fix(web): render completed Mermaid blocks while streaming

[NikitaMGrimm]

Problem

With “Show finished paragraphs,” completed Mermaid fences remain source until the entire response finishes. The setting promises each completed paragraph or code block immediately, and the server has already delivered the complete fence while later paragraphs continue arriving.

Change

Use the parsed fence's closure to reveal completed Mermaid blocks during streaming. Unfinished fences retain source. Reuse the existing lazy renderer, source toggle, error handling, and reduced-motion-aware fade, reserving space while rendering is pending.

Scope and approval

Submitted under the very small, focused obvious-bug exception: this corrects an inconsistency in the existing streaming setting without adding a setting or workflow. The fix stays in the shared web renderer. No prior maintainer approval is claimed.

Verification

Previously recorded on this PR head; not rerun in this audit:

• vp test run apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.test.tsx: passed. The regression covers unfinished fences, pending rendering, reveal before message completion, retained diagram identity and later prose, including tilde, blockquote/list, overindented-marker, and CRLF cases. Mermaid rendering is mocked in this test.
• Web typecheck, targeted lint, formatting, and diff checks passed; lint reported warnings in unchanged code.
• In an isolated T3 Browser chat, the diagram rendered while the response was streaming and later paragraphs arrived. Source toggle and expansion were exercised.

Native Electron and mobile were not tested; mobile has no Mermaid renderer.

Before is left; after is right. Both responses are still streaming.

mermaid-block-streaming-before-after.mp4

The recording shows the baseline's eventual reveal and ends while the longer response still streams. These are separate GPT-6-Luna/high responses to the same prompt with original capture timing; the comparison demonstrates ordering, not relative generation speed.

Note

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at f703409

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, focused Mermaid streaming bug fix that reuses existing rendering and fence-detection paths, with regression coverage for completed and unfinished fences. The remaining changes are limited to presentation behavior and test code, with no schema, deployment, security, or configuration-default impact.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

ChatMarkdown now renders completed Mermaid fences while a response continues streaming. Pending rendering uses an invisible fallback. The Mermaid container receives the streaming opacity transition. Tests cover fence formats and streaming updates.

Changes

Streaming Mermaid Rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Closed-fence streaming render apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/MermaidDiagram.tsx, apps/web/src/index.css, apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.test.tsx	Closed Mermaid fences can render before the response ends. Pending renders use an invisible code block. Shell-command actions require a closed fence and a non-streaming response. The Mermaid container receives the streaming opacity transition. Tests cover fence formats and subsequent streaming updates.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0f765

No actionable merge-blocking risk is established for this change. It is mergeable after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0f765

Diagrams start rendering earlier, but the existing SVG protections and user-triggered terminal checks remain in place. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns interrupted and concurrent rendering with the real diagram library.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed automatic rendering path affects the viewer's browser DOM and shared diagram queue. The separate sensitive outcome is command execution in the selected project/thread terminal, requiring a user click and terminal-operate permission. Terminal-host privileges and credential exposure are not established by the reviewed UI source.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Mermaid retains strict security mode, protected configuration directives, disabled HTML labels, and suppressed error rendering. DOMPurify removes navigation and media attributes and selected dangerous tags; additional hooks filter nonlocal CSS URLs. These controls predate this PR.
• observed — Terminal actions still require completed streaming, validated fence closure, an eligible single-line shell command, and a click. The new parsed-code line-count condition narrows eligibility. The unchanged downstream operation checks terminal authority before opening and again before writing; opening failure returns without submitting the command.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The unchanged queue serializes global Mermaid configuration and rendering. Cache identity includes complete trimmed source and theme, pending promises are retained, and only settled entries are evicted. Failures become explicit error results, retries invalidate the matching entry, and temporary-element removal runs in finally. There is no component-driven cancellation; unmounted work can continue until settlement.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Add focused browser coverage using the real Mermaid renderer to validate temporary-DOM cleanup, sanitized final output, and source/theme identity during overlapping renders, source replacement, and unmount. This would close the remaining assurance gap, not demonstrate an existing vulnerability.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Approvability	✅ Passed	The pull request changes four web renderer, test, and stylesheet files. It renders a completed Mermaid fence during streaming, which is a focused bug fix rather than a product-default change. The diff…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title is concise, uses the repository’s conventional commit style, and clearly describes rendering completed Mermaid blocks during streaming.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the problem, change, scope and approval rationale, and focused verification. It also reports UI evidence and identifies untested platforms.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx:
- Line 3460: Update the `isClosedCodeFence` check used to set `isStreaming` so
an indented code line such as `    ``` ` is not accepted as a closing fence;
confirm closure using the parsed Markdown fence rules before switching from
source to diagram.

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apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.test.tsx (1)

128-132: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the trailing explanation remains rendered.

Both updates pass “The remaining explanation.” to ChatMarkdown, but the assertion checks only that the Mermaid image remains. A regression that drops the explanation while preserving the image can pass for both streaming states. Assert that the explanation is rendered after each update; the existing streaming tests do not cover that outcome.

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.test.tsx around lines
128 - 132:
In the `ChatMarkdown` test, extend the assertions inside the streaming-state
loop to verify that “The remaining explanation.” is rendered after each update,
in addition to checking that the Mermaid image remains.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.test.tsx:
- Around line 128-132: In the `ChatMarkdown` test, extend the assertions inside
the streaming-state loop to verify that “The remaining explanation.” is rendered
after each update, in addition to checking that the Mermaid image remains.

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🤖 GPT-6.1-Sol responding on behalf of NikitaMGrimm

Addressed the trailing-explanation test nitpick in 80da5b7. The existing streaming-state loop now asserts that “The remaining explanation.” is rendered in both streaming and completed states, alongside the existing diagram-identity assertion. All 59 focused tests, targeted test lint and formatting pass.

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🤖 gpt-6.1-sol responding on behalf of NikitaMGrimm

Rebased onto current main and resolved the test-file conflict while preserving both upstream anchor tests and the Mermaid streaming regressions. Published head: 0f765be901b1768d0f9168faab5999addc0557ea. All 72 focused tests, web typecheck, targeted lint and formatting passed locally.

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