* feat(app): reveal streaming text as one continuous fade front
Streaming assistant text is released by word and every character fades in
over the same 150 ms envelope from a start time owned by the message. Start
times never decrease in reading order, so a line paints as a single front
moving left to right, however the text is chunked. Per-word envelopes with an
internal stagger let the next word's first letter overtake the previous word's
last letter, which read as holes and flashing words at the real frame rate;
100 ms frame strips hid it.
Native renderers receive the fade ranges as a prop on a host view wrapping the
root Text, so ranges and text land in the same Fabric mount transaction. The
earlier binding sent ranges through a separate async module call keyed by view
tag and had to reconcile them against the view's text; on a fast phone the UI
thread lags JS by several commits, mounts and calls interleave, and every
reconciliation heuristic guessed wrong. Native code no longer infers newness
or creates start times.
The mock load-test provider now separates cycles with a blank line so a cycle
heading is not appended to the previous paragraph.
* fix(ci): refresh streaming dependencies and isolate E2E setup
* test(app): distinguish fade cleanup from Markdown replacement
* test(app): detect restarted fades during Markdown updates
* docs(app): keep streaming guidance focused on constraints and QA
* test(app): control animation time in Android fade assertions
Fixed wall-clock sleeps let emulator scheduling select the sampled animation frame. Inject the animator time source and drive paint at exact timestamps within one UI-thread operation; production keeps the system clock. Verify the mid-fade sample and the exact cleanup boundary without sleeps, polling, or retries.
* fix(test): compile the desktop renderer before lifecycle checks
The lifecycle fixture treated Metro /status as app readiness. Its first
Settings click therefore spent its 90-second UI budget compiling the cold
bundle. An isolated cold-cache run restricted to one CPU reproduced the
click timeout before the app runtime had loaded.
Reuse the browser suite's existing bundle warmup before launching Electron,
and preserve Metro output in the lifecycle artifacts. The UI timeout,
build-request timeout, lifecycle assertions and product behavior are unchanged.
CI did not preserve Metro output, so its precise startup timing is not
recoverable from the failed run. The retained log makes subsequent startup
failures diagnosable without relying only on an empty renderer text dump.
Validation: three complete lifecycle E2E runs under private Xvfb displays;
existing Metro readiness tests; app typecheck; targeted lint; root format.
* test(file-observer): await burst delivery through native recovery
The deletion phase required every event within 10 seconds, but native
coalescing recovery uses a 30-second safety audit followed by the existing
reconciliation debounce. An idle diagnostic excludes that delayed audit
and therefore cannot act as a completion barrier.
Await the required delivered events instead, preserving every deletion
assertion and the existing overall test watchdog. A real-filesystem test
with controlled native notifications reproduces 95 outstanding paths at
the old deadline and verifies completion when the safety audit delivers
them. No production observer behavior changes.
* test(file-observer): verify burst recovery through public events
The controlled-clock regression constructed a private native backend,
bypassing the interface used by consumers. Consolidate recovery coverage
into the public observer integration test instead: drive real writes,
deletes and directory renames, then await every required public event,
including the 450 surviving files at their renamed paths.
No public capability was added: subscribe callbacks already express
completion. No production behavior or test timeout changes.
* test(app): drive Android fade tests through the native host
The instrumentation suite constructed TailFadeInAnimator directly, advanced
its private clock, and counted FadeInSpan instances. It now mounts the
WordFadeHost that React mounts, feeds it the ranges prop the bridge sends,
and asserts rendered pixels: hidden before a start time, a monotone front
inside and across words, settled frames equal to the baseline, and no frame
callbacks left after settling. Span counts and internal timing state are no
longer asserted.
Choreographer cannot be advanced deterministically from a test and the fade
epoch is the message's wall-clock start time, so the host takes a
WordFadeFrameClock (time plus frame callbacks) as its smallest public seam;
production keeps the Choreographer-backed default.
Fixture text is sized in pixels so every sample stays on one line at any
density; at 420 dpi the 32sp fixture wrapped and the column helper summed
glyphs from the first line.
* fix(app): prevent and recover workspace layout crash loops
* fix(desktop): capture resized browser tabs without hanging
A resident guest can paint fresh pixels after resize while capturePage's
native surface-copy request remains pending. The same failed guest returns
a fresh frame through frame subscription, so waiting for resize or another
animation frame does not correct the failing copy request.
Capture one subscribed frame within the existing five-second budget and
release the subscription on completion or cancellation. Preserve temporary
frame production and its original throttling policy. Remove viewport copy
retries and E2E screenshot polling; assert the resized image dimensions.
Refs #4866. Three full real-Electron browser journeys passed under Xvfb,
including physical clicks and fresh screenshots while the window is hidden.
* test(app): choose Agent before exercising the runtime catalog
The newly merged catalog journey assumed an empty workspace opened an agent draft tab. This branch opens the New launcher, so create the agent draft tab explicitly before checking its composer and model choices.
* fix: settle closed browser captures and validate persisted layout fixtures
Destroying a guest during frame subscription left its screenshot pending until the capture deadline and blocked queued captures. Reject at destruction, remove the listener on every exit, and return browser_tab_closed. The regression proves immediate settlement and queue release.
Reuse the unchanged persisted layout schema from a UI-independent module so the recovery fixture validates storage before editing it.
* test(app): encapsulate Explorer layout setup and cleanup
Keep persisted layout schemas and corrupted-state construction inside the seedCorruptedWorkspaceLayout helper. Use the existing withWorkspace fixture for cleanup in all four Explorer journeys so test bodies follow a straight setup, action and assertion flow.
* test(app): target the selected workspace in layout recovery
The corruption helper selected the first persisted entry, so a multi-workspace journey could leave the intended workspace untouched. Resolve its exact persistence key from the requested workspace ID and fail setup when absent. The failing-first journey now preserves an earlier workspace with an agent draft tab while recovering the selected workspace.
* feat(app): give compact Changes an overview and a straight rail
Three fixes to the Explorer's Changes tab on phones, where there is no
tree rail and the diff is the only view of what changed.
No placeholder stat while the sidebar slides in. `useCheckoutDiffQuery`
reported `isLoading` only when the query was enabled and connected, so an
inactive retained panel settled on `files: []`. The comparison toolbar
summed that into "+0 -0" and the body rendered "No changes" for a diff
nobody had fetched yet, both replaced a moment later by real numbers. The
result now derives from the payload alone: no payload means loading,
whatever the query is doing. Callers already handle loading correctly, so
nothing downstream needed a special case.
Jump to file. A floating action button over the diff opens a sheet with
the same changed-files tree the desktop rail renders; tapping a file
closes the sheet and scrolls the diff there. `ChangedFilesTree` moved out
of `diff-pane.tsx` into its own module so both surfaces own one tree, and
its list is now the sheet-aware one so it scrolls with the sheet gesture
on native. `DiffDocument` takes a `contentInsetBottom` so the button
never traps the last line.
Rails on the compact header. The tab labels sat at 20dp and the close X
at 16dp while every toolbar row below them used 12dp leading and 8dp
trailing. The close button was also a hand-rolled Pressable rather than a
ToolbarButton. `paneContentToolbarTrailingPadding` now takes whether the
row's last control is a bare glyph or a framed one: a glyph's hitbox
overhangs its ink so the row pads by less than the rail, but the compact
git-actions trigger paints its own frame and was landing flush against
the screen edge. The commits header chevron moved to the depth-0 tree
rail. Desktop geometry is unchanged.
* fix(app): preserve Explorer touch targets and reset file overview
* fix(app): preserve diff selections across repaints
Header typography refreshes and height resizes changed the repaint callback
and inadvertently cleared active source selections. Keep selection updates
stable while retaining explicit source and selection-layout invalidation.
* test(app): express diff copy regression as user actions
* test(app): express file overview flows as user actions
Send every original tool call and each whole accumulated assistant message through plugin transformers before display grouping or Markdown splitting. Preserve streaming callbacks, original payloads, native Markdown block identities, and chat outline reading position. Reject legacy fragment caches and retain failing-first plugin-interface and browser regressions.
Fixes#4673. Fixes#4789. Consolidates #4820.
Co-authored-by: Matt Cowger <matt@cowger.us>
Co-authored-by: Jegor Kitskerkin <jegor.kitskerkin@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Mohamed Boudra <boudra.moha@gmail.com>
* fix(providers): keep duplicate catalogs from breaking agent drafts
Normalize model identities before publication and when materializing older
catalogs, preserving the first definition and configured overrides. Keep
explicit default variants separate from the base model selection.
* fix(providers): preserve saved variant identities across resumes
Persist the selection encoding so legacy names remain literal. Refresh provider persistence when a selection changes, before another prompt is sent.
* test(app): let fixtures own catalog journey cleanup
* fix(providers): preserve the existing default variant contract
Keep one Default catalog choice and let the provider resolve an omitted variant. Remove the encoding and persistence machinery; other variant IDs retain their literal meaning.
* test(creation): expose failed completion after conflicting requests
Creation returns a failed snapshot instead of rejecting. Assert the result before its side effects so platform failures report the underlying error.
* test(app): wait for the seed client after daemon restart
The browser and seed client reconnect independently. Wait for the seed connection before issuing post-restart RPCs instead of assuming browser readiness covers both clients.
* test(app): isolate visible prompts and checkout diff fixtures
Inactive tabs retain message DOM, so prompt assertions must inspect visible rows. Ignore the local fixture remote before observation rather than deleting it after the daemon has started tracking the checkout.
* fix(file-observer): preserve final deletions when batching events
A duplicate creation notification followed by deletion was collapsed into an update, hiding final absence from consumers that distinguish deletes. Keep final deletes while retaining update semantics for atomic replacement.
* fix(desktop): wait for Metro HTTP readiness before launching Electron
Expo briefly listens while probing port availability. A successful TCP connection can therefore launch Electron before Metro starts and leave it exiting on connection refusal. Require the configured renderer origin to report the running packager status.
* test(ci): consolidate fixture and readiness corrections
Await the connection and UI states each journey owns, isolate Git fixture contents before observation, and hold real Markdown frames at asserted checkpoints. Keep creation completion diagnostics explicit without claiming the original Windows failure is fixed.
* fix(desktop): wait for Metro HTTP readiness before launching Electron
Expo briefly listens while probing port availability. A successful TCP connection can therefore launch Electron before Metro starts and leave it exiting on connection refusal. Require the configured renderer origin to report the running packager status.
* test(ci): consolidate fixture and readiness corrections
Await the connection and UI states each journey owns, isolate Git fixture contents before observation, and hold real Markdown frames at asserted checkpoints. Keep creation completion diagnostics explicit without claiming the original Windows failure is fixed.
* test(desktop): describe Metro readiness through HTTP states
Keep protocol mechanics in the fixture and assert readiness only after a successful packager response. Cover non-success status and unrelated HTTP content without inline synchronization in the test body.
Restore provider/model selection in Android tablet modal windows by giving both native modal hosts their own gesture-handler root. Preserve phone sheet and web portal behavior.
Include native regression scripts, test dependency resolution, and verified CI test corrections. Generated media and logs are excluded. Refs #4475 and #4377; consolidates #4721 and #4771.
Co-authored-by: Mike P. Kuhl <mkuhl@softmachine.at>
Co-authored-by: Cameron Chin <cjcrjc@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(agents): prevent OOM from cumulative tool history
Repeated progress updates retained complete historical copies of growing tool output. Retain projected items on ingestion and serve them for every history fetch, preserving source sequence coverage for catch-up. Keep intermediate payloads only in streaming; confine compatibility degradation to child transcripts and overwritten fork checkpoints.
* test(client): expect projected subagent capability in hello
* fix(app): report unexpected child history failures
Keep connection failures recoverable while forwarding unexpected fetch and reconciliation errors to diagnostics. Name observer arguments to keep server and agent identities explicit.
* test(agents): assert projected history after rewind
* docs(protocol): tag projected child compatibility gates
* fix(app): keep growing composers below the header
Native keyboard translation left the dock at full height, so intrinsic composer growth could extend behind the header. Reserve the keyboard destination at motion boundaries and bound the composer to its stationary viewport while preserving native input scrolling and animation.
* docs: reuse existing test suites and automation
Keep plan proposals at their original timeline position through approval, rejection, and cancellation. Make plan cards collapsible while retaining readable history after follow-up prompts and daemon restart.
* fix(subscriptions): preserve older-host workflows and explicit timeline recovery
Keep established app and SDK workflows available on older daemons without emulating independent directory filters. Restore live timeline membership without choosing the consumer's history recovery policy. Preserve daemon filesystem paths separately from legacy workspace IDs.
* fix(client): keep legacy workspace replies scoped to the requested page
* fix(server): probe Cursor thinking options per model
Cursor ACP only reports thought_level for the current model, so the catalog was copying Haiku's Off/On onto Grok 4.6 until the next probe happened to land on Grok.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(server): drop inherited thinking options when an ACP catalog probe fails
A rejected model switch was leaving the probe session's thinking list on the failed model, so Grok could still advertise Haiku's Off/On.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(server): probe per-model thinking when session/new has no thought_level
Composer/Auto as the Cursor ACP default omits thought_level, so the catalog helper skipped every model switch and Grok kept an empty thinking list.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(server): discover model options without changing preferences
Use the provider model catalog extension instead of probing model switches that persist user preferences. Keep provider-specific discovery in each shim and validate extension responses at the boundary.
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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Mohamed Boudra <boudra.moha@gmail.com>
* fix(app): keep incomplete Markdown formatted while streaming
Treat unfinished formatting at the growing assistant-message tail as provisional so delimiters and link destinations do not flash while tokens arrive. Completed messages retain ordinary Markdown parsing.
* test(app): express streaming Markdown checks as user actions
* fix(agents): restore archived Codex workspaces without losing focus
History selection must survive without cached agent records, and reading an archived Codex thread must not acquire an interactive writer. Keep workspace restore explicit, serialize native lifecycle transitions, and leave transcript lifetime with its owner.
* test(app): express Codex restore specs as user journeys
* test(app): finish restore fixture cleanup after teardown errors
* test(app): align restore coverage and await fixture readiness
Workspace restore leaves agents archived until explicit Unarchive. Keep that distinction covered for multiple agents. Compile the recovery fixture before its interaction test starts, and wait for sidebar agent hydration before asserting tab presence.
* fix(app): let touch workspace titles use the available width
Omit trailing stats when the permanent touch menu replaces them. Keep concealed stats in layout only for temporary desktop shortcut hints, preserving hover and shortcut geometry.
* test(app): express sidebar width checks as user journeys
* fix(desktop): preserve Linux sandboxing wherever the host allows it
Chromium checks its Linux sandbox before main.js, while package installation probes run as root and miss AppArmor restrictions on desktop users. Choose the launch flags before exec and always install the SUID alternative for native packages. Test published artifacts as an ordinary user with namespaces both denied and allowed; never repair permissions in the smoke harness.
* fix(desktop): retain the Linux release build baseline
* fix(ci): allow canceled desktop smoke uploads to stop
* test(desktop): verify the installed RPM sandbox under AppArmor
* fix(ci): resolve packaged desktop dependencies before installation
* chore(desktop): keep QA evidence out of the repository
* fix(daemon): keep lifecycle operations on the selected instance
Restart reconstructed launch inputs and address fallback could redirect a home-selected shutdown to another daemon. Let supervisors publish bound endpoints, retain their worker restart contract, and share captured local lifecycle ownership between CLI and Desktop.
* test(daemon): verify bounded desktop readiness and cancellable artifacts
* test(cli): verify reload target hints and durable offline pairing
* test(daemon): align lifecycle fixtures with ownership and targeting
* fix(daemon): preserve reachability when status details time out
Provider discovery can outlast a status request after authentication succeeds. Keep local connection facts separate from unavailable details, while explicit remote queries retain their error outcome.
Migrate CLI and packaged Desktop fixtures to persistent managed configuration and explicit targets. Isolate generic Git observation from forge discovery and reuse disposable CLI homes on Windows.
* test(daemon): observe restart through the worker status RPC
The bounded CLI status observation may omit worker details while an authenticated connection remains healthy. Exercise the app-style restart through its full RPC and retain the replacement observation, with a real slow provider probe covering the distinction.
* fix(app): reload to the project picker after a render error
Keep the recovery boundary above the router so Reload starts a new navigation tree at the picker instead of remounting the failed workspace. Preserve saved layouts and normal startup restoration.
* test(app): exercise reload through fixture routes
Give each observation a server-issued ID owned by its physical connection. Preserve snapshot-only reads and combined list-and-subscribe, source-bound replies, lifecycle cleanup and legacy wire compatibility.
* perf(app): optimize wrapped measurements and checkpoint native layout experiment
Compute full grapheme geometry only for final wrap fragments. Preserve shaped-text search behavior while bounding additive wrap probes. Keep the Android background layout experiment isolated from the normal diff renderer; native renderer integration and iOS bindings remain unfinished.
* perf(server): reduce cold diff generation work
Keep active diff reads owned across invalidation and wait for the initial watcher inventory before cold generation. Batch patch and blob reads while preserving per-file size isolation, bounded output, and daemon responsiveness. Avoid constructing fallback tokens when full-file highlighting already covers both sides.
* test(server): exercise oversized highlighted diff rejection
The single-line fixture now bypasses highlighting under the long-line guard, so it no longer reaches the structured payload limit. Use short dense lines to keep testing oversized rejection and continued socket usability.
* fix(server): queue fresh diffs for forced reads
A forced request following a repository mutation must not reuse an older active build. Invalidate that result and coalesce waiting callers onto one subsequent build. Give the cache a named object input and completed-value type.
* test(server): share deferred diff loader setup
* test(server): name completed diff cache setup
* refactor(server): use aliases for new diff imports
* fix(server): keep shipped diff imports resolvable by Node
The TypeScript build preserves path aliases without a runtime resolver. Restore relative imports for shipped code and declarations, and correct the server import guideline that prompted the regression.
* fix(desktop): throttle hidden browsers between screenshots
Keep Chromium background throttling enabled outside serialized captures. Temporarily enable frame production and wait for fresh paint so hidden-window screenshots remain usable without continuously animating idle guests.
* fix(desktop): share screenshot deadline across paint and capture
* test(desktop): wait for browser fixture readiness before sampling
* test(desktop): exit Electron after screenshot verification
CI completed every screenshot assertion but remained alive after app.quit. Exit the standalone test explicitly and keep its deadline active until process shutdown.
* test(desktop): clean browser profile after Electron exits
Explicit Electron exit skips quit handlers, and removing the profile before shutdown lets Chromium recreate it. The launcher owns the temporary profile and removes it after the child exits.
* test(desktop): reuse browser E2E for hidden screenshot regression
Exercise the running app and browser MCP tools within the existing browser journey. Remove the separate Electron fixtures, npm script, and CI step.
* fix(desktop): restore Linux launcher identity
Electron now derives Linux window identity from the scoped package name before app startup. Pin the existing Paseo.desktop identity in packaged metadata and check the built archive in the packaged-app smoke test.
* test(desktop): declare packaged smoke archive dependency
* fix(desktop): update Nix hash for smoke dependency
The prefix allowlist hid Fast for GPT-6 Astra and exposed it for models outside documented Codex Fast support. Use explicit model IDs and avoid claiming a universal usage multiplier.
Suppress repeated Claude compaction heartbeat markers at the provider and re-arm marker creation at compaction and turn boundaries. Verify emitted events through the public session interface, including subsequent compactions after interrupted or abandoned turns.
Closes#4390.
Co-authored-by: Tom Gringauz <17593920+tomgrin10@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(codex): show asynchronous questions and preserve their lifecycle
* fix(server): reject concurrent replies to the same question
* test(codex): use native temporary paths in question fixtures
Preserve the selected workspace when delayed creation finishes, while still starting the requested agent or terminal. Keep normal navigation when the initiating screen remains active, and preserve newer draft text and context.
Verified with before/after recordings, ten passing real-browser journeys using isolated daemons, focused regression tests, green CI, and independent review.
QA: https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/tree/qa/workspace-focus-2986
Co-authored-by: Christoph Leiter <christoph@leiter.io>
Make Find discoverable at the top right of editable and read-only web file panes, using shared controls backed by CodeMirror search. Preserve literal case-insensitive buffer search, keyboard focus and navigation, optional replacement, Undo, and save.
Add a paseo.cafe link to the Plugins card on the landing page and a
section at the top of the related projects doc. The card link is accented
so it reads without hover; the card now takes a list of links instead of
one hardcoded link.
* perf(app): reduce avoidable work when opening large diffs
Large snapshots were recursively reconstructed for reference stability, while native scroll worklets captured complete file models. Preserve identity at the data producers and prepare text for the visible window without rebuilding unchanged files.
* test(app): await commit diff query completion without polling
* chore(app): remove profiling artifacts from the source tree
What's new opens an adaptive sheet — bottom sheet on compact, centred card on
desktop — that fetches CHANGELOG.md from the repository and renders it with the
app's own chrome. The desktop update callout, the sidebar help menu, and a new
row in Settings → About all open it; the sheet header links out to
paseo.sh/changelog.
The parser commits to two facts only: `##` starts a release and `###` starts a
section. Section titles are read from the document rather than matched against a
list, and everything under a section passes through verbatim to the Markdown
renderer, so a future callout, block quote, code fence or image needs no parser
change. Fences are tracked because a fenced sample is the one thing that can
fool a line scan.
The document is fetched rather than bundled because the app has to describe a
release that shipped after it was built, which is the update callout's whole
purpose. It goes straight to the repository rather than through a host: the
notes describe the app, and routing them through a daemon would make them
depend on which host happens to be connected. Nothing is fetched or parsed
until the sheet opens.
The latest release renders as soon as there is one and the rest of the first
page follows in a transition, so React slices that work around the opening
animation instead of committing hundreds of list items at once.
Mohamed Boudra