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feat(web): add a compact thread cards option for the sidebar - #33669
Sidebar cards spend a third line on the worktree/branch, plus the environment icon and provider badge. All of that is already in the card's hover card and in the thread itself. For people who scan the sidebar by project and title, that line adds height and noise without helping them choose a thread.
Change
A new Compact thread cards setting under Settings → General. It is off by default, so nothing changes unless you turn it on. When on, card-variant rows:
drop the branch/machine meta line;
show the environment icon (remote or scratch machine) and the provider icon right after the project name, at 12px and without the instance badge;
show the PR badge and running-terminal status next to the title.
Long project names and titles are cut off before the icons, PR badge or status slot. The hover card is unchanged and still shows branch, environment and provider/model. Slim, folder and search rows are untouched.
Files: setting in packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, toggle, reset and search entry in Settings, layout in SidebarThreadRow.tsx.
Scope and approval
This is a focused configuration option for an established capability: the sidebar thread card. It only controls how much of the card's existing metadata shows inline. It adds no workflow, keeps the current default, and leaves every piece of information reachable from the hover card. Proposal discussion: #33672 (no maintainer approval yet).
Verification
effect-tsgo typecheck of contracts, web and desktop; vp lint and vp fmt --check on the changed files; DesktopClientSettings.test.ts passes (8/8).
Manual check in vp run dev against a seeded, isolated .t3: I turned the setting on through the Settings UI. The card with a branch went from 78px to 60px. Header icons sit right after the project name. Turning it off restores the current layout.
Environment icon: the seeded data has a single local environment, so for the capture below I temporarily forced two threads to render as remote, and replaced project names and thread titles with placeholders (one server, one laptop) with a local patch that is not part of this PR. The before shot shows where the current layout puts those icons (meta line), the after shot shows them next to the project name.
Not checked: no seeded thread has a linked PR, so the PR badge on the title line is exercised through code only. Mobile has its own sidebar and is not changed.
Before
After (menubar-app and the last no-project card simulated as remote)
Done with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, running in T3 Code.
Sidebar cards spend a third line on the branch, environment and provider,
which the hover card already shows. The new "Compact thread cards" setting
(off by default) drops that line: the environment and provider icons move,
smaller and without the instance badge, next to the project name, and the
PR badge and terminal status move next to the title.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Adds an optional compact sidebar-card layout with a searchable setting and reset support. It is disabled by default and changes presentation only, preserving the existing layout unless enabled.
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Adds a client setting for compact sidebar thread cards. It exposes the setting in General settings and settings search. It also changes sidebar card rendering, sizing, and metadata when the setting is enabled.
Changes: Compact Thread Cards
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Summary
Setting contract and default packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, apps/desktop/src/settings/DesktopClientSettings.test.ts
Adds sidebarCompactThreadCards as a boolean setting that defaults to false, accepts optional patches, and appears in the desktop settings test fixture.
Settings controls and restore behavior apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts
Adds the “Compact thread cards” switch, reset and restore-default behavior, and a settings-search entry.
When the setting is enabled for card rows, changes icon placement, omits the metadata line, and adjusts card sizing. Compact provider stacks use a smaller provider icon.
This adds an optional, off-by-default compact layout for sidebar thread cards. With the setting off, behavior is unchanged. The change is low risk to merge.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.tsx:
- Around line 187-195: Update the `showInstanceBadge` logic in the thread row so
compact cards with multiple instances of the same provider still identify the
instance. Preserve the badge or ensure the instance name remains visible in the
hover card even when a long model name is shown.
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merged current main without rebasing, preserving checkout-thread behavior and the corrected 60px card height estimate. compact cards now preserve provider-instance badges, addressing the review finding about long model names. the new setting follows main's translation helpers. no unrelated feature changes.
verified head 1de6c5a35e51fcc80872b8b232b69b16ceb72055:
all 32 reported checks green; github reported clean and mergeable.
blacksmith vp run check:changed df15bd4f7bfcb5c41282e46d9de1092c01043b00 passed format, lint, both knip checks, affected typechecks, five existing test files, and react compiler checks.
two independent read-only reviews approved this head.
real chrome client: Replay provider turn completed; compact switch reduced row height from 82px to 64px including padding. toggle-off, reload persistence, and individual reset passed.
resolved the addressed bot thread without replying.
native electron/mobile, remote connections, multiple provider instances, and long custom model names were not exercised this run. the instance-badge fix was reviewed in code. an initial comparison against a newer moving main also ran unrelated server tests and hit the delegated-history assertion in Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts; scoped checks against the merged base passed, and all head CI checks subsequently passed.
before, compact off:
after, compact on with the same threads:
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Problem
Sidebar cards spend a third line on the worktree/branch, plus the environment icon and provider badge. All of that is already in the card's hover card and in the thread itself. For people who scan the sidebar by project and title, that line adds height and noise without helping them choose a thread.
Change
A new Compact thread cards setting under Settings → General. It is off by default, so nothing changes unless you turn it on. When on, card-variant rows:
Long project names and titles are cut off before the icons, PR badge or status slot. The hover card is unchanged and still shows branch, environment and provider/model. Slim, folder and search rows are untouched.
Files: setting in
packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, toggle, reset and search entry in Settings, layout inSidebarThreadRow.tsx.Scope and approval
This is a focused configuration option for an established capability: the sidebar thread card. It only controls how much of the card's existing metadata shows inline. It adds no workflow, keeps the current default, and leaves every piece of information reachable from the hover card. Proposal discussion: #33672 (no maintainer approval yet).
Verification
effect-tsgotypecheck of contracts, web and desktop;vp lintandvp fmt --checkon the changed files;DesktopClientSettings.test.tspasses (8/8).vp run devagainst a seeded, isolated.t3: I turned the setting on through the Settings UI. The card with a branch went from 78px to 60px. Header icons sit right after the project name. Turning it off restores the current layout.server, onelaptop) with a local patch that is not part of this PR. The before shot shows where the current layout puts those icons (meta line), the after shot shows them next to the project name.Done with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, running in T3 Code.
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