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.
A dedupe-keyed client re-mint (QR rescan, password/passkey re-login) replaces
the stored record, which also reset the operator-visible name to the app's
hardcoded default ('OpenChamber Mobile'). The app-reported name is now only a
fallback: an explicit pairing label wins, otherwise the replaced record's
label is kept, and the default applies only to a first-ever pairing.
The chat selection menu (desktop pill and mobile sheet), the chat
comment input, the file-preview Comment pill, the shared inline comment
editor, and the composer's context chip preview popover now use the
same translucent blurred glass surface as the btw panel, keeping their
borders and soft shadow.
The project knowledge panel's section sidebar becomes a horizontal pill
strip on mobile, where a half-width side column left no room for
content. The autocomplete popups get their 120px minimum height back —
browser keyboard panning could put the anchor above the measured
boundary and collapse them to nothing. The status row's 24px footer-swap
reservation now applies only to the assistant-status instance; the
accessory-only row above the composer (pending changes) takes the
normal 8px instead of floating a stray gap.
Selecting text in a rendered markdown preview shows a Comment pill;
attaching stores a file-quote context draft carrying the file path, the
selected fragment (not whole lines), the user's comment, and a
best-effort source line range resolved by anchoring the fragment's
first and last lines in the raw content — a partially located fragment
gets no range rather than a misleading one. The fragment stays
highlighted while the comment input is open, using the selection
overlay rects shared with chat quote comments, and the preview's
native selection color now matches chat messages. file-quote flows
through the same context contract: composer chip previews, the message
context card, and the metadata round-trip.
The diff comment editor is restyled as the shared comment pill (context
line inside the box, auto-growing textarea, round attach button;
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter attaches, Enter breaks the line) and the saved-comment
card matches the composer preview entries. Pierre's gutter utility is
enabled: hovering a line shows a small primary-colored plus that opens
a comment for the line, dragging from it selects a range, and it rides
the bottom of an active selection. Clicking a diff line toggles a
single-line comment, and dragging over content maps to the same line
selection the number column produces — the native text selection is
suppressed once a drag crosses a line boundary — opening the editor for
the range on release. Placeholders and meta lines are dimmed relative
to typed text.
Hovering (or tapping) a context chip opens a stacked preview of its
pending items above the composer: numbered entries with a muted header
band, the captured selection, and the user's comment, which can be
edited in place (save/cancel) or removed before sending. The chips
component now subscribes to the draft store itself; the per-kind count
plumbing in ChatInput is gone.
The openchamber-ui:// handler returned index.html without cache
headers, so the renderer disk cache could keep a freshly installed
build loading the previous version's hashed bundles. Hashed assets
stay cacheable; only the document that names them must not be.
Every user-attached context item (diff/file/plan comments, terminal
selections, browser annotations, PR comments and failed checks, linked
issues/PRs, and new chat-quote comments from the selection menu) is now
sent as its own synthetic text part carrying an openchamberContext
metadata payload. The model-facing text keeps the previous wording; the
timeline reads the metadata back and renders each item as a context card
instead of raw prompt text. Legacy messages still render via the old
text sniffing.
The selection menu gains a Comment option with an inline multiline
input, the quoted fragment stays highlighted while commenting, and on
mobile the input overlays the composer pill by rendering inside the
composer form. Add to chat is renamed Add to input; the menu is
restyled and the mobile Copy tile removed. Terminal drafts move their
terminal id out of the language field (persisted-draft migration v3),
and the dead preview-console source is deleted.
* fix(ui): make timeline dialog fit small screens
On phones the timeline dialog squeezed the message list to a couple of
rows: header, search box, and the fixed Actions/help block consumed
almost all of the 70vh dialog height, and the description text could end
up underneath the search box.
The dialog no longer scrolls as a whole. The header and search stay
fixed (shrink-0), the message list is the only scrollable region and
takes the remaining height (min-h-0 flex-1), the dialog is taller on
small screens (85dvh), the Actions/help footer collapses to a single
action row on phones, and the description is hidden on phones only.
Message timestamps no longer wrap either: the time column grows from a
fixed 64px minimum and forces nowrap, so "11:14 PM" stays on one line.
* fix(ui): keep dialog-level scroll fallback in timeline
overflow-y-visible removed the reusable dialog's built-in scrolling
fallback: the timeline's header, search, and footer are all shrink-0,
so under constrained layouts (very short desktop windows, enlarged
text) the fixed controls could leave the popup with no way to reach
them once the message list collapsed to zero.
Revert to overflow-y-auto. The list is still the only flex-1 min-h-0
child and absorbs space first, so normal mobile and desktop layouts do
not scroll; only when fixed content exceeds the dialog height does the
popup scroll again, keeping every control reachable.
* fix(ui): open app deep links from chat after confirmation
DOMPurify's default URI policy stripped href from anchors with custom
application schemes (obsidian://, vscode://, ...), so every app link
rendered in chat was dead across web, desktop, VS Code, and mobile.
- Classify safe app-link schemes in lib/url.ts (browser-handled,
scriptable, webview-internal, network, and self-deep-link schemes
stay excluded) and let openExternalUrl accept them
- Keep app-link hrefs through the markdown sanitize hook
- Intercept app-link clicks in the markdown renderer and route them
through a confirmation dialog (Trust and open / Open once, dismiss
to cancel) mounted in the desktop/web app root and the mobile shell
- Persist per-device trusted schemes in a zustand store; trusted
schemes open without asking again
* feat(settings): manage trusted app link schemes in General
Add an App links section to Settings > General listing the application
schemes trusted on this device with a delete action; removing a scheme
restores the confirmation dialog for it. Register the section in
settings search.
* fix(ui): enforce app link confirmation
* fix(ui): handle app links by runtime
* fix(vscode): keep app links unsupported
* fix(settings): clarify trusted app links
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The streaming status line and the finished turn footer are the same visual
line, but the swap used to jump: different font/color, a 2px left inset, a
20px row vs the footer's 32px (its h-8 action buttons set the height), and
the bottom-anchored chat pulling the line up because the finished message
carries more structure below its footer than the status row had.
Match the footer exactly: text-sm at muted-foreground/60, no left inset,
h-8 row, and mb-6 reserving the missing space below. Verified against the
live DOM: the footer appears at the exact pixel position the status row
occupied.
* feat(chat): /btw command — side questions in a temporary forked session
/btw <question> forks the current session (full context inheritance) and
opens a compact peek panel docked above the composer. The composer itself
becomes the btw input while the panel is open: sends route to the fork,
the placeholder and a mode chip reflect the target, and the stop button
aborts the fork's turn. Closing the panel (or the chip's ✕) destroys the
fork, leaving the main conversation untouched.
The panel shows only the fork's own tail (messages at/after the fork
creation time) and live permission/question cards scoped to the fork.
- chat/btw/BtwPanel: peek sheet (desktop + mobile), fork-tail view,
auto-close on disappearance, Esc to close
- lib/btw: startBtwSession (fork + rename + routed send), closeBtwPanel
(close = destroy), filterBtwTailMessages
- ChatInput: btw-mode send routing via SendMessageOptions.sessionId,
btw-aware activity (stop/abort), placeholder + mode chip
- useSessionActivity: exported for per-session activity reads
- i18n: btw keys across all 11 locales
* fix(chat): keep btw sends isolated
* refactor(chat): rework /btw into a metadata-scoped peek panel
- Link the active btw fork through the parent session's metadata
(openchamber.btwSessionID) so the panel exists only in the session that
invoked /btw, follows parent navigation, and survives reloads; the fork
carries a kind:'btw' marker with its originalSessionID.
- Replace the wall-clock history boundary with the id of the newest cloned
message (server-generated ascending ids), stored in fork metadata.
- Derive panel identity in useBtwPanelState; useBtwStore shrinks to
transient per-parent UI state (collapsed/creating/destroying).
- Panel UX: dropdown-style glass surface, chat ScrollShadow, single
title+chevron collapse toggle, muted header controls, promote action
(keep as a full session and navigate to it), Esc collapses instead of
destroying, reserved Working indicator row, streaming auto-follow via
ResizeObserver keyed on content readiness.
- Add a 'peek' chat surface mode that suppresses per-message controls and
turn footers inside the panel; user bubbles keep a small gap below.
- Hide btw forks from the sidebar, session switcher, and command palette
until promoted; mark the fork before inserting it into local stores.
- Delete/archive lifecycle: removing the fork unlinks the parent; removing
the parent also removes its temporary fork.
- patchSessionMetadata now mirrors updated sessions into live stores.
- Localize new strings across all 12 dictionaries; add unit tests for
metadata helpers, the btw flow, and the UI store.
* fix(chat): clamp the btw panel below the app header when the keyboard is open
Reuse useMobileAutocompleteMaxHeight (the composer autocomplete precedent)
on the panel's scroll body, reserving the panel header and bottom spacer
height, so the sheet adapts to the visual viewport instead of riding under
the app header on mobile.
* fix(lint): drop unused destructured bindings in sessionBtwMetadata
CI eslint has no underscore ignore pattern; strip metadata keys with typed
copies and delete instead of discard-destructuring.
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Neither failure came from the change that surfaced them; both suites were
asserting behavior the product had already moved.
issue-2039 mocks `session-actions`, and session creation's authoritative
steps live there: the created session becomes current under the directory
the server confirmed, and that directory enters sync's routing index. The
mock did neither, so every assertion about current session and directory
routing read an empty store. It now performs both, which is what makes
those assertions test the store's real resolution order again.
issue-2903 pinned `<ChatEmptyState />` inside ChatContainer's empty-and-idle
branch. The draft transition animation moved that surface to the draft, and
the branch now returns a neutral placeholder. What the test is actually for
— the idle branch not rendering a status row of its own — is kept.
A project could pin the model new chats start on, but not the level to
run it at: the default cascade dropped any variant as soon as a project
model won, and only ever considered the global one — which belongs to
the global model.
Projects now carry `defaultVariant` alongside `defaultModel`, stored and
sanitized only next to that model, and the cascade passes it through.
Both controls sit in one "Defaults for new chats" group laid out like the
Sessions defaults, and the level appears only for models that offer them.
Changing the default model, variant or agent wrote the chat's live
selection unconditionally. For a session carrying its own choice the
effect was mostly transient — ModelControls restores that choice on the
next hydration — but a message sent right after the change went out on
the new model.
The guard is the same pair of signals ModelControls restores from
(shouldPreserveManualModelOverride): a manual selection plus a saved
selection for the current session. Chats following the default still
switch immediately.
Picking a project in Settings called setActiveProject, which relocates
the chat, the session list, the file tree and the Git surface. Reading
another project's MCP servers or agents moved the user's whole app.
It had to, because the configuration stores resolved the directory
themselves from the active project and held one flat list. Each of them
now takes an explicit directory — omitted still means the active project,
so every caller outside Settings is unchanged — and keys loaded data by
directory next to a flat mirror of the active project. Chat, autocompletes
and pickers keep reading that mirror; a load for another directory writes
only the map. A failed load restores that directory's previous list.
Settings resolves its own directory through useSettingsDirectory, backed
by a session-local settingsProjectPath that follows the active project
until the user picks something else.
Bohdan Triapitsyn