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Stacked on #16039 (and #15010). Review only the top commit: 56ab9a8.

Rebased 2026-10-05 onto #15010's current head (46e8b68, on main 250e052; main has since gained two server-only commits and still merges cleanly). Apart from context lines, the rebase left the patch unchanged. After review on this PR, a pick or power-off that settles after you switch threads now still opens or closes its tab in the thread that started it, instead of being dropped, which had left the device session with no tab. Only the panel's own spinner and error stay behind. The Fix and Evidence sections below describe this head. GPT-6.1 Sol (high) reviewed the change. At this head (56ab9a8347) these pass: focused tests (1 files, 7 tests), typecheck (@t3tools/web), lint and fmt on the changed files, knip.

Problem

The Device panel (live iOS Simulator / Android Emulator) stays mounted when you switch threads. If you start a device or power one off and switch threads before it finishes, the next thread shows the previous thread's "Starting device…" spinner (with its device list unusable) or its error. The spinner and error belong to the thread that started the operation, not the one you are looking at now.

Why this qualifies

A small, self-contained bug fix in one web component. It does not depend on the panel host proposed in Ideas discussion #14938 or on any other stacked PR: it applies cleanly to main on its own, and the Device panel and everything its tests use are identical there. It is placed below the Device panel registration PR in the stack so that PR stays a mechanical move. No maintainer has agreed to it yet. Previous PR in this stack: refactor(web): open the right-panel terminal through the panel host (#16039).

Fix

One commit, 2 files (+273/−6), apps/web/src/components/device/DevicePanel.tsx and a new test.

  • The panel's spinner and error belong to the thread they started in. When the panel's thread changes, it resets them during render, so the next thread never shows them and the device stream is not remounted.
  • Successful picks and power-offs still open or close the tab in their starting scoped thread. After leaving that visit, only its panel spinner and error updates are ignored, including after leaving and returning. The tab actions are keyed by the thread the operation started in, so they never touch the thread you moved to. This matches the base: the server has already started or stopped that thread's device session.
  • Nothing else changes: same props, same setup dialog, same streaming path.

Evidence

Captured on macOS 26.5.2 against isolated state: one project, Thread A and Thread B, each with the Device picker tab open. The device is a dedicated Android emulator (API 36) set to cold-boot every time, so starting it takes tens of seconds and leaves time to switch threads. Before = this PR's parent a24bc61e6c, captured on web (Playwright Chromium) and in the built Electron app, light and dark. After = this head 56ab9a8347 for the start and power-off flows, web only, dark only (Playwright Chromium, 1440×1000). The failed-start and same-thread after captures are from the earlier revision 7a5afb4555 (web and Electron); this head does not change how those flows behave. Recordings are real time.

Start a device in A, switch to B before it boots, return to A

Before (base): B shows A's "Starting device…" and B's device list is unusable. When the boot finishes, A has its device tab.

Before (base), web dark: Thread B shows Thread A's Starting device spinner; later Thread A has its device tab

After (56ab9a8347): B keeps its own usable device list, with no spinner, error or device tab from A. When the boot finishes, A has its device tab, as on the base. On return, A shows the named device tab streaming the emulator. The switch to B came 776 ms after Start; the recording has no internal cuts.

After, web dark: Thread B keeps its own device list while A's device boots; on return Thread A shows its device tab with the live stream

Start fails after switching away (the emulator is killed while it boots)

Before (base): B shows A's "failed to boot" error, and A still shows it on return.

Before (base), web dark: the late boot error appears in Thread B

After (captured at 7a5afb4555, same behaviour at this head): the late error is dropped. B shows no error, and neither does A on return.

After, web dark: no error in Thread B or in Thread A after the late failure

Power off, then switch away before it settles. Before and after (56ab9a8347): A's device tab closes in A while you are away, and B keeps its own picker with the device shown as stopped. B shows no spinner or error from A after the fix. The switch came 252 ms after Power off. Staying in one thread behaves the same on both revisions: the device tab opens and streams (after captured at 7a5afb4555).

Stills

After stills for start and power-off are web dark at 56ab9a8347. The other after stills are from 7a5afb4555. The isolated fixture also lists an unrelated "New thread, server" row in the sidebar.

Scenario Before (base) After
Start, A before Start (after only, web dark)
Start, B while A boots (before web light, after web dark)
Start, B while A boots (Electron light, before only)
Start, B after the boot settles (after only, web dark)
Start, return to A (web dark)
Power off, A before (after only, web dark)
Power off, B right after (after only, web dark)
Power off, B settled (before Electron light, after web dark)
Power off, return to A (web dark)
Failed start, B (web light)
Failed start, return to A (web dark)
Failed start, B (Electron dark)
Failed start, return to A (Electron light)
Same thread, no switch (web dark)
Same thread, no switch (Electron dark)

MP4s: before S · after S · before F · after F · before S Electron · after F Electron

Electron captures use the app built from each revision with an isolated profile (a throwaway HOME, Chromium --use-mock-keychain). On those revisions the failed-start, power-off and same-thread flows matched the web results.

Checks at this head (56ab9a8347), run with the bot-review fix (CI=true, all exit 0):

  • vp test run src/components/device/DevicePanel.test.tsx (apps/web): 1 file, 7 tests pass. The tests drive the real panel buttons with deferred device results and the same thread id in two environments.
    • Spinner and error stay with their visit. Recorded during development with the fix reverted, these failed: keeps the next thread's picker usable while an earlier pick is pending; hides a failed pick that settles after the panel moved, even back again (then named "drops a failed pick…"); does not carry an operation error into another thread.
    • Late results still reach their own thread: opens a pick that settles after a switch in the thread it started in; closes a powered-off surface in its own thread after the panel moved. Both fail against the earlier revision that dropped these results (checked).
    • The two same-thread cases (a pick opens its device; a power-off closes its surface) pass before and after.
  • vp run --filter @t3tools/web typecheck, vp lint --report-unused-disable-directives and vp fmt --check on the touched files: pass.
  • Not re-run at this head: vp run knip:check and the cherry-pick onto main passed at 7a5afb4555.

Surfaces

  • Entry points: every path that shows the Device panel (+ menu, empty launcher, tab strip, agent-opened devices) mounts the same component; all get the fix.
  • Web: affected (the only code changed).
  • Desktop: wraps the same web bundle; unchanged otherwise.
  • Mobile: not affected; mobile has no Device panel.
  • Providers (Codex, Claude, Cursor, Grok, OpenCode, Antigravity): not affected.
  • Contracts: none changed; no wire change.
  • Reverse states: none added.
  • Local / remote-relay / tunnel: no transport change; the device commands and streams are unchanged.
  • Docs: none; how to use the Device panel does not change.

Not verified

  • iOS Simulator (the Android emulator was used), and relay or tunnel connections (no wire change).
  • At this head, the start and power-off flows were captured on web in dark theme only. Electron and light theme for those flows were captured only at the earlier revision.
  • The late-result tests check which scoped store action the panel calls, through spies at the store boundary. They do not assert the resulting tab list in a real store.
  • Known behaviour, kept from the base: a pick or power-off that settles after you left still opens or closes the device tab in the thread that started it, because the server has already started or stopped that thread's device session. Only the panel's own spinner and error are dropped.

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saphid and others added 4 commits October 5, 2026 17:03
Preview becomes the second panel on the side-panel registry that Diff
started. Each definition now also carries the panel's title, icon, launcher
letter, client support and unavailable copy, so the tabs, the empty
launcher and the add menu read one ordered list instead of three
hand-kept ones. Labels, letters, order and copy are unchanged.

Panel props are inferred from each lazily loaded body, and the caller is a
closed union, so another panel's props, unknown ids and widened ids do not
compile. ChatView lends the rendered panel a small host (thread, right
panel visibility, composer draft target, workspace mutation id and the
annotation send) instead of drilling the same props into each body; the
annotation send keeps the per-render closure it had before, so a pick that
settles after navigation still sends from the thread it started in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PersistentThreadTerminalPanel, PersistentThreadTerminalDrawer, their two
reconciliation helpers and the terminal launch-context types now live in
apps/web/src/panels/terminal. The moved code is unchanged apart from the
added export keywords; ChatView imports them and its call sites, props,
memo boundaries and callbacks are untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The right-panel terminal is now a registered side panel. Its body reads the
thread and visibility from the panel host and keybindings from the server
keybindings atom, then hands them to the unchanged memoized terminal, so
ChatView renders that leave its inputs alone still skip it. ChatView passes
only the terminal surface, launch context, focus request, callbacks and
shortcut labels. Launcher copy, letter, order and availability are
unchanged; the bottom drawer stays mounted by ChatView.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This is substantially broader than a localized device bug fix: it rewires the production right-panel architecture and changes lifecycle and thread-scoping behavior for browser, diff, and terminal surfaces. New TypeScript diagnostic-suppression directives and an unresolved Medium async-result concern add further review risk.

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Walkthrough

Preview, Diff, and Terminal now use a registered side-panel system with shared host context and metadata-driven launchers. DevicePanel also guards asynchronous operations against environment or thread changes.

Changes

Registered side panels

Layer / File(s) Summary
Panel registry and host contract
apps/web/src/panels/panelRegistry.ts, apps/web/src/panels/panelHost.ts, apps/web/src/panels/bundledPanels.tsx, apps/web/src/panels/*test.tsx
Adds typed panel definitions, lazy registry lookup, shared host context, and registrations for Diff, Browser, and Terminal. Tests cover lazy loading, panel selection, and panel-specific props.
Preview and Diff panel bodies
apps/web/src/panels/preview/*, apps/web/src/panels/diff/DiffSidePanel.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewPanel.tsx, apps/web/src/components/diffs/*, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*
Adds PreviewSidePanel and adapts DiffSidePanel to read host state. Removes the former PreviewPanel and updates diff loading-state imports. Preview tests cover host updates and late annotation results.
Terminal panel and drawer
apps/web/src/panels/terminal/*, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
Moves persistent terminal drawer behavior into terminal panel components. The panel resolves thread and working-directory context and wires terminal actions. Tests cover attachment, input routing, and host updates.
Chat and launcher integration
apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.tsx, apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs*.test.tsx, apps/web/src/routes/_chat.pull-requests.tsx
ChatView renders registered panels within host context and supplies launcher metadata in both tab modes. RightPanelTabs builds actions and tab labels and icons from panel metadata. Tests cover launcher availability and browser-profile selection.

Device operation scope guards

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guard device operation results
apps/web/src/components/device/DevicePanel.tsx, apps/web/src/components/device/DevicePanel.test.tsx
DevicePanel clears pending and error state on scope changes and ignores stale device-open or power-off results. Tests cover completions before and after thread changes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatView
  participant RegisteredSidePanel
  participant PanelHostContext
  participant PreviewSidePanel
  ChatView->>RegisteredSidePanel: Select panel and pass its props
  RegisteredSidePanel->>PanelHostContext: Render selected panel under host context
  PanelHostContext->>PreviewSidePanel: Provide thread, visibility, and annotation sender
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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 91fb6

If you start a device or power one off and then switch threads before it finishes, the result is silently dropped. Returning to the original thread shows no new device tab and no closed surface, so you have to repeat the action. The rest of the side-panel changes show no blocking issues. Consider applying the result to the original thread before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 91fb6

The inspected changes preserve existing panel capabilities and strengthen separation of device results between threads. No introduced security issue was established, but the assessment does not fully cover downstream authorization and deployment behavior.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected capability paths remain selected-environment/thread device operations, terminal interaction, and preview annotation submission. The shared host relocates existing client capabilities rather than establishing a new external panel or agent-loading authority. This does not establish the correctness of downstream server authorization.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Registered launcher availability combines runtime support with caller-provided availability. ChatView retains Git/server-thread gating for Diff and project gating for Terminal; the pull-request route supplies unavailable, no-op launchers. These are preserved client presentation controls, not server authorization checks.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The device guard uses a fresh token for each committed environment/thread scope and invalidates it on cleanup. Leaving and returning to the same thread does not revive an earlier completion. Navigation clears the spinner and error, while authoritative device-session updates remain separate from the guarded panel-store projection.
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Comment thread apps/web/src/components/device/DevicePanel.tsx Outdated
One Device panel instance stays mounted across a thread switch, so a
device start or power-off that settled after the switch left its
"Starting device…" spinner or its error in the next thread.

The panel now resets its operation state when its thread changes, and a
pick or power-off that settles after it moved to another thread (even back
again) or unmounted no longer touches the panel's spinner or error. The
tab it opens or closes still lands in the thread it started from, which is
where the server opened or shut down the device.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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if (result._tag === "Failure") {
if (stillCurrent()) setOperationError(formatEnvironmentQueryError(result.cause));
} else {
useRightPanelStore.getState().openDevice(props.threadRef, {

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🟡 Medium device/DevicePanel.tsx:107

A late successful open or power-off request still mutates the initiating thread after the user switches threads: the callbacks call openDevice(props.threadRef, ...) and closeSurface(props.threadRef, ...) without checking stillCurrent(). Guard both success branches so results from the old scope are dropped.

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A late successful `open` or power-off request still mutates the initiating thread after the user switches threads: the callbacks call `openDevice(props.threadRef, ...)` and `closeSurface(props.threadRef, ...)` without checking `stillCurrent()`. Guard both success branches so results from the old scope are dropped.

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This direction is intentional, and it is what this PR is for: a pick or power-off belongs to the thread that started it. The store actions are keyed by that thread's scoped ref, so a late success opens (or closes) the device tab in the starting thread and never touches the thread you moved to. Dropping it instead left the server's device session running with no tab to reach it, which is what CodeRabbit flagged on the previous revision. After you leave, only this panel's own spinner and error are ignored. Both paths are covered by "opens a pick that settles after a switch in the thread it started in" and "closes a powered-off surface in its own thread after the panel moved".

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