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Problem

On mobile, a new thread in a project that exists on several machines always starts on the first environment that was added. So even a quick thread from a phone means first deciding where it should run. That is the overhead Auto balance (#9895) removed on web and desktop, but #9895 left mobile on manual selection.

Steps (before): pair two machines that share a project, open New thread on mobile and choose that project. The composer says "on ". Settings → Environments has no Load balancing section, and the machine picker has no Auto balance option.

Change

Mobile now has the same opt-in Auto balance as web and desktop. It is off by default, so mobile behaves exactly as before unless a user turns it on.

  • Settings → Environments → Load balancing: an Auto balance switch and per-machine preferences (Prefer, Normal, Less often, Manual only). This section is hidden until two or more machines are enabled. Like web, the setting applies only to this device and is stored in the mobile preferences.
  • New thread: when Auto balance is on and the chosen project exists on more than one machine, the draft routes to the eligible machine with the most free CPU and memory, using the same hostResources query and chooseLoadBalancedEnvironment scoring as web. The composer says "Auto balance" (or "Checking machines…" / "Auto balance unavailable"). The machine picker has an Auto balance row, so after a manual pick you can go back to automatic routing.
  • Pinning matches web: choosing a machine, branch, worktree or workspace mode pins the draft, and so do a route that opens a specific branch and shared content. A draft with attachments stays on its machine.
  • Eligibility: a machine is a candidate only if it is connected, its preference is above Manual only, the connection has operate scope, the selected provider instance is usable there, and the selected model is available there. Routing only lands on the selected project's copy in its logical group, never on a sibling path of the same repository.
  • Moving a draft keeps its prompt, any model the user picked, workspace mode and PR reference. An unchosen model and the branch are resolved again on the destination machine.

Shared pieces moved to packages/client-runtime so both clients use them: the preference levels (LOAD_PREFERENCES, loadPreferenceForWeight) and the provider eligibility check (canLoadBalanceToEnvironment). Web's draft routing now calls the shared check instead of its inline copy, with no behaviour change. docs/user/remote-access.md drops the "Mobile keeps its manual environment selection" note and points to the new setting.

Scope and approval

There is no linked issue or Ideas approval. This brings mobile level with web and desktop for an existing, shipped capability (Auto balance, #9895). It keeps the same setting semantics, scoring, pinning rules and composer wording, and it is off by default. #9895 scoped mobile out rather than rejecting it. There is no new routing behaviour, contract or server change.

Related: #17942 (open) adds a per-project default environment and changes the same mobile new-task flow. The two will need to agree on precedence. That PR proposes a pinned default ahead of load balancing, which this change does not conflict with conceptually. #12688 is the web bug where a manual pick makes Auto balance unrecoverable; mobile's picker can always return to Auto balance.

Verification

Real client: Android emulator (Pixel 9, API 37), T3 Code Dev build. Two isolated servers built from this branch (--base-dir under /tmp, empty state) share one git repository, so the app groups them as one logical project. The second connection is relabelled "build-box" in the app so the two machines can be told apart. The sends use the free Replay (dev) provider, so the reply text is a canned recording; the header shows which machine got the thread.

Before (15fe283272):

Settings → Environments New thread Machine picker

A new thread stays on one machine (here the last one used), and there is no way to route automatically.

After (f735f149e6):

Settings, Auto balance on Composer Machine picker

Recording:

after.mp4

The recording shows, in order:

  1. Turning on Auto balance and setting wowe to Manual only.
  2. Opening a new thread in the shared project, which shows "Auto balance".
  3. Picking wowe by hand, which shows "on wowe".
  4. Choosing Auto balance again, which shows "Checking machines…" briefly and then "Auto balance".
  5. Sending "Reply with OK only.", after which the thread is created on build-box (the header reads "demo-app · build-box").

Also checked on the device:

  • Switching to a new worktree pins the draft ("on build-box"). Choosing Auto balance again keeps the worktree mode.
  • With both machines at Manual only, the composer shows "Auto balance unavailable", and sending shows "Choose a machine to continue" instead of starting the thread.
  • With one machine enabled, Settings shows no Load balancing section. The composer shows "on wowe", and the machine picker lists only that machine, with no Auto balance row.

Focused checks:

  • vp run check:changed upstream/main (format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests beside changes): pass.
  • vp test run on packages/client-runtime/src/load-balancing.test.ts, the mobile new-task selection, new-task flow state, model option and React Compiler coverage tests: 1,078 passed. New tests cover resolveBalancedProjects (including the sibling repository path case), resolveAutoBalanceStatus and canLoadBalanceToEnvironment.

Not checked:

  • iOS. No macOS host was available, so only Android was run.
  • Real machines with different load, so the CPU and memory scoring itself was not exercised end to end. The scoring is the shared web implementation and is unchanged.
  • The same-render ordering cases (a pin, project change, send or context import landing in the same commit as a balancing result) are guarded by re-reading the draft's flow state in the routing effect. Independent review rounds reproduced them in scratch harnesses, but they have no committed test.

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Adds opt-in mobile routing of new threads across eligible machines based on available resources. The routing effect introduces a lint suppression that requires human review.

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Walkthrough

Mobile task creation can automatically route eligible drafts across environments in the same project group, based on resource availability and configured weights. Mobile settings control device-local balancing preferences. Shared load-balancing rules also support web environment checks.

Changes: Environment load balancing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared rules and web integration
packages/client-runtime/src/load-balancing.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/load-balancing.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/LoadBalancingSettings.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/LoadBalancingSettings.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
The client runtime defines load preferences and provider eligibility checks. Web settings use the shared preferences, and ChatView uses the shared eligibility check for candidates. Tests cover preference mapping and provider eligibility.
Mobile preferences and settings
apps/mobile/src/persistence/mobile-preferences.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/connection/LoadBalancingSettings.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsEnvironmentsRouteScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/components/ui/AppSymbol.tsx, docs/user/remote-access.md
Mobile preferences retain validated balancing settings. The Environments screen displays the controls when at least two catalog entries are enabled. The Android symbol mapping and remote-access instructions include the mobile settings surface.
Project and environment selection
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/new-task-project-selection.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/new-task-project-selection.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/use-load-balanced-environment.ts
Project helpers resolve same-scope projects and routing status. The environment hook observes host resources and selects an environment using configured weights. Tests cover project selection and routing status.
Draft routing and workspace state
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/new-task-flow-provider.tsx
The provider filters eligible environments, routes drafts, and exposes pinning and auto-balance controls. Cross-environment routing clears machine-specific workspace selections.
Task creation controls
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/NewTaskContextPickerScreens.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/NewTaskDraftScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/lib/modelOptions.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/modelOptions.test.ts
The picker offers Auto balance and pins environments before branch checkout. The draft screen displays balancing status and blocks submission while routing is checking or unavailable. Model-selection checks block unavailable models from new tasks and routing candidates.

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TaskPicker
  participant NewTaskFlowProvider
  participant useLoadBalancedEnvironment
  participant HostResourceAtoms
  TaskPicker->>NewTaskFlowProvider: Select automatic routing
  NewTaskFlowProvider->>useLoadBalancedEnvironment: Provide candidate IDs and weights
  useLoadBalancedEnvironment->>HostResourceAtoms: Refresh and observe host resources
  HostResourceAtoms-->>useLoadBalancedEnvironment: Return resource results
  useLoadBalancedEnvironment-->>NewTaskFlowProvider: Return selected environment and status
  NewTaskFlowProvider-->>TaskPicker: Expose routing status
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Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review f7a52

Mobile auto balance is opt-in and off by default. No actionable merge-blocking issue was found in the supplied changes.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to f7a52

Automatic routing changes where content and tasks can run, but it is opt-in and restricted to eligible connected machines with operation permission. Machine pinning and destination checks limit unintended movement. No introduced security defect was confirmed in the examined paths; broader runtime assurance remains incomplete.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The placement decision can reach multiple eligible machines in the selected logical project group, but each queued task retains one destination environment and project. The examined path does not broaden placement to arbitrary machines or perform multi-machine task fan-out.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Route-provided projects resolve against loaded projects using the exact environment/project pair. Branch-specific routes and incoming shares pin that destination. Media, file, and image-paste handlers pin unresolved automatic routing before asynchronous attachment selection or conversion.
  • observed — Attachment preparation and new-task execution consume the queued environment identity. The existing delivery path rechecks operation scope and payload revision, retains the same destination on retry, and revalidates model availability before execution.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — User branch selection pins synchronously before checkout, preventing automatic movement while the repository changes. The routing effect also checks synchronous pin/project references and the live draft's attachments before retargeting. This counterevidence rejects the suspected branch-selection ownership gap.
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding automatic load balancing for mobile new threads.
Description check Passed The description follows the repository template closely. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, and each section has substantive content. The Problem section states the…
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The description follows the repository template closely. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, and each section has substantive content. The Problem section states the expected behavior and reproduction steps (pair two machines, open New thread, choose the shared project). The Change section explains the mobile Auto balance feature, the shared code moved into packages/client-runtime, and the docs update. The Scope and approval section explains why no linked issue exists: it brings mobile in line with an existing shipped capability (#9895), and it is off by default. The Verification section gives the real-device Android emulator steps with before and after screenshots and a recording, focused test results, and a list of things not checked (iOS, real load scoring, same-render ordering tests). The author also states the model used at the end, as the template asks. Minor gaps: the scope section relies on the author's claim that #9895 scoped mobile out, and the description does not link a triaged issue or maintainer approval. The description also says the new tests were run with 1,078 passing, while the PR objectives report 355 passing for a different test set. That difference is not explained, but it does not undermine the description's completeness.

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Add a provider-level regression test for same-commit draft binding.

NewTaskDraftScreen can call setProject while the provider's fallback effect sees the first project. Test this path with a non-first project. Assert that only one draft exists and that it remains bound to the selected project. Removing the activeDraftKeyRef.current guard must make this test fail.

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const scope = projectScopes.find((candidate) => candidate.projects.some(isSelected));
if (!scope) return NO_PROJECTS;
const byEnvironment = new Map<EnvironmentId, EnvironmentProject>();
for (const project of scope.projects) {

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🟠 High threads/new-task-project-selection.ts:149

With sidebarProjectGroupingMode set to "repository", auto-balance can return a sibling project instead of the selected path, causing the routing effect to start the draft in the wrong project. scope.projects can include different repository-relative paths, and this loop keeps the first project per environment; filter candidates to the selected project's repository-relative path before choosing one per environment.

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With `sidebarProjectGroupingMode` set to `"repository"`, auto-balance can return a sibling project instead of the selected path, causing the routing effect to start the draft in the wrong project. `scope.projects` can include different repository-relative paths, and this loop keeps the first project per environment; filter candidates to the selected project's repository-relative path before choosing one per environment.

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Leaving this as is. In "repository" mode the user has chosen to treat every path in a repository as one logical project, so a sibling path on the other machine is the same project under that setting. That is what the grouping mode means here, and it matches the other routing paths:

  • Web auto balance builds its candidates in useLogicalProjectEnvironments with deriveLogicalProjectKeyFromSettings and takes the first project per environment with the same logical key. It doesn't filter by relative path either.
  • Mobile's manual machine switch (resolveEnvironmentProjectMatch) also matches on the repository grouping key alone.

Anyone who wants routing to keep the exact path can use "repository_path" grouping. There the scopes are keyed by repository and path, and resolveBalancedProjects only offers that path's copies; the "routes only within the selected project's own group" test covers this. Filtering by relative path in mobile auto balance alone would make it disagree with web and with mobile's own machine picker.

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const onPickDraftMedia = async () => {
const key = props.draftKey;
if (!key || props.locked) return;
props.onAttachmentStart?.();

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🟡 Medium state/use-composer-attachment-actions.ts:66

Canceling pickComposerMedia leaves the draft pinned to its current environment, so automatic routing stays disabled even though no attachment was added. onAttachmentStart pins before the picker awaits, and this handler never restores auto routing when the result is empty; keep the in-flight pin, but restore auto routing when the operation adds nothing.

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Canceling `pickComposerMedia` leaves the draft pinned to its current environment, so automatic routing stays disabled even though no attachment was added. `onAttachmentStart` pins before the picker awaits, and this handler never restores auto routing when the result is empty; keep the in-flight pin, but restore auto routing when the operation adds nothing.

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This is intended. The pin is taken before the picker opens because the attachment is checked against the machine on screen. Auto balance can't move the draft while the picker is up, and the pin also covers the case where routing becomes eligible mid-pick.

Undoing it on an empty result would mean tracking whether this pick was the one that set the pin. The draft may already have been pinned by a machine, branch or worktree choice, or by another pick still in flight. Restoring routing in those cases would undo the user's own choice.

The state stays visible and easy to reverse: once pinned, the composer shows "on " instead of "Auto balance", and choosing Auto balance in the machine picker hands the draft back to routing.

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providers: serverConfigs.get(environmentId)?.providers,
settings: serverConfigs.get(environmentId)?.settings,
projectId: id,
providerInstanceId: selectedModelInstanceId ?? null,

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🟠 High threads/use-new-task-auto-balance.ts:165

A draft with an explicit provider can report no eligible destination or be routed to a machine that cannot honor the pick, silently falling back to another provider. canLoadBalanceToEnvironment receives the resolved selectedModelInstanceId here, which may be a fallback when the explicit provider is unavailable on the current machine; prefer the stored selection's provider ID when present.

-          providerInstanceId: selectedModelInstanceId ?? null,
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A draft with an explicit provider can report no eligible destination or be routed to a machine that cannot honor the pick, silently falling back to another provider. `canLoadBalanceToEnvironment` receives the resolved `selectedModelInstanceId` here, which may be a fallback when the explicit provider is unavailable on the current machine; prefer the stored selection's provider ID when present.

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Leaving this as is. The case needs a stored pick that the draft's current machine can't run, so that machine already shows a stand-in model.

  • The other machine also lacks the pick: it shows a stand-in too, in the visible model control. The draft is no worse off than if it had stayed put, and a manual machine switch behaves the same way.
  • The other machine has the pick but not the stand-in: it's left out of routing. That's the same conservative check web makes against the selected provider, and the machine picker still lets the user choose it. A pick that machine has gated behind an update is already excluded by the stored-selection check just below this line.

The suggested diff would also break routing. canLoadBalanceToEnvironment requires both providerInstanceId and providerDriver to match the same provider, and providerDriver here is still the on-screen one. A stored instance paired with the stand-in's driver matches nothing, so every such draft would report "Auto balance unavailable". Routing on the stored provider would also take the current machine out of the candidates, and a draft that can start today would be blocked until the user picks a machine.

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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

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  • Merged current main into the branch with a merge commit (003f9923ae). It had no conflicts and the PR's own changes are untouched.
  • vp run check:changed against main passes: format, lint, knip, typecheck (7 packages), tests (5 files, 74 tests), react compiler.
  • The three open Macroscope findings stay as they are. I agree with the replies already in each thread:
    • repository grouping sibling path: that grouping mode makes sibling paths count as the same project, and web's useLogicalProjectEnvironments picks routing candidates the same way.
    • Cancelled picker keeps the pin: undoing it would override pins set by a machine, branch or worktree choice. Choosing Auto balance undoes it.
    • Stored provider ID: the suggested diff pairs the stored instance with the on-screen driver, and canLoadBalanceToEnvironment rejects that pair, so routing would break.
  • Still unverified: the earlier verification pass below still applies. No mobile runtime check was run, because this VM has no device access.

Earlier verification pass (gpt-6.1-sol):

Verified in a real dev environment

No changed behavior was verified in a running app. This pass is unverifiable, not a runtime approval.

I inspected the current diff, description, discussion, commit authors and head f735f149e6ad2e7f73abc3a7a755b1c9f2d7fc6d. The PR is open. The git.cafe mirror is also number 19600. Its status reports 33 successful checks, zero pending and zero failing; that does not prove the mobile behavior.

Device preflight on this Linux Boat VM returned:

device_list: Agent device access is turned off for this environment.
adb devices -l:
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The repository mobile verification skill explicitly says to stop verification when T3 device access is unavailable and not switch automation systems. I stopped there. No dev server was started, no provider turn was sent, and no source changes were made. There are no runtime screenshots or recordings from this pass.

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  • Main reproduction: the separate github/main worktree was created, but the mobile scenario could not be run. Dependencies were not installed and neither main nor the PR was launched.
  • Native Android and iOS settings, Auto balance selection, resource-driven routing, manual override and returning to automatic routing.
  • Preserving prompt, explicit model, workspace mode and PR reference when moving a draft; attachment, branch, saved-draft and shared-content pinning.
  • Real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns reaching the selected destination, and nearby single-machine/default-off behavior.
  • The web/shared eligibility refactor and neighboring web behavior were not exercised.

Completing this verification needs enabled native device access and a supported client, plus two eligible environment connections for the shared project. The brief limits this run to one dev server at a time, so the second environment also needs to be supplied or that constraint explicitly revised. Existing PR evidence was not independently reproduced here.

Mobile always started new threads in a shared project on the first
environment added, so a quick thread from a phone meant first deciding
where it should run. Bring the opt-in Auto balance from web and desktop
to mobile: a Load balancing section in Settings > Environments, an Auto
balance option in the new-thread machine picker, and the same scoring,
eligibility, and pinning rules. The preference levels and provider
eligibility check move to client-runtime so both clients share them.
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tris203 force-pushed the fix/mobile-thread-environment-selection branch from f735f14 to b311bee Compare November 9, 2026 19:07

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