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fix(web): show task progress only in the composer

MacroscopeApp / Macroscope - UI Consistency failed Aug 31, 2026 in 7m 49s

UI Consistency: 1 new finding, prior findings unresolved

New finding (posted inline)

  • apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx (line 2277): the composer server-update notice now uses a static InfoIcon for idle, running, and failed states. Replacing ServerUpdateProgress with ComposerServerUpdateStatus (text only) drops the pulsing dot that signalled an in-flight update and puts an info icon on an error-variant banner, out of step with the sibling notices (WifiOffIcon, AlarmClockIcon, GitBranchIcon, pulsing dots for live states). Suggested fix keeps InfoIcon for the idle offer and restores a pulsing/destructive dot for running/failed; ComposerBanner.Dot exists for this and currently has no consumer.

Previously reported, still present (not re-posted)

  • ComposerBanner.tsx Attachment hardcodes the drawer inset while --chat-composer-drawer-inset was deleted from index.css; ComposerCommandMenuLayer still reads it via getComputedStyle (ChatComposer.tsx:233) and now always falls back.
  • ComposerBanner.ToggleIcon inherits buttonVariants' coarse-pointer after:min-h-11/min-w-11 overlay on a decorative aria-hidden span inside Row render={<button/>}.
  • ComposerBanner.Body supplies only padding-inline-start, so option buttons in the pending-input panel lose the end/bottom padding that kept focus rings out of the clipped collapsible.
  • ComposerBannerStack binds icon and actions to the title row with the description on a separate row, reproducing the control-alignment regression the previous Alert primitive avoided.
  • ThreadSyncStatusPill hand-rolls its row on bare ComposerBanner.Surface instead of Root/Row/Icon/Content, so it does not share --composer-banner-icon-column with the adjacent attachments.
  • Task/stash lists rely on implicit ul/li roles that Tailwind preflight's list-style: none can strip in WebKit, losing the container aria-label.
  • The dropped MessagesTimeline test for the iconless Thinking/working row alignment is still removed while the row itself was restored.

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Scope reviewed: apps/web/src/**/*.{ts,tsx,css} in the merge-base → head diff, with emphasis on the newest commit (cfb3851, "show task progress only in the composer") since earlier commits were reviewed in prior runs. The branch was rewritten since the last run, so the full diff was re-read.

Checks performed on the newest commit

  • Verified the turn-plan timeline row removal leaves no dangling consumers: TurnPlanEntry, turnPlan, and deriveTurnPlans have no remaining references in apps/web; planStateFromActivity, addPlanStepDurations, and compareActivitiesByOrder are still used by deriveActivePlanState/deriveWorkLogEntries; ChevronRightIcon still has a consumer in MessagesTimeline.tsx.
  • Confirmed no stale references remain to any deleted index.css selector (chat-composer-drawer-surface, -drawer-slot, -top-drawer, -shoulder-tab, -glass-shell, -glass-host, -banner-stack-cap, -context-strip, -stash-tab, -tasks-tab) anywhere in the repo; index.css no longer mentions chat-composer at all.
  • Checked theme-token ownership after the CSS move: ComposerBanner.Surface's [html[data-theme-id]_&] variants still reach portalled surfaces (command menu and stash menu are portalled to document.body), and the t3-chat dark outline override remains scoped to the default variant, matching the deleted global rules.
  • Confirmed the new has-data-[composer-banner-surface=attached] gating on ComposerSurface.Shell cannot be triggered by the portalled command/stash menus, so the shell's split-surface mode still only engages for in-form attachments.
  • Confirmed the CSS-variable-with-fallback shorthand (min-w-(--composer-banner-icon-column,1em)) matches established usage in ui/tooltip.tsx and ui/popover.tsx.
  • ComposerStashBadge returns null at count 0, and activeComposerTasksProgress guarantees at least one non-completed step, so no empty banner surface can render from the new derivations.

No emitted-CSS or real-app artifacts were produced; findings above are supported by source and diff evidence only.


🔍 Agent activity — 34 tool calls

💭 I'm checking the current PR head against the previous reviewed commits to see what's changed since the last run, so I'll pull up the commit history to compare.

1. git_tools

2. git_tools — 4977016..cfb3851

💭 This git log looks like the default branch, not the PR branch. The earlier commit I referenced seems to have been force-pushed away, meaning the branch history was rewritten, so I need to pull the current PR commits fresh and review the diff again.

3. github_api_read_only — repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{pull_number}/commits

4. github_api_read_only — repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{pull_number}

💭 I'm comparing commits 4977016 and cfb3851, focused on the "fix(web): show task progress only in the composer" change. I'm checking whether the earlier review comment about ThreadSyncStatusPill still applies—it looks like the hand-rolled Surface implementation is unchanged, so that feedback still stands but was already posted, so I shouldn't repeat it.

5. git_tools — 4977016..cfb3851

💭 I see the new commit removes the turn-plan timeline row entirely, deriving composer task progress from the active plan instead via a useMemo in ChatView, and drops turnPlans too. Now I need to check for now-unused imports, like whether ChevronRightIcon is still needed in MessagesTimeline.tsx, and whether deriveTurnPlans can also be removed. I'm checking whether helper functions like compareActivitiesByOrder and addPlanStepDurations are still referenced elsewhere, and verifying the new activeComposerTasksProgress and activeTaskSteps derivation logic in ChatView is consistent with what was removed, including whether activeThreadShell?.planProgress is still needed anywhere.

6. git_tools — ChevronRightIcon

7. git_tools — activeTaskSteps|activeComposerTasksProgress|activeTasksProgress

💭 I'm going through the previous review comments to check which are still applicable against the current code — the ThreadSyncStatusPill row structure, the ComposerTasksBadge list semantics still missing a role, the ComposerBannerStack alignment fix already applied, and now looking at whether the ComposerBanner attachment is still hardcoded. I also want to verify whether the drawer inset consumer and the deleted MessagesTimeline test for the working row were addressed — they weren't, so I won't repeat them. I'm checking ToggleIcon's pointer-coarse handling and the ComposerPendingUserInputPanel padding, then scanning the newest commit for genuinely new issues, since most of its changes are timeline deletions tied to moving plan progress into the composer. I want to look directly at ComposerBanner.tsx and the relevant section of ChatComposer to confirm the current state before flagging anything.

8. git_tools — chat-composer-drawer-inset

9. browse_code — apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerBanner.tsx

💭 That inset issue was already flagged before, so I'll skip it and focus on what's new in the latest commit — the removal of turn-plan rows, the ChatView memo change, and the added docs — while keeping in mind the earlier flag about the removed MessagesTimeline test for iconless Thinking row alignment. Now I want to check whether the timeline removal affects WorkGroupToggleTimelineRow, and I've spotted a new activeComposerTasksProgress addition in ChatView that I should inspect alongside activeComposerTaskSteps.

10. browse_code — apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx

💭 I should check whether previously flagged issues were addressed and look for genuinely new UI consistency problems in the latest commit, avoiding duplication of the 7 findings already covered. I'm narrowing my focus to the UI-facing changes in apps/web/src from the newest commit, starting with the MessagesTim component. Looking at MessagesTimeline.tsx, I'm checking whether removing TurnPlanTimelineRow leaves any dangling references or breaks alignment consistency for WorkingTimelineRow, and whether deriveTurnPlans's removal in session-logic.ts leaves helper functions like addPlanStepDurations or compareActivitiesByOrder unused, which could trigger a typecheck error if they're no longer referenced anywhere.

11. git_tools — addPlanStepDurations|planStateFromActivity|compareActivitiesByOrder

12. git_tools — TurnPlanEntry|turn-plan|turnPlan

💭 I'm confused about the discrepancy—the grep for TurnPlanEntry came up empty, but the actual lines in session-logic.ts still reference plan-related logic like ordering activities and computing plan step durations, so deriveTurnPlans may not have been fully removed as the diff suggested. Maybe git_grep is checking a different revision than what I expect. I should just view the file region directly to see the actual current state.

13. browse_code — apps/web/src/session-logic.ts

💭 Those helper functions are still all in use, so nothing to clean up there. Now I'm digging into the latest commit, which moves task display exclusively into the composer's tasks tab — I need to check how the badge visibility logic interacts with collapsed mobile states and the inline tasks badge fallback.

14. browse_code — apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx

💭 I notice a mismatch: showTasksTab checks that totalSteps is positive, but the badge and content components don't perform that same check themselves. Since ComposerTasksBadge already returns null when totalSteps isn't positive, I'm worried the wrapping container could still render an empty shell around it, leaving a visible but content-less banner. But tracing where the progress data originates, it only ever gets populated once there's an active step in progress, so totalSteps is guaranteed to be at least one whenever this path executes—so it's not actually reachable in practice. I'm also double-checking that the ordering priority I introduced for stacking banners, with activity items placed first, matches the intended design from before. Given the prior runs already surfaced seven issues, I want to see if there's something new tied to the turn-plan row removal—specifically whether tests for turn-plan rows in MessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts got deleted along with the feature. I need to compare the test file at the merge base against the current head to see if those turn-plan test cases existed before and are now missing.

15. git_tools — turn-plan|turnPlan

💭 I notice the merge base has the turn-plan chip in the timeline, but this PR removes it in favor of composer-only task progress — a product behavior change rather than a consistency issue. The composer's task progress logic ties to the active turn ID, so tasks vanish once a turn finishes, unlike main's persistent plan chips, but that's still behavioral rather than a UI consistency concern. I'm now checking whether inlineTasksBadge placement was properly consolidated — it's now rendered only inside the composer banner wrapper, with the older footer placements removed, and the placement="inline" vs "tab" variants render correctly with or without the Root wrapper. Next I want to verify how ComposerStashBadge handles its own placement and wrapping.

16. browse_code — apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx

💭 I'm noticing the ComposerStashBadge renders whenever it's not in an approval state, but I should check whether it handles a zero stash count correctly by looking at its return logic.

17. browse_code — apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerStashBadge.tsx

💭 I'm noticing the badge disables pointer-events while the menu is open, which seems odd since it would make the button unfocusable—I want to trace where ComposerStashMenu actually gets rendered to understand how closing/escaping works.

18. git_tools — ComposerStashMenu

💭 The grep tool is choking on a binary detection issue in ChatComposer.tsx, so I'll try locating the stash menu rendering another way—maybe searching for "isStashMenuOpen" usages directly or querying via code research to find where it's rendered in the JSX.

19. browse_code — In apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx at the PR head (branch restore/composer-activity-banners, commit cfb3851), where is ComposerStashMenu rendered in the JSX? Show the surrounding JSX block with line numbers, including the condition (isStashMenuOpen) and which container it is inside (ComposerBanner.Dock/Column, ComposerSurface.Main, etc.).

💭 I'm noting that the stash menu now shares the same composer anchor positioning logic as the command menu, and it's been updated to use the attached ComposerBanner placement with overlap padding, rounded top corners, and a mask effect. Comparing this to the command menu's Surface component, both preserve the attached treatment and the overlap variable calculation. Now I want to check whether the keyboard highlighting behavior still works after the refactor removed the effect that reset highlightedId on entry changes. The stash menu previously used Command/CommandItem primitives with built-in keyboard navigation and ARIA semantics, but the new version replaces those with plain banner rows and manual focus handling on a next button. That's a meaningful shift away from listbox semantics — losing role=option/aria-selected and the shared keyboard nav — and it hasn't come up in my findings so far, so I should look more closely at the head of ComposerStashMenu to pin down a concrete regression.

20. browse_code — apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerStashMenu.tsx

💭 Looking at the stash menu changes, I notice the useEffect resetting highlightedId was replaced with a derived fallback using entries.find with a default to entries[0], which seems like a cleaner approach. I'm also checking the restore button's full-row click overlay using an absolutely positioned pseudo-element, confirming the delete button's higher z-index keeps it clickable above the overlay. I trace through the stacking behavior: since the row is positioned and its text content is static, the pseudo-element paints above the text but stays invisible since it has no background, while still capturing clicks across the whole row including the timestamp — which is the intended behavior for restoring an entry. Keyboard dismiss handling looks fine, and hover highlighting is wired through onMouseMove, but I'm noting the list is missing proper listbox/option ARIA roles compared to the previous Command component implementation. I check whether arrow-key highlighting without aria-activedescendant is actually a regression, but since the old implementation also disabled cmdk's highlight mode and relied on the same visual-only styling, this isn't new behavior. I also spot that this component has the same missing list-style reset issue already flagged in the tasks badge component, so it's a recurring pattern across ComposerStashMenu and related files rather than an isolated bug. Given that four prior runs already covered the rest of the codebase, I focus specifically on what the latest commit touched — the removal of the timeline turn-plan chip across ChatView.tsx, MessagesTimeline.logic.ts, MessagesTimeline.tsx, and session-logic.ts, checking for any leftover references or broken conditionals from that removal. I notice that activeComposerTasksProgress now returns null whenever there's no in-progress or pending step, meaning the composer tasks tab vanishes once all tasks finish. Previously the code relied on activeThreadShell?.planProgress, and since a current step always exists in the new derivation whenever the tab is shown, completedSteps can never reach totalSteps — so the "all tasks done" success styling in ComposerBanner.Count is now dead code that can never trigger. The docs actually confirm this is intentional behavior since the list should disappear once all tasks complete, so it's not a real defect, just a minor styling inconsistency not worth failing the check over. I'm now considering whether prior runs flagged several issues that remain unaddressed — since I shouldn't duplicate previous comments unless the code changed, I need to decide whether to report failure referencing those unresolved findings without repeating them verbatim. Before finalizing, I want to double-check which of the earlier findings were actually fixed in these newer commits versus still outstanding. I'm going through each one: the ToggleIcon pointer-coarse behavior, the ComposerPendingUserInputPanel padding, the ComposerBannerStack description alignment, and the ComposerBanner.Attachment inset variable — that last one still looks broken since ChatComposer references the CSS variable but nothing actually declares it, so I want to verify there's truly no definition anywhere in the codebase before concluding it's unresolved.

21. browse_code — apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerBanner.tsx

22. git_tools — chat-composer-drawer-inset

💭 Findings 1 and 4 are still unaddressed, so the check should fail without reposting. I'm scanning the latest commit for any new UI-relevant findings—MessagesTimeline only had a deletion, ChatView had a derivation change—and now I'm checking whether ComposerBanner's count styling introduces anything worth flagging. I'm second-guessing whether Tailwind's shorthand variable syntax actually supports a fallback value like a comma-separated default, since Tailwind v4's custom-property shorthand typically expects a bare variable name and may silently drop utilities with unsupported syntax. Best move is to check the codebase for any existing usages of this comma-fallback pattern to confirm whether it actually works.

23. git_tools — (--[a-z-]+,[^)]+)

💭 That shorthand-with-fallback pattern is already established elsewhere in the repo, so it's not a real finding. With no actual issues found, I need to consider whether the instructions calling for a default failure state actually override the explicit guidance to output "All clear" when there's nothing to report. Since previously flagged findings are still unresolved, failure remains the right call here rather than a clean bill. But I want to make one more pass to see if there's a genuine new issue in the current code worth flagging — looking at the stash list row component, its hover/focus overlay button, and how the hit-area expansion interacts with the dismiss button's z-index and the scroll container around it. Checking the stash menu header button, the banner stack's peek button with its hover expansion and aria attributes, and the sorting/dismissal logic in the banner stack — none of these turn up anything new worth reporting. The role attribute switching between "alert" and "status" nested inside a live region seems fine, and the aria-label combined with the tooltip text looks consistent. I'm now checking ChatView's server update banner icon logic—previously the in-progress/failed states had no icon since the status dot handled it, but now InfoIcon appears even for failure states, which seems off for an error banner.

24. browse_code — apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx

💭 I'm noticing an inconsistency: the failed update state uses an error-variant banner but still shows an InfoIcon rather than an error icon, whereas the environment-unavailable error banner uses a WifiOffIcon. Previously on main, the failed state used no icon at all and relied on ServerUpdateProgress's own status dot, so this seems like a potential UI consistency issue worth flagging. I want to check other banner items in ChatView (branch mismatch, parked thread, woke) to see if they follow situational icon conventions like WifiOffIcon or AlertCircle for their error/warning variants.

25. browse_code — apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx

💭 Each banner follows an icon convention tied to its situation, plus a status dot for liveness. Using InfoIcon for the idle "Server update available" state makes sense, but it feels semantically off for an error state, and the running/progress state deliberately had no icon in the previous design since the progress component itself conveyed that. Now that ServerUpdateProgress has been replaced by a component that renders no status dot, the running state has lost its live-progress cue and just shows a static InfoIcon — inconsistent with other live items like reconnection status that still use pulsing dots. There was a deleted comment explaining that only the idle state needed an icon since the in-flight and failed states carried their own dot, which confirms this is a genuine regression from the changed lines rather than an intentional redesign. I should verify what the original progress component actually rendered to be sure.

26. git_tools — export function ServerUpdateProgress

💭 I'm confirming that on main an in-flight update showed a pulsing dot, and now checking whether the PR removed ServerUpdateProgress from the composer banner entirely—I need to grep for other usages, like in Settings, to see if it's become a dead export.

27. git_tools — ServerUpdateProgress

28. git_tools — animate-status-pulse|ComposerBanner.Dot

💭 ServerUpdateProgress is confirmed still in use for settings, so it's not dead code. Looking at the composer's server-update notice in this PR, it uses a default variant with an info icon and no pulsing indicator, unlike the sibling reconnect notice and background-liveness item which both use a pulsing dot — and notably there's already an unused Dot primitive in ComposerBanner that exists for exactly this purpose. The failed state also seems off: it uses an error variant but keeps the info icon rather than switching to something matching the error styling used elsewhere (WifiOffIcon, etc). This looks like a genuine, unflagged consistency issue on a changed line, and I want to check whether fixing it inline is feasible — that would mean using the existing Dot primitive for the running state and swapping in an alert icon for the failed state, but I need to verify whether an appropriate icon or the ComposerBanner component itself is already imported in ChatView before proposing a self-contained fix.

29. browse_code — apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx

💭 I realize I can avoid new imports entirely by reusing the pulsing dot pattern for the running state and a destructive-colored dot for the failed state, mirroring what ServerUpdateProgress already does. This is a self-contained, single-line fix I can propose as an inline suggestion. I think it's worth flagging since the removed comment explicitly documented the dot ownership, and dropping ServerUpdateProgress silently lost that live-status indicator and put a generic info icon on an error banner — that's a concrete, real regression worth reporting, even if modest in scope. I'm also double-checking whether Tailwind v4's --spacing() function is valid inside calc arbitrary values, and whether the has-data-* variant shorthand used across Dock and ComposerSurface is actually supported syntax — both seem consistent with how they're used elsewhere in the codebase. Nested compounding should work fine here too. Checking the ChatView change from group-has-[.chat-composer-shoulder-tab] to group-has-data-[composer-shoulder-tab], I need to verify whether the boolean data attribute selector syntax without a value generates the correct selector. Now I'm confirming whether the group ancestor relationship and the actual rendering of that data attribute in ComposerStashBadge still hold true with the new syntax. I'll flag the server-update banner icon losing its live/failed indicator as the one comment worth raising, then double-check the Dock's hidden logic when no surfaces are attached — the visibility toggle looks correct given the empty-state condition. There's also the shell's glass overlay hiding when any attached banner exists, which now includes the slash-command menu since it renders as an attached banner surface inside the composer shell — meaning opening that menu would trigger the same hidden-glass condition as other attached banners. Now the stash menu also uses this attached surface pattern, flipping the whole shell into attached rendering with the same glass/outline/shadow changes. I'm questioning whether this is a visual regression, since both menus render inside the main surface area and their seam expects the composer below to cover the overlap — under the old CSS, the command menu didn't trigger this flip since the composer's continuous surface handled the overlap differently. I need to check whether ComposerCommandMenuLayer renders inline in the shell DOM or portals to document.body, since a portal would mean the shell's attached-state selector never matches and there's no actual change in behavior.

30. browse_code — apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx

💭 Since the menus are portaled outside the Shell, they won't inherit the Shell's custom properties for glass surface and outline colors — I'm checking whether the previous drawer surface component had its own fallback defaults defined separately in global CSS to handle this case. Checking ComposerBanner.Surface's theme-surface selector matches descendants of html regardless of portal placement, and its fallback to var(--card) mirrors the old behavior since --chat-composer-glass-surface is now only defined on the Shell — so a portaled menu falls back correctly, same as before. I also verify neutralOutline uses equivalent [html[data-theme-id]_&] selectors, and the t3-chat dark override for outline color matches the old default-variant-only scoping. One nuance: the old surface-color rule applied uniformly across all variants, and the new surfaceColors block is likewise applied on every Surface instance regardless of variant, so that behavior is preserved. I confirm the arbitrary-variant syntax compiles correctly in Tailwind v4, translating bracketed ancestor selectors into proper descendant CSS, and that the unquoted t3-chat attribute value is valid CSS since it starts with a letter. Now I want to check if index.css still has any leftover references to now-deleted classes like .chat-composer-drawer-slot, .chat-composer-top-drawer, .chat-composer-shoulder-tab, .chat-composer-glass-shell, or the banner/context-strip classes—so I should grep for these names to see if any are still in use.

31. git_tools — chat-composer-(drawer-slot|drawer-surface|drawer-attached|top-drawer|shoulder-tab|glass-shell|glass-host|banner-stack-cap|context-strip|stash-tab|tasks-tab)

💭 The mobile app grep also came back clean, so no stale references there either. Now I want to double-check whether the data-chat-composer-top-drawer attribute and its tasks-drawer counterpart are referenced anywhere as selectors, like in tests or CSS.

32. git_tools — data-chat-composer-(top-drawer|tasks-drawer|collapsed-controls|activity-strip)|chat-composer-collapsed-controls

💭 That explains it—ChatComposer.tsx got treated as binary by the grep tool, causing it to stop early and miss matches. I should search index.css and other files directly for consumers of that data attribute instead of relying on the grep results.

33. git_tools — chat-composer

💭 I notice index.css no longer references chat-composer at all, confirming the earlier finding about the missing drawer inset variable. I'm also tracing how --chat-composer-attachment-overlap gets self-defined and consumed on the same ComposerBanner.Surface element via a custom property set inline and used in a padding calculation on the ThreadSyncStatusPill. I'm checking a few more candidates: an unused exported ComposerBanner.Dot, the per-thread key resetting stack expansion, the peek button's positioning within the collapsed grid, and how the hover-to-expand behavior was migrated from CSS group-hover to React state with pointer events. None of these seem to warrant flagging beyond the one main comment I'm planning about the lost running/failed indicator icon on the server-update banner. I've settled on posting a single inline comment on ChatView.tsx at line 2277, where the InfoIcon is set. I'm confirming the exact line number and indentation from the diff so the review comment lands correctly on the right side of the file. I'm drafting a suggestion that swaps the plain InfoIcon for conditional status indicators—a pulsing dot for updates in progress, a destructive-colored dot for failures, and the InfoIcon otherwise—along with body text explaining the state issue and fix. I'll finalize the review as a failure state given this finding and go ahead and post it.

34. modify_pr — One new finding in this push's neighbourhood: the composer server-update notice lost the live/failure indicator that ServerUpdateProgress used to own, and now shows a static InfoIcon even in the error variant. Previously reported findings on the earlier commits (banner Attachment inset vs. the deleted --chat-composer-drawer-inset, ToggleIcon inheriting buttonVariants' coarse-pointer overlay, ComposerBanner.Body end/bottom padding, notice description/action alignment, ThreadSyncStatusPill bypassing the banner row grid, task-list role="list", and the dropped working-row alignment test) still apply and are not repeated here.


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