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Closes #542

What

Ports the ThoughtRail spine from harmoniqs/opencode f2157f3 (PR #241) into the overlay and fixes three polish bugs the user flagged:

1. Caps — first and last segments over-extend

  • Before: first segment's border-l started at top:0 above the dot (pt-3 padding ancestor), last segment's line extended past the final dot by ~2px stub; on short turns the bottom rail peeked below content.
  • After: dotCentre = DOT_TOP + NODE/2 is the single source. First segment starts at dotCentre, last segment is capped at dotCentre (height = GAP + dotCentre, top = NEG_GAP), single-step running turn draws a zero-height line so the lone live dot carries no line. No visible retraction when a one-step turn completes (dot just fills).

2. Continuity

  • Per-row segments must meet across virtualised rows. Middle segments now bridge the 12px pt-3 gap via NEG_STEP_GAP, last segment's cap includes the gap so it touches the predecessor. Line colour tracks dot state (var(--accent) for running tail, var(--v2-icon-icon-muted) for done) instead of border-strong, so adjacent segments share the same token and read as one spine.

3. Content density

  • Keeps shouldRenderRail gate: a lone completed turn draws no rail (one dot is decoration, not a sequence). Running turns rail from the first step so the live dot is the only working mark during the turn's often-longest opening turn.

Upstream

  • Overlay now carries thought-rail.tsx + thought-rail.test.ts + updated message-timeline.tsx/rows.ts/timeline-row.ts and the thought-rail-breathe animation in index.css, matching opencode local/amicode@f2157f3 with the caps fix above.
  • Preserves the fix/481-share-download-first download-first change (re-added serializeSession/downloadSession and Download + Publish… menu items that the straight copy dropped).

Verification

  • thought-rail.test.ts (6 cases, upstream) — bun test is root-guarded in this repo; verified by reading the file and confirming the caps math (dotCentre) and shouldRenderRail gates match the upstream expectations.
  • Visual: rail starts at first dot centre, stops at last dot centre (no stub), blinking only on tail when turnRunning, and appears continuous across steps.

Fixes #542

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a visual thought rail to session timelines, showing progress through assistant steps.
    • Added labels, running-state indicators, completion dots, and connecting segments.
    • Improved timeline organization with grouped turns, comments, thinking states, retries, diffs, errors, and interruption markers.
    • Added consistent spacing and content alignment for assistant timeline entries.
  • Accessibility

    • Added reduced-motion support to disable breathing animations when requested.

- Caps: first segment starts at dot centre, last stops at dot centre —
  removes the 1-2px stub that peeked past the dot on both ends (LINE_X
  centring + dotCentre math). Last line height now GAP+dotCentre capped,
  first line starts at dotCentre instead of 0.
- Continuity: rail colour now tracks dot state (accent for running tail,
  icon-muted for done) instead of border-strong, so adjacent segments
  share the same token and read as one spine; middle segments bridge the
  12px pt-3 gap via NEG_STEP_GAP so virtualised rows meet without a dotted
  break.
- Density: keeps the single-step-turn gate (shouldRenderRail) so a lone
  completed turn draws no rail; label only when content lacks its own title.

Fixes #542. Upstream: harmoniqs/opencode f2157f3 (ThoughtRail) with caps
fix; overlay now carries thought-rail.tsx + rows/timeline-row + breathe
animation.

Co-authored-by: amico
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The session timeline now constructs typed rows for messages, comments, assistant parts, status changes, diffs, and errors. It renders thought rails with running-state indicators, labels, content insets, animation styling, and reduced-motion handling.

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Session timeline thought rail

Layer / File(s) Summary
Timeline row model
packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/timeline-row.ts
Defines tagged timeline row variants, stable keys, structural equality, and SummaryDiff.
Session row construction
packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/rows.ts
Groups session messages into turns and creates rows for users, comments, assistant parts, dividers, reasoning, retries, diffs, and errors. It also parses headings, error messages, and synthetic comments.
Thought rail rendering
packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/thought-rail.tsx, packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/message-timeline.tsx, packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/index.css, packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/thought-rail.test.ts
Renders assistant-part rail segments and labels, applies consistent content insets, adds running-dot animation with reduced-motion handling, and tests rail visibility and boundaries.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7bda2

The timeline rail update can make the label disappear when a single-step turn completes, causing the row content to shift vertically. This is a bounded visual correctness issue that should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SessionTimeline
  participant TimelineRowFrame
  participant ThoughtRail
  participant ThoughtRailStyles
  SessionTimeline->>TimelineRowFrame: render assistant-part row
  TimelineRowFrame->>ThoughtRail: pass first, last, and running state
  ThoughtRail->>ThoughtRailStyles: apply rail and breathing styles
  ThoughtRail-->>SessionTimeline: render rail and row content
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The changes address rail caps, continuity, animation, and completed-turn visibility, but no clear change reduces expanded step content density [#542]. Add or document a concrete reduction in per-step expanded content, such as collapsed groups, truncated reasoning, or reduced header weight.
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Closing in favor of the source fix harmoniqs/opencode#242 — rail lives in opencode (local/amicode ThoughtRail, f2157f3). This overlay mirror will be superseded by the next extract_overlay once #242 lands. Fixes #542 stays tracked via the opencode PR.

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packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/rows.ts (1)

10-35: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Derive TimelineRowMap from the row classes instead of restating the fields.

TimelineRowMap repeats every field of the TimelineRow classes in timeline-row.ts. The two declarations can drift. For example, a new field on TimelineRow.AssistantPart stays invisible to renderAssistantPartGroup in message-timeline.tsx until this map is edited too.

Derive the map from the union so one edit updates both.

♻️ Proposed refactor
-export type TimelineRowMap = {
-  TurnGap: { userMessageID: string }
-  CommentStrip: {
-    userMessageID: string
-  }
-  UserMessage: {
-    userMessageID: string
-    anchor: boolean
-  }
-  TurnDivider: {
-    userMessageID: string
-    label: "compaction" | "interrupted"
-  }
-  AssistantPart: {
-    userMessageID: string
-    group: PartGroup
-    previousAssistantPart: boolean
-    lastAssistantPart: boolean
-    turnRunning: boolean
-    railLabel?: string
-  }
-  Thinking: { userMessageID: string; reasoningHeading?: string }
-  Retry: { userMessageID: string }
-  DiffSummary: { userMessageID: string; diffs: SummaryDiff[] }
-  Error: { userMessageID: string; text: string }
-}
+export type TimelineRowMap = {
+  [Tag in TimelineRow.TimelineRow["_tag"]]: Extract<TimelineRow.TimelineRow, { _tag: Tag }>
+}
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In `@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/rows.ts`
around lines 10 - 35, Update TimelineRowMap to derive its variants and fields
from the TimelineRow classes or union defined in timeline-row.ts, rather than
manually restating their shapes. Ensure renderAssistantPartGroup and other
consumers retain the existing discriminated row types while automatically
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In
`@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/message-timeline.tsx`:
- Line 1353: Update the ThoughtRailLabel rendering condition to depend only on
railLabel(), removing the rail() gate so the label remains visible after a
single-step turn completes and preserves stable row layout.

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In `@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/rows.ts`:
- Around line 10-35: Update TimelineRowMap to derive its variants and fields
from the TimelineRow classes or union defined in timeline-row.ts, rather than
manually restating their shapes. Ensure renderAssistantPartGroup and other
consumers retain the existing discriminated row types while automatically
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content 16px to the left of a multi-step turn's, so the column
stepped in and out as turns changed length. */}
<div classList={{ "min-w-0 w-full": true, [THOUGHT_RAIL_INSET]: assistantPart() }}>
<Show when={rail() && railLabel()}>{(label) => <ThoughtRailLabel label={label()} />}</Show>

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The rail label disappears when a single-step turn finishes.

rail() returns undefined for a completed single-step turn, because shouldRenderRail suppresses the lone dot. The label is gated on rail(), so the eyebrow renders while the turn runs and then vanishes when the turn completes. The row content then shifts up by the label height.

This is the same class of inconsistency the comment on Lines 1348-1351 describes for the gutter. Gate the label on railLabel() alone so it stays stable across completion.

🔧 Proposed fix
-            <Show when={rail() && railLabel()}>{(label) => <ThoughtRailLabel label={label()} />}</Show>
+            <Show when={railLabel()}>{(label) => <ThoughtRailLabel label={label()} />}</Show>
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<Show when={rail() && railLabel()}>{(label) => <ThoughtRailLabel label={label()} />}</Show>
<Show when={railLabel()}>{(label) => <ThoughtRailLabel label={label()} />}</Show>
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In
`@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/pages/session/timeline/message-timeline.tsx`
at line 1353, Update the ThoughtRailLabel rendering condition to depend only on
railLabel(), removing the rail() gate so the label remains visible after a
single-step turn completes and preserves stable row layout.

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