* feat(ui): add context surface registry and rail switcher
* feat(ui): move git and project notes into context surfaces, embed editor file tree
* feat(ui): replace right sidebar with context surfaces, per-surface panel widths
* refactor(ui): retire legacy main-tab overlays and right-sidebar state
* feat(ui): rail polish, right-docked file tree, terminal surface
* feat(ui): move terminal into context surface, per-surface tab closing, editor empty state
* feat(ui): tune default rail order and activity dot
* fix(ui): keep context panel controls anchored during width animations
* feat(ui): lazy-follow context panel resize with window-level drag tracking
* feat(ui): panel dividers, right-dock tree icon, muted outline folder icons
* feat(ui): restructure git view into changes-first surface with standalone PR surface
- Remove commit/update/pr tabs; git view is always changes + commit
- Promote pull request to its own rail surface with shared repo context
- Move update-branch and re-integrate flows into separate dialogs
- Add PR status chip and repo actions menu to the git header row
- Seed new PR-status entries from resolved sibling remotes to avoid
a false "checking status" state when the PR is already known
- History/graph dialog refresh button, fingerprint global identity icon,
muted outline folder icons follow-ups
* feat(ui): progressive-disclosure PR surface with live checks and pinned chat context
- Segment the PR surface into Overview / Checks / Comments pill tabs with
live badges; merge controls move to the status row
- Live checks segment: progress bar, per-run rows with workflow names,
elapsed timers, expandable failures, auto-refresh while pending
- PR comments and failed checks pin as chat-context drafts (like terminal
selections) instead of sending an immediate message; works on new-session
drafts too
- Shared prContext cache client+server, ETag conditional requests in the
octokit wrapper (304s bypass rate limits), extended checks aggregate
(inProgress/queued/startedAt)
- Resolve gh-CLI auth login for merge-permission checks
- Full-width description editor with matched control heights
* fix(ui): single source of truth for PR checks and status readers
- Derive the checks aggregate from the visible run list and sync it into
the PR-status store so bar, badges, header, and git-view chip agree
- Route PR body hydration through the shared context cache
- Git-view PR chip reads the freshest entry across remote keys
* fix(github): freshness stamps prevent stale cache responses from regressing PR state
- pr/status and pulls/context responses carry a server-side fetchedAt that
survives cache serves
- The status store rejects responses older than the held snapshot (only
clearing the loading flag), and the checks sync adopts the context's
stamp so stale status polls cannot flip fresher derived checks
- Regression test for the stale-response guard
* perf(github): repo-level pull-list cache collapses per-branch PR resolution
- One pulls.list per repo per state per 45s answers every branch (10
worktrees = 1 call, not 10 query fans); in-flight fetches coalesce
- A complete repo list makes a no-PR miss authoritative, skipping the
per-owner head queries AND the Search API fallback (the 30/min killer)
- force refresh bypasses the repo list cache; PR create/merge/ready
invalidate it
* perf(github): back off Search API misses per repo+branch
A branch without a PR re-searched on every poll; with >100 closed PRs the
list miss is never authoritative, so the search fallback still ran and
burned the 30/min search quota. Remember misses for 10 minutes; PR
creation clears remembered misses for the repo.
* fix(github): dedupe re-run check runs to the latest per (app, name)
listForRef returns the superseded completed run alongside its re-run;
GitHub's UI shows only the latest per name. Mirror that in both pr/status
and pulls/context so counts and run lists match github.com.
* fix(ui): address review findings on registry test, surface docs, and PR-context keys
- Rail-order test asserts against the registry itself (was stale after the
'pr' surface landed and failed)
- surfaces DOCUMENTATION.md describes actual behavior: has-content surfaces
hide until content exists; only multi-instance/terminal panes are
keep-alive, singleton surfaces remount and restore from stores
- PR-context cache keys are runtime-scoped JSON tuples; invalidation
compares the directory exactly instead of by string prefix (+ test)
* fix(ui): wrap long unbreakable tokens in check-run details
Annotation messages with long SHAs/URLs overflowed the panel; break-words
on annotation title/message/rawDetails and output summary/text, and the
expanded run body clips instead of widening the panel.
* fix(ui): busy state for context-attach buttons and honest attach labels
- 'Attach failed checks' / 'Attach all to chat' show a spinner and disable
while the context request runs (previously nothing happened for seconds)
- Action labels/tooltips reworded from send-to-agent to attach-to-chat
semantics across all locales
* fix(i18n): Ukrainian attach wording uses 'прикріпити' with proper cases
* fix(ui): runtime-scope PR-view remote caches, correct surfaces doc on preview
- Remote/remote-url caches in PullRequestView are keyed by runtime +
directory so a backend switch never serves another runtime's remotes
- surfaces DOCUMENTATION.md: preview is not keep-alive; preview tabs
remount on switch like singleton surfaces
* fix(ui): rail active color, clearer collapse icon, remove dead bottom-terminal dock
Design-review feedback on the context panel:
- Context rail: icons enlarged 16px -> 18px; the active surface is now
highlighted with the primary color only (no background, no scale
animation), replacing the previous scale-up effect that read as a
resize rather than a selected state.
- Files tree: the icon-only 'collapse all folders' toolbar button now
uses collapse-vertical instead of contract-up-down, which was easily
mistaken for a close button. The labelled 'Collapse all' dropdown item
in the session sidebar keeps its icon since text removes the ambiguity.
- Terminal: removed the leftover bottom-dock expand/close buttons that
rendered in the context-panel terminal but controlled a dock that no
longer exists (nothing toggles it anymore), so the expand button
appeared to do nothing and duplicated the panel-header fullscreen
control. Cleaned up the entire inert layer with it: four useUIStore
fields (isBottomTerminalOpen/Expanded, bottomTerminalHeight,
hasManuallyResizedBottomTerminal), five actions, their persistence,
the MainLayout resize listener that only served the dock height, the
dock-driven refit effect in TerminalView, and the
terminalView.bottomDock.* keys across all 10 locale dictionaries.
Validated: ui type-check and lint clean; messages parity test (2 pass)
and useUIStore contextPanel test (13 pass) green; icon sprite
regenerated via icons:generate.
* refactor: use PR visual state for git header icon
Derives the pull request icon color from a single visual state
Covers merged, closed, draft, blocked, and open PR states
Removes conditional class handling from the git header icon
openchamber # Start on port 3000
openchamber --port 8080# Custom port
openchamber --lan --port 3000# Listen on LAN (0.0.0.0)
openchamber --ui-password secret # Password-protect UI
openchamber startup enable# Start at login as a native serviceOPENCHAMBER_UI_PASSWORD=secret openchamber startup enable# Save service password env
openchamber startup status # Show startup service status
openchamber startup disable # Remove startup service
openchamber tunnel help# Tunnel lifecycle commands
openchamber tunnel providers # Show provider capabilities
openchamber tunnel profile add --provider cloudflare --mode managed-remote --name prod-main --hostname app.example.com --token <token>
openchamber tunnel start --profile prod-main
openchamber tunnel start --provider cloudflare --mode quick --qr
openchamber tunnel start --provider cloudflare --mode managed-local --config ~/.cloudflared/config.yml
openchamber tunnel status --all # Show tunnel state across instances
openchamber tunnel stop --port 3000# Stop tunnel only (server stays running)
openchamber connect-url --port 3000# Add this server to OpenChamber Desktop
openchamber connect-url --server http://host:3000 --qr
openchamber connect-url --port 3000 --qr
openchamber logs # Follow latest instance logsOPENCODE_PORT=4096OPENCODE_SKIP_START=true openchamber # Connect to external OpenCode serverOPENCODE_HOST=https://myhost:4096 OPENCODE_SKIP_START=true openchamber # Connect via custom host/HTTPS
openchamber stop # Stop server
openchamber update # Update to latest version
startup enable snapshots your current environment into the native service so startup behaves like you launched openchamber from the same shell. This preserves provider tokens, PATH, SSH agent settings, and other CLI auth/config env vars. Use --no-env-snapshot for a minimal service env.
When OpenChamber launches the local OpenCode server, it also registers a native
openchamber agent tool for project, session, and scheduled-task orchestration.
The tool is not injected when connecting to an external OpenCode server.
Tunnel behavior notes
One active tunnel per running OpenChamber instance (port).
Starting a different tunnel mode/provider on the same instance replaces the active tunnel.
Replacing or stopping a tunnel revokes existing connect links and invalidates remote tunnel sessions.
Connect links are one-time tokens; generating a new link revokes the previous unused link.
Connect other OpenChamber apps
Use connect-url when a web/API server should be added to OpenChamber Desktop or another OpenChamber app. If no server is running on the selected port, OpenChamber starts one first.
--api-only starts API routes without serving browser UI assets. --lan binds the server so other machines can reach it. --server is the address saved into the Desktop connection link. --ui-password protects browser access if UI routes are enabled elsewhere; the generated client token is what Desktop uses for API access.
This creates a remote client token and prints an openchamber://connect?... link. The link contains the server URL, token, label, and payload version. In OpenChamber Desktop, paste it in Settings -> Remote Instances -> Direct Instances -> Import Link to add that server as an Instance.
If the server was started with --lan or --host 0.0.0.0, connect-url automatically advertises a detected LAN IP instead of 127.0.0.1. Use --server <url> when you want to advertise a specific DNS name, Tailscale address, reverse proxy URL, or HTTPS endpoint.
If you are exposing the server beyond localhost, start it with a password:
Generating a client token does not automatically password-protect the hosted browser UI. --ui-password protects browser access; the client token lets another OpenChamber app connect to this server.
Security note: binding to 0.0.0.0 exposes the server on all network interfaces — use only on trusted networks and protect with firewall rules or --ui-password.
Managed-local path note: OPENCHAMBER_TUNNEL_CONFIG must use a container path under /home/openchamber/.... If the config file references credentials-file, ensure that JSON path is also mounted and reachable inside the container.
Data directory: mount data/ for persistent storage. Ensure permissions:
openchamber # Runs in background by default
openchamber stop # Stop background server
systemd service (VPN / LAN access)
Use --foreground to keep the CLI process alive so systemd (or any other process manager) can track and restart it. Combine with OPENCODE_HOST to connect to an OpenCode instance running as a separate service.
Why set PATH and SSH_AUTH_SOCK?
systemd user services start with a minimal environment — no shell profile is sourced.
Without an explicit PATH, OpenCode won't find tools installed via Homebrew, npm, or ~/.local/bin.
Without SSH_AUTH_SOCK, git operations over SSH (push, pull, clone) will fail.
%t expands to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (e.g. /run/user/1000), where most SSH agents write their socket.
--host 0.0.0.0 is required to listen on all interfaces (the default is 127.0.0.1). Use --host <ip> or OPENCHAMBER_HOST=<ip> to bind to a specific interface instead.
What makes the web version special
Remote access - Cloudflare tunnel with QR onboarding. Scan from your phone, start coding.
Bohdan Triapitsyn
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