Saved Project knowledge plans opened as an empty editor whenever the
viewer could not resolve the owning project from the current directory:
managed chats (openchamber:chats is not a registered project), worktrees
outside the repo path, and plan tabs restored after a reload. Titles
still rendered because the list reads the manifest through the correct
owner.
- Thread the owner explicitly (savedProjectPlan = { projectRef, planId })
from the panel, mobile surfaces, and persisted context tabs; PlanView
no longer guesses the project.
- An unrecognized directory resolves to no owner instead of borrowing
the active project's knowledge.
- Serialize plan writes per document (planSaveQueue) so close/switch
within the autosave debounce no longer drops the last edits, saves
cannot land out of order, and a recovered save clears the error banner.
- Send saved-plan contents inline in Improve/Implement prompts (they
have no file path); disable those actions for managed-chat plans,
which have no project directory to create a session in.
- Drop persisted plan tabs that carry an id without an owner rather than
reopening them against a guessed project.
`useBtwPanelState` already subscribes to the composer's own session — it is
what the fork link is derived from — so asking `useSession` for the same
session and directory a second time in `ChatInput` was a duplicate
subscription for a value already in hand. Expose it as `parentSession` and
read the promoted flag from there.
No behavior change.
Review catch: `promoteBtwSession` removes the btw metadata, but the
boundary instruction is persisted on every message the session sent while
it was a side conversation, and there is no API to delete a message part
after the fact. A promoted session therefore keeps reading "no sub-agents,
do not touch the workspace" out of its own history, in a session that is
no longer a side conversation.
Promotion cannot delete those lines, so it answers them instead:
`withoutBtwSessionMarker` now leaves `openchamber.btwPromoted`, and the
composer sends `BTW_PROMOTION_NOTICE` with every message in a session
carrying it — stating that the session is now the main thread and the
usual tool, sub-agent and workspace permissions are in force.
It rides with every send for the same reason the boundary does: the
instructions it revokes are re-read on every turn, so a one-shot notice
would lose its position relative to them as the conversation grows.
`btwPromoted` is additive and optional. A session that never went through
`/btw` never has it, and one promoted before this change simply keeps the
old behavior.
`/btw` forks the session, so the model receives the parent's whole
conversation — including whatever plan was in flight when the user typed
the command. Nothing tells it that this history is context rather than
its own task, so the fork frequently carries on with the parent's work
instead of answering the side question, which is the opposite of what
`/btw` is for.
Send a boundary instruction as a synthetic part with every message in a
btw session: with the first question in `startBtwSession`, and with each
later send while the panel is expanded and the composer is talking to the
fork.
The wording is deliberately position-independent — it names the history
inherited from the parent thread rather than "everything before this
boundary". The instruction rides along with each send instead of being
pinned once at fork time, so a positional phrasing would be re-anchored
every turn and would end up telling the model to disregard the btw
session's own earlier turns.
The part is synthetic, so it is filtered out of the rendered transcript
whenever the message also carries user text — which is always the case
here. No visual change.
The chat screen relied on the browser's focused-field reveal, which holds
on iOS Safari but not on Android, where interactive-widget is also widely
ignored — the composer just stayed behind the keyboard. The draft screen's
visual-viewport pin now covers the chat screen on Android; iOS chat keeps
the native reveal.
The eslint pass in release:prepare caught what the package-scoped checks
did not: Header's handleOpenContextPlan and servicesTabs lost their last
callers with the removed shortcuts, the settings-synced listeners no
longer need the DesktopSettings import, and the store's openContextPlan
action itself went unused once the plan surface was reachable only through
the digit switcher and the rail.
The agent's browser.open used to force the context panel open and steal
the active surface, which read as panels opening by themselves. Tab
upserts now take a reveal option: the agent's opener passes reveal: false,
so the tab mounts invisibly (panes are kept alive regardless of
visibility, so agent control still works) while the panel and the active
tab stay exactly as the user left them. Manual opens are unchanged.
Removes the transient aborted banner from the composer status area
Simplifies status row rendering to focus on working state and pending changes
Cleans up unused abort-status localization strings
Add to input leaves the desktop menu (mod+L owns it; mobile keeps the
button) and the New session action is gone from both variants along with
its handler and dead locale keys.
Every window shares one server settings document, and every PUT returns the
merged whole, so one window's activeProjectId write was adopted by the
other on its next unrelated settings save — its sidebar then auto-selected
a session in that project and wrote the pointer back, converging both
windows onto one session. settings-synced now carries an adoptWorkspace
flag: only bootstrap-grade syncs (startup, runtime switch) may adopt the
shared workspace pointers; reconcile responses keep the window's own active
project while it exists. Notification clicks and session deep links also
stopped broadcasting the session switch to every window.
Every response already funnels through runtimeFetch, so a classifier there
spots 401s, confirms them against /auth/session (a proxied provider 401
must not read as a logout), and flips a small auth-session store. The web
and hosted surfaces show a frosted banner under the header whose Log in
button hands off to the session gate's existing unlock flow; sends are
paused while expired, the session-load error screen explains the auth case
and retries itself after login, and returning to a long-idle window
revalidates once via visibility/focus. Native mobile feeds the same signal
into its connection re-probe instead of showing the banner; VS Code is
exempt.
The failure handler restored the text only for a new-session draft; a
regular session kept its attachments but lost the prompt to a toast. The
restore now runs before any cause-specific branching: an unchanged composer
gets the text (and the session draft) back, new typing gets the failed
prompt appended instead of clobbered, and a mid-send session switch writes
it into the originating session's persisted draft.
Opening a session (or any relayout that shrinks off-screen size estimates)
could leave the viewport in a phantom tail below the measured content, with
every row out of reach above; a totalSize-change check now detects the
fully blank viewport and returns to the real end, and settling a width
resize re-asserts the end for a reader who was on it. Prompt-rail and
message jumps land on estimated offsets that shift as the target mounts and
measures; a short settle loop now re-aligns the target until layout rests,
backing off on the first user gesture.
A trailing configure button on the rail — outside the sortable list and the
digit shortcuts — opens a dialog that toggles each surface. The choice is
stored as the hidden set so newly added surfaces appear for everyone, and
the rail and the mod+alt+digit switcher share the same visibility filter, so
badges and shortcuts always agree. Hidden surfaces keep their data and stay
reachable from the command palette.
mod+alt+arrows step through this window's session-open history (or between
neighbouring tabs when session tabs are on), mod+k r renames the current
session inline, and mod+k a toggles permission auto-accept. Pending
permission cards respond to alt+enter / alt+shift+enter / alt+backspace with
the keys printed on the buttons. The commit message box commits on
mod+enter, alt+arrows step the diff review between changed files, and the
command palette gains search-only commands for rare actions so the initial
list stays short.
Single chords stay for everyday actions; open/go actions move to two-step
mod+k sequences; held mod+digit switches header session tabs and held
mod+alt+digit switches context panel surfaces. Rare actions leave the
shortcut schema for the command palette, every remaining action ships with
a default binding, and stored overrides from the old layout reset once.
Key matching now follows the physical key on non-Latin layouts and for
Option-modified digits on macOS, including in the recording dialog.
The schema/config/bindings/registry/dispatcher module, useKeybind hooks,
recording dialog, reworked shortcuts settings page, help dialog, and the
localized action labels — re-based onto current main rather than merged
(the branch predates 440+ commits including the session-tabs shortcuts).
Review fixes applied on top of the original:
- close_session_tab (alt+w) joins the schema with labels in every locale;
it shipped on main after the PR's base and would otherwise silently die.
- switch_context_surface's special-case in conflict resolution is now a
declared prefixStyle config property instead of a magic id string.
- Duplicate handler registration warns in dev builds.
- The risky-browser-shortcut warning inspects every chord and covers
mod+q/d/h/j/o/u plus mod+shift+w/q.
- The dispatcher remembers which target armed a two-chord prefix so the
window-level completion handler can distinguish a deliberate sequence
from typing in an editable field (guard lands with the dispatch hook).
- Schema tests: unique normalized default bindings enforced, and the
flat-file-era override format proven to keep resolving.
The global session-status store patched its own setState to derive
active membership for callers replacing statusById — a boundary that
silently trusted any caller passing both fields to keep them consistent.
replaceGlobalSessionStatusById is now the one sanctioned way to swap the
map from outside the event reducers; the runtime-switch reset and the
tests that replaced the map directly go through it, and the patch is
gone. Follow-up to #3126 review.
The floating editor toolbar this branch was based on was removed on main
(the toolbar is always docked now); the file-view region resolves to
main's structure with this branch's virtualizer-bound ScrollableOverlay.
- Markdown DOM cache: key includes a content-length fingerprint so an
edited or reverted part re-materializing under the same id cannot
restore stale DOM, memoization uses scalar identities instead of the
part object (store reducers recreate part objects on unrelated updates,
which re-ran the async render pipeline for identical content), and a
probe with a mismatched locale/directory no longer destroys the entry
it failed to claim.
- Sidebar bootstrap: the layout-level sync owner only knows known
directories, so expanded projects bootstrapped serialized at background
priority. The visible collection now publishes a second, expansion-
aware demand owner, restoring concurrent hydration for expanded
projects and worktree groups.
- Settings: local changes still sitting in the debounce buffer are not
yet tracked as mutations, so a settings GET racing the debounce window
briefly reverted them; reconciled results now reapply the pending
buffer.
Main replaced the chat timeline scroll engine while this branch was in
flight, which obsoletes two of its subareas and reshapes a third:
- Chat timeline: main's LegendList-based MessageList/ChatContainer win;
the activation-overscan staircase targeted the removed tanstack path
(LegendList provides adaptive rendering natively) and is dropped along
with its test.
- Scroll shadows: main's hook-based masks stay (the virtualized list owns
its scroll element — there is no wrapper to hand the styling to); the
viewport-wrapper ScrollShadow rewrite, its index.css replacement, its
test, and the call-site viewportClassName adaptations are reverted to
main. The chat OverlayScrollbar keeps this branch's disableHorizontal.
- OverlayScrollbar: the direct-DOM rewrite lands, but binding now follows
the live container node instead of binding once per ref object — the
chat scroller remounts on every session switch, and a bind-once
contract left the scrollbar attached to a dead element.
- Markdown renderer: the detached-DOM cache and warm-block fast path
merge with main's block-commit reveal (enter cascade), streaming code
highlighting, and gutter reservation; the per-block reconcile keeps
both the decoration-refresh path and the reveal cascade.
The composer rendered a second StatusRow instance carrying the
pending-changes bar and the todos dropdown, so every restyle of the
floating assistant-status chip (glass, placement, sizing) silently
restyled the composer bar and its dropdown too — for the fourth time.
StatusRow is now only the floating chip above the composer; the
composer's own bar is a new ComposerStatusBar with the pre-glass layout,
its own container name, and its own container-query classes (the
anti-overlap rules that hide the long active todo under 38rem and the
changed-files label under 30rem moved with it — losing them during the
split let the two dropdown triggers overlap on mobile). The two
components share no markup and no CSS hooks anymore.
The animated maintainScrollAtEnd also ran outside streaming, so opening
a historical session glided visibly through the whole conversation as
late row measurements corrected the end position, and an in-flight glide
could supersede explicit navigation. Corrections are instant unless the
session is actively working.
Returning to the bottom during a stream also lands on the end as of that
moment, and the list's own follow may not have re-armed after the user's
earlier gestures — the queued-send jump then fell behind the growing
reply. goToBottom now re-asserts the edge a few times (150/400/800ms)
until it holds; a new user gesture cancels the window.
The 140ms fade read as a pop next to the scroll glide. The reveal now
runs 320ms on an ease-out-quint curve with a 10px rise and a touch of
blur resolving — paint-only properties throughout, so row measurement is
untouched — and blocks committed in the same tick cascade with a 55ms
stagger instead of appearing together. Reduced motion still disables the
whole thing.
Retain detached Markdown DOM for eight recent sessions so medium-frequency session switching can restore more first-screen content without reparsing it.
Limit each session to four cached parts, reducing the worst-case retained fragment count from 36 to 32 while preventing long sessions from dominating the cache.
Keep sidebar rows independent from the active sync directory by moving export history loading behind an explicit-directory command.
Make active-project selection preserve project topology and remove activeProjectId from mounted group render props. Reuse a per-session-array ID index so subscription snapshots do not repeatedly scan session lists.
Batch global session, status, ordering, and activity timing mutations at the existing directory event boundary so large subagent bursts publish each owner once.
Maintain active session roots, children, and directory buckets in the global store, reuse them in Sidebar projections, and avoid rebuilding live aggregates and structural data for unrelated renders while preserving authoritative ordering reconciliation.
Bohdan Triapitsyn