feat: add a sidebar search control that opens the palette

README.md

@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ Requires Node 24 or later. Tested on React 19; the peer range also accepts React
 
 Optional peers are needed only by the modules that import them. Those modules are not in the root entry, so import them by subpath:
 
-| Peer                            | Subpaths                                                      |
-| ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `@radix-ui/react-dialog`        | `ui/dialog`, `ui/command-palette`, `ui/mic-permission-dialog` |
-| `@radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu` | `ui/menu`                                                     |
-| `@radix-ui/react-tooltip`       | `ui/tooltip`                                                  |
-| `sonner`                        | `ui/toast`                                                    |
+| Peer                            | Subpaths                                                                           |
+| ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `@radix-ui/react-dialog`        | `ui/dialog`, `ui/command-palette`, `ui/sidebar-search`, `ui/mic-permission-dialog` |
+| `@radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu` | `ui/menu`                                                                          |
+| `@radix-ui/react-tooltip`       | `ui/tooltip`                                                                       |
+| `sonner`                        | `ui/toast`                                                                         |
 
 ## Quickstart
 
@@ -190,27 +190,28 @@ Everything imports from `@corbits/react-ui`, except rows marked "optional peer",
 
 #### Layout
 
-| Component           | What it is                                   |
-| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
-| `PageShell`         | Page margins and scroll ownership            |
-| `PagePanel`         | Bordered page-content frame                  |
-| `TopBar`            | Title, breadcrumbs and actions row           |
-| `Sidebar`           | Collapsible navigation sidebar               |
-| `SidebarPanel`      | Sidebar with pins, body and footer           |
-| `SidebarItemRow`    | One sidebar row                              |
-| `ListDetail`        | Index on the left, open item on the right    |
-| `InspectorShell`    | Side inspector rail                          |
-| `Section`           | Titled block of content                      |
-| `SettingsPanel`     | Settings frame with optional save            |
-| `LibraryPageHeader` | Title, count and controls for a library page |
-| `Card`              | Bordered content card                        |
-| `EmptyState`        | Title, description, icon and action          |
-| `RichEmptyState`    | Empty state with suggested next-step actions |
-| `BootScreen`        | Screen shown before the app loads            |
-| `DitherCanvas`      | Animated dithered background                 |
-| `CorbitsMark`       | Corbits logo                                 |
-| `AuthLayout`        | Sign-in page layout                          |
-| `LoginForm`         | Sign-in and sign-up form, with optional SSO  |
+| Component           | What it is                                                     |
+| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `PageShell`         | Page margins and scroll ownership                              |
+| `PagePanel`         | Bordered page-content frame                                    |
+| `TopBar`            | Title, breadcrumbs and actions row                             |
+| `Sidebar`           | Collapsible navigation sidebar                                 |
+| `SidebarSearch`     | Search row labelled Cmd+K (optional peer, `ui/sidebar-search`) |
+| `SidebarPanel`      | Sidebar with pins, body and footer                             |
+| `SidebarItemRow`    | One sidebar row                                                |
+| `ListDetail`        | Index on the left, open item on the right                      |
+| `InspectorShell`    | Side inspector rail                                            |
+| `Section`           | Titled block of content                                        |
+| `SettingsPanel`     | Settings frame with optional save                              |
+| `LibraryPageHeader` | Title, count and controls for a library page                   |
+| `Card`              | Bordered content card                                          |
+| `EmptyState`        | Title, description, icon and action                            |
+| `RichEmptyState`    | Empty state with suggested next-step actions                   |
+| `BootScreen`        | Screen shown before the app loads                              |
+| `DitherCanvas`      | Animated dithered background                                   |
+| `CorbitsMark`       | Corbits logo                                                   |
+| `AuthLayout`        | Sign-in page layout                                            |
+| `LoginForm`         | Sign-in and sign-up form, with optional SSO                    |
 
 #### Controls
 
@@ -257,7 +258,7 @@ The host app owns the connection to the hub; components only take props.
 
 - Install from npm. Git installs (`github:corbitsdev/react-ui#<sha>`) no longer build `dist/`.
 - Per-module subpaths are gone: import from `@corbits/react-ui` (`import { Button } from "@corbits/react-ui"`).
-- `ui/dialog`, `ui/command-palette`, `ui/mic-permission-dialog`, `ui/menu`, `ui/tooltip` and `ui/toast` are subpath-only, and their peers are optional: `import { Toaster, toast } from "@corbits/react-ui/ui/toast"`. Install the peer for each subpath you keep.
+- `ui/dialog`, `ui/command-palette`, `ui/sidebar-search`, `ui/mic-permission-dialog`, `ui/menu`, `ui/tooltip` and `ui/toast` are subpath-only, and their peers are optional: `import { Toaster, toast } from "@corbits/react-ui/ui/toast"`. Install the peer for each subpath you keep.
 - `lib/csv`, `lib/url`, `lib/utils`, `lib/workflow-registry` and `ui/chat-dock-timing` are internal. Replace `cn` with `twMerge(clsx(...))`.
 - Stateful components ship `"use client"`. Client wrappers you wrote for them still work, and can go.
 - 84 unused modules are removed, `ui/command` is removed, `ActivityBlock` is renamed `ReasoningBlock`, and `AuthLayout` no longer renders `DitherCanvas` by default.

package.json

@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
       "types": "./dist/ui/command-palette.d.ts",
       "default": "./dist/ui/command-palette.js"
     },
+    "./ui/sidebar-search": {
+      "types": "./dist/ui/sidebar-search.d.ts",
+      "default": "./dist/ui/sidebar-search.js"
+    },
     "./ui/dialog": {
       "types": "./dist/ui/dialog.d.ts",
       "default": "./dist/ui/dialog.js"

src/index.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 // barrel is one module, so any root import would load that peer. They have
 // their own entries in the `exports` map instead:
 //   @corbits/react-ui/ui/command-palette
+//   @corbits/react-ui/ui/sidebar-search
 //   @corbits/react-ui/ui/dialog
 //   @corbits/react-ui/ui/menu
 //   @corbits/react-ui/ui/mic-permission-dialog

src/ui/command-palette.tsx

@@ -520,36 +520,60 @@ export function CommandPaletteInline({
   );
 }
 
+const commandShortcutSubscribers = new Set<() => void>();
+
+function onCommandShortcutKeyDown(event: KeyboardEvent): void {
+  if (
+    event.key.toLowerCase() !== "k" ||
+    !(event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey) ||
+    event.repeat
+  ) {
+    return;
+  }
+  const target = event.target as HTMLElement | null;
+  if (
+    target?.isContentEditable === true ||
+    /^(input|textarea|select)$/i.test(target?.tagName ?? "")
+  ) {
+    return;
+  }
+  const subscriber = commandShortcutSubscribers.values().next().value;
+  if (subscriber === undefined) return;
+  event.preventDefault();
+  subscriber();
+}
+
 /**
  * Binds ⌘K / Ctrl-K to a toggle.
  *
  * A hook and not built into the palette, because plenty of apps already own
  * their global key handling and a second listener fighting theirs is worse
- * than no listener at all. It ignores repeats from a held key and lets the
- * browser keep its own ⌘K where the user is typing into a text field —
+ * than no listener at all. Every mounted caller shares one document listener,
+ * and a shortcut invokes exactly one subscriber, so a host toggle and a search
+ * row cannot undo each other. A later subscriber keeps the listener when the
+ * one that attached it unmounts. It ignores repeats from a held key and lets
+ * the browser keep its own ⌘K where the user is typing into a text field —
  * stealing it there is how a palette becomes the thing that eats your search
- * box.
+ * box. Pass `enabled: false` to stay out of the subscriber set.
  */
 export function useCommandShortcut(onToggle: () => void, enabled = true): void {
+  const onToggleRef = useRef(onToggle);
+  onToggleRef.current = onToggle;
+
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!enabled) return;
-    const onKeyDown = (event: KeyboardEvent) => {
-      if (
-        event.key.toLowerCase() !== "k" ||
-        !(event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey) ||
-        event.repeat
-      )
-        return;
-      const target = event.target as HTMLElement | null;
-      if (
-        target?.isContentEditable === true ||
-        /^(input|textarea|select)$/i.test(target?.tagName ?? "")
-      )
-        return;
-      event.preventDefault();
-      onToggle();
+    const subscriber = () => {
+      onToggleRef.current();
+    };
+    commandShortcutSubscribers.add(subscriber);
+    if (commandShortcutSubscribers.size === 1) {
+      document.addEventListener("keydown", onCommandShortcutKeyDown);
+    }
+    return () => {
+      commandShortcutSubscribers.delete(subscriber);
+      if (commandShortcutSubscribers.size === 0) {
+        document.removeEventListener("keydown", onCommandShortcutKeyDown);
+      }
     };
-    document.addEventListener("keydown", onKeyDown);
-    return () => document.removeEventListener("keydown", onKeyDown);
-  }, [onToggle, enabled]);
+  }, [enabled]);
 }