Release — Transparent Stream churn reduction (#5456, #5367)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- **Transparent Stream is smoother during streaming — less row churn and no thinking-block scrollbar flicker.** Building on the identity-preserving live-row reconcile, the renderer now skips redundant work while a response streams: a preserved row's markup isn't rewritten when the incoming HTML is unchanged, a row isn't reinserted when it's already in the correct position, and long thinking blocks no longer flicker an internal scrollbar as their scroll container appears. Purely a reduction of no-op DOM work — what renders is unchanged, and matching rows still preserve their DOM node, copy button, tool-call data, and expanded/collapsed state. Thanks @Stacey2911. (#5456, #5367)
 - **Models from a user-defined provider in `config.yaml` now route correctly.** If you defined a custom provider under the `providers:` block with an explicit `models:` allowlist, a bare model id from that list wasn't matched by request-time routing — it silently fell back to the default provider and often 404'd. Resolution now scans your `providers:` allowlists (exact match, same as `custom_providers:`), so those models reach the right endpoint. Copilot is deliberately excluded from this scan because `providers.copilot.models` is a per-model settings map (reasoning effort, limits), not a routing allowlist. Thanks @akay64. (#5511)
 - **The transcript no longer scrolls up when the composer grows.** When you were pinned to the bottom of a conversation and the composer got taller — multi-line typing, `Shift+Enter`, or a multi-line / dictation paste — the transcript viewport shrank by the same amount and left you stranded a row or two above the bottom (it read as the chat "randomly scrolling up" during normal use). The transcript now re-pins to the bottom whenever the composer grows, but only when you were genuinely still pinned there — if you'd scrolled up to read history, nothing yanks you back down. (#5516, #5514, #5515)
 - **A deleted conversation no longer comes back as a read-only "ghost" after a restart.** Deleting a WebUI session removed its file but left a recoverable row in the agent's state database, so after a server restart and page reload the deleted conversation could reappear as a read-only "Agent" session still showing its old transcript. Deleted WebUI sessions are now recorded in a durable tombstone that the sidebar projection, startup backup-recovery, audit, and session-claim paths all honor, so a deleted session stays gone (the backend keeps returning the 404 the client relies on to clear the stale route). Genuine crash recovery is unaffected — a session whose sidecar is lost without a delete is still restored — imported external-channel (messaging) sessions are exempt and keep their transcript, and a deleted id is automatically un-tombstoned if the same session is later re-created or re-imported. Thanks @rodboev. (#5504, #5498)

static/style.css

@@ -4219,6 +4219,7 @@ body.resizing .sidebar{transition:none!important;}
 .transparent-event-row .thinking-card.open .thinking-card-body{
   border-top-color:transparent;
   padding:0 0 3px;
+  scrollbar-gutter:stable;
 }
 .transparent-event-row .tool-card-detail > *,
 .transparent-event-row .thinking-card-body > *{min-height:0;}

static/ui.js

@@ -11043,6 +11043,7 @@ function _renderLiveAnchorActivitySceneTransparent(streamId, scene, opts){
   });
   const liveFooter=blocks.querySelector('#liveRunStatus');
   let wrote=false;
+  const targetRenderedRows=[];
   for(const row of rows){
     const node=_anchorSceneTransparentNodeForRow(row,{
       live:true,
@@ -11058,10 +11059,25 @@ function _renderLiveAnchorActivitySceneTransparent(streamId, scene, opts){
       : node;
     if(existing) preserveByKey.delete(key);
     if(!renderedNode) continue;
-    if(liveFooter&&liveFooter.parentElement===blocks) blocks.insertBefore(renderedNode,liveFooter);
-    else blocks.appendChild(renderedNode);
+    targetRenderedRows.push(renderedNode);
     wrote=true;
   }
+  const transparentLiveRowAlreadyPositioned=(node, expectedNextSibling)=>!!(
+    node &&
+    node.parentElement===blocks &&
+    node.nextSibling===expectedNextSibling
+  );
+  let expectedNextSibling=(liveFooter&&liveFooter.parentElement===blocks) ? liveFooter : null;
+  for(let i=targetRenderedRows.length-1;i>=0;i--){
+    const renderedNode=targetRenderedRows[i];
+    if(transparentLiveRowAlreadyPositioned(renderedNode,expectedNextSibling)){
+      expectedNextSibling=renderedNode;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if(expectedNextSibling&&expectedNextSibling.parentElement===blocks) blocks.insertBefore(renderedNode,expectedNextSibling);
+    else blocks.appendChild(renderedNode);
+    expectedNextSibling=renderedNode;
+  }
   preserveByKey.forEach(stale=>stale.remove());
   if(wrote) _syncTransparentEventControls(turn);
   if(typeof _moveLiveRunStatusToTurnEnd==='function') _moveLiveRunStatusToTurnEnd();
@@ -11127,6 +11143,7 @@ function _rehydrateTransparentLiveRow(existing, node, preservedState){
   if(!existing) return;
   if(node && Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(node, '_tcData')) existing._tcData = node._tcData;
   else if(Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(existing, '_tcData')) delete existing._tcData;
+  try{ delete node._tcData; }catch(_){}
   const header = existing.querySelector ? existing.querySelector('.tool-card-header,.thinking-card-header') : null;
   if(header){
     if(typeof _wireTransparentHeaderToggle === 'function') _wireTransparentHeaderToggle(header);
@@ -11147,6 +11164,26 @@ function _rehydrateTransparentLiveRow(existing, node, preservedState){
   }
 }
 
+function _refreshTransparentThinkingLiveRow(existing, node){
+  if(!existing || !node || !existing.querySelector || !node.querySelector) return false;
+  const existingType = String(existing.getAttribute('data-event-type') || '');
+  const nodeType = String(node.getAttribute('data-event-type') || '');
+  const existingIsThinking = existingType === 'thinking' || (existing.classList&&existing.classList.contains('transparent-thinking-event'));
+  const nodeIsThinking = nodeType === 'thinking' || (node.classList&&node.classList.contains('transparent-thinking-event'));
+  if(!existingIsThinking || !nodeIsThinking) return false;
+  const existingPre = existing.querySelector('.thinking-card-body pre');
+  const nodePre = node.querySelector('.thinking-card-body pre');
+  if(!existingPre || !nodePre) return false;
+  const nextText = String(nodePre.textContent || '');
+  if(existingPre.textContent !== nextText) existingPre.textContent = nextText;
+  const nodePreview = node.querySelector('.transparent-event-thinking-preview');
+  const previewText = nodePreview ? String(nodePreview.textContent || '') : nextText;
+  if(typeof _decorateTransparentEventRow === 'function'){
+    _decorateTransparentEventRow(existing,{type:'thinking',text:nextText,preview:previewText});
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
 function _refreshTransparentLiveRow(existing, node){
   if(!existing || !node || !existing.getAttribute) return node;
   if(existing===node) return existing;
@@ -11165,7 +11202,13 @@ function _refreshTransparentLiveRow(existing, node){
     existing.setAttribute(name, value);
   }
   existing.className = node.className || '';
-  existing.innerHTML = node.innerHTML || '';
+  if(_refreshTransparentThinkingLiveRow(existing, node)){
+    _rehydrateTransparentLiveRow(existing, node, preservedState);
+    return existing;
+  }
+  const newHtml = node.innerHTML || '';
+  const htmlChanged = existing.innerHTML !== newHtml;
+  if(htmlChanged) existing.innerHTML = newHtml;
   _rehydrateTransparentLiveRow(existing, node, preservedState);
   return existing;
 }

tests/test_issue3820_chat_activity_display_mode.py

@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ def test_transparent_event_row_quiet_metadata_visual_rhythm():
     assert "border-radius:0;" in STYLE_CSS
     assert "margin-top:0;" in STYLE_CSS
     assert "padding:0 8px 6px 27px;" in STYLE_CSS
-    assert ".transparent-event-row .thinking-card.open .thinking-card-body{\n  border-top-color:transparent;\n  padding:0 0 3px;\n}" in STYLE_CSS
+    assert ".transparent-event-row .thinking-card.open .thinking-card-body{\n  border-top-color:transparent;\n  padding:0 0 3px;\n  scrollbar-gutter:stable;\n}" in STYLE_CSS
 
     # Tabs: text-link style with an active underline (no pill background).
     assert ".transparent-detail-mode.active{color:var(--text);opacity:1;font-weight:600;box-shadow:inset 0 -1px 0 var(--accent);}" in STYLE_CSS