Code Review Bench PR #25858 - 🐛 Fixed reply form showing parent comment author's details

[ketkarameya]

Benchmark PR for Gitar evaluation

Original PR: agentic-review-benchmarks#2

Summary:
When opening a reply form on a comment, the form header was incorrectly displaying the parent comment author's name and expertise instead of the current user's data.

Fix:
Removes fallbacks so the reply form only shows the logged-in user's own details.

Changes:

• 3 files changed
• 78 additions, 12 deletions

Reference: https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-3212

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🚨 Bug: setEditable checks expertise instead of name — breaks editing

The setEditable condition was changed from !!memberName to !!member?.expertise, but the intent (as stated in the comment on line 263) is to "disable editing if the member doesn't have a name". This introduces two bugs:

1. Members with a name but no expertise cannot type: The editor will be non-editable for any member who has a name set but has not filled in their expertise. This is a very common case and effectively breaks the comment form for most users.

2. Members with expertise but no name can bypass the name check: The editor will be editable even without a name, bypassing the "force name input first" UX flow.

This appears to be an accidental change during the refactor. The line should still check the member's name.

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Suggested change

	editor.setEditable(!!member?.expertise && progress !== 'sending');
	editor.setEditable(!!member?.name && progress !== 'sending');
	}, [editor, member, progress]);

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🚨 Bug: Removing optional chaining on openForm causes crash in main form

The change from openForm?.in_reply_to_snippet to openForm.in_reply_to_snippet (line 313) removes null safety. openForm is typed as optional (openForm?: OpenCommentForm in FormWrapperProps).

In main-form.tsx (line 98), FormWrapper is called without the openForm prop:

<FormWrapper editor={editor} isOpen={isOpen} reduced={false}>

When isOpen is true (which happens whenever the editor is focused or has content, per line 94 of main-form.tsx), the code enters the if (isOpen) block and accesses openForm.in_reply_to_snippet on undefined, causing a runtime TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined.

This means the main comment form will crash as soon as a user clicks into it or starts typing.

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Suggested change

	const isReplyToReply = !!openForm.in_reply_to_snippet;
	const isReplyToReply = !!openForm?.in_reply_to_snippet;

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Code Review 🚫 Blocked 0 resolved / 2 findings

Two critical bugs introduced: (1) setEditable now checks expertise instead of name, breaking editor editability for most users; (2) removing optional chaining on openForm causes a runtime crash in the main comment form when it's focused.

🚨 Bug: setEditable checks expertise instead of name — breaks editing

📄 apps/comments-ui/src/components/content/forms/form.tsx:264

The setEditable condition was changed from !!memberName to !!member?.expertise, but the intent (as stated in the comment on line 263) is to "disable editing if the member doesn't have a name". This introduces two bugs:

1. Members with a name but no expertise cannot type: The editor will be non-editable for any member who has a name set but has not filled in their expertise. This is a very common case and effectively breaks the comment form for most users.

2. Members with expertise but no name can bypass the name check: The editor will be editable even without a name, bypassing the "force name input first" UX flow.

This appears to be an accidental change during the refactor. The line should still check the member's name.

Suggested fix

        editor.setEditable(!!member?.name && progress !== 'sending');
    }, [editor, member, progress]);

🚨 Bug: Removing optional chaining on openForm causes crash in main form

📄 apps/comments-ui/src/components/content/forms/form.tsx:313

The change from openForm?.in_reply_to_snippet to openForm.in_reply_to_snippet (line 313) removes null safety. openForm is typed as optional (openForm?: OpenCommentForm in FormWrapperProps).

In main-form.tsx (line 98), FormWrapper is called without the openForm prop:

<FormWrapper editor={editor} isOpen={isOpen} reduced={false}>

When isOpen is true (which happens whenever the editor is focused or has content, per line 94 of main-form.tsx), the code enters the if (isOpen) block and accesses openForm.in_reply_to_snippet on undefined, causing a runtime TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined.

This means the main comment form will crash as soon as a user clicks into it or starts typing.

Suggested fix

        const isReplyToReply = !!openForm?.in_reply_to_snippet;

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