A guided explanation is only useful in a language the reader reads, so the
panel header gets a language picker alongside the model one, defaulting to
the interface language. Like the model, it is request state rather than a
setting: the language travels with the read and the generation, and the one
a walkthrough was written in is stored with it, so reopening a review
describes what is there instead of what a fresh one would be.
Only prose is translated. Hunk aliases resolve back to hunk ids and
icon/importance are validated against fixed English values, so a translated
one would be dropped by the normalizer — silently losing an anchor or a
style. Identifiers and paths stay as they appear in the code.
The language is part of the cache key, and a read now asks the cache for the
exact request it was given before falling back to the pointer. Without that
the panel answered a request to switch languages with the text it already
had, leaving the other language unused in the cache.
Alongside it:
- The answer budget is derived from the resolved model instead of a flat 24k.
That number was the same for a 64k-context model and for one that admits to
384k output tokens, and on the latter it was the only reason generation
failed: the model spent the whole allowance reasoning and returned nothing.
It is now min(96k, max(24k, a quarter of the context)) capped by the
catalog's output limit, decided once so the input reserve and the request
cannot drift apart.
- A read no longer offers Cancel. It is a few hundred milliseconds of git with
nothing to cancel, and the button flickered on every model or language
change. When the panel is showing a fallback, a banner names what is on
screen versus what was asked for — only once the read has settled.
- The header keeps one 32px control height and drops its labels below 680px
instead of squeezing them to two letters and an ellipsis.
Docs and module documentation updated in every locale.
A diff is ordered by file path, which is almost never the order in which a
change makes sense. This adds a Walkthrough surface that reorders it: the model
groups related hunks into stops, explains what each group changes about
behavior, and orders the stops so each builds on the last. It explains and
orders; judging code stays with the existing Review action.
Reviews uncommitted work (all, staged, unstaged), a branch against its base, or
a pull request. Generation is always user-initiated — nothing runs on a timer,
on a file change, or as a side effect of opening a panel.
Invariants worth preserving:
- Hunk identity is derived on the server and only there. Ids are content
hashes, so an anchor that no longer resolves is proof the code it described
changed, and staleness needs no heuristics. The client matches ids to ids and
never recomputes them; two implementations would have to agree forever.
- The digest is never truncated. A diff that does not fit the model's context
is refused with an actionable reason, because a walkthrough written against
half a diff reads as confident and is wrong.
- Nothing disappears. Lockfiles and other generated output are excluded from
the model's input by name — never by size — and everything no stop covers is
listed at the end, so "have I seen all of it" stays answerable.
- Cost is explicit. Results are content-addressed, so returning the working
tree to an earlier state costs nothing; generation outlives its request, so a
refresh detaches the client rather than discarding paid-for work, and only an
explicit cancel stops it.
Supporting changes to shared modules:
- git: expose the existing getRangeDiff as GET /api/git
listUntrackedPaths and getUntrackedDiffs. The latter resolve the repository
once for a batch instead of per file, taking a panel
~340ms on an 80-file working tree.
- small-model: structured output across four wire forma
and abort signal, and an onOverflow policy so an oversized prompt fails
loudly instead of being silently clipped. A provider
remembered so the prompt-side fallback goes first next time.
- models.dev metadata: surface structured_output as tri
false blocks a model, a missing field does not, because the catalog omits it
for roughly half of all models.
Desktop and tablet only: VS Code serves Git through its
these routes, and the mobile shell does not consume the surface registry.
Docs: packages/docs walkthrough page in English and all eight locales.
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.
Arm the target button in the composer and the next prompt becomes a goal:
the server keeps the session working toward it (idle tick -> small-model
audit -> continuation) until the objective is verifiably complete, blocked,
or out of budget — even with the UI closed.
Server (packages/web/server/lib/session-goal):
- event-driven loop on the global SSE hub; goal state lives in
session.metadata.openchamber.goal (merge-safe patches, stale-write guard
by goal id), so it survives restarts and syncs to every client for free
- the small-model audit (objective + last assistant turn only, language
pinned to the objective) is the sole termination authority; blocked needs
3 consecutive verdicts, audit outages tolerate one unaudited continuation
then stop the goal as resumable-blocked
- hard stops: optional token budget, auto-continuation cap (Resume grants a
fresh allowance), turn errors; user abort pauses the goal instead of
blocking it, and resuming over an aborted tail nudges immediately
- token accounting as a snapshot of the latest turn (input + cache.read +
output), goal-relative via a creation baseline and segmented across
compactions; a compaction summary skips the audit and continues
- continuations reuse the session's own provider/model/agent/variant
UI:
- three-mode target button (arm / disarm / manage dialog), informational
goal strip with inline pause/resume and an Evaluating indicator, sidebar
state glyph, objective length counter (2000-char server clamp),
read-only completed goals
- goal entry points: composer (sessions and drafts), start-new-session-
from-answer dialog, plan implement dialog (plan content becomes the
objective), scheduled tasks (Run as goal + budget)
- Settings -> Chat -> Goal: feature toggle + default token budget with
three-layer parity (web server, client persistence, VS Code bridge);
VS Code renders goal state but hides the entry points (the loop runs in
the web server only)
Notifications: per-turn "ready" notifications are suppressed while a goal
is active; settling sends one final notification (desktop, web-push, APNs
generic titles with the session name as body) honoring the completion
toggle. Error/question/permission notifications are untouched.
Docs: user guide (session-goals) in all 9 locales + sidebar entry,
scheduled-tasks cross-reference, server module DOCUMENTATION.md.
- --relay links now carry both routes: direct LAN plus relay fallback,
matching the UI's Anywhere pairing; devices prefer the direct route
- pairing sessions created by the CLI are marked with usesRelay, and the
server reconciles relay demand on a timer, so a headless instance
brings the relay up on its own after connect-url --relay
- warn with LAN_UNREACHABLE when the link's direct route points at
loopback and other devices cannot use it
- document the --relay flow and the --lan binding caveat in Connect a
Device and Remote Instances across all locales
- new Connect a Device page: one-time QR pairing, transport choices, device management
- new Private Relay page: E2EE guarantees, demand-driven lifecycle, relay vs tunnel
- rewrite mobile page around the native iOS/Android apps (TestFlight + APK)
- update remote-instances, security, tunnels, and remote-access troubleshooting to point at the new pairing flow
- translate everything across all 8 locales and update the sidebar
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.
Add launch-at-startup support across the Electron desktop app and the web CLI.
Electron now supports macOS launch-at-login through the native login item API. Login launches start OpenChamber in the background without opening a window, while Dock activation, deep links, and second-instance launches still open or focus the normal app window. The desktop Settings UI now exposes a localized launch-at-login toggle in Desktop Network Access.
The web CLI now includes `openchamber startup status|enable|disable`, backed by native user services:
- macOS: launchd LaunchAgent
- Linux: systemd --user service
- Windows: Task Scheduler
Startup services run `openchamber serve --foreground` so the OS service manager owns process lifetime and restarts. Foreground service updates now defer restarts to the service manager instead of spawning duplicate CLI restarts.
Startup services snapshot useful environment variables by default so provider tokens, PATH, SSH agent settings, and OpenCode configuration survive login/reboot starts. The snapshot avoids shell/session-only state, uses systemd-compatible env quoting on Linux, and avoids unused env artifacts on macOS.
Also adds localized docs for startup services and environment variables.
* docs: add OpenChamber feature docs and translations
Add 30 new docs pages covering OpenChamber-specific workflows and setup:
OpenCode server, providers/models/agents, MCP, skills, commands & snippets,
usage, projects, context, notes/todos/plans, scheduled tasks, project actions,
preview, worktrees, multi-run, git & GitHub, magic prompts, git identities,
mobile/PWA, security, notifications, voice, project icons, remote instances,
desktop browser, updates, and three troubleshooting pages.
Rebuild sidebar into eight task-oriented sections and translate every new
page into all six supported locales (uk, zh-cn, es, pt-br, ko, pl).
* docs: surface new sections on homepage and cross-link tunnels
Add an Explore block to the docs homepage (all seven locales) linking to
the new section anchors, and cross-link the Tunnels page to Security and
PWA & Mobile.
Add a Voice & Style section to the docs authoring guide, then bring every
docs page in line with it: lead with the task, add success signals to
procedures, explain jargon on first use, keep bullet casing consistent,
and link out to Troubleshooting where steps can fail.
Applied across English source and all localized versions (uk, zh-cn, es,
pt-br, ko, pl).
Bohdan Triapitsyn