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fix(web): panel toggles stay smooth and header icons stop flickering - #18057

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Problem

Opening or closing the right panel re-renders all of ChatView. On a long thread, that blocks the main thread while the panel animates. In dev, the panel snaps most of the way open instead of sliding. In a production build the first frame of motion arrives on time (32.5ms vs 31ms on main), but the transition still produces long frames. The header controls also jump between positions while the panel moves, and the maximize button stays visible for part of the close animation.

Change

  • Right-panel visibility, presence, width and maximize state now live in a new ChatWorkspace component below ChatView. Toggling the panel no longer re-renders the chat. Persisted maximize (#17327) still lives in rightPanelStore, and the OS-link maximize request is still consumed there.
  • The PR-URL subscription moved into a child component that renders nothing, so it no longer re-renders the chat.
  • The header controls have fixed slots, and a mask reveals the maximize button. Controls no longer overlap or move during the transition, and maximize disappears as soon as the panel starts closing. DOM focus order is unchanged.

Related open PRs touch nearby files but fix different problems: #14094 (chat width when the sidebar toggles) and #14786 (keyboard focus inside a closing panel).

Scope and approval

There is no triaged issue for this. I'm sharing it with maintainers directly. It is a focused performance and visual fix for existing panel behaviour and changes no features. The workspace-card jump is fixed separately in #18064. That PR doesn't depend on this one, and the two touch no files in common.

Verification

  • Targeted web tests, lint, fmt and tsc pass.
  • I tested production bundles against main in headed Chromium, with 400ms panel animations:
    • Long history (1,003 rows, 54 toggle gestures): main had 54 long animation frames; this branch had 0.
    • Header, over 1,000 sampled frames: main showed 10 frames of overlapping controls and 110 frames with maximize lingering; this branch showed 0 of each.
    • Upstream checks: 12 of 12 still pass (persisted maximize, OS-link maximize, thread switch and reload, per-thread width, tab reorder).
    • Resting layout: 396 snapshots match main exactly.
  • Not tested: the Electron shell (the web UI is the same code) and mobile (no changes there).

The clips were recorded with this PR and the now-closed #18058 applied together. Any workspace-card behavior in them comes from #18058, not this PR.

Header controls, normal close and then maximize+close, before (main):

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-galwoqjslzlnws6s.oliver-boorstein.workers.dev/f/cb033db1cb73674a/before-main-header-close-maximize-400ms.mp4

After:

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-galwoqjslzlnws6s.oliver-boorstein.workers.dev/f/53b4e94232622473/after-header-close-maximize-400ms.mp4

Closing the panel halfway through a 1,003-row history, before (main):

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-galwoqjslzlnws6s.oliver-boorstein.workers.dev/f/1124ea5171d56b45/before-main-long-thread-close-400ms.mp4

After:

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-galwoqjslzlnws6s.oliver-boorstein.workers.dev/f/40a521ae455b5867/after-long-thread-close-400ms.mp4

Orchestrated by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code; implementation and browser verification by Claude Opus and GPT-6.1 Sol (Codex), all running in T3 Code.

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const closePanelTerminal = useCallback(
(terminalId: string) => {
const activeRightPanelSurface = readActiveRightPanelSurface();

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🟡 Medium components/ChatView.tsx:5940

Confirming requestClosePanelTerminal after another surface becomes active can leave the requested terminal open in the panel, or remove it from the wrong tab while closing the server terminal. closePanelTerminal re-reads the active surface after the asynchronous confirmation and passes that surface's ID to closeTerminal; capture the original surface ID before awaiting confirmation, or locate the surface containing terminalId.

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Confirming `requestClosePanelTerminal` after another surface becomes active can leave the requested terminal open in the panel, or remove it from the wrong tab while closing the server terminal. `closePanelTerminal` re-reads the active surface after the asynchronous confirmation and passes that surface's ID to `closeTerminal`; capture the original surface ID before awaiting confirmation, or locate the surface containing `terminalId`.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR performs a broad right-panel and workspace-layout refactor that changes existing chat, preview, terminal, diff, and pull-request rendering behavior rather than making a small isolated UI fix. An unresolved Medium-severity finding also identifies a race that can close the wrong terminal surface or leave the requested one open.

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Walkthrough

ChatView now uses ChatWorkspace to manage right-panel state and rendering. Panel actions read current surface state from the store. Thread-panel controls use a presentation store, and workspace slots provide panel content, header layout, and inline sizing.

Changes

Chat workspace panels

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workspace state and context
apps/web/src/components/ChatWorkspace.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
ChatWorkspace derives panel state, tracks panel presence, and provides view and sizing contexts. ChatView adopts the workspace dependencies and current surface state.
Store-backed panel actions
apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
Panel actions and shortcuts read current surfaces from the store. Environment fallbacks share an empty array, and citation navigation selects primitive URL values separately.
Panel controls and presentation
apps/web/src/components/chat/PanelLayoutControls.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/threadPanelPresentation.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewPanelShell.tsx, apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.tsx, apps/web/src/index.css, apps/web/src/routes/_chat.pull-requests.tsx
Thread-panel presentation uses a subscribable store, and layout controls accept a supplied toggle. Preview panel shells can render a corner element; related styles and call sites are updated.
Workspace layout and panel rendering
apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/hooks/useOpenPanelPullRequestUrl.ts
ChatView renders its header and panel content through workspace slots. The pull-request URL selector filters for pull-request surfaces.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge



Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 56ff9

No material panel-behavior issue is established. The remaining comment concerns styling consistency and does not block merging.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 56ff9

The refactor preserves the inspected thread and environment scoping and permission checks. No introduced security concern was substantiated, but coverage is incomplete, so the assessment remains low risk rather than a complete security clearance.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected change affects presentation and actions for scoped chat panels, including existing terminal and preview capabilities. It does not substantiate newly acquired authority or cross-environment exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Changed terminal split and close callbacks retain write-access checks and scoped mutation inputs. Confirmation-based terminal closure rechecks environment permission after the asynchronous confirmation. Preview opening retains its operate-permission gate.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Closing content is retained only for its matching scope key, and effect cleanup cancels the closing timer on interruption or unmount. Maximize consumption checks the exact scoped key; application is idempotent and remains deferred outside inline mode. These controls limit stale presentation across thread/environment switches.

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apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx (1)

11241-11243: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Replace the inline style with Tailwind classes where the value is static.

The "100%" width in the maximized case is a static value. A class can express it. The panelWidth value is computed at runtime, so the inline style is allowed for that case. Use w-full when view.maximized is true, and keep style only for the runtime panelWidth.

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-          className="pointer-events-none fixed ... [[data-panel-animations=true]_&]:starting:w-0!"
-          style={{ width: view.maximized ? "100%" : panelWidth }}
+          className={cn(
+            "pointer-events-none fixed ... [[data-panel-animations=true]_&]:starting:w-0!",
+            view.maximized && "w-full",
+          )}
+          style={view.maximized ? undefined : { width: panelWidth }}

As per path instructions: "avoid inline styles for static values covered by classes".

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx around lines 11241 -
11243:
Update the component using the shown className to express maximized width with
the Tailwind w-full class instead of the static inline "100%" value. Keep the
inline style only for the runtime panelWidth value, and omit it when
view.maximized is true.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx:
- Around line 11241-11243: Update the component using the shown className to
express maximized width with the Tailwind w-full class instead of the static
inline "100%" value. Keep the inline style only for the runtime panelWidth
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  • apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
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  • apps/web/src/components/chat/threadPanelPresentation.ts
  • apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewPanelShell.tsx
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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 on behalf of Oliver

Superseded by #18077. Stabilizing the props of the three expensive children gets the same long-frame result on a production bundle with less blocking time, in about a seventh of the code. The "54 → 0" in this description was measured with the closed #18058 stacked on top, not this PR alone. If the header-icon fix from this PR turns out to be small without the state extraction, it will come as its own PR.

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