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One PR for the day's chat polish (consolidates what was briefly #249/#250/#251 — Kate's call: one PR, not three).

Dark prompt bubble seated at ~70% luminance. The inverse grammar stays (the user's words are the INVERSE of the ground) but its dark realisation was pure grey-50 — the only 100%-luminance surface in the UI, a lamp at up to 85% column width. New role tokens --prompt-bubble-bg/-ink in design-polish.css: light is the site's ink bubble verbatim; dark mixes 30% of the page ground into the inverse (≈#b9b9b9 stock — first seat was 15%/#dcdcdc, still too bright in use). Bubble, in-bubble file/agent chips, and the pinned last-prompt ghost all consume the tokens; message-part.css keeps a raw-inverse fallback for consumers without the app skin.

UPDATE eyebrow dropped on prose steps. The rail label names steps whose content doesn't open with its own title — for prose the words ARE the step, and one walkthrough session wore seven identical "UPDATE" captions. Reasoning keeps its label; the measured dot-on-first-line re-seats the rail dot automatically.

Draft landing centred optically. Upstream's fixed top-[25.375%] anchor beached the mark+composer in the webview's upper third. Replaced with the start screen's grammar (flex centre + pb lift) so the group holds ~1:1.2 above:below at any panel height (the fixed anchor degrades to ~1:2.2 as panels grow).

Blocks land whole, with a crisp entrance — no typing reveal. Two halves of the site demo's grammar: a streaming text/reasoning tail (no time.end) is withheld from the timeline — Thinking is the working signal — and the finished block enters whole; a part with a successor is complete by definition, so history renders unchanged. Every row that joins the projection after first paint animates in once (4px rise + fade, 0.18s ease-out, --motion-enter-* tokens): a per-session key set seeded synchronously on first mount defeats the virtual-remount replay trap; animation is opacity+transform on the measured inner div only; row clip-margin grows 4→8px to cover ring + rise; reduced motion keeps the fade, drops the rise. rows-current.test.ts updated to the new spec (streaming tail ⇒ Thinking, not a half-streamed part row).

Verification. Every piece verified live on :3004 against the :4096 server before pushing: dark bubble computes to the 70% seat with light untouched; landing balanced at 815×994 in both schemes; a real streamed turn showed the prose withheld in 36/48 DOM poll samples, each new row animating exactly once, zero history replays after a scroll roundtrip. The consolidated tree is byte-identical to the integration tree those checks ran on (and the local test build was vendored from). tsgo -b clean, oxlint baseline, timeline suite 37/37.

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  • Style

    • Improved prompt bubble colors and contrast across light, dark, and system themes.
    • Updated highlighted file and agent tokens within user messages for more consistent theming.
    • Centered the new-session composer for a more balanced layout.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Removed the unnecessary “Update” label from regular message text.
    • Improved timeline handling of streaming content by showing active composition as “Thinking” until complete.
    • Added smoother timeline entry animations, with reduced-motion support.

The inverse grammar stays (the user's words are the INVERSE of the ground),
but its dark realisation was pure grey-50: the only 100%-luminance surface
in the UI, at up to 85% column width — a lamp, not a bubble. Dark ink on a
light ground doesn't emit; a white panel on a dark one does.

New role tokens in design-polish.css (--prompt-bubble-bg/-ink): light is
the site's ink bubble verbatim; dark mixes 15% of the page ground into the
inverse (#dcdcdc on stock dark — ≈13:1 on the ground, ≈11:1 under its own
ink). The bubble, its in-bubble file/agent chips, and the pinned last-prompt
ghost all consume the tokens — one grammar on every surface; message-part.css
falls back to raw inverse for consumers without the app skin (enterprise,
storybook).

Verified live on :3004 against the :4096 server: dark bubble computes to
color(srgb .8629…) = #dcdcdc on #080808, light stays #000/#fafafa. oxlint
(baseline: 1 pre-existing error), tsgo -b clean.
The rail label exists to name steps whose content doesn't open with its own
title. For reasoning that's real information; for prose the words ARE the
step, and captioning every one "UPDATE" was pure repetition — one
walkthrough session wore seven of them. Reasoning keeps its label; prose
now leads with itself, and the measured dot-on-first-line (69c98ee) re-seats
the rail dot on the prose automatically.

Verified live on :3004: sessions that rendered 2/7/3 UPDATE labels render
zero, REASONING unaffected. oxlint (baseline), tsgo -b clean.
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The changes update timeline streaming states, add one-time row entrance animations, revise prompt bubble theming, and vertically center the new-session mark and composer group. Timeline labels now identify reasoning without labeling prose as "Update".

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Streaming timeline row handling
packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/rows.ts, packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/timeline-row.ts, packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/rows-current.test.ts
Incomplete text and reasoning tails are withheld until completion and represented by Thinking rows. Reasoning retains the "Reasoning" label, while prose no longer receives "Update".
One-time timeline entrance animation
packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/message-timeline.tsx, packages/app/src/design-polish.css
Newly projected timeline rows receive a one-time entrance marker. Virtualized remounts do not replay the animation. Reduced-motion mode removes the vertical movement.
Prompt bubble theme tokens
packages/app/src/design-polish.css, packages/session-ui/src/components/message-part.css, packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/message-timeline.tsx
Prompt bubbles and file or agent highlights use shared prompt bubble variables. Dark schemes use the updated 70% inverse-background blend.
New-session composer positioning
packages/app/src/pages/new-session/new-session-view.tsx
The mark and composer group use flex centering with bottom padding instead of fixed top positioning.

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The PR changes chat presentation, landing layout, and timeline entry behavior, with the supplied checks reporting the intended behavior. One changed CSS declaration is still deprecated and should be cleaned up or explicitly accepted before merge; this is a bounded follow-up risk.

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  TimelineProjection->>EnteredRowTracking: project timeline row keys
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  VirtualTimelineRow->>TimelineEntryCSS: set data-timeline-enter
  TimelineEntryCSS-->>VirtualTimelineRow: apply opacity and rise transition
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MDN CSS word-break break-word deprecated overflow-wrap anywhere equivalent semantics

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The CSS value word-break: break-word is officially deprecated [1][2]. It is maintained solely for legacy compatibility, and developers are advised against using it in new stylesheets [3][4]. The functionality previously provided by word-break: break-word is now better handled by the overflow-wrap property [5][6][3]. Specifically, overflow-wrap: anywhere is the modern, standard-compliant equivalent [1][7][3]. Key points regarding the semantics and differences: 1. Deprecation Status: The W3C CSS Working Group has marked word-break: break-word as deprecated [8]. Some discussions have even proposed normative prohibitions against its use in new code to discourage reliance on this non-standard behavior [4]. 2. Semantics and Behavior: - word-break: break-word was originally introduced to provide a way to break long words while still behaving similarly to normal word-break behavior in other contexts [5][6]. - overflow-wrap: anywhere is designed to allow lines to break at any point if necessary to prevent overflow, essentially providing the robust wrapping behavior developers sought from the deprecated keyword [7][5]. 3. Intrinsic Sizing Differences: - A technical distinction exists regarding how these values interact with min-content intrinsic size calculations [5][6]. - overflow-wrap: anywhere allows the browser to break lines at any point, but importantly, it does not consider these potential break points when calculating min-content intrinsic sizes [7][9]. - In contrast, word-break: break-word does consider soft wrap opportunities introduced by the break when calculating min-content [8][5]. Because overflow-wrap: anywhere avoids the intrinsic sizing side effects of the legacy break-word value, it is generally considered the superior and more predictable choice for preventing text overflow in modern CSS layouts [7][5].

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Replace the deprecated word-break value.

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[error] 160-160: Deprecated keyword "break-word" for property "word-break" (declaration-property-value-keyword-no-deprecated)

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In `@packages/session-ui/src/components/message-part.css` at line 160, Replace the
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anywhere to preserve wrapping for long URLs and unbroken strings.

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Upstream anchored the group's top at a fixed 25.375% of the panel — tuned
for a wide desktop window. In the tall Amicode webview that beached the
mark and composer in the upper third with a hold of empty space below.
Replace the anchor with the same grammar the start screen already uses
(session-new-view): flex centring plus a pb lift, so the group sits at the
optical centre at any panel height.
The 85% seat was still too bright in use (Kate). Same grammar, same
tokens — only dark's mix moves: 30% of the page ground into the inverse
instead of 15%, ≈#b9b9b9 on stock dark. Separation ≈9:1 on the ground,
≈8:1 under its own ink — comfortably above every floor.
…reveal

Two halves of one grammar (the site demo's): each step of a turn appears as
a COMPLETE block, and its appearance is animated.

Withholding: a text/reasoning part that is still streaming — the tail of
the last assistant message with no time.end — is kept out of the timeline;
the Thinking row is the working signal while it composes, and the finished
block enters whole. A part with a successor is complete by definition, so
only the tail is ever withheld; a done turn withholds nothing, so history
renders exactly as before. In showReasoning mode Thinking now also stands
in while the tail is withheld (previously it hid once any part existed).

Entrance: a row that JOINS the projection after the session's first paint
animates in once — 4px rise + fade, 0.18s ease-out (--motion-enter-* tokens
in design-polish.css). Virtual rows remount on every scroll-back, so mount
alone never triggers it: a per-session key set, seeded synchronously with
the whole history by the first mount after a session switch, decides each
key exactly once. Animation is opacity+transform on the measured inner div
only — the virtualizer owns row position and height. The row clip-margin
grows 4px→8px to cover ring + rise. Reduced motion keeps the fade, drops
the rise.

rows-current.test.ts updated to the new spec: a streaming tail yields
Thinking, not a half-streamed part row (the error-removal test's intent —
no stale Error row once the turn resumes — is unchanged).

Verified live on :3004 against :4096, dark, with a real streamed turn:
36/48 poll samples show Thinking with the prose withheld; the block's first
DOM appearance already carries animation timeline-enter; turn-gap, bubble,
Thinking, and prose each animated exactly once; zero pre-existing rows
animated on load or after a scroll roundtrip. tsgo -b clean, oxlint
baseline, timeline tests 37/37.
…tyle

# Conflicts:
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@kateebonner kateebonner changed the title Chat grammar follow-ups: seat the dark prompt bubble, drop the UPDATE eyebrow Chat polish: bubble seat, landing centre, blocks land whole with a crisp entrance Aug 25, 2026

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Replace the for...of loop with an array method.

Use timelineRows().forEach(...) to seed enteredKeys. This follows the TypeScript rule that prefers functional array methods over for loops.

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-      for (const row of timelineRows()) enteredKeys.add(TimelineRow.key(row))
+      timelineRows().forEach((row) => enteredKeys.add(TimelineRow.key(row)))

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In `@packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/message-timeline.tsx` around lines
473 - 477, Replace the for...of loop in the enteredFor initialization with
timelineRows().forEach(...), preserving the existing TimelineRow.key(row)
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The entrance seed treated everything in the projection at first mount as
history. In the draft→new-session handoff the timeline mounts with the
just-sent turn already there, so the whole first turn was swallowed —
nothing animated (Kate, in the webview). The active, still-running turn is
live content, not history: the seed now exempts rows of the active message
while the session is busy, so the in-flight turn animates in on mount and
settled turns stay still.

Verified on :3004: a page mounted MID-TURN shows all completed turns static
at its first snapshot while the active turn's gap/bubble/thinking rows carry
timeline-enter, and the completed block animates on arrival; the normal
open-session send is unchanged. Prod parity separately confirmed against
the compiled binary's own server. tsgo -b clean, oxlint baseline, timeline
tests 48/48 (model.test.ts bun failure pre-existing).
Two follow-ups from webview testing (Kate 2026-08-25):

The active-turn exemption keyed off the busy status flag — but in the
draft→new-session handoff the first row can mount before the server's busy
status has synced back, so the just-sent bubble was still seeded as
history. Settledness is now judged from the data: the active turn is live
until one of its assistant messages has completed, with busy as a
corroborating signal rather than the gate.

And the entrance itself: 4px over 0.18s read as a pop, not an entrance, in
real use — especially against the auto-scroll. 8px over 0.22s, same
ease-out, still crisp but visibly a rise. Row clip-margin grows to 12px so
the breathing ring plus the larger rise never clip.

tsgo -b clean, oxlint baseline, timeline tests green. Recorded live on
:3004 — bubble and thinking rise on send, the reply lands whole.
Kate walked the dark inverse down 100%→85%→70% luminance and it still read
harsh: at chat scale on a dark field, any light bubble glares. Dark wants
LOW contrast, not an inverse — the inverse grammar is the site's, and the
site is light-only, so it stays a light-mode truth (ink bubble verbatim).

Dark's bubble is now the theme's own quiet elevation: bg-layer-02 on the
ground (stock #2e2e2e on #161616, ≈1.5:1 — a whisper of lift) under full
text-base ink (≈12:1, readability unchanged). The in-bubble file/agent
chips and the pinned ghost follow through the same tokens.

Verified live on :3004: bubble computes to rgb(46,46,46) with rgb(242,242,242)
ink; light untouched. tsgo -b clean, oxlint baseline.
A painted-frame audit (not computed styles) found the entrance invisible in
every flow a user actually watches: session opens animated NOTHING by
design and flashed one frame of history at the top before an unanimated
768px jump; the send entrance painted but was absorbed by same-frame
autoscroll snaps 3-18x its 8px rise; rows joining inside the 20-row
overscan burned their once-only entrance offscreen; pagination prepends
animated a whole page of history. Delivery was exonerated — the CSS wins
everywhere, dev and compiled binary.

The redesign arms exactly two moments:

1. THE OPEN CASCADE — every open/switch/reload cascades the initially
   rendered rows in, staggered 40ms top-to-bottom, held paused behind
   [data-entrance-pending] until the virtualizer settles at the bottom —
   which also removes the flash-jump (rows are at opacity 0 while it
   happens).

2. THE LIVE TURN — after the open, only rows of the active turn enter.
   Settled history joining later (scroll-back, prepends, far jumps) lands
   silently BY RULE, closing the replay/burn bug class outright, and
   replacing the busy/completed seeding heuristics entirely.

Motion lengthens to 0.32s so the ramp reads through the scroll (easeOut
front-loaded ~90% of 0.22s into ~100ms). The global reduced-motion 0.01ms
reset no longer annihilates the entrance fade (the rise was already
zeroed; now the fade survives as documented).

Painted-frame verification on :3004: open = 14 rows, full 0->1 ramps
ending in 40ms steps across ~800ms, pending gate held 2 frames; send =
turn-gap/bubble/thinking 41 visible sub-1-opacity frames each; scroll
roundtrip = 172 frames sampled, zero animating. tsgo -b clean, oxlint
baseline, timeline tests green.
…s, exits

Kate: identical to the site. The grammar is parts.jsx's, checked against
the production chunk:

ENTER — HIDDEN {opacity 0, y 8px, blur(8px)} → SHOWN over 0.3s on
[.2,0,.2,1]: elements arrive from below and OUT OF FOCUS, sharpening as
they land — the blur was the site's signature and the biggest missing
piece. Fill goes both→backwards: backwards still holds the cascade's
delay phase at the hidden frame, but stops leaving a permanent
filter:blur(0) stacking context on every entered row.

EXIT — the site's GONE {opacity 0, y -8px, blur(8px)} over 0.2s on
[.4,0,1,1], exits shorter than entrances. The timeline is virtualized so
a removed row cannot linger to play it; instead the one removal a user
watches every turn — Thinking giving way to the settled block — spawns a
positioned clone that sweeps up and out of focus ([data-timeline-exit]).
Guarded to rows that genuinely left the projection, so session switches
spawn nothing.

Clip-margin 12→24px: the blur halo paints well past the border box.
Deliberately NOT ported: smooth scrolling (the site snaps scrollTop too —
its glide is Framer layout animation, which absolute-positioned virtual
rows cannot replicate) and the scripted demo pacing (the app is live).

Painted-frame verified on :3004: open cascade = 29 rows entering with
blur(8px) observed in every animating frame; send = 294ms entrances
(site: 300ms) on all four row species; the Thinking swap = 26 painted
ghost frames rising negative-y and re-blurring on the exit ease-in.
tsgo -b clean, oxlint baseline, timeline tests 37/37.
…le block

Kate: responses animate in, in smaller chunks — no typing reveal, but no
waiting for the entire reply either.

A streaming prose tail now reveals PROGRESSIVELY: each settled chunk
enters whole with the site's entrance, and only the still-composing tail
stays withheld behind the Thinking squiggle. A chunk settles at a blank
line that is outside a code fence and does not split a list or quote
mid-construct (message-part-text.ts chunkBoundaries — splitting between
ordered-list items restarts numbering across fragments; a construct's
first line after a paragraph is a fine cut). On completion the remainder
lands as the final chunk.

Wiring: the row joins the timeline once the FIRST chunk settles
(tailProseSettled — computed in the timeline from part_text_accum_delta,
because part.text lags during delta streaming and the pure row
construction cannot see the accum store; a boolean memo so per-token
recomputation stops at an unchanged value instead of rebuilding the
projection per delta). rows.ts withholds only before that first chunk —
streaming reasoning keeps whole-block withholding. The renderer
(ChunkedStreamMarkdown) replaces PacedMarkdown for text parts: <For> over
settled chunks, each a plain Markdown fragment wearing [data-part-enter]
once, skinned by design-polish.css to the same entrance grammar. The
once-only ledger is PART-scoped in a module map — the part component
remounts at completion (observed live), and a component-local count
swallowed the final chunk's entrance.

Verified live on :3004 with a five-paragraph streamed reply: chunks
entered at ~1s intervals (5 before completion, Thinking present
throughout, 148 painted animation frames); history renders as one plain
document and re-chunks nothing. Unit tests cover boundaries (plain
paragraphs, fences spanning blank lines, list/quote guards, unsettled
tails); rows tests keep their defaults via the optional parameter.
tsgo -b clean, oxlint baseline (diffed rule-for-rule against base),
timeline 48/48 + session-ui 12/12 (model.test.ts bun failure
pre-existing).
… like the rail

Kate 2026-08-25: the loading animation should be circular, like the first,
second and third harmonics of the hydrogen atom — kin to the rail nodes.

AmicoHarmonics replaces AmicoWave inside the thinking block: a filled
nucleus with three concentric shells (n = 1, 2, 3), each taking its turn
brightening and swelling, climbing the harmonics the way the wave climbed
its modes (one 1150ms turn per shell, 3.45s full cycle). Ink comes from
the same icon-accent role the wave used — neutral on light, brand yellow
on dark — and the geometry is the rail dots' circle language. Carries the
amc-wave class only for the thinking grid's placement; its skin is
.amc-harmonics-* in amicode.css. No SVG ids (multiple mounts). Reduced
motion: static shells at half opacity; the elapsed counter still ticks.

amico-wave.tsx and its stories stay in the tree as parked material.

Verified live on :3004 mid-turn: shells animate amc-harmonics-breathe at
3.45s with 0/1.15/2.3s delays, and opacity sampling shows the clean
n=1→2→3 handoff (0.22→0.98→0.22 per shell in sequence). tsgo -b clean,
oxlint baseline.
Kate 2026-08-25: not the harmonics either — just some sort of clean
animation for active thinking.

The cleanest answer was already on the website: its working signal is a
single hollow rail dot emitting a ripple (.rail-dot, 1.6s ease-out).
AmicoPulse brings that home — a 7px hollow circle in the indicator ink
(neutral on light, brand yellow on dark) emitting one soft pulse per
1.6s, with a blurred shadow edge so the ripple GLOWS instead of ringing.
Rail-node geometry, no concept to explain, one quiet breath at a time.

AmicoHarmonics joins AmicoWave as parked material. Reduced motion: a
static hollow dot; the elapsed counter still ticks.

Verified live on :3004 mid-turn: 7px dot, 1px currentColor border,
amc-pulse-emit 1.6s with the box-shadow interpolating through the glow.
tsgo -b clean, oxlint baseline.
Kate: the pulse, just without the blur. The ripple's 6px blur component is
gone — spread-only box-shadow, exactly the website's .rail-dot keyframes.
Verified live on :3004: mid-animation the computed shadow interpolates
spread with zero blur radius.
The Thinking row's departing clone was appended to document.body, OUTSIDE
the app's theme scope, so its color variable fell back to the dark-scheme
yellow inside a light webview — and the rect captured at cleanup lags the
virtualizer's relayout. Net effect: a split-second yellow circle flashing
offset from where the row stood (Kate's report, verbatim decode).

Exits in a virtualized timeline need real FLIP machinery or nothing; this
is nothing, on purpose. Removed rows are replaced instantly and the
replacing block's entrance carries the transition. The --motion-exit-*
tokens stay as the documented site grammar should a real exit ever be
built. tsgo -b clean, oxlint baseline.
…from scope

Reverts the three loader commits (harmonics acc59c6, pulse b8bae71, crisp
ripple 6e2ad00): the redesign never landed on a version that felt right,
and it does not belong in this PR's story (Kate 2026-08-25 — cut the
scope). The thinking block renders AmicoWave exactly as before; the
harmonics and pulse experiments live in git history if ever wanted. The
exit-ghost removal (73efa1f) stays — that bug came from the exits work,
not the loader.
…mmar

Kate 2026-08-25: a 1px border around what Amico sends, each reply reading
as one container. The site frames outputs in Panels (1px hairline
#d3d0ad-family, brand radius); here the hairline is --v2-border-border-base
and the radius the brand 4px.

Virtualized rows are absolutely positioned siblings, so the container is
synthesized per row exactly like the rail draws its spine: every
assistant-side row (parts, thinking, dividers, diffs, errors) carries the
left/right edges, the run's first row the top cap, its last the bottom
cap; contiguous rows tile so the edges join into one outline. Edges are
reactive — when a new row lands, the previous last hands the bottom cap
forward and the container visually extends.

Entrance interplay: inside the container the 8px rise would detach a
row's border slice from the row above, so members after the first fade
and sharpen in place — the container GROWS instead of tearing. The
segment's first row (thinking, or the reply that replaces it) keeps the
full rise and carries the container's arrival.

Verified live on :3004, both schemes: replies read as clean hairline
cards with seamless internal edges; a live turn shows thinking opening
the container with the rise and the settled block inheriting first-row
status. tsgo -b clean, oxlint baseline, timeline tests green.
Kate 2026-08-25: not one container around the whole reply — every bit
Amico relays, fragment by fragment, gets its own border like a message in
the chat. Supersedes the reply-segment container (same hairline + brand
radius, per-fragment now).

Each prose chunk renders as its own bordered card ([data-prose-fragment],
8px stack gap), and prose ALWAYS chunk-renders — history splits at the
same boundaries so the cards persist across reloads. A part that mounts
already done with no ledger entry counts every chunk as revealed, so
history never animates; streamed fragments still arrive one by one, each
with its own entrance. Chips and receipts keep their borderless chip
grammar (1f34fa4). The segment-edges synthesis is removed.

Verified live on :3004: a history session renders 20 per-paragraph cards
(single-sentence replies as small message cards), zero animating on load;
the theme hairline + inner markdown margin trims hold in dark. tsgo -b
clean, session-ui tests 12/12, oxlint baseline.
@kateebonner
kateebonner merged commit 9c7c878 into local/amicode Aug 26, 2026
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