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jaap-jan f9d08b738c Take the group headings out of the host grid, and drop onto a group card
A first group turned the wrap of host cards into an accordion: SidebarRows
interleaves a full-width fold-away heading — chevron, name, count — between the
cards, and in a grid that reads as a dropdown somebody left open. The desktop
grid binds VisibleHosts now. The headings and the fold stay for the phone, whose
list has no room for the row of group cards the desktop draws above the grid.

What a heading said, the card says: HostRowViewModel.GroupLabel, resolved once
per reload like the tag names, drawn as an accent chip and absent from a host in
no group — or in one that has been deleted, which is the same thing to look at.

What a heading also was is the drop target, and that moves to the group cards.
Two things go with it. A host dropped onto another host card used to be filed
beside it, which was legible while a heading named the band of cards it landed
in and is guesswork now; it is refused. And UNGROUPED was how a host was dragged
back out of a group; the way out is the picker in its own editor, which is the
one place "no group" can be said in words.

A drag held at either edge of the grid scrolls it. Without that the gesture only
works for whoever can see both ends of it: the group cards are the first thing in
the scroller, the host may be the fortieth card down, and a drag cannot use the
wheel. A step per drag event rather than a timer, so it follows the pointer and
stops when it stops.

The two heading-shaped tests are replaced. TheHostsGridHoldsCardsAndNoGroupHeadings
asserts the grid's contents rather than only measuring them, because a heading
that came back would lay out perfectly cleanly. TheGroupCardsAreWhatAcceptsADroppedHost
raises a real DragOver over both kinds of card and checks the effects and the
mark — the nearest a headless test gets to a gesture no headless test can
synthesise. manual-checks 3.1-3.2 and 7.6-7.9 follow.
2026-08-03 15:49:58 +02:00
jaap-jan 1b7df47537 Merge main into the desktop redesign branch
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Four conflicts. Three were two people adding to the same spot, and one was a
real collision: main gave the connect bar a REMEMBER tick in the same pass that
this branch took the connect bar off the hosts screen.

REMEMBER is now in the drawer, beside the password box it qualifies. Nothing
about the feature changed — RemembersConnectPassword, its refusal to fire until
the remote has accepted the password, and the six tests over it are main's
untouched — only where it is drawn. The move improves it slightly and it is
worth saying why rather than claiming a merge was neutral: the bar had one row
and had to fit the box, the tick, the authentication note and CONNECT along it,
which is why the tick was a bare "REMEMBER" in tracked capitals. A column has
room to put it under the box as a sentence, where it reads as a property of the
password rather than as a fourth control in a row.

MainWindowViewModel: both sides added members after ShowTerminal — the desktop's
three fixed tabs here, the phone's connect menu on main. They do not interact,
so both are kept, each under its own heading.

TeamsScreen: main added the team's own RENAME, HAND OVER and ARCHIVE, a member's
LastActive, the role a new member arrives as, and the KEY HOLDERS list. This
branch had only bumped the file's font sizes a point. Resolved by taking main's
file whole and re-running the bump over it, so the new controls join the scale
rather than sitting a point below everything around them.

README: both sides described a different head's third pass in the same
paragraph. Both kept.

Two things checked rather than assumed, because this branch moved the furniture
the merged commits sit on. The chrome heights main's terminal work touched are
the phone's, not the desktop's — 44, 42 and 24 are unchanged, so the layout
harness's budget still describes the window. And main's keychain DELETE did not
reach VaultScreen.axaml, whose header this branch rearranged, so the five
buttons that overflowed at the larger type are still five.

2415 tests pass, up from 2369 by the 46 main brought.
2026-08-03 15:17:55 +02:00
jaap-jan 208443b932 Move SFTP and S3 into the tab strip, and the host list into a card grid
Four asks in one pass over the desktop head, and two of them are furniture
moving rather than anything new.

THE STRIP IS THE WINDOW'S NOW, not the terminal's. Vaults, SFTP and S3 sit at
its head and cannot be closed, and open terminals follow them. SFTP and S3 left
the nav rail to get there, which is the one semantic change: they are the two
destinations you stay in while something runs, and a rail entry is for
somewhere you go and come back from. So the rail belongs to the Vaults tab and
collapses with it, which also means SFTP, S3 and a terminal each get the full
1016 rather than the 826 a page gets.

The tab is expressed as "a page, and not one of the two the strip took" rather
than as a fourth ShellSurface. Both are still ShellScreen members and have to
be — that is what they are on the phone, where they are two rows in a hub — so
a surface each would have been a second way to say a thing Screen already says.
IsTransfersShowing and IsBucketsShowing light the other two tabs unchanged.
What is new is one field: the page Vaults comes back to, because it is the one
tab with sub-navigation and therefore the one that can return to the wrong
place. That is not the hidden field ShellSurface argues against — that one
would be a second copy of "which page"; this is a tab remembering its own.

THE HOSTS SCREEN IS A GRID, and the 268-pixel sidebar is gone. That column was
choosing among forty machines and editing one of them at two-thirds width, and
it was narrow so the editor beneath it could be a column at all. Cards took the
first job at full width; a 304-pixel drawer took the second and collapses when
nothing is selected. Pressing a group card narrows the grid; SHOW ALL is the
way back. The group editor moved into the drawer as well, which finally makes
IsEditingGroup mean the same thing on both heads — it was the phone's alone,
because the desktop's editor was a bar that was always on screen.

AreHostsExpanded and ToggleHosts went with the control that used them. They
folded the whole list away under one heading, an affordance that existed
because the column was narrow. Folding a single group is a different thing and
is still here.

THE TYPE SCALE IS A POINT LARGER and the text ramp is white. The base size was
never stated anywhere — a bare TextBlock took TextElement's default of 12 — so
raising the scale meant naming it, on Window and on UserControl. The second
selector is not redundancy: the layout harness hosts a UserControl in a window
it builds itself, and without it the suite would measure every screen a point
smaller than it ships, silently. A selector on TextBlock would have been the
obvious way and is wrong, because a style setter beats an inherited value and
would collapse every deliberate step back to one number.

#E3E7F4 is a blue-tinted white on blue-black surfaces, which costs contrast
twice — once for being darker than white and once for sharing a hue with what
it is drawn on. Pure white is 18.3:1 against the canvas where that was 15.5:1.
Every step below moved with the top, so the intervals the design chose are
kept and TextDim clears 9:1 against 6.4:1. The palette is shared, so the phone
has both changes too.

TWO DEFECTS THE HARNESS STRUCTURALLY CANNOT SEE, found by rendering the screen
rather than by measuring it, and both now covered.

The tile was 232 and was first written as 248, from arithmetic that left out
the scrolling stack's own margins. Every layout test passed — the harness asks
whether a control is inside the window, never how many fit on a line — so the
grid quietly became one column wide at exactly the minimum this application
guarantees, which is the shape cards exist to avoid.
TheHostsGridKeepsTwoColumnsAtTheMinimumWithTheDrawerOpen counts columns
instead, and fails at 248.

And a card's text ran past its own border, because a horizontal StackPanel
measures children with infinite width: a TextBlock inside one never learns it
is short of room, so TextTrimming never fires. Both card rows are grids with a
star column that gives way and an Auto column that does not — a hostname with
its tail cut is still the machine you were looking for, where a badge or the
word naming an auth method is not.

The keychain header changed shape for the same class of reason. It was
Auto,Auto,*,Auto with the buttons last, so the slack column was the only thing
absorbing a change of width and five buttons fell off the right edge the moment
the type grew. That is how GENERATE lost the word KEY once already. The summary
sits in the star column and trims now, so the buttons always get their width.

HostSidebarTests became HostGridTests and moved to the grid with the gestures
it drives. docs/design-import-gaps.md gains a v3 section naming the five
toolbar controls in the design with nothing behind them — a view-mode switch, a
tag filter, a calendar, a share control and Serial — and manual-checks.md and
the README follow the controls that moved.
2026-08-03 15:08:48 +02:00
jaap-janandClaude Opus 5 a43286ece8 Let a team change hands, and be joined by somebody with no account yet
M3 built teams and stopped short of the two operations that decide who
controls one. Both were written down as refusals rather than omissions:
ADR 0009 listed ownership transfer under "deliberately not built", and
design-import-gaps said an invitation needed "a token with a lifetime and an
outbound mail path". One of those reasons had expired and the other never
applied — an invitation does not need a token if it is not a thing anybody
presents.

Handing a team over is one write. The member you name becomes owner and you
become an admin, in a single transaction, because ownership is sole: promoting
first leaves the team owned twice, demoting first leaves it owned by nobody,
and there is nobody left with the authority to finish a transfer that stopped
in the middle. That is also why it is not two calls to the role endpoint, which
refuses Owner outright. The outgoing owner is demoted rather than removed —
removing them would revoke their vault key grants and flag every team vault for
rekey, which is a far larger act than the one asked for, and somebody handing
over a team is usually staying in it. It unblocks the thing that was impossible
before: an owner can now leave, by handing the team on first.

An invitation is a standing instruction rather than a message. This server has
no outbound mail path, so nothing is sent and there is nothing for the invitee
to present. The row says the next account signing in with that address joins
this team at this role, and telling them to sign in is the caller's job over a
channel this server does not carry. A link nobody can deliver would be worse
than none. It lives in its own table rather than becoming a membership with
MembershipStatus.Invited, and that member stays unwritten for the reason it
always was: team_membership.user_id is not nullable and carries a foreign key,
so somebody who has never signed in has nothing for that row to point at.
Widening it would make the unique index on (team, user) meaningless, because
PostgreSQL counts every NULL as distinct.

Verification is the security boundary, and nothing in this server read it
before. A claim requires the access token to assert email_verified. An
invitation decides what the server will serve, so one claimable by anybody able
to obtain a token carrying somebody else's address is a way into a team — which
is precisely the attack OidcOptions.AllowEmailLinking exists to refuse, and it
would have been reintroduced by the back door. There is deliberately no setting
that relaxes it: a flag that exists is one somebody turns on for the afternoon
their provider is misconfigured. Absence is refused rather than trusted, and
logged, because a provider that never sends the claim otherwise leaves every
invitation pending with nothing anywhere saying why.

Claiming happens at just-in-time provisioning and again on an hourly sweep. The
sweep is what makes it recoverable rather than one-shot — an invitation issued
between an account being created and that person next signing in would
otherwise be stranded for ever — and it shares its rate with the last-seen
write because both are housekeeping nobody is waiting on.

Archiving is refused while a team owns a vault, and that refusal is the end of
the road rather than a step on it. A team vault is readable because of
membership, so archiving one that still owned vaults would take them away from
everybody holding a key, including the caller, quietly and all at once. Nothing
in this product deletes a vault, so no order of operations gets past it today —
which is stated with a count of what is in the way, for the reason the SFTP
layer refuses a recursive delete: a refusal is visible and a quiet removal is
not. It is owner-only, as handing over is; renaming is not, because a rename is
visible to everybody and reversible by anybody who can do it. The slug is not
renameable at all: it is unique only among live teams, so a rename could take
one an archived team is still holding, and that team could then never be
restored.

LAST ACTIVE is real and coarse on purpose. UserAccount.LastSeenAtUtc is
refreshed on ordinary authenticated requests, at most once per account per
hour, through ExecuteUpdateAsync — user_account carries the xmin concurrency
token, so a read-then-write on the hot path would start losing races between
one user's own overlapping requests. An hour is the granularity the question is
actually asked at, and the interface draws it to the day rather than the minute
so it does not read as a precision that is not there. The remarks in Contracts
and in the view model that argued at length for the column's absence are
rewritten rather than extended; both had become false.

Two endpoints already existed and nothing called them. ChangeTeamMemberRole and
ListVaultGrants have been reachable since M3. The role picker refuses Owner
itself rather than letting the server do it, since the interface already knew
the rule; the key-holder list sits under the vault rather than beside the
member, because a grant is per vault and a count on a member row would imply
per-item sharing, which is M5. It lists withdrawn and stale grants and says
which they are — a list that dropped them would show a departed colleague as
merely absent rather than as somebody whose key was taken away — and staleness
is decided by comparing generations, since a grant can be Active and still open
nothing.

ADD MEMBER stopped being a dead end. An address the directory did not know used
to end at a sentence telling the user their colleague had to sign in first. It
invites them instead, from the same button, because which of the two applies is
a fact about the server's account table rather than about what the user is
doing; which one happened is reported afterwards, because that decides what
they do next. An address that merely has an account is invited rather than
refused: refusing would have made the endpoint an oracle for which addresses
have accounts here, answerable by anybody willing to create a team first.

The phone has a TEAMS screen, behind MORE, and it is the reverse of every other
row in design-import-gaps: a shipped screen the design had no slot for. It is
there because an invitation is claimed by signing in, so somebody told they are
now in a team is at least as likely to be holding a phone — and a membership
visible only on a head they never installed is one they cannot see. It draws
SHARE KEY and nothing that takes something away: wrapping a key is the one act
on that screen a server cannot perform at all, and the desktop guards its
revocations with a tooltip, which is a control a touch screen cannot show.

Two defects were found by an adversarial pass and both were green against the
whole suite at the time. The owner-only check on archiving and handing over had
been weakened to the admin check while their messages and comments still said
owner — and since nothing behind the archive endpoint re-checks it, an admin
the owner had promoted could have archived the team out from under them. And
the rename endpoint built its response with a hardcoded Owner role, so an admin
who renamed a team was handed a summary claiming they owned it, and a client
trusting that instead of re-listing would have offered them the two owner-only
buttons the server then refuses.

The new table gets its constraints tested rather than merely migrated: live
uniqueness per (team, address), the citext proof that an address typed by a
person matches one cased by a provider, and reissue after both revocation and
acceptance. The teams screen gets its first entries in the layout suite, at the
minimum window with every list populated and with each of the two states that
cover half of it — it had none, and it just grew four sections and a second
line in the member row.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 14:31:43 +02:00
jaap-janandClaude Opus 5 16e0051e89 Draw the tags that have been storable and invisible since the domain landed
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`Tag` has been a full item kind for three commits — a table, a migration, a
codec, a merge, a cipher — and `HostSecret.TagIds` has merged per tag so two
people tagging one host both keep theirs. Nothing drew a chip. The tags a
client could store were ones nothing here could see.

Chips on host rows, both heads, from names resolved through the tag list rather
than ids: a tag that does not resolve is left out rather than drawn, because it
means the tag was deleted elsewhere or belongs to a vault this session cannot
read, and a host with one chip fewer is the honest answer where a host wearing
a GUID is not. The id stays on the host, so the chip comes back if the tag does.

The picker is chips that toggle, matching the chips on the row behind it. A
list of names to tick would make the user match an entry to a chip they can see
two inches away. The box under it creates a tag and puts it on straight away,
because that is when a tag is usually wanted — while tagging a host and finding
it does not exist yet. Unlike every other field in that editor it writes to the
keychain immediately, since a host can only name an id that exists; cancelling
therefore leaves the tag behind, which is honest rather than hidden. A name
that already exists is used rather than repeated: two tags called "staging" are
storable and must stay storable, because two people creating one offline is how
it happens, but typing it into a box beside a chip of the same name is a slip.

Renaming and deleting needed a home, or the picker fills with names nobody uses
and never empties. That home is a TAGS category on the keychain screen, where
every other item kind is managed — and renaming is the whole reason a tag is an
item rather than a string repeated inside twenty payloads: it is one write, and
no host is touched. The delete confirmation counts the hosts wearing it, which
is the difference between a tidy-up and losing a filter somebody relies on.

The desktop host editor now scrolls, and that is not a tidy-up. A picker's
height is a chip per tag in the keychain, wrapped, so somebody with fifteen
tags has an editor half again as tall as somebody with three; no fixed height
holds that, and trimming other fields to buy room only moves the failure to
whoever has sixteen. The layout suite caught it the moment its seeder grew tags
— which is why the seeder now creates ten rather than three, enough to drive
the pane onto its cap so the capped shape is what gets measured rather than one
no real keychain produces. The cost is named where it is paid: the harness
skips anything inside a ScrollViewer, so from here it certifies that pane fits
the column rather than that every field in it does.

Two smaller things fell out. Five buttons overflowed the keychain header by a
few pixels, so GENERATE lost the word KEY — its tooltip carries what the word
did. And TotalItemCount had been counting keys and credentials while ALL showed
four kinds; it counts all five now, because a number under a chip that
disagrees with the rows it opens is worse than no number.

An adversarial review of this change found two defects it had introduced, both
green against the full suite. NewTag filed into the "new items go to" picker
while the tag list only ever holds the active vault's — so with a team vault
selected a tag would be created, queued for push, reported as added, and then
invisible, with no row, no count, no picker entry and nothing able to rename or
delete it, because there is no active-vault switcher to go and find it with.
The comment on the host editor's own create path states that exact rule; this
was the one place that broke it, and NewObjectStore, whose list is likewise
active-vault-only, already ignored the picker. And the tag editor was the only
one of five that did not disarm a pending deletion when it opened, so arming a
key's deletion and then pressing + TAG left a live DELETE for an item the user
was no longer looking at, directly above the boxes they were typing into. Both
are fixed, both have a test, and the first was checked against the broken
version before being kept.

The same review caught a doc comment that had been inserted between
SnippetRowViewModel's summary and its declaration, silently taking it over.

Verified by the whole suite on a clean build: 1413 tests over nineteen
projects, none failing. Both heads build. The rectangles the layout suite
cannot reach are phase 9 of docs/manual-checks.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 12:42:43 +02:00
jaap-janandClaude Opus 5 4925dcf179 Give the phone the + it was promised, and the editors behind it
Steps 5 and 6 of docs/adding-hosts-on-the-phone.md, which finishes it. The
phone can now put things in a keychain rather than only read one.

The floating + arrives three designs after it was first asked for. It was
refused twice on the honest grounds that it would open an editor this head had
not got — and that stopped being true when steps 1 to 4 landed. It raises a
sheet rather than a form, because "add" on this screen has been two operations
since groups existed: a host, or a group to file hosts under.

Both editors are cards in the list's own row, swapped for the list rather than
stacked over it, following SnippetsScreen and for the reason written there: a
form on top of the list hides what it is about. There is still no dialog and no
editor screen anywhere on this head. The port and username boxes may be left
empty, and the greyed text inside each is what the host will actually use —
following the group picker as it moves, so the form says what leaving a box
blank will do rather than making it a guess.

The back gesture gains a guard above the switch rather than a case inside it.
An editor is not a screen and has no entry there, and it is strictly nearer:
the sheet sits over the editor's own screen, so back lowers whatever is topmost
before it considers moving between screens.

A group editor needs a way in, and the phone draws no groups panel — so the
heading in the host list gains a pencil. A + that adds groups with no way to
correct one is the same strange thing to ship as one that adds hosts with no
way to correct one, and worse: a group's defaults are what every host beneath
it falls back to.

Scouting step 6 turned up a bug worth more than the prose it was looking for.
ReloadGroupsAsync read the active vault alone, which was a cosmetic limitation
while a group carried only a name — a teammate's host showed under UNGROUPED
and nothing else was lost. Since a group began lending a port, a username and a
binding, the same omission silently dropped all three: that host would dial 22
as nobody while the machine is on 2222 as deploy, with nothing on screen saying
why. The resolution map now spans every readable vault. The editable list stays
narrow, because a row shown across vaults needs a vault id for rename and
delete and two vaults may hold groups with one name — but the map needs none of
that, since it is only ever asked what an id says.

An adversarial review of this change found something I had written a comment
denying. The + was a child of the outer Panel rather than of the list's row, so
it anchored to the bottom of the screen and sat squarely over the new EDIT
button and the lower edge of CONNECT — and because a Panel hit-tests its
last-declared child first, tapping the right end of EDIT would have raised the
add sheet. The comment beside it claimed it was in the list's row precisely so
that could not happen, and manual-checks 8.1 names that exact failure. It is in
Grid.Row 2 now. The same pass caught a connect bar that was disabled rather
than hidden while its own comment said hidden, a scrim that would have flashed
its default pressed chrome across the screen, a fab comment claiming an accent
fill no other button had when Button.primary has it, and a back-gesture remark
naming two view-model properties that do not exist anywhere in the repo.

That last one came from this plan, which invented IsVaultsSurface and
IsConnectionsSurface, and pointed step 6 at a ConnectionsScreen.axaml that has
never existed. Both are corrected in the plan rather than quietly worked
around, along with a fourth "groups are flat" site in README.md that step 1
missed.

The phone's rectangles are not measurable and structurally never will be: the
layout suite is net10.0, the Android head is net10.0-android, and Avalonia's
application is a one-shot process global — so a second head cannot share the
process even if the reference were possible. Everything the sheet and both
editors bind to is shared and is tested headlessly here; the pixels go to
docs/manual-checks.md phase 8, nine checks, which is where this project already
sends what it cannot assert.

Tags remain the one thing asked for that did not ship. Tag is a full item kind
and TagIds merges, encodes and resolves, but no screen draws a chip or offers
to add one, so the tags a client can store are ones nothing here can see. Both
editors carry the set through a save untouched so a client that can set them
does not lose them. Recorded as half-shipped in docs/design-import-gaps.md
rather than quietly left out.

Verified by the whole suite: 1402 tests over nineteen projects, none failing.
Both heads build. Nothing seen on a display — phase 8 is what that costs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 11:30:00 +02:00
jaap-janandClaude Opus 5 359087f1ce Give the tabs their hover back, and the plus the shape its comment claims
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Two things v2 broke in the last commit, both found by reading resolved brushes rather than markup, and both
the same mistake: Avalonia has no specificity, so the later declaration wins, and a rule that restated the
base instead of excepting from it went in below the rules it was supposed to be underneath.

Making a tab a pill gave it a Background of its own, which the flat tab it replaced never had. That one
detail moved where the hover has to live. `Button.flat:pointerover` is declared far above and had been
supplying it; the moment `Button.tab`'s template rule set a Background, it won, and every tab in the strip
stopped answering the pointer. Silently — a tab that no longer lights is not a crash and not a layout
change, and nothing in a suite that measures heights and reachability can see it.

The `+` lost more than that. It sits below as an exception — no outline, because it is not one of the
things being chosen between — and a `.tab` rule declared after it was overriding the exception itself. It
drew as a filled, outlined pill identical to a tab, contradicting the comment directly above it.

So the base pill and its hover come first now and the exceptions follow, which is the order the rest of
this file already uses and the order the Border.rowmark note further down was written about. The `+` clears
the fill as well as the border, because an exception to a rule that sets both has to say both.

The titlebar's search box had the same shape of error in geometry rather than colour. The design draws it
at exactly 380 and centred, and stating that as a Width on the inner Border is what made it wrong: the
button around it is free to shrink when the account name or the vault chip beside it is long, and a Border
that will not shrink with it arranges outside its own parent — over the name on one side and over the
window buttons on the other. MaxWidth on a stretching button gives the same 380 whenever there is room and
gives way when there is not.

The regression test is the point of this commit rather than an afterthought. It is the only test in that
suite that reads a brush, and the gap it fills is exactly the one these two went through: everything else
measures rectangles. It hovers a tab through the real input path and asserts the fill changes, then asserts
the `+` is neither filled like a tab nor outlined like one. Checked against the broken ordering before
being kept — it fails there and passes here, which is the only thing that makes a regression test worth
committing.

Verified by the whole suite: 1310 tests over nineteen projects, none failing, the layout suite now 70
cases. Both heads build. Still nothing seen on a display.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AZE3u99BNt6LzgTC5jhbz2
2026-08-02 19:54:37 +02:00
jaap-janandClaude Opus 5 3627021420 Give the desktop the second design too, and the window the size it now needs
The desktop v2 design is the other half of the one the phone took last commit, and this is its chrome: a
190-pixel labelled sidebar where the 54-pixel icon rail was, a titlebar with the search box centred in it,
and session tabs drawn as pills. The palette was already here — it is shared, and moved when the phone's
did — so what this changes is shape rather than colour.

**The window's minimum grew, and by exactly what v2 added.** The sidebar is 136 wider and the chrome 14
taller, so 880x560 became 1016x574. That is not a round number somebody liked: it leaves every screen the
same 826x464 it was designed against, which is the arithmetic the layout suite is built on. Four of the
tables stop fitting at 690 wide, so widening the sidebar and leaving the window alone would have broken
them somewhere no test was looking. LayoutHarness carries the new constants and the suite still passes at
the minimum, which is the whole reason it exists.

The rail's five-character abbreviations are gone with the width that caused them — PINS and SNIPS are Pins
and Snippets again — and each row gains a glyph and a count. A count is drawn only where one is real, so
SFTP, Logs and Preferences show nothing rather than a zero: a transfer queue's depth is not how many files
a screen holds, and a log has no total until it is read. The count beside Pins is the vault's own, not the
Pins screen's VisiblePins, which is the filtered list and would have made the sidebar count whatever
somebody had just typed into a filter box on another screen. Teams has no count for a related reason: they
are read from the server when that screen is opened rather than on unlock, so a number there would read 0
until somebody had already been to look.

One colour moved with it, finishing what the repalette started: the live-session summaries on the unlock and
sign-out cards were Info, so the two heads disagreed about a fact the phone paints green. They match again.

**Buckets became a destination rather than a mode**, which is what the design draws and what the phone
already does. The HOST / BUCKET pair inside the files screen is gone; ShellScreen.Buckets draws the same
TransfersScreen with the other picker, and the sidebar entry is what sets it. That also settles an old
disagreement rather than merely moving it: TotalItemCount is keys plus passwords and excludes buckets, so
the number beside the keychain used to disagree with the list under it, and now counts what that screen
shows.

There is one session behind both file destinations, so asking for the other kind while something is open is
refused rather than obeyed — and refusing means staying put. An earlier turn of this had it move anyway and
only decline to switch the picker, which put the S3 entry in the sidebar over a screen still listing an
SFTP host: two pieces of chrome disagreeing about where you are, which is worse than the navigation simply
not happening. The message that says so goes to Transfers.Status, which turned out to be drawn in the same
grid cell as the connected chip — survivable while it was mostly read before connecting, and not once a
refusal reports itself there. It has its own column now.

The design has nine entries' worth of screens and draws five. Pins, Teams, Import and Preferences are
built, working screens, so they keep their entries — the sidebar is labelled now and has the room, and
dropping an entry would have stranded a screen rather than simplified anything. The Team vault card the
design pins to the foot is not drawn: it is a second route to a screen already in the list, carrying a seat
count nothing here produces.

**The status bar survives the design that deletes it**, cut down to one thing. Two of the three facts it
carried moved into the titlebar with v2 — the sync word is beside its dot and the shortcut hint is inside
the box that uses it — so those are gone from it rather than printed twice. The third is Vault.Status, the
only channel this application has for saying a save failed or a merge picked a winner. The design is a
mock-up of an afternoon that goes well and has nowhere to put a sentence like that; dropping the bar would
have meant dropping the sentence or repeating it on nine screens.

What v2 draws and this does not is in docs/design-import-gaps.md, and it is the same list as the phone's
for the same reasons: the forwarding screen and both its chips, the host detail's fingerprint, tags and
last-session cards, the keychain's rotate button, the logs' FOLLOW pill and severity filters, and the
session footer's latency. The terminal is not inset behind a rounded frame either — it is a native child
window that composites above everything Avalonia paints, so the frame would clip nothing, which is the same
answer the phone gave.

**The light theme is not built.** Its accent is #6D5AE6, a different hue rather than a tint of the dark
one, so it needs every colour doubled, a variant to switch on, the renderer's own page switching with it,
and contrast checked twice. That is a piece of work rather than a setting, and it is separable from the
layout — which is why this commit is the layout.

The screens themselves are restyled through the shared vocabulary rather than rebuilt: corner radii,
chips, cards and the accent's ink, all in App.axaml, so every screen moves at once. Their layouts are left
alone deliberately. The design draws read-only detail panes and these screens carry the editors and forms
it has no equivalent of, so replacing a layout with the mock-up's would have lost the half that is
actually used.

Verified by the whole suite: 1309 tests over nineteen projects, none failing, including the 68 layout cases
that stand up real Avalonia and measure every screen at the new minimum. Both heads build. Not run on a
machine with a display — see docs/manual-checks.md for what wants looking at.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AZE3u99BNt6LzgTC5jhbz2
2026-08-02 19:29:21 +02:00
jaap-janandClaude Opus 5 cf1a321d1e Pin the font the layout suite measures, and let the slice say it means plaintext
ci / build and test (push) Failing after 42s
ci / api image (push) Skipped
ci / android head (push) Failing after 5s
Two failures left on the runner, with nothing in common except that both only appear on a
machine unlike the one anybody develops on. The runner is Alpine, musl, inside a container,
with no fonts installed at all — and that combination is now reproducible locally, which is
how these were fixed rather than guessed at. Both are verified by running the suite in it.

The layout suite had two causes stacked, and the first hid the second completely. Missing
libfontconfig stops libSkiaSharp loading, which the last commit fixed and which then
revealed the real one: Avalonia takes its default font family from the platform, and on an
image with no fonts there is no answer, so FontManager throws "Default font family name
can't be null or empty" inside AppBuilder.SetupUnsafe — before a single test body runs, for
all sixty-eight of them, naming none of their subjects. WithInterFont does not prevent it:
it registers a collection without nominating a default. HeadlessApp's own comment already
claimed it measured "the same Inter font the application registers", which was an intention
the code never carried out.

Both heads now name it, through FontManagerOptions.DefaultFamilyName. That is worth more
than getting CI green: a suite whose entire job is measuring text was taking its metrics
from whatever the machine happened to have — Segoe UI here, DejaVu there — and reporting
the two as one number. It also means the application uses the font it has been shipping and
declining to use since it first referenced the package; almost nothing moves visually,
because App.axaml already sets MonoFont on essentially everything that draws.

The end-to-end slice was the product being right and the test leaning on an accident.
ServerConnection permits an http authority only when it is loopback. Testcontainers reports
the host a container can actually be reached at, so running the suite directly gives
localhost and passes, while running it inside a container gives the bridge gateway
172.17.0.1 and is refused — correctly, since a client that accepted plaintext metadata from
a routable address would be a weakness for everyone who is not a test. Loosening that rule
was the wrong repair. The slice now passes configureOidc and says out loud that it accepts
plaintext from the Keycloak it started itself.

Verified by reproducing the runner rather than approximating it: dotnet/sdk:10.0-alpine,
musl-x64, fc-list returning zero, the docker socket mounted so Testcontainers resolves the
gateway exactly as it does in CI. The whole solution passes there — 19 suites, 0 failures,
4 skipped — and the end-to-end failure was confirmed causal by reverting only that one file
and watching it fail again in the same container. The layout suite also still passes on a
Fedora desktop with 595 fonts, so the two agree now.

Not verified on Windows, and it should be said plainly rather than left to be discovered:
pinning the family changed the measured metrics there too, so a tight layout assertion
could have moved. platform-flags.md records that, and corrects the entry the last commit
added — "libfontconfig, and nothing else" was true of the container it was tested in and
false of the runner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 14:48:30 +02:00
jaap-janandClaude Opus 5 43d76d0f2d Let the suite run on Linux, and fix the three things that stopped it
ci / build and test (push) Failing after 1m47s
ci / api image (push) Skipped
ci / android head (push) Failing after 5s
The pipeline finally reached the tests and found four failures. None was the pipeline's,
and only one of the four was a test being fussy about a platform rather than telling the
truth about one.

The local pane's roots bar was the real bug. LocalDirectory.Roots built it from
DriveInfo.GetDrives on every platform, and its own summary — "the drives on Windows, and
the root elsewhere" — had been describing an intention rather than the code for as long as
nobody ran it off Windows. On Unix that call answers with every mount the kernel holds:
/proc, /sys/fs/bpf, one per installed snap, /run/user/1000/doc, some forty on an ordinary
laptop. The transfers screen draws a button per root, so the bar ran to about five thousand
pixels inside an eight-hundred pixel window. Anybody running the Linux build has been
looking at that.

Filtering GetDrives is not the fix and the comment now says why at length, because it is
the obvious thing to try: DriveType answers Fixed for / and /home and equally for every
squashfs snap, for efivarfs and for tracefs, while /boot/efi comes back Removable, and
DriveFormat would need a hand-kept list of every virtual filesystem Linux might grow. So
Unix now names what somebody would want instead of subtracting what they would not — the
root, their home, and whatever is mounted under /run/media/<user>, /media, /mnt or
/Volumes. Anything else is still reachable by navigating from /, which is what the pane is
for. Windows is untouched.

ClientPathsTests looked for "odoSSH" in the profile directory. ClientPaths spells it
DodoSSH on Windows and dodossh on Unix deliberately, one per platform convention, and that
substring was clever enough to survive either spelling of the leading D while still only
ever matching one of them. Now OrdinalIgnoreCase.

WhyTheWindowItselfIsNeverShown asserted a COMException with HResult RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE,
which is WebView2 refusing an MTA thread — a Win32 component raising a COM error. On Linux
the adapter is a different implementation with no apartment to disagree about, so showing
the window works and Should.Throw catches nothing. Skipped there rather than loosened to
accept both outcomes: the assertion is the documentation in that test, and one that passed
everywhere would have stopped recording the constraint it exists to record.

The fourth was CI's alone, and the diagnosis is the useful part. All 69 layout tests failed
on the runner while 6 failed here, which looked like missing fonts and was not: Avalonia's
headless renderer is Skia, libSkiaSharp.so links against libfontconfig, and without it the
suite dies in HeadlessUnitTestSession with a TypeInitializationException on SKImageInfo
naming none of its actual subjects. The job installs the one library now. Verified in a
container where fc-list returns zero and the suite passes regardless, because the
application carries Inter itself — fonts were never the problem, only the thing that would
have looked for them.

The whole solution now passes on Linux: 19 suites, 1295 tests, 0 failures, 4 skipped, the
end-to-end Testcontainers suite included. README and platform-flags.md said testing was
Windows-only, which CI now contradicts on every push, so both say what is true instead and
the two findings are written down where the next person will look for them. macOS is still
untested and now says so on its own rather than hiding inside "not Windows".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 14:28:06 +02:00
jaap-jan 4300d917a8 Stop making people wait for a handshake, and give the host list a pointer
ci / build and test (push) Failing after 3s
ci / android head (push) Failing after 2s
Connecting held the vault's busy gate, which meant a window that did nothing visible for
as long as a machine took to answer — and against one that is merely asleep, that is the
whole timeout. The gate is gone from that one command. A tab now appears in the strip in
the same turn as the click, carrying "connecting…" rather than a pane, and the terminal's
rectangle draws a card naming the host and the address being dialled. Every other screen
stays usable, and two connections can be in flight at once.

That splits the vault's one connection event into three, carrying an attempt id, because
"which tab is this about" can no longer be answered by "the most recent one". The id also
buys the two kinds of not-connecting their different endings: a refusal stays in the strip
as a tab holding its reason, since by then the user is quite likely three screens away and
a status line they are not looking at is not where a failure should end; a host key
question takes the tab away and puts the window back on HOSTS, because the prompt is drawn
there and a tab claiming failure would be competing with the thing about to resume it.

ConnectAsync takes no CancellationToken any more, and that is load-bearing rather than
tidying. A [RelayCommand] over a method that takes one generates a command that cancels
the previous execution's token on every invocation — so asking for a second machine
silently abandoned the first, measured as the first tab disappearing with "Cancelled." the
instant the second was asked for. Giving up on a connection is closing its tab, and a
session that lands after that is adopted rather than dropped: a shell running with nothing
naming it cannot be closed at all.

A tab is marked active on IsShowing rather than IsSelected. The selection survives
navigating away — that is what makes the strip a way back to a terminal instead of a way
to lose one — so a tab lit while preferences filled the window was a second "you are here"
mark pointing at something nobody could see. The nav rail's own entries have always made
this distinction.

The host list grows the two gestures it looked like it already had. A right click selects
the row under the pointer before opening a menu of Connect, Edit and Delete — the menu is
on the list rather than in the item template, so its entries are the vault's own commands
and not a row's, and it is cancelled outright over a group heading. Dragging a host onto a
heading files it there, onto a host files it beside that one, and onto UNGROUPED takes it
out of a group; the write is one field of one host through the same repository a save
uses, refused while the editor is open because a drop is a gesture on the list and not on
a half-typed form.

Clicking a result in the palette connects, which is what a list of hosts under a search
box looks like it does. It went through the shell's own command, so the pointer and Enter
take one path.

And the files screen's two pickers followed the vault's lists once, at unlock: a host or a
bucket created afterwards could not be picked until the keychain had been locked and
opened again, with nothing on screen explaining why the machine plainly in the host list
was missing. They follow the collections now, re-finding the selection by id across the
rebuild a sync pass causes every minute.

165 shell tests and 69 layout tests green, including the connecting tab, both failure
endings, two connections at once, a connection in flight across a lock, and the right
click acting on the row under the pointer rather than on the selection. The drag itself is
in docs/manual-checks.md with the rest of phase 7 — headless Avalonia has no platform
drag, and a test that claimed to have dropped something would pass while confirming
nothing.
2026-07-31 22:59:33 +02:00
jaap-jan 2caedd93ff Merge branch 'main' into the Android head
Main grew the screens the host-management plan called for — hosts, pins, snippets, logs,
import, teams — plus the ObjectStore and Import projects behind two of them, and moved
WindowsDeviceKeyStore into the desktop head's Platform folder.

Five of those view models landed in a directory this branch had already moved, so they
join the rest in DodoSSH.Client.Shell: git spotted the rename and put them there, and the
namespaces followed. Shell picks up ObjectStore and Import as a result, which the Android
head then gets transitively and will use neither of at first — scoped storage means there
is no ~/.ssh/config to import, and file transfer is out of its first scope.

Desktop suites green at 155 and 64.
2026-07-31 21:03:22 +02:00
jaap-jan fe9d7fc289 Give DodoSSH a phone, and a shared shell for both heads to drive
The Android head from docs/android-port.md, taken as far as its step 6.

Step 3, the spike, is answered and its throwaway screen is gone: libsodium.so and
libe_sqlite3.so are both in the arm64 APK, so NSec resolves its native half on Android
despite shipping no Android build, and the local cache opens. Two findings the audit
could not have had: Avalonia.Controls.WebView only ships net10.0-android36.0, which
settles the open "which Android versions" question at targetSdk 36; and Android has
blocked cleartext HTTP since API 28, so the terminal renderer needs a network security
config scoped to 127.0.0.1 or the WebView loads nothing.

DodoSSH.Client.Shell is new and is why the phone can exist: the view models, the terminal
renderer files and the palette moved there so both heads drive one state machine and draw
from one set of tokens. The desktop head is otherwise untouched and its 144 tests still
pass.

The platform pieces behind interfaces that already existed: the profile directory from
filesDir, a device key wrapped by a StrongBox-backed key that a fingerprint releases, and
a foreground service so a shell outliving a vault lock stays true on a platform that
stops backgrounded processes.

Sign-in is deliberately absent rather than approximated. It needs an app link, because
reusing the desktop loopback listener is the attack RFC 8252 section 8.3 names.
2026-07-31 20:58:48 +02:00
jaap-jan d07b336868 Free the terminal from the Hosts screen, and fill the room it left
The WebView sat inside the Hosts grid, so navigating to Files or the keychain
hid every open terminal and the strip that named them. A connection you had
opened was invisible from four of the five screens. The window now has two
surfaces rather than one: a nav rail that says which page you are on, and a
terminal strip that is always there and switches the whole content area to a
shell. Screen keeps meaning "which page" and never becomes a sixth kind of
page, which is why this is two properties instead of one enum with a terminal
member in it.

Every screen lives inside one wrapper panel that collapses when a terminal is
showing. That is not tidiness — the WebView hosts a Win32 child window that
composites above everything Avalonia draws, so a screen left visible over its
rectangle is a screen sliced in half, and this window has shipped that defect
once already. One decision point, IsTerminalShowing, and a nested panel rather
than five compound bindings nobody would remember to extend.

The focus choreography is the part no test in this repo can see. Every reveal
path now focuses in the same turn the WebView appeared, so all three of them
post at DispatcherPriority.Loaded and let the native control re-push its bounds
first. Going the other way had a real bug: the screen-changed branch called a
bare Focus() where it had to release the keyboard from the native child, so
switching from a terminal to Files silently ate the first keystrokes. Rare
before this commit and the primary gesture after it.

The tab strip grew a cross inside each tab, a plus that opens the quick-connect
palette, and middle-click close. Nested buttons are correct here: Avalonia
handles a left press on the cross and deliberately does not handle other
buttons, which is exactly what lets middle-click bubble up from the cross as
well as the tab. The test is PointerUpdateKind rather than
IsMiddleButtonPressed, because the latter reports button state and is also true
for a left press made while the middle button happens to be held. The handler
is on the tab and not the strip, so the background closes nothing by
construction. Plus opens the palette rather than a flyout, since a menu
dropping into the WebView's rectangle may or may not composite above a child
HWND and this repo does not make rendering claims it has not photographed.

Everything a user reads now says keychain. The wire, the database and the
cryptographic spec still say vault, deliberately: renaming those is a migration
and a protocol change for a word. That split is written down rather than left
to be rediscovered as an inconsistency.

Four things that were squeezed into the keychain's category rail, or into
nothing at all, now have screens. Pinned host keys get one, with fingerprints
never truncated and a filter that matches them, because comparing what you have
against what the operator published is the whole workflow; the approved date is
read out of the item's UUIDv7 rather than added as a column, and says so, since
it means first approval and not last use. Keys can be generated in the client,
which needed the openssh-key-v1 container written by hand — there is no BCL or
NSec helper, and the PKCS#8 route is unverified in the SSH library this uses.
The armour carries no passphrase: encrypting it needs bcrypt_pbkdf, which is
Blowfish with a swizzle, in a project whose crypto is otherwise entirely
libsodium, for a protection the key's own remarks argue is redundant inside a
vault. Generation fills the existing editor and stops, so SAVE stays the one
thing that writes. ~/.ssh/config can be imported behind a preview that is
ticked per row and writes nothing until the button; IdentityFile records the
path and imports the key material only on an explicit opt-in, because reading
somebody's private key into a vault is precisely the act this product exists to
make deliberate. Match blocks and ProxyJump are reported rather than obeyed —
one cannot be evaluated statically and the other has nothing behind it to route
with, and a preview that implied otherwise would be worse than one that admits
it.

Files can be dragged in all four directions that are honestly available. Remote
to Explorer does not ship and is not pretended to: the shell wants the bytes
during the drop, which needs a virtual file and a native COM data object,
outside what Avalonia offers. Note for the next person that Avalonia 12
replaced the drag model outright — DataObject and DataFormats are no-op stubs
and IDataObject is not in the reference assembly, so every tutorial written for
11 does not compile here.

Hosts can be grouped, flat and never nested. A parent id merged as a scalar
lets two offline clients each re-parent A under B and B under A, producing a
cycle inside an encrypted payload that no server can police and every reader
would have to detect for ever. Membership lives in that payload rather than in
the one plaintext concession ADR 0001 allows, whose test is that the relay
cannot function without it — nothing on the server reads a group, so what
plaintext would hand over is a clustering of the estate for nothing. The
plaintext column reserved for it is dropped, provably always null, and the
server now refuses a client that sends one; it was never populated, was copied
on apply, and was not cleared on delete, so a group id would have outlived the
host it described.

Snippets insert through xterm rather than through the pump, because xterm is
the only thing that knows whether the remote has bracketed paste on, and that
is what makes a shell treat embedded newlines as text instead of as execute.
The host process moves opaque bytes and never parses output, so it would have
to guess, and guessing wrong runs every line. Running is off by default and the
copy says the text goes into whatever is there — the terminal has no notion of
being at a prompt, and may be in vi or at a password prompt with echo off, so
the Enter the user presses themselves is the entire safety property.

Connections and keychain changes are recorded as synced encrypted items, which
is what makes them auditable by a team later and costs the server knowledge of
connection rate and timing from row counts alone. ADR 0001 already concedes it
cannot hide that class of metadata; the trade is now written into it rather
than left implicit. A connection entry is written once, at close, which is what
makes a synced log tractable: nothing to merge, one outbox row, no chance of
colliding with itself. Live sessions come from memory, not from the log. The
write is void by contract and posts to a bounded channel, because putting an
encrypt-and-write on the teardown path of every session is how closing the
application comes to take four seconds. A ticket opened before a lock still
closes afterwards, since a shell outlives the vault. The activity log hooks the
one generic repository every kind writes through, so it cannot miss a caller —
which is also why the log kinds themselves declare they are not audited, or the
first entry would write an entry about writing an entry. It records the names
of the fields that changed and never their values; a log with an old password
in it would be a plaintext credential store with no vault around it. Retention
is 90 days or 5,000 entries, whichever bites first, pruned on the sync loop
rather than on a second timer.

That log traffic then broke the status line, which is worth recording because
the fix is a shape and not a patch: background sync counted its own log rows as
pushed items, so the quiet rule stopped being quiet and every action's message
was overwritten a second later by a sync report. The report now separates log
rows from user items and the rule reads the latter.

S3 buckets appear as a remote in the file browser, behind the same interface an
SFTP session implements, so the queue and both panes did not have to learn what
they are talking to. Uploads go through a pipe, because the queue wants to
write and the SDK wants to read; memory is then bounded by the part size
instead of buffering a file to disk twice.

Finally, the Windows device key store moved out of the session project, which
was the one thing keeping it from being portable — everything else in it is
platform-neutral, and a Windows CNG dependency in the middle of the vault code
meant a second head could not reference it without dragging Windows along. The
seam that made the move free was already there. docs/android-port.md is the
audit behind that: what ports, what does not, in order of cost, the four
decisions taken, and an inventory of every screen and state the interface has
to carry, written so a design can be made from it directly.

dotnet build, dotnet test and dotnet format --verify-no-changes are all clean:
1240 tests at zero warnings, including the end-to-end suite against real
containers. The manual checks that headless Avalonia cannot make — the drag
from Explorer, a generated key against a real host, twelve tabs at the minimum
window width — are listed in docs/manual-checks.md and are still outstanding.
2026-07-31 20:30:05 +02:00
jaap-jan 91438fb382 Ask before deleting, and connect a host by double-clicking it
DELETE on a host, an SSH key, a stored password or a file on the host now puts
a question where the button was, and only answering it deletes anything. It is
a state rather than a dialog, which is the arrangement signing out already had
and for the same reason: this is the moment that has to be able to say what is
about to go before it goes.

What the question says is counted rather than generic, because a confirmation
that only asks whether you are sure is a click to train people out of. A key
names the hosts that authenticate with it and says they will refuse to connect
afterwards rather than falling back to a typed password, which is what the
connect path actually does. A host discloses a terminal open on it, because
deleting the host does not close the session. Every vault deletion says how far
it travels and whether this machine can push the tombstone yet or is queuing
it. Deleting on the host carries the strongest warning of the four on purpose:
everything else here is a tombstone against a copy the server still holds, and
a file on somebody's machine is bytes with nothing behind them — so that one
names the full path, since a bare name identifies nothing.

The armed request carries the item's entity id, so nothing that moves the
selection between the question and the answer can redirect it, and answering
about something that has since gone says so instead of doing nothing quietly.
Disarming compares ids rather than rows, which is the subtle half: a reload
replaces every row object, so the naive rule would have let the pass that runs
every minute take the card away from somebody halfway through reading it.

Forgetting a pinned host key is deliberately still unguarded. It costs one
fingerprint check on the next connection and it is the safe direction to be
wrong in — the dangerous button there is the one that adds trust, and that one
is already a prompt at connect time. Discarding a stopped transfer is likewise
unguarded: it removes a resumable part file and leaves the source alone.

Double-clicking a host in the sidebar connects to it, wired as a gesture in the
control exactly as the transfers screen opens a directory. CONNECT stays, since
it is the button with the password box beside it.

Ten existing delete call sites now go through arm-and-confirm helpers, and
eight new flow tests cover asking first, cancelling, the counted warning,
disarming on a selection change and on an editor opening, surviving a sync, and
the stale-item guard. Three layout tests measure the new shapes — the sidebar
card is the one card in the application a user cannot scroll — and one of them
also asserts the card renders its text, because a card whose compiled bindings
did not resolve would lay out perfectly as empty rows. The double-click test
performs the real gesture and proves it reached the connect command through a
refusal that never touches a network.

dotnet build, dotnet test and dotnet format --verify-no-changes are all clean:
853 tests, including the end-to-end suite against real containers.
2026-07-31 11:52:13 +02:00
jaap-jan 240aadb746 Merge branch 'main' into claude/vault-unlock-logout-autosync-a84c35
ci / build and test (push) Failing after 3s
Four files needed a hand, and all four were two branches adding something in
the same place rather than either changing what the other did.

The shell's constructor now takes both new parameters: main's SFTP session
factory, which it must have because it builds the transfers view model, and
this branch's optional resume handler, which stays last so every existing test
that constructs a shell without one still gets a shell that can only be online
because somebody signed in during this run. App.axaml.cs, ShellFlowTests and
QuickConnectTests pass the pair; the layout suite keeps both of its new fields.

Signing out now detaches the transfers screen exactly as locking does, and the
confirmation says that an open transfer session survives it. That is the same
policy both sides already argue for their own case: signing out destroys this
machine's copy of the vault, not work that authenticated before it.

QuickConnectTests did not compile on main — the SFTP commit added a constructor
parameter and the quick-connect suite, merged from a parallel branch just
before it, was still calling the old one. Fixed here rather than worked around,
since the merged tree has to build.

dotnet build, dotnet test and dotnet format --verify-no-changes are all clean:
980 tests, including the end-to-end suite against real containers.
2026-07-31 11:16:49 +02:00
jaap-jan d1700f5a34 Merge branch 'claude/m2-file-transfer-1b9951'
ci / build and test (push) Failing after 3s
2026-07-31 11:08:05 +02:00
jaap-jan 0b261c4d39 Stay signed in, come back online by itself, and let a machine be given up
Three things a machine that has been set up could not do. Unlock now takes
Enter, which is the gesture everybody makes after typing a password and which
did nothing until they found the button.

Signing in survives a relaunch. The refresh token is kept in the local cache,
sealed under the vault's own cache key, so a later launch resumes the session
through the refresh grant with no browser and nobody present — and because it
is sealed under that key, only an unlocked vault can resume it. A locked
client therefore cannot reach the server at all, which is a consequence worth
stating rather than working around; docs/crypto.md §3.2 records it. Every sync
pass asks the shell for a connection rather than reading one captured at
unlock, so a laptop that unlocked on a train is online within a minute of
finding a network, with nothing pressed. Unlocking itself still never waits on
a socket.

Signing out empties this machine: the profile, the cached items, the outbox
and this machine's device key, with the account's row withdrawn when the
server can be reached. It asks first and says what it costs — the outbox count
when the vault is open, an admission that it cannot be counted when it is not,
and the shells that keep running either way. The vault is on the server and is
untouched, which is what makes the same button the only honest answer to a
forgotten passphrase, so it is on the unlock screen as well as in preferences.
It cannot end the session at the identity provider, and says so.

Two defects surfaced on the way. The synchronisation pass that runs when the
vault opens never ran at all: the loop is started from inside the unlock
command, so the busy flag it yields to was raised by that command — the first
sync was a minute late on every launch. And signing in from preferences while
unlocked threw an unlock screen over an open vault whose keys were still in
memory.

The unlock card and the new confirmation live in their own controls because
MainWindow cannot be laid out headless, so markup left inside it is markup no
test can measure; both are now measured at the window's minimum size in the
shapes that grow. What is still unverified is the composed window itself.
2026-07-31 11:07:36 +02:00
jaap-jan 04faef6597 Move files to and from a host over SFTP
M2's file transfer, built bottom-up: an SFTP session on the SSH layer, a
transfer queue in a project of its own, and the two-pane browser the design
asked for replacing the screen that said it did not exist. Remote listings
carry names, sizes, modification times and a real drwxr-xr-x — nothing in this
repository could render a POSIX mode before — and the queue moves one file at a
time with progress, throughput and resume.

The design import assumed this would be an SFTP subsystem channel on
ISshConnection, beside the shell on a transport that is already up. SSH.NET
does not offer that: SftpClient derives from BaseClient and owns its own
transport, and there is no supported way to hand it an SshClient's session. So
file transfer opens a second authenticated connection, and it is named for
that rather than dressed up as a channel — OpenSftpAsync is on
ISftpSessionFactory, not on a connection. The difference is visible to a user:
the host records a second login, and a host whose password is typed each time
asks for it again on this screen. It goes through the same host key gate, the
same pin and the same two refusals a shell does, so a fingerprint approved for
a terminal is approved here and one approved here reaches the other machines
with the next sync. docs/design-import-gaps.md is corrected, and marked as the
one row where what shipped differs from what it predicted.

Nothing is written at its final name until it is complete. Every transfer goes
to a .dodossh-part file beside its destination and is renamed into place at the
end, so an interrupted transfer can never be mistaken for a finished one —
which matters most for what this screen is actually for, which is copying a
build artefact onto a server and then running it. A destination that already
exists is refused outright rather than overwritten: the queue has no way to
ask, and silently replacing a file somebody's process is serving is the worse
of the two failures. The remote pane has DELETE and MKDIR so that refusal is
not a dead end. A test against the container pins the assumption underneath all
of this — that SFTP's rename does not clobber.

Resume works within a run of the application and not across a restart, and the
limit is deliberate rather than unfinished. Nothing records which source wrote
a part file, and resuming one on the strength of its name matching is how a
corrupt artefact gets delivered with nothing reporting a failure; a part file
found at startup is started over. Making it survive a restart needs the
preferences store this client still has not got. The offset a resume starts at
is the part file's own length rather than the transfer's recorded progress: a
cancellation can land between a write completing and the counter moving, and
only one of those two is a fact about the bytes that are there.

The queue and its connection outlive a lock, as shells do. LockAsync already
argues that locking must not destroy work in flight — it is what somebody does
when they walk away from the machine, which is exactly when a long transfer is
most likely to be running — so TransfersViewModel is created once and the vault
is attached on unlock and detached on lock. What locking takes is the host
list, and it has to: those rows carry decrypted secrets.

DodoSSH.Client.Transfer is a new project rather than more of Client.Ssh. The
two answer different questions — one is about reaching a host, the other about
moving bytes and what to do when moving them stops halfway — and this is the
only client project that deliberately touches the local filesystem.

Three defects the tests found, none of which review would have. SftpPath.Name
answered an empty string for the root. NavigateRemoteAsync wrapped itself in
the busy guard, so navigating from inside another command did nothing at all
and the remote pane simply stayed empty after connecting, with no failure
anywhere to explain it. And opening an SFTP session per test made two
handshakes per test — this client learns a host key by being refused — which
pushed the SSH assembly past sshd's MaxStartups and failed a different few
unrelated tests each run; the session is shared through the fixture now, with
the reason written where the next person will hit it.

1004 tests green across 18 projects, 24 of them new: the SFTP subsystem against
the OpenSSH container, the queue against a real temporary directory and a fake
host, and three more layout measurements because a screen this window has never
laid out is a screen never checked.

Not verified: the screen has not been looked at running. The layout harness
measures it at the window's minimum in three shapes, which is the class of
defect that has shipped here before, but reaching it in the application needs
the compose stack, the migrations, the API and a browser sign-in. What is still
absent — the status bar's transfer count, dragging between the panes,
transferring a directory, and sftp over a bastion — is in
docs/design-import-gaps.md.
2026-07-31 11:07:29 +02:00
jaap-jan 312d766c30 Let the quick-connect palette answer for itself
Clicking outside the palette did nothing, because nothing was listening: the
wash took no pointer input at all, so the only ways out were a key and the
button that opened it. It now closes on a press whose source is the wash
itself, which is what separates outside from inside — a press on the card
bubbles through the same handler on its way to the window, and closing on
those would make the palette impossible to click into.

The caret never reached the query box either. The window focused it from the
view model's PropertyChanged, and that handler runs before the binding which
reveals the control — measured, with the same wiring, in a replica window. So
it focused a control that was still collapsed, which Avalonia treats as a
no-op and does not replay when the control is revealed, and the keyboard
stayed wherever the click that opened the palette had left it. Becoming
visible is now what triggers it, posted rather than called: a control that has
never been laid out has no visual children, and at the instant IsVisible turns
true the box still reports IsAttachedToVisualTree() == false.

Escape, Enter and the arrows move to the palette as a tunnelled handler.
Answering them only on the window was fragile in the way that matters here:
anything on the route that took a key first would silence them, and with the
focus never landing in the palette the key was being pressed at whatever the
opening click had focused — a focused Button eats Enter. The window keeps
Ctrl+K, which has to work when the palette is not showing, and forwards the
rest as the net for a press that arrives from outside the palette.

Which is also why this moved out of MainWindow rather than being fixed there.
Showing MainWindow initialises WebView2 on a thread it refuses, so nothing on
that window can be tested — the palette shipped with no test of any kind. As a
UserControl it hosts in a bare window and takes real key and pointer input,
and there are now six: press on the wash closes, press on the card does not,
Escape closes, the arrows move the selection without taking the caret out of
the box, Enter takes the highlighted host, and the palette takes the keyboard
when it appears.
2026-07-31 10:43:30 +02:00
jaap-jan 94e11f5e38 update packages
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2026-07-31 10:12:05 +02:00
jaap-jan 9a76eced14 Give hosts and terminals their own screen, and the rest of the vault another
ci / build and test (ubuntu) (pull_request) Canceled after 0s
ci / build (windows) (pull_request) Canceled after 0s
Rebuilds the client's shell from an imported design: a titlebar and nav rail
it draws itself, real multi-session tabs over the one WebView, a Ctrl+K host
search, and a vault screen that merges keys, passwords and pinned host keys
into one table. Hosts left the vault column for their own screen beside the
terminal, which is what the design asks for and turned out to be the better
split anyway.

Two screens the design shows have nothing behind them yet — file transfer
and teams — and say so plainly rather than rendering invented data; every
other gap between the design and this build is recorded in
docs/design-import-gaps.md.
2026-07-31 08:39:37 +02:00
jaap-jan d162271a45 Show the host keys this vault has approved
ci / build and test (ubuntu) (push) Canceled after 0s
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Trust was created by the connect prompt and withdrawn from one host's editor, so
a pin for a host that had since been deleted or re-addressed was unreachable
from the interface entirely. It went on refusing connections and nothing in the
application would admit it was there. Two of the four recorded debts were really
this one: leftover pins, and no list to see them in.

A fourth section in the vault column, and the first that adding one has been
cheap for — three edits and two layout tests, which is what #8 and #9 were for.

No editor and no Add, which makes it the only section with neither. A pin is not
something anybody writes: it appears when somebody approves a fingerprint at the
moment of connecting, which is the one place a person can actually check it
against what the operator published. A form for typing one in would be a form
for pasting whatever a man in the middle just offered. So the section exists to
show and to withdraw, which is exactly what was missing.

The fingerprint is shown in full, wrapped, in a monospace line. The only thing
anybody does with one is compare it against a fingerprint an operator published,
and half of one cannot be compared — it can only be glanced at, which is the
habit pinning exists to replace. Nothing here is secret; a host key fingerprint
is published on purpose.

A pin no host in this vault dials is badged rather than hidden or deleted. That
is the leftover the debt was about, and keeping it is still right: the address
may be reached by something without a bookmark, and trust is about the endpoint
rather than the bookmark. The badge is a hint and not a verdict, which is why
nothing acts on it. Matched case-insensitively, because a host name is, and
because a list that called DB.internal unused next to a host saved as
db.internal would be inviting somebody to delete trust they rely on.

Forgetting goes through the same ForgetAsync as the host editor's button, which
withdraws every pin for the address rather than the selected row. Deliberate:
somebody who has stopped trusting a machine has not decided to keep trusting one
of its keys, and a second pin under another algorithm would go on being offered
at the next handshake — which reads as a withdrawal that did not work. The
status line says how many went, and the change is pushed immediately, because
the other machines are the ones still refusing to connect to a rebuilt server.

The list is read through the repository rather than through VaultKnownHostStore,
whose snapshot is shaped for the SSH handshake: one pin per endpoint,
deduplicated, no entity ids. This list has to show duplicates, because a
duplicate is one of the things worth seeing.

Two mutations, both caught: calling every pin dialled (3 tests), and defaulting
the selection to the first row (1) — the same hazard as the credential list,
since Forget acts on the selection.

The selector now holds four buttons in 340 pixels, and TheSelectorIsBigEnoughToClick
measures how much of that they use rather than leaving a fifth section to
discover it as "a button falls outside the window".

936 tests green across 16 projects, 6 of them new. Zero warnings, format clean.

Not verified: how the section looks. It joins the list in outstanding item #7.
2026-07-30 17:44:33 +02:00
jaap-jan da7462e41f Show one kind of vault item at a time, and let the vault hold passwords
Outstanding items #8 and #9, in one commit rather than two. They are separable
as work and were built in that order, but not as a diff: the section enum has
three members, the one-editor guard has three arms, and the picker offers keys
and credentials from the same list. Reconstructing an #8-only state would mean
hand-writing an intermediate version of VaultViewModel that never existed and
that no test has ever run. One honest commit beats two invented ones.

--- #8, the type selector ---

The column showed two lists and two editors stacked in 340 pixels, and only
just: the key list needed a MaxHeight and had to hide itself whenever its editor
opened, both to stop the host list above it pushing the buttons off the bottom
edge. Credentials would not have fitted at all. It now shows one kind at a time,
chosen by a selector at the top, and both workarounds are gone because a section
owns the whole column.

Three departures from the plan, each with a reason found while building it.

The selector is plain Buttons and a parameterised command, not a TabControl, a
TabStrip or a ListBox. All three of those hold the selection themselves, so a
click moves the highlight before the view model can refuse it — and this column
does refuse, while an editor is open. A selector lit on a section the column is
not showing is worse than the refusal it would be hiding. Buttons carry no state
and cannot disagree with the vault.

The one-editor-at-a-time rule survives with its justification replaced. That
rule was a workaround for the sizing problem above, and sections dissolved it:
the editors are in different sections and only one section is ever laid out.
BothEditorsAtOnce_DoNotFit_WhichIsWhyTheRuleExists is now
BothEditorsOpen_NowFit_BecauseOnlyOneSectionIsLaidOut — the same test, inverted,
because its own comment said that if it ever started passing the rule had become
unnecessary. It has. The rule stays for a better reason: an open key editor
holds a pasted private key in a bound string, and letting the column move on
would leave key material in a form nobody can see, with nothing on screen to say
it is there. A sizing hack became a rule about not hiding a secret from the
person holding it. KeyEditorIsInTheWay and HostEditorIsInTheWay are one
AnEditorIsInTheWay, called by the section switch and by every editor-opening
command.

And releasing the keyboard from the terminal has never worked. MainWindow takes
Win32 focus off the WebView's child window and then calls Focus() on
VaultColumn.KeyboardTarget — and a ListBox is not focusable by default in
Avalonia, which leaves focus to its items. So the call returned false, the
window ended up with nothing focused, and the keystrokes went nowhere: exactly
the state that method's own comment says its second half exists to prevent.
Found by writing the test to assert focus was taken rather than that the right
control was named — the cheap assertion was already passing. Fixed with
Focusable="True" on every list.

--- #9, credentials ---

Credentials have synced since they were added and could not be created. They can
now, and the sync layer needed no change at all: fourth item type, same result,
which is the item-kind seam working as intended.

One picker for all three ways a host authenticates, which is what makes the
illegal combination unrepresentable rather than merely invalid. SshKeyChoice
became AuthenticationChoice carrying an AuthenticationKind, and BuildHost reads
both SshKeyId and CredentialId off that single selection, so a host naming a key
and a credential — which HostSecret.TryValidate refuses — cannot be expressed.
Two pickers would have expressed it and then rejected it at save time. The kind
travels with the id in three places and none is padding: Missing takes it, the
placeholder lookup matches on kind as well as id, and Bound(kind) returns null
unless the selection is that kind. Drop any one and a dangling credential comes
back as a dangling key, which saves as a key binding to an id no key has.

A credential's username had to reach the SSH request, not just its password.
TryBuildCredential returned only the secret and the connect path read the
username off the host, so a stored credential would have gone out under the
wrong account — wrong in a way a server only reports as "authentication failed".
It is now TryBuildAuthentication returning a (Username, Credential) pair.

The no-username refusal moved, and had to. It ran before anything looked at the
binding, which made a credential's username unreachable in the one case it is
most useful: a host somebody never filled a username in for. It is now the last
thing every branch agrees on, so such a host is perfectly usable through a
credential that carries one, and a host with neither still refuses and now says
where to put one.

--- What the measurements cost ---

Ten mutations, all caught. Two are worth naming.

Removing a section's IsVisible is caught by OnlyOneSectionIsOnScreenAtOnce and
by nothing else: two visible sections overlap in the row they share rather than
clip, so every fit test still passes while the column shows one list through
another.

Defaulting the credential selection to the first row is caught by
ReloadingKeepsACredentialSelectionButNeverInventsOne, and the property is a
safety one rather than tidiness — Delete acts on the selection, so a list that
picked a row on every background sync would aim a one-click password deletion at
something nobody chose. The key list has the same property, and its comment
cited a method that has not existed for some time; both now name the delete
command they actually protect.

One test of mine could not fail, and the mutation pass is what found it.
AHostBoundToACredential_SendsItsPasswordAndItsUsername gave the credential and
the host the same username, so it passed whichever one the code read. An
override is only tested when the two values differ.

Two shipped statements went false and were corrected rather than left: the class
remark saying passwords were "not yet" in the vault, and the terminal column's
"Keys are in the vault; passwords are not yet."

That column's hint is now a tooltip on the password box rather than a sentence
in the row, which was measured the hard way — by looking. At the window's 820px
minimum the column gets 480, and a 220px box plus Connect plus any sentence does
not fit; the row has shipped clipped for as long as it has had a hint in it.
That strip is the one part of the window nothing can measure, because MainWindow
cannot be laid out headlessly at all. Extracting it into its own control, as the
vault column was extracted for exactly this reason, is what would fix that, and
is not done here.

911 tests green, 30 of them new. Zero warnings, dotnet format clean.

Seen by a person, which is how the two defects above were found. Still open from
that pass: unlocking with the device key raises its consent dialog and then
never returns, while registering one works — the difference is which thread the
CNG call lands on, and diagnosing it properly is its own change.
2026-07-30 17:08:59 +02:00
jaap-jan c5dec2d68e Measure the vault column instead of arguing about it
Nothing in this repository loaded a .axaml, so the one class of defect this
window has actually shipped — a control arranged past the edge of its container,
where it cannot be clicked — was the one class nothing could catch. The setup
screens rendered sliced once, with their buttons unreachable. The vault column is
the next candidate: 340 pixels wide, two lists and two editors, and the only
thing keeping it from clipping its own Save button at the window's 520-pixel
minimum is a state rule that one editor may be open at a time.

That rule was added on the strength of an argument. This adds an
Avalonia.Headless project that lays real XAML out at a real size and reports
what a user could not reach, and the argument is now a number: with both editors
open the column overflows, so the rule is load-bearing rather than defensive.
BothEditorsAtOnce_DoNotFit_WhichIsWhyTheRuleExists is the test, and it says what
to do if it ever starts passing — the column has room, so delete the rule, not
the test.

Two findings arrived by measuring rather than by reasoning, and the first one
changed the design.

MainWindow cannot be shown headlessly at all. Showing it attaches the terminal's
NativeWebView, whose Win32 adapter initialises WebView2 on attach, and WebView2
refuses a non-STA thread — which is exactly why Program.Main carries [STAThread]
and is written down in that comment. A HeadlessUnitTestSession owns its
dispatcher thread and offers no apartment choice, so the whole window is out of
reach at any size. That is pinned as a test asserting RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE by
HResult rather than by message, so a future Avalonia that makes the adapter lazy
will fail it and the harness can be widened.

So the column had to become its own control to be measurable, which is the
extraction the type-selector rework wanted anyway. Keyboard release moved with
it: MainWindow used to call Focus() on HostList by name, and now asks
VaultColumn.KeyboardTarget. The window decides that the keyboard should leave the
terminal and the column decides where it lands — which is the seam the rework
needs, because once the column shows one list at a time, "which list owns the
keyboard" is a question only the column can answer.

The second finding is the way this kind of test lies quietly. The hint class
lived in MainWindow.Styles and carries TextWrapping. A Window's styles reach its
whole tree, so nothing about the application depended on where it lived — but a
control laid out on its own loses them, and every hint paragraph would have
measured as a single line. The harness would have passed while measuring heights
that were all too small. The three shared classes now live in App.axaml, which
changes no rendering and makes the measurement honest.

The detector is calibrated in both directions, because a clipping detector that
never fires reads as a guarantee: a deliberately clipped Save button is caught by
name, and a list longer than its viewport is exempt. Scrolling is how a list is
supposed to handle more rows than fit, and without that exemption the host list
would fail the moment it had content. It also mis-fired once and the rule is
narrower for it — an empty ListBox is zero pixels tall and correct, so "arranged
with no size" now applies only to controls the theme gives a height to.

Skia rather than the headless drawing stub, deliberately. The stub's font manager
invents glyph metrics, and text height is an input to every stacked panel in this
column, so measuring against it would produce numbers that are self-consistent
and unrelated to the application.

A separate test project rather than more tests in DodoSSH.Client.App.Tests.
Avalonia's application, dispatcher and platform are process-global singletons
initialised once, and that project's identity is the shell's state machine
without Avalonia — the whole reason sign-in is a delegate. The fakes needed to
reach a real unlocked vault are shared from DodoSSH.Client.Session.Tests by
source link: a project reference would make one test project a library of
another, and a copy would be a third implementation of the same decision table
drifting from the other two.

855 tests green, 10 of them new. Zero warnings, dotnet format clean.

Not done, and this is groundwork rather than the item itself: the type selector.
The column still holds both lists at once, so a third item type would still
recreate the defect the one-editor rule works around. What is different is that
the rework can now be checked instead of eyeballed — including the claim it is
being made for, that one editor at a time stops being a runtime rule and becomes
a fact about what is in the visual tree.

What this harness will never catch is the terminal's native child window
compositing over Avalonia content. That is a Win32 property of a real window, no
headless surface reproduces it, and it is the reason the WebView is collapsed
rather than covered.
2026-07-30 11:34:09 +02:00