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Three commits, in order; the third depends on the first two (it counts their settings).

1. Sidebar: workspace cards and pin stars are settings, off by default. #673 and #778 turned both on for everyone. The Agents list is flat again and its rows carry no star unless Settings → Appearance → Workspace cards / Pin agents is on. Saved pins stay stored while the setting is off.

2. Plan: the flow and the header's count are settings, on by default. Plan flow off opens a pane's plan as the list alone, with no switch; Plan count in the header off takes the plan button out of the header on that device. Defaults keep #531 as it is.

3. Anonymous counts name the appearance settings changed from their defaults. The install/update event gets changed_settings: names from a fixed list (theme, density, palette, sidebar rows, Agents order, workspace cards, pin agents, plan flow, plan count). Names only, never a value, never a setting the user types.

  • The browser tells its server the list on opening and on a change (POST /api/telemetry { changed_settings }; anything outside the list is a 400). The server keeps it for its next event and sends nothing by itself.
  • The notice says so and is shown once more (NOTICE_VERSION = 2). An install that saw the older notice sends nothing, its update count included, until it has seen this one.
  • The same switch, HERDR_WEB_TELEMETRY=0 and DO_NOT_TRACK turn it off.
  • Receiver: a changed_settings column (sorted, comma-joined, '' for none, NULL when not told). The Worker drops a name it does not know instead of refusing the event, so a newer app is still counted. telemetry/README.md has the ALTER and a query for "installs that changed each setting".

The receiver is already deployed: the column was added to the D1 table and the Worker deployed from this branch's telemetry/ (it accepts events from released versions unchanged).

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  • bun run typecheck: pass
  • HERDR_TEST_MODE=unit bun test on server/telemetry.test.ts, telemetry/worker.test.ts, src/lib/settings.test.ts, i18n.test.ts, plan.test.ts, sidebarOrder.test.ts, sidebarAgents.test.ts: 141 pass
  • bun scripts/sidebar-activity-demo-regression.ts: pass (new: the list is flat and starless by default; the plan's flow and header count stand by default on a desktop and a phone, and each goes with its setting)
  • End to end with the real createServer + Telemetry, the Worker's handle over an in-memory table from schema.sql, and Chrome: with theme, workspace cards and plan flow changed (and a typed terminal font), the stored row holds agentCards,planFlow,theme; neither the font nor any value leaves the PC; a later change is kept for the next event and sends nothing; with the switch off a new version sends nothing.
  • Deployed receiver: a test event stored agentCards,theme (an unknown name dropped); the test rows were deleted.

scripts/ui-regression.ts was not run to the end locally (it stops on this Mac at "explicit Send now delivered one item" on unmodified main as well).

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The Agents list is flat again unless Settings → Appearance → Workspace cards is on, and its rows carry no star unless Pin agents is on. Saved pins stay stored while the setting is off and lead nothing.
Settings → Appearance → Plan flow off opens a pane's plan as the list alone,
with no switch to the flow, and Plan count in the header off takes the plan
button out of the header on that device. Both are on by default, so the plan
looks and opens as it did.
…ir defaults

The anonymous install and update event also carries changed_settings: the
names of the appearance settings that differ from their defaults in the
browser that last opened the app (theme, density, palette, sidebar rows,
Agents order, workspace cards, pin agents, plan flow, plan count). Names
only, from a fixed list: never a value, and never a setting the user types.

The browser tells its server the list on opening and on a change; the server
keeps it for its next event and sends nothing by itself. The notice says so
and is shown once more (NOTICE_VERSION 2): an install that saw the older one
sends nothing until it has seen this one. The same switch and environment
variables turn it off.

The receiver keeps the list in a new changed_settings column. Run the
README's ALTER before deploying the Worker.
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  • New Features
    • Added Appearance controls for workspace-card grouping, agent pinning, the header plan count, and plan flow. Workspace cards and pinning are off by default; the plan count and flow view are on by default.
    • When enabled, agent pins retain their order across reloads. Plans can be viewed as a dependency flow or an ordered list. Workspace cards are not used with Activity ordering.
  • Updates
    • Anonymous install and update counts can include the names of appearance settings changed from their defaults, but not setting values or typed settings. Reporting waits until the updated notice is shown; existing telemetry opt-outs remain available.

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The change adds four Appearance settings for agent and plan displays. It also reports approved changed-setting names through telemetry, with notice-version checks, server validation, Worker storage, and aggregation.

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Appearance Controls and Telemetry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Appearance settings and defaults
src/lib/settings.ts, src/lib/settings.test.ts
Adds four settings with defaults and sanitization rules. changedSettings identifies reportable settings that differ from defaults.
Appearance controls and display behavior
src/components/SettingsDialog.tsx, src/components/AgentSidebar.tsx, src/components/PlanDialog.tsx, src/App.tsx, scripts/sidebar-activity-demo-regression.ts, src/lib/i18n.*.ts, DESIGN.md, docs/guide.md, CHANGELOG.md
Adds controls for workspace cards, agent pins, plan flow, and the plan header button. The agent and plan displays apply these settings, and the related regression checks and documentation describe their behavior.
Changed-setting telemetry
shared/telemetry.ts, shared/protocol.ts, src/components/TelemetryControls.tsx, src/lib/api.ts, server/telemetry.ts, server/telemetry.test.ts, server/AGENTS.md, src/lib/i18n.*.ts, docs/guide.md, CHANGELOG.md
The browser reports approved names of settings changed from defaults. The server validates and saves them for a later event, and requires the current notice version before sending.
Worker event storage and counts
telemetry/worker.ts, telemetry/schema.sql, telemetry/worker.test.ts, telemetry/README.md
The Worker filters and sorts setting names and stores them in the events table. The schema, migration instructions, count query, and tests cover the added field.

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The reported telemetry includes approved setting names, and the deployment instructions cover the required storage-column update. No specific behavior or deployment failure is established that should block merging.

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Review comments at @src/components/TelemetryControls.tsx:
- Around line 21-31: Update the `TelemetryNotice` request to include
`changed_settings` derived from the current settings alongside `notice_seen:
true`. Keep the existing error handling and use the `changedSettings` helper
already used in `TelemetryControls`.

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…uest (#821)

## Change

`CONTRIBUTING.md` said "One change per PR" with no room for changes that
cannot be split. It now also says that changes which cannot stand apart,
because one needs another's code, may share a PR: each as its own
commit, in dependency order, with the description saying what needs
what.

Independent changes still go in independent PRs, and a stack is still a
maintainer's call; this only covers the case where a second PR could not
typecheck or pass its tests without the first (for example #820, where
the telemetry change counts settings that the two commits before it
add).

## Validation

Prose only; no test.
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… back lands (#825)

## Change

`scripts/settings-pages-demo-regression.ts` has timed out in CI on
unrelated PRs (#819, #820, #815 twice, `feat/plan-step-detail`), always
in a wait on `history.state` that said nothing when it ran out.

**Cause, from CI's own trace** (first commit: the waits on the history
say which step it was, what the history holds, and every `go` /
`pushState` / `replaceState` / `popstate` up to then):

```
the reload: the history never held it.
138ms loaded      {settings: {page: "alerts", depth: 2}}  ?…&settings=alerts
298ms go(-2)
330ms popstate    {}                                      ?…
546ms pushState   {settings: {page: null, depth: 1}}
549ms pushState   {settings: {page: "alerts", depth: 2}}
736ms replaceState                                        ?…&settings=alerts
```

A reload on a Settings entry steps out of it (`lib/settingsHistory.ts`),
but that step lands when the browser gets to it. `App` reads the address
once at load, and when it did so before the step landed, the address
still named Settings: the dialog opened again and pushed its entries
back. So this is a bug in the app that the test caught only on a slow
runner, not a fault of the test: a reload with Settings open closed it
on a fast device and kept it on a slow one.

**Fix:** `lib/settingsHistory.ts` remembers at load whether the load
began on an entry Settings left (`loadedOnSettingsEntry()`), and such a
load does not open Settings from its address (`src/App.tsx`, the one
read of the address at load). Asked of the module rather than read from
the history when the app first draws: a review pointed out that the step
back can also land *before* that, on an entry whose address names
Settings too (the one a link to Settings opened), and the dialog would
come back in that order instead. A link to Settings opened fresh begins
on no such entry and opens as before.

**Test:** the reload step now makes the slow order on purpose: it waits
until the address names Settings, holds the load's steps back until the
app has drawn itself, then lets them go, and asserts the dialog was
never shown. Without the fix this fails every time locally with the same
trace as CI; with it, it passes.

A second case covers a link to Settings: it opens the dialog, and a
reload there closes it.

Not in this PR (older, another cause): a link naming both a file and
Settings pushes the file preview's entry with a copy of the Settings
entry, and a reload from the preview steps back onto a Settings entry,
which opens Settings.

## Validation

- `bun scripts/settings-pages-demo-regression.ts` without the fix: fails
at "the reload", trace identical to CI's.
- With the fix: 13 PASS, repeated runs.
- CI on the first version of the fix: both browser lanes green on a full
re-run (one earlier run failed in
`terminal-command-backspace-regression.ts`, "readline fixture did not
start", which this does not touch).
- `bun run typecheck`: pass. `settingsHistory.test.ts`,
`deepLink.test.ts`: 40 pass.

Not reproduced by CPU load, CPU throttling or delaying `history.go`
alone; a `replaceState`/`pushState` right after `history.go` does not
cancel the traversal in Chrome (360/360 landed), so that was not it.

## Release

Client-side only.
devswha added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 11, 2026
## Problem
From 0.4.7 mobile testing: with **Settings → Appearance → Workspace
cards** (#673/#820) and **Pin agents** (#778/#820) both on, starring an
agent pulled it out of its workspace card and put it above all cards.
The user read that as the agent "escaping" its card and chose a
different layout.

## Change
- `AgentSidebar`: in cards mode the groups are built from `[...pinned,
...rest]` instead of `rest` alone, and the separate pinned rows above
the cards are gone. `groupRows` keeps first-appearance order, so:
  - a pinned agent stays in its own card, first in it (in pin order);
- cards holding pins come first, in the order of their first pin; the
rest keep herdr's order.
- Flat mode (cards off, or Activity order) is unchanged: pinned rows
lead the list.
- Comments in `AgentSidebar`/`sidebarPins` updated to the new rule.

## Tests
- `sidebarPins.test.ts`: the grouping case now expects `C1` pinned then
`A2` → cards `C [C1]`, `A [A2, A1]`, `B [B1]`.
- `sidebar-activity-demo-regression`: pinning `infra` keeps it inside
the `infra` card, which becomes the first card; the star keeps keyboard
focus; reload keeps it; unpinning returns `checkout-api` as the first
card.
- `bun run check fast` passes.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Change

On a PC where nearly every agent is Claude Code, the sidebar's leading column is a stripe of orange 18px tiles. Claude's mark is the only filled one (Codex, pi, Cursor and the rest already draw in the text color), so the tiles carry no information there, and they are louder than the waiting and finished states next to them.

**Settings → Appearance → Agent logos: Color | Mono.** Color, today's look, stays the default. Mono:

- draws Claude's asterisk in `currentColor`, without its tile;
- greys out the other marks that have a brand fill (`filter: grayscale(1)`);
- leaves the marks that already ride `currentColor` as they are.

The cell's size, its place and the tooltip don't change. The setting is a `data-marks` attribute on `<html>` (as `lib/settings.ts` already does for other appearance settings), and the CSS is a new `AgentMark.css` keyed on it, so `AgentMark.tsx` only gains two class names on Claude's paths.

Strings are added to ko, ja, zh and tr. Changelog: a line under Unreleased → Added.

One question: #820's anonymous counts name the appearance settings changed from their defaults (`REPORTED_SETTINGS`). I left `agentMarks` out of that list, since adding it touches the telemetry worker and its schema. Happy to add it here or in a follow-up if you want it counted.

## Validation

- `bun run check fast browser`: everything passes except `recent-folders-regression.ts`, which fails the same way on `main`. Under a local check with no evidence folder, `ci-browser-parallel.ts` sets `UI_EVIDENCE_DIR=""`, and the script's `process.env["UI_EVIDENCE_DIR"] ?? join(root, "evidence")` keeps the empty string, so `mkdirSync("")` throws `ENOENT` in its first second (`UI_EVIDENCE_DIR="" bun scripts/recent-folders-regression.ts` reproduces it on `main`). CI passes a real folder, so it doesn't hit this. A `||` there, as the other scripts test it, would fix it; I left it out of this PR.
- `src/lib/settings.test.ts`: a new case — Color by default, `mono` kept, anything else falls back to Color.
- `src/lib/i18n.test.ts`: the four new strings are in all four dictionaries.
- I've used Mono on my own install for a few days, with ~40 workspaces nearly all running Claude Code.

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Maintainer commits: b58d940 (agentMarks is a shared setting under #854; changelog under Unreleased), b1fd49a (Mono greys only the marks with brand colors).

by @phirschybar

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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