The model selector dropdown was rendered inside the modal scroll container. When the task form sat near the top of the dialog, the upward-opening menu could be clipped by the container and become impossible to scroll into view. The selector now portals the menu to the document body and positions it against the trigger with viewport-aware fixed coordinates.
Constraint: The same selector is used by chat/session controls and scheduled-task controls, so the fix must preserve existing runtime selection behavior.
Rejected: Increase modal scroll padding | still leaves the dropdown coupled to a clipping parent and breaks in other overflow containers.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep floating selector content outside scroll-clipping parents; update viewport positioning if the modal layout changes.
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test -- src/components/controls/ModelSelector.test.tsx src/components/tasks/NewTaskModal.test.tsx
Tested: bun run check:desktop
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: Manual packaged desktop app check.
Scheduled tasks used the model selector in model-only mode, so a task could store a third-party model id without the provider runtime needed to execute it. The desktop task editor now stores the selected provider with the model, and the scheduler injects the same provider-scoped runtime env that desktop sessions use before launching the sidecar.
Constraint: Scheduled tasks run outside an active desktop websocket session, so provider runtime must be serialized on the task itself.
Rejected: Reuse session runtime localStorage for tasks | scheduled executions can run long after the UI session is gone.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Keep task execution provider env isolated from inherited process env; stale parent ANTHROPIC_* values must not override task provider choices.
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test -- src/components/tasks/NewTaskModal.test.tsx src/components/controls/ModelSelector.test.tsx
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/scheduled-tasks.test.ts src/server/__tests__/cron-scheduler-launcher.test.ts
Tested: bun run check:desktop
Tested: bun run check:server
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: Live third-party provider API call; covered by sidecar launch integration with provider proxy env.
Expose a workspace inspector for desktop sessions so users can browse the active project, preview files, inspect session-derived changes, and review diffs even when the work directory is not a git repository.
Constraint: The workspace view must work for temporary and non-git project directories.
Rejected: Rely only on git status | non-git sessions would lose the changed-files surface.
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Keep undo semantics separate from workspace browsing; checkpoint-backed rewind should remain the source of truth for rollback.
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/sessions.test.ts src/server/__tests__/workspace-service.test.ts
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test -- src/components/workspace/WorkspacePanel.test.tsx src/stores/workspacePanelStore.test.ts
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: Full desktop packaged app build after this commit
The model selector reused the light-theme primary fixed surface for selected rows, which made dark mode render a pale block with poor text contrast. This gives the selector its own selected-row tokens so dark mode can keep a low-luminance surface while light mode preserves the existing look.
Constraint: Keep the fix scoped to desktop theme tokens and the existing selector component
Rejected: Change primary-fixed globally | too broad because other components rely on that token semantics
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Do not point selected model rows back to primary-fixed without checking dark-mode contrast
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Tested: cd desktop && bun run build
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: Browser screenshot capture blocked by an existing Chrome DevTools profile instance
The desktop model picker now stores a session-scoped provider/model selection instead of relying on the global active provider. That selection is replayed on connect, passed into the CLI startup path, and preserved across turns until the user changes it again.
To make that true end-to-end, the server now restarts the session process when runtime selection changes, injects provider-scoped env for third-party providers, and routes proxy traffic by provider id. The selector UI was also tightened so provider grouping stays visible while the actual model choice remains readable.
Constraint: Different providers can expose the same model id, so chat runtime selection cannot be derived from model id alone
Constraint: A desktop session reuses one CLI subprocess across turns, so runtime changes must restart that process to take effect
Rejected: Keep using Settings active provider as the chat selector | conflates defaults with live session state and breaks overlapping models
Rejected: UI-only runtime switching without server restart | later turns would continue using the old CLI subprocess configuration
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep provider defaults and session runtime overrides separate, and preserve provider-scoped proxy routing when extending model selection surfaces
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test src/stores/chatStore.test.ts
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test src/__tests__/generalSettings.test.tsx
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/conversation-service.test.ts
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/conversations.test.ts
Tested: bun -e "await import('./src/server/services/titleService.ts'); await import('./src/server/ws/handler.ts')"
Not-tested: Real third-party provider round-trip from the desktop UI against a live upstream account
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.
Refactor PermissionModeSelector and ModelSelector to support controlled
(prop-driven) mode alongside the existing store-driven mode, enabling
reuse in the new task creation dialog. Rewrite NewTaskModal with embedded
prompt editor that combines textarea + permission/model/folder controls,
matching Claude's original design. Add desktop-online warning banner on
the scheduled tasks list page and default folder to current session workDir.
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)
