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feat(settings): ignore command prefixes such as RTK in activity labels - #21234
When a developer runs commands through a wrapper such as RTK, T3 Code shows "Running rtk" for each wrapped command. The label stays the same whether the agent is running Git or another tool, making it harder to follow the work at a glance. This PR adds a setting to omit chosen wrapper prefixes, so rtk git status can show "Running git" and a git status preview.
Problem
Commands with the same RTK prefix get the same "Running rtk" label even when the underlying executables differ. This makes it harder to tell what the agent is doing at a glance.
Change
The "Top-level commands to ignore" setting controls status labels and compact previews on web, desktop, and mobile. The list is local to each browser or app and starts empty. It matches complete token prefixes, longest first, including nested wrappers. Uncertain matches keep the original label, and expanded details and copied commands retain the full executed command.
Scope and approval
Command labels already unwrap shell and environment wrappers. This focused option configures that existing display behavior without changing command execution or provider behavior.
Reproduction
Under Settings > General > Top-level commands to ignore, enter rtk and rtk proxy on separate lines. On mobile, the setting is also under Settings > General.
Run rtk proxy git status. Confirm the active label shows "Running git" instead of "Running rtk" and the compact preview shows git status.
Expand the command and copy it to confirm the full rtk proxy git status command remains available. Reload to confirm the preference persists, then reset the list to show the RTK prefix again.
Verification
Focused parser, presentation, and persistence tests cover matching, nested wrappers, conservative fallback, and reset behavior. The browser flow confirmed saved preferences survive reload, update compact previews, and reset to full labels. Native mobile UI was not exercised.
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This adds a substantial cross-platform settings capability that changes command-label presentation through shared parser and timeline logic, with a new defaulted preference and broad UI/persistence integration. The supplied unresolved Medium finding also identifies a case where compact previews can hide a subsequent command.
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feat(settings): configure ignored command prefixes
feat(settings): ignore command prefixes such as RTK in activity labels
Oct 18, 2026
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Walkthrough
Adds locally stored ignored command prefixes for web and mobile. Command parsing uses configured prefixes in activity labels and previews, while expanded work-entry labels retain the full command. The change also adds settings controls, persistence, search, documentation, translations, and tests.
Changes: Ignored command prefixes
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Summary
Prefix contract and command parsing packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/commandLabel.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/commandLabel.test.ts
Adds a settings schema that defaults to an empty list and accepts optional updates. Command-label parsing supports configured prefixes across shell and wrapper parsing. Tests cover matching, normalization, and uncertain matches.
Adds web and mobile controls for editing and resetting prefixes. Mobile preferences decode and store valid prefix lists, and the preference atom falls back to the client default. Web settings include the control in the Display section, restore-defaults flow, and search. Translations and activity-log documentation describe the setting.
Mobile activity label integration apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-work-log.tsx, apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.test.ts
Passes configured prefixes into mobile feed and work-log label derivation. Prefix changes affect presentation reuse and activity-group cache reuse. Tests cover changed labels and previews, unchanged command input, and expanded labels.
Web activity label integration apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineWorkEntryRow.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineWorkGroupRows.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts
Passes configured prefixes from client settings into settled and live timeline label derivation. Tests cover live and settled labels, stored command preservation, and preview updates when prefixes change.
sequenceDiagram
participant ClientSettings
participant MessagesTimeline
participant deriveMessagesTimelineRows
participant workEntryDisplayLabel
participant commandDisplayText
ClientSettings->>MessagesTimeline: provide ignoredCommandPrefixes
MessagesTimeline->>deriveMessagesTimelineRows: pass prefixes for row derivation
deriveMessagesTimelineRows->>workEntryDisplayLabel: derive settled work-entry label
workEntryDisplayLabel->>commandDisplayText: format command with ignored prefixes
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to fa835
The change adds a local, default-empty setting that only affects how command labels are displayed. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the reviewed head.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 3f82f
The preference changes command presentation rather than execution or permissions. Full command details remain available. However, with an ignored prefix enabled, some compound commands can lose additional operations from their compact preview, weakening at-a-glance oversight.
Retained concerns
Low · security · inferred: Prefix-aware previews can omit operations outside the ignored wrapper. With prefix rtk configured, source tracing shows that bash -c 'rtk git status'; other-command can become git status: shell recursion parses only the inner script, stores its prefix-stripped text, and returns it without the outer continuation. The base preserved the complete compound invocation. A command producer can therefore conceal an additional operation from compact activity views on both clients. This affects human oversight, not execution authorization; expanded raw details remain available.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The independently exposed scope is command presentation on a client with a matching preference enabled, potentially across its viewed threads. A command producer can influence displayed command content but is not shown to gain the ability to change the viewer's preference, execute additional commands through this parser, or modify another client's settings.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The retained architecture concern is loss of command-preview integrity: a matching prefix inside a shell payload can cause an unrelated outer continuation to disappear from the compact view. This is a newly introduced observation gap, not a demonstrated permission bypass or arbitrary-execution vulnerability.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Authoritative command data remains separate from the compact label. Mobile expanded command details read shownItem.input, and copying is assembled from original item summaries, details, and full details rather than the prefix-derived label. Web detail construction separately adds the raw command when it differs from the visible label. These controls limit the concern to compact presentation rather than deletion of the command record.
Pre-merge checks: 4
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Title check
The title names the primary change: a settings option that hides configured command prefixes (such as RTK) in activity labels. The changeset adds the 'Top-level commands to ignore' setting, parsing an…
Description check
The description follows the template's main sections: Problem, Change, Scope, Reproduction, and Verification. It explains the RTK label problem, the new setting and its matching rules, and gives steps…
Linked Issues check
The only directly linked issue, #21237, has state closed. The issue text marks itself as historical context only and not a requirement for this pull request. No active directly linked target remains. …
Out of Scope Changes check
The reviewed changes all support the ignored command prefix feature. The changes cover: the shared contract IgnoredCommandPrefixes in packages/contracts/src/settings.ts and its tests; prefix parsing…
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The title names the primary change: a settings option that hides configured command prefixes (such as RTK) in activity labels. The changeset adds the 'Top-level commands to ignore' setting, parsing and matching logic, and label updates across web and mobile. The title uses conventional commit form and is specific, so a teammate scanning history can identify the change.
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The description follows the template's main sections: Problem, Change, Scope, Reproduction, and Verification. It explains the RTK label problem, the new setting and its matching rules, and gives steps to reproduce and verify. It includes before/after screenshots as the template requires for UI changes. The Scope section frames the change as a feature, and the template says only bug fixes are accepted. It also lacks a linked bug issue in the strict sense, though it references #21237 and a discussion. The Verification section states that native mobile UI was not exercised, and the template asks for stated gaps. Also, the template asks for the model and harness used, and the description includes 'Model: gpt-6.1-sol via the Codex harness.' Minor gaps remain, but the description is mostly complete.
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The only directly linked issue, #21237, has state closed. The issue text marks itself as historical context only and not a requirement for this pull request. No active directly linked target remains. Therefore no linked-issue coding requirements apply. The pull request description cites #21237 as its fix, but that reference does not create active requirements. The feature work in this pull request is still consistent with the closed issue. The related discussion #21675 is also background only.
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The reviewed changes all support the ignored command prefix feature. The changes cover: the shared contract IgnoredCommandPrefixes in packages/contracts/src/settings.ts and its tests; prefix parsing and label logic in packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/commandLabel.ts and its tests; web label and timeline wiring (MessagesTimeline, TimelineWorkEntryRow, TimelineWorkGroupRows); the web settings control, search entries, and restore-defaults entry; mobile settings, persistence, state atom, thread feed, and work-log wiring with tests; translations for the new setting; and user documentation in docs/user/activity-log.md. No listed change alters command execution or provider behavior. This assessment relies on the supplied whole-pull-request summary. No repository inspection was performed. The summary does not show any unrelated change.
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Vitest’s it.each spreads each array row into callback arguments. The rows [42], [""], and [" "] therefore pass scalars, so this test only checks non-array rejection. It does not check invalid elements inside Schema.Array(TrimmedNonEmptyString). This is a test-coverage gap, not a production decoder failure.
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Review comment at @packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts around lines 36 - 38:
Update the `it.each` cases in the invalid-list test to wrap each row as one
callback argument, so `[42]`, `[""]`, and `[" "]` reach `decodeClientSettings`
as arrays with invalid elements. Preserve coverage for the non-array `"rtk"` and
`null` inputs.
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Review comments at @packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/commandLabel.ts:
- Around line 1236-1252: Update commandDisplayText to return derived text only
when it matches a separator-aware suffix of the original display; normalize
spacing around command separators for comparison so supported cases like a
direct prefix followed by “; npm test” remain valid. Otherwise, return the
original display, and add regression coverage for the nested commands and
direct-prefix separator case.
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Review comments at @packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts:
- Around line 36-38: Update the `it.each` cases in the invalid-list test to wrap
each row as one callback argument, so `[42]`, `[""]`, and `[" "]` reach
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Addressed the invalid-list test finding in 8aa38a4. Each it.each row now wraps its input in an object, so [42], [""], and [" "] reach the decoder as arrays. The non-array "rtk" and null cases remain covered.
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docs/user/activity-log.md: 1
8-14: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
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Merge the duplicate settings path and fix the line length.
The web, desktop, and mobile paths are identical (Settings > General > Top-level commands to ignore). Name the path once. Line 11 is also much longer than the other wrapped lines.
As per path instructions and learnings, docs/user/ text must help users complete a task, so state the path once.
Proposed fix
-To hide command wrappers in activity labels and previews, add their prefixes under **Settings >-General > Top-level commands to ignore** on web and desktop, or **Settings > General > Top-level-commands to ignore** on mobile. Enter one prefix per line. Prefixes can include subcommands, and-the longest matching prefix takes priority. This preference is saved separately in each browser or app. Remove-a prefix or reset the list to show it again. Expanded details and copied commands keep the full-command.+To hide command wrappers in activity labels and previews, add their prefixes under **Settings >+General > Top-level commands to ignore** on web, desktop, or mobile. Enter one prefix per line.+Prefixes can include subcommands, and the longest matching prefix takes priority. Each browser or+app saves this preference separately. Remove a prefix or reset the list to show it again. Expanded+details and copied commands keep the full command.
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Translate the new setting title.
In a non-English locale, the editor displays this title in English because it renders searchableSetting directly. The description and input label are also untranslated, and localized searches cannot find the title. Mark the title with msg and translate the editor strings. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.ts:
- Line 896: Update the branch using ignoredCommandPrefixes so it removes command
prefixes only when the row is not expanded, preserving the full label for an
expanded single-command row. Extend the existing presentation test to verify the
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When a developer runs commands through a wrapper such as RTK, T3 Code shows "Running rtk" for each wrapped command. The label stays the same whether the agent is running Git or another tool, making it harder to follow the work at a glance. This PR adds a setting to omit chosen wrapper prefixes, so
rtk git statuscan show "Running git" and agit statuspreview.Problem
Commands with the same RTK prefix get the same "Running rtk" label even when the underlying executables differ. This makes it harder to tell what the agent is doing at a glance.
Change
The "Top-level commands to ignore" setting controls status labels and compact previews on web, desktop, and mobile. The list is local to each browser or app and starts empty. It matches complete token prefixes, longest first, including nested wrappers. Uncertain matches keep the original label, and expanded details and copied commands retain the full executed command.
Scope and approval
Command labels already unwrap shell and environment wrappers. This focused option configures that existing display behavior without changing command execution or provider behavior.
Reproduction
rtkandrtk proxyon separate lines. On mobile, the setting is also under Settings > General.rtk proxy git status. Confirm the active label shows "Running git" instead of "Running rtk" and the compact preview showsgit status.rtk proxy git statuscommand remains available. Reload to confirm the preference persists, then reset the list to show the RTK prefix again.Verification
Focused parser, presentation, and persistence tests cover matching, nested wrappers, conservative fallback, and reset behavior. The browser flow confirmed saved preferences survive reload, update compact previews, and reset to full labels. Native mobile UI was not exercised.
Full command visible
Only first command part visible
Expanded details retain the full command:
Setting
Fixes #21237.
Model: gpt-6.1-sol via the Codex harness.
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