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Summary

Resolves ENG-145: restore a dependable copy-to-clipboard action for Session messages in both the browser and packaged Electron shell.

The Session toolbar previously hid its actions behind hover-only opacity and pointer-event gating. Moving from the message toward the action could cancel the click target, and streaming messages removed the row entirely. Clipboard rejection or an unavailable Clipboard API only changed internal icon state, so the user received no explicit feedback. The packaged Electron shell additionally rejected the permission needed by Chromium's sanitized clipboard write, and it disabled the intentional developer-console shortcut.

Root cause

  • MessageActions used opacity-0 plus pointer-events-none until hover/focus, making a pointer transition fragile and creating an interaction that was not consistently discoverable or keyboard-stable.
  • deriveMessageActions only handled one array-shaped text-part representation and hid all streaming rows, so string content, settled-so-far streaming text, and layout stability were not covered.
  • The shared CopyIconButton had no user-facing success/error notification and did not expose a distinct error outcome when navigator.clipboard was unavailable or rejected a write.
  • The Electron session permission policy denied every permission, including clipboard-sanitized-write for the product's own daemon origin.
  • Packaged product windows set devTools: false and forcibly closed any DevTools instance, so Ctrl+Opt+I could not be used for intentional local debugging even though remote debugging remained disabled.

Implementation

Web and shared UI

  • Keep copy/timestamp actions persistently visible and keyboard reachable for user and assistant text; remove hover-only opacity and pointer-event gating.
  • Normalize copyable message content from string, string-array, and text-part forms while excluding attachments, reasoning, tool, file, and data parts from the single whole-message answer action.
  • Keep the action row reserved for every streaming message to prevent layout shift. Copy is disabled only before the first copyable token, then copies settled-so-far text while generation continues. Settled pure tool-only messages have no dead copy button.
  • Add guarded Clipboard API handling with explicit success and failure states, accessible labels, and Sonner success/error notifications. Preserve the existing icon transition and reset timing.
  • Serialize overlapping copy requests by ignoring stale completions, so a slower earlier write cannot overwrite the newest state or emit duplicate feedback.
  • Mount one Toaster in the site root so the shared primitive behaves consistently in both web and site consumers.

Electron shell

  • Allow only main-frame clipboard-sanitized-write requests whose normalized origin exactly matches the active daemon origin; keep all other permission checks/requests denied.
  • Reapply the permission policy when the runtime origin becomes available, while the boot window remains deny-by-default.
  • Enable DevTools only for the product window and add an explicit Control+Alt+I (Ctrl+Opt+I on macOS) toggle, including a hidden View-menu accelerator. Boot DevTools remain disabled and packaged remote-debugging switches remain removed.
  • Extend the canonical packaged Electron security test to verify actual OS clipboard contents, notification denial, DevTools open/close, and the absence of a remote-debugging endpoint.

QA and documentation

  • Update the canonical RT-053 copy scenario for packaged Electron coverage.
  • Add content-addressed scenario ET-electron-session-copy-debug and its targeted report. The automated packaged walk passed; the required physical production-parity macOS walk remains explicitly blocked-verify.

Tests and verification

Passing focused checks:

  • rtk bunx turbo run test --filter=@compozy/ui — 705/705 (including the canonical CodeBlock suite, now 19 tests).
  • rtk bunx turbo run test --filter=compozy-web -- --run src/components/assistant-ui/__tests__/session-thread.test.tsx — 87/87.
  • rtk make bun-lint — passed with zero warnings/errors.
  • rtk make bun-typecheck — passed.
  • rtk bunx turbo run typecheck --filter=@compozy/site — passed.
  • rtk make desktop-test — 137/137.
  • rtk make desktop-lint — desktop format, lint, and typecheck passed.
  • rtk make desktop-build — packaged macOS arm64 app built.
  • rtk make web-build — generated the daemon-served bundle needed by the Electron fixture.
  • cd desktop && ./node_modules/.bin/playwright test --config playwright.config.ts --grep "E2E-034" — 1/1 passed; verified OS clipboard contents, product DevTools toggle, boot hardening, and no remote-debugging endpoint.
  • rtk git diff --check and changed-file oxfmt --check — passed.

The required scoped rtk make gate was run for the first web change and twice-focused suites passed. After the Electron follow-up, rtk make gate correctly classified unclassified desktop paths and escalated automatically to its full lane; that lane stopped at two pre-existing source-size violations (web/src/systems/marketplace/routes/marketplace-detail.stories.tsx 508 lines and web/src/systems/session/index.ts 504 lines). No changed file violated the cap and no ENG-145 test failed. make gate-full and make verify were not invoked directly, per task instructions.

GitHub CI run 32798616834 was watched to completion. The ENG-145 Desktop, Preflight, Darwin peer, React Doctor, Vercel, and PR-title checks passed. The required aggregate check is red only because unrelated baseline work fails: Frontend has one existing use-window-manager-stream.test.tsx:322 failure; Go source-size repeats the two files above; Go build/race reports the pre-existing internal/demoseed/seed.go:79 ListPresets compile error plus unrelated profile/SQLite timeout failures (race shard 1 timed out with 331 failures, shard 2 had 12 failures). Those files are outside this PR and were not modified.

The first PR CodeRabbit round completed with approval and no actionable comments. The required second GraphQL fetch was also run after the Electron commit; it returned no review threads, while the service reported Review rate limited. Artifacts are .codex/artifacts/coderabbit/pr-460-review.json and .codex/artifacts/coderabbit/pr-460-review-round2.json; both were fetched with .codex/scripts/coderabbit-review-graphql.sh 460.

QA status

The existing tracker scenario RT-053 remains blocked-verify because the production-parity authenticated Session walk is unavailable in this worktree. The Electron-specific ET-electron-session-copy-debug report records the passing packaged E2E plus the remaining physical macOS walk: copy a user message and assistant markdown answer, verify the OS clipboard and toast outcomes, press physical Control+Option+I, confirm boot DevTools stay closed, and confirm /json/version remains unavailable. Evidence belongs under docs/qa/evidence/2026-08-25-eng-145-electron/.

Risks and rollback

  • The shared CopyIconButton now emits Sonner feedback for every consumer and ignores stale overlapping writes. This is intentionally the common behavior; the site root now provides the required host. Consumers can override copy/failure labels where domain language differs.
  • Clipboard permissions are narrowly scoped to the active product origin and write-only; unsupported or blocked environments still produce a clear failure state rather than a silent no-op.
  • DevTools are intentionally available only in the product window through the explicit shortcut/menu path. Remote debugging remains unavailable in packaged production builds.
  • Rollback is a single commit revert of e6e961b, 178399829, plus the earlier web implementation commit b6392e897.

Compozy Impact Audit

  • Native tools: no impact. No compozy__* tool IDs, toolsets, descriptors, schemas, digests, risk flags, availability diagnostics, or capability gates changed.
  • Extensibility and hooks: no impact. No extensions, hooks, skills/capabilities, tools/resources, registries, bridge SDKs, MCP sidecars, or config.toml keys/defaults/docs changed.
  • Workspace data isolation: no impact. The action copies only text already rendered in the current Session message; it adds no data read, cache, SSE, event, or workspace propagation path and cannot introduce cross-workspace reads.
  • Official Compozy skill: no impact. No public tool ID, CLI path, hook event, capability, or memory/network/task semantic changed.

Review notes

The implementation was reviewed by a standalone GPT-5.6-Sol reviewer with High reasoning. Both initial actionable findings were addressed before the first commit: reserve a disabled row before the first streaming token, and mount the shared toast host for site consumers. The final review also covered the Electron security/shortcut changes and the stale-completion guard. CodeRabbit's two requested review fetches returned no actionable threads; the second service request was rate-limited.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added toast notifications for successful and failed copy actions across the site.
    • Copy actions now support clearer custom success and failure messages.
    • Added a Developer Tools option to the desktop app’s View menu, with keyboard shortcut support.
    • Enabled safe clipboard writing for the product’s desktop runtime.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved copy behavior for streaming messages and unavailable clipboard access.
    • Prevented older copy requests from overriding the latest result.
    • Kept message actions available when content is still loading.

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Changes

The PR adds clipboard success and failure toasts, preserves copy actions during streaming, and prevents stale copy results from overriding newer requests. The desktop app adds controlled DevTools access and product-scoped clipboard permissions.

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Copy feedback and streaming actions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Clipboard handling and toast feedback
packages/ui/src/components/custom/code-block.tsx, packages/ui/src/components/custom/__tests__/code-block.test.tsx, packages/site/app/layout.tsx
CopyIconButton handles clipboard results, emits configurable toast messages, and ignores stale requests. The site layout renders Toaster. Tests cover success, failure, unavailable clipboard access, and overlapping requests.
Streaming-aware message actions
web/src/components/assistant-ui/message-actions.logic.ts, web/src/components/assistant-ui/message-actions.tsx
Message actions extract text from string and structured content. Streaming messages retain visible actions, and empty streaming copies are disabled.
Session copy-flow validation
web/src/components/assistant-ui/__tests__/session-thread.test.tsx
Tests validate copy toasts, persistent assistant toolbars, disabled empty streaming copies, and updated toolbar counts.

Desktop debugging and permissions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Product-scoped clipboard permissions
desktop/src/window/security.ts, desktop/src/main.ts
Permission handling allows clipboard-sanitized-write only for the main frame and resolved product origin. Bootstrap applies the policy after runtime resolution.
DevTools controls and keyboard handling
desktop/src/window/product-window.ts, desktop/src/window/application-menu.ts
The product window enables DevTools, toggles the detached panel, and handles Control+Alt+I. The application menu exposes the same action.
Desktop debugging validation
desktop/e2e/_electron/__tests__/shell.spec.ts
The E2E test checks notification denial, clipboard integration, foreground debugging, and the native DevTools shortcut.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e6e96

The feature-specific tests and builds pass, but the required repository validation gate remains red because it stops on existing source-size violations outside the changed files. Merge readiness therefore requires explicit owner acceptance or a green validation gate.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CopyIconButton
  participant ClipboardAPI
  participant Sonner
  participant Toaster
  CopyIconButton->>ClipboardAPI: writeText(source)
  ClipboardAPI-->>CopyIconButton: success or failure
  CopyIconButton->>Sonner: show success or error toast
  Sonner->>Toaster: render toast notification
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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ApplicationMenu
  participant ProductWindow
  participant DevTools
  User->>ApplicationMenu: Select Developer Tools
  ApplicationMenu->>ProductWindow: toggleDevTools()
  ProductWindow->>DevTools: Open or close detached panel
  User->>ProductWindow: Press Control+Alt+I
  ProductWindow->>DevTools: Toggle detached panel
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The PR restores persistent and streaming-aware Session copy actions, adds explicit clipboard feedback, and enables narrowly scoped clipboard access in Electron.

  • Normalizes copyable message text and keeps actions visible and keyboard reachable.
  • Adds guarded clipboard writes with success and failure notifications.
  • Allows product-origin clipboard writes and an intentional product-window DevTools toggle in Electron.
  • Extends focused web, shared-UI, and packaged-shell coverage.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR should not merge until obsolete CopyIconButton instances are prevented from emitting clipboard notifications after unmount.

A pending clipboard write can outlive a virtualized or collapsed Session row because cleanup does not invalidate the request, allowing the removed control to emit stale success or failure feedback.

Files Needing Attention: packages/ui/src/components/custom/code-block.tsx

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
packages/ui/src/components/custom/code-block.tsx Adds clipboard guards, outcome notifications, and same-instance request ordering, but unmounted instances can still emit stale feedback.
web/src/components/assistant-ui/message-actions.logic.ts Normalizes copyable message content and derives visible or reserved action rows for settled and streaming messages.
web/src/components/assistant-ui/message-actions.tsx Keeps message actions persistently visible and delegates copy feedback to the shared primitive.
desktop/src/window/security.ts Restricts sanitized clipboard-write permission to the main frame at the normalized active product origin.
desktop/src/window/product-window.ts Enables product-window DevTools and adds an explicit native keyboard toggle while retaining renderer isolation settings.
desktop/e2e/_electron/tests/shell.spec.ts Extends packaged-shell coverage for clipboard writes, notification denial, DevTools toggling, and remote-debugging hardening.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant Button as CopyIconButton
  participant Clipboard
  participant Row as Session row
  participant Toast
  User->>Button: Click copy
  Button->>Clipboard: writeText(value)
  Row-->>Button: Unmount while request is pending
  Clipboard-->>Button: Resolve or reject
  Button->>Toast: Publish stale outcome
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  1. packages/ui/src/components/custom/code-block.tsx, line 228-235 (link)

    P1 Unmounted copies still notify

    When a clipboard write remains pending while transcript virtualization or folding unmounts its message row, cleanup leaves that request current, so the removed CopyIconButton still emits a success or failure toast when the write completes. Replacing the row can therefore let both the obsolete and current button instances publish feedback.

    Knowledge Base Used: Web application

Reviews (3): Last reviewed commit: "fix: serialize clipboard feedback" | Re-trigger Greptile

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const runtime = await runner.run(async event => {
await statePublisher.publish(bootstrapSnapshot(event, paths.bootstrapLog));
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