fix(dashboard): preserve add-provider dialog state across tab switches

[AloysJehwin]

Description

Switching tabs in the add-provider dialog discarded whatever was half-filled, including a pasted API key: each tab's fields lived in the tab component, and only the active tab is mounted.

The fields now live one level up, in AddProviderForm, so they survive while the component that renders them comes and goes. Only the active tab still mounts.

Two things scoped to the draft's lifetime had to move up with it, or the fix would have traded one loss for two others:

• The unsaved-changes guard. useDirtySnapshot seeds on mount, so a snapshot taken inside a tab reseeded against already-filled values after a switch and read clean. Escape then closed the dialog with the pasted key and asked nothing. It is now taken once over both drafts.
• The API base prefill. With the provider lifted, its detail query answers from cache on the first render after a switch, so a mount-keyed effect refired and overwrote a hand-edited base with the provider's default. It is now keyed on the provider already seeded.

How to test it locally

1. Providers → Add provider.
2. On Known provider, pick a provider and paste an API key. Open Advanced and replace the API base with something of your own, e.g. https://proxy.internal/v1.
3. Switch to Custom endpoint, then back.
4. The provider, the key and your API base are all still there, and pressing Escape now offers Discard rather than closing silently.

Automated: pnpm --dir web exec vitest run src/features/providers/ProvidersPage.test.tsx covers all three (the surviving draft, the armed guard, the preserved base) in one case. It fails before this change on the API base. 46 passing at this head; tsc --noEmit and Biome clean.

PR Type

• Bug Fix

Relevant issues

Fixes #1081

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Dashboard-only: no route or schema touched, so no docs or OpenAPI change owed.

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Note on an earlier version of this description: it said both panels render with isOpen={false} on the inactive one. That was never what the diff did, and @khaledosman was right to flag it. Only the active tab mounts ({tab === "known" && …}); what survives is the state, lifted above them.

Summary

• Preserves partially completed provider forms when users switch tabs.
• Keeps API keys, API base edits, and other draft fields intact.
• Maintains the unsaved-changes prompt across both drafts.
• Prevents provider defaults from overwriting manual API base edits.
• Adds regression tests for draft persistence, discard protection, and API base reseeding.

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Walkthrough

The add-provider dialog lifts both tab drafts into AddProviderForm. It preserves draft fields and advanced state across tab switches. API-base seeding now avoids overwriting edits and reseeds after clearing and reselecting a provider.

Changes

Provider form state

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Lift provider form drafts web/src/features/providers/ProvidersPage.tsx	AddProviderForm owns the known-provider and custom-endpoint draft fields. The child forms receive their values and setters as props.
Preserve seeded values and dirty state web/src/features/providers/ProvidersPage.tsx	API-base seeding uses the selected provider id and clears its marker when the selection changes. The parent computes the dirty snapshot across both drafts.
Active-tab rendering and validation web/src/features/providers/ProvidersPage.tsx, web/src/features/providers/ProvidersPage.test.tsx	Only the active form mounts. Tests verify draft retention, advanced-state retention, discard guarding, and API-base reseeding.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: khaledosman

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 46e08

The dialog preserves in-progress drafts during tab switches and starts fresh after reopening. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the scoped Conventional Commit prefix fix(dashboard):, clearly describes the bug fix, uses imperative wording, and stays within the approximately 70-character limit.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the user impact, implementation, testing steps, automated coverage, issue link, checklist status, and AI usage. It also explains why documentation and OpenAPI updates are not …
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1081 requires draft data to survive tab switches or requires a switch guard. The PR lifts both drafts into AddProviderForm, so inactive tab fields remain available after remounting. The dirty…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within issue #1081. ProvidersPage.tsx implements lifted draft state, cross-draft dirty tracking, and protected API base prefilling. ProvidersPage.test.tsx adds regression coverage…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 2 files.

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[khaledosman]

Lifting the draft above the tab components fixes the reported loss but moves it: the draft now outlives the mount, while the three things keyed to the draft's lifetime (useDirtySnapshot, the api_base prefill effect, and the create mutation) stayed below it. Two of those are user-visible losses, both reproduced against 2695134 with the existing ProvidersPage.test.tsx harness; details inline.

web/design/feedback.md ("The component that renders the FormDialog owns everything that resets between opens: the draft and its mutation") is the rung: the draft and the hooks scoped to it have to share one mount. Moving useDirtySnapshot up into AddProviderForm over both drafts, and seeding api_base off the selected provider rather than off mount, keeps the current structure. Collapsing the two tabs onto one FormDialog that swaps only its fields is the other way, and larger than this PR.

The description also describes a different implementation than the diff: it says both panels render with isOpen={false} on the inactive one, but the code mounts only the active tab ({tab === "known" && …}). Worth correcting, since it is what a reader evaluates.

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[AloysJehwin]

Both findings confirmed and fixed in 3217e24, rebased onto current main first (the branch was 68 commits behind, though ProvidersPage.tsx itself had not moved).

The disarmed guard. Correct, and your diagnosis of the mechanism was exact: useDirtySnapshot seeds with useState(snapshot) on mount, the tab components remount on every switch, so the reseed happened against already-filled values and isDirty read false. Case 2 was the sharper one — the inactive tab's draft was unguarded by construction, not just after a remount.

Computed once in AddProviderForm over both drafts now and passed down as a prop. Both tab components take isDirty rather than calling the hook.

The clobbered API base. Also confirmed. With providerId lifted, useProviderDetail answers from the TanStack Query cache, so selected is truthy on the first render after a switch and the mount-keyed effect fired again. The comment two lines above it ("fires once per selection and does not clobber later edits") had stopped being true.

Keyed on the provider already seeded, with the marker lifted alongside the rest of the draft, as you suggested:

useEffect(() => {
  if (selected && apiBaseSeededFor !== selected.id) {
    setApiBaseSeededFor(selected.id)
    setApiBase(selected.default_api_base ?? "")
  }
}, [selected, apiBaseSeededFor, setApiBaseSeededFor, setApiBase])

The test. One case covering both findings plus the draft survival the PR is for: fill the known tab, edit the API base to a proxy, switch away and back, then assert the key, the base, and that Escape still offers Discard. Verified it is a real regression test — against the reviewed commit it fails on the API base with exactly the mismatch you reported:

Expected the element to have value: https://proxy.internal/v1
Received:                           https://api.openai.com/v1

46 passed at this head, tsc --noEmit and Biome clean.

The description. You were right that it described a different implementation. Rewritten to match the diff: only the active tab mounts ({tab === "known" && …}), and the state that survives is lifted rather than both panels rendering with isOpen={false}.

I left the two nits: showAdvanced naming and the Dispatch<SetStateAction<T>> typing are both worth doing, but they touch every prop on these two components, and the diff is already large enough that separating them seemed better for review. Happy to fold them in here if you'd rather not have a follow-up.

[khaledosman]

One reproducible regression from the lifted state, plus two comment cleanups. The lift itself holds up: key={addOpenCount} still remounts the draft owner per open, and the combobox reseeds its display text from the preserved providerId, so the picker is not blank after a switch.

CodeRabbit's "do not retain API keys in React state across tab switches" was written against the earlier commit's claim that both panels stay mounted; the premise is stale and the key's lifetime is still bounded by the per-open remount.

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[khaledosman]

Pushed 46e08b6 to this branch (maintainerCanModify), addressing every open thread.

The regression from the last round. Emptying the provider picker clears the API base but left apiBaseSeededFor on the old id, so picking that same provider back read as already seeded and the field stayed blank instead of showing the built-in default. setApiBaseSeededFor(null) now sits beside setApiBase("") in the picker's onChange. The test added with it passes at the merge base and fails at 3217e24, so it pins the regression rather than the fix.

From the earlier review. The boolean prop reads as a question (isAdvancedShown), and the lifted setters are typed Dispatch<SetStateAction<T>>, which puts the functional updater back on the Advanced toggle. Comments lose a stranded half-sentence left by diff context, two em dashes, and a paragraph that had come to sit between canSubmit and its own note.

Checks at this head. make lint clean (architecture, single alembic head, Ruff), pnpm --dir web run lint clean, pnpm --dir web run typecheck clean, pnpm --dir web test 6657 passing across 202 files. Dashboard-only, so no OpenAPI, Postman, schema or route-tree artifact is owed.

CodeRabbit's API-key thread was written against the earlier commit's claim that both panels stay mounted; only the active tab mounts, and the draft is still discarded per open by key={addOpenCount}.

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