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Four follow-ups from dev-testing the operator UX that merged in #147:

The markdown repair was the vandal

Rule 6 of formatMarkdownText (add a space before a glued opening **) also fired on closing delimiters glued to punctuation, turning every valid **label**: into the unparseable **label **: — the whitespace-repair passes run before it, so the damage stuck. This is why the operator's capability lists rendered as literal asterisks with bold on the wrong spans even after the typography fix. The rule now requires a letter/digit after the delimiter (evidence of a true opener), and a new rule un-glues a bullet marker from its bold (-** Create- **Create). Regression tests use the exact strings from the broken rendering.

Real height chain for chat pages (missing scroll arrow)

The operator/chat/group-detail pages sized themselves with h-[calc(100vh-…)] guesses that broke whenever a banner or wrapped header changed the arithmetic — the page overflowed <main>, so the wheel scrolled <main> while the scroll-to-bottom FAB tracked the inner container, and the arrow never appeared. The app-layout content wrapper is now h-full, and those pages use h-full min-h-0. Verified in a live browser: <main> no longer overflows at desktop sizes and the FAB appears when scrolled up.

Expandable live tool list

The "Using {tool}… · N tool calls" pill now expands mid-turn to the full running list of calls (newest spinning, earlier checked), and collapses again.

Stale probe wording

"There may be no agents on this platform to test against" was the old victim-picking probe's hypothesis; the probe self-targets the operator's own descriptor, so the message now says the model declined the instruction.

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  • New Features

    • Live activity status now expands to show current tool calls, including in-progress and completed calls.
    • Live status remains non-expandable when no calls are available.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Markdown spacing for bullet lists and bold text without altering valid punctuation.
    • Updated canary messaging to accurately describe self-targeted checks.
  • Layout

    • Chat, group details, operator pages, and shared content areas now use available screen height more reliably.

…chain for chat pages; expandable live tool list

Four follow-ups from dev-testing the merged operator UX:

- The markdown repair was the vandal: rule 6 (space before a glued opening
  **) also fired on CLOSING delimiters glued to punctuation, turning every
  valid '**label**:' into the unparseable '**label **:' - the operator's
  capability list rendered as literal asterisks with bold on the wrong
  spans. The rule now requires a letter/digit after the delimiter (evidence
  of an opener). Plus a new rule for a bullet marker glued to its bold
  ('-** Create' -> '- **Create').

- Chat pages get a real height reference instead of h-[calc(100vh-...)]
  guesses: the app-layout content wrapper is h-full, and the operator, chat
  and group-detail pages size with h-full/min-h-0. The old arithmetic broke
  whenever a banner or wrapped header changed it, leaving BOTH the page and
  <main> scrolling - the scroll-to-bottom arrow tracked the inner container
  while the wheel scrolled <main>, so it never appeared. Verified in a live
  browser: <main> no longer overflows and the FAB shows when scrolled up.

- The live status pill expands to the full running list of tool calls
  (newest spinning, earlier checked), collapsible again mid-turn.

- The background write probe's 'there may be no agents on this platform to
  test against' hypothesis was stale - the probe self-targets the
  operator's own descriptor, so the target always exists; the message now
  says the model declined the instruction.
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The PR adds expandable live tool-call activity, refines markdown spacing, changes several containers to full-height sizing, and updates the canary message for self-targeting probes.

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Live activity expansion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expandable live tool-call status
src/components/chat/chat-activity.tsx, src/components/chat/__tests__/chat-activity.test.tsx
The live status pill derives calls from live events or traces, expands into a call list, marks the newest call as running, and supports collapse testing.

Markdown spacing corrections

Layer / File(s) Summary
Markdown bold spacing rules
src/components/groups/group-utils.ts, src/components/groups/__tests__/format-markdown-text.test.ts
The formatter repairs glued bullet and bold markers and preserves valid bold punctuation. Tests cover both cases.

Full-height page layouts

Layer / File(s) Summary
Full-height layout containers
src/components/layout/app-layout.tsx, src/pages/chat.tsx, src/pages/group-detail.tsx, src/pages/operator.tsx
The main content and page containers use h-full with min-h-0 where applicable instead of viewport-based height calculations.

Self-targeting canary message

Layer / File(s) Summary
Self-targeting canary message
src/lib/operator/write-canary.ts, src/lib/operator/__tests__/write-canary.test.ts
The no-tool error identifies the operator descriptor as the probe target and reports that the model declined the test write.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to df8f1

The PR improves markdown rendering, page sizing, and live tool-call display, but valid bold text immediately followed by a word may still be rewritten incorrectly, and the live-status control remains focusable when no calls exist. These localized correctness and accessibility issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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  participant User
  participant ChatActivity
  participant LiveCallsAndTracePairs
  User->>ChatActivity: Click live status pill
  ChatActivity->>LiveCallsAndTracePairs: Derive current tool calls
  LiveCallsAndTracePairs-->>ChatActivity: Return live and completed calls
  ChatActivity-->>User: Render expandable call list
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src/components/chat/__tests__/chat-activity.test.tsx (1)

564-580: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the call states.

The test title requires the newest call to spin, but the assertions only verify call names. A regression that renders every call as complete or running will pass. Add stable state metadata or accessible labels, then assert that earlier calls are complete and the last call is running.

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In `@src/components/chat/__tests__/chat-activity.test.tsx` around lines 564 - 580,
Update the test around ChatActivity to assert call states, not only names:
expose or reuse stable state metadata or accessible labels, then verify the
earlier live tool calls are complete and the newest call, readConversations, is
running/spinning. Preserve the existing expansion and call-order assertions.
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In `@src/components/chat/chat-activity.tsx`:
- Around line 262-271: Update the status button in the chat activity component
to set disabled when expandable is false and only render aria-expanded when
expandable is true; preserve the existing toggle behavior for expandable
activity lists and update the no-calls test to assert the control is disabled.

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In `@src/components/chat/__tests__/chat-activity.test.tsx`:
- Around line 564-580: Update the test around ChatActivity to assert call
states, not only names: expose or reuse stable state metadata or accessible
labels, then verify the earlier live tool calls are complete and the newest
call, readConversations, is running/spinning. Preserve the existing expansion
and call-order assertions.
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Comment thread src/components/chat/chat-activity.tsx
ginccc added 2 commits August 14, 2026 12:52
…e inert live pill

- A gated call's arguments are one long unbreakable JSON line. The chat
  grid item had no min-w-0, so the card's intrinsic width blew the whole
  page into horizontal scroll instead of scrolling inside its own <pre>
  (observed on the operator's create-agent approval). min-w-0 on the
  operator chat root + max-w-full clamps on the banner and args block.
  Verified in a live browser with a 4000-char probe: the pre scrolls
  internally, the page and <main> do not.

- CodeRabbit on #148: the live status pill rendered an enabled no-op
  button when there were no calls to disclose — keyboard-focusable, with
  aria-expanded describing a disclosure that does not exist. Disabled with
  the attribute omitted until there is a list.
…ication prompt rule

Browser-audited every page at 375/768/1280 with a DOM overflow probe; all
clean after:

- main is overflow-x-clip: a page-level horizontal scrollbar is always a
  layout bug, and clip turns the failure mode from 'whole page pans' into
  'one element is visibly clipped' - less harmful, easier to spot.
- TopBar: PlatformStatus hidden below md, language selector below sm - the
  16px bar overflowed a phone viewport by 250px with them inline.
- Logs: meta chips (timestamp, level, ids) wrap above the message line;
  the level-stats/search rows wrap; search input clamps to max-w-full.
- Conversations: state-filter + view-toggle row wraps.

Plus the operator prompt gains an explicit anti-fabrication rule: NEVER
invent an API key, token, id, or URL - secrets are always ${vault:...}
references, and an unknown value means ask, not guess. (The operator
fabricated a plausible sk-ant-... key into a create-agent proposal; the
redaction gap it exposed is fixed backend-side in EDDI 943cd119c, and this
rule attacks the fabrication itself. Applies to newly provisioned
operators.)

HITL continuation re-reviewed on both verdicts: resolveApproval is
verdict-agnostic (resume -> poll -> replace-or-append, re-pause becomes the
next placeholder, error keeps the pause for retry), and the main chat
rehydrates transcript + pause state from the snapshot on reopen.
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