The provider type already lives authoritatively in ai_providers.type,
reachable on every active row through ai_provider_id, which the
chat_model_configs_ai_provider_required_when_active CHECK makes
mandatory. The stored provider string was a denormalized copy the system
kept in sync with a startup backfill and no longer needs.
Every surface now derives provider type from the linked ai_providers
row. Telemetry is the one exception: it keeps emitting provider, now
sourced from ai_providers.type via a JOIN, so the BigQuery column and the
Nexus dashboards that read it are unaffected. The experimental HTTP/SDK
response drops provider and makes ai_provider_id required, since those
endpoints return only active configs; consumers resolve provider type
from ai_provider_id and the AI providers listing.
This ships in a single release with no compatibility window: production
reads the table via SELECT *, so a pre-drop binary fails config reads the
moment the column is gone. Operators must scale to zero before upgrading,
and there is no rollback.
Closes CODAGT-599
This PR makes the agent-pushed pinned snapshot
(`chat_context_resources`) the sole source of workspace context for
chats, completing the "Release 5" cleanup. It removes legacy mechanisms
now superseded by the snapshot that agents push over dRPC
(`PushContextState`) and refresh via `chat-context/refresh`.
Removed:
- **Live-read at turn time.** MCP tool discovery, skill live-body reads,
and the instruction/skill history fallback that dialed the workspace on
every turn.
- **Context injected as message history.** The
`persist_workspace_context` generation action and its decision-loop
guard.
- **The legacy write path.** `POST`/`DELETE
/api/v2/workspaceagents/me/experimental/chat-context`, the agentsdk
`AddChatContext`/`ClearChatContext` methods, and the CLI one-shot
writer.
- **The `chats.last_injected_context` column** and all of its plumbing
(migration `000529`, queries, `db2sdk`, `dbauthz`, audit table, and the
frontend `ContextUsageIndicator` fallback).
Subagent context inheritance no longer copies parent context messages;
children now hydrate the parent's pinned `chat_context_resources` on
create, which yields an identical pin for the same workspace and agent.
What stays (still served by the live agent connection, not the
snapshot): `read_skill_file` supporting-file reads, `read_skill`
supporting-file listing, and MCP tool execution.
> [!NOTE]
> Migration `000529` drops `chats.last_injected_context` and recreates
the `chats_expanded` view without it. The down migration restores both.
<details>
<summary>Decision log (D1-D5)</summary>
- **D1 (subagent inheritance):** Re-point inheritance from the legacy
message copy to a pinned hydrate. Children call
`hydrateChatContextOnCreate` instead of copying parent context messages.
- **D2 (`persist_workspace_context`):** Remove the generation action
entirely along with the decision-loop guard it existed to satisfy, since
context is never injected into history anymore.
- **D3 (legacy HTTP + CLI):** Remove the experimental `chat-context`
POST/DELETE endpoints, the agentsdk methods, and the CLI one-shot. The
dRPC push + `chat-context/refresh` replace them.
- **D4 (frontend fallback):** Remove the `last_injected_context`
fallback in `ContextUsageIndicator`; pinned `resources` are the sole
source.
- **D5 (sequencing):** Ship as a single PR rather than a stacked pair.
</details>
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Coder Agents generated on behalf of @kylecarbs.
- Adds chat-related dbgen generators covering defaults, overrides, and message field mapping.
- Replaces raw single-row chat, message, provider, and model-config setup in tests with dbgen helpers.
- Simplifies chat seed helpers after moving fixture setup into dbgen.
> Generated with [Coder Agents](https://coder.com/agents).
Add a `chat_client_type` enum (`ui` | `api`) and `client_type` column to
the `chats` table. The column defaults to `api` for new rows so API
callers don't need to set it explicitly. Existing rows are backfilled to
`ui`.
The field flows through `CreateChatRequest`, `chatd.CreateOptions`,
`InsertChat`, and is returned in the `Chat` response via `db2sdk`.
<details>
<summary>Implementation notes (Coder Agents generated)</summary>
### Changes
**Database migration (000469)**
- New enum `chat_client_type` with values `ui`, `api`.
- New `client_type` column, `NOT NULL DEFAULT 'api'`.
- Backfill: `UPDATE chats SET client_type = 'ui'`.
**SQL query** — `InsertChat` now includes `client_type`.
**SDK** — `ChatClientType` type added; `ClientType` field added to both
`CreateChatRequest` (optional, defaults server-side to `api`) and `Chat`
response.
**Handler** — `postChats` maps the request field (defaulting to `api`)
and passes it through `chatd.CreateOptions`.
**Sub-agent** — Child chats inherit their parent's `client_type`.
**db2sdk** — Maps the database value to the SDK type.
### Decision log
- Default is `api` (not `ui`) so existing API integrations get the
correct value without code changes.
- Backfill sets existing rows to `ui` per requirement.
- Child chats inherit `client_type` from parent rather than defaulting.
</details>
Fixes https://github.com/coder/internal/issues/1436
* Adds organization_id to chats with backfill (workspace org → user org membership → default org)
* No support yet for ACLs (follow-up issue)
- Cross-org workspace binding rejected (both in `CreateChatRequest` and in `create_workspace` tool
- Adds `OrganizationAutocomplete` to `AgentCreateForm`
- Docs updated with `organization_id` in chats-api.md
> 🤖 Written by a Coder Agent. Reviewed by many humans and many agents.
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Co-authored-by: Mathias Fredriksson <mafredri@gmail.com>
Adds `coder exp chat context add` and `coder exp chat context clear`
commands that run inside a workspace to manage chat context files via
the agent token.
`add` reads instruction and skill files from a directory (defaulting to
cwd) and inserts them as context-file messages into an active chat.
Multiple calls are additive — `instructionFromContextFiles` already
accumulates all context-file parts across messages.
`clear` soft-deletes all context-file messages, causing
`contextFileAgentID()` to return `!found` on the next turn, which
triggers `needsInstructionPersist=true` and re-fetches defaults from the
agent.
Both commands auto-detect the target chat via `CODER_CHAT_ID` (already
set by `agentproc` on chat-spawned processes), or fall back to
single-active-chat resolution for the agent. The `--chat` flag overrides
both.
Also adds sub-agent context inheritance: `createChildSubagentChat` now
copies parent context-file messages to child chats at spawn time, so
delegated sub-agents share the same instruction context without
independently re-fetching from the workspace agent.
<details><summary>Implementation details</summary>
**New files:**
- `cli/exp_chat.go` — CLI command tree under `coder exp chat context`
**Modified files:**
- `agent/agentcontextconfig/api.go` — `ConfigFromDir()` reads context
from an arbitrary directory without env vars
- `codersdk/agentsdk/agentsdk.go` — `AddChatContext`/`ClearChatContext`
SDK methods
- `coderd/workspaceagents.go` — POST/DELETE handlers on
`/workspaceagents/me/chat-context`
- `coderd/coderd.go` — Route registration
- `coderd/database/queries/chats.sql` — `GetActiveChatsByAgentID`,
`SoftDeleteContextFileMessages`
- `coderd/database/dbauthz/dbauthz.go` — RBAC implementations for new
queries
- `coderd/x/chatd/subagent.go` — `copyParentContextFiles` for sub-agent
inheritance
- `cli/root.go` — Register `chatCommand()` in `AGPLExperimental()`
**Auth pattern:** Uses `AgentAuth` (same as `coder external-auth`) —
agent token via `CODER_AGENT_TOKEN` + `CODER_AGENT_URL` env vars.
</details>
> 🤖 Generated by Coder Agents
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Co-authored-by: Michael Suchacz <203725896+ibetitsmike@users.noreply.github.com>
Mathias Fredriksson