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Jinwoo Hong e9b180685b feat(mobile): render Mermaid diagrams on the page from one deferred engine artifact (OTA phase C, C7.10 B) (#21871)
* test(mobile): measure mermaid rendered in the page

Red-first for C7.10 item B. The check mounts the real web sibling in
chromium and webkit under the shipped shell CSP and asks four things of
it: that a diagram renders with zero policy violations and zero eval /
new Function calls, that the SVG is the native buildHtml's own output
once the diagram id and xmlns:xlink are normalised away, that a hostile
diagram lands inert, and that a source change, an unmount and a remount
leave exactly one SVG and no listener of the first mount.

The equality oracle is buildHtml itself, bundled for Node behind a
Proxy stub for its native imports and served as its own document in the
same browser, so neither side of the comparison is retyped.

All eight cases fail on this commit: the sibling is still the labelled
source box.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): fence the session download rather than its module list

Ruling 28. mobileWebAppRouteClosure reads metafile.inputs, which holds
dynamically imported modules under splitting: true exactly as it does
under splitting: false, so it cannot say "on demand" about anything: an
on-demand mermaid moves the session route's module list 4320 -> 6362
while its download does not move at all.

So the fence moves to entryStaticClosure. The new helper walks the
emitted chunks from the output the route's own module landed in and
follows import-statement edges only, and hands back both halves, because
mermaid's absence from the download is only a measurement while its 66
files are present in the deferred half.

The module list's new total is recorded in the docstring with its reason
and asserted beside the engine's own file count, which moves only when
the pinned mermaid version does.

Red on this commit: no mermaid in the closure yet.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* feat(mobile): render mermaid in the page

The web sibling stops being a source box. mermaid is a browser library,
so the page imports it inside the render effect and draws the diagram in
this document: no WebView, no 3.7 MB engine string, and nothing of the
engine downloaded by a session with no diagram on it.

What replaces the sandbox is mermaid's own securityLevel: 'strict',
which runs its serialized SVG through DOMPurify. The native path's
</script> escaping has no analogue here and needs none, because the
source is a JS string argument rather than text spliced into an inline
script. Measured in both engines: a script in a label, a </script>, an
onerror and a javascript: click all land inert.

The configuration is now one object both hosts read, so the theme cannot
drift between the page and the phone; buildHtml serializes it instead of
holding a second copy. It gains suppressErrorRendering, because mermaid
otherwise draws its own error diagram into a temporary element and leaves
that element behind when it rethrows -- an orphan SVG on the page, and on
native a diagram the component is about to replace with the source box
anyway.

The dispose clears the host on unmount and on a source change; the id is
a useId, because mermaid writes it into the stylesheet inside the SVG and
it has to be a CSS identifier.

Also re-records the closure total the previous commit pinned: with the
real component the session route's module list is 6376, not the design
probe's 6362, and the reason is in that file's docstring.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): budget the deferred engine's chunks apart from the routes

Putting mermaid on the page took the app bundle from 69 emitted scripts
to 172, and the asset budget failed: 215 assets against a ceiling of
115. The cause is not a page split running away, which is what that
ceiling is for -- it is that mermaid lazily imports each of its own
diagram types, so one import() lands 103 scripts no route count
predicts.

So the ceiling gains a second term, named and measured (172 scripts with
mermaid against 69 with it aliased to a stub, at 11.17.2), rather than
the route term being raised to cover it. A page split running away still
fails on the route term, and the failure still says which of the two
grew.

The consequence is worth reading twice: the derived ceiling has to stay
inside the 256 assets the shell will load, and with 42 images it now
crosses that at 24 routes instead of 50. The bundle is at 215 today with
14 routes, so there is room for about ten more routes before a green
build produces a manifest no phone will open.

Measured by the config/scripts suite failing on this head, not predicted.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* refactor(mobile): pre-bundle the page's mermaid into one artifact

import('mermaid') from inside the app bundle emitted 103 scripts, not
one: mermaid lazily imports each of its own diagram types and esbuild
splits along those boundaries. Every one of those scripts sits inside
the OTA generation the phone has already downloaded, so the split moved
no bytes over the wire and spent 103 of the 256 manifest assets the
shell will load -- which is the scarce resource here, and the reason the
previous commit had to invent a second ceiling term.

So a sibling generator bundles the package into one ESM module beside
the WebView engine it already builds, emitted by the same postinstall
run, gitignored and lint-ignored with the others. The page imports that
artifact on demand instead, through a loader whose return type names the
two calls the component makes -- checked against the artifact's own
inferred export rather than cast to it.

Measured, at 14 routes:

  emitted scripts   172 -> 69   (68 with no deferred engine at all)
  manifest assets   215 -> 112  (111 with none)
  session modules  6376 -> 4323 (+3 over main: config, loader, artifact)
  chunks fetched for one graph TD   27 -> 1
  bytes fetched      837,530 -> 3,482,965

The static-closure fence is unchanged in meaning and now reads on the
artifact: absent from every chunk the route reaches by an import
statement, present in the deferred half. The rendered SVG is byte-for-
byte what it was, so the equality against the native document still
holds on both engines.

Also adds the diagram to the webview-consumers list, which is what that
list means: its native component imports the package and its sibling is
what the builder resolves instead.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* revert(mobile): drop the deferred-engine ceiling term, keep the control

With the engine pre-bundled into one artifact the bundle emits 69 scripts
at 14 routes against the route term's 72, so the second term this series
added has nothing left to do and the route count is the only term again.
mobileWebAppBundleMaxChunks and the asset ceiling derived from it are
back to what main has; the shell's 256 assets are crossed at 50 routes
again rather than at 24.

What stays is why. A ceiling raised to admit 172 scripts would have
admitted any split at all, so the budget test gains the control that
holds the line: the single-artifact count passes the ceiling and the
lazily-chunked count fails it, both measured at 14 routes, with mermaid
named as what produced the second.

Red before the term came out: the control failed asserting 172 > 175.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): keep build output out of the raw-request-port census

The census walks mobile/src for AST reaches into the unvalidated request
port, and the pre-bundled mermaid artifact is the first generated file
under src that is executable code rather than a string literal. Two of
its own vendored dependencies contain the token `sendRequest`, so the
walk read minified third-party code as a new call site and asked for an
inventory line nobody can ever migrate.

So `*.generated.ts` joins node_modules and test files in that file's
stated list of what it does not scan, with the reason. The scripts that
emit those artifacts are ordinary source and are still scanned, which is
where a real reach would be.

Two halves to the new control, because a filter that skipped everything
would satisfy either alone: nothing generated is left in the scan, and
the matcher still finds the port when handed one line of code.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): escape the shared config into the native inline script

buildHtml spliced JSON.stringify(MERMAID_DIAGRAM_CONFIG) straight into
the inline <script>, twenty lines below the function that exists because
JSON.stringify leaves `<`, `>`, `&` and the U+2028/9 separators raw. Inert
at today's five hex colours, and not inert for a themeCSS or a font stack,
which is free text going into the same script element.

So the escaping splits from the stringify and both callers use it: the
source keeps its own wrapper, the config gets one. Those characters only
ever appear inside JSON string literals, so escaping them is valid for an
object serialization exactly as it is for a string.

Red first: a config carrying `</script><script>` put four raw closers in
the document where a benign build has two.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): pin the page mermaid type against the package's own

The loader returned the artifact's default as PageMermaid, which checked
that two names exist and nothing about their shapes: the artifact is
minified vendor output and both members infer as `any` there -- a probe
assigning engine.render to a number compiles -- and `any` satisfies every
signature there is.

So the shapes are asserted against the package's `Mermaid`, which is
precise. A PageMermaid member whose signature the engine does not really
have now fails at this line rather than at a call the page makes.

In the product module, not a test: mobile/tsconfig.json excludes test
files, so a type-only assertion in one is never compiled. Underscored
because it is a compile-time statement with no runtime reader, which is
the form the linter asks for.

Control, verified both ways: changing render to (id: number) => Promise<{
svg: number }> reds tsc naming both parameter and return, and the real
signatures compile.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* docs(mobile): re-measure the chunk series and say what it does not show

The four-point series was stale and read as a slope it is not. Measured
again on this head, by copying the route tree and dropping routes from
the end of the sorted key list -- both siblings of each, because deleting
a .web.tsx alone leaves the native file for the builder to resolve and
measures an entirely different closure, which is how the first attempt
at this produced 77 scripts for 14 routes:

  8 routes  -> 32 scripts
  10 routes -> 43
  12 routes -> 61
  14 routes -> 69   (the real tree)

Between four and nine more per route depending on which route, so 4r + 16
is a bound and not a fit, and the justification now says that instead of
claiming three per route. It also says the part that matters more: at 14
routes the tree measures 69 against 72, and the last two routes cost the
8 the ceiling grants for two. The fence is at break-even, and the new
assertion states that slope from the function rather than from a comment.

Also records what the generation weighs, since every chunk ships in it
whether or not a phone fetches one: 8,016,714 bytes across 112 assets
against the 9 MiB ceiling, 84.9%, 1,420,470 left. It was 4,539,090 before
item B, and the engine is the difference.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): pin the native fallback under suppressErrorRendering

The shared config reaches the phone too, and it gained a key the native
path did not have. So the native document is now loaded for a diagram
that throws, in both engines, with window.ReactNativeWebView standing in
for the host: mermaid's run still rethrows, the document's own catch
still posts `error`, and that is the message the component turns into the
source box.

Measured both ways, so the case says which half the key owns. Whether
the fallback fires does not depend on it -- `error` is posted with the
key and without it. What depends on it is that nothing is drawn behind
the fallback: removing the key leaves mermaid's own error diagram in the
document and reds this case at 1 SVG against 0, on chromium and webkit
alike.

The control is the same document for a diagram that parses: a height,
not `error`, and one SVG.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* refactor(mobile): one walk for every source census, without build output

Nine censuses under mobile/src each held a copy of the same recursive
walk, and each decided for itself what a source file is: seven had no
opinion about generated files, one excluded them in its own regex, and
one had the exclusion I added last round. So all nine read 7.9 MB of
emitted vendor code -- 3.7 MB of mermaid for the WebView, 3.5 MB of it
for the page -- and the two largest censuses TypeScript-parsed all of it,
looking for call sites nobody wrote and nobody can move.

That is what took rpc-params-contract-type-only-boundary over its 5 s
timeout in CI once the fifth artifact arrived. Measured here, median of
3, import plus tests:

  main, 4 artifacts, no exclusion   1004 ms   (slowest case  831 ms)
  with the 5th, no exclusion        1513 ms   (slowest case 1358 ms)
  with the 5th, this commit          947 ms   (slowest case  788 ms)

So it lands below where main has it, not merely below where I left it.
Across the nine, four more halve: rpc-operation-cast-fence 769 -> 441,
rpc-subscription-boundary 946 -> 468, unchecked-rpc-reader-boundary
1042 -> 538, lifecycle-owner 747 -> 433, reanimated-web-mapper-deps
1028 -> 516. The two that already excluded generated files do not move.

What each census counts as interesting -- extensions, whether test files
are in -- stays its own, because they genuinely disagree. What counts as
a source file at all is now said once.

The control is the file that started it: a *.generated.ts whose text
holds exactly the import a census is hunting, planted beside an ordinary
file carrying the same text. The generated one is not returned and the
ordinary one is, so the absence is a measurement. A second control reads
mobile/.gitignore and holds the predicate to every artifact the tree
generates, and a third fences the walk itself to one spelling, so a tenth
census cannot paste the cost back in.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* docs(mobile): correct why the type pin sits in the product module

The comment said a type-only pin in a test file "is never compiled".
That is false: mobile/tsconfig.json excludes *.test.ts, but
tsconfig.test.json is a second program that does check them, run by
check:tests-typecheck and held by the tests-typecheck ratchet.

The conclusion is unchanged and the reason is now the true one. The app's
own typecheck is the unconditional gate and would not cover a pin written
in a test; the test program is real but carries a grandfathered baseline
and a few files held outside it on purpose. And the assertion is about
this module's own type either way, so it belongs beside it.

Comment only; tsc, the ratchet and both lints re-run on the file.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb
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Orca Mobile

React Native companion app for Orca. Monitor worktrees, view terminal output, and send commands from your phone.

Local development uses two processes:

  • Orca desktop/Electron from the repo root. This hosts the mobile WebSocket RPC server on port 6768.
  • Expo Metro from mobile/. This serves the React Native app on port 8081.

Unless a command says otherwise, run mobile app commands from the mobile/ directory.

Prerequisites

  • Node.js 24+
  • pnpm
  • Xcode and/or Android Studio tooling for simulator or device builds
  • Expo Go on your phone, or a development client build when native modules are needed
  • Phone and desktop on the same LAN when testing a physical phone

Start Desktop Orca

From the repository root:

pnpm install
pnpm dev

Confirm the mobile RPC server is listening:

lsof -nP -iTCP:6768 -sTCP:LISTEN

Restart pnpm dev after changing Electron main-process code. Metro hot reload only applies to the mobile JavaScript bundle.

Start The Mobile App

cd mobile
pnpm install
pnpm start

Scan the Expo QR code with your phone's camera on iOS, or Expo Go on Android.

For a native dev-client build:

pnpm exec expo run:android
pnpm exec expo run:ios
pnpm start --dev-client

Pair With Desktop Orca

  1. Open Orca desktop.
  2. Go to Settings > Mobile.
  3. Scan the pairing QR code from the mobile app.
  4. Confirm the mobile host endpoint is ws://<desktop-ip>:6768.

For the Android emulator, use ws://10.0.2.2:6768. For a physical phone, use the desktop LAN IP, for example ws://192.168.0.179:6768.

If the phone has a stale host entry, remove it from the app and pair again.

Development Paths

Android Phone

  1. Install Expo Go from Google Play
  2. Run pnpm start, scan QR with Expo Go
  3. For native modules: pnpm exec expo run:android
  4. Run with pnpm start --dev-client

iOS Simulator

  1. Install Xcode from the App Store
  2. Run pnpm start --ios to open in iOS Simulator

Physical Phone Debugging

The phone can be inspected through the connected device tooling:

orca snapshot --json
orca click --element @e3 --json
orca fill --element @e1 --value "ls" --json
orca screenshot --json

Use snapshot first to find the current element refs, then click/fill those refs. After mobile file edits, Metro usually hot reloads automatically, but navigating out of and back into the session screen can be useful because it re-runs terminal.subscribe.

Terminal Streaming Repro Without A Phone

Use this when terminal output does not render on device and you need to split server streaming bugs from WebView/UI bugs:

cd mobile
ORCA_MOBILE_WS_URL=ws://127.0.0.1:6768 pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64>

You can pass a worktree selector as the third argument:

pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "id:<worktreeId>"
pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "path:/absolute/worktree/path"
pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "name:my-worktree"

The expected result includes:

streamSawMarker: true
readSawMarker: true

If this repro fails, debug the desktop runtime/PTY path before the mobile WebView. If it passes but the phone is blank, debug the session screen or TerminalWebView readiness/queueing path.

Terminal Color Repro Without A Phone

Use this when terminal colors disappear after switching tabs. Open a Claude Code terminal and at least one other terminal in the target worktree, then run:

cd mobile
ORCA_MOBILE_WS_URL=ws://127.0.0.1:6768 pnpm exec tsx scripts/repro-terminal-colors.ts \
  <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "id:<worktreeId>"

The script captures terminal.subscribe snapshots in an A → B → A sequence and writes raw snapshots to mobile/terminal-color-repro/. If the two A snapshots have different sgrColor counts, the desktop snapshot changed during the switch. If they match, the ANSI color data is still present and the bug is in mobile replay/rendering.

Validation

Run these checks before committing mobile terminal changes:

cd mobile
pnpm exec tsc --noEmit
pnpm run check:tests-typecheck
pnpm lint
cd ..
pnpm typecheck:node

tsc --noEmit reads tsconfig.json, which excludes test files so Metro never bundles them. tsconfig.test.json puts them back, and pnpm run typecheck:tests shows their errors in full. check:tests-typecheck is the gate over it: a ratchet against tests-typecheck-baseline.txt, the 127 test files that do not typecheck yet. It fails when a file that checks today stops checking, and when a baseline entry starts checking (prune it with node scripts/check-tests-typecheck-ratchet.mjs --prune). The list may only shrink.

The same gate censuses the program first: every *.test.ts(x) on disk must be in it, or named in the script's TESTS_OUTSIDE_PROGRAM with a reason. Without that, a test excluded from tsconfig.test.json — or a Foo.test.tsx shadowed by a Foo.test.ts beside it, which a wildcard include drops for the higher-priority extension — would leave the ratchet silently.

Protocol Version Compatibility

Mobile and desktop talk over a versioned protocol. Because mobile updates lag desktop by 24-48h via the App Store, both sides exchange version numbers on status.get so a genuinely incompatible combo can hard-block instead of silently misbehaving.

Constants live in two files (Metro can't resolve outside mobile/):

  • src/shared/protocol-version.tsDESKTOP_PROTOCOL_VERSION, MIN_COMPATIBLE_MOBILE_VERSION
  • mobile/src/transport/protocol-version.tsMOBILE_PROTOCOL_VERSION, MIN_COMPATIBLE_DESKTOP_VERSION

Today all four are set so evaluateCompat always returns { kind: 'ok' } — nothing blocks. The wire format is in place to flip a switch when needed.

When to bump

Bump DESKTOP_PROTOCOL_VERSION (and the mobile mirror MOBILE_PROTOCOL_VERSION when relevant) for breaking changes:

  • Removed RPC method or required parameter that mobile uses
  • Changed meaning (units, nullability) of an existing field mobile reads
  • Changed encryption, framing, or auth handshake

Do not bump for additive changes:

  • New RPC methods
  • New optional fields on existing methods
  • New event types in terminal.subscribe

Set MIN_COMPATIBLE_MOBILE_VERSION (kill-switch) when desktop ships a change that requires a minimum mobile version to function safely. Same for MIN_COMPATIBLE_DESKTOP_VERSION from the mobile side.

When a verdict is blocked, mobile/src/components/ProtocolBlockScreen.tsx renders a screen pointing the user at either the App Store (mobile too old) or GitHub Releases (desktop too old).

To exercise the block screen locally: set MIN_COMPATIBLE_DESKTOP_VERSION = 999 in mobile/src/transport/protocol-version.ts, rebuild, pair to any desktop. Revert before merging.

Mock Server

Develop the mobile app without a running Orca desktop instance:

pnpm mock-server           # starts mock WebSocket server on port 6768

Connect from the app using endpoint ws://localhost:6768 and token mock-device-token.

Environment variables

  • MOCK_NATIVE_CHAT=1 — serve the native-chat scenario (one live agent tab, empty transcript, image upload) instead of the default terminal fixtures.
  • MOCK_CHAT_AGENT=omp — with MOCK_NATIVE_CHAT=1, present an OMP tab and four decoded transcript messages, including a tool call and result, instead of the default Claude scenario. It deliberately omits transcriptPath to exercise legacy-hook readability discovery; current OMP hooks may report a path.
  • MOCK_SERVER_KEY_FILE — persist the server keypair across restarts so a paired device keeps its public-key pin. A missing or invalid file is re-keyed with a warning, which forces a re-pair.

Scenario control files

Read on every request, so behaviour can be flipped mid-session without a restart (a restart would re-key E2EE and force a re-pair). Write the mode into the file, or delete it for the default.

  • MOCK_SEND_MODE_FILE (default orca-mock-send-mode in the system temporary directory) — accept (default) accepts the send, error fails it with mobile_input_floor_unavailable, anything else reports the send as rejected.
  • MOCK_TERMINAL_LIST_MODE_FILE (default orca-mock-terminal-list-mode in the system temporary directory) — omit returns an empty terminal list, other returns a list that omits the chat handle, anything else lists it.
  • MOCK_TERMINAL_STREAM_MODE_FILE (default orca-mock-terminal-stream-mode in the system temporary directory) — dead answers a subscribe with subscribed then end (a gone PTY), which is what exercises the rearm bound and terminal prune; anything else streams normally.

Connecting to Real Orca

  1. Start Orca desktop with WebSocket transport enabled
  2. In Orca, go to Settings > Mobile and scan the QR code with this app
  3. The QR encodes the connection endpoint, device token, and TLS fingerprint

Project Structure

mobile/
├── app/                   # Expo Router screens (file-based routing)
│   ├── _layout.tsx        # Root layout with navigation stack
│   ├── index.tsx          # Home screen — paired hosts list
│   └── pair-scan.tsx      # QR code scanning screen
├── src/
│   ├── terminal/          # Terminal WebView and xterm bridge
│   └── transport/         # WebSocket RPC client
├── scripts/
│   ├── test-subscribe.ts  # Desktop streaming repro without a phone
│   └── mock-server.ts     # Standalone mock WebSocket server
└── assets/                # App icons and splash screen