Tooltip subtlety round: 500ms rest delay, quiet chip, parens suffixes, drops + trims

Owner round 2026-09-25, over 09c0f6e. The wave's tooltips read as
distracting; this round makes them quiet:

- Delay: TOOLTIP_DELAY_MS = 500 in the primitive — tooltips appear when
  you pause on a control, never in passing (Radix focus-opens stay
  instant by design; keyboard users don't wait).
- Vanish on leave: disableHoverableContent — the chip is un-hoverable,
  so the instant the cursor leaves the trigger it's gone, even mid-move
  onto the chip's own pixels.
- Look: bg-accent (#2a2a2a, the hover-chip tone) instead of the white
  bg-foreground slab; 11px; px-2 py-1; arrow culled (nothing purely
  decorative); text-foreground/85.
- Suffix: parentheses, not em-dash — "Dictate (⌘D)"; the registry
  source unchanged (still override-aware).
- Drops (owner-selected): send square, start square, stats summary —
  the icons/numbers describe themselves.
- Home logo kept but to the RIGHT with its real shortcut "Home (⌘G)"
  (jump-graph routes to /, the same destination).
- Trims: "Model selector (⌘K)", "Thinking level", "Graph costs —
  click for details", "How much of this session isn't mapped yet".
- Added: Import Notes gets "Import notes into the graph" — the one
  button whose destination wasn't obvious.

Pins: TOOLTIP_DELAY_MS=500; hintText parens expectations updated.
Live-verified on :3001 — 508ms hover delay measured, close within 10ms
of pointerout, chip styles probed (rgb(42,42,42), 11px, 4px/8px), arrow
gone, all new labels + sides confirmed, drops carry no tooltip and no
aria-describedby.

components/ui/hint.tsx

@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ import { bindingForAction, formatBinding, type KeyAction } from "@/src/core"
 
 /**
  * The tooltip composition for icon and pill controls (tooltip wave, owner
- * 2026-09-25). The styled Radix tooltip (ui/tooltip.tsx, adopted as-is —
- * no restyling) carries the label, with the control's shortcut appended as
- * an em-dash suffix when it has one ("Dictate — ⌘D").
+ * 2026-09-25; subtlety round same day). The styled Radix tooltip carries
+ * the label, with the control's shortcut appended in parentheses when
+ * it has one ("Dictate (⌘D)") — the owner call: the em-dash suffix read
+ * as too much air.
  *
  * The binding is override-aware: pass `action` for registry shortcuts (a
  * user rebind in Settings → Keyboard changes the suffix live), or
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ interface HintProps {
 	children: React.ReactElement
 }
 
-/** The composition itself, pure — "Dictate" + ⌘D → "Dictate — ⌘D". Exported
+/** The composition itself, pure — "Dictate" + ⌘D → "Dictate (⌘D)". Exported
  *  for the mechanism pins (tests/tooltip-mechanism.test.tsx). */
 export function hintText(label: string, action?: KeyAction, binding?: string): string {
 	const live = action
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ export function hintText(label: string, action?: KeyAction, binding?: string): s
 		: binding
 			? formatBinding(binding)
 			: ""
-	return live ? `${label} — ${live}` : label
+	return live ? `${label} (${live})` : label
 }
 
 export function Hint({ label, action, binding, side = "top", children }: HintProps) {

components/ui/tooltip.tsx

@@ -5,8 +5,21 @@ import { Tooltip as TooltipPrimitive } from "radix-ui"
 
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils"
 
+/**
+ * The styled tooltip (tooltip wave → subtlety round, owner 2026-09-25):
+ * a quiet dark chip, not a white slab — accent tone (the hover-chip color),
+ * 11px, minimal padding, no arrow (nothing purely decorative). Opens after
+ * a 500ms rest, so tooltips appear when you pause on a control, never in
+ * passing; disableHoverableContent means the chip is un-hoverable — the
+ * instant the cursor leaves the trigger it's gone, even mid-move onto the
+ * chip's own pixels.
+ */
+
+/** The rest delay (ms): shared by hover and focus opens. */
+export const TOOLTIP_DELAY_MS = 500
+
 function TooltipProvider({
-  delayDuration = 0,
+  delayDuration = TOOLTIP_DELAY_MS,
   ...props
 }: React.ComponentProps<typeof TooltipPrimitive.Provider>) {
   return (
@@ -19,9 +32,16 @@ function TooltipProvider({
 }
 
 function Tooltip({
+  disableHoverableContent = true,
   ...props
 }: React.ComponentProps<typeof TooltipPrimitive.Root>) {
-  return <TooltipPrimitive.Root data-slot="tooltip" {...props} />
+  return (
+    <TooltipPrimitive.Root
+      data-slot="tooltip"
+      disableHoverableContent={disableHoverableContent}
+      {...props}
+    />
+  )
 }
 
 function TooltipTrigger({
@@ -32,7 +52,7 @@ function TooltipTrigger({
 
 function TooltipContent({
   className,
-  sideOffset = 0,
+  sideOffset = 6,
   children,
   ...props
 }: React.ComponentProps<typeof TooltipPrimitive.Content>) {
@@ -42,16 +62,15 @@ function TooltipContent({
         data-slot="tooltip-content"
         sideOffset={sideOffset}
         className={cn(
-          "z-50 w-fit origin-(--radix-tooltip-content-transform-origin) animate-in rounded-md bg-foreground px-3 py-1.5 text-xs text-balance text-background fade-in-0 zoom-in-95 data-[side=bottom]:slide-in-from-top-2 data-[side=left]:slide-in-from-right-2 data-[side=right]:slide-in-from-left-2 data-[side=top]:slide-in-from-bottom-2 data-[state=closed]:animate-out data-[state=closed]:fade-out-0 data-[state=closed]:zoom-out-95",
+          "z-50 w-fit origin-(--radix-tooltip-content-transform-origin) animate-in rounded-md bg-accent px-2 py-1 text-[11px] text-foreground/85 text-balance fade-in-0 zoom-in-95 data-[side=bottom]:slide-in-from-top-2 data-[side=left]:slide-in-from-right-2 data-[side=right]:slide-in-from-left-2 data-[side=top]:slide-in-from-bottom-2 data-[state=closed]:animate-out data-[state=closed]:fade-out-0 data-[state=closed]:zoom-out-95",
           className
         )}
         {...props}
       >
         {children}
-        <TooltipPrimitive.Arrow className="z-50 size-2.5 translate-y-[calc(-50%_-_2px)] rotate-45 rounded-[2px] bg-foreground fill-foreground" />
       </TooltipPrimitive.Content>
     </TooltipPrimitive.Portal>
   )
 }
 
-export { Tooltip, TooltipTrigger, TooltipContent, TooltipProvider }
+export { Tooltip, TooltipTrigger, TooltipContent, TooltipProvider }