fix(web): centered scrollers no longer shift when the scrollbar appears

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Scrollers that center their content (mx-auto columns, justify-center rows) moved it 3px sideways whenever it grew past the fold, because the 6px scrollbar narrowed the scroller. #15588 fixes this for the PR timeline. This PR fixes the same shift in the surface launcher, browser empty state, unreachable-site page, device panel, PR unavailable state, provider settings placeholder, and file preview error panel, and includes the timeline line from #15588 (same hunk, so they merge cleanly in either order).

Each scroller gets scrollbar-gutter-both, matching settings, the PR list, and the chat timeline. A new t3code/require-centered-scroll-gutter rule now flags an overflow-auto/overflow-y-auto element that centers its items or wraps an mx-auto/m-auto descendant, unless it reserves a stable gutter or hides its scrollbar in every state. A gutter behind a variant (lg:, dark:) or inside a conditional branch doesn't count. The two image previews it flags are suppressed with a reason, since their image is capped at max-h-full max-w-full and never scrolls. The rule can't see centering inside another component or by text-center, so the provider settings placeholder (centered by <Empty>) and the file error panel were fixed by hand.

Verification:

• On the unfixed files the rule flags all 8 sites. Fixture checks: [scrollbar-gutter:auto], [scrollbar-gutter:stable_auto], lg:[scrollbar-gutter:stable], dark:scrollbar-gutter-both, ${prefix}scrollbar-gutter-both, a gutter added only by enabled && or one ternary branch, flex-col-reverse items-center, and responsive flex-row lg:flex-col / flex-col md:flex-row with justify-center are all flagged. Unconditional scrollbar-gutter-both, [scrollbar-gutter:stable], [scrollbar-gutter:stable_both-edges], [scrollbar-width:none], and column-only justify-center / row-only items-center pass. The fixed tree lints with 0 errors and no unused directives. Plugin typecheck and the existing 181 plugin tests pass.
• In a dev server, the launcher, browser empty state, and unreachable page moved -3px before and 0px after, with the resting position unchanged. The preview browser hides scrollbars, so the "scrollbar showing" state was emulated with scrollbar-gutter: stable, which reserves the same 6px lane.
• Not measured in the app: device panel (needs the device hub), PR unavailable state, provider settings placeholder, and file error panel (need a failure state).
• Tradeoff: where the column already fills a narrow panel, it now sits 6px further in from each edge. That is the same tradeoff settings and the PR list already make.

Unreachable-site page, maximized panel, 5x zoom on the left edge with a fixed guide. Top: content fits. Bottom: content overflows with the scrollbar lane in use.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR changes scrollbar behavior across several existing web panels and introduces a new JSX-aware lint rule. It also adds two line-level oxlint suppression directives, which requires human review under the repository’s review policy.

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The pull request adds and enables an Oxlint rule that checks centered vertical scrollers for scrollbar gutter handling. It updates several web containers to reserve scrollbar space or suppress the check for image previews.

Changes

Centered Scroll Gutter Enforcement

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Implement and enable the Oxlint rule oxlint-plugin-t3code/rules/require-centered-scroll-gutter.ts, oxlint-plugin-t3code/index.ts, vite.config.ts	The plugin registers a rule that reports centered vertical scrollers without a reserved gutter or hidden scrollbar. The Vite configuration enables the rule as an error.
Update centered scroll containers apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.tsx, apps/web/src/components/device/DevicePanel.tsx, apps/web/src/components/files/*, apps/web/src/components/preview/*, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProviderSettingsPanel.tsx	Several containers add scrollbar-gutter-both. The image preview containers receive rule-specific lint suppressions.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b158f

The new lint rule can miss centered scrollers whose classes are supplied through a supported object form of cn. This is a localized enforcement gap, not an established production layout regression.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c66a7

The new requirement affects layout checking, not application permissions or privileged operations. The reviewed changes introduce no material security risk.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The rule's reachable effect is a lint diagnostic through the repository's existing tooling configuration. Caller inspection found no application or server import exposing it as a privileged runtime entrypoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new rule is additive. Existing RPC-permission, raw-MCP-registration, and global-process-runtime restrictions remain registered and configured as errors; the new rule does not call or alter their implementations.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Diagnostic deduplication belongs to each rule invocation, and class-name sets belong to individual element inspections. The implementation introduces no shared persistent state, reservation, or recovery transition affecting security controls.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary fix: preventing centered web scrollers from shifting when scrollbars appear.
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• apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.tsx
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• apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewUnreachable.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestTimelineTab.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestsUnavailableState.tsx
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- Around line 120-122: Update the centersItems check to detect centering in
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