Timothy Laurent be43bbb8ad fix(dashboard): prevent quick chat init race condition and infinite retry loop ...

Three interacting bugs caused "Failed to initialize chat" toast spam and
prevented fresh session creation:

1. Race condition in handleCreateFreshSession — setting chatMode/
   selectedAgentId before startFreshSession triggered the session-init
   useEffect, which called switchSession and resumed the old session
   instead of creating a new one. Fixed with skipNextSessionInitRef.

2. Infinite retry loop — shouldRetrySessionInit retried indefinitely
   when initializeSession failed, producing unbounded toast spam.
   Fixed with a 3-retry cap (initRetryCountRef).

3. Cascading re-renders — switchSession depended on activeSession in
   its closure, getting a new identity on every state change and
   re-triggering the consumer's useEffect. Fixed by reading
   activeSession from a ref instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-05-05 16:31:49 -07:00

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