fix(ui): confirm button-triggered new session resets (#73361)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 - Agents/Anthropic: cancel stalled Anthropic Messages SSE body reads when abort signals fire, so active-memory timeouts release transport resources instead of leaving hidden recall runs parked on `reader.read()`. Refs #72965 and #73120. Thanks @wdeveloper16.
 - Control UI/WebChat: keep pending run and typing state attached to the active client run, so unowned inject/announce/side-result finals no longer unlock unrelated active runs while completed owned runs still clear promptly. Fixes #57795; carries forward the narrow diagnosis from #57887. Thanks @haoyu-haoyu.
 - Sandbox/Docker: stop satisfying a missing default sandbox image by tagging plain Debian as `openclaw-sandbox:bookworm-slim`, preserving the Python tooling required by sandbox write/edit helpers and directing users to build the default image. Fixes #51185; refs #45108, #51099, #51609, and #57713. Thanks @dpalis, @Tin55FoilDev, @jbcohen2-coder, @macminihal-cyber, and @PraxoOnline.
+- Control UI/WebChat: confirm toolbar New Session button resets before dispatching `/new` while leaving typed `/new` and `/reset` commands immediate. Fixes #45800; refs #27065, #56611, #54499, and #27110. Thanks @aethnova, @kosta228-huli, @adambezemek, and @xss925175263 (xianshishan).
 - Agents/models: keep per-agent primary models strict when `fallbacks` is omitted, so probe-only custom providers are not tried as hidden fallback candidates unless the agent explicitly opts in. Fixes #73332. Thanks @haumanto.
 - Gateway/models: add `models.pricing.enabled` so offline or restricted-network installs can skip startup OpenRouter and LiteLLM pricing-catalog fetches while keeping explicit model costs working. Fixes #53639. Thanks @callebtc, @palewire, and @rjdjohnston.
 - Onboarding: pin interactive and non-interactive health checks to the just-configured setup token/password so stale `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN` or `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_PASSWORD` values do not produce false gateway-token-mismatch failures after setup. Fixes #72203. Thanks @galiniliev.

ui/src/ui/app-chat.test.ts

@@ -427,6 +427,110 @@ describe("handleSendChat", () => {
     vi.unstubAllGlobals();
   });
 
+  it("cancels button-triggered /new resets when confirmation is declined", async () => {
+    const confirm = vi.fn(() => false);
+    vi.stubGlobal("confirm", confirm);
+    const request = vi.fn(async (method: string) => {
+      throw new Error(`Unexpected request: ${method}`);
+    });
+    const host = makeHost({
+      client: { request } as unknown as ChatHost["client"],
+      chatMessage: "keep this draft",
+      sessionKey: "agent:main",
+    });
+
+    await handleSendChat(host, "/new", { confirmReset: true, restoreDraft: true });
+
+    expect(confirm).toHaveBeenCalledWith("Start a new session? This will reset the current chat.");
+    expect(request).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(host.chatMessage).toBe("keep this draft");
+    expect(host.chatMessages).toEqual([]);
+    expect(host.chatRunId).toBeNull();
+    expect(host.refreshSessionsAfterChat.size).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("cancels button-triggered /new resets when confirmation is unavailable", async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal("confirm", undefined);
+    const request = vi.fn(async (method: string) => {
+      throw new Error(`Unexpected request: ${method}`);
+    });
+    const host = makeHost({
+      client: { request } as unknown as ChatHost["client"],
+      chatMessage: "keep this draft",
+      sessionKey: "agent:main",
+    });
+
+    await handleSendChat(host, "/new", { confirmReset: true, restoreDraft: true });
+
+    expect(request).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(host.chatMessage).toBe("keep this draft");
+    expect(host.chatMessages).toEqual([]);
+    expect(host.chatRunId).toBeNull();
+    expect(host.refreshSessionsAfterChat.size).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("sends button-triggered /new resets after confirmation", async () => {
+    const confirm = vi.fn(() => true);
+    vi.stubGlobal("confirm", confirm);
+    const request = vi.fn(async (method: string) => {
+      if (method === "chat.send") {
+        return { status: "started" };
+      }
+      throw new Error(`Unexpected request: ${method}`);
+    });
+    const host = makeHost({
+      client: { request } as unknown as ChatHost["client"],
+      chatMessage: "restore me",
+      sessionKey: "agent:main",
+    });
+
+    await handleSendChat(host, "/new", { confirmReset: true, restoreDraft: true });
+
+    expect(confirm).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(request).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      "chat.send",
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        sessionKey: "agent:main",
+        message: "/new",
+        deliver: false,
+        idempotencyKey: expect.any(String),
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(host.chatMessage).toBe("restore me");
+    expect(host.refreshSessionsAfterChat).toContain(host.chatRunId);
+  });
+
+  it.each(["/new", "/reset"])(
+    "preserves typed %s command dispatch without confirmation",
+    async (command) => {
+      const confirm = vi.fn(() => false);
+      vi.stubGlobal("confirm", confirm);
+      const request = vi.fn(async (method: string) => {
+        if (method === "chat.send") {
+          return { status: "started" };
+        }
+        throw new Error(`Unexpected request: ${method}`);
+      });
+      const host = makeHost({
+        client: { request } as unknown as ChatHost["client"],
+        chatMessage: command,
+        sessionKey: "agent:main",
+      });
+
+      await handleSendChat(host);
+
+      expect(confirm).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      expect(request).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        "chat.send",
+        expect.objectContaining({
+          sessionKey: "agent:main",
+          message: command,
+        }),
+      );
+      expect(host.chatMessage).toBe("");
+    },
+  );
+
   it("keeps slash-command model changes in sync with the chat header cache", async () => {
     vi.stubGlobal(
       "fetch",

ui/src/ui/app-chat.ts

@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ export type ChatHost = ChatInputHistoryState & {
   onSlashAction?: (action: string) => void;
 };
 
+export type ChatSendOptions = {
+  confirmReset?: boolean;
+  restoreDraft?: boolean;
+};
+
 export const CHAT_SESSIONS_ACTIVE_MINUTES = 120;
 export {
   handleChatDraftChange,
@@ -115,6 +120,16 @@ function isChatResetCommand(text: string) {
   return normalized.startsWith("/new ") || normalized.startsWith("/reset ");
 }
 
+function confirmChatResetCommand(text: string) {
+  if (!isChatResetCommand(text)) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  if (typeof globalThis.confirm !== "function") {
+    return false;
+  }
+  return globalThis.confirm("Start a new session? This will reset the current chat.");
+}
+
 function isBtwCommand(text: string) {
   return /^\/btw(?::|\s|$)/i.test(text.trim());
 }
@@ -408,7 +423,7 @@ export function clearPendingQueueItemsForRun(host: ChatHost, runId: string | und
 export async function handleSendChat(
   host: ChatHost,
   messageOverride?: string,
-  opts?: { restoreDraft?: boolean },
+  opts?: ChatSendOptions,
 ) {
   if (!host.connected) {
     return;
@@ -423,6 +438,10 @@ export async function handleSendChat(
     return;
   }
 
+  if (messageOverride != null && opts?.confirmReset && !confirmChatResetCommand(message)) {
+    return;
+  }
+
   if (isChatStopCommand(message)) {
     if (messageOverride == null) {
       recordNonTranscriptInputHistory(host, message);

ui/src/ui/app-render.ts

@@ -2357,7 +2357,8 @@ export function renderApp(state: AppViewState) {
               onDismissSideResult: () => {
                 state.chatSideResult = null;
               },
-              onNewSession: () => state.handleSendChat("/new", { restoreDraft: true }),
+              onNewSession: () =>
+                state.handleSendChat("/new", { confirmReset: true, restoreDraft: true }),
               onClearHistory: async () => {
                 if (!state.client || !state.connected) {
                   return;

ui/src/ui/app-view-state.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import type { EventLogEntry } from "./app-events.ts";
+import type { ChatSendOptions } from "./app-chat.ts";
 import type { CompactionStatus, FallbackStatus } from "./app-tool-stream.ts";
 import type { ChatInputHistoryKeyInput, ChatInputHistoryKeyResult } from "./chat/input-history.ts";
 import type { RealtimeTalkStatus } from "./chat/realtime-talk.ts";
@@ -460,7 +461,7 @@ export type AppViewState = {
     handleChatDraftChange: (next: string) => void;
     handleChatInputHistoryKey: (input: ChatInputHistoryKeyInput) => ChatInputHistoryKeyResult;
     resetChatInputHistoryNavigation: () => void;
-    handleSendChat: (messageOverride?: string, opts?: { restoreDraft?: boolean }) => Promise<void>;
+    handleSendChat: (messageOverride?: string, opts?: ChatSendOptions) => Promise<void>;
     toggleRealtimeTalk: () => Promise<void>;
     steerQueuedChatMessage: (id: string) => Promise<void>;
     handleAbortChat: () => Promise<void>;