Improve issue thread scale and markdown polish (#4861)

## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip's board UI is the operator surface for supervising
AI-agent companies.
> - Issue threads are where operators read progress, respond to agents,
inspect markdown, and jump through long histories.
> - Large threads and rich markdown had become difficult to navigate and
expensive to render.
> - The previous rollup mixed these UI scale fixes with unrelated
backend recovery, costs, backups, and settings changes.
> - This pull request isolates the issue-thread scale and markdown
polish work.
> - The benefit is a reviewable UI slice that can merge independently of
the backend reliability, database backup, workflow, and board QoL PRs.

## What Changed

- Virtualized long issue chat threads and stabilized
anchor/jump-to-latest behavior for large histories.
- Added incremental issue-list row loading and tests for
scroll-triggered pagination behavior.
- Hardened markdown body rendering and markdown editor behavior around
HTML tags, image drops, code-copy UI, and escaped newline handling.
- Added a long-thread measurement harness at
`scripts/measure-issue-chat-long-thread.mjs` plus
`perf:issue-chat-long-thread`.
- Added focused UI/lib regression coverage for thread rendering,
markdown, optimistic comments, and message building.

## Verification

- `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile`
- `pnpm exec vitest run ui/src/components/IssueChatThread.test.tsx
ui/src/components/IssuesList.test.tsx
ui/src/components/MarkdownBody.test.tsx
ui/src/components/MarkdownEditor.test.tsx
ui/src/lib/issue-chat-messages.test.ts
ui/src/lib/optimistic-issue-comments.test.ts`
- Result: 6 test files passed, 170 tests passed.
- UI screenshots not included because this PR is covered by targeted
component tests and does not introduce a new page layout.

## Risks

- Virtualization changes can affect scroll anchoring in edge cases on
very long threads.
- Markdown/editor hardening changes are intentionally defensive, but
malformed content may render differently than before.

> For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and
discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR. Feature PRs that overlap
with planned core work may need to be redirected — check the roadmap
first. See `CONTRIBUTING.md`.

## Model Used

- OpenAI Codex, GPT-5.5, code execution and GitHub CLI tool use, medium
reasoning effort.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] If this change affects the UI, I have included before/after
screenshots
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>

scripts/measure-issue-chat-long-thread.mjs

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+import { chromium } from "@playwright/test";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+
+const baseUrl = (process.env.PAPERCLIP_PERF_BASE_URL || "http://localhost:3100").replace(/\/$/, "");
+const companyPrefix = process.env.PAPERCLIP_PERF_COMPANY_PREFIX;
+const url = companyPrefix
+  ? `${baseUrl}/${companyPrefix}/tests/perf/long-thread`
+  : `${baseUrl}/tests/perf/long-thread`;
+const origin = new URL(url).origin;
+
+function loadBoardToken() {
+  const authPath = path.resolve(os.homedir(), ".paperclip/auth.json");
+  try {
+    const auth = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(authPath, "utf-8"));
+    const credentials = auth.credentials || {};
+    const matching = Object.values(credentials).find((entry) => {
+      if (!entry || !entry.token || !entry.apiBase) return false;
+      return new URL(entry.apiBase).origin === origin;
+    });
+    if (matching?.token) return matching.token;
+    const fallback = Object.values(credentials).find((entry) => entry?.token);
+    return fallback?.token ?? null;
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: true });
+const page = await browser.newPage({ viewport: { width: 1440, height: 1000 } });
+const boardToken = process.env.PAPERCLIP_PERF_BEARER_TOKEN || loadBoardToken();
+
+if (boardToken) {
+  await page.route(`${origin}/**`, async (route) => {
+    await route.continue({
+      headers: { ...route.request().headers(), Authorization: `Bearer ${boardToken}` },
+    });
+  });
+}
+
+try {
+  const startedAt = Date.now();
+  await page.goto(url, { waitUntil: "networkidle" });
+  await page.waitForSelector('[data-testid="issue-chat-long-thread-perf"]', { timeout: 30_000 });
+  await page.waitForFunction(() => {
+    const target = Number(document.querySelector('[data-testid="perf-fixture-row-target"]')?.textContent ?? "450");
+    const renderedRows = document.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="issue-chat-message-row"]').length;
+    const virtualizer = document.querySelector('[data-testid="issue-chat-thread-virtualizer"]');
+    if (!virtualizer) return renderedRows >= target;
+    const virtualCount = Number(virtualizer.getAttribute("data-virtual-count") ?? "0");
+    return virtualCount >= target && renderedRows > 0 && renderedRows < target;
+  }, null, { timeout: 60_000 });
+  const rowReadyMs = Date.now() - startedAt;
+
+  const metrics = await page.evaluate(async () => {
+    const text = (testId) => document.querySelector(`[data-testid="${testId}"]`)?.textContent?.trim() ?? "";
+    const numericMs = (testId) => {
+      const value = text(testId).replace(/\s*ms$/, "");
+      const parsed = Number(value);
+      return Number.isFinite(parsed) ? parsed : null;
+    };
+
+    const rowCount = document.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="issue-chat-message-row"]').length;
+    const virtualizer = document.querySelector('[data-testid="issue-chat-thread-virtualizer"]');
+    const virtualCount = Number(virtualizer?.getAttribute("data-virtual-count") ?? "0");
+    const assistantRowCount = document.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="issue-chat-message-row"][data-message-role="assistant"]').length;
+    const systemRowCount = document.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="issue-chat-message-row"][data-message-role="system"]').length;
+    const userRowCount = document.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="issue-chat-message-row"][data-message-role="user"]').length;
+    const markdownRows = Number(text("perf-fixture-markdown-rows"));
+    const commitCount = Number(text("perf-commit-count"));
+    const scrollStartY = window.scrollY;
+    const scrollTarget = Math.max(0, document.documentElement.scrollHeight - window.innerHeight);
+    const scrollStartedAt = performance.now();
+    window.scrollTo({ top: scrollTarget, behavior: "instant" });
+    await new Promise((resolve) => requestAnimationFrame(() => resolve()));
+    await new Promise((resolve) => requestAnimationFrame(() => resolve()));
+    const scrollResponsiveMs = performance.now() - scrollStartedAt;
+
+    return {
+      url: window.location.href,
+      fixtureRowTarget: Number(text("perf-fixture-row-target")),
+      virtualized: Boolean(virtualizer),
+      virtualCount,
+      rowCount,
+      assistantRowCount,
+      userRowCount,
+      systemRowCount,
+      markdownRows,
+      commitCount,
+      mountActualDurationMs: numericMs("perf-mount-duration"),
+      latestActualDurationMs: numericMs("perf-latest-duration"),
+      maxActualDurationMs: numericMs("perf-max-duration"),
+      totalActualDurationMs: numericMs("perf-total-duration"),
+      reactProfilerAvailable: commitCount > 0,
+      scrollResponsiveMs: Number(scrollResponsiveMs.toFixed(1)),
+      scrollDeltaPx: Math.round(Math.abs(window.scrollY - scrollStartY)),
+      documentHeightPx: Math.round(document.documentElement.scrollHeight),
+    };
+  });
+
+  const elapsedMs = Date.now() - startedAt;
+  console.log(JSON.stringify({ ...metrics, renderReadyMs: rowReadyMs, elapsedMs }, null, 2));
+} finally {
+  await browser.close();
+}