New Task now opens directly as an empty ChatThread (NewTaskChat) instead of
a separate compose screen, sized like a real task window. The Scope/Activity
context rail in a task window no longer renders until there's actually
something to show (touched entities, activity, or an open question),
avoiding an empty-placeholder sidebar on every new task. Also fixes the
chat input defaulting to several lines tall on window open, centers the
empty-chat greeting vertically, and gives floating windows the same
frosted-glass look as the desktop's task launcher card.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the sidebar + hash-routed page shell with a desktop metaphor:
draggable app icons, apps opening as floating wmkit windows, a centered
"What should Nomos do?" task launcher, and a bottom taskbar showing all
open windows plus a system tray.
- New app registry ($lib/apps.ts) — adding an app is one entry, nothing
else to touch.
- New desktop shell components (Desktop, WindowLayer, DesktopIcon,
Taskbar, TaskLauncher) under $lib/components/desktop-shell/.
- Icon positions are a persisted, collision-avoiding grid ($lib/stores/icons.ts).
- Window layout persists across reloads (wmkit persist), with
drag-to-maximize, F6 window cycling, and now a right-click desktop menu
(cascade/tile/show desktop/reset icons) plus Cmd/Ctrl+Z undo/redo for
window moves, resizes, and closes.
- Taskbar buttons get a hover-close and self-correct their title once a
new task's real goal is known.
- New task windows (desktop launcher and the Tasks app's "New task"
button) open as a window, not a dialog, and hand off to the real
session window once the backend assigns an id.
- Fixed a real gap along the way: GET /sessions/{id} couldn't tell
"session deleted" from "session has no messages yet" (both returned
200 with an empty list) — cmd/nomos/main.go now checks existence and
404s, so a stale/persisted task window shows "Task not found" instead
of a misleadingly empty, live-looking chat.
- Test coverage for the new pure logic (icon placement/collision
avoidance, app registry id helpers) plus a vitest matchMedia polyfill
needed to import anything touching the theme store.
Deletes the now-superseded sidebar shell, MinimizedWindowsBar, and the
standalone Chat/EntityDetail pages (folded into the window layer).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clicking a task now opens it as a wmkit floating window (like entity
windows already do) instead of navigating away from wherever you were.
Several task windows can be open and actively streaming at once, each
fully independent — no "which one's on screen" guard needed, since
each window owns its own store bundle:
- chat.ts: chatFor(sessionId)/loadSessionChat/sendSessionMessage give
each window its own messages/streaming/connectionState, alongside
the existing singleton path the main Chat page still uses unchanged.
- workspace.ts: same split for plan/questions/touched/health-diffs
(workspaceFor/startSessionWorkspace), each with its own live-event
watermark since several windows can watch the same event stream.
- activity.ts: activityLogFor(sessionId) mirrors the global derivation.
SessionGraph.svelte, OperatorQuestion.svelte, and ActivityTimeline.svelte
were converted from store-importing to prop-driven (matching the new
ChatThread.svelte, extracted from Chat.svelte's transcript/input so both
the main page and task windows share one implementation instead of
duplicating markup/styling) so each can render either the global
"current session" or a specific window's session.
Also: minimized-window taskbar chips now cap at a max width with
middle-ellipsis truncation instead of growing unbounded, and the
window header's title/action-button row is fixed to genuinely match
heights (not just share a center point) for more robust alignment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every place that showed entity detail (Knowledge Base's right sidebar,
the EntitySheet drawer used by Knowledge and the chat session graph,
the standalone /entity/:slug page) now opens the entity in its own
floating, draggable, resizable window instead — several can be open
side by side, and clicking a relation inside one opens another,
building up a stack. Windows are managed by one global wmkit instance
(new $lib/stores/windows.ts + $lib/components/EntityDesktop.svelte,
mounted once in App.svelte), themed with the app's own card/border/ring
tokens rather than wmkit's bundled themes (app.css).
- Delete EntitySheet.svelte (redundant) and the KnowledgeBase resizable
detail pane; row/graph-node click handlers now call
openEntityWindow(slug) instead of setting local sidebar state.
- SessionGraph (chat's "Scope" mini-graph): clicking a node opens its
window directly instead of a click-through mini-detail panel with
its own resize handle and "Full detail" button — that whole
subsystem is now dead and removed. Node highlight ring is kept
(still useful to see what you last opened) and now clears itself via
an effect watching the shared window-manager store, so closing a
window drops the highlight instead of leaving it pointing at nothing
— same fix applied to Knowledge Base's row highlight.
- Compact the entity-detail panel's padding (container + each
DetailSection) now that it's typically viewed in a small window
rather than a full-height sidebar.
- Fix KnowledgeBase's browse pane losing its flex-1/min-w-0 (and thus
full width) when the wrapping single-child div around it was removed
along with the old detail-pane split.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
