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refactor(web): register the Preview side panel - #16038
Integrated main 2359643cffa6ba9ee84d6f2694b935de54a8013e while preserving the existing PR history. At 360da26dd1116cc70c66d056eced226bae248034, vp run check:changed against that main revision passed compiler checks, affected package types, formatting, lint, unused-code and applicable dependency/schema checks.
Hosted CI and reviews must be assessed at this head. No integrated web/desktop or native-client pass was performed in this update. Earlier verification and media below retain their stated historical revisions; existing proposal and approval requirements remain as described below.
Current authorization follows main: standard pairings include access:write, so plugin installation and settings mutations are available to those sessions. Earlier traces that describe standard pairings as view-only predate that scope change. Mobile continues to expose its deliberately read-only plugin screens.
Compatibility update and verification: GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex harness through T3 Code.
Problem
After #15010, Diff mounts through the side-panel registry, but Preview (the Browser panel) still has its own hand-written lazy import and prop wiring in ChatView. The tab strip, the empty launcher and the + menu also each keep their own hand-written list of surfaces, letters and "unavailable" copy, so Browser and Diff are described in four places. Adding or changing a panel means keeping all of them in step. This PR moves Preview onto the registry and lets the registered panels describe themselves once, with no visible change.
Why this qualifies
This is the second of the two PRs proposed in Ideas discussion #14938 (internal panel host, following #1377). No maintainer has agreed to that direction yet. It began as a stack layer after #15010. The PR now targets main, so its review range is the full base-to-head contribution. Maintainer approval of the direction remains required.
Fix
panels/panelRegistry.ts: a definition now also carries title, icon, launcherKey, optional isSupported, and the short and long unavailable copy. Each panel's props are inferred from its lazily imported body, so there is no hand-written props map. get(id) returns the same lazy() component for every lookup and is typed with that id's props. It throws for an unregistered id.
panels/bundledPanels.tsx registers Diff and Preview. <RegisteredSidePanel> takes a closed union, so another panel's props, an unknown id or a widened id do not compile. It owns the <Suspense fallback={null}> that ChatView used to write around each panel.
components/preview/PreviewPanel.tsx moves to panels/preview/PreviewSidePanel.tsx. ChatView only ever used mode="embedded", so the mode prop is removed. The desktop-only copy and the optional tabId handling are unchanged.
panels/panelHost.ts: ChatView lends the rendered panel { threadRef, visible, composerDraftTarget, workspaceMutationId, sendAnnotation } through context. That is exactly what Diff and Preview were given as props before, and each field has a consumer here (Diff reads the draft target and workspace mutation id; Preview reads the thread, visibility and annotation send). sendAnnotation is bound to the environment and thread and forwards to the newest committed sender only while that thread remains active. A pick that settles after a thread switch is dropped; a same-thread rerender keeps the active pick.
RightPanelTabs.tsx: rightPanelSurfaceActions() builds one ordered list (B T F D P L M) for both the empty launcher and the + menu, replacing two inline lists and two copy maps. Browser and Diff take their label, icon, letter, availability and copy from their definitions. The Diff tab title and icon and the Browser fallback title and icon read the same source. Browser's availability is still isPreviewSupportedInRuntime(), now through isSupported, combined with the thread's own availability. The launcher calls onOpen() without arguments, so a click event can never be read as a browser profile id.
Keybinding ids and handlers (diff.toggle, preview.toggle), storage keys, launcher letters, order and all copy are unchanged. Stores, queries, server, contracts, desktop IPC/CSP and mobile are untouched.
Historical verification
At 04c15af, four React test suites use DOM roots and *.browser.test.tsx discovery, matching main's compiled Chromium runner. This removes the three react-test-renderer imports that caused the parent build/typecheck failure. The browser-profile suite also moves from jsdom to native browser clicks. This follow-up changes tests only.
Web typecheck (tsc-rs --noEmit -p apps/web/tsconfig.json), targeted lint and formatting: passed in an isolated exact-source snapshot using existing dependencies.
Compiler-enabled DOM fallback (react({ compiler: true }), jsdom): 3 files, 6 tests passed, covering registry lazy loading, mount/disposal identity, and Preview pick behavior. This is not a Chromium run.
The normal browser test command cannot start locally because @vitest/browser-playwright is absent from the installed dependencies (ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND). A fresh focused attempt on the four migrated suites confirms this startup blocker. Recovery instructions prohibit dependency installs and delegates, so no dependencies were installed and no speculative test change was pushed.
Historical CI was failing. Build and Typecheck passed at that revision, but Test Web aborts with an unhandled rejection from Vitest's browser mock factory resolver: There was an error when mocking a module. The nested cause repeats that wrapper without identifying the failing module. The aggregate Check fails too. The earlier jsdom fallback does not reproduce or clear this native-browser failure.
Remaining verification: reproduce the four migrated suites with the native browser provider available and capture the underlying mock-factory error before changing the tests. There is no successful current-head Chromium result for these suites. The branch and source are unchanged in this follow-up.
The staged hook rejected the snapshot fixture as not a Git directory; focused vp fmt --check passed. Independent review was skipped under the recovery instruction forbidding delegates. No new app captures or real-client verification were performed; the media and local checks below are historical at their named revisions.
Macroscope requires human approval for the shared registry/host refactor. CodeRabbit's summary reports no actionable comments, but its stated reviewed range ends at 41a991fc73681d1fb64ccad65918d488535cca00; it does not establish a review of this head. The proposal in discussion 14938 still needs a maintainer decision.
Historical evidence
Environment: macOS 26.5.2 arm64. Before is #15010 rebased on main (5981e74cdf); after is this head (8b92a7f06b). Each revision ran on its own fresh, isolated T3 home with the same disposable fixtures: a Git repo on feature/panel with one commit and one uncommitted edit, a non-Git folder, and a local static page. Web: Vite dev client in headless Chromium at 1440×1000. Desktop: each revision's built Electron app (vp run build:desktop) at 1440×1000. The theme is set through Settings → Appearance. The providers were not signed in, so the annotation turn was stopped as soon as the message landed.
Reproduction (same steps on both):
Open the empty right-panel launcher in a Git thread and in a non-Git thread. Hover the unavailable rows.
Open Diff, then the + menu. Hover the unavailable rows.
Desktop: open the Browser profile chooser from the launcher and from the + menu, then pick Incognito.
Desktop: open Browser from the launcher and load the fixture page.
Desktop: in Thread A, pick #hero, add a note and send it. Then start another pick in A, switch to Thread B, send a late click to A's page, and switch back to A.
Open Diff from the header, close it, reopen it with ⌘D and switch to Uncommitted.
Open the pull-requests page.
Observed before and after:
Web: all 28 still pairs (S1, S2, S6 and S7 in light and dark) are pixel-identical, both full frame and panel region.
Desktop: 31 of 40 still pairs are pixel-identical. The 9 others are explained below.
Launcher order and letters are B T F D P L M on both. On web, Browser shows "Only available in the desktop app." and the + menu shows "Browser previews are only available in the T3 Code desktop app." In a non-Git thread, Diff shows "Available for Git repositories." and "Diff is only available for server threads in Git repositories." All copy is identical on both revisions.
The Browser profile chooser lists Default and Incognito on both. Picking Incognito opens an Incognito tab. The loaded tab is titled "Panel Fixture Page".
Annotation: the picked #hero annotation lands as a user message in Thread A only, and Thread B stays empty. Switching to B cancels the pending pick, and a late click sent to A's retained page adds nothing to either thread. Back in A, there is still exactly one annotation. The behaviour is the same on both revisions.
Diff opens with branch changes (+4 −1, greet.ts and README), closes, reopens with ⌘D, and shows README only (+2 −0) in Uncommitted. All of these pairs are identical on web and desktop.
The 9 non-zero desktop pairs: eight are the annotation states. Seven of them differ by 82–90 pixels: the browser Back arrow is disabled on before and enabled on after, which reflects that tab's navigation history during the capture. The eighth (light, picked heading) differs by 1,150 pixels: the Back arrow plus raster pixels in the annotation note editor inside the page. The picked element, note and controls match. This PR does not change the Browser toolbar, PreviewView or the in-page annotation tool. The ninth pair (light, empty pull-requests page) differs by 19 pixels on the Sort icon and has no panel.
Before/after images are stacked below. Click a heading for the set.
Recording: Browser open via launcher → close → reopen, profile chooser → Incognito (desktop, dark, real time)
Pixel-diff images for the 9 non-zero desktop pairs are published next to these captures as diff-electron-<theme>-<state>.png.
Earlier checks at 8b92a7f06b, re-run 2026-10-05 (CI=true, all exit 0):
vp test run apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.test.tsx apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.browserProfile.test.tsx apps/web/src/panels apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.test.tsx: 6 files, 40 tests pass.
panels/preview/PreviewSidePanel.test.tsx drives the real RegisteredSidePanel → PreviewSidePanel → PreviewView path, stubbing only the desktop bridge, stores and leaf chrome. Re-rendering with a new host for the same thread keeps an in-flight element pick and does not remount Preview. Switching to another thread also keeps the one mount, and a pick that resolves after the switch still goes to the original thread's sender and draft.
RightPanelTabs.browserProfile.test.tsx clicks the empty launcher's Browser row, which opens the default profile, then picks Incognito from the profile chooser, which opens that profile.
panelRegistry.test.tsx: duplicate ids rejected without loading; nothing loads until first render, one mount across lookups; two panels with different props load and dispose independently and keep stable lazy identities.
bundledPanels.test.tsx: the real registry loads only the selected body (Preview, not Diff) and lends it the host.
Recorded during development: with this PR's source reverted to its parent (refactor(web): register the Diff side panel #15010), 3 tests fail and 2 suites cannot load. Each failure is an API this PR adds: rightPanelSurfaceActions, the panelHost module, and the panels.preview launcher prop. The Preview lifecycle and late-pick behaviour is not new. The parent already had it through PreviewPanel, and these tests show it survives the move.
vp run --filter @t3tools/web typecheck passes. Recorded during development: the compile-only fixtures (@ts-expect-error: Preview props on Diff, threadRef passed as a prop, wrong input type, unknown id, widened id with Preview props, missing and foreign props on the registry) produce 18 type errors against the parent.
vp lint --report-unused-disable-directives and vp fmt --check on the touched files: pass. Lint warnings match the parent for the same files, except RightPanelTabs.tsx goes from 1 to 0. vp run knip:check passes.
Not part of the re-run: vp run --filter @t3tools/web build (emits separate DiffSidePanel and PreviewSidePanel chunks), vp run build:desktop and node scripts/release-smoke.ts passed on the previous revision of this PR, which differs only in tests, and all three passed again at the top of this stack (the example plugins PR), which contains this change.
Surfaces
Entry points: header toggles, ⌘D / the Browser keybinding, the empty launcher, the + menu and the tab strip still reach the same single mount. The pull-requests page still shows Browser and Diff as unavailable.
Web: affected (the only code changed). On web the Browser row stays unavailable with the same copy.
Desktop: wraps the same web bundle; Electron shell, preload, IPC and CSP are unchanged. Desktop build and Release Smoke results below are historical; current verification is listed above.
Mobile: not affected. Mobile has no right panel and does not import apps/web.
Providers (Codex, Claude, Cursor, Grok, OpenCode, Antigravity): not affected; no adapter or provider output is involved.
Contracts: none changed. No wire change.
Reverse states: none added; open/close/reopen paths are the existing ones.
Local / remote-relay / tunnel: not affected. Panels read the same environment-scoped thread ref; queries and transport are unchanged.
Docs: none. How to use Browser and Diff does not change.
Not verified
Remote, relay and tunnel connections. This PR makes no wire change, so we did not run a --share pass.
Mobile. It has no right panel and does not import apps/web.
A live provider reply after the annotation. The providers were not signed in in the isolated homes, so the turn was stopped after the user message landed.
A late click physically made in Thread B. After the switch, A's page is hidden, so the late click was delivered to A's retained page programmatically.
Browser and Diff shown unavailable on the pull-requests page in the desktop app: the isolated desktop home had no pull requests, so the panel toggle was disabled. This was verified on web with a real pull request.
The fixture's red SVG favicon: neither revision displayed it, and both showed the default globe icon.
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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This refactor centralizes Browser and Diff registration and panel context. It also adds a t3code/no-unreasoned-state-sync lint suppression in ChatView.tsx that requires human review.
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Walkthrough
The change adds a typed registry for preview and diff panels, provides panel state through a host context, and updates panel rendering and launcher actions to use registry metadata. ChatView binds annotation sending to the active thread. Tests cover registry behavior, panel lifecycle, and launcher interactions.
Changes: Registered Side Panels
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Summary
Define and register panels apps/web/src/panels/panelRegistry.ts, apps/web/src/panels/bundledPanels.tsx, apps/web/src/panels/panelRegistry*.test.*, apps/web/src/panels/bundledPanels.browser.test.tsx
Panel definitions include typed props, metadata, lazy components, and lookup behavior. The bundled registry registers preview and diff panels. Tests cover lookup, lazy loading, component identity, and prop typing.
ChatView provides host state, which preview and diff panels read internally. Annotation sending is bound to the active thread. Panel rendering uses the registered components, and diff loading imports use DiffLoadingState.
Launcher and ChatView integration apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.tsx, apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs*.test.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestsPage.tsx
RightPanelTabs builds actions from panel metadata and surface configuration. ChatView supplies the panel launchers. The pull-request page marks preview and diff unavailable. Tests cover action properties and browser profile selection.
pingdotgg/t3code#27623 — The issue concerns draft-route DiffPanel rendering and thread-state hooks. This change moves Diff into the registered panel host, but the summaries do not establish that it addresses the reported behavior.
pingdotgg/t3code#22324 — The issue concerns RightPanelTabs keyboard behavior. This change updates launcher actions, but the summaries do not establish that it addresses the reported keyboard and focus behavior.
Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge
Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review eea57
No actionable merge-blocking risk remains from the reviewed changes.
Security Architecture Review
Security architecture risk:⚪ Minimal · up to 41a99
The reviewed panel and launcher flows preserve their existing thread scoping, availability checks, and annotation behavior. No material security risk introduced or worsened by this refactor was identified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The changed capability transport affects the selected thread's panel, composer draft, and existing browser annotation workflow. Fixed bundled bodies, preserved scoped inputs, and unchanged mount ownership provide no identified expansion to another environment or thread in the reviewed flows.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — PanelHost lends trusted bundled UI code draft and annotation capabilities; it is not an authorization boundary. The changed production call sites choose literal panel IDs, and the registry uses fixed imports. Browser-derived annotation data continues through the existing picker and composer path rather than gaining a new execution or loading channel.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Sharing launcher metadata and action construction reduces opportunities for availability controls to drift between the empty launcher and add menu. Runtime support remains combined with caller eligibility rather than replacing it.
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Preview becomes the second panel on the side-panel registry that Diff
started. Each definition now also carries the panel's title, icon, launcher
letter, client support and unavailable copy, so the tabs, the empty
launcher and the add menu read one ordered list instead of three
hand-kept ones. Labels, letters, order and copy are unchanged.
Panel props are inferred from each lazily loaded body, and the caller is a
closed union, so another panel's props, unknown ids and widened ids do not
compile. ChatView lends the rendered panel a small host (thread, right
panel visibility, composer draft target, workspace mutation id and the
annotation send) instead of drilling the same props into each body; the
annotation send keeps the per-render closure it had before, and PreviewView
still drops a pick that settles after a thread switch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ChatView built a new PanelHost on every render, so every usePanelHost
consumer re-rendered even when no host field changed. Memoize it on its
fields and send annotations through onSendRef so the sender stays stable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plain server threads reuse one ChatView, so the memoized panel host's
sender could resolve to the next thread's composer when a pick settled
after a switch. The latest sender now carries its thread key, and each
host forwards only to a sender for its own thread.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ChatView replaced the panel host's annotation sender while rendering. If
React threw that render away, an in-flight preview pick could still call
its onSend, for example one that edits a queued message instead of sending
a turn. Update the sender in a layout effect so only committed renders
lend it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This PR now carries only the Files tree fix. The panel-host layers it was
stacked on (pingdotgg#15010, pingdotgg#16038-pingdotgg#16043) wait on Ideas discussion #14938, and the
visit-scoped Add to chat / Open in browser guards are dropped: their races
were not shown to be reachable from a real client.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This PR now carries only the lazy loading of the two pull request panels.
The panel-host layers it was stacked on (pingdotgg#15010, pingdotgg#16038-pingdotgg#16041) wait on
Ideas discussion #14938; the lazy loading does not need them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This PR now carries only the checkout-terminal worktree fix. The panel-host
layers it was stacked on (pingdotgg#15010, pingdotgg#16038 and the terminal panel move) wait on
Ideas discussion #14938; the fix does not need them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the registry lifecycle test into the browser project, verify retained local state through a real DOM interaction, and format the moved Diff panel import.
Remove the old annotation sender that this change duplicates.
This change adds a second path that sends annotations through onSend. The old sendPreviewAnnotation and sendPreviewAnnotationStable (Lines 2896-2902) remain. They still feed onSendAnnotation at Line 3152. After this change, RightPanelSurfaceContent no longer reads props.onSendAnnotation, because the preview case renders RegisteredSidePanel with only tabId and configuredUrls. Two send paths for the same action can diverge, for example if one adds an argument. Delete sendPreviewAnnotation, sendPreviewAnnotationStable, the onSendAnnotation prop passed at Line 3152, and the prop type in RightPanelSurfaceContent.
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx around lines 3106 -
3108:
Remove the obsolete annotation-send path from ChatView: delete
sendPreviewAnnotation and sendPreviewAnnotationStable, remove the
onSendAnnotation prop passed to RightPanelSurfaceContent, and remove that prop
from RightPanelSurfaceContent’s type. Keep the annotation send through the
onSend callback as the sole path.
Remove the duplicate-id test from the browser file.
panelRegistry.test.ts Lines 13-18 already cover "rejects duplicate ids without loading either panel" with the same assertions. This test needs no DOM, so the unit file is the lowest layer that fails on main. The lazy component identity checks at Lines 55-56, 104 and 130 also repeat the unit assertion at panelRegistry.test.ts Line 22. Delete the duplicate duplicate-id test here. Keep only the mount and disposal behavior, which needs a browser.
As per path instructions: "Hold changed tests to the rules in docs/internals/testing.md." That doc says to "test at the lowest layer that would fail on main". As per coding guidelines: "Do not repeat the case in a wrapper test, at each call site, or in web and mobile copies of the same logic."
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/panels/panelRegistry.browser.test.tsx around
lines 16 - 21:
Remove the duplicate-id test from the browser test suite; duplicate ID rejection
is already covered by the unit test, so keep this browser suite focused on
behavior that requires a browser.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at
@apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.browserProfile.browser.test.tsx:
- Line 107: Add a one-line explanatory comment beside the router: false option
in renderScreen, stating that RightPanelTabs is rendered without route context
in this test.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/panels/bundledPanels.browser.test.tsx:
- Line 42: Add a one-line explanatory comment beside the `renderScreen` call in
the test, stating that `router: false` is used because the panel tree does not
use router hooks.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/panels/panelRegistry.browser.test.tsx:
- Line 24: Add a one-line explanatory comment immediately before each
`renderScreen` call that passes `router: false`, including both calls, stating
why that test does not need a router.
Review comments at
@apps/web/src/panels/preview/PreviewSidePanel.browser.test.tsx:
- Line 250: In the two `renderScreen` calls that pass `router: false`, add a
one-line comment explaining that the stubbed preview tree does not use router
hooks.
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx:
- Around line 3106-3108: Remove the obsolete annotation-send path from ChatView:
delete sendPreviewAnnotation and sendPreviewAnnotationStable, remove the
onSendAnnotation prop passed to RightPanelSurfaceContent, and remove that prop
from RightPanelSurfaceContent’s type. Keep the annotation send through the
onSend callback as the sole path.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/panels/panelRegistry.browser.test.tsx:
- Around line 16-21: Remove the duplicate-id test from the browser test suite;
duplicate ID rejection is already covered by the unit test, so keep this browser
suite focused on behavior that requires a browser.
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verified the linux web path as-is at 360da26dd1116cc70c66d056eced226bae248034, after establishing the baseline on github/main at 15fe2832727893cbdd2214383f9f971474849695. this is a behavior-preserving refactor, so main has no claimed user-visible defect to reproduce.
ran vp i in each checkout and one background vp run dev at a time. stopped main before starting the exact pr head. used repository playwright with /usr/bin/google-chrome at 1440 x 1000. created a real git repository, added its project through the app, and submitted real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the composer. no mocked provider, replay, fixtures, or demo data.
main's codex turn edited README.md and returned PANEL_READY; diff displayed the actual four-line patch. the pr displayed the same patch using a copy of that app-created state.
browser opened from the empty launcher, navigated to a real page, and opened incognito from the + menu on both revisions. browser and diff tabs switched correctly.
a second codex turn on the pr appended another sentence and returned REFRESH_READY. refreshing diff showed the new sentence and six insertions. collapse/reopen preserved the panel. ctrl+d selected diff; ctrl+shift+j selected browser with its URL and incognito profile intact.
a second app-created thread completed a real read-only codex turn (THREAD_B_READY Panel verification). it began without the first thread's panels; switching back restored the first thread's file panel and browser tabs.
neighboring file navigation opened the actual updated README.md. a terminal opened from the same + menu and ran pwd && git diff --stat, reporting /home/user/panel-verification and six insertions.
focused checks ran through blacksmith-check: 7 files, 23 tests passed, including the four chromium suites for registry, bundled panels, preview host, and browser profiles. the first attempt lacked the worker's chromium executable; after installing chromium and its system dependencies on that worker, the rerun passed. hosted status reports 34 successful checks, 0 failing, 0 pending at this head. no source changes or pushes were needed.
before on main, with the real codex edit:
after on the exact pr head, with the same conversation and patch:
recording: browser and incognito launch, diff switching, collapse/reopen, terminal output, and updated file. inspected the capture and checked uploaded mp4 playback and seeking in t3's browser player. this gif is the same recording, converted for inline github rendering.
Not verified
native desktop browser annotation picking/sending, including a late annotation after a thread switch. the web server-browser path deliberately omits the desktop pick control. the focused host tests pass, but they do not replace a real desktop interaction.
native ios/android clients, macos/windows desktop behavior, relay/tunnel and multi-environment sessions, restricted-scope pairings, other providers, and performance comparisons. these were outside this linux web pass.
no merge-readiness claim: proposal approval and maintainer decisions remain separate from runtime verification.
takeover fixup, 2026-11-01
merged current main without rebasing and pushed 0ea04d1f169f3eda5a2b8377176f7faac04a5ddd to the existing contributor branch. preserved the registry and panel host, including main's resizable diff file tree. updated main's existing comparison-recovery browser test to lend the panel host after the component move. added the missing router opt-out reasons and resolved all four bot threads.
blacksmith-check ran vp run check:changed github/main: format, lint, both knip checks, web/scripts typecheck, 14 test files with 81 passing tests, and compiler coverage for 13 files passed. installed chromium and system dependencies on the worker before browser tests. two independent read-only reviews approved this exact head with no blocker or should findings.
checked the integrated linux web app with playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome at 1440 x 1000. a replay provider turn exercised the client pipeline. diff displayed an actual on-disk README change; expanded it, refreshed it, collapsed/reopened the panel, and resized the file tree by keyboard from approximately 216px to 160px and then 176px. browser launched from the add menu and displayed its URL control and empty state. real browser navigation and desktop annotation picking were not exercised in this pass. existing earlier evidence and limitations above remain historical.
follow-up review fix at eea57ac95ba6da53cda26227c20d8a8a3cec2a9a: moved the browser-profile test recorder and callback into the test and passed the callback to the harness. removed its module-level mutable state and reset helper. default and incognito assertions are unchanged; production code is unchanged. blacksmith-check reran vp run check:changed github/main, including all 81 tests in 14 files, with every step passing. both independent reviewers approved this head.
takeover fixup, 2026-11-04
merged current main without rebasing and pushed 8a01d203536c4fa208e28550f7e179da34cbbc20 to the existing contributor branch. retained main's intersection observer import at the relocated diff panel. adapted main's new unloaded-file browser test to the panel host, preserving both default-collapse cases and their first-click assertions. no other feature changes.
blacksmith vp run check:changed github/main passed: format, lint (zero warnings), both knip checks, web/scripts typecheck, 84 tests in 14 files, and 13 compiler checks. two independent read-only reviewers approved this exact head. hosted status: 34 successful, zero pending/failing, no conflicts or unresolved bot threads.
linux web verified with playwright and system chrome at 1440 x 1000, isolated state and project. replay turn completed through the provider/client path. opened an actual README edit in diff, expanded it on the first click, refreshed, collapsed/reopened the panel, and opened Browser from the add menu. native desktop annotations, browser navigation, mobile, and relay/tunnel remain unverified in this pass. historical before/after evidence above is retained.
takeover fixup, 2026-11-06
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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria
merged current main without rebasing (no textual conflicts) and pushed 12eeea291f16f6bda7c7547d84cd0d199611cf21 to the existing contributor branch. main's dictation work broke the stubbed Preview side panel test, so the only change is in that test: stubbed PreviewAnnotationSpeech like the other leaf chrome, added selectThreadRightPanelState to the partial rightPanelStore mock, and let the thread-switch pick assertion accept main's new second pickElement argument. no production code changed.
blacksmith vp run check:changed against main passed: format, lint, both knip checks, typecheck, 84 tests in 14 files, and 13 compiler checks. hosted status: 34 successful, no conflicts, no unresolved bot threads. no browser pass this round since the change is test-only; the earlier runtime evidence above is from the previous head.
takeover fixup, 2026-11-10
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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria
merged current main without rebasing and pushed 4bc64d8b2f63f90bfb08c73de9ffe4623a781fa2 to the existing contributor branch. the only conflict was the ChatView.tsx import block: kept main's useSideChatCitationReveal import next to this PR's panel host imports. no other changes.
blacksmith vp run check:changed against main passed: format, lint, both knip checks, typecheck, 83 tests in 15 files, and 13 compiler checks. no unresolved bot threads.
linux web verified with playwright and system chrome at 1440 x 1000 on isolated state. a replay turn ran in a real git project. ctrl+d opened Diff with the on-disk README edit (+2), and ctrl+shift+j opened Browser through the panel host. no page errors. desktop annotations, mobile, and relay/tunnel were not exercised.
DiffPanelShell is removed, but DiffSidePanelFrame still duplicates the live FILE_SURFACE_SUBHEADER_CLASS treatment used by file-preview panels. Reuse that shared class and add only the Diff-specific layout variant.
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Update the header in DiffSidePanelFrame to reuse FILE_SURFACE_SUBHEADER_CLASS
instead of duplicating the shared surface-subheader styles, adding only the
Diff-specific layout classes needed to preserve its appearance.
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- Around line 19-27: Move the mutable opened recorder out of module scope in the
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- Around line 203-205: Update the header in DiffSidePanelFrame to reuse
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Integrated main
2359643cffa6ba9ee84d6f2694b935de54a8013ewhile preserving the existing PR history. At360da26dd1116cc70c66d056eced226bae248034,vp run check:changedagainst that main revision passed compiler checks, affected package types, formatting, lint, unused-code and applicable dependency/schema checks.Hosted CI and reviews must be assessed at this head. No integrated web/desktop or native-client pass was performed in this update. Earlier verification and media below retain their stated historical revisions; existing proposal and approval requirements remain as described below.
Current authorization follows main: standard pairings include
access:write, so plugin installation and settings mutations are available to those sessions. Earlier traces that describe standard pairings as view-only predate that scope change. Mobile continues to expose its deliberately read-only plugin screens.Compatibility update and verification: GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex harness through T3 Code.
Problem
After #15010, Diff mounts through the side-panel registry, but Preview (the Browser panel) still has its own hand-written lazy import and prop wiring in
ChatView. The tab strip, the empty launcher and the + menu also each keep their own hand-written list of surfaces, letters and "unavailable" copy, so Browser and Diff are described in four places. Adding or changing a panel means keeping all of them in step. This PR moves Preview onto the registry and lets the registered panels describe themselves once, with no visible change.Why this qualifies
This is the second of the two PRs proposed in Ideas discussion #14938 (internal panel host, following #1377). No maintainer has agreed to that direction yet. It began as a stack layer after #15010. The PR now targets
main, so its review range is the full base-to-head contribution. Maintainer approval of the direction remains required.Fix
panels/panelRegistry.ts: a definition now also carriestitle,icon,launcherKey, optionalisSupported, and the short and long unavailable copy. Each panel's props are inferred from its lazily imported body, so there is no hand-written props map.get(id)returns the samelazy()component for every lookup and is typed with that id's props. It throws for an unregistered id.panels/bundledPanels.tsxregisters Diff and Preview.<RegisteredSidePanel>takes a closed union, so another panel's props, an unknown id or a widened id do not compile. It owns the<Suspense fallback={null}>thatChatViewused to write around each panel.components/preview/PreviewPanel.tsxmoves topanels/preview/PreviewSidePanel.tsx.ChatViewonly ever usedmode="embedded", so themodeprop is removed. The desktop-only copy and the optionaltabIdhandling are unchanged.panels/panelHost.ts:ChatViewlends the rendered panel{ threadRef, visible, composerDraftTarget, workspaceMutationId, sendAnnotation }through context. That is exactly what Diff and Preview were given as props before, and each field has a consumer here (Diff reads the draft target and workspace mutation id; Preview reads the thread, visibility and annotation send).sendAnnotationis bound to the environment and thread and forwards to the newest committed sender only while that thread remains active. A pick that settles after a thread switch is dropped; a same-thread rerender keeps the active pick.RightPanelTabs.tsx:rightPanelSurfaceActions()builds one ordered list (B T F D P L M) for both the empty launcher and the + menu, replacing two inline lists and two copy maps. Browser and Diff take their label, icon, letter, availability and copy from their definitions. The Diff tab title and icon and the Browser fallback title and icon read the same source. Browser's availability is stillisPreviewSupportedInRuntime(), now throughisSupported, combined with the thread's own availability. The launcher callsonOpen()without arguments, so a click event can never be read as a browser profile id.diff.toggle,preview.toggle), storage keys, launcher letters, order and all copy are unchanged. Stores, queries, server, contracts, desktop IPC/CSP and mobile are untouched.Historical verification
At 04c15af, four React test suites use DOM roots and
*.browser.test.tsxdiscovery, matching main's compiled Chromium runner. This removes the threereact-test-rendererimports that caused the parent build/typecheck failure. The browser-profile suite also moves from jsdom to native browser clicks. This follow-up changes tests only.tsc-rs --noEmit -p apps/web/tsconfig.json), targeted lint and formatting: passed in an isolated exact-source snapshot using existing dependencies.react({ compiler: true }), jsdom): 3 files, 6 tests passed, covering registry lazy loading, mount/disposal identity, and Preview pick behavior. This is not a Chromium run.@vitest/browser-playwrightis absent from the installed dependencies (ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND). A fresh focused attempt on the four migrated suites confirms this startup blocker. Recovery instructions prohibit dependency installs and delegates, so no dependencies were installed and no speculative test change was pushed.There was an error when mocking a module. The nested cause repeats that wrapper without identifying the failing module. The aggregate Check fails too. The earlier jsdom fallback does not reproduce or clear this native-browser failure.vp fmt --checkpassed. Independent review was skipped under the recovery instruction forbidding delegates. No new app captures or real-client verification were performed; the media and local checks below are historical at their named revisions.Macroscope requires human approval for the shared registry/host refactor. CodeRabbit's summary reports no actionable comments, but its stated reviewed range ends at
41a991fc73681d1fb64ccad65918d488535cca00; it does not establish a review of this head. The proposal in discussion 14938 still needs a maintainer decision.Historical evidence
Environment: macOS 26.5.2 arm64. Before is #15010 rebased on main (5981e74cdf); after is this head (8b92a7f06b). Each revision ran on its own fresh, isolated T3 home with the same disposable fixtures: a Git repo on
feature/panelwith one commit and one uncommitted edit, a non-Git folder, and a local static page. Web: Vite dev client in headless Chromium at 1440×1000. Desktop: each revision's built Electron app (vp run build:desktop) at 1440×1000. The theme is set through Settings → Appearance. The providers were not signed in, so the annotation turn was stopped as soon as the message landed.Reproduction (same steps on both):
#hero, add a note and send it. Then start another pick in A, switch to Thread B, send a late click to A's page, and switch back to A.Observed before and after:
#heroannotation lands as a user message in Thread A only, and Thread B stays empty. Switching to B cancels the pending pick, and a late click sent to A's retained page adds nothing to either thread. Back in A, there is still exactly one annotation. The behaviour is the same on both revisions.greet.tsand README), closes, reopens with ⌘D, and shows README only (+2 −0) in Uncommitted. All of these pairs are identical on web and desktop.PreviewViewor the in-page annotation tool. The ninth pair (light, empty pull-requests page) differs by 19 pixels on the Sort icon and has no panel.Before/after images are stacked below. Click a heading for the set.
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Pixel-diff images for the 9 non-zero desktop pairs are published next to these captures as
diff-electron-<theme>-<state>.png.Earlier checks at 8b92a7f06b, re-run 2026-10-05 (
CI=true, all exit 0):vp test run apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.test.tsx apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.browserProfile.test.tsx apps/web/src/panels apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.test.tsx: 6 files, 40 tests pass.panels/preview/PreviewSidePanel.test.tsxdrives the realRegisteredSidePanel→PreviewSidePanel→PreviewViewpath, stubbing only the desktop bridge, stores and leaf chrome. Re-rendering with a new host for the same thread keeps an in-flight element pick and does not remount Preview. Switching to another thread also keeps the one mount, and a pick that resolves after the switch still goes to the original thread's sender and draft.RightPanelTabs.browserProfile.test.tsxclicks the empty launcher's Browser row, which opens the default profile, then picks Incognito from the profile chooser, which opens that profile.panelRegistry.test.tsx: duplicate ids rejected without loading; nothing loads until first render, one mount across lookups; two panels with different props load and dispose independently and keep stable lazy identities.bundledPanels.test.tsx: the real registry loads only the selected body (Preview, not Diff) and lends it the host.rightPanelSurfaceActions, thepanelHostmodule, and thepanels.previewlauncher prop. The Preview lifecycle and late-pick behaviour is not new. The parent already had it throughPreviewPanel, and these tests show it survives the move.vp run --filter @t3tools/web typecheckpasses. Recorded during development: the compile-only fixtures (@ts-expect-error: Preview props on Diff,threadRefpassed as a prop, wrong input type, unknown id, widened id with Preview props, missing and foreign props on the registry) produce 18 type errors against the parent.vp lint --report-unused-disable-directivesandvp fmt --checkon the touched files: pass. Lint warnings match the parent for the same files, exceptRightPanelTabs.tsxgoes from 1 to 0.vp run knip:checkpasses.vp run --filter @t3tools/web build(emits separateDiffSidePanelandPreviewSidePanelchunks),vp run build:desktopandnode scripts/release-smoke.tspassed on the previous revision of this PR, which differs only in tests, and all three passed again at the top of this stack (the example plugins PR), which contains this change.Surfaces
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