Desktop notifications now carry a narrow target payload so clicking a permission, completion, or scheduled-task notification can reopen the matching tab and reconnect the session. macOS uses the native notification bridge for tap callbacks, while the shared desktop notification layer also accepts plugin action payloads where the platform exposes them.
Constraint: Notification clicks need to activate existing desktop tabs without adding a new navigation state channel.
Rejected: Store only notification ids and infer the active session later | stale notifications would point at the wrong session after tab changes.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Keep notification targets serializable and versioned through desktopNotifications before adding new target types.
Tested: bun run quality:pr with ALLOW_CLI_CORE_CHANGE=1; desktop unit tests; server tests; native sidecar build and cargo check; docs build.
Not-tested: Packaged Windows toast activation runtime; current fallback depends on Tauri notification action delivery.
Add native system notifications as a desktop-wide attention channel for permission prompts and scheduled task completion. The implementation keeps notification presentation owned by the OS, adds a user-facing enable switch with permission handling, and lets scheduled tasks choose desktop notifications without routing that channel through IM adapters.
Constraint: Notifications must use OS-native APIs without custom sound playback.
Constraint: Desktop channel is local-only and must not be sent through IM adapter delivery.
Rejected: Browser Notification API | not reliable inside the packaged Tauri desktop runtime.
Rejected: Treat desktop as an IM channel | would leak a local-only channel into server-side adapter sending.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Keep notification styling at the OS layer; business code should only provide title, body, dedupe, and routing decisions.
Tested: bun run check:desktop
Tested: bun run quality:pr
Tested: Computer Use macOS debug app verification for settings toggle, permission prompt, scheduled task desktop channel, and task-run polling dedupe
Not-tested: Windows and Linux native runtime smoke tests on physical hosts
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)
