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feat(desktop): subagents, background work and PRs in the top bar - #8975
Running subagents and background shells move out of each chat's composer drawer into the workspace activity panel in the top bar. The panel gathers them from every chat tab and agent terminal, including tabs that aren't mounted.
Docks when it fits, popover when it doesn't. When the top-right pane has room for the centered chat column plus the card, the card is shown docked under the pane header. The chat stays centered and never moves. When there's no room, the top-bar button opens the same card as a popover at the same spot.
Hide and show. When the card fits, the top-bar button hides and shows it, and that choice is kept across resizes. The popover's open and close never change it.
The composer drawer keeps only queued prompts.
One top-bar button (right pane area layout): it shows the current checkout's PR (icon, number, checks) once the host recognises one, and the diff stats otherwise. The separate PR badge in that toolbar is removed.
Pull requests in the panel: every PR the host linked to this workspace, current checkout first. Clicking one opens the PR view in the right pane (GitHub with a modifier key). The current PR's row has a ⋯ menu with Commit, Push, Ready for review and Merge.
Transitions are animated: dock and undock, popover, panel height, and sub-views. Reduced motion turns them off.
Why / Context
The Running section of the drawer only showed the tab in front of you, and a floating card per chat would duplicate the top-bar activity menu that already listed detached terminals. The request was one place, at the top, that is there when there's room, can be hidden, and never pushes the chat aside.
How It Works
Data: rows come from terminalAgents.listByWorkspace (useTerminalAgentBindings). Those bindings already carry each chat's backgroundTasks and each terminal agent's subagents, and they refresh on agent events. collectAgentWork turns them into subagent rows and shell rows. Running subagents nested under a running subagent fold into a +N badge; shells never fold.
Actions:
Open focuses the chat's pane, switching tabs if needed, then opens the subagent through chatSubagentStore.
Stop and Move to background create a short-lived SessionClient for that session and close it afterwards.
Done: a subagent that leaves the live list while its chat session continues is recorded in memory (20 per workspace). Entries are filtered against live rows and the current session when shown, so a closed chat, a new session in the same terminal, or a subagent that comes back doesn't leave stale or duplicate rows.
Layout:
New renderPaneAside slot in @superset/panes. It renders over the right of the top-right pane's body, below its header, and sets --pane-aside-inset on the pane body.
Chat panes set insetsAside: true, so they ignore the inset and stay centered. Other panes get the inset as right padding.
The aside measures the pane and docks the card when the pane is at least 816px (chat column) + 2 × 340px (card and gaps) wide. It also renders an invisible anchor at the card's spot, so the popover opens in exactly the same place.
The panel caps at 480px, scrolls, and has sticky section headers with counts.
State:activityPanelStore keeps fits and a per-workspace hidden flag in memory. The popover's open state is local to the button.
Button: it looks active only while the popover is open, not while the card is docked. aria-expanded and aria-controls follow whichever card is showing.
Motion: the docked card stays mounted while it fades and is on its own compositor layer. It is mounted only while it shows or fades out. The popover keeps its content during its exit animation. AnimatedHeight eases the panel height with a ResizeObserver. Easing is ease-out-quint (240ms) on enter and a quick ease-in (150ms) on exit.
Pull requests
Workspace PRs come from pullRequests.historyByWorkspaces. The host appends a row whenever the workspace's branch upstream matches a PR on GitHub (git-watch, push/PR create, 5-min sweep); the current link comes first.
No PR on the checkout: the panel keeps the workspace header with Commit / Push / Create PR and the Changes row. With a PR: it shows the pull requests, and the current PR's row carries the ⋯ menu.
Merge and ready-for-review live in usePullRequestActions, shared by the panel's PR row and the classic layout's badge.
Manual QA Checklist
Done in the dev app over CDP, against a real Claude agent running subagents:
Two subagents launched from a chat show under Subagents with their chat's name and current step. The top-bar badge counts them.
From another chat tab, the same rows are listed (that chat's tab is unmounted).
Clicking a row switches back to its tab and opens the subagent transcript.
Finished subagents move to Done.
Wide pane: the card is docked without a click, and the chat column stays centered (its center within 1px of the pane's).
Narrow pane: the card is gone. The button opens and closes a popover at the same top and right offsets as the docked card. Outside click closes it.
Card shown, then narrow, then popover toggled, then wide again: the card is back. Card hidden, then the same steps: the card stays hidden.
The button looks active only while the popover is open.
Transitions sampled per frame: opacity and height ease smoothly. Showing the docked card has no long frames. Other toggles have one 50 to 80ms frame at the start in the dev build, mostly React DevTools and dev-mode React.
20 subagents + 20 shells: the panel stays at 480px, scrolls, and headers stay pinned. For this one the rows were injected into the renderer's cached bindings; everything rendering them is real.
Before/after/older-PR states of the top-bar button and panel (sample PR data injected; this dev workspace has no repo).
Not tested: a production build's frame timing, split layouts with a non-chat top-right pane (terminal and browser get right padding by design), Windows and Linux.
Testing
bun test in apps/desktop for v2-workspace/$workspaceId: 1010 pass. In packages/panes: 141 pass. (bun 1.4.3).
tsc --noEmit for apps/desktop (no errors in changed files; the fresh worktree has unrelated errors in auth packages) and packages/panes.
biome check on changed files; bun run check:i18n with every locale complete.
Added tests: collectAgentWork (aggregation, nesting, shells under a subagent, endedAt: null), activityPanelStore (cap and dedupe, aside slot ownership, per-workspace hiding), topRightPaneId, chatAgentBridge task comparison, plus the WorkDrawer tests rewritten for queue-only.
Code review
A separate agent reviewed the diff. I fixed:
shells under a subagent being folded into its badge;
Done rows going stale or duplicating (closed chat, new session, re-listed task);
the aside slot being cleared by the wrong node;
a missing pending state on Stop / Move to background;
missing aria-controls and aside label;
"Done" without a translation context.
One finding I didn't act on, because it doesn't apply: clicks in the panel focusing the top-right pane. The panel's content is portaled from the tab-bar menu, so React routes its events through the tab bar, not the pane.
A second review covered the PR button and list. Fixed:
the panel shows the checkout's PR even before the host links it, so it's never empty while the button shows a PR;
the button's accessible name includes the PR number;
one draft rule for the button and the rows (draft only while open; drafts keep their checks dot);
removed the classic badge's dead open-PR path and leftover constants;
Commit, Push, Merge and Ready for review are reachable from the current PR's row.
Design Decisions
Host bindings instead of mounted sessions: center tabs aren't kept alive, so a renderer-side list would miss every background tab.
The chat never moves: the card docks only when it fits beside the centered column. Otherwise it's a popover, so nothing reflows.
Hidden is per workspace and in memory: it survives resizes and tab switches but not a restart. That avoids a new persisted renderer key.
Top-right pane, not the focused pane: in a split it stays put when focus moves.
Known Limitations
Docking needs a 1496px pane, so with the right pane open it usually needs a wide window.
Non-chat panes in the top-right slot shift their right padding without animation. Animating it would refit terminals every frame.
The old drawer's "needs approval" marker and "waiting on N subagents" text aren't carried over. Bindings don't include approval state.
Done lives in memory and a reload clears it. Finished shells aren't kept.
A subagent whose direct parent has finished shows as top-level.
Summary by cubic
Running subagents, background shells, and pull requests now live in a top-bar workspace activity panel, gathered from every chat tab and agent terminal rather than just the visible one. The panel docks under the top-right pane's header when it fits and keeps the chat centered; when it can't dock (narrow pane, split, no pane) the top-bar button opens it as a popover. The button also hides and shows the docked panel, a choice that persists across resizes, while the popover never changes it. The composer drawer keeps only queued prompts.
One top-bar button replaces the separate PR badge: it shows the current checkout's PR (icon, number, checks) once the host recognizes one, and the diff stats otherwise.
The panel lists every PR the host linked to the workspace, current checkout first; clicking opens the PR in the right pane, and each row offers Commit, Push, Ready for review, and Merge. Merge and ready-for-review live in a shared hook beside the classic layout's PR badge.
Rows open the subagent (switching tabs), stop it, or move it to the background; finished subagents go to an in-memory Done list capped at 20 per workspace. Sticky section headers show counts, and the panel caps at 480px and scrolls.
Panel show/hide, docking, and popover transitions are animated with reduced-motion support, and the docked panel stays on its own compositor layer.
Known limitations
Done entries clear on reload, finished shells aren't kept, and the drawer's "needs approval" marker and "waiting on N subagents" text are dropped.
Written for commit 83f5397. Summary will update on new commits.
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New Features
Pin workspace activity in a side panel to view workspace pages, pull requests and checks, running agent work, and completed subagents.
Open activity items, stop eligible agent work, or move it to the background. Use keyboard navigation and Escape to leave active subviews.
Access available pull-request actions, including merging and marking a pull request ready.
Changes
The Work Drawer now focuses on queued prompts; running-task details and controls are no longer shown there.
Workspace content adjusts its layout when the activity panel is displayed.
Workspace takes an optional renderPaneAside. It renders over the right
of the top-right pane's body, below its header, so a docked panel
leaves the pane header full width and stays put when focus moves
between split panes.
The aside reserves its width through --pane-aside-inset on the pane
body. Panes get it as right padding unless their definition sets
insetsAside, which lets a pane keep its scroller full width and pad
only its content.
…he top bar
Running subagents and background shells lived in a Running section of
the drawer above each chat's composer, so only the tab in front was
visible. They now sit in the workspace activity panel in the top bar,
gathered from every chat tab and agent terminal through the host's
terminal agent bindings, which include chats in unmounted tabs.
- Rows open the subagent (switching to its tab), stop it, or move it
to the background through a short-lived session client.
- A Done list keeps subagents that left the live list while their
chat session continued, capped at 20 per workspace, in memory.
- The panel is a pinned toggle instead of a popover. It docks under
the top-right pane's header and hides when that pane is narrower
than the panel plus 560px, coming back when there is room.
- Chat panes keep the transcript full width so its scrollbar stays at
the pane edge; only the column and composer move left.
- The panel caps at 480px and scrolls, with sticky section headers
that show counts.
- The composer drawer keeps only queued prompts.
Bindings report endedAt as null for live agents, so a live check
treats any falsy endedAt as running.
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The workspace activity menu is now a pinned pane aside. It displays pull requests, active and finished subagents, shells, background processes, and workspace pages. The chat drawer now handles queued prompts only. Pane rendering and pull-request actions were updated to support these changes.
The panes package can render an aside beside the top-right pane and apply pane-specific insets. The workspace supplies the activity aside, which registers its host and checks available width and visibility.
Agent work collection and actions apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/components/WorkspaceActivityMenu/utils/collectAgentWork/*, .../hooks/useAgentWork/*, .../hooks/useAgentWorkActions/*, .../components/AgentWorkRow/*, .../components/FinishedSubagentRow/*, .../stores/activityPanelStore/*, .../utils/paneSourceTitle/*
The activity menu collects subagents and shells from active terminal bindings. Workspace state records finished subagents. Rows show work details and expose available open, stop, and background actions.
The menu toggles workspace pin state, loads pull requests while enabled, and displays pull-request and activity entries. Pull-request merge and ready-for-review actions use a shared hook. Locale catalogs add activity and subagent labels and remove prior task-count and approval strings.
The chat drawer now renders queued prompts only. Its running-task rows, counts, actions, and related props were removed; callers and tests use the queue-focused interface.
sequenceDiagram
participant Workspace
participant Tab
participant Pane
participant ActivityPanelAside
participant WorkspaceActivityMenu
Workspace->>Tab: provide aside renderer and target pane
Tab->>Pane: identify top-right target
Pane->>ActivityPanelAside: request matching pane aside
ActivityPanelAside->>WorkspaceActivityMenu: render activity panel
WorkspaceActivityMenu->>Workspace: open pull request or agent work
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Possibly related issues
ParadevAI/Paradev#8895: The activity panel lists workspace-linked pull requests, addressing the reported visibility gap for multiple associated PRs.
ParadevAI/Paradev#8634: The activity panel lists subagents and shells across workspace terminals. Board and waiting-state requirements are not included.
ParadevAI/Paradev#8962: The activity panel displays pull-request check indicators, while the check-status mapping described in the issue remains unchanged.
Suggested reviewers:avipeltz, saddlepaddle
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 2cbf9
In narrow windows or splits, or once a branch has a PR, the new activity panel can leave Git and PR actions unreachable. Add a fallback surface for the panel and keep the Merge, Ready and Commit/Push actions available before merging. Remaining items are minor: subagent status labels, the new-page dot, and translation consistency.
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The title "feat(desktop): subagents, background work and PRs in the top bar" follows conventional commit format and matches the main change. The PR moves running subagents and background shells from the chat composer drawer into a pinned workspace activity panel in the top bar, and adds workspace pull requests and a PR-aware top-bar button. The title names the main change and the scope, so it is specific enough for a teammate scanning history.
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### Issue 1
apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/components/WorkspaceActivityMenu/utils/collectAgentWork/collectAgentWork.ts:64
`collectAgentWork` now reads `canBackground` only from host bindings, but `chatAgentBridge.sameTasks` ignores changes to that field. ACP can update an existing subagent's controls without changing its other fields, so the bridge drops the update. The panel can hide Move to background after it becomes available, or keep showing it after it becomes unavailable. Include `canBackground` in the bridge's comparison when moving these controls to bindings.
### Issue 2
apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/components/WorkspaceActivityMenu/hooks/useAgentWork/useAgentWork.ts:13-19
`sameSession` treats successive non-chat agents in the same terminal as one session because both have an undefined `chatSessionId`. When a new agent session starts there, the host clears the old subagent list. This hook then records those removed rows as Done and keeps earlier Done rows visible. Carry `agentSessionId` through terminal rows and compare it here so old work does not appear under the new session.
### Issue 3
apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/hooks/usePaneRegistry/components/ChatSession/constants.ts:7-8
The new `CHAT_GUTTER_CLASSNAME` adds the aside width inside `PendingCloudChatPane`, but that pane is not marked `insetsAside`. `PaneContent` already reserves the same width outside it. With the panel open, the pending cloud chat loses 680px instead of 340px, squeezing its composer and queued prompts. Mark that pane `insetsAside: true` too, or prevent the inner gutter from adding the width twice.
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Summary
Moves running subagents and background shells into a pinned workspace activity panel.
The activity panel lists running work from every chat and agent terminal.
The pinned activity panel docks beside the top-right pane when there is room.
The chat composer drawer keeps queued prompts and drops its running-work section.
Acknowledged by harshithmullapudi: approval markers and waiting text are intentionally omitted; Done history is memory-only; finished shells are not retained; children with finished parents become top-level. The panel-click focus concern was explicitly dismissed because its events follow the portal's React parent.
Diagram
%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
A[Host agent bindings] --> B[Collect running work]
B --> C[Workspace activity panel]
B --> D[Remember finished subagents]
D --> C
E[Top-right pane aside] --> C
C --> F[Focus source pane]
C --> G[Short-lived SessionClient]
G --> H[Stop or background task]
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@apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/components/WorkspaceActivityMenu/hooks/useAgentWork/useAgentWork.ts:
- Around line 29-35: Update collectAgentWork and the live-key checks in
useAgentWork so live includes every running subagent task, including nested
subagents, rather than only rows in work.subagents. Use that complete set in
both finished-memo checks to prevent running nested tasks from being marked
Done.
Review comments at @packages/i18n/locales/de/messages.po:
- Line 8898: Update both German catalog labels for showing and hiding workspace
activity to use the established “Arbeitsbereich” terminology, keeping the
show/hide distinction intact.
Review comments at @packages/i18n/locales/id/messages.po:
- Line 8898: Update both Indonesian label translations to replace the English
term “workspace” with the established Indonesian term “ruang kerja,” keeping the
terminology consistent between the entries.
Review comments at @packages/i18n/locales/it/messages.po:
- Line 11934: Update the Italian translation in this entry to use “sottoagente”
instead of “subagente,” matching the established terminology used by the plural
translation.
Review comments at @packages/i18n/locales/ko/messages.po:
- Line 11934: Update the Korean translation in this `msgstr` to use the
established “서브 에이전트” spacing, keeping the rest of the message unchanged.
Review comments at @packages/i18n/locales/pt-BR/messages.po:
- Line 8898: Update both Portuguese activity-label translations that hide or
show workspace activity to use “área de trabalho” instead of the English
“workspace,” matching the requested natural Portuguese wording.
Review comments at @packages/i18n/locales/vi/messages.po:
- Line 11934: Update the Vietnamese translation entry so it uses the locale’s
existing “agent con” term instead of leaving “subagent” in English, consistent
with the translation of “Subagent” elsewhere in the locale.
- Line 8898: Update the Vietnamese translations for the “Hide workspace
activity” and “Show workspace activity” labels to use “không gian làm việc”
consistently in place of “workspace,” matching the existing translation of that
term.
Review comments at @packages/i18n/locales/zh-CN/messages.po:
- Line 11934: Update the translation in the “暂无子代理” message entry to use the
established “子智能体” term, making it “暂无子智能体” for consistency with the existing
“Subagent” and “Subagents” translations.
Review comments at @packages/i18n/locales/zh-TW/messages.po:
- Around line 11933-11935: Update the “No subagents yet” translation in the
zh-TW catalog to use the same 子代理程式 term as the existing subagent entries,
keeping the locale’s agent terminology consistent.
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Review verdict (re-review at 4bc0aa65): needs changes. The binding-based data and the renderPaneAside slot look good. The panel still has no fallback when it cannot dock, and it now holds the only ship actions in the right-pane-area layout.
High:WorkspaceActivityMenu.tsx:144/:556 render only into the aside, which ActivityPanelAside.tsx:24-30 mounts only when the top-right pane is ≥880px and a pane exists. With ChangesControl gone from WorkspaceToolbar.tsx, a split or narrow window leaves the toggle pressed and Commit / Push / Create PR / Pages unreachable. Fall back to a popover when asideNode is undefined.
Medium:WorkspaceActivityMenu.tsx:629 hides the header once a PR exists, so Merge / Ready for review / Commit / Push are unreachable in that layout. usePullRequestActions could back a menu on the current-PR row.
Medium:useAgentWork.ts:28-44 records a subagent stopped from the panel as "Done".
Low:WorkspaceActivityMenu.tsx:361-363 marks pages seen only on toggle, so the "new" dot lights while the pinned panel shows the page.
Low: the aside is last in the pane's DOM and focus does not move to it, so keyboard users reach it only after the whole pane.
CI is green. Tests for changed code (32 desktop + 139 panes) pass. The 13 other desktop failures come from a file-icons manifest missing in the sandbox, not from this PR. I could not run the desktop UI: better-sqlite3 will not build for Electron 44 with the sandbox toolchain. No screenshots.
…nding
The chat bridge scans each finished tool call's output for GitHub pull
request URLs and keeps them, in memory, on the chat's terminal agent
binding next to its background tasks. Nothing is stored: the list
lives as long as the chat's binding and survives a session swap the
same way background tasks do. Capped at the 50 most recent links.
terminalAgents.listByWorkspace gains an optional pullRequests field;
older clients ignore it.
…ery workspace PR in the panel
- The activity toggle shows the current checkout's PR (icon, number,
checks) once the host recognises one, and the diff stats otherwise.
The separate PR badge in the right pane area's toolbar is gone.
- The panel lists pull requests: the ones the host linked to this
workspace (pullRequests.historyByWorkspaces, current checkout first)
and the ones agents' tool output mentioned in any chat, fetched by
repo and number and labelled with their chat.
- With no PR on the checkout the panel keeps the workspace header, its
commit / push / create PR menu and the Changes row; with one, it
shows only the pull requests.
- Merge and ready-for-review now live in a hook beside the classic
layout's PR badge, which keeps them; the right pane area layout
defers them to GitHub and the PR pane.
- PRStatusIndicators moves to the workspace's shared components.
harshithmullapudi
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feat(desktop): subagents and background work from every tab in the top bar
feat(desktop): subagents, background work and PRs from every tab in the top bar
Oct 28, 2026
When asideNode is unavailable, render the activity panel through a Popover/PopoverContent so its actions remain reachable. Also base aria-pressed, aria-controls, and the tooltip on the effective panel visibility, not only on panelPinned.
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at line 474:
Update the activity panel rendering around asideNode to fall back to Popover and
PopoverContent when asideNode is unavailable, keeping its actions reachable.
Derive aria-pressed, aria-controls, and the tooltip from the panel’s effective
visibility rather than panelPinned alone.
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- Line 474: Update the activity panel rendering around asideNode to fall back to
Popover and PopoverContent when asideNode is unavailable, keeping its actions
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The panel lists only the pull requests the host links to the
workspace by branch. Reading PR links out of agents' tool output is
removed from the chat bridge, the agent binding and the panel until
we decide how chat-created PRs should be recorded.
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feat(desktop): subagents, background work and PRs in the top bar
Oct 28, 2026
The docked card fades in and out when room changes, the popover keeps
its content while it closes, docking crossfades at the same spot, the
panel height eases between views, and sub-views fade in. All motion
turns off under reduced motion.
The top button hides and shows the docked card when it fits, and that
choice is kept across resizes. When it does not fit, the button opens
a popover that does not change the docked choice. Clicking the button
while the popover is open now closes it.
Ease out with a quint curve on enter and a quick ease-in on exit, keep
the docked card on its own compositor layer, and mount the docked copy
only while it shows or fades out.
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Demo: https://app.superset.sh/page/subagents-and-background-work-in-the-top-bar-soqk9f (video, plus screenshots with 20 subagents and 20 background processes). The video predates the docking changes below.
Summary
Why / Context
The Running section of the drawer only showed the tab in front of you, and a floating card per chat would duplicate the top-bar activity menu that already listed detached terminals. The request was one place, at the top, that is there when there's room, can be hidden, and never pushes the chat aside.
How It Works
terminalAgents.listByWorkspace(useTerminalAgentBindings). Those bindings already carry each chat'sbackgroundTasksand each terminal agent'ssubagents, and they refresh on agent events.collectAgentWorkturns them into subagent rows and shell rows. Running subagents nested under a running subagent fold into a+Nbadge; shells never fold.chatSubagentStore.SessionClientfor that session and close it afterwards.renderPaneAsideslot in@superset/panes. It renders over the right of the top-right pane's body, below its header, and sets--pane-aside-inseton the pane body.insetsAside: true, so they ignore the inset and stay centered. Other panes get the inset as right padding.activityPanelStorekeepsfitsand a per-workspacehiddenflag in memory. The popover's open state is local to the button.aria-expandedandaria-controlsfollow whichever card is showing.AnimatedHeighteases the panel height with a ResizeObserver. Easing is ease-out-quint (240ms) on enter and a quick ease-in (150ms) on exit.Pull requests
pullRequests.historyByWorkspaces. The host appends a row whenever the workspace's branch upstream matches a PR on GitHub (git-watch, push/PR create, 5-min sweep); the current link comes first.usePullRequestActions, shared by the panel's PR row and the classic layout's badge.Manual QA Checklist
Done in the dev app over CDP, against a real Claude agent running subagents:
Testing
bun testinapps/desktopforv2-workspace/$workspaceId: 1010 pass. Inpackages/panes: 141 pass. (bun 1.4.3).tsc --noEmitforapps/desktop(no errors in changed files; the fresh worktree has unrelated errors in auth packages) andpackages/panes.biome checkon changed files;bun run check:i18nwith every locale complete.collectAgentWork(aggregation, nesting, shells under a subagent,endedAt: null),activityPanelStore(cap and dedupe, aside slot ownership, per-workspace hiding),topRightPaneId,chatAgentBridgetask comparison, plus the WorkDrawer tests rewritten for queue-only.Code review
A separate agent reviewed the diff. I fixed:
aria-controlsand aside label;One finding I didn't act on, because it doesn't apply: clicks in the panel focusing the top-right pane. The panel's content is portaled from the tab-bar menu, so React routes its events through the tab bar, not the pane.
A second review covered the PR button and list. Fixed:
Design Decisions
Known Limitations
Summary by cubic
Running subagents, background shells, and pull requests now live in a top-bar workspace activity panel, gathered from every chat tab and agent terminal rather than just the visible one. The panel docks under the top-right pane's header when it fits and keeps the chat centered; when it can't dock (narrow pane, split, no pane) the top-bar button opens it as a popover. The button also hides and shows the docked panel, a choice that persists across resizes, while the popover never changes it. The composer drawer keeps only queued prompts.
Known limitations
Written for commit 83f5397. Summary will update on new commits.
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