feat(web): float device streams over chat

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Problem

The floating preview only mirrors browser tabs. When an agent is testing on a simulator or emulator you have to keep the right panel open on the device tab to watch it, and the agent-opened device always lands as a right-panel tab rather than floating like an agent-driven browser does.

Fix

The mini player store now holds a source — a browser tab or a device stream — instead of a bare tabId. One floater per thread as before; position and width carry over when the source changes. ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer is split into a shared shell (frame, drag/resize, hover pill with Open in right panel + Close) and two sources: the existing browser body, and a new device body that mounts DeviceStreamView directly. The device floater is phone-shaped from the stream's reported screen size, flips to landscape when the device rotates, and accepts touch/keyboard input like the panel does.

Entry points:

• An agent opening a device floats it over chat. With Auto-show floating preview off it opens a right-panel tab as before (the sheet-layout guard still applies to that path). The setting's description and search terms now mention devices.
• The device panel toolbar gets Float device over chat, matching the browser's button.
• Closing the right panel while a device tab is active floats it, mirroring the browser promotion.
• Open in right panel on a floating device opens/activates its panel tab.
• The floater hides only while the same device is the rendered panel surface, and closes itself when its server session goes away.

Android emulators composite the skin's rounded corners into the framebuffer as black wedges (~13% of the short side on a Pixel 9), so the Android floater clips at a matching radius. iOS simulators stream an edge-to-edge rectangle and keep the frame radius — measured on iPhone 17 Pro and iPad Pro 11".

Web and desktop share this; mobile has no floating player and is unchanged. No contract changes. docs/user/devices.md notes the float control and the agent-open behaviour.

Before / after

Before: device only in the right panel	After: floated over chat

Float from the panel toolbar, then drag:

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/421424a706d718b1/device-float-demo.mp4

Android corner clip (the emulator's black corner wedges are outside the curve):

Verified in the dev web app against a Pixel 9 emulator on a remote host and iPhone 17 Pro / iPad Pro 11" simulators locally: float, drag, open-in-panel, same-device hides the floater, corner clip per platform. Unit tests, typecheck, and lint pass on the touched files.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added floating mini-player support for device previews alongside browser previews.
  • Added picture-in-picture controls for opening active devices in the floating preview.
  • Floating device previews support dragging, resizing, closing, and returning to the right panel.
  • Agent-opened devices now float over chat by default, with a setting to disable this behavior.
  • Improved device preview sizing and rounded-frame rendering across platforms.
  • Expanded settings search with project, environment, integration, and device-preview options.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented duplicate floating previews when the matching browser or device view is already open.
  • Ensured unavailable device previews appear when their details become available.
  • Floating previews now close when their associated sessions disappear.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a substantial live device-stream mini-player workflow, including interaction, resizing, session lifecycle handling, and new agent-session presentation behavior. It also broadens the existing default-on floating-preview setting to devices, changing the default experience for agent-opened device sessions.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	13.6 KiB	13.6 KiB	+16 B (+0.1%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	7.0 KiB	7.1 KiB	+6 B (+0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.6 KiB	6.6 KiB	+10 B (+0.1%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	57.1 KiB	57.1 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	10	10	0 (0.0%)	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	13.6 KiB	13.5 KiB	−25 B (−0.2%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	7.1 KiB	7.0 KiB	−2 B (−0.0%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.5 KiB	6.5 KiB	−23 B (−0.3%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	57.8 KiB	57.8 KiB	−44 B (−0.1%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	9	8	−1 (−11.1%)	21	✅

Baseline: e22040d · PR result: f614fdb · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 113.9 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.6 KiB

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The mini-player now supports typed browser and device sources. Shared shell behavior covers rendering, dragging, resizing, closing, and panel navigation. Chat and device flows open, reconcile, and dismiss floating previews based on session state and settings.

Changes

Preview mini-player

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Typed sources and store behavior apps/web/src/previewMiniPlayerStore.ts, apps/web/src/previewMiniPlayerStore.test.ts	The store tracks browser and device sources with source-key validation. Tests cover source replacement, state preservation, browser selection, and stale updates.
Shared browser and device rendering apps/web/src/components/preview/ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/previewMiniPlayerLayout.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/previewMiniPlayerLayout.test.ts	The mini-player renders browser previews and device streams through shared shell controls. Device dimensions use screen data or platform-specific fallback ratios.
Application and panel integration apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.logic.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/device/DevicePanel.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.test.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewAutomationHosts.tsx	Chat and device panels open typed floating sources, reconcile device sessions, and close previews when sessions disappear. Preview and automation flows use browser source factories.
Settings and device preview documentation apps/web/src/components/settings/*, docs/user/devices.md	Settings use project and environment scopes. Search entries and device documentation describe floating device previews.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, bil0000

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatView
  participant previewMiniPlayerStore
  participant ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer
  participant DeviceStreamView
  ChatView->>previewMiniPlayerStore: open device preview source
  previewMiniPlayerStore->>ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer: provide device mini-player state
  ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer->>DeviceStreamView: render device stream
  ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer->>previewMiniPlayerStore: update position or size

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: floating device streams over chat. It is concise and specific.
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In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`:
- Around line 4223-4226: Update the session-processing effect around the device
lookup so sessions without a matching device are not marked as handled; retain
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3954-3956: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the active project environment for script persistence. A draft can update its projectRef to another environment, but persistProjectScripts still reads settings and checks capabilities with the routed environmentId. It also sends serverEnvironment.updateSettings and, in Electron, serverEnvironment.upsertKeybinding to that routed environment while identifying the project by activeProject.id. This can reject the write or persist settings in the wrong environment. Use activeProject.environmentId for the settings source, capability lookup, and both commands.

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