[StiensWout]

First sends forced a separate synchronous React render to dock the composer before dispatch, even on desktop with animations off. Docking now batches with the optimistic message updates. Only a real mobile view transition flushes the update synchronously and returns a promise to await.

The send-phase improvement is consistent in the local replay measurement. The total-latency result remains noisy and is not an official ADEMark score.

Before and after

Linux development-browser adaptation of ADEMark A4, Opus 5.5 / high / full access, instant first replay chunk, default paragraph streaming. One uninterrupted paired AB/BA protocol, n=10 per version, main 4aec277f79b2 against the candidate production source in this PR (7511f5a6cd; f4dc8bb71c95 adds only test coverage; filed as 43cf7bc14143 after rebasing onto 2d8a843e6be9, with an identical patch in git range-diff). Values are median [min, max] milliseconds.

Phase	Before	After
Enter to first-word paint proxy	910.0 [803.9, 993.5]	829.1 [746.5, 904.7]
Enter to composer RPC	149.3 [141.4, 157.2]	100.5 [89.1, 113.9]
RPC to provider-turn worker start	49.3 [44.1, 67.5]	49.2 [41.1, 99.4]
Worker start to Claude adapter	102.4 [86.5, 121.5]	108.1 [84.3, 142.5]
Adapter to reported API request start	382.2 [356.8, 461.5]	372.0 [351.5, 428.7]
Request to first provider content frame	6.0 [5.0, 9.0]	5.0 [4.0, 7.0]
First provider frame to browser marker	121.8 [115.2, 148.0]	123.6 [116.8, 148.6]
Browser marker to paint proxy	53.0 [23.1, 88.8]	32.4 [21.7, 82.3]
Enter to reported API request start	682.6 [656.6, 764.8]	642.2 [596.5, 708.1]
SDK initialization, included above	288.2 [265.8, 321.2]	284.6 [264.6, 308.8]

Individual phase medians do not sum to the total. Every paired Enter-to-RPC sample improves by 33.7–63.9 ms, paired median -51.7 ms. The independent total medians differ by -80.9 ms (8.9%), but the middle half of paired total changes spans -146.7 to +31.3 ms. This supports the send-phase gain, not a reliable overall 8.9% speedup.

The earlier complete sequential blocks were main 917.6 [878.3, 1127.2] ms and candidate 1078.9 [897.8, 1204.2] ms, n=10 each. Enter-to-RPC improved 171.9 to 133.0 ms there, while SDK initialization differed 272.2 to 364.0 ms. Those blocks did not establish a total-latency benefit, which prompted the clean paired confirmation above. Title-startup experiments also showed no reliable gain and are excluded from the code.

Method and reproduction

Scripts, replay patch, numeric samples and complete commands · graph and phase report

The public ADEMark harness is pinned to f38966f018e9b1b67a932e0a2405e7b5a12a77dc. Its unchanged CLI requires macOS. On Linux, its replay clock was ported and a valid StructuredOutput title response added; the timed replay:hi response and its 16-character / 50 ms pacing are unchanged. Both isolated homes began with the same five completed Ledger seed turns, one project and separate Claude homes. Fresh incognito origins used a 1280×800 viewport and default motion off. No real provider login or inference was used.

The unchanged macOS command, after the harness's documented setup, is:

bun bench/cli.ts run --ade t3code --tracks A --agent claude --tests A4

From each checkout, with its own HOME_DIR and CLAUDE_HOME:

ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:18787 ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=benchmark-placeholder CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR="$CLAUDE_HOME" T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0 pnpm exec vp run dev --no-seed --home-dir "$HOME_DIR"

Replay server:

bun /tmp/ademark-harness-research/bench/replay/server.ts --port 18787 --sessions /tmp/ademark-harness-research/bench/replay/sessions --log /tmp/ademark-replay-valid-title.jsonl

Each bench.sample(i) uses the real New thread in Ledger action, configures the existing worktree and model untimed, settles 1500 ms, inserts replay:hi untimed, settles 100 ms, then timestamps synthetic Enter. It records the RPC, first marker-bearing WebSocket message, Conversation DOM marker and two animation frames. One loop runs ten pairs in AB, BA order, with no omitted or replaced samples. After each side:

python3 analyze.py run.json HOME_DIR /tmp/ademark-replay-valid-title.jsonl
python3 provider-marks.py run.json.phases.json HOME_DIR

Effect spans mark worker start, adapter entry and SDK initialization. Claude's native result reports request start and the first-content-frame time; the latter agrees with logged content_block_start receipt within 3 ms in all 20 final samples. Raw text deltas are not logged, so this is a first-content-frame proxy. API arrival is retained separately.

Limits: shared Linux/x86 host and web dev rather than packaged macOS/M4; synthetic composer Enter rather than OS input; DOM/two-rAF paint proxy rather than ScreenCaptureKit/OCR; 1280×800 rather than 1600×1000; fixed n=10 rather than adaptive 6–10; paired scheduling; the structured-title fixture addition; CLI-seeded threads; and no preceding full Track A workloads. The historical beta's 1148 ms cannot be directly compared with these values.

Fixture receipt: the final paired paint window ended at 2026-11-13 11:57:20 UTC. Saved homes now have a second project, but those server projects were created after the run: head at 12:00:46 UTC and main at 12:06:18 UTC. They did not exist during the timed loop.

Validation

Classed as standard because the transition helper's scheduling interface changes.

• Six inline-return cases and inline-error release fail on unmodified main; all ten pass on the candidate, including no-DOM and inline-error paths. The mobile case separately controls animation completion and checks duration and marker cleanup.
• pnpm exec vp run check:changed passes format, lint, knip, affected typechecks, tests and React Compiler, including after the unchanged-patch rebase. Full CI and production build have not run locally.
• Primary real-browser pass: desktop plus mobile web at 390×844 with motion off and a real 200 ms view transition. The mobile snapshot sees committed docking, the reply appears, and transition markers clear.
• Additional paired browser proxies, n=10 each: new-thread readiness 224.6 [134.5,291.6] to 195.6 [135.5,244.7] ms; typing/paint 54.8 [34.4,79.0] to 42.0 [26.6,61.2] ms. Four of ten new-thread pairs and five of ten typing pairs were slower on the candidate. These noisy proxies establish neither a regression nor a reliable improvement and are not official A1/A2 runs.
• Web and desktop share this code. Native mobile, provider lifecycle, permissions and wire contracts are unchanged. Native mobile was not run.
• Local cubic found no issues; fork repository context was unavailable.
• Controlled gap-only proof covers overlapping transitions, rejection before the update with a late callback, and absent matchMedia. It reproduces the inherited marker cleanup race and confirms the newer completion promise remains authoritative.

Illustrative recordings are outside the measured sample count:

Before: https://pub-b182a4071edc4521829926b34990540b.r2.dev/files/baf52dcf-9f5b-4010-aa99-8f95f39c65b8/t3-composer-send-before.mp4

After: https://pub-b182a4071edc4521829926b34990540b.r2.dev/files/a810b995-435f-48ea-842a-e474a423fd7c/t3-composer-send-after.mp4

Final proof audit: ready to file. All four audit gaps were closed with controlled public-interface proof and sample-visible charts. The inherited marker-cleanup race remains disclosed below.

Council review

Rounds: 2, plus a scope-only Grok recheck on the unchanged final head.

Delegate	Round 1: discarded title wait	Round 2: composer batching	Scope recheck
GPT 6.1 Sol	9/10	9/10	Unchanged
Claude Opus 5.5	8/10	9/10	Unchanged
Grok 4.7	Cancelled when evidence invalidated the approach	8/10	9/10

The scope recheck confirmed the final round's only should finding is a mobile-transition marker cleanup race already present on main and unchanged by this PR. All three voters now score the scoped PR 9/10, with no blocker or should finding open. The earlier non-blocking Cohere guest was unavailable because its endpoint was excluded by the provider guardrail. OpenRouter Free also returned feedback; its score is excluded from the voting table. Its report misdescribed the caller as always awaiting and attributed the gain to mobile flushing. The actual caller conditionally awaits, and the supported timing gain is on desktop.

Pre-existing follow-up: an older mobile transition can remove a newer transition's shared CSS markers. Tie marker cleanup to transition ownership in a separate fix with an overlapping-transition test. This PR preserves the existing marker lifecycle.

Created with GPT 6.1 Sol in the Codex harness, Claude Opus 5.5 in the Claude Agent harness, and Grok 4.7 in the Grok harness, through T3 Code. Non-blocking review also ran through OpenRouter Free (openrouter/openrouter/free) in OpenCode; its underlying model identity was not reported.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 0a4948f

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This batches first-send composer updates while preserving synchronous snapshots for mobile animations. The change is limited to rendering timing and leaves send validation and permissions unchanged.

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runMobileComposerTransition now accepts a synchronous update callback and returns an optional promise. Composer docking awaits the promise when present. Tests cover inline execution, mobile transitions, and error handling.

Changes: Composer transition updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Transition execution and fallback apps/web/src/components/chat/draftHeroTransition.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/draftHeroTransition.test.ts	The helper runs updates inline when transitions are unavailable or inactive. On mobile, it runs the update inside a view transition and returns a promise after the update runs. Transition failures trigger an inline update. Tests cover these paths and transition cleanup.
Composer docking integration apps/web/src/components/chat/useComposerSend.ts	Draft-hero docking calls the transition helper and awaits its result only when it returns a promise.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Refactor

Suggested reviewers: gsimone

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 0a494

The change batches first-send composer updates and reports a faster path to the composer RPC. No concrete merge-blocking risk was found.

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Evidence

Opened fresh centered drafts through the sidebar, selected Replay Showcase, typed sample N, and pressed Enter eight times per commit. Recorded React commit stacks and WebSocket sends for 2.5 seconds per sample. Chromium web dev build, dark theme, 1280×800, animations disabled and reduced motion. Then repeated a first send at 390×844 with 200ms animations and reduced motion off, observing the native view-transition snapshot callback.

The scenario failed on base and passed on head. Base had two forced docking commits before launch in all eight samples; head had zero. Mobile snapshot docking remained committed on both commits.

Evidence	Before	After
Commit	a35fd81174	0a4948f7ea
Eight desktop samples
Mobile transition snapshot
Recording	Before recording	After recording

Scenario driver · Full paired captures and runner verdict

Probe timings include instrumentation overhead; this establishes the render-order fix, not an end-to-end latency gain.

Not shown:

• End-to-end first-word latency improvement was not established: Replay streaming is simulated and stack instrumentation adds overhead.
• The mobile preservation check used Chromium's mobile viewport and native view transitions; native iOS and Android clients were not exercised.