git:20260908.2dd7ca4 to git:20260908.49a3b71

See CLAUDE.md.

## Branching and pull requests

Branch off `dev` and target `dev` with every pull request; `gh pr create` defaults to `main`, so

pass `--base dev` explicitly. `main` is the released branch, kept as a fast-forward of `dev` and

synced as-is — never open a backport pull request to `main`, because anything merged to `dev`

reaches it at the next sync. Pull requests opened against `main` are retargeted automatically.

`Fixes #N` does not close the issue on a `dev` merge — GitHub honors closing keywords only on the

default branch, so close linked issues by hand. Worktrees share one stash stack, so never use a bare

`git stash pop`. See the detailed policy in `CLAUDE.md` under "Branching and Pull Requests".

Write the description for a reader who has not followed the branch: what breaks, what triggers it,

how it behaves after the change, then one or two views of the mechanism — a focused diff, a call

tree, a shallow file tree, or a Mermaid sequence. Keep only what the change carries, and describe

## Review and completion

Read the inline review threads themselves — a summary comment or notification list omits findings.

Audit each one against the current code, fix what is valid, and reject what is obsolete in a reply

that says why. After each round: focused tests, `npx tsc --noEmit` in every workspace you changed,

push, then request the next review naming the pull request's exact remote head — a clean review of

an earlier head says nothing about what you just pushed, and CI runs on its own clock. After two

actionable rounds, stop patching thread by thread and read the subsystem by invariant instead.

Which reviewer and what phrase triggers it will change; that the review must cover the exact pushed

head will not.

A clean review is one completion signal, not the definition of done. Ship the observable experience

— loading, empty, success, failure, cancellation, retry, restored session — with strings localized,

accessibility intact, defaults and stored data preserved, and no backend capability left without a

frontend entry point. Report the pushed head, what you ran locally, CI state, the review result at

that head, and any finding you rejected with the reasoning. See `CLAUDE.md` under "Review and

Completion".

## Verification

For startup, auth, config, file, or message-loading changes, avoid serial database

reads and reuse loaded request data. Run `npm run lighthouse` before completion:

the CI lane adds 250 ms per Mongo query and checks the visible conversation's LCP.

See [budgets, reproduction and failure diagnosis](e2e/lighthouse/README.md).

A green build is not a typecheck: `packages/api`, `packages/client` and `packages/data-schemas` build

with `tsdown`, which emits without checking types. Run `npx tsc --noEmit` in the workspace you

changed. `packages/client` excludes `*.spec.ts(x)` and `*.test.ts(x)` from typechecking entirely.

`npm run sort-imports` with no arguments rewrites every source root — pass the paths you touched. See

`CLAUDE.md` under "Typechecking" and "Formatting".

## Frontend theming and styling

For frontend work, compose existing `@librechat/client` primitives and variants before adding

feature-local styles. Use semantic theme/Tailwind roles for color and shared appearance; do not

introduce raw palette utilities, hard-coded colors, or arbitrary theme CSS. If the system cannot

express a reusable design need, deepen the shared primitive or versioned theme-token registry

instead of copying classes into a feature. Keep genuine layout and behavior local, and document

why any new custom CSS cannot be expressed by the shared system. See the detailed policy in

`CLAUDE.md` under “Theming and styling.”

## Backend auth cache

When adding or changing code that mutates user documents, invalidate the auth user document cache

for affected users, including bulk role and user mutations. See the detailed policy in `CLAUDE.md`

under “Auth cache invalidation”.

## Client state ownership

The client is migrating from Recoil to Jotai — convert the areas you touch, not the whole store.

Split by ownership: state a feature both writes and reads is feature-owned, so convert it to Jotai

and keep it inside the feature; app-global preferences and shell state a feature merely consumes

(`maximizeChatSpace`, `showScrollButton`, `enterToSend`, artifact visibility) must be passed in

through props or a small host-supplied context rather than reached for through `~/store`. Passing

them in is what lets a feature move to its own workspace later without a rewrite, and it keeps the

Jotai conversion scoped to the state a feature owns. See the detailed policy in `CLAUDE.md` under

“Client State Ownership”.