Prevent managed Chat drafts and sessions from inheriting an active project's repository context in the Work Status panel while retaining directory-independent status sections.
* fix: keep work-status panel reachable when all sections are hidden
When every section was unchecked in the Panel Sections dialog, the panel
went transparent and inert, making the settings gear icon unreachable.
The only recovery was knowing to toggle the panel off and on from the
header, which still rendered the same empty/inert state.
Changes:
- Panel stays interactive (not inert) when visible, even with zero
rendered sections. This matches how other panels in the app use inert
only for visually-collapsed (width/height = 0) states.
- Empty state shows 'No sections selected' with a link to reopen the
sections dialog, matching the centered text-muted-foreground pattern
used by the file tree, review panel, and home page empty states.
- Sections dialog gains a 'Show all' link (visible whenever any section
is hidden) and a warning when all sections are unchecked, matching the
keybinds settings 'Reset to defaults' pattern.
- Added i18n keys to all 10 locale files (English fallback).
Fixes#2804
* Round 1: fix interactive guard for fresh-mount; translate i18n keys
Address openchamber-bot review findings:
1. (blocker) Replace English fallback strings in all 10 non-English
locale files with real translations per locale-ui-patterns guidance.
2. (non-blocker) Restore the renderedSections > 0 guard for the
transient no-data-on-mount state so the panel doesn't flash a bare
bordered card. The interactive condition is now:
visible && (renderedSections > 0 || allSectionsHidden)
Empty-state rendering is gated on allSectionsHidden alone (not
renderedSections === 0) so it works correctly on fresh mount when
all sections were already hidden in persisted settings.
Validation:
tsc --noEmit: 0 errors
bun test work-status: 34 pass, 0 fail
* Round 2: use .every() guard, dedup chooseLabel key, add tests
1. Replace >= length check with areAllWorkStatusSectionsHidden() helper
that uses .every() — stale section ids left in persisted settings
from a future removal can no longer inflate the count.
2. Remove duplicate chooseLabel i18n key from all 11 locales — the
empty-state link now reuses the existing sections.open key.
3. Add 6 focused tests for areAllWorkStatusSectionsHidden covering
empty, null/undefined, partial, full, stale-id, and stale+full.
Validation:
tsc --noEmit: 0 errors
bun test work-status: 40 pass (6 new), 0 fail
Drops the macOS vibrancy toggle, IPC, and related settings copy
Updates dialogs, popovers, tooltips, and dropdowns to use shared glass styles
Adds sticky header fade behavior to model picker and sidebar lists
Adds a work-status panel beside the transcript. Context fill, model and
cost, todos, running subagents and the permission requests blocking
them, branch and working-tree state, MCP servers, pinned messages and
context sources were scattered across the header, the composer and the
context panel — a blocked subagent was reported nowhere at all. The
panel reads them from live channels rather than persisted history, and
becomes an overlay where the chat is too narrow to seat a column.
It is on by default, including for existing installs. Because it now
carries these readouts, the desktop header and composer drop the ones it
duplicates: todo and changed-files chips, usage and MCP tabs. VS Code
and mobile keep theirs — neither hosts the panel.
Fixes MCP authorization, which was broken from the panel, invalidated by
a directory switch through a redirect URI that encoded the working
directory, and left the desktop app in the background because browsers
will not follow a custom-protocol link without a user gesture. The
settings page no longer asks the user to understand the MCP spec before
adding a server: one field takes the command or the link, with the kind
inferred and a visible override, and client-registration fields appear
only when a server actually asks for its own credentials.
Also: skills load from the panel instead of only when the composer's
slash autocomplete opens; the header button names the current instance
rather than falling through to the word "Instance" for relay hosts.
Three new optional UI settings keys, all migrated. No change to stored
MCP server configuration.
Bohdan Triapitsyn