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feat(desktop): pin the last prompt to the top of the chat transcript - #9627
A long reply pushes the message that asked for it off the top of the transcript, and after a minute of tool runs there is nothing on screen that says what the agent is answering. Checking means scrolling up and losing your place in the reply.
The newest prompt now stays at the top of the transcript as a single truncated line, from the moment the message itself scrolls above the viewport. It sits in the same column and uses the same bubble style, so it reads as a caption on the reply rather than a new message.
The line is an overlay over the scroller, not a sticky row. Three things in the transcript measure rows with getBoundingClientRect, and a stuck row reports its pinned position instead of its real one:
useCarriedReaderPosition reads the topmost visible [data-message-id] to carry the reading position across a session switch; a stuck row would always win, so reopening a chat would drop you at the prompt instead of where you were in the reply.
MessageScroller's prepend anchor picks the same first intersecting child, so loading older pages while the row was stuck would jump the scroll.
A prompt taller than the viewport would pin with top: 0 and never scroll away.
The overlay keeps every row where it really is, and truncation makes a long prompt a non-issue.
Other decisions worth a look in review:
Bookkeeping blocks a harness injects (readBookkeeping) are not prompts, so they are skipped.
A queued message is not pinned until its turn starts, so the pin stays on the turn that is running.
A message with no line of its own (attachments only) pins nothing rather than promoting the prompt before it, which would caption a reply that is not its own.
The row is added to the transcript window's pinned keys so windowing cannot unmount the element the observer watches.
Hidden while the find bar is open: it takes the same corner, and find aligns its hits to the same edge.
No new user-facing strings, so no catalog churn. It repeats a message already in the transcript, so it is aria-hidden and pointer-events-none.
How I tested it
Driven in the real dev app over CDP, per .agents/skills/cdp-verification/SKILL.md: a chat session against a throwaway 3-file repo, with Claude replying until the transcript was 7798px in a 799px viewport. Scrolling is real Input.dispatchMouseEvent wheel events, not assigned scrollTop.
Before — the prompt is on screen, nothing is pinned (scrollTop: 0)
After — scrolled past it, the newest prompt is pinned (scrollTop: 1200, bar at the viewport's top edge, 49px tall, pointer-events: none, aria-hidden="true")
Find open — the bar steps aside (same scrollTop: 1800; closing find brings it back)
Measured alongside each capture:
State
scrollTop
pinned bar
prompt on screen
0
absent
scrolled past
1200 / 1800
present, text = newest prompt
find open
1800
absent
find closed again
1800
present
Getting the app to run on Linux took work that is not part of this PR and never touched the branch: Electron's V8 headers need -UV8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS to compile the native modules under GCC, Chromium needs /dev/shm above the 64M container default or vite's dev modules fail with ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES, and electron-vite needs Node 22 to load a .ts config. DEVELOPMENT.md already says Linux is untested; this is what it costs.
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apps/desktop → ChatSession: 542 tests, 0 failures, including 5 new ones for lastPrompt.
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The latest eligible prompt remains visible in a pinned banner when you scroll past it in a chat transcript. The banner disappears when the prompt is back in view or the find bar is open.
Pasted text can be shown as the prompt when it is the message’s only text content. System reminders and queued prompts are not used for the pinned banner. The banner also accounts for prompts outside the currently visible transcript window.
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The transcript selects the newest eligible user prompt, keeps its row in the transcript window, and displays a pinned banner after the row scrolls out of view. The banner is hidden while transcript search is open.
Changes: Pinned transcript prompt
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Select the latest eligible prompt .../Transcript/utils/lastPrompt/*
lastPrompt selects the newest eligible user message, normalizes its text, and returns null when no usable text remains. Tests cover bookkeeping rows, queued prompts, attachments, and pasted text.
Retain and display the prompt .../Transcript/Transcript.tsx, .../Transcript/components/PinnedPrompt/*
The transcript keeps the selected row rendered and identifies when windowing has dropped it. PinnedPrompt uses an intersection observer to detect when the row scrolls out of view and displays a non-interactive banner. The banner is not rendered while search is open.
sequenceDiagram
participant Transcript
participant lastPrompt
participant PinnedPrompt
participant useScrolledPast
participant IntersectionObserver
Transcript->>lastPrompt: Select prompt from transcript rows and harness
Transcript->>PinnedPrompt: Pass message ID, prompt text, and window-drop state
PinnedPrompt->>useScrolledPast: Check whether the prompt row is outside the viewport
useScrolledPast->>IntersectionObserver: Observe prompt row with viewport as root
IntersectionObserver->>useScrolledPast: Report row intersection state
useScrolledPast->>PinnedPrompt: Return scrolled-past state
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ParadevAI/Paradev#8928 — Both changes use transcript find-bar state; this PR hides the pinned prompt while the find bar is open.
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Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 74250
This change adds a pinned prompt overlay to the transcript. It is hidden from assistive technology and pointer interaction, and no concrete merge-blocking risk is identified.
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The title "feat(desktop): pin the last prompt to the top of the chat transcript" follows conventional commit format and matches the main change: the raw summary adds a PinnedPrompt overlay, lastPrompt…
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The description is thorough and follows the template's structure. It has a 'What & why' section that explains the problem, the approach, and why position: sticky was avoided, and it links the issue (F…
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[#9626] requires the newest prompt pinned at the top of the transcript, one truncated line, only after the real message scrolls out of view. The prior assessment found this implemented at the previous…
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The changes support the pinning feature of [#9626]. They add the lastPrompt utility and its tests, the useScrolledPast hook, the PinnedPrompt component and its re-exports, and the Transcript integrati…
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The title "feat(desktop): pin the last prompt to the top of the chat transcript" follows conventional commit format and matches the main change: the raw summary adds a PinnedPrompt overlay, lastPrompt utility, and useScrolledPast hook that show the newest user prompt at the top of the transcript once its message scrolls above the viewport.
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[#9626] requires the newest prompt pinned at the top of the transcript, one truncated line, only after the real message scrolls out of view. The prior assessment found this implemented at the previous head: Transcript derives the newest prompt through lastPrompt, and PinnedPrompt renders only when useScrolledPast reports the row as scrolled past. lastPrompt skips bookkeeping blocks and queued messages. The element is aria-hidden and pointer-events-none. Find hides the bar. The incremental change (commit 742508c) adds a droppedByWindow flag to useScrolledPast. A row dropped behind the spacer is reported as scrolled past. This keeps the pin condition tied to the row leaving the viewport. The incremental diff could not be read because changed blobs are missing from the checkout. The window-side behavior is therefore taken from the PR description and the raw summary, not from source inspection. The core pinning requirements remain supported.
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The changes support the pinning feature of [#9626]. They add the lastPrompt utility and its tests, the useScrolledPast hook, the PinnedPrompt component and its re-exports, and the Transcript integration. The follow-up commit changes window-pinning behavior only to keep the transcript window start from moving backward. This change supports the same overlay and does not add unrelated product behavior. The incremental Transcript and useScrolledPast diffs could not be read, so this conclusion relies on the summaries and PR description.
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@apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/hooks/usePaneRegistry/components/ChatSession/components/Transcript/Transcript.tsx:
- Line 325: Update Transcript’s windowing logic so the selected prompt remains
observable separately from the 40-row tail, without expanding the observed
window to include every row between them. Reset the stored window start when
prompt?.key changes, and preserve the existing spacer and scroll-anchor
behavior.
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Keep the prompt observable without expanding the whole window.
A long turn can place hundreds of rows after its prompt. Pinning the prompt mounts and observes that entire suffix instead of the 40-row tail. The stored window start can also remain at the old prompt after a newer prompt is selected. This can increase mount and update costs.
Retain the observed prompt separately while preserving spacer and scroll-anchor behavior.
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/hooks/usePaneRegistry/components/ChatSession/components/Transcript/Transcript.tsx at line 325:
Update Transcript’s windowing logic so the selected prompt remains observable separately from the 40-row tail, without expanding the observed window to include every row between them. Reset the stored window start when prompt?.key changes, and preserve the existing spacer and scroll-anchor behavior.
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The ratchet was the worse half of it. Adding the prompt to pinnedRowKeys pulls startIndex back to the prompt, and useTranscriptWindow then stores that start in windowState.firstKey, so it stays there after a newer prompt takes over. Over a session the window only ever grows backwards.
The pin is gone. The observation never needed it: the window drops a row only once it sits behind the spacer, and the spacer covers rows already scrolled past — so "dropped by the window" is the pinned state, with no element left to observe. useScrolledPast now takes a droppedByWindow flag and watches the element whenever the window renders one. revealOlder extends the window a 1200px margin ahead of the spacer, so the element is back before a reader scrolls up to it.
Window start is back to the 40-row tail and no longer ratchets. Desktop typecheck clean, ChatSession 542 tests green, repo-wide lint clean.
While a reply streams, the message that asked for it scrolls out of the
transcript, so the reader loses what the agent is answering. The newest
prompt now stays at the top of the transcript as a single line, from the
moment the message itself scrolls above the viewport.
The line is an overlay over the scroller, not a sticky row, so the
transcript's windowing, carried reader position and prepend anchoring
keep measuring rows where they really are. It repeats a message that is
already in the transcript, so it is aria-hidden and ignores the pointer.
Blocks a harness injects read as bookkeeping, not as a prompt, and a
queued message is not pinned until its turn starts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review pointed out that adding the prompt to the transcript window's
pinned keys drags the window start back to it, so a long turn mounts and
observes every row after the prompt instead of the 40-row tail. Worse,
the window stores that start and keeps it after a newer prompt takes
over, so it ratchets earlier for the rest of the session.
The pin is gone. The window drops the row only once it is behind the
spacer, which covers rows already scrolled past, so a dropped row is an
answer rather than a problem: it is above the fold. The hook takes that
as the pinned state and watches the element whenever the window renders
one; `revealOlder` extends the window well before the spacer is reached,
so the element is back before a reader scrolls up to it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Heads up for whoever triages this: the repo's CI has never run on it. Both CI and Deploy Preview sit at action_required, which is GitHub holding workflows from a first-time contributor until someone with write access approves them. That is also why the PR shows mergeable_state: blocked while every visible check is green — only CodeRabbit, cubic and the CLA bot have actually executed.
Rebased onto e9dc0918, no conflicts. Run locally in the meantime, one command at a time: bun run lint clean (13,060 files), bun run typecheck 41/42 (@superset/docs fails identically on untouched upstream/main — Unknown file extension ".ts" out of next typegen, a Node-loader issue on my box), bun run check:i18n clean with no catalog diff, and bunx sherif / check:versions / check:plugins / check:durable-objects / typecheck:release / test:release all passing.
Nothing needed from me — just flagging it so it isn't mistaken for a stalled PR.
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What & why
A long reply pushes the message that asked for it off the top of the transcript, and after a minute of tool runs there is nothing on screen that says what the agent is answering. Checking means scrolling up and losing your place in the reply.
The newest prompt now stays at the top of the transcript as a single truncated line, from the moment the message itself scrolls above the viewport. It sits in the same column and uses the same bubble style, so it reads as a caption on the reply rather than a new message.
Fixes #9626.
How it is built, and why not
position: stickyThe line is an overlay over the scroller, not a sticky row. Three things in the transcript measure rows with
getBoundingClientRect, and a stuck row reports its pinned position instead of its real one:useCarriedReaderPositionreads the topmost visible[data-message-id]to carry the reading position across a session switch; a stuck row would always win, so reopening a chat would drop you at the prompt instead of where you were in the reply.MessageScroller's prepend anchor picks the same first intersecting child, so loading older pages while the row was stuck would jump the scroll.top: 0and never scroll away.The overlay keeps every row where it really is, and truncation makes a long prompt a non-issue.
Other decisions worth a look in review:
readBookkeeping) are not prompts, so they are skipped.aria-hiddenandpointer-events-none.How I tested it
Driven in the real dev app over CDP, per
.agents/skills/cdp-verification/SKILL.md: a chat session against a throwaway 3-file repo, with Claude replying until the transcript was 7798px in a 799px viewport. Scrolling is realInput.dispatchMouseEventwheel events, not assignedscrollTop.Before — the prompt is on screen, nothing is pinned (
scrollTop: 0)After — scrolled past it, the newest prompt is pinned (
scrollTop: 1200, bar at the viewport's top edge, 49px tall,pointer-events: none,aria-hidden="true")Find open — the bar steps aside (same
scrollTop: 1800; closing find brings it back)Measured alongside each capture:
scrollTopGetting the app to run on Linux took work that is not part of this PR and never touched the branch: Electron's V8 headers need
-UV8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGSto compile the native modules under GCC, Chromium needs/dev/shmabove the 64M container default or vite's dev modules fail withERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES, andelectron-viteneeds Node 22 to load a.tsconfig. DEVELOPMENT.md already says Linux is untested; this is what it costs.Automated checks, run one at a time:
bun run lintbun run typecheck@superset/docsfails identically on untouchedupstream/main(Unknown file extension ".ts"fromnext typegen)bun run testagent-setup,host-serviceandworkspace-fsfail on pristineupstream/maintoo (6, 3 and 27 failures) — watcher timeouts and sparse checkout, nothing this PR touchesbun run check:i18n+git diff --exit-codeon the catalogsbunx sherif/check:versions/check:plugins/check:durable-objects/typecheck:release/test:releaseapps/desktop→ChatSession: 542 tests, 0 failures, including 5 new ones forlastPrompt.Not run:
bun run test:integration(needs the Docker stack) andbun run lint:prose(marketing only).Checklist
type(scope): subject)bun run lintandbun run typecheckpass — lint clean; typecheck 41/42, the one failure reproduces onupstream/main(details above)Summary by CodeRabbit