refactor(web): browser panel tabs follow preview sessions without ChatView effects#25006

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Problem

ChatView kept a thread's browser panel tabs and floating browser in sync with its preview sessions through two effects. useAgentOpenedPreviews found browsers an agent revealed by diffing session snapshots in a third effect, keeping a per-thread baseline in a ref. All three ran again after every render that changed sessions, panel surfaces, or the active thread.

Change

previewStateStore now reports its own changes. onPreviewSessionsChanged fires when a thread's sessions or its list-loaded flag change. onServerTabsRevealed fires with server tabs that are freshly revealed. A tab counts as freshly revealed when it is new, or carries a new reveal request, after the first list has loaded. The first list is the baseline, so a reload never reopens previews the user dismissed. The listeners exist because the right-panel, mini-player, and settings stores cannot be imported from this store without an import cycle (noted in the code).
The new components/preview/agentOpenedPreviews.ts subscribes once at startup (startAppServices in appInit.tsx). It reconciles browser panel tabs, closes a floating browser whose session ended, and floats a revealed tab (or focuses its existing panel tab when the reveal is forced).
ChatView's two effects and the reveal effect in useAgentOpenedPreviews are deleted. That hook loses its previewState, serverBrowserAvailable, and panelSurfaces inputs.

What this improves

Removes 3 synchronizing effects. Panel tabs and the floating browser now change when the session data changes, instead of after a ChatView render.
ChatView no longer re-runs reconciliation on renders that only changed rightPanelState.surfaces or the active thread.
No bug fix is claimed.

Behavior changes

Reconciliation and reveals run for whichever thread's preview state changed, not only the one ChatView is showing. On web, previews only stream for the open thread, so nothing changes there. On desktop, previews for background threads keep syncing, so those threads now update their panel tabs too: a browser an agent reveals on a thread you aren't viewing is already shown when you open that thread. On main that reveal was dropped.
In environments without server-browser support, ChatView used to reconcile on mount even when no session had changed. That pruned browser tabs left over in persisted panel state after a reload. Now pruning only runs when that thread's preview sessions change, so a leftover tab stays until then.
No logging changes.

Effects

Effect report: `github/main` → working tree

package	effects	syncEffects	noDeps	chained	renderRefWrites
apps/web/src	622 → 619 (-3)	52 → 49 (-3)	20	24	0
apps/mobile/src	398	59	6	26	7
packages/client-runtime/src	0	0	0	0	0
total	1020 → 1017 (-3)	111 → 108 (-3)	26	50	7

changed file	effects	syncEffects	noDeps	chained	renderRefWrites
`apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`	23 → 21 (-2)	5 → 3 (-2)	0	0	0
`apps/web/src/components/preview/useAgentOpenedPreviews.ts`	3 → 2 (-1)	3 → 2 (-1)	0	0	0

Kept: the two device effects in useAgentOpenedPreviews. Device sessions come from a separate stream, and a later change moves them.

Render scenarios: ChatView renders in the covered "mount thread", "switch thread", and "stream turn" scenarios, and this removes effects from it. The numbers are left to the coordinator.

Verification

vp test run apps/web/src/previewStateStore.test.ts apps/web/src/components/preview/agentOpenedPreviews.test.ts: 22 passed. New tests cover the reveal baseline, re-reveal only on a new request id, no reveals for client-opened or desktop tabs, reveal floating and focusing, and tab reconciliation waiting for the first server list.
vp run check:changed: lint, knip, and typecheck (34 packages) pass. Format was fixed afterwards. Tests: 2903 of 2904 passed. The one failure was MessagesTimeline.browser.test.tsx "settles when equally long messages…", a 15s timeout under machine load; it passes when run alone.
Render metrics: pending — the harness PR adds them.

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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Although titled as a refactor, this change moves preview synchronization into an app-lifetime service and changes user-visible browser tabs and floating previews from active-thread behavior to global, event-driven behavior. The cross-thread panel and reveal handling is broad enough to require human review.

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Walkthrough

The change moves server-tab reveal handling and preview-session reconciliation from component effects to an app-started service. The preview state store now publishes session-change and server-tab-reveal notifications. Tests cover notification, reveal, and reconciliation behavior.

Changes: Server preview lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Detect and publish server preview changes `apps/web/src/previewStateStore.ts`, `apps/web/src/previewStateStore.test.ts`	The preview state store detects newly revealed server tabs and publishes session changes. Server events, snapshots, and reconciliation use the server-specific update path. Tests cover reveal notifications.
Handle reveals and follow session changes `apps/web/src/components/preview/agentOpenedPreviews.ts`, `apps/web/src/components/preview/agentOpenedPreviews.test.ts`, `apps/web/src/components/preview/useAgentOpenedPreviews.ts`, `apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`, `apps/web/src/appInit.tsx`	The startup service handles server-tab reveals and follows preview-session changes. `ChatView` no longer reconciles browser surfaces or passes server-preview state to the hook. App initialization starts the service. Tests cover reveal behavior and session reconciliation.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant App as startAppServices
3	participant Startup as startAgentOpenedPreviews
4	participant PreviewStore as previewStateStore
5	participant Reveal as revealServerTabs
6	participant Follow as followPreviewSessions
7	App->>Startup: start preview subscriptions
8	Startup->>PreviewStore: subscribe to reveal and session changes
9	PreviewStore-->>Reveal: notify newly revealed server tabs
10	PreviewStore-->>Follow: notify preview session changes

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#24523: This PR moves the server-browser reveal behavior from useAgentOpenedPreviews into revealServerTabs and the preview-store notification path.
pingdotgg/t3code#24818: This PR adds startup subscriptions to replace preview synchronization effects removed in the earlier PR.
pingdotgg/t3code#24825: This PR supplies the extracted agent-preview service and registers it during app initialization.

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Startup ordering races can prevent requested browser previews from appearing and may remove existing preview tabs; these should be fixed before merge.

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chore: leave the effect budget to a separate sweep71918e7
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External image Minor · Replay reveal metadata when the first list establishes the… · previewStateStore.ts:120-135

apps/web/src/previewStateStore.ts:120-135 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Replay reveal metadata when the first list establishes the baseline.
If a forced requestReveal event arrives before the first preview list, the event stores the reveal metadata while listLoaded is false. freshlyRevealedServerTabs then returns no notification. The later list sets listLoaded to true but does not replay the stored reveal. The browser therefore does not open or focus the revealed tab unless another reveal event arrives.
Replay only reveal-bearing sessions that already existed before the baseline. Keep list-only sessions as the baseline.

Suggested fix

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1 function freshlyRevealedServerTabs(
2 previous: ThreadPreviewState,
3 next: ThreadPreviewState,
4 ): ReadonlyArray<PreviewSessionSnapshot> {
5 - if (!previous.listLoaded) return [];
6 + const establishingBaseline = !previous.listLoaded && next.listLoaded;
7 + if (!previous.listLoaded && !establishingBaseline) return [];
8 return Object.values(next.sessions).filter((session) => {
9 if (session.runtime !== "server" || session.reveal !== true) return false;
10 const before = previous.sessions[session.tabId];
11 + if (establishingBaseline) return before?.reveal === true;
12 const requested = session.revealRequest;
13 return requested ? before?.revealRequest?.id !== requested.id : before === undefined;
14 });
15 }

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6 Review comment at @apps/web/src/previewStateStore.ts around lines 120 - 135:
7 Update freshlyRevealedServerTabs to replay reveal-bearing server sessions when
8 next.listLoaded establishes the first baseline, but only when the session
9 already existed in previous.sessions with reveal enabled. Keep list-only
10 sessions as the baseline and preserve the existing behavior for subsequent
11 updates.

External image Minor · Defer preview coordination until environment configuration… · agentOpenedPreviews.ts:18-60

apps/web/src/components/preview/agentOpenedPreviews.ts:18-60 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Defer preview coordination until environment configuration resolves.
readEnvironmentSupportsServerBrowser returns false when configuration is unresolved. revealServerTabs then drops the reveal. followPreviewSessions bypasses its listLoaded guard and passes the current sessions to reconcileBrowserSurfaces. When that state is empty, the reconciliation removes persisted browser panel tabs and can close the floating browser.
Configuration resolution does not replay either listener. Distinguish unresolved configuration from unsupported configuration at this coordinator, defer both operations while unresolved, and replay the pending reveal and latest preview state when configuration resolves. Discard them only after the configuration is known to be unsupported.

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6 Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/preview/agentOpenedPreviews.ts around
7 lines 18 - 60:
8 Update revealServerTabs and followPreviewSessions to distinguish unresolved
9 environment configuration from known unsupported configuration instead of
10 treating both as unsupported. Defer reveals and session reconciliation while
11 configuration is unresolved, retaining the pending reveal requests and latest
12 preview state; when configuration resolves, replay them if server-browser
13 support is enabled and discard them only if it is known to be unsupported.

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6	Outside diff comments:
7	Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/preview/agentOpenedPreviews.ts:
8	- Around line 18-60: Update revealServerTabs and followPreviewSessions to
9	distinguish unresolved environment configuration from known unsupported
10	configuration instead of treating both as unsupported. Defer reveals and session
11	reconciliation while configuration is unresolved, retaining the pending reveal
12	requests and latest preview state; when configuration resolves, replay them if
13	server-browser support is enabled and discard them only if it is known to be
14	unsupported.
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16	Review comments at @apps/web/src/previewStateStore.ts:
17	- Around line 120-135: Update freshlyRevealedServerTabs to replay reveal-bearing
18	server sessions when next.listLoaded establishes the first baseline, but only
19	when the session already existed in previous.sessions with reveal enabled. Keep
20	list-only sessions as the baseline and preserve the existing behavior for
21	subsequent updates.
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