishReason).toBe('aborted');
-    expect('error' in rec.metadata).toBe(false);
-    expect(rec.text).toBe('half');
+    // In-progress text appended LAST so the parts match the stream order.
+    expect(parts[parts.length - 1]).toEqual({
+      type: 'text',
+      text: ' and then',
+    });
+    expect(flushed.content).toBe('looked it up and then');
+    expect(flushed.toolCalls).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(flushed.metadata.error).toBe('boom');
   });
 });
 
 /**
- * chatStreamStartMetadata: attach the authoritative chatId to the streamed
- * assistant UI message ONLY on the `start` part (so the client adopts the real
- * created chat id at the first chunk — see #137). Any non-start part adds none.
+ * chatStreamMetadata: attach metadata to the streamed assistant UI message per
+ * part type — `chatId` on `start` (so the client adopts the real created chat id
+ * at the first chunk — see #137), and AUTHORITATIVE usage (incl. reasoning
+ * tokens) on `finish-step` and `finish` so the client's live token counter snaps
+ * to exact at each step/turn boundary.
  */
-describe('chatStreamStartMetadata', () => {
+describe('chatStreamMetadata', () => {
   it('returns { chatId } for the start part', () => {
-    expect(chatStreamStartMetadata({ type: 'start' }, 'chat-1')).toEqual({
+    expect(chatStreamMetadata({ type: 'start' }, 'chat-1')).toEqual({
       chatId: 'chat-1',
     });
   });
 
-  it('returns undefined for a finish part (any non-start part)', () => {
-    expect(chatStreamStartMetadata({ type: 'finish' }, 'chat-1')).toBeUndefined();
+  it('returns the CUMULATIVE step usage passed in for the finish-step part', () => {
+    // finish-step usage is per-step in v6; the caller accumulates and passes the
+    // running sum, which this just wraps.
+    expect(
+      chatStreamMetadata(
+        { type: 'finish-step', usage: { outputTokens: 100 } },
+        'chat-1',
+        {
+          inputTokens: 500,
+          outputTokens: 220,
+          totalTokens: 720,
+          reasoningTokens: 30,
+        },
+      ),
+    ).toEqual({
+      usage: {
+        inputTokens: 500,
+        outputTokens: 220,
+        totalTokens: 720,
+        reasoningTokens: 30,
+      },
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('returns turn usage for the finish part (reasoning from deprecated top-level field)', () => {
+    expect(
+      chatStreamMetadata(
+        {
+          type: 'finish',
+          totalUsage: {
+            inputTokens: 1000,
+            outputTokens: 250,
+            totalTokens: 1250,
+            reasoningTokens: 50,
+          },
+        },
+        'chat-1',
+      ),
+    ).toEqual({
+      usage: {
+        inputTokens: 1000,
+        outputTokens: 250,
+        totalTokens: 1250,
+        reasoningTokens: 50,
+      },
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('prefers outputTokenDetails.reasoningTokens over the deprecated field (finish)', () => {
+    expect(
+      chatStreamMetadata(
+        {
+          type: 'finish',
+          totalUsage: {
+            outputTokens: 100,
+            reasoningTokens: 5,
+            outputTokenDetails: { reasoningTokens: 30 },
+          },
+        },
+        'chat-1',
+      ),
+    ).toEqual({
+      usage: {
+        inputTokens: undefined,
+        outputTokens: 100,
+        totalTokens: undefined,
+        reasoningTokens: 30,
+      },
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('returns undefined for a finish-step with no accumulated usage', () => {
+    expect(
+      chatStreamMetadata({ type: 'finish-step' }, 'chat-1'),
+    ).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('returns undefined for an unrelated part (e.g. text-delta)', () => {
+    expect(
+      chatStreamMetadata({ type: 'text-delta' }, 'chat-1'),
+    ).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
+
+/**
+ * accumulateStepUsage: sums per-step usage into a running cumulative total so the
+ * client never sees the live counter jump DOWN on a multi-step agent turn (#151).
+ */
+describe('accumulateStepUsage', () => {
+  it('sums every field across two steps', () => {
+    expect(
+      accumulateStepUsage(
+        {
+          inputTokens: 500,
+          outputTokens: 100,
+          totalTokens: 600,
+          reasoningTokens: 30,
+        },
+        {
+          inputTokens: 520,
+          outputTokens: 80,
+          totalTokens: 600,
+          reasoningTokens: 10,
+        },
+      ),
+    ).toEqual({
+      inputTokens: 1020,
+      outputTokens: 180,
+      totalTokens: 1200,
+      reasoningTokens: 40,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('returns the step as-is when there is no accumulator yet', () => {
+    expect(accumulateStepUsage(undefined, { outputTokens: 10 })).toEqual({
+      outputTokens: 10,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('returns the accumulator unchanged when the step usage is absent', () => {
+    const acc = { outputTokens: 10 };
+    expect(accumulateStepUsage(acc, undefined)).toBe(acc);
+  });
+
+  it('returns undefined when both sides are absent', () => {
+    expect(accumulateStepUsage(undefined, undefined)).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('keeps a field undefined only when neither side has it', () => {
+    expect(
+      accumulateStepUsage({ outputTokens: 5 }, { outputTokens: 7 }),
+    ).toEqual({
+      inputTokens: undefined,
+      outputTokens: 12,
+      totalTokens: undefined,
+      reasoningTokens: undefined,
+    });
+  });
+});
+
+/**
+ * Contract test for the #180 wiring in AiChatService.handle: the external MCP
+ * toolset must be built BEFORE the system prompt, and its per-server guidance
+ * threaded into buildSystemPrompt({ mcpInstructions }). The full streaming
+ * handle() is not unit-testable, so this reproduces the exact prompt-build call
+ * the service makes with a connected-server toolset and asserts the guidance is
+ * present. The toolsFor->buildSystemPrompt ordering is additionally enforced at
+ * compile time (the prompt input now consumes external.instructions).
+ */
+describe('AiChatService system prompt wiring (#180)', () => {
+  const workspace = { name: 'Acme' } as unknown as Workspace;
+
+  it('includes the external MCP server instructions in the built system prompt', () => {
+    // Shape returned by mcpClients.toolsFor (only `instructions` matters here).
+    const external: Pick<
+      Awaited<ReturnType<McpClientsService['toolsFor']>>,
+      'instructions'
+    > = {
+      instructions: [
+        {
+          serverName: 'Tavily',
+          toolPrefix: 'tavily',
+          instructions: 'Prefer tavily_search for current events.',
+        },
+      ],
+    };
+
+    // Exactly the call the service makes after building the external toolset.
+    const system = buildSystemPrompt({
+      workspace,
+      adminPrompt: 'persona',
+      mcpInstructions: external.instructions,
+    });
+
+    expect(system).toContain('<mcp_tooling');
+    expect(system).toContain('Tavily');
+    expect(system).toContain('tavily_*');
+    expect(system).toContain('Prefer tavily_search for current events.');
+  });
+
+  it('renders no MCP block when there are no external servers (empty instructions)', () => {
+    const system = buildSystemPrompt({
+      workspace,
+      adminPrompt: 'persona',
+      mcpInstructions: [],
+    });
+    expect(system).not.toContain('<mcp_tooling');
+  });
+});
+
+/**
+ * resolveOpenPageContext: the open page the client sends is attacker-controllable
+ * (id AND title), so the service must validate the id against the DB and take the
+ * title from the DB row — never echo the client title (#159, AI edits the wrong
+ * page). Built with Object.create so the test exercises the real method without
+ * the service's full dependency graph (the constructor only assigns fields).
+ */
+describe('AiChatService.resolveOpenPageContext (#159 current-page validation)', () => {
+  const ws = { id: 'ws-1' } as Workspace;
+  const user = { id: 'u-1' } as any;
+
+  function makeService(opts: {
+    page?: { id: string; workspaceId: string; title: string | null } | null;
+    canView?: boolean | 'throw-other';
+  }) {
+    const svc = Object.create(AiChatService.prototype) as AiChatService;
+    (svc as any).logger = { warn: () => {} };
+    (svc as any).pageRepo = {
+      findById: async () => opts.page ?? undefined,
+    };
+    (svc as any).pageAccess = {
+      validateCanView: async () => {
+        if (opts.canView === 'throw-other') throw new Error('db down');
+        if (opts.canView === false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+        return true;
+      },
+    };
+    return svc;
+  }
+
+  const call = (svc: AiChatService, openPage: any) =>
+    (svc as any).resolveOpenPageContext(openPage, ws, user) as Promise<{
+      id: string;
+      title: string;
+    } | null>;
+
+  it('returns null when no page is open (no id)', async () => {
+    const svc = makeService({});
+    expect(await call(svc, null)).toBeNull();
+    expect(await call(svc, {})).toBeNull();
+    expect(await call(svc, { title: 'spoofed' })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('returns null when the page does not exist', async () => {
+    const svc = makeService({ page: null });
+    expect(await call(svc, { id: 'p-x' })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('returns null for a page in a DIFFERENT workspace (tenant isolation)', async () => {
+    const svc = makeService({
+      page: { id: 'p-1', workspaceId: 'ws-OTHER', title: 'Secret' },
+    });
+    expect(await call(svc, { id: 'p-1' })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('returns null when the user may not view the page (Forbidden)', async () => {
+    const svc = makeService({
+      page: { id: 'p-1', workspaceId: 'ws-1', title: 'Restricted' },
+      canView: false,
+    });
+    expect(await call(svc, { id: 'p-1' })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('returns null (fail-closed) on a non-Forbidden access-check fault', async () => {
+    const svc = makeService({
+      page: { id: 'p-1', workspaceId: 'ws-1', title: 'X' },
+      canView: 'throw-other',
+    });
+    expect(await call(svc, { id: 'p-1' })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('uses the AUTHORITATIVE DB title, IGNORING the client-supplied title', async () => {
+    const svc = makeService({
+      page: { id: 'p-1', workspaceId: 'ws-1', title: 'Real Title B' },
+      canView: true,
+    });
+    // The client claims it is on "Page A" but the id points at page B.
+    const result = await call(svc, { id: 'p-1', title: 'Page A' });
+    expect(result).toEqual({ id: 'p-1', title: 'Real Title B' });
+  });
+
+  it('coerces a null DB title to an empty string', async () => {
+    const svc = makeService({
+      page: { id: 'p-1', workspaceId: 'ws-1', title: null },
+      canView: true,
+    });
+    expect(await call(svc, { id: 'p-1' })).toEqual({ id: 'p-1', title: '' });
   });
 });

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/chat-markdown.util.spec.ts

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+import { buildChatMarkdown, normalizeLang } from './chat-markdown.util';
+import type { AiChatMessage } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
+
+/**
+ * normalizeLang: the client sends `i18n.language` — a FULL locale tag like
+ * 'en-US' / 'ru-RU', NOT a bare 'en'/'ru'. A `@IsIn(['en','ru'])` DTO rejected
+ * that with a 400 (caught in real-browser testing); the export now accepts any
+ * string and normalizes here. Guards that regression.
+ */
+describe('normalizeLang', () => {
+  it("maps any 'ru…' locale tag to ru", () => {
+    expect(normalizeLang('ru')).toBe('ru');
+    expect(normalizeLang('ru-RU')).toBe('ru');
+    expect(normalizeLang('RU-ru')).toBe('ru');
+  });
+
+  it('maps everything else (incl. region-qualified English) to en', () => {
+    expect(normalizeLang('en')).toBe('en');
+    expect(normalizeLang('en-US')).toBe('en');
+    expect(normalizeLang('fr-FR')).toBe('en');
+    expect(normalizeLang(undefined)).toBe('en');
+    expect(normalizeLang('')).toBe('en');
+  });
+});
+
+/**
+ * Unit tests for the SERVER Markdown export (#183). Mirrors the coverage of the
+ * (now-removed) client chat-markdown tests: heading/metadata, role labels, text
+ * + tool blocks, token footers, the interrupted-turn note, and NULL-status
+ * (legacy) rows. The export embeds a live `new Date().toISOString()` timestamp;
+ * we never assert it, only the deterministic structure.
+ */
+
+function row(partial: Partial<AiChatMessage>): AiChatMessage {
+  return {
+    id: partial.id ?? 'id',
+    chatId: partial.chatId ?? 'chat-1',
+    workspaceId: partial.workspaceId ?? 'ws-1',
+    userId: partial.userId ?? null,
+    role: partial.role ?? 'user',
+    content: partial.content ?? null,
+    toolCalls: partial.toolCalls ?? null,
+    metadata: partial.metadata ?? null,
+    status: partial.status ?? null,
+    createdAt: partial.createdAt ?? ('2026-06-21T00:00:00.000Z' as never),
+    updatedAt: partial.updatedAt ?? ('2026-06-21T00:00:00.000Z' as never),
+    deletedAt: partial.deletedAt ?? null,
+  } as AiChatMessage;
+}
+
+describe('buildChatMarkdown (server) — structure', () => {
+  it('emits the title heading, chat id and message count', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'My chat',
+      chatId: 'chat-123',
+      rows: [],
+    });
+    expect(md).toContain('# My chat');
+    expect(md).toContain('- Chat ID: `chat-123`');
+    expect(md).toContain('- Messages: 0');
+  });
+
+  it('falls back to "Untitled chat" with no title (en)', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({ title: null, chatId: 'c', rows: [] });
+    expect(md).toContain('# Untitled chat');
+  });
+
+  it('localizes fixed labels with lang=ru (structure stays English)', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: null,
+      chatId: 'c',
+      lang: 'ru',
+      rows: [row({ role: 'assistant', content: 'hi' })],
+    });
+    expect(md).toContain('# Без названия');
+    expect(md).toContain('## 1. ИИ-агент');
+    // Structural words remain English.
+    expect(md).toContain('- Chat ID:');
+  });
+
+  it('numbers messages and labels roles (You / AI agent)', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'T',
+      chatId: 'c',
+      rows: [
+        row({ role: 'user', content: 'question' }),
+        row({ role: 'assistant', content: 'answer' }),
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(md).toContain('## 1. You');
+    expect(md).toContain('question');
+    expect(md).toContain('## 2. AI agent');
+    expect(md).toContain('answer');
+  });
+
+  it('renders a tool part with fenced input/output and the friendly label', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'T',
+      chatId: 'c',
+      rows: [
+        row({
+          role: 'assistant',
+          content: 'done',
+          metadata: {
+            parts: [
+              {
+                type: 'tool-getPage',
+                state: 'output-available',
+                input: { id: 'p1' },
+                output: { title: 'Hello' },
+              },
+              { type: 'text', text: 'done' },
+            ],
+          } as never,
+        }),
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(md).toContain('**Tool: Read page** (`getPage`) — done');
+    expect(md).toContain('Input:');
+    expect(md).toContain('"id": "p1"');
+    expect(md).toContain('Output:');
+    expect(md).toContain('"title": "Hello"');
+  });
+
+  // #186 re-review pt 1: restore the parity coverage of the removed client spec —
+  // error state, unknown-tool fallback (en + ru), and the circular-stringify catch.
+  it('renders a tool part in the error state with its errorText', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'T',
+      chatId: 'c',
+      rows: [
+        row({
+          role: 'assistant',
+          metadata: {
+            parts: [
+              {
+                type: 'tool-getPage',
+                state: 'output-error',
+                input: { id: 'p1' },
+                errorText: 'page not found',
+              },
+            ],
+          } as never,
+        }),
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(md).toContain('**Tool: Read page** (`getPage`) — error');
+    expect(md).toContain('**Error:** page not found');
+  });
+
+  it('falls back to "Ran tool <name>" for an unknown tool (en) and the ru variant', () => {
+    const parts = [
+      {
+        type: 'tool-mysteryTool',
+        state: 'output-available',
+        output: { ok: 1 },
+      },
+    ];
+    const en = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'T',
+      chatId: 'c',
+      rows: [row({ role: 'assistant', metadata: { parts } as never })],
+    });
+    expect(en).toContain('**Tool: Ran tool mysteryTool** (`mysteryTool`)');
+    const ru = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'T',
+      chatId: 'c',
+      lang: 'ru',
+      rows: [row({ role: 'assistant', metadata: { parts } as never })],
+    });
+    expect(ru).toContain('Выполнил инструмент mysteryTool');
+  });
+
+  it('does not throw on a circular tool output (falls back to String)', () => {
+    const circular: Record<string, unknown> = {};
+    circular.self = circular;
+    expect(() =>
+      buildChatMarkdown({
+        title: 'T',
+        chatId: 'c',
+        rows: [
+          row({
+            role: 'assistant',
+            metadata: {
+              parts: [
+                {
+                  type: 'tool-getPage',
+                  state: 'output-available',
+                  output: circular,
+                },
+              ],
+            } as never,
+          }),
+        ],
+      }),
+    ).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it('emits a token footer + total when usage is present', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'T',
+      chatId: 'c',
+      rows: [
+        row({
+          role: 'assistant',
+          content: 'a',
+          metadata: {
+            usage: {
+              inputTokens: 100,
+              outputTokens: 20,
+              totalTokens: 120,
+              reasoningTokens: 8,
+            },
+          } as never,
+        }),
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(md).toContain('- Total tokens: 120');
+    expect(md).toContain(
+      '_Tokens — in: 100, out: 20, reasoning: 8, total: 120_',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('flags a still-streaming (interrupted) row', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'T',
+      chatId: 'c',
+      rows: [
+        row({ role: 'assistant', content: 'partial', status: 'streaming' }),
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(md).toContain('still being generated');
+  });
+
+  it('does NOT flag a completed row', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'T',
+      chatId: 'c',
+      rows: [row({ role: 'assistant', content: 'final', status: 'completed' })],
+    });
+    expect(md).not.toContain('still being generated');
+  });
+
+  it('renders a legacy NULL-status row (no parts) from plain content', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'T',
+      chatId: 'c',
+      rows: [
+        row({ role: 'assistant', content: 'legacy answer', status: null }),
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(md).toContain('legacy answer');
+    expect(md).not.toContain('still being generated');
+  });
+
+  it('renders a persisted error', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'T',
+      chatId: 'c',
+      rows: [
+        row({
+          role: 'assistant',
+          content: '',
+          status: 'error',
+          metadata: { error: '401: Unauthorized' } as never,
+        }),
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(md).toContain('**⚠️ Error:** 401: Unauthorized');
+  });
+
+  it('escapes embedded triple-backtick fences with a longer delimiter', () => {
+    const md = buildChatMarkdown({
+      title: 'T',
+      chatId: 'c',
+      rows: [
+        row({
+          role: 'assistant',
+          content: 'x',
+          metadata: {
+            parts: [
+              {
+                type: 'tool-getPage',
+                state: 'output-available',
+                output: '```inner```',
+              },
+            ],
+          } as never,
+        }),
+      ],
+    });
+    // A 4-backtick fence wraps content that itself contains a 3-backtick run.
+    expect(md).toContain('````');
+  });
+});

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/chat-markdown.util.ts

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+/**
+ * Server-side Markdown export for an AI agent chat (#183). The DB is the single
+ * source of truth: this renders a chat purely from its persisted message rows
+ * (`AiChatMessage[]` — role / content / metadata.parts / toolCalls / usage).
+ * Because the assistant row is now persisted UPFRONT and updated per step, an
+ * interrupted turn is included up to its last finished step.
+ *
+ * Ported from the client `utils/chat-markdown.ts`. It is a PURE function (apart
+ * from `new Date()` for the export timestamp), so it is straightforward to
+ * unit-test and a future background worker can reuse it.
+ *
+ * Only a few fixed role/tool labels are localized via the `lang` param; the
+ * structural document words (Input/Output/Error/Tokens/...) stay English because
+ * the output is a technical artifact.
+ */
+
+import type { AiChatMessage } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
+
+/** Supported export label languages. Defaults to English. */
+export type ExportLang = 'en' | 'ru';
+
+/**
+ * Normalize an arbitrary client locale code to a supported export language. The
+ * client sends `i18n.language`, which is a FULL locale tag (e.g. `en-US`,
+ * `ru-RU`), not a bare `en`/`ru` — so match on the language subtag and fall back
+ * to English for anything non-Russian.
+ */
+export function normalizeLang(lang?: string): ExportLang {
+  return lang?.toLowerCase().startsWith('ru') ? 'ru' : 'en';
+}
+
+/** A single AI SDK UIMessage part (text part or a tool part). */
+interface ExportPart {
+  type: string;
+  text?: string;
+  state?: string;
+  toolName?: string;
+  input?: unknown;
+  output?: unknown;
+  errorText?: string;
+}
+
+/** Authoritative per-turn usage the server attaches to a message row. */
+interface UsageLike {
+  inputTokens?: number;
+  outputTokens?: number;
+  totalTokens?: number;
+  reasoningTokens?: number;
+}
+
+/** Localized label table. The client-side Markdown builder was removed by #183
+ *  (the export is now server-side only), so this no longer mirrors a second
+ *  exporter — instead the tool-action labels are kept in parity with the
+ *  on-screen action-log labels in the client's `tool-parts.tsx` (`toolLabelKey`)
+ *  so the export reads the same as the UI. Only role + tool-action labels are
+ *  localized; everything structural is an English constant in the renderer. */
+const LABELS: Record<
+  ExportLang,
+  {
+    untitled: string;
+    aiAgent: string;
+    you: string;
+    tools: Record<string, string>;
+    ranTool: (name: string) => string;
+    stillGenerating: string;
+  }
+> = {
+  en: {
+    untitled: 'Untitled chat',
+    aiAgent: 'AI agent',
+    you: 'You',
+    tools: {
+      searchPages: 'Searched pages',
+      getPage: 'Read page',
+      createPage: 'Created page',
+      updatePageContent: 'Updated page',
+      renamePage: 'Renamed page',
+      movePage: 'Moved page',
+      deletePage: 'Deleted page (to trash)',
+      createComment: 'Commented',
+      resolveComment: 'Resolved comment',
+    },
+    ranTool: (name) => `Ran tool ${name}`,
+    stillGenerating:
+      'This message is still being generated — the export captured a partial, in-progress response.',
+  },
+  ru: {
+    untitled: 'Без названия',
+    aiAgent: 'ИИ-агент',
+    you: 'Вы',
+    tools: {
+      searchPages: 'Искал по страницам',
+      getPage: 'Прочитал страницу',
+      createPage: 'Создал страницу',
+      updatePageContent: 'Обновил страницу',
+      renamePage: 'Переименовал страницу',
+      movePage: 'Переместил страницу',
+      deletePage: 'Удалил страницу (в корзину)',
+      createComment: 'Прокомментировал',
+      resolveComment: 'Закрыл комментарий',
+    },
+    ranTool: (name) => `Выполнил инструмент ${name}`,
+    stillGenerating:
+      'Это сообщение всё ещё генерируется — экспорт захватил частичный, незавершённый ответ.',
+  },
+};
+
+/** True for AI SDK tool parts (static `tool-*` or `dynamic-tool`). */
+function isToolPart(type: string): boolean {
+  return type.startsWith('tool-') || type === 'dynamic-tool';
+}
+
+/** Extract the tool name from a part `type` of `tool-${name}` (or dynamic). */
+function getToolName(part: ExportPart): string {
+  if (part.type === 'dynamic-tool') return part.toolName ?? '';
+  return part.type.startsWith('tool-')
+    ? part.type.slice('tool-'.length)
+    : part.type;
+}
+
+/** Map an AI SDK tool-part state to the 3 states the action-log renders. */
+function toolRunState(state: string | undefined): 'running' | 'done' | 'error' {
+  if (state === 'output-error' || state === 'output-denied') return 'error';
+  if (state === 'output-available') return 'done';
+  return 'running';
+}
+
+/** Resolve a tool's friendly action-log label (localized) from its name. */
+function toolLabel(name: string, lang: ExportLang): string {
+  return LABELS[lang].tools[name] ?? LABELS[lang].ranTool(name);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Stringify an arbitrary tool input/output value for a fenced block. Strings
+ * pass through as-is; everything else is pretty-printed JSON, falling back to
+ * `String(value)` if serialization throws (e.g. a circular structure).
+ */
+function stringify(value: unknown): string {
+  if (typeof value === 'string') return value;
+  try {
+    return JSON.stringify(value, null, 2);
+  } catch {
+    return String(value);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Wrap `code` in a fenced code block whose backtick delimiter is LONGER than the
+ * longest backtick run inside the content, so embedded backticks (or a literal
+ * ``` fence) never break out of the block. Minimum 3 backticks.
+ */
+function fence(code: string, lang = ''): string {
+  const runs: string[] = code.match(/`+/g) ?? [];
+  const longest = runs.reduce((m, s) => Math.max(m, s.length), 0);
+  const delim = '`'.repeat(Math.max(3, longest + 1));
+  return `${delim}${lang}\n${code}\n${delim}`;
+}
+
+/** Per-row token count, mirroring the header sum in the client window. */
+function rowTokens(usage: UsageLike): number {
+  return (
+    usage.totalTokens ?? (usage.inputTokens ?? 0) + (usage.outputTokens ?? 0)
+  );
+}
+
+/** Render one message's UIMessage parts into an array of Markdown blocks
+ *  (text blocks + tool blocks). Mirrors the client renderer / MessageItem. */
+function renderMessageParts(parts: ExportPart[], lang: ExportLang): string[] {
+  const out: string[] = [];
+
+  for (const part of parts) {
+    if (part.type === 'text') {
+      const text = (part.text ?? '').trim();
+      if (text.length > 0) out.push(text);
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    if (!isToolPart(part.type)) continue;
+
+    const name = getToolName(part);
+    const label = toolLabel(name, lang);
+    const state = toolRunState(part.state);
+
+    const toolLines: string[] = [`**Tool: ${label}** (\`${name}\`) — ${state}`];
+    if (part.input !== undefined) {
+      toolLines.push('Input:');
+      toolLines.push(fence(stringify(part.input), 'json'));
+    }
+    if (part.output !== undefined) {
+      toolLines.push('Output:');
+      toolLines.push(fence(stringify(part.output), 'json'));
+    }
+    if (part.errorText) {
+      toolLines.push(`**Error:** ${part.errorText}`);
+    }
+    out.push(toolLines.join('\n\n'));
+  }
+
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** Resolve a persisted row's parts: prefer the rich persisted parts, else a
+ *  single text part built from the plain-text content (mirrors rowToUiMessage). */
+function rowParts(row: AiChatMessage): ExportPart[] {
+  const meta = (row.metadata ?? {}) as { parts?: ExportPart[] };
+  return Array.isArray(meta.parts) && meta.parts.length > 0
+    ? meta.parts
+    : [{ type: 'text', text: row.content ?? '' }];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Serialize a chat to a Markdown string from its persisted rows. Source = DB
+ * ONLY (no live client state). A row whose `status` is still 'streaming' is an
+ * interrupted turn that the export captured mid-flight; it is rendered up to its
+ * last finished step and flagged "still generating".
+ */
+export function buildChatMarkdown(args: {
+  title: string | null;
+  chatId: string;
+  rows: AiChatMessage[];
+  // Accepts a full client locale tag (e.g. 'en-US'/'ru-RU'); normalized below.
+  lang?: string;
+}): string {
+  const { title, chatId, rows } = args;
+  const lang: ExportLang = normalizeLang(args.lang);
+  const L = LABELS[lang];
+  const blocks: string[] = [];
+
+  const heading = (title ?? '').trim() || L.untitled;
+  blocks.push(`# ${heading}`);
+
+  const usageOf = (row: AiChatMessage): UsageLike | undefined => {
+    const meta = (row.metadata ?? {}) as { usage?: UsageLike };
+    return meta.usage;
+  };
+  const errorOf = (row: AiChatMessage): string | undefined => {
+    const meta = (row.metadata ?? {}) as { error?: string };
+    return meta.error;
+  };
+
+  // Metadata bullet list. Total tokens is only shown when there is a sum.
+  const totalTokens = rows.reduce((sum, row) => {
+    const usage = usageOf(row);
+    return usage ? sum + rowTokens(usage) : sum;
+  }, 0);
+  const meta = [
+    `- Chat ID: \`${chatId}\``,
+    `- Exported: ${new Date().toISOString()}`,
+    `- Messages: ${rows.length}`,
+  ];
+  if (totalTokens > 0) meta.push(`- Total tokens: ${totalTokens}`);
+  blocks.push(meta.join('\n'));
+
+  rows.forEach((row, index) => {
+    blocks.push('---');
+
+    const roleLabel = row.role === 'assistant' ? L.aiAgent : L.you;
+    blocks.push(`## ${index + 1}. ${roleLabel}`);
+
+    // Created-at kept in source as an HTML comment (out of the rendered prose).
+    if (row.createdAt) {
+      const iso =
+        row.createdAt instanceof Date
+          ? row.createdAt.toISOString()
+          : String(row.createdAt);
+      blocks.push(`<!-- ${iso} -->`);
+    }
+
+    blocks.push(...renderMessageParts(rowParts(row), lang));
+
+    // A still-'streaming' row is an interrupted/in-progress turn captured by the
+    // export; record that so the partial answer is not mistaken for complete.
+    if (row.status === 'streaming') {
+      blocks.push(`_⏳ ${L.stillGenerating}_`);
+    }
+
+    const error = errorOf(row);
+    if (error) {
+      blocks.push(`**⚠️ Error:** ${error}`);
+    }
+
+    const usage = usageOf(row);
+    if (usage) {
+      const total = usage.totalTokens ?? rowTokens(usage);
+      const reasoning =
+        usage.reasoningTokens && usage.reasoningTokens > 0
+          ? `, reasoning: ${usage.reasoningTokens}`
+          : '';
+      blocks.push(
+        `_Tokens — in: ${usage.inputTokens ?? '?'}, out: ${
+          usage.outputTokens ?? '?'
+        }${reasoning}, total: ${total}_`,
+      );
+    }
+  });
+
+  // Blank line between blocks so the Markdown renders cleanly.
+  return blocks.join('\n\n');
+}

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/dto/ai-chat.dto.ts

@@ -26,3 +26,17 @@ export class GetChatMessagesDto {
   @IsString()
   cursor?: string;
 }
+
+/** Export a chat to Markdown (#183). `lang` localizes the few fixed
+ *  role/tool-action labels; defaults to English server-side. */
+export class ExportChatDto {
+  @IsString()
+  chatId: string;
+
+  // A full client locale tag (e.g. 'en-US', 'ru-RU') — normalized server-side to
+  // a supported export language (see normalizeLang). Accept any string so a
+  // region-qualified locale is not rejected (the 400 that broke the real client).
+  @IsOptional()
+  @IsString()
+  lang?: string;
+}

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/external-mcp/dto/create-mcp-server.dto.ts

@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ export class CreateMcpServerDto {
   @IsString({ each: true })
   toolAllowlist?: string[];
 
+  // Admin-authored guidance ("how/when to use this server's tools") injected
+  // into the agent system prompt next to the tool descriptions (#180). Trusted,
+  // NON-secret (so it IS returned). Capped to bound prompt/token size (the
+  // built-in guide is ~1.5KB). Blank => stored as null.
+  @IsOptional()
+  @IsString()
+  @MaxLength(4000)
+  instructions?: string;
+
   @IsOptional()
   @IsBoolean()
   enabled?: boolean;

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/external-mcp/dto/mcp-server-instructions.dto.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+import 'reflect-metadata';
+import { plainToInstance } from 'class-transformer';
+import { validateSync } from 'class-validator';
+import { CreateMcpServerDto } from './create-mcp-server.dto';
+import { UpdateMcpServerDto } from './update-mcp-server.dto';
+
+/**
+ * API-boundary validation for the per-server `instructions` field (#180): a free
+ * text guide injected into the agent system prompt. It is optional, must be a
+ * string, and is bounded by @MaxLength(4000) to cap prompt/token size.
+ */
+describe('MCP server DTO instructions validation', () => {
+  function validateCreate(payload: unknown) {
+    const dto = plainToInstance(CreateMcpServerDto, payload);
+    return validateSync(dto as object);
+  }
+  function validateUpdate(payload: unknown) {
+    const dto = plainToInstance(UpdateMcpServerDto, payload);
+    return validateSync(dto as object);
+  }
+
+  const base = {
+    name: 'Tavily',
+    transport: 'http',
+    url: 'https://example.com/mcp',
+  };
+
+  it('accepts an omitted instructions field on create', () => {
+    expect(validateCreate({ ...base })).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it('accepts a reasonable instructions string on create', () => {
+    expect(
+      validateCreate({ ...base, instructions: 'Use search for fresh facts.' }),
+    ).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects instructions over MaxLength(4000) on create', () => {
+    const errors = validateCreate({
+      ...base,
+      instructions: 'a'.repeat(4001),
+    });
+    expect(
+      errors.some(
+        (e) =>
+          e.property === 'instructions' &&
+          e.constraints !== undefined &&
+          'maxLength' in e.constraints,
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('accepts instructions of exactly 4000 chars on create', () => {
+    expect(
+      validateCreate({ ...base, instructions: 'a'.repeat(4000) }),
+    ).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects a non-string instructions value', () => {
+    const errors = validateCreate({ ...base, instructions: 123 });
+    expect(errors.some((e) => e.property === 'instructions')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects instructions over MaxLength(4000) on update', () => {
+    const errors = validateUpdate({ instructions: 'a'.repeat(4001) });
+    expect(
+      errors.some(
+        (e) =>
+          e.property === 'instructions' &&
+          e.constraints !== undefined &&
+          'maxLength' in e.constraints,
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+});

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/external-mcp/dto/update-mcp-server.dto.ts

@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ export class UpdateMcpServerDto {
   @IsString({ each: true })
   toolAllowlist?: string[];
 
+  // Admin-authored prompt guidance (#180). Absent => unchanged; blank => cleared
+  // (stored as null by the repo). Capped to bound prompt/token size.
+  @IsOptional()
+  @IsString()
+  @MaxLength(4000)
+  instructions?: string;
+
   @IsOptional()
   @IsBoolean()
   enabled?: boolean;

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/external-mcp/mcp-call-timeout.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+import { type Tool, type ToolCallOptions } from 'ai';
+import {
+  wrapToolWithCallTimeout,
+  wrapToolsWithCallTimeout,
+} from './mcp-clients.service';
+import {
+  mcpStreamTimeoutMs,
+  mcpCallTimeoutMs,
+} from '../../../integrations/ai/ai-streaming-fetch';
+
+/**
+ * Per-call total-timeout guard for external MCP tools (mcp-clients.service).
+ *
+ * `@ai-sdk/mcp`'s tool execute has NO built-in per-call timeout — a tool that
+ * keeps the connection warm but never returns is otherwise unbounded. The
+ * wrapper attaches a fresh AbortController + timer per CALL and composes it with
+ * the turn's abortSignal via AbortSignal.any, so EITHER the per-call timeout OR a
+ * client disconnect aborts the in-flight call.
+ *
+ * Fake timers prove the timeout fires WITHOUT real waiting; no leaked timer keeps
+ * the process alive after a fast resolve.
+ */
+const CALL_TIMEOUT_MS = 900_000;
+
+/** Build a Tool around an `execute` impl, mirroring the SDK's minimal shape. */
+function toolWith(
+  execute: (args: unknown, options: ToolCallOptions) => unknown,
+): Tool {
+  return { description: 'x', inputSchema: undefined, execute } as unknown as Tool;
+}
+
+/** Invoke a (possibly wrapped) tool's execute with an optional turn signal. */
+function callExecute(
+  tool: Tool,
+  args: unknown,
+  abortSignal?: AbortSignal,
+): unknown {
+  const execute = tool.execute as (
+    args: unknown,
+    options: ToolCallOptions,
+  ) => unknown;
+  return execute(args, { abortSignal } as ToolCallOptions);
+}
+
+describe('wrapToolWithCallTimeout', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => jest.useFakeTimers());
+  afterEach(() => {
+    jest.clearAllTimers();
+    jest.useRealTimers();
+  });
+
+  it('aborts a tool that only rejects when its abortSignal fires, after ms elapses', async () => {
+    // The tool resolves NEVER on its own — it only settles when the abortSignal
+    // it is handed aborts. So a resolution proves the per-call timer fired and
+    // aborted the call (not the tool finishing by itself).
+    let received: AbortSignal | undefined;
+    const tool = toolWith((_args, options) => {
+      received = options.abortSignal;
+      return new Promise((_resolve, reject) => {
+        options.abortSignal?.addEventListener('abort', () => {
+          reject(options.abortSignal?.reason ?? new Error('aborted'));
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    const wrapped = wrapToolWithCallTimeout(tool, CALL_TIMEOUT_MS);
+    const promise = callExecute(wrapped, { q: 'x' }) as Promise<unknown>;
+    // Attach the rejection handler synchronously so advancing timers cannot mark
+    // it an unhandled rejection.
+    const settled = promise.then(
+      () => ({ ok: true as const }),
+      (err: unknown) => ({ ok: false as const, err }),
+    );
+
+    // Nothing fired yet.
+    jest.advanceTimersByTime(CALL_TIMEOUT_MS - 1);
+    // Past the cap -> the per-call timer aborts the composed signal.
+    jest.advanceTimersByTime(2);
+
+    const result = await settled;
+    expect(result.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(received).toBeInstanceOf(AbortSignal);
+    // The abort reason / rejection mentions the timeout.
+    const message =
+      (result as { err: unknown }).err instanceof Error
+        ? ((result as { err: Error }).err.message)
+        : String((result as { err: unknown }).err);
+    expect(message).toMatch(/timed out after 900000ms/);
+  });
+
+  it('aborts a REAL-client-style tool that never settles and ignores abort (race fix)', async () => {
+    // Models the ACTUAL @ai-sdk/mcp semantics: its in-flight promise does NOT
+    // reject on abort (it only checks the signal when a response arrives), so a
+    // warm-but-stuck call NEVER settles on its own and does NOT listen to the
+    // abort signal. The wrapper must still reject after `ms` via the race — an
+    // implementation that merely `await original(...)` would hang here forever.
+    // This test FAILS against the old await-only code and PASSES with the race.
+    const tool = toolWith(() => new Promise(() => {})); // never settles, no abort
+    const wrapped = wrapToolWithCallTimeout(tool, CALL_TIMEOUT_MS);
+    const promise = callExecute(wrapped, { q: 'x' }) as Promise<unknown>;
+    // Assert the rejection without hanging: drive fake time async so the timer's
+    // abort -> race rejection microtasks flush, then await the rejection.
+    const expectation = expect(promise).rejects.toThrow(/timed out after 900000ms/);
+    await jest.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(CALL_TIMEOUT_MS + 1);
+    await expectation;
+  });
+
+  it('passes a fast tool through and leaks no timer (advancing later does not throw)', async () => {
+    const tool = toolWith(() => Promise.resolve('fast-result'));
+    const wrapped = wrapToolWithCallTimeout(tool, CALL_TIMEOUT_MS);
+
+    const value = await (callExecute(wrapped, {}) as Promise<unknown>);
+    expect(value).toBe('fast-result');
+
+    // The timer was cleared in the finally — advancing past the cap aborts
+    // nothing and throws nothing.
+    expect(() => jest.advanceTimersByTime(CALL_TIMEOUT_MS * 2)).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it('aborts when the caller turn signal aborts before the timeout (disconnect path)', async () => {
+    // Real-client semantics: the tool never settles and does NOT listen to abort,
+    // so the wrapper must reject via the race when the caller's turn signal (a
+    // client disconnect) aborts BEFORE the per-call cap. The race propagates the
+    // caller's abort reason.
+    const tool = toolWith(() => new Promise(() => {})); // never settles, no abort
+    const wrapped = wrapToolWithCallTimeout(tool, CALL_TIMEOUT_MS);
+    const turn = new AbortController();
+    const promise = callExecute(wrapped, {}, turn.signal) as Promise<unknown>;
+    const settled = promise.then(
+      () => ({ ok: true as const }),
+      (err: unknown) => ({ ok: false as const, err }),
+    );
+
+    // Disconnect well before the cap; the per-call timer never fires here.
+    turn.abort(new Error('client disconnected'));
+    const result = await settled;
+    expect(result.ok).toBe(false);
+    const message =
+      (result as { err: unknown }).err instanceof Error
+        ? (result as { err: Error }).err.message
+        : String((result as { err: unknown }).err);
+    // The caller's abort reason propagates through the race.
+    expect(message).toMatch(/client disconnected/);
+  });
+
+  it('passes a tool with no execute through unchanged', () => {
+    const noExecute = { description: 'x', inputSchema: undefined } as unknown as Tool;
+    const wrapped = wrapToolWithCallTimeout(noExecute, CALL_TIMEOUT_MS);
+    // Same object back, execute still absent.
+    expect(wrapped).toBe(noExecute);
+    expect((wrapped as { execute?: unknown }).execute).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('wrapToolsWithCallTimeout', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => jest.useFakeTimers());
+  afterEach(() => {
+    jest.clearAllTimers();
+    jest.useRealTimers();
+  });
+
+  it('wraps every tool in the map (each call gets its own guard)', async () => {
+    const tools: Record<string, Tool> = {
+      a: toolWith(() => Promise.resolve('A')),
+      b: toolWith(() => Promise.resolve('B')),
+    };
+    const out = wrapToolsWithCallTimeout(tools, CALL_TIMEOUT_MS);
+    expect(Object.keys(out)).toEqual(['a', 'b']);
+    expect(await (callExecute(out.a, {}) as Promise<unknown>)).toBe('A');
+    expect(await (callExecute(out.b, {}) as Promise<unknown>)).toBe('B');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('mcp timeout env helpers', () => {
+  const ORIG_SILENCE = process.env.AI_MCP_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS;
+  const ORIG_CALL = process.env.AI_MCP_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS;
+  afterEach(() => {
+    if (ORIG_SILENCE === undefined) delete process.env.AI_MCP_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS;
+    else process.env.AI_MCP_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS = ORIG_SILENCE;
+    if (ORIG_CALL === undefined) delete process.env.AI_MCP_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS;
+    else process.env.AI_MCP_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS = ORIG_CALL;
+  });
+
+  it('mcpStreamTimeoutMs defaults to 5 min and honors a positive override', () => {
+    delete process.env.AI_MCP_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS;
+    expect(mcpStreamTimeoutMs()).toBe(300_000);
+    process.env.AI_MCP_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS = '60000';
+    expect(mcpStreamTimeoutMs()).toBe(60_000);
+    for (const bad of ['0', '-1', 'x', '']) {
+      process.env.AI_MCP_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS = bad;
+      expect(mcpStreamTimeoutMs()).toBe(300_000);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('mcpCallTimeoutMs defaults to 15 min and honors a positive override', () => {
+    delete process.env.AI_MCP_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS;
+    expect(mcpCallTimeoutMs()).toBe(900_000);
+    process.env.AI_MCP_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS = '120000';
+    expect(mcpCallTimeoutMs()).toBe(120_000);
+    for (const bad of ['0', '-1', 'x', '']) {
+      process.env.AI_MCP_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS = bad;
+      expect(mcpCallTimeoutMs()).toBe(900_000);
+    }
+  });
+});

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/external-mcp/mcp-clients.service.ts

@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 import { isIP } from 'node:net';
 import { lookup as dnsLookup, type LookupAddress } from 'node:dns';
 import { Injectable, Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
-import { type Tool } from 'ai';
+import { type Tool, type ToolCallOptions } from 'ai';
 import { createMCPClient } from '@ai-sdk/mcp';
 import { Agent, type Dispatcher } from 'undici';
 import { AiMcpServerRepo } from '@docmost/db/repos/ai-chat/ai-mcp-server.repo';
 import { AiMcpServer } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
+import {
+  streamingDispatcherOptions,
+  mcpStreamTimeoutMs,
+  mcpCallTimeoutMs,
+} from '../../../integrations/ai/ai-streaming-fetch';
 import { SecretBoxService } from '../../../integrations/crypto/secret-box';
 import { isUrlAllowed, isIpAllowed } from './ssrf-guard';
 
@@ -28,6 +33,26 @@ interface ServerOutcome {
   reason?: string;
 }
 
+/**
+ * One server's admin-authored guidance for the agent system prompt (#180).
+ * Built ONLY for a server that actually connected AND contributed ≥1 tool
+ * (after the allowlist filter) AND has non-blank guidance — so a guide never
+ * appears for a server whose tools the agent cannot actually call.
+ */
+export interface McpServerInstruction {
+  /** Display name of the server (for the prompt section header). */
+  serverName: string;
+  /**
+   * The tool-name namespace prefix the server's tools were merged under
+   * (sanitized name, e.g. `tavily`). The prompt renders this as `tavily_*` so
+   * the model can connect the guidance to the actual tool names. Advisory:
+   * individual tools may carry a disambiguating suffix on rare collisions.
+   */
+  toolPrefix: string;
+  /** The trusted, non-blank guidance text. */
+  instructions: string;
+}
+
 export interface ExternalToolset {
   /** Namespaced external tools, merge-ready into the agent toolset. */
   tools: Record<string, Tool>;
@@ -35,6 +60,11 @@ export interface ExternalToolset {
   clients: Closable[];
   /** Per-server connect outcomes so the UI can show unavailable servers. */
   outcomes: ServerOutcome[];
+  /**
+   * Per-server prompt guidance for connected servers that contributed ≥1 tool
+   * and have non-blank instructions. Empty when no server qualifies.
+   */
+  instructions: McpServerInstruction[];
 }
 
 /** Connect+tools() timeout per server — a slow server must not stall the turn. */
@@ -55,6 +85,8 @@ interface CacheEntry {
   tools: Record<string, Tool>;
   clients: McpClient[];
   outcomes: ServerOutcome[];
+  /** Prompt guidance for qualifying servers (see McpServerInstruction). */
+  instructions: McpServerInstruction[];
   expiresAt: number;
   /** Active leases (turns currently using these clients). */
   refCount: number;
@@ -136,6 +168,7 @@ export class McpClientsService {
       tools: entry.tools,
       clients: [release],
       outcomes: entry.outcomes,
+      instructions: entry.instructions,
     };
   }
 
@@ -218,6 +251,9 @@ export class McpClientsService {
     const tools: Record<string, Tool> = {};
     const clients: McpClient[] = [];
     const outcomes: ServerOutcome[] = [];
+    // Per-call total wall-clock cap, read once for this build (env-overridable).
+    const callTimeoutMs = mcpCallTimeoutMs();
+    const instructions: McpServerInstruction[] = [];
 
     for (const server of servers) {
       try {
@@ -226,14 +262,33 @@ export class McpClientsService {
         clients.push(client);
         const allow = server.toolAllowlist;
         const picked =
-          Array.isArray(allow) && allow.length > 0
-            ? pick(raw, allow)
-            : raw;
+          Array.isArray(allow) && allow.length > 0 ? pick(raw, allow) : raw;
+        // Bound each tool's execute with a per-call total-timeout guard before
+        // merging, so a single chatty-but-stuck call is aborted after the cap.
+        const guarded = wrapToolsWithCallTimeout(picked, callTimeoutMs);
         // Namespace each tool with the sanitized server name AND disambiguate
         // against names already merged from earlier servers, so no external
-        // tool is silently overwritten on collision.
-        this.mergeNamespaced(tools, picked, server.name, server.id);
+        // tool is silently overwritten on collision. The returned count drives
+        // whether this server's prompt guidance is included (≥1 tool merged).
+        const merged = this.mergeNamespaced(
+          tools,
+          guarded,
+          server.name,
+          server.id,
+        );
         outcomes.push({ name: server.name, ok: true });
+        // Include this server's guidance ONLY when it actually contributed at
+        // least one tool the agent can call (allowlist may have filtered all of
+        // them out) AND the admin authored non-blank instructions. The header
+        // prefix is the sanitized server name (= the tool namespace prefix).
+        const guide = server.instructions?.trim();
+        if (merged.count > 0 && guide) {
+          instructions.push({
+            serverName: server.name,
+            toolPrefix: merged.prefix,
+            instructions: guide,
+          });
+        }
       } catch (err) {
         // A failed server is skipped — the turn proceeds with the rest. Log a
         // short warning (never the URL/headers) so ops can see degradation, and
@@ -250,6 +305,7 @@ export class McpClientsService {
       tools,
       clients,
       outcomes,
+      instructions,
       expiresAt: Date.now() + CACHE_TTL_MS,
       refCount: 0,
       evicted: false,
@@ -266,16 +322,19 @@ export class McpClientsService {
    * renaming any key that would collide with an already-merged tool (different
    * servers with the same sanitized name, or duplicates after truncation), so
    * no external tool is silently dropped via overwrite.
+   *
+   * Returns how many tools this server actually contributed and the namespace
+   * prefix used (the sanitized server name) so the caller can attach the
+   * server's prompt guidance only when ≥1 tool was merged.
    */
   private mergeNamespaced(
     target: Record<string, Tool>,
     picked: Record<string, Tool>,
     serverName: string,
     serverId: string,
-  ): void {
-    for (const [name, tool] of Object.entries(
-      namespace(picked, serverName),
-    )) {
+  ): { count: number; prefix: string } {
+    let count = 0;
+    for (const [name, tool] of Object.entries(namespace(picked, serverName))) {
       let key = name;
       if (key in target) {
         const original = key;
@@ -285,7 +344,9 @@ export class McpClientsService {
         );
       }
       target[key] = tool;
+      count += 1;
     }
+    return { count, prefix: namespacePrefix(serverName) };
   }
 
   /**
@@ -361,9 +422,7 @@ export class McpClientsService {
 
   /** Close clients, swallowing close errors so they never break a response. */
   private async closeClients(clients: McpClient[]): Promise<void> {
-    await Promise.all(
-      clients.map((c) => c.close().catch(() => undefined)),
-    );
+    await Promise.all(clients.map((c) => c.close().catch(() => undefined)));
   }
 }
 
@@ -376,9 +435,10 @@ export class McpClientsService {
  * lookup hands net/tls.connect ONLY a set that passed this check, so the kernel
  * can never connect to an address that did not pass the guard. Pure — no I/O.
  */
-export function validateResolvedAddresses(
-  addrs: readonly LookupAddress[],
-): { ok: boolean; blockedHost?: string } {
+export function validateResolvedAddresses(addrs: readonly LookupAddress[]): {
+  ok: boolean;
+  blockedHost?: string;
+} {
   if (addrs.length === 0) {
     return { ok: false };
   }
@@ -399,7 +459,21 @@ export function validateResolvedAddresses(
  * to an IP literal).
  */
 function buildPinnedDispatcher(): Agent {
+  // External-MCP traffic uses a DEDICATED, shorter silence timeout
+  // (`AI_MCP_STREAM_TIMEOUT_MS`, default 5 min) — deliberately tighter than the
+  // chat provider's 15-min `streamTimeoutMs()` — so a byte-silent/hung MCP
+  // upstream is broken in ~5 min instead of 15. We keep the keep-alive options
+  // from `streamingDispatcherOptions()` but OVERRIDE headers/body timeouts.
+  // Accepted trade-off: a legitimately long but byte-silent single tool call,
+  // and an SSE transport idling >5 min BETWEEN tool calls, are also cut here; the
+  // per-call total cap (wrapToolsWithCallTimeout, `AI_MCP_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS`) is the
+  // complementary guard for chatty-but-stuck calls that keep the socket warm yet
+  // never return.
+  const mcpSilenceMs = mcpStreamTimeoutMs();
   return new Agent({
+    ...streamingDispatcherOptions(),
+    headersTimeout: mcpSilenceMs,
+    bodyTimeout: mcpSilenceMs,
     connect: {
       lookup: (hostname, _options, callback) => {
         // Always resolve ALL addresses ourselves; do not trust the caller's
@@ -500,7 +574,7 @@ function namespace(
   tools: Record<string, Tool>,
   serverName: string,
 ): Record<string, Tool> {
-  const prefix = sanitizeName(serverName) || 'mcp';
+  const prefix = namespacePrefix(serverName);
   const out: Record<string, Tool> = {};
   for (const [name, t] of Object.entries(tools)) {
     const safe = sanitizeName(name);
@@ -515,6 +589,15 @@ function namespace(
   return out;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The tool-name namespace prefix for a server: its sanitized name, or `mcp`
+ * when the name sanitizes to empty. Tools are merged as `${prefix}_${tool}`, so
+ * the prompt guidance refers to the server's tools as `${prefix}_*`.
+ */
+function namespacePrefix(serverName: string): string {
+  return sanitizeName(serverName) || 'mcp';
+}
+
 /** Reduce an arbitrary string to ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+, collapsing runs to '_'. */
 function sanitizeName(value: string): string {
   return value
@@ -561,6 +644,78 @@ function disambiguate(
   return capName(`${name.slice(0, MAX_TOOL_NAME_LENGTH - 14)}_${Date.now()}`);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Wrap every tool's execute with a per-call total-timeout guard so a single
+ * external MCP tool call that keeps the connection warm but never returns is
+ * aborted after `ms` wall-clock (complements the transport silence timeout).
+ */
+export function wrapToolsWithCallTimeout(
+  tools: Record<string, Tool>,
+  ms: number,
+): Record<string, Tool> {
+  const out: Record<string, Tool> = {};
+  for (const [name, t] of Object.entries(tools)) {
+    out[name] = wrapToolWithCallTimeout(t, ms);
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Per-call total-timeout wrapper for one MCP tool. A fresh AbortController +
+ * timer bounds the call; it is composed with the turn's abortSignal via
+ * AbortSignal.any so EITHER the per-call timeout OR a client disconnect aborts
+ * the call. We RACE the call against the composed abort signal rather than just
+ * awaiting it, because @ai-sdk/mcp does NOT settle its in-flight promise on abort
+ * (verified in @ai-sdk/mcp@1.0.52: request() only does throwIfAborted() once
+ * before send and only re-checks the signal inside the response-message handler,
+ * which runs ONLY when a response arrives). So for a warm-but-stuck call awaiting
+ * `original` alone would hang forever even after the timer aborts.
+ */
+export function wrapToolWithCallTimeout(tool: Tool, ms: number): Tool {
+  const original = tool.execute;
+  if (typeof original !== 'function') return tool;
+  const execute = async (args: unknown, options: ToolCallOptions) => {
+    const controller = new AbortController();
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
+      controller.abort(new Error(`MCP tool call timed out after ${ms}ms`));
+    }, ms);
+    timer.unref?.();
+    const abortSignal = options?.abortSignal
+      ? AbortSignal.any([options.abortSignal, controller.signal])
+      : controller.signal;
+    // Reject as soon as the composed signal fires, independent of whether
+    // `original` ever settles. The losing `original` promise is left pending; it
+    // is cleaned up when the client is closed at turn end, and Promise.race
+    // attaches a rejection handler to BOTH inputs so a late rejection of either
+    // is never an unhandled rejection (do NOT add an extra .catch — it could
+    // swallow the real result and would break the race semantics).
+    const aborted = new Promise<never>((_, reject) => {
+      const fail = () => reject(abortReason(abortSignal));
+      if (abortSignal.aborted) fail();
+      else abortSignal.addEventListener('abort', fail, { once: true });
+    });
+    try {
+      return await Promise.race([
+        original(args, { ...options, abortSignal }),
+        aborted,
+      ]);
+    } finally {
+      clearTimeout(timer);
+    }
+  };
+  // `Tool` is a union whose `execute` overloads conflict; cast narrowly so the
+  // wrapped tool keeps every other field while swapping only `execute`.
+  return { ...tool, execute } as unknown as Tool;
+}
+
+/** The signal's reason as an Error (informative thrown value on abort/timeout). */
+function abortReason(signal: AbortSignal): Error {
+  const r = signal.reason;
+  return r instanceof Error
+    ? r
+    : new Error(typeof r === 'string' ? r : 'MCP tool call aborted');
+}
+
 /** Reject a promise after `ms`, so a hung connect/tools() never stalls a turn. */
 function withTimeout<T>(promise: Promise<T>, ms: number): Promise<T> {
   return new Promise<T>((resolve, reject) => {

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/external-mcp/mcp-instructions.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+import { type Tool } from 'ai';
+import { McpClientsService } from './mcp-clients.service';
+
+/**
+ * Tests for the per-server prompt guidance (#180) assembled by buildEntry and
+ * surfaced via toolsFor().instructions.
+ *
+ * REACHABILITY NOTE: buildEntry is a PRIVATE method; the smallest reachable
+ * public path is toolsFor() -> getOrBuildEntry -> buildEntry -> connect/tools()
+ * -> mergeNamespaced. We drive that path: stub the repo's `listEnabled` and spy
+ * on the private `connect` to return fake MCP clients whose `tools()` we control.
+ *
+ * Contract (all checked here): a server's guidance is included ONLY when the
+ * server actually connected AND contributed ≥1 callable tool (after the
+ * allowlist filter) AND its instructions are non-blank. The header carries the
+ * tool namespace prefix (the sanitized server name).
+ */
+function fakeTool(): Tool {
+  return { description: 'x', inputSchema: undefined } as unknown as Tool;
+}
+
+interface FakeServer {
+  id: string;
+  name: string;
+  transport: string;
+  url: string;
+  headersEnc: string | null;
+  toolAllowlist: string[] | null;
+  instructions: string | null;
+}
+
+function server(
+  over: Partial<FakeServer> & { id: string; name: string },
+): FakeServer {
+  return {
+    transport: 'http',
+    url: 'https://example.com/mcp',
+    headersEnc: null,
+    toolAllowlist: null,
+    instructions: null,
+    ...over,
+  };
+}
+
+async function instructionsFor(
+  servers: FakeServer[],
+  toolsByServerId: Record<string, Record<string, Tool>>,
+  // Server ids whose connect should THROW (simulating an unavailable server).
+  failingIds: Set<string> = new Set(),
+): Promise<
+  {
+    serverName: string;
+    toolPrefix: string;
+    instructions: string;
+  }[]
+> {
+  const repoStub = {
+    listEnabled: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(servers),
+  };
+  const service = new McpClientsService(repoStub as never, {} as never);
+
+  jest
+    .spyOn(
+      service as unknown as { connect: (s: FakeServer) => unknown },
+      'connect',
+    )
+    .mockImplementation((s: FakeServer) => {
+      if (failingIds.has(s.id)) {
+        return Promise.reject(new Error('connection failed'));
+      }
+      return Promise.resolve({
+        tools: () => Promise.resolve(toolsByServerId[s.id] ?? {}),
+        close: () => Promise.resolve(),
+      });
+    });
+
+  const toolset = await service.toolsFor('ws-1');
+  await Promise.all(toolset.clients.map((c) => c.close()));
+  return toolset.instructions;
+}
+
+describe('external MCP per-server prompt guidance (via toolsFor)', () => {
+  afterEach(() => jest.restoreAllMocks());
+
+  it('includes guidance for a connected server with non-empty text and ≥1 tool', async () => {
+    const instructions = await instructionsFor(
+      [
+        server({
+          id: 'id-tavily',
+          name: 'Tavily',
+          instructions: 'Use tavily_search for fresh facts.',
+        }),
+      ],
+      { 'id-tavily': { search: fakeTool() } },
+    );
+
+    // sanitizeName preserves case (charset [a-zA-Z0-9_-]), so the prefix is the
+    // server name as-is for an already-clean name.
+    expect(instructions).toEqual([
+      {
+        serverName: 'Tavily',
+        toolPrefix: 'Tavily',
+        instructions: 'Use tavily_search for fresh facts.',
+      },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('omits guidance when the server has no instructions', async () => {
+    const instructions = await instructionsFor(
+      [server({ id: 'id-1', name: 'Tavily', instructions: null })],
+      { 'id-1': { search: fakeTool() } },
+    );
+    expect(instructions).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('omits guidance when the instructions are only whitespace', async () => {
+    const instructions = await instructionsFor(
+      [server({ id: 'id-1', name: 'Tavily', instructions: '   ' })],
+      { 'id-1': { search: fakeTool() } },
+    );
+    expect(instructions).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('omits guidance for a server that contributed ZERO tools (allowlist filtered all out)', async () => {
+    const instructions = await instructionsFor(
+      [
+        server({
+          id: 'id-1',
+          name: 'Tavily',
+          instructions: 'guide',
+          // Allowlist names a tool the server does not expose -> 0 picked.
+          toolAllowlist: ['nonexistent'],
+        }),
+      ],
+      { 'id-1': { search: fakeTool() } },
+    );
+    expect(instructions).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('omits guidance for an unavailable (failed-connect) server', async () => {
+    const instructions = await instructionsFor(
+      [server({ id: 'id-1', name: 'Tavily', instructions: 'guide' })],
+      { 'id-1': { search: fakeTool() } },
+      new Set(['id-1']),
+    );
+    expect(instructions).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('includes only the qualifying servers among several', async () => {
+    const instructions = await instructionsFor(
+      [
+        server({ id: 'ok', name: 'Tavily', instructions: 'web guide' }),
+        server({ id: 'blank', name: 'Crawl', instructions: '' }),
+        server({ id: 'down', name: 'Down', instructions: 'never shown' }),
+      ],
+      {
+        ok: { search: fakeTool() },
+        blank: { crawl: fakeTool() },
+        down: { x: fakeTool() },
+      },
+      new Set(['down']),
+    );
+
+    expect(instructions).toEqual([
+      { serverName: 'Tavily', toolPrefix: 'Tavily', instructions: 'web guide' },
+    ]);
+  });
+});

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/external-mcp/mcp-servers-to-view.spec.ts

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ function row(overrides: Partial<AiMcpServer>): AiMcpServer {
     enabled: true,
     toolAllowlist: null,
     headersEnc: null,
+    instructions: null,
     ...overrides,
   } as unknown as AiMcpServer;
 }
@@ -28,11 +29,7 @@ describe('McpServersService.toView (via list) — encrypted-header leak guard',
     };
     // secretBox + clients are unused by the list/toView path; pass stubs to
     // satisfy the constructor.
-    return new McpServersService(
-      repoStub as never,
-      {} as never,
-      {} as never,
-    );
+    return new McpServersService(repoStub as never, {} as never, {} as never);
   }
 
   it('exposes hasHeaders:true and NO headersEnc when auth headers are set', async () => {
@@ -67,6 +64,7 @@ describe('McpServersService.toView (via list) — encrypted-header leak guard',
         enabled: false,
         toolAllowlist: ['search'],
         headersEnc: 'BLOB',
+        instructions: 'Use search for fresh web facts.',
       }),
     ]);
 
@@ -80,6 +78,19 @@ describe('McpServersService.toView (via list) — encrypted-header leak guard',
       enabled: false,
       toolAllowlist: ['search'],
       hasHeaders: true,
+      instructions: 'Use search for fresh web facts.',
     });
   });
+
+  it('returns instructions (NON-secret) in the view, null when unset', async () => {
+    const service = buildService([
+      row({ id: 'a', instructions: 'How to use these tools.' }),
+      row({ id: 'b', instructions: null }),
+    ]);
+
+    const [withText, withoutText] = await service.list('ws-1');
+
+    expect(withText.instructions).toBe('How to use these tools.');
+    expect(withoutText.instructions).toBeNull();
+  });
 });

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/external-mcp/mcp-servers.service.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ export interface McpServerView {
   enabled: boolean;
   toolAllowlist: string[] | null;
   hasHeaders: boolean;
+  // Admin-authored prompt guidance (#180). NON-secret, so returned in the view.
+  // Null when no guidance is configured.
+  instructions: string | null;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -56,6 +59,8 @@ export class McpServersService {
       url: dto.url,
       headersEnc,
       toolAllowlist: dto.toolAllowlist ?? null,
+      // Blank/whitespace guidance is normalized to null by the repo.
+      instructions: dto.instructions ?? null,
       enabled: dto.enabled ?? true,
     });
     this.clients.invalidate(workspaceId);
@@ -97,6 +102,8 @@ export class McpServersService {
       headersEnc,
       // undefined => unchanged; [] / value handled by repo (empty => null).
       toolAllowlist: dto.toolAllowlist,
+      // undefined => unchanged; blank => cleared (null) by the repo.
+      instructions: dto.instructions,
       enabled: dto.enabled,
     });
     this.clients.invalidate(workspaceId);
@@ -167,6 +174,7 @@ export class McpServersService {
       enabled: row.enabled,
       toolAllowlist: row.toolAllowlist ?? null,
       hasHeaders: Boolean(row.headersEnc),
+      instructions: row.instructions ?? null,
     };
   }
 }

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/public-share-chat.controller.spec.ts

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ describe('resolveShareAssistantRequest (extracted controller funnel)', () => {
     resolveShareRole?: jest.Mock;
     getShareChatModel?: jest.Mock;
     tryConsumeWorkspaceQuota?: jest.Mock;
+    withinShareTokenBudget?: jest.Mock;
   } = {}) {
     const aiSettings = {
       isPublicShareAssistantEnabled: jest
@@ -65,6 +66,8 @@ describe('resolveShareAssistantRequest (extracted controller funnel)', () => {
         over.getShareChatModel ?? jest.fn().mockResolvedValue('MODEL'),
       tryConsumeWorkspaceQuota:
         over.tryConsumeWorkspaceQuota ?? jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(true),
+      withinShareTokenBudget:
+        over.withinShareTokenBudget ?? jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(true),
     };
     const deps: ShareAssistantDeps = {
       aiSettings: aiSettings as never,
@@ -191,6 +194,39 @@ describe('resolveShareAssistantRequest (extracted controller funnel)', () => {
     expect(publicShareChat.tryConsumeWorkspaceQuota).toHaveBeenCalledWith('ws-1');
   });
 
+  it('withinShareTokenBudget false => 429 thrown BEFORE any stream (cost cap, #159 #5)', async () => {
+    const { deps, publicShareChat } = makeDeps({
+      withinShareTokenBudget: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(false),
+    });
+    expect(await statusOf(deps, body())).toBe(429);
+    expect(publicShareChat.withinShareTokenBudget).toHaveBeenCalledWith('ws-1');
+    // The token budget is the COST backstop: an over-budget workspace must be
+    // rejected WITHOUT consuming a request slot, so the request cap never runs.
+    expect(publicShareChat.tryConsumeWorkspaceQuota).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('the token budget is checked BEFORE the request cap (over-budget wins, no slot spent)', async () => {
+    // Over budget AND the request cap would also reject: the read-only budget
+    // gate must win so the (mutating) request-slot consume is never reached.
+    const { deps, publicShareChat } = makeDeps({
+      withinShareTokenBudget: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(false),
+      tryConsumeWorkspaceQuota: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(false),
+    });
+    expect(await statusOf(deps, body())).toBe(429);
+    expect(publicShareChat.tryConsumeWorkspaceQuota).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('the token-budget gate is checked BEFORE the payload caps (429 wins over 413)', async () => {
+    const { deps } = makeDeps({
+      withinShareTokenBudget: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(false),
+    });
+    const huge = {
+      role: 'user',
+      parts: [{ type: 'text', text: 'x'.repeat(MAX_SHARE_MESSAGE_CHARS + 1) }],
+    };
+    expect(await statusOf(deps, body({ messages: [huge] }))).toBe(429);
+  });
+
   it('messages over MAX_SHARE_MESSAGES => 413', async () => {
     const { deps } = makeDeps();
     const tooMany = Array.from({ length: MAX_SHARE_MESSAGES + 1 }, () => ({

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/public-share-chat.controller.ts

@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ export interface ShareAssistantDeps {
     | 'resolveShareRole'
     | 'getShareChatModel'
     | 'tryConsumeWorkspaceQuota'
+    | 'withinShareTokenBudget'
   >;
 }
 
@@ -267,9 +268,21 @@ export async function resolveShareAssistantRequest(
     throw new NotFoundException('Not found');
   }
 
-  // 5. Per-WORKSPACE anti-abuse cap (IP-independent; defense in depth). Checked
-  //    BEFORE res.hijack(), so an over-cap workspace gets a clean 429 and spends
-  //    nothing.
+  // 5a. Per-WORKSPACE rolling-day TOKEN budget (the COST backstop). Read-only and
+  //     checked FIRST so a workspace that has already burned its day's token
+  //     budget gets a clean 429 WITHOUT consuming a request slot, and spends
+  //     nothing. Counting requests alone does not bound the owner's provider
+  //     bill (issue #159, finding #5).
+  if (!(await deps.publicShareChat.withinShareTokenBudget(workspaceId))) {
+    throw new HttpException(
+      'This documentation assistant has reached its usage budget. Please try again later.',
+      HttpStatus.TOO_MANY_REQUESTS,
+    );
+  }
+
+  // 5b. Per-WORKSPACE anti-abuse request cap (IP-independent; defense in depth).
+  //     Checked BEFORE res.hijack(), so an over-cap workspace gets a clean 429
+  //     and spends nothing.
   if (!(await deps.publicShareChat.tryConsumeWorkspaceQuota(workspaceId))) {
     throw new HttpException(
       'This documentation assistant is temporarily busy. Please try again later.',

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/public-share-chat.service.ts

@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ import { buildShareSystemPrompt } from './public-share-chat.prompt';
 import { roleModelOverride } from './roles/role-model-config';
 import {
   PublicShareWorkspaceLimiter,
+  PublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget,
   createPublicShareWorkspaceLimiter,
+  createPublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget,
 } from './public-share-workspace-limiter';
 import { describeProviderError } from '../../integrations/ai/ai-error.util';
 import {
@@ -125,6 +127,16 @@ export class PublicShareChatService {
    */
   private readonly workspaceLimiter: PublicShareWorkspaceLimiter;
 
+  /**
+   * COST contour two: a per-workspace TOKEN budget over a rolling day. The
+   * request-count limiter above bounds how many anonymous calls run; this bounds
+   * how many provider TOKENS they spend (input re-sent per step + output),
+   * which is what the owner is actually billed for (issue #159, finding #5).
+   * Checked read-only before a turn streams; the real usage is recorded once the
+   * turn finishes (`onFinish`).
+   */
+  private readonly tokenBudget: PublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget;
+
   constructor(
     private readonly ai: AiService,
     private readonly aiSettings: AiSettingsService,
@@ -133,6 +145,7 @@ export class PublicShareChatService {
     private readonly aiAgentRoleRepo: AiAgentRoleRepo,
   ) {
     this.workspaceLimiter = createPublicShareWorkspaceLimiter(redisService);
+    this.tokenBudget = createPublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget(redisService);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -144,6 +157,48 @@ export class PublicShareChatService {
     return this.workspaceLimiter.tryConsume(workspaceId);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Read-only pre-stream COST gate: true while the workspace is under its
+   * rolling-day token budget, false once the trailing-day token spend has
+   * reached it (the controller must then 429 BEFORE starting the stream). This
+   * bounds the owner's actual provider bill, which counting requests alone does
+   * not (issue #159, finding #5).
+   */
+  async withinShareTokenBudget(workspaceId: string): Promise<boolean> {
+    return this.tokenBudget.withinBudget(workspaceId);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Record a finished turn's real token spend against the rolling-day budget.
+   * Best-effort (the turn already ran): failures are swallowed by the budget.
+   */
+  async recordShareTokens(workspaceId: string, tokens: number): Promise<void> {
+    return this.tokenBudget.record(workspaceId, tokens);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * `streamText` onFinish hook body: account a finished turn's REAL token spend
+   * (input re-sent per step + output, summed across all steps) against the
+   * per-workspace rolling-day budget, so a future turn over budget is rejected up
+   * front (issue #159, finding #5). `totalUsage` fields are `number | undefined`;
+   * fall back to the sum of input+output when the provider omits `totalTokens`.
+   * Fire-and-forget: the turn already streamed, so a record failure must not
+   * break it.
+   */
+  recordTurnUsage(
+    workspaceId: string,
+    totalUsage: {
+      totalTokens?: number;
+      inputTokens?: number;
+      outputTokens?: number;
+    },
+  ): void {
+    const tokens =
+      totalUsage.totalTokens ??
+      (totalUsage.inputTokens ?? 0) + (totalUsage.outputTokens ?? 0);
+    void this.recordShareTokens(workspaceId, tokens);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Resolve the admin-selected agent role for the anonymous public-share
    * assistant, scoped to the workspace and soft-delete aware. Returns null when
@@ -231,6 +286,8 @@ export class PublicShareChatService {
         // bill even if the per-IP throttle is evaded; worst case = steps × this.
         maxOutputTokens: resolveShareAiMaxOutputTokens(),
         abortSignal: signal,
+        onFinish: ({ totalUsage }) =>
+          this.recordTurnUsage(workspaceId, totalUsage),
         onError: ({ error }) => {
           // Reuse the shared formatter so provider error formatting stays
           // unified (statusCode + body) with the authenticated path.
@@ -244,6 +301,15 @@ export class PublicShareChatService {
         },
       });
 
+      // Drain the stream independently of the client socket so the turn always
+      // runs to completion (or to its abort) even when the anonymous client
+      // disconnects — otherwise the dead socket is the only reader, backpressure
+      // stalls the stream, and the per-turn object graph stays rooted (heap-OOM
+      // leak). consumeStream removes that backpressure (AI SDK v6 "Handling
+      // client disconnects"). Fire-and-forget; stream errors are already logged
+      // by the streamText `onError` callback above.
+      void result.consumeStream({ onError: () => undefined });
+
       // Stream the UI-message protocol straight to the hijacked Node response.
       // Surface the real provider message (AI SDK error bodies never carry the
       // API key, so this is safe; we never dump the resolved config).

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/public-share-chat.spec.ts

@@ -11,8 +11,11 @@ import {
 import { PublicShareChatToolsService } from './tools/public-share-chat-tools.service';
 import {
   PublicShareWorkspaceLimiter,
+  PublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget,
   resolveShareAiWorkspaceMax,
+  resolveShareAiWorkspaceTokenBudget,
   SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_MAX_PER_WINDOW,
+  SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_BUDGET_DEFAULT,
 } from './public-share-workspace-limiter';
 
 /**
@@ -546,6 +549,228 @@ describe('PublicShareWorkspaceLimiter (cluster-wide sliding-window per-workspace
   });
 });
 
+/**
+ * In-memory fake of the ioredis slice the TOKEN budget uses. Unlike the request
+ * limiter (one Lua), the budget runs TWO scripts over the same sorted set:
+ *  - the read-only CHECK (sums the token counts encoded as each member's leading
+ *    integer, admits while the sum is under budget, never mutates), and
+ *  - the RECORD (ZADDs a finished turn's `<tokens>:<unique>` member).
+ * The fake faithfully reproduces both (branching on the script body) so the spec
+ * exercises the REAL budget math, not a re-implementation.
+ */
+class FakeTokenRedis {
+  private sets = new Map<string, Array<{ score: number; member: string }>>();
+
+  async eval(
+    script: string,
+    _numKeys: number,
+    key: string,
+    nowStr: string,
+    windowMsStr: string,
+    arg3: string,
+  ): Promise<number> {
+    const now = Number(nowStr);
+    const windowMs = Number(windowMsStr);
+    const cutoff = now - windowMs;
+    const arr = (this.sets.get(key) ?? []).filter((e) => e.score > cutoff);
+    if (script.includes('ZADD')) {
+      // RECORD: arg3 is the `<tokens>:<unique>` member; append at score=now.
+      arr.push({ score: now, member: arg3 });
+      this.sets.set(key, arr);
+      return 1;
+    }
+    // CHECK: arg3 is the budget; sum the leading integer of each survivor.
+    const budget = Number(arg3);
+    this.sets.set(key, arr);
+    const total = arr.reduce((sum, e) => {
+      const m = /^(\d+)/.exec(e.member);
+      return sum + (m ? Number(m[1]) : 0);
+    }, 0);
+    return total >= budget ? 0 : 1;
+  }
+}
+
+function makeTokenBudget(budget: number, windowMs: number, clock: () => number) {
+  const redis = new FakeTokenRedis() as unknown as import('ioredis').Redis;
+  return new PublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget(redis, budget, windowMs, clock);
+}
+
+describe('resolveShareAiWorkspaceTokenBudget (env-overridable per-day token budget)', () => {
+  const KEY = 'SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_BUDGET_PER_DAY';
+  const saved = process.env[KEY];
+  afterEach(() => {
+    if (saved === undefined) delete process.env[KEY];
+    else process.env[KEY] = saved;
+  });
+
+  it('falls back to the default when unset', () => {
+    delete process.env[KEY];
+    expect(resolveShareAiWorkspaceTokenBudget()).toBe(
+      SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_BUDGET_DEFAULT,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('honors a positive override', () => {
+    process.env[KEY] = '250000';
+    expect(resolveShareAiWorkspaceTokenBudget()).toBe(250000);
+  });
+
+  it('ignores a non-positive / unparseable value (uses the default)', () => {
+    for (const bad of ['0', '-5', 'nope', '']) {
+      process.env[KEY] = bad;
+      expect(resolveShareAiWorkspaceTokenBudget()).toBe(
+        SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_BUDGET_DEFAULT,
+      );
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe('PublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget (cluster-wide rolling-day token cap)', () => {
+  it('admits while under budget and rejects once the recorded spend reaches it', async () => {
+    const budget = makeTokenBudget(1000, 60_000, () => 1_000);
+    expect(await budget.withinBudget('ws-1')).toBe(true); // nothing spent yet
+    await budget.record('ws-1', 600);
+    expect(await budget.withinBudget('ws-1')).toBe(true); // 600 < 1000
+    await budget.record('ws-1', 400);
+    // 1000 >= 1000: the budget is exhausted, so the next turn is rejected up front.
+    expect(await budget.withinBudget('ws-1')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('counts TOKENS, not requests: one fat turn can exhaust the budget alone', async () => {
+    const budget = makeTokenBudget(1000, 60_000, () => 1_000);
+    // A single accepted turn re-sends the whole transcript across 5 steps; here
+    // it lands as 1200 tokens — already over the day budget on its own.
+    await budget.record('ws-1', 1200);
+    expect(await budget.withinBudget('ws-1')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('ages out spend older than the window so the budget recovers', async () => {
+    let now = 0;
+    const budget = makeTokenBudget(1000, 60_000, () => now);
+    await budget.record('ws-1', 1000); // at budget
+    now += 59_999; // still inside the day window
+    expect(await budget.withinBudget('ws-1')).toBe(false);
+    now += 2; // the spend is now strictly older than windowMs
+    expect(await budget.withinBudget('ws-1')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('ignores non-positive / non-finite usage (never records phantom spend)', async () => {
+    const budget = makeTokenBudget(1000, 60_000, () => 1_000);
+    await budget.record('ws-1', 0);
+    await budget.record('ws-1', -50);
+    await budget.record('ws-1', Number.NaN);
+    await budget.record('ws-1', Infinity);
+    expect(await budget.withinBudget('ws-1')).toBe(true); // nothing accumulated
+  });
+
+  it('keeps separate budgets per workspace', async () => {
+    const budget = makeTokenBudget(500, 60_000, () => 1_000);
+    await budget.record('ws-a', 500); // ws-a exhausted
+    expect(await budget.withinBudget('ws-a')).toBe(false);
+    expect(await budget.withinBudget('ws-b')).toBe(true); // ws-b untouched
+  });
+
+  it('FAILS CLOSED on the read-only check when Redis rejects', async () => {
+    const failingRedis = {
+      eval: () => Promise.reject(new Error('redis down')),
+    } as unknown as import('ioredis').Redis;
+    const budget = new PublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget(
+      failingRedis,
+      1000,
+      60_000,
+      () => 1_000,
+    );
+    const errSpy = jest
+      .spyOn(Logger.prototype, 'error')
+      .mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+    expect(await budget.withinBudget('ws-1')).toBe(false);
+    expect(errSpy).toHaveBeenCalled();
+    errSpy.mockRestore();
+  });
+
+  it('SWALLOWS a record failure (best-effort post-accounting, never throws)', async () => {
+    // The turn already streamed; a record failure must not surface to the caller.
+    const failingRedis = {
+      eval: () => Promise.reject(new Error('redis down')),
+    } as unknown as import('ioredis').Redis;
+    const budget = new PublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget(
+      failingRedis,
+      1000,
+      60_000,
+      () => 1_000,
+    );
+    const errSpy = jest
+      .spyOn(Logger.prototype, 'error')
+      .mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+    await expect(budget.record('ws-1', 100)).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+    expect(errSpy).toHaveBeenCalled();
+    errSpy.mockRestore();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('PublicShareChatService.withinShareTokenBudget / recordShareTokens', () => {
+  it('delegates the cost gate + accounting to the redis-backed token budget', async () => {
+    const redis = new FakeTokenRedis();
+    const redisService = { getOrThrow: () => redis } as never;
+    const service = new PublicShareChatService(
+      {} as never,
+      {} as never,
+      {} as never,
+      redisService,
+      {} as never,
+    );
+    // Default budget is large, so a fresh workspace is under budget; recording a
+    // modest spend keeps it under budget (asserts the wiring the controller +
+    // onFinish rely on).
+    expect(await service.withinShareTokenBudget('ws-1')).toBe(true);
+    await service.recordShareTokens('ws-1', 1234);
+    expect(await service.withinShareTokenBudget('ws-1')).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('PublicShareChatService.recordTurnUsage (streamText onFinish accounting)', () => {
+  function makeService() {
+    const redisService = { getOrThrow: () => new FakeTokenRedis() } as never;
+    const service = new PublicShareChatService(
+      {} as never,
+      {} as never,
+      {} as never,
+      redisService,
+      {} as never,
+    );
+    const recordSpy = jest
+      .spyOn(service, 'recordShareTokens')
+      .mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    return { service, recordSpy };
+  }
+
+  it('sums input+output when the provider omits totalTokens', () => {
+    const { service, recordSpy } = makeService();
+    // The onFinish payload shape: a totalUsage with per-component counts but no
+    // authoritative total (provider omitted it).
+    service.recordTurnUsage('ws-1', { inputTokens: 1200, outputTokens: 300 });
+    expect(recordSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith('ws-1', 1500);
+  });
+
+  it('treats missing input/output components as 0 in the fallback sum', () => {
+    const { service, recordSpy } = makeService();
+    service.recordTurnUsage('ws-1', { outputTokens: 42 });
+    expect(recordSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith('ws-1', 42);
+  });
+
+  it('prefers the authoritative totalTokens when present (not the sum)', () => {
+    const { service, recordSpy } = makeService();
+    // totalTokens is the provider's authoritative figure and may differ from a
+    // naive input+output sum (e.g. cached/ reasoning tokens); it must win.
+    service.recordTurnUsage('ws-1', {
+      totalTokens: 5000,
+      inputTokens: 1200,
+      outputTokens: 300,
+    });
+    expect(recordSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith('ws-1', 5000);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('PublicShareChatService.tryConsumeWorkspaceQuota', () => {
   it('delegates to the redis-backed per-workspace limiter', async () => {
     const redis = new FakeRedis();

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/public-share-workspace-limiter.ts

@@ -136,6 +136,177 @@ export class PublicShareWorkspaceLimiter {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * SECOND cost contour: a per-workspace TOKEN budget over a rolling DAY.
+ *
+ * The request-count cap above bounds how MANY anonymous calls a workspace
+ * admits, but NOT how expensive each one is: one accepted call runs the agent
+ * loop up to `stepCountIs(5)`, and every step re-sends the WHOLE client-held
+ * transcript (~hundreds of KB) as input, so the provider input alone can be tens
+ * of thousands of tokens PER step while `maxOutputTokens` only caps the output.
+ * The request cap is also hourly with no daily ceiling, so a steady stream at
+ * the hourly cap sustains ~24x its count per day. Counting requests therefore
+ * does not bound the owner's actual LLM bill (issue #159, finding #5).
+ *
+ * This contour caps the SPEND directly: the actual tokens consumed (input +
+ * output, summed across all steps of every accepted turn) over the trailing
+ * `windowMs` (one rolling day) must stay under `budget`. It is checked BEFORE a
+ * turn streams (read-only) and the turn's real usage is recorded AFTER it
+ * finishes (`streamText` onFinish). Like the request cap it is cluster-wide
+ * (shared Redis) and uses a sliding-window LOG so the day boundary cannot be
+ * gamed for a 2x burst.
+ *
+ * Pre-check is read-only, so a turn already over budget is rejected, but the
+ * tokens of an in-flight turn are not yet known and are accounted only once it
+ * finishes. The worst-case overshoot past the budget is therefore one turn
+ * (bounded by steps x (maxOutputTokens + transcript size)) — acceptable for a
+ * cost backstop on an optional anonymous assistant.
+ */
+
+/** Default per-workspace token budget over the rolling day. */
+export const SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_BUDGET_DEFAULT = 1_000_000;
+/** Default token-budget window length: one rolling day. */
+export const SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_WINDOW_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+
+/** Redis key namespace for the per-workspace token-spend sliding-window log. */
+const TOKEN_KEY_PREFIX = 'share-ai:ws-tokens:';
+
+/**
+ * Read-only sliding-window token-budget check.
+ *
+ * KEYS[1] = the per-workspace token sorted-set key
+ * ARGV[1] = now (epoch ms)
+ * ARGV[2] = windowMs
+ * ARGV[3] = budget (max tokens in the trailing window)
+ *
+ * Drops entries older than the window, then sums the token counts encoded as the
+ * leading integer of each surviving member. Returns 1 if the running total is
+ * still UNDER budget (admit), 0 once it has reached/exceeded the budget. Does NOT
+ * add anything — the turn's real usage is recorded separately once it finishes.
+ */
+const TOKEN_BUDGET_CHECK_LUA = `
+local key = KEYS[1]
+local now = tonumber(ARGV[1])
+local windowMs = tonumber(ARGV[2])
+local budget = tonumber(ARGV[3])
+redis.call('ZREMRANGEBYSCORE', key, 0, now - windowMs)
+local members = redis.call('ZRANGE', key, 0, -1)
+local total = 0
+for i = 1, #members do
+  local t = tonumber(string.match(members[i], '^(%d+)'))
+  if t then total = total + t end
+end
+if total >= budget then
+  return 0
+end
+return 1
+`;
+
+/**
+ * Record one finished turn's token spend in the sliding-window log.
+ *
+ * KEYS[1] = the per-workspace token sorted-set key
+ * ARGV[1] = now (epoch ms) — the entry score
+ * ARGV[2] = windowMs
+ * ARGV[3] = member (`<tokens>:<unique>`; the leading integer is the token count)
+ *
+ * Always ZADDs (the turn already ran and spent the tokens) and refreshes the
+ * key TTL so idle workspaces cost no memory. Trims expired entries first so the
+ * set never grows unbounded for a busy workspace.
+ */
+const TOKEN_RECORD_LUA = `
+local key = KEYS[1]
+local now = tonumber(ARGV[1])
+local windowMs = tonumber(ARGV[2])
+local member = ARGV[3]
+redis.call('ZREMRANGEBYSCORE', key, 0, now - windowMs)
+redis.call('ZADD', key, now, member)
+redis.call('PEXPIRE', key, windowMs)
+return 1
+`;
+
+/**
+ * Cluster-wide, sliding-window per-workspace TOKEN budget backed by Redis.
+ * `withinBudget(key)` is a read-only pre-stream gate; `record(key, tokens)`
+ * accounts a finished turn's real usage. Decoupled from NestJS so it is testable
+ * against a mocked/real ioredis client, mirroring the request-count limiter.
+ */
+export class PublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget {
+  private readonly logger = new Logger(PublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget.name);
+  private counter = 0;
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly redis: Redis,
+    private readonly budget: number = SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_BUDGET_DEFAULT,
+    private readonly windowMs: number = SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_WINDOW_MS,
+    private readonly now: () => number = Date.now,
+  ) {}
+
+  /**
+   * Read-only pre-stream check. Returns true while the workspace is under its
+   * rolling-day token budget, false once the trailing-window spend has reached
+   * it (caller must then 429 BEFORE streaming any tokens).
+   *
+   * FAILS CLOSED (false) on a Redis error: identical reasoning to the request
+   * limiter — when we cannot prove the workspace is under budget we DENY rather
+   * than admit an unmetered billable call. The assistant is optional, so a
+   * transient Redis blip briefly disabling it beats an unbounded provider bill.
+   */
+  async withinBudget(key: string): Promise<boolean> {
+    const t = this.now();
+    try {
+      const admitted = await this.redis.eval(
+        TOKEN_BUDGET_CHECK_LUA,
+        1,
+        TOKEN_KEY_PREFIX + key,
+        String(t),
+        String(this.windowMs),
+        String(this.budget),
+      );
+      return admitted === 1;
+    } catch (err) {
+      this.logger.error(
+        `share-ai token budget Redis failure for key "${key}"; failing closed`,
+        err as Error,
+      );
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Record a finished turn's token spend. Best-effort: the turn already ran, so
+   * a Redis failure here is logged but not propagated — it would only cause a
+   * slight under-count of the running budget, never a wrong answer to the
+   * caller. Non-positive / non-finite usage is ignored.
+   */
+  async record(key: string, tokens: number): Promise<void> {
+    if (!Number.isFinite(tokens) || tokens <= 0) return;
+    const spend = Math.floor(tokens);
+    const t = this.now();
+    // Member: `<tokens>:<unique>` — the check Lua sums the leading integer, and
+    // the unique suffix keeps distinct turns in the same ms from colliding on
+    // the sorted-set member (which would drop one entry and under-count).
+    const member = `${spend}:${t}-${this.counter++}-${Math.random()
+      .toString(36)
+      .slice(2)}`;
+    try {
+      await this.redis.eval(
+        TOKEN_RECORD_LUA,
+        1,
+        TOKEN_KEY_PREFIX + key,
+        String(t),
+        String(this.windowMs),
+        member,
+      );
+    } catch (err) {
+      this.logger.error(
+        `share-ai token budget record failure for key "${key}" (${spend} tokens); ignoring`,
+        err as Error,
+      );
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Read the per-workspace cap from the environment (overridable seam), falling
  * back to the sane default. A non-positive / unparseable value uses the default.
@@ -162,3 +333,31 @@ export function createPublicShareWorkspaceLimiter(
     SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_WINDOW_MS,
   );
 }
+
+/**
+ * Read the per-workspace rolling-day token budget from the environment
+ * (overridable seam), falling back to the sane default. A non-positive /
+ * unparseable value uses the default.
+ */
+export function resolveShareAiWorkspaceTokenBudget(): number {
+  const raw = Number(process.env.SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_BUDGET_PER_DAY);
+  return Number.isFinite(raw) && raw > 0
+    ? Math.floor(raw)
+    : SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_BUDGET_DEFAULT;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Build the per-workspace token budget from the injected RedisService (the same
+ * global ioredis client used by the request-count limiter). Tiny factory so the
+ * service constructor stays declarative and the budget stays unit-testable with
+ * a hand-rolled fake redis.
+ */
+export function createPublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget(
+  redisService: RedisService,
+): PublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget {
+  return new PublicShareWorkspaceTokenBudget(
+    redisService.getOrThrow(),
+    resolveShareAiWorkspaceTokenBudget(),
+    SHARE_AI_WORKSPACE_TOKEN_WINDOW_MS,
+  );
+}

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/ai-agent-roles.service.spec.ts

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesService guards', () => {
       instructions: 'be a researcher',
       modelConfig: null,
       enabled: true,
+      autoStart: true,
+      launchMessage: null,
       createdAt: new Date(),
       updatedAt: new Date(),
       ...over,
@@ -159,6 +161,8 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesService guards', () => {
         instructions: 'updated instructions',
         modelConfig: { driver: 'gemini', chatModel: 'gemini-2.0-flash' },
         enabled: false,
+        autoStart: true,
+        launchMessage: null,
         createdAt,
         updatedAt,
       });
@@ -186,6 +190,35 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesService guards', () => {
       expect(patch2.emoji).toBeUndefined();
       expect(patch2.description).toBeUndefined();
     });
+
+    it('autoStart/launchMessage thread through; launchMessage:"" clears to null', async () => {
+      const { service, repo } = makeService({ existing: makeRow() });
+      await service.update('ws-1', 'r1', {
+        autoStart: false,
+        launchMessage: '  custom  ',
+      } as UpdateAgentRoleDto);
+      const patch = repo.update.mock.calls[0][2];
+      expect(patch.autoStart).toBe(false);
+      expect(patch.launchMessage).toBe('custom');
+
+      repo.update.mockClear();
+
+      // Explicit empty => clear to null.
+      await service.update('ws-1', 'r1', {
+        launchMessage: '   ',
+      } as UpdateAgentRoleDto);
+      expect(repo.update.mock.calls[0][2].launchMessage).toBeNull();
+    });
+
+    it('autoStart/launchMessage omitted => undefined (unchanged) in the patch', async () => {
+      const { service, repo } = makeService({ existing: makeRow() });
+      await service.update('ws-1', 'r1', {
+        name: 'Renamed',
+      } as UpdateAgentRoleDto);
+      const patch = repo.update.mock.calls[0][2];
+      expect(patch.autoStart).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(patch.launchMessage).toBeUndefined();
+    });
   });
 
   describe('remove', () => {
@@ -319,6 +352,40 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesService guards', () => {
         } as CreateAgentRoleDto),
       ).rejects.toBe(other);
     });
+
+    it('autoStart omitted => defaults to true; launchMessage omitted => null', async () => {
+      const { service, repo } = makeService();
+      await service.create('ws-1', 'u1', {
+        name: 'R',
+        instructions: 'do',
+      } as CreateAgentRoleDto);
+      const values = repo.insert.mock.calls[0][0];
+      expect(values.autoStart).toBe(true);
+      expect(values.launchMessage).toBeNull();
+    });
+
+    it('autoStart:false + launchMessage round-trip (trimmed) to the repo', async () => {
+      const { service, repo } = makeService();
+      await service.create('ws-1', 'u1', {
+        name: 'R',
+        instructions: 'do',
+        autoStart: false,
+        launchMessage: '  do the thing  ',
+      } as CreateAgentRoleDto);
+      const values = repo.insert.mock.calls[0][0];
+      expect(values.autoStart).toBe(false);
+      expect(values.launchMessage).toBe('do the thing');
+    });
+
+    it('empty/whitespace launchMessage normalizes to null', async () => {
+      const { service, repo } = makeService();
+      await service.create('ws-1', 'u1', {
+        name: 'R',
+        instructions: 'do',
+        launchMessage: '   ',
+      } as CreateAgentRoleDto);
+      expect(repo.insert.mock.calls[0][0].launchMessage).toBeNull();
+    });
   });
 
   describe('list view (security: non-admin must not see instructions/modelConfig)', () => {
@@ -349,19 +416,25 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesService guards', () => {
       const list = await service.list('ws-1', false);
       expect(list).toHaveLength(1);
       const item = list[0] as unknown as Record<string, unknown>;
-      // The picker fields ARE present...
+      // The picker fields ARE present — INCLUDING the auto-start fields, which
+      // the client needs to decide whether/what to auto-send on role pick.
       expect(item).toEqual({
         id: 'r1',
         name: 'Researcher',
         emoji: '🔬',
         description: 'finds things',
         enabled: true,
+        autoStart: true,
+        launchMessage: null,
       });
       // ...and the admin-only fields are absent (not just undefined).
       expect('instructions' in item).toBe(false);
       expect('modelConfig' in item).toBe(false);
       expect('createdAt' in item).toBe(false);
       expect('updatedAt' in item).toBe(false);
+      // autoStart/launchMessage are deliberately NOT admin-only — present here.
+      expect('autoStart' in item).toBe(true);
+      expect('launchMessage' in item).toBe(true);
     });
 
     it('admin (isAdmin=true) gets the full view WITH instructions/modelConfig', async () => {

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/ai-agent-roles.service.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ export interface AgentRoleView {
   instructions: string;
   modelConfig: RoleModelConfig | null;
   enabled: boolean;
+  autoStart: boolean;
+  launchMessage: string | null;
   createdAt: Date;
   updatedAt: Date;
 }
@@ -31,6 +33,11 @@ export interface AgentRoleView {
  * role picker needs — deliberately WITHOUT `instructions`, `modelConfig`,
  * creator or timestamps, so non-admins never receive the admin-authored prompt
  * or the model override.
+ *
+ * `autoStart` / `launchMessage` ARE included (unlike instructions/modelConfig):
+ * the client needs them to decide whether and what to auto-send when a role card
+ * is picked. `launchMessage` is sent verbatim as a normal user message — it is
+ * not a secret, so exposing it to members is intentional.
  */
 export interface AgentRolePickerView {
   id: string;
@@ -38,6 +45,8 @@ export interface AgentRolePickerView {
   emoji: string | null;
   description: string | null;
   enabled: boolean;
+  autoStart: boolean;
+  launchMessage: string | null;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -87,6 +96,9 @@ export class AiAgentRolesService {
         instructions,
         modelConfig: modelConfig as Record<string, unknown> | null,
         enabled: dto.enabled ?? true,
+        autoStart: dto.autoStart ?? true,
+        // Empty/whitespace-only => null (client default launch message).
+        launchMessage: emptyToNull(dto.launchMessage),
       });
       return this.toView(row);
     } catch (err) {
@@ -128,6 +140,12 @@ export class AiAgentRolesService {
                 | Record<string, unknown>
                 | null),
         enabled: dto.enabled,
+        autoStart: dto.autoStart,
+        // undefined => unchanged; '' => clear to null.
+        launchMessage:
+          dto.launchMessage === undefined
+            ? undefined
+            : emptyToNull(dto.launchMessage),
       });
     } catch (err) {
       throw rethrowDuplicateName(err, dto.name?.trim() || existing.name);
@@ -156,12 +174,18 @@ export class AiAgentRolesService {
       instructions: row.instructions,
       modelConfig: (row.modelConfig ?? null) as RoleModelConfig | null,
       enabled: row.enabled,
+      autoStart: row.autoStart,
+      launchMessage: row.launchMessage ?? null,
       createdAt: row.createdAt,
       updatedAt: row.updatedAt,
     };
   }
 
-  /** Non-admin picker view: id/name/emoji/description/enabled only. */
+  /**
+   * Non-admin picker view: id/name/emoji/description/enabled plus the auto-start
+   * fields the client needs to decide whether/what to send on role pick. Still
+   * WITHOUT instructions/modelConfig (admin-only).
+   */
   private toPickerView(row: AiAgentRole): AgentRolePickerView {
     return {
       id: row.id,
@@ -169,6 +193,8 @@ export class AiAgentRolesService {
       emoji: row.emoji ?? null,
       description: row.description ?? null,
       enabled: row.enabled,
+      autoStart: row.autoStart,
+      launchMessage: row.launchMessage ?? null,
     };
   }
 }

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/dto/agent-role.dto.spec.ts

@@ -78,4 +78,32 @@ describe('CreateAgentRoleDto with nested modelConfig', () => {
     });
     expect(errors.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
   });
+
+  it('accepts autoStart:false + a launchMessage', () => {
+    expect(
+      validateCreate({ ...base, autoStart: false, launchMessage: 'Go' }),
+    ).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects a non-boolean autoStart', () => {
+    const errors = validateCreate({ ...base, autoStart: 'yes' });
+    expect(errors.some((e) => e.property === 'autoStart')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects a launchMessage longer than 2000 chars', () => {
+    const errors = validateCreate({
+      ...base,
+      launchMessage: 'a'.repeat(2001),
+    });
+    expect(errors.some((e) => e.property === 'launchMessage')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('trims surrounding whitespace from launchMessage', () => {
+    const dto = plainToInstance(CreateAgentRoleDto, {
+      ...base,
+      launchMessage: '  Look here  ',
+    });
+    expect(validateSync(dto as object)).toHaveLength(0);
+    expect(dto.launchMessage).toBe('Look here');
+  });
 });

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/dto/agent-role.dto.ts

@@ -65,6 +65,22 @@ export class CreateAgentRoleDto {
   @IsOptional()
   @IsBoolean()
   enabled?: boolean;
+
+  // Whether picking this role auto-sends a launch message and starts the chat.
+  // Omitted => default true (preserves the previous always-auto-start behavior).
+  @IsOptional()
+  @IsBoolean()
+  autoStart?: boolean;
+
+  // Optional custom auto-start text. Trimmed at the boundary (like chatModel);
+  // empty/whitespace-only => the client falls back to its default launch message.
+  @IsOptional()
+  @Transform(({ value }: TransformFnParams) =>
+    typeof value === 'string' ? value.trim() : value,
+  )
+  @IsString()
+  @MaxLength(2000)
+  launchMessage?: string;
 }
 
 /** Admin update payload for an agent role (all fields optional). */
@@ -98,4 +114,19 @@ export class UpdateAgentRoleDto {
   @IsOptional()
   @IsBoolean()
   enabled?: boolean;
+
+  // Whether picking this role auto-sends a launch message and starts the chat.
+  @IsOptional()
+  @IsBoolean()
+  autoStart?: boolean;
+
+  // Optional custom auto-start text. Trimmed at the boundary (like chatModel);
+  // empty/whitespace-only => the client falls back to its default launch message.
+  @IsOptional()
+  @Transform(({ value }: TransformFnParams) =>
+    typeof value === 'string' ? value.trim() : value,
+  )
+  @IsString()
+  @MaxLength(2000)
+  launchMessage?: string;
 }

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/jsonb-object.spec.ts

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-import { jsonbObject } from '@docmost/db/repos/ai-agent-roles/ai-agent-roles.repo';
-
-/**
- * Unit tests for jsonbObject: the repo helper that encodes a model_config object
- * as a jsonb bind (or null when there is nothing to persist). It is the last
- * line of defence before the column write, so the null-vs-bind decision is what
- * matters here. We assert only null vs non-null because the non-null value is a
- * kysely `sql` template fragment whose internal shape is an implementation
- * detail of the SQL tag.
- */
-describe('jsonbObject', () => {
-  it('returns null for null', () => {
-    expect(jsonbObject(null)).toBeNull();
-  });
-
-  it('returns null for undefined', () => {
-    expect(jsonbObject(undefined)).toBeNull();
-  });
-
-  it('returns null for an empty object (nothing to persist)', () => {
-    expect(jsonbObject({})).toBeNull();
-  });
-
-  it('returns a (non-null) jsonb bind for a non-empty object', () => {
-    const out = jsonbObject({ driver: 'gemini', chatModel: 'gemini-2.0-flash' });
-    // A real sql fragment is produced, never null/undefined.
-    expect(out).not.toBeNull();
-    expect(out).toBeDefined();
-  });
-});