Add an always-visible macOS status bar (tray) item that surfaces OpenChamber's
live state and acts as a quick launcher, plus a series of related desktop UX
fixes around mini-chat, window routing, notifications and shortcuts.
Tray (new):
- Monochrome template cube glyph that adapts to the menu bar light/dark.
- Icon-driven activity indicator: a smooth, eased, infinite "breathing" fill
while sessions are busy; a static filled cube when finished sessions are left
unread; a plain outline when idle. Text counters next to the icon only for
actionable states (pending approvals, errors).
- Menu lists active sessions (status glyph, branch, unread count) with overflow
rolled into a submenu; pending permission/question approvals with inline
Allow once / Allow always / Deny; quick actions (New Session, New Mini Chat,
Show OpenChamber, Quit). Header shows the active instance name
("Local OpenChamber" or the remote host label) for multi-window clarity.
- Session list sourced from the global (cross-project) sessions store, sorted by
last-updated, independent of which directories are currently open; live
status/unread/branch merged in from directory sync stores where available.
Sub-session (multi-run) activity rolls up to the parent row.
- Event-driven updates (global store + directory stores + notifications +
registry) with a short debounce; polling kept only as a slow safety net.
Tray/window routing:
- Opening a session from the tray targets the surface the user was last on: if a
mini-chat is active it switches that existing window to the session in place
(no new window); otherwise the main window (revealed without a reload).
- app.activate (dock click) restores the last-focused/minimized window instead
of spawning a new main window; only creates one when nothing is left.
- "Open in main window" and tray session-open now create the main window when
none exists, queuing the session as a pending deep-link so it opens once the
fresh renderer is ready.
Mini chat:
- New Mini Chat is now a customizable shortcut, exposed in Settings > Shortcuts,
in the File menu (hint only, renderer owns the binding), and in the tray.
- Themed splash backdrop on window open to remove the white flash / flicker;
dismissed once content is ready, leaving the content's single cube logo.
- Mini-chat can switch sessions in place via openchamber:open-session.
Notifications:
- The active/selected session only counts as "seen" when the window is focused,
so turns completing while the app is backgrounded raise an unread marker;
refocusing the window clears it.
Add a directory-created fast path for worktree creation so session and send flows can continue once the target directory exists while Git attachment and bootstrap finish in the background.
Track bootstrap status explicitly in shared UI contracts, including pending, ready, and failed states. Background watchers now surface failures and timeouts, update stored worktree metadata, and keep web and VS Code runtime behavior in parity.
Move GitHub issue/PR worktree sessions and assistant-answer fork sessions onto the unified send path so provider, model, agent, and variant selections are preserved. The assistant-answer fork dialog can optionally create a worktree outside VS Code.
Make worktree deletion dialogs close after linked-session cleanup while removing the worktree in the background, and clean up failed fast-create artifacts safely without recursively deleting user or agent-written files.
Validation: bun test packages/ui/src/lib/worktrees/worktreeBootstrap.test.ts packages/ui/src/lib/worktrees/worktreeManager.test.ts; bun run type-check; bun run lint.
Preserves session directory metadata across live updates
Keeps desktop and mobile session lists in project groups
Adds regression coverage for session grouping
Defer mounting heavy sheet content until the enter slide finishes (revealed on
the slide's transitionend, with a timer fallback) so the animation no longer
competes with a large content render. Shorten the slide to a quick rise from a
small offset, and seat the sheet a few px below the top safe area.
Revert the 100dvh sizing back to inset-0/100% — it did not fix the bottom inset
and reintroduced intermittent top safe-area dimming.
Drop the safe-area-bottom padding inside the sheet and size the surface from
100dvh (instead of fixed inset:0 / 100%, which on iOS 26 stops above the bottom
safe area), and avoid keeping the sheet on a compositing layer when settled.
Tightens the bottom gap so the sheets sit close to the bottom edge like the
chat composer.
Use a dark scrim for MobileOverlayPanel instead of a translucent background so
it dims the rest of the screen like the sessions sheet.
Rework MobileSurfaceShell to mirror that structure: the scrim is the fixed
parent's background with a quick fade (keeping it on a compositing layer iOS
Safari clips to the viewport), and the sheet is a flex child sized to leave the
top safe area dimmed — dropping the old top shadow that pooled at the corners.
Mount Files/Changes/Settings only while open so each recomputes its
safe-area layout fresh, fixing intermittent top-inset dimming, and drop the
dim behind the header overflow menu to avoid a scrim-to-scrim flicker on
select.
Nest child sessions (by parentID) under their parent in the mobile sessions
list, with a chevron in the row's left gutter to expand/collapse them
recursively. Top-level pagination counts only parent sessions; children whose
parent isn't in the same bucket stay top-level so nothing is hidden.
Expansion state lives in an in-memory store that survives closing and
reopening the sheet but resets on a full page reload.
Restructure the changes list so the staged/changed file list scrolls inside
ChangesPanel while the commit message and actions stay pinned to the bottom,
matching the desktop git sidebar instead of letting the commit box scroll out
of view with the list.
Add a two-step archive affordance to each mobile session row, mirroring the
project remove confirmation: tapping the archive icon arms an inline confirm
(with cancel), and confirming archives the session. Only one row can be in
the confirming state at a time.
Also relabel the project remove confirmation from "Delete" to "Close"
across all locales, since removing a project closes it from the app rather
than deleting anything.
Replace the up/down arrows in the mobile project reorder list (drag already
covers reordering) with an edit button that opens a dedicated project editor
surface: rename, pick icon and color, and discover a favicon (no upload).
The editor lists the project's worktrees with drag-to-reorder (persisted per
project, like project order) and a delete button that opens a mobile
confirmation built on the shared worktree primitives — archiving attached
sessions and optionally removing the local/remote branch.
Persist project/worktree expand state across restarts and decouple it from
the active directory — projects default expanded, worktree groups collapsed,
and the user's explicit toggles are remembered.
Selecting a session now switches the active project (not just the draft),
following the session's directory.
Replace all-or-nothing session pagination with incremental +7 loading that
resets when a group or project is toggled, matching the desktop sidebar.
Always render root (project-level) sessions as a flat list above worktree
groups, and vertically center the session row status dot.
Add a packaged-client runtime boundary so the shared UI can talk to local,
desktop, remote, and VS Code runtimes through the right transport instead of
assuming one same-origin web server.
Centralize OpenChamber-owned API access behind RuntimeAPIs, runtimeFetch, and
runtime URL helpers, while keeping official OpenCode traffic on the SDK path.
Support runtime switching, remote host selection, desktop client credentials,
and headless connection links for pairing packaged clients with remote
OpenChamber servers.
Harden the new auth model by moving long-lived client tokens out of browser
URLs, introducing short-lived scoped URL tokens for browser-owned transports,
restricting URL-token access to explicit readable/realtime routes, and making
client-token management session-scoped or self-scoped as appropriate.
Update browser-owned assets and preview proxy flows to work with the split
runtime model, including authenticated project icons, preview token propagation,
CSP-safe preview bridge injection, and preview proxy auth that survives
short-lived URL-token expiry.
Tighten Electron security boundaries for packaged clients by gating privileged
preload state to trusted origins and requiring explicit confirmation before
connect deep-links import or switch remote runtimes.
Also refresh agent guidance and project skills so future runtime/API, auth,
preview, UI, CLI, settings, locale, and drag-to-reorder work follows the new
architecture.
Loading screens: drop the internal-jargon progress text on the opencode
reload overlay (ConfigUpdateOverlay) and the vscode init splash — show
text only on errors. Replace it with a glow pulse on the OpenCode mark on
the cube's top face; OpenChamberLogo's isAnimated prop was a no-op and now
actually animates. vscode shows the glow on the inline splash logo and the
React app stops writing 'Loading data (… Providers, … Agents)…'.
Restart API: 'OpenChamber: Restart API Connection' now runs the same full
reload flow used after an OpenCode update — the command asks the chat
webview to call reloadOpenCodeConfiguration() (overlay + managed restart
via the bridge + config/data refresh) instead of a bare manager restart,
falling back to the old restart when no webview is open. Mounts
ConfigUpdateOverlay in the vscode app so the overlay actually shows there.
Add dedicated Electron Mini Chat windows for focused chat sessions without the full desktop shell. Mini Chat can open existing sessions or draft sessions, supports pinning above other windows, transfers sessions or drafts back to the main window, and deduplicates existing-session windows.
Expose Mini Chat entry points from the main header, session sidebar, command palette, and `mod+alt+n`. Add a dedicated Vite entry and React runtime so the compact surface can stay isolated from full-app chrome while still sharing chat, sync, theme, locale, model, agent, and worktree behavior.
Keep Mini Chat behavior scoped to the compact surface:
- limit assistant/user message actions to the appropriate Mini Chat set
- hide workspace changed-files UI in Mini Chat
- keep draft worktree selection and streaming directory state in sync
- mark sessions viewed while they are open in Mini Chat
- support Mini Chat-specific keyboard shortcuts for input focus, model selection, thinking variant cycling, favorite model cycling, and opening new Mini Chat drafts
Harden Electron integration by gating Mini Chat controls on desktop IPC availability, restricting pin/unpin IPC to Mini Chat windows, and only closing Mini Chat after the main window handoff succeeds.
Bohdan Triapitsyn