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Desktop repo and session pages now dock their tools into a persistent right-side panel instead of opening dialogs, while mobile keeps the existing drawers.

  • A new ToolSidePanel renders an icon rail plus the active tool, driven by the shared ?panel= URL param through the new useToolPanel hook. Files, source control, terminal, walkthrough, preview, MCP, actions, skills and schedules all dock; mobile still opens them as dialogs/drawers via the docked flag.
  • Dialog bodies are extracted into reusable content components (SourceControlContent, RepoActionsContent, RepoMcpContent, RepoSkillsContent, PreviewWorkspace, TerminalWorkspace, RepoSchedulesContent, ChangesWalkthroughView) so the same UI renders in either a dialog or the docked panel.
  • ChangesWalkthroughDialog becomes ChangesWalkthroughSheet; walkthrough generation is now asynchronous. The service starts a generation, returns state immediately with generating/error, and the client polls until it completes.
  • useOpenNavItem centralizes opening a nav item's route or dialog, shared by the desktop sidebar and the new tool rail.
  • The desktop sidebar drops its collapsible Sessions/Menu sections for a fixed footer; SideDrawer stacks Escape handling and body-overflow so nested drawers behave correctly.
  • fetchWrapper no longer surfaces raw HTML error bodies as messages.
  • Tests added/updated for the panel, hooks and extracted content components.

Type of Change

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Refactor
  • Documentation

Checklist

  • Code follows project style (no comments, named imports)
  • TypeScript types are properly defined
  • Tests added/updated (80% coverage target)
  • pnpm lint passes locally
  • pnpm typecheck passes locally

pnpm typecheck passes for cli, frontend and backend. pnpm lint reports 0 errors (41 pre-existing no-explicit-any warnings). Frontend tests pass (461 across 40 files), and the backend change-walkthrough suites pass (55 tests).

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  • New Features
    • Added a docked desktop tool panel for repository, session, and workspace tools; mobile layouts continue to use dialogs and sheets.
    • Added a walkthrough sheet with generation progress and errors, summaries, changes, and affected files.
    • Added reusable schedule management for repository workspaces.
    • Added compact layouts for file browsing, previews, and source control.
    • Reorganized navigation menus with a dedicated account section.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved error messages when a server returns an HTML error page.
    • Escape now closes only the topmost open drawer.
  • Changes
    • Command and file-mention options are no longer available in the navigation drawer.

Add a docked desktop tool panel with an icon rail, driven by the shared panel URL param, and keep the mobile dialogs and drawers. Extract dialog bodies into reusable content components, rename the walkthrough dialog to a sheet, and make walkthrough generation asynchronous with client polling.
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  • backend/src/services/change-walkthroughs.ts
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  • frontend/src/components/navigation/ToolSidePanel.tsx
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Walkthrough

The changes add asynchronous walkthrough generation state and polling, introduce docked desktop tools, and extract reusable schedule and tool content. They also update navigation, prompt state, OpenCode model resolution, fetch error messages, and nested drawer handling.

Changes

Change walkthrough generation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Generation state and backend flow
shared/src/schemas/change-walkthroughs.ts, backend/src/services/change-walkthroughs.ts, backend/src/routes/change-walkthroughs.ts, backend walkthrough tests
Walkthrough state now includes generation status and errors. The service tracks in-flight work and recorded failures. The POST route returns generation state, and tests cover pending, completed, and failed generation.
OpenCode model resolution
backend/src/services/opencode/generate-text.ts, shared/src/config/env.ts, backend OpenCode tests and stubs
Text generation resolves a model from the global configuration when no model is supplied. Tests cover catalog loading, explicit models, and timeout while the catalog remains empty.
Walkthrough API, polling, and sheet
frontend/src/api/changeWalkthroughs.ts, frontend/src/hooks/useChangeWalkthrough.ts, frontend/src/components/session/*, frontend/src/components/repo/MultiRunSheet.tsx, frontend/src/pages/SessionDetail.tsx, related tests
The frontend caches generation state and polls while generation is active. The walkthrough UI is presented in a sheet, with generation progress and errors.

Docked tools and navigation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tool routing and sidebar navigation
frontend/src/hooks/useToolPanel.ts, frontend/src/hooks/useOpenNavItem.ts, frontend/src/components/navigation/*, frontend/src/components/ui/sidebar.tsx, related tests
Shared navigation logic identifies panel tools and updates URL state. The desktop sidebar uses non-collapsible sections, and the drawer groups navigation items.
Docked panel and page integration
frontend/src/components/navigation/ToolSidePanel.tsx, frontend/src/pages/AssistantRedirect.tsx, frontend/src/pages/RepoDetail.tsx, frontend/src/pages/Repos.tsx, frontend/src/pages/SessionDetail.tsx, related tests
Desktop pages render selected tools in ToolSidePanel; mobile pages retain dialog or sheet presentation.
Reusable tool content and compact layouts
frontend/src/components/file-browser/*, frontend/src/components/preview/PreviewPanel*, frontend/src/components/repo/RepoActionsDialog*, frontend/src/components/repo/RepoMcpDialog.tsx, frontend/src/components/repo/RepoSkillsDialog.tsx, frontend/src/components/source-control/*, frontend/src/components/terminal/TerminalPanel.tsx
Tool content is separated from dialog wrappers. File browser, preview, and source-control content accept compact-layout behavior for embedded presentation.
Repository schedule content
frontend/src/components/schedules/RepoSchedulesContent.tsx, frontend/src/pages/Schedules.tsx
Repository schedule loading, actions, views, and dialogs reside in RepoSchedulesContent, which the schedules page renders.

Error, prompt, and drawer behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fetch error messages
frontend/src/api/fetchWrapper.ts, frontend/src/api/fetchWrapper.test.ts
HTML error bodies use a status-based message. Other non-JSON bodies retain their text.
Prompt and drawer navigation state
frontend/src/components/message/PromptInput.tsx, frontend/src/stores/uiStateStore.ts, frontend/src/components/navigation/MoreDrawer.tsx, related tests
The UI store no longer tracks pending prompt commands, files, or prompt-file base paths. PromptInput no longer consumes stored requests, and MoreDrawer no longer presents Commands or Mention File options.
Nested drawer Escape handling
frontend/src/components/ui/side-drawer.tsx, frontend/src/components/ui/side-drawer.test.tsx
Only the most recently opened drawer handles Escape. Body scrolling remains locked until all drawers close.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cbdaf

Some desktop tool links can open no usable tool, and the regeneration test may fail intermittently. Both are bounded issues to fix or explicitly accept before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: docking repository and session tools in a desktop side panel.
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Review comments at @frontend/src/hooks/useToolPanel.ts:
- Around line 40-65: Update useToolPanel to migrate a dialog into the docked
panel only when the current route offers that tool; isPanelTool alone does not
verify route availability. Reuse or pass the route’s available-tool set and
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  • backend/src/routes/change-walkthroughs.ts
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  • frontend/src/api/changeWalkthroughs.ts
  • frontend/src/api/fetchWrapper.test.ts
  • frontend/src/api/fetchWrapper.ts
  • frontend/src/components/file-browser/FileBrowser.compact.test.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/file-browser/FileBrowser.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/navigation/DesktopSidebar.test.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/navigation/DesktopSidebar.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/navigation/MoreDrawer.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/navigation/ToolSidePanel.test.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/navigation/ToolSidePanel.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/navigation/moreDrawerItems.test.ts
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  • frontend/src/components/preview/PreviewPanel.test.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/preview/PreviewPanel.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/repo/MultiRunSheet.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/repo/RepoActionsDialog.test.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/repo/RepoActionsDialog.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/repo/RepoMcpDialog.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/repo/RepoSkillsDialog.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/schedules/RepoSchedulesContent.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/session/ChangesWalkthroughDialog.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/session/ChangesWalkthroughSheet.test.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/session/ChangesWalkthroughSheet.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/source-control/SourceControlPanel.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/source-control/index.ts
  • frontend/src/components/terminal/TerminalPanel.tsx
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  • frontend/src/hooks/useChangeWalkthrough.test.tsx
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  • frontend/src/hooks/useOpenNavItem.ts
  • frontend/src/hooks/useSidebarCollapsed.test.tsx
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  • frontend/src/hooks/useToolPanel.ts
  • frontend/src/pages/AssistantRedirect.tsx
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  • frontend/src/pages/__tests__/RepoDetail.worktree-setup.test.tsx
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  • frontend/src/components/session/ChangesWalkthroughDialog.tsx
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Comment on lines +40 to +65
export function useToolPanel(docked: boolean): ToolPanelState {
const { searchParams, updateParams } = useUrlParams()
const panelParam = searchParams.get(PANEL_PARAM)
const dialogParam = searchParams.get('dialog')
const activeTool = docked && isPanelTool(panelParam) ? panelParam : null

useEffect(() => {
if (docked && isPanelTool(dialogParam)) {
updateParams((params) => {
params.delete('dialog')
params.set(PANEL_PARAM, dialogParam)
clearToolParams(params, dialogParam)
}, 'replace')
return
}
if (!docked && isPanelTool(panelParam)) {
updateParams((params) => {
params.delete(PANEL_PARAM)
if (PANEL_ONLY_TOOLS.has(panelParam)) {
clearToolParams(params)
return
}
if (!params.has('dialog')) params.set('dialog', panelParam)
}, 'replace')
}
}, [docked, dialogParam, panelParam, updateParams])

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Docked mode moves a panel-tool dialog into the panel even when the current route has no rail entry for that tool.

The effect runs for every ?dialog= value that isPanelTool accepts. It does not check whether the current route exposes that tool. Take / with ?dialog=terminal as an example. The / route offers only All Schedules and Files. The effect still rewrites the URL to panel=terminal. In ToolSidePanel, activeLabel is then undefined, so no panel renders. The page dialog is also suppressed by !docked. The user sees neither the dialog nor the panel, and the URL keeps a stale panel param. A deep link or the header "Open files" button on a route that lacks a tool can reach this state. Only migrate a dialog when the route offers the tool. One option is to pass the set of available tools into useToolPanel.

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Review comment at @frontend/src/hooks/useToolPanel.ts around lines 40 - 65:
Update useToolPanel to migrate a dialog into the docked panel only when the
current route offers that tool; isPanelTool alone does not verify route
availability. Reuse or pass the route’s available-tool set and leave unavailable
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🟡 Minor · Wait for generation completion before teardown. · change-walkthroughs.test.ts:215-216

backend/test/routes/change-walkthroughs.test.ts:215-216
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for generation completion before teardown.

fake.generateCalls reaches length 2 when the model call starts, not when runGenerate finishes saving the walkthrough. The test can therefore finish while persistence is still in progress, after which afterEach closes the database.

Wait for generating to become false and assert the persisted second walkthrough. Keep the direct call-count assertion separate.

Suggested fix
     resolveGenerate(MODEL_REPLY)
-    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(fake.generateCalls).toHaveLength(2))
+    expect(fake.generateCalls).toHaveLength(2)
+    await vi.waitFor(async () => {
+      const getRes = await app.request(`/change-walkthroughs/${SESSION_ID}`)
+      const state = (await getRes.json()) as { generating: boolean }
+      expect(state.generating).toBe(false)
+    })
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In the test around resolveGenerate, keep the assertion that fake.generateCalls
has length 2 as a direct assertion, then wait until the session reports
generating as false and assert that the second walkthrough is persisted before
the test finishes. Use the existing change-walkthrough request and session
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Share walkthrough state through a context provider so navigation and regenerate controls render in the panel chrome, generate walkthroughs with the session's selected model, and dedupe a favorite that is also the default model in model sections.
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