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Otter Code's layout and look drifted from Otter Mail, which has since moved to a rail of spaces and one rounded content panel. This brings Otter Code in line with it on web and desktop. The iOS app only gets the new ChatGPT theme; its layout is unchanged.

Layout

  • Space rail down the window's left edge: All projects, each project, Add project and Pull requests, with Usage and Settings at its foot. A project scopes the thread sidebar. The sidebar's heading names the space and opens the project picker. In a narrow browser window the rail sits inside the sidebar sheet.
  • Frame: in the desktop app every pane's header sits on a 42px title band above an inset panel with a rim and rounded corners. In a browser tab the panel runs to the page's edges, rounded only against the rail. The frame takes a lifted tone (or the theme's sidebar color), and the Mac traffic lights move into the thinner band.
  • Sidebar: no wordmark, as in Otter Mail. The space's heading is the first row, with the dev and nightly art behind it, inside the panel. Search and New thread share a row. Settings, Usage and Pull requests moved from the footer to the rail.
  • Title band icons follow Otter Mail: pane toggles for the sidebar and right panel, and a details icon for thread details. The terminal toggle is gone; mod+J still opens it.

Themes and icons

  • ChatGPT joins the built-in themes on web, desktop and iOS. It has its own graphite stage art. Its light warning text is darkened slightly to reach 4.5:1 contrast.
  • The macOS icon PNG gets the classic shape (824px body inset 100px, Icon Composer's shadow). The fork had shipped a full-bleed square, which the dev app showed raw in the Dock.

Performance (measured against the code before this change; the remaining resize and toggle cost is upstream's)

  • The messages timeline no longer re-renders on every frame the chat canvas resizes.
  • The thread details card stays pinned to the right edge, and its content is memoized.
  • The thread sidebar skips re-rendering on window resize.

Most of the frame lives in a new appFrame.css and new components (SpaceRail, PaneIcons), so upstream syncs touch little. User docs cover the rail (thread-sidebar.md, usage.md).

Verified with targeted typechecks (shared, web, desktop, server, mobile), lint on changed files, and the touched test suites: web 1700, desktop 35, mobile 46, server 25. Checked visually in the browser preview (browser and simulated desktop layouts, light, dark and themed) and in the desktop dev app.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

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ckafrouni force-pushed the t3/match-otter-mail-ui branch from cd60268 to 761d2e9 Compare October 6, 2026 10:46
Otter Code now looks and works like Otter Mail: a rail of spaces down the
window's left edge and one rounded content panel for the sidebar and panes.

- Space rail: All projects, each project, Add project and Pull requests;
  Usage and Settings at its foot. A project scopes the thread sidebar, whose
  heading names the space and opens the project picker. On phones the rail
  sits inside the sidebar sheet.
- Frame: in the desktop app the panes' headers sit on a 42px title band
  above an inset panel with a rim and rounded corners; in a browser tab the
  panel runs to the page's edges. The frame takes a lifted tone (or the
  theme's sidebar color), and the Mac traffic lights move into the band.
- Sidebar: no wordmark; the space's heading is the first row, with the dev
  and nightly art behind it inside the panel. Search and New thread share a
  row. Settings, Usage and Pull requests moved from the footer to the rail.
- Title band icons follow Otter Mail: pane toggles for the sidebar and right
  panel, a details icon for thread details; the terminal toggle is gone
  (mod+J still opens it).
- ChatGPT joins the built-in themes (web, desktop and iOS), with graphite
  stage art.
- The dev Dock icon gets the classic macOS shape (824px body, native
  shadow) instead of a full-bleed square.
- Performance: the messages timeline no longer re-renders each frame the
  chat canvas resizes, the details card stays pinned to the right edge with
  memoized content, and the thread sidebar skips window resize re-renders.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ckafrouni added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 6, 2026
* feat(otter): unify suite accounts and move Code to .app

* test(otter): remove obsolete Clerk fixtures

* fix(otter): finish account release and LAN support

* refactor(otter): remove unused account exports

* fix(otter): promote hosted domains together

* fix(otter): register web domains before promotion

* fix(otter): await web domain certificates

* ci(otter): host the web client on Cloudflare

* feat(otter): Otter Mail's window layout (#18)

Otter Code now looks and works like Otter Mail: a rail of spaces down the
window's left edge and one rounded content panel for the sidebar and panes.

- Space rail: All projects, each project, Add project and Pull requests;
  Usage and Settings at its foot. A project scopes the thread sidebar, whose
  heading names the space and opens the project picker. On phones the rail
  sits inside the sidebar sheet.
- Frame: in the desktop app the panes' headers sit on a 42px title band
  above an inset panel with a rim and rounded corners; in a browser tab the
  panel runs to the page's edges. The frame takes a lifted tone (or the
  theme's sidebar color), and the Mac traffic lights move into the band.
- Sidebar: no wordmark; the space's heading is the first row, with the dev
  and nightly art behind it inside the panel. Search and New thread share a
  row. Settings, Usage and Pull requests moved from the footer to the rail.
- Title band icons follow Otter Mail: pane toggles for the sidebar and right
  panel, a details icon for thread details; the terminal toggle is gone
  (mod+J still opens it).
- ChatGPT joins the built-in themes (web, desktop and iOS), with graphite
  stage art.
- The dev Dock icon gets the classic macOS shape (824px body, native
  shadow) instead of a full-bleed square.
- Performance: the messages timeline no longer re-renders each frame the
  chat canvas resizes, the details card stays pinned to the right edge with
  memoized content, and the thread sidebar skips window resize re-renders.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(otter): channel icons like T3 Code's (#19)

Dev and nightly builds now wear their own icons, as T3 Code's do, so they
are told apart from production at a glance: the otter on upstream's
blueprint (dev) and night sky (nightly) instead of the same black icon
everywhere.

- assets/otter-dev and assets/otter-nightly: Icon Composer projects with
  upstream's dev and nightly layers and shadows, the otter as a white glyph
  in place of the T3 mark. Their iOS, Linux, Windows and web exports come
  from vp run icons:export; the classic macOS PNGs use upstream's exports of
  the same projects for the body edge and shadow.
- The dev and nightly channels point at them: desktop dev runs, the dev
  launcher, packaged nightlies, hosted nightly web, the dev web favicons and
  the mobile dev and preview builds' icons and brand mark. Production keeps
  assets/otter unchanged.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): promote hosted web without local build files

* fix(web): finish account callbacks before onboarding

* fix(otter): update button in the rail, roomier right panel on desktop (#20)

- The desktop app's update button moves from the thread sidebar's footer
  to the foot of the space rail, above Usage and Settings, freeing the
  sidebar's last row. Its tooltip and nightly release notes open rightward.
- Desktop: the right panel's surfaces (browser address bar, file
  breadcrumbs, diff header) start a step inside the panel instead of
  touching its rim under the title band. The web keeps its spacing.
- Desktop: the floating browser preview's hover controls show again. The
  content panel no longer creates a stacking context, which had put them
  under the browser webview drawn at the app root.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(web): restore account dialog spacing and scrolling

* feat(otter): project groups in the rail

The rail listed every project, which stops scaling once a user works across
several organisations' repositories.

- The rail now holds spaces instead of projects: All projects, Chats
  (threads without a project), then the user's project groups. The + is
  gone; groups are made in Settings → Project groups.
- A group lists only its projects' threads in the sidebar. New threads
  default to one of its projects, and the draft's project picker and
  "New thread in…" offer only those. In Chats, a new thread starts without
  a project.
- Groups are stored as `railProjectGroups` in server settings, keyed by
  logical project, so one repository on several machines is one member.
  It is a shared setting, written to every connected environment, so every
  device and the hosted app show the same groups.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): mock the rail space in useHandleNewThread tests

The hook now reads the rail's space, whose real module pulls in environment
state that this test's contracts mock does not provide, so the file failed
to load in CI. Mock the space as All projects, like the test's other
dependencies.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(otter): land fork changes through pull requests (#21)

OTTER.md told contributors to commit directly to main. AGENTS.md has agents
run only targeted checks and leaves the full suite to CI, so a direct push
reaches main and the nightly release before CI has run. That is how a broken
test in useHandleNewThread blocked today's release.

Every change now lands through a PR that merges once CI is green. Asking an
agent to change the fork counts as asking it for that PR, which settles
AGENTS.md's "no PR unless asked". Publishing a sync stays the only direct
write to main.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): 43px Mac titlebar; no threads sidebar on usage and pull requests (#22)

* fix(otter): 43px titlebar on the Mac desktop app

The traffic lights stay centered in it, rounded to the nearest point.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): usage and pull requests pages drop the threads sidebar

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): page titles clear the traffic lights without the sidebar (#23)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): sudo browser setup command uses otter-code

Upstream's new sudo test expects `npx t3`; the fork's CLI is `otter-code`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Laurin-Notemann pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2026
* feat(otter): unify suite accounts and move Code to .app

* test(otter): remove obsolete Clerk fixtures

* fix(otter): finish account release and LAN support

* refactor(otter): remove unused account exports

* fix(otter): promote hosted domains together

* fix(otter): register web domains before promotion

* fix(otter): await web domain certificates

* ci(otter): host the web client on Cloudflare

* feat(otter): Otter Mail's window layout (#18)

Otter Code now looks and works like Otter Mail: a rail of spaces down the
window's left edge and one rounded content panel for the sidebar and panes.

- Space rail: All projects, each project, Add project and Pull requests;
  Usage and Settings at its foot. A project scopes the thread sidebar, whose
  heading names the space and opens the project picker. On phones the rail
  sits inside the sidebar sheet.
- Frame: in the desktop app the panes' headers sit on a 42px title band
  above an inset panel with a rim and rounded corners; in a browser tab the
  panel runs to the page's edges. The frame takes a lifted tone (or the
  theme's sidebar color), and the Mac traffic lights move into the band.
- Sidebar: no wordmark; the space's heading is the first row, with the dev
  and nightly art behind it inside the panel. Search and New thread share a
  row. Settings, Usage and Pull requests moved from the footer to the rail.
- Title band icons follow Otter Mail: pane toggles for the sidebar and right
  panel, a details icon for thread details; the terminal toggle is gone
  (mod+J still opens it).
- ChatGPT joins the built-in themes (web, desktop and iOS), with graphite
  stage art.
- The dev Dock icon gets the classic macOS shape (824px body, native
  shadow) instead of a full-bleed square.
- Performance: the messages timeline no longer re-renders each frame the
  chat canvas resizes, the details card stays pinned to the right edge with
  memoized content, and the thread sidebar skips window resize re-renders.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(otter): channel icons like T3 Code's (#19)

Dev and nightly builds now wear their own icons, as T3 Code's do, so they
are told apart from production at a glance: the otter on upstream's
blueprint (dev) and night sky (nightly) instead of the same black icon
everywhere.

- assets/otter-dev and assets/otter-nightly: Icon Composer projects with
  upstream's dev and nightly layers and shadows, the otter as a white glyph
  in place of the T3 mark. Their iOS, Linux, Windows and web exports come
  from vp run icons:export; the classic macOS PNGs use upstream's exports of
  the same projects for the body edge and shadow.
- The dev and nightly channels point at them: desktop dev runs, the dev
  launcher, packaged nightlies, hosted nightly web, the dev web favicons and
  the mobile dev and preview builds' icons and brand mark. Production keeps
  assets/otter unchanged.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): promote hosted web without local build files

* fix(web): finish account callbacks before onboarding

* fix(otter): update button in the rail, roomier right panel on desktop (#20)

- The desktop app's update button moves from the thread sidebar's footer
  to the foot of the space rail, above Usage and Settings, freeing the
  sidebar's last row. Its tooltip and nightly release notes open rightward.
- Desktop: the right panel's surfaces (browser address bar, file
  breadcrumbs, diff header) start a step inside the panel instead of
  touching its rim under the title band. The web keeps its spacing.
- Desktop: the floating browser preview's hover controls show again. The
  content panel no longer creates a stacking context, which had put them
  under the browser webview drawn at the app root.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(web): restore account dialog spacing and scrolling

* feat(otter): project groups in the rail

The rail listed every project, which stops scaling once a user works across
several organisations' repositories.

- The rail now holds spaces instead of projects: All projects, Chats
  (threads without a project), then the user's project groups. The + is
  gone; groups are made in Settings → Project groups.
- A group lists only its projects' threads in the sidebar. New threads
  default to one of its projects, and the draft's project picker and
  "New thread in…" offer only those. In Chats, a new thread starts without
  a project.
- Groups are stored as `railProjectGroups` in server settings, keyed by
  logical project, so one repository on several machines is one member.
  It is a shared setting, written to every connected environment, so every
  device and the hosted app show the same groups.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): mock the rail space in useHandleNewThread tests

The hook now reads the rail's space, whose real module pulls in environment
state that this test's contracts mock does not provide, so the file failed
to load in CI. Mock the space as All projects, like the test's other
dependencies.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(otter): land fork changes through pull requests (#21)

OTTER.md told contributors to commit directly to main. AGENTS.md has agents
run only targeted checks and leaves the full suite to CI, so a direct push
reaches main and the nightly release before CI has run. That is how a broken
test in useHandleNewThread blocked today's release.

Every change now lands through a PR that merges once CI is green. Asking an
agent to change the fork counts as asking it for that PR, which settles
AGENTS.md's "no PR unless asked". Publishing a sync stays the only direct
write to main.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): 43px Mac titlebar; no threads sidebar on usage and pull requests (#22)

* fix(otter): 43px titlebar on the Mac desktop app

The traffic lights stay centered in it, rounded to the nearest point.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): usage and pull requests pages drop the threads sidebar

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): page titles clear the traffic lights without the sidebar (#23)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): sudo browser setup command uses otter-code

Upstream's new sudo test expects `npx t3`; the fork's CLI is `otter-code`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Laurin-Notemann pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2026
* feat(otter): unify suite accounts and move Code to .app

* test(otter): remove obsolete Clerk fixtures

* fix(otter): finish account release and LAN support

* refactor(otter): remove unused account exports

* fix(otter): promote hosted domains together

* fix(otter): register web domains before promotion

* fix(otter): await web domain certificates

* ci(otter): host the web client on Cloudflare

* feat(otter): Otter Mail's window layout (#18)

Otter Code now looks and works like Otter Mail: a rail of spaces down the
window's left edge and one rounded content panel for the sidebar and panes.

- Space rail: All projects, each project, Add project and Pull requests;
  Usage and Settings at its foot. A project scopes the thread sidebar, whose
  heading names the space and opens the project picker. On phones the rail
  sits inside the sidebar sheet.
- Frame: in the desktop app the panes' headers sit on a 42px title band
  above an inset panel with a rim and rounded corners; in a browser tab the
  panel runs to the page's edges. The frame takes a lifted tone (or the
  theme's sidebar color), and the Mac traffic lights move into the band.
- Sidebar: no wordmark; the space's heading is the first row, with the dev
  and nightly art behind it inside the panel. Search and New thread share a
  row. Settings, Usage and Pull requests moved from the footer to the rail.
- Title band icons follow Otter Mail: pane toggles for the sidebar and right
  panel, a details icon for thread details; the terminal toggle is gone
  (mod+J still opens it).
- ChatGPT joins the built-in themes (web, desktop and iOS), with graphite
  stage art.
- The dev Dock icon gets the classic macOS shape (824px body, native
  shadow) instead of a full-bleed square.
- Performance: the messages timeline no longer re-renders each frame the
  chat canvas resizes, the details card stays pinned to the right edge with
  memoized content, and the thread sidebar skips window resize re-renders.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(otter): channel icons like T3 Code's (#19)

Dev and nightly builds now wear their own icons, as T3 Code's do, so they
are told apart from production at a glance: the otter on upstream's
blueprint (dev) and night sky (nightly) instead of the same black icon
everywhere.

- assets/otter-dev and assets/otter-nightly: Icon Composer projects with
  upstream's dev and nightly layers and shadows, the otter as a white glyph
  in place of the T3 mark. Their iOS, Linux, Windows and web exports come
  from vp run icons:export; the classic macOS PNGs use upstream's exports of
  the same projects for the body edge and shadow.
- The dev and nightly channels point at them: desktop dev runs, the dev
  launcher, packaged nightlies, hosted nightly web, the dev web favicons and
  the mobile dev and preview builds' icons and brand mark. Production keeps
  assets/otter unchanged.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): promote hosted web without local build files

* fix(web): finish account callbacks before onboarding

* fix(otter): update button in the rail, roomier right panel on desktop (#20)

- The desktop app's update button moves from the thread sidebar's footer
  to the foot of the space rail, above Usage and Settings, freeing the
  sidebar's last row. Its tooltip and nightly release notes open rightward.
- Desktop: the right panel's surfaces (browser address bar, file
  breadcrumbs, diff header) start a step inside the panel instead of
  touching its rim under the title band. The web keeps its spacing.
- Desktop: the floating browser preview's hover controls show again. The
  content panel no longer creates a stacking context, which had put them
  under the browser webview drawn at the app root.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(web): restore account dialog spacing and scrolling

* feat(otter): project groups in the rail

The rail listed every project, which stops scaling once a user works across
several organisations' repositories.

- The rail now holds spaces instead of projects: All projects, Chats
  (threads without a project), then the user's project groups. The + is
  gone; groups are made in Settings → Project groups.
- A group lists only its projects' threads in the sidebar. New threads
  default to one of its projects, and the draft's project picker and
  "New thread in…" offer only those. In Chats, a new thread starts without
  a project.
- Groups are stored as `railProjectGroups` in server settings, keyed by
  logical project, so one repository on several machines is one member.
  It is a shared setting, written to every connected environment, so every
  device and the hosted app show the same groups.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): mock the rail space in useHandleNewThread tests

The hook now reads the rail's space, whose real module pulls in environment
state that this test's contracts mock does not provide, so the file failed
to load in CI. Mock the space as All projects, like the test's other
dependencies.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(otter): land fork changes through pull requests (#21)

OTTER.md told contributors to commit directly to main. AGENTS.md has agents
run only targeted checks and leaves the full suite to CI, so a direct push
reaches main and the nightly release before CI has run. That is how a broken
test in useHandleNewThread blocked today's release.

Every change now lands through a PR that merges once CI is green. Asking an
agent to change the fork counts as asking it for that PR, which settles
AGENTS.md's "no PR unless asked". Publishing a sync stays the only direct
write to main.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): 43px Mac titlebar; no threads sidebar on usage and pull requests (#22)

* fix(otter): 43px titlebar on the Mac desktop app

The traffic lights stay centered in it, rounded to the nearest point.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): usage and pull requests pages drop the threads sidebar

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): page titles clear the traffic lights without the sidebar (#23)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): sudo browser setup command uses otter-code

Upstream's new sudo test expects `npx t3`; the fork's CLI is `otter-code`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Laurin-Notemann pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 10, 2026
* feat(otter): unify suite accounts and move Code to .app

* test(otter): remove obsolete Clerk fixtures

* fix(otter): finish account release and LAN support

* refactor(otter): remove unused account exports

* fix(otter): promote hosted domains together

* fix(otter): register web domains before promotion

* fix(otter): await web domain certificates

* ci(otter): host the web client on Cloudflare

* feat(otter): Otter Mail's window layout (#18)

Otter Code now looks and works like Otter Mail: a rail of spaces down the
window's left edge and one rounded content panel for the sidebar and panes.

- Space rail: All projects, each project, Add project and Pull requests;
  Usage and Settings at its foot. A project scopes the thread sidebar, whose
  heading names the space and opens the project picker. On phones the rail
  sits inside the sidebar sheet.
- Frame: in the desktop app the panes' headers sit on a 42px title band
  above an inset panel with a rim and rounded corners; in a browser tab the
  panel runs to the page's edges. The frame takes a lifted tone (or the
  theme's sidebar color), and the Mac traffic lights move into the band.
- Sidebar: no wordmark; the space's heading is the first row, with the dev
  and nightly art behind it inside the panel. Search and New thread share a
  row. Settings, Usage and Pull requests moved from the footer to the rail.
- Title band icons follow Otter Mail: pane toggles for the sidebar and right
  panel, a details icon for thread details; the terminal toggle is gone
  (mod+J still opens it).
- ChatGPT joins the built-in themes (web, desktop and iOS), with graphite
  stage art.
- The dev Dock icon gets the classic macOS shape (824px body, native
  shadow) instead of a full-bleed square.
- Performance: the messages timeline no longer re-renders each frame the
  chat canvas resizes, the details card stays pinned to the right edge with
  memoized content, and the thread sidebar skips window resize re-renders.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(otter): channel icons like T3 Code's (#19)

Dev and nightly builds now wear their own icons, as T3 Code's do, so they
are told apart from production at a glance: the otter on upstream's
blueprint (dev) and night sky (nightly) instead of the same black icon
everywhere.

- assets/otter-dev and assets/otter-nightly: Icon Composer projects with
  upstream's dev and nightly layers and shadows, the otter as a white glyph
  in place of the T3 mark. Their iOS, Linux, Windows and web exports come
  from vp run icons:export; the classic macOS PNGs use upstream's exports of
  the same projects for the body edge and shadow.
- The dev and nightly channels point at them: desktop dev runs, the dev
  launcher, packaged nightlies, hosted nightly web, the dev web favicons and
  the mobile dev and preview builds' icons and brand mark. Production keeps
  assets/otter unchanged.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): promote hosted web without local build files

* fix(web): finish account callbacks before onboarding

* fix(otter): update button in the rail, roomier right panel on desktop (#20)

- The desktop app's update button moves from the thread sidebar's footer
  to the foot of the space rail, above Usage and Settings, freeing the
  sidebar's last row. Its tooltip and nightly release notes open rightward.
- Desktop: the right panel's surfaces (browser address bar, file
  breadcrumbs, diff header) start a step inside the panel instead of
  touching its rim under the title band. The web keeps its spacing.
- Desktop: the floating browser preview's hover controls show again. The
  content panel no longer creates a stacking context, which had put them
  under the browser webview drawn at the app root.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(web): restore account dialog spacing and scrolling

* feat(otter): project groups in the rail

The rail listed every project, which stops scaling once a user works across
several organisations' repositories.

- The rail now holds spaces instead of projects: All projects, Chats
  (threads without a project), then the user's project groups. The + is
  gone; groups are made in Settings → Project groups.
- A group lists only its projects' threads in the sidebar. New threads
  default to one of its projects, and the draft's project picker and
  "New thread in…" offer only those. In Chats, a new thread starts without
  a project.
- Groups are stored as `railProjectGroups` in server settings, keyed by
  logical project, so one repository on several machines is one member.
  It is a shared setting, written to every connected environment, so every
  device and the hosted app show the same groups.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): mock the rail space in useHandleNewThread tests

The hook now reads the rail's space, whose real module pulls in environment
state that this test's contracts mock does not provide, so the file failed
to load in CI. Mock the space as All projects, like the test's other
dependencies.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(otter): land fork changes through pull requests (#21)

OTTER.md told contributors to commit directly to main. AGENTS.md has agents
run only targeted checks and leaves the full suite to CI, so a direct push
reaches main and the nightly release before CI has run. That is how a broken
test in useHandleNewThread blocked today's release.

Every change now lands through a PR that merges once CI is green. Asking an
agent to change the fork counts as asking it for that PR, which settles
AGENTS.md's "no PR unless asked". Publishing a sync stays the only direct
write to main.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): 43px Mac titlebar; no threads sidebar on usage and pull requests (#22)

* fix(otter): 43px titlebar on the Mac desktop app

The traffic lights stay centered in it, rounded to the nearest point.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): usage and pull requests pages drop the threads sidebar

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): page titles clear the traffic lights without the sidebar (#23)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): sudo browser setup command uses otter-code

Upstream's new sudo test expects `npx t3`; the fork's CLI is `otter-code`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Laurin-Notemann pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 12, 2026
* feat(otter): unify suite accounts and move Code to .app

* test(otter): remove obsolete Clerk fixtures

* fix(otter): finish account release and LAN support

* refactor(otter): remove unused account exports

* fix(otter): promote hosted domains together

* fix(otter): register web domains before promotion

* fix(otter): await web domain certificates

* ci(otter): host the web client on Cloudflare

* feat(otter): Otter Mail's window layout (#18)

Otter Code now looks and works like Otter Mail: a rail of spaces down the
window's left edge and one rounded content panel for the sidebar and panes.

- Space rail: All projects, each project, Add project and Pull requests;
  Usage and Settings at its foot. A project scopes the thread sidebar, whose
  heading names the space and opens the project picker. On phones the rail
  sits inside the sidebar sheet.
- Frame: in the desktop app the panes' headers sit on a 42px title band
  above an inset panel with a rim and rounded corners; in a browser tab the
  panel runs to the page's edges. The frame takes a lifted tone (or the
  theme's sidebar color), and the Mac traffic lights move into the band.
- Sidebar: no wordmark; the space's heading is the first row, with the dev
  and nightly art behind it inside the panel. Search and New thread share a
  row. Settings, Usage and Pull requests moved from the footer to the rail.
- Title band icons follow Otter Mail: pane toggles for the sidebar and right
  panel, a details icon for thread details; the terminal toggle is gone
  (mod+J still opens it).
- ChatGPT joins the built-in themes (web, desktop and iOS), with graphite
  stage art.
- The dev Dock icon gets the classic macOS shape (824px body, native
  shadow) instead of a full-bleed square.
- Performance: the messages timeline no longer re-renders each frame the
  chat canvas resizes, the details card stays pinned to the right edge with
  memoized content, and the thread sidebar skips window resize re-renders.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(otter): channel icons like T3 Code's (#19)

Dev and nightly builds now wear their own icons, as T3 Code's do, so they
are told apart from production at a glance: the otter on upstream's
blueprint (dev) and night sky (nightly) instead of the same black icon
everywhere.

- assets/otter-dev and assets/otter-nightly: Icon Composer projects with
  upstream's dev and nightly layers and shadows, the otter as a white glyph
  in place of the T3 mark. Their iOS, Linux, Windows and web exports come
  from vp run icons:export; the classic macOS PNGs use upstream's exports of
  the same projects for the body edge and shadow.
- The dev and nightly channels point at them: desktop dev runs, the dev
  launcher, packaged nightlies, hosted nightly web, the dev web favicons and
  the mobile dev and preview builds' icons and brand mark. Production keeps
  assets/otter unchanged.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): promote hosted web without local build files

* fix(web): finish account callbacks before onboarding

* fix(otter): update button in the rail, roomier right panel on desktop (#20)

- The desktop app's update button moves from the thread sidebar's footer
  to the foot of the space rail, above Usage and Settings, freeing the
  sidebar's last row. Its tooltip and nightly release notes open rightward.
- Desktop: the right panel's surfaces (browser address bar, file
  breadcrumbs, diff header) start a step inside the panel instead of
  touching its rim under the title band. The web keeps its spacing.
- Desktop: the floating browser preview's hover controls show again. The
  content panel no longer creates a stacking context, which had put them
  under the browser webview drawn at the app root.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(web): restore account dialog spacing and scrolling

* feat(otter): project groups in the rail

The rail listed every project, which stops scaling once a user works across
several organisations' repositories.

- The rail now holds spaces instead of projects: All projects, Chats
  (threads without a project), then the user's project groups. The + is
  gone; groups are made in Settings → Project groups.
- A group lists only its projects' threads in the sidebar. New threads
  default to one of its projects, and the draft's project picker and
  "New thread in…" offer only those. In Chats, a new thread starts without
  a project.
- Groups are stored as `railProjectGroups` in server settings, keyed by
  logical project, so one repository on several machines is one member.
  It is a shared setting, written to every connected environment, so every
  device and the hosted app show the same groups.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): mock the rail space in useHandleNewThread tests

The hook now reads the rail's space, whose real module pulls in environment
state that this test's contracts mock does not provide, so the file failed
to load in CI. Mock the space as All projects, like the test's other
dependencies.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(otter): land fork changes through pull requests (#21)

OTTER.md told contributors to commit directly to main. AGENTS.md has agents
run only targeted checks and leaves the full suite to CI, so a direct push
reaches main and the nightly release before CI has run. That is how a broken
test in useHandleNewThread blocked today's release.

Every change now lands through a PR that merges once CI is green. Asking an
agent to change the fork counts as asking it for that PR, which settles
AGENTS.md's "no PR unless asked". Publishing a sync stays the only direct
write to main.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): 43px Mac titlebar; no threads sidebar on usage and pull requests (#22)

* fix(otter): 43px titlebar on the Mac desktop app

The traffic lights stay centered in it, rounded to the nearest point.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): usage and pull requests pages drop the threads sidebar

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): page titles clear the traffic lights without the sidebar (#23)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): sudo browser setup command uses otter-code

Upstream's new sudo test expects `npx t3`; the fork's CLI is `otter-code`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Laurin-Notemann pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 13, 2026
* feat(otter): unify suite accounts and move Code to .app

* test(otter): remove obsolete Clerk fixtures

* fix(otter): finish account release and LAN support

* refactor(otter): remove unused account exports

* fix(otter): promote hosted domains together

* fix(otter): register web domains before promotion

* fix(otter): await web domain certificates

* ci(otter): host the web client on Cloudflare

* feat(otter): Otter Mail's window layout (#18)

Otter Code now looks and works like Otter Mail: a rail of spaces down the
window's left edge and one rounded content panel for the sidebar and panes.

- Space rail: All projects, each project, Add project and Pull requests;
  Usage and Settings at its foot. A project scopes the thread sidebar, whose
  heading names the space and opens the project picker. On phones the rail
  sits inside the sidebar sheet.
- Frame: in the desktop app the panes' headers sit on a 42px title band
  above an inset panel with a rim and rounded corners; in a browser tab the
  panel runs to the page's edges. The frame takes a lifted tone (or the
  theme's sidebar color), and the Mac traffic lights move into the band.
- Sidebar: no wordmark; the space's heading is the first row, with the dev
  and nightly art behind it inside the panel. Search and New thread share a
  row. Settings, Usage and Pull requests moved from the footer to the rail.
- Title band icons follow Otter Mail: pane toggles for the sidebar and right
  panel, a details icon for thread details; the terminal toggle is gone
  (mod+J still opens it).
- ChatGPT joins the built-in themes (web, desktop and iOS), with graphite
  stage art.
- The dev Dock icon gets the classic macOS shape (824px body, native
  shadow) instead of a full-bleed square.
- Performance: the messages timeline no longer re-renders each frame the
  chat canvas resizes, the details card stays pinned to the right edge with
  memoized content, and the thread sidebar skips window resize re-renders.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(otter): channel icons like T3 Code's (#19)

Dev and nightly builds now wear their own icons, as T3 Code's do, so they
are told apart from production at a glance: the otter on upstream's
blueprint (dev) and night sky (nightly) instead of the same black icon
everywhere.

- assets/otter-dev and assets/otter-nightly: Icon Composer projects with
  upstream's dev and nightly layers and shadows, the otter as a white glyph
  in place of the T3 mark. Their iOS, Linux, Windows and web exports come
  from vp run icons:export; the classic macOS PNGs use upstream's exports of
  the same projects for the body edge and shadow.
- The dev and nightly channels point at them: desktop dev runs, the dev
  launcher, packaged nightlies, hosted nightly web, the dev web favicons and
  the mobile dev and preview builds' icons and brand mark. Production keeps
  assets/otter unchanged.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): promote hosted web without local build files

* fix(web): finish account callbacks before onboarding

* fix(otter): update button in the rail, roomier right panel on desktop (#20)

- The desktop app's update button moves from the thread sidebar's footer
  to the foot of the space rail, above Usage and Settings, freeing the
  sidebar's last row. Its tooltip and nightly release notes open rightward.
- Desktop: the right panel's surfaces (browser address bar, file
  breadcrumbs, diff header) start a step inside the panel instead of
  touching its rim under the title band. The web keeps its spacing.
- Desktop: the floating browser preview's hover controls show again. The
  content panel no longer creates a stacking context, which had put them
  under the browser webview drawn at the app root.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(web): restore account dialog spacing and scrolling

* feat(otter): project groups in the rail

The rail listed every project, which stops scaling once a user works across
several organisations' repositories.

- The rail now holds spaces instead of projects: All projects, Chats
  (threads without a project), then the user's project groups. The + is
  gone; groups are made in Settings → Project groups.
- A group lists only its projects' threads in the sidebar. New threads
  default to one of its projects, and the draft's project picker and
  "New thread in…" offer only those. In Chats, a new thread starts without
  a project.
- Groups are stored as `railProjectGroups` in server settings, keyed by
  logical project, so one repository on several machines is one member.
  It is a shared setting, written to every connected environment, so every
  device and the hosted app show the same groups.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): mock the rail space in useHandleNewThread tests

The hook now reads the rail's space, whose real module pulls in environment
state that this test's contracts mock does not provide, so the file failed
to load in CI. Mock the space as All projects, like the test's other
dependencies.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(otter): land fork changes through pull requests (#21)

OTTER.md told contributors to commit directly to main. AGENTS.md has agents
run only targeted checks and leaves the full suite to CI, so a direct push
reaches main and the nightly release before CI has run. That is how a broken
test in useHandleNewThread blocked today's release.

Every change now lands through a PR that merges once CI is green. Asking an
agent to change the fork counts as asking it for that PR, which settles
AGENTS.md's "no PR unless asked". Publishing a sync stays the only direct
write to main.

Built by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): 43px Mac titlebar; no threads sidebar on usage and pull requests (#22)

* fix(otter): 43px titlebar on the Mac desktop app

The traffic lights stay centered in it, rounded to the nearest point.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): usage and pull requests pages drop the threads sidebar

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(otter): page titles clear the traffic lights without the sidebar (#23)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(otter): sudo browser setup command uses otter-code

Upstream's new sudo test expects `npx t3`; the fork's CLI is `otter-code`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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