A send carries no effort both when nothing was chosen and when the user picked
"Default", so `sendMessage` could not tell the two apart and recorded the raw
value, which clears the entry. Picking "Default", sending, then switching agent
and back put the settings default back in the picker — the shape of the bug
this branch set out to fix.
`materializeOpenDraftSession` already read the live selection to keep that
distinction on the draft path. Both paths now share `resolveVariantToRecord`,
which prefers `currentVariantSelection.override` while the live selection still
describes the agent and model being sent to, and falls back to the sent value
when it does not.
Three tests go through the real `sendMessage`; two of them fail without this
change. The existing ones seeded the record directly, which is why the send
path was never covered.
Also documents the `oc.chatInput.lastDraftTarget` record in the owning sync
documentation: its three `target` values, what a pre-`target` record and a
removed project fall back to, and why a chat scratch directory is not a project
target.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EZuVVgziiLjD81W5vaxdH2
