The switcher used to be embedded per page (Flows/Runs/Audit/
Approvals) — invisible on the other five pages and sitting in a
different corner depending on the page (persona review 2026-08-27,
consensus finding). It now lives ONCE in the sidebar, above the
destinations: active project/area always visible, opens the same
menu everywhere, Cmd+P from anywhere. The shell listens to the
workspace, so the sidebar endpoint label can no longer lag a
sealed switch until the next health tick.
Also in this rebuild:
* Stopped sealed areas ask before starting ("Start area X?") —
a context switch must never boot a hub daemon as a click
side-effect; running areas keep switching with one click.
* The switcher tooltip told a wrong scope ("filters this view") —
it now says the choice applies everywhere and stamps new runs.
* The aggregated sealed row explains itself in place (names can
reveal client identities) and links to the Settings toggle
(Settings dialog gained an initialCategory jump).
* The active entry carries a checkmark in the menu.
* The Cmd+K palette knows projects and areas, ranked by recent
use; sealed names honour the privacy setting — while hidden,
the palette offers the guarded picker instead of the names.
* The runs empty state names the active project filter as the
cause ("No runs in project X" + show-all action) instead of
claiming the feature is off.
Tests updated to the anchor and made hermetic (scriptable
projects on the fake hub, sealed-area fake); new coverage for the
checkmark, the why-line, and the start confirmation.
Signed-off-by: flemming-it <stefan.a.flemming@googlemail.com>
Two findings from the workspace persona review, both rated high:
* Switch race: the hub client re-pointed at a sealed area's hub
before the workspace announced the sealed context, so the 2 s
page pollers (runs, audit) could fetch and render that hub's
data without the sealed marking. Switches now run inside an
explicit switching window: opened before anything touches the
connection, announced optimistically in the identity bar
("switching…" + spinner, leave button hidden), pollers and the
shell health tick pause inside it, and pages drop replies whose
context epoch changed mid-flight. The sealed context is
announced only after the new hub answered healthy.
* Filter loss: entering a sealed area cleared the shared-hub
project filter and returning restored only the endpoint. The
filter is now parked on entry and restored on return; prefs
keep the parked value throughout, so live state and prefs agree
after the round trip (and after a mid-session relaunch).
Guard: workspace_switch_race_test pins both invariants
state-matrix-style against scripted hub + sealed-area fakes —
reconnects may only happen inside an open switch window, pollers
must stay silent inside it, and the filter must survive the round
trip. SealedAreaService gained a debugSetInstance seam so the
suite never scans a real ~/.chain.
Signed-off-by: flemming-it <stefan.a.flemming@googlemail.com>
Approvals: the pending card now shows its full origin — flow, step,
run id (previously dropped at the Dart mapping layer), project, and
requested-at — under an ORIGIN heading, led by a one-line intro strip
that says what the inbox is and what Approve/Reject do. Approve/Reject
buttons carry tooltips; the history dialog gains project + run id.
Fixes the approvals doc drift (title/details/reviewer ->
prompt/show/timeout_seconds). Guard: approvals_origin_test renders the
card via the hermetic fake hub and pins every origin fact.
Runs: the "hub too old" state now leads with an in-place update button
(same `chain update apply` path as the Diagnose page), the Diagnose
deeplink demoted to secondary, with a CLI-absent fallback. Guard: two
new RunsLoadErrorView widget tests.
Signed-off-by: flemming-it <stefan.a.flemming@googlemail.com>
The widget suites used to talk to whatever listens on the real
endpoint — results depended on the operator's machine (a running
hub fed real data into a11y/responsive runs and its gRPC channel
timers caused the historic flake). Hardening round:
- HubService.instance is now injectable (debugSetInstance);
FakeHubService (test/support/fake_hub.dart) answers every member
the pages touch with healthy-empty defaults and scripts per-RPC
failures (UNIMPLEMENTED / UNAVAILABLE / detached gate) through a
GrpcError-shaped fake. Unimplemented members are recorded and
fail the sweep with the exact list.
- state_matrix_test.dart pins the app-wide invariants for every
sidebar page x hub condition: healthy => no unreachable claims
and no raw error text; hub gone => honest unreachable states;
UNIMPLEMENTED => never 'not reachable' while the sidebar shows
connected; detached gate => plain-language feature-off state.
- a11y + responsive sweeps now inject the fake (hermetic); the
6-minute idle-timer drain workaround is gone with the cause.
Real bugs the new sweep caught immediately:
- every data page (store, doctor, audit, approvals, federation)
folded ANY load failure into 'hub not reachable' — the runs-page
bug class; they now share HubLoadErrorView, which classifies
into unreachable / needs-newer-hub / load-failed-with-copyable-
detail (new generic DE+EN strings)
- the approvals page's hidden tab had no future listener: a load
failure there surfaced as an uncaught async error
- the audit status bar rendered the raw gRPC error wall verbatim;
it now shows the classified friendly headline (still selectable)
Signed-off-by: flemming-it <stefan.a.flemming@googlemail.com>
The runs monitor folded every load failure into 'hub not reachable',
contradicting the sidebar's green connected dot whenever the hub
answered but the RPC failed — most visibly against a pre-0.22 hub
whose version predates the ListInvocations RPC (UNIMPLEMENTED).
Classify the failure instead (top-level, unit-tested):
- UNIMPLEMENTED -> 'this view needs a newer hub version' with a
doctor-page link (the update banner lives there)
- FAILED_PRECONDITION from the detached gate -> the regular
feature-off empty state with the guide button
- UNAVAILABLE / DEADLINE_EXCEEDED / socket-level failures -> the
honest 'hub not reachable' state (unchanged)
- everything else -> a load-failed state with the friendly error
and a copyable detail box
The error view is a public callback-driven widget so the tests pump
each variant without a live hub. New DE+EN strings for the too-old
and load-failed states; grpcCodeOf/grpcMessageOf exposed from the
friendly-error mapper instead of duplicating the duck-typing.
Signed-off-by: flemming-it <stefan.a.flemming@googlemail.com>
The empty state unconditionally claimed background runs were
switched off, even on hubs where the operator had enabled them.
The hub now reports the flag on the list RPC (detached_enabled);
the hint picks the truthful variant.
Signed-off-by: flemming-it <stefan.a.flemming@googlemail.com>
The empty state explained itself in operator jargon (detach,
detached.enabled, operator config) and offered no way forward.
Now it says what background runs are in everyday language and
opens the built-in guide — which carries the exact activation
steps — via a real button. DE and EN.
Signed-off-by: flemming-it <stefan.a.flemming@googlemail.com>
New Runs sidebar destination listing detached invocations (detach:true)
with phase, current step, project and a Cancel button while
pending/running. Workspace-scoped like Audit/Approvals, polls every 2s.
Detached runs are opt-in (detached.enabled) — the empty state explains
how to enable them. Inline help doc DE+EN. DetachedRun model +
listDetachedRuns/cancelDetachedRun in HubService, backed by the SDK's
listInvocations()/cancelInvocation(). flutter analyze clean; 29 tests
green (sidebar Y-stability updated for the new destination, model
mapping unit-tested).
Screenshot verification (light+dark) deferred — shared desktop in use.
Signed-off-by: flemming-it <stefan.a.flemming@googlemail.com>