- SSH monitor: adaptive polling 2s→10s after stabilization, cheap TCP
probe before expensive SSH subprocess check
- SSH setup: exponential backoff in wait_for_master_ready and
wait_local_forward_ready (250ms→2s cap)
- Health checks: exponential backoff (100ms→1s / 250ms→2s) instead of
flat intervals
- Startup recovery poll: cap at 15 retries instead of infinite
- Remove webview log target in release builds (eliminates IPC overhead)
- Set global NO_PROXY env var at startup for all loopback addresses
- Remove reqwest::blocking feature; use raw TCP for sidecar shutdown and
SSH health checks
- Disable pinch-to-zoom on macOS via WKWebView.setAllowsMagnification
- Add WebView2 browser args on Windows (proxy bypass + disable unused
UI features)
- Add Cargo release profile: thin LTO, codegen-units=1, strip
- Extract apply_platform_window_config for consistent window setup
- Add vibrancy toggle in Appearance settings (macOS desktop only) with
solid background fallback when disabled
* feat: tabbed right sidebar, context panel, floating diff comments
* fix: auto-close left sidebar when context panel opens
- Increase default context panel width from 520 to 600 pixels
- Increase sidebar minimum width from 200 to 300 pixels
- Replace collapsible component with custom button in diff view
* refactoring: rework sidebars, tabs, and file tree layout
- Rewrite AnimatedTabs as segment-style with sliding indicator
- Upgrade SidebarFilesTree to match FilesView features (context menus,
git status, file icons, CRUD dialogs, fuzzy search ranking)
- Restructure FilesView header: tabs row + actions row, remove breadcrumbs
- Show relative path in context panel header, track active tab
- Allow left sidebar to stay open alongside context panel
- Hide diff/files tabs from header on desktop (mobile-only)
- Move chevron after group name in session sidebar
- Compact tab heights in right sidebar and git view
- Size PreviewToggleButton to match other action buttons
- Remove directory loading spinner from folder icons
* feat: add project icon and color customization
- Enable users to assign custom icons to projects
- Allow users to choose accent colors for projects
- Stabilize repo status UI during project switching
* feat: add scroll fade indicators to editor tabs
* style: reduce spacing and icon sizes in header
* style: adjust tab component padding from uniform to vertical-horizontal
* feat: Add session state indicators to project tabs
* feat: Enhance session status handling and improve UI responsiveness
* fix: preserve upstream tracking on branch rename
* fix: improve initial remote selection for pull requests
- Uses saved remote name from previous session when available
- Selects remote based on tracking branch when possible
- Falls back to origin or first available remote
* perf(diff): faster highlight, stable stacked scroll
- split/unified Pierre worker pools; prefer shiki-wasm
- align diff CSS line-height; disable scroll anchoring; drop WebKit compositing hacks
- harden stacked pin/align (cancel on user scroll/input); prevent overscroll
- make overlay scrollbar MutationObserver optional; disable for diff container
* feat: handle binary files in diff view
* fix: adjust project tabs layout and drag regions
* style: update drag overlay visual styling
* feat: enable number keys to switch projects in the sidebar
* fix: recognize octet-stream as text-based MIME type
* feat: add keyboard navigation to context panel
* feat: add session pinning to sidebar
- Pin important sessions to keep them at the top
- Pinned sessions persist across browser sessions
* refactor: move context usage display from chat input to header
## What / Why
This PR finishes the desktop refactor: the Tauri app is now a thin shell that launches the web server as a sidecar and loads the UI from `http://127.0.0.1:<port>`. All real backend logic lives in `packages/web/server/index.js`; desktop Rust keeps only native integrations (menu/dialog/notifications/updater/deep-link + window chrome).
This unblocks:
- consistent behavior across web/desktop/vscode (single backend)
- simpler desktop maintenance (no duplicated Rust backend)
- host switching between Local + remote instances in desktop
- reliable cold-start behavior on slow machines (VSCode + desktop)
## Key changes
- Desktop sidecar runtime
- build pipeline to bundle web dist + `openchamber-server` sidecar (`packages/desktop/scripts/build-sidecar.mjs`)
- robust local port selection (prefer saved/default, fallback to random; persisted in `~/.config/openchamber/settings.json`)
- improved PATH handling so the sidecar can locate `opencode` CLI (incl `~/.opencode/bin`, overrides, common bins)
- disable native right-click context menu in production builds (dev keeps it)
- Desktop instance switcher (Tauri-only)
- header button + modal to add/edit/delete remote hosts, set default, probe status/ping, switch back to Local escape hatch
- auth gate includes host switcher so you can recover when a remote host is broken/auth-required
- host list stored desktop-locally (not tied to the currently selected remote server)
- Notifications
- decision logic moved server-side; desktop notifications emitted via sidecar stdout and shown natively by Tauri
- prevent double-notifications on desktop Local origin (UI ignores SSE notification when native path is active)
- restore macOS notification sound
- Updates
- Tauri updater used only when viewing Local instance in desktop shell (avoid “remote web update” triggering desktop restart)
- Settings persistence & UX polish
- persist model favorites/recents via `/api/config/settings` (works for web + desktop; not origin-dependent)
- persist per-project sidebar collapse state in `projects[].sidebarCollapsed` via `/api/config/settings` (with debounce on toggles)
- macOS header sizing/traffic-lights offsets fixed (marketing macOS major injected from desktop; MultiRun header aligned)
- VSCode cold-start: keep retrying provider/agent loads after connection to avoid empty UI on slow machines
- misc lint/type fixes + bun.lock sync
- Desktop bootstrap / resiliency
- show onboarding screen when OpenCode CLI is missing (desktop Local origin), with retry hook to restart OpenCode after install
## Testing notes
- Desktop (macOS): switch Local <-> remote, set default host, verify auth gate recovery, native notifications (with sound), updater gated to Local
- Web: favorites/recents + per-project collapsed state persist across reload/restart
- VSCode: slow startup no longer results in missing providers/agents/models
* feat: added themes system
* feat: smart sidebar auto-hide for files/diff tabs + lower files sidebar threshold
* feat: added Checkbox component and update theming
- Add reusable Checkbox component for toggles across UI
- Replace several inputs with Checkbox in settings and commands panels
- Add DiffIcon and apply surface/border theming to key UI areas
* feat: Add convert-vscode-theme.cjs to convert VS Code themes to OpenChamber format
* refactor: remove unused permission logic from ChatInput
- Remove unused permission rules parsing logic from ChatInput
- Memoize renderTheme in DiffWorkerProvider to avoid unnecessary recalculations
- Remove forceOpaque helper in vscode theme adapter
* fix: guard VSCode theme loading in MarkdownRenderer
* feat: add custom user themes loading and reload
- Load user themes from ~/.config/openchamber/themes at runtime
- Expose /api/config/themes to fetch custom themes
- Allow theme reloading from Settings → Theme → Reload themes in the UI
Add file management API and UI components
Implement directory listing, search and CRUD operations in desktop backend
Expose new Files API on frontend to list, search, and modify files
Bohdan Triapitsyn