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Summary

  • Selecting text in assistant output on desktop and hosted web shows Add to chat.
  • That inserts an inline Chat context composer chip (same interaction model as link chips: type around it, backspace to remove, click for Copy / Remove).
  • The chip serializes an <ade-chat-context> block so the agent is told the user highlighted that passage from its previous output.

Test plan

  • Highlight assistant text in a Work chat (desktop) and confirm Add to chat appears.
  • Confirm the composer shows a Chat context chip you can type before/after.
  • Click the chip: Copy puts the highlighted passage on the clipboard; Remove deletes the chip.
  • Backspace with the caret against the chip removes it as a unit.
  • Send the message and confirm the transcript shows a Chat context chip, not the raw XML.
  • Repeat the same flow in the hosted web client.

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ADE   Open in ADE  ·  ade/agent-output-chat-context branch  ·  PR #1096

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  • New Features

    • Select text from assistant messages and add it directly to the composer as chat context.
    • Display chat context as accessible, removable chips in messages and the composer.
    • Copy chat quotes from the context menu.
    • Preserve chat context when editing or sending drafts.
  • Style

    • Added a subtle assistant-message entrance animation, respecting reduced-motion preferences.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for selection, context chips, copying, formatting, and draft handling.

Selecting agent text on desktop and web now offers Add to chat, inserting an inline chip the model sees as quoted prior output.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/assistantOutputSelection.test.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/assistantOutputSelection.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/shared/chatOutputContext.test.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/shared/chatOutputContext.ts
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Changes

The chat UI now formats assistant selections as chat-output context, renders context blocks as chips, and supports chip hydration, serialization, keyboard actions, removal, and clipboard copying in the composer. Tests cover parsing, selection, rendering, hydration, and clipboard behavior.

Chat output context flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Context formatting and segmentation
apps/desktop/src/shared/chatOutputContext.ts, apps/desktop/src/shared/chatOutputContext.test.ts
Shared utilities format, parse, extract, normalize, limit, and segment chat-output context blocks.
Assistant output selection
apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/assistantOutputSelection.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AssistantOutputSelectionToolbar.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatMessageList.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/index.css, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/assistantOutputSelection.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatMessageList.test.tsx
Assistant selections are validated and shown in a floating toolbar. The toolbar formats selected text and adds it to the draft.
Message context chip rendering
apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatMessageList.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatMessageList.test.tsx
User messages render recognized chat-output context as violet chips while preserving surrounding text.
Composer context chip editing
apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatComposer.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/composerChatOutputContext.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/ComposerSmartLinkMenu.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/*test.ts*
The composer hydrates context blocks into chips and supports serialization, focus, deletion, menu actions, and context clipboard copying.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d76bf

The feature can currently attach unrelated transcript content when a highlight spans multiple assistant messages, and long selections containing certain Unicode characters may be serialized with a replacement character. These bounded correctness issues should be fixed before merging, followed by the listed desktop validation.

Possibly related PRs

  • arul28/ADE#581: Shares chat UI and context-compaction changes in AgentChatMessageList.tsx.

Suggested labels: desktop, docs

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/assistantOutputSelection.ts`:
- Around line 19-22: Update the range validation in assistantOutputSelection to
resolve each endpoint’s assistant-output ancestor and require both ancestors to
be the same element before accepting the selection; otherwise return false. Add
the named regression test “returns null when a range spans assistant-output
elements” in the relevant test file.

In `@apps/desktop/src/shared/chatOutputContext.ts`:
- Around line 47-53: Update formatChatOutputContextBlock so the quote limit
never leaves a lone surrogate: after slicing at MAX_CHAT_OUTPUT_CONTEXT_CHARS,
reduce the slice length by one when its final code unit is a high surrogate
paired with a low surrogate at the excluded boundary. Add the named regression
test “does not split a surrogate pair at the selection limit” in the relevant
test file.
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📒 Files selected for processing (13)
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatComposer.test.tsx
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatComposer.tsx
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatMessageList.test.tsx
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatMessageList.tsx
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AssistantOutputSelectionToolbar.tsx
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/ComposerSmartLinkMenu.tsx
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/assistantOutputSelection.test.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/assistantOutputSelection.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/composerChatOutputContext.test.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/composerChatOutputContext.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/index.css
  • apps/desktop/src/shared/chatOutputContext.test.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/shared/chatOutputContext.ts

Comment thread apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/assistantOutputSelection.ts Outdated
Comment thread apps/desktop/src/shared/chatOutputContext.ts
Reject ranges that span multiple output blocks, and avoid slicing a surrogate pair when clipping long quotes.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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