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>
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@@ -523,6 +523,153 @@ describe("IssuesList", () => {
});
});
it("hides the workflow blocker chip when a sub-issue is blocked only by its previous sibling", async () => {
const firstChild = createIssue({
id: "issue-first-child",
identifier: "PAP-1",
parentId: "issue-parent",
title: "First child",
status: "todo",
createdAt: new Date("2026-04-01T00:00:00.000Z"),
});
const secondChild = createIssue({
id: "issue-second-child",
identifier: "PAP-2",
parentId: "issue-parent",
title: "Second child",
status: "blocked",
blockedBy: [
{
id: "issue-first-child",
identifier: "PAP-1",
title: "First child",
status: "todo",
priority: "medium",
assigneeAgentId: null,
assigneeUserId: null,
},
],
createdAt: new Date("2026-04-02T00:00:00.000Z"),
});
const { root } = renderWithQueryClient(
<IssuesList
issues={[secondChild, firstChild]}
agents={[]}
projects={[]}
viewStateKey="paperclip:test-issues"
defaultSortField="workflow"
onUpdateIssue={() => undefined}
/>,
container,
);
await waitForAssertion(() => {
const rows = Array.from(container.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="issue-row"]'));
expect(rows).toHaveLength(2);
expect(rows.map((row) => row.getAttribute("data-step"))).toEqual(["1", "2"]);
expect(container.textContent).not.toContain("blocked by PAP-1");
});
act(() => {
root.unmount();
});
});
it("collapses multiple workflow blocker chips to the first blocker and a count", async () => {
const issueDone = createIssue({
id: "issue-done",
identifier: "PAP-1",
title: "Done first",
status: "done",
createdAt: new Date("2026-04-01T00:00:00.000Z"),
});
const firstBlocker = createIssue({
id: "issue-first-blocker",
identifier: "PAP-2",
title: "First blocker",
status: "todo",
createdAt: new Date("2026-04-02T00:00:00.000Z"),
});
const secondBlocker = createIssue({
id: "issue-second-blocker",
identifier: "PAP-3",
title: "Second blocker",
status: "todo",
createdAt: new Date("2026-04-03T00:00:00.000Z"),
});
const thirdBlocker = createIssue({
id: "issue-third-blocker",
identifier: "PAP-4",
title: "Third blocker",
status: "todo",
createdAt: new Date("2026-04-04T00:00:00.000Z"),
});
const issueBlocked = createIssue({
id: "issue-blocked",
identifier: "PAP-5",
title: "Blocked issue",
status: "blocked",
blockedBy: [
{
id: "issue-first-blocker",
identifier: "PAP-2",
title: "First blocker",
status: "todo",
priority: "medium",
assigneeAgentId: null,
assigneeUserId: null,
},
{
id: "issue-second-blocker",
identifier: "PAP-3",
title: "Second blocker",
status: "todo",
priority: "medium",
assigneeAgentId: null,
assigneeUserId: null,
},
{
id: "issue-third-blocker",
identifier: "PAP-4",
title: "Third blocker",
status: "todo",
priority: "medium",
assigneeAgentId: null,
assigneeUserId: null,
},
],
createdAt: new Date("2026-04-05T00:00:00.000Z"),
});
const { root } = renderWithQueryClient(
<IssuesList
issues={[issueBlocked, thirdBlocker, secondBlocker, firstBlocker, issueDone]}
agents={[]}
projects={[]}
viewStateKey="paperclip:test-issues"
defaultSortField="workflow"
onUpdateIssue={() => undefined}
/>,
container,
);
await waitForAssertion(() => {
expect(container.textContent).toContain("blocked by PAP-2");
expect(container.textContent).toContain("... and 2 more");
expect(container.textContent).not.toContain("blocked by PAP-3");
expect(container.textContent).not.toContain("blocked by PAP-4");
const blockerButtons = Array.from(container.querySelectorAll("button"))
.filter((button) => button.textContent?.includes("blocked by"));
expect(blockerButtons).toHaveLength(1);
expect(blockerButtons[0]?.textContent).toBe("blocked by PAP-2 · step 2 ... and 2 more");
});
act(() => {
root.unmount();
});
});
it("uses hierarchical checklist step numbers when nested rows render inline", async () => {
const firstRoot = createIssue({
id: "issue-first-root",
@@ -909,7 +1056,7 @@ describe("IssuesList", () => {
});
it("waits for the desktop main scroll container before rendering more local rows", async () => {
const manyIssues = Array.from({ length: 420 }, (_, index) =>
const manyIssues = Array.from({ length: 120 }, (_, index) =>
createIssue({
id: `issue-${index + 1}`,
identifier: `PAP-${index + 1}`,