Owner ruling (keyboard round 2026-10-06): Esc (or any key) does ONE
action, on the topmost active layer. The plan-open-while-dictating
double-act was the symptom: the plan popup listened at WINDOW level
with no claim, and same-node window listeners all fire — the global
chain (registered first) cancelled the dictation while the plan's own
listener closed the plan. One Esc, two actions.
The law (now the house pattern, documented at the chain):
- field-level handlers claim at their element (focus in a field: the
field's action) — unchanged, already correct
- every SURFACED layer claims at the DOCUMENT level with preventDefault
+ stopPropagation — document fires before the window chain, so the
chain stays silent under any surface
- the window chain is the bottom-up fallback: dictation (a live capture,
NOT a surface — it survives the Esc that closes a plan or overlay),
then abort (escAbortTarget layers its own targets)
Converted to the claim: plan popup, session overlay, chain table,
settings dialog, setup dialog, the delete/abort dialogs (window-level
stopPropagation was never enough — same-node listeners all fire), and
the stats popover. Popovers (popover-dismiss), menus, model picker, and
the sidebar context menu already claimed correctly.
1427 tests, tsc, lint, build green.
- settings: compaction.thresholdTokens row on the Agent tab (owner pick)
in a Context group — CommitInput mirroring the graph budget row, hint
resolved through the SAME core resolver the trigger reads; PUT rejects
below the 32k floor with the anti-churn rationale; own section
(compaction) in SETTINGS_SECTIONS + the settings-signal union
- view fold: one marker → two dividers — the minimal MOMENT divider at
the marker (retrying-message register, no rule lines) and the longer
CUT divider emitted immediately before the first kept message
(phase-divider geometry, chip carries '· Nk tok'); both carry the full
summary payload; full history stays visible to the user
- components/compaction-divider.tsx: the dividers + summary dialog
(pure exported body for SSR pins, the delete-dialog pattern; Esc +
Close dismiss, backdrop does not)
- chat.tsx: compaction-changed SSE flips the running state — composer
canSend, onSend/doSend/doSteerOrSend, and both docks' submit + hint
('compacting session…') gate on it (the server's registry mutex is the
structural gate; this is the affordance); dialog mounts beside the
abort dialog
- pins: settings-body (4), view fold (2), divider SSR (4)
Owner-approved full pass (tooltip wave, 2026-09-25). Mechanism: icon/pill
controls ride the styled Radix tooltip via a new Hint composition
(components/ui/hint.tsx) — the shared primitive adopted as-is, no
restyling; the shortcut appends as an em-dash suffix off the LIVE registry
(a rebind in Settings → Keyboard changes the suffix): "Dictate — ⌘D".
Surface-owned keys (Esc closes, Enter submits) ride a raw binding prop.
Native title= stays only for truncation-reveals (dock spans, the rename
field) and menu-interior abbreviations (MenuShell untouched). One
em-dash pattern; per-state truth on the send square (busy = "Stop the
reply — Esc", idle = "Send — ↵"), Enter on the plan verdict's accept,
"Stop dictation (Esc)" kept verbatim per the owner's flag.
Copy: the dev-speak cull — no pipeline/prober/tier/wave vocabulary
anywhere a user reads. New pins in tests/tooltip-mechanism.test.tsx
(hintText composition, asChild no-wrapper-DOM, the auto-update hint
constant); dock truncation titles pinned native; graph-chrome + settings
pins updated to the new copy.
Live-verified on :3001 — 12.6ms hover appearance (no native 1s lag);
glyphs render on every suffixed surface (⌘D, ⌘K, ⌘⇧F, ⌘,, ⌘B, F2, ↵,
Esc); per-page probes confirm Settings entry, Home logo, session search,
Start session, Close sidebar, model + thinking pills, stats summary,
rename title, plan chip, coverage ring, send square, cost button, node
search (⌘F), graph gear, settings close (Close — Esc), keyboard section
"Fixed — part of this screen", auto-update hint, light-mode "Coming
soon", the three slot rosters, graph-tools hint. Esc still closes the
settings dialog.
Over Platform's 66dbea9 key-presence seam, the five owner-locked tasks:
1. Zero-keys pill — components/setup-cta.tsx: pure hasProviderKey
(classifyKeys reuse — tool keys like Deepgram never count), useZeroKeys
(GET /api/keys, re-read on the new lh:settings-saved 'keys' signal),
ZeroKeysPill (testid setup-cta-keys) taking PRECEDENCE over the models
CTA on chat/home/new-session. SettingsSection gains 'keys'; keys-section
dispatches after save AND delete.
2. Setup stage 1 is self-contained: provider picker (MenuShell +
ProviderMenuList) + key paste + Save via PUT /api/keys/:id — the dialog
STAYS MOUNTED; its own save dispatches the keys signal, the fetch effect
re-runs on it, and the stage flips to the pickers on its own.
onOpenKeys + setup-open-keys die. SetupKeysBody exported for SSR pins.
3. parseProviderKeyRefusal (chat.tsx, envelope-verbatim twin of
parseModelsRefusal) joins the revert-draft-and-open-setup interception;
activity-dock reads 'needs a provider key'; dispatch-card shows
'Add a key' — both deep-link setup, which lands on stage 1 by itself.
4. Dictation trio: the token route's only 503 (missing Deepgram key)
becomes the client-authored DICTATION_KEYLESS short line; the errored
idle click clears the error and deep-links Settings -> Keys ->
DEEPGRAM_API_KEY via the new open(section, row) seam (dialog landOnRow
-> SettingsDialogBody initialRow -> KeysSection openRow follow-effect).
Live-verified on :3001 under LH_IGNORE_ENV_KEYS=1 (the fresh-user switch):
pill on all three surfaces + precedence over the CTA, stage-1 save ->
auto-advance with dialog mounted, real 503 send refusal reverting the
draft and opening setup, dictation 503 -> short line -> Settings lands on
the unfolded Deepgram row with the error cleared, keys-section save and
delete both flipping the pill live, and a fabricated refused research job
rendering the 'Add a key' dispatch card. 926/926, tsc/lint/build green.
Part 1 — the surface:
- Settings ▸ Agent ▸ Tools gains the prober GRAPH-TOOLS row as its FIRST
row (owner ruling: in the Tools section, not the tool-toggles list —
its subject is the map, its mechanism is agent capability). Writes
agent.graphTools {enabled} (absent = on, the toggle discipline) via
the section PUT; composeGraphTools pure seam. Its own key in the agent
contract — never in the tools map.
- The row carries the search-row hint discipline: "Connects prior
sessions' knowledge into new ones — the prober reads the knowledge
map" (owner wording). The honest interplay composes both: when
graph.enabled is off the row dims + disables with a "Graph is
disabled" hint (the effective gate itself is server-side, per-turn
fresh). AgentSection reads the graph section (record.graph, passed by
the dialog) — read-only.
- Cluster labels wrap: wave 7 made labels session names and FILE PATHS,
which the old single-line fillText could not bound. wrapRegionLabel
(pure, exported): word-wrap first, char-split long paths (the
node-label discipline), capped at 3 lines, overflow folded into an
ellipsized last line (owner: wrap, cap 2–3, ellipsize). Pre-wrapped
once per geometry build at the SCREEN-fixed size (viewer-relative
labels — the wrap never goes stale mid-camera-move), drawn centered
line-by-line at the centroid. Deleted-session clusters keep their
hull-only honest silence (label null → no lines).
- The orphan sweep: StatsBar's leftSlot prop is dead (its one consumer,
the knowledge-context slider, died in c690181) — removed, and pre-chat
views now render NOTHING on the left (owner ruling this round: a
"— · —" summary over an empty popover is pure noise) — the dictation
middle just widens. Stale knowledge-context comments swept in
chat.tsx (adoption-window + activity-nudge docs), activity-dock.tsx
(useActivity ground rules), dictation.tsx (×2 adaptive-meter docs),
home.tsx (pre-chat dock comment).
Part 2 — Teacher's c690181 review: clean. Imports, KIND_ICON/KIND_LABEL
entries, render branches and event seams all excised whole; the probe-
handoff branch re-indented intact and merge-adopted; tests updated in
lockstep (merge-adopted, record-adapter, render-new-session retired).
Platform's 4b60e0f roster-string fixes (labeler dropped from both
SLOT_META blocks) reviewed — consistent across agent-section +
setup-dialog.
Gates: tsc clean, 854/854 (8 new: wrapRegionLabel cases, graphTools
SSR rows ×3; stats-bar + ladder fixtures updated to the new rulings),
lint 0, build ok. Live on :3001: graphTools row first-in-group with
hint, off→{enabled:false}→on round-trip, graph-off dimming + hint +
disabled toggle, pre-chat rows summary-free, chat view keeps its
summary, long-title cluster label wrapped without console errors
(visual read unavailable this session — pure wrap is unit-pinned).
The owner's wave-7 ruling: embeddings die entirely (git history is the
stash); clustering is birth-session derived (chunk A, 950ddfd), labels
are session names, and the prober's graph tools replace injection.
- settings: GraphSettings collapses to { enabled } — embedding,
embeddingModel, clustering, labeling all die. Migration story: stale
record keys are UNREAD and dropped by the sanitizer's reconstruction;
the next graph-section PUT (replace-whole) persists the collapsed
shape. The settings-panel GraphSection renders one master row.
- deleted: src/server/embeddings.ts (adapters, resolveEmbeddingPortFor,
embedNewNodes, embeddingPort, embeddingModelCatalog), the
GET /api/models/embeddings route, scripts/embed-graph.ts, tests for
all three, and the /api/models/embeddings picker surfaces in the UI.
- prices: EMBEDDING_PRICES overlay + callCost fallback die. cost-summary:
the embedding stage fold dies — back to three stages (extraction/
audit/naming) per the owner ruling; historical stages.embedding spend
in old run records is simply not displayed.
- ports: EmbeddingPort/EmbeddingResult/EmbeddingTask die. The embeddings
LEDGER surface (readEmbeddings/writeEmbeddings + EmbeddingsLedger +
EMBEDDINGS_FILE + graph-deletion's vector pruning) STAYS — inert data,
kept only so graph-context.ts compiles until Teacher's pass removes
it; the seam dies in the follow-up interlude.
- chat-handler (approved cross-lane unwiring, wave-6 precedent): the
extraction pipeline's embedder becomes a documented no-op (nothing
embedded, nothing spent, ledger untouched) until Teacher's pass
removes the phase; the graph-context injection dispatch gate, the
graphContext deps wiring, the setContextRespawn seam, and
turn-service's triggerGraphContext are gone — injection is dead
code pending Teacher's file deletions.
- scripts: backfill-graph/import-notes pass the same no-op embedder;
replay-layout derives clusters from birthSessionPartition (the same
partition the real settle uses) instead of the embeddings ledger.
- settings-body: parseGraphSettingsBody reads the master switch only —
old-shape keys in a body are ignored, not rejected; bad shapes 400.
- next.config: the @huggingface tracing-exclusion guards die with the
last reference.
Cross-lane flags: extraction.ts/graph-context.ts keep stale embed
comments + the embed phase until Teacher's full pass (their parallel
interlude owns those files — zero overlap kept by design);
semantic-clusters.ts + its test stay one more round (extraction.test.ts,
Teacher's file, still imports it — they delete it with the namer cases);
ChatSettings.graphContextTokens + the graph-context-control UI stay
until Teacher+UI.
Gates: tsc clean, eslint clean, 885/885 tests, build compiles.
Live-verified on the port-3004 dev tree: PUT /api/settings/graph with
dead keys collapses on write, bad shapes 400, GET reads {enabled: true},
/api/models/embeddings 404s.
- Settings ▸ Graph grows the embedding-model picker (graph-row-embedding-model):
GET /api/models/embeddings' live-federated BYOK catalog (re-fetched on mount
and every settings save), rows priced from EMBEDDING_PRICES ("$x.xx/1M in",
honestly "—" when unlisted), ids shown AND stored as full colon-safe slugs
(openrouter:liquid/…:free is never split), plus an Unset row writing null.
Empty catalog = nothing keyed: the trigger BECOMES the deep link to Keys
("Add a provider key first…") — and deep-links fired while the dialog is
open now actually switch sections (initialSection was read once at mount;
the body follows it now — pre-existing gap, first exercised by this link).
- Re-embed gate (owner design): picking a model that differs from the stored
one holds the write behind a confirm strip carrying the honest node count
from GET /api/graph; zero propositions skip the strip (nothing to re-embed)
and land directly. Unset never confirms — the port just stops resolving.
The copy says the re-embed runs with the next background pass (the staleness
machinery — a settings PUT alone never triggers it; no server endpoints
were added).
- Gray-out, the searchStatus precedent: with no model configured, the ladder
rungs Embedding/Clustering/Labeling dim + disable with a "Needs an
embedding model" hint (master switch stays lit), and the stats-bar
GraphContextControl swaps its slider for a dimmed deep-link button to the
Graph section. Loading never grays; every settings save re-reads (signal).
- Cost chrome: the pipeline popover grows the Embeddings stage row
(costs.stages.embedding, wave 6's folded stage — "— · 0 in / 0 out" until
runs exist, same as its siblings).
- Master's ride-along: the core-barrel ChatDeleteMode comment now says two
type-only things (it always exported both).
Gates: tsc clean, 912/912 (8 new: price lines, model-dependency predicate,
unset/set SSR dimming; 2 ladder fixtures updated to the new no-model
semantics), lint 0, build ok. Live-verified on :3001: unset deep-link →
graph section, menu pricing + colon-safety (37 options), confirm strip with
"20 propositions", Cancel keeps the record, Unset writes immediately,
in-dialog empty-catalog deep-link lands Keys, Embeddings row in the popover.
Fix 1 (owner: "lock must not shift"): the settings dialog's scroll-lock no
longer toggles the content column to overflow-hidden (which hid the
scrollbar and shifted everything right). The column KEEPS overflow-y-auto —
scrollbar and widths stay exactly as they are — and while any MenuShell is
open, non-passive wheel + touchmove listeners on the column preventDefault
so it cannot scroll (owner-ruled mechanism: the scrollbar may stay,
scrolling must not happen, nothing may move). Native listeners via ref —
React attaches synthetic wheel/touch passively at the root.
Fix 2 (owner repro: xhigh pin survives a GLM swap on screen until reload):
every models-writing surface now mirrors SERVER TRUTH, never the request
body. The PUT already returns the full stored record with clamps applied —
settings-dialog write() and the composer's save() now setRecord/setModels
from the response, so a swap that rides an unsupported level shows the
clamped value in the same interaction: the row trigger, the open menu's
level list + checkmark, and the composer pill all read the stored record.
Live-verified the owner's exact repro: deepseek pinned extra high → GLM
swap via the slot menu → trigger/menu/pill showed the stored clamped level
immediately; and the lock cycle: scroll 300 → blocked while open → 300
after release, zero positional shift at engage.
- lh:settings-saved CustomEvent (the lh:chat-renamed pattern, owner
ruling): every writer (composer save, SetupDialog save, the settings
write seam — one dispatch point carrying the section) notifies after a
successful PUT; every reader re-reads its own seam: ModelControl's
record read, the Agent section's slots/catalog, and chat.tsx's
configured state (clearing slots mid-session now surfaces the setup
CTA without a reload). Self-notifications re-read idempotently.
- MenuShell now announces lh:menu-open/lh:menu-close (still placement-
only); the settings dialog's content column locks (overflow-hidden,
count-based) while any menu is open — wheel-scrolling with a dropdown
down is dead; the re-place-on-scroll fallback stays for un-lockable
surfaces.
- The settings thinking menus' 'Default' noneRow is retired (owner:
the unset state can't re-enter once chunk 2's auto-populate lands; no
unpin is needed).
- Live-caught regression from the MenuShell migration fixed: the
composer's outside-click handler never learned the portaled menu body
isn't a container descendant — menu-row pointerdowns counted as
outside and ATE THE PICK (composer picks have been dead for pointer
users since 221c99d); rows now carve out via [data-lh-menu], the
settings sections' discipline.
- Item 4 (resolved-level display for legacy records) deferred to chunk 2
per owner ruling — the payload omits the level for legacy no-level
records and DEFAULT_THINKING_ORDER was server-only (now in the core
barrel via bd68486, exactly the seam chunk 2 needs).
Chunk B (owner-designed, model-slots wave) on the merged engine surface
(main 1d66a17):
AGENT SECTION — SLOTS ONLY (owner ruling)
- The six per-role model rows are GONE; three slot rows instead:
Strong (Prober + Teacher), Cheap (five workhorse roles), Vision
(visual maker + PDF reader), roster + resolved-default in every hint.
- Slot dropdowns share the app's menu language over the FEDERATED
catalog (/api/models = keyed providers only, fresh per call — saving
a key in Keys immediately widens the picker); the vision slot
filters to image-capable models (Model.input); the menu's highlight
now matches provider+id (ids can collide across providers).
- Slots write the new models section (PUT /api/settings/models) through
the dialog's write seam; per-role overrides stay schema-only.
- ModelMenuList rows read 'provider · id' — federation makes the
provider bookkeeping-relevant. Usage stamps render provider-qualified
(prettyModel(qualified): 'Glm 5.3 Flash · openrouter') in the stats
bar's turn lines.
SEARCH ENGINE (search wave: no default, owner)
- A row in Tools: Tavily/Brave via the shared-menu look, Automatic =
the pin removed (auto-activation). The live reason line comes from
/api/search; no engine key at all grays the whole row + disables the
trigger (a keyless choice would only block auto-activation).
FIRST-RUN SETUP FLOW (owner design A: composer CTA + send interception)
- Chats cannot start until all three slots are picked — no defaults
for 33 providers (slotsConfigured: all three slot models required).
- The graph view's new-session dock (home) shows a 'Set up your models'
CTA while unconfigured; submitting a topic opens the SetupDialog WITH
THE DRAFT PRESERVED; Save stores the models section and the queued
message sends. Same interception on /chat/new sends.
- STAGED BY DEPENDENCY (owner: keys first, models after): no keyed
provider → stage 1 deep-links the settings dialog on Keys (open now
takes a section); a saved key reopens at stage 2 on the next submit.
- Stage 2: Strong → Cheap → Vision pickers (federated, vision-filtered,
all three required). Closable without configuring — browsing stays
possible; the gate is the send, not the dialog. Layered Esc: an open
slot menu eats Esc before the dialog.
- Two closure bugs caught live: onDone→start/send captured the stale
pre-save 'configured' (the flow now forces the replayed send); menu-Esc
used to close the whole dialog.
Settings-dialog provider: open(section?) lands on a section (stage 1
deep-link). Tests: composeSlotModel/composeSearchEngine pure, slot SSR
replacing role rows, slotsConfigured/setupStage first-run gates,
provider-qualified prettyModel. Gates: typecheck, lint, 792/792, build.
Owner-approved design (2026-09-20): a Keys section right after General,
two groups over the merged auth API (GET /api/keys masked statuses,
PUT/DELETE /api/keys/:id, immediate effect, shape-gated 400s):
- Model providers: OpenRouter pinned as an always-visible row (the
app's lifeline — synthesized when absent so first boot shows it),
stored provider keys render as they appear, and an Add-provider
dropdown lists every pi-ai provider that takes an API key. The
dropdown reads GET /api/keys' optional providers array — the
Platform interlude (master-routed) derives it from pi-ai's own
env-key table; until it lands the group shows a pending note
(rolePins pattern — absent field, no drift, no guessed routes).
- Tools & services: the curated rows — Deepgram (dictation) and the
Google pair (search key + CSE ID) — with description hints and docs
links (external links route through the Electron shell to the real
browser).
- Rows: always-visible paste inputs (owner choice; no reveal —
plaintext never returns from the store), masked status line
(…tail · chars · environment|saved), the shadowedByEnv explanation
when a real env var owns the name, per-row inline 400 messages, Save
on Enter/button, Delete when present (env-owned keys honestly keep
their env status after a file delete).
- Unknown auth.json vars surface as read-only dimmed rows — preserved
by the store, not editable through the curated surface.
classifyKeys/keyStatusLine pure exports drive the two-group
projection; tests: SSR loading state, first-boot synthesis, provider
row classification, addable filtering, unknown-var read-only status
line formatting. Nav grows to six sections (Keys second).
Live-verified: nav order, structure, bad-paste 400s inline, save
round-trip with env-shadow explanation, delete round-trip, env-owned
OpenRouter status stability. Gates: typecheck, lint, 748/748, build.
- Toggle (owner bug report): the ON disc sat flush against the pill's
right edge — translate-x-4.5 left only a 1px sliver; now translate-x-4
for a 2px inner inset both states (off: 3px left inset; on: 3px right
inset — measured live, symmetric).
- Toggle colors (owner ask): ON is a gray track (muted-foreground) with
a WHITE disc (foreground) — the full-white track was too loud; OFF
stays the muted track with the gray disc.
- Nav spacing (owner ask): gap-1 between the section nav buttons so the
hover highlights no longer touch.
- Role dropdowns (owner ask): the menus were clipped by the dialog's
overflow frame — they now portal to document.body with fixed
positioning against their trigger (AnchoredMenu), right-aligned,
repositioned on scroll/resize, so they flow over the whole screen
outside the settings dialog. Verified: a bottom-row menu extends
137px past the dialog's bottom edge; search + pick + Default-clear
work through the portal; Esc and inside-dialog clicks close the menu
but not the dialog.
- Thinking trigger (owner ask): fixed w-20 — the width the Default
state needs — so picking levels no longer shifts the row; the model
trigger takes the same width as a minimum (its values vary in length).
- Role hints (owner ask): ALWAYS visible and naming the actual default —
'Default: <model>'. The resolved per-role pins are not client-side
yet: master routed rolePins to the Platform stream (GET /api/models
extension, standalone commit); until that merge the rows read the
'config pin' fallback and light up on rebase. rolePins also lets the
thinking list use the pinned model's real supportedLevels when it's
in the catalog.
Also: staging repair commit 270db53 — the round-1 dialog rewiring
(sidebar row, chord, redirect, keyframes) was listed in 27d4f33's
message but never staged; committed as catch-up.
Live-verified on the worktree dev server. Gates: typecheck, lint,
701/701.
- Toggle knob (bug report): the knob span had no left anchor, so it sat
at its inline static position — right-edge in off, overflowing in on.
Now left-0 + the intended 2px/18px translate; verified live: 3px from
left when off, 1px right inset both states.
- Role model/thinking dropdowns (owner ask): the EXACT chat model
selector dropdown, not a lookalike — the fuzzy-search + arrow-walk +
Enter machine moved from model-picker.tsx into the shared
components/settings/model-menu.tsx (ModelMenuList/ThinkingMenuList),
ModelControl now renders the same bodies, and the agent roles open
them downward with a pinned Default row (clears the override). The
collapsed trigger keeps the thin select look (owner: 'the collapsed
look is good'). Esc claims and closes only the menu (the dialog
stays); a backdrop click is left to the dialog's own close.
- Sub-groups (owner ask): SettingsGroup — Models / Tools / System
prompts inside Agent, each with a separator + quiet label; section
headings more pronounced (text-sm, full-foreground).
- Graying (owner ask): graph-view render-panel convention — the WHOLE
row dims (opacity-40) and the control locks; the row owns the dim so
no double-opacity. Applied to the graph ladder, the mode row, and
prompt rows without an override file. The 'needs X on' prose is gone.
- Hints pruned (owner ask): mechanics-explaining lines removed — the
ladder mention, 'App-level behavior', 'Applied live as CSS
variables', per-row explanations. Only the keyboard storage note
stays, reworded 'Stored on this device' (desktop app — localStorage
is the Chromium profile in Application Support, not 'this browser').
Live-verified: knob geometry both states + PUT round-trip, menu
search/pick/clear through the record, thinking set/clear, Esc layering,
ladder dim 0.4 with siblings full, pruned phrases absent. Gates:
typecheck, lint, 701/701.
The dialog's content wrapper added px-6 py-5 ON TOP of SettingsSection's
own padding (48px horizontal, 81px top — measured live). The wrapper is
now bare; the section component owns its rhythm, and the loading/error
states carry their own padding. Section box now spans the scroll column
(61px from the dialog top = the 60px header band), text inset 24px.
Gates: typecheck, lint, 701/701.
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