Workspace polish round 1: New session, verdict colour, anchored popovers, send-order filmstrip, phone swipe

[cailmdaley]

This is the first polish round on the document workspace, from Cail's first day of use. It also adds swiping between pages on the phone.

Opus 5.5 on behalf of Cail.

What changes

• New session is back. When a session can be resumed, Resume ↵ is the primary verb and a quieter New session (⌥↵) sits beside it. Before, the fresh-start verb was hidden whenever a session was resumable. New session still asks before cutting a live worker.

• Verdicts carry colour. Temper is verdigris and Discard is the Desk's deletion red (--kbn-discarded). The colours are the same everywhere a verdict appears: the Desk card, the fiber page's act zone, the navbar pair and the undo toast. They are mixed against the paper in force, so they stay legible under every theme.

• Popovers stay with their trigger. A new anchoredPopover.ts places each panel in the browser's top layer, flips and shifts it inside the viewport (and above the phone's bottom bar), and follows the trigger. It is used by the Meeting menu, the document menu, the channel switcher, the parent search and the in-flight ⋯ menu. The agent and effort pickers open an anchored list on desktop; a finger keeps the platform picker.

• The filmstrip runs in send order: the constitution first, then documents declared in the body and never sent, in body order, then sent documents by first delivery, oldest first. A re-send keeps its place and gets the fresh mark.

• The floating worker plate is gone. Worker state lives in one place, the fiber page's act-zone pill, the same component the sidebar card uses. While a fiber awaits review, a compact Temper/Discard pair sits beside the fiber name in the navbar, or in the page sheet on the phone.

• The sidebar toggle is one 220 ms slide, animating only translate and opacity. It is instant under reduced motion.

• Keys: c (and .) opens the conversation; s (and ⌘\) toggles the Constitutions sidebar.

• Phone swipe. A horizontal swipe on the page itself steps pages: the page follows the finger, resists at the ends, and settles from the release speed. The swipe yields to:

  • edge starts, so Safari's back gesture still works;
  • vertical scroll;
  • pinch zoom;
  • content that pans sideways: scrollable tables and code, sliders, media, fields, and decks or carousels that set touch-action or prevent the touch.

  Sandboxed reports recognise the swipe inside the frame and send bounded travel through the bridge. The parent accepts it only from the selected, active frame. A swipe whose release is lost is cancelled.

• Phone layout:

  • neighbouring pages are flat;
  • wide markdown tables scroll inside themselves;
  • the bottom bar steps aside for the keyboard;
  • the settings path truncates cleanly;
  • the top bar stays one row in landscape.

New session beside Resume	Navbar verdict pair
Meeting menu anchored	Effort picker anchored

Sidebar slide, frame by frame:

The screenshots come from the fixture harness. Live-data shots and the iOS Simulator recordings are in the felt constitution ai-futures/felt/constitutions/document-workspace (shots-7/).

Review

An independent Opus review found no trust-boundary escape:

• the new swipe bridge message can move a hostile report at most one page;
• conversation stays out of the keys a report can forward;
• the navbar and page-sheet verdict pairs share the one undo queue.

It confirmed three bugs, all fixed with tests that failed before the fix:

• a swipe whose release was lost left the page track parked;
• decks and carousels inside reports also paged the reader;
• the parent search didn't re-anchor when its results changed.

A fourth fix measures both swipe axes in screen space inside frames. Without it, a sideways swipe read as vertical whenever the phone top bar moved the frame.

Verification

Observed on this head:

• npm test: 1,534 tests passed under each pinned time zone, on Node 25 and on Node 22 (CI's runtime).
• npm run typecheck: clean.
• npm run e2e: 91/91.
• make build SKIP_CLI=1: passes.

The phone swipe was exercised in iOS 26.5 Simulator Safari, on the harness and on live data. Native PDF pages keep their own touches, so the bottom bar steps past them. Whether Safari's real edge-back gesture still works was not verified in the Simulator.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LwX9WpuD7VnV6mfmN9eb67