ForgeLM/autoresearch.md

Autoresearch: tauri-chat-active-history

Objective

Fix the desktop chat flow so sending a message with no selected chat creates and selects the new chat immediately, keeps the live generation attached to that new chat, and preserves message history when revisiting generated chats.

Metrics

• Primary: chat_history_score (%, higher is better)
• Secondary: app_send_flow_passed, chat_switch_abort_guard_passed, frontend_tests_passed, frontend_build_passed

How to Run

./autoresearch.sh - outputs METRIC name=number lines.

Files in Scope

• tauri-app/src/components/ChatView.tsx - active chat selection, request lifecycle, and message reload behavior.
• tauri-app/src/components/ChatView.test.tsx - request-race and chat switching regressions.
• tauri-app/src/App.test.tsx - app-level send/create/select/history regression coverage.
• autoresearch.md - current objective and experiment notes.
• autoresearch.sh - focused verification harness for this segment.
• autoresearch.jsonl - experiment ledger.
• autoresearch-dashboard.md - current segment dashboard.
• experiments/worklog.md - narrative log of runs and lessons.

Off Limits

• Rust backend/runtime crates for this bug.
• Runtime settings/model-library code unrelated to chat creation/history.

Constraints

• Keep saved-chat switching protection: switching to another chat while a previous request is still running must still abort the stale request.
• Do not regress the standard saved-chat load path.
• Keep verification frontend-only unless a new cross-layer dependency appears.

What's Been Tried

• The first saved-chat regression fix aborted every in-flight request on any chatId change. That protected switching to another saved chat, but it also canceled the request that had just created a brand-new chat (null -> newChatId).
• The correct distinction is between switching away to a different chat vs. transitioning into the same chat that originated the still-running request.
• The kept direction is to track the pending request chat id and only abort/reset transient UI when the user truly leaves that pending chat.