Brennan Benson
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* refactor(native-chat): make structured chat the only Chat UI runtime Retire the experimentalStructuredNativeChat opt-in. Chat UI on is now the one gate for structured chat: new agent tabs that default to Chat UI start a structured session wherever the launch is supported, and unsupported launches keep falling back to terminal-backed chat. - Shared isNativeChatEnabled predicate replaces prefersStructuredNativeChatByDefault; host admission, renderer routing, orchestration mode, startup projection, tab sync and the resume offer all read it. - The retired key is stripped on load and on save, dropped from the settings type, defaults, the published client-settings projection and telemetry. - Settings no longer offer the structured toggle; resume-after-restart and shell-environment rows show under the Chat UI default view. - Startup structured-tab projection moves beside its sync hook so both gates read the same predicate. * docs(native-chat): describe structured chat as the Chat UI runtime New local Claude and Codex chats no longer sit on a PTY, so the page stops saying the terminal is always the source of truth and scopes the chat/terminal toggle to terminal-backed chats. * fix(native-chat): stop promising a Windows fallback in the Chat UI scope note A host refusal after the route picks structured chat still ends as a failed launch. * fix(native-chat): keep open structured chats reachable when Chat UI is off Turning Chat UI off hid open Claude/Codex chat tabs while their provider processes kept running, because the host and the desktop mirror gated serving existing sessions on the same setting that decides how new launches open. The host now asks two separate questions. Creating a new structured session (agentSession.create, createSupport, ensure) needs the negotiated capability plus the Chat UI setting. Serving a session that already exists (listing, reading, sending, resuming, closing, and the mobile projection and restore) needs the capability only. The desktop mirror, startup restore and resume-on-restart offer no longer read the setting, and the toggle-off teardown and the mobile re-publish on setting change are removed as dead. * fix(native-chat): run the local structured tab sync only where chats may exist The previous commit started the every-worktree session-tab census and subscription, the startup restore, and the resume-offer host read for every desktop user. Gate them on a derived fact instead: Chat UI is on, or the local host holds at least one structured session record. With Chat UI off nothing can create a session, so the answer can only go from yes to no. The host answers from its installed record store, or from whether the store file exists when the host is not installed, so a machine that never had a structured chat pays one existence check and never starts the host. Chat UI turning on starts the sync; turning it off never stops it. * fix(native-chat): answer an empty restart offer without starting the chat host With every Chat UI user now on structured chat, the launch-time resume offer read built the host even on machines with no stored chat, which on Linux scans every process environment. No store on disk means no offer, so the listing answers empty without installing the host. * fix(native-chat): release the structured tab sync when it never subscribed A failed capability probe reads as unsupported, so the sync returned without subscribing while still holding the one-sync slot. Nothing could start another, and chat tabs stopped live-updating until relaunch. The start now reports whether it subscribed, and a sync that did not releases the slot so the next Chat UI change retries. * fix(native-chat): let the host answer the restart offer whatever Chat UI says The renderer asked main whether a structured store existed before reading the restart offer, so it would not start the chat host for users without one. The host now answers an empty offer without starting itself, which made that probe an extra round trip. In paired web it was also wrong: the probe is hard-coded to no and the gate read the browser's own Chat UI setting, so a paired host's chats were never offered back once that was off. * refactor(native-chat): drop the structured tab sync generation fence The fence existed so a Chat UI toggle-off could retire in-flight inventory replies before it cleared the mirror. That teardown is gone: turning Chat UI off keeps open chats, and only a test reset still bumped the generation, so every production check compared equal. The sync's own disposal still fences its subscription, and the startup restore latch and publication cursors stay. * fix(native-chat): retry the structured tab sync when the capability probe fails A failed runtime status probe maps to an empty capability list, which the sync read as "unsupported" and gave up on. The release only let a later Chat UI change try again, so one transient startup failure left chat tabs without live updates for the whole session. The sync now tells an unknown answer apart from a host that answered without the surface, re-asks unknown answers on its existing subscribe backoff, and stops only on a definite no. * refactor(native-chat): begin single-switch structured launch routing * Make Chat UI the single structured launch default * Remove retired chat settings copy from localization catalogs * Keep locale checks aligned with the single Chat UI switch * Keep explicit chats accessible and older client defaults terminal * Align newly landed Settings tests with the Chat UI switch * Expect terminal fallback on older paired structured hosts * Correct terminal fallback launch expectation * Update tests that still expected the retired chat settings * Keep chat composer options off terminal launches and restore route coverage Chat composer model and effort no longer become CLI flags on terminal launches, since a new launch can no longer open in the terminal chat view; structured launches seed their own options. Restores dropped route coverage, including that an explicit resume-in-new-chat request stays available while Chat UI is off. * Replace the stale remembered-options test with terminal fallback coverage The test expected chat composer model and effort on a codex launch with Chat UI on, but its mocked host has no structured capability, so that launch is the terminal fallback that must not carry them. It now checks the fallback with Chat UI on and off, with shipped and stored arguments; structured creates are covered where the seed is applied. * Lower the terminal pane listener budget to the measured 15 The explicit-chat change retired the per-pane Chat UI setting read, so each mounted pane opens one fewer store listener. Pin the budget to the measured count and count that read among the saved listeners.
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The AI Orchestrator for 100x builders.
Run Codex, ClaudeCode, OpenCode or Pi side-by-side — each in its own worktree, tracked in one place.
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Mobile CompanionMonitor and steer your agents from your phone — get notified when an agent finishes and send follow-ups from anywhere. |
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Parallel WorktreesFan one prompt across five agents, each in its own isolated git worktree — compare the results and merge the winner. |
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Terminal SplitsGhostty-class terminals with WebGL rendering, infinite splits, and scrollback that survives restarts. |
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Design ModeClick any UI element in a real Chromium window to send its HTML, CSS, and a cropped screenshot straight into your agent's prompt. |
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GitHub & Linear, NativeBrowse PRs, issues, and project boards in-app — open a worktree from any task and review without a context switch. |
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