Move the agent into a column beside the page, toggled from the top bar#1707

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The top bar spans the whole window. Agent at its right end is the only way to open or close the agent, and it never moves. While an Approval waits, it reads "1 waiting", or shows a "1" chip on phones.

Open on desktop, the agent is a 384px column under the top bar, beside the page. On phones it fills the screen under the top bar, and the tab bar stays. The column header no longer has a scope line or a Close button.

Tests: agent-sidebar.test.tsx, agent-panel.test.tsx.

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User Interface
- The Agent is now opened and closed from a button in the top bar. Pending approvals appear on the button while the Agent is closed.
- When open, the Agent appears beside the page, using the available width on narrow screens. Its panel has a “New chat” heading and no close button, and no longer shows organization or environment details.
Chat
- Reopening the Agent returns to the organization’s last conversation. Opening it without a saved conversation starts a new chat.

The dashboard replaces the combined agent sidebar with an Agent button in the top bar and a conditional Agent column beside the page content. The button opens or closes chat, pending-approval counts appear while chat is closed, and the panel header displays “New chat.”

Changes: Agent panel layout

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Panel header and props `dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-panel.tsx`, `dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-panel.test.tsx`	`AgentPanel` no longer accepts `environment` or `onClose`. Its header displays “New chat,” omits organization and environment details and the close button, and retains the new-chat button. The tests no longer pass the removed props.
Button and conditional panel `dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-sidebar.tsx`, `dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-sidebar.test.tsx`	`AgentButton` shows pending approvals only while chat is closed. It opens the stored thread or a new UUID, and toggles chat closed when pressed again. `AgentColumn` stores the active thread and renders the panel when chat is open. Tests cover approval counts, toggling, and stored-thread persistence.
Dashboard shell integration `dashboard/src/components/dashboard-shell.tsx`, `dashboard/src/components/dashboard-shell.test.tsx`	`DashboardShell` places the Agent button beside the account menu and the Agent column beside the main content. The shell test checks the button’s banner location and its closed pressed state.

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Change: Feature

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant AgentButton
3	participant localStorage
4	participant DashboardShell
5	participant AgentColumn
6	participant AgentPanel
7	AgentButton->>localStorage: Read saved thread or create a UUID
8	AgentButton->>DashboardShell: Set chat state to selected thread
9	DashboardShell->>AgentColumn: Pass chat state
10	AgentColumn->>localStorage: Save active thread
11	AgentColumn->>AgentPanel: Render panel for active thread
12	AgentButton->>DashboardShell: Clear chat state when toggled closed

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dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-sidebar.tsxlines 31–32Outdated · 3116f47Open thread

…	…	@@ -14,51 +13,58 @@ const loadPanel = () => import("./agent-panel").then((module) => module.default)
	29	+	return (
	30	+	// Pressed wears the outline variant's own open look, which it keys to aria-expanded alone.
	31	+	<Button variant="outline" size="sm" className="aria-pressed:bg-muted aria-pressed:text-foreground" aria-pressed={chat !== undefined} onClick={toggle} onPointerEnter={() => void loadPanel()}
	32	+	aria-label={waiting > 0 ? `Agent, ${waiting} ${waiting === 1 ? "approval" : "approvals"} waiting` : "Agent"}>

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_{_{P1 Badge}} Update the stale shell-level Agent assertion

The dashboard shell test at dashboard/src/components/dashboard-shell.test.tsx:227-232 still queries for a button named Open agent, but this control is now named Agent when no approvals are pending. That getByRole therefore throws whenever the unit project runs, blocking the GitHub CI gate; update the shell test alongside the accessible-name change.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L9-L11

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Fixed in 7591e374e. The shell test now looks for the Agent button in the top bar, outside main, and expects the agent column closed.

dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-sidebar.tsxlines 64–67Outdated · 3116f47Open thread

…	…	@@ -14,51 +13,58 @@ const loadPanel = () => import("./agent-panel").then((module) => module.default)
60		-	<AgentPanel organizationSlug={organizationSlug} environment={scope.kind === "environment" ? scope.environmentSlug : null}
61		-	scope={collectionScope} page={page} threadId={chat} onNewChat={() => onChat(crypto.randomUUID())} onClose={() => onChat(undefined)} />
	66	+	<AgentPanel organizationSlug={organizationSlug} scope={collectionScope} page={page} threadId={chat}
	67	+	onNewChat={() => onChat(crypto.randomUUID())} />

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_{_{P2 Badge}} Dock the bottom bar in the open agent column

When a chat opens on an environment canvas with staged changes, this column renders only AgentPanel, while BottomBar continues portaling into the canvas-local slot in EnvironmentCanvasScene.tsx:165-186. The new layout consequently squeezes the deployment controls into the narrowed canvas instead of placing them above the agent composer as the affected project's DESIGN.md requires; provide a column portal target and switch the bar between it and the canvas when chat changes.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L5-L5

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Deliberately left to #1709, the next PR in this stack. It portals the bar into a dock above the composer while a chat is open, and moves it back to the canvas when the chat closes. The stack merges as one unit.

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dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-sidebar.tsxline 35Outdated · 7591e37Open thread

…	…	@@ -14,51 +13,58 @@ const loadPanel = () => import("./agent-panel").then((module) => module.default)
	32	+	aria-label={waiting > 0 ? `Agent, ${waiting} ${waiting === 1 ? "approval" : "approvals"} waiting` : "Agent"}>
	33	+	<SparklesIcon data-icon="inline-start" aria-hidden />
	34	+	<span className="max-wf-nav:hidden">Agent</span>
	35	+	{waiting > 0 && <Badge variant="warning">{waiting}{" "}<span className="max-wf-nav:hidden">waiting</span></Badge>}

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Announce new waiting approvals.

When polling changes waiting while the agent is closed, the badge and button name change without announcing the update to a screen-reader user whose focus is elsewhere. Add a persistent aria-live="polite" status for the waiting count. Keep the button’s accessible name.

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Fixed in 4eef1315f. A polite role="status" region beside the button reads "N approvals waiting" and is empty when there are none. The button keeps its name. The sidebar test asserts both states.

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dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-sidebar.tsxline 69Outdated · 4eef131Open thread

…	…	@@ -14,51 +13,63 @@ const loadPanel = () => import("./agent-panel").then((module) => module.default)
56	68		return (
57		-	<aside className={cn("z-30 flex min-h-0 w-full flex-col border-l bg-background sm:w-96",
58		-	canvas ? "absolute inset-y-0 right-0 shadow-lg" : "max-sm:absolute max-sm:inset-y-0 max-sm:right-0 sm:shrink-0")}>
	69	+	<aside className="z-30 flex min-h-0 flex-col bg-background max-wf-nav:absolute max-wf-nav:inset-0 min-wf-nav:w-96 min-wf-nav:shrink-0 min-wf-nav:border-l">

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_{_{P2 Badge}} Refit the canvas when toggling the agent column

When this opens on an environment canvas with no inspector selected, the new 24rem sibling shrinks .react-flow, but nothing recalculates its viewport: CanvasFlow's fitView runs only on mount, while useCanvasNavigation enables its resize observer only when focusKey !== null. The ordinary canvas therefore retains the full-width viewport, leaving right-side nodes clipped when the agent opens instead of refitting the whole graph as dashboard/DESIGN.md requires; trigger a fit when the column changes the canvas width.

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Handled one layer up in #1709 (c0eb641b1): useRefitOnWidthChange refits the canvas whenever React Flow measures a new width, which covers opening and closing the agent column. The stack merges as one unit.

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Keep keyboard focus out of the covered page.

At phone widths, AgentColumn covers the page while DashboardShell keeps <main> mounted before it. The shell does not make <main> inert, and opening the agent does not move focus into the panel. Keyboard users can therefore tab through covered page controls before reaching the agent. Make the covered main content inert while the mobile column is open, and move focus into the agent.

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Fixed in 7711fad60, narrower than suggested. On phones, while the agent is open, <main> (the page under the column) is visibility: hidden, which takes it out of the tab order and the accessibility tree and keeps its scroll. The top bar and tab bar sit outside <main> and stay usable, since the Agent button is the only way out. Focus stays on that button, and the next Tab now lands in the agent.

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@nick-potts Thanks for the clarification. Hiding <main> on phones addresses the covered-page focus issue while preserving its scroll position. Keeping focus on the Agent button also preserves the close control. An explicit focus move is not needed with the tab order you described.

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5	Learning: In the Ployz dashboard, the mobile agent is not a modal dialog. The top bar and tab bar must remain usable while the agent is open. The Agent button is the only close control, so focus can remain on that button when opening the agent, provided covered page controls are excluded from keyboard navigation and the accessibility tree.

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dashboard/src/components/agent-sidebar/agent-panel.tsxline 48Outdated · 7711fadOpen thread

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49	47		<header className="flex h-12 shrink-0 items-center gap-2 border-b px-3">
50		-	<h2 className="text-sm font-semibold">Ployz agent</h2>
51		-	<span className="truncate text-xs text-muted-foreground">{environment ? `${organizationSlug} / ${environment}` : organizationSlug}</span>
	48	+	<h2 className="truncate text-sm font-semibold">New chat</h2>

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_{_{P2 Badge}} Name the active chat in the header

When threadId restores a remembered or shared conversation and useChat hydrates its messages, this literal never changes, so an existing conversation is incorrectly labeled “New chat.” This conflicts with dashboard/DESIGN.md:297 and docs/user/account/agent-sidebar.md:50-52, which require the header to identify the current chat; derive the heading from the hydrated conversation rather than treating every thread as new.

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Assert the closed agent's button in the top bar4340b10
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