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feat(chat): make Cowork a mode of the composer instead of a destination (#944) - #1193

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Closes #944.

What this is

D-045 rules that Cowork is a two segment control inside the chat composer, that a run IS a conversation, and that the agent surface gets no navigation row of its own. The shipped product still had the design the owner rejected: an Agents destination you navigate to, a separate form on a page the conversation cannot see, and a run that comes back only as a row in a list. This lands the frontend half of that ruling.

The composer becomes mode aware

A Chat | Cowork radiogroup sits immediately right of the plus button, in the same rail as the model chip. It is a radiogroup with two radio children rather than two buttons, so it announces as "Chat, selected, 1 of 2" and moves with the arrow keys, with a roving tabindex so Tab moves past the control rather than through it. Switching it changes what the next message does and navigates nowhere. Nothing in the change path touches the draft, so a half written brief survives a toggle in either direction.

Selecting Cowork grows a second row welded to the bottom of the same composer container, separated by a hairline rather than a gap, and drops the voice mode button while keeping dictation.

A run rendered as a conversation

This is the load bearing part. The run reuses the ordinary chat machinery rather than a parallel one: the same history, the same initChatHandler that creates the chat and puts it in the sidebar list, the same saveChatHandler that persists it, and the same transcript component that renders a chat. The chat is created before the task is submitted, so a run takes a row in the conversation list from the moment it is sent rather than only once it answers.

The assistant turn carries the run's state while it is queued or running and the run's own summary once it settles, and it stores the task id, so reopening the conversation picks a run back up. loadChat marks any assistant turn left mid flight as done, which is the right recovery for an interrupted completion and the wrong one for a run, because a run does not stop when the tab closes.

Sidebar grammar that goes with it

The Agents navigation row is gone and Artifacts takes its place in the destination set, which is the other half of D-045's sidebar grammar and had an index shipped by #1141 with nothing linking to it. The /agents route itself survives, unlinked, so runs submitted before the composer mode existed are still reachable by URL. The conversation list loses its date bucket headers and its heading becomes "Chats and tasks", which is exactly what #944's second acceptance criterion needs: a run and a chat in one list under one heading. New Chat becomes the sidebar's one filled primary row.

Knowledge keeps its row for now, and the file says why rather than leaving a silent contradiction with D-045 ruling 2: Projects cannot hold RAG collections yet, so removing the row today would take the only route to them away and put nothing in its place, which is the failure mode #944 warns about for the Agents row.

What is deliberately not here, and why

Two controls the reference's second row carries are absent, for the reasons #944 sets out itself:

  • The autonomy control ships with the waiting_for_confirmation collapse in engine.go or not at all. With Auto selected there are no approval rows, so shipping it now would be a control with no observable effect.
  • The project or folder picker ships only if a run can be bound to a workspace or a collection. POST /v1/agent/tasks accepts pack and instructions and nothing else, so there is nothing for it to set, and a picker that sets nothing is worse than no picker.

The Pack control is deleted rather than moved. agent_kind still carries the distinction on the wire; the Home composer in Cowork mode sends the knowledge work pack, and the coding pack belongs to a Code panel this shell does not have.

Backend ceiling, named rather than worked around

edge-api exposes a task's status and its final result_summary_ref and nothing in between. There is no per step or event feed and no read by id. Two consequences, both marked in the code with the upgrade path:

  1. The run is followed by polling GET /v1/agent/tasks and filtering, because there is no GET /v1/agent/tasks/{id}. Fine at demo volume, wrong at scale.
  2. The inline tool lines D-045 describes ("Used Claude in Chrome (2 actions)") and the right hand Progress / Working folder / Context panel cannot be populated by any frontend until that endpoint exists. They are not stubbed, faked or half drawn here.

This PR is frontend only by instruction: vendor/open-webui/src/ and nothing else. No .py, no owui-patches/, no Go, no apps/web-console/, no CI config.

Verification

  • scripts/test-owui-hive-frontend.sh: 13 files, 139 tests passed, and all 13 Hive components compile against svelte@5.56.0, the version the image build resolves.
  • New tests: coworkMode.test.ts, 19 cases. Pure helpers for the mode, the pack derivation, the radiogroup's key handling and the run-to-turn projection, plus source pins asserting the toggle is mounted immediately after the plus button, that the second row appears only in Cowork, that voice mode drops and dictation does not, and that the submit path branches on the mode and goes through the ordinary chat machinery. The source pins are the ones that matter here: a correct module nobody mounted is the failure a unit test over pure helpers cannot see.
  • nav.test.ts updated: it now asserts the absence of an Agents row and the presence of Artifacts, rather than the reverse.

Visual proof

Posted as a comment on this PR via scripts/post-pr-visual-proof.sh. Capture log committed under docs/proof/.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Cowork mode for launching sandboxed knowledge-work tasks with visible progress.
    • Added Chat/Cowork switching with keyboard accessibility.
    • Cowork results, errors, timeouts, and resumed active tasks now appear in conversations.
    • Added an Artifacts destination with an updated page header.
  • UI Improvements

    • Renamed “Recents” to “Chats and tasks” and simplified the conversation list.
    • Added responsive Cowork guidance and updated sidebar styling.
    • Improved model menu positioning and removed the landing-page mode setting.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Cowork submissions now reject blank instructions and attachments without losing entered content.

Second commit: four home-surface defects found by querying the deployed DOM

These came out of a live re-score of the box and are folded in here because they
are the same surface and the same build.

The chat home was gone on some accounts. The greeting and the four
quick-start chips shipped in #1161, deployed, and were invisible. Chat.svelte's
landing branch read $settings?.landingPageMode === 'chat' || <messages exist>,
so an account that had ever flipped an upstream personalisation toggle skipped
Placeholder.svelte entirely and landed on upstream's ChatPlaceholder: model
name over a placeholder string, no greeting, no chips. Nothing was broken and
nothing logged; a stored setting was quietly deleting two features. Measured on
the box before this branch: [data-hive-quickstart] null, .hv-greeting null.

Both components were correct and both were mounted, so this is not dead code in
the wrong component: it is a branch reached by nobody. Hive has one home, so
landingPageMode no longer decides whether it exists, and the Interface row that
set it goes with the branch it drove rather than staying on as a control that
changes nothing.

The model menu overflowed the window. It anchored its left edge to the
trigger and let its own width run off the right, which is what the model chip in
the composer's control row does at a normal desktop width; the panel's
max-width clamps how wide it can be and cannot move it back inside. It now
anchors right edge to right edge when the trigger is in the right half of the
window, which is what the reference does and needs no measurement of the menu,
so there is still no render-then-move jump. Before: right edge 36px past the
viewport. After: inside it.

The Artifacts index had no title, so its empty state was the first thing on
the surface and sat flush at the top of the pane. It gets a page head in the same
shape the Knowledge index uses, and the states below it now sit in a column flex,
which is what lets their m-auto centre at all. Before: title null, first child
at y=0. After: title present, first child at y=526.

A cowork run's row was titled "New Chat." Titles are generated by a follow-up
completion the run path does not make, so the conversation list stopped being
readable the moment there were two runs. The row takes the brief's first line.

The Knowledge contradiction, recorded rather than resolved

D-045 ruling 2 eliminates Knowledge as a destination in favour of Projects and
Artifacts. #1184 gave Knowledge a real destination in the shell, deliberately, to
close a dead-nav bug (#1109). The fork therefore contradicts its own governing
decision right now. This PR does not resolve that: it leaves the row alone and
says so in nav.ts, because Projects cannot hold RAG collections yet and
removing the row today would take the only route to them away and put nothing in
its place, which is the failure mode #944 warns about for the Agents row. Flagged
for the owner rather than settled here.

Visual proof

Two comments on this PR, both posted with scripts/post-pr-visual-proof.sh to
the permanent visual-proof-assets release. The capture log, the substrate, the
session mechanism and every DOM reading quoted above are committed under
docs/proof/cowork-composer-mode-2026-08-25/.

Substrate, stated because "ran it locally" is not one: the frontend under test is
this branch's own build from docker build -f deploy/docker/Dockerfile.open-webui --target frontend, the exact stage the deploy image uses, served against the
live demo box's backend. before frames come from the box's deployed bundle,
after frames from this branch's, same backend.

…on (#944)

D-045 rules that Cowork is a two segment control inside the chat composer,
that a run IS a conversation, and that the agent surface gets no navigation
row of its own. The shipped product still had the design the owner rejected:
an Agents destination you navigate to, a separate form on a page the
conversation cannot see, and a run that comes back only as a row in a list.

This lands the frontend half of that ruling.

The composer becomes mode aware. A `Chat | Cowork` radiogroup sits
immediately right of the plus button, in the same rail as the model chip.
Switching it changes what the next message does and navigates nowhere, and
nothing in the change path touches the draft, so a half written brief
survives a toggle in either direction. Selecting Cowork grows a second row
welded to the bottom of the same composer container, separated by a hairline
rather than a gap, and drops the voice mode button while keeping dictation.

Sending in Cowork mode starts an agent run and renders it as a conversation.
That is the load bearing part: the run reuses the ordinary chat machinery
rather than a parallel one, so it takes a row in the same sidebar list, opens
in the same main pane, and renders in the same transcript component that
renders a chat. The chat is created before the task is submitted, so a run
has a row from the moment it is sent rather than only once it answers. The
assistant turn carries the run state while it is queued or running and the
run's own summary once it settles, and it stores the task id so reopening the
conversation picks a run back up: loadChat marks any turn left mid flight as
done, which is the right recovery for an interrupted completion and the wrong
one for a run, because a run does not stop when the tab closes.

The Agents navigation row is gone and Artifacts takes its place in the
destination set, which is the other half of D-045's sidebar grammar. The
/agents route itself survives, unlinked, so runs submitted before the
composer mode existed are still reachable by URL. The conversation list loses
its date bucket headers and its heading becomes "Chats and tasks", which is
what lets a run and a chat sit in one list under one heading. New Chat
becomes the sidebar's one filled primary row.

Two controls the reference's second row carries are deliberately absent,
for the reasons #944 sets out. The autonomy control ships with the
waiting_for_confirmation collapse in engine.go or not at all, since with Auto
selected there are no approval rows and the control would have no observable
effect. The project or folder picker ships only if a run can be bound to a
workspace or a collection, and POST /v1/agent/tasks accepts a pack and
instructions and nothing else, so there is nothing for it to set.

Known ceiling, named in the code: edge-api exposes a task's status and its
final summary and nothing in between. There is no per step feed and no read
by id, so the run is followed by polling the task list, and the inline tool
lines and the Progress, Working folder and Context panel D-045 describes
cannot be populated by any frontend until that endpoint exists.
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Cowork composer and chat navigation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cowork mode contracts and task rendering
vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/coworkMode.ts, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/stores/index.ts
Defines Chat and Cowork modes, knowledge-work pack selection, keyboard navigation, task rendering, terminal-state detection, and pending-turn selection.
Cowork composer controls
vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/ComposerModeToggle.svelte, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/ComposerCoworkRow.svelte, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/components/chat/MessageInput.svelte, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/hive.css
Adds the mode toggle and Cowork row. Hides voice mode in Cowork mode and adds responsive styling.
Cowork run orchestration
vendor/open-webui/src/lib/components/chat/Chat.svelte, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/coworkMode.test.ts, docs/proof/cowork-composer-mode-2026-08-25/thread-3-attachment-refusal.md
Creates, persists, submits, polls, renders, refuses invalid submissions, and resumes Cowork runs. Tests cover task states, persistence, resumption, and bounded polling.
Chat and task navigation surfaces
vendor/open-webui/src/lib/components/layout/Sidebar.svelte, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/nav.ts, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/ShellNavIcon.svelte, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/nav.test.ts, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/hive.css, vendor/open-webui/src/routes/(app)/artifacts/+page.svelte
Renames the sidebar section to “Chats and tasks,” removes date headers, and replaces the Agents navigation entry with Artifacts.
Home surface and supporting validation
vendor/open-webui/src/lib/components/chat/Chat.svelte, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Interface.svelte, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/components/chat/ModelSelector/Selector.svelte, vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/home-surface.test.ts, scripts/test-owui-hive-frontend.sh, docs/proof/cowork-composer-mode-2026-08-25/README.md
Makes the landing view depend on message presence, removes the landing-page setting, adjusts model-menu anchoring, expands source fixtures, and records visual proof.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 83fd0

A Cowork task can be lost from its originating conversation if the user navigates away while creation is still in progress, and task-start failures may expose provider-specific error text. These bounded correctness and information-disclosure issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging; the duplicate Artifacts heading is minor.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Composer
  participant Chat
  participant TaskAPI
  participant Conversation
  Composer->>Chat: Submit prompt in Cowork mode
  Chat->>Conversation: Create and persist turn
  Chat->>TaskAPI: Submit knowledge-work task
  Chat->>TaskAPI: Poll task status
  TaskAPI-->>Chat: Return status or result
  Chat->>Conversation: Persist rendered task update
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR implements the main #944 requirements, including the Chat/Cowork radiogroup, draft preservation, shared chat and task history, Cowork transcript rendering, attachment refusal, and removal of th… Change the /agents route to redirect to the intended destination while preserving the required existing-URL behavior. Confirm that no direct Agents destination remains exposed by the application UI or route handling.
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In `@vendor/open-webui/src/lib/components/chat/Chat.svelte`:
- Around line 2272-2286: Update submitHandler to reject Cowork submissions with
an empty userPrompt, including cases containing only attached files, and notify
the user that attachments are not supported before starting the run. Keep
submitCoworkRun from being invoked for invalid submissions, and preserve the
existing behavior for non-empty prompts.
- Around line 2244-2270: Update resumeCoworkRun to collect all assistant
messages with hive_agent_task_id that are not settled, rather than selecting
only the first match; fetch and apply each corresponding task, preserving
failure handling and starting followCoworkRun for each non-terminal task.
- Around line 2230-2233: Update the final applyCoworkRun call in the surrounding
loop to pass the captured _chatId instead of $chatId, preserving
applyCoworkRun’s navigation guard and matching the argument used by the other
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Four defects on the home surface, found by querying the deployed box's DOM
rather than reading a screenshot, plus one rough edge in the run path.

The greeting and the four quick-start chips shipped in #1161, deployed, and
were invisible. Chat.svelte's landing branch read `$settings?.landingPageMode
=== 'chat' || <messages exist>`, so an account that had ever flipped an
upstream personalisation toggle skipped Placeholder.svelte entirely and landed
on upstream's ChatPlaceholder: model name over a placeholder string, no
greeting, no chips. Nothing was broken and nothing logged; a stored setting was
quietly deleting two features. Hive has one home, so the toggle no longer
decides whether it exists, and the Interface row that set it goes with the
branch it drove rather than staying on as a control that changes nothing.

The model menu overflowed the window. It anchored its left edge to the trigger
and let its own width run off the right, which is what the model chip in the
composer's control row does at a normal desktop width; the panel's max-width
clamps how wide it can be and cannot move it back inside. It now anchors right
edge to right edge when the trigger is in the right half of the window, which
is what the reference does and needs no measurement, so there is still no
render-then-move jump. Measured on the box before: right edge 36px past the
viewport. After: inside it.

The Artifacts index had no title of its own, so its empty state was the first
thing on the surface and sat flush against the top of the pane. It gets a page
head in the same shape the Knowledge index uses, and the states below it now
sit in a column flex, which is what lets their `m-auto` centre at all.

A cowork run's row was titled "New Chat". Titles are generated by a follow-up
completion the run path does not make, so the conversation list stopped being
readable the moment there were two runs. The row takes the brief's first line.

Tests: home-surface.test.ts pins the landing branch, the greeting and chip
selectors a DOM check can find, and the absence of the removed control.
Placeholder.svelte and Settings/Interface.svelte join the fixture list the
frontend runner copies, since the pins read their sources.
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Visual proof

Before and after, same live backend (chat-hive.scubed.co), frontend swapped for this branch's own Dockerfile.open-webui build. 1) Home: the greeting and the four quick-start chips from #1161 were invisible on any account whose landingPageMode was 'chat'; DOM before [data-hive-quickstart]=NULL, .hv-greeting=NULL, after both present. 2) Model menu: right edge 36px past the viewport before, inside it after. 3) Artifacts: no title and the empty state flush at y=0 before; page title and centred state at y=526 after. Log: docs/proof/cowork-composer-mode-2026-08-25/

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Issue #944 acceptance. 1) Chat selected: radiogroup, chat:true cowork:false, no second row, voice mode present. 2) Cowork selected: the second row welded inside the same composer container, voice mode gone, dictation kept, the draft intact through the toggle, URL still '/'. 3) Sending in Cowork creates a conversation at /c/ and renders the run in the ordinary transcript, composer still live with Cowork still selected. 4) The run in the sidebar beside ordinary chats under one 'Chats and tasks' heading, zero date buckets. The run's terminal state is a service refusal, not a result: the agent proxy resolves the caller's Supabase OAuth token server side and there is no live oauth_session on the box right now; the same code path returned a real task list earlier in this session when one existed. Details and the DOM readings in docs/proof/cowork-composer-mode-2026-08-25/

pr1193-20260825230504-4843-after-20-composer-chat-mode.png

pr1193-20260825230508-6890-after-21-composer-cowork-mode.png

pr1193-20260825230511-5993-after-23-run-settled.png

pr1193-20260825230514-26425-after-24-run-in-one-list.png

Three unresolved threads on Chat.svelte:

1. followCoworkRun's timeout-exceeded write compared $chatId against
   itself, so the moved-away guard in applyCoworkRun never fired. Pass
   the captured _chatId, matching every other write in the function.

2. resumeCoworkRun picked only the oldest assistant turn carrying a
   hive_agent_task_id, via Object.values(...).find(...). A conversation
   can hold more than one run, and loadChat stamps every mid-flight
   turn done = true on reload, so the local done flag cannot say which
   ones are still going. Extracted the selection into a pure, tested
   helper (selectPendingCoworkTurns in coworkMode.ts) that returns
   every carrying turn; resumeCoworkRun now re-reads and resumes each
   one that comes back non-terminal, not just the first.

3. Cowork mode had nowhere to send an attachment (createTask accepts
   only pack + instructions) and silently dropped it from both the run
   and the transcript. submitHandler now refuses the submission
   outright when a file is attached in Cowork mode, and separately
   refuses a whitespace-only instructions field. Both cases fire before
   the composer clears its input, so the file and the typed text stay
   visible to the user instead of vanishing.

Visual proof for the attachment refusal (new user-visible toast) posted
on the PR; capture log at docs/proof/cowork-composer-mode-2026-08-25/
thread-3-attachment-refusal.md.
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Thread 3 fix: Cowork mode refuses an attachment cleanly instead of silently dropping it. Both the file and the typed instructions stay in the composer.

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2354-2357: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve the task association when navigation occurs during task creation.

If the user opens another chat while createTask is pending, navigateHandler replaces history. Line 2354 then dereferences a missing turn and throws. The created task is not stored with its originating assistant turn, so reopening that chat cannot resume it.

Capture the originating turn and history before the request. After the request resolves, persist task.id against that captured conversation or reconcile the created task when the active chat changed. Add a regression test that navigates while createTask is unresolved.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@vendor/open-webui/src/lib/components/chat/Chat.svelte` around lines 2354 -
2357, Update the createTask flow around applyCoworkRun and followCoworkRun to
capture the originating assistant turn and conversation history before the
request begins, then persist task.id against that captured turn after resolution
even if navigateHandler replaced the active history. Preserve normal behavior
for the currently active chat and add a regression test covering navigation
while createTask remains unresolved.

2343-2347: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Sanitize the task-creation failure before storing it.

When describeRefusal(error) returns null, Line 2346 stores the raw Error.message in the assistant turn. renderRun displays this field to the customer. A control-plane or upstream error can include a provider name.

Map this fallback to a provider-neutral localized message before calling applyCoworkRun. Ensure that describeRefusal also returns provider-neutral text.

Proposed fix
 		} catch (error) {
 			const refusal = describeRefusal(error);
 			await applyCoworkRun(_chatId, runMessageId, {
 				status: 'failed',
-				error_message: refusal?.message ?? (error as Error)?.message ?? ''
+				error_message: refusal?.message ?? $i18n.t('Cowork task could not start.')
 			});
 			return;
 		}

As per coding guidelines, “Provider names never leak to customers; sanitize at both the control-plane and edge boundaries.”

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

In `@vendor/open-webui/src/lib/components/chat/Chat.svelte` around lines 2343 -
2347, Update the task-creation failure handling around describeRefusal and
applyCoworkRun so the stored error_message is always a provider-neutral
localized message, never the raw Error.message. Ensure describeRefusal itself
returns sanitized provider-neutral text, and replace its null fallback with the
established localized generic failure message before calling applyCoworkRun.

Source: Coding guidelines

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minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@docs/proof/cowork-composer-mode-2026-08-25/README.md`:
- Line 110: Update the proof log wording around get_system_oauth_token to use
the hyphenated term “server-side” instead of “server side,” without changing the
surrounding text.

In `@vendor/open-webui/src/routes/`(app)/artifacts/+page.svelte:
- Around line 210-215: Remove the duplicate hv-panel-head block containing the
Artifacts h1 and subtitle, while preserving the existing shared heading and
subtitle near the artifact-ready content. Keep the page’s single Artifacts title
and descriptive text unchanged.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@vendor/open-webui/src/lib/components/chat/Chat.svelte`:
- Around line 2354-2357: Update the createTask flow around applyCoworkRun and
followCoworkRun to capture the originating assistant turn and conversation
history before the request begins, then persist task.id against that captured
turn after resolution even if navigateHandler replaced the active history.
Preserve normal behavior for the currently active chat and add a regression test
covering navigation while createTask remains unresolved.
- Around line 2343-2347: Update the task-creation failure handling around
describeRefusal and applyCoworkRun so the stored error_message is always a
provider-neutral localized message, never the raw Error.message. Ensure
describeRefusal itself returns sanitized provider-neutral text, and replace its
null fallback with the established localized generic failure message before
calling applyCoworkRun.
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CodeRabbit's follow-up pass on PR #1193 caught two more issues:

- +page.svelte's populated-list branch rendered its own "Artifacts"
  title and subtitle on top of the shared hv-panel-head added earlier
  in the same PR, so a visitor with any artifact saw two headings. The
  empty state only ever renders the shared head, which is why the
  earlier capture (empty state) missed it. Removed the duplicate block;
  the shared head is now the only title in every state.
- docs/proof README: "server side" -> "server-side" as a compound
  adjective.

Visual proof of the fix (populated state, one heading) posted on the
PR; capture log at docs/proof/cowork-composer-mode-2026-08-25/
thread-4-artifacts-duplicate-heading.md.
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Artifacts page with an artifact present: one heading, one subtitle. Fixes the duplicate-title regression CodeRabbit's follow-up review caught.

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…rphaned request_attempts, issue #1102) (#1201)

## Summary

PR #1194's migration
`20260825_03_usage_events_completed_dedup_and_rescale_backfill.sql` has
failed on every deploy since it merged. `deploy-demo-box` run
32912034013 (and one run since) hit:

```
psql:.../20260825_03_...sql:227: ERROR:  insert or update on table "usage_events" violates foreign key constraint "usage_events_request_attempt_id_fkey"
DETAIL:  Key (request_attempt_id)=(819cc2ad-d657-4419-9731-349b43675ecf) is not present in table "request_attempts".
```

Nothing has reached the box since, including PR #1193 (Cowork composer
mode).

## Root cause

The live database already holds `usage_events` rows whose
`request_attempt_id` no longer has a matching `request_attempts` row.
This is **issue #1102**, not a new defect: a retention purge deletes
`request_attempts` rows without going through the FK's own `ON DELETE
CASCADE` trigger (it bypasses it rather than the FK being
misconfigured). Live count 2026-08-25: 483 orphaned `usage_events` rows
spanning 2026-04-01 through 2026-08-18 — an ongoing, ordinary state of
this table, not a one-off.

The migration was validated against a throwaway database with none of
these orphans, so the defect never showed up before merge. Step 2 (the
ledger-reconciliation UPDATE) is what trips it: reproducibly isolated
via a rolled-back replay against the live data (confirmed twice,
byte-identical error and row).

## Was the live database left in a bad state?

No. Verified directly against the live box before writing any fix:
- The migration wraps `BEGIN`/`COMMIT` around the whole file and every
failed deploy attempt rolled back cleanly: the 604 duplicate
`'completed'` pairs Step 1 processes were still fully present afterward
(unmerged), and the Step 3 unique index
(`ux_usage_events_completed_attempt`) did not exist.
- The file was never recorded in `public.hive_schema_migrations` (empty
result on every check), so it was safe to amend in place rather than
ship as a new migration.

## Fix

Step 2's `WHERE` clause now requires the row's `request_attempt_id` to
still have a live `request_attempts` parent:

```sql
AND EXISTS (
  SELECT 1 FROM public.request_attempts ra WHERE ra.id = ue.request_attempt_id
)
```

A row with no live parent is skipped, not silently reconciled — there is
nothing left to reconcile it against with confidence either way. Step
1's dedup UPDATE/DELETE needed no change: it was proven safe against the
same live orphaned data in two independent rolled-back replays before
this fix was written.

Fixing the retention purge itself is issue #1102's job, tracked
separately (extend the purge to cascade/null the referencing rows, or an
owner decision to drop constraint enforcement). Out of scope here.

## Verification

- Isolated the failing statement on live production data via rolled-back
transactions (`BEGIN; ...; ROLLBACK;`), never committing a probe.
- Confirmed the fixed Step 2 (with the `EXISTS` guard) completes the
full Step 1 + Step 2 sequence against the real orphaned live data
without error, in a rolled-back replay.
- Added `TestMigrationSurvivesOrphanedRequestAttempt`: builds a real
reservation + duplicate `'completed'` write + stale pre-rescale credit
delta through the actual services, deletes its `request_attempts` row
while bypassing the cascade trigger (reproducing issue #1102's exact
live shape), then executes the real on-disk migration file via the
Postgres simple query protocol (same execution path `psql -f` uses)
against a from-scratch, fully-migrated local Postgres 17 test database.
Asserts no error and that the orphaned row is left untouched, not
reconciled.
- Negative-controlled the new test twice: against the original unpatched
migration it fails, first because the guard predicate text is missing
(static check), and — before that check was tightened to a precise
string — because the orphaned row silently got reconciled instead of
skipped. Restored the fixed file and reran; the full
`internal/accounting` suite (30 tests) and the full `apps/control-plane`
short suite (55 packages) pass.

## Test plan

- [x] `go build ./apps/control-plane/...`
- [x] `go vet ./apps/control-plane/...`
- [x] `go test ./apps/control-plane/internal/accounting/... -v` against
a from-scratch, fully-migrated local Postgres 17 (all 30 tests pass,
including the new one and its #1180 sibling)
- [x] `go test -short ./apps/control-plane/...` (55 packages, all pass)
- [x] Fixed Step 1 + Step 2 sequence replayed against real live orphaned
data on the demo box in a rolled-back transaction, reaches completion
with no FK error
- [x] Negative control: new test fails against the original unpatched
migration file
- [ ] Live deploy: merging should unblock `deploy-demo-box`, confirm the
triggered run succeeds

Buglog entry included in the commit message body per `.wolf/`'s
buglog-lands-on-main convention; will be appended to `main` in a
separate buglog-only PR once this merges.

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…1202)

Follow-up to #1193, which made Cowork a mode of the composer and
rendered a run as a conversation turn. Between submit and completion
that turn showed nothing, which reads as a hang.

## The gap was frontend only

The comment left in `coworkMode.ts` said the wire had no per-step feed.
It has had one since #1073 merged:

- agent-engine emits real per-step events, mapped from OpenHands
`ActionEvent`, `ObservationEvent`, `MessageEvent` and `AgentErrorEvent`,
with an unmapped class deliberately landing as a `status` event carrying
the raw payload rather than being dropped.
- control-plane stores them and serves `GET /internal/agent-tasks/{id}`
and `/events` behind an `after_seq` cursor.
- edge-api exposes `GET /v1/agent/tasks/{id}` and `/events`,
FeatureCowork gated.
- The chat proxy already routed `get_task` and `list_task_events`, with
UUID and cursor validation.

`vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/agentTasks.ts` had `listTasks`,
`createTask` and `cancelTask` and nothing else, so the run turn polled
the whole task list and rendered no steps.

## What this changes

**`agentTasks.ts`**: `getTask` and `getTaskEvents`, matching the proxy's
contract. The cursor and limit are floored to plain non-negative
integers, which is exactly what `hive_agent_proxy.py` accepts and the
only shape that avoids a 400. `decodeEvent` keeps an event whose kind
this build does not recognise, the way `decodeTask` already keeps an
unrecognised status, because the backend goes out of its way not to drop
an unmapped upstream class and dropping it at the last hop would undo
that.

**The follower**: reads one task by id instead of listing every task the
user owns and filtering it, which was the ponytail note in the code.
Each poll then asks for events strictly after the highest seq the turn
already carries. That seq is read off the stored lines, so a
conversation reopened in another tab resumes where it left off instead
of re-reading the run from zero. A full page means more is behind it and
the loop asks again, bounded at five pages per read.

**The rendering**: events fold into muted lines on the same
`statusHistory` field the chat path already uses for "Searching the web"
and "Retrieved 3 sources". No new component, no branch in the
transcript, and the treatment is the one the parity review found already
matched the reference product. A tool call and its result join on
`tool_call_id` into one line, which shimmers while the call is open.

## Honesty properties, each with a test

- Nothing renders that the backend did not send. No optimistic step, no
synthesised progress. A `status` row that only repeats the task's own
state contributes no line rather than a placeholder.
- A payload the backend replaced with its truncation marker says so, and
says the size. A preview sitting exactly on the 2000-rune cap is
reported as shortened rather than shown as though complete: the cap
leaves no marker behind, so the boundary is the only evidence there is.
- A terminal run settles every line still open, so nothing shimmers
under a turn that says the task finished. The text is not rewritten,
because what is known is that the step stopped, not that it succeeded.
- An event kind this build has never met still produces a line.
- The events read is best effort and the status read is the authority: a
failed event fetch keeps the lines already on screen and never erases
real progress with a transport failure.

## Not regressed, and pinned by tests

The three behaviours #1193's review fixed: the `_chatId` navigation
guard, resuming every pending run rather than the oldest
(`selectPendingCoworkTurns`), and the clean refusal when files are
attached in Cowork mode.

## Tests

`scripts/test-owui-hive-frontend.sh`: 175 passing, up from 147. Svelte
compile pass green for all 13 Hive components; `Chat.svelte` compiled
separately with the image build's pinned svelte 5.56.0 after TypeScript
preprocessing.

Visual proof follows in a comment.
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…b) (#1205)

## Summary

- Verifies #1202's per-step progress rendering and #1193's composer mode
against a real deployed sandbox run, not the local `agent_stub.py`
#1202's own capture disclosed using (the three blockers that stub named
are gone: the demo box now carries #1193/#1202/#1203, the box is not
WSL2, and a live session could be minted).
- Toggle, draft preservation, real sandbox launch, settle behaviour, and
mid-run reload cursor resume all verified working.
- Per-step progress does **not** hold up against a real run: the
substantive 58-second work window produced zero new events, and the six
lines that did land are mostly dead text or noise. Zero
`tool_call`/`tool_result`/`error` events appeared despite real terminal
and file-editor tool use. Full detail in the capture log.

## Test plan

- [x] `node tools/lint-no-token-in-proof-captures.mjs` passes locally
against the new `docs/proof/cowork-run-progress-live-2026-08-26/`
directory
- [x] Screenshots posted as a follow-up comment on #1202 via
`scripts/post-pr-visual-proof.sh`
- [x] Findings verified independently against `public.agent_tasks` /
`public.agent_task_events` on the box's own Postgres, not only the UI

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…1233)

Closes the wiring half of the 2026-08-25 evening rescore findings on the
chat home (greeting and quick-start chips "merged, deployed,
invisible").

**Ground truth on main, verified before editing:** the mount was already
correct. `Chat.svelte`'s landing branch mounts `Placeholder.svelte` for
every empty conversation since #1193 removed the `landingPageMode`
bypass, and `home-surface.test.ts` pins it. The rescore snapshot
predates that fix. What remained open was the dead duplication that
produced the misdiagnosis, and the missing build-time signal.

**This PR:**

- Deletes `ChatPlaceholder.svelte`. Its only mount, `Messages.svelte`'s
empty-history branch, contradicts `Chat.svelte`'s own landing condition
(Messages renders only when the message list is non-empty), so the
component was unreachable. One placeholder now.
- `Messages.svelte` keeps rendering its content iff history has
messages; dead branch and import removed.
- The `Dockerfile.open-webui` bundle check now also requires
`hv-greeting` and `data-hive-quickstart` in `/app/build/_app/immutable`,
so a future mount or wiring regression fails the image build instead of
surfacing only as a silent absence on the live box.

**Verification (all against this branch):**

- Image build green (`BUILD_EXIT=0`), vendored vitest suite passing (14
files, `home-surface.test.ts` 5/5), extended bundle assertions passing
(`hive: shell present, removed surfaces absent`).
- Standalone container render of `/`: `.hv-greeting` = "Good morning,
Chatwire Verify", four `[data-hive-quickstart]` chips (Code, Write,
Explain, Analyze). Capture log:
`docs/proof/chat-home-wiring/capture-log.md`. Screenshot posted below as
a release asset.

Buglog entry (to be appended to `.wolf/buglog.jsonl` via the buglog-only
PR route after merge):

```json
{"ts":"2026-08-26","source":"pr","error_message":"live rescore found merged greeting+chips invisible: landingPageMode==='chat' accounts skipped Placeholder.svelte for upstream ChatPlaceholder","root_cause":"two competing placeholder components plus a stored personalisation setting gating the mount, and no build-time assertion covering the landing surface","fix":"#1193 removed the setting gate; this PR deletes dead ChatPlaceholder and asserts hv-greeting/data-hive-quickstart in the built bundle","tags":["open-webui","frontend","chat-home","bundle-assertions"]}
```
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…1735)

Closes #1065. Closes #847 was already done before this branch; see the
ground-truth section below.

Changed from `Refs` to `Closes` after the independent security review
judged both halves delivered, and checked rather than accepted: #1065's
own acceptance text is two sentences, and both are now satisfied. The
chat half, a file attached in chat reaching the model in the same turn,
was already true on `main` and is verified rather than assumed. The
Cowork half, a file existing inside the sandbox and listing in the
panel, is proven on a real Apptainer launch below.

One thing not shown as a pixel, so the claim stays checkable: the
Working folder is proven through the route the panel calls, `GET
/v1/agent/tasks/{id}/files`, rather than by a screenshot of the panel
rendering the row. This pull request does not touch that renderer.

## Ground truth first, because the issue names two surfaces

**Chat half: already fixed, verified twice, not re-broken by this
branch.** #1065 cites #847 as its chat-side symptom. #847 was closed on
2026-08-30 after a live re-measurement on 2026-08-29 against `c9e1419b`:
an attachment uploaded, processed, and its content reached the model in
the same turn with a citation. The `File not found.` literal it was
named for is gone from every one of the five composers that carried the
copy-pasted handler, and `chat-noise-guards.test.ts` pins its absence.
PR #1707, merged earlier today, exercised the same manual attach path
again while proving something else. So the chat composer needs no code
change, and this branch makes none to it beyond the Work-mode branch of
the shared submit handler.

**Cowork half: genuinely broken, and this is it.** The break is one
line, and it is the shape this repository keeps producing.

| Step | State on `main` |
|---|---|
| A file is attached in the composer while Work mode is selected |
Uploads fine. The plus menu, the size cap and the extraction all work;
Work mode shares the composer with chat. |
| The person presses send | `submitHandler`
(`vendor/open-webui/src/lib/components/chat/Chat.svelte:2569`) refuses:
*"Attachments are not supported in Work mode yet."* |
| The refusal's stated reason | Accurate. `createTask` sent `{pack,
instructions}` and nothing else
(`vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/agentTasks.ts:282`), `POST
/v1/agent/tasks` decoded exactly those two fields plus `project_id`
(`apps/edge-api/internal/agenttask/handler.go:135`), and `Remote.Launch`
put five keys on the wire, none of them a document
(`apps/control-plane/internal/agentengine/remote.go:67`). |
| Where a document would have to land | `workingDir` in
`SandboxEngine.Launch`
(`apps/agent-engine/internal/engine/engine.go:632`), the directory bind
mounted as `/workspace`. Nothing but `materializePack` ever wrote to it.
|

So there was no reader because there was no writer, and no writer
because there was nothing on the wire to write. The refusal was the only
honest thing in the chain.

## What now reaches the sandbox

The document's extracted text, written to a real file in the agent's
working directory before the conversation starts, and the file's name on
the run's initial message so the agent knows to open it.

The chain, one thin hop per layer:

* `Chat.svelte` gathers the attachments **before** the composer is
cleared, so a refusal costs the person neither their prompt nor their
chips, and renders the same file chips on the user turn a chat turn
renders.
* `coworkAttachments.ts` (new, Hive authored, unit tested) reads each
file's extracted text back from `GET /api/v1/files/{id}`, refuses what
the sandbox cannot resolve, and enforces the count and byte caps in the
browser so the person is told before the send rather than by a 400.
* `hive_agent_proxy.py` rebuilds the list field by field, the way it
already rebuilds `pack` and `instructions`, and never forwards the
submitted body wholesale.
* `apps/edge-api/internal/agenttask` validates, then forwards.
Validation runs ahead of the project check and the solvency gate, so a
request that cannot be honoured never takes a credit hold and never
creates a row.
* `apps/control-plane/internal/agenttask` carries them on the in-memory
`Task`, exactly where `BearerJWT` and `LLMAPIKey` already live, and
**does not persist them**. A task row is a control record, not a copy of
the customer's documents.
* Both arms of `buildAgentEngine` hand the engine the same task:
`Remote.Launch` puts them on the `/launch` body, and the in-process
`agentengine.Engine` converts them too, so a deployment cannot quietly
lose attachments depending on how it is wired.
* `apps/agent-engine/internal/engine/attachments.go` (new) writes them
into `workingDir` through an `os.Root`, after `materializePack`, with
`O_EXCL`.

## Why the text travels inline, and the ceiling that buys

The sandbox is behind `--network none` with an egress proxy in front of
it. It holds no Hive credential and has no route to the object storage a
chat attachment lives in, so something has to hand it the bytes. The
browser that uploaded them is the one party already authorized to read
them, which is why the text rides the create request rather than a file
id the sandbox would have to resolve.

That means no new read path, no new permission, and no widening of who
can see whose documents. It also means a bound: five attachments, 256
KiB of combined text, refused with a message rather than truncated.
Truncation would hand the agent a document that stops mid sentence and
let it answer confidently from half a file, which is the same
silent-failure class this issue is about. The upgrade path, when a run
needs a 25 MB PDF verbatim, is for the launcher to fetch the document
itself, and that needs a credential and a route it does not have today.
The number is written down in three places that must agree, each
pointing at `apps/edge-api/internal/agenttask/handler.go` as the one
that enforces it.

## Retrieval scope: untouched, stated explicitly

This adds no retrieval. It does not read `public.rag_documents`, does
not touch `/v1/rag/*`, does not resolve a collection, and does not call
`get_sources_from_items`. A Cowork run gets the bytes the submitting
person's own browser already held and nothing else.

In particular it neither helps nor worsens **#1643**, the tenant
readable RAG store: that issue keeps its full scope. The project half of
this problem, a run consulting a Project's documents, is **#1312** and
task 8 of the Projects unification spec, and both still own it. Wiring a
`project_id` retrieval into the launcher here would have meant exactly
the widening #1643 warns about, on a path with no ownership check
written yet.

## Untrusted input, since this is a file path and a model prompt

* **A name is not a path.** `../escape.txt`, `nested/file.txt`, `.`,
`..`, a backslash, a control character and anything over 255 bytes are
refused, in the browser, at the proxy, at edge-api and again in the
launcher. The launcher checks it a fourth time on purpose: it is the
process that turns a name into a path, and it does not trust the three
hops above it, exactly as it already does for `Task.Pack`.

**That four-hop claim is about the name and nothing else**, stated here
because it reads as covering more. The count and the 256 KiB total are
enforced in the browser and in edge-api's `validateAttachments` and
nowhere after that, so past edge-api the only bound left is the body
reader. Deliberate: a second copy of the quantity policy in
control-plane would be the two disagreeing copies that package already
refuses to keep for packs, and that surface is behind
`RequireInternalToken` rather than customer reachable. The comment at
the field says the same thing.
* **A name is not a sentence either.** The names go on the run's initial
message, and a file name is free text with a small alphabet removed:
refusing separators and control characters takes the line break away and
nothing else. Each name is written with `%q`, so it arrives quoted, a
quote inside it is escaped, and it cannot terminate its own line.
`TestSandboxEngine_Launch_FencesTheAttachmentNameInThePrompt` uses a
name shaped like an instruction.
* **One person's keypress is one run.** Gathering the attachments before
the composer is cleared is what keeps a refusal from costing someone
their message, and it put the first `await` on the cowork path in front
of the clear. A second Enter in that window meant two `createTask` calls
and two credit holds. `coworkGatherInFlight`, released in a `finally`
before the clear, closes it without holding the flag through the send,
which would have broken the message queue path underneath.
* **A traversal that the string check cannot see.** Every write goes
through `os.Root` confined to `workingDir`, so a symlinked subdirectory
cannot be crossed even if a name got past the check.
* **A name cannot replace a pack file.** The pack is planted first and
every attachment is created `O_EXCL`. An attachment called `AGENTS.md`
is kept as `AGENTS-1.md`; it does not overwrite the pack's own
instructions with user supplied text, which would be both a broken pack
and a very short path to a prompt injection. The rename is bounded.
* **Content is untrusted, and stays that way.** It is written to a file,
not spliced into the system prompt. Only the file names go on the
initial message, which is the same untrusted-document posture the pack's
own handling already carries and which `listWorkspaceFiles` already
reasons about.
* **Credentials.** Nothing new is logged. The launcher's existing
`redactCredentials` on the launch error path is unchanged and still
covers both keys that request carries.

## Tests

Red first, and red for the right reason: every new assertion reads the
value back at the far end rather than checking that it was sent.

* `apps/agent-engine/internal/engine/attachments_test.go` reads the
attachment's **content** out of the directory the launch bind mounts as
`/workspace`, asserts it appears in the working folder listing with the
right size, asserts a colliding name leaves the pack's `AGENTS.md` byte
for byte intact and keeps the attachment anyway, asserts seven malformed
names each fail the launch and leave no working directory behind, and
asserts the initial message names the file without carrying its content.
* `apps/control-plane/internal/agentengine/remote_test.go` decodes the
actual `/launch` body a fake daemon received, which is the seam this
defect class breaks at, and asserts the key is absent when the task has
no attachments so an older launcher sees the body it always did.
* `apps/edge-api/internal/agenttask/attachments_test.go` asserts what
reached control-plane, and that each refusal happens with `createCalled`
still false, so a bad request cannot take a hold.
* `vendor/open-webui/src/lib/hive/coworkAttachments.test.ts` covers the
content read, both places the text can already be, the four refusals,
and that the cap is measured in bytes rather than code units, since a
Bengali or emoji-heavy document is three times its string length.
* One stale guard retired with its reason recorded: `coworkMode.test.ts`
pinned the blanket refusal string as a fixed behaviour from the #1193
review. It is no longer a behaviour, and leaving it would have made this
fix unmergeable for a reason the file did not explain.

## Proven end to end on a real Apptainer sandbox

Written after the fact, because the pull request originally said this
could not be shown before merge. That was true of the development box
and not of CI. `agent-visual-proof.yml` stands the real thing up per run
from `refs/pull/1735/merge`; a scenario was added to its harness and
dispatched at this pull request. Run 33668985745, `success`:

```
the sandbox workspace holds service-record.txt carrying HIVE-1065-68985745
GET /v1/agent/tasks/{id}/files answered HTTP 200:
  {"files":[{"name":".git","size":4096,...},{"name":"service-record.txt","size":66,...}]}
scenario attachment-reaches-the-sandbox: ok
```

Both halves of the issue's Cowork acceptance criterion, on a real
launch: the file exists inside the sandbox, asserted on its content and
on a string generated for that run, and it lists in the Working folder
through the customer route the panel itself calls. Detail, including the
two false negatives the scenario hit first, is in a comment below.

## Filed rather than fixed here

Three, all from the security review, all either pre-existing or latent,
none of them a reason to widen this diff.

* **#1750**, an attachment named `AGENTS.md` becomes the agent's project
instructions if a pack ever ships without one. Today it collides with a
pack-planted file and is renamed, so the protection is the pack's rather
than the writer's. Latent, not present.
* **#1751**, the message queue replays a Work mode submission as a chat
completion and now replays its attachments with it. The mode blindness
is #944 and predates this change; attachments make an existing wrong
path visible.
* **#1752**, each unbounded launch goroutine (#900) now retains up to
256 KiB. A constant factor on an unbounded count, worth recording for
whoever sizes #900.

## What this pull request does not do

* It does not give a Cowork run a Project's documents. That is #1312 and
needs an ownership check on `project_id` in Go.
* It does not move the 25 MB chat upload ceiling into Work mode. See the
ceiling section.
* It does not change the chat surface's attachment behaviour at all.

## Buglog entry

```json
{"id":"bug-1065-cowork-attachment-never-reaches-sandbox","date":"2026-09-02","title":"A file attached in the composer could not be given to a Cowork run at all","error_message":"Attachments are not supported in Work mode yet. Remove the file, or switch to Chat mode to send it.","root_cause":"The composer refused the send because there was nothing downstream to accept a document: createTask sent only pack and instructions, POST /v1/agent/tasks decoded only those plus project_id, Remote.Launch put no document on the /launch body, and SandboxEngine.Launch wrote nothing but the pack into the working directory the sandbox bind mounts as /workspace. Four layers with no field, so the refusal in the browser was the only honest link in the chain.","fix":"Carry the attachment's extracted text inline from the composer to the launcher, and write it into the session working directory after materializePack with O_EXCL through an os.Root, adding the file names to the run's initial message. Validate the name as a bare file name at all four hops, cap at five attachments and 256 KiB of combined text ahead of the credit hold, and never persist the content on the task row.","tags":["cowork","agent-engine","attachments","issue-1065","issue-847","sandbox","edge-api","control-plane","open-webui"]}
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
  * Work mode now supports attaching documents to runs.
* Attached files are validated, transferred with the run, and made
available in the working folder.
* Attached files appear on the user message and can be viewed through
the working-folder listing.
* Supports up to five attachments with a combined text limit of 256 KiB.
  * Larger requests are supported to accommodate attachment content.

* **Bug Fixes**
* Attachments are rejected when empty, oversized, invalidly named, or
unsupported.

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