diff --git a/lib/shared/thread-utils.js b/lib/shared/thread-utils.js
--- a/lib/shared/thread-utils.js
+++ b/lib/shared/thread-utils.js
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@
   type ClientNewThreadRequest,
   type NewThreadResult,
   type ChangeThreadSettingsPayload,
+  type ResolvedThreadInfo,
+  type ChatMentionCandidatesObj,
+  type ChatMentionCandidates,
 } from '../types/thread-types.js';
 import { updateTypes } from '../types/update-types-enum.js';
 import { type ClientUpdateInfo } from '../types/update-types.js';
@@ -92,6 +95,7 @@
 } from '../utils/action-utils.js';
 import type { DispatchActionPromise } from '../utils/action-utils.js';
 import type { GetENSNames } from '../utils/ens-helpers.js';
+import { useResolvedThreadInfosObj } from '../utils/entity-helpers.js';
 import {
   ET,
   entityTextToRawString,
@@ -1621,6 +1625,107 @@
   } within this ${communityOrThreadNoun(threadInfo)}`;
 }
 
+function getChatMentionCandidates(threadInfos: {
+  +[id: string]: ResolvedThreadInfo,
+}): ChatMentionCandidatesObj {
+  const result = {};
+  const visitedGenesisCommunityThreads = new Set();
+  for (const currentThreadID in threadInfos) {
+    const currentThreadInfo = threadInfos[currentThreadID];
+    const { community: currentThreadCommunity } = currentThreadInfo;
+    if (!currentThreadCommunity) {
+      if (!result[currentThreadID]) {
+        result[currentThreadID] = { [currentThreadID]: currentThreadInfo };
+      } else {
+        result[currentThreadID][currentThreadID] = currentThreadInfo;
+      }
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (!result[currentThreadCommunity]) {
+      result[currentThreadCommunity] = {};
+    }
+    // Handle GENESIS community case: mentioning inside GENESIS should only
+    // show chats and threads inside the top level that is below GENESIS.
+    if (threadInfos[currentThreadCommunity].type === threadTypes.GENESIS) {
+      if (visitedGenesisCommunityThreads.has(currentThreadID)) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      const threadTraversePath = [currentThreadInfo];
+      visitedGenesisCommunityThreads.add(currentThreadID);
+      let currentlySelectedThreadID = currentThreadInfo.parentThreadID;
+      while (currentlySelectedThreadID) {
+        const currentlySelectedThreadInfo =
+          threadInfos[currentlySelectedThreadID];
+        if (
+          visitedGenesisCommunityThreads.has(currentlySelectedThreadID) ||
+          currentlySelectedThreadInfo.type === threadTypes.GENESIS
+        ) {
+          break;
+        }
+        threadTraversePath.push(currentlySelectedThreadInfo);
+        visitedGenesisCommunityThreads.add(currentlySelectedThreadID);
+        currentlySelectedThreadID = currentlySelectedThreadInfo.parentThreadID;
+      }
+      const lastThreadInTraversePath =
+        threadTraversePath[threadTraversePath.length - 1];
+      const lastThreadInTraversePathParentID =
+        lastThreadInTraversePath.parentThreadID ?? lastThreadInTraversePath.id;
+      if (
+        threadInfos[lastThreadInTraversePathParentID].type ===
+        threadTypes.GENESIS
+      ) {
+        const threadObjectFromTraversePath = {};
+        for (const threadInfo of threadTraversePath) {
+          threadObjectFromTraversePath[threadInfo.id] = threadInfo;
+          result[threadInfo.id] = threadObjectFromTraversePath;
+        }
+      } else {
+        if (!result[lastThreadInTraversePathParentID]) {
+          result[lastThreadInTraversePathParentID] = {};
+        }
+        for (const threadInfo of threadTraversePath) {
+          result[lastThreadInTraversePathParentID][threadInfo.id] = threadInfo;
+          result[threadInfo.id] = result[lastThreadInTraversePathParentID];
+        }
+      }
+      continue;
+    }
+    result[currentThreadCommunity][currentThreadID] = currentThreadInfo;
+    result[currentThreadID] = result[currentThreadCommunity];
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
+function useChatMentionCandidatesObj(): ChatMentionCandidatesObj {
+  const threadInfos = useSelector(threadInfoSelector);
+  const resolvedThreadInfos = useResolvedThreadInfosObj(threadInfos);
+  return React.useMemo(
+    () => getChatMentionCandidates(resolvedThreadInfos),
+    [resolvedThreadInfos],
+  );
+}
+
+function threadChatMentionCandidates(
+  threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
+  chatMentionCandidates: ChatMentionCandidatesObj,
+): ChatMentionCandidates {
+  return (
+    chatMentionCandidates[threadInfo.id] ??
+    (threadInfo.containingThreadID &&
+      chatMentionCandidates[threadInfo.containingThreadID])
+  );
+}
+
+function useThreadChatMentionCandidates(
+  threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
+): ChatMentionCandidates {
+  const chatMentionCandidates = useChatMentionCandidatesObj();
+  return React.useMemo(
+    () => threadChatMentionCandidates(threadInfo, chatMentionCandidates),
+    [chatMentionCandidates, threadInfo],
+  );
+}
+
 export {
   threadHasPermission,
   viewerIsMember,
@@ -1689,4 +1794,7 @@
   useRoleMemberCountsForCommunity,
   useRoleUserSurfacedPermissions,
   getThreadsToDeleteText,
+  useChatMentionCandidatesObj,
+  threadChatMentionCandidates,
+  useThreadChatMentionCandidates,
 };
diff --git a/lib/types/thread-types.js b/lib/types/thread-types.js
--- a/lib/types/thread-types.js
+++ b/lib/types/thread-types.js
@@ -456,3 +456,8 @@
 export const maxUnreadSidebars = 5;
 
 export type ThreadStoreThreadInfos = { +[id: string]: RawThreadInfo };
+
+export type ChatMentionCandidates = { +[id: string]: ResolvedThreadInfo };
+export type ChatMentionCandidatesObj = {
+  +[id: string]: ChatMentionCandidates,
+};