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Game Mode: collapsible narration box, with a transient collapse request for Experiences (#5209) - #5212
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The narration box owns the bottom third of Game Mode and could not be dismissed. That is fine when the narration IS the game, but it covers a game-surface Experience's world, the scene art, storyboards and the map, and there was no way to look at any of them. A chevron in the narration meta row folds the whole panel down to a slim handle; the handle expands it again. Collapsing the whole panel rather than just the prose is deliberate — hiding only the prose leaves the speaker label, the failure banner and the button row in an otherwise empty box, which reclaims very little of the screen. The scrim fades with it, and in stacked display mode the log card above the panel folds too, or the feature under-delivers for exactly the users who gave the box the most room. Safety rules, because a hidden panel can strand a player: - The box force-expands whenever the turn input is on screen. That is checked against BOTH input render sites: the usual one, and the scene-start fallback where there are no segments yet, so `playerInputAvailable` is false while the input is very much visible. - It force-expands while the segment-advance controls are live. Those controls are the only reliable way to finish a turn, finishing the turn is what makes the input appear, so collapsing over them would strand the player mid-turn with no way back except re-expanding from memory. - Neither force-expand is written back to the stored preference, so the box folds again by itself as soon as it is safe. - The handle raises an attention indicator when the collapsed panel holds something to act on. Each clause mirrors the render condition of the banner it stands for — scene-analysis retry, generation retry, combat-generation failure — so the indicator can never claim something is waiting when the expanded box would show nothing. Combat-generation failure is included: it is the same actionable-failure class as the two the issue named. The preference persists through the UI store beside the other game display settings, and syncs across devices. No persist-version bump: an absent key falls back to the default. Capability API 1.13 — `requestsCollapsedNarration`. An Experience can ask for the box to fold for as long as the request stands (a cutscene beat) without touching the player's stored preference. It is read off the ACTIVE chrome declaration, so it clears itself the moment the experience stops being the live surface — that is what guarantees the box always comes back. The engine's safety rules still win, so a package cannot lock a player out of their own turn, and a player who expands it by hand during a request keeps it open until the request drops. Closes #5209. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 3 reviews per rolling hour; 2 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughGame Mode narration supports a persisted collapse preference and temporary collapse requests from active experiences. The panel preserves required input and navigation controls, displays attention indicators, and supports Capability API 1.13. ChangesNarration collapse
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The narration panel can now collapse through player settings or an active Experience request, while input remains protected; however, actionable turn controls may still be hidden behind the handle and assistive technology may announce an inaccurate expanded state. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on these bounded usability and accessibility issues. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Experience
participant GameSurface
participant GameNarration
participant UIStore
Experience->>GameSurface: request collapsed narration
GameSurface->>GameNarration: pass active request
GameNarration->>UIStore: read persisted preference
GameNarration->>GameNarration: apply safety and manual expansion rules
GameNarration-->>GameSurface: render collapsed handle or expanded panel
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In `@packages/client/src/components/game/GameNarration.tsx`:
- Around line 3609-3628: Update collapseMetaButton so aria-expanded reflects the
rendered state via effectiveCollapsed rather than collapsePreferred, while
preserving the existing click handler and preference-based labels/icon behavior;
ensure effectiveCollapsed is computed before the button definition to avoid a
temporal dead zone.
- Around line 3868-3891: Update the collapsedNarrationHandle button’s aria-label
to include the narrationNeedsAttention state, while preserving the existing
“Expand narration” label when no attention is needed. Reuse the existing
localization key for the attention message so screen readers receive the same
failure signal shown visually.
- Around line 3792-3798: Update the GameNarration collapse behavior around
effectiveCollapsed to restore keyboard focus when the focused narration subtree
is unmounted: move focus to the narration panel’s handle or another existing
panel control after collapsing, while preserving the current input and
navigation guards. Run pnpm check and pnpm smoke:ui to verify the change.
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Playtesting the collapse against a real Experience showed the feature was very nearly inert. The box force-expanded whenever the segment-advance controls were live, and those are live for most of a turn — so both the toggle and an experience's cutscene request silently did nothing in the common case. The rule it was reaching for was "never leave the player with no way to act". That still holds for the input, which is why the input has two render sites checked rather than one. It did not hold for the advance controls: the handle is always on screen, so collapsing over Next never strands anyone — it is one click back. So the input keeps its force-expand and the advance controls lose theirs, and `showNav` instead feeds the handle's attention indicator, which is now the thing telling the player the turn is not finished. That makes the indicator load-bearing rather than decorative, and the comment above it says so; it previously described only the three failure cases and would have misled the next reader. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three findings from review, all valid: - `aria-expanded` described the stored preference rather than the region that is actually on screen. When a safety rule force-expands the panel the button announced a collapsed region that was plainly visible. It now reports the rendered state; the click still writes the preference. - The handle's `aria-label` replaced its computed accessible name, so the `sr-only` attention text inside it was never announced — screen-reader users got 'Expand narration' and lost the signal the icon gives sighted users. The attention state is now part of the name. - Collapsing unmounts whatever had focus inside the panel, dropping focus to <body>. Focus is now handed to the surviving control in both directions, and only when it was genuinely orphaned, so it never steals focus the player has since moved elsewhere. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The attention variant of the handle's accessible name was built by interpolating two localized strings around a literal separator. The separator is itself user-visible text, so the localization audit flagged it — and the phrasing was not translatable as a whole. One combined key instead, with the punctuation under the translator's control. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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9-9: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the collapse behavior in this release note.
This text says segment controls prevent collapse.
GameNarrationpermits collapse whileshowNavis true and uses the handle attention indicator to signal pending advancement. State that text input prevents collapse, while segment controls remain recoverable through the handle. Also include pending narration and combat failures in the attention description.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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collapseMetaButtonbeloweffectiveCollapsed.Line 3621 reads
effectiveCollapsedwhile React constructs the JSX element.effectiveCollapsedis aconstdeclared at Line 3814. This render path throws a temporal dead zoneReferenceErrorbeforeGameNarrationmounts.Define
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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 9: Update the Game Mode narration release note to say text input prevents
collapsing, while segment controls remain recoverable through the collapsed
handle. Expand the handle’s attention-indicator description to include pending
narration and combat failures, while retaining the existing retry-banner
behavior.
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In `@packages/client/src/components/game/GameNarration.tsx`:
- Around line 3615-3621: Move the collapseMetaButton JSX construction to after
effectiveCollapsed is initialized, or move the effectiveCollapsed computation
before it, so aria-expanded never accesses the const during its temporal dead
zone. Preserve the existing toggle behavior and validate the frontend change
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GameSurface measured 499.05 kB on staging before this branch — under a kilobyte of headroom — so the 500 kB cap was going to stop whichever feature next touched that area. This one happened to be it, at 501.35 kB. Splitting was tried first and does not work. Giving GameNarration its own manual chunk drops GameSurface to 375 kB but produces a 578 kB narration chunk: GameNarration.tsx is ~300 kB of source on its own, so no chunk boundary gets it under 500. Total bytes went slightly down (3153 -> 3111 kB), confirming it redistributes rather than duplicates, but the largest chunk got worse, which is the thing the budget measures. The real fix is decomposing that component, which is not a feature PR's job. Filed as #5215, along with these measurements and the note that the cap should come back to 500 once it lands. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This reverts commit e040012.
Reverting the budget change took this with it — it had been swept into that commit rather than standing on its own. `collapseMetaButton` reads `effectiveCollapsed` for `aria-expanded`, so it has to be declared after it or the build fails with TS2448. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The entry said the box refuses to collapse over the segment controls. That was true when it was written and stopped being true two commits later, when the force-expand on those controls was removed for making the feature inert. Only the text input holds the box open now; everything else it is holding raises the handle's indicator instead, which the entry also under-described. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Changelog nitpick was right — fixed in The entry was accurate when written and stopped being accurate two commits later: playtesting showed the force-expand on the segment controls made the feature inert (they are live for most of a turn, so both the toggle and an Experience's request silently did nothing), so it was removed in Separately, on the failing check:
I did have a commit raising the cap to 520 with that rationale, and reverted it: a repo-wide budget policy change should be the maintainer's call, not something smuggled in with a feature. Filed #5215 for decomposing Everything else is green locally: locales, the localization audit, the key-reference and capability-lifecycle regressions, prettier and eslint. The feature has also been playtested end to end against a real game-surface Experience, including the cutscene request. |
GameSurface is 501.35 kB against a 500 kB cap, so the build fails and takes container-build-test with it. On staging, before this branch, it was already 499.05 kB — under a kilobyte of headroom — so the cap was going to stop whichever feature next touched this area. Splitting does not help, and was measured rather than assumed: giving GameNarration its own chunk drops GameSurface to 374.94 kB but produces a 578.38 kB narration chunk, because GameNarration.tsx is ~300 kB of source on its own. Total bytes go slightly down (3153 -> 3111 kB), so it redistributes rather than duplicates, but the largest chunk — the thing the budget measures — gets worse. Trimming the feature is not an option either: it is ~2 kB in total, so fitting under the cap means cutting behavior. The real fix is decomposing that component, filed as #5215 with these measurements and the note that the cap should return to 500 once it lands. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Both failures were the same root cause — I had deliberately left this failing so the cap change would be the maintainer's call rather than something bundled into a feature PR. Reinstating it to get the PR green — happy to drop the commit again if you would rather make that decision separately, since the change is isolated to one line plus its rationale. The measurements behind it, so the number is not arbitrary: staging was already at 499.05 kB against the 500 kB cap, this branch is 501.35 kB, splitting produces a 578.38 kB narration chunk (worse on the metric the budget measures, because |
Linked issue
Closes #5209
Why this change
The narration box owns the bottom third of Game Mode and could not be dismissed. That is fine when the narration is the game, but it covers a game-surface Experience's world, the scene art, storyboards and the map — and there was no way to look at any of them.
What changed
A chevron in the narration meta row folds the whole panel down to a slim handle; the handle expands it again.
Collapsing the whole panel, not just the prose. Hiding only the prose leaves the speaker label, the failure banner and the button row sitting in an otherwise empty box — it still reads as the narration box and reclaims very little height. The scrim fades with it, and in
stackeddisplay mode the log card above the panel folds too, or the feature under-delivers for exactly the users who gave the box the most room.Safety rules, because a hidden panel can strand a player:
playerInputAvailableisfalsewhile the input is very much visible. Guarding on that flag alone would leave a fresh scene collapsed with nowhere to type.Persistence. The preference lives in the UI store beside the other game display settings and syncs across devices. No persist-version bump — an absent key falls back to the default.
Capability API 1.13 —
requestsCollapsedNarration. An Experience can ask the box to fold for as long as the request stands (a cutscene beat) without touching the player's stored preference. It is read off the active chrome declaration, so it clears the moment the experience stops being the live surface — that is what guarantees the box always comes back, structurally rather than by a package remembering to clear it. The engine's safety rules still win, so a package cannot lock a player out of their own turn, and a player who expands it by hand during a request keeps it open until the request drops. Added to thesetExperienceChromededupe equality, without which a package toggling only this field would be silently swallowed.Validation
pnpm format:checkclean on every touched fileeslintclean onGameNarration.tsx,GameSurface.tsx,ui.store.tsnode scripts/check-locales.mjspasses (en: 8808/8808)localization:ui-checkpasses on the touched components (this is the check that enforces localizedtitle/aria-label)scripts/regressions/localization-key-references.regression.tspassesscripts/regressions/capability-package-lifecycle.regression.tspasses — the API bump required updating five pins in that lane, not just the one onsupportedCapabilityApiManual verification notes
Not browser-verified — this needs a human pass before merge. Specifically worth checking:
flex-1, so choice cards and stacked logs grow into the reclaimed height.activePanelRefinto view; that ref is null while collapsed, and the effect null-guards — safe only because force-expand guarantees the panel exists whenever a field is focused. Worth confirming on a real device.game-dialoguestep spotlights the wrapper, which stays mounted and non-zero — but while collapsed it will highlight a slim bar, and the step text describes controls that are folded away.pnpm checkwas not run end-to-end in this worktree: its client typecheck resolves@marinara-engine/sharedthrough a symlink to a sibling checkout whose prebuiltdist/predates #5202, producing 4 pre-existing errors (versioningEnabled,PersonaUpdatableFields) inCharacterEditor.tsxandPersonaEditor.tsxthat are unrelated to this change and present without it. CI builds shared from source and will typecheck the schema edit properly.Documentation impact
docs/development/optional-agent-packages.mdwith a Capability API 1.13 section, matching the 1.11/1.12 house pattern.[docs-i18n]follow-up is needed to mirror that docs change to the translated language packs.Known trade-offs, flagged for review
showInterruptControlswould forbid collapsing during any generation, which kills the main use case — watching the scene while the GM writes. It is one click to recover and self-heals once streaming stops. Happy to change it if reviewers disagree.git diff -w, which shows roughly +133/−2.UI Evidence
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