fix(web): workspace card docks beside chat when the window is narrow

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In narrower windows, the workspace card on the right floated right next to the chat, almost touching it. Wide windows looked fine.

Now the chat stays centered while the card fits beside it with at least 32px between them. When the card does not fit, the chat moves left only as far as it needs to. The chat gets narrower only after it reaches the left padding. Below a 640px chat, the card becomes a popover.

Chat area width	Layout
1384px or more	Chat centered, card beside it
1080px to 1383px	Chat moves left just enough to keep 32px from the card
984px to 1079px	Chat at the left padding, narrows from 736px to 640px
Less than 984px	Popover

With the default 256px sidebar, add 256px to each width to get the window width. For example, the chat stays centered when the window is 1640px or wider.

The card is also lighter. It is 280px wide (was 312px), and the popover uses the same width. Rows are 32px tall (were 36px). The "Workspace" and "Version Control" labels are gone, and a divider separates the groups. The "Project folder" hint is gone; the "Worktree" and "Create" hints stay.

With the "Full" chat width setting, the chat fills the space up to 32px from the card. Before, the card was always a popover in that mode.

Before (main)	After

Narrower: 1338px and 1144px chat areas (sidebar open)

1338px (a 1594px window, or 110% zoom): the chat moves 23px left of center.

1144px (a 1400px window at 125% zoom): the chat moves 120px left of center and stays 736px wide.

Official Codex reference

Verification:

• Ran the focused layout tests: 31 pass. They cover centering, the minimal move, narrowing, the popover threshold, the full-width chat, and preview placement.
• Ran the web typecheck: it passes.
• Took headless screenshots of the dev server at 1400px, 1338px, and 1144px chat areas, and measured the chat and the card with the DOM. The values match the layout math.
• Not verified visually: preview player placement (it needs the desktop app) and the "Full" width setting. The workspace card is web and desktop only, so native mobile does not apply.

Theo Browne opened this PR with Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code). GPT-6 Astra (Codex harness) did the first visual validation. Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (T3 Code) made the sizing follow-ups in 2dde1a9e46 and c5fb856c51, after Theo's review.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes runtime responsive layout behavior across the chat canvas, workspace card, preview placement, and details panel, including a smaller default workspace-card width. The focused tests reduce risk, but the default UI change and coordinated layout effects warrant human review.

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• apps/web/src/components/GitActionsControl.tsx
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📝 Walkthrough

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The chat canvas adjusts chat position and width to make room for the workspace details card. The card uses lane measurements to determine its placement and whether it fits. Panel-mode workspace labels and thread-details dimensions also change.

Changes

Workspace card docking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Chat lane layout apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatCanvasContext.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatCanvas.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/chatCanvasLayout.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/chatCanvasLayout.test.ts	The canvas limits chat width to the available space beside the details card, with a 32px clearance. It keeps chat centered when space permits and moves it left as space narrows. The context provides lane padding and minimum chat width.
Details-card placement apps/web/src/components/chat/threadDetailsCardLayout.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadDetailsCard.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/threadDetailsCardLayout.test.ts	The resolver uses lane padding and minimum chat width, sets the card width to 280px, and returns no placement when the remaining space is below the minimum chat width. Tests cover card positioning and the fit boundary.

Panel controls and labels

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Panel labels and compact dimensions apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbarEnvModeSelector.tsx, apps/web/src/components/GitActionsControl.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadDetailsControl.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadDetailsPanel.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadRelationshipsControl.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/threadDetailsPanelStyles.ts, apps/web/src/index.css	Panel workspace-kind labels depend on worktree state. Thread-details control and row heights decrease, Workspace and Version Control headings are hidden, and the default panel width decreases.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatCanvas
  participant resolveChatCanvasLayout
  participant ChatCanvasContext
  participant ThreadDetailsCard
  participant resolveThreadDetailsCardLayout
  ChatCanvas->>resolveChatCanvasLayout: calculate chat lane
  resolveChatCanvasLayout-->>ChatCanvas: return lane measurements
  ChatCanvas->>ChatCanvasContext: provide lane measurements
  ThreadDetailsCard->>ChatCanvasContext: read lane measurements
  ThreadDetailsCard->>resolveThreadDetailsCardLayout: resolve placement using lane, container, and frame

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/chatCanvasLayout.ts:
- Around line 70-73: Update the docked-width decision in the chat layout so it
checks whether the preview vertically overlaps the details card or composer,
rather than relying only on the preview’s horizontal position. Preserve the full
docked chat width when the preview is clear of both; keep the existing width
reduction when an actual overlap occurs.

Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/threadDetailsCardLayout.ts:
- Line 29: Update the width constant in threadDetailsCardLayout to 312px, and
adjust the card-position and floating-to-docked cutoff expectations to reflect
the 312px inline-card width with a 736px maximum chat width.
- Line 31: Update the width check in the layout logic around the `lane.margin`
and `lane.minChatWidth` calculation to reduce docked margins as canvas space
runs out, keeping the card inline down to 1016px while preserving the 640px
minimum chat width; verify the 1016px boundary.

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• apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatCanvas.tsx
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• apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadDetailsControl.tsx
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• apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadRelationshipsControl.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/chat/chatCanvasLayout.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/chat/chatCanvasLayout.ts
• apps/web/src/components/chat/threadDetailsCardLayout.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/chat/threadDetailsCardLayout.ts
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