(WIP) feat: mute a thread's notifications on every device

[BOTKooper]

Problem

A thread that runs on a schedule, such as an AI review bot, alerts every device on each run, and the only way to stop it is to turn notifications off everywhere. There is no way to mute one thread.

Change

• Mute is stored on the thread, on the server. A new thread.mute.set { muted } command sets mutedAt on the thread (event thread.mute-set), so a mute set on one device applies on all of them. The value lives in the thread's JSON payload, so there's no migration. Muting is not activity: it keeps updatedAt, so it doesn't reorder the list or delay auto-settle.
• Web and desktop: ThreadNotificationCoordinator skips system notifications, sounds and in-app toasts for muted threads. It keeps tracking their state, so unmuting doesn't replay old alerts.
• Mobile: AgentAwarenessRelay publishes a muted thread the same way as an archived one, so the relay sends no push or Live Activity. Startup catch-up skips muted threads too.
• Where to toggle it: Mute notifications / Unmute notifications in the sidebar and chat header menus, the mobile thread list menu, and new mute / unmute actions on t3_thread_organize. Clients only show the toggle when the server reports the new threadMute capability.
• Docs: a short "Mute a thread" section in docs/user/thread-sidebar.md.

Scope and approval

Proposed in Ideas discussion #16798. No maintainer approval yet, so this stays a draft until the direction and scope are agreed there. Ok-ed by Theo on stream and here in comments, need to get review bots + julius/maria approval

Verification

mute-thread-demo.mp4

Manual test on web, in a dev server seeded with real data: a cron thread shows a "Thread completed" toast every minute. After Mute notifications from the sidebar menu, the toasts stop.

Tests added:

• orchestrator: muting and unmuting keeps updatedAt, and muting again keeps the original timestamp
• relay: a muted thread is withdrawn and restored when unmuted, and startup catch-up skips it
• client runtime: optimistic setMuted
• web: the menu offers the right mute/unmute direction and hides it without the capability

These and the existing tests in the touched files pass. Typecheck is clean for contracts, client-runtime, server, web and mobile.

Not checked: mobile push end to end (needs T3 Connect) and the mobile menu on a device. Not included: a muted indicator on the sidebar row, a keybinding or command palette entry, and multi-select mute.

Done with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, running inside T3 Code.

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This concept has my sign-off. If you get this to the point where the review agents, ci and julius or maria are okay with it, more than happy to merge :)

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Walkthrough

The change adds thread mute state and commands across the client runtime and server. Web and mobile thread menus expose mute controls when supported. Muted threads are excluded from agent-awareness publishing and web notification alerts.

Changes

Thread notification muting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mute contract and client command packages/contracts/..., packages/client-runtime/...	Contracts define mute capability, thread state, event, and command data. The client runtime dispatches mute commands, applies optimistic state, and includes mutedAt in thread shells.
Server mute state and event handling apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/..., apps/server/src/relay/..., apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/thread/..., apps/server/src/environment/ServerEnvironment.ts	The server processes mute commands and projects mutedAt without changing thread activity timestamps. Agent-awareness publishing excludes muted threads and applies unmute-time cutoffs to terminal work. The MCP thread tool accepts mute and unmute actions.
Web mute controls and notification handling apps/web/src/components/..., apps/web/src/hooks/..., apps/web/src/state/entities.ts, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md	Web menus show mute or unmute actions according to capability and thread state. The action invokes the mute command, and the notification coordinator tracks muted threads without emitting alerts. Tests and user documentation cover the changes.
Mobile mute controls apps/mobile/src/features/home/..., apps/mobile/src/features/threads/..., apps/mobile/src/state/...	Mobile thread rows receive mute capability and state, display mute or unmute actions, and invoke the mute action. Environment capability tracking and optimistic thread shells include mute state.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WebSidebar
  participant useThreadActionMenu
  participant useThreadActions
  participant Orchestrator
  participant ProjectionStore
  participant ThreadNotificationCoordinator
  WebSidebar->>useThreadActionMenu: select mute or unmute
  useThreadActionMenu->>useThreadActions: call setThreadMuted
  useThreadActions->>Orchestrator: dispatch thread.mute.set
  Orchestrator->>ProjectionStore: emit and apply thread.mute-set
  ProjectionStore-->>ThreadNotificationCoordinator: provide thread state with mutedAt
  ThreadNotificationCoordinator->>ThreadNotificationCoordinator: track state and skip alerts when muted

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f3080

Forking a muted thread can leave the new thread unexpectedly silent. Reset its mute state before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to f3080

The change reuses existing thread access controls and keeps notification preferences separate from thread activity. A repeated unmute can nevertheless change which completion or failure alerts are delivered. Older-device behavior and notification preference inheritance also limit how broadly the all-device guarantee can be interpreted.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: Repeated unmute is not idempotent for notification delivery. The server emits thread.mute-set even when mutedAt is already null, and the relay treats each event as a new unmute boundary. If eligible work completes before the redundant event and its publication is still pending, the new cutoff suppresses the completion or failure publication. Authoritative thread state remains unmuted while the externally published terminal state can be missing or stale. Single-unmute tests do not counter this repeated-command path.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new effect is thread-scoped but reaches devices following that thread. MCP callers can select their own thread or other targets permitted by the existing write limits. Cross-thread authority is not newly granted: the same organize tool already exposed archive and other thread mutations through the unchanged access wrapper.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — MCP thread writes reject read-only clients, check that the caller is live, validate other existing non-deleted targets against the caller's modes, and provide a second mode check when orchestration applies the command under the target lock. Mute and unmute use this existing wrapper.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Relay tests cover mute withdrawal, restoration, keeping work completed while muted quiet, and delivering work completed after unmute even when read later. These support the normal transition policy, but do not demonstrate idempotency for repeated unmute events or exhaustive interruption recovery.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make the unmute cutoff depend on an actual muted-to-unmuted transition rather than every false command. Define whether forks inherit notification preferences, and state that all-device suppression requires clients that implement the mute policy.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: adding thread notification muting across devices. It is concise and specific.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the problem, implementation, scope, verification, test results, limitations, and out-of-scope items. It is mostly complete and directly matches the changes.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.ts:
- Around line 539-542: Pass the null-withdrawal context through the republish
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• apps/mobile/src/features/home/HomeRouteScreen.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/features/home/HomeScreen.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/features/home/useThreadListActions.ts
• apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadNavigationSidebar.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-list-v2-items.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/state/thread-list-environments.ts
• apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-selection.ts
• apps/server/src/environment/ServerEnvironment.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/thread/handlers.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/thread/tools.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionMaintenance.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/OrchestratorScenario.ts
• apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.test.ts
• apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.ts
• apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/ThreadNotificationCoordinator.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/threadActionMenu.logic.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/threadActionMenu.logic.ts
• apps/web/src/contextMenuFallback.ts
• apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadActionMenu.test.ts
• apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadActionMenu.ts
• apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadActions.ts
• apps/web/src/state/entities.ts
• docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
• packages/client-runtime/src/operations/commands.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/models.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/orchestrationV2Projection.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadCommands.test.ts
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadCommands.ts
• packages/contracts/src/environment.ts
• packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts

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🟠 Major · Track threads muted at startup before excluding them. · AgentAwarenessRelay.ts:351

apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.ts:351
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Track threads muted at startup before excluding them.

If a thread is already muted during catch-up, this filter prevents publishThreadUnsafe from adding its ID to mutedThreadIds. If work then finishes while muted and the user unmutes it, the relay uses startedAt instead of the unmute cutoff. It can publish the completed state and alert devices for work done while muted. Record initially muted threads before filtering the snapshot.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.ts at line 351:
Update the startup catch-up flow around the `publishThreadUnsafe` filter to
record each initially muted thread’s ID in `mutedThreadIds` before excluding it
from the snapshot. Preserve the existing filtering behavior so muted threads are
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- Around line 545-546: Update the unmute transition in the
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into `unmutedAtByThread`, rather than recording `DateTime.now` when the worker
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- Line 351: Update the startup catch-up flow around the `publishThreadUnsafe`
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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff finding ("Track threads muted at startup before excluding them", AgentAwarenessRelay.ts:351): 3dd6ad5 removes the "last seen muted" tracking. The cutoff comes from the unmute event itself, so it no longer depends on the publisher having seen the thread while it was muted. Startup catch-up can keep skipping muted threads: unmuting one after a restart records its cutoff from the event, and work that finished before the restart is already quiet under the startup rule. Both cases are covered by "keeps work that finished while muted quiet after unmuting" and "alerts for work that finished after the unmute even when read later".

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@BOTKooper Thanks for the clarification. I checked AgentAwarenessRelay.ts and the two named tests.

• The relay records the unmute cutoff from thread.mute-set.occurredAt, before it queues publication.
• Terminal publication uses that cutoff, or the server startup time when no publication history exists.
• The tests cover suppressing work completed while muted and publishing work completed after unmute, even when the shell is read later.

Startup catch-up does not need to track muted threads before excluding them. I withdraw the outside-diff finding. I inspected the tests but did not run them.

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Timestamp: 2026-10-07T23:51:00.724Z
Learning: In apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.ts, unmutedAtByThread records the cutoff from thread.mute-set.occurredAt when event.payload.mutedAt is null, before publication is queued. The cutoff does not depend on a publisher observing the muted thread or on the time of a batched shell read. Startup catch-up can exclude muted threads without tracking them first; terminal publication uses the unmute-event cutoff or the server startup cutoff when no publication history exists.

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Learning: In apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.ts, unmuting uses the same terminal-state freshness rule as server startup. Work completed while muted should stay withdrawn, rather than restore a terminal Live Activity. Work completed after unmute can publish normally. This behavior does not require a suppressTerminalAlert field in the relay publish contract.

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🟠 Major · Reset mute state for forked threads. · orchestrationV2.ts:411

packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts:411
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reset mute state for forked threads.

ThreadForkServiceV2.plan copies mutedAt from the source thread. A muted fork can therefore suppress its own alerts. Set mutedAt to null when creating the fork.

🐛 Suggested fix

           activeProviderThreadId: null,
+          mutedAt: null,
           lineage: {

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Review comment at @packages/contracts/src/orchestrationV2.ts at line 411:
Update ThreadForkServiceV2.plan to set mutedAt to null when creating a fork,
rather than copying the source thread’s mute state; preserve the source thread’s
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