Simplify Agents session header - #331097
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Pull request overview
Simplifies the Agents Window header by replacing the session picker with passive active-session identity and consolidating in-content metadata and actions.
Changes:
- Displays provider, session title, and workspace in the titlebar.
- Conditionally shows navigation when the sidebar is hidden.
- Removes inline header titles and routes rename through the shared command.
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sessionsTitleBarWidget.fixture.ts |
Updates visual fixtures for passive identity states. |
sessionHeader.test.ts |
Verifies the consolidated header row. |
LAYOUT.md |
Documents the revised titlebar and blocked-session behavior. |
sessionsTitleBarWidget.test.ts |
Tests active and draft identities. |
sessionsTitleBarWidget.ts |
Implements passive session identity. |
sessionsActions.ts |
Adjusts navigation visibility and rename routing. |
sessionsTitleBarWidget.css |
Restyles the titlebar identity. |
sessionView.ts |
Removes inline title-editing entry point. |
sessionHeader.ts |
Removes duplicate title and inline rename UI. |
chatCompositeBar.css |
Consolidates metadata and actions into one row. |
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Problem: Top section of Agents window is crowded with actions, redundant information (session title), non-primary actions at surface, and vertical stacking of too many horizontal rows of information (command bar, session title+actions, session pills, chat tabs, sticky prompt, etc.) that results into cognitive load and difficulty in scanning key session information.
Solution:
Replaces the Agents Window command-center session picker with passive active-session identity while keeping session commands in the content header for this first stage. Command-center search is duplicative in its functionality since the left pane already offers session navigation. This also reduces session title redundancy for most common scenarios when users have only one chat per session.
This is part1 of series of PRs to implement the full solution to address the Agents window cognitive load issue.
(Stacked: romalpani#2 Move session actions to the title menu)
(Stacked: romalpani#3 Add inline session title rename)
In this PR:
New sessionfor draftsBefore (left pane + chat pane open):
After (left pane + chat pane open):
Before (left pane collapsed):
After (left pane collapsed):
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Testing:
npm run transpile-clientSessionsTitleBarWidgetandSessionHeaderunit tests (6 passed)