fix(ui): keep focus and selection borders visible across the app

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Problem

focus and selection borders could be clipped at control edges, iframe edges, scrollbars, and scroll-fade masks.

Change

• app outlines default to outline-offset: -2px, and state rings use ring-inset, so indicators paint inside their element.
• focused scroll viewports drop their fade mask while focused.
• generated html renders force focus outlines to 2px inward. previously stored pages are served unchanged.
• the desktop element picker clamps its box to the viewport and clipping scrollports, and repaints when a scrollbar resizes the root.
• t3code/no-outset-state-indicators rejects state ring widths without ring-inset, positive outline offsets, and state outlines wider than their inward offset.

Scope and approval

maria explicitly requested app-wide focus and element-picker clipping fixes, generated html coverage, and lint prevention. no triaged issue or maintainer approval is linked, and this pr does not claim the small-fix exemption. human review of the direction and scope is required under CONTRIBUTING.md.

Verification

on blacksmith: lint with zero errors, focused rule, html render, http, and asset tests, and web, shared, desktop, and plugin typechecks. native electron, react native, firefox, and os forced colors are unverified.

actual providers panel at the same middle scroll position:

the same authored html in the app attachment viewer, before and after the inward focus policy:

checked theme controls keep a contrasting gap inside the blue focus border. the before capture removes only the new gap from the same focused control.

unpadded sidebar rows also keep their focus border when scrolled flush with an edge. matching real-app crops at the same scroll position; the before capture removes only the new mask override.

new permissions controls use the same inward ring. matching crops of the actual summary; the before capture removes only its new inset class.

body overflow propagated to the viewport no longer truncates the picker at the body's box. browser runtime reproduction; native electron remains unverified.

model: gpt-6.1-sol, simplified by claude-opus-5-5. harness: codex and claude code in t3 code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This is a broad production UI behavior change that alters global focus defaults, embedded HTML rendering, desktop annotation geometry, and many existing controls, including an auth component. An unresolved Medium-severity finding also identifies a gap in the new lint rule for custom-property rings.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Focus indicators across desktop and web controls now use inward rings or outlines. A new lint rule checks state-indicator geometry. Desktop preview annotations use clipped element bounds and repaint when the document root resizes.

Changes

Focus indicators

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Global focus styles and rendering apps/desktop/src/permissions/MacPermissionHelper.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Annotation.css, apps/web/src/index.css, packages/shared/src/htmlRender.ts, apps/server/src/htmlRender/HtmlRender.test.ts	Global and desktop focus outlines use inward offsets. Shared HTML rendering adds a 2px focus outline, and the screenshot test checks the computed outline and dimensions.
Shared control focus styles apps/web/src/components/ui/*	Shared UI controls use inset focus rings or inward outlines. Scroll-area fade masks also respond to focus-visible state.
Application control focus styles apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/*, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*, apps/web/src/components/files/*, apps/web/src/components/ContextChip.tsx, apps/web/src/components/GitActionsControl.tsx, apps/web/src/components/LegacySidebar.tsx, apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.tsx, apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx, apps/web/src/components/auth/ConnectAgentSurface.tsx, apps/web/src/components/media/MediaVideoPlayer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewRecentUrlCard.tsx, apps/web/src/components/projectScriptEditor.tsx, apps/web/src/components/usage/*	Focus and selected-state indicators on application controls use inset rings or inward outlines.
Settings focus styles apps/web/src/components/settings/*	Settings controls use inset focus and selection rings or inward outlines. The theme import editor loses its inset ring modifier.
Outset indicator lint rule oxlint-plugin-t3code/*, vite.config.ts	The Oxlint plugin adds a rule for state-ring and outline geometry. Tests cover valid and invalid patterns, and the web lint configuration enables the rule as an error.

Annotation overlays

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Clipped annotation bounds and repainting apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts	Selected and hovered annotations use bounds clipped to the viewport and applicable overflow ancestors. Empty or nonpositive boxes are hidden, and a document-root resize observer triggers repainting and disconnects during teardown.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f96d6

Valid outline classes may be blocked by lint, and the annotation editor may sit away from a partly clipped selection. Both issues are bounded; the PR is mergeable with owner awareness or follow-up.

Pre-merge checks | 3 | 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description covers the problem, changes, verification, screenshots, and unverified environments. However, the required scope and approval information is incomplete because it provides no issue lin…	Add the triaged issue or maintainer approval link with the approval comment. If the change qualifies as a small, focused fix, explain why it meets the exemption instead.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: keeping focus and selection borders visible across the application.

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The description covers the problem, changes, verification, screenshots, and unverified environments. However, the required scope and approval information is incomplete because it provides no issue link, approval comment, or valid small-fix exemption.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

The app-wide scope matches Maria's explicit request to fix clipped focus and selection indicators everywhere, including generated previews and scrollbar states. The authentication UI change only adds inward ring containment; its actions and permissions are unchanged. Both concrete review findings are fixed and resolved, and two independent reviewers approve d01f0ae. The PR body contains verified before/after evidence, runtime coverage, and remaining native/browser verification limits. The current Test job failed before tests ran because the worker could not resolve github.com while downloading Electron; no CI or product code is being changed for that infrastructure failure.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

The summary covers d01f0ae; the encoding issue is fixed and its review thread is resolved. In fa9c7c1, HEAD responses now compute UTF-8 content length without allocating encoded body bytes; GET behavior is unchanged. All 30 existing HTTP tests, server typecheck, scoped lint, and formatting passed on blacksmith, and both independent reviewers approve this head.

The broader concurrent memory concern is acknowledged in the PR body. Signed access, 50 MiB upload limits and 25 MiB generated-page limits constrain each input; no exhaustion was demonstrated. Admission limits or streaming would need a separate measured pass, rather than changing which existing pages receive the focus policy in this fix.

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🟡 Minor · Align compact-editor bounds with the visible outline. · PickPreload.ts:1030-1040

apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts:1030-1040
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Align compact-editor bounds with the visible outline.

When a selected element is clipped by a scroll ancestor, getAnnotationBounds uses the raw DOM rectangle while the outline uses visibleElementRect. positionCompactEditor can therefore place the editor relative to the hidden portion instead of the visible outline.

Suggested fix

-          rectFromDomRect(target.element.getBoundingClientRect()),
+          visibleElementRect(target.element),

Limit this change to compact-editor bounds. submitAnnotation uses raw rectangles for the annotation payload and full-page screenshot crop.

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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/preview/PickPreload.ts around lines 1030 -
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Update getAnnotationBounds to use visibleElementRect for selected elements so
compact-editor positioning follows the visible outline when elements are clipped
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