July 6, 2026

Unified settings, Claude-style chat & instant history

Unified Settings modal (components/settings/) in the Claude style: centered dialog, left nav with General / AI Models / Connectors tabs. General holds Profile (avatar, editable full name saved to Supabase user metadata — the same name presence and cursors show, email), Preferences (light/dark appearance, a new chat font choice — Sans or Serif — applied to AI replies via lib/prefs.ts), and Sign out. AI Models and Connectors are the old drawer contents re-homed. The modal stacks above the AI panel and agent view (z 80), so opening settings no longer closes the chat or agent mode; its Escape key is captured so it closes only itself. On phones it becomes a full-screen sheet with a horizontal tab row.
Message timestamps. Chat messages now carry ts (client clock locally, created_at from the DB for cloud threads — the /api/ai GET now returns it as epoch ms). Threads render day dividers ("Today", "Jul 4"), small per-message times, an "Updated 2m ago" in the agent header, and "2h ago" recency labels on the agent sidebar's space rows.
Agent view chrome. The sidebar now leads with the ClipSpaces logo + Agent badge and ends with an account chip (avatar initial, display name, gear → Settings General; signed-out shows Sign in). The main header gains the user's avatar button.

Claude-style message split. In both the compact popover and the agent view, assistant replies are plain prose (no bubble, no border, optional serif) and only the user's turns get a bubble — neutral elevated background instead of the old accent-filled one.
The two right-side drawers are retired. AISettingsPanel.tsx and IntegrationsPanel.tsx are deleted; the TopBar Connect button, the canvas empty-state, and every AI-settings gear now open the Settings modal at the right tab.

Chat history no longer pops in all at once after the scan. The thread and the board live in different stores by design (cards flow through the canvas pipeline — IndexedDB/Realtime — while the conversation lives in ai_messages behind auth/RLS), so history had to wait for a network fetch that resolved behind the 2.6s minimum scan animation. Now every space keeps a device-side thread cache (cloud spaces too): the last-known conversation paints synchronously on open, the server copy reconciles in the background (client-only meta like worked-for durations is preserved where turns match), and the scan animation only plays when the board actually changed and a fresh briefing is being generated.