Two desktop surfaces regressed in ways that made the app harder to read and operate.
The plugin header compressed summary cards and action buttons too early for the available width,
and the rewind/copied affordances in chat were sharing the same horizontal lane as message bubbles,
which visually broke the expected "user on the right, assistant on the left" transcript structure.
This commit keeps both fixes narrow: the plugin header now delays its split layout and lets summary
cards and controls reflow responsively, while chat message actions live inside each message column so
interaction affordances no longer distort the bubble alignment.
Constraint: Desktop settings and transcript layouts must remain readable in narrower window widths
Rejected: Keep message actions inline with the bubble row | action buttons keep stretching the message lane and blur role alignment
Rejected: Hide rewind and copy entirely until a larger redesign | removes the control instead of fixing the regression
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep transcript actions inside the message column unless a future redesign also redefines bubble alignment rules
Tested: bun run test src/__tests__/pluginsSettings.test.tsx --run; bun run test src/components/chat/MessageList.test.tsx --run; bun run lint; bun run build; agent-browser verification against local mock desktop session
Not-tested: Real Tauri runtime screenshot on a live backend session after these layout changes
The desktop client already had a conversation-level rewind UI concept on the
CLI side, but the web/desktop surface lacked the protocol, session trimming,
and file checkpoint restore path needed to make rewind trustworthy. This change
adds a desktop-specific rewind API, wires the message-level UI affordance and
confirmation modal, enables SDK file checkpointing for desktop sessions, and
covers the restore path with service tests plus a real agent-browser workflow.
Constraint: Desktop sessions run the CLI in SDK/print mode, so file checkpointing had to be enabled explicitly for that path
Constraint: main branch is checked out in a separate worktree, so merge-back must happen from the primary worktree after commit
Rejected: UI-only rewind that only trims local state | would leave persisted transcript and disk state inconsistent after refresh
Rejected: Reuse getLastSessionLog as the sole snapshot source | active rewind must read file-history metadata directly from the session file
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep desktop rewind keyed to persisted user-message order unless the UI model starts carrying stable transcript UUIDs end-to-end
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/conversation-service.test.ts src/server/__tests__/sessions.test.ts; desktop MessageList vitest; desktop tsc no-emit; live agent-browser E2E on isolated ports with file edit then rewind
Not-tested: Browser E2E matrix for multi-file and second-edit scenarios is still covered at service-test level rather than full UI level
Move the Copy button from always-visible below messages to the
bottom-right side of each message bubble, only appearing on hover.
Reduces visual clutter in chat conversations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The session view exposed copy affordances in a way that implied the
whole conversation would be copied, while user prompts had no copy
path at all. This changes copy to a per-message footer action so the
scope is explicit for both prompts and assistant replies, and reuses
the shared clipboard helper instead of maintaining a second copy path.
Constraint: The worktree contains unrelated in-progress changes that must stay uncommitted
Rejected: Keep a floating action above each message | it interrupted reading order and still looked session-scoped
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep copy affordances attached to individual message blocks so the copied scope stays obvious
Tested: bun run test src/components/chat/MessageList.test.tsx; bun run lint
Not-tested: Manual desktop visual QA across dense multi-message sessions
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)
