## Summary
- open Huddles in a focused companion window with a clean handoff back
to the in-app drawer and backing channel
- redesign the participant film strip, sidebar control, transcript
surface, and themed shell treatment
- preserve microphone and device control across windows, start agent
voice on the first reply, and show agent speaking activity in the film
strip
- give each agent a distinct session voice, beginning with the
configured default, plus compact per-agent text-to-speech and voice
controls
- enroll only agents explicitly mentioned or deliberately added through
an agent panel into the live Huddle roster
- keep temporary Huddle channels out of the sidebar unless the user
explicitly brings one into the main app
- remove Huddle-only avatar policy badges and filter short silence or
noise segments before speech-to-text posts
## Why
The previous flow exposed the temporary channel as product UI, obscured
who was present or speaking, and split transcript and audio state
between the main and companion windows. This keeps backing channels as
implementation details unless a user explicitly brings a Huddle into the
app, while sharing the live conversation and audio lifecycle across both
surfaces. Agent participants now join only after an explicit invitation,
distinct voices make multi-agent Huddles easier to follow, and short
microphone noise no longer becomes stray transcript messages.
## Validation
- `pnpm check`
- `pnpm build:e2e`
- `pnpm exec playwright test tests/e2e/huddle-transcription.spec.ts
--project=smoke` (13 passed)
- Huddle sidebar visibility unit coverage (4 passed)
- focused managed-agent and persona-mention E2E coverage (2 passed)
- `pnpm test` (3,910 passed)
- `cargo clippy --manifest-path desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
--all-targets -- -D warnings`
- `cargo test --manifest-path desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml` (2,093
passed, 14 ignored; 3 diagnostics passed)
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Signed-off-by: kenny lopez <klopez4212@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Carl <c7ebe626f000404285d3686e1dc74cc07cc60a9754a150041ba132e14bd3e2ec@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
