## Summary
- prefer the bundled desktop UI over the downloaded cache when both
report the same version, so rebuilt installers do not keep serving stale
frontend assets
- rebuild the server workspace during the Tauri prebuild step on every
desktop package build, matching Electron's correctness boundary for
fresh UI/server assets
- add a regression test covering the equal-version bundled-vs-downloaded
UI selection path
## Why
- local desktop rebuilds should reflect the latest server and UI code
without requiring users to manually clear cached assets
- packaged updates should keep favoring the freshly bundled frontend
when the cached copy is not actually newer
## Testing
- node --import tsx --test
packages/server/src/ui/__tests__/remote-ui.test.ts
- npm run build:tauri
## Summary
- sync the Tauri native version metadata from
`packages/tauri-app/package.json` so release builds pick up workspace
version bumps like `0.13.1`
- update the checked-in Tauri `Cargo.toml` and `tauri.conf.json`
versions from `0.12.3` to `0.13.1`
- document the prebuild sync behavior in `BUILD.md`
## Testing
- `node packages/tauri-app/scripts/sync-tauri-version.js`
## Summary
- escape raw HTML when rendering user message markdown so prompt input
is shown as text instead of injected HTML
- keep assistant and tool markdown behavior unchanged by scoping the
escape behavior to user messages
- update markdown cache keys so escaped and non-escaped render output do
not collide
## Verification
- `npm run typecheck --workspace @codenomad/ui` *(fails in this
workspace because frontend dependencies are not installed)*
- `npm run build --workspace @codenomad/ui` *(fails in this workspace
because `vite` is not installed)*
--
Yours,
[CodeNomadBot](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad)
Co-authored-by: Shantur <shantur@Mac.home>
## Summary
- Adds file writing capability to Monaco editor in the file viewer
- Implements writeFile API on the server for workspace files
- Integrates save functionality into the file viewer UI with proper
state management
## Bug Fixes (Review Feedback)
- Fixed failed save discarding edits when switching files - now checks
save result and only proceeds if successful
- Fixed refresh overwriting dirty editor state - now prompts for
confirmation before discarding edits
- Fixed save button unable to save empty files - changed check from `if
(content)` to `if (content !== undefined && content !== null)`
- Added agent edit conflict detection - when agent edits file while user
has unsaved changes, shows conflict dialog with Overwrite/Cancel options
- Fixed dialog appearing behind unpinned sidebar - increased alert
dialog z-index to z-100
## Related Issues
- Closes#251
---------
Co-authored-by: Jess Chadwick <jchadwick@gmail.com>
## Thanks for contributions
- PR [#249](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/249)
"feat(speech): add prompt voice input" by
[@shantur](https://github.com/shantur)
- PR [#243](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/243)
"feat(i18n): Hebrew locale + full RTL support" by
[@MusiCode1](https://github.com/MusiCode1)
- PR [#241](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/241)
"feat(lazy loading): Implement virtual list with virtua" by
[@pixellos](https://github.com/pixellos)
- PR [#240](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/240)
"fix(tauri): force Windows process tree shutdown" by
[@pascalandr](https://github.com/pascalandr)
- PR [#239](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/239)
"perf(ui): split right panel and secondary viewer chunks" by
[@pascalandr](https://github.com/pascalandr)
- PR [#238](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/238)
"perf(ui): defer locale and overlay bundles" by
[@pascalandr](https://github.com/pascalandr)
- PR [#236](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/236)
"Suppress OS notifications for subagent (child) sessions" by
`@app/codenomadbot`
- PR [#235](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/235)
"fix(ui): unwrap pasted placeholders in slash commands" by
`@app/codenomadbot`
- PR [#232](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/232)
"fix(tauri): stop CLI process group on exit" by `@app/codenomadbot`
- PR [#229](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/229)
"feat(ui): add RTL support for Hebrew/Arabic text" by
[@MusiCode1](https://github.com/MusiCode1)
- PR [#227](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/227)
"fix(tauri): improve Windows desktop runtime behavior" by
[@pascalandr](https://github.com/pascalandr)
- PR [#226](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/226)
"fix(tauri): restore desktop menu controls and fullscreen shortcut" by
[@pascalandr](https://github.com/pascalandr)
- PR [#225](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/225)
"fix(tauri): restore external links in the folder picker" by
[@pascalandr](https://github.com/pascalandr)
- PR [#224](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/224)
"fix(tauri): sync server UI bundle during prebuild" by
[@pascalandr](https://github.com/pascalandr)
- PR [#215](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad/pull/215)
"perf(ui): lazy-load markdown and defer diff rendering" by
[@pascalandr](https://github.com/pascalandr)
## Highlights
- **Voice-first conversations**: Start prompts with voice input,
configure speech behavior from settings, and listen back to assistant
responses with message playback and conversation playback controls.
- **A complete Hebrew + RTL experience**: CodeNomad now ships with a
full Hebrew locale and much broader right-to-left support, making the
app feel natural for Hebrew users while improving Arabic text rendering
too.
- **A much faster experience in long chats**: The new virtualized
message list, deferred markdown and diff rendering, and more selective
loading for heavy UI surfaces make large sessions feel noticeably
smoother.
## What's Improved
- **More flexible speech controls**: Speech settings and playback modes
now adapt better to different browsers and platform capabilities.
- **Cleaner prompt workflow**: The prompt includes a quick clear action,
a simpler recording indicator, and a more polished mic control layout.
- **Faster startup and lighter heavy views**: Locale bundles, overlays,
right-panel viewers, picker flows, markdown, and diff surfaces all load
more lazily to reduce upfront UI work.
- **Less notification spam**: Subagent sessions no longer fire OS
notifications, so important interruptions are easier to notice.
- **Better RTL behavior across the whole interface**: Session names,
tool outputs, markdown blocks, file views, selectors, and layout
controls behave more consistently in right-to-left contexts.
## Fixes
- **More reliable Windows desktop behavior**: Process cleanup is
stronger during app shutdown, background CLI process trees are
terminated more reliably, desktop identity/metadata is aligned more
cleanly, and stray console windows are hidden during startup and exit.
- **Cleaner shutdown on macOS and Linux**: Desktop quit/close now stops
the spawned CLI process group more reliably, reducing leftover
background processes after exit.
- **Restored desktop actions**: External links in the folder picker work
again, and the desktop View/Window controls plus the fullscreen shortcut
are back.
- **More stable streaming and scrolling**: Reasoning streams stay pinned
more consistently, follow behavior is less jumpy, spacing is cleaner in
virtualized conversations, and session switching retains position more
smoothly.
- **Safer slash command pasting**: Pasted placeholders are resolved
correctly before slash commands run, so long pasted inputs behave like
normal prompts.
- **More dependable desktop packaging**: Tauri prebuild now refreshes
the server UI bundle correctly, which avoids packaged desktop builds
picking up stale UI assets.
- **Clearer speech compatibility handling**: Streaming playback
limitations are surfaced more cleanly instead of failing in a confusing
way.
### Contributors
- [@pascalandr](https://github.com/pascalandr)
- [@MusiCode1](https://github.com/MusiCode1)
- [@pixellos](https://github.com/pixellos)
## Summary
- add server-backed speech capabilities and transcription endpoints plus
UI settings for speech configuration
- add push-to-talk prompt voice input with microphone controls,
transcription insertion, and browser capability gating
- keep prompt controls aligned by restoring right-side nav placement and
moving the mic beside the expand control
## Summary
- force the Windows CLI process tree shutdown path during normal app
close
- avoid leaving child server processes alive when the direct wrapper
process exits first
- keep the change limited to the Windows shutdown path in cli_manager
## Testing
- cargo check --manifest-path packages/tauri-app/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
# feat(i18n): Hebrew locale + full RTL support
## Summary
This PR adds full Hebrew (he) locale support to the UI, including a
complete translation of all user-facing strings and comprehensive RTL
layout support across all components.
## What was done
### Hebrew translation
- Full translation of all i18n message files for the `he` locale (17
translation files)
- Registered the language in the i18n system and the language picker
### RTL support
- Automatic direction detection (`dir="rtl"`) when Hebrew is selected
- Replaced physical CSS properties (`left`/`right`) with logical
equivalents (`inline-start`/`inline-end`) across the project
- Fixed resize direction, file path alignment, and textarea padding
- Fixed navigation button positioning in textarea for RTL
- Fixed scrollbar direction in RTL
- Fixed code block direction and selector alignment
- Fixed Monaco editor direction in the file viewer
- Auto-detect text direction in reasoning block (`dir="auto"` +
`unicode-bidi: plaintext`)
### Adapted components
- `session-layout` — sidebar and resize handle
- `prompt-input` — text direction and buttons
- `message-base` — message blocks and reasoning
- `message-timeline` — timeline bar
- `right-panel` — right side panel
- `tool-call` — tool call display
- `settings-screen` — settings page
- `selector` — selection component
- `instance-shell` — main shell
## New files
```
packages/ui/src/lib/i18n/messages/he/
advancedSettings.ts
app.ts
commands.ts
dialogs.ts
filesystem.ts
folderSelection.ts
index.ts
instance.ts
loadingScreen.ts
logs.ts
markdown.ts
messaging.ts
remoteAccess.ts
session.ts
settings.ts
time.ts
toolCall.ts
```
## Suggested testing
- Switch language to Hebrew and verify all strings are translated
- Verify RTL layout is correct across all screens (session, settings,
file viewer)
- Verify that English text inside a reasoning block is displayed LTR
- Switch back to English and verify everything returns to LTR
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Shantur Rathore <i@shantur.com>
## Summary
- defer locale and overlay loading work away from the first critical
render path
- seed locale state from the bootstrap preload so the first render can
use the preloaded language immediately
- keep bootstrap cache and locale fallback behavior consistent on
subsequent launches
## Testing
- npm run build --workspace @codenomad/ui
## Summary
- split the right panel, picker, and tool call secondary viewers into
smaller deferred chunks
- release hidden right-panel file buffers and stop tracking static
tool-call scrollers when they are not needed
- keep this branch focused on the remaining secondary viewer chunking
work now that the Monaco-specific chunking moved into PR 215
## Testing
- npm run build --workspace @codenomad/ui
## What and why
CodeNomad had no RTL (right-to-left) support, so users writing in Hebrew
or Arabic would see their messages displayed left-to-right — misaligned
text, broken reading flow, wrong punctuation placement.
This PR adds automatic direction detection to all elements that display
user or model text. The browser detects direction from the first strong
character in each text block: Hebrew/Arabic → RTL, Latin/code → LTR. No
configuration needed — it just works per message, per paragraph.
## Technical notes
The natural fix is `dir="auto"` on the containing elements. However,
Chromium does not propagate direction detection from a parent `<div>`
into its `<p>` children — so Hebrew inside `<p>` rendered via
`innerHTML` (as markdown is) was still detected as LTR. The fix is to
apply `unicode-bidi: plaintext` via CSS directly on the block-level
elements (`p`, `li`, headings, etc.), which has the same auto-detection
semantics but applies per element.
## Summary
- Add `dir="auto"` to all elements containing user-generated or
model-generated text (message content, prompt input, session names, tool
outputs) so the browser auto-detects text direction
- Add `unicode-bidi: plaintext` via CSS to markdown block elements (`p`,
`li`, headings, `blockquote`, `td`/`th`) to fix per-paragraph RTL
detection in Chromium (where `dir="auto"` on a parent div does not
recurse into block children)
- Convert physical CSS properties to logical equivalents in
`markdown.css`: `border-left` → `border-inline-start`, `padding-left` →
`padding-inline-start`, `text-align: left` → `text-align: start`,
`margin-left` → `margin-inline-start`
## Affected components
- `markdown.tsx` — main markdown renderer
- `message-part.tsx` — text part wrapper and plain-text fallback
- `message-item.tsx` — message body and error blocks
- `prompt-input.tsx` — user input textarea
- `session-list.tsx` — session titles in sidebar
- `session-rename-dialog.tsx` — session rename input
- `instance-welcome-view.tsx` — Resume Session dialog
- `tool-call/markdown-render.tsx` — tool output markdown fallback
- `tool-call/ansi-render.tsx` — ANSI output
- `tool-call/diagnostics-section.tsx` — diagnostic messages
## Test plan
- [ ] Send a Hebrew-only message → text right-aligned
- [ ] Send a mixed Hebrew + English message → correct per-paragraph
direction
- [ ] Message containing a code block → code stays LTR
- [ ] Type Hebrew in the prompt textarea → input flows right-to-left
- [ ] Hebrew session name in sidebar → right-aligned
- [ ] Hebrew session name in Resume Session dialog → right-aligned
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Summary
- restore the missing desktop View and Window menu controls
- use native reload and window actions where supported instead of
brittle webview-only behavior
- restore the working fullscreen keyboard shortcut while keeping the
zoom menu labels aligned with the intended desktop behavior
## Testing
- cargo check --manifest-path packages/tauri-app/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
## Summary
- lazy-load the markdown and diff render paths so they stop inflating
initial UI startup work
- move shared text rendering helpers out of the markdown path and keep
diff rendering on the deferred path
- defer the Monaco secondary viewers so the markdown and diff path no
longer keeps that work in the main bundle
## Follow-ups
- related fork follow-up: Pagecran/CodeNomad#1
- that follow-up is now independent on dev and only keeps the remaining
right panel, picker, and tool-call secondary chunking work
## Testing
- npm run typecheck --workspace @codenomad/ui
- npm run build --workspace @codenomad/ui
## What
Fix slash command execution so `[pasted #N]` placeholders are resolved
before calling `session.command`, matching normal prompt send behavior.
## Why
When pasting long text into a slash command (e.g. `/some-command [pasted
#1]`), the UI previously bypassed `resolvePastedPlaceholders(...)` for
known slash commands and sent the literal placeholder text as command
arguments.
## Changes
- Resolve pasted placeholders (and other prompt placeholders handled by
`resolvePastedPlaceholders`) in slash-command arguments before
`executeCustomCommand(...)`.
- Remove *consumed* pasted-text attachments (those referenced by
placeholders in the slash-command args) so they don’t linger for the
next prompt.
Fixes#234.
## Notes
- I attempted `npm run typecheck --workspace @codenomad/ui` locally but
the workspace dependencies aren’t installed in this bot environment, so
it fails with missing-module errors. CI should validate with a full
install.
--
Yours,
[CodeNomadBot](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad)
Co-authored-by: Shantur Rathore <i@shantur.com>
## Summary
- restore the GitHub and Discord links on the folder picker in the Tauri
app
- open those links through the desktop opener bridge instead of relying
on browser-only navigation behavior
- include the capability/schema updates needed for the opener path
## Testing
- npm run typecheck --workspace @codenomad/ui
- cargo check --manifest-path packages/tauri-app/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
This PR prevents OS notification spam from spawned subagent sessions by
skipping OS-level notifications for any session that is a child thread
(`parentId !== null`).
What changed
- `packages/ui/src/stores/session-events.ts`
- Added `isChildSession(...)` +
`shouldSendOsNotificationForSession(...)`
- Applied the check to OS notifications emitted from:
- `handleSessionIdle(...)`
- `handlePermissionUpdated(...)`
- `handleQuestionAsked(...)`
- If a session is not yet hydrated in the client store, we
conservatively *do not* emit an OS notification (avoids early subagent
spam).
Why
- Subagent sessions are represented as child sessions in the UI thread
model; OS notifications were previously emitted for all sessions
indiscriminately.
Testing
- Not run here: `bun run typecheck` fails in this environment due to
missing installed deps/types (e.g. `solid-js`).
Closes#228
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[CodeNomadBot](https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad)
Co-authored-by: Shantur Rathore <i@shantur.com>
### Summary of Improvements
This PR replaces the custom `IntersectionObserver`-based virtualization
with the `virtua` library to significantly improve rendering performance
and UI responsiveness.
### 🚀 Performance Results
Verified using `session-performance.test.ts`:
- **Rendering**: 2000 messages rendered in **16.90ms**.
- **Huge Conversation**: 10,000 messages processed in **0.80ms**.
- **Session Switching**: Average switch time reduced to **0.58ms**
(virtually zero lag).
### 🛠️ Key Changes
- **Virtualized Message Stream**: Integrated `virtua/solid` for
efficient windowing and automatic scroll compensation.
- **Floating Scroll Controls**: Applied `position: absolute` and
`pointer-events: none` to the list controls to ensure
scroll-to-top/bottom buttons float correctly over the message area
without blocking interactions.
- **Package Synchronization**: Updated `virtua` and SDK dependencies,
with a fully synchronized `package-lock.json` for stable builds.
### 🎥 UI Verification
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/24e483a3-8be6-4ac4-a431-d719f2015f4e
- **Smooth Scrolling**: Verified that rendering gaps are eliminated
during fast scrolls.
- **Position Retention**: Scroll positions are preserved when switching
between sessions.
> [!NOTE]
> Detailed performance gains and layout fixes are isolated to the
`virtua` implementation and core package updates, following the
requested cleanup.
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Restrict non-dev pull requests to an allowlisted set of actors and skip cross-platform PR builds unless that authorization check passes. Keep dev open for general contributions while guiding other PRs back to the dev branch.
Run the full cross-platform build matrix on pull request creation and updates so build regressions are caught before merge without publishing release artifacts.
Ensure the Tauri prebuild step refreshes packages/server/public from the current UI renderer bundle so the packaged desktop app does not serve a stale folder-selection UI.
