feat(ui): thread sidebar experiment fixes + polish - #102
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Fixes (docs/issues/thread-sidebar-fixes): - Load older sessions on scroll (the experiment missed store pagination) - Keep workingSince elapsed across restarts via first-observation diffing - Prune settled/snoozed/workingSince entries on delete and after full load - Replace window.confirm with the shared delete dialog; surface rename/ delete failures inline; renames/deletes go through the session store - Keep the rename draft in sync with externally updated titles Polish (docs/features/thread-sidebar-polish): - Clearable search, no-results state, search bypasses collapsed shelves - Keyboard nav only targets rendered rows; hover action overlays the time slot (no layout shift) and is keyboard reachable - The open session is never hidden by snooze; snoozed shelf expansion persists; pinned+settled rows render settled state - Collapsed rail (both modes) with attention indicator; Alt/Cmd+1..9 shortcut badges work in experiment mode - Drop the per-second store tick; per-field selectors, memoized rows, coarse clock buckets; extract ThreadSection; storage-event sync
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This repository does not receive automatic reviews because it has fewer than 10 stars. ⚙️ Run configurationConfiguration used: defaults Review profile: CHILL Plan: Advanced Run ID: 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe thread sidebar now persists lifecycle state, supports search and pagination, uses shared deletion UI, improves row and section rendering, exposes shortcut badges, and renders a collapsed icon rail. Pure lifecycle and sidebar logic helpers now have Vitest coverage. ChangesThread sidebar lifecycle and UI
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant WindowSideBar
participant ThreadSidebarList
participant threadSidebarStore
User->>WindowSideBar: open or collapse sidebar
WindowSideBar->>threadSidebarStore: collect shortcut sessions
WindowSideBar->>ThreadSidebarList: pass shortcut badge resolver
User->>ThreadSidebarList: search, scroll, or delete session
ThreadSidebarList->>threadSidebarStore: filter, load page, or update session
threadSidebarStore-->>ThreadSidebarList: return updated session and lifecycle state
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The experimental sidebar can lose lifecycle presentation, hide older threads, and navigate to unexpected sessions. These issues should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Confidence Score: 3/5The PR is not yet safe to merge because experiment shortcuts can target rows that are hidden or differently ordered, and migrated settled state renders contradictory lifecycle controls. Shortcut targets are computed from stale, unfiltered lifecycle sections instead of the rendered list, while legacy timestamp-zero records are classified as Active but rendered as settled; both produce concrete incorrect UI behavior. Files Needing Attention: packages/ui/src/components/WindowSideBar.tsx, packages/ui/src/components/threads/ThreadSidebarRow.tsx
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| packages/ui/src/components/WindowSideBar.tsx | Adds the collapsed rail and experiment shortcut wiring, but shortcut targets can diverge from searched or time-repartitioned rendered rows. |
| packages/ui/src/components/threads/ThreadSidebarList.tsx | Adds pagination, search behavior, shared deletion UX, stable callbacks, and per-field lifecycle subscriptions. |
| packages/ui/src/components/threads/ThreadSidebarRow.tsx | Adds memoization, overlay actions, badges, and title synchronization, but zero-valued legacy settled records produce contradictory Active-row controls. |
| packages/ui/src/components/threads/threadSidebarLogic.ts | Extends lifecycle partitioning and shortcut collection with tested ordering and active-session snooze behavior. |
| packages/ui/src/stores/ui/threadSidebar.ts | Reworks working-transition persistence, lifecycle cleanup, shelf persistence, and cross-window synchronization. |
| packages/ui/src/stores/ui/threadSidebarState.ts | Introduces focused pure helpers for persisted-record parsing, working transitions, key removal, and lifecycle pruning. |
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### Issue 1
packages/ui/src/components/WindowSideBar.tsx:267-282
**Shortcut targets diverge**
In experiment mode, shortcut targets are built from unfiltered sessions using a timestamp captured only when the sidebar mounts. During a title search, hidden sessions still occupy shortcut slots; after a snooze expires, the target order can also remain stale while the rendered list changes. The displayed badges can therefore disagree with the visible rows, and Alt/⌘+N can select a different or hidden session.
### Issue 2
packages/ui/src/components/threads/ThreadSidebarRow.tsx:98
**Legacy settled state conflicts**
Migrated v1 settled records use timestamp `0`. `partitionThreads` classifies that value as Active, but this check treats every numeric value—including `0`—as settled. A migrated session therefore appears in Active while showing settled age and Un-settle actions, giving users contradictory lifecycle placement and controls.
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In `@packages/ui/src/components/threads/ThreadSidebarList.tsx`:
- Line 147: Update the flatResults construction to append visibleSettled only
when settledExpanded is true, while preserving the existing pinned, active, and
conditionally snoozed ordering. Ensure collapsed Settled rows are excluded from
keyboard navigation and cannot be selected or opened via Enter.
- Around line 165-173: The ThreadSidebarList pagination flow only loads on
scroll, so non-overflowing initial or filtered results never request additional
pages. Reuse the existing load-more logic around handleListScroll to check
whether the list remains within the viewport after initial loading and
filtering, and continue calling sessionStore.loadNextPage while hasMore is true
and the content does not fill the viewport.
In `@packages/ui/src/components/threads/threadSidebarLogic.test.ts`:
- Line 167: Update the shortcut-session collection cap to nine so only Alt/Cmd+1
through 9 are exposed, and change the related length assertion in the test to
expect nine. Locate the implementation’s session limit and the assertion
associated with the shortcut collector; preserve all other session behavior.
In `@packages/ui/src/components/WindowSideBar.tsx`:
- Around line 358-365: Update the railAttention session scan to apply
isSidebarVisibleSession before counting blocked or working sessions and
selecting blocked/working targets, so hidden drafts and non-regular sessions
cannot affect rail attention.
- Around line 267-282: The visibleShortcutSessions useMemo currently
reconstructs sidebar rows without the ThreadSidebarList search query or a
current clock, causing shortcuts to target hidden sessions and become stale
after snoozes expire. Lift the relevant visibility state or publish the ordered
visible rows from ThreadSidebarList, then derive both badges and shortcut
activation from that exact list instead of independently calling
partitionThreads with sidebarRenderNow.
In `@packages/ui/src/stores/ui/threadSidebar.ts`:
- Line 184: Update the lifecycle sweep condition in the session state flow to
also require state.hasLoadedInitialPage before running. Keep the existing
lifecycleSwept, sessions.length, and hasMore checks unchanged so lifecycle
entries are not pruned before the initial listLightweight load completes.
In `@packages/ui/src/stores/ui/threadSidebarState.ts`:
- Line 35: Update partitionThreads to detect legacy settled records by key
presence, while preserving the working-session override and existing visibility,
pin, and snooze rules. Treat v1 settled values mapped to 0 as settled, and
update the relevant test to expect the settled bucket with ordering falling back
to updatedAt.
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Review findings from CodeRabbit and Greptile on #102: - Exclude collapsed Settled rows from keyboard navigation (flatResults now gates on settledExpanded) - Keep loading pages while the list is shorter than the viewport so short first pages can still reach older sessions - Derive experiment shortcut targets and badge numbering from the rows ThreadSidebarList actually renders (onVisibleRowsChange): search-aware and always in sync with the live clock, replacing the mount-time partition reconstruction - Filter rail attention by sidebar visibility rules (drafts/subagents never light the rail) - Gate the lifecycle sweep on hasLoadedInitialPage (hasMore defaults to false and upserts can land before the initial page) - Detect settled records by key presence: legacy v1 entries (timestamp 0) render as Settled with the updatedAt fallback, matching the row rendering instead of contradicting it Docs: shortcut AC updated to rendered-row targets with the original sidebar's ten slots (1-9 plus 0).
Pre-existing master breakage from #101 surfaced by this PR's CI: - state.quarantine used Date.now()-only names; two corruptions within the same millisecond collided on fast runners (second rename replaced the first), so the repeated-corruption test saw one file instead of two. Add a UUID suffix so quarantines are unique. - toolchainsService checksum test wrote bin/node on Linux without creating the bin directory (nodeBin() nests on non-Windows); create the deepest directory instead of only the version dir.
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WindowSideBar has cyclomatic complexity 18, cognitive complexity 14, and maximum nesting depth 1, so its React logic is hard to understand and change. Extract independent branches into components or hooks.
Fix → Extract independent render branches and state logic into focused components or hooks until the control flow is easy to follow.
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Component "WindowSideBar" is over 300 lines long, which is hard to read & change. Split it into a few smaller components.
Fix → Pull each section into its own component so the parent is easier to read, test, and change.
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ThreadSidebarList has cyclomatic complexity 16, cognitive complexity 17, and maximum nesting depth 2, so its React logic is hard to understand and change. Extract independent branches into components or hooks.
Fix → Extract independent render branches and state logic into focused components or hooks until the control flow is easy to follow.
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Component "ThreadSidebarList" is over 300 lines long, which is hard to read & change. Split it into a few smaller components.
Fix → Pull each section into its own component so the parent is easier to read, test, and change.
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Handing data back to a parent from a useEffect costs your users an extra render.
Fix → Fetch the data in the parent and pass it down as a prop (or return it from the hook), instead of handing it back up through a prop callback in a useEffect. See https://react.dev/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect#passing-data-to-the-parent
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Your parent re-renders on every local state change because this useEffect calls the prop "onVisibleRowsChange" just to stay in sync.
Fix → Move the shared state into a Provider so both sides read the same value. Then you don't need a useEffect to keep them in sync.
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Summary
Hardening + UX pass over the experimental thread sidebar (
Settings -> Appearance -> Thread Sidebar), split across two SDD goals:docs/issues/thread-sidebar-fixes/): six functional defectsdocs/features/thread-sidebar-polish/): UX parity with the original sidebar, render performance, testsFixes
hasMore/loadNextPage); now loads more on scroll with the shared first-page skeleton and a "Loading..." row.diffWorkingTransitions).sessionStoreactions (titles update reactively, no client construction in render).notifySessionDeleted()on both delete paths + a one-time sweep once the full history is loaded (!hasMore).window.confirm+ silent failures - sharedDeleteConversationDialogin both modes; transient inline error line on rename/delete failures.Polish
No results for "..."empty state, matched rows surface from collapsed shelves while searchingfocus-within)collectThreadSidebarShortcutSessions)memoized rows, stable callbacks, coarse clock buckets for quiet rows;ThreadSectiondedupes section chromestorage-event sync so a second window reflects settles/snoozes (writer never loops;workingSinceByIdintentionally not synced)UI layout
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bun run typecheck(desktop + ui)bun run lint(3 architecture guards + oxlint)bun run format(oxfmt)@argos/uivitest: 47 passed (25 new: partition/anchoring, shortcut collector, working-since diff, pruning, settled-record parsing, formatters)Docs:
docs/issues/thread-sidebar-fixes/,docs/features/thread-sidebar-polish/Summary by CodeRabbit
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