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.
Skip mutation history when no settings operation is in flight and merge updates that share the same operation visibility window. This keeps stale-response reconciliation unchanged while preventing history from growing with repeated debounced updates.
Add a repeated-update regression covering an older pending load and latest-value reconciliation.
Tests: bun test src/lib/persistence.test.ts
Keep settings mutation revisions and in-flight operations behind a private tracker so stale GET and PUT responses cannot overwrite newer local settings.
Remove redundant runtime identity and numeric operation IDs. Use operation object identity while preserving runtime reset and mutation retention behavior.
Tests: bun test src/lib/persistence.test.ts
The hover info card (project/branch/PR/time) added noise without pull —
the tab title plus the sidebar already cover it. The tooltip body
component, its per-hover subscriptions, and the native title attribute
are gone; right-click/menu and the status dot are untouched.
The 'Always show editor toolbar' preference is gone — the docked
toolbar under the file tabs is now the only mode, and the floating
hover toolbar branch in the files editor (with its open-state and
outside-click machinery) is deleted. The stored preference is dropped
by a store migration and removed from desktop settings persistence,
settings search and every locale.
Navigation section order now reads: file editor keymap, auto-save,
terminal shell + login shell, Terminal Quick Keys, and the Session
tabs group last.
The General section renders OpenChamberVisualSettings with an explicit
visibleSettings allowlist, so the new control was searchable but never
rendered.
A new Session tabs group (web/desktop only) turns the header session
tabs off; disabled, the header renders the exact pre-tabs view — plain
session title with meta row and the always-visible session menu (the
same block VS Code uses). The Alt+W close-tab shortcut no-ops while
tabs are off. Registered in settings search with a matching anchor;
labels translated in all locales.
The close-with-neighbour-activation logic moved into a shared helper
(the strip and the shortcut use the same path). Alt+W is the default
because the browser owns Cmd/Ctrl+W on web; desktop users can rebind it
— the action is registered as customizable, so it appears in the
Settings shortcuts section and the shortcuts help automatically. VS
Code is excluded (it has no session tabs).
Auto-add means the strip only grows, so past 20 tabs the oldest one
leaves the working set (the newly opened tab is always the survivor).
The branch/worktree/PR/project subscriptions that feed the hover
tooltip moved into the tooltip body component, which mounts only while
the tooltip is open — a resting tab now subscribes only to its status
dot's session status and unread count.
Rename from another tab's menu stored only a boolean that the
session-switch reset effect wiped before the menu finished closing, so
the tab activated but rename never began. The pending rename now
carries the target session id and begins exactly when that session
becomes active (whether the menu closes before or after the switch),
without the reset effect cancelling it — and without an in-flight
rename being cancelled by unrelated re-renders. Tab background/text
state changes animate at 75ms so activation reads immediate.
The title fade no longer sits on controls: it lifts while the tab is
hovered or its controls/menu are open (hard clip instead) and is not
applied at all while the active tab renames. The active tab clips its
title instead of showing an ellipsis, matching inactive tabs. Tab
separators drop the extra transparency that made them nearly
invisible.
Keeps enough space for the chat panel when the sessions sidebar stays visible
Bases the expanded layout breakpoint on the sidebar width instead of a fixed value
Right-click now opens the session menu under the cursor (the sidebar's
context-menu pattern; the same header-supplied items back both the
"..." dropdown and the context menu via injected menu primitives) and
still never changes the active tab. Hovering a tab shows the sidebar's
session tooltip — title, last-activity time, project, branch and PR
status — after a delay, suppressed while a menu is open or a drag is in
flight. Each tab carries the sidebar's status dot at its end (accent
while the session runs, info-blue for unread), hidden while the hover
controls overlay it. Tab titles fade out instead of ending in "...",
and while the active tab is renaming its hover controls stay hidden so
only the rename controls show.
The strip now owns a single dropdown per tab, fed by the header with
items bound to that tab's session — rename (activates the tab first),
copy id, share/copy link/unshare, export and move-to-worktree (active
tab only, they need the loaded directory), close other tabs, archive
and delete with the confirm dialog targeting the right session. The
separate inactive-tab menu is gone, and there is no Close item — the
tab's close button covers it, now placed after the menu button.
Right-click opens that menu without activating the tab. The menu's
anchor overlay stays mounted until the close animation finishes, which
removes the popup flashing in the top-left corner on close. The
scroller hides its scrollbar via a dedicated CSS class (the bar was
shifting the header content vertically).
The old flex spacer split the header in half, boxing the strip into the
middle while tabs shrank to slivers; the spacer now renders only for
the VS Code and surface-title layouts, tabs keep a fixed width (w-44)
and the strip scrolls behind the right-side buttons. Every tab gains a
hover-revealed close button next to the menu; the active tab's menu is
hover-revealed too (it was always visible) — the header passes it into
the strip so both overlays behave identically. The active tab's inner
padding matches inactive tabs.
Uniform compact tabs (h-7, 6px radius, 13px medium) that share the strip
width and shrink before scrolling, thin separators between inactive
neighbours that disappear around the active or hovered tab, a
hover-revealed menu button anchored to the tab's end, a soft selection
pill for the active tab, and hidden scrollbars with fade edges. The
active tab is single-line: the project/branch meta row stays only in the
VS Code header, which keeps the plain title.
Web/desktop header replaces the single session title with a strip of
soft pill tabs, one per session the user has opened (sidebar, palette
or deep link — opening anywhere adds a tab once). The active tab is the
familiar title block — rename, meta row and the full session menu —
inside a gently selected pill; a brand-new draft shows as a transient
pill until its session exists. Inactive tabs show the title with a
hover-revealed "..." menu (close tab, close other tabs, copy id) that
nudges the text like sidebar rows, and close by middle-click too.
Tabs drag to reorder, scroll behind the right-side header buttons with
soft fade edges, respect the reserved window-controls inset, and
persist across reloads. Closing the active tab activates its neighbour
(or opens a new draft when it was the last). Tab ids whose session is
not in the loaded list stay stored but hidden, so a partial session
list never destroys the working set. VS Code keeps the plain title;
mobile is untouched.
activeSurface was permanently 'chat' after the legacy mobile layout
removal, so the whole concept is gone: the store field, surfaceGuard,
setActiveSurface/setSurfaceGuard, the per-runtime surface memory in
prepare/restoreForRuntimeSwitch, and WorkspaceSurface itself. All ~30
setActiveSurface('chat') call sites were no-ops and are deleted;
always-true 'is the chat active' checks in keyboard shortcuts, Header
and ChatContainer are unconditional now. FilesView's dirty-file guard
kept its file-switch and close protection but drops the surface-switch
branch nothing could trigger. TerminalView visibility comes only from
its callers. The router keeps parsing legacy ?tab= links (they open the
matching context-panel surface) via its own RouteTab type and no longer
serializes a tab or diff file into URLs — desktop URLs never carried
them anyway.
MainTab/activeMainTab/setActiveMainTab/setMainTabGuard were deprecated
mirrors of the surface names — every call site now uses
activeSurface/setActiveSurface/setSurfaceGuard directly and the aliases
are gone, including the persisted mirror field.
The 'diagram' surface had no way to open it (navigateToDiagram had no
callers except a .drawio attachment click that navigated to a surface
nothing rendered); the surface, DiagramView, and its store plumbing are
removed, and a .drawio attachment now opens in the file panel.
?tab= deep links map to the matching context-panel surface instead of
setting a main-area surface nothing renders, and a persisted non-chat
surface can no longer rehydrate into a blank main area.
Phone viewports run the separate MobileApp shell (and a viewport crossing
now reloads into it), so the desktop layout's mobile branch was
unreachable: the drawer machinery, the full-screen secondaryView surface
switch (including the terminal/diagram desktop carve-out nothing could
trigger), the mobile header with its tab bar, the Cmd+number tab
shortcuts, the mobile quota panel, and the surface guard that reset
non-chat tabs. DrawerContext had no consumers left and is deleted.
Header drops from 2630 to 1853 lines; the desktop render is unchanged.
The mobile-vs-desktop surface is stamped once at boot, so a browser
window narrowed past the phone threshold kept the desktop shell (and
its legacy squeezed layout) until a manual reload. A viewport watcher
now reloads into the other shell once the resize settles — the same
mechanism the old Settings toggle used. Fixed shells (Capacitor,
desktop, VS Code) and ?surface= overrides never switch.
With the new mobile app reachable this way, the old/new mobile layout
preference is gone: phones always get the mobile app.
Sidebar session/folder/group search and the Todos, Memory, Plans and
Notes filters required the whole query as one literal substring; they
now match tokens in any order and ignore punctuation via
matchesRankQuery, keeping their own list order and tree structure.
Branch, project, agent, model, provider, stash, SSH-host, skill-catalog
and archive filters each had their own toLowerCase().includes (or no
ordering at all); the git branch and gitmoji pickers also let cmdk
re-filter and reorder on top of the manual filter, silently dropping
rows. All of them now go through rankByQuery/matchesRankQuery: results
are relevance-ordered, multi-word queries match in any order, matching
ignores punctuation, and cmdk filtering is disabled where the ranked
list is already final. rankBranchesForQuery keeps relevance order
instead of re-sorting matches alphabetically; the model picker now also
matches model ids.
One matcher for every dropdown filter: multi-token queries match in any
order, matching is punctuation-insensitive, single-token queries
tolerate typos, and results come back relevance-ordered (prefix, then
word-boundary, then substring, original order on ties). matchesRankQuery
is the boolean companion for lists that keep their own grouping.
ghostty-web marks the terminal container contenteditable but only its
hidden textarea opts out of IME text mangling, so iOS and Android
keyboards uppercased the first letter of every command. Set
autocapitalize/autocorrect/spellcheck off on the container after open.
The tab list lived only in per-tab sessionStorage, so a new browser
tab, another device, or cleared storage showed an empty terminal
sidebar while PTYs kept running server-side, and orphans leaked until
the idle sweep. Add GET /api/terminal/sessions and adopt unknown
server sessions into the local tab projection (additive only; a failed
listing changes nothing).
The idle sweep also reaped terminals in background tabs because only
the active tab holds a WebSocket attachment. Add POST
/api/terminal/touch and have open clients periodically refresh
activity for every session their tabs reference.
Directories and files were rendered as fixed category blocks, so an
exact file match sat below unrelated directories. Merge both result
sets and rank them with the shared fuzzy scorer against the full
relative path. Multi-word queries now match tokens in any order
(longest token queries the server, the rest filter client-side), and
path truncation keeps the parent segments next to the file name so
index.md-heavy trees stay distinguishable.
Cmd+P scored server file hits by basename only, so a query like
"solo-is-a" returned nothing for solo-is-a-team-size/index.md.
Score by relativePath and widen the server candidate limit to 40
so client-side reranking has enough to work with.
Two mitigations for local multi-instance contention over the shared relay
identity:
- A standby instance now waits a 2-minute grace period after the host claim
frees before taking over, so a cleanly restarting host (app update or
relaunch) — which reclaims at boot with no wait — always wins the restart
window instead of stranding paired devices on another process.
- Dev instances never host the relay passively: dev scripts set
OPENCHAMBER_RELAY_HOST=off and the Electron dev shell is detected via
OPENCHAMBER_ELECTRON_DEV. Explicit enable/pairing on such an instance still
force-claims; OPENCHAMBER_RELAY_HOST=on overrides.
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