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Mobile never adopted the narrow client-runtime atoms we added for web this week. While a run streams, the open thread's shell changes several times a second, and every provider status push rebuilds the full server-config map. Both re-rendered the whole thread screen and every hook downstream of useThreadSelection.

What changed

Thread screen (the main win)

  • Added useQuietThreadShell to state/entities.ts, mirroring web (#20860). It returns the shell without its streaming-only timestamps and counts.
  • useThreadSelection now reads the quiet shell. Through it, ThreadRouteScreen, ThreadDetailScreen, ThreadComposer, ThreadFeed, the composer state, git sheets, requests, worktree and review hooks no longer re-render on every streaming tick. None of them read updatedAt, the item counts or latestVisibleMessage.
  • The visit watermark in ThreadDetailScreen is the one reader that does follow updatedAt. It moved into a ThreadVisitWatermark leaf that reads the live shell, the same split web made in ChatView.
  • Other useThreadShell callers that only read ids, titles, PRs or pending flags now use the quiet shell: CommandPalette, HardwareKeyboardCommandProvider, useAppShortcuts, useOpenPullRequest, McpAppWebView, McpAppFullscreenScreen, SubagentRow.

Provider status pushes (#20821)

  • useServerConfigs now reads environmentPresentations.serverConfigsAtom, which leaves out providers and keeps its identity across provider pushes. That covers the 11 readers that need only capabilities, scratch roots and platform: requests, attachment uploads, QuestionAttachments, the new-task flow, archive, add project, client storage and terminal.
  • The three real provider readers moved to useServerConfigsWithProviders: the outbox drain, the prompt-link resolver and the scheduled-task editor.

Outbox

  • The shell-status map behind the outbox drain reads environmentShell.statusAtom (#20823) instead of the whole shell state, so it no longer recomputes on every shell push.

What's left

  • Home thread list: navigationThreadShellsAtom still changes on every streaming tick. It is already gated by useAtomValueWhileVisible, so the cost is only paid while Home is in front. A quiet list atom was tried and dropped; see Measurement.
  • useEnvironmentPresentation (mobile): it also subscribes to the whole catalog value. Narrowing it to isReady is a small follow-up.
  • useThreadShells() callers (CommandPalette, McpAppFullscreenScreen, others) read every shell for search and lookups and still re-render while any thread streams.
  • Relationship shells: mobile has no equivalent of web's useThreadRelationshipShells yet; its subagent/parent readers go per-thread through the quiet shell instead.

Verification

  • tsc-rs --noEmit in apps/mobile passes.
  • vp test run over the mobile state, threads, home, prompt-links, projects, keyboard, shortcuts and settings suites: 922 tests pass.
  • vp lint on the changed files reports no errors.
  • Rebased onto main with the React Compiler; measured on an Android emulator, see Measurement below.

Measurement

Harness: #21001. Device: Android emulator, Pixel 9 API 36, on nucbox-1, with Metro and an isolated seeded server on cups. Provider: Claude Haiku 5.5, 12 s window mid-stream, median of 3. Each table gives renders, commits and renders per commit, then the runs as renders/commits.

Base is main at 3a4d118a51, which now compiles mobile with the React Compiler (#20967–#20971). This branch is rebased onto it, so these numbers replace the earlier pre-compiler ones. Columns:

  • main is that base.
  • original PR is this branch's commit.
  • tried added the items below on top, then was dropped.

Haiku often finished its reply inside the window, so (b) and (c) cover only a few commits each and are noisy.

(a) The open thread streams

main original PR tried
renders 1297 1106 1500
commits 33 32 37
renders per commit 41 35 41
runs 1524/37, 1297/32, 1243/33 1262/36, 1106/32, 1087/29 1673/39, 1500/37, 1326/33

This PR is slightly cheaper per commit (41 to 35), within the run-to-run spread. That fits the quiet thread shell, but it is not a clear win.

(b) Another thread streams while a different thread is open (--route /threads/<env>/<id> --server …)

main original PR tried
renders 220 220 376
commits 4 4 7
renders per commit 55 55 54
runs 120/2, 220/4, 220/4 220/4, 280/5, 220/4 220/4, 380/7, 376/8

No difference. With the compiler on main, a thread streaming elsewhere already costs the open thread only a handful of commits.

(c) Another thread streams while on Home (--route / --server …)

main original PR tried
renders 375 685 905
commits 3 8 8
renders per commit 125 86 113
runs 520/8, 375/3, 375/3 475/6, 685/8, 1325/14 905/8, 905/8, 795/8

Inconclusive. Totals follow how many shell pushes land in the window, and per-commit cost moves within the noise. The rows that render are ThreadListV2Row for its timeLabel, which genuinely changes, so a quiet list cannot remove them.

Tried and dropped. Each item targeted a useThreadShells() subscriber that stays mounted while another thread streams. None reduced renders in any scenario, so none is in this PR:

  • A quietNavigationThreadShellsAtom in client-runtime, read by Home and the tablet sidebar.
  • The composer subscribing to every shell only while its @ menu is open.
  • The outbox drain reading quiet shells for queued threads only.

CommandPalette mounts only while open, so it needed no change.

What it means: on today's compiled main, this PR does not measurably reduce renders when another thread streams, and only slightly reduces them when the open thread streams. The compiler already absorbed most of what these narrow atoms targeted.

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Verdict: Approved at 50431ca

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a contained mobile performance refactor that narrows subscriptions while preserving live data for the visit watermark and provider-dependent flows. The omitted changes are test mock updates, and there are no product-default, schema, deployment, security, billing, or static-analysis override changes.

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Mobile state adds quiet thread-shell hooks and separates presentation configurations from provider-aware configurations. Mobile consumers switch to the appropriate hooks. ThreadDetailScreen moves its visit-watermark checks and dispatch logic into a separate component.

Changes: Mobile state and thread behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Add mobile shell and configuration hooks
apps/mobile/src/state/entities.ts
Adds conditional and quiet thread-shell hooks. useServerConfigs reads presentation configurations, and useServerConfigsWithProviders reads provider-aware configurations.
Migrate mobile thread-shell consumers
apps/mobile/src/features/keyboard/*, apps/mobile/src/features/shortcuts/useAppShortcuts.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/McpApp*, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/SubagentRow.tsx, apps/mobile/src/native/useOpenPullRequest.ts, apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-selection.ts
These call sites replace useThreadShell with useQuietThreadShell.
Update provider configuration and outbox reads
apps/mobile/src/features/prompt-links/usePromptLinkResolver.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/settings/scheduled-task-editor.tsx, apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-outbox-drain*, apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-outbox.ts
Prompt-link, scheduled-task, and outbox-drain code uses provider-aware configurations. Outbox status lookup reads the status atom directly, and test mocks use the provider-aware hook.
Extract thread visit-watermark logic
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx
Moves visit checks and dispatch timing into ThreadVisitWatermark, which receives the environment, selected thread, and content visibility.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 50431

Provider-status updates may trigger unnecessary outbox queue scans, a bounded performance regression. The change otherwise preserves the inspected thread and configuration behavior, so merge risk is low.

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Render measurement with the device harness from #21001, scenario stream-reply: an open thread streams a Claude Haiku 5.5 turn while the composer is idle, with a 12 s window mid-stream. Median of 3 on the same base (main 13aa882, then main + this branch merged). Device: Android emulator, Pixel 9 API 36, on nucbox-1. The dev build counts every component React rendered in a commit, using the bailout-aware fiber walk.

main +#20963 Δ
feed 633 741 +17%
composer 425 595 +40%
header 470 470 0%
other 863 923 +7%
total 2391 3001 +26%
commits 35 41 +17%
renders per commit 68 73 +7%

Runs (total renders / commits): main 2391/35, 2379/35, 2398/33; +#20963 3001/41, 3089/42, 2136/34.

Component (excluding host primitives) main +#20963
AnimatedComponent(View 88 106
AppSymbolView 50 68
IconButton 57 66
PressabilityDebugView 30 44
Host 31 37
TextInputHostProvider 31 37
HostView 31 37
RNHostView 32 36
NativeThemeHost 28 32
SlotView 24 29
AppText 12 18
AnimatedComponent(Component 16 17
WorkingTimer 17 17
AndroidAnchoredMenu 14 17
GlassSurface 10 14

Top causes, main (excluding host primitives):

  • AnimatedComponent(View props:style,children: 51
  • AppSymbolView parent-same-props<-View: 32
  • TextInputHostProvider props:children: 30
  • PressabilityDebugView parent-same-props<-View: 30
  • HostView props:style,children: 26
  • RNHostView props:children: 20
  • NativeThemeHost props:style,children: 19
  • Host props:style,children: 19

Top causes, +#20963 (excluding host primitives):

  • AnimatedComponent(View props:style,children: 66
  • PressabilityDebugView parent-same-props<-View: 44
  • AppSymbolView parent-same-props<-View: 42
  • TextInputHostProvider props:children: 36
  • HostView props:style,children: 30
  • NativeThemeHost props:style,children: 22
  • Host props:style,children: 22
  • IconButton props:modifiers,onGlobalEvent,onButtonPressed: 22

The thread shell components rendered the same number of times on both: ThreadRouteScreen, ThreadDetailScreen, ThreadFeed and ThreadHeader at 5 per window on main and 4–6 here. The composer subtree went from 5 to 7 renders in two of three runs (ThreadComposer, ComposerSurface, the dictation toolbar). ThreadVisitWatermark appeared with 7 renders. Total renders per commit barely moved (68 → 73); most of the total difference comes from more commits in the window, which depends on provider pace.

Caveat on the scenario: Haiku streamed its reasoning item, then delivered the reply text in one update, so the window covers reasoning deltas. The quiet-shell benefit may show more on a provider that streams reply text token by token.

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const creationOutcomes = useAtomValue(pendingThreadCreationOutcomesAtom);
const projects = useProjects();
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n -C 4 'serverConfigValueAtom|configValueAtom|environmentServerConfigsAtom' apps/mobile/src packages/client-runtime/src

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printf '%s\n' '--- changed hook and drain effect ---'
sed -n '560,640p;1120,1205p' apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-outbox-drain.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- config hooks ---'
sed -n '115,150p' apps/mobile/src/state/entities.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- environment server configs atom ---'
sed -n '495,535p' packages/client-runtime/src/state/shell.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- server config atom and provider dependencies ---'
sed -n '610,675p;875,945p' packages/client-runtime/src/state/server.ts
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git diff --unified=30 3a4d118a518a025e44f11248fc4d2c87eb86aa00 50431ca6e9029acdf29ddd5a42009cf1f6572679 -- apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-outbox-drain.ts

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printf '%s\n' '--- drain effect and dependency arrays ---'
rg -n -C 12 'useEffect\(|serverConfigs|dispatchQueued|drain' apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-outbox-drain.ts

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Use the provider-free server-config hook.

serverConfigs is only used for maxUploadBytes. Using useServerConfigsWithProviders() subscribes the drain effect to provider-status updates and can rerun its queue scan without changing the upload limit.

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--- "a/apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-outbox-drain.ts"
+++ "b/apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-outbox-drain.ts"
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@
   const threads = useThreadShells();
   const creationOutcomes = useAtomValue(pendingThreadCreationOutcomesAtom);
   const projects = useProjects();
-  const serverConfigs = useServerConfigsWithProviders();
+  const serverConfigs = useServerConfigs();
   const { connectedEnvironments } = useRemoteConnectionStatus();
   const operableEnvironments = useEnvironmentsWithScope(
     connectedEnvironments,
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Review comment at @apps/mobile/src/state/use-thread-outbox-drain.ts at line 605:
Update the server-config hook used by the drain logic to use useServerConfigs
instead of useServerConfigsWithProviders, since serverConfigs is only needed for
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