fix(web): move chat storage keys to constants and clear search scope on thread creation (#1033)

* refactor(web): move chat storage keys to constants and clear search scope on thread creation

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

* chore: update CHANGELOG for #1033

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

* changelog

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: brendan-kellam

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Fixed reference panel overflow issue in the ask UI. [#1014](https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/pull/1014)
 - Fixed homepage scrolling issue in the ask UI. [#1014](https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/pull/1014)
 - Fixed UI freeze when the `grep` tool returns a large number of results with `groupByRepo=true`. [#1032](https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/pull/1032)
+- Fixed issue where the search scope selection persisted after a new thread is created. [#1033](https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/pull/1033)
 
 ## [4.15.11] - 2026-03-20
 

packages/web/src/app/[domain]/chat/[id]/components/chatThreadPanel.tsx

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 import { ResizablePanel } from '@/components/ui/resizable';
 import { ChatThread } from '@/features/chat/components/chatThread';
-import { LanguageModelInfo, SBChatMessage, SearchScope, SET_CHAT_STATE_SESSION_STORAGE_KEY, SetChatStatePayload } from '@/features/chat/types';
+import { LanguageModelInfo, SBChatMessage, SearchScope, SetChatStatePayload } from '@/features/chat/types';
+import { SELECTED_SEARCH_SCOPES_LOCAL_STORAGE_KEY, SET_CHAT_STATE_SESSION_STORAGE_KEY } from '@/features/chat/constants';
 import { RepositoryQuery, SearchContextQuery } from '@/lib/types';
 import { CreateUIMessage } from 'ai';
 import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
@@ -35,6 +36,12 @@ export const ChatThreadPanel = ({
     const chatId = useChatId()!;
     const [inputMessage, setInputMessage] = useState<CreateUIMessage<SBChatMessage> | undefined>(undefined);
     const [chatState, setChatState] = useSessionStorage<SetChatStatePayload | null>(SET_CHAT_STATE_SESSION_STORAGE_KEY, null);
+
+    // Clear the landing page's persisted search scope selection so that returning
+    // to the landing page to start a new thread starts with a clean state.
+    useEffect(() => {
+        localStorage.removeItem(SELECTED_SEARCH_SCOPES_LOCAL_STORAGE_KEY);
+    }, []);
 
     // Use the last user's last message to determine what repos and contexts we should select by default.
     const lastUserMessage = messages.findLast((message) => message.role === "user");

packages/web/src/app/[domain]/chat/components/landingPageChatBox.tsx

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { useCreateNewChatThread } from "@/features/chat/useCreateNewChatThread";
 import { RepositoryQuery, SearchContextQuery } from "@/lib/types";
 import { useState } from "react";
 import { useLocalStorage } from "usehooks-ts";
+import { SELECTED_SEARCH_SCOPES_LOCAL_STORAGE_KEY } from "@/features/chat/constants";
 import { SearchModeSelector } from "../../components/searchModeSelector";
 import { NotConfiguredErrorBanner } from "@/features/chat/components/notConfiguredErrorBanner";
 import { LoginModal } from "@/app/components/loginModal";
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ export const LandingPageChatBox = ({
     isAuthenticated,
 }: LandingPageChatBox) => {
     const { createNewChatThread, isLoading, loginWall } = useCreateNewChatThread({ isAuthenticated });
-    const [selectedSearchScopes, setSelectedSearchScopes] = useLocalStorage<SearchScope[]>("selectedSearchScopes", [], { initializeWithValue: false });
+    const [selectedSearchScopes, setSelectedSearchScopes] = useLocalStorage<SearchScope[]>(SELECTED_SEARCH_SCOPES_LOCAL_STORAGE_KEY, [], { initializeWithValue: false });
     const [isContextSelectorOpen, setIsContextSelectorOpen] = useState(false);
     const isChatBoxDisabled = languageModels.length === 0;
 

packages/web/src/features/chat/constants.ts

@@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ export const FILE_REFERENCE_REGEX = new RegExp(
 );
 
 export const ANSWER_TAG = '<!--answer-->';
+
+export const SELECTED_SEARCH_SCOPES_LOCAL_STORAGE_KEY = 'selectedSearchScopes';
+export const SET_CHAT_STATE_SESSION_STORAGE_KEY = 'setChatState';

packages/web/src/features/chat/types.ts

@@ -140,8 +140,6 @@ declare module 'slate' {
 /////////////////////////
 
 // Misc //
-export const SET_CHAT_STATE_SESSION_STORAGE_KEY = 'setChatState';
-
 export type SetChatStatePayload = {
     inputMessage: CreateUIMessage<SBChatMessage>;
     selectedSearchScopes: SearchScope[];

packages/web/src/features/chat/useCreateNewChatThread.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ import { useRouter } from "next/navigation";
 import { createChat, getAskGhLoginWallData } from "./actions";
 import { isServiceError } from "@/lib/utils";
 import { createPathWithQueryParams } from "@/lib/utils";
-import { SearchScope, SET_CHAT_STATE_SESSION_STORAGE_KEY, SetChatStatePayload } from "./types";
+import { SearchScope, SetChatStatePayload } from "./types";
+import { SET_CHAT_STATE_SESSION_STORAGE_KEY } from "./constants";
 import { useSessionStorage } from "usehooks-ts";
 import { SINGLE_TENANT_ORG_DOMAIN } from "@/lib/constants";
 import type { IdentityProviderMetadata } from "@/lib/identityProviders";