New desktop installs and settings payloads without an explicit theme now hydrate to the pure white workspace. The General settings selector keeps the other two themes available, but presents pure white first so the default and visible ordering agree.
Constraint: Existing persisted theme choices must continue to win over the default.
Rejected: Remove the warm classic theme | users still need the alternate light appearance.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep the localStorage and user-settings theme fallbacks aligned when changing desktop theme defaults.
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test src/stores/uiStore.test.ts src/stores/settingsStore.test.ts src/__tests__/generalSettings.test.tsx
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Tested: bun run check:desktop
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: Full root bun run verify.
Desktop startup can fail before React mounts on older WebViews, so an HTML-level watchdog now renders startup diagnostics even when the module bundle never reaches the app code. Persistent provider migration now imports legacy root provider config into cc-haha-owned storage without deleting the old source file, and plugin marketplace cleanup refuses obvious corrupted cache roots or outside paths.
Constraint: User explicitly accepted the current reviewed state for landing despite remaining review concerns.
Constraint: Global ~/.claude state is user-owned and protected; automatic repair must avoid deleting shared config, transcripts, skills, MCP, plugins, OAuth, adapters, and teams.
Rejected: Tell users to delete ~/.claude or ~/.claude/cc-haha | unsafe because it can destroy user-owned Claude state and still may not fix WebView compatibility failures.
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Do not weaken protected-path checks; future deletion paths should validate real paths and symlink behavior before recursive rm.
Tested: bun test src/utils/plugins/installedPluginsManager.test.ts src/utils/plugins/marketplaceManager.test.ts
Tested: bun run check:server
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test -- --run src/main.test.tsx index-html.test.ts vite-config.test.ts src/theme/globals.test.ts
Tested: cd desktop && bun run build
Tested: bun run check:coverage
Not-tested: live macOS 12/Safari 15 WKWebView startup on an affected machine.
Not-tested: H5 diagnostic URL redaction and symlink-escape hardening are known follow-up risks from review.
The pure white appearance option needed to avoid warm-theme leakage while preserving the existing warm classic brand theme. This adds the white theme mode, keeps local browser startup from reusing stale H5 server URLs in dev, and moves visible legacy warm surfaces onto theme tokens.
Constraint: H5 server auth policy, CORS policy, SDK routes, adapter routes, and IM access paths must not change for a visual theme fix
Rejected: Rename the original light theme to pure white | the original theme is a warm classic palette, not a neutral white workspace
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Keep structural white-theme borders neutral; reserve the warm brand color for selected states, primary actions, and small accents
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test -- src/__tests__/generalSettings.test.tsx src/lib/desktopRuntime.test.ts src/lib/persistenceMigrations.test.ts src/stores/uiStore.test.ts src/stores/settingsStore.test.ts
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Tested: cd desktop && bun run build
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/settings.test.ts src/server/__tests__/h5-access-policy.test.ts src/server/__tests__/h5-access-auth.test.ts src/server/middleware/cors.test.ts
Tested: Browser smoke at http://127.0.0.1:5173 with data-theme=white, no H5 token prompt, /status inspector visible, inspector border #DDE3EA
Not-tested: Full bun run verify gate
Replace Google Fonts CDN links with locally hosted woff2 files to avoid
FOUT/FOIT on slow networks and ensure the app works in regions where
Google is blocked. Material Symbols uses font-display: block to prevent
raw icon text from flashing on load.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The desktop app now keeps the composer stable while turns are active,
reduces low-signal tool noise in the transcript, restores project context
under the composer after session creation, and relies on the CLI's own
permission requests instead of injecting broader desktop-side Bash asks.
This also brings in the supporting desktop app source tree and the server
routes/session metadata needed for git info, filesystem browsing, session
resume, slash commands, and SDK-backed permission bridging so the UI can
operate as a coherent feature instead of a partial patch.
Constraint: Desktop transcript needs to stay usable during long multi-tool sessions without hiding file-change diffs
Constraint: Permission prompts must mirror CLI behavior closely enough that read-only commands do not get desktop-only prompts
Rejected: Keep rendering Read/Bash bodies inline | too noisy and unlike the intended transcript model
Rejected: Commit only the touched desktop files | would leave the newly introduced desktop app incomplete in git history
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: broad
Reversibility: messy
Directive: Treat non-writing tools as summary-first transcript events; do not re-expand them by default without validating the UX against long sessions
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test -- --run
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/conversations.test.ts
Not-tested: Manual visual regression against the exact screenshots in a live desktop session
Not-tested: Full root TypeScript check (repository still has unrelated extracted-native parse failures)
