fix(app): stabilize session timeline layout continuity (anomalyco#34533)

github-actions · Jul 6, 2026 · Mar 16, 2026 · Mar 16, 2026 · Mar 16, 2026 · Mar 16, 2026
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diff --git a/packages/app/e2e/performance/timeline-stability/README.md b/packages/app/e2e/performance/timeline-stability/README.md
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+# Timeline Layout Continuity
+
+Run from `packages/app`:
+
+```sh
+bun run test:stability
+```
+
+The suite runs a production build in one Chromium worker. Selected scenarios use deterministic 4x CPU stress after application readiness. This is a stress profile, not emulation of a specific device.
+
+## What It Proves
+
+The continuity probe samples DOM-derived layout and visibility state across browser render opportunities. Tests declare explicit contracts such as:
+
+- Preserve a visible semantic anchor while the user is away from the bottom.
+- Preserve end anchoring while active content grows or new content appears.
+- Keep adjacent visible rows ordered without material overlap.
+- Keep user-selected disclosure state through updates and virtualization.
+- Avoid a sampled blank interval while one visible surface replaces another.
+- Preserve logical row and control identity where local state or focus depends on it.
+- Keep keyboard, wheel, and nested-scroll ownership consistent during remeasurement.
+
+The suite exercises real browser reducer, projection, component, virtualizer, layout, focus, and interaction code. The backend and event producer are controlled fixtures.
+
+## What It Does Not Prove
+
+The pass/fail oracle does not inspect every compositor-presented pixel. A sample taken after `requestAnimationFrame` is a DOM/layout observation, not proof that every sampled state was displayed or that every displayed frame was sampled.
+
+The suite does not provide complete coverage for:
+
+- Compositor-only or raster-only glitches.
+- Color, contrast, canvas, WebGL, masks, irregular clips, or arbitrary occlusion.
+- Physical display refresh rates, native OS scaling, or a named low-end device.
+- TCP packetization, proxy buffering, or the complete real server/provider pipeline.
+
+Playwright video, trace, screenshots, and observation JSON are diagnostic evidence. They are not pixel baselines and do not participate in normal pass/fail decisions.
+
+For optional before/violation/after screenshots, set `OPENCODE_STABILITY_CAPTURE=1`. Capture is opt-in because compositor readback can perturb timing.
+
+## Test Layers
+
+- **Projection:** admitted rows, grouping, labels, and final visible states.
+- **Local state:** disclosure state, identity, duplicate delivery, and virtualization restoration.
+- **Interaction:** wheel, keyboard, nested scrolling, actionability, and focus behavior.
+- **Layout continuity:** anchoring, adjacency, responsive reflow, and visible surface handoffs.
+- **Reducer hardening:** validly shaped but intentionally reordered, duplicated, removed, or replaced events.
+- **Oracle contract:** pure analyzer and browser sampler calibration tests.
+
+Production-lifecycle fixtures should model states emitted by the current producer. Impossible or reordered sequences belong in reducer-hardening tests and must not be described as normal provider behavior.
+
+## Diagnostics
+
+Failures retain:
+
+- `video.webm`
+- `trace.zip`
+- failure screenshot
+- sampled DOM/layout trace JSON
+- event markers and summarized violations
+
+The analyzer records both unclipped layout bounds and ancestor-clipped visible intersections. Scrollbar and raw `scrollTop` changes alone do not fail continuity checks; user-visible semantic anchor movement does.
diff --git a/packages/app/e2e/performance/timeline-stability/adverse.spec.ts b/packages/app/e2e/performance/timeline-stability/adverse.spec.ts
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+import { expect, test } from "@playwright/test"
+import {
+  defineVisualRegions,
+  reportVisualStability,
+  startVisualProbe,
+  stopVisualProbe,
+  visualPlan,
+} from "../../utils/visual-stability"
+import {
+  assistantMessage,
+  partUpdated,
+  setupTimeline,
+  shell,
+  textPart,
+  toolPart,
+  userMessage,
+  waitForVisualSettle,
+  type TimelineMessage,
+} from "./fixture"
+
+test.describe("timeline adverse visual stability", () => {
+  test("does not pull a scrolled-away user while an active shell grows", async ({ page }, testInfo) => {
+    const activeShellID = "prt_adverse_01_shell"
+    const messages = [
+      ...history(24),
+      userMessage(),
+      assistantMessage([shell(activeShellID, "running")], { completed: false }),
+    ]
+    const timeline = await setupTimeline(page, {
+      messages,
+      settings: { shellToolPartsExpanded: true },
+      cpuRate: 4,
+      eventRetry: 30,
+    })
+    const scroller = page.locator(".scroll-view__viewport", {
+      has: page.locator('[data-timeline-row="AssistantPart"]'),
+    })
+    await scroller.evaluate((element) => {
+      element.dispatchEvent(new WheelEvent("wheel", { bubbles: true, cancelable: true, deltaY: -450 }))
+      element.scrollTop = Math.max(0, element.scrollHeight - element.clientHeight - 450)
+    })
+    await page.waitForTimeout(150)
+    await expect
+      .poll(() => scroller.evaluate((element) => element.scrollHeight - element.clientHeight - element.scrollTop))
+      .toBeGreaterThan(100)
+    const anchor = await scroller.evaluate((element) => {
+      const view = element.getBoundingClientRect()
+      return [...element.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>("[data-timeline-key]")].find((row) => {
+        const rect = row.getBoundingClientRect()
+        return rect.top >= view.top + 40 && rect.bottom <= view.bottom - 40
+      })?.dataset.timelineKey
+    })
+    expect(anchor).toBeTruthy()
+    await waitForVisualSettle(page, [`[data-timeline-key="${anchor}"]`])
+
+    const regions = defineVisualRegions({
+      anchor: { selector: `[data-timeline-key="${anchor}"]` },
+    })
+    await startVisualProbe(page, regions)
+    await timeline.send(partUpdated(shell(activeShellID, "running", lines(1))), 180)
+    await timeline.send(partUpdated(shell(activeShellID, "running", lines(10))), 90)
+    await timeline.send(partUpdated(shell(activeShellID, "running", lines(50))), 350)
+    await timeline.send(partUpdated(shell(activeShellID, "completed", lines(50))), 500)
+    const trace = await stopVisualProbe<keyof typeof regions>(page)
+    await reportVisualStability(
+      testInfo,
+      "scrolled-away-shell",
+      trace,
+      visualPlan(regions, [
+        { type: "required", regions: ["anchor"] },
+        { type: "unique", regions: ["anchor"] },
+        { type: "stable", regions: ["anchor"] },
+        { type: "fixed", regions: ["anchor"] },
+        { type: "opacity", regions: "all" },
+        { type: "continuity", regions: "all" },
+        { type: "motion", regions: "all", maxPositionReversals: 0 },
+        { type: "label-stability", regions: "all" },
+      ]),
+    )
+  })
+
+  test("preserves an explicit shell state across virtualization", async ({ page }) => {
+    const targetID = "prt_virtual_shell"
+    const messages = [
+      userMessage(undefined, { id: "msg_0000_virtual_user", created: 1700000000000 }),
+      assistantMessage([shell(targetID, "completed", lines(20))], {
+        id: "msg_0001_virtual_assistant",
+        parentID: "msg_0000_virtual_user",
+        created: 1700000001000,
+      }),
+      ...history(35, 10),
+    ]
+    await setupTimeline(page, { messages, settings: { shellToolPartsExpanded: false } })
+    const scroller = page.locator(".scroll-view__viewport", { has: page.locator("[data-timeline-row]") })
+    await scroller.evaluate((element) => {
+      element.dispatchEvent(new WheelEvent("wheel", { bubbles: true, cancelable: true, deltaY: -1_000 }))
+      element.scrollTop = 0
+    })
+    await page.waitForTimeout(300)
+    const trigger = page.locator(`[data-timeline-part-id="${targetID}"] [data-slot="collapsible-trigger"]`)
+    await expect(trigger).toBeVisible()
+    await trigger.click()
+    await expect(trigger).toHaveAttribute("aria-expanded", "true")
+
+    await scroller.evaluate((element) => (element.scrollTop = element.scrollHeight))
+    await expect(page.locator(`[data-timeline-part-id="${targetID}"]`)).toHaveCount(0)
+    await scroller.evaluate((element) => (element.scrollTop = 0))
+    await expect(trigger).toBeVisible()
+    await expect(trigger).toHaveAttribute("aria-expanded", "true")
+  })
+
+  test("keeps narrow viewport rows ordered during long shell growth", async ({ page }, testInfo) => {
+    const shellID = "prt_narrow_01_shell"
+    const followingID = "prt_narrow_02_following"
+    const timeline = await setupTimeline(page, {
+      messages: [
+        userMessage(),
+        assistantMessage(
+          [shell(shellID, "running"), textPart(followingID, "A narrow following row that wraps across lines.")],
+          {
+            completed: false,
+          },
+        ),
+      ],
+      settings: { shellToolPartsExpanded: true },
+      viewport: { width: 430, height: 800 },
+      cpuRate: 4,
+    })
+    await waitForVisualSettle(page, [
+      `[data-timeline-part-id="${shellID}"]`,
+      `[data-timeline-part-id="${followingID}"]`,
+    ])
+    const regions = defineVisualRegions({
+      shell: { selector: `[data-timeline-part-id="${shellID}"]`, closest: '[data-timeline-row="AssistantPart"]' },
+      following: {
+        selector: `[data-timeline-part-id="${followingID}"]`,
+        closest: '[data-timeline-row="AssistantPart"]',
+      },
+    })
+    await startVisualProbe(page, regions)
+    await timeline.send(partUpdated(shell(shellID, "running", wideLines(10))), 100)
+    await timeline.send(partUpdated(shell(shellID, "running", wideLines(50))), 300)
+    await timeline.send(partUpdated(shell(shellID, "completed", wideLines(50))), 500)
+    const trace = await stopVisualProbe<keyof typeof regions>(page)
+    await reportVisualStability(
+      testInfo,
+      "narrow-shell",
+      trace,
+      visualPlan(
+        regions,
+        [
+          { type: "required", regions: ["shell", "following"] },
+          { type: "unique", regions: ["shell", "following"] },
+          { type: "stable", regions: ["shell", "following"] },
+          { type: "opacity", regions: "all" },
+          { type: "continuity", regions: "all" },
+          { type: "motion", regions: "all", maxPositionReversals: 0 },
+          { type: "label-stability", regions: "all" },
+          { type: "preserve-bottom-anchor" },
+          { type: "flow", regions: ["shell", "following"] },
+        ],
+        { perMarker: true },
+      ),
+    )
+  })
+
+  test("keeps visible rows ordered while resizing desktop to narrow and back", async ({ page }, testInfo) => {
+    const shellID = "prt_resize_01_shell"
+    const contextIDs = ["prt_resize_02_read", "prt_resize_03_glob"]
+    const followingID = "prt_resize_04_following"
+    await setupTimeline(page, {
+      messages: [
+        userMessage(),
+        assistantMessage([
+          shell(shellID, "completed", wideLines(15)),
+          toolPart(contextIDs[0]!, "read", "completed", { filePath: "src/a.ts" }),
+          toolPart(contextIDs[1]!, "glob", "completed", { path: ".", pattern: "**/*.ts" }),
+          textPart(followingID, "Following responsive timeline content that wraps on narrow screens."),
+        ]),
+      ],
+      settings: { shellToolPartsExpanded: true },
+      cpuRate: 4,
+      seedHistory: true,
+    })
+    const group = `[data-timeline-part-ids="${contextIDs.join(",")}"]`
+    const regions = defineVisualRegions({
+      shell: { selector: `[data-timeline-part-id="${shellID}"]`, closest: '[data-timeline-row="AssistantPart"]' },
+      context: { selector: group, closest: '[data-timeline-row="AssistantPart"]' },
+      following: {
+        selector: `[data-timeline-part-id="${followingID}"]`,
+        closest: '[data-timeline-row="AssistantPart"]',
+      },
+    })
+    await startVisualProbe(page, regions)
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 430, height: 800 })
+    await page.waitForTimeout(500)
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 900, height: 800 })
+    await page.waitForTimeout(500)
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1400, height: 900 })
+    await page.waitForTimeout(500)
+    const trace = await stopVisualProbe<keyof typeof regions>(page)
+    await reportVisualStability(
+      testInfo,
+      "responsive-resize",
+      trace,
+      visualPlan(regions, [
+        { type: "required", regions: ["shell", "context", "following"] },
+        { type: "unique", regions: ["shell", "context", "following"] },
+        { type: "stable", regions: ["shell", "context", "following"] },
+        { type: "opacity", regions: "all" },
+        { type: "continuity", regions: "all" },
+        { type: "motion", regions: "all", maxPositionReversals: 4, maxReversals: 4 },
+        { type: "label-stability", regions: "all" },
+        { type: "flow", regions: ["shell", "context", "following"] },
+      ]),
+    )
+  })
+})
+
+function history(count: number, offset = 0): TimelineMessage[] {
+  return Array.from({ length: count }, (_, index) => {
+    const value = index + offset
+    const prefix = `msg_0${String(value).padStart(3, "0")}_history`
+    const userID = `${prefix}_a_user`
+    return [
+      userMessage(undefined, { id: userID, created: 1699990000000 + value * 10_000 }),
+      assistantMessage(
+        [
+          textPart(
+            `prt_history_${String(value).padStart(3, "0")}`,
+            `Historical response ${value}. ${"Stable history content. ".repeat(8)}`,
+          ),
+        ],
+        {
+          id: `${prefix}_b_assistant`,
+          parentID: userID,
+          created: 1699990001000 + value * 10_000,
+        },
+      ),
+    ]
+  }).flat()
+}
+
+function lines(count: number) {
+  return Array.from({ length: count }, (_, index) => `line ${index + 1}`).join("\n")
+}
+
+function wideLines(count: number) {
+  return Array.from({ length: count }, (_, index) => `line ${index + 1} ${"wide-output-".repeat(20)}`).join("\n")
+}