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Gives the artifact panel real viewers for PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX and CSV, replacing the <iframe> PDF preview and the "preview unavailable" card. Read-only.

The <iframe> does render PDFs — the problem is that it's an opaque cross-origin frame, so we have no control over zoom, page navigation, thumbnails, theme or find, and can't integrate any of it with our own chrome.

Plan: docs/plans/active/document-viewers.md.

Depend on the engines, own the chrome

The engines are the part nobody sensibly rebuilds, and all five are MIT with full public source:

Format Engine
PDF @embedpdf/* — pdfium, Chromium's own PDF engine, compiled to wasm
DOCX @extend-ai/react-docx — a Rust OOXML implementation → wasm, plus a TS layout engine
PPTX @extend-ai/react-pptx — a Rust presentation parser → wasm, with regl/d3 charts and an EMF/WMF rasterizer
XLSX @extend-ai/react-xlsx — a canvas grid over @dukelib/sheets-wasm, a third-party Rust spreadsheet engine

What isn't worth inheriting is the chrome. Each library already exposes a controller and renders the document; Extend UI's viewer components are 1,300–2,900 lines of toolbar, page field, zoom menu, thumbnail rail and search popover over those controllers, written against Base UI. So the viewers here are Studio components on Studio's Radix primitives, with Extend UI as a behavior reference rather than vendored code. No Base UI enters the tree.

pdfium over pdf.js because users bring arbitrary documents from their working lives and robustness against unknown input is the design goal — Foxit's engine lineage, continuous fuzzing as a Chrome attack surface, and the widest exposure to malformed real-world files. The reasoning, including what pdf.js would have bought instead, is in the plan.

What's in

  • Five viewers, each with zoom and (where the format has pages) page navigation and a thumbnail rail.
  • FileViewer's twelve-branch type ladder becomes a registry keyed on FileType and constrained by satisfies Record<FileType, ViewerEntry>, so adding a file type is a compile error until it's routed. The same table backs canPreviewFile, which decides whether a file opens here or is handed to the OS.
  • Every viewer mounts inside a boundary keyed on the file URL. These parse untrusted, frequently malformed files, so a parser that throws degrades to the fallback card and recovers on the next file instead of taking down the panel.
  • The expand modal goes full bleed and now follows app zoom. It previously portalled outside ZoomRoot without useAppZoomStyle, so its chrome rendered at 1x while the rest of the app was zoomed.
  • Legacy .ppt and .xls route to their viewers (both engines decode them on a reduced path); .doc deliberately doesn't, since react-docx reads OOXML only.

What's not

  • Find is missing in DOCX and XLSX. Neither library exposes a search API and both virtualize, so native find can't see off-screen content either. PDF, PPTX and CSV have it.
  • The Finder-style file browser and file-grid thumbnailing. The Files panel is untouched.
  • Editing of any kind. embedpdf ships annotation/form/redaction/signature/export plugins over the same engine, so PDF editing is closer to enabling a plugin than a project — noted in the plan, not done here.

Runtime plumbing

The renderer runs from file:// in packaged builds, where fetch() of a bundled asset is blocked, so the four wasm binaries are copied into resources/wasm/ at build time and served over the app protocol. That scheme is never the renderer's own origin, so every such fetch is cross-origin and needs corsEnabled on the scheme itself, independent of response headers. The parser workers are module workers whose entries code-split, so the renderer moves to the ES worker format and excludes the three libraries from dev pre-bundling, which would otherwise rewrite import.meta.url to a cache directory where the sibling worker file doesn't exist.

Verified against a production build: all four binaries land in resources/wasm/, the viewers code-split into their own chunks, and the entry chunk contains none of the viewer libraries.

Testing

pnpm check-and-test:ci passes (22/22). Unit tests cover the file-type routing, including the ordering bug where text/csv would otherwise fall through to the syntax highlighter.

All five formats were opened in a running Studio and driven through DevTools. That's where three defects surfaced that reading the code would not have shown, each fixed in its own commit:

  • DOCX reported its last page on open — the editor controller's currentPage tracks the caret, which in read-only mode sits wherever the paginator finished.
  • DOCX and XLSX rendered through the libraries' night-reader inversion, leaving body text washed out and making them the only formats whose pages changed color with the app theme.
  • XLSX drew the library's own header inside ours, duplicating the filename and zoom control.

Selection turned out to be the opposite of the expected risk: @embedpdf/plugin-selection ships SelectionLayer and CopyToClipboard, so the ~150 lines budgeted for canvas selection scaffolding weren't needed.

Not yet verified

  • A packaged build. The file:// origin, the app protocol and the copied resources/wasm/ only exist there, so this is the step that would catch a wasm or worker regression. Dev is not evidence for it.
  • The expand modal, the light theme, and app zoom levels other than 1x.
  • PDF text selection and copy by hand.
  • Large files (a 500-page PDF, a many-sheet workbook) and deliberately malformed files per format.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added read-only viewers for PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, and CSV files.
    • Added document search, page/slide navigation, thumbnails, zoom controls, and fit-to-width viewing.
    • Added CSV column sorting and debounced search highlighting.
    • Added workbook sheet switching and improved file previews and thumbnails.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved PDF text selection and copying.
    • Improved viewer loading, error recovery, modal sizing, and zoom behavior.
    • Improved reliability when loading document assets and workers.

The renderer runs from file:// in packaged builds, where fetch() of a bundled
asset is blocked, so the four viewer engines' wasm binaries are copied into
resources/wasm/ at build time and served over the app protocol. That scheme is
never the renderer's own origin, so every such fetch is cross-origin and needs
corsEnabled on the scheme itself, independent of response headers.

The parser workers are module workers whose entries code-split, so the renderer
switches to the ES worker format and excludes the three libraries from dev
pre-bundling, which would otherwise rewrite import.meta.url to a cache
directory where the sibling worker file does not exist.
Replaces the iframe PDF preview and the 'preview unavailable' card for Office
formats. The viewers are Studio components on Studio's Radix primitives driving
four MIT wasm engines; Extend UI's own components are a behavior reference
rather than vendored code, so there is no Base UI in the tree.

FileViewer's twelve-branch type ladder becomes a registry keyed on FileType and
constrained by `satisfies Record<FileType, ViewerEntry>`, so adding a file type
is a compile error until it is routed. The same table backs canPreviewFile,
which decides whether a file opens here or is handed to the OS.

Each viewer mounts inside a boundary keyed on the file URL: these parse
untrusted and frequently malformed files, so a parser that throws degrades to
the fallback card and recovers on the next file instead of taking down the
panel.
The modal padding and the viewer's max-width/height caps gave a document a
fraction of the window; it now fills it.

It also portalled outside ZoomRoot without applying useAppZoomStyle, so its
chrome rendered at 1x while the rest of the app was zoomed. Full bleed is the
easy case for that fix: inset-0 is zero on all four sides, so a self-zoomed
fixed box still covers exactly the viewport while its contents scale, and the
vh-based sizing that would have needed --content-zoom compensation is gone.
Resolving the wasm through @embedpdf/engines' directory worked but left the
build reading a package the app never declared. Rotate was registered in the
plan and never used.
- DOCX reported its last page on open. The editor controller's currentPage
  tracks the caret, which in read-only mode sits wherever the paginator
  finished, so the visible page is measured from scroll position against the
  rendered page wrappers instead.
- DOCX and XLSX rendered through the libraries' night-reader inversion, which
  left body text washed out and made them the only formats whose pages changed
  color with the app theme. Documents now render in their own colors at every
  theme, matching the PDF viewer; the chrome around them still follows the app.
- XLSX drew the library's header inside ours, duplicating the filename and the
  zoom control. Its default toolbar is off, and because that setting also
  covers the sheet tabs, those are supplied here at the bottom of the grid.
Selection came free from the embedpdf plugin rather than needing the ~150 lines
budgeted for it; DOCX page tracking needed hand-work that was not anticipated;
find is absent in both DOCX and XLSX rather than DOCX alone; and documents
render in their own colors instead of following the app theme.
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Studio adds read-only PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, and CSV viewers. It adds shared viewer controls, typed file routing, WASM delivery through the Electron protocol, build configuration, and modal layout updates.

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Document viewer integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
File classification and routing
apps/studio/src/client/lib/get-file-type.ts, apps/studio/src/client/components/file-viewer.tsx, apps/studio/src/client/components/files-grid.tsx, apps/studio/src/client/components/file-thumbnail.tsx, apps/studio/src/client/hooks/*
Supported document extensions now resolve to typed file kinds. File previews, thumbnails, actions, and viewer rendering use exhaustive file-type mappings.
Shared viewer controls and surface
apps/studio/src/client/components/document-viewers/viewer-*.tsx, apps/studio/src/client/components/find-row.tsx, apps/studio/src/client/components/zoom-controls.tsx, apps/studio/src/client/components/task/file-viewer-modal.tsx
Shared find, page, rail, zoom, loading, error, selection, and modal components provide viewer interaction and layout behavior.
Format-specific viewers
apps/studio/src/client/components/document-viewers/{csv,docx,pdf,pptx,xlsx}-viewer.tsx
The new viewers load documents and provide format-specific rendering, navigation, search, sorting, zoom, thumbnails, selection, or sheet controls.
WASM delivery and build pipeline
apps/studio/src/electron-main/**, apps/studio/src/client/lib/document-viewers.ts, apps/studio/electron.vite.config.ts, apps/studio/package.json, apps/studio/src/index.html, pnpm-workspace.yaml, docs/plans/active/document-viewers.md
WASM assets use app-protocol URLs, packaged resource resolution, CORS, CSP, worker configuration, lazy loading, dependency setup, atomic copying, and the DOCX cleanup patch.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant FileViewer
  participant LazyViewer
  participant AppProtocol
  participant DocumentViewer
  participant ElectronResource
  FileViewer->>LazyViewer: select viewer by FileType
  LazyViewer->>AppProtocol: request viewer WASM asset
  AppProtocol->>ElectronResource: read allowlisted WASM file
  ElectronResource-->>AppProtocol: return WASM bytes
  AppProtocol-->>DocumentViewer: serve WASM response
  DocumentViewer->>DocumentViewer: load and render document
  DocumentViewer-->>FileViewer: display controls and content
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Real defects:

- CSV zoom scaled text and column widths but not row heights. The virtualizer
  memoizes measurements on count/padding/key/lanes and not on estimateSize, so
  every row kept the height from the first estimate, clipping content and
  leaving the scroll length wrong. Measurements are now invalidated on zoom.
- DOCX page navigation looked the page wrapper up across the whole document.
  The artifact panel keeps its viewer mounted while the expand modal renders a
  second one for the same file, so the lookup always resolved to the panel's
  copy and the modal's navigation scrolled a hidden viewer. It is scoped to the
  viewer's own scroll container, as the visible-page tracking already was.
- A failed PDF engine start was cached forever, so one transient wasm or worker
  failure left every later PDF showing the error card for the session.
- The PDF document stayed open after unmount, holding pdfium memory in the
  shared engine for the life of the renderer.
- Two builds sharing a checkout staged wasm through the same temp path, so
  their writes could interleave and the rename would publish the mixed bytes
  with a current-looking mtime, which the skip check then treated as valid.

Smaller fixes: the error card is centered like the other fallbacks, the
collapsed thumbnail rail is inert rather than invisibly focusable, the find
controls and the active sheet tab carry accessible names, CSV find is debounced
so a large export is not rescanned per keystroke, and the zoom bounds derive
from the level list instead of restating it.

The modal's click-to-dismiss handler was unreachable once the viewer went full
bleed, so it is removed rather than left as dead code.
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Worked through both reviews. Fixed in d9e599e.

Real defects, all confirmed against the code before fixing:

  • CSV zoom didn't resize rows. Verified in @tanstack/virtual-core@3.13.18 source rather than from the description: getMeasurements memoizes on [getMeasurementOptions(), itemSizeCache], and getMeasurementOptions() is {count, paddingStart, scrollMargin, getItemKey, enabled, lanes}estimateSize genuinely isn't in it. measure() replaces itemSizeCache with a new Map, and that identity is a memo dependency, so it forces recomputation against the current zoom. Good catch; the grid was visibly broken at any zoom ≠ 1.
  • DOCX revealPage global lookup. The sharpest finding of the set. The panel keeps its viewer mounted while the modal renders a second one for the same file, so document.querySelector always won the panel's copy and the modal's page navigation silently scrolled a hidden viewer. Now scoped to the viewer's own container, matching what useVisiblePage already did.
  • Cached rejected engine promise — one transient wasm failure disabled PDF for the session and defeated the boundary's recover-on-next-file design.
  • PDF document never closed on unmount — the engine is shared for the renderer's lifetime, so it held pdfium memory indefinitely.
  • Shared wasm staging path. The existing comment claimed concurrency safety it didn't have; the staging name is now unique per writer.

Smaller ones taken: fallback card centering, inert on the collapsed rail, accessible names on the find controls and active sheet tab, debounced CSV find, zoom bounds derived from the level list.

Removed rather than kept: the modal's click-to-dismiss handler. Going full bleed made it unreachable, so it was dead code my own change created.

Two skipped, with reasons:

  • satisfies on DOCUMENT_EXTENSIONS — tried it; it fails typecheck. Dropping the index signature makes the object's keys literal, so the arbitrary-string lookup at the call site errors with TS7053 (No index signature with a parameter of type 'string'). CodeRabbit hedged on exactly this, and the hedge was right. The annotation is load-bearing.
  • The two security notes (wildcard CORS on the app scheme, CSP wasm-unsafe-eval + blob: workers) are accurate but not actionable here. Both are required by the wasm engines, the reasoning is documented at each site and in the plan, and the scheme is only reachable from the app's own web contents serving static version-shipped binaries. Worth revisiting if a host handling user data is ever added under that scheme — noted, not changed.

pnpm check-and-test:ci passes 22/22 and the production build is clean, with all four wasm binaries still landing in resources/wasm/.

One caveat on verification: I fixed these after my in-app pass, and couldn't re-drive the app afterwards — the DevTools daemon wedged. The CSV and virtualizer behavior I verified against library source instead, which is stronger evidence than a screenshot; the DOCX modal-scoping and PDF engine-retry paths are reasoned-through but not re-exercised by hand. They're on the unverified list in the PR description along with the packaged build.

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Second round of feedback, all in. Four commits on top of the review fixes.

Real bugs found

XLSX was editable. readOnly is a property of the controller, not the viewer component: XlsxViewerInner reads its editing state from whichever controller it is handed and only builds one from its own props when none is supplied. We built the controller ourselves and passed readOnly to the component, so it did nothing — cell editing, paste and undo were all live against a workbook that never saves. Moved to useXlsxViewerController({ readOnly: true }) and dropped the inert prop. Verified there is no editor in the panel after a double-click.

XLSX zoom collapsed the sheet. setZoomScale takes Excel's percentage (DEFAULT_ZOOM_SCALE = 100, clamped 10..400), so handing it a factor of 1 clamped to the 10% floor — the tiny top-left view. Now level * 100, with the readout driven from controller.zoomScale so a trackpad pinch on the grid moves the toolbar number too, and min/max taken from the controller's own range.

PPTX didn't fill vertically. The height prop becomes the min and max height of the slide workspace, defaulting to a min(76vh, 780px) clamp — so it left the bottom empty however tall the panel was, and being a vh clamp it would have been wrong again at any zoom other than 1x. height="100%" resolves against the element inset-0 already sized.

Changes you asked for

Modal is no longer full bleed. Top inset is TOOLBAR_HEIGHT, which clears the whole toolbar and therefore the macOS traffic lights and the Windows caption buttons in one rule; 12px on the other three sides. It's the plain constant rather than one divided by the zoom, because the dialog content carries the same zoom factor the app root does — StudioToolbar's calc(5rem / var(--app-zoom)) is the opposite case, reserving room for OS-drawn buttons that are real pixels. Having a gutter again also makes click-to-dismiss reachable, so that's back.

Zoom is the app's own control. ZoomStepperControl — the one already shared by the settings row and the browser guest's page zoom — grew a compact size and an optional readout slot, and the viewers pass their level menu into it. Stepping now runs through the same steppedZoom ladder as the rest of the app, and the preset levels are a subset of that ladder so the two never disagree.

Find is the browser's own control. Extracted FindRow out of BrowserFindBar and used it verbatim inside the viewers' popover: same field, match readout, previous/next/close, same 1/97 format. The viewers keep the popover rather than an always-visible bar because the artifact panel can be too narrow to give a bar its own row — the rest is now literally the same component. Confirmed the browser bar still works end to end after the refactor (1/2 for "domain" on example.com).

Toolbar dividers are gone, replaced by spacing. The zoom stepper is already a bounded control with internal divisions, so the separators were stacking a second set of lines onto it.

DOCX has fit-width, computed from useDocxPageLayout's pageWidthPx against the scroll container. It's a one-shot rather than a mode, so the readout stays a number the stepper can move from — landed at 89% on demo.docx. Also started passing pageVirtualization={{ scrollElement, zoomScale }}, which the library asks for when zoom is controlled outside it; inference can't see a zoom the element sets on itself.

CSV lost its zoom and gained column sorting. Agreed on the zoom — it's plain DOM text the window zoom already scales, so a second scale factor was only a way for the two to disagree. Sorting is ascending → descending → file order, numeric when both cells parse as numbers (so 4.99 sorts before 12.50), blanks last in either direction.

Filename tooltip anchors to the name. It was flex-1, so the trigger box spanned the header and the tooltip appeared under the middle of it. Now a flex item that shrinks to its text: measured 66px for sample.pdf where it used to be ~494px.

Also verified

The DOCX modal-scoping fix from the last round, which I couldn't re-drive then: navigating to page 4 in the modal moved the modal's scroller to 3252 and left the panel's at 0.

Still not verified

Unchanged from before: a packaged build, the light theme, app zoom other than 1x, PDF text selection by hand, large files, and deliberately malformed files per format. Find remains unimplemented for DOCX and XLSX.

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apps/studio/src/client/components/document-viewers/pptx-viewer.tsx (1)

84-90: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the PPTX zoom readout synced with the engine’s fit change.

setFitMode("contain") changes the viewer state, but zoom remains the last user-set level from ViewerZoomControl. Mirror the controller’s resulting zoom back into zoom when fit mode updates; otherwise the toolbar can lag behind, and a later re-render can re-apply the stale zoom={zoom * 100} value.

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@apps/studio/src/client/components/document-viewers/pptx-viewer.tsx` around
lines 84 - 90, Update the ViewerZoomControl onFit handler to await the
controller.setFitMode("contain") result and synchronize the resulting controller
zoom value into the zoom state via setZoom. Ensure the fit-mode update completes
before reading the controller’s zoom so the toolbar and subsequent renders use
the engine’s current value.
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apps/studio/src/client/components/zoom-controls.tsx (1)

72-126: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider making the two readout modes mutually exclusive in the type.

With all of onReset, percent, and readout optional, a caller that supplies none renders undefined%. A union — { onReset: () => void; percent: number } | { readout: ReactNode } — makes the invalid combination unrepresentable without changing either existing call site.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@apps/studio/src/client/components/zoom-controls.tsx` around lines 72 - 126,
Update the ZoomStepperControl props type so the readout configuration is a
mutually exclusive union: one branch requires onReset and percent, while the
other requires readout. Keep the existing rendering logic and call-site behavior
unchanged, while preventing callers from omitting all readout-related props and
rendering undefined%.
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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Outside diff comments:
In `@apps/studio/src/client/components/document-viewers/pptx-viewer.tsx`:
- Around line 84-90: Update the ViewerZoomControl onFit handler to await the
controller.setFitMode("contain") result and synchronize the resulting controller
zoom value into the zoom state via setZoom. Ensure the fit-mode update completes
before reading the controller’s zoom so the toolbar and subsequent renders use
the engine’s current value.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/studio/src/client/components/zoom-controls.tsx`:
- Around line 72-126: Update the ZoomStepperControl props type so the readout
configuration is a mutually exclusive union: one branch requires onReset and
percent, while the other requires readout. Keep the existing rendering logic and
call-site behavior unchanged, while preventing callers from omitting all
readout-related props and rendering undefined%.

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Third round. Six commits. The headline: PDF text selection already worked — what was missing was a way to get the text out, and a bitmap that hijacked the drag.

The PDF question, answered

I tested this rather than reasoning about it, because a whole second viewer hung on the answer.

pdfium extracts real text and SelectionLayer tracks a selection over it. Dragging across the title of attention.pdf produces a selection rect of exactly the right width. So the page is not just an image, and pdf.js would buy nothing here. Two things were hiding that:

  1. The page bitmaps were drag sources. RenderLayer and TilingLayer both render an <img>, and an <img> drags by default. A press landing a few pixels off a glyph tore the page bitmap out as a drag image instead of starting a selection — I reproduced this by accident, dragging a PDF page into the chat composer as an attachment. Miss once and the feature looks absent. Both layers are pointer-events: none now.
  2. Nothing bound a copy shortcut. CopyToClipboard only subscribes to an event the plugin never emits on its own. You could select and never take the text anywhere, which is exactly what "it's just an image" feels like. The viewer binds Cmd/Ctrl+C itself, guarded on the document actually holding selection rects — unguarded, copyToClipboard emits an empty string and would wipe the clipboard on any copy elsewhere in the app.

End to end now: select the title, Cmd+C, clipboard reads Attention Is All You Need.

So I have not built a pdf.js alternative behind a dev toggle. The premise it rested on turned out to be wrong, and a second engine is a lot of surface to carry. Say the word if you still want the comparison.

Fit width is a mode now, not a one-shot

You were right that it should track the splitter, and it wasn't the cluster of DOM listening you feared — one ResizeObserver in a shared hook. PDF already had this natively, which is why that one felt good; DOCX and PPTX now match it.

  • PPTX fit was broken for a specific reason: zoom is a controlled prop, so whatever controller.setFitMode resolved was overwritten by our number on the next render. The fit has to be our number. Slide width comes from the deck's own size.widthEmu over 9525.
  • DOCX opens fitted, since an 8.5in page overflows the panel at any usual width — opening at 100% meant opening on a horizontal scrollbar.
  • Measured: dragging the splitter moved PPTX 757→823px / 76%→82%, and DOCX 823→523px / 97%→60%.

I also checked the app-zoom case you couldn't reproduce. At two steps of app zoom the PPTX slides stay fitted and centred (52%), nothing off-screen. The refit is the likely reason — but since I never reproduced the original, I can't claim it's fixed, only that I couldn't make it happen.

Right-click

PDF, PPTX and XLSX now show the file's own actions. All three paint their content as images, so Chromium was offering Save Image As on one rasterized page. DOCX and CSV keep the native menu deliberately: those are real DOM text and Copy on a selection is the right offer there — verified that a right-click in the DOCX viewer still goes native.

Loading state

Skeleton instead of the spinner. Kept it a plain block rather than a page or grid mock-up: the viewers using it land on all three shapes and a wrong guess is worse than none.

.numbers

Not supported and not cheap to add. @dukelib/sheets-wasm reads OOXML and legacy .xls; Apple's format is a proprietary undocumented container, so it would need its own parser. Those files keep falling through to the associated app.

Two review comments I'd missed

Devin caught a real regression I introduced: widening FileType with csv/docx/pptx/xlsx silently changed three predicates that matched on the old values. Office and CSV attachments dropped from full-width preview rows to 48px chips, CSV lost its text-lines thumbnail, and CSV lost the Copy action. Directly contradicts "the Files panel stays exactly as it is on main" in the plan. All three are now exhaustive Record<FileType, boolean> tables, so the next added type is a compile error rather than a silent presentation change.

Also dropped canPreviewFile: its comment described OS-routing that nothing implements, and no production code called it. Its test assertions moved onto getFileType, where they test the real behaviour.

Not done, on purpose

The DOCX re-parse when opening the expand modal — you said not to bother, and caching a parsed model across component instances is real work for a spinner you don't care about.

Still unverified

Packaged build, light theme, PDF selection across a page boundary and at several zoom levels, large files, malformed files per format. pnpm check-and-test:ci passes 22/22.

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An image that cannot be previewed only reports that once its load has
failed, which takes a round trip to the main process. The zoom controls
were drawn from the first frame, so they appeared over the empty frame
and then vanished as the preview-unavailable card replaced them. Gating
them on the image's load event costs nothing in the success case, where
there is no image to zoom before then either.
The default heap is already 4.3GB and the build peaks well under it; the flag was precautionary and never shown to be needed.
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.jsonl and .ndjson have no entry in mime-types, so they resolved to
application/octet-stream and the file viewer offered no preview at all
for a format the kind labels already name.
pdfium is the engine, so the second one goes: the flagged viewer, its two
stylesheet overrides, the feature flag, and 6.2MB of character maps, colour
profiles, standard fonts and codec wasm that shipped whether the flag was on or
not. The vendor host narrows to serving wasm alone and the build-time tree walk
that enumerated the pdf.js directories is no longer needed.
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Fit-width was computed in a passive effect, so DOCX and PPTX painted a frame at 100% before snapping down, which is the horizontal scrollbar the fit exists to avoid. It measures the container, so it belongs in a layout effect.

CSV find tracked its active match as a raw index that only reset when the query changed. Sorting a column rebuilds the match list under an unchanged query, leaving the index past the new end: the highlight vanished and the readout counted past the total. The index is wrapped at read time and reset from the query handler, which also retires the effect that did the reset.

CSV also re-answered "is this cell a match" per rendered cell per frame, a question findMatches had already answered for the whole file; those results are indexed into a set once instead. The debounce in front of the scan is now useDeferredValue, matching how the skills list and the markdown renderer defer their own expensive work.

DOCX page navigation computed a scroll offset and corrected against the real element one frame later, assuming the virtualizer had mounted the target by then. It retries over a short window instead, and abandons the correction once the scroll position moves off where the jump left it, so it cannot drag the reader back.

PPTX dropped a query typed while the deck was still parsing, having no controller to search yet. It runs the search once one arrives.

The copy shortcut held onCopy in its dependencies, so the document listener was torn down and re-added on every render of a viewer that closes over its own selection state. It is an effect event now.
The browser panel hangs the level list off the zoom readout inside its overflow
menu. A menu root opened inside an open menu portals its content outside the
one containing it, which that menu reads as an interaction elsewhere and closes
on, taking the level list with it before anything can be picked.
The registry entry carries `scrolls`, not `layout`; `canPreviewFile()` was never
written; `zoom-levels.ts` sits in `client/lib`, not beside the viewers; and the
raised Node heap the build scripts once used is gone, along with the renderer
size that needed it.
The rail was mounted with the document and merely clipped when closed, so a
long document rendered a thumbnail of every page before anyone asked to see
one: the DOCX and PPTX rails attach a canvas per page and paint each. It still
stays mounted once opened, so a toggle keeps its renders and scroll position.
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# Conflicts:
#	pnpm-lock.yaml
#	pnpm-workspace.yaml
`ReactPptxViewer` defaults `fitMode` to "contain", which resolves to
`min(1, viewport / slideWidth)` and is multiplied by the zoom it is handed. The
fit-width zoom Studio computes was therefore scaled down a second time in any
panel narrower than the slide's natural width; the clamp at 1 is why a wide
panel looked correct.
The field shows the current page until something is typed and blur commits
whatever it holds, so clicking it and clicking away re-navigated to the page
already on screen. Every host answers that by scrolling to the top of it,
taking the reader off the line they were on.
The menu read `currentZoomLevel`, the resolved factor, which cannot express
fit. It ticked whichever fixed percentage the fitted factor coincided with and
never fit-width, though fit is the mode PDFs open in.
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const asset = await fs.readFile(getResourcePath(VENDOR_HOST, assetPath));
return new Response(asset, {
headers: {
// The renderer's own origin is `file://` (or the dev server) and never
// this scheme, so every request here is cross-origin and `fetch()`
// would fail CORS without this. The bytes ship with the app and the
// scheme is only reachable from the app's own web contents.
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
// These ship with the app build, so they only change when the app
// itself is replaced and the renderer is reloaded from scratch.
"Cache-Control": `public, max-age=${IMMUTABLE_CACHE_SECONDS}, immutable`,
"Content-Type": contentType,
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🟨 App protocol vendor asset handler serves any file under resources/vendor to any origin

The new vendor host on the privileged app protocol reads a renderer-supplied path and returns it with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *. Traversal is constrained by VENDOR_PATH_PATTERN (no .. spellable) and the extension allowlist limits it to .wasm, so the exposure is bounded to the build-time wasm payloads. The wildcard CORS header combined with corsEnabled: true on the scheme (apps/studio/src/electron-main/index.ts:59-63) means any web content that can reach the scheme can read those bytes; today only the app's own web contents can, so impact is limited, but a narrower origin (or relying on the scheme's own CORS handling) would be the tighter default.

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connect-src 'self' instrument: instrument-local: http://localhost:* https://localhost:* http://*.localhost:* https://*.localhost:* http://*.lvh.me:* https://*.lvh.me:* https://*.posthog.com;
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🟨 Renderer content security policy loosened to allow wasm evaluation and blob workers

The renderer CSP now allows 'wasm-unsafe-eval' in script-src, blob: in worker-src and img-src, and the app scheme in connect-src. These are required by the pdfium/OOXML engines (which compile wasm, spawn blob-URL workers, and hand rasterized pages to <img> as object URLs), but they widen what a successful content injection in the renderer could do — notably executing attacker-supplied wasm and spawning workers from blob URLs.

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mutewinter added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 3, 2026
Five viewers beyond the five in #87, grouped because none of them renders a
document the way those do: two read a container to show what is inside it,
three browse data that has no pages at all.

- SQLite (.db/.sqlite/.sqlite3) through @sqlite.org/sqlite-wasm. The file is
  read into wasm memory, so the database on disk is never touched and a fault
  on a malformed file takes the viewer rather than the window.
- Zip (.zip) and iWork (.pages/.numbers/.key) through @zip.js/zip.js, read by
  HTTP range request rather than downloaded: listing a 56KB archive costs
  2,622 bytes, and the same three requests would list a gigabyte.
- Parquet through hyparquet, and line-delimited JSON.

Everything tabular shares one DataGrid built on @tanstack/react-table over
@tanstack/react-virtual: virtualized rows and columns, sort, filter, cell
selection by pointer or keyboard, copy as tab-separated text and HTML, column
resize and show/hide, and cells that keep NULL distinct from the empty string.
mutewinter added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 3, 2026
The five document formats landed via PR #87 and the data and container
formats via PR #88. Kept for the engine, format and dependency rationale,
which the code does not state.
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