fix(notifications/threads): Wave-1 audit fixes (🔴 + web 🟠)

- T1 (🔴): markThreadAsRead no longer receipts the thread ROOT (a 2nd instance
  of the read-marker-corruption regression — opening a thread whose root is old
  re-lit the whole room). Extracted to a pure threadReceipt.ts + 5 regression
  tests.
- N1 (🔴): favicon/tab-title unread count now sums only leaf rooms (was double-
  counting every ancestor-space aggregate in roomToUnread).
- N2 (🔴): notifications/sounds dedupe on the event id, not the unread count —
  fixes "read a DM, next message never notifies again".
- T4 (🟠): the thread notification path no longer re-gates on the room count, so
  an explicit per-thread "All replies" override in a Mentions-only room fires.
- N3 (🟠): getUnreadInfos skips phantom {0,0} entries (muted-thread-only rooms no
  longer light the nav row / pollute unread filters).
- N4 (🟠): the Receipt handler recomputes unread instead of blanket-DELETE, so a
  threaded receipt can't wipe a room's valid main-timeline badge.
- T2 (🟠): thread "Jump to Latest" re-anchors the virtual window (was landing on
  a stale mid/old event).

Gates: tsc/eslint/prettier clean, build OK, 678 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

LOTUS_TODO.md

@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ Completed features are documented in [LOTUS_FEATURES.md](./LOTUS_FEATURES.md).
 
 ## 🔎 Audit findings — Wave 1 (2026-07)
 
-Bug-hunt of the Tier-1 high-risk areas (notifications/unread/receipts, threads, calls host-side, Element Call fork) by 4 parallel deep-audit agents. **Findings only — not yet fixed.** Fix in prioritized, individually-tested passes (each 🔴 first). `[T#]`=threads, `[N#]`=notifications, `[C#]`=calls host, `[EC#]`=fork. Top-two 🔴 hand-verified against the code.
+Bug-hunt of the Tier-1 high-risk areas (notifications/unread/receipts, threads, calls host-side, Element Call fork) by 4 parallel deep-audit agents. `[T#]`=threads, `[N#]`=notifications, `[C#]`=calls host, `[EC#]`=fork.
+
+**✅ FIXED (2026-07):** all 🔴 (T1, N1, N2) + web 🟠 (T2, T4, N3, N4). Web fixes are gate-green (678 tests incl. the new `threadReceipt.test.ts` locking the T1 regression). EC-fork 🟡 (EC1–EC6) fixed on `element-call:lotus` (needs a republish). **Still open:** calls-host 🟠/🟡 (C-H1/2/3, C-M*, C-L*) — see below; the remaining 🟡 notification/thread tail (N5, N6, T5, T6, T7).
 
 ### 🔴 High — data-integrity / broken core UX
 

src/app/features/room/thread/ThreadTimeline.tsx

@@ -460,12 +460,17 @@ export function ThreadTimeline({ room, thread, editor }: ThreadTimelineProps) {
   }, [scrollToBottomCount]);
 
   const handleJumpToBottom = useCallback(() => {
+    // Re-anchor the virtual window at the thread tail first. While scrolled up,
+    // live replies deliberately don't extend the window, so without this the chip
+    // would scroll to the bottom of the STALE window (a mid/old event) instead of
+    // the newest reply. Mirrors the main timeline's handleJumpToLatest.
+    setTimeline(getInitialThreadTimeline(thread, getLinkedTimelines(thread.liveTimeline)));
     scrollToBottomRef.current.count += 1;
     scrollToBottomRef.current.smooth = true;
     // Flip atBottom so the layout effect re-runs (count re-read) and live
     // events resume sticking to the bottom.
     setAtBottom(true);
-  }, []);
+  }, [thread]);
 
   // Scroll in-place editor into view.
   useEffect(() => {

src/app/features/room/thread/threadReceipt.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { ReceiptType } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
+import { markThreadAsRead } from './threadReceipt';
+
+// The regression this guards: sending a receipt for the thread ROOT (when
+// replies aren't loaded, lastReply() is null / equals the root) becomes a MAIN
+// receipt at an old event and drags the room's read marker backwards. It must
+// only ever receipt a genuine loaded reply.
+
+const evt = (id: string, sending = false) => ({ getId: () => id, isSending: () => sending }) as any;
+
+const setup = (lastReply: any) => {
+  const calls: Array<{ eventId: string; type: ReceiptType }> = [];
+  const thread = { id: '$root', lastReply: () => lastReply } as any;
+  const mx = {
+    sendReadReceipt: async (e: any, type: ReceiptType) => {
+      calls.push({ eventId: e.getId(), type });
+      return {};
+    },
+  } as any;
+  return { mx, thread, calls };
+};
+
+test('REGRESSION: no loaded reply (lastReply null) → NO receipt (never the root)', async () => {
+  const { mx, thread, calls } = setup(null);
+  await markThreadAsRead(mx, thread, false);
+  assert.equal(calls.length, 0);
+});
+
+test('REGRESSION: lastReply IS the root → NO receipt', async () => {
+  const { mx, thread, calls } = setup(evt('$root'));
+  await markThreadAsRead(mx, thread, false);
+  assert.equal(calls.length, 0);
+});
+
+test('genuine loaded reply → threaded receipt at that reply', async () => {
+  const { mx, thread, calls } = setup(evt('$reply'));
+  await markThreadAsRead(mx, thread, false);
+  assert.equal(calls.length, 1);
+  assert.equal(calls[0].eventId, '$reply');
+  assert.equal(calls[0].type, ReceiptType.Read);
+});
+
+test('sending reply is skipped', async () => {
+  const { mx, thread, calls } = setup(evt('$reply', true));
+  await markThreadAsRead(mx, thread, false);
+  assert.equal(calls.length, 0);
+});
+
+test('private flag uses ReadPrivate', async () => {
+  const { mx, thread, calls } = setup(evt('$reply'));
+  await markThreadAsRead(mx, thread, true);
+  assert.equal(calls[0].type, ReceiptType.ReadPrivate);
+});

src/app/features/room/thread/threadReceipt.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import { MatrixClient, ReceiptType, Thread } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
+
+/**
+ * Send a threaded read receipt for a thread, clearing its per-thread unread
+ * count.
+ *
+ * CRITICAL: never receipt the thread ROOT. A thread's liveTimeline is
+ * `[root, reply1, …]`, so the latest event IS the root when replies aren't
+ * loaded yet (common — the thread panel fires this on mount before replies
+ * fetch). The root is "in the main timeline", so a receipt for it is written by
+ * the SDK with `thread_id:"main"` at the old root, dragging the room's MAIN read
+ * marker backwards (`getEventReadUpTo` → an old/unloaded event) and re-lighting
+ * the whole room. We only receipt a genuine loaded reply (`thread.lastReply()`);
+ * if none is loaded we bail (the per-thread count clears when the reply loads
+ * and this runs again). Mirrors the root guard in `utils/notifications.ts`.
+ *
+ * Pure (no React/CSS) so it can be unit-tested — see `threadReceipt.test.ts`.
+ */
+export const markThreadAsRead = async (
+  mx: MatrixClient,
+  thread: Thread,
+  privateReceipt: boolean,
+): Promise<void> => {
+  const lastReply = thread.lastReply();
+  if (!lastReply || lastReply.isSending() || lastReply.getId() === thread.id) return;
+
+  await mx.sendReadReceipt(lastReply, privateReceipt ? ReceiptType.ReadPrivate : ReceiptType.Read);
+};

src/app/features/room/thread/useThread.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import {
   EventTimeline,
   MatrixClient,
   MatrixEvent,
-  ReceiptType,
   Room,
   RoomEvent,
   RoomEventHandlerMap,
@@ -146,32 +145,6 @@ export const useThreadPendingEvents = (
   return pending;
 };
 
-/**
+// markThreadAsRead moved to ./threadReceipt (pure + unit-tested); re-exported
- * Send a threaded read receipt up to the latest confirmed event in the thread.
+// here for existing import sites.
- *
+export { markThreadAsRead } from './threadReceipt';
- * The receipt is threaded by default (scoped to this thread), which clears the
- * per-thread unread count. Mirrors the latest-valid-event scan in
- * `utils/notifications.ts`.
- */
-export const markThreadAsRead = async (
-  mx: MatrixClient,
-  thread: Thread,
-  privateReceipt: boolean,
-): Promise<void> => {
-  const events = thread.liveTimeline.getEvents();
-
-  let latestEvent: MatrixEvent | undefined;
-  for (let i = events.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
-    const evt = events[i];
-    if (evt && !evt.isSending()) {
-      latestEvent = evt;
-      break;
-    }
-  }
-  if (!latestEvent) return;
-
-  await mx.sendReadReceipt(
-    latestEvent,
-    privateReceipt ? ReceiptType.ReadPrivate : ReceiptType.Read,
-  );
-};

src/app/pages/client/ClientNonUIFeatures.tsx

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import {
 } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
 import { focusAssistActiveAtom } from '../../state/focusAssist';
 import { manualDndAtom } from '../../state/manualDnd';
-import { roomToUnreadAtom, unreadEqual, unreadInfoToUnread } from '../../state/room/roomToUnread';
+import { roomToUnreadAtom } from '../../state/room/roomToUnread';
 import LogoSVG from '../../../../public/res/lotus.png';
 import LogoUnreadSVG from '../../../../public/res/lotus-unread.png';
 import LogoHighlightSVG from '../../../../public/res/lotus-highlight.png';
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import {
   getUnreadInfo,
   isNotificationEvent,
 } from '../../utils/room';
-import { NotificationType, UnreadInfo } from '../../../types/matrix/room';
+import { NotificationType } from '../../../types/matrix/room';
 import { getMxIdLocalPart, mxcUrlToHttp } from '../../utils/matrix';
 import { useSelectedRoom } from '../../hooks/router/useSelectedRoom';
 import { useInboxNotificationsSelected } from '../../hooks/router/useInbox';
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ function FaviconUpdater() {
     let totalNotif = 0;
     let totalHighlight = 0;
     roomToUnread.forEach((unread) => {
+      // roomToUnread holds BOTH leaf rooms and per-ancestor space aggregates
+      // (leaves have `from === null`, aggregates a Set). Sum only leaves —
+      // otherwise a space-nested room is counted once as the leaf and again in
+      // every ancestor space, inflating the tab title / favicon count.
+      if (unread.from !== null) return;
       totalNotif += unread.total;
       totalHighlight += unread.highlight;
     });
@@ -232,7 +237,7 @@ function PresenceUpdater() {
 
 function MessageNotifications() {
   const audioRef = useRef<HTMLAudioElement>(null);
-  const unreadCacheRef = useRef<Map<string, UnreadInfo>>(new Map());
+  const lastNotifiedEventRef = useRef<Map<string, string>>(new Map());
   // Per-thread dedupe: threadId -> last notified eventId.
   const lastNotifiedThreadRef = useRef<Map<string, string>>(new Map());
   const mx = useMatrixClient();
@@ -367,17 +372,21 @@ function MessageNotifications() {
       const eventId = mEvent.getId();
       if (!sender || !eventId) return;
 
-      const unreadInfo = getUnreadInfo(room);
+      // Dedupe on the event id (per room): the same event can re-fire (decryption,
-      const cachedUnreadInfo = unreadCacheRef.current.get(room.roomId);
+      // edit, thread repopulation). This replaces the old unread-COUNT dedupe,
-      unreadCacheRef.current.set(room.roomId, unreadInfo);
+      // which suppressed a genuinely-new message whenever its post-read count
+      // matched the previously-notified count — i.e. "read a DM, next message
+      // never notifies/sounds" (the common one-at-a-time cadence).
+      if (lastNotifiedEventRef.current.get(room.roomId) === eventId) return;
 
-      if (unreadInfo.total === 0) return;
+      // Main-timeline path respects push rules: don't notify when the room has no
-      if (
+      // notification count (e.g. a non-mention in a Mentions-only room). The
-        cachedUnreadInfo &&
+      // thread path is already gated by shouldNotifyThreadReply, so it must NOT
-        unreadEqual(unreadInfoToUnread(cachedUnreadInfo), unreadInfoToUnread(unreadInfo))
+      // re-gate on the room count — otherwise an explicit per-thread "All replies"
-      ) {
+      // override in a Mentions-only room is silently dropped.
-        return;
+      if (!threadId && getUnreadInfo(room).total === 0) return;
-      }
+
+      lastNotifiedEventRef.current.set(room.roomId, eventId);
 
       const quietActive =
         focusAssistActive ||

src/app/state/room/roomToUnread.ts

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
   getUnreadInfo,
   getUnreadInfos,
   isNotificationEvent,
+  roomHaveUnread,
 } from '../../utils/room';
 import { roomToParentsAtom } from './roomToParents';
 import { useStateEventCallback } from '../../hooks/useStateEventCallback';
@@ -253,7 +254,20 @@ export const useBindRoomToUnreadAtom = (mx: MatrixClient, unreadAtom: typeof roo
         ),
       );
       if (isMyReceipt) {
+        // Don't blanket-DELETE the room's unread on any receipt: a THREADED
+        // receipt (reading one thread) would wipe the room's still-valid
+        // main-timeline badge, and if the room was already read no
+        // UnreadNotifications PUT follows to restore it. Recompute instead —
+        // DELETE only when the room is genuinely fully read.
+        const info = getUnreadInfo(
+          room,
+          getMutedThreads(threadNotificationsRef.current, room.roomId),
+        );
+        if (info.total === 0 && info.highlight === 0 && !roomHaveUnread(mx, room)) {
           setUnreadAtom({ type: 'DELETE', roomId: room.roomId });
+        } else {
+          setUnreadAtom({ type: 'PUT', unreadInfo: info });
+        }
       }
     };
     mx.on(RoomEvent.Receipt, handleReceipt);

src/app/utils/room.ts

@@ -269,7 +269,15 @@ export const getUnreadInfos = (
 
     if (roomHaveNotification(room) || roomHaveUnread(mx, room)) {
       const mutedThreads = content ? getMutedThreads(content, room.roomId) : undefined;
-      unread.push(getUnreadInfo(room, mutedThreads));
+      const info = getUnreadInfo(room, mutedThreads);
+      // Skip a phantom {0,0} entry: a room whose ONLY unread is a muted thread has
+      // roomHaveNotification true (the server room total includes the muted
+      // thread's count), but getUnreadInfo subtracts it back to zero. Pushing it
+      // would still light the nav row + pollute "unread only" filters. Keep it
+      // only if there's real unread (count > 0) or a genuine unread marker.
+      if (info.total > 0 || info.highlight > 0 || roomHaveUnread(mx, room)) {
+        unread.push(info);
+      }
     }
 
     return unread;