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fix(ui): keep titles readable on phones and clear a stale approval after a failed run - #52

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What & why

A browser pass over the UI at 1440 / 768 / 390 / 320 px turned up three problems. Two are phone layout, one is a chat lock-up that happens at any width.

  • Thread list on phones. The four per-thread icons (pin / rename / export / delete) are always visible on touch widths and sat on the title row, so a 320 px title was cut to a few characters. They now collapse into one 44 px "⋯" menu (DropdownMenu, new src/components/ui/dropdown-menu.tsx); the title gets the row back and the row stays one line tall. Desktop keeps the hover toolbar unchanged. A dialog opened from the menu has no opener left to return focus to — the menu item unmounts with the menu — so closing Rename / Delete hands focus back to the row's "⋯" trigger instead of dropping it on <body> (or to the row itself if the viewport grew past md meanwhile and the trigger is hidden); dialogs opened from the desktop toolbar keep Radix's own restore.
  • File preview on phones. The toolbar pushed the file name out of the header at 320 px. The header now stacks title over toolbar below sm, the title is the real (visible) DialogTitle and takes initial focus instead of the Delete button, the dialog uses dvh so it fits short screens, and toolbar buttons are 44 px. The shared dialog close button is 44 px below sm, and DialogHeader leaves room for it.
  • Stale approval after a failed run (useChat). Approve an execute, the tool finishes, then the model call after it fails (seen live with a provider 429). The server ends with status: "error", next: ["model"] and no interrupt on any task, but the SDK still holds the approval that was just resolved — the page showed "Approval requested by a sub-agent" and the composer stayed locked until a reload. The recovery poll only cleared a stale approval when next was empty, and a failed or cancelled run keeps next populated for good. It now also clears it when the server reports the thread as settled (idle / interrupted / error) with no actionable interrupt. Suppression is still keyed to that one interrupt's id, and the bounded follow-up polling continues while next is populated, so a genuinely new approval — same arguments included — still shows.
  • .prettierignore: skip .codex-qa/ (local QA evidence, already git-ignored; Prettier 2 does not read .gitignore, so format:check failed locally once the folder held JSON).

New dependency: @radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu@^2.1.16, resolved to 2.1.16 in the lockfile on purpose (caret like the other Radix packages, so the family keeps moving together; pinning only this one would strand it on old internals the next time dialog / select are updated). That release shares its internals with the installed react-dialog@1.1.15 / react-select@2.2.6, so dismissable-layer, focus-scope, popper and portal dedupe to one copy (lockfile: +119 lines, 3 packages). The current 2.1.24 nests ~35 duplicate Radix internals; those coordinate layers and focus through module-level state, so a menu and a dialog on separate copies would not see each other.

Manual testing

Must be tested against a real backend (EvoSci deploy, port 6174) — a green build is not enough.

  • npm run lint && npm run format:check && npm run build all green (also typecheck; npm test: 492 passed, up from 481, under Node 20 and Node 25)
  • Started the backend → configured the Deployment URL → chat works
  • The feature(s) touched here were verified to work (Workspace / Skills / Memory / theme / chat …)
  • Significant changes re-tested against the production build (npm run build && npm start; dev and standalone behave differently)

Test steps / screenshots

On a phone, or DevTools at 320–390 px with touch emulation:

  1. Open the research list. Titles are readable; each row shows a single "⋯" on the right.
  2. Tap "⋯" → Pin / Rename / Export JSON / Delete. Rename a thread and save; the list shows the new title. Open "⋯" → Delete → Cancel; the thread is still there.
  3. Delete a throwaway thread; the row disappears and the page still responds to taps.
  4. At desktop width, hover a row: the four-icon toolbar appears as before and there is no "⋯".
  5. Workspace → open a file at 320 px: the file name is visible above the toolbar; Edit → type → close asks before discarding.
  6. Stale approval: ask for one execute, approve it, and have the following model call fail (a rate-limited provider does it). The approval card goes away on its own and the composer is usable without a reload.

Thread-list menu, driven in headless Chrome (320×740, touch emulation) against a live backend on a throwaway thread:

check result
"⋯" trigger 44 × 44 px, desktop toolbar display: none
row height / title width 54 px / 161 px (title was a few characters before)
menu inside the viewport, four items, 44 px each
rename saved on the server; focus returns to the row's "⋯"
delete → Cancel thread kept; focus returns to the row's "⋯"
delete → confirm thread gone on the server; focus moves to New Chat
after each dialog no pointer-events: none left on <body>, page takes input
desktop 1440 px "⋯" hidden, hover toolbar shown
console no errors

Stale approval: reproduced live (real execute, then a 429 on the next model call), fixed, and re-checked in the same session. Control run for the regression tests: with useChat.ts from main, the three new recoveryPoll cases (error / interrupted / idle) fail; with this branch they pass. Mutation check on the new tests: eight mutants (menu item wired to the wrong handler, pin label ignoring pinned, no prefill, focus not restored for Rename / Delete, suppression no longer keyed to one interrupt, polling stopped once settled, busy counted as settled) — all eight fail the suite.

Not covered live: a sub-agent approval and parallel approvals under the new settled-status rule — provider rate limiting cut the session short, so these rest on recoveryPoll.test.tsx only. The rule relies on a pending sub-agent interrupt being visible on the root thread's tasks[].interrupts. That holds by construction in LangGraph 1.2.11 — a GraphInterrupt leaving a task is written as an INTERRUPT against that (parent) task's id (pregel/_runner.py, commit()), and the state snapshot builds tasks[].interrupts from those writes — but it was read from source, not exercised; worth one live sub-agent execute approval before release. Also not covered: a physical phone (soft keyboard, real touch), and the production build beyond compiling — the live checks ran against next dev.

Known leftover, not addressed here: the Knowledge graph is crowded at 320 px (189 nodes, overlapping labels).

Checklist

  • Self-tested, no obvious regressions
  • Requested at least one teammate for peer review

Merging ≠ shipping: releases are handled solely by the maintainer (EvoScientist pulls the UI via @latest).

…ter a failed run

- Thread list: below md the four per-thread icons collapse into one 44px
  "..." menu so the title keeps the row; desktop keeps the hover toolbar.
  Closing a dialog opened from the menu returns focus to the row's trigger.
- File preview: stack the title over the toolbar below sm, make the title
  visible and give it initial focus, size the dialog in dvh, 44px targets.
  Dialog close button is 44px below sm.
- useChat: a failed or cancelled run keeps `next` populated, so the recovery
  poll never cleared the approval the SDK still held and the composer stayed
  locked. Clear it once the server reports the thread settled with no
  actionable interrupt; suppression stays keyed to that interrupt's id.
- Add @radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu, locked at 2.1.16 so its Radix
  internals dedupe with the installed dialog and select.
- .prettierignore: skip .codex-qa/.
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Thread actions menu

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dropdown menu infrastructure
package.json, src/components/ui/dropdown-menu.tsx
Adds the Radix dropdown menu dependency and reusable dropdown menu wrappers.
Thread action flow
.prettierignore, src/app/components/ThreadList.tsx, src/app/components/ThreadList.test.tsx
Replaces touch action buttons with a dropdown menu. Pin, rename, export, and delete actions retain their handlers. Dialog closing restores focus to the originating trigger. Tests cover menu items, actions, dialog behavior, and focus restoration.

Workspace file dialog

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workspace dialog focus and layout
src/app/components/WorkspaceFileDialog.tsx, src/components/ui/dialog.tsx
Focuses the visible file title when the dialog opens. Updates dialog sizing, close-button placement, header spacing, and mobile action layout.

Recovery polling states

Layer / File(s) Summary
Settled recovery polling
src/app/hooks/useChat.ts, src/test/mockClient.ts, src/test/recoveryPoll.test.tsx
Treats idle, interrupted, and error as settled statuses. Suppresses stale interrupts while continuing bounded polling for later approvals. Adds task error and result fields to the mock state and tests the recovery cases.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ThreadList
  participant DropdownMenu
  participant Dialog
  User->>ThreadList: Open thread actions
  ThreadList->>DropdownMenu: Show Pin, Rename, Export JSON, Delete
  User->>DropdownMenu: Select Rename or Delete
  DropdownMenu->>Dialog: Open confirmation or edit dialog
  Dialog->>ThreadList: Restore focus when closed
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Suggested reviewers: jfilipiuk

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Mobile users can encounter title overlap or lost focus after resizing, and future installs may select a different dropdown version. These are bounded issues but should be corrected before merge if the stated version lock and accessibility behavior are required.

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- Line 58: Pin the `@radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu` dependency to exact version
2.1.16 instead of using a caret range, then regenerate the corresponding
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- Line 347: Update restoreMenuFocus in ThreadList so that when the mobile
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Comment thread package.json
"@langchain/core": "1.1.49",
"@langchain/langgraph-sdk": "1.9.25",
"@radix-ui/react-dialog": "^1.1.15",
"@radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu": "^2.1.16",

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Use the exact dependency version.

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Set the version to "2.1.16" and regenerate the corresponding lockfile.

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Comment thread src/app/components/ThreadList.tsx Outdated
Comment thread src/app/components/WorkspaceFileDialog.tsx Outdated
If the viewport crosses md while a dialog opened from the "..." menu is
open, the trigger is display:none and Radix's own restore target (the menu
item) is already unmounted, so focus fell to <body>. Fall back to the row's
select button. Also give the file preview title 8px more clearance from the
44px close button below sm.
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