feat(web): render mermaid code blocks as diagrams

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Mermaid fences showed up as plain code everywhere we render markdown. They now render as diagrams in the chat timeline, markdown file previews, and PR descriptions and comments. All of those surfaces share ChatMarkdown, so the change lives in one code block renderer.

flowchart LR
  A[mermaid fence] --> B{streaming?}
  B -->|yes| C[highlighted source]
  B -->|no| D[lazy-load mermaid]
  D --> E[render + DOMPurify]
  E --> F[diagram inline]
  F -->|click| G[zoomable image dialog]
  F -->|code toggle| C

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• Mermaid loads with a dynamic import on the first diagram, so other chats pay nothing. Results are cached per source and theme. Pending renders are never evicted, so Suspense retries get the same promise. Settled entries are trimmed to 64. If mermaid or one of its diagram chunks fails to load, the error shows a Retry button.
• Streaming fences stay as code until the message settles. Parse errors show mermaid's message above the source.
• PR descriptions are untrusted, so renders use securityLevel: "strict" and lock htmlLabels off against %%{init}%% overrides. A DOMPurify pass then removes links, images, scripts, and event handlers, and drops CSS url() values that aren't local # references. Malicious labels render as text. Mermaid features that reference remote images (img: shapes, sequence actor icons) can still fetch while mermaid lays out the diagram. That matches plain ![](url) images, which PR bodies already load.
• Diagrams sit directly in the message with no frame. Like tables, a row below holds the code toggle and copy, which copies the source. Toggling to code shows the normal code block. Clicking the diagram opens it in the existing zoomable image dialog through a blob URL, which the desktop connect-src policy allows for save and copy. Only one blob URL is kept at a time.
• Diagrams follow the light and dark theme.
• Adds mermaid 11.17.2 and dompurify. That version is old enough to pass the release-age policy. License overrides cover three transitive deps that ship without a declared license file (fastdom, strictdom, khroma).

Not covered: mobile renders markdown natively and would need a WebView, so that is left as a follow-up.

Evidence

Before, same thread on main:

After, from a real Codex turn:

This PR's own description in the app's pull request panel, dark and light:

The shots below were taken before diagrams moved out of the code block frame. Rendering, the file preview, and expand are unchanged.

Toggling code and diagram, then expanding and closing:

https://uploads-production-47e4.up.railway.app/files/542ad7da-60ac-4ffa-a2f8-f249c7084371/77a881c0-d3e9-4895-8b15-aea2e5cda827-ec79f42f-000f-49a7-b6f2-168e0affec76-mp4.mp4

Verification: an htmlLabels directive, an <img onerror> label, and a javascript: click produced no dialog, no remote request, and no <img>. Web typecheck passes, lint on the changed files is clean, and the third-party license and incremental markdown tests pass.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a substantial Mermaid rendering capability and changes completed Mermaid fences from source code to diagrams by default. It also introduces asynchronous SVG rendering, sanitization, media expansion, and a sizeable dependency graph, warranting human review.

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The web app renders Mermaid code fences in chat as diagrams after streaming ends. Users can switch to highlighted source. The renderer sanitizes SVG output and can create standalone image URLs for expanded diagrams.

Changes

Chat Mermaid rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Diagram rendering and SVG handling apps/web/package.json, apps/web/src/components/chat/MermaidDiagram.tsx, third-party-licenses.config.json	The web app adds mermaid and dompurify dependencies and MIT notices for fastdom, strictdom, and khroma. The renderer lazy-loads Mermaid, serializes renders, caches render promises, sanitizes SVG output, and can create a standalone image URL for expansion.
Chat markdown integration apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx	Mermaid fences render as diagrams after streaming ends. Toolbar controls switch between diagrams and highlighted source. Loading and error states display placeholders or source code.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatMarkdown
  participant MarkdownMermaidCodeBlock
  participant MermaidDiagram
  participant Mermaid
  ChatMarkdown->>MarkdownMermaidCodeBlock: Route Mermaid code fence
  MarkdownMermaidCodeBlock->>MermaidDiagram: Pass source and theme
  MermaidDiagram->>Mermaid: Load and render diagram
  Mermaid-->>MermaidDiagram: Return rendered SVG
  MermaidDiagram-->>ChatMarkdown: Provide image URL when expanded

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ab37a

Untrusted diagrams can contact an external image host when rendered, exposing a viewer’s network address and request timing. Resolve or explicitly accept that behavior before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ab37a

Strict rendering settings and SVG sanitization provide meaningful protection, and Mermaid fences do not gain terminal-execution controls. However, unfinished rendering work has no aggregate bound or cancellation when a view closes, allowing untrusted content to consume shared rendering capacity. Network behavior during diagram layout and desktop image handling remain incompletely verified.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Untrusted diagrams can enqueue uncapped work in a module-wide rendering queue. Pending source/theme entries survive view unmount, retaining their inputs and potentially delaying unrelated diagrams sharing the same renderer. The settled-cache limit does not provide admission control or cancellation for outstanding jobs.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated containment concern affects diagram rendering within a web application instance: distinct inputs share one queue and cache, so one workload can delay other diagram views. The inspected Mermaid route does not receive the shell-command callback, and no server-side or cross-tenant privilege gain was established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A content author supplying many distinct Mermaid fences can cause separate queued jobs once rendering is enabled. Their promises and inputs remain retained while pending, including after the originating view disappears. This supports a client-side resource-containment concern, not a demonstrated application-wide denial of service.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The SVG insertion boundary has layered controls: strict Mermaid settings, disabled HTML labels, DOMPurify, forbidden navigation and resource attributes, forbidden script and image tags, and filtering of nonlocal CSS url() values. Blob expansion receives the same sanitized output rather than raw Mermaid source.
• inferred — Output sanitization does not govern side effects occurring during Mermaid layout because it runs after mermaid.render completes. The PR acknowledges layout-time remote-image requests and compares them with already-supported markdown images. Effective network policy, credentials, and caller-specific exposure were not verified, so this remains a boundary limitation rather than a confirmed additional vulnerability.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Serialization protects this renderer's mutable Mermaid configuration from concurrent jobs. Promise reuse and streaming suppression avoid redundant renders, but pending-job retention has no lifecycle cancellation. Expanded image URLs are module-owned and replaced by revoking the previous URL; external preview-consumer lifetime was not established.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Introduce bounded admission and lifecycle ownership for outstanding diagram jobs while preserving stable promises for active Suspense consumers. Consider isolated rendering with an enforceable execution budget if hostile diagram complexity must be contained.

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