The desktop shell now owns sidebar collapse state, the collapsed rail keeps a
visible recovery affordance, and keyboard search expands the sidebar before
focusing. The UI work also smooths the width transition so the main chat area
can take over without the previous abrupt cutover.
Constraint: The desktop app must keep a recovery path visible in narrow layouts on macOS and Windows
Constraint: Existing sidebar behavior needed regression coverage before further UI work
Rejected: Fully hide the sidebar at 0 width | recovery affordance became too fragile for this iteration
Rejected: Keep boxed restore controls in the collapsed rail | visually heavy and easy to misplace
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep the collapsed rail width and the inner sidebar panel width in sync or expand controls will be clipped again
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test Sidebar.test.tsx
Not-tested: Full desktop manual pass across every app screen after the final icon/layout tweaks
The desktop app previously lost project-level skills in two places: the
settings browser only queried user skills, and the slash-command picker for a
fresh session depended on CLI init state that does not exist before the first
turn. This change makes the skills APIs cwd-aware, falls back to project skill
loading before CLI init, syncs sidebar session deletion with open tabs, and
aligns the empty-session composer styling so the pre-message session UI stays
consistent.
Constraint: Fresh desktop sessions need slash-command discovery before the CLI websocket emits system/init
Constraint: Only repository code should be committed; build artifacts, installs, and /tmp smoke fixtures stay out of git
Rejected: Rebuild slash-command listings from full getCommands() in the sessions API | introduced auth-gated command dependencies unrelated to local skill discovery
Rejected: Unify EmptySession and ChatInput into one full component now | higher regression risk for normal chat interactions than a visual-only hero variant
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep pre-message skill discovery keyed to session workDir so project-level .claude/skills remain visible before the first turn
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/sessions.test.ts; cd desktop && bun run test -- --run src/__tests__/skillsSettings.test.tsx src/components/layout/Sidebar.test.tsx src/__tests__/pages.test.tsx src/pages/ActiveSession.test.tsx; cd desktop && bun run lint
Not-tested: Manual desktop smoke test against the rebuilt .app bundle in the local GUI
This introduces a persisted light/dark appearance setting, maps the desktop shell onto semantic theme tokens, and reworks the highest-traffic chat/settings surfaces so the new dark mode is usable without regressing the original light theme.
The same pass tightens markdown rendering for chat replies by improving inline code, table overflow handling, and safe external-link behavior so dark-mode content stays legible in real conversations.
Constraint: Preserve the existing light theme while adding a user-selectable dark theme in Settings > General
Constraint: Avoid introducing new dependencies for styling or markdown handling
Rejected: Replacing the light palette with a single dual-purpose palette | would risk broad visual regressions across the existing desktop UI
Rejected: Implementing dark mode only for shell chrome | leaves chat markdown, diffs, and permission flows visually broken
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: New desktop UI should use semantic theme variables instead of hard-coded color literals so both themes stay aligned
Tested: bun run lint; bun run test; bun run build; browser review of theme switching, provider/permission states, and chat surfaces
Not-tested: Prototype-style pages with remaining hard-coded colors (scheduled/session control mock surfaces) were not fully normalized in this change
- security: XSS sanitization with DOMPurify in Markdown/Mermaid/PermissionDialog;
path whitelist in filesystem API; fake keys in test/config files
- perf: fine-grained Zustand selectors in Sidebar/StatusBar/ContentRouter;
50ms throttle on streaming deltas; React.memo + useMemo in MessageList;
useRef for frequent keyboard shortcut state; AbortController 30s timeout
- leaks: WS session TTL timers (5-min cleanup on close); batch splice for
sdkMessages/stderrLines; folderPath validation in cronScheduler
- quality: optimistic update rollback in settingsStore; error state in
providerStore/teamStore; i18n for all hardcoded English strings
- docs: desktop architecture and features docs updated; VitePress nav fixed
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Settings and Scheduled Tasks now open as special tabs in the TabBar,
matching IDE conventions (closeable, icon-prefixed, persistent)
- New Session directly creates a session with the current workDir
- ChatInput shows DirectoryPicker before first message, locks after
- Remove connection status from StatusBar (unnecessary noise)
- ContentRouter routes by tab type instead of activeView
- Settings page no longer has a back-button header
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add core🪟allow-start-dragging permission and acceptFirstMouse
config to fix window dragging on macOS with overlay title bar. Also add
JS-based startDragging() fallback in AppShell and Sidebar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a lightweight custom i18n system supporting English (default)
and Chinese, with a language switcher in Settings > General.
All 35+ UI components internationalized with ~270 translation keys,
including 189 Chinese spinner verbs and server error code mapping.
- Add Tauri sidecar architecture: Rust shell spawns claude-server binary,
dynamic port allocation, health-check wait loop, graceful shutdown
- Fix CORS middleware to accept `tauri://localhost` and `https://tauri.localhost`
origins from Tauri WebView, and add CORS headers to /health endpoint
- Enable native macOS window decorations (traffic lights) with Overlay title bar,
add data-tauri-drag-region on sidebar for window dragging
- Conditionally apply desktop-only padding (44px for traffic lights) vs web (12px)
- Generate brand identity: light-background app icon, horizontal logo, full icon
set (icns/ico/png) for Tauri bundle
- Add brand mark + GitHub link in sidebar, replace mascot SVG with app icon
in EmptySession page
- Update README (zh/en) and docs hero image with new branding
- Add sidecar build scripts and launcher entry points
- Gitignore Rust target/, Tauri gen/, and brand-assets candidates
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove the separate Tasks sidebar page (wrong concept — was showing
scheduled tasks). Instead, display CLI task progress as a sticky bar
at the bottom of the active session, matching the official desktop app
behavior. Tasks are refreshed in real-time by detecting TaskCreate/
TaskUpdate tool_result messages over WebSocket.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Settings: new Providers tab with full CRUD, activation, and connectivity
test; Model tab shows active provider name; General tab simplified
- Tasks: new CLI Tasks page displaying task lists from ~/.claude/tasks/
with status, owner, and dependency (blocks/blockedBy) visualization
- NewTaskModal: add Advanced options (model, permission mode, working dir)
- Backend: fix TaskService to parse CLI V2 task format; extend /api/tasks
with /lists endpoint for grouped queries
- Fix ModelInfo.context type from number to string
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace project-grouped session list with a flat time-grouped layout
(Today / Yesterday / Last 7 days / Last 30 days / Older) matching
the original Claude Code desktop design. Add ProjectFilter component
with multi-select dropdown for filtering by project. Deduplicate
sessions by ID in the store to fix duplicate-key React errors caused
by the same session appearing across multiple project directories.
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)
