fix(server): Pi editor dialogs prefill the answer composer

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Pi editor dialogs show a truncated, read-only copy of the supplied text and leave the answer composer blank. The full text now prefills the existing answer composer on web, desktop, and mobile.

The optional question field travels through the shared contracts and MCP pending-request read. Editor answers preserve whitespace, empty replies, and token-shaped text; web editing bypasses Markdown list transforms and autocomplete, and mobile uses multiline input.

Fixes #16101.

Validation: focused adapter, contract, draft, and editing tests; scoped package typechecks and lint. The isolated web client was checked in Chrome on the Mac mini with a 3,278-character synthetic draft, newline/caret editing, and clearing. Native mobile was checked through shared tests and types, without a simulator pass. Older clients ignore the prefill field and lose the former text preview and empty-value option; they need updating for this editor flow.

Before

Synthetic request using the old truncated payload.

After

The same full draft in the existing answer composer.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This changes the existing Pi editor flow across server contracts, shared draft resolution, and web/mobile composers, including a new literal multiline editing mode that preserves whitespace and empty answers. The cross-client behavior change and substantial composer logic create a broader blast radius than a small self-contained fix.

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Walkthrough

Question schemas and the Pi adapter now carry editor prefills as initial answers. Web and mobile clients seed answer drafts and preserve literal text, including whitespace and empty values, through editing and answer resolution.

Changes

Editable initial answers

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Initial-answer contract and Pi mapping packages/contracts/src/*, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/thread/tools.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/PiAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/PiAdapterV2.test.ts	Question schemas accept an optional initialAnswer. Pi editor dialogs expose the full prefill in that field instead of appending it to the question text.
Draft seeding and answer resolution packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadRequests.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadRequests.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/pendingUserInput*, apps/mobile/src/state/use-selected-thread-requests.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity*, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/QuestionAttachments.tsx	Web and mobile clients seed eligible answer drafts. Answer resolution preserves initial-answer text, treats an empty answer as answered, and clears selected options when setting a custom answer for an initial-answer question.
Literal-text editor behavior apps/web/src/composer-rich-text-doc*, apps/web/src/composer-logic*, apps/web/src/components/ComposerPromptEditor*	The editor adds literal-text mode, which skips Markdown and context-token parsing and uses direct text-based cursor positions. Tests cover exact text and selection serialization.
Pending-answer composer integration apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx	Pending questions with an initial answer use literal-text mode. The composer adjusts cursor and trigger handling, paste behavior, menus, and context handling for that mode.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PiAdapterV2
  participant ChatComposer
  participant seedUserInputDraftAnswers
  participant ComposerPromptEditor
  participant User
  participant PiExtension
  PiAdapterV2->>ChatComposer: provides question with initialAnswer
  ChatComposer->>seedUserInputDraftAnswers: seeds eligible answer draft
  ChatComposer->>ComposerPromptEditor: passes literalText mode
  User->>ComposerPromptEditor: edits answer text
  ComposerPromptEditor->>ChatComposer: returns edited answer text
  ChatComposer->>PiExtension: submits answer as extension_ui_response

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f7fa7

Older clients cannot see the editor text to revise or submit an empty reply. Preserve compatibility or require updated clients before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to fed23

The inspected answer flow preserves literal text and retains existing permission checks. The main identified design risk is compatibility: older clients lose the previous editor preview and empty-answer option. Some recovery and data-retention behavior remains unverified.

Retained concerns

• Low · architecture · observed: The field addition is structurally optional, but the producer simultaneously removes the editor’s legacy preview and explicit empty-value option. Older clients therefore cannot preserve the previous interaction behavior during mixed-version deployment or client rollback. The PR acknowledges this limitation; the deployed client-version mix and compatibility enforcement were not verified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The change increases the amount of provider-supplied text carried in question items and automatically copied into client drafts, from a truncated preview to the full document. The inspected Pi path remains associated with its existing thread, runtime request, and live provider session.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The inspected token-shaped-answer path does not establish privileged context access. Serialization still exports parsed context IDs, but the pending-answer callback returns before ordinary context reconciliation, and the live Pi sink returns the answer string without resolving those IDs. This conclusion is bounded to the inspected consumers.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Response and dismissal commands use the existing dispatch RPC, whose server policy requires the connection’s orchestration-operation scope. Backend handlers look up the supplied thread/request pair and reject nonpending requests; dismissal additionally permits only message-response user-input requests. These inspected controls are unchanged in the full PR comparison.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The Pi adapter serializes responses with a session permit and removes its pending prompt only after sending succeeds. The orchestrator separately records resolution and schedules a provider-response effect. Adapter retryability is visible, but crash recovery across the persisted resolution and external send was not fully verified.
• observed — Mobile seeds full prefills into a keep-alive answer-draft atom. The inspected terminal cleanup handles attachment drafts rather than answer drafts. No unauthorized disclosure was demonstrated; retention across logout or other application-wide resets remains unverified.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make literal-mode callbacks and snapshots expose no parsed context IDs, so future consumers cannot accidentally reinterpret editor text as context authority.
• proposed — Define terminal and session-reset cleanup for seeded document drafts while preserving drafts during retryable failures, reducing unnecessary retention of full prefills.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title is concise, uses the conventional commit format, and clearly identifies the main change: Pi editor dialogs now prefill the answer composer.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, implementation, scope, linked issue, focused verification, manual web checks, mobile limitations, compatibility impact, and before/after evidence.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #16101 requires an editable field prefilled with the ctx.ui.editor(title, prefill) value and submission of the resulting text. PiAdapterV2 now stores the full prefill in initialAnswer. Sha…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within issue #16101. Contract propagation, draft seeding, literal web editing, multiline mobile input, answer handling, and related tests support the editor prefill and submission flo…

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/PiAdapterV2.ts:
- Around line 2928-2929: Update the editor-question construction around
question, initialAnswer, and options to preserve compatibility with clients that
do not support initialAnswer: include the prefill in question and keep the
empty-value submission option, or gate this flow on client support for
initialAnswer.

Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ComposerPromptEditorTiptap.tsx:
- Line 977: Update literal-mode snapshot and callback paths in
serializeEditorDoc and readSnapshot to use an empty context-ID list rather than
parsed map.contextIds, since literal answers create no context chips. Add a test
confirming formatted context-reference text does not expose context IDs in
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• apps/mobile/src/features/threads/QuestionAttachments.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.ts
• apps/mobile/src/state/use-selected-thread-requests.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/thread/tools.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/PiAdapterV2.test.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/PiAdapterV2.ts
• apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/ComposerPromptEditor.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/ComposerPromptEditorTiptap.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx
• apps/web/src/composer-logic.test.ts
• apps/web/src/composer-logic.ts
• apps/web/src/composer-rich-text-doc.test.ts
• apps/web/src/composer-rich-text-doc.ts
• apps/web/src/pendingUserInput.test.ts
• apps/web/src/pendingUserInput.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadRequests.test.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadRequests.ts
• packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts
• packages/contracts/src/providerRuntime.ts
• packages/contracts/src/userInputQuestion.test.ts

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