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What changed

Polishes repeated UI patterns across Settings and app chrome: provider rows, modal shells, nested color picking, focus treatment, rail actions, loading controls, and user-facing copy.

Why

Several surfaces had drifted into different spacing, control widths, modal treatments, terminology, and interaction states. Keyboard focus also exposed internal textarea geometry or revealed hover controls as a group.

UI differences

Provider settings

Variable-width controls and mixed install-command hints are replaced by one bounded list with aligned model, picker, and default columns. Missing CLIs use consistent command-free guidance and disabled controls.

Before After
Provider settings before Provider settings after

Custom color

The custom picker previously expanded the project menu from 352px to 538px. It now opens as a separate anchored flyout while the parent menu keeps its dimensions.

Before After
Inline custom color picker Anchored custom color flyout

Composer add menu

The add menu is now a compact two-action menu: the redundant heading is removed, attachment copy is consistent, and Plan mode stays neutral until selected. Row typography, icon weight, and hover/focus treatment now match the other composer pickers.

Before After
Composer add menu before Composer add menu after

Dialogs

Delete Project and blocked branch switching now use the shared modal shell, spacing, typography, dismissal rules, and focus containment.

Before After
Legacy delete dialog Unified delete dialog

Refined focus treatment

Keyboard focus and hover-only control behavior are consolidated here. Detached blue rectangles are replaced by neutral, geometry-aware focus: compact controls use an inset stroke, composer focus belongs to the outer box, project focus belongs to the card, and Pin/Options appear only when individually focused.

Project card Composer Compact control
Refined project card focus Refined composer focus Refined compact control focus

Navigation and copy

Settings navigation now shares the project-rail component. Session terminology, status/loading copy, ellipses, and Inbox refresh behavior are consistent across surfaces.

Verification

  • Native Tauri/CDP visual comparison completed for providers, dialogs, color picker, project controls, and composer focus
  • npm run check:web: 182 test files, 1,979 tests passed
  • tsc --noEmit and git diff --check passed

Checklist

  • I ran npm run check:web
  • The changes are scoped to UI consistency and accessibility
  • I did not mix unrelated product behavior

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added keyboard navigation and automatic focus for color picking.
    • Improved modal focus trapping, focus restoration, and non-dismissible dialog support.
    • Added separate background-opacity controls for empty chats and sessions.
    • Added clearer keyboard-focus indicators across interactive controls and file tabs.
  • Improvements

    • Updated “conversation” terminology to “session” in user-facing areas.
    • Unavailable providers are now visibly disabled in Settings.
    • Standardized labels, tooltips, placeholders, and ellipsis styling.
    • Improved keyboard access to project and navigation controls.
    • Refreshing the inbox is labeled clearly and disabled while loading.
    • Unavailable harness messages no longer include installation commands.

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The pull request updates modal focus behavior, keyboard-accessible controls, color-picker interaction, settings controls, session terminology, interface copy, inbox refresh behavior, and harness availability messages.

Changes

Modal interactions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared modal behavior and validation
src/chrome/Modal.tsx, src/chrome/Modal.test.ts, src/chrome/ModalFocus.test.ts
Modal panels support initial focus, disabled closing, focus trapping, description titles, and disabled close controls. Tests cover these behaviors.
Dialog migration and locked state
src/chrome/RemoveProjectDialog.tsx, src/chrome/SwitchBranchDialog.tsx
Both dialogs use Modal. SwitchBranchDialog uses one locked state for control disabling and close prevention.

Keyboard focus and popovers

Layer / File(s) Summary
Keyboard focus visibility
src/chrome/ProjectRail.tsx, src/chrome/RailAction.tsx, src/chrome/SettingsRail.tsx, src/chrome/SurfaceTabs.tsx, src/chrome/TitleBar.tsx, src/chrome/Composer.tsx, src/index.css
Interactive controls expose keyboard focus through focus-visible styling and related data attributes.
Anchored and keyboard-accessible color picker
src/chrome/ColorPickerPopover.tsx, src/chrome/ColorPickerPopover.test.ts, src/chrome/TabGroupMenu.tsx
The color picker supports autofocus, keyboard adjustment of color values, and pointer-drag cleanup. The menu anchors the picker and restores focus after dismissal.

Settings and interface copy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider controls and settings layout
src/surfaces/SettingsView.tsx
Provider rows use responsive bordered cards. Unavailable providers disable related controls.
Session terminology and interface copy
src/chrome/BranchPicker.tsx, src/chrome/Composer.tsx, src/chrome/ContextMeter.tsx, src/chrome/GitChangesPanel.tsx, src/chrome/Sidebar.tsx, src/lib/settings.ts, src/surfaces/InboxComments.tsx, src/surfaces/InboxDiscussionPanel.tsx, src/surfaces/SearchView.tsx, src/surfaces/SettingsView.tsx
Conversation terminology, status labels, placeholders, and ASCII ellipses are updated across the interface.
Inbox refresh control
src/surfaces/InboxView.tsx
The refresh control has an accessible label and disables during loading or revalidation.

Harness availability messages

Layer / File(s) Summary
Availability message contract
src/lib/harness/availability.ts, src/lib/harness/availability.test.ts
Harness metadata no longer stores install commands. Unavailable-harness messages provide command-free not-found guidance.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant SwitchBranchDialog
  participant ModalPanel
  User->>SwitchBranchDialog: Open dialog
  SwitchBranchDialog->>ModalPanel: Pass focus and locked state
  ModalPanel->>ModalPanel: Focus target and trap Tab navigation
  User->>ModalPanel: Press Escape or click backdrop
  ModalPanel->>SwitchBranchDialog: Close only when unlocked
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b0800

Modal focus restoration remains intact, with no actionable merge-blocking risk identified.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: UI consistency improvements and refined focus states across the application.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is complete and provides the changes, reasons, UI comparisons, verification results, and checklist status. It uses “UI differences” instead of the template’s “UI” heading, but it suppl…
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In `@src/chrome/Modal.tsx`:
- Around line 56-57: Update the focus effect in ModalPanel to capture the
connected document.activeElement before focusing the dialog, then return a
cleanup that restores that element only if it remains connected. Preserve the
existing initialFocusRef/closeRef focus selection and dependency behavior.

In `@src/chrome/TabGroupMenu.tsx`:
- Around line 255-273: Update the custom-color Popover opened by
customPickerAnchor to move focus into ColorPickerPopover when it opens,
targeting the hex input or another keyboard-operable control. Preserve the
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  • src/chrome/Modal.test.ts
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  • src/chrome/ModalFocus.test.ts
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  • src/chrome/RailAction.tsx
  • src/chrome/RemoveProjectDialog.tsx
  • src/chrome/SettingsRail.tsx
  • src/chrome/Sidebar.tsx
  • src/chrome/SurfaceTabs.tsx
  • src/chrome/SwitchBranchDialog.tsx
  • src/chrome/TabGroupMenu.tsx
  • src/chrome/TitleBar.tsx
  • src/index.css
  • src/lib/harness/availability.test.ts
  • src/lib/harness/availability.ts
  • src/lib/settings.ts
  • src/surfaces/InboxComments.tsx
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src/chrome/Modal.tsx (1)

78-96: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle the empty focus list in ModalPanel.

When SwitchBranchDialog is locked, every dialog control is disabled, so the selector returns no descendants. The empty-list branch calls preventDefault() for Tab. This can block keyboard navigation instead of wrapping focus. Add an explicit fallback for a modal with no focusable descendants.

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In `@src/chrome/Modal.tsx` around lines 78 - 96, Update onDialogKeyDown in
ModalPanel to handle a modal with no focusable descendants without preventing
Tab navigation; when the focusable list is empty, use the modal’s explicit
fallback focus target or behavior, while preserving the existing focus wrapping
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- Around line 78-96: Update onDialogKeyDown in ModalPanel to handle a modal with
no focusable descendants without preventing Tab navigation; when the focusable
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In `@src/surfaces/SettingsView.tsx`:
- Line 1670: Update the control grid in SettingsView’s ProviderRow layout to add
a narrow-screen rule that changes the fixed 11rem, 8.5rem, and 7rem tracks to a
single flexible column at max-[900px], keeping the model, picker, and default
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76-80: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Consume Escape while the dialog is locked.

When closeDisabled is true, Modal.tsx returns before consuming Escape. The reachable SwitchBranchDialog can therefore let Escape reach Sidebar’s bubble-phase listener, which clears nonempty selectedSessionIds during the operation. Call preventDefault() and stopPropagation() before returning from the locked branch.

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In `@src/chrome/Modal.tsx` around lines 76 - 80, Update the Escape-key handler in
Modal so the closeDisabled branch calls event.preventDefault() and
event.stopPropagation() before returning; keep onClose() unavailable while
locked, and preserve the existing behavior for enabled dialogs.
src/chrome/ColorPickerPopover.tsx (1)

125-181: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clean up active drag listeners when ColorPickerPopover unmounts

When TabGroupMenu dismisses the picker during an active drag, the picker unmounts but its window listeners remain. A later pointermove can invoke onCustomColorChange through the captured onChange callback. Store the active listener cleanup and run it during ColorPickerPopover unmount cleanup.

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In `@src/chrome/ColorPickerPopover.tsx` around lines 125 - 181, Update
ColorPickerPopover’s onSvPointer and onHuePointer drag handling to store the
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cleanup removes pointermove, pointerup, and pointercancel listeners so no
captured onChange callback runs after the picker unmounts.
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In `@src/chrome/ColorPickerPopover.tsx`:
- Around line 125-181: Update ColorPickerPopover’s onSvPointer and onHuePointer
drag handling to store the active pointer listener cleanup, and add unmount
cleanup that invokes it. Ensure cleanup removes pointermove, pointerup, and
pointercancel listeners so no captured onChange callback runs after the picker
unmounts.

In `@src/chrome/Modal.tsx`:
- Around line 76-80: Update the Escape-key handler in Modal so the closeDisabled
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- Clean up color picker pointer listeners on unmount
- Contain Escape events while locked modals are open
- Add regression coverage for both behaviors
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