The terminal ran on the ghostty-web npm package plus a hand-written patch,
and every rendering bug (recycled rows, duplicated reflow fragments, prompt
artifacts) had to be worked around from outside. The emulator now is the
official libghostty-vt C ABI compiled to WebAssembly, driven by a browser
adapter ported from T3 Code (MIT, notice in LICENSE-T3CODE) and owned in
packages/ui/src/lib/ghostty. The artifact is reproducible with
scripts/build-libghostty-wasm.sh, including a workaround for Zig 0.15.2 on
macOS 27 SDKs.
On top of the port: one WASM instance per page with every tab kept mounted
and hidden tabs paused; history replayed at the PTY size it was drawn for;
shells spawned only after the first fitted grid so zsh never prints the
PROMPT_SP marker; box drawing, block elements and Powerline arrows drawn
procedurally to the exact cell so TUI borders and block logos have no gaps
between rows; a software-rasterized canvas so Gecko renders every tab's text
with the same smoothing; the symbols-only Nerd Font bundled instead of a CDN
fetch; touch selection and scrolling driven through the surface API; a copy
button in the tab strip for touch hosts; localized aria labels.
Testing: bun tests run the real WASM (reflow, palette, replay isolation,
recycled rows, box glyph geometry); viewport and view tests use a surface
double; verified in Chromium and Zen (windowed and headless) for crisp text,
new tabs, panel reopen, resize and box glyph rendering; package type-check,
oxlint/eslint on new files, web build.
ghostty-web 0.4.0 hands rows that scroll into view out of recycled WASM
page memory without clearing them, so after a tab or project switch the
new emulator showed the previous terminal's text (upstream #138). The fix
landed only in prereleases, so pin 0.4.0-next.20 and carry the local
block-glyph rendering patch over to the new dist file.
Verified in a production build: creating an emulator after disposing a
full one no longer exposes its rows, and switching between two projects
with live output in each keeps every terminal's content to itself.
The root package.json pins 12 @codemirror packages through overrides
but declared 10 of them as direct dependencies with caret ranges. npm
refuses that combination with EOVERRIDE while bun accepts it, so every
npm and npx invocation inside the repository failed instantly while
workspace builds kept passing.
That includes npx-based MCP servers spawned for sessions rooted in this
checkout, because OpenCode starts stdio servers with the instance
directory as their working directory, so those servers died on spawn
and surfaced as MCP error -32000.
The 10 dependency specs now match the overrides exactly. Resolutions do
not change; the overrides already forced these exact versions. Verified
npx -y mcp-mermaid now exits 0 from the repo root and from
packages/web, and an OpenCode instance rooted at this checkout connects
every previously failing npx server (exa, zai-mcp-server, mcp-mermaid,
godot, svelte).
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.
3.3.x makes maintainScrollAtEnd follow content growth on its own — a
tail row growing in place included — which is exactly what the manual
totalSize correction existed for. Delete that correction (the totalSize
listener now only drives the anchored-turn glide) and pick up 3.3.x's
measurement batching, prepend-flash fixes, and web programmatic-scroll
fixes. Opt the explicit maintainScrollAtEnd config into footerLayout per
the 3.1.1 guidance.
The library's own released-on-user-scroll heuristic proved unreliable
one run in three against synthetic touch, so the gesture state machine
stays authoritative: while a real gesture owns the scroll, the list's
end pinning is switched off through a threaded endPinningReleased prop
and re-engages when the user returns to the end.
Validated with the CDP battery on a production build: stream follow
stays at distance 0, mobile drag releases with the pill shown in three
of three runs, resize oscillation stays at the reduced level, the rail
reaches the last turn, and profiled streaming cost per rendered
character matches the tuned 3.2.0 numbers.
Sending a message now parks that message near the top of the viewport
and streams the reply into reserved end space below it, instead of
jumping to the bottom and chasing it.
- swap @tanstack/react-virtual for @legendapp/list in the chat timeline; the
streaming tail becomes a normal list row rather than a separately rendered
block, so one component owns the scroll position
- add timelineScrollAnchoring: pure anchored-turn geometry plus the three
scroll modes (following-end / anchoring-new-turn / free-scrolling)
- replace useChatAutoFollow with useChatTimelineScroll, which opts out of
automatic movement on real gestures via a generation counter instead of the
timer windows the old implementation needed to recognise its own writes
- move the load-older button, question/permission cards, recap, status row and
bottom spacer into the list header/footer, since the list owns its container
- extract useScrollShadow so the shadows can attach to that container
maintainScrollAtEnd and maintainVisibleContentPosition replace the manual
prepend anchor-hold and the mobile quiet-window prepend deferral.
Validated: workspace type-check, lint, web build, ui tests per file.
Scroll behaviour itself is unverified and needs manual testing on web, desktop
and iOS.
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.
marked's GFM url tokenizer swallows any non-space text after a bare URL,
including fullwidth punctuation and Chinese annotations written directly
after it ("https://x.com/docs（说明）了解更多"). Switch the autolink
tokenizer to marked-linkify-it, which treats Unicode punctuation as a URL
boundary, so fullwidth parens and CJK punctuation are trimmed naturally.
* feat(skills): remove ClawHub catalog integration
Drop the ClawHub registry as a skills catalog source across web server,
shared UI, VS Code, docs, and locales. The catalog now serves git-based
sources only: the curated Anthropic repo and user-defined repositories.
Also removes the now-unused adm-zip dependency.
* feat(skills): redesign catalog around curated GitHub repositories
Replace the single-source dropdown with a card grid of curated GitHub
repositories (Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor pstack/skills, Matt Pocock) plus
user-defined sources. Source cards show skill counts, GitHub stars, and
last-updated time; a global search covers all loaded sources.
Server: curated sources gain GitHub repo metadata (stars, pushed_at)
fetched best-effort with a 3-hour in-memory and on-disk cache; scans
run through a concurrency-limited, deduplicated cache with 3-hour TTL
persisted across restarts. Refresh still bypasses the cache.
Shared UI: source cards, global search with clear button, per-skill
GitHub links, install/installed states. VS Code curated list updated
to match. All new copy translated across 12 locales.
* fix(skills): address catalog review findings
- GitHub metadata fetch timeout drops to 1.5s (under the catalog
client's 3s deadline) and failed lookups cache briefly (5 min) so
repeated catalog loads do not re-hit a failing API.
- Disk cache files are written with owner-only permissions (0o600);
rename preserves the mode.
- loadSource deduplicates concurrent in-flight requests per source and
the shared isLoadingSource flag now clears only when the last active
source load finishes.
Vendor the anti-slop Oxlint plugin at tools/oxlint/anti-slop and register it
in oxlint.config.ts, with Oxlint's own rule categories disabled so ESLint
stays the general-purpose linter.
Add scripts/anti-slop.mjs (bun run deslop) mirroring the React Doctor batch
interface: next-batch, check-batch, active, release, top, file. Batch handoff
directories now double as file claims shared across clones via
~/.openchamber/maintenance-claims, so concurrent maintenance batches from
either pipeline never select the same file.
Harden both scheduled maintenance flows: stop on a dirty worktree, stop on
NO BATCH AVAILABLE, validate per package instead of workspace-wide, and pin
react-doctor to 0.9.12. The anti-slop task command documents concrete
good and bad fixes and forbids laundering types to satisfy a rule.
The preview panel worked by proxying a dev server through OpenChamber's own
origin and rewriting the HTML that came back. Anything the rewriter did not
anticipate broke, and pages that refuse to be embedded never loaded at all.
This deletes the proxy (-1604 lines and its tests) and merges the preview and
browser panels into one surface backed by a real Chromium view.
What the panel is now
- A `<webview>` in its own session partition: logins and cookies persist, hot
reload works because nothing is rewritten, DevTools are one click away.
- Annotation: pick one element, drag a region, or draw freehand, write a note,
and it reaches chat with a screenshot of the visible page with the marks on it.
- Toolbar: hard reload, page zoom, device sizes, a light/dark switch that
applies to the page rather than the app, and cookie/cache clearing scoped to
the panel alone.
- Several pages at once, each tab showing the page's own favicon, and an address
bar that suggests pages already visited in this project.
- Dev servers are listed from what is actually listening on the machine, checked
against what a project announced, so a server is offered no matter how it was
started. One that is still starting is waited for instead of failing.
Remote dev servers
The desktop app binds a local port and pipes raw bytes to the OpenChamber host
over the existing authenticated connection, so the page keeps its own origin at
the root of its own host. The reachable set is exactly what discovery reports
and is re-checked per connection, so an authenticated client cannot dial
arbitrary local services on the host. Links and redirects to another loopback
port stay on the machine that served the page. A tunnel that cannot be opened is
reported; it is never replaced by the plain loopback URL, which would answer
from the user's own machine under a remote address.
Agent control
Browser actions are a separate `openchamber_web` tool: open, snapshot, click,
type, scroll, inspect computed styles, resize between mobile/tablet/desktop, and
capture a screenshot into `.openchamber/screenshots/` in the project. The
existing `openchamber` tool keeps sessions, worktrees and scheduled tasks. Each
has its own setting in the new Settings -> General -> OpenChamber Tools section,
and the plugin is not injected at all when both are off.
Capability belongs to the connected client, not to configuration: a client
declares on its event stream that it can drive a page, which only a Chromium
host does. Exactly one client performs each request — it claims the request
before acting, and the first claim wins — because deciding by whose result
arrives first would be too late for a click that already happened. No client
listening is answered immediately with an explanation rather than a timeout.
Runtime boundaries
Web tabs get a plain iframe that can display a page but not inspect one. The
VS Code extension no longer offers the surface at all, since nothing that makes
the panel worth having works there. Mobile is unaffected.
Native boundary
Camera, microphone, location and device-picker requests from panel pages are
denied — Electron grants them by default when no handler is set, and the panel
loads whatever address the user types. Page capture, appearance emulation and
storage clearing verify that their target belongs to the panel's own session
instead of trusting a web-contents id from the renderer.
Persisted state
Stored `preview` tabs migrate to `browser` (v13 -> v14). Context panel tab
limits are now per surface, so filling one surface no longer evicts another's
tabs. Address history is stored per project and per runtime.
Documentation
`preview.mdx` and `desktop-browser.mdx` rewritten across all locales, the agent
tool settings path corrected, new `DOCUMENTATION.md` for the browser-control
broker and the dev tunnel, and the `ui-api-decoupling` skill updated where it
still described the deleted proxy.
* feat(desktop): upgrade Electron to 43.3 for Linux frameless rounded corners
- electron ^41.2.1 -> ^43.3.0 (electron/electron#51459/#52111: rounded
corners for frameless windows on Linux, default-on; disable via
roundedCorners: false)
- @electron/rebuild ^3.7.0 -> ^4.2.0 to build native modules against
the new Electron ABI
- pin node-abi to 4.33.0 via root overrides so @electron/rebuild (and
electron-builder's internal rebuild) can resolve Electron 43's ABI
- README: Electron 43 ships its own fixed extractor (extract-zip 2.0.1
Node-24 unpack bug no longer applies; ensure-electron remains a
safety net for interrupted/wrong-arch installs)
* chore: re-trigger pr-review after adding visual evidence
* fix(desktop): scope node-abi to Electron rebuild tooling
* chore: re-trigger pr-review after dependency fix
* chore: re-trigger pr-review with drag evidence
* chore: retry pr-review after evidence confirmation
adm-zip <0.6.0 allows a crafted ZIP to trigger a ~4GB memory
allocation (GHSA-xcpc-8h2w-3j85). Bump the dependency in the web
and vscode packages to ^0.6.0. The new AdmZip(buffer) and
extractAllTo(dir, overwrite) APIs are unchanged, so no call-site
adaptation is needed.
Add a vitest regression test for the ClawdHub install path that
builds a real ZIP with adm-zip and asserts extractAllTo restores
files (including nested subdirectories) into the target skill dir.
The SQLite write into OpenCode's database was the only consumer of
better-sqlite3 in the repository. Everything that existed to ship its native
binary went with it:
- the dependency in @openchamber/web and @openchamber/electron
- the afterPack hook staging better_sqlite3.node into app.asar.unpacked
- a dedicated @electron/rebuild pass (onlyModules) and its binary assertion,
so desktop packaging now runs one native rebuild instead of two
- the bundler external entry and the AppImage required-native-module check
Desktop packaging, the AppImage verification tests, and the extension bundle
were re-validated after a clean reinstall, so no stale module could satisfy a
missed import.
Terminal creation no longer waits for the Ghostty viewport to report its
size: it starts the PTY immediately with a container/font-derived
provisional size (falling back to 80x24), then resizes once the real
viewport dimensions are known, with a dedupe guard while sizing settles.
Starting the shell earlier means it can emit device/theme queries before
a browser terminal is attached to answer them, so the server now answers
primary device attribute queries itself (Fish blocks ~10s on this at
startup) and bun-pty buffers output emitted before a data subscriber
attaches. Also fixes a few WebSocket transport reconnect races surfaced
by session creation now overlapping renderer setup.
Navigation model rebuilt around two full-width drawers and a minimal
header (sessions / title-switcher / usage ring / workspace):
- Left sessions drawer: cross-project tree with live status indicators,
swipe actions on sessions (rename/archive/delete) and on group headers
(project edit / two-step close, worktree delete), reorder-only edit
mode with collapsible project cards and draggable worktrees, app-level
footer (connected instance, settings, pending web update).
- Right workspace drawer: Changes / Files / Terminal / Notes / MCP as
pill tabs (inactive tabs icon-only); panes stay mounted once visited.
The full desktop file editor serves the Files tab; read/skill tool taps
in chat open the file there at the requested line.
- Header session switcher on title tap: 10 cross-project recents with
live busy/attention indicators and project · branch metadata; the
usage ring opens a metadata overlay with an explicit loading state.
- The overflow menu is gone on phones (its destinations moved into the
drawers); iPad keeps it until its dedicated layout pass.
Correctness and continuity:
- /auth/session answers bearer-first, so a stale WebView cookie can no
longer mask a revoked device token; cold launches classify failures
fast and land on an explicit connect screen.
- Authoritative session snapshots raise frozen ordering baselines and
stale live ranks — recents stay truthful after the app slept.
- Cold launches reopen the last active session per instance (persisted
pointer, confirmed against a sessions snapshot; a user-opened draft
clears it), with a logo hold instead of a draft flash.
Also: collapsed pill composer gains the stop control; chat tool rows
share one 36px rhythm; Task subtool rows truncate; larger bottom safe
area so the composer clears big-screen corner radii; Capacitor build
hides About/Update (store updates apply there); widgets link to the
sessions drawer with a list icon; MobileApp split into focused modules;
five mobile-surface detectors unified; translucent borders normalized to
70%; all new strings translated across the 10 locales.
iPad and foldable layouts are intentionally untouched - separate next version PR.
Adds `mobile:sim:dev` / `sim:dev` to build, install, launch, and stream the iOS simulator in one command
Updates mobile docs and serve-sim guidance with the new workflow and correct preview URL behavior
Bumps `serve-sim` to a newer version
Adds a new docs page explaining the OpenChamber agent control tool and its capabilities.
Includes localized versions for supported languages and adds the page to the docs sidebar.
Updates the lockfile with the new better-sqlite3 dependency.
Users can now attach Microsoft Office documents (.docx, .pptx, and .xlsx) and OpenDocument files (.odt, .odp, and .ods) from the shared web, desktop, mobile, and VS Code chat surfaces.
Document text is extracted locally and sent as a text/plain file part with the original filename, keeping the visible user message clean. Supported embedded PNG, JPEG, GIF, and WebP images are sent as separate image parts, with matching [filename] citations preserved near their source paragraph, slide object, spreadsheet cell anchor, or OpenDocument position. Presentation notes, spreadsheet values, headers, and footers are included where available.
Document expansion is metadata-validated and bounded against oversized entries, excessive uncompressed data, unsafe paths, invalid image signatures, attachment-name races, and dangling citations after truncation. Generated document parts are published to the composer atomically.
Add fflate for worker-backed ZIP extraction and narrowly allow blob workers in the VS Code webview CSP without permitting blob scripts. Include focused fixtures for every supported format, extraction limits, positional citations, collision recovery, atomic attachment state, and CSP behavior.
Improve OpenChamber responsiveness under large session workloads while fixing
cache, synchronization, and persistence correctness across runtimes, projects,
directories, and worktrees.
- prioritize selected and visible sessions during bootstrap and defer
non-critical enrichment work
- reduce redundant message loading, event processing, store publication, and
hidden sidebar work
- prevent stale session and message requests from overwriting newer
authoritative state
- preserve existing data when authoritative fetches fail instead of treating
failures as successful empty responses
- scope session materialization, messages, drafts, queues, todos, pins,
permissions, folders, tabs, Git state, and pull request data by runtime and
directory identity
- harden runtime switching, reconnect, cleanup, mutation reconciliation, and
persisted-state ordering
- preserve live subagent Task linkage when metadata arrives after an older
message request or while streaming parts are suspended
- coalesce overlapping tail refreshes without losing newer refresh demand
- improve cold-session loading by moving deferrable work out of the critical
bootstrap path
- isolate URL authentication, mobile credentials, native secrets, and other
runtime-owned state across endpoint changes
- bound long-lived caches and remove avoidable allocations from event and
rendering hot paths
- limit virtualization to archive collections where it improves rendering
without disrupting active sidebar layout
- stabilize session folders, pin ordering, expanded state, and persisted
sidebar behavior
- open skill files through the same secure editor and outside-workspace grant
flow used by file navigation, including worktree sessions
- expand regression coverage for stale completions, runtime collisions,
reconnect behavior, persistence races, authoritative empty results, and
subagent refresh ordering
- document the updated synchronization, cache ownership, performance, and
runtime-isolation invariants
Updates the SDK dependency across web, UI, and VS Code packages.
Refreshes the lockfile and package versions to match the release.
Adds unreleased changelog notes for the current set of user-facing changes.
Changelog leads with the private relay and the native mobile apps (TestFlight
beta + Android APK links), followed by pairing v2 and the device management,
desktop multi-transport, and chat items; VS Code changelog gets the shared
chat-render entries.
Complete rebuild of voice input on a server-authoritative streaming
architecture, replacing the legacy Web Speech / whole-blob / WASM engines
and the dead voice-agent layer (~4k lines removed).
Speech-to-text (dictation):
- Client streams 16 kHz mono PCM16 chunks over /api/dictation/ws with
seq/ack ordering; buffered audio is retained and replayed on reconnect
- Server transcribes and streams live partial transcripts back;
segments auto-commit every ~15s with silence suppression and adaptive
finalization timeouts
- Local provider (default, zero config): sherpa-onnx models in a forked
worker process — auto-download with progress, staged extraction with
verification, corrupt-model auto-recovery, idle shutdown after 5 min
- Model catalog with settings picker (accuracy/speed ratings, sizes,
download/delete): Parakeet TDT v2 (English) and v3 (25 European
languages, auto-detected), Whisper base and tiny (multilingual, light)
- OpenAI-compatible provider for any Whisper endpoint
- Composer overlay with live transcript, volume meter, timer, and
cancel / insert / insert-and-send actions; failed transcriptions keep
their audio for retry or accepting the partial text as-is
- Configurable keyboard shortcut (default mod+alt+v) toggles dictation;
Enter confirms and Escape cancels while recording
- Overlay is pixel-aligned with the composer (measured footer height,
matching paddings/typography/gaps) — no layout shift when toggling
Text-to-speech:
- Local Kokoro provider (English, 11 voices) synthesized in the same
worker via /api/dictation/tts/speak, managed by the shared model
pipeline; sentence-pipelined playback keeps time-to-first-audio at
~1 sentence regardless of message length, and stop cancels in-flight
synthesis
- Sanitizer keeps inline-code content (strips backticks only), reads
interword slashes aloud, and removes only absolute file paths
Settings:
- Voice page unified: a single read-aloud toggle owns all playback
options (the confusing "Enable Voice Mode" is gone); a new "Enable
voice input" toggle (default on, persisted to settings.json) hides
the composer mic entirely when disabled
Mobile and transport:
- iOS/Android microphone permissions added (dictation was previously
impossible on mobile)
- Fixed Android WebSocket upgrades: the Capacitor WebView origin
(https://localhost) was missing from the packaged-client allowlist,
403-ing every WS connection — root cause of the old mobile SSE lock,
which is now removed for all transports
Security and conventions:
- All HTTP routes sit behind the global /api auth gate; the WS upgrade
explicitly validates the UI session and origin, with oc_url_token
narrowly allowlisted and covered by tests; the dictation socket mints
a fresh URL token before connecting
- Routes register before the generic OpenCode proxy; the client goes
through runtimeFetch/getRuntimeUrlResolver, and runtime switches
reset the dictation socket
- VS Code deliberately reports dictation as unavailable (no server
process in that runtime)
CI: workflow Node bumped 20 -> 22 to match the repo engines and fix
better-sqlite3 installs broken by node-gyp@latest on Node 20.
New dependency: sherpa-onnx-node (prebuilt N-API; macOS/Linux x64+arm64,
Windows x64 — Windows-on-ARM falls back to the OpenAI-compatible provider)
- Replace virtua with @tanstack/react-virtual for chat history on all
surfaces: bottom anchoring (anchorTo: end), key-stable prepend
preservation, and native iOS touch/momentum deferral live in the core
- Patch virtual-core to clamp the render range to real scroll bounds
during transient adjustments
- Rows render in normal flow inside a translated wrapper so sticky user
headers keep working; measurement snapshots cached per session
- Pre-write container height in scrollToFn so the browser cannot clamp
anchor corrections to the stale height; hold the prepend anchor for up
to 180 frames on mobile while fresh rows settle (cancelled by user
input; desktop relies on core anchoring alone)
- Adaptive row-size estimate from per-session measured averages; disable
reveal fade-in for virtualized history rows
- Mobile loads older history only through an explicit localized top
button: no scroll-position trigger and no post-mount background
prepend, so every insert happens from a resting state; a quiet-window
hold defers any stray prepend commit while a touch gesture is active
- Desktop/VS Code keep the seamless scroll-up trigger and progressive
background prepend
Bohdan Triapitsyn