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ELI5

If you use more than one machine, every workspace card in the sidebar carries a little "Local Mac" / "m4air" tag. If almost everything you work on lives on one machine, that tag is just noise that makes every card taller. Now you can switch it off.

What Changed

Before: when the visible workspaces spanned more than one execution host, every card showed a host pill in its metadata row. There was no way to turn it off, so cards got a whole extra lane of chrome that most people could not use.

After: "Host" is a normal card display property. Uncheck it in Workspace options → Show properties (or Card display on the new card style) and the pill disappears; the metadata row collapses with it when nothing else occupies it. It is checked by default, so nothing changes until you opt out.

Mechanism: the pill was rendered from a bare !compactCards && !!hostContextLabel check in worktree-card-presentation.tsx. host is now a member of WorktreeCardProperty, part of DEFAULT_WORKTREE_CARD_PROPERTIES, and the render check also consults the user's property list — the same mechanism that already gates Ports, Notes, Agent activity, and the rest. The menu option lists pick it up, and the RPC/web schemas derive their value domain from WORKTREE_CARD_PROPERTIES, so they accept it automatically.

Existing profiles already have a stored property array that predates host, and the normalizer only keeps properties present in that array. Left alone, everyone would have silently lost the pill on upgrade. So there is a one-shot backfill in normalize-loaded-ui-state.ts guarded by _hostWorktreeCardPropertyDefaulted, matching the jira-issue backfill right above it: host is added once, and a later deliberate uncheck sticks across restarts.

Why

Making it a card property rather than a new GlobalSettings switch means it reuses the existing per-card display plumbing — persistence, normalization, the RPC schema, the web-client parity path, and the menu UI all already exist and already handle this shape. A separate setting would have been a parallel implementation of the same idea, and would not have lived next to the other card toggles where people already look.

The one-shot backfill flag is the alternative to simply adding host to the defaults: defaults only apply to profiles with no stored array at all, which is almost nobody.

Linked Issue

Fixes #24260

Visual Proof

Real sidebar, same workspaces, host pill on (default) and off:

The new checkbox, in the menu where the other card toggles live:

Testing

Verified in a dev build on macOS against a real multi-host profile (3 hosts, local + two remotes) over CDP: opened Workspace options → Show properties, confirmed "Host" is present and checked, unchecked it, and confirmed every host pill disappeared from the sidebar and the cards shrank. Re-checking it restored them.

Automated:

• src/main/persistence-worktree-card-properties.test.ts — new cases for the one-shot backfill and for a deliberate removal surviving a restart; existing expectations updated for the new default.
• src/renderer/src/components/sidebar/WorktreeCard.host-badge-toggle.test.tsx — new; renders a card with a host label and asserts the pill appears with host enabled and is absent without it.
• pnpm tc, pnpm run check:code-quality:changed, and the full src/renderer/src/components/sidebar + src/renderer/src/i18n suites (336 files / 2895 tests) pass.

Platforms: tested on macOS. The change is pure renderer/persistence logic with no platform-dependent code paths.

• I manually tested these changes locally
• Automated tests added/updated, or explained why not below

Review

Agent skill upstream boundary

• Not applicable, or this change follows docs/reference/agent-skill-sharing-upstream-boundary.md and copies or mechanically translates no upstream skill-installer source, tests, fixtures, registry entries, path tables, comments, or documentation.

Notes

• Backwards compatibility: covered by the one-shot backfill above; a profile that already unchecked other properties is untouched apart from gaining host once.
• Remote wire: WorktreeCardPropertyParam is a z.enum derived from WORKTREE_CARD_PROPERTIES, so this is a new optional enum member on an existing field — safe per docs/reference/remote-wire-compatibility.md. An older host receiving host rejects only that value; it never sees a new opcode.
• Mobile / SSH / performance: no new producers, no new queries, one extra Array.includes per card render.
• i18n: the Host label is added to all six locale files.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why (ELI5, the user-facing before/after, the mechanism, and why over the alternatives)
• Before/after screenshots or videos attached for UI changes, or N/A with reason
• Self-reviewed for correctness, security, and performance
• Cross-platform, SSH/remote, and path/shortcut impact considered (or N/A)
• pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, pnpm test, and pnpm build pass (or CI will cover; local preferred)

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Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium risk] Adds host pill as a toggleable sidebar card property.

The PR appears safe to merge; no actionable regression was established.

Summary

The PR adds Host to workspace-card display properties, makes the pill respect that property, and backfills existing desktop profiles once so the pill remains visible by default.

• Adds the toggle to both card-style menus and translations.
• Adds persistence and rendering tests for the default and opt-out behavior.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  A[Saved card properties] --> B[Load-time one-shot host backfill]
  B --> C[Renderer property list]
  D[Card display menu] --> C
  C --> E{Host enabled and label available?}
  E -->|Yes, non-compact card| F[Show host pill]
  E -->|No| G[Hide host pill]

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