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Description

Improve the design of the playground.

How to test it locally

  1. Build the dashboard and start a standalone gateway with two chat models.
  2. Open Playground from the top navigation (or the account menu on mobile). Confirm the old sidebar entry is absent and deployment gating still applies.
  3. Send a starting prompt in Single mode. Check streaming, Copy, Regenerate, the usage readout, and the 760px composer. Hover Tools and the model picker to compare their states.
  4. Switch to Compare. Model B starts empty. Enter and Send must not dispatch a request until B is selected. Choose B, send, and confirm both answers and rating controls appear.
  5. Open History, filter Chats/Comparisons, search, and use View all. Resume a saved chat and confirm its model and Single mode are restored. Save a current chat and test confirmed deletion.
  6. At 390px, check stacked comparison panels, fluid composer width, touch targets, and a history popover that stays inside the viewport. Use arrow keys on the mode switch and Escape on popovers.

Validation

  • Dashboard Biome and TypeScript: passed.
  • Full dashboard suite: 6,479 tests passed across 193 files, and 6,478 after the review round removed the test for a prop that is gone.
  • Production Vite and Storybook builds: passed.
  • Storybook smoke: 850 of 858 renders passed. The same four unchanged PublicAuthLayout stories fail in both themes because useTheme lacks a ThemeProvider. Changed component stories passed.
  • Local browser checks covered welcome, completed chat, paired streams, missing-model send guard, keyboard mode changes, history filtering/search, and 390px layout without horizontal overflow.

Frontend-only change. Backend suites were not rerun. Generated bundles and local demo data are not committed.

Two self-review rounds have been worked and every thread is resolved. The second round removed an unused CopyButton label mode, gave the History control a visible label so it takes the ghost edge rather than a wrapper drawing one around an icon-only button, lifted the history date heading out of its first list item, narrowed the composer's missing-model prop, and restored the reason both comparison columns start empty.

PR Type

  • Bug Fix

Relevant issues

Part of mozilla-ai/otari-ai#2086. Follow-up to #1131.

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  • I understand the code I am submitting.
  • I have added or updated tests that cover my change.
  • I ran all backend Definition of Done checks locally (frontend-only change; validation above).
  • Documentation was updated where necessary.
  • If the API contract changed, I regenerated the OpenAPI spec (not applicable).

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Summary

  • Moved Playground from the sidebar to the top navigation. Added mobile access through the account menu.
  • Redesigned the chat layout, composer, model picker, tools menu, response actions, and comparison mode.
  • Added a shared history interface with search, filtering, loading, saving, and deletion support.
  • Restored the saved conversation model and Single mode when loading a conversation.
  • Prevented comparison sends until Model B is selected.
  • Improved responsive behavior, accessibility labels, keyboard interactions, and popover behavior.
  • Added shared layout and control components, including TurnReadout and expanded Segmented sizing.
  • Removed the separate conversation and comparison history dialogs.
  • Added or updated tests for navigation, history, comparison mode, popovers, reasoning blocks, and usage readouts.

Technical notes

Validation covered frontend linting, TypeScript checks, tests, production builds, Storybook builds, Storybook smoke tests, and desktop/mobile browser checks. Backend suites were not rerun because the changes are frontend-only.

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  • web/design/overlays.md
  • web/src/design-system/overlays/Popover.stories.tsx
  • web/src/design-system/overlays/Popover.test.tsx
  • web/src/design-system/overlays/Popover.tsx
  • web/src/features/playground/MessageBubble.tsx
  • web/src/features/playground/ModelSelect.tsx
  • web/src/features/playground/PlaygroundComposer.tsx
  • web/src/features/playground/PlaygroundConversation.tsx
  • web/src/features/playground/PlaygroundHistory.tsx
  • web/src/features/playground/PlaygroundPage.test.tsx
  • web/src/features/playground/ToolsMenu.tsx
  • web/src/features/playground/hooks/usePlayground.ts
  • web/src/shared/helpers/format.ts
  • web/src/styles/globals.css

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The pull request moves Playground navigation into the top bar and mobile account menu, consolidates chat and comparison history, changes comparison setup to require Model B, and refreshes the Playground layout and shared UI components.

Changes

Playground experience

Layer / File(s) Summary
Chrome navigation and route registry
web/src/app/nav/*, web/src/app/AppShell.test.tsx, web/AGENTS.md, .github/instructions/...
Playground is no longer a sidebar item. It remains registered for route lookup and surface gating, and appears in the top bar and mobile account menu when available.
Design-system contracts and interaction primitives
web/src/design-system/navigation/*, web/src/design-system/overlays/*, web/design/*
Segmented supports sm and md sizes. Popover supports padding="none" and placement="bottom end". Related stories and tests were added.
Unified history and playground state
web/src/features/playground/PlaygroundHistory.tsx, web/src/features/playground/hooks/usePlayground.ts, web/src/features/playground/*HistoryDialog.tsx, web/src/features/playground/PlaygroundHistory.test.tsx
Chat and comparison history now share one history control. The hook handles combined loading and deletion state, transcript loading, empty Model B state, and submission guards.
Playground page and comparison flow
web/src/features/playground/PlaygroundPage.tsx, PlaygroundToolbar.tsx, PlaygroundComposer.tsx, PlaygroundConversation.tsx, ModelSelect.tsx, playgroundLayout.ts, PlaygroundPage.test.tsx
The page uses a revised header and chat-column layout. Comparison mode starts with no Model B selection and blocks submission until Model B is selected.
Playground rendering and controls
web/src/features/playground/*.tsx, web/src/design-system/actions/CopyButton.tsx, web/src/styles/globals.css
Messages, tools, reasoning, usage readouts, active tool chips, buttons, and action styling were updated. New tests cover usage output and keyboard disclosure behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Repository maintenance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Virtual environment ignore pattern
.gitignore
The .venv ignore pattern now matches a .venv symlink as well as a directory.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8cb26

History overlays are not named for assistive technology, saved retired models can appear unselected while still being used, and changing comparison models can reuse another model’s transcript. These are bounded issues but should be addressed promptly.

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jigjigjig and others added 2 commits September 15, 2026 12:57
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Center and cap the composer, align Tools and model hover areas, and correct history dialog spacing. Reuse shared chips, disclosure, copy, and popover controls and restore a saved conversation's model when loading it.

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@jigjigjig jigjigjig changed the title fix(dashboard): move Playground into the top navigation fix(playground): align chat layout and controls with Otari Sep 15, 2026

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Self-review before this leaves draft. CodeRabbit skipped the PR ("Draft PR not reviewed"), so nothing external has read it yet.

Three correctness or accessibility items, four design-system items, and one about the comments the diff removes. Popover's nested-trigger fix and the label="Copy response" to label="response" correction (which was producing an accessible name of "Copy Copy response") are both right and both covered by new tests.

Reviewed by Claude Opus 5.

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jigjigjig and others added 3 commits September 16, 2026 11:44
Align accessible control names, disambiguate shared model labels, reuse PageIntro and Section layouts, and keep chat widths in one constant. Separate inline action styling from filter density and preserve the component rationale.

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@jigjigjig jigjigjig changed the title fix(playground): align chat layout and controls with Otari fix(playground): improve design of playground Sep 16, 2026
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Self-review by Claude Opus 5. Five findings, none blocking the design direction: one dead prop on a shared component, one hand-rolled control border, one heading nested inside a list item, one over-wide union, and one rationale comment that lost the fact it existed to record.

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Drop the unused CopyButton label mode, give the History control a label so
it takes the ghost edge instead of a wrapper drawing one around an
icon-only button, lift the date heading out of its first list item, narrow
the composer's missing-model prop to the panel that can be missing, and
restore the reason both comparison columns start empty.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
jigjigjig and others added 3 commits September 16, 2026 12:42
…inks

A worktree puts symlinks at .venv and web/node_modules. The ignore patterns
carried a trailing slash, so each matched a directory only and the symlinks
were untracked by accident rather than by rule; a commit that staged
everything picked them up. CI then checked them out and both uv and pnpm
refused to create the paths that already existed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two panels stream independently, so `findAllByText` resolved on
whichever answered first and the length was then read one short. It held
locally and failed under CI load. Waiting on the count retries until both
have answered, which is what the assertion was always about.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
That PR fixes it in both ignore files with its own note, so editing the same
line here would only hand whichever merges second a conflict. `.venv` stays,
because #1216 does not cover it and the symlink there is what broke the
serving and e2e installs.

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Two findings land on files this PR did not touch, so they are here rather than inline:

  • web/e2e/screenshots/authenticated.spec.ts:26 still gates the /playground capture on heading: /what can i help with/i. That greeting is now "Try a prompt." and the page grew a PageIntro title, so open() times out and the playground baseline never renders. The comment above the entry ("the one page in this matrix with no page title") is stale for the same reason; heading: /playground/i is now the right regex.
  • docs/dashboard.md:88 still lists Playground in the workspace sidebar ("Playground, Models, and Routing"). web/AGENTS.md and .github/instructions/frontend-standards.instructions.md were updated for the move; this one was missed.

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In `@web/src/design-system/overlays/Popover.stories.tsx`:
- Around line 99-101: Expose an accessible-label prop on Popover and apply it
through the HeroPopover.Dialog naming path, then pass “History” from both the
History story and the production PlaygroundHistory popover so each dialog has an
accessible name. Keep the existing visual History heading unchanged.

In `@web/src/features/playground/ModelSelect.tsx`:
- Around line 57-63: Update the selectedLabel fallback in ModelSelect so an
unknown selected key displays the raw value instead of an empty label; preserve
the existing ambiguous-label behavior and use the empty placeholder only when no
value is selected.

In `@web/src/features/playground/PlaygroundConversation.tsx`:
- Around line 72-76: Update the model-change handler to clear the selected
panel’s turns whenever its model changes, and also clear panel B’s turns when
the collision branch resets panelB.model. Keep the existing model-selection
behavior while ensuring no stale transcript is retained for an unselected or
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Restore a saved conversation's model through the catalog guard, so a
transcript that outlived its model no longer leaves the picker blank while
Send still dispatches. Drop a comparison panel's turns whenever its model
changes, including the panel cleared by a collision, so stale answers cannot
be sent to a model that did not produce them.

Give Popover a required accessible name, narrow its trigger to an element
and state that it must be a react-aria pressable, and record both rules in
design/overlays.md. Move the history date grouping into shared format helpers
and read the clock once per render pass. Reach the field variables through an
.otari-composer place rather than arbitrary classes. Use IconButton for the
four hand-rolled icon buttons, name the save control after its visible label,
and put prose on the caption role rather than the identifier one.

Revert the .gitignore change, which belongs with #1216 rather than here.

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