## Summary
- recover already-full Buzz installs before desktop initialization
without deleting healthy caches
- enforce a global 2 MiB UTF-16 byte budget across disposable message,
channel, timeline-skeleton, and sidebar-skeleton caches, regardless of
relay count
- route all disposable cache writes through quota recovery and reserve
roughly 3 MiB of WebKit's observed ~5 MiB quota for durable state
- preserve communities, identities, preferences, drafts, and read state;
match only delimiter-qualified disposable namespaces
## Context
WebKit enforces an approximately 5 MiB per-origin localStorage quota and
Tauri does not expose an app-level knob to raise it to 50 MiB. Buzz
0.4.26 shipped reactive recovery for selected durable writes, but
disposable writers swallowed quota failures and their existing limits
were count-based per relay rather than byte-based per origin.
This PR handles both halves: upgrade recovery for already-wedged origins
and proactive global headroom so disposable snapshots cannot drive the
origin back to the cliff.
## Safety
- startup first probes a one-byte marker; healthy installs retain their
caches
- only if the marker write fails are the four relay-rehydratable cache
namespaces removed
- namespace matching requires the `v1:` delimiter, preventing future
`v10` or similarly named durable keys from matching
- oversized individual snapshots are rejected; crossing the global
budget evicts disposable snapshots only
- failed recovery leaves the marker absent, so the next launch retries
## Verification
- `pnpm test` — 3,670 passed
- `pnpm check`
- `pnpm typecheck`
- push hooks: branch-skew, desktop-check, desktop-test passed
- byte-budget tests cover UTF-16 accounting, multiple relays, oversized
writes, durable-state preservation, healthy startup, full startup,
marker retry, and namespace near misses
---------
Signed-off-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Carl <c7ebe626f000404285d3686e1dc74cc07cc60a9754a150041ba132e14bd3e2ec@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
## Summary
- preserve collapsed GFM table separator rows as literal text
- prevent `||---:|---|---||` from becoming an animated spoiler canvas
- leave normal spoilers and valid multiline tables unchanged
## Root cause
When table newlines are lost, adjacent row pipes become `||`. The
spoiler remark plugin interpreted the delimiter row between those pairs
as a hidden spoiler, so the reported "static" was the spoiler particle
animation rather than table layout churn.
## Safety
The guard only applies to a paragraph span made entirely of text that
exactly matches a multi-column GFM delimiter row. The narrow syntax
collision is that an intentional spoiler containing only a delimiter row
such as `||---|---||` now renders literally.
## Verification
- desktop pre-push checks passed (3,662 tests)
- desktop TypeScript typecheck passed
- independent review found no blocking issues
Signed-off-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Carl <c7ebe626f000404285d3686e1dc74cc07cc60a9754a150041ba132e14bd3e2ec@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
**Category:** improvement
**User Impact:** Users can understand, install, authenticate, and manage
agent runtimes from one progressively disclosed Agents settings
experience.
**Problem:** Runtime health and custom harness management were split
across overlapping settings surfaces, exposing low-level configuration
too early while leaving setup and authentication states hard to
understand. **Solution:** Consolidate those operations into one stable
runtime list and an Add runtimes catalog, with task-oriented state
labels, direct setup actions, and custom configuration contained in a
dedicated form.
<details>
<summary>File changes</summary>
**desktop/playwright.config.ts**
Registers the visual coverage needed for the redesigned runtime catalog.
**desktop/public/harness-logos/CREDITS.md**
Documents bundled runtime-mark provenance and the decision not to ship
the withdrawn OpenAI mark.
**desktop/public/runtime-icons/codex.png**
Removes the obsolete Codex bitmap in favor of the neutral fallback.
**desktop/public/runtime-icons/goose.svg**
Removes the old Goose asset now replaced by the theme-adaptive mark.
**desktop/src-tauri/src/managed_agents/discovery.rs**
Aligns runtime discovery guidance with the new task-oriented setup
language.
**desktop/src-tauri/src/managed_agents/discovery/runtime_metadata.rs**
Updates runtime metadata used by the redesigned settings states.
**desktop/src/features/agents/ui/runtimeAvailabilityWarning.test.mjs**
Updates availability-warning expectations for the revised runtime
guidance.
**desktop/src/features/onboarding/assets/harness-logos/chatgpt.png**
Removes the redundant bitmap from the unified runtime icon pipeline.
**desktop/src/features/onboarding/assets/harness-logos/goose.png**
Removes the redundant Goose bitmap.
**desktop/src/features/onboarding/ui/HarnessMarks.tsx**
Adds theme-adaptive bundled runtime marks with safe fallbacks.
**desktop/src/features/onboarding/ui/RuntimeIcon.tsx**
Centralizes runtime logo rendering so settings and catalog rows cannot
drift.
**desktop/src/features/onboarding/ui/SetupStep.tsx**
Aligns onboarding runtime setup copy with the settings terminology.
**desktop/src/features/onboarding/ui/presetLogos.test.mjs**
Guards bundled-logo behavior and prevents the withdrawn Codex mark from
returning.
**desktop/src/features/settings/ui/CustomHarnessForm.tsx**
Reworks custom runtime creation and editing into a clear, dedicated
catalog form.
**desktop/src/features/settings/ui/HarnessCatalogDialog.tsx**
Introduces the Add runtimes master-detail catalog, grouped setup states,
loading treatment, and pinned actions.
**desktop/src/features/settings/ui/HarnessManagementCard.tsx**
Removes the superseded standalone custom-harness management surface.
**desktop/src/features/settings/ui/HarnessRow.tsx**
Provides stable operational runtime rows with install, update,
authentication, edit, and delete behavior.
**desktop/src/features/settings/ui/HarnessesSettingsPanel.tsx**
Consolidates runtime health and custom management into one Agents
settings panel.
**desktop/src/features/settings/ui/SettingsPanels.tsx**
Wires the consolidated panel into Agents settings.
**desktop/src/features/settings/ui/harnessCatalogCopy.ts**
Adds restrained, source-annotated runtime descriptions and setup
guidance.
**desktop/src/features/settings/ui/harnessCatalogLogic.test.mjs**
Covers grouping, state labels, stable row order, actions, and adapter
warnings.
**desktop/src/features/settings/ui/harnessCatalogLogic.ts**
Centralizes catalog grouping, actions, status labels, and runtime-safe
warning copy.
**desktop/src/features/settings/ui/harnessGalleryLogic.test.mjs**
Removes obsolete gallery-only tests after consolidation.
**desktop/src/features/settings/ui/harnessGalleryLogic.ts**
Retains only the shared custom-runtime safety logic needed by the new
surface.
**desktop/src/shared/ui/config-nudge-attachment.tsx**
Points configuration nudges to Agent runtimes with matching terminology.
**desktop/src/testing/e2eBridge.ts**
Adds deterministic runtime states for authentication and catalog E2E
coverage.
**desktop/tests/e2e/doctor-states.spec.ts**
Verifies ready, setup-required, node-gated, authentication, loading, and
error contracts.
**desktop/tests/e2e/harness-catalog-screenshots.spec.ts**
Captures whole-pane visual states for the runtime catalog experience.
**desktop/tests/e2e/harness-management.spec.ts**
Exercises catalog actions and custom runtime create, edit,
authentication, and deletion flows.
**desktop/tests/e2e/onboarding-agent-defaults.spec.ts**
Updates default-runtime expectations for the consolidated experience.
**desktop/tests/e2e/profile.spec.ts**
Aligns profile navigation assertions with the new settings surface.
</details>
## Reproduction steps
1. Open Settings → Agents and inspect Agent runtimes; ready, signed-out,
installable, and setup-required runtimes should have stable rows and
explicit actions.
2. Open Add runtimes and browse the Setup and Installed groups; select
entries to see sourced guidance and a pinned Install or Setup guide
action.
3. Select Custom harness, create a runtime, then edit and delete it;
verify required-field gating and the blast-radius confirmation.
4. Exercise a signed-out runtime and connect it; the row should move
from Sign-in needed to Ready without reordering.
5. Resize the window and switch themes to verify responsive layout and
adaptive bundled marks.
## Screenshots
| Mixed runtime states | Goose not installed | Sign-in needed |
|---|---|---|
| <img width="980" height="1000" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/28705b39-1d91-440a-a954-fb2d7d8ee759"
/> | <img width="980" height="1000" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e65ce8e1-8c85-4272-afb5-e6001b94d560"
/> | <img width="980" height="1000" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3987f355-960d-4744-8c26-b3746944a33c"
/> |
| Add runtimes catalog | Custom runtime | Setup guide |
|---|---|---|
| <img width="896" height="672" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a2f32c8a-4dff-4929-af96-b07346933335"
/> | <img width="896" height="672" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b2e85a0c-3940-4875-a138-4035423c9de7"
/> | <img width="896" height="672" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5a690c1c-368e-4ee3-98b9-ffefdc3cf804"
/> |
Full 13-state screenshot matrix and review evidence:
https://buzz.block.builderlab.xyz/channels/c5af9e3e-4317-4853-b3e3-ed9c15bc511d?event=ec88f6e472f2b08d6318ae76fd754fd4f218385f67cfe59b73034c4bc34c9252
---------
Signed-off-by: Taylor Ho <taylorkmho@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: npub1223z34hd7vtwc6qj4s7flsxkj644nlre2nthu7lrrmkumhu3xddsrx9r6w <52a228d6edf316ec6812ac3c9fc0d696ab59fc7954d77e7be31eedcddf91335b@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
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## Summary
Project issues, pull requests, reviews, and commit details no longer
flatten rich content into inert or plain text. They now share the
message markdown and media pipeline, preserving NIP-92 `imeta` metadata
so links, images, and videos render consistently.
Commit bodies are fetched only when a single-commit detail view is
opened, keeping list queries lightweight while exposing full context
beside the diff.
### Related issue
None found.
### Testing
- Pre-push suite: `desktop-check`, `desktop-test`, `desktop-tauri-test`,
`rust-tests`, and `mobile-test`
- Project issue and pull request regression tests cover preserving
attachment metadata on roots, updates, and comments
- The project commit detail smoke scenario verifies linked text, images,
and video in commit bodies
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petersen <thomasp@squareup.com>
## Summary
- align the multi-community rail with the content surface and balance
its visible 10px side gutters
- center Mobile pairing, start sessions on demand, and keep retry states
inside the QR area
- reveal the QR code and copy action with 250ms motion and use the
standard loading spinner
The rail was centered within its own box, but the adjacent sidebar added
another 11px to the visible right gap. Mobile pairing also started
before user intent, which could leave an idle session waiting for EOSE.
## Validation
- `pnpm -C desktop build:e2e`
- `pnpm -C desktop test` — 3,516 passed
- `pnpm -C desktop exec playwright test tests/e2e/community-rail.spec.ts
--project=smoke` — 19 passed
- `pnpm -C desktop exec playwright test
tests/e2e/mobile-pairing-qr.spec.ts --project=smoke` — 1 passed
`pnpm -C desktop check` is currently blocked by the existing
`src-tauri/src/managed_agents/runtime.rs` file-size baseline (2,220
lines; limit 2,216).
## Summary
Introduces a single effective-config resolver that makes agent
definitions authoritative for model, provider, system prompt, and
relay-mesh routing on linked instances. Stale materialized record bytes
are never consulted at spawn, deploy, readiness, hash, card summary, or
mesh preflight.
**Resolution semantics (field-specific):**
- **model/provider (linked):** definition → global. `None` = inherit
global default. Record value never consulted.
- **model/provider (definition-less):** instance → global.
- **system_prompt (linked):** strictly from definition; blank = no
prompt. No global tier for prompt.
- **system_prompt (definition-less):** from the instance.
- **relay-mesh preflight (both):** driven by the same
`resolve_effective_config` resolution spawn's mesh env consults. For a
linked instance the record's own `provider`/`model`/`relay_mesh` bytes
are never consulted; for a definition-less instance with no provider of
its own, the legacy marker and env preset are the last fallback (see
below).
- **Orphaned (linked record, definition missing):** spawn, deploy, and
mesh preflight blocked with actionable user-facing error.
**Changes:**
- New `effective_config` resolver module with `ConfigSource` metadata
(`definition`, `global`, `instance_legacy`)
- All consumers routed through the single resolver: local spawn, deploy,
readiness, spawn hash, card summary, relay-mesh preflight (interactive
start and restore-on-launch)
- `apply_persona_snapshot` no longer preserves stale record
model/provider when definition is blank
- Backend `update_managed_agent` blocks model/provider/prompt writes for
linked records
- Frontend omits model/provider/systemPrompt submission for linked
instances; system prompt override hidden
- `model_source` field added to `ManagedAgentSummary` so card labels
distinguish inherited (`Default model (X)`) from explicit
- Spawn hash now digests resolved model/provider (not raw record fields)
so global default changes trip the restart badge even for runtimes
without `model_env_var`
- Orphan spawn/deploy/mesh-preflight blocked with jargon-free error
("This agent's configuration is missing — it may still be syncing or was
deleted on another device")
- `EffectiveAgentConfig::relay_mesh_model_id()` and
`resolve_effective_relay_mesh_model_id()` added; both mesh preflights
(`start_local_agent_with_preflight`, `restore_managed_agents_on_launch`)
call this instead of the deleted
`relay_mesh_config`/`relay_mesh_model_id` record-byte sniffs
- Legacy relay-mesh records keep their mesh routing. Two shipped
generations predate `provider: "relay-mesh"` and are never rewritten on
load: the typed `relay_mesh` marker (added when `ManagedAgentRecord` had
no `provider` field), and before it the mesh preset written directly
into `env_vars`. `resolve_definition_less` falls back to the marker,
then to the env preset, so these records still resolve to mesh instead
of silently misrouting to an unrelated provider while their stale env
bytes reach the child. The fallback is skipped when the record carries
an explicit `provider` — that states current intent, including a switch
away from mesh — and `resolve_linked` has no legacy fallback at all
- The env discriminator accepts both spellings of the two sentinels
renamed in the Jun-11 window without a record migration: the provider
env key (`BUZZ_AGENT_PROVIDER`, previously `SPROUT_AGENT_PROVIDER`) and
the api-key value (`buzz-mesh-local`, previously `sprout-mesh-local`).
Each is independent, since a record can straddle the window; the current
provider-key spelling wins when both are present
- Dead `persona_field_with_record_fallback` and wrapper
`persona_snapshot_with_agent_config_fallback` deleted; callers use
`persona_snapshot` directly
- New resolver/deploy/hash/write-guard/mesh-preflight tests, including
switch-away and global-inheritance regressions for both mesh preflight
call sites, per-class legacy-mesh resolution (typed marker and env
preset, in every rename-window spelling combination), and the paired
assertions that a linked instance's legacy mesh bytes stay inert
---------
Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: npub1mn7jgtj4w2pd0g0zeuhxsa6jy6p0rewxz4kujt98my82ahfmp72sxjexk7 <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
## Why
Manual relay recovery polls every three seconds, repeatedly consuming
the session's exponential-backoff timer and leaving reconnect behavior
stuck or noisy on degraded networks.
## What
- Replace fixed-cadence Phase 3 polling with observation of the
RelayClient background reconnect loop
- Raise the fast-path deadline above the native websocket timeout and
enforce that contract in a regression test
- Keep the existing 120-second backstop as a soft UI timeout without
stopping background retries
## Risk Assessment
Medium — this changes live relay recovery timing, but removes a
competing retry loop rather than adding one. The existing
connection-state subscription remains the success signal.
## References
- Stacked on #2310 (`lazyjoe/reconnect-testability-refactor`)
- Investigation: `RESEARCH/BUG_RELAY_RECONNECT_HANG.md`
- `just ci`
- `cd desktop && pnpm typecheck && pnpm check && pnpm test` (3485 pass)
- `git diff --check`
Generated with Codex
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## Why
Prepare the relay reconnect controller for an isolated behavior-fix PR
without changing runtime behavior in this one.
## What
- Export the current reconnect timing policy from
`RelayReconnectController`
- Allow controller tests to inject the complete timing policy
- Add characterization coverage for the production timing values and
injected fast-path/poll/backstop timers
## Risk Assessment
Low — this preserves the existing production timing values and only
replaces private module constants with a default policy object used by
the controller. The weak reconnect-timer and backstop wrapper
extractions were removed from this PR.
## References
- `cd desktop && pnpm typecheck`
- `cd desktop && pnpm check`
- `cd desktop && pnpm test` (3373 pass)
- `git diff --check`
- Push hooks were bypassed after the requested desktop validation
because the broad pre-push hook runs without Hermit here and fails on
Node 20/pnpm 11 plus unhealthy local Postgres services.
Generated with Codex
Signed-off-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: Carl <c7ebe626f000404285d3686e1dc74cc07cc60a9754a150041ba132e14bd3e2ec@sprout-oss.stage.blox.sqprod.co>
## Summary
- render mobile pairing QR codes locally with Wallet-inspired styling
- hide the raw pairing URI behind a matching copy button
- add focused rendering and dialog coverage
## Test plan
- desktop lint and 3,489 desktop tests
- focused pairing dialog Playwright test
- decoded the rendered QR back to the exact pairing URI
## Summary
- Replace all references to a specific corporate VPN product name with
generic "VPN" / "corporate VPN" / "VPN tunnel" / "VPN CLI" language
across 15 files (21 lines)
- Comment-only and doc-only changes — zero functional impact
- Keeps the OSS repo free of vendor-specific assumptions
`rg -i warp` returns zero hits after this change (excluding
`node_modules`, lockfiles).
## Why
Installing the Codex, Claude, or Goose desktop app does not install the
command-line harness Buzz needs. The current UI makes that distinction
unclear, links some missing-CLI states to adapter documentation, and can
report a successful install from the installer exit code even when
runtime discovery still fails. On Windows, Buzz also invokes Goose's
Bash installer, which writes the executable somewhere Buzz does not
discover.
## What
- distinguish missing vendor CLIs from missing or outdated ACP adapters
in runtime metadata and UI guidance
- link Codex, Claude Code, and Goose missing-CLI states to their
official CLI installation documentation
- explain in Settings, onboarding, and agent configuration that the
desktop app alone is not sufficient
- use Goose's official PowerShell installer on Windows
- refresh PATH and rediscover the requested runtime after installation,
keeping the control retryable if the runtime is still unavailable
- add Rust and Playwright regression coverage for Windows installer
selection, CLI/adapter guidance, false-success prevention, verified
installs, and onboarding copy
## Risk Assessment
Medium. This changes desktop onboarding and runtime installation
behavior. Successful installs now require the runtime catalog to verify
availability; previously hidden discovery failures will surface as
actionable errors instead of a false success state.
## References
- [Codex CLI installation](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli/)
- [Claude Code
installation](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/getting-started)
- [Goose
installation](https://goose-docs.ai/docs/getting-started/installation/)
- Follow-up to #2563 and #2587
## Validation
- `just desktop-typecheck`
- `just desktop-test` — 3,455 passed
- focused Rust post-install verification tests
- focused Playwright Doctor/onboarding coverage (in progress; CI and
local sequential rerun will provide final results)
Generated with Codex
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Signed-off-by: Atish Patel <atish@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: Goose <opensource@block.xyz>
