fix(cli): move indexing status to sidebar

[catrielmuller]

Issue

Fixes #10841

Context

Code indexing status was shown as an abbreviated IDX footer/session indicator, while indexing configuration and diagnostics behaved differently across the CLI, VS Code, and Kilo Console. Scoped settings could also lose inheritance information, provider changes could destabilize the indexing worker, and Qdrant compatibility failures were not surfaced consistently.

This change moves indexing into the sidebar and completes the surrounding indexing experience: shared global/project configuration, model discovery, warnings, worker lifecycle hardening, and consistent client behavior.

Implementation

CLI indexing experience

• Move code indexing status out of the footer and standalone session strip into a Kilo-owned Code Indexing sidebar section with readable states and progress.
• Poll active indexing status so the sidebar does not remain stale when an event is missed, while deduplicating/coalescing repeated status updates.
• Add a scoped TUI indexing dialog with Global and Project modes, explicit inherited/partially inherited indicators, unset support, and a stable model selector that does not refetch on remount.
• Surface indexing failures and Qdrant compatibility warnings through TUI notifications instead of writing errors into terminal output.

Scoped configuration

• Add raw global/project indexing configuration alongside effective merged values.
• Support nested inheritance for provider credentials, vector-store settings, model selection, dimensions, and tuning values.
• Preserve explicit project null values as local overrides while treating undefined as inherited/unset.
• Write project-scoped changes to .kilo/kilo.jsonc and refresh config caches after scoped updates.
• Add overlay provenance for default, global, local, and mixed values.

VS Code and Kilo Console

• Add Global/Local indexing controls to VS Code with effective-value merging and provenance tags (Global, Local, Default, and Global + Local).
• Commit blurred inputs to the scope where editing began before changing scope, and remount scoped settings so provenance remains reactive after a switch.
• Preserve raw local overrides in extension messages and config serialization, including explicit null model and dimension values.
• Add Storybook coverage, browser regressions, unit coverage, and updated visual baselines for scope switching, provider changes, Kilo presets, and delayed catalog loading.
• Add a dedicated Kilo Console indexing route with scoped settings, inheritance handling, provider/vector-store controls, tuning fields, and responsive styling.
• Extend Console and VS Code config clients to load and update scoped configuration consistently.

Models, warnings, and API surface

• Use the Kilo Gateway embedding-model catalog as the authoritative source for supported Kilo models, aliases, dimensions, score thresholds, and labels.
• Add bounded catalog retries and silent fallback behavior so a temporary catalog failure does not break settings UI or save an empty model.
• Add /indexing/models and /indexing/warnings endpoints plus generated OpenAPI and TypeScript SDK support.
• Add structured indexing warning events for incompatible or unavailable Qdrant versions and expose them to clients without blocking indexing startup.
• Keep LanceDB as the default vector store.

Runtime reliability

• Reuse persistent indexing workers per project instead of terminating native workers during provider changes.
• Serialize worker requests and add explicit worker protocol/error handling to prevent provider-switch crashes.
• Keep status publication bounded and avoid duplicate warning/error notifications.
• Add regression coverage for startup, worker reuse, dialog state, warning delivery, scoped overlays, HTTP endpoints, and config serialization.

CI follow-ups

• Correct plugin dependency fixtures to mark @kilocode/plugin as ready, avoiding real npm/Arborist installs that caused provider tests to time out on Windows.
• Refresh the global config cache deterministically in overlay integration tests while keeping the classified AppRuntime boundary count unchanged.
• Add user-facing changesets for scoped indexing settings and quieter Qdrant warning handling.

Screenshots / Video

How to Test

CLI

1. Configure indexing globally, then add project overrides for the provider, model, vector store, and tuning values.
2. Open the TUI indexing dialog and verify inherited, local, mixed, and default provenance.
3. Start indexing and confirm the sidebar shows readable progress without an IDX footer/session strip.
4. Switch providers during indexing and verify the worker remains stable.
5. Use an incompatible or unreachable Qdrant instance and verify a notification appears without corrupting terminal output.

VS Code and Console

1. Open indexing settings and switch between Global and Local scopes.
2. Edit a global field, switch scope while it is focused, and verify the change remains global.
3. Confirm local overrides and explicit empty model/dimension values survive scope changes.
4. Confirm provenance tags and Kilo model presets update correctly.
5. Repeat the same scoped configuration flow in Kilo Console.

Automated validation

• CLI typecheck and focused indexing, overlay, provider, and HTTP API suites.
• VS Code typecheck, lint, unit tests, Storybook build, and indexing Playwright regressions.
• Kilo Gateway typecheck and embedding-model tests.
• Kilo Console typecheck, tests, and production build.
• SDK generation, source-link, annotations, Promise-facade, markdown-table, and whitespace guards.

Checklist

• Issue linked above
• Tests and reviewer verification steps included
• Screenshots included for visual changes
• User-facing changesets included
• Generated SDK and visual baselines updated

[kilo-code-bot]

Code Review Summary

Status: No Issues Found | Recommendation: Merge

Files Reviewed (incremental: 3 new commits since a4952b0)

Changed in incremental diff

• packages/opencode/test/kilocode/server/config-overlay.test.ts — clean; setGlobal() helper replaces direct file writes + invalidate() calls, using the actual /config/overlay PATCH endpoint for test setup; removes AppRuntime dependency entirely
• script/check-opencode-promise-facades.ts — clean; kilocode/server/config-overlay.test.ts allowlist entry correctly removed now that AppRuntime is no longer used in that test file
• Visual regression PNG baselines — updated baselines, no code concerns

Carried forward from prior review (unchanged files)

• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/indexing-worker-client.ts — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/indexing-worker.ts — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/indexing-warning.ts — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/indexing-event.ts — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/indexing.ts — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/plugins/sidebar-indexing.tsx — clean; .catch((err) => log.debug(...)) ✓
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/cli/cmd/tui/indexing-warning.ts — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/components/indexing-dialog-state.ts — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/components/dialog-indexing.tsx — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/config/config.ts — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/config/overlay.ts — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/server/httpapi/groups/indexing.ts — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/server/httpapi/handlers/indexing.ts — clean
• packages/opencode/src/kilocode/server/httpapi/handlers/config-console.ts — clean
• packages/kilo-gateway/src/api/embedding-models.ts — clean
• packages/kilo-vscode/src/KiloProvider.ts — clean
• packages/kilo-vscode/src/kilo-provider-utils.ts — clean
• packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/indexing-tab-state.ts — clean
• packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/IndexingTab.tsx — clean
• packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/SettingsRow.tsx — clean
• packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/utils/config-utils.ts — clean
• packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/context/config.tsx — clean
• packages/kilo-console/src/routes/config/IndexingRoute.tsx — clean
• packages/kilo-console/src/routes/config/state/indexing.ts — clean
• SDK generated files (packages/sdk/) — clean

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[marius-kilocode]

@catrielmuller please wait with this until #11031 lands and then let's retest. There are some UI changes that will conflict there.