CI: sign Windows releases with Azure Artifact Signing (#62)

Windows releases are now signed with Azure Artifact Signing: the app binary, the MSI, the NSIS installer and its uninstaller, 5 signatures per release. Build-time WiX and NSIS DLLs are skipped. "Verify signatures" fails a release unless the installers, the binaries inside the MSI, and the logged app-binary and uninstaller signatures are all valid and timestamped.

Previews are not signed and don't reference the signing secrets. The sign command reaches Tauri through `--config`; the v2 CLI never read TAURI_CONFIG, so the old inline override was a no-op.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

.gitea/workflows/build-app-preview.yml

@@ -5,9 +5,13 @@ name: Build App (Preview)
 # sync.
 #
 # This is also the **PR build check**: it compiles Linux, macOS and Windows, so
-# a push that breaks any of them fails here. build-app.yml used to do that job
-# in parallel and publish nothing, which meant six OS builds per push and one
-# unreachable set of bundles; it is now releases-only.
+# a push that breaks any of them fails here. Its `test` job runs vitest and
+# `cargo test` too, so a push that breaks either suite fails here as well.
+# Previews are not code-signed (releases are, in build-app.yml): see the
+# comment on the Windows job's "Build Tauri app" step.
+# build-app.yml used to do the build-check job in parallel and publish nothing,
+# which meant six OS builds per push and one unreachable set of bundles; it is
+# now releases-only.
 #
 # The cost of the swap, stated plainly: one prerelease per PR commit that
 # touches `app/**` — so the workflow prunes its own, keeping the newest
@@ -43,7 +47,18 @@ name: Build App (Preview)
 # prunes previous previews itself, keeping the newest few. Bundles are ~130 MB a
 # release; the point of a preview is the build you are testing now.
 #
-# `sync-release.yml` is workflow_dispatch-only, so nothing here reaches GitHub.
+# A preview release is not meant to reach GitHub. `build-app.yml`'s inline
+# mirror never sees one (it only runs for its own `push`-triggered release),
+# but `backfill-releases.yml` pulls every Gitea release unfiltered and would
+# faithfully forward a preview's `prerelease: true` if it were ever dispatched
+# while one existed — so `GitHubRelease::prerelease` in `update_commands.rs`
+# is real defence, not a no-op, even though the `preview-<sha>` tag shape
+# (never valid semver) already blocks it independently. (The previous
+# mechanism here, `sync-release.yml`, was `workflow_dispatch`-only and read
+# `gitea.event.release.*` fields that are only ever populated by a `release`
+# trigger, so it could never have actually run; deleted rather than fixed,
+# since build-app.yml's inline mirror already does what it was meant to do
+# for real releases. See triple-c#32.)
 
 env:
   GITEA_URL: ${{ gitea.server_url }}
@@ -70,12 +85,23 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
       version: ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}
       sha: ${{ steps.version.outputs.SHA }}
+      # Everything after the first `-` in VERSION (e.g. `preview.a1b2c3d`).
+      # The bundle version fields never see this — see "Set app version" in
+      # each build job — but it is baked into the binary as
+      # `TRIPLE_C_BUILD_SUFFIX` so `get_app_version()` can still report it.
+      # An installed preview otherwise reports the same bare number a
+      # production build would, indistinguishable in the About panel and to
+      # `check_for_updates`. See triple-c#32.
+      suffix: ${{ steps.version.outputs.SUFFIX }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
+      - name: Fetch all tags
+        run: git fetch --tags
+
       - name: Compute preview version
         id: version
         run: |
@@ -86,21 +112,60 @@ jobs:
           # is testing and not something to hang a tag on.
           echo "SHA=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
-          # The patch number is computed exactly as build-app.yml does it, so a
-          # preview is labelled with the version the release it previews would
-          # carry. This used to be hard-coded `.0`, which made every preview
-          # installer claim to be x.y.0 no matter what it contained.
-          LATEST_TAG=$(git tag -l "v${MAJOR_MINOR}.*" --sort=-v:refname | grep -E "^v${MAJOR_MINOR}\.[0-9]+$" | head -1 || true)
-          if [ -n "$LATEST_TAG" ]; then
-            PATCH=$(git rev-list --count "${LATEST_TAG}..HEAD")
-            echo "Latest matching tag: ${LATEST_TAG} (+${PATCH} commits)"
+          # The patch number must be the same "one past the highest patch
+          # already used" build-app.yml computes for a real release — not a
+          # distance from the latest tag. It used to be
+          # `git rev-list --count <latest tag>..HEAD`, which build-app.yml's
+          # own history section documents as broken for exactly this reason:
+          # it resets to zero on every tag cut, so previews went *backwards*
+          # (0.4.62 -> 0.4.0) the moment a release landed, and nothing stopped
+          # a preview number from later colliding with a real release's.
+          #
+          # Reading the same `v${MAJOR_MINOR}.*` tags (including the `-mac`
+          # / `-win` suffixed ones a partially-published release can leave
+          # behind) means a preview built right before a release computes the
+          # exact number that release is about to take — e.g. `0.4.13` for
+          # both. That makes the two numerically *equal*, not "preview less
+          # than release" — plain semver ordering does not make a
+          # `-preview.<sha>` suffix sort lower on its own here, because
+          # `check_for_updates` compares against the bare, stripped
+          # `CARGO_PKG_VERSION`, never the suffixed display string. What
+          # closes the loop is `update_commands.rs`'s `is_preview_build`
+          # check, which relaxes that one comparison to `>=` specifically so
+          # "a release exists at my own number" reads as an update. See
+          # triple-c#32.
+          HIGHEST=$(git tag -l "v${MAJOR_MINOR}.*" \
+            | grep -E "^v${MAJOR_MINOR}\.[0-9]+(-mac|-win)?$" \
+            | sed -E "s/^v${MAJOR_MINOR}\.([0-9]+).*/\1/" \
+            | sort -n | tail -1 || true)
+
+          # Mirrors build-app.yml's own `EXISTING` guard: this workflow is
+          # also `workflow_dispatch`-able on `main`, not just PR-triggered, so
+          # HEAD can be a commit a release was already cut from. Without this,
+          # dispatching a preview there would compute `HIGHEST + 1` — one past
+          # that release — and produce exactly the "preview outranks
+          # production" failure triple-c#32 was filed over, just reintroduced
+          # through the manual-dispatch door instead of the automatic one.
+          EXISTING=$(git tag --points-at HEAD \
+            | grep -E "^v${MAJOR_MINOR}\.[0-9]+$" \
+            | sed -E "s/^v${MAJOR_MINOR}\.([0-9]+)$/\1/" \
+            | sort -n | tail -1 || true)
+
+          if [ -n "$EXISTING" ]; then
+            echo "HEAD is already tagged v${MAJOR_MINOR}.${EXISTING} — matching it"
+            PATCH="${EXISTING}"
+          elif [ -n "$HIGHEST" ]; then
+            echo "Highest patch already used on this line: ${HIGHEST}"
+            PATCH=$((HIGHEST + 1))
           else
             echo "No v${MAJOR_MINOR}.* tag yet — starting this line at .0"
             PATCH=0
           fi
 
-          VERSION="${MAJOR_MINOR}.${PATCH}-preview.${SHORT_SHA}"
+          SUFFIX="preview.${SHORT_SHA}"
+          VERSION="${MAJOR_MINOR}.${PATCH}-${SUFFIX}"
           echo "VERSION=${VERSION}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "SUFFIX=${SUFFIX}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           echo "Computed preview version: ${VERSION}"
 
   # One release, created once. The three build jobs run concurrently, so
@@ -160,6 +225,102 @@ jobs:
           echo "RELEASE_ID=${RELEASE_ID}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           echo "Release ${TAG} is id ${RELEASE_ID}"
 
+  # The test suites. Before this job CI ran neither: every check below lived on
+  # a developer's machine. The one that matters most is the app-command ACL
+  # census — `cargo test` is what re-checks the committed capability files and
+  # `gen/schemas/acl-manifests.json` against `generate_handler!`, and vitest's
+  # `capabilities.test.ts` is what keeps each window's code to the wrappers its
+  # capability grants. A command left ungranted builds fine and only fails at
+  # runtime ("not allowed by ACL"), so these tests are the merge-time guard.
+  #
+  # Independent of the release: no `needs`, so it runs alongside the three
+  # platform builds rather than in front of them, and a red test fails the PR
+  # check without holding up a preview someone may want to try anyway.
+  #
+  # Setup mirrors build-linux on purpose — the same Node, the same apt set
+  # (`cargo test` compiles the whole Tauri crate, so it needs WebKitGTK like
+  # a real build) and `npm ci` from the lockfile for the reasons given there.
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Install Node.js 22
+        run: |
+          NEED_INSTALL=false
+          if command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            NODE_MAJOR=$(node --version | sed 's/v\([0-9]*\).*/\1/')
+            OLD_NODE_DIR=$(dirname "$(which node)")
+            echo "Found Node.js $(node --version) at $(which node) (major: ${NODE_MAJOR})"
+            if [ "$NODE_MAJOR" -lt 22 ]; then
+              echo "Node.js ${NODE_MAJOR} is too old, removing before installing 22..."
+              sudo rm -f "${OLD_NODE_DIR}/node" "${OLD_NODE_DIR}/npm" "${OLD_NODE_DIR}/npx" "${OLD_NODE_DIR}/corepack"
+              hash -r
+              NEED_INSTALL=true
+            fi
+          else
+            echo "Node.js not found, installing 22..."
+            NEED_INSTALL=true
+          fi
+          if [ "$NEED_INSTALL" = true ]; then
+            curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | sudo -E bash -
+            sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
+            hash -r
+          fi
+          node --version
+          npm --version
+
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y \
+            libgtk-3-dev \
+            libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev \
+            libayatana-appindicator3-dev \
+            librsvg2-dev \
+            libsoup-3.0-dev \
+            libssl-dev \
+            libxdo-dev \
+            pkg-config \
+            build-essential \
+            curl
+
+      - name: Install Rust stable
+        run: |
+          if command -v rustup >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            rustup update stable
+            rustup default stable
+          else
+            curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y --default-toolchain stable
+          fi
+          export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
+          rustc --version
+          cargo --version
+
+      - name: Install frontend dependencies
+        working-directory: ./app
+        run: npm ci
+
+      # `npm run build` is `tsc && vite build`: the type check, and the
+      # `dist/` that `tauri::generate_context!` needs to exist before the Rust
+      # crate — and so `cargo test` — will compile at all.
+      - name: Type-check and build the frontend
+        working-directory: ./app
+        run: npm run build
+
+      - name: Frontend tests (vitest)
+        working-directory: ./app
+        run: npx vitest run
+
+      # `--locked`: test against the committed Cargo.lock, never a re-resolved
+      # one, for the same reason the frontend uses `npm ci`.
+      - name: Backend tests (cargo test)
+        working-directory: ./app/src-tauri
+        run: |
+          export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
+          cargo test --locked
+
   build-linux:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [compute-version, create-release]
@@ -238,8 +399,34 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install frontend dependencies
         working-directory: ./app
         run: |
-          rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json
-          npm install
+          # `npm ci` — from the lockfile, never resolving afresh.
+          #
+          # This used to be `rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json && npm
+          # install`, which deleted the lockfile "to ensure correct
+          # platform-specific bindings" (2d4fce9). That made every build
+          # re-resolve the whole tree against the registry, so a dependency
+          # publishing a new version could break CI with no change to this
+          # repo — and one did. Deleting the lockfile then hit a null
+          # dereference in npm 10.9.8's arborist peer-set resolver:
+          #
+          #   npm error Cannot read properties of null (reading 'edgesOut')
+          #     at #loadPeerSet (.../build-ideal-tree.js:1289:38)
+          #
+          # reached through vite → @vitejs/devtools → @vitejs/devtools-vitest
+          # → vitest@* → @vitest/browser-playwright → jsdom@* → canvas.
+          # Reproduced exactly by removing the lockfile locally on the same
+          # Node 22.23.2 the runner installs.
+          #
+          # The binding worry is obsolete: the committed lockfile records 25
+          # rollup platform variants, and `npm ci` on Linux installs precisely
+          # rollup-linux-x64-{gnu,musl} and @esbuild/linux-x64. Verified, along
+          # with a clean tsc, a successful build and 752 passing tests from the
+          # resulting tree.
+          #
+          # Do not "fix" a future dependency error by deleting the lockfile
+          # again. If `npm ci` refuses, package.json and the lockfile have
+          # genuinely diverged, and the fix is to commit an updated lockfile.
+          npm ci
 
       - name: Install Tauri CLI
         working-directory: ./app
@@ -249,16 +436,31 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build Tauri app
         working-directory: ./app
+        env:
+          # Baked into the binary via `option_env!` in `get_app_version()` —
+          # the bundle version above stays bare (WiX/MSI's ProductVersion has
+          # no room for a suffix), so this is the only place a preview build
+          # can still tell itself apart from a production one. See
+          # triple-c#32.
+          TRIPLE_C_BUILD_SUFFIX: ${{ needs.compute-version.outputs.suffix }}
         run: |
           export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
-          npx tauri build
+          # AppImage only: the .deb and .rpm were dropped in favour of the one
+          # artifact that runs everywhere, and building them is pure cost.
+          # Left as "all" in tauri.conf.json so macOS and Windows are unaffected.
+          npx tauri build --bundles appimage
+
+      # linuxdeploy bundles a libwayland-client.so.0 that shadows the host's
+      # and breaks Mesa's EGL on systems newer than the build runner, so the
+      # window comes up blank. It has to come from the host; see the script
+      # header for the evidence and the trade.
+      - name: Finalize the AppImage
+        run: bash scripts/finalize-appimage.sh app/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/appimage
 
       - name: Collect artifacts
         run: |
           mkdir -p artifacts
           cp app/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/appimage/*.AppImage artifacts/ 2>/dev/null || true
-          cp app/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/deb/*.deb artifacts/ 2>/dev/null || true
-          cp app/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/rpm/*.rpm artifacts/ 2>/dev/null || true
           ls -la artifacts/
 
       # Assets, not workflow artifacts — see the note at the top of this file.
@@ -350,8 +552,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install frontend dependencies
         working-directory: ./app
         run: |
-          rm -rf node_modules
-          npm install
+          # `npm ci` here too, so all three platforms install identically and
+          # none of them can re-resolve the tree mid-release. Windows already
+          # did. See the Linux job for what a fresh resolution cost us.
+          npm ci
 
       - name: Install Tauri CLI
         working-directory: ./app
@@ -361,6 +565,9 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build Tauri app (universal)
         working-directory: ./app
+        env:
+          # See the matching comment on the Linux job's "Build Tauri app" step.
+          TRIPLE_C_BUILD_SUFFIX: ${{ needs.compute-version.outputs.suffix }}
         run: |
           export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
           npx tauri build --target universal-apple-darwin
@@ -464,7 +671,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Tauri CLI via cargo
         run: |
           set "PATH=%USERPROFILE%\.cargo\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;%PATH%"
-          cargo install tauri-cli --version "^2"
+          rem Pinned to the @tauri-apps/cli version in app/package-lock.json, which
+          rem the Linux and macOS jobs run, and kept identical to build-app.yml so
+          rem a preview is built by the same bundler as the release it previews.
+          cargo install tauri-cli --version "=2.11.0" --locked
 
       - name: Fix npm platform detection
         run: |
@@ -487,11 +697,21 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build Tauri app
         working-directory: ./app
+        # Previews are not code-signed: signing is metered, previews are built
+        # on every PR push, and a PR's workflow runs the PR's own code - so the
+        # signing secrets stay out of this workflow entirely. Releases are
+        # signed in build-app.yml.
+        #
+        # beforeBuildCommand is blanked through --config because the frontend
+        # was built in the step above. Not TAURI_CONFIG: the v2 CLI never
+        # reads that variable, and the inline one this step used to set was a
+        # no-op.
         env:
-          TAURI_CONFIG: "{\"build\":{\"beforeBuildCommand\":\"\"}}"
+          # See the matching comment on the Linux job's "Build Tauri app" step.
+          TRIPLE_C_BUILD_SUFFIX: ${{ needs.compute-version.outputs.suffix }}
         run: |
           set "PATH=%USERPROFILE%\.cargo\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;%PATH%"
-          cargo tauri build
+          cargo tauri build --config "{\"build\":{\"beforeBuildCommand\":\"\"}}"
 
       - name: Collect artifacts
         run: |

.gitea/workflows/build-app.yml

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ on:
       - "app/**"
       - "VERSION"
       - ".gitea/workflows/build-app.yml"
+      - "scripts/windows-*.ps1"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 # Deliberately **not** on pull_request. Every publishing step here is gated on
@@ -39,13 +40,48 @@ jobs:
           MAJOR_MINOR=$(cat VERSION | tr -d '[:space:]')
           echo "Major.Minor: ${MAJOR_MINOR}"
 
-          # Find the latest tag matching v{MAJOR_MINOR}.N (exclude -mac, -win suffixes)
-          # `|| true` so an empty grep result doesn't fail the step under pipefail.
-          LATEST_TAG=$(git tag -l "v${MAJOR_MINOR}.*" --sort=-v:refname | grep -E "^v${MAJOR_MINOR}\.[0-9]+$" | head -1 || true)
+          # The patch number is **one past the highest patch already used**, and
+          # never a distance.
+          #
+          # It used to be `git rev-list --count <highest tag>..HEAD`, which is
+          # not a counter at all: it measures how far HEAD has drifted from
+          # whichever tag sorts highest, and that resets to zero every time a
+          # tag is cut. The published history is the proof — each of these is
+          # exactly what the old formula returned at the time:
+          #
+          #   v0.4.0 -> 3 commits -> v0.4.3    looked fine
+          #   v0.4.3 -> 4 commits -> v0.4.4    fine by luck, 4 > 3
+          #   v0.4.4 -> 2 commits -> v0.4.2    went backwards
+          #   v0.4.4 -> 6 commits -> v0.4.6    jumped, skipping .5
+          #   v0.4.6 -> 3 commits -> v0.4.3    already taken; the upload failed
+          #
+          # Reusing a version is worse than failing to publish one: the macOS
+          # and Windows steps replace assets in place, so a duplicate silently
+          # rewrote a release that had been public for three days. Monotonic
+          # numbering is what stops that at the source.
+          #
+          # Suffixed tags count too. `create-tag` is skipped when any platform
+          # job fails, so a run can publish v0.4.7-mac and never create the
+          # plain v0.4.7 — reading only unsuffixed tags would then hand the
+          # same number out twice.
+          HIGHEST=$(git tag -l "v${MAJOR_MINOR}.*" \
+            | grep -E "^v${MAJOR_MINOR}\.[0-9]+(-mac|-win)?$" \
+            | sed -E "s/^v${MAJOR_MINOR}\.([0-9]+).*/\1/" \
+            | sort -n | tail -1 || true)
 
-          if [ -n "$LATEST_TAG" ]; then
-            echo "Latest matching tag: ${LATEST_TAG}"
-            PATCH=$(git rev-list --count "${LATEST_TAG}..HEAD")
+          # A re-run of a commit that already released must not mint a new
+          # version just because its own tag now exists.
+          EXISTING=$(git tag --points-at HEAD \
+            | grep -E "^v${MAJOR_MINOR}\.[0-9]+$" \
+            | sed -E "s/^v${MAJOR_MINOR}\.([0-9]+)$/\1/" \
+            | sort -n | tail -1 || true)
+
+          if [ -n "$EXISTING" ]; then
+            echo "HEAD is already tagged v${MAJOR_MINOR}.${EXISTING} — reusing it"
+            PATCH="${EXISTING}"
+          elif [ -n "$HIGHEST" ]; then
+            echo "Highest patch already used on this line: ${HIGHEST}"
+            PATCH=$((HIGHEST + 1))
           else
             # A minor line nobody has tagged yet is a *new* line, and a new line
             # starts at .0 — that is what "we are moving to 0.4.x" means. The
@@ -137,8 +173,34 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install frontend dependencies
         working-directory: ./app
         run: |
-          rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json
-          npm install
+          # `npm ci` — from the lockfile, never resolving afresh.
+          #
+          # This used to be `rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json && npm
+          # install`, which deleted the lockfile "to ensure correct
+          # platform-specific bindings" (2d4fce9). That made every build
+          # re-resolve the whole tree against the registry, so a dependency
+          # publishing a new version could break CI with no change to this
+          # repo — and one did. Deleting the lockfile then hit a null
+          # dereference in npm 10.9.8's arborist peer-set resolver:
+          #
+          #   npm error Cannot read properties of null (reading 'edgesOut')
+          #     at #loadPeerSet (.../build-ideal-tree.js:1289:38)
+          #
+          # reached through vite → @vitejs/devtools → @vitejs/devtools-vitest
+          # → vitest@* → @vitest/browser-playwright → jsdom@* → canvas.
+          # Reproduced exactly by removing the lockfile locally on the same
+          # Node 22.23.2 the runner installs.
+          #
+          # The binding worry is obsolete: the committed lockfile records 25
+          # rollup platform variants, and `npm ci` on Linux installs precisely
+          # rollup-linux-x64-{gnu,musl} and @esbuild/linux-x64. Verified, along
+          # with a clean tsc, a successful build and 752 passing tests from the
+          # resulting tree.
+          #
+          # Do not "fix" a future dependency error by deleting the lockfile
+          # again. If `npm ci` refuses, package.json and the lockfile have
+          # genuinely diverged, and the fix is to commit an updated lockfile.
+          npm ci
 
       - name: Install Tauri CLI
         working-directory: ./app
@@ -150,42 +212,126 @@ jobs:
         working-directory: ./app
         run: |
           export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
-          npx tauri build
+          # AppImage only: the .deb and .rpm were dropped in favour of the one
+          # artifact that runs everywhere, and building them is pure cost.
+          # Left as "all" in tauri.conf.json so macOS and Windows are unaffected.
+          npx tauri build --bundles appimage
+
+      # linuxdeploy bundles a libwayland-client.so.0 that shadows the host's
+      # and breaks Mesa's EGL on systems newer than the build runner, so the
+      # window comes up blank. It has to come from the host; see the script
+      # header for the evidence and the trade.
+      - name: Finalize the AppImage
+        run: bash scripts/finalize-appimage.sh app/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/appimage
 
       - name: Collect artifacts
         run: |
           mkdir -p artifacts
+          # The versioned AppImage only. The update channel's copy lives in
+          # bundle/appimage/update-channel/ precisely so this glob cannot pick
+          # it up and publish an 80 MB duplicate under a second name.
           cp app/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/appimage/*.AppImage artifacts/ 2>/dev/null || true
-          cp app/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/deb/*.deb artifacts/ 2>/dev/null || true
-          cp app/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/rpm/*.rpm artifacts/ 2>/dev/null || true
           ls -la artifacts/
 
+          # A green job that published nothing is the worst outcome available:
+          # the release exists, carries no AppImage, and nobody is told. The
+          # `|| true` above is there so a missing bundle does not mask the real
+          # error, which makes this check the thing that catches it.
+          shopt -s nullglob
+          collected=(artifacts/*)
+          if [ ${#collected[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+            echo "No artifacts collected — the bundler produced nothing." >&2
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
       - name: Upload to Gitea release
         if: gitea.event_name == 'push'
         env:
           TOKEN: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
         run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
           TAG="v${{ needs.compute-version.outputs.version }}"
-          # Create release
-          curl -s -X POST \
+
+          # Idempotent get-or-create, matching build-macos. This step used to
+          # POST /releases unconditionally: against a tag that already existed
+          # Gitea answered 409, the grep below found no id, and the run died
+          # with a bare "exitcode '1'" and not one line of output explaining
+          # it — `curl -s` with no `-f` swallows the HTTP error, so nothing
+          # ever said "409" or "duplicate tag". Hence -fsS throughout, and
+          # pipefail so a failure cannot be stepped over.
+          HTTP_CODE=$(curl -sS -o release.json -w '%{http_code}' \
+            -H "Authorization: token ${TOKEN}" \
+            "${GITEA_URL}/api/v1/repos/${REPO}/releases/tags/${TAG}")
+          case "${HTTP_CODE}" in
+            200)
+              echo "Release ${TAG} already exists, reusing"
+              ;;
+            404)
+              echo "Creating release ${TAG}"
+              curl -fsS -X POST \
                 -H "Authorization: token ${TOKEN}" \
                 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
                 -d "{\"tag_name\": \"${TAG}\", \"name\": \"Triple-C ${TAG} (Linux)\", \"body\": \"Automated build from commit ${{ gitea.sha }}\"}" \
                 "${GITEA_URL}/api/v1/repos/${REPO}/releases" > release.json
-          RELEASE_ID=$(cat release.json | grep -o '"id":[0-9]*' | head -1 | grep -o '[0-9]*')
+              ;;
+            *)
+              echo "Unexpected ${HTTP_CODE} looking up release ${TAG}:" >&2
+              cat release.json >&2
+              exit 1
+              ;;
+          esac
+
+          RELEASE_ID=$(python3 -c "import json,sys; print(json.load(open('release.json')).get('id',''))")
+          if [ -z "${RELEASE_ID}" ]; then
+            echo "No release id for ${TAG}; refusing to upload into nothing:" >&2
+            cat release.json >&2
+            exit 1
+          fi
           echo "Release ID: ${RELEASE_ID}"
-          # Upload each artifact
+
+          # Replace-not-conflict, so a retry after a partial upload succeeds.
+          # Versions are monotonic now (see compute-version), so this can only
+          # ever be replacing an asset from a failed run of this same commit —
+          # never one belonging to an already-published version.
           for file in artifacts/*; do
             [ -f "$file" ] || continue
             filename=$(basename "$file")
+
+            EXISTING_ID=$(curl -sS \
+              -H "Authorization: token ${TOKEN}" \
+              "${GITEA_URL}/api/v1/repos/${REPO}/releases/${RELEASE_ID}/assets" \
+              | python3 -c "import json,sys; t=sys.argv[1]; print(next((a['id'] for a in json.load(sys.stdin) if a.get('name')==t), ''))" "${filename}" || true)
+            if [ -n "${EXISTING_ID}" ]; then
+              echo "Deleting existing asset ${filename} (id ${EXISTING_ID})"
+              curl -fsS -X DELETE \
+                -H "Authorization: token ${TOKEN}" \
+                "${GITEA_URL}/api/v1/repos/${REPO}/releases/${RELEASE_ID}/assets/${EXISTING_ID}"
+            fi
+
             echo "Uploading ${filename}..."
-            curl -s -X POST \
+            curl -fsS --http1.1 \
+              --retry 5 --retry-all-errors --retry-delay 5 \
+              --max-time 600 \
+              -X POST \
               -H "Authorization: token ${TOKEN}" \
               -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
               --data-binary "@${file}" \
               "${GITEA_URL}/api/v1/repos/${REPO}/releases/${RELEASE_ID}/assets?name=${filename}"
           done
 
+      # The fixed tag every installed AppImage checks for updates. Separate
+      # from the versioned release above because the updater's URL must never
+      # move, and `releases/latest` does.
+      - name: Publish the Linux update channel
+        if: gitea.event_name == 'push'
+        env:
+          GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
+          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
+          GITEA_SHA: ${{ gitea.sha }}
+        run: |
+          bash scripts/publish-update-channel.sh \
+            app/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/appimage/update-channel
+
   build-macos:
     runs-on: macos-latest
     needs: [compute-version]
@@ -241,8 +387,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install frontend dependencies
         working-directory: ./app
         run: |
-          rm -rf node_modules
-          npm install
+          # `npm ci` here too, so all three platforms install identically and
+          # none of them can re-resolve the tree mid-release. Windows already
+          # did. See the Linux job for what a fresh resolution cost us.
+          npm ci
 
       - name: Install Tauri CLI
         working-directory: ./app
@@ -464,7 +612,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Tauri CLI via cargo
         run: |
           set "PATH=%USERPROFILE%\.cargo\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;%PATH%"
-          cargo install tauri-cli --version "^2"
+          rem Pinned to the @tauri-apps/cli version in app/package-lock.json, which
+          rem the Linux and macOS jobs run: the Windows code-signing path (sign
+          rem command, NSIS uninstaller signing) was verified against it, and "^2"
+          rem would change it underneath the pipeline on any Tauri release.
+          cargo install tauri-cli --version "=2.11.0" --locked
 
       - name: Fix npm platform detection
         run: |
@@ -485,10 +637,31 @@ jobs:
           set "PATH=%USERPROFILE%\.cargo\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;%PATH%"
           npm run build
 
+      # Releases are signed with Azure Artifact Signing (scripts/windows-*.ps1).
+      # The setup fetches the signing client and a job-local .NET runtime, and
+      # writes the Tauri config holding the sign command, which "Build Tauri
+      # app" passes with --config. A missing secret fails here, before the build.
+      - name: Prepare code signing
+        env:
+          AZURE_TENANT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZURE_TENANT_ID }}
+          AZURE_CLIENT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_ID }}
+          AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET }}
+          ARTIFACT_SIGNING_ENDPOINT: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACT_SIGNING_ENDPOINT }}
+          ARTIFACT_SIGNING_ACCOUNT_NAME: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACT_SIGNING_ACCOUNT_NAME }}
+          ARTIFACT_SIGNING_PROFILE_NAME: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACT_SIGNING_PROFILE_NAME }}
+        run: powershell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File scripts\windows-signing-setup.ps1
+
       - name: Build Tauri app
         working-directory: ./app
+        # The sign command comes in through --config, from the file "Prepare
+        # code signing" wrote. Not TAURI_CONFIG: the v2 CLI never reads that
+        # variable (the inline one this step used to set was a no-op), and
+        # "Verify signatures" is what caught it.
         env:
-          TAURI_CONFIG: "{\"build\":{\"beforeBuildCommand\":\"\"}}"
+          # Read by the signing dlib itself, never passed on a command line.
+          AZURE_TENANT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZURE_TENANT_ID }}
+          AZURE_CLIENT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_ID }}
+          AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET }}
         run: |
           set "PATH=%USERPROFILE%\.cargo\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;%PATH%"
           rem Every Tauri bundler it downloads - candle.exe, light.exe and
@@ -503,7 +676,20 @@ jobs:
           rem systemprofile\AppData\Local\tauri and systemprofile\.cache to the
           rem System32 originals, which makes the redirected view resolve. A
           rem runner running as a normal user needs no such patch.
-          cargo tauri build --bundles msi,nsis
+          cargo tauri build --bundles msi,nsis --config "%TRIPLE_C_TAURI_SIGN_CONFIG%"
+
+      - name: Verify signatures
+        run: >-
+          powershell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
+          -File scripts\windows-verify-signatures.ps1
+          app\src-tauri\target\release\bundle\msi\*.msi
+          app\src-tauri\target\release\bundle\nsis\*.exe
+
+      # Tauri reports a failed sign command as just "failed to run powershell";
+      # windows-sign.ps1 keeps its own transcript, signtool /debug included.
+      - name: Show signing output
+        if: failure()
+        run: if exist .code-signing\sign-output.log type .code-signing\sign-output.log
 
       - name: Collect artifacts
         run: |

.gitea/workflows/build.yml

@@ -28,6 +28,27 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Set up Docker Buildx
         uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+        with:
+          # Put BuildKit in the host's network namespace so it can reach
+          # act_runner's cache service.
+          #
+          # The `docker-container` driver — which the multi-arch build below
+          # requires, since the plain `docker` driver cannot do
+          # linux/amd64+linux/arm64 — runs BuildKit in its *own* container on
+          # Docker's default bridge. act_runner advertises ACTIONS_CACHE_URL as
+          # an address the *job* container can reach, and nothing teaches the
+          # BuildKit container about it: the job could reach
+          # 192.168.1.126:40649 while the container actually making the request
+          # could not, and the build died with `no route to host`.
+          #
+          # `no route to host` is EHOSTUNREACH — a firewall rejecting, not a
+          # missing route (a wrong address times out instead) — which is what a
+          # default firewalld zone does to traffic arriving from the docker
+          # bridge. Sharing the host's namespace sidesteps the question
+          # entirely: the cache address becomes local to BuildKit.
+          #
+          # No effect on runners where this already worked.
+          driver-opts: network=host
 
       - name: Login to Gitea Container Registry
         uses: docker/login-action@v3
@@ -55,5 +76,21 @@ jobs:
             ${{ env.REGISTRY }}/${{ env.IMAGE_NAME }}:${{ gitea.sha }}
             ghcr.io/shadowdao/triple-c-sandbox:latest
             ghcr.io/shadowdao/triple-c-sandbox:${{ gitea.sha }}
+          # `ignore-error` is what stops a cache failure failing a build that
+          # already succeeded. act_runner emulates the GitHub Actions cache
+          # service on the runner host's LAN address, and the `docker-container`
+          # builder `setup-buildx-action` creates could not route to it —
+          # every layer of both arches built, then the job died on
+          # `GetCacheEntryDownloadURL: no route to host` while exporting.
+          #
+          # On a pull_request `push:` above is false, so this job pushes
+          # nothing and the cache is its only output: failing it discarded a
+          # complete, successful validation of the Dockerfile for both
+          # architectures. A cache is an optimisation and must degrade to
+          # "slow", never to "red".
+          #
+          # The import is already non-fatal — the build ran all 37 layers after
+          # warning that it could not read the cache — so only the exporter
+          # needs the flag.
           cache-from: type=gha
-          cache-to: type=gha,mode=max
+          cache-to: type=gha,mode=max,ignore-error=true

.gitea/workflows/secret-scan.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+name: Secret Scan
+
+# **No `paths:` filter, deliberately.** The credential this exists for lived in
+# `app/src-tauri/src/docker/container.rs`, which `build.yml` would have skipped —
+# that workflow only runs for `container/**`. A scan that can be avoided by
+# touching the wrong directory is not a scan.
+#
+# This is the half of the check that nobody can bypass. The pre-commit hook in
+# `.githooks/` is faster and friendlier, but it is opt-in per clone and
+# `--no-verify` skips it; both are true of every git hook and neither is fixable
+# from inside a repository.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: ["**"]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: ["**"]
+
+jobs:
+  scan:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      # The whole tracked tree, not just the diff. Scanning a range is cheaper
+      # but depends on getting the range right across pushes, force-pushes,
+      # merges and PR events — and a wrong range fails *open*. The full scan
+      # takes under half a second on this repository and cannot be evaded by
+      # arranging for the interesting commit to sit outside the window.
+      - name: Scan tracked files for credentials
+        run: sh scripts/scan-secrets.sh --tracked

.gitea/workflows/sync-release.yml

@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-name: Sync Release to GitHub
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-jobs:
-  sync-release:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Mirror release to GitHub
-        env:
-          GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
-          GITHUB_REPO: shadowdao/triple-c
-          RELEASE_TAG: ${{ gitea.event.release.tag_name }}
-          RELEASE_NAME: ${{ gitea.event.release.name }}
-          RELEASE_BODY: ${{ gitea.event.release.body }}
-          IS_PRERELEASE: ${{ gitea.event.release.prerelease }}
-          IS_DRAFT: ${{ gitea.event.release.draft }}
-        run: |
-          set -e
-
-          echo "==> Creating release $RELEASE_TAG on GitHub..."
-
-          RESPONSE=$(curl -sf -X POST \
-            -H "Authorization: Bearer $GH_PAT" \
-            -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-            -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-            https://api.github.com/repos/$GITHUB_REPO/releases \
-            -d "{
-              \"tag_name\": \"$RELEASE_TAG\",
-              \"name\": \"$RELEASE_NAME\",
-              \"body\": $(echo "$RELEASE_BODY" | jq -Rs .),
-              \"draft\": $IS_DRAFT,
-              \"prerelease\": $IS_PRERELEASE
-            }")
-
-          UPLOAD_URL=$(echo "$RESPONSE" | jq -r '.upload_url' | sed 's/{?name,label}//')
-          echo "Release created. Upload URL: $UPLOAD_URL"
-
-          echo '${{ toJSON(gitea.event.release.assets) }}' | jq -c '.[]' | while read asset; do
-            ASSET_NAME=$(echo "$asset" | jq -r '.name')
-            ASSET_URL=$(echo "$asset" | jq -r '.browser_download_url')
-
-            echo "==> Downloading asset: $ASSET_NAME"
-            curl -sfL -o "/tmp/$ASSET_NAME" "$ASSET_URL"
-
-            echo "==> Uploading $ASSET_NAME to GitHub..."
-            ENCODED_NAME=$(python3 -c "import urllib.parse, sys; print(urllib.parse.quote(sys.argv[1]))" "$ASSET_NAME")
-            curl -sf -X POST \
-              -H "Authorization: Bearer $GH_PAT" \
-              -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-              -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
-              --data-binary "@/tmp/$ASSET_NAME" \
-              "$UPLOAD_URL?name=$ENCODED_NAME"
-
-            echo "  Uploaded: $ASSET_NAME"
-          done
-
-          echo "==> Release sync complete."

.githooks/pre-commit

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Refuse a commit that adds something shaped like a live credential.
+#
+# Installed by pointing git at this directory:
+#
+#     git config core.hooksPath .githooks
+#
+# which `npm run hooks` in app/ does for you. It is per-clone — git will not let
+# a repository configure its own hooks path, for the obvious reason that cloning
+# a repo would then be enough to run its code. So this is opt-in on every
+# machine, `--no-verify` skips it, and neither of those is a flaw to fix here:
+# the CI job in `.gitea/workflows/build.yml` is the half nobody can bypass. The
+# hook exists to tell you in one second rather than in five minutes.
+exec "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/scripts/scan-secrets.sh" --staged

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 node_modules/
 app/dist/
 app/src-tauri/target/
+# Written by build.rs (tauri-build AppManifest); gen/schemas/acl-manifests.json is the
+# tracked, reviewable form of the same information.
+app/src-tauri/permissions/autogenerated/
 Screenshot*.png
 code-review.md
+
+# Windows NTFS alternate-data-stream artifacts, created when files arrive
+# through the WSL/host bind mount.
+*:Zone.Identifier
+
+# Local bug-report screenshots, same spirit as Screenshot*.png above.
+screenshot_for_fix/
+
+# Package files pulled in by ad-hoc verification runs.
+*.deb
+
+# Windows CI code signing (scripts/windows-signing-setup.ps1)
+.code-signing/

BUILDING.md

@@ -71,13 +71,29 @@ npm ci
 npx tauri build
 ```
 
+Linux ships as **AppImage only**. To match what CI produces, pass the bundle
+explicitly:
+
+```bash
+npx tauri build --bundles appimage
+```
+
+The `.deb` and `.rpm` bundles were dropped — two more artifacts to build and
+publish for an audience the AppImage already serves, and neither could
+self-update. A bare `npx tauri build` still emits them, because
+`tauri.conf.json` keeps `"targets": "all"` so that macOS and Windows are
+untouched; they are not released and not tested.
+
 Build artifacts are located in `app/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/`:
 
-| Format     | Path                          |
-|------------|-------------------------------|
-| AppImage   | `appimage/*.AppImage`         |
-| Debian pkg | `deb/*.deb`                   |
-| RPM pkg    | `rpm/*.rpm`                   |
+| Format     | Path                          | Released |
+|------------|-------------------------------|----------|
+| AppImage   | `appimage/*.AppImage`         | yes      |
+| Debian pkg | `deb/*.deb`                   | no       |
+| RPM pkg    | `rpm/*.rpm`                   | no       |
+
+`scripts/finalize-appimage.sh` post-processes the AppImage; see the Packaging
+section of `CLAUDE.md` for why both of its steps are load-bearing.
 
 ## macOS
 

CLAUDE.md

@@ -73,13 +73,78 @@ docker exec stdout → tokio task → emit("terminal-output-{sessionId}") → li
 - **`hooks/`** — All Tauri IPC calls are encapsulated in hooks (`useTerminal`, `useProjects`, `useDocker`, `useSettings`)
 - **`lib/tauri-commands.ts`** — Typed `invoke()` wrappers; TypeScript types in `lib/types.ts` must match Rust models
 - **`components/terminal/TerminalView.tsx`** — xterm.js integration with WebGL rendering, URL detection for OAuth flow
+- **`viewer/`** — the terminal file viewer's window (second Vite entry `viewer.html` →
+  `src/viewer/main.tsx`; CodeMirror 6). `lib/filePathLinks.ts` decides what a path is;
+  `components/terminal/filePathLinkProvider.ts` registers it with xterm. The OSC 8 handler now
+  runs with `allowNonHttpProtocols` on and dispatches `file:` to the viewer, so every other scheme
+  must be refused *there*. `viewer.html` must never carry an inline `<style>` — Tauri would add a
+  style nonce and CodeMirror's injected styles would stop applying. A missing or broken
+  `viewer.html` Vite entry is not caught by Tauri at build time — both Vite dev and Tauri's asset
+  lookup silently fall back to `index.html`, so the window just opens the *main app*, full UI and
+  all, with no error anywhere; `file_viewer::tests::the_viewer_entry_exists_and_is_a_vite_input`
+  in `file_viewer/mod.rs` is the only thing pinning this.
 - **`components/layout/`** — TopBar, MainTabs (the unified tab strip), Sidebar, StatusBar
 - **`components/projects/`** — `ProjectRow` (select-only list row), `ProjectList`, `AddProjectDialog`,
   and the editors reused by Project Home
 - **`components/projects/home/`** — **Project Home**, the main-area view for a project:
   Overview / Sessions / Automation / Config / Files. Per-project configuration lives here, not in
   modals — see "UI conventions" below.
-- **`components/settings/`** — Host-level settings: Docker, AWS, Web Terminal, STT, shared auth
+  - **The Files pane's host transfers open their dialog from Rust, and that is the whole
+    design — do not move it back into the webview.** The tab browses, views (text and image),
+    renames and creates folders inside the container (`list_container_files`,
+    `read_container_file`, `rename_container_path`, `create_container_directory`), and it
+    copies single files in and out (`upload_files_to_container`, `download_container_file`).
+    The second pair call `pick_files_to_upload` / `pick_save_path`, which drive
+    `tauri-plugin-dialog` from the *backend*: the webview can ask for a picker and that is the
+    entirety of its influence — it cannot name a host path as an *input*. The claim stops
+    there and should not be widened: host paths still travel outward in error text, canonical
+    ones included. What is closed is the direction that produced the criticals.
+    That shape is not decoration. Four successive audits found that host filesystem paths
+    crossing IPC were where the criticals lived — a caller-named host destination for
+    container-controlled bytes, an arbitrary host source read into the container, a `link(2)`
+    upload reservation that succeeded against a directory and failed forever on any filesystem
+    without hard links. The feature was removed rather than fixed a fifth time, and it came
+    back only in the shape that removes the class: a frontend-driven dialog handing Rust a
+    string is the exact thing that failed, so re-introducing `open()`/`save()` in `FilesTab`
+    would undo the whole point while looking like a simplification.
+    None of the reservation machinery came back with it. There is no destination reservation,
+    no placeholder rollback and no collision marker — the OS save dialog already asks about
+    overwriting, and Docker's archive extractor overwrites on upload the way `cp` does.
+  - **Drag-and-drop is still not it.** There is no drop-into-the-Files-pane and no OS
+    drag-out; the buttons are the gesture. A file also gets *in* by being dropped on the
+    Terminal, and a whole tree comes *out* through "Back up container" — those two predate the
+    Files work and their hardening is not to be weakened. `TerminalView`'s `onDragDropEvent`
+    is Tauri's native drop event (window-wide, so routed by `lib/dropTarget.ts` — geometry for
+    *whose* drop it is, a document-wide `dropIsBlocked` for whether the app should accept one
+    at all; keep both halves and keep `PaneVisibility`). Backup is
+    `file_commands::download_container_backup`.
+  - **`resolve_host_path` applies the full lexical predicate twice — as written, and again
+    after canonicalisation.** That includes the general hidden-component rule, which
+    deliberately over-catches: a path resolving through `node_modules/.pnpm`, `~/.cache` or
+    `~/.local/share` is refused. Do not narrow it back to a list of "credential" directories.
+    That was tried, and allow-by-omission let `~/.local/bin` (write there and you own the
+    user's next shell command), `~/.password-store`, browser profiles and `~/.pki/nssdb`
+    through a planted symlink with a perfectly visible name. Over-refusing is the cheaper
+    mistake. Note the cost is real and has grown: of the four callers, the Files pane's two
+    are routine, and their path comes from a dialog — so an over-catch refuses a destination a
+    person actually chose (`~/.config` is the common one). Accepted, and not a reason to
+    narrow the rule, because the terminal drop and `download_container_backup` still take
+    their host path over IPC and this predicate is their only boundary.
+  - **OS drag-out is not here.** `tauri-plugin-drag`, `stage_container_file_for_drag` and its
+    host staging directory were held back for separate hardening and live on
+    `hold/disk-and-dragout`. Do not re-add `drag:allow-start-drag` or a staging command
+    without taking that work back whole: the plugin has no scope mechanism, so the grant lets
+    a compromised webview start a drag on *any* host path the user can read, and the staging
+    directory is a host-temp disk leak with a gesture attached unless its exit-clear and
+    startup-reap come back with it.
+- **`components/settings/`** — Host-level settings: Docker, AWS, Web Terminal, STT, shared auth.
+  There is deliberately **no Disk panel** here. The disk survey and its reclaim / destroy /
+  compaction surface were held back for separate hardening and live on `hold/disk-and-dragout`;
+  one of their IPC commands was a verified arbitrary-DELETE primitive, so if that work returns it
+  returns whole, `generate_handler!` entries and typed confirmations included. The *prevention*
+  half stayed and is not disk-panel code: the pre-commit scrub in `docker/container.rs`, capped
+  container logs, the `triple-c.base` / `triple-c.managed` labels, `sweep_orphaned_snapshots` and
+  the startup housekeeping in `lib.rs`, the migration reapers, and `project_lock.rs`.
 - **`components/ui/`** — Shared primitives. **Use these; do not hand-roll replacements.**
   `Modal` (the only correct way to build a dialog — it supplies `role="dialog"`, `aria-modal`,
   focus trap and restore), `Button`, `Toggle`, `Field`, `SegmentedControl`, `StatusIndicator`,
@@ -106,6 +171,19 @@ docker exec stdout → tokio task → emit("terminal-output-{sessionId}") → li
   Beyond docker/project/settings/terminal: `inspect_commands.rs` (read-only views into a
   container — Claude sessions, installed capabilities, scheduler tasks), `auth_bridge_commands.rs`,
   `auth_token_commands.rs`.
+- **`file_viewer/`** — one window per click (`file-viewer-<n>`), a managed `ViewerRegistry`,
+  resolution by probing `/workspace/<p>` then `/workspace/<mount>/<p>` in one exec as `claude`,
+  polling by `sha256sum`, saves staged in `/tmp` and swapped in by a `sh` script as the container
+  user (spec §5 says why the archive API never writes to the target directory). Commands take
+  `window: tauri::Window`, gate on the label and act on the caller's own registry entry — no
+  viewer command accepts a path. Which window may *call* each command is the ACL's job: the
+  `file-viewer-*` capability grants exactly the five `viewer_*` commands (see `build.rs`).
+- **`build.rs` + `src/command_census.rs`** — the build declares a Tauri `AppManifest` from the
+  `generate_handler!` list and refuses to build unless every command has exactly one bare
+  `allow-*` grant in the capability file its name says it belongs to. The parser and rules are
+  in `command_census.rs`, compiled into both the build script and the test build, so they are
+  unit-tested; `the_generated_app_manifest_matches_the_handler_list` reads back what tauri
+  embedded. Design: `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-22-app-manifest-lockdown-design.md`.
 - **`auth_bridge/`** — Host-side loopback bridge so browser logins run *inside* a container can
   complete against the host browser. Discovers listeners by parsing `/proc/net/tcp{,6}` (the image
   has no `ss`/`netstat`/`lsof`), binds host `127.0.0.1` **only**, and tunnels in over the Docker
@@ -203,7 +281,8 @@ docker exec stdout → tokio task → emit("terminal-output-{sessionId}") → li
 ### Container (`container/`)
 
 - **`Dockerfile`** — Ubuntu 24.04 base with Claude Code, Node.js 22, Python 3.12, Rust, Docker CLI, git, gh, AWS CLI v2, ripgrep, pnpm, uv, ruff pre-installed, plus the shared
-  libraries a browser links against (see below)
+  libraries a browser links against (see below) and the VPN tooling the `vpn_support_enabled`
+  toggle grants capability for (`iproute2`, `wireguard-tools`, `iptables`)
 - **Browser runtime libraries are baked in; browser *binaries* are not.** A layer runs
   `npx --yes playwright@latest install-deps chromium` as root, so Playwright names its own
   dependencies and the list cannot rot against Ubuntu 24.04's `t64` renames or a new Chromium
@@ -273,6 +352,110 @@ migration and Reset. Four things here are not obvious:
   actively **removes** `triple-c-*.crt` when the setting is cleared — `/usr/local/share` rides the
   project's snapshot image, so turning the feature off has to undo, not merely stop.
 
+### VPN support (`vpn_support_enabled`, `docker/container.rs`)
+
+An opt-in per-project switch granting the container what a VPN client needs to build a tunnel.
+`vpn_host_config()` is the single definition of what that means, and it is unit-tested because a
+container is created once by a very long function where a dropped capability is invisible.
+
+- **All three pieces or none.** `CAP_NET_ADMIN` (Docker's default set has `net_raw` but *not*
+  `net_admin`, so a client can ping but never connect), the `/dev/net/tun` device (absent
+  entirely from a default container — nothing to open even with the capability), and
+  `net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1` (WireGuard's `wg-quick` sets it and cannot from inside a
+  container, since `/proc/sys` is read-only, so handshake packets die to reverse-path filtering).
+  Any two without the third still presents as a connection that hangs to a timeout, which is why
+  the tests assert the whole set.
+- **The device is passed through from the host, never `mknod`-ed inside.** The kernel's `tun`
+  module has to back it.
+- **A missing device fails at `start`, not `create` — verified against Docker 29.7.** `docker
+  create --device /dev/does-not-exist` succeeds and prints an id; runc resolves the device (and
+  validates sysctls) only when it builds the container. So the guard belongs on the start path:
+  `explain_container_failure()` covers both and is called from `start_container`, where it has a
+  container id and no project — which is why it keys off the error naming `/dev/net/tun` rather
+  than off `vpn_support_enabled`. Nothing else in Triple-C requests a device, so that is
+  unambiguous. A version of this check wired to `create` alone is dead code that looks correct.
+- **`NET_ADMIN` here is not user-namespaced.** Docker does not enable userns remapping by default,
+  so only the *network* namespace confines it: no reach onto host interfaces, but promiscuous
+  mode, arbitrary addresses/routes/NAT on the shared `docker0` segment (sibling containers, the
+  LiteLLM gateway among them, are ARP-spoofable), netlink-triggered host module auto-load, and
+  enough authority to flush in-container netfilter rules that sandbox mode may rely on. Keep the
+  code comments honest about this — an earlier draft claimed it "confers no authority" outside the
+  container, which is too strong.
+- **`triple-c.vpn-support` is written unconditionally, including `false`.** The usual
+  `docker commit` reason: a `true` stamped once would ride the snapshot image into every future
+  container and make the switch impossible to turn off.
+- Off is byte-identical to a container created before the feature existed, and a missing label
+  reads as `false`, so no existing project is churned.
+- **The toggle grants capability and stops there — it routes nothing.** `vpn_host_config()` returns
+  a cap, a device and a sysctl; no client is installed, no route is touched, no tunnel is started
+  or restored. Users read the name as "turn the VPN on" and report the default network not routing
+  through it as a bug. It isn't, and the docs say so explicitly; keep it that way.
+- **The tooling is baked, not installed at runtime.** `iproute2` and `wireguard-tools` are in
+  `container/Dockerfile` because a runtime install lands in the writable layer and is lost on
+  base-image migration — leaving a project holding the capability with nothing able to exercise it,
+  and no error that points at why. `iptables` is included and `nftables` deliberately is not; see
+  the Dockerfile comment for why that way round.
+- **Anything built on this fails open.** The network namespace is rebuilt on every start and no
+  service manager runs inside, so a tunnel never survives stop/start or recreation — while leftover
+  `/run` state makes it look as though it did. Note the two different mechanisms: `/run` is in the
+  writable layer, so on a stop/start it is simply the same container's files, and on a recreation
+  `docker commit` has carried it into the snapshot. Traffic silently reverts to the real address.
+  Any future autostart or killswitch work starts here.
+- **`/run` riding the snapshot means a VPN client's key material can end up in an image.** Verified:
+  a fresh container off the whp snapshot already contained the `wg.priv` a previous tunnel left in
+  `/run`. Anything writing key material there inherits the problem — the same `docker commit`
+  hazard as `triple-c.git-token-hash` and the custom-env fingerprint, in a directory that looks
+  ephemeral and is not. A VPN client that does this should delete its key on teardown.
+- **`iptables` is baked, and picking `nftables` instead would have been wrong.** `Recommends:
+  nftables | iptables` is stripped by `--no-install-recommends`, and `wg-quick` needs a backend for
+  any `AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0`. `nftables` is the tempting choice — preferred by `wg-quick`, half
+  the size — but `wg-quick` picks nft *unconditionally* when present, and its nft ruleset needs
+  `nft_fib_ipv4`, which LinuxKit (Docker Desktop for Mac) does not build while it *does* build
+  `xt_CONNMARK`. Shipping nftables would therefore have forfeited Mac. See the Dockerfile comment;
+  the kernel-config evidence is quoted there.
+- **Two `wg-quick` failures remain, and only one is ours to fix.** Full tunnels still need
+  `xt_CONNMARK`, which WSL2 before 6.6 lacks — nothing installable changes that. And every
+  provider's stock config carries a `DNS =` line that fails in `set_dns()` before any routing, so it
+  breaks split tunnels too; `openresolv` has no candidate on noble and `resolvconf` drags in
+  systemd-resolved, so that one is documented rather than fixed. Driving `wg` and `ip route`
+  directly avoids both, which is what the skill does.
+- **The `pia-vpn` skill is installed *and removed* from `VPN_SUPPORT_ENABLED`.** `container/skills/`
+  is baked to `/opt/triple-c-skills` and `install_feature_skill()` in `entrypoint.sh` copies it into
+  `~/.claude/skills/` on every start — refreshed each time, so a fix reaches any project whose base
+  image has the source, and `rm -rf`'d first, so files dropped from a later version do not linger.
+  The removal branch matters as much as the install: `~/.claude` is a persisted volume, so a skill
+  left behind after the toggle goes off would keep instructing an agent to use a capability the
+  container no longer has. Which is also why the variable is sent as `0` rather than omitted (see
+  `vpn_env_var`, tested), and why it is in `RESERVED_ENV_EXACT` — a custom env var of that name
+  could otherwise claim the skill without the capability behind it.
+- **Both halves of that live in the base image, so neither reaches an existing project.** A
+  recreation builds from the project's *own snapshot*, which has no `/opt/triple-c-skills` and no
+  updated `entrypoint.sh`; only a migration or a Reset delivers them. The install path says so out
+  loud rather than returning silently, and `/opt/triple-c-skills` is in `FEATURE_PROBES` so the
+  migration pre-flight lists it as missing. Worth knowing before adding anything else behind an
+  existing toggle: the label fingerprints *the setting*, not the set of things the setting drives,
+  so a project already at `true` gets no recreation at all on upgrade.
+
+### Keeping Claude Code current
+
+`claude update` runs in **two** places, and both are needed:
+
+- `container/entrypoint.sh` runs it once per container start, before any session exists.
+- `commands/terminal_commands.rs` (and its twin in `web_terminal/ws_handler.rs`) prepend it to the
+  command every Claude session launches with, because containers use a stop/start model and a
+  long-lived one would otherwise never re-check.
+
+Both are `timeout`-bounded and `|| echo`'d, so an offline or slow network delays a tab rather than
+failing it, and **both take the same `flock` on `/tmp/.triple-c-claude-update.lock`**. That lock is
+not tidiness: the entrypoint prints "container ready" only after its own update finishes, so
+starting a project and immediately opening a tab — or opening two tabs at once — otherwise runs two
+updaters against the same `~/.claude/bin`, and `|| echo` would hide a half-written install behind a
+friendly message one line before `exec claude` ran it. `-E 0` makes losing the race a success,
+because the holder just did the work. The per-session copy is what forced the non-Bedrock path from a bare `["claude", ...]`
+argv into a `bash -c` wrapper — the flags and the session name are interpolated into a shell
+string now, so **anything added there must go through `shell_quote_arg`**. Bash sessions are
+deliberately untouched.
+
 ### Container Lifecycle
 
 Containers use a **stop/start** model (not create/destroy). Installed packages persist across stops. The `.claude` config dir uses a named Docker volume (`triple-c-claude-config-{projectId}`), nested inside the home volume (`triple-c-home-{projectId}`), so OAuth tokens and Claude Code config survive container stop/start *and* container recreation.
@@ -296,6 +479,63 @@ security update. Migration is the non-destructive way out; Reset is the destruct
   bump: churn on the old base, and it would consume the "you should migrate" signal without
   migrating. `get_container_staleness` surfaces it; `migrate_project_to_base` acts on it.
 - **A missing lineage label means "unknown, probe instead", never "stale".**
+- **The snapshot image is not a checkpoint — never read its absence as "nothing to inspect".**
+  `commit_container_snapshot` runs only before a container is destroyed (a config-change recreate)
+  or inside a migration. **Never on stop.** So a project in daily use for a year can legitimately
+  have no `triple-c-snapshot-{id}:latest` at all, and one that has is stale by everything installed
+  since. `pick_probe_source` therefore reads a *stopped* container directly — commit its writable
+  layer to a unique `triple-c-probe-*` image, probe that, drop it — and ranks it **above** the snapshot,
+  for the same reason a running container already outranked it. Assuming a snapshot existed is what
+  made a stopped, never-recreated project report "no container or snapshot image yet" with its
+  container sitting right there, and left Update disabled on the projects furthest behind.
+- **`bollard` never gives you the image id back from a commit.** Its `Commit` response model
+  deserialises `"ID"`; the daemon sends `"Id"`, so `commit_container` returns `id: None` every time
+  (verified: bollard 0.18.1, Engine 29.6). Neither long-standing commit site notices because both
+  discard the response — but it means any commit you need a *reference* to has to be **tagged**.
+- **A tagged leftover is the one orphan no sweep can reach, so the probe image has its own reaper.**
+  `sweep_orphaned_snapshots` collects `dangling` + `triple-c.managed=true`; `reap_stale_migration_pins`
+  and `scrub_secrets_from_snapshots` both filter `triple-c-snapshot-*`. A `triple-c-probe-*` image is
+  tagged and so matches none of them, which would make a crashed probe a permanent multi-gigabyte
+  leak with no UI to find it. `reap_probe_images` runs at startup beside `reap_probe_containers` and
+  is **load-bearing, not tidying** — it is also what makes the probe image's unscrubbed writable
+  layer acceptable. Two rules it earned the hard way:
+  - **Age-gate it** (`PROBE_REAP_MIN_AGE_SECS`, same as the container reaper). `reference=` is
+    daemon-wide, so a second copy of the app has live probe images matching the glob.
+  - **Remove by tag, never by image id.** A `force` removal by id untags an image *everywhere*; a
+    fixture that tagged `alpine:latest` into this namespace deleted the user's alpine that way.
+- **Probe image names are unique per call, and must stay that way.** A stable per-container name was
+  tried: container ids do not survive a recreate, so most leftovers were stranded permanently, and
+  two concurrent probes fought over one tag — whichever finished first force-removed the image the
+  other was still reading, reporting a bogus `probe_error` on a healthy project. `get_container_staleness`
+  takes no `project_lock` claim (the migration banner needs it to answer *during* a migration), so
+  uniqueness is what makes overlapping probes safe.
+- **The stopped-container probe is cached per stop, and that is not an optimisation you may drop.**
+  `getContainerStaleness` is called from a `useEffect` that fires whenever the container settles, so
+  merely opening a stopped project's Overview probes it. Uncached that is a `docker commit` of the
+  whole writable layer per visit — measured at 44 s on a real project, against ~3 s for the snapshot
+  probe it replaced. `STOPPED_MANIFEST_CACHE` is keyed on the container's `FinishedAt`, which is
+  exact rather than merely plausible: nothing can write to a stopped container's writable layer, and
+  `FinishedAt` moves on every stop. A live test asserts the restart case, because a cache that
+  failed to invalidate would plan a migration against a filesystem the project no longer has.
+- **Do not "skip the probe when the project is not stale" to save that cost.** It was tried. The
+  deltas would be empty while `probeSettled` (`!probing && staleness && !probe_error`) stayed *true*,
+  which leaves the migrate action in the project menu enabled — that action is not gated on the
+  banner — so the pre-flight would report nothing to copy while the backend was told to copy
+  nothing. That is the exact hazard `ProjectHome.tsx`'s `canMigrate` comment already warns about.
+- **A failed stopped-container probe falls back to the snapshot whenever one exists.** Before this
+  feature a stopped project read its snapshot directly, so surfacing a commit failure where the
+  snapshot could have answered would make the banner *worse* than it was — and the failure modes are
+  exactly the ones where the fallback earns its keep: a full disk (the commit allocates the whole
+  writable layer; the snapshot probe allocates nothing) and a 409 from a concurrent claim.
+- **`get_container_staleness` never commits while the project is claimed.** It takes no
+  `project_lock` claim itself, deliberately — the banner has to answer *during* a migration — so it
+  reads `project_lock::held` instead and probes the snapshot rather than the container. The
+  collision is not symmetric: the probe losing is a retryable `probe_error`, but
+  `start_project_container` removes the old container with a hard `?`, so a remove that raced a
+  commit would fail the user's Start with an opaque error.
+- **An image's `Created` is the image's own, not its tag's.** Tagging an existing image gives you
+  that image's age; BuildKit stamps `docker build` output with a fixed epoch. Only `docker commit`
+  stamps *now* — which is what real probe images do, and what any fixture for them must do.
 - **`:latest` keeps pointing at the old lineage until the final commit.** That is what makes every
   crash before that point self-heal — `start_project_container` just recreates from the old
   snapshot. After the container swap, the new container's `triple-c.migration-state=in-progress`
@@ -361,9 +601,28 @@ Anthropic and Bedrock deliberately keep Claude Code's own defaults.
 
 - Frontend types in `lib/types.ts` must stay in sync with Rust structs in `models/`
 - Tauri commands are registered in `lib.rs` via `.invoke_handler(tauri::generate_handler![...])`
-- `capabilities/default.json` grants permissions for **plugin** commands only (`core:`, `dialog:`,
-  `store:`, `opener:`). Application commands registered through `generate_handler!` do **not**
-  need an entry there — adding one is not required and none exists for any app command.
+- **A new command needs three things:** `#[tauri::command]`, a `generate_handler!` entry in
+  `lib.rs`, and a bare `allow-<name-with-dashes>` entry in the one capability file for the
+  window that calls it — `viewer_*` commands in `capabilities/file-viewer.json`, everything else
+  in `capabilities/default.json`. `build.rs` declares a Tauri `AppManifest` from the handler list
+  (without one, tauri 2.11 does not apply the ACL to app commands at all) and fails `cargo
+  check`/`tauri build` on a missing, misspelled, duplicated or misfiled grant, a `deny-*`, or a
+  hand-written file under `permissions/`. `src/test/capabilities.test.ts` fails if code that runs
+  in a window imports a `tauri-commands.ts` wrapper that window is not granted. Only `_` becomes
+  `-` in the identifier; `permissions/autogenerated/` is generated and ignored, and
+  `gen/schemas/*.json` is regenerated by every build and committed.
+- **A new window needs its own top-level `capabilities/*.json`; never `webviews`/`remote`;
+  never inline.** `build.rs` only vouches for what `src/command_census.rs` reads — a top-level
+  `capabilities/*.json` file with a `windows` list — so it refuses to build on anything tauri
+  would load that the census can't check: a capability under a subdirectory or written as
+  `.toml`/`.json5`, a `webviews` or `remote` key in a capability file (either widens grants past
+  what `windows` says), `app.security.capabilities` declared inline in `tauri.conf.json`/any
+  `tauri.<platform>.conf.json`/`TAURI_CONFIG`, or a tauri config in a format it can't parse
+  (JSON5, TOML). OS/editor junk (`.DS_Store`, `Thumbs.db`, swap files) is recognised and skipped
+  rather than refused. Each failure names the check that failed, not just "capabilities do not
+  match generate_handler!". **Known limit:** adding a new `tauri.<platform>.conf.json` to a tree
+  that has already been built once only takes effect on a clean build or in CI — cargo's
+  incremental build has no reason to notice a file that did not exist on the previous build.
 - The `projects.json` file uses atomic writes (write to `.tmp`, then `rename()`). Corrupted files are backed up to `.bak`.
 - **Adding project state that changes the container?** `container_needs_recreation()` is entirely
   **label-based** — it does not diff the container's env. If a new setting affects the container's
@@ -384,6 +643,264 @@ Anthropic and Bedrock deliberately keep Claude Code's own defaults.
   `#[serde(default)]` on a `bool` yields `false`; follow the `default_full_permissions` pattern in
   `models/project.rs` for anything that should default to true.
 - Cross-platform paths: Docker socket is `/var/run/docker.sock` on Linux/macOS, `//./pipe/docker_engine` on Windows
+- A new local window needs its own capability file (`capabilities/file-viewer.json` is the
+  model), and `lib.rs`'s `on_window_event` stays guarded on `label() == "main"`.
+
+## Secrets
+
+**`scripts/scan-secrets.sh` refuses a commit that adds something shaped like a live
+credential.** Enable the hook once per clone with `npm run hooks` (from `app/`), which sets
+`core.hooksPath` to `.githooks`. A repository cannot configure its own hooks path — cloning it
+would then be enough to run its code — so this is opt-in everywhere, and `--no-verify` skips it.
+The `Secret Scan` workflow is the half nobody can bypass; it carries **no `paths:` filter**, on
+purpose, because the incident that prompted all this lived in `app/**` and `build.yml` only runs
+for `container/**`.
+
+Three rules, and the second half of the third is what keeps it usable: vendor-prefixed tokens
+(`ghp_`, `sk-`, `AKIA`, `xox`, …), `BEGIN … PRIVATE KEY` blocks, and an opaque literal assigned to
+a secret-shaped name. That last one needs **both** halves — the identifier must read as a
+credential *and* the whole literal must be hex or base64 with no word structure. Name-proximity
+alone flags `secure::get_project_secret(&id, "aws-secret-access-key")`, which is a keychain key
+name; the literal test is what excludes it. Measured against the tree: 0 false positives, and it
+catches the real incident (`9b2f4fe`) when replayed.
+
+A line ending `pragma: allowlist secret` is skipped. Make a fixture obviously fake before reaching
+for it.
+
+**Why this exists:** `the_custom_env_fingerprint_never_carries_the_value` used the maintainer's
+real Gitea **site-admin** token as its fixture — a test about secrets not escaping, leaking one. It
+survived 92 commits and fourteen days in the public GitHub mirror, past five audit rounds and two
+independent reviews, because every one of them read the code under change and this sat in a test
+nobody had reason to open. Fixtures are never live values; there is no case where they need to be.
+
+## Settings export/import
+
+`commands::settings_export_commands`, `storage::settings_crypto`, `models::settings_export`
+(triple-c#35). Exports the *host* environment — global `AppSettings` plus the global secrets that
+live in the OS keychain instead: the shared Claude Code OAuth login and the model gateway's two
+keys. Per-project settings, per-project secrets, and anything in a project's Docker volumes are
+deliberately out of scope — this is not a project backup.
+
+- **`AppSettings` is not entirely the non-secret shape it looks like, and a review of this feature
+  caught the one place that isn't.** `WebTerminalSettings::access_token` is a live bearer
+  credential for a server that binds every interface — exporting `AppSettings` wholesale would
+  have carried it along as if it were as inert as a port number, and importing it would have
+  applied `web_terminal.enabled` and the token together with no more warning than any other
+  setting, letting a crafted export silently stand up a LAN-listening terminal on the next launch.
+  `export_settings`/`apply_settings_import` carve this one field out into `ExportedSecrets`
+  instead, with the same "only overwrite what the import actually has" treatment as the other
+  three secrets — except "leave it alone" has to be done by hand in `apply_settings_import`, since
+  unlike the keychain secrets this one lives inside the `AppSettings` blob that gets replaced
+  wholesale. `SettingsImportPreview::enables_web_terminal` also exists because of this: `enabled`
+  and the token are independent fields, and "this turns on a listening service" must not hide
+  inside a generic "settings replaced" summary. Read this as the standing example of the class of
+  thing to keep checking for in this feature, not a one-off fixed bug — any other field that looks
+  like config but is actually a live credential would have the same problem.
+- **Encrypted because it can carry live credentials, not for appearance's sake.** Argon2id derives
+  a 256-bit key from the user's password (memory-hard — meaningfully resistant to GPU/ASIC
+  brute-forcing, unlike PBKDF2 at any reasonable iteration count), AES-256-GCM does the actual
+  encryption. A wrong password fails GCM's authentication tag rather than producing silent
+  garbage. The salt and nonce are not secret and are written in the clear in the file's own
+  header — the salt's job is only to make two exports of the same password derive different keys,
+  and the nonce's only requirement is per-encryption uniqueness, which a fresh random draw on
+  every export already gives it.
+- **The save/open dialogs are opened from Rust**, the same boundary `file_commands.rs`'s
+  `pick_save_path`/`pick_files_to_upload` draw and document at length: a frontend-driven dialog
+  handing Rust a host path string is the exact shape of bug that produced this app's past
+  criticals. `preview_settings_import` resolves the chosen path itself and remembers it
+  (`AppState::pending_settings_import`) so `apply_settings_import` re-reads the same file without
+  a path ever crossing back over IPC. It also pins a hash of the file's ciphertext next to that
+  path, and `apply_settings_import` refuses to proceed if the file on disk no longer matches it —
+  otherwise confirming a preview would not actually be binding on what gets applied, which matters
+  given this feature's own threat model: a file shared between people may sit in a synced or
+  otherwise shared directory that changes between the two calls.
+- **The decrypted payload is not cached between preview and apply — only the password is reused.**
+  The frontend holds the password in React state and passes it to both calls; nothing in Rust
+  holds decrypted plaintext — secrets included — in memory for longer than one command's
+  execution, so `apply_settings_import` always re-decrypts rather than reusing anything
+  `preview_settings_import` computed. `preview_settings_import` returns counts and presence flags
+  only (`SettingsImportPreview`), never a secret value, so it's safe to hand to the frontend and
+  render directly.
+- **Import replaces settings wholesale, but only writes secrets actually present in the file.**
+  An import is "restore this environment," so the settings half is a full replace, not a
+  field-by-field merge. Secrets are different on purpose: an absent secret in the export means
+  "the source machine never had this configured," not "delete this on import" — a user who wants
+  to clear a secret already has dedicated UI for that (signing out of shared auth, clearing the
+  gateway key). Secrets are restored *before* the settings replace runs, not after — replacing
+  settings is what triggers `reconcile_gateway`, and restoring the other way round leaves a real
+  window where a gateway recreation happens against the destination's old keys.
+- **A restored gateway secret nudges a running gateway container to recreate itself, even when
+  nothing about the gateway's *shape* changed.** `reconcile_gateway`'s `gateway_shape_changed` only
+  compares port/provider/base URL/models — deliberately, since that's what's rendered into the
+  container's config — so a secret-only change (same shape, new key) is invisible to it. Left
+  alone, a running container would keep serving the old key material indefinitely after an import
+  that restored a new one. `apply_settings_import` tracks whether either gateway secret was
+  actually written and, if the gateway is enabled and its container both exists and is running,
+  calls `docker::gateway::ensure_gateway_running` directly afterward — its own fingerprint already
+  includes the secret rotation id (`storage::secure::get_gateway_secret_version`), so it recreates
+  exactly when it should and no more.
+- **A keychain write failing during import is reported back, not only logged.** Each of the three
+  `secure::store_*` calls collects its error into `SettingsImportOutcome::secret_restore_warnings`
+  in addition to logging it — an import that silently restores two of three secrets but not the
+  third must not read as unqualified success just because the settings half of the import (which
+  runs after, and is validated before any of this) went through. `apply_settings_import` returns
+  `SettingsImportOutcome { settings, secret_restore_warnings }` rather than bare `AppSettings` for
+  this reason; `ImportSettingsModal` shows any warnings alongside the "Settings imported" message.
+- **The imported settings are validated *before* any secret is written, not just before the
+  settings replace.** `apply_settings_import` calls
+  `settings_commands::validate_settings_update(&current, &settings)` — the same checks
+  `update_settings` runs internally, pulled out into its own function specifically so this caller
+  can run them first — and only proceeds to the three keychain writes if that passes. A review
+  caught the earlier ordering: writing secrets first meant a rejected import (a bad env var name, a
+  disallowed host path) still left the keychain overwritten with the file's secrets while the
+  settings themselves stayed unchanged, a silently half-applied state the error message gave no
+  hint of.
+- **`read_and_decrypt` checks `format_version` before attempting to parse the full payload, not
+  after.** A version bump that isn't deserialize-compatible is exactly the case that check exists
+  for, and parsing the full struct first would fail on the shape mismatch before the version check
+  ever ran. Neither error path interpolates what `serde_json` actually says into the message
+  shown to the user — its type-mismatch errors quote the offending value inline, and the plaintext
+  here can hold a live credential.
+- **The 8-character password minimum is enforced in `export_settings` itself, not only in the
+  export modal.** The frontend minimum is a UX nudge; the Rust command is the actual boundary a
+  weak password has to cross, and Argon2id's memory-hardness buys little against an attacker who
+  can just try a short password directly. Measured with `.chars().count()` (Unicode scalar values)
+  rather than `.len()` (bytes), to stay as close as this pair of languages allows to the frontend's
+  `.length` check (UTF-16 code units) — the two only diverge on astral-plane characters. The
+  derived key and both plaintext buffers — the payload built for export, and whatever `decrypt`
+  recovers on import — are wrapped in `zeroize::Zeroizing` for the same reason every other secret
+  in this codebase gets handled carefully — cheap insurance (`zeroize` is already pulled in
+  transitively via `aes-gcm`) for material that exists only to hold or produce live credentials.
+- **The preview also discloses non-blank custom base URLs** (`global_ollama`, `global_llamacpp`,
+  `global_openai_compatible`, `gateway.api_base`) so an import that would redirect model traffic to
+  a different server is visible in the confirmation dialog rather than discovered later — these are
+  endpoints, not secrets, so `SettingsImportPreview` carries and `describeImport` renders the actual
+  URL rather than just a presence flag. `describeImportWarnings` additionally calls out a web
+  terminal token that arrives with the terminal left *off*: `start_web_terminal` only mints a fresh
+  token when none is already set, so a planted token would otherwise activate silently the next
+  time someone turns the terminal on, with no import-time signal that it wasn't freshly generated.
+- **The preview also discloses a custom Docker image, and warns on one every time — not just on
+  change.** `custom_image_name`/`image_source` weren't in scope for the base-URL disclosure above,
+  but a review pointed out they're a sharper version of the same problem: this is the image *every*
+  project container is created from (`models::container_config::resolve_image_name`), so a crafted
+  export pointing it at an attacker-controlled image is a path to running arbitrary code with
+  whatever a project's containers are allowed to reach, not merely a redirected API endpoint.
+  `describeImportWarnings` fires on `image_source == Custom` unconditionally rather than only when
+  it differs from the destination's current value, since re-importing the same risky configuration
+  is still worth surfacing every time a user confirms an import.
+- **Every free-form string a preview surfaces is sanitized and length-capped before it's built.**
+  `SettingsImportPreview::from_payload`'s `sanitize_for_preview` strips control characters and caps
+  at 100 characters (`MAX_PREVIEW_STRING_LEN`) for every base URL and the custom image name — a
+  review noted that, unlike the count- and boolean-derived fields the preview started with, these
+  are verbatim strings from a not-yet-trusted decrypted payload rendered directly into the
+  confirmation dialog. Unbounded, a single pathological value (very long, or holding embedded
+  newlines) could push the security warnings above the scroll fold in the dialog that exists
+  specifically to make them unmissable — the frontend's `<li>`/warning boxes also get `break-all`
+  as a second layer against the same failure mode.
+
+## Packaging
+
+Linux ships as **AppImage only**, built by `build-app.yml` (releases) and
+`build-app-preview.yml` (the PR check). The `.deb` and `.rpm` were dropped: two more artifacts to
+build and publish for an audience the AppImage already serves, and neither could self-update. The
+Linux job passes `--bundles appimage`; `tauri.conf.json` still says `"targets": "all"` so macOS and
+Windows are untouched.
+
+`scripts/finalize-appimage.sh` post-processes every AppImage, and both things it does are
+load-bearing. **It demotes the bundled `libwayland-client.so.0`** off the loader path, keeping it as
+a fallback for a host that has none: `libEGL_mesa.so.0` has a hard `DT_NEEDED` on that library, so a
+bundled copy older than the host's Mesa stops the EGL driver loading at all and the window comes up
+blank — measured on wayland 1.26 / Mesa 26.2.1 against a 22.04-built image. Do not "fix" this by
+bundling a newer wayland: the floor is set by the user's Mesa, which moves independently of our
+releases, so this is a host-coupled library like libGL and libdrm. **It also embeds AppStream
+metadata and update information**, without which an AppImage manager can adopt the app but never
+update it. The update URL points at a fixed `linux-latest` tag on the GitHub mirror
+(`scripts/publish-update-channel.sh`), never `releases/latest` — that follows whichever release is
+newest, and the backfill creates a GitHub release per Gitea tag including the `-win` and `-mac` ones
+that carry no AppImage. The script's post-repack assertions are the only test any of this has.
+
+**There is deliberately no Arch package.** A
+`triple-c-bin` `PKGBUILD` and a `publish-arch-package.yml` existed and were removed; they live on
+`hold/arch-packaging`. Do not re-add them without the piece that was always missing: the package
+was never on the AUR, so it was a manual `pacman -U` of a downloaded file — the same gesture as
+the AppImage, for a second artifact to keep working. Being `workflow_dispatch`-only it also
+reached 1 release in 28, while `HOW-TO-USE.md` told Arch users to download it from every release.
+An AUR account and its SSH key as a repo secret are what would make it worth having; until then
+the AppImage is the Arch story.
+
+`scripts/install-appimage.sh` is the desktop-integration half, and it exists because an AppImage
+has no installer: it extracts the bundled icons into `~/.local/share/icons/hicolor` and writes a
+`.desktop` entry. It **rewrites** the `Exec` line rather than copying the bundled entry — the
+bundled one is `Exec=triple-c`, which resolves only inside the AppImage's own mount, so a
+verbatim copy yields a launcher entry that starts nothing. It keeps `StartupWMClass` exactly as
+the bundle sets it, which is what lets the shell match the window to the entry. Extraction uses
+`--appimage-extract`, which needs no FUSE, so the script works before `fuse2` is installed.
+
+### Windows code signing
+
+Windows **releases** (`build-app.yml`) are signed with **Azure Artifact Signing**: the app binary,
+the MSI, the NSIS installer and its uninstaller. Three scripts do it, and "Verify signatures"
+fails the job if any of them is unsigned or untimestamped, so an unsigned installer cannot ship
+quietly. **PR previews are deliberately not signed**, and `build-app-preview.yml` must not
+reference the signing secrets. Two reasons: signing is metered (about 1000 signatures a month,
+against roughly 50 preview builds a month), and a PR's workflow runs the PR's own code, so a
+secret available there is available to whoever can push a branch. To exercise signing before a
+merge, dispatch `build-app.yml` on the branch. Every publishing step there is gated on
+`gitea.event_name == 'push'`, so a dispatch builds, signs and verifies without releasing.
+
+- `scripts/windows-signing-setup.ps1` runs once per job. It downloads the signing client
+  (`Microsoft.ArtifactSigning.Client`) and a .NET runtime into `.code-signing/` in the workspace,
+  **each pinned by version and hash**, writes the dlib's `metadata.json`, and writes a Tauri
+  config file with `bundle.windows.signCommand` that the build passes as
+  `cargo tauri build --config`. Nothing is installed on the build VM. To bump
+  a pin, take the hash from nuget.org / the .NET `releases.json`, never from your own download.
+- `scripts/windows-sign.ps1` is the sign command: `signtool sign /dlib` with SHA-256 and the
+  Microsoft timestamp server, retried. Credentials never reach a command line — the dlib reads
+  `AZURE_TENANT_ID` / `AZURE_CLIENT_ID` / `AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET` from the environment.
+  **It signs only an allowlist of what ships**: 5 signatures per release (the app binary twice,
+  because Tauri re-patches it between the MSI and NSIS bundles; the MSI; the NSIS installer;
+  and its uninstaller). Tauri also presents build-time tools, the WiX extension DLLs and NSIS
+  plugins, and signing those would more than double the metered count for no user-visible
+  benefit. If the app ever ships resource DLLs or sidecars, extend the
+  allowlist, or they will go out unsigned. Tauri reports a failed sign command only as
+  "failed to run powershell", so the script keeps a transcript (`.code-signing/sign-output.log`,
+  `signtool /debug` included), and the job prints it on failure.
+- `scripts/windows-verify-signatures.ps1` checks `signtool verify /pa` plus a timestamp on the
+  installers, and on the binaries **inside** the MSI (an administrative `msiexec /a` extract).
+  It deliberately does not check `target\release\triple-c.exe`: Tauri patches that file again
+  after packaging, so the loose copy is unsigned by design and is not what ships. For the NSIS
+  installer, which cannot be unpacked that way, it requires the signing log to show the app
+  binary and the uninstaller were signed.
+
+Secrets (repository): the three `AZURE_*` above plus `ARTIFACT_SIGNING_ENDPOINT`,
+`ARTIFACT_SIGNING_ACCOUNT_NAME`, `ARTIFACT_SIGNING_PROFILE_NAME`. They are referenced only by the
+two Windows steps of `build-app.yml` that need them ("Prepare code signing" and "Build Tauri
+app"), never by the preview workflow, never echoed, and never on a command line. The repo is
+public, so its Actions logs are too. Gitea masks the secret values, and the signing dlib's
+`/debug` output carries no tokens (checked against its strings). Anyone who can push to this
+repo can reach the secrets through a workflow file, so repo write access is the boundary.
+`main` is branch-protected (no direct or force pushes; changes land by merging a PR), so a signed
+release only ever comes from a merged, visible change. The
+Azure side should hold the rest: an app registration with only the signer role on this one
+certificate profile, and a client secret with an expiry. Four things are load-bearing:
+
+- **`metadata.json` excludes every credential but `EnvironmentCredential`.** The dlib uses
+  `DefaultAzureCredential`, whose chain ends in `InteractiveBrowserCredential`; the runners run as
+  SYSTEM, where that waits forever for a browser.
+- **The sign command goes in through `--config`, never `TAURI_CONFIG`.** The v2 CLI does not read
+  that variable — it only sets it, for tauri-build — so a config put there is dropped without an
+  error. The Windows jobs set an inline `TAURI_CONFIG` for years and it never applied;
+  "Verify signatures" is what exposed it, and it is what would catch a regression.
+- **The signing files and the job's `%TEMP%` live in the workspace.** The NSIS uninstaller is
+  written to `%TEMP%` and signed from inside 32-bit `makensis`, under 32-bit PowerShell; WOW64
+  redirects SYSTEM's own `%TEMP%` (under System32) for those processes but not for the x64
+  signtool, so they would disagree about where the file is. The workspace is under
+  `systemprofile\.cache`, which the VM junctions so both views resolve. makensis also ignores
+  the sign command's exit code for the uninstaller, so `windows-sign.ps1` logs every file it
+  signs and the verify step requires a logged signature under that temp directory.
+- **The build VM is `WindowsBuilder` (VM 110 on the Proxmox host `pve4`)**, carrying both the
+  `winvm-builder` and `virtual-builder` runners in host mode. It has the Windows SDK's
+  `signtool` (10.0.26100) but no .NET — hence the job-local runtime.
 
 ## Testing
 
@@ -392,3 +909,10 @@ Frontend tests use Vitest with jsdom environment and React Testing Library. Setu
 cd app
 npx vitest run src/path/to/test.test.ts
 ```
+
+CI runs both suites on every PR: the `test` job in `.gitea/workflows/build-app-preview.yml` does
+`npm run build`, `npx vitest run` and `cargo test --locked`, in parallel with the platform builds.
+It is the only place `cargo test` runs on merge, which matters most for the app-command ACL
+census — an ungranted command compiles and only fails at runtime. `build-app.yml` (releases
+from `main`) deliberately does not repeat it. The runner is root, so the few Rust tests that
+exercise file permissions skip themselves there.

HOW-TO-USE.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Triple-C (Claude-Code-Container) is a desktop application that runs Claude Code
 
 ## Table of Contents
 
+- [Installation](#installation)
 - [Prerequisites](#prerequisites)
 - [First Launch](#first-launch)
 - [The Interface](#the-interface)
@@ -32,6 +33,65 @@ Triple-C (Claude-Code-Container) is a desktop application that runs Claude Code
 
 ---
 
+## Installation
+
+Download the build for your platform from [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/shadowdao/triple-c/releases/latest).
+
+| Platform | File | Install |
+|----------|------|---------|
+| **Windows** | `Triple-C_<version>_x64-setup.exe` or `.msi` | Run the installer. |
+| **macOS** | `Triple-C_<version>_universal.dmg` | Open the `.dmg` and drag Triple-C to Applications. |
+| **Linux (all distributions)** | `Triple-C_<version>_amd64.AppImage` | `chmod +x` it, then run it directly. See the AppImage notes below. |
+
+> **macOS note:** The app is not signed or notarized. On first launch, macOS Gatekeeper may block it — right-click the app and select "Open" to bypass, or remove the quarantine attribute: `xattr -cr /Applications/Triple-C.app`.
+
+> **AppImage note:** Two things are worth knowing. Running an AppImage needs FUSE 2, which Arch and CachyOS do not install by default — `sudo pacman -S fuse2` once, or run it with `--appimage-extract-and-run` to sidestep FUSE entirely. And an AppImage is just an executable file: nothing registers it with the desktop, so it will not appear in your app launcher on its own. Run [`scripts/install-appimage.sh`](scripts/install-appimage.sh) to add a launcher entry and icons — see [Adding an AppImage to the app launcher](#adding-an-appimage-to-the-app-launcher).
+
+> **Linux is AppImage only.** The `.deb` and `.rpm` were dropped. They were a second and third artifact to build, test and publish for an audience already served by the one file that runs on every distribution — and unlike the AppImage they could not be kept up to date automatically. Older releases still carry them if you need one.
+
+> **Updates.** The AppImage carries update information, so an AppImage manager (Gear Lever, AppImageLauncher and similar) can adopt it and update it in place — pulling only the changed blocks rather than re-downloading 85 MB. It reads a fixed `linux-latest` tag on GitHub, so the URL never moves between versions.
+
+> **No Arch package.** There was a `triple-c-bin` `.pkg.tar.zst` attached to some releases, built by a maintainer-triggered workflow. It was never on the AUR, so installing it meant downloading a file and running `pacman -U` — no better than the AppImage — and being manual-only it reached 1 release in 28, which made the promise of it worse than not making it. The `PKGBUILD` and its workflow are preserved on the `hold/arch-packaging` branch if an AUR package is ever worth doing properly.
+
+### Adding an AppImage to the app launcher
+
+An AppImage is a single executable file and nothing else. It carries a `.desktop`
+entry and icons *inside* itself, but nothing on your system ever reads them,
+because nothing installed it — so it will not show up in your app launcher, and
+running it from a file manager gives you a generic icon in the taskbar.
+
+Put the AppImage somewhere stable first — `~/Apps` or `~/.local/bin`, not
+`~/Downloads` — because the launcher entry points at wherever the file is:
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p ~/Apps
+mv ~/Downloads/Triple-C_*_amd64.AppImage ~/Apps/
+./scripts/install-appimage.sh ~/Apps/Triple-C_0.4.17_amd64.AppImage
+```
+
+That copies the bundled icons into `~/.local/share/icons/hicolor` and writes
+`~/.local/share/applications/triple-c.desktop` pointing at the file you named.
+No sudo, nothing outside your home directory, and the AppImage itself is never
+copied or moved. To remove the entry again:
+
+```bash
+./scripts/install-appimage.sh --uninstall
+```
+
+The script rewrites the `Exec` line rather than reusing the bundled `.desktop`
+verbatim: the bundled one says `Exec=triple-c`, which resolves only inside the
+running AppImage's own mount, so a launcher entry copied straight out of the
+bundle would appear in the menu and then fail to start anything.
+
+Two follow-ups worth knowing:
+
+- **Upgrading.** The entry names one specific file. If you replace the AppImage
+  with a newer version under a different filename, re-run the script against the
+  new one. Keeping a stable name (`~/Apps/Triple-C.AppImage`) avoids this.
+- **The icon may not appear until you log out.** That is the desktop shell's
+  icon cache, not a failed install — see
+  [App Icon Missing After Installing (Linux)](#app-icon-missing-after-installing-linux).
+
 ## Prerequisites
 
 ### Docker
@@ -128,8 +188,11 @@ Anthropic-backend project uses that token without its own login. See
 2. Claude prints an OAuth URL. Triple-C detects long URLs and shows a clickable toast at the top of the terminal — click **Open** to open it in your browser.
 3. Complete the login in your browser. The token is saved and persists across container stops, starts and recreations. A **Reset** deletes it — see below.
 
-> If the login hangs after the browser step, the callback could not reach the container. Enable the
-> [Auth Bridge](#browser-logins-inside-the-container-auth-bridge) for that project.
+> If the login hangs after the browser step, the callback could not reach the container. Either
+> click **In container** on the toast instead of **Open** — the callback then never has to leave the
+> container at all — or turn on the
+> [Auth Bridge](#browser-logins-inside-the-container-auth-bridge) in the project's
+> **Config → Runtime** section.
 
 **AWS Bedrock:**
 
@@ -180,7 +243,7 @@ Anthropic-backend project uses that token without its own login. See
 │             │  │                                                  │  │
 │             │  └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  │
 ├─────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
-│  2 project(s) · 1 running · 2 terminal(s)          Jump to Current ↓ │
+│  2 project(s) · 1 running · 2 terminal(s)                      Notes │
 └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 ```
 
@@ -205,8 +268,8 @@ Anthropic-backend project uses that token without its own login. See
 - **Main area** — Shows the active tab: a Project Home view or an xterm.js terminal. With no tabs
   open you get a welcome screen with Docker/image/project readiness checks.
 - **StatusBar** — Counts of total projects, running containers and open terminal sessions; the
-  **Jump to Current ↓** button when a terminal is scrolled up; and the microphone button when
-  speech-to-text is enabled.
+  **🖱 Mouse captured — release** button while a program in the terminal is holding the mouse; the
+  **Notes** toggle; and the microphone button when speech-to-text is enabled.
 
 ---
 
@@ -225,7 +288,7 @@ buttons. Below that are six tabs:
 | **Sessions** | Past Claude Code conversations stored on this project's config volume, each with a **Resume** button |
 | **Automation** | The scheduled tasks running inside this container — see [Automation & Scheduled Tasks](#automation--scheduled-tasks) |
 | **Config** | All per-project configuration — see [Project Configuration](#project-configuration) |
-| **Files** | Browse, download and upload files inside the container |
+| **Files** | Browse, view and rename files inside the container, and move files between it and your own machine — see [Files](#files) |
 | **Browser** | Watch — and take over — the browser Claude is driving with Playwright, see [The Browser Tab](#the-browser-tab) |
 
 ### Sessions
@@ -348,7 +411,7 @@ it. The sidebar row carries only the two hover controls.
 | **Force stop** | Project Home header | Starting / Stopping | Interrupts a transition that is stuck |
 | **Open Claude Terminal** | Project Home header; sidebar hover control; `Ctrl+T` | Running | Opens a new Claude Code terminal tab |
 | **Shell** | Project Home header | Running | Opens a bash login shell tab in the container (no Claude Code) |
-| **Files** | Project Home header, and the **Files** tab | Running | Switches to the Files tab to browse, download and upload files |
+| **Files** | Project Home header, and the **Files** tab | Running | Switches to the Files tab to browse, view and rename files inside the container, upload files into it and save one back out |
 | **Config** | The **Config** tab | Always | Per-project configuration (most fields need the container stopped) |
 | **Back up container** | **⋯** overflow menu | A container exists | Saves a `.tar.gz` archive of the container to a location you choose |
 | **Reset container…** | **⋯** overflow menu | Stopped or Error | Destroys the container, snapshot image and both volumes, then recreates from the base image (wipes `~/.claude`) — asks first |
@@ -471,6 +534,93 @@ When enabled, the host Docker socket is mounted into the container so Claude Cod
 
 > Toggling this requires stopping and restarting the container to take effect.
 
+### VPN Support
+
+When enabled, the container is given the three things a VPN client needs to build a tunnel:
+the `NET_ADMIN` capability, the `/dev/net/tun` device, and the `net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark`
+sysctl that WireGuard requires. This is **off by default**.
+
+The `ip`, `wg` and `iptables` commands ship in the container image so there is something able to use
+them. If your project's container was created from an older base image it will not have them, and
+`wg` will simply not be found — **migrating the project onto the current base image** is what picks
+them up. `sudo apt install iproute2 wireguard-tools iptables` works in the meantime, but lives in
+the writable layer, so it is undone by a **Reset** and by a migration.
+
+**This setting makes a tunnel possible; it does not make one.** Nothing is connected, no traffic is
+redirected, and no tunnel is configured or started on your behalf. Enabling it and expecting the
+container's traffic to start leaving through a VPN is the most common misreading of what it does —
+configuring a tunnel and routing traffic into it remains yours to do.
+
+To make that second half easier, enabling this also installs a **`pia-vpn` skill** into the
+container's `~/.claude/skills/`, so Claude Code can bring up a Private Internet Access tunnel over
+WireGuard for you — ask it to connect the VPN and it will. The skill carries the parts that are
+easy to get wrong (see the DNS note below), and it is removed again when you turn the setting off.
+It needs your PIA credentials in `~/pia-creds`, two lines, username then password. If you use a
+different provider, ignore it and set up your own client; nothing else depends on it.
+
+Like the VPN tooling above, the skill ships in the container image, so a project whose container
+predates it will not get one by toggling the setting — **migrate the project** and it appears; the
+migration pre-flight lists it among what you would gain.
+
+With the setting **off**, a client such as PIA or OpenVPN installs and its daemon starts normally,
+but the connection attempt **hangs until it times out** — a default container has no tun device to open
+and no permission to add an interface or a route, and most clients report that as a generic timeout
+rather than a permissions error.
+
+Things worth knowing:
+
+- Tailscale is the exception: in its `--tun=userspace-networking` mode it needs neither the
+  capability nor the device, so leave this off if that is all you want.
+
+- `NET_ADMIN` applies to the container's **own** network namespace — it cannot touch the host's
+  interfaces. It is not nothing, though: within that namespace anything in the container can set
+  promiscuous mode and add arbitrary addresses, routes and firewall rules on the Docker bridge it
+  shares with your other containers, and it can flush firewall rules that sandbox mode relies on.
+  Grant it per project, to projects that need it.
+- The **Docker host's** kernel must have the `tun` module available. With Docker Desktop that is
+  the Linux VM, not your own machine. If it is missing, the container is created but fails to
+  **start**, with an error naming `/dev/net/tun` and pointing back at this setting.
+- A VPN client's kill switch applies to everything in the container, Claude Code included. If the
+  tunnel drops, expect API calls to fail until it reconnects or the kill switch is turned off.
+- **No tunnel survives a restart.** The network namespace is built fresh every time the container
+  starts, and there is no service manager inside to reconnect anything. Leftover state under `/run`
+  makes it *look* like the tunnel is still configured — that directory is in the container's
+  writable layer, so it is simply still there after a stop/start, and `docker commit` carries it
+  into the snapshot that a recreation is built from. Either way the interface and its routes are
+  gone and traffic goes out your real address again, with no error and nothing visibly different.
+  Re-establish it after every start, and check rather than assume.
+- **A full tunnel breaks DNS unless the client is told to leave private ranges alone.** Your
+  resolver is whatever `/etc/resolv.conf` says, and if that address is outside the container's own
+  subnet then a default route of `0.0.0.0/0` — or a `0.0.0.0/1` plus `128.0.0.0/1` pair — captures
+  it and sends every lookup into a tunnel that cannot carry it. Under Docker Desktop it is
+  `192.168.65.7`, which is exactly that case; on a user-defined Docker network it is `127.0.0.11`,
+  which is loopback and unaffected. Check yours rather than assuming. The symptom when it bites is
+  total: Claude Code reports it cannot connect, because it cannot resolve `api.anthropic.com`.
+  Route `10.0.0.0/8`, `172.16.0.0/12`, `192.168.0.0/16` and `169.254.0.0/16` via the original
+  gateway — and give the tunnel a resolver it can actually reach, normally the VPN provider's own,
+  or you have a tunnel that leaks every DNS query outside itself. Also pin the VPN endpoint's own
+  address via the original gateway, or the tunnel's encrypted packets try to route through the
+  tunnel. Note that a health check which fetches an IP literal such as `1.1.1.1` passes cleanly
+  while DNS is broken — resolve a name instead.
+- **Delete a client's key material when you tear a tunnel down.** Anything written under `/run` is
+  in the container's writable layer, and recreating or migrating the project runs `docker commit`
+  over it — so a WireGuard private key left there gets baked into the project's snapshot image and
+  copied forward from then on. This is not hypothetical; it has already happened here.
+- **Strip the `DNS =` line from a provider's `.conf` before `wg-quick up`.** Every commercial
+  provider ships one, and `wg-quick` hands it to `resolvconf`, which is not installed — so it fails
+  at `resolvconf: command not found` and deletes the interface again. This happens before any
+  routing, so it takes **split tunnels down too**. Set the resolver another way instead, or drive
+  `wg` and `ip route` directly rather than going through `wg-quick`.
+- **`wg-quick` full tunnels additionally need `xt_CONNMARK` from the host kernel.** WSL2 kernels
+  before 6.6 do not have it and a container cannot load one — on Windows, `wsl --update` moves you
+  to a current kernel, which does. Failing that, add the routes yourself with `ip route`, which
+  needs no firewall backend on any platform. Note this is the *second* hurdle: clear the `DNS =`
+  one above first, or you will not reach this.
+
+> This setting can only be changed when the container is stopped. Capabilities and devices are
+> fixed when a container is created, so toggling it recreates the container on the next start.
+> Recreation preserves the home and `.claude` volumes — it is not a Reset.
+
 ### Mission Control
 
 Toggle **Mission Control** to integrate Flight Control — an AI-first development methodology bundled with Triple-C — into the project. When enabled:
@@ -525,18 +675,27 @@ The **Claude Code settings** editor, also at the bottom of the Config tab, confi
 
 | Setting | What It Does |
 |---------|-------------|
-| **TUI Mode** | Set to **Fullscreen** for flicker-free alt-screen rendering (uses `CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1`) |
-| **Effort Level** | Controls reasoning depth: **Low** (fast, less thorough), **Medium**, **High** (deep reasoning) |
-| **Focus Mode** | Collapses tool output to one-line summaries, showing only the prompt and final response |
-| **Thinking Summaries** | Shows Claude's thinking process as summaries during responses |
-| **Session Recap** | Provides context when returning to a session after being away |
-| **Auto-Scroll Disabled** | Disables auto-scroll when in fullscreen TUI mode |
+| **TUI Mode** | **Automatic** lets Claude Code choose; **Classic** pins the main-screen renderer; **Fullscreen** pins the flicker-free alt-screen one |
+| **Effort Level** | Reasoning depth: **Low**, **Medium**, **High**, **Extra high** |
+| **Focus Mode** | Summarises tool *calls* to one line each, showing the last prompt and the final response. **Needs the fullscreen renderer** — set TUI Mode to Fullscreen or this does nothing |
+| **Thinking Summaries** | Shows Claude's thinking as summaries rather than a collapsed stub |
+| **Session Recap** | A one-line recap when you return to the terminal after a few minutes away. **On by default** — the switch is how you turn it off |
+| **Auto-Scroll** | Follows new output to the bottom in fullscreen rendering. On by default |
 | **Env Scrub** | Strips credentials from subprocess environments for security |
-| **Prompt Caching (1h)** | Enables 1-hour prompt cache TTL instead of the default 5 minutes |
+| **Prompt Caching (1h)** | Requests a 1-hour prompt cache TTL instead of the default 5 minutes |
 
-Per-project settings override global defaults set in Settings. If all settings are at their defaults, no configuration is injected.
+Each switch has three states on a project: **Global** (follow Settings), **On**, and **Off**. Off is a
+real choice — it overrides a global On, which a project could not previously do.
 
-> These settings map to Claude Code environment variables and `~/.claude/settings.json` entries. Changes require stopping and restarting the container to take effect.
+> These map to Claude Code environment variables and `~/.claude/settings.json` keys, and are applied
+> when the container starts. Changing one stops and recreates the container.
+>
+> **Two caveats on an existing project.** Changing any of these recreates the container, and a
+> recreation commits a new image layer — so flipping switches repeatedly costs disk. And
+> **TUI Mode, Effort Level, Focus Mode and Session Recap cannot be returned to Global** until the
+> project's base image is updated: those four are cleared by *removing* a key, and an older image's
+> startup script ignores the instruction to remove it. Update the base image from the project's
+> Overview tab first. The other switches work on any image.
 
 ### MCP Servers
 
@@ -702,6 +861,19 @@ web server they started on `localhost`. `claude login`, `aws sso login` and Conc
 
 The **Auth Bridge** fixes this. It is **opt-in per project** and **off by default**.
 
+### Where the switch is
+
+Project Home → **Config** → **Runtime** → **Auth bridge**.
+
+Unlike the rest of that tab, it is **not** greyed out while the container is running — it is a
+host-side feature that recreates nothing, and the moment you want it is usually the moment a login
+is already hanging in a running container. Switch it on, then retry the login.
+
+Beside the switch is its live state: **Off**, **Watching** (on, nothing to bridge yet — normal,
+there is only something to bridge while a login is waiting), **Bridging *n* ports**, **IPv4 only**,
+or **Port conflict** with the port and the reason. A conflict means the host port was already taken
+and the callback will not arrive; free the port, or use **In container** instead.
+
 ### What it does
 
 - Every couple of seconds it looks inside the container for programs listening on the container's
@@ -1052,20 +1224,89 @@ Programs inside the container can copy text to your host clipboard. When a conta
 
 You can paste images from your clipboard into the terminal (Ctrl+V / Cmd+V). The image is uploaded to the container as `/tmp/clipboard_<timestamp>.png` and the file path is injected into the terminal input so Claude Code can reference it. A toast notification confirms the upload.
 
-### Jump to Current
+### Scrolling
 
-When you scroll up in the terminal to review previous output, a **Jump to Current** button appears in the bottom-right corner. Click it to scroll back to the latest output.
+Scrolling is the terminal's own: scroll up to read back and it holds position, scroll to the
+bottom and it follows new output again. There is no follow toggle — an earlier **Following /
+Paused** control and a **Jump to Current** button were retired once they stopped doing anything
+useful, because Claude Code draws its interface on the alternate screen, which has no scrollback
+for them to act on.
+
+### When the mouse stops working
+
+Some programs ask the terminal for the mouse, so that clicks and drags go to the program instead
+of selecting text. If one of them exits without handing the mouse back, the terminal looks stuck:
+you cannot select text, and stray characters can appear as you move the pointer.
+
+A **🖱 Mouse captured — release** button appears in the status bar whenever a program holds the
+mouse. Click it, or press **Ctrl+Shift+X**, to take the mouse back. Nothing is sent into the
+container — only the terminal's own state is reset.
+
+Note that holding the mouse is normal for programs like `htop`, `vim` and Claude Code itself, so
+the button is showing most of the time you are in one. It is there for when a program exits
+without handing the mouse back and the terminal is left stuck; releasing while a program is still
+running just takes the mouse away from that program.
+
+To select text *without* taking the mouse back, hold **Shift** while dragging — or **Option** on
+macOS.
 
 ### Files
 
-The **Files** tab of Project Home browses inside a running container. You can:
+The **Files** tab of Project Home browses inside a running container, and moves files between it
+and your own machine. You can:
 
-- **Browse** the container filesystem, starting at `/workspace`, with breadcrumb navigation
-- **Download** any file to your host machine via the **Download** button on each file entry
-- **Upload file** from your host into the current container directory
+- **Browse** the container filesystem, starting at `/workspace`, with breadcrumb navigation.
+  Double-click a folder to open it, or the `..` row to go up; the arrow keys, Home and End move
+  between rows and Enter opens the selected one
+- **View** a file — double-click it, or press Enter. Text files and images render in a read-only
+  viewer
+- **Rename** an entry, from the row's Rename button or by pressing `F2`. A rename never moves a
+  file between folders
+- **New folder** in the directory on screen
+- **Upload…**, from the toolbar, to copy files from your machine into the directory on screen
+- **Save to host…**, from a file's own row, to write that one file out to your machine
 - **Refresh** the directory listing at any time
 
-The listing shows file names, sizes, and modification dates.
+The listing shows file names, sizes, and modification dates, and marks symbolic links.
+
+#### Getting files in and out
+
+**Upload…** opens a file dialog on your machine, and whatever you choose is copied into the
+directory currently on screen. Uploaded files arrive owned by you inside the container, not by
+root. You can pick several files in one dialog; each is handled on its own, so if a folder or an
+over-sized file is among them, it is named in the message and the rest still arrive. Uploads are
+capped at **256 MB per file** — for anything larger, mount the folder into the project instead and
+skip the copying altogether.
+
+**Save to host…** does the reverse, for one file: a save dialog opens, you choose where the file
+goes, and it is written there. The button sits on the file's own row, and only on files. For a
+whole directory, use **Back up container** in Project Home's **⋯** overflow menu, which writes a
+`.tar.gz` of the workspace and the container's `~/.claude` config to a location you choose — that
+is still the right tool for a tree.
+
+Dragging a file from your desktop and **dropping it onto the Terminal tab** works too, and is often
+the quickest way in when you are already typing: the file is copied into the container and its path
+is typed into the terminal for you, ready to hand to Claude Code. (The whole terminal pane is a
+drop target, including its *Following* toggle.) The Files pane itself is not a drop target.
+
+Both dialogs are opened by Triple-C itself rather than by the page you are looking at. The page
+cannot name a place on your machine — it can only ask for a dialog — and nothing is read or written
+until you pick somewhere in it. Closing a dialog without choosing is not an error: nothing happens,
+and nothing is said about it.
+
+Every one of these routes refuses a location whose path passes through a hidden *folder* — anything
+with a component beginning with `.`, such as `~/.ssh`, `~/.cache` or `~/.local/share` — or a system
+location, and it checks both the path as written and where it points after any symbolic links. That
+rule catches more than it strictly needs to, so now and then it will refuse a place you genuinely
+meant, `~/.config` among them. The refusal is a plain sentence saying so; choose a visible location
+such as `~/Documents` or `~/Downloads`.
+
+The *file's own name* is a different matter, and dotfiles are fine: `.env`, `.gitignore` and the
+rest save normally, since you chose the name in the save dialog yourself. Only the folders on the
+way are judged.
+
+If you already keep the project in a folder mounted into the container, the simplest answer is
+usually none of the above: edit the file on your host and it is already inside.
 
 ### Terminal Rendering
 
@@ -1111,10 +1352,14 @@ change. Remember that a headless run cannot answer a permission prompt, so in an
 **Bypass** a task may stop early when Claude Code asks for approval; the run log records the mode
 that was used.
 
-### Creating Tasks (In the Container)
+### Creating Tasks
 
-There is no "add task" form in the app. Create tasks from a terminal in the container — either type
-the commands yourself in a **Shell** session, or just ask Claude to do it.
+The quickest route is the **New task** button on a project's **Automation** tab, which gives you a
+form for the name, the schedule and the prompt.
+
+You can also create tasks from a terminal in the container — type the commands yourself in a
+**Shell** session, or just ask Claude to do it. That is the better route when you want Claude to
+work out the schedule or the prompt for you, and it is what the rest of this section covers.
 
 ### Create a Recurring Task
 
@@ -1139,13 +1384,23 @@ triple-c-scheduler list                    # List all tasks
 triple-c-scheduler enable --id abc123      # Enable a task
 triple-c-scheduler disable --id abc123     # Disable a task
 triple-c-scheduler remove --id abc123      # Delete a task
-triple-c-scheduler run --id abc123         # Trigger a task immediately
+triple-c-scheduler run --id abc123         # Trigger a task now, streaming its log
+triple-c-scheduler status                  # What is running right now, and for how long
+triple-c-scheduler status --id abc123 -w   # Watch one task until its run finishes
 triple-c-scheduler logs --id abc123        # View logs for a task
 triple-c-scheduler logs --tail 20          # View last 20 log entries (all tasks)
 triple-c-scheduler notifications           # View completion notifications
 triple-c-scheduler notifications --clear   # Clear notifications
 ```
 
+`list` carries a status column, and the Automation tab marks a task **Running** with
+its elapsed time, so a triggered run is visible rather than silent.
+
+Note that a log which has stopped growing is not evidence of a stall: `claude -p`
+writes its answer in one go when it finishes, so a healthy run shows nothing but its
+header for as long as it is thinking. `status` is what distinguishes a slow run from
+a dead one — it reports the run only while the runner's process is genuinely alive.
+
 ### Cron Schedule Format
 
 Standard 5-field cron: `minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week`
@@ -1196,9 +1451,19 @@ triple-c-scheduler add --name "test" --schedule "0 */6 * * *" --prompt "Run test
 | **Ctrl+Shift+V** | Paste |
 | **Ctrl+V** | Paste an image from the clipboard into the container |
 | **Ctrl+Shift+M** | Toggle speech-to-text recording (when enabled) |
+| **Shift+Enter** | Insert a newline in Claude Code's prompt instead of submitting it |
+| **Alt+Enter** | The same thing, and it has always worked — it was simply never written down |
 
 Everything else goes straight through to the program running in the container.
 
+> **Shift+Enter** sends `ESC` + `CR`, the same bytes Claude Code's own `/terminal-setup` installs
+> for VS Code, Cursor, Alacritty and Zed — so there is nothing to run and no tip to follow. It is
+> bound in **Claude** tabs only: in a **bash** tab that sequence means nothing to readline, and
+> Shift+Enter there submits the line as it always has.
+>
+> In the [Web Terminal](#web-terminal-remote-access) the same chord works, and there is an **↵+**
+> key beside **Enter** on the mobile key row for devices with no Shift.
+
 ---
 
 ## What's Inside the Container
@@ -1215,6 +1480,7 @@ The sandbox container (Ubuntu 24.04) comes pre-installed with:
 | ruff | Latest | Python linter/formatter |
 | Rust | Stable | Rust development (via rustup) |
 | Docker CLI | Latest | Container management (when spawning is enabled) |
+| iproute2, WireGuard tools, iptables | Latest | Building a tunnel (when VPN Support is enabled) |
 | git | Latest | Version control |
 | GitHub CLI (gh) | Latest | GitHub integration |
 | AWS CLI | v2 | AWS services and Bedrock |
@@ -1304,8 +1570,18 @@ your machine (anything that isn't `http`/`https`).
 
 You opened the URL, signed in successfully, and the CLI in the terminal is still waiting. The
 callback from your browser is landing on your host's `localhost` while the CLI is listening on the
-*container's*. Enable the
-[Auth Bridge](#browser-logins-inside-the-container-auth-bridge) for that project and try again.
+*container's*.
+
+Two ways out, in order of least effort:
+
+1. Dismiss and re-trigger the login, then click **In container** on the toast rather than **Open**.
+   The page opens in a browser *inside* the container, so the callback never has to cross to the
+   host. This needs no auth bridge — only a running container with Playwright installed (Project
+   Home → **Browser**). For a recognised Anthropic sign-in link this is already the default button.
+2. Turn on the [Auth Bridge](#browser-logins-inside-the-container-auth-bridge) — Project Home →
+   **Config** → **Runtime** → **Auth bridge** — and try again. It can be switched on while the
+   container is running. Check the indicator beside it: **Port conflict** means the host port was
+   already taken and the callback still will not arrive.
 
 For Claude specifically, the simpler answer is usually
 [Shared Claude Authentication](#shared-claude-authentication), which finishes on an Anthropic-hosted
@@ -1342,3 +1618,9 @@ cp ~/.claude.json ~/.claude.json.bak && jq 'with_entries(select(.key | startswit
 ```
 
 This backs up your config and removes the corrupted marketplace entries. Claude Code will re-download them cleanly on the next startup.
+
+### App Icon Missing After Installing (Linux)
+
+If Triple-C's icon shows as generic or blank right after installing — in the app menu, taskbar, and window titlebar alike — **log out and back in.**
+
+Desktop shells (GNOME Shell, KDE Plasma) cache the list of installed apps and their resolved icons in memory when the shell starts, for performance. A freshly installed package's icon files land on disk correctly and its install hooks do rebuild the on-disk icon cache, but an already-running shell doesn't always notice — on X11 there used to be a way to soft-restart just the shell (GNOME's Alt+F2 → `r`) to force a reload, but under Wayland the shell *is* the compositor, so restarting it means ending the session. Logging out and back in starts a fresh shell that reads the current on-disk state, which picks the icon up.

README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,33 @@
+<picture>
+  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="branding/triple-c-lockup-dark.svg">
+  <img src="branding/triple-c-lockup-light.svg" alt="Triple-C — Coding Container" width="429" height="112">
+</picture>
+
 # Triple-C (Claude-Code-Container)
 
 Triple-C is a cross-platform desktop application that sandboxes Claude Code inside Docker containers. Each project chooses its own **permission mode** — from Plan (read-only) through to Bypass (`--dangerously-skip-permissions`), which gives Claude unrestricted access within the sandbox.
 
+This file is the architectural tour: what each subsystem is and why it works the way it does.
+
+| Document | For |
+|---|---|
+| [HOW-TO-USE.md](HOW-TO-USE.md) | Using the app — first launch, projects, settings, troubleshooting |
+| [BUILDING.md](BUILDING.md) | Building from source on Linux, macOS and Windows |
+| [TECHNICAL.md](TECHNICAL.md) | Technology choices and the dependency inventory |
+| [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md) | Claude Code feature parity, gaps and sequencing |
+| [CLAUDE.md](CLAUDE.md) | Working *on* this repo, for Claude Code |
+| [branding/](branding/README.md) | The mark, the palette, and how the icons are generated |
+
+## Contents
+
+- [Architecture](#architecture) — layout, tabs, shortcuts, Project Home
+- [Permission Modes](#permission-modes)
+- [Containers](#containers) — lifecycle, base-image migration, mounts, CA certificates, sibling containers
+- [Models and Authentication](#models-and-authentication) — backends, model aliases, gateway, shared token
+- [Bridges to the Host](#bridges-to-the-host) — URL relay, auth bridge, browser view, host file transfers
+- [Inside a Project](#inside-a-project) — capability tiles, Mission Control, web terminal, speech-to-text
+- [Key Files](#key-files) · [CSS / Styling Notes](#css--styling-notes) · [Container Image](#container-image)
+
 ## Architecture
 
 - **Frontend**: React 19 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS v4 + Zustand state management
@@ -29,6 +55,13 @@ two tab kinds: `home:<projectId>` (Project Home) and `term:<sessionId>` (a termi
 separate terminal tab bar. `activeSessionId` is derived from the active tab key, so exactly one
 thing is current at a time.
 
+Tabs are user-reorderable — drag one, or move the active tab with `Ctrl+Shift+←/→`. A tab's
+position is therefore never its identity: tabs are addressed by key, and indexed only through
+`tabOrder`. The drag is built on pointer events rather than HTML5 drag-and-drop, deliberately:
+Tauri's `dragDropEnabled` blocks HTML5 drag inside the webview on Windows, and it cannot simply be
+switched off because `TerminalView` needs Tauri's native drag-drop event — the only one that
+carries dropped *file paths*.
+
 ### Keyboard Shortcuts
 
 Implemented in `hooks/useKeyboardShortcuts.ts` (document-level, capture phase):
@@ -39,31 +72,47 @@ Implemented in `hooks/useKeyboardShortcuts.ts` (document-level, capture phase):
 | `Ctrl+Shift+W` | Close the active tab |
 | `Ctrl+Tab` / `Ctrl+Shift+Tab` | Cycle tabs forward / backward |
 | `Ctrl+1` … `Ctrl+9` | Jump to the nth tab |
+| `Ctrl+Shift+←` / `Ctrl+Shift+→` | Move the active tab left / right |
 
 `Ctrl+W` is deliberately **not** bound: it is readline's `kill-word`, used constantly in the
-terminal this app is built around. Terminal-scoped keys (`Ctrl+Shift+C`, `Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C`,
-`Ctrl+Shift+M`) are handled in `TerminalView.tsx`.
+terminal this app is built around. Plain `Ctrl+←/→` is readline's word-wise cursor motion, which is
+why moving a tab takes Shift as well.
+
+Terminal-scoped keys are handled in `TerminalView.tsx`:
+
+| Shortcut | Action |
+|---|---|
+| `Ctrl+Shift+C` / `Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C` | Copy the selection, trimmed / exactly as-is |
+| `Ctrl+Shift+M` | Toggle speech-to-text recording |
+| `Shift+Enter` | Insert a newline in Claude Code's prompt instead of submitting |
+| `Alt+Enter` | The same thing — xterm.js already ESC-prefixes on Alt, so this has always worked |
+
+`Shift+Enter` sends `ESC` + `CR`, which is what Claude Code's own `/terminal-setup` installs for
+VS Code, Cursor, Alacritty and Zed. It is bound in Claude sessions only: in a bash tab those bytes
+are unbound in readline. The web terminal does the same, and adds an `↵+` key beside Enter for
+devices with no Shift.
 
 ### Project Home
 
 Clicking a project row in the sidebar opens **Project Home** in the main area — the per-project
-view, with tabs **Overview · Sessions · Automation · Config · Files**. The sidebar row itself is
-select-only (plus hover controls for start/stop and opening a terminal); it holds no configuration.
-Per-project configuration lives in the Config tab rather than in modals.
+view, with tabs **Overview · Sessions · Automation · Config · Files · Browser**. The sidebar row
+itself is select-only (plus hover controls for start/stop and opening a terminal); it holds no
+configuration. Per-project configuration lives in the Config tab rather than in modals.
 
 | Tab | Contents |
 |---|---|
-| **Overview** | Permission mode control, sandbox/backend/Docker-access summary, capability tiles, recent sessions, scheduled tasks |
+| **Overview** | Permission mode control, sandbox/backend/Docker-access summary, capability tiles, recent sessions, scheduled tasks, base-image staleness banner |
 | **Sessions** | Past Claude Code conversations read from the config volume, with **Resume** |
-| **Automation** | The container's `triple-c-scheduler` tasks — enable/disable, run now, read logs, remove, and completion notifications |
+| **Automation** | The container's `triple-c-scheduler` tasks — create, edit, enable/disable, run now, read logs, remove, and completion notifications |
 | **Config** | Workspace (name, folders), Model (backend), Access (SSH, git, env vars, port mappings), Runtime (permission mode, sandbox, Docker access, Mission Control, instructions, Claude Code settings) |
-| **Files** | Browse, download and upload files inside the container |
+| **Files** | Browse, view, rename and create folders inside the container, upload host files into the directory on screen, and save one file back out to the host — see [Host File Transfers](#host-file-transfers). A whole tree still comes out through **Back up container** |
+| **Browser** | Watch and take over the Playwright browser inside the container — see [Browser View](#browser-view) |
 
 Container start/stop progress is reported inline (on the sidebar row and in the Project Home
 header) via the `container-progress` event, and failures surface as toasts. There is no blocking
 progress modal.
 
-### Permission Modes
+## Permission Modes
 
 `PermissionMode` in `models/project.rs` replaces the old `full_permissions` boolean. Four states,
 mapped to CLI flags by `PermissionMode::cli_args()`:
@@ -87,15 +136,196 @@ back into flags for its headless `claude -p` run. Because it travels as containe
 only reaches the scheduler after the container is recreated on its next start (the label mismatch
 forces that).
 
-### Container Introspection (Capability Tiles)
+## Containers
 
-`list_container_capabilities` (`commands/inspect_commands.rs`) runs a read-only `find`/`jq` script
-inside a running container and returns counts plus item lists for **skills, agents, commands, hooks,
-plugins and MCP servers**, at user scope (`/home/claude/.claude`) and project scope
-(`/workspace/*/.claude`, `/workspace/*/.mcp.json`). Overview renders these as tiles.
+### Container Lifecycle
 
-Triple-C does not create or edit any of them — Claude Code owns that configuration, and the tiles
-link out to a terminal where `/agents`, `/hooks`, `/plugins` and `/mcp` do the real work.
+1. **Create**: New container created with bind mounts, named volumes, env vars, and labels
+2. **Start**: Container started, entrypoint remaps UID/GID, sets up SSH, configures Docker group, installs any CA certificates, injects Claude Code settings, rebuilds the scheduler crontab
+3. **Terminal**: `docker exec` launches Claude Code (with the project's permission-mode flags) or a bash login shell, with a PTY
+4. **Stop**: Container halted (its filesystem layer and both named volumes persist)
+5. **Restart**: Existing container restarted; if any `triple-c.*` label no longer matches the project's settings, the container is committed to a snapshot image, removed, and recreated from that snapshot — so installed packages survive
+6. **Migrate**: The project is moved onto a newer base image without losing its volumes — see below
+
+Each recreation moves the `triple-c-snapshot-{projectId}:latest` tag, leaving the image it pointed
+at before untagged but still on disk — multiple gigabytes per recreation. `sweep_orphaned_snapshots`
+clears those after a recreation and after a migration is accepted. It only ever removes images that
+are **both** untagged *and* labelled `triple-c.managed=true`, so a live snapshot tag and a
+migration's `pre-migration-*` rollback pin are structurally out of reach, and removal is unforced so
+Docker itself refuses while any container — including a stopped project's — is still built from the
+image.
+7. **Reset**: Container, snapshot image **and both named volumes** all removed, then recreated from the clean base image. `remove_project_volumes` deletes `triple-c-home-{projectId}` and `triple-c-claude-config-{projectId}`, so `~/.claude`, `~/.claude.json`, the OAuth login, installed skills, session transcripts and the scheduler's tasks are all lost.
+
+### Base-Image Migration
+
+A container is created from `triple-c-snapshot-{projectId}:latest` whenever that image exists, and
+every recreation re-commits it. So without an explicit act, a project stays on the base image it was
+first built from **forever** — it never picks up a new `/usr/local/bin` shim, a new `socat`, or a
+security update. **Update container base…** (Project Home → overflow menu) is the non-destructive
+way out; Reset is the destructive one. `docker/migration.rs` owns it.
+
+- **Staleness is surfaced, not acted on.** `triple-c.base-image-id` records the lineage and
+  `get_container_staleness` reports it as a banner, but it is deliberately *not* compared in
+  `container_needs_recreation`. Comparing it there would recreate every project *from its own
+  snapshot* on the next base bump: churn on the old base, and the "you should migrate" signal
+  consumed without migrating. A missing lineage label means "unknown, probe instead" — never
+  "stale".
+- **What comes across**: the apt package delta and user-authored files, computed by diffing two
+  filesystem manifests through dpkg ownership and presence-in-the-new-base. (`docker diff` is
+  useless here — on a snapshot-derived container it only reports changes since the last commit.
+  Measured on a real project, manifest diffing turned 8,677 raw path differences into 2 genuinely
+  user-authored ones.) Both named volumes are untouched at every step, so `$HOME`, the OAuth login,
+  skills, transcripts and scheduler tasks simply re-attach.
+- **What does not**: `/etc` is reported but never copied — the old lineage has
+  `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.sources` where the current base has `nodesource.list`, and
+  having both breaks every `apt-get update`. `/var` is not copied either, and that is the one way
+  migration is *more* destructive than an ordinary recreate: a database under `/var/lib` rides along
+  on a recreate, but a migration builds from the base and the apt replay hands back an empty
+  cluster. `unpreserved_data()` names those directories in the pre-flight, the banner and the final
+  report.
+- **Crash-safety**: `:latest` keeps pointing at the old lineage until the final commit, so any
+  failure before that self-heals — the next start just recreates from the old snapshot. After the
+  container swap, a `triple-c.migration-state=in-progress` label plus a persisted state file let the
+  app offer **resume** or **rollback**. Rollback restores the system layer only; work done in
+  `$HOME` during a migrated session survives it.
+
+### Mounts
+
+| Target in Container | Source | Type | Notes |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `/workspace/<mount-name>` | Each configured project folder | Bind | Read-write; one per folder |
+| `/home/claude` | `triple-c-home-{projectId}` | Named Volume | Home directory; survives stop/start and recreation |
+| `/home/claude/.claude` | `triple-c-claude-config-{projectId}` | Named Volume | Nested inside the home volume; Docker gives the more specific mount precedence |
+| `/tmp/.host-ssh` | SSH key directory | Bind | Read-only; entrypoint copies to `~/.ssh` |
+| `/tmp/.host-aws` | AWS config directory | Bind | Read-only; entrypoint copies to `~/.aws`; for Bedrock auth |
+| `/tmp/.host-ca` | CA certificate file or directory | Bind | Read-only; entrypoint installs into the system and NSS stores |
+| `/var/run/docker.sock` | Host Docker socket | Bind | If "Allow container spawning" is ON |
+
+These two named volumes are the only ones a project owns. Both are removed by Reset and by project
+removal, and by nothing else.
+
+### Corporate CA Certificates
+
+A global **Certificates** setting (`AppSettings::ca_cert_path`) with a per-project override
+(`Project::ca_cert_path`), accepting a single certificate file **or** a directory. It follows the
+SSH/AWS host-mount pattern — read-only bind mount at `/tmp/.host-ca`, applied by the entrypoint on
+every start — so it survives recreation, migration and Reset.
+
+- **Certificates are renamed to `.crt`.** `update-ca-certificates` globs `*.crt`, case-sensitively;
+  a `.pem` merely copied into `/usr/local/share/ca-certificates/` is ignored in total silence.
+  `container_cert_name()` in Rust does the renaming, mirrored in a few lines of shell in the
+  entrypoint. A single-file mount lands at `/tmp/.host-ca/<name>.crt`, so the entrypoint only ever
+  sees a directory.
+- **The system store is not enough.** Only curl, git and apt read it. Node — and therefore Claude
+  Code itself — needs `NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS`; Python and requests need
+  `REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE`/`SSL_CERT_FILE`; Chromium reads neither and wants its own NSS database at
+  `~/.pki/nssdb`, seeded with `certutil` (from `libnss3-tools`). The NSS step warns and continues
+  rather than failing the start.
+- **Those env vars are set from Rust at creation, never exported by the entrypoint.** A terminal
+  session is a `docker exec`, which inherits the container's configured env and sees nothing the
+  entrypoint exported — the same lesson that made `$BROWSER` an image-level `ENV`. They are emitted
+  **empty** when no CA is configured, because `docker commit` bakes env into the snapshot image.
+- **`triple-c.ca-fingerprint` covers the certificate bytes, not the path.** Replacing a rotated CA
+  at the same location still forces the recreation that copies it in. Clearing the setting actively
+  **removes** `triple-c-*.crt` from the container — `/usr/local/share` rides the project's snapshot,
+  so turning the feature off has to undo, not merely stop.
+
+### Container Spawning (Sibling Containers)
+
+When "Allow container spawning" is enabled per-project, the host Docker socket is bind-mounted into the container. This allows Claude Code to create **sibling containers** (not nested Docker-in-Docker) that are visible to the host. The entrypoint detects the socket's GID and adds the `claude` user to the matching group.
+
+If the Docker access setting is toggled after a container already exists, the container is automatically recreated on next start to apply the mount change. The named config volume (keyed by project ID) is preserved across recreation.
+
+### Docker Socket Path
+
+The socket path is OS-aware:
+- **Linux/macOS**: `/var/run/docker.sock`
+- **Windows**: `//./pipe/docker_engine`
+
+Users can override this in Settings via the global `docker_socket_path` option.
+
+## Models and Authentication
+
+### Authentication Modes
+
+Each project can independently use one of:
+
+- **Anthropic** (OAuth or shared token): either the shared `claude setup-token` token injected as `CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN` (see below), or a per-container `claude login`. An interactive login's token lives in the config volume and survives container stop/start and recreation — but **not** a Reset, which deletes the volumes.
+- **AWS Bedrock**: Per-project AWS credentials (static keys, profile, or bearer token). SSO sessions are validated before launching Claude for Profile auth.
+- **Ollama**: Connect to a local or remote Ollama server via `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` (e.g., `http://host.docker.internal:11434`). Requires a model ID, and the model must be pulled (or used via Ollama cloud) before starting the container.
+- **llama.cpp**: Connect to a local or remote `llama-server` via `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` (e.g., `http://host.docker.internal:8080` — 8080 is `llama-server`'s default port). `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN` is set to a placeholder; `llama-server` ignores it unless it was started with `--api-key`.
+- **OpenAI Compatible**: Connect through a gateway that implements the **Anthropic Messages API**, via `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` + `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN`. API key stored securely in OS keychain. Triple-C can run that gateway for you — see [Model Gateway](#model-gateway-litellm-sibling-container).
+
+> **The endpoint must speak the Anthropic Messages API.** Claude Code only ever sends
+> `POST /v1/messages?beta=true` in Anthropic Messages format to `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` — it never
+> speaks OpenAI's `/v1/chat/completions`. So a server that exposes *only* an OpenAI-compatible API
+> (plain vLLM, text-generation-inference, LocalAI, OpenRouter, …) will **not** work behind any of
+> these backends. What does work: **LiteLLM**, which exposes an Anthropic-shaped route, and
+> **Ollama** and **llama.cpp**, both of which implement `POST /v1/messages` natively — which is why
+> they get first-class backends of their own rather than going through a translation layer.
+
+#### Model alias variables
+
+The `opus` / `sonnet` / `haiku` / `fable` aliases in Claude Code resolve to Anthropic model IDs by
+default. Against a local server those IDs do not exist, so anything that uses an alias fails —
+most visibly the **background** calls (conversation titles, summaries), which use `haiku`.
+
+For every backend that points at a custom endpoint (Ollama, llama.cpp, OpenAI Compatible),
+Triple-C therefore sets all four:
+
+| Variable | Value |
+|---|---|
+| `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL` | the backend's configured model ID |
+| `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL` | the backend's configured model ID |
+| `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL` | the **Background model** override, else the configured model ID |
+| `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_FABLE_MODEL` | the backend's configured model ID |
+
+A local server usually serves exactly one model, so pointing every alias at it is the right
+default. If you run a second, smaller model for cheap background work, set **Background model**
+(Config → Model, and in global Backend settings) and only the Haiku alias moves.
+
+These are *not* set for the Anthropic or Bedrock backends, which reach servers that really do host
+the Anthropic model IDs. Triple-C manages all four names, so they cannot be set as custom
+environment variables. (`ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL` is deprecated and is not used.)
+
+> **Note:** Ollama, llama.cpp and OpenAI Compatible support is best-effort. Claude Code is designed for Anthropic models, so some features (tool use, extended thinking, prompt caching, etc.) may not work as expected with non-Anthropic models behind these backends.
+
+### Model Gateway (LiteLLM sibling container)
+
+For providers that only speak OpenAI's API, Triple-C can run **LiteLLM** as a sibling container
+(`docker/gateway.rs`, `gateway-container/`) that gives Claude Code the Anthropic-format front end it
+requires. Settings → Gateway configures the provider prefix (`openai`, `azure`, `gemini`, `groq`,
+…), an optional API base override, the models to serve, and the host port (default `4000`). A
+project then consumes it with the OpenAI Compatible backend. It mirrors the STT container's
+lifecycle, including auto-start with the app.
+
+Its bind address is **detected, never `0.0.0.0`**. Unlike STT, the consumers are *project
+containers*, so loopback alone is not always enough: Docker Desktop binds `127.0.0.1` and advertises
+`host.docker.internal`; native Linux binds the default bridge gateway (`172.17.0.1`) and advertises
+the same literal. `GatewayBinding` derives the bind address and the advertised `base_url` together
+so the two cannot drift. A wildcard bind would be LAN-reachable — Docker's rules precede host
+firewalls — in front of a config file holding a billed provider key. A LiteLLM `master_key` is
+**always** set, because LiteLLM without one accepts any key.
+
+### Shared Claude Authentication Token
+
+Rather than running `claude login` in every container, `claude setup-token` can be run once
+(`commands/auth_token_commands.rs`). The flow borrows a running container, runs the CLI on a PTY,
+and the long-lived token it prints is stored in the OS keychain — it is never returned to the
+frontend and never logged. Streamed output passes through a chunk-boundary-safe redactor that masks
+anything resembling an `sk-ant-` secret.
+
+The token is injected as `CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN` into every project where the backend is
+Anthropic, the project has not opted out (`use_shared_auth_token`, default `true`), and a token is
+actually stored. It is a reserved env key, so it cannot be hand-set as a custom variable.
+
+Rotation is tracked with a random id (not a hash of the token) mirrored into the
+`triple-c.claude-token-version` label — a hash in a `docker inspect`-readable label would be an
+offline verification oracle. Acquiring, rotating, revoking or opting out changes that label, which
+forces a container recreation on the next start; that is when a container picks the token up or has
+it cleared.
+
+## Bridges to the Host
 
 ### URL Relay (host browser)
 
@@ -175,96 +405,87 @@ recreates the container. The poller stops on its own when the container stops.
 unauthenticated service inside the container, so widening those addresses would publish container
 internals to the LAN. Nothing else on the network can reach a bridged port.
 
-### Shared Claude Authentication Token
+### Browser View
 
-Rather than running `claude login` in every container, `claude setup-token` can be run once
-(`commands/auth_token_commands.rs`). The flow borrows a running container, runs the CLI on a PTY,
-and the long-lived token it prints is stored in the OS keychain — it is never returned to the
-frontend and never logged. Streamed output passes through a chunk-boundary-safe redactor that masks
-anything resembling an `sk-ant-` secret.
+Watch — and take over — the browser Claude is driving with Playwright inside the container. The
+**Browser** tab runs Playwright's own dashboard (`browser.bind()` plus `playwright-cli show`) in the
+container and fronts it with a **token-gated** loopback proxy on the host (`browser_view/`). Opt-in
+per project.
 
-The token is injected as `CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN` into every project where the backend is
-Anthropic, the project has not opted out (`use_shared_auth_token`, default `true`), and a token is
-actually stored. It is a reserved env key, so it cannot be hand-set as a custom variable.
+- **It deliberately does not reuse the auth bridge's `PortForward`**, which binds an
+  unauthenticated port — fine for a throwaway OAuth listener, wrong for remote control of a browser.
+  Host ports are confined to `47820..=47827` because CSP `frame-src` cannot express a port range and
+  has to enumerate them; a unit test asserts the Rust range matches `tauri.conf.json`.
+- **Pop out** puts the same URL in a second OS window (`popout.rs`), so the view can be watched on
+  another monitor or pinned on top while the main window is used for work. No capability lists that
+  window, so it has **no IPC surface**; the app CSP does not apply to it either, because it is a
+  top-level document rather than a frame — the token gate is what protects the port in both cases.
+  The window is owned by the *session*, so the supervisor's teardown closes it. The pane drops its
+  iframe while popped out, and both viewers can drive the browser.
+- **Open page…** launches a browser in the container at a URL and viewport you choose and binds it,
+  so the pane shows it (`page.rs`). This is what serves container-side auth — the OAuth callback
+  listener is *in* the container, so a container-side browser closes the loop with no host round
+  trip and no auth bridge — and dev servers on container loopback. Re-opening with a helper already
+  up *navigates* rather than relaunching, so a session signed in on one page survives to the next.
+- **Resizing the window does not resize the page.** The viewer is a CDP screencast: a bigger window
+  is the same pixels drawn larger. `page.setViewportSize()` is what reflows, and match-window mode
+  pushes the pop-out's settled size into it, debounced by generation counter because a drag emits
+  continuously and each event costs a container exec.
+- **Setup is two clicks, and nothing installs itself.** Detection has to look past `node_modules` —
+  `claude mcp add … npx @playwright/mcp@latest` installs into `~/.npm/_npx/<hash>/node_modules` — and
+  hops from a wrapper `playwright` to its **nested** `playwright-core`, because npm does not hoist
+  for global installs and the wrapper ships no type definitions to read a version from. Installing
+  puts Playwright in `/workspace` with `--no-save` (not a bind mount, so it touches nothing of
+  yours) and browsers in `~/.cache/ms-playwright`, which is inside the home volume and so survives
+  recreation *and* migration.
+- **`@playwright/mcp` can never satisfy this pane** on its own: it bundles a `playwright-core` that
+  binds, but never `@playwright/cli`, which is the viewer. It is what binds sessions automatically
+  once Playwright is present — not a setup route.
 
-Rotation is tracked with a random id (not a hash of the token) mirrored into the
-`triple-c.claude-token-version` label — a hash in a `docker inspect`-readable label would be an
-offline verification oracle. Acquiring, rotating, revoking or opting out changes that label, which
-forces a container recreation on the next start; that is when a container picks the token up or has
-it cleared.
+### Host File Transfers
 
-### Container Lifecycle
+Four routes move files across the boundary: **Upload…** and the per-row **Save to host…** in the
+Files tab, a file dropped onto the Terminal tab, and **Back up container**. All four share one path
+policy in `commands/file_commands.rs`.
 
-1. **Create**: New container created with bind mounts, named volumes, env vars, and labels
-2. **Start**: Container started, entrypoint remaps UID/GID, sets up SSH, configures Docker group, injects Claude Code settings, rebuilds the scheduler crontab
-3. **Terminal**: `docker exec` launches Claude Code (with the project's permission-mode flags) or a bash login shell, with a PTY
-4. **Stop**: Container halted (its filesystem layer and both named volumes persist)
-5. **Restart**: Existing container restarted; if any `triple-c.*` label no longer matches the project's settings, the container is committed to a snapshot image, removed, and recreated from that snapshot — so installed packages survive
-6. **Reset**: Container, snapshot image **and both named volumes** all removed, then recreated from the clean base image. `remove_project_volumes` deletes `triple-c-home-{projectId}` and `triple-c-claude-config-{projectId}`, so `~/.claude`, `~/.claude.json`, the OAuth login, installed skills, session transcripts and the scheduler's tasks are all lost.
+- **The OS dialogs are opened by Rust, not by the webview.** `upload_files_to_container` and
+  `download_container_file` drive `tauri-plugin-dialog` themselves and take nothing but a project
+  id and a container-side path; `FilesTab.tsx` imports no dialog plugin and `useFileManager`'s
+  `uploadFiles` takes no argument at all. The web UI can ask for a dialog, and that is the whole of
+  its influence over where a file comes from or goes — it cannot name a host path as an *input*.
+  This is a boundary rather than a convention: a dialog the page itself opens is only as trustworthy
+  as the page. Be precise about the limit, though — host paths still travel *outward* in error text,
+  canonical ones included, so this closes the inbound direction and not both.
+- **The dialog's pre-filled name is sanitized, because a container authored it.** On Windows the
+  save dialog parses its name box as a path, and a container can name a file
+  `..\..\Users\you\…\Word\STARTUP\x.dotm` — one POSIX segment, so nothing upstream objects.
+  `suggested_save_name` replaces every separator and every character NTFS refuses, so the string
+  cannot be a path on any platform this ships to.
+- **One policy for every host path.** A source or destination whose path passes through a hidden
+  folder (`~/.ssh`, `~/.cache`, `~/.local/share`, anything dot-prefixed) or a system location is
+  refused, and the check is applied both to the path as written and to what it resolves to after
+  symlinks. It over-catches deliberately, so it will occasionally refuse somewhere a person
+  genuinely meant — `~/.config`, say — and the refusal is a sentence naming the folder that tripped
+  it, not an errno.
+- **Uploads are capped at 256 MB per file**; past that the answer is a mount, not a copy. One
+  dialog's selection is handled file by file, so a folder or an oversized file among the selection
+  is reported by name and does not stop the others. Uploaded files land owned by the container user,
+  not root. A cancelled dialog is silent — `Ok(None)`, not an error.
+- **`download_container_file` is one file and files only** — no button on a folder row. A directory
+  is what `download_container_backup` is for. There is no drop target on the Files pane; the
+  Terminal tab keeps the one it has.
 
-### Mounts
+## Inside a Project
 
-| Target in Container | Source | Type | Notes |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| `/workspace/<mount-name>` | Each configured project folder | Bind | Read-write; one per folder |
-| `/home/claude` | `triple-c-home-{projectId}` | Named Volume | Home directory; survives stop/start and recreation |
-| `/home/claude/.claude` | `triple-c-claude-config-{projectId}` | Named Volume | Nested inside the home volume; Docker gives the more specific mount precedence |
-| `/tmp/.host-ssh` | SSH key directory | Bind | Read-only; entrypoint copies to `~/.ssh` |
-| `/home/claude/.aws` | AWS config directory | Bind | Read-only; for Bedrock auth |
-| `/var/run/docker.sock` | Host Docker socket | Bind | If "Allow container spawning" is ON |
+### Container Introspection (Capability Tiles)
 
-These two named volumes are the only ones a project owns. Both are removed by Reset and by project
-removal, and by nothing else.
+`list_container_capabilities` (`commands/inspect_commands.rs`) runs a read-only `find`/`jq` script
+inside a running container and returns counts plus item lists for **skills, agents, commands, hooks,
+plugins and MCP servers**, at user scope (`/home/claude/.claude`) and project scope
+(`/workspace/*/.claude`, `/workspace/*/.mcp.json`). Overview renders these as tiles.
 
-### Authentication Modes
-
-Each project can independently use one of:
-
-- **Anthropic** (OAuth or shared token): either the shared `claude setup-token` token injected as `CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN` (see below), or a per-container `claude login`. An interactive login's token lives in the config volume and survives container stop/start and recreation — but **not** a Reset, which deletes the volumes.
-- **AWS Bedrock**: Per-project AWS credentials (static keys, profile, or bearer token). SSO sessions are validated before launching Claude for Profile auth.
-- **Ollama**: Connect to a local or remote Ollama server via `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` (e.g., `http://host.docker.internal:11434`). Requires a model ID, and the model must be pulled (or used via Ollama cloud) before starting the container.
-- **llama.cpp**: Connect to a local or remote `llama-server` via `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` (e.g., `http://host.docker.internal:8080` — 8080 is `llama-server`'s default port). `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN` is set to a placeholder; `llama-server` ignores it unless it was started with `--api-key`.
-- **OpenAI Compatible**: Connect through a gateway that implements the **Anthropic Messages API**, via `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` + `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN`. API key stored securely in OS keychain.
-
-> **The endpoint must speak the Anthropic Messages API.** Claude Code only ever sends
-> `POST /v1/messages?beta=true` in Anthropic Messages format to `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` — it never
-> speaks OpenAI's `/v1/chat/completions`. So a server that exposes *only* an OpenAI-compatible API
-> (plain vLLM, text-generation-inference, LocalAI, OpenRouter, …) will **not** work behind any of
-> these backends. What does work: **LiteLLM**, which exposes an Anthropic-shaped route, and
-> **Ollama** and **llama.cpp**, both of which implement `POST /v1/messages` natively — which is why
-> they get first-class backends of their own rather than going through a translation layer.
-
-#### Model alias variables
-
-The `opus` / `sonnet` / `haiku` / `fable` aliases in Claude Code resolve to Anthropic model IDs by
-default. Against a local server those IDs do not exist, so anything that uses an alias fails —
-most visibly the **background** calls (conversation titles, summaries), which use `haiku`.
-
-For every backend that points at a custom endpoint (Ollama, llama.cpp, OpenAI Compatible),
-Triple-C therefore sets all four:
-
-| Variable | Value |
-|---|---|
-| `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL` | the backend's configured model ID |
-| `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL` | the backend's configured model ID |
-| `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL` | the **Background model** override, else the configured model ID |
-| `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_FABLE_MODEL` | the backend's configured model ID |
-
-A local server usually serves exactly one model, so pointing every alias at it is the right
-default. If you run a second, smaller model for cheap background work, set **Background model**
-(Config → Model, and in global Backend settings) and only the Haiku alias moves.
-
-These are *not* set for the Anthropic or Bedrock backends, which reach servers that really do host
-the Anthropic model IDs. Triple-C manages all four names, so they cannot be set as custom
-environment variables. (`ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL` is deprecated and is not used.)
-
-> **Note:** Ollama, llama.cpp and OpenAI Compatible support is best-effort. Claude Code is designed for Anthropic models, so some features (tool use, extended thinking, prompt caching, etc.) may not work as expected with non-Anthropic models behind these backends.
-
-### Container Spawning (Sibling Containers)
-
-When "Allow container spawning" is enabled per-project, the host Docker socket is bind-mounted into the container. This allows Claude Code to create **sibling containers** (not nested Docker-in-Docker) that are visible to the host. The entrypoint detects the socket's GID and adds the `claude` user to the matching group.
-
-If the Docker access setting is toggled after a container already exists, the container is automatically recreated on next start to apply the mount change. The named config volume (keyed by project ID) is preserved across recreation.
+Triple-C does not create or edit any of them — Claude Code owns that configuration, and the tiles
+link out to a terminal where `/agents`, `/hooks`, `/plugins` and `/mcp` do the real work.
 
 ### Mission Control Integration
 
@@ -289,87 +510,117 @@ Triple-C includes optional speech-to-text powered by [Faster Whisper](https://gi
 - **Hotkey**: `Ctrl+Shift+M` to toggle recording
 - **Models**: `tiny`, `small`, or `medium` (configurable in Settings)
 - **Port**: Default `9876` (configurable)
+- **Input device**: Selectable in Settings when the host exposes more than one microphone
 - **Language**: Optional language hint for transcription
 - **Auto-start**: When STT is enabled in Settings, the container starts automatically with the app — no need to manually start it after each restart
 - **On-demand fallback**: If not auto-started, the container starts automatically when you first click the mic button
 
 **How it works**: Audio is captured in the browser via the Web Audio API, encoded as WAV, and sent to the Faster Whisper container's `/transcribe` endpoint. The transcribed text is inserted directly into the active terminal. The STT container uses a named Docker volume (`triple-c-stt-model-cache`) to cache Whisper models across restarts.
 
-### Docker Socket Path
-
-The socket path is OS-aware:
-- **Linux/macOS**: `/var/run/docker.sock`
-- **Windows**: `//./pipe/docker_engine`
-
-Users can override this in Settings via the global `docker_socket_path` option.
-
 ## Key Files
 
+### Frontend — layout and projects
+
 | File | Purpose |
 |---|---|
 | `app/src/App.tsx` | Root layout (TopBar + Sidebar + Main + StatusBar + ToastHost) |
 | `app/src/index.css` | Global CSS variables, dark theme, `color-scheme: dark`, `:focus-visible` ring |
 | `app/src/components/layout/TopBar.tsx` | Hosts MainTabs + Docker/Image status indicators + Help |
-| `app/src/components/layout/MainTabs.tsx` | The single main-area tab strip (Project Home + terminal tabs) |
+| `app/src/components/layout/MainTabs.tsx` | The single main-area tab strip (Project Home + terminal tabs), pointer-event drag reordering |
 | `app/src/components/layout/Sidebar.tsx` | Responsive sidebar (25% width, min 224px, max 320px), collapsible to an icon rail |
-| `app/src/components/layout/StatusBar.tsx` | Project/terminal counts, Jump to Current, STT mic |
+| `app/src/components/layout/StatusBar.tsx` | Project/terminal counts, Notes toggle, STT mic |
 | `app/src/components/projects/ProjectRow.tsx` | Select-only sidebar row; opens Project Home, with hover start/stop and terminal controls |
 | `app/src/components/projects/ProjectList.tsx` | Project list in sidebar |
 | `app/src/components/projects/PermissionModeControl.tsx` | Plan / Default / Accept Edits / Bypass segmented control |
+| `app/src/components/ui/` | Shared primitives: `Modal`, `Button`, `Toggle`, `Field`, `SegmentedControl`, `StatusIndicator`, `SaveIndicator`, `OverflowMenu`, `ToastHost`, `Tooltip` |
+| `app/src/hooks/useKeyboardShortcuts.ts` | `Ctrl+T`, `Ctrl+Shift+W`, `Ctrl+Tab`, `Ctrl+1..9`, `Ctrl+Shift+←/→` |
+| `app/src/hooks/useContainerProgress.ts` | `container-progress` event → inline progress lines |
+
+### Frontend — Project Home
+
+| File | Purpose |
+|---|---|
 | `app/src/components/projects/home/ProjectHome.tsx` | Project Home shell: header actions, overflow menu, tab strip |
 | `app/src/components/projects/home/OverviewTab.tsx` | Permission mode, summary, capability tiles, recent sessions and tasks |
 | `app/src/components/projects/home/SessionsTab.tsx` | Past Claude sessions with Resume |
-| `app/src/components/projects/home/AutomationTab.tsx` | Scheduler tasks: toggle, run now, logs, remove, notifications |
+| `app/src/components/projects/home/AutomationTab.tsx` | Scheduler tasks: create, toggle, run now, logs, remove, notifications |
+| `app/src/components/projects/home/TaskEditorModal.tsx` | Create/edit a scheduled task; `taskValidation.ts` holds the cron and schedule rules |
 | `app/src/components/projects/home/ConfigTab.tsx` | Config sections (Workspace, Model, Access, Runtime) |
-| `app/src/components/projects/home/FilesTab.tsx` | File browser (browse, download, upload) |
+| `app/src/components/projects/home/FilesTab.tsx` | Container-side file browser (navigate, view, rename, new folder) plus **Upload…** and per-row **Save to host…**; imports no dialog plugin — the dialogs are Rust's |
+| `app/src/components/projects/home/BrowserTab.tsx` | Browser view pane: detect, install, watch, take over, pop out |
+| `app/src/components/projects/home/OpenPageDialog.tsx` | Open a URL in the container's browser at a chosen viewport |
+| `app/src/components/projects/home/ContainerMigrationBanner.tsx` | Base-image staleness banner, migration progress, resume/rollback |
 | `app/src/components/projects/home/CapabilityTiles.tsx` | Read-only skills/agents/commands/hooks/plugins/MCP counts |
-| `app/src/components/projects/ClaudeCodeSettingsEditor.tsx` | Claude Code CLI settings (TUI mode, effort, focus, caching) |
-| `app/src/components/ui/` | Shared primitives: `Modal`, `Button`, `Toggle`, `Field`, `SegmentedControl`, `StatusIndicator`, `SaveIndicator`, `OverflowMenu`, `ToastHost`, `Tooltip` |
-| `app/src/hooks/useKeyboardShortcuts.ts` | `Ctrl+T`, `Ctrl+Shift+W`, `Ctrl+Tab`, `Ctrl+1..9` |
-| `app/src/hooks/useContainerProgress.ts` | `container-progress` event → inline progress lines |
-| `app/src/components/settings/SettingsPanel.tsx` | Docker, AWS, timezone, web terminal, shared auth, and global settings |
+| `app/src/components/projects/ClaudeCodeSettingsEditor.tsx` | Claude Code CLI settings → `tui`, `effortLevel`, `viewMode`, `autoScrollEnabled`, `showThinkingSummaries`, `awaySummaryEnabled`, plus the env-var flags (scrub, 1h caching). Every managed key is re-emitted on each start, `null` meaning "delete". |
+
+### Frontend — settings, terminal and hooks
+
+| File | Purpose |
+|---|---|
+| `app/src/components/settings/SettingsPanel.tsx` | Docker, AWS, timezone, certificates, gateway, web terminal, STT, shared auth and global settings |
+| `app/src/components/settings/CertificateSettings.tsx` | Corporate CA certificate path (global), with `CaCertPathInput` |
+| `app/src/components/settings/GatewaySettings.tsx` | LiteLLM gateway: provider, API base, models, port, container controls |
 | `app/src/components/settings/SharedAuthSettings.tsx` | Acquire / revoke the shared Claude authentication token |
 | `app/src/components/settings/WebTerminalSettings.tsx` | Web terminal toggle, URL, token management |
-| `app/src/components/settings/SttSettings.tsx` | STT settings panel (model, port, language, container controls) |
+| `app/src/components/settings/SttSettings.tsx` | STT settings panel (model, port, language, device, container controls) |
+| `app/src/components/settings/UpdateDialog.tsx` | New-release notice with download links (`update_commands.rs`) |
 | `app/src/components/terminal/TerminalView.tsx` | xterm.js terminal with WebGL, URL detection, OSC 52 clipboard, OSC 7777 URL relay, image paste |
 | `app/src/components/terminal/SttButton.tsx` | Mic button with on-demand STT container start |
 | `app/src/hooks/useTerminal.ts` | Terminal session management (claude and bash modes) |
 | `app/src/hooks/useProjectActions.ts` | Start/stop/reset/backup and terminal-opening helpers |
-| `app/src/hooks/useFileManager.ts` | File manager operations (list, download, upload) |
+| `app/src/hooks/useContainerMigration.ts` | Staleness polling, migration run, resume and rollback |
+| `app/src/hooks/useFileManager.ts` | File browser operations (list, navigate, rename, mkdir) and the host transfers (upload, save one file out); never handles a host path |
 | `app/src/hooks/useClaudeAuth.ts` | Shared-token status and acquisition |
 | `app/src/hooks/useSTT.ts` | Speech-to-text recording, transcription, and container management |
+| `app/src/lib/urlRelay.ts` | Host-side relay validation: OSC 7777 parsing, http/https allowlist, rate limiting |
+| `app/src/lib/wav.ts` | WAV audio encoding for STT transcription |
+
+### Backend (Rust)
+
+| File | Purpose |
+|---|---|
 | `app/src-tauri/src/docker/container.rs` | Container creation, mounts, env vars, labels, recreation checks, `remove_project_volumes` |
-| `app/src-tauri/src/docker/exec.rs` | `create_attached_exec()` — the single attached-exec path; file upload/download via tar |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/docker/exec.rs` | `create_attached_exec()` — the single attached-exec path; one-shot execs and single-file tar building |
 | `app/src-tauri/src/docker/image.rs` | Image building/pulling |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/docker/migration.rs` | Base-image migration: manifest capture, delta computation, crash-recovery state machine |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/docker/ca_certs.rs` | CA certificate discovery, `.crt` renaming, fingerprinting |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/docker/gateway.rs` | LiteLLM sibling container: binding detection, config rendering, lifecycle |
 | `app/src-tauri/src/docker/stt.rs` | Speech-to-text container lifecycle |
 | `app/src-tauri/src/docker/legacy_cleanup.rs` | One-release migration shim removing leftovers from the deleted MCP feature |
 | `app/src-tauri/src/auth_bridge/` | Loopback callback bridge (`mod.rs`, `proc_net.rs`, `tunnel.rs`) |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/browser_view/` | Browser view: `detect.rs`, `install.rs`, `page.rs`, `popout.rs`, `proxy.rs`, `commands.rs` |
 | `app/src-tauri/src/commands/project_commands.rs` | Start/stop/rebuild Tauri command handlers |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/commands/migration_commands.rs` | Staleness, migrate, confirm, rollback, reconcile, `is_migrating` |
 | `app/src-tauri/src/commands/inspect_commands.rs` | Read-only container views: sessions, capabilities, scheduler tasks |
 | `app/src-tauri/src/commands/auth_token_commands.rs` | `claude setup-token` flow, redaction, keychain storage |
 | `app/src-tauri/src/commands/auth_bridge_commands.rs` | Auth bridge enable/status commands |
-| `app/src-tauri/src/commands/file_commands.rs` | File manager Tauri commands (list, download, upload) |
-| `app/src-tauri/src/models/project.rs` | Project struct (backend, `PermissionMode`, Docker access, Claude Code settings, Mission Control, auth bridge, shared-token opt-out) |
-| `app/src-tauri/src/models/app_settings.rs` | Global settings (image source, Docker socket, AWS, Claude Code settings, web terminal, STT) |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/commands/file_commands.rs` | Container-side file commands (list, read, rename, mkdir), the host transfers `upload_files_to_container` and `download_container_file` — each opening its own OS dialog here in Rust — plus `download_container_backup`, and the hidden-folder path policy all of them share |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/commands/stt_commands.rs` | STT start/stop/transcribe Tauri commands |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/commands/web_terminal_commands.rs` | Web terminal start/stop/status Tauri commands |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/models/project.rs` | Project struct (backend, `PermissionMode`, Docker access, Claude Code settings, Mission Control, auth bridge, browser view, CA path, shared-token opt-out) |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/models/app_settings.rs` | Global settings (image source, Docker socket, AWS, CA path, Claude Code settings, web terminal, STT, gateway) |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/models/gateway_settings.rs` | Gateway provider, models, port and API base |
 | `app/src-tauri/src/web_terminal/server.rs` | Axum HTTP+WS server for remote terminal access |
 | `app/src-tauri/src/web_terminal/ws_handler.rs` | WebSocket connection handler and session management |
 | `app/src-tauri/src/web_terminal/terminal.html` | Embedded web UI (xterm.js, project picker, tabs) |
-| `app/src-tauri/src/commands/stt_commands.rs` | STT start/stop/transcribe Tauri commands |
-| `app/src-tauri/src/commands/web_terminal_commands.rs` | Web terminal start/stop/status Tauri commands |
-| `app/src-tauri/src/docker/stt.rs` | STT Docker container lifecycle (create, start, stop, build, pull) |
-| `app/src/lib/wav.ts` | WAV audio encoding for STT transcription |
-| `stt-container/Dockerfile` | Faster Whisper STT container image (Python 3.11 + FastAPI) |
-| `stt-container/server.py` | STT HTTP server (POST /transcribe endpoint) |
-| `container/Dockerfile` | Ubuntu 24.04 sandbox image with Claude Code + dev tools + clipboard/audio shims |
-| `container/entrypoint.sh` | UID/GID remap, SSH setup, Docker group config, Claude Code settings injection, Mission Control setup |
+| `app/src-tauri/src/storage/secure.rs` | OS keychain access (per-project secrets, shared token, gateway keys, rotation id) |
+
+### Container and packaging
+
+| File | Purpose |
+|---|---|
+| `container/Dockerfile` | Ubuntu 24.04 sandbox image with Claude Code + dev tools + clipboard/audio shims + browser runtime libraries |
+| `container/entrypoint.sh` | UID/GID remap, SSH setup, CA installation, Docker group config, Claude Code settings injection, Mission Control setup |
 | `container/osc52-clipboard` | Clipboard shim (xclip/xsel/pbcopy via OSC 52) |
 | `container/triple-c-open` | URL relay shim (xdg-open/`$BROWSER`/sensible-browser via OSC 7777); prints the URL when no terminal is attached |
-| `app/src/lib/urlRelay.ts` | Host-side relay validation: OSC 7777 parsing, http/https allowlist, rate limiting |
 | `container/audio-shim` | Audio capture shim (rec/arecord via FIFO) for voice mode |
 | `container/triple-c-scheduler` | Bash CLI managing scheduled task JSON and the crontab |
 | `container/triple-c-task-runner` | Cron entry point; maps `TRIPLE_C_PERMISSION_MODE` to flags and runs `claude -p` |
 | `container/triple-c-sso-refresh` | AWS SSO session refresh helper |
-| `app/src-tauri/src/storage/secure.rs` | OS keychain access (per-project secrets, shared token, rotation id) |
+| `gateway-container/` | LiteLLM image and rendered `config.yaml` for the model gateway |
+| `stt-container/Dockerfile` | Faster Whisper STT container image (Python 3.11 + FastAPI) |
+| `stt-container/server.py` | STT HTTP server (POST /transcribe endpoint) |
+| `branding/` | Logo sources, palette, and `build-icons.py`, which generates every packaged icon |
 
 ## CSS / Styling Notes
 
@@ -382,7 +633,7 @@ Users can override this in Settings via the global `docker_socket_path` option.
 
 **Base**: Ubuntu 24.04
 
-**Pre-installed tools**: Claude Code, Node.js 22 LTS + pnpm, Python 3.12 + uv + ruff, Rust (stable), Docker CLI, git + gh, AWS CLI v2, ripgrep, openssh-client, build-essential
+**Pre-installed tools**: Claude Code, Node.js 22 LTS + pnpm, Python 3.12 + uv + ruff, Rust (stable), Docker CLI, git + gh, AWS CLI v2, ripgrep, openssh-client, build-essential, `libnss3-tools` (for `certutil`, used to seed Chromium's CA store)
 
 **Shims**: `xclip`/`xsel`/`pbcopy` (OSC 52 clipboard forwarding), `xdg-open`/`sensible-browser`/`www-browser`/`x-www-browser`/`$BROWSER` (OSC 7777 URL relay to the host browser), `rec`/`arecord` (audio FIFO for voice mode)
 
@@ -406,4 +657,10 @@ The libraries are the opposite — a runtime `apt-get install` lands in the cont
 layer, is re-paid after every Reset, and is lost on migration (which replays apt from a manifest
 against the new base). Baking one and not the other puts each half where it already persists.
 
+**`/home/claude` in the image is seed-only.** It is the mount point of the `triple-c-home-{projectId}`
+volume, so after a project's *first* start the image's copy of that directory is masked permanently.
+A change made under `/home/claude` in the Dockerfile reaches **new projects only** — with or without
+a base-image migration. Anything that must stay upgradable belongs in `/usr/local/bin` or `/opt`, or
+must be seeded by `entrypoint.sh` on every start.
+
 **Default user**: `claude` (UID/GID 1000, remapped by entrypoint to match host)

ROADMAP.md

@@ -26,24 +26,39 @@ scheduler, and the fleet view across many projects.
 
 ## Current coverage (v0.3.0)
 
-Triple-C sets exactly five `settings.json` keys, plus a sandbox block:
+Triple-C sets exactly six `settings.json` keys, plus a sandbox block:
 
 | Key | Surfaced as |
 |---|---|
-| `tui` | TUI Mode select (`fullscreen`) |
-| `effort` | Effort Level select (`low`/`medium`/`high`) |
-| `autoScrollEnabled` | Auto-Scroll Disabled toggle |
-| `focusMode` | Focus Mode toggle |
-| `showThinkingSummaries` | Thinking Summaries toggle |
+| `tui` | TUI mode select — unset (Claude Code chooses), `default` (classic renderer), `fullscreen` (flicker-free alt-screen). Three distinct states, not two. |
+| `effortLevel` | Effort level select (`low`/`medium`/`high`/`xhigh`) |
+| `viewMode` | Focus mode toggle, written as `"focus"`. Unset means the user's own `verbose` setting and sticky `/focus` choice still apply. |
+| `autoScrollEnabled` | Auto-scroll toggle. Claude Code's default is `true`, so it is the *off* state that writes `false`. |
+| `showThinkingSummaries` | Thinking summaries toggle (Claude Code default `false`) |
+| `awaySummaryEnabled` | Session recap toggle. Claude Code's recap is **on** by default, so again it is the off state that writes `false`. |
 | `sandbox.*` | Sandbox toggle (`enabled`, `enableWeakerNestedSandbox`, `allowUnsandboxedCommands`) |
 
+Every one of those keys is emitted on **every** start, with a JSON `null` standing for
+"delete this key". `~/.claude/settings.json` sits on the config volume and the entrypoint
+merges into it, so a key merely omitted when its control goes off left the previous
+on-value in place forever.
+
 Plus four env feature flags — `CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER`, `CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AWAY_SUMMARY`,
 `CLAUDE_CODE_SUBPROCESS_ENV_SCRUB`, `ENABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_1H` — and arbitrary user-set
-`CLAUDE_CODE_*` vars via the Env Vars modal.
+`CLAUDE_CODE_*` vars via the Env Vars modal. The four are written on every container
+create *including* their off value, because `docker commit` bakes a container's env into
+the snapshot image: a value written once would otherwise ride that snapshot into every
+future container. That also makes them Triple-C's to own, so all four are reserved names
+— hand-setting one in the Env Vars modal is skipped with a warning, the same as any other
+`triple-c.*`-managed variable. `CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AWAY_SUMMARY` is what actually enforces
+the recap choice — it takes precedence over `awaySummaryEnabled` *and* over the
+in-container `/config` toggle, so turning the control off sends `0` while leaving it on
+sends an empty value rather than `1`: Triple-C's default must not overrule a `/config`
+choice it never asked about.
 
 Also covered: per-project auth backends (Anthropic OAuth, Bedrock incl. SSO refresh,
 Ollama, OpenAI-compatible), user-level `CLAUDE.md` composition, `claude update` on every
-container start, terminal ergonomics (OAuth URL detection, OSC 52 clipboard, image paste,
+container start *and* before every Claude session launches, terminal ergonomics (OAuth URL detection, OSC 52 clipboard, image paste,
 file drag-drop, STT), the web terminal, and workspace backup.
 
 ---

TECHNICAL.md

@@ -62,10 +62,13 @@ Tauri uses a Rust backend paired with a web-based frontend rendered by the OS-na
 Implementation gotchas for the terminal view and its global controls (merged in PR #7, `terminal-layout-statusbar`):
 
 - **xterm padding lives on a wrapper, never the host.** FitAddon measures the same element that `term.open()` mounts into, so any padding on that host element makes the grid overhang and clip its rightmost column / bottom row. Padding must live on a **wrapper `div`**; the xterm host fills it with no padding of its own. Do not reintroduce padding on the host element in `TerminalView.tsx`.
-- **STT mic and "Jump to Current" live in the global `StatusBar`, not per-terminal overlays.** There is a single `useSTT` instance in `App.tsx` bound to the active session. `Ctrl+Shift+M` routes through the Zustand store (`sttToggle`).
+- **The STT mic lives in the global `StatusBar`, not a per-terminal overlay.** There is a single `useSTT` instance in `App.tsx` bound to the active session. `Ctrl+Shift+M` routes through the Zustand store (`sttToggle`).
 - **Recording is pinned to where it started.** The STT transcript targets `recordingSessionIdRef` (the session recording began in), **not** the live active session — switching tabs mid-recording must not misroute the transcript.
-- **"Jump to Current" state is written only by the active terminal.** The active `TerminalView` surfaces `terminalAtBottom` and `scrollActiveToBottom` through the store; only the active terminal writes them, and they are cleared on its unmount.
-- **Set store function values via object-merge, not the updater form** — `set({ fn: value })`, not `set(state => ...)` — when publishing action callbacks (like `scrollActiveToBottom`) into the Zustand store.
+- **Scrolling is left to xterm, and the "Following" / "Jump to Current" controls that used to drive it are gone.** They were built for the normal buffer. Claude Code draws on the *alternate* screen, which has no scrollback, so in a Claude tab `viewportY` always equalled `baseY`, `isAtBottom` was permanently true and neither control could ever do anything — which is what made them look broken. **They did still work in `bash` tabs**, which run `bash -l` on the normal buffer; removing them is a real behaviour change there, and the justification is that xterm's native follow already covers it, not that nothing was lost. The manual `scrollToBottom()` on every write went with them — it fought that native behaviour, which follows the tail while the viewport is at the bottom and holds position while you read further up. `scrollToBottom()` remains only on activate and after a refit, and **both sample `viewportY >= baseY` before the `fit()`** so they re-anchor only a viewport that was already on the tail: the ResizeObserver fires for the Notes dock, the sidebar drag and any window resize, none of which are a reason to yank a reader to the bottom.
+- **A program that grabs the mouse and dies must be escapable without closing the tab.** A TUI sets DECSET `?1000`/`?1002`/`?1003` and, if it exits without resetting them, xterm keeps routing clicks, drags and (under `?1003`) every pointer *move* to the PTY — text selection dies and escape bytes flood the prompt. `TerminalView` reconciles a badge against `term.modes.mouseTrackingMode` **in the `term.write()` callback**: the mode only changes because the container printed a sequence, so one check per write catches every transition with no polling. Releasing writes the resets through `term.write`, **never `sendInput`** — the reset belongs to xterm's parser and must not reach the container, or a still-live TUI would simply re-grab the mouse on its next repaint. Bound to the control and to `Ctrl+Shift+X`, because the failure being recovered from is the pointer not working.
+- **The release control lives in the `StatusBar`, not over the terminal.** Mouse tracking is the *normal* steady state of every mouse-driven TUI — htop, vim, lazygit and Claude Code all set `?1000`/`?1002` — so a badge painted at `absolute top-2 right-4 z-50` would be on screen for the entire life of those programs and would swallow clicks aimed at that program's own top-right corner, silently killing its mouse with no undo. The active `TerminalView` publishes `terminalMouseCaptured` and `releaseActiveMouse` through the store instead, the same way `terminalHasSelection` and `sttToggle` already do.
+- **`macOptionClickForcesSelection: true` is set, and without it macOS has no force-select at all.** `SelectionService.shouldForceSelection` is `isMac ? altKey && macOptionClickForcesSelection : shiftKey`, and the option defaults to `false` — so the "hold Shift to select while a program holds the mouse" escape hatch is Shift everywhere else and **Option** on macOS, and existed on macOS only once this was turned on.
+- **Set store function values via object-merge, not the updater form** — `set({ fn: value })`, not `set(state => ...)` — when publishing action callbacks (like `sttToggle`) into the Zustand store.
 
 ### bollard (Docker API)
 
@@ -412,13 +415,12 @@ triple-c/
 │
 ├── .gitea/
 │   └── workflows/
-│       ├── build-app.yml          # Build Tauri app (Linux/macOS/Windows)
+│       ├── build-app.yml            # Build Tauri app (Linux/macOS/Windows); mirrors releases to GitHub inline
 │       ├── build-app-preview.yml    # Preview builds
 │       ├── build.yml                # Build container image (multi-arch)
 │       ├── build-stt.yml            # Build the STT image
-│       ├── sync-release.yml       # Mirror releases to GitHub
 │       ├── backfill-releases.yml    # Bulk copy releases to GitHub
-│       └── cleanup-releases.yml   # Prune old releases
+│       ├── cleanup-releases.yml     # Prune old releases
 │
 └── app/                           # Tauri v2 desktop application
     ├── package.json               # React, xterm.js, zustand, tailwindcss
@@ -436,7 +438,7 @@ triple-c/
     │   │   ├── useClaudeAuth.ts   # Shared token status + acquisition
     │   │   ├── useContainerProgress.ts # container-progress events → inline progress
     │   │   ├── useDocker.ts       # Docker status, image build/pull
-    │   │   ├── useFileManager.ts  # File browser operations
+    │   │   ├── useFileManager.ts  # File browser operations + host transfers
     │   │   ├── useInstallHelper.ts # Guided Docker installation
     │   │   ├── useKeyboardShortcuts.ts # Ctrl+T / Ctrl+Shift+W / Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+1..9
     │   │   ├── useProjectActions.ts # Start/stop/reset/backup, open terminals
@@ -464,7 +466,7 @@ triple-c/
     │       │   │   ├── SessionsTab.tsx   # Past Claude sessions + Resume
     │       │   │   ├── AutomationTab.tsx # Scheduler tasks + notifications
     │       │   │   ├── ConfigTab.tsx     # Config section host
-    │       │   │   ├── FilesTab.tsx      # In-container file browser
+    │       │   │   ├── FilesTab.tsx      # In-container file browser, upload / save to host
     │       │   │   ├── CapabilityTiles.tsx # Read-only capability counts
     │       │   │   ├── format.ts         # Age / size / uptime formatting
     │       │   │   └── config/           # WorkspaceSection, ModelSection,
@@ -504,7 +506,7 @@ triple-c/
             │   ├── auth_token_commands.rs   # claude setup-token flow, redaction, keychain
             │   ├── aws_commands.rs          # AWS profile/region discovery
             │   ├── docker_commands.rs       # Docker status, image ops
-            │   ├── file_commands.rs         # File browser (list/download/upload)
+            │   ├── file_commands.rs         # File browser + host transfers (Rust-opened dialogs)
             │   ├── help_commands.rs         # Serves HOW-TO-USE.md to the Help dialog
             │   ├── inspect_commands.rs      # Sessions, capabilities, scheduler tasks
             │   ├── install_helper_commands.rs # Guided Docker installation

app/index.html

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <html lang="en">
   <head>
     <meta charset="UTF-8" />
-    <link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/vite.svg" />
+    <link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/favicon.svg" />
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
     <title>Triple-C</title>
   </head>

app/package-lock.json

@@ -8,10 +8,24 @@
       "name": "triple-c",
       "version": "0.4.0",
       "dependencies": {
+        "@codemirror/commands": "^6.11.1",
+        "@codemirror/lang-css": "^6.3.1",
+        "@codemirror/lang-html": "^6.4.12",
+        "@codemirror/lang-javascript": "^6.2.5",
+        "@codemirror/lang-json": "^6.0.2",
+        "@codemirror/lang-markdown": "^6.5.2",
+        "@codemirror/lang-python": "^6.2.1",
+        "@codemirror/lang-rust": "^6.0.2",
+        "@codemirror/lang-yaml": "^6.1.3",
+        "@codemirror/language": "^6.12.4",
+        "@codemirror/legacy-modes": "^6.5.4",
+        "@codemirror/search": "^6.7.2",
+        "@codemirror/state": "^6.7.6",
+        "@codemirror/view": "^6.43.13",
+        "@lezer/highlight": "^1.2.3",
         "@tauri-apps/api": "^2",
         "@tauri-apps/plugin-dialog": "^2.7.0",
         "@tauri-apps/plugin-opener": "^2.5.3",
-        "@tauri-apps/plugin-store": "^2",
         "@xterm/addon-fit": "^0.10",
         "@xterm/addon-web-links": "^0.12.0",
         "@xterm/addon-webgl": "^0.18",
@@ -414,6 +428,204 @@
         "specificity": "bin/cli.js"
       }
     },
+    "node_modules/@codemirror/autocomplete": {
+      "version": "6.20.3",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@codemirror/autocomplete/-/autocomplete-6.20.3.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-tlosUqb+3BbxCxZdu4tKeRghPFC+QM7q4X5YhKV2eCmPG+1r2F3f4AaSz5sCrFqUtX4Jh20VFTKecl16MgiV9g==",
+      "license": "MIT",
+      "dependencies": {
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+        "@codemirror/state": "^6.0.0",
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     "@xterm/addon-fit": "^0.10",
     "@xterm/addon-web-links": "^0.12.0",
     "@xterm/addon-webgl": "^0.18",

app/public/favicon.svg

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 128 128" width="128" height="128" role="img" aria-label="Triple-C">
+  <title>Triple-C application icon, small-size variant</title>
+  <!-- Source for every raster ≤ 32 px: the small mark, drawn at 82% so the strokes
+       survive being resampled down to 16 px. See build-icons.py. -->
+  <rect width="128" height="128" rx="28.16" fill="#0D1117"/>
+  <g transform="translate(2.9236 2.9236) scale(0.95418)">
+    <g fill="none" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round">
+      <path d="M112 50 L112 38 A22 22 0 0 0 90 16 L38 16 A22 22 0 0 0 16 38 L16 90 A22 22 0 0 0 38 112 L90 112 A22 22 0 0 0 112 90 L112 78"
+            stroke="#58A6FF" stroke-width="14"/>
+      <path d="M46 50 L62 66 L46 82" stroke="#F0821E" stroke-width="13"/>
+    </g>
+  </g>
+</svg>

app/src-tauri/Cargo.lock

@@ -8,6 +8,41 @@ version = "2.0.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "320119579fcad9c21884f5c4861d16174d0e06250625266f50fe6898340abefa"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "aead"
+version = "0.5.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d122413f284cf2d62fb1b7db97e02edb8cda96d769b16e443a4f6195e35662b0"
+dependencies = [
+ "crypto-common",
+ "generic-array",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "aes"
+version = "0.8.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b169f7a6d4742236a0a00c541b845991d0ac43e546831af1249753ab4c3aa3a0"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "cipher",
+ "cpufeatures",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "aes-gcm"
+version = "0.10.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "831010a0f742e1209b3bcea8fab6a8e149051ba6099432c8cb2cc117dec3ead1"
+dependencies = [
+ "aead",
+ "aes",
+ "cipher",
+ "ctr",
+ "ghash",
+ "subtle",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "aho-corasick"
 version = "1.1.4"
@@ -47,6 +82,18 @@ version = "1.0.102"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7f202df86484c868dbad7eaa557ef785d5c66295e41b460ef922eca0723b842c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "argon2"
+version = "0.5.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3c3610892ee6e0cbce8ae2700349fcf8f98adb0dbfbee85aec3c9179d29cc072"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64ct",
+ "blake2",
+ "cpufeatures",
+ "password-hash",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-broadcast"
 version = "0.7.2"
@@ -280,6 +327,12 @@ version = "0.22.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "72b3254f16251a8381aa12e40e3c4d2f0199f8c6508fbecb9d91f575e0fbb8c6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "base64ct"
+version = "1.8.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2af50177e190e07a26ab74f8b1efbfe2ef87da2116221318cb1c2e82baf7de06"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bit-set"
 version = "0.8.0"
@@ -310,6 +363,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "blake2"
+version = "0.10.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "46502ad458c9a52b69d4d4d32775c788b7a1b85e8bc9d482d92250fc0e3f8efe"
+dependencies = [
+ "digest",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "block-buffer"
 version = "0.10.4"
@@ -569,6 +631,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-link 0.2.1",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cipher"
+version = "0.4.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "773f3b9af64447d2ce9850330c473515014aa235e6a783b02db81ff39e4a3dad"
+dependencies = [
+ "crypto-common",
+ "inout",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "combine"
 version = "4.6.7"
@@ -694,6 +766,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "78c8292055d1c1df0cce5d180393dc8cce0abec0a7102adb6c7b1eef6016d60a"
 dependencies = [
  "generic-array",
+ "rand_core 0.6.4",
  "typenum",
 ]
 
@@ -753,6 +826,15 @@ version = "0.0.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "52560adf09603e58c9a7ee1fe1dcb95a16927b17c127f0ac02d6e768a0e25bc1"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ctr"
+version = "0.9.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0369ee1ad671834580515889b80f2ea915f23b8be8d0daa4bbaf2ac5c7590835"
+dependencies = [
+ "cipher",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "darling"
 version = "0.20.11"
@@ -923,6 +1005,7 @@ checksum = "9ed9a281f7bc9b7576e61468ba615a66a5c8cfdff42420a70aa82701a3b1e292"
 dependencies = [
  "block-buffer",
  "crypto-common",
+ "subtle",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1135,7 +1218,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "39cab71617ae0d63f51a36d69f866391735b51691dbda63cf6f96d042b63efeb"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1550,6 +1633,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.117",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ghash"
+version = "0.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f0d8a4362ccb29cb0b265253fb0a2728f592895ee6854fd9bc13f2ffda266ff1"
+dependencies = [
+ "opaque-debug",
+ "polyval",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "gio"
 version = "0.18.4"
@@ -2114,6 +2207,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfb",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "inout"
+version = "0.1.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "879f10e63c20629ecabbb64a8010319738c66a5cd0c29b02d63d272b03751d01"
+dependencies = [
+ "generic-array",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ipnet"
 version = "2.11.0"
@@ -2831,6 +2933,12 @@ version = "1.21.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "42f5e15c9953c5e4ccceeb2e7382a716482c34515315f7b03532b8b4e8393d2d"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "opaque-debug"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c08d65885ee38876c4f86fa503fb49d7b507c2b62552df7c70b2fce627e06381"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "open"
 version = "5.3.3"
@@ -2913,6 +3021,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-link 0.2.1",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "password-hash"
+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "346f04948ba92c43e8469c1ee6736c7563d71012b17d40745260fe106aac2166"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64ct",
+ "rand_core 0.6.4",
+ "subtle",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pathdiff"
 version = "0.2.3"
@@ -3194,6 +3313,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "polyval"
+version = "0.6.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9d1fe60d06143b2430aa532c94cfe9e29783047f06c0d7fd359a9a51b729fa25"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "cpufeatures",
+ "opaque-debug",
+ "universal-hash",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "potential_utf"
 version = "0.1.4"
@@ -3394,7 +3525,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "socket2",
  "tracing",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.60.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3743,7 +3874,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "errno",
  "libc",
  "linux-raw-sys",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4654,22 +4785,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "zbus",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tauri-plugin-store"
-version = "2.4.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5ca1a8ff83c269b115e98726ffc13f9e548a10161544a92ad121d6d0a96e16ea"
-dependencies = [
- "dunce",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
- "tauri",
- "tauri-plugin",
- "thiserror 2.0.18",
- "tokio",
- "tracing",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tauri-runtime"
 version = "2.11.0"
@@ -4782,7 +4897,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "getrandom 0.4.1",
  "once_cell",
  "rustix",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5165,6 +5280,8 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "triple-c"
 version = "0.4.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "aes-gcm",
+ "argon2",
  "axum",
  "base64 0.22.1",
  "bollard",
@@ -5187,10 +5304,11 @@ dependencies = [
  "tauri-build",
  "tauri-plugin-dialog",
  "tauri-plugin-opener",
- "tauri-plugin-store",
  "tokio",
  "tower-http",
+ "url",
  "uuid",
+ "zeroize",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5304,6 +5422,16 @@ version = "0.2.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ebc1c04c71510c7f702b52b7c350734c9ff1295c464a03335b00bb84fc54f853"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "universal-hash"
+version = "0.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fc1de2c688dc15305988b563c3854064043356019f97a4b46276fe734c4f07ea"
+dependencies = [
+ "crypto-common",
+ "subtle",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "untrusted"
 version = "0.9.0"
@@ -5689,7 +5817,7 @@ version = "0.1.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c2a7b1c03c876122aa43f3020e6c3c3ee5c05081c9a00739faf7503aeba10d22"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]

app/src-tauri/Cargo.toml

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ path = "src/main.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 tauri = { version = "2", features = ["image-png", "image-ico"] }
-tauri-plugin-store = "2"
 tauri-plugin-dialog = "2"
 tauri-plugin-opener = "2"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
@@ -37,6 +36,13 @@ tower-http = { version = "0.6", features = ["cors"] }
 base64 = "0.22"
 rand = "0.9"
 local-ip-address = "0.6"
+argon2 = "0.5"
+aes-gcm = "0.10"
+zeroize = "1"
+# WHATWG URL parsing for `url_open`'s re-validation of URLs arriving from the
+# container. Already in the tree transitively (reqwest), and the point of
+# using it rather than hand-rolling is parity with the frontend's `new URL()`.
+url = "2"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 # `test-util` (not part of tokio's `full`) lets the auto-start retry tests run
@@ -45,6 +51,8 @@ tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full", "test-util"] }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 tauri-build = { version = "2", features = [] }
+# build.rs reads capabilities/*.json to cross-check them against generate_handler!.
+serde_json = "1"
 
 [features]
 default = ["custom-protocol"]

app/src-tauri/build.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,208 @@
-fn main() {
-    tauri_build::build()
+//! Declares the Tauri `AppManifest`, so every app command is ACL-gated per window, and refuses
+//! to build unless every registered command is granted in exactly one capability file — the
+//! file whose `windows` the command's name says it belongs to. Without an app manifest, tauri
+//! 2.11 skips the ACL for app commands entirely (`webview/mod.rs:1794`), so any local window
+//! could call any command.
+//!
+//! Because the census can only vouch for what it reads, the build also stops on any capability
+//! tauri would load that the census does not: anything in `capabilities/` other than a
+//! top-level `*.json`, a `webviews`/`remote` key, `app.security.capabilities` in a tauri config
+//! or `TAURI_CONFIG`, and any hand-written file under `permissions/`.
+//!
+//! The parser and the rules live in `src/command_census.rs`, which `cargo test` also compiles,
+//! so they have unit tests. Spec: `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-22-app-manifest-lockdown-design.md`.
+
+#[path = "src/command_census.rs"]
+mod command_census;
+
+use std::path::Path;
+
+/// Stops the build. `what` names the check that failed, so a malformed capability file, a
+/// stray entry or a hand-written permission does not read as a grant/handler mismatch.
+fn fail(what: &str, problems: &[String], hint: &str) -> ! {
+    eprintln!();
+    eprintln!(
+        "{what} ({} problem{}):",
+        problems.len(),
+        if problems.len() == 1 { "" } else { "s" }
+    );
+    for p in problems {
+        eprintln!("  - {p}");
+    }
+    eprintln!();
+    eprintln!("{hint}");
+    eprintln!();
+    std::process::exit(1);
+}
+
+const LAYOUT_HINT: &str = "Every capability is a top-level capabilities/*.json file with a \
+    `windows` list and no `webviews` or `remote`, and no capability is declared anywhere else \
+    (tauri.conf.json, TAURI_CONFIG, subdirectories, .toml/.json5). The census in \
+    src/command_census.rs can only vouch for what it reads.";
+
+fn file_name(path: &Path) -> String {
+    path.file_name()
+        .expect("a directory entry has a file name")
+        .to_string_lossy()
+        .into_owned()
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    // tauri-build already emits rerun-if-changed for `capabilities`, `permissions` and the
+    // tauri config files, and rerun-if-env-changed for TAURI_CONFIG.
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=src/lib.rs");
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=src/command_census.rs");
+
+    let lib_rs = std::fs::read_to_string("src/lib.rs")
+        .expect("build.rs runs with CWD = src-tauri, so src/lib.rs must be readable");
+    let Some(commands) = command_census::registered_commands(&lib_rs) else {
+        fail(
+            "missing generate_handler! block",
+            &["src/lib.rs has no `generate_handler![ … ])` block to derive the AppManifest from"
+                .to_string()],
+            "build.rs derives the AppManifest from that block; see src/command_census.rs.",
+        );
+    };
+
+    check_tauri_config();
+    let files = read_capabilities();
+
+    let problems = command_census::check(&commands, &files);
+    if !problems.is_empty() {
+        fail(
+            "capabilities do not match generate_handler!",
+            &problems,
+            "Every app command needs exactly one bare `allow-<command-with-dashes>` grant: \
+             `viewer_*` commands in capabilities/file-viewer.json, everything else in \
+             capabilities/default.json. See src/command_census.rs.",
+        );
+    }
+
+    prune_permissions(&commands);
+
+    // `AppManifest::commands` takes `&'static [&'static str]` and the struct is `Copy`, so
+    // there is no owned form; leaking is fine in a process that exits right after.
+    let leaked: Vec<&'static str> = commands
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|c| &*Box::leak(c.into_boxed_str()))
+        .collect();
+    let leaked: &'static [&'static str] = Box::leak(leaked.into_boxed_slice());
+    let attributes = tauri_build::Attributes::new()
+        .app_manifest(tauri_build::AppManifest::new().commands(leaked));
+    if let Err(error) = tauri_build::try_build(attributes) {
+        // Same shape as `tauri_build::build()`: message on stdout, then exit 1.
+        println!("{error:#}");
+        std::process::exit(1);
+    }
+}
+
+/// tauri-build writes `permissions/autogenerated/<command>.toml` for every manifest command
+/// and never deletes one, so a command removed from `lib.rs` would leave a permission a
+/// capability could still reference (and the build would pass). Delete only the stale files:
+/// tauri-build also emits `rerun-if-changed=permissions`, so regenerating everything would
+/// touch every mtime and re-run this script — and recompile the crate — on every cargo
+/// invocation. Anything else under `permissions/` is a hand-written grant the census cannot
+/// see, so it is refused — except OS/editor junk (`.DS_Store`, swap files), which tauri never
+/// loads and which is skipped (see `command_census::is_os_junk`).
+fn prune_permissions(commands: &[String]) {
+    let root = Path::new("permissions");
+    let Ok(entries) = std::fs::read_dir(root) else {
+        return;
+    };
+    for entry in entries {
+        let path = entry.expect("readable entry in permissions/").path();
+        if path.is_file() && command_census::is_os_junk(&file_name(&path)) {
+            // .DS_Store and friends: tauri never loads them, so they cannot grant anything.
+            continue;
+        }
+        if path.file_name().is_some_and(|n| n == "autogenerated") && path.is_dir() {
+            for file in std::fs::read_dir(&path).expect("readable permissions/autogenerated") {
+                let file = file.expect("readable entry").path();
+                let stem = file.file_stem().and_then(|s| s.to_str()).unwrap_or("");
+                let live = file.extension().is_some_and(|e| e == "toml")
+                    && commands.iter().any(|c| c == stem);
+                if !live {
+                    std::fs::remove_file(&file)
+                        .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("cannot delete stale {}: {e}", file.display()));
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            fail(
+                "hand-written permission",
+                &[format!(
+                    "{} is not generated by build.rs; hand-written permissions are not allowed \
+                     (every grant is a bare allow-* string in a capability file)",
+                    path.display()
+                )],
+                "permissions/ holds only build.rs's autogenerated/ directory. Delete the entry; \
+                 an app command is granted by listing allow-<command> in a capability file.",
+            );
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Every capability tauri will load, read the way the census reads it — or the build stops.
+/// tauri-build loads `capabilities/**/*.{json,toml,json5}`; the census reads only top-level
+/// `*.json`, so anything else tauri could load is refused rather than granted unchecked.
+fn read_capabilities() -> Vec<command_census::CapabilityFile> {
+    let mut files = Vec::new();
+    let mut stray = Vec::new();
+    let mut invalid = Vec::new();
+    for entry in std::fs::read_dir("capabilities").expect("capabilities/ must exist") {
+        let path = entry.expect("readable entry in capabilities/").path();
+        let name = file_name(&path);
+        let is_file = path.is_file();
+        if is_file && command_census::is_os_junk(&name) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        if let Some(problem) = command_census::stray_capability_entry(&name, is_file) {
+            stray.push(problem);
+            continue;
+        }
+        let json = std::fs::read_to_string(&path).unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("{name}: {e}"));
+        match command_census::capability_file(&name, &json) {
+            Ok(file) => files.push(file),
+            Err(problem) => invalid.push(problem),
+        }
+    }
+    stray.sort();
+    if !stray.is_empty() {
+        fail("stray entry in capabilities/", &stray, LAYOUT_HINT);
+    }
+    invalid.sort();
+    if !invalid.is_empty() {
+        fail("invalid capability file", &invalid, LAYOUT_HINT);
+    }
+    files.sort_by(|a, b| a.name.cmp(&b.name));
+    files
+}
+
+/// tauri also takes capabilities inline from `app.security.capabilities` in any of its config
+/// files, or from the `TAURI_CONFIG` JSON that tauri-build merges over them. The census cannot
+/// see those, so they are refused; so is a config in a format it cannot read (JSON5, TOML).
+fn check_tauri_config() {
+    let mut problems = Vec::new();
+    for entry in std::fs::read_dir(".").expect("readable src-tauri/") {
+        let path = entry.expect("readable entry in src-tauri/").path();
+        let name = file_name(&path);
+        match command_census::tauri_config_file(&name) {
+            None => {}
+            Some(false) => problems.push(format!(
+                "{name}: the census reads JSON tauri configs only; a JSON5/TOML config could \
+                 declare capabilities it cannot see"
+            )),
+            Some(true) => {
+                let json =
+                    std::fs::read_to_string(&path).unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("{name}: {e}"));
+                problems.extend(command_census::tauri_config_problem(&name, &json));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    if let Ok(json) = std::env::var("TAURI_CONFIG") {
+        problems.extend(command_census::tauri_config_problem("TAURI_CONFIG", &json));
+    }
+    problems.sort();
+    if !problems.is_empty() {
+        fail("capabilities declared outside capabilities/", &problems, LAYOUT_HINT);
+    }
 }

app/src-tauri/capabilities/file-viewer.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "identifier": "file-viewer",
+  "description": "The terminal file viewer windows (`file-viewer-<n>`, opened by `open_file_viewer` on the app's own `viewer.html`). Same rules as `default.json`, including the layout checks: this file itself must stay a top-level `capabilities/*.json` with no `webviews` or `remote` key, or `build.rs` refuses the build rather than grant something the census cannot see. The five bare `allow-viewer-*` grants are the only app commands a viewer window can invoke: `build.rs` declares the AppManifest that makes tauri enforce that, and refuses any other bare grant in this file. The label gate inside `commands/file_viewer_commands.rs` is still what stops window A acting on window B's registry entry, because the ACL only decides which window may call. The rest of this file is the plugin-command surface a compromised viewer webview could reach, and it is the smallest one that lets the window work. `core:event:allow-listen`/`allow-unlisten` are for `file-viewer-goto` (Rust → this window; the viewer subscribes through `getCurrentWindow().listen`, because a bare `listen()` in *any* window receives an `emit_to`). `core:window:allow-destroy` is not optional: `getCurrentWindow().onCloseRequested` in @tauri-apps/api 2.11 makes Rust `prevent_close()` whenever a JS listener exists and then calls `destroy()` itself, so without this grant the window's X button does nothing once the unsaved-changes guard is installed. `allow-close` is deliberately absent — nothing calls it, and `destroy` is the only exit. No `set-title`/`set-focus`/`unminimize`: those are done from Rust when a second click targets an already-open file. `core:webview:allow-internal-toggle-devtools` is the same dev-only convenience `default.json` carries.",
+  "windows": ["file-viewer-*"],
+  "permissions": [
+    "core:event:allow-listen",
+    "core:event:allow-unlisten",
+    "core:window:allow-destroy",
+    "core:webview:allow-internal-toggle-devtools",
+    "allow-viewer-get-state",
+    "allow-viewer-choose-file",
+    "allow-viewer-read-file",
+    "allow-viewer-poll-file",
+    "allow-viewer-write-file"
+  ]
+}

app/src-tauri/src/auth_bridge/mod.rs

@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ pub struct BridgedPort {
     pub family: PortFamily,
     /// RFC 3339 timestamp of when the host listener was bound.
     pub bridged_at: String,
+    /// Set when only the IPv4 half of the host listener could be bound. The
+    /// port still works, but not for a client that insists on `::1` — see
+    /// [`tunnel::PortForward::ipv6_warning`].
+    pub ipv6_warning: Option<String>,
 }
 
 /// A loopback listener that was discovered but could not be bridged.
@@ -132,6 +136,7 @@ impl BridgeState {
                     port: f.port,
                     family: f.family,
                     bridged_at: f.bridged_at.clone(),
+                    ipv6_warning: f.ipv6_warning.clone(),
                 })
                 .collect(),
             conflicts: self
@@ -329,7 +334,10 @@ async fn poll_loop(
             Ok(text) => {
                 exec_failures = 0;
                 let discovered = proc_net::parse_loopback_listeners(&text);
-                let skip = skipped_ports(&project);
+                // Re-read every tick: a project can gain a port mapping and the
+                // gateway/STT/web-terminal ports can be re-pointed while the
+                // bridge is running, and a stale reservation set is a hole.
+                let skip = skipped_ports(&project, &store.list(), &app_settings(&app));
                 if reconcile(&container_id, &discovered, &skip, &state).await {
                     emit_status(&app, &project_id, &state, true).await;
                 }
@@ -372,24 +380,101 @@ async fn poll_loop(
     }
 }
 
-/// Ports Docker already handles for this project. A container port that is
-/// explicitly published has a host-side path already, and the mapping's host
-/// port is a binding we must not fight over.
+/// Every port this project's bridge must not take.
 ///
-/// [`RESERVED_CONTAINER_PORTS`] is folded in as well: those are container
-/// loopback listeners another feature owns and exposes on its own,
-/// authenticated terms.
-fn skipped_ports(project: &crate::models::Project) -> HashSet<u16> {
+/// The bridge's rule is "a container loopback listener on port N becomes an
+/// **unauthenticated** host listener on port N". That is only safe for ports
+/// nothing else on the host owns, so everything that *is* owned has to be
+/// enumerated here. Four sources:
+///
+/// 1. **This project's own published ports** — a container port that Docker
+///    already publishes has a host-side path, and the mapping's host port is a
+///    binding we must not fight over.
+/// 2. **Every other project's published host ports.** The container names the
+///    *host* port, so project A's container listening on 8080 would otherwise
+///    have the bridge bind host 8080 — the port project B publishes on. Only
+///    the host end of another project's mapping is reserved: its container end
+///    is a number inside a different network namespace and means nothing here.
+/// 3. **This app's own host services** — the LiteLLM gateway, the STT sidecar
+///    and the web terminal. All three are off by default and bind on demand, so
+///    first-come would win: a container that binds container-loopback 4000
+///    while the gateway is stopped gets host `127.0.0.1:4000` mirrored to it
+///    within one [`POLL_INTERVAL`], after which the gateway cannot start and
+///    anything on the host dialling 4000 — including *other project
+///    containers*, which reach the gateway by host address — is talking to the
+///    squatting container instead. The web terminal is the worst of the three,
+///    because its access token travels in the URL query. Both the *configured*
+///    port and the shipped default are reserved: the configured one is what the
+///    service will bind next, and the default is what it falls back to for a
+///    fresh profile or a settings file that failed to parse.
+/// 4. [`RESERVED_CONTAINER_PORTS`] and [`RESERVED_HOST_PORTS`] — the
+///    browser-view pane's two ends, which it exposes on its own authenticated
+///    terms.
+///
+/// Pure on purpose: everything it needs is passed in, so the whole reservation
+/// policy is unit-testable without a store, a container or an app handle.
+fn skipped_ports(
+    project: &crate::models::Project,
+    all_projects: &[crate::models::Project],
+    settings: &crate::models::AppSettings,
+) -> HashSet<u16> {
     let mut skip: HashSet<u16> = project
         .port_mappings
         .iter()
         .flat_map(|m| [m.container_port, m.host_port])
         .collect();
+
+    // Other projects: host end only.
+    skip.extend(
+        all_projects
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|p| p.id != project.id)
+            .flat_map(|p| p.port_mappings.iter().map(|m| m.host_port)),
+    );
+
+    skip.extend(app_service_host_ports(settings));
     skip.extend(RESERVED_CONTAINER_PORTS.clone());
     skip.extend(RESERVED_HOST_PORTS.clone());
     skip
 }
 
+/// Current app settings, or defaults if the state is not reachable.
+///
+/// Falling back rather than unwrapping matters: the reservation set is a safety
+/// rail, and a rail that panics the poller when it cannot read its input is
+/// worse than one that falls back to the shipped port numbers — which are what
+/// the services use anyway until someone changes them.
+fn app_settings(app: &AppHandle) -> crate::models::AppSettings {
+    use tauri::Manager;
+    app.try_state::<crate::AppState>()
+        .map(|state| state.settings_store.get())
+        .unwrap_or_default()
+}
+
+/// Host ports this app's own sibling services bind, configured value and
+/// shipped default alike.
+///
+/// Read off the settings models rather than restated as literals here: a
+/// duplicated port number is exactly the kind of constant that drifts silently,
+/// and the failure mode of drift is a reservation that no longer covers the
+/// service it was written for.
+fn app_service_host_ports(settings: &crate::models::AppSettings) -> Vec<u16> {
+    use crate::models::{SttSettings, WebTerminalSettings};
+
+    vec![
+        // LiteLLM gateway (`docker/gateway.rs`).
+        settings.gateway.port,
+        crate::models::default_gateway_port(),
+        // Speech-to-text sidecar (`docker/stt.rs`).
+        settings.stt.port,
+        SttSettings::default().port,
+        // Remote web terminal (`web_terminal/server.rs`) — binds 0.0.0.0, and
+        // its access token is in the URL query.
+        settings.web_terminal.port,
+        WebTerminalSettings::default().port,
+    ]
+}
+
 // ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 // Reservations
 // ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -586,7 +671,7 @@ async fn emit_status(
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
-    use crate::models::{PortMapping, Project, ProjectPath};
+    use crate::models::{AppSettings, PortMapping, Project, ProjectPath};
 
     fn project_with_mappings(mappings: Vec<(u16, u16)>) -> Project {
         let mut p = Project::new(
@@ -607,9 +692,14 @@ mod tests {
         p
     }
 
+    /// The common case: one project, no siblings, stock settings.
+    fn skip_for(project: &Project) -> HashSet<u16> {
+        skipped_ports(project, std::slice::from_ref(project), &AppSettings::default())
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn ports_already_published_by_docker_are_skipped() {
-        let skip = skipped_ports(&project_with_mappings(vec![(3000, 3000), (8081, 8080)]));
+        let skip = skip_for(&project_with_mappings(vec![(3000, 3000), (8081, 8080)]));
         assert!(skip.contains(&3000));
         // Both ends of an asymmetric mapping are off limits: the container port
         // is already reachable, and the host port is Docker's binding.
@@ -619,20 +709,96 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn no_mappings_means_nothing_but_the_reserved_ranges_are_skipped() {
-        let skip = skipped_ports(&project_with_mappings(vec![]));
+    fn no_mappings_means_nothing_but_the_reservations_are_skipped() {
+        let settings = AppSettings::default();
+        let project = project_with_mappings(vec![]);
+        let skip = skip_for(&project);
+
+        let mut expected: HashSet<u16> = RESERVED_CONTAINER_PORTS.collect();
+        expected.extend(RESERVED_HOST_PORTS);
+        expected.extend(app_service_host_ports(&settings));
+        assert_eq!(skip, expected);
+
+        // The ranges and the service ports are disjoint, so nothing above is
+        // accidentally counting the same port twice.
         assert_eq!(
             skip.len(),
-            RESERVED_CONTAINER_PORTS.clone().count() + RESERVED_HOST_PORTS.clone().count()
+            RESERVED_CONTAINER_PORTS.clone().count()
+                + RESERVED_HOST_PORTS.clone().count()
+                + 3
         );
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn this_apps_own_host_services_are_never_taken() {
+        // The bug this guards: the reserved set used to cover only the
+        // browser-view ranges and this project's own mappings, so a container
+        // binding container-loopback 4000 / 9876 / 7681 while the matching
+        // service was stopped had that port mirrored, unauthenticated, onto the
+        // host — taking the gateway's, the STT sidecar's or the web terminal's
+        // door before they could bind it.
+        let settings = AppSettings::default();
+        let skip = skip_for(&project_with_mappings(vec![]));
+
+        assert!(skip.contains(&settings.gateway.port), "LiteLLM gateway port");
+        assert!(skip.contains(&settings.stt.port), "STT sidecar port");
+        assert!(skip.contains(&settings.web_terminal.port), "web terminal port");
+
+        // The shipped defaults, spelled out once so a change to any of them is
+        // a change to this assertion and not a silent narrowing.
+        assert!(skip.contains(&4000));
+        assert!(skip.contains(&9876));
+        assert!(skip.contains(&7681));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_reconfigured_service_port_is_reserved_alongside_its_default() {
+        let mut settings = AppSettings::default();
+        settings.gateway.port = 4321;
+        settings.stt.port = 9000;
+        settings.web_terminal.port = 8443;
+        let project = project_with_mappings(vec![]);
+        let skip = skipped_ports(&project, std::slice::from_ref(&project), &settings);
+
+        for port in [4321, 9000, 8443] {
+            assert!(skip.contains(&port), "configured port {} should be reserved", port);
+        }
+        // The default stays reserved too: it is what the service falls back to
+        // for a fresh profile or an unparseable settings file, so leaving it
+        // open is leaving the same squat available one restart later.
+        for port in [4000, 9876, 7681] {
+            assert!(skip.contains(&port), "default port {} should be reserved", port);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn another_projects_published_host_port_is_not_stolen() {
+        // The container names the *host* port. Without this, project A's
+        // container listening on 8080 takes the host 8080 that project B
+        // publishes on — the bridge wins the race whenever B's container is not
+        // running yet.
+        let mine = project_with_mappings(vec![]);
+        let mut theirs = project_with_mappings(vec![(8080, 3000)]);
+        theirs.id = format!("{}-other", mine.id);
+
+        let skip = skipped_ports(
+            &mine,
+            &[mine.clone(), theirs.clone()],
+            &AppSettings::default(),
+        );
+        assert!(skip.contains(&8080), "another project's host port");
+        // …but not the other project's *container* port: that number lives in a
+        // different network namespace and means nothing on this host, and
+        // reserving it would refuse a legitimate login callback for no reason.
+        assert!(!skip.contains(&3000));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn the_browser_views_host_ports_are_never_taken() {
         // The bridge binds *host* ports chosen by the container, so without
         // this it can take the port the browser-view proxy will want later —
         // that pane binds on demand, so first-come would win.
-        let skip = skipped_ports(&project_with_mappings(vec![]));
+        let skip = skip_for(&project_with_mappings(vec![]));
         for port in RESERVED_HOST_PORTS {
             assert!(skip.contains(&port), "host port {} should be reserved", port);
         }
@@ -688,14 +854,14 @@ mod tests {
         // Mirroring these would publish an ungated second door to the
         // Playwright dashboard, which the pane deliberately keeps behind a
         // token-checking listener.
-        let skip = skipped_ports(&project_with_mappings(vec![]));
+        let skip = skip_for(&project_with_mappings(vec![]));
         for port in RESERVED_CONTAINER_PORTS {
             assert!(skip.contains(&port), "port {} should be reserved", port);
         }
         assert!(!skip.contains(&(RESERVED_CONTAINER_PORTS.end() + 1)));
 
         // Reservations coexist with Docker's own published ports.
-        let skip = skipped_ports(&project_with_mappings(vec![(3000, 3000)]));
+        let skip = skip_for(&project_with_mappings(vec![(3000, 3000)]));
         assert!(skip.contains(RESERVED_CONTAINER_PORTS.start()));
         assert!(skip.contains(&3000));
     }

app/src-tauri/src/auth_bridge/tunnel.rs

@@ -13,8 +13,48 @@
 //! The exec plumbing itself is *not* reimplemented here: it comes from
 //! [`crate::docker::exec::create_attached_exec`], the same helper the
 //! interactive terminal sessions are built on.
+//!
+//! ## What the host listener is, and is not
+//!
+//! The listener is **not authenticated**, and cannot be. The port number is
+//! chosen by whatever CLI is logging in, the redirect URL is the provider's, and
+//! nothing in that chain can be taught to present a token — so there is no path
+//! token to add. Anything that can reach `127.0.0.1:<port>` on this host reaches
+//! the container-side listener. That includes **any web page the user has open**,
+//! which can port-scan loopback from script.
+//!
+//! Two things narrow that, and neither is a substitute for the other:
+//!
+//! * The whole feature is opt-in per project, off by default, and only mirrors
+//!   ports while its container is running.
+//! * [`web_request_verdict`] refuses the one case that is unambiguously a web
+//!   page reaching in: a request whose fetch metadata says it is a cross-site
+//!   **sub-resource** (`fetch`, `XMLHttpRequest`, `<img>`, `<script src>`,
+//!   `<iframe>`). Cross-site *navigations* are allowed, because that is exactly
+//!   what an OAuth redirect is.
+//!
+//! The residual risk, stated plainly rather than papered over: a client that
+//! sends no `Sec-Fetch-Site` header at all is not filtered — that is every
+//! non-browser client (which is the point; `curl`, a CLI, the container's own
+//! probe must all still work) but also any browser predating fetch metadata
+//! (Chrome < 76, Firefox < 90, Safari < 16.4). A page can also still reach the
+//! port with a top-level navigation it opens itself (`window.open`), which
+//! carries `Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate` and is indistinguishable from the redirect
+//! the bridge exists to deliver. And nothing here inspects *what* is behind the
+//! port: if the container has something more interesting than a throwaway OAuth
+//! listener on loopback, a same-machine caller reaches it.
+//!
+//! ## Bounds
+//!
+//! Every accepted connection costs a `docker exec`, and the number of
+//! connections is decided by whoever can reach the port. So each forward caps
+//! concurrent connections ([`MAX_CONNECTIONS`]), refuses a client that opens a
+//! socket and then says nothing ([`FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT`], enforced *before* the
+//! exec is created), and drops a connection the container has gone quiet on
+//! ([`IDLE_TIMEOUT`]).
 
 use std::net::{Ipv4Addr, Ipv6Addr, SocketAddr};
+use std::time::Duration;
 
 use bollard::container::LogOutput;
 use futures_util::StreamExt;
@@ -30,6 +70,38 @@ use super::proc_net::PortFamily;
 /// only needs to not be pathological.
 const PUMP_BUF: usize = 16 * 1024;
 
+/// Concurrent connections one forwarded port will carry.
+///
+/// Each one is a `docker exec`, and the client side is anything on the host that
+/// can dial loopback — including a web page in a loop. A login callback is one
+/// connection, occasionally a handful; this is generous for that and still a
+/// bound the engine will not notice.
+const MAX_CONNECTIONS: usize = 16;
+
+/// How long an accepted connection has to send its first byte before it is
+/// dropped, *without* a `docker exec` ever being created for it.
+///
+/// This is a deliberate narrowing of what the bridge carries: a client that
+/// connects and says nothing is not the HTTP OAuth callback this exists for, and
+/// forwarding it costs a container exec for a socket that may never speak. A
+/// server-speaks-first protocol behind a bridged port would be refused by this;
+/// that is the trade, and it is the only protocol shape affected.
+const FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5);
+
+/// How long a live connection may go with nothing coming back from the container
+/// before it is torn down. Generous, because a bridged port is not always a
+/// short OAuth callback — but finite, so an abandoned connection cannot pin an
+/// exec forever.
+const IDLE_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(600);
+
+/// Ceiling on the request head buffered for [`web_request_verdict`]. Real heads
+/// are well under 8 KiB; past this we stop looking and forward what we have.
+const MAX_HEAD: usize = 32 * 1024;
+
+/// How long the rest of a request head has, once the first line has identified
+/// the connection as HTTP. Only a stalled or hostile client reaches it.
+const HEAD_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(10);
+
 /// Aborts a task when dropped, so a cancelled parent can never leave a detached
 /// child running.
 struct AbortOnDrop(JoinHandle<()>);
@@ -52,6 +124,15 @@ pub struct PortForward {
     pub port: u16,
     pub family: PortFamily,
     pub bridged_at: String,
+    /// Why `[::1]` could not be taken alongside `127.0.0.1`, if it could not.
+    ///
+    /// A half-bound forward is the one failure mode that looks like a success:
+    /// the status says the port is bridged, and a browser that resolves
+    /// `localhost` to `::1` and does not fall back still gets a refused
+    /// connection. It is not a conflict — the IPv4 half really is carrying
+    /// traffic — so it rides along with the port it belongs to and the UI says
+    /// so, rather than being logged at debug where nobody sees it.
+    pub ipv6_warning: Option<String>,
     task: JoinHandle<()>,
 }
 
@@ -86,16 +167,31 @@ impl PortForward {
         // first, so a v4-only host listener would miss those callbacks. This is
         // best-effort: if ::1 is unavailable (no IPv6, or that half is taken)
         // the v4 listener alone still works, so it is not treated as a conflict.
-        let v6 = match TcpListener::bind(SocketAddr::from((Ipv6Addr::LOCALHOST, port))).await {
-            Ok(l) => Some(l),
+        let (v6, ipv6_warning) =
+            match TcpListener::bind(SocketAddr::from((Ipv6Addr::LOCALHOST, port))).await {
+                Ok(l) => (Some(l), None),
                 Err(e) => {
-                log::debug!(
-                    "Auth bridge: bound 127.0.0.1:{} but not [::1]:{} ({}) — continuing with IPv4 only",
+                    // Warn, not debug. Best-effort is about whether to *fail*,
+                    // not about whether to say anything: on a host where
+                    // `localhost` resolves to `::1` and the client does not
+                    // fall back to IPv4, the callback is refused while the
+                    // bridge reports itself healthy — a silent failure with no
+                    // thread back to this line.
+                    log::warn!(
+                        "Auth bridge: bound 127.0.0.1:{} but not [::1]:{} ({}) — continuing with IPv4 only; \
+                         a client that resolves localhost to ::1 without falling back will not reach it",
                         port,
                         port,
                         e
                     );
-                None
+                    (
+                        None,
+                        Some(format!(
+                            "IPv4 only — [::1]:{} could not be bound ({}). A browser that resolves \
+                             localhost to ::1 without falling back will not reach this port.",
+                            port, e
+                        )),
+                    )
                 }
             };
 
@@ -106,6 +202,7 @@ impl PortForward {
             port,
             family,
             bridged_at: chrono::Utc::now().to_rfc3339(),
+            ipv6_warning,
             task,
         })
     }
@@ -142,6 +239,22 @@ async fn accept_loop(
 
         match accepted {
             Ok((stream, peer)) => {
+                // Reap first, so the cap counts *live* connections rather than
+                // every one this listener has ever accepted.
+                while conns.try_join_next().is_some() {}
+                if conns.len() >= MAX_CONNECTIONS {
+                    // Dropping the stream closes it. Better than queueing: the
+                    // client side is whatever can dial loopback, so a queue is
+                    // just a slower way to run out of execs.
+                    log::warn!(
+                        "Auth bridge: refusing connection from {} to bridged port {} — \
+                         {} concurrent connections already open on it",
+                        peer,
+                        port,
+                        MAX_CONNECTIONS
+                    );
+                    continue;
+                }
                 log::debug!("Auth bridge: connection from {} to bridged port {}", peer, port);
                 let _ = stream.set_nodelay(true);
                 conns.spawn(tunnel_connection(
@@ -170,9 +283,224 @@ async fn accept_optional(
     }
 }
 
-/// Carry one accepted host connection into the container over `socat`.
-async fn tunnel_connection(container_id: String, target: String, stream: TcpStream, port: u16) {
-    tunnel_connection_with_prelude(container_id, target, stream, port, Vec::new()).await
+/// Carry one accepted host connection into the container over `socat`, after
+/// deciding it is not a web page reaching into loopback.
+///
+/// Nothing is forwarded until that decision is made, so a refused request never
+/// reaches the container at all — not even a `docker exec`.
+async fn tunnel_connection(container_id: String, target: String, mut stream: TcpStream, port: u16) {
+    let head = match read_leading_bytes(&mut stream).await {
+        Ok(head) => head,
+        Err(e) => {
+            log::debug!(
+                "Auth bridge: dropping connection to bridged port {} before forwarding: {}",
+                port,
+                e
+            );
+            return;
+        }
+    };
+
+    if let LeadingBytes::HttpRequest { buffer, head_len } = &head {
+        // Authorize against the head slice only. Parsing past the blank line is
+        // how a request *body* gets read as headers — a cross-site `fetch` with
+        // a `text/plain` body is not preflighted, so it can put any line it
+        // likes in there.
+        let head_text = String::from_utf8_lossy(&buffer[..*head_len]);
+        if web_request_verdict(&head_text) == Verdict::RefuseCrossSite {
+            log::warn!(
+                "Auth bridge: refused a cross-site sub-resource request to bridged port {} — \
+                 a web page, not a login redirect",
+                port
+            );
+            let _ = refuse(&mut stream).await;
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // The bytes already off the socket go back on the wire first, byte-exact.
+    tunnel_connection_with_prelude(container_id, target, stream, port, head.into_buffer()).await
+}
+
+/// What the first bytes of an accepted connection turned out to be.
+enum LeadingBytes {
+    /// An HTTP request whose head we have in full. `head_len` is one past the
+    /// blank line; `buffer` may hold pipelined body bytes beyond it.
+    HttpRequest { buffer: Vec<u8>, head_len: usize },
+    /// Not HTTP, or HTTP we gave up on reading. Forwarded verbatim, ungated.
+    Opaque(Vec<u8>),
+}
+
+impl LeadingBytes {
+    fn into_buffer(self) -> Vec<u8> {
+        match self {
+            LeadingBytes::HttpRequest { buffer, .. } => buffer,
+            LeadingBytes::Opaque(buffer) => buffer,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Read just enough of the connection to classify it, without consuming
+/// anything the caller cannot replay.
+///
+/// Bails out to [`LeadingBytes::Opaque`] the moment the first line proves this
+/// is not HTTP, so a non-HTTP protocol pays one line of latency and no more.
+/// The only hard failure is silence: a client that sends nothing within
+/// [`FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT`] is dropped before an exec is spent on it.
+async fn read_leading_bytes(stream: &mut TcpStream) -> Result<LeadingBytes, String> {
+    let mut buf: Vec<u8> = Vec::with_capacity(1024);
+    let mut chunk = [0u8; 1024];
+    let mut deadline = tokio::time::Instant::now() + FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT;
+
+    loop {
+        let n = match tokio::time::timeout_at(deadline, stream.read(&mut chunk)).await {
+            Ok(Ok(0)) if buf.is_empty() => {
+                return Err("closed before sending anything".to_string())
+            }
+            // A half-close after some bytes is legitimate; forward what we have.
+            Ok(Ok(0)) => return Ok(LeadingBytes::Opaque(buf)),
+            Ok(Ok(n)) => n,
+            Ok(Err(e)) => return Err(format!("read failed: {}", e)),
+            Err(_) if buf.is_empty() => {
+                return Err(format!(
+                    "sent nothing within {}s",
+                    FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT.as_secs()
+                ))
+            }
+            // Bytes arrived but the head never finished. Fail open: this is a
+            // gate on top of the bridge, not the bridge's reason to exist.
+            Err(_) => return Ok(LeadingBytes::Opaque(buf)),
+        };
+        buf.extend_from_slice(&chunk[..n]);
+
+        // Once the first line is complete we know whether to keep reading.
+        if let Some(eol) = buf.iter().position(|b| *b == b'\n') {
+            if !is_http_request_line(&buf[..eol]) {
+                return Ok(LeadingBytes::Opaque(buf));
+            }
+            deadline = deadline.max(tokio::time::Instant::now() + HEAD_TIMEOUT);
+        } else if buf.len() > MAX_HEAD {
+            return Ok(LeadingBytes::Opaque(buf));
+        }
+
+        if let Some(head_len) = find_head_end(&buf) {
+            return Ok(LeadingBytes::HttpRequest {
+                buffer: buf,
+                head_len,
+            });
+        }
+        if buf.len() > MAX_HEAD {
+            return Ok(LeadingBytes::Opaque(buf));
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Whether a first line looks like `METHOD target HTTP/1.x`.
+fn is_http_request_line(line: &[u8]) -> bool {
+    let line = String::from_utf8_lossy(line);
+    let line = line.trim_end_matches(['\r', '\n']);
+    let mut parts = line.split(' ');
+    let (Some(method), Some(target), Some(version), None) =
+        (parts.next(), parts.next(), parts.next(), parts.next())
+    else {
+        return false;
+    };
+    !method.is_empty()
+        && method.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_uppercase())
+        && !target.is_empty()
+        && (version == "HTTP/1.1" || version == "HTTP/1.0")
+}
+
+/// Index just past the blank line terminating an HTTP head, if it has arrived.
+/// Tolerates a bare-LF terminator, which some minimal clients still emit.
+fn find_head_end(buf: &[u8]) -> Option<usize> {
+    buf.windows(4)
+        .position(|w| w == b"\r\n\r\n")
+        .map(|i| i + 4)
+        .or_else(|| buf.windows(2).position(|w| w == b"\n\n").map(|i| i + 2))
+}
+
+/// Tell a refused caller why, then close. Plain text and `Connection: close` —
+/// there is no session here to keep alive.
+async fn refuse(stream: &mut TcpStream) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    const BODY: &str = "This port is bridged from a container by Triple-C for a sign-in \
+                        callback. It is not an API for web pages to call.\n";
+    let response = format!(
+        "HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden\r\n\
+         Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n\
+         Content-Length: {}\r\n\
+         Cache-Control: no-store\r\n\
+         Connection: close\r\n\r\n{}",
+        BODY.len(),
+        BODY
+    );
+    stream.write_all(response.as_bytes()).await?;
+    stream.shutdown().await
+}
+
+// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// The gate — pure, so it can be tested without sockets
+// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub(crate) enum Verdict {
+    /// Forward it. Either it is not a browser, or the browser says this is a
+    /// navigation or a same-origin request.
+    Allow,
+    /// Fetch metadata says a document on another site pulled this in as a
+    /// sub-resource. No login flow looks like that.
+    RefuseCrossSite,
+}
+
+/// Decide whether an HTTP request head arriving on a bridged port may be
+/// forwarded into the container.
+///
+/// Deliberately fail-open — see the module docs for exactly what that leaves
+/// uncovered. The only refusal is the case with no innocent reading:
+/// `Sec-Fetch-Site` says another site, and `Sec-Fetch-Mode` says this is not a
+/// navigation. `Sec-Fetch-*` are forbidden header names, so page script cannot
+/// set or clear them.
+pub(crate) fn web_request_verdict(head: &str) -> Verdict {
+    let mut lines = head.split(['\r', '\n']).filter(|l| !l.is_empty());
+    // Skip the request line.
+    if lines.next().is_none() {
+        return Verdict::Allow;
+    }
+
+    let mut site: Option<&str> = None;
+    let mut mode: Option<&str> = None;
+    for line in lines {
+        let Some((name, value)) = line.split_once(':') else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        let value = value.trim();
+        match name.trim().to_ascii_lowercase().as_str() {
+            // A duplicate of either header is header smuggling, not a client.
+            // Refuse rather than pick a winner: last-occurrence-wins is what
+            // turns a smuggling primitive into a bypass.
+            "sec-fetch-site" if site.is_some() => return Verdict::RefuseCrossSite,
+            "sec-fetch-mode" if mode.is_some() => return Verdict::RefuseCrossSite,
+            "sec-fetch-site" => site = Some(value),
+            "sec-fetch-mode" => mode = Some(value),
+            _ => {}
+        }
+    }
+
+    let Some(site) = site else {
+        // No fetch metadata: a CLI, `curl`, or a browser old enough not to send
+        // it. Not something this gate can judge.
+        return Verdict::Allow;
+    };
+    if site.eq_ignore_ascii_case("same-origin") || site.eq_ignore_ascii_case("none") {
+        return Verdict::Allow;
+    }
+    // `navigate` is precisely the OAuth redirect: the provider sends the browser
+    // to `http://localhost:<port>/callback`, cross-site, as a document load.
+    // Refusing it would refuse the feature.
+    if mode.is_none_or(|m| m.eq_ignore_ascii_case("navigate")) {
+        return Verdict::Allow;
+    }
+    Verdict::RefuseCrossSite
 }
 
 /// As [`tunnel_connection`], but `prelude` is written into the container first,
@@ -225,21 +553,36 @@ pub async fn tunnel_connection_with_prelude(
         }
         let mut buf = vec![0u8; PUMP_BUF];
         loop {
-            match host_rx.read(&mut buf).await {
-                Ok(0) => break,
-                Ok(n) => {
+            // Idle-bounded. Without this a client that connects, sends a
+            // request and then never speaks or closes holds the exec open for
+            // as long as the container runs.
+            match tokio::time::timeout(IDLE_TIMEOUT, host_rx.read(&mut buf)).await {
+                Ok(Ok(0)) | Err(_) => break,
+                Ok(Ok(n)) => {
                     if input.write_all(&buf[..n]).await.is_err() || input.flush().await.is_err() {
                         break;
                     }
                 }
-                Err(_) => break,
+                Ok(Err(_)) => break,
             }
         }
     }));
 
     // Container → host. This direction is authoritative: when the exec's output
-    // stream ends, socat has exited and the connection is over.
-    while let Some(chunk) = output.next().await {
+    // stream ends, socat has exited and the connection is over. It is also the
+    // one that decides the connection is dead: nothing back from the container
+    // for `IDLE_TIMEOUT` tears the whole thing down, exec included.
+    while let Some(chunk) = match tokio::time::timeout(IDLE_TIMEOUT, output.next()).await {
+        Ok(chunk) => chunk,
+        Err(_) => {
+            log::debug!(
+                "Auth bridge: bridged port {} idle for {}s — closing the tunnel",
+                port,
+                IDLE_TIMEOUT.as_secs()
+            );
+            None
+        }
+    } {
         match chunk {
             // Only stdout is payload. The exec is created with tty = false
             // precisely so Docker demultiplexes these, keeping socat's stderr
@@ -268,3 +611,218 @@ pub async fn tunnel_connection_with_prelude(
     // Explicit: stop reading from the host now that the container side is gone.
     drop(upstream);
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn head(lines: &[&str]) -> String {
+        format!("{}\r\n\r\n", lines.join("\r\n"))
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_cli_callback_with_no_fetch_metadata_is_forwarded() {
+        // The overwhelmingly common case, and the reason the gate fails open:
+        // `curl`, a CLI's own probe, and anything not a browser send none of
+        // these headers, and none of them can be judged from the wire.
+        let verdict = web_request_verdict(&head(&[
+            "GET /callback?code=abc HTTP/1.1",
+            "Host: localhost:41733",
+            "User-Agent: curl/8.5.0",
+        ]));
+        assert_eq!(verdict, Verdict::Allow);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_oauth_redirect_is_forwarded_even_though_it_is_cross_site() {
+        // This is the feature. The provider bounces the browser to
+        // `http://localhost:<port>/callback`, which is cross-site and a
+        // navigation. Refusing it would refuse every login the bridge exists
+        // for.
+        for site in ["cross-site", "same-site"] {
+            let verdict = web_request_verdict(&head(&[
+                "GET /callback?code=abc&state=xyz HTTP/1.1",
+                "Host: localhost:41733",
+                &format!("Sec-Fetch-Site: {}", site),
+                "Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate",
+                "Sec-Fetch-Dest: document",
+            ]));
+            assert_eq!(verdict, Verdict::Allow, "site={}", site);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_form_post_callback_is_forwarded() {
+        // `response_mode=form_post` providers POST the callback as a
+        // navigation. Still a navigation, still allowed.
+        let verdict = web_request_verdict(&head(&[
+            "POST /callback HTTP/1.1",
+            "Host: localhost:41733",
+            "Origin: https://login.microsoftonline.com",
+            "Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site",
+            "Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate",
+        ]));
+        assert_eq!(verdict, Verdict::Allow);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_cross_site_subresource_from_a_web_page_is_refused() {
+        // The case the gate exists for: a page the user happens to have open
+        // scanning loopback and poking whatever answers.
+        for mode in ["cors", "no-cors", "same-origin", "websocket"] {
+            let verdict = web_request_verdict(&head(&[
+                "GET /admin HTTP/1.1",
+                "Host: 127.0.0.1:41733",
+                "Origin: https://evil.example",
+                "Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site",
+                &format!("Sec-Fetch-Mode: {}", mode),
+            ]));
+            assert_eq!(verdict, Verdict::RefuseCrossSite, "mode={}", mode);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_containers_own_same_origin_requests_are_forwarded() {
+        let verdict = web_request_verdict(&head(&[
+            "GET /style.css HTTP/1.1",
+            "Host: localhost:41733",
+            "Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin",
+            "Sec-Fetch-Mode: no-cors",
+        ]));
+        assert_eq!(verdict, Verdict::Allow);
+        // `none` is a user-initiated load — typed URL, bookmark.
+        let verdict = web_request_verdict(&head(&[
+            "GET / HTTP/1.1",
+            "Host: localhost:41733",
+            "Sec-Fetch-Site: none",
+            "Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate",
+        ]));
+        assert_eq!(verdict, Verdict::Allow);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn duplicated_fetch_metadata_is_refused_rather_than_resolved() {
+        // Last-occurrence-wins is what turns any header-smuggling primitive
+        // into a bypass, and no real client sends two.
+        let verdict = web_request_verdict(&head(&[
+            "GET /x HTTP/1.1",
+            "Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site",
+            "Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors",
+            "Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin",
+        ]));
+        assert_eq!(verdict, Verdict::RefuseCrossSite);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn only_the_head_is_ever_judged() {
+        // A cross-site `text/plain` POST is not preflighted, so its *body* is
+        // fully attacker-chosen. `tunnel_connection` slices at the blank line
+        // before calling in; this pins that the slice is what gets judged.
+        let raw = "POST /x HTTP/1.1\r\n\
+                   Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site\r\n\
+                   Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors\r\n\
+                   Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n\
+                   Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin\r\n";
+        let head_len = find_head_end(raw.as_bytes()).expect("head terminator");
+        let head = &raw[..head_len];
+        assert!(!head.contains("same-origin"), "the forged line must be past the slice");
+        assert_eq!(web_request_verdict(head), Verdict::RefuseCrossSite);
+
+        // And if the slice were ever got wrong, the duplicate rule is the
+        // backstop: a forged `Sec-Fetch-*` line is by construction a second
+        // copy of one the browser already sent, which is refused outright
+        // rather than resolved in the forgery's favour.
+        assert_eq!(web_request_verdict(raw), Verdict::RefuseCrossSite);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_non_http_first_line_is_never_treated_as_a_request() {
+        // Bridged ports are not all HTTP. Anything whose first line is not a
+        // request line is forwarded verbatim rather than parsed.
+        assert!(!is_http_request_line(b"\x16\x03\x01\x02\x00\x01"));
+        assert!(!is_http_request_line(b"*1\r"));
+        assert!(!is_http_request_line(b"SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.6"));
+        assert!(!is_http_request_line(b"GET /x HTTP/2.0"));
+        assert!(!is_http_request_line(b"get /x HTTP/1.1"));
+        assert!(is_http_request_line(b"GET /x HTTP/1.1\r"));
+        assert!(is_http_request_line(b"POST /callback?code=a%20b HTTP/1.0"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn head_end_is_found_for_both_terminators() {
+        assert_eq!(find_head_end(b"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\nBODY"), Some(18));
+        assert_eq!(find_head_end(b"GET / HTTP/1.1\n\nBODY"), Some(16));
+        assert_eq!(find_head_end(b"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\n"), None);
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn a_client_that_says_nothing_never_costs_a_container_exec() {
+        // Every accepted connection would otherwise spawn a `docker exec`
+        // immediately, so silence was free for the caller and expensive here.
+        let listener = TcpListener::bind(SocketAddr::from((Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST, 0)))
+            .await
+            .expect("bind");
+        let addr = listener.local_addr().expect("addr");
+        let accept = tokio::spawn(async move {
+            let (mut stream, _) = listener.accept().await.expect("accept");
+            read_leading_bytes(&mut stream).await
+        });
+
+        let _client = TcpStream::connect(addr).await.expect("connect");
+        let started = tokio::time::Instant::now();
+        let result = accept.await.expect("join");
+
+        assert!(result.is_err(), "silence should not be forwarded");
+        assert!(
+            started.elapsed() >= FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT,
+            "should have waited out the first-byte grace period"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn a_non_http_client_is_classified_from_its_first_line_alone() {
+        let listener = TcpListener::bind(SocketAddr::from((Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST, 0)))
+            .await
+            .expect("bind");
+        let addr = listener.local_addr().expect("addr");
+        let accept = tokio::spawn(async move {
+            let (mut stream, _) = listener.accept().await.expect("accept");
+            read_leading_bytes(&mut stream).await
+        });
+
+        let mut client = TcpStream::connect(addr).await.expect("connect");
+        client.write_all(b"SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.6\r\n").await.expect("write");
+
+        let result = accept.await.expect("join").expect("classified");
+        // Verbatim, and without waiting for a head terminator that will never
+        // come — the whole buffer is replayed into the tunnel.
+        assert!(matches!(result, LeadingBytes::Opaque(_)));
+        assert_eq!(result.into_buffer(), b"SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.6\r\n");
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn an_http_head_is_read_whole_and_replayed_whole() {
+        let listener = TcpListener::bind(SocketAddr::from((Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST, 0)))
+            .await
+            .expect("bind");
+        let addr = listener.local_addr().expect("addr");
+        let accept = tokio::spawn(async move {
+            let (mut stream, _) = listener.accept().await.expect("accept");
+            read_leading_bytes(&mut stream).await
+        });
+
+        let raw = b"POST /callback HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost\r\nContent-Length: 4\r\n\r\ncode";
+        let mut client = TcpStream::connect(addr).await.expect("connect");
+        client.write_all(raw).await.expect("write");
+
+        let result = accept.await.expect("join").expect("classified");
+        match &result {
+            LeadingBytes::HttpRequest { buffer, head_len } => {
+                assert_eq!(&buffer[*head_len..], b"code", "body must survive the peek");
+                assert!(!buffer[..*head_len].ends_with(b"code"));
+            }
+            LeadingBytes::Opaque(_) => panic!("should have been recognised as HTTP"),
+        }
+        assert_eq!(result.into_buffer(), raw.to_vec());
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/browser_view/commands.rs

@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ use crate::AppState;
 /// non-`Running` status carrying an explanation rather than an error, so the
 /// pane always has something specific to say. This is host-side only — no
 /// container recreation is involved either way.
+///
+/// Either way the choice is persisted, so it survives an app restart. This is
+/// the only caller allowed to write `false`: every other path to
+/// [`BrowserViewManager::stop`](crate::browser_view::BrowserViewManager::stop)
+/// is a teardown rather than the user changing their mind. Enabling persists
+/// inside `start`, which is the single funnel for it.
 #[tauri::command]
 pub async fn set_browser_view_enabled(
     project_id: String,
@@ -23,9 +29,32 @@ pub async fn set_browser_view_enabled(
     state: State<'_, AppState>,
 ) -> Result<BrowserViewStatus, String> {
     if !enabled {
+        // Persist first, then tear down: the supervisor's own teardown emit
+        // reads this flag back out of the store, and reading it mid-stop would
+        // announce a view that is going away as still enabled.
+        //
+        // But the write's outcome is a *value*, not a branch. A `?` here meant
+        // that a store with no such project record returned early and
+        // `manager().stop()` never ran, leaving the supervisor, the proxy and
+        // the host port up for a project that, as far as the user is concerned,
+        // just had its view switched off. That state is not hypothetical while
+        // a session is live — the supervisor's own `store.get()` check in
+        // [`crate::browser_view`] exists because a record can go away
+        // underneath it — and before the flag was persisted at all, turning the
+        // view off always tore the session down.
+        let persisted = state
+            .projects_store
+            .set_browser_view_enabled(&project_id, false);
         // Awaits the supervisor, so the host port is released before we return.
-        manager().stop(&project_id).await;
-        return Ok(manager().status(&project_id).await);
+        //
+        // A failed write is still reported rather than logged and swallowed.
+        // The resources are gone either way by this point, so surfacing it
+        // costs nothing that matters, and the failure it describes is one the
+        // user needs: the stored flag still says *enabled*, so the view comes
+        // back by itself on the next launch. Returning `Ok` would be a claim
+        // about persistence that isn't true.
+        tear_down_then_report(persisted, manager().stop(&project_id)).await?;
+        return Ok(manager().status(&project_id, false).await);
     }
 
     let container_id = running_container(&state, &project_id, "opening the browser view").await?;
@@ -40,10 +69,31 @@ pub async fn set_browser_view_enabled(
         .await
 }
 
-/// Current status. Cheap: reads in-process state only, never the container.
+/// Await `teardown`, then report `persisted`.
+///
+/// Trivial on purpose, and split out for one reason: it is the whole rule the
+/// disable path of [`set_browser_view_enabled`] has to obey — the teardown is
+/// unconditional, and a failed persist surfaces only after it has run — and as
+/// a free function that rule can be tested without a live `AppState`.
+async fn tear_down_then_report(
+    persisted: Result<(), String>,
+    teardown: impl std::future::Future<Output = ()>,
+) -> Result<(), String> {
+    teardown.await;
+    persisted
+}
+
+/// Current status. Cheap: the session map in this process plus the stored flag,
+/// never the container.
+///
+/// The two are independent on purpose — this is what the pane reads on mount,
+/// and after an app restart the honest answer is "enabled, nothing running".
 #[tauri::command]
-pub async fn get_browser_view_status(project_id: String) -> Result<BrowserViewStatus, String> {
-    Ok(manager().status(&project_id).await)
+pub async fn get_browser_view_status(
+    project_id: String,
+    state: State<'_, AppState>,
+) -> Result<BrowserViewStatus, String> {
+    Ok(manager().status(&project_id, enabled_for(&state, &project_id)).await)
 }
 
 /// Probe the container for Playwright without starting anything.
@@ -110,7 +160,9 @@ pub async fn open_browser_view_popout(
     app_handle: AppHandle,
     state: State<'_, AppState>,
 ) -> Result<(), String> {
-    let status = manager().status(&project_id).await;
+    let status = manager()
+        .status(&project_id, enabled_for(&state, &project_id))
+        .await;
     let (BrowserViewState::Running, Some(url)) = (status.state, status.url.as_deref()) else {
         return Err(
             "The browser view isn't running. Start it before opening it in its own window."
@@ -209,7 +261,9 @@ pub async fn open_page_in_container_browser(
     // the user to go and press Start in the Browser tab themselves — and from
     // the terminal's URL prompt, with no indication that was even needed.
     // Asking for a page *is* asking to watch it, so the viewer comes up too.
-    let status = manager().status(&project_id).await;
+    let status = manager()
+        .status(&project_id, enabled_for(&state, &project_id))
+        .await;
     if status.state != BrowserViewState::Running {
         crate::commands::project_commands::emit_progress(
             &app_handle,
@@ -229,7 +283,9 @@ pub async fn open_page_in_container_browser(
     // From the terminal there is no pane on screen to fill, so the page needs a
     // window of its own or it lands somewhere the user isn't looking.
     if show_window {
-        let status = manager().status(&project_id).await;
+        let status = manager()
+            .status(&project_id, enabled_for(&state, &project_id))
+            .await;
         if let Some(url) = status.url.as_deref() {
             let name = state
                 .projects_store
@@ -311,6 +367,20 @@ pub async fn get_browser_view_match_window(project_id: String) -> Result<bool, S
     Ok(popout::match_window(&project_id))
 }
 
+/// The project's stored browser-view opt-in.
+///
+/// The manager holds no copy of this — see
+/// [`BrowserViewManager`](crate::browser_view::BrowserViewManager) — so every
+/// status call reads it here, the way `get_auth_bridge_status` does. A project
+/// that has gone away reads as off, which is the only answer that can be given
+/// about a record that no longer exists.
+fn enabled_for(state: &State<'_, AppState>, project_id: &str) -> bool {
+    state
+        .projects_store
+        .get(project_id)
+        .is_some_and(|p| p.browser_view_enabled)
+}
+
 /// The project's container, or a sentence saying why there isn't one.
 ///
 /// Every command here needs a *running* container, and every one of them used
@@ -344,3 +414,43 @@ async fn running_container(
     }
     Ok(container_id)
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
+
+    /// The regression: turning the view off must not leave the supervisor, the
+    /// proxy and the host port running just because the project record could
+    /// not be written — which is exactly what a missing record did.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn a_failed_persist_does_not_skip_the_teardown() {
+        let torn_down = AtomicBool::new(false);
+        let result = tear_down_then_report(Err("Project x not found".to_string()), async {
+            torn_down.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst);
+        })
+        .await;
+
+        assert!(
+            torn_down.load(Ordering::SeqCst),
+            "the session must be torn down even when the store write failed"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            result.err().as_deref(),
+            Some("Project x not found"),
+            "and the write failure must still reach the caller, not be swallowed"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn a_successful_persist_reports_success_after_the_teardown() {
+        let torn_down = AtomicBool::new(false);
+        let result = tear_down_then_report(Ok(()), async {
+            torn_down.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst);
+        })
+        .await;
+
+        assert!(torn_down.load(Ordering::SeqCst));
+        assert!(result.is_ok());
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/browser_view/install.rs

@@ -194,11 +194,24 @@ impl BrowserTarget {
         }
     }
 
-    /// The `channel` a launch check must pass. `None` means the bundled build.
-    fn channel(self) -> Option<&'static str> {
+    /// Every `channel` a launch check must pass, comma-separated, where
+    /// `default` means "no channel — the bundled build".
+    ///
+    /// Chromium is checked twice because the two consumers of this install do
+    /// not launch the same binary. A script calling `chromium.launch()` with
+    /// no channel gets `chromium-headless-shell`; the viewer reads
+    /// `~/.playwright/cli.config.json`, which pins channel
+    /// `chrome-for-testing`, and that resolves to the *full* `chromium-<rev>`
+    /// build — a separate download under the same `install chromium`.
+    ///
+    /// Checking only the first is how a container reaches "verified" and then
+    /// fails in the pane with `Browser "chrome-for-testing" is not installed`.
+    /// Observed on a real project, where a stale `chromium-1217` satisfied the
+    /// headless-shell launch while the viewer wanted `chromium-1237`.
+    fn channels(self) -> &'static str {
         match self {
-            Self::Chromium => None,
-            Self::Chrome => Some("chrome"),
+            Self::Chromium => "default,chrome-for-testing",
+            Self::Chrome => "chrome",
         }
     }
 }
@@ -235,7 +248,7 @@ pub async fn install_packages(
         &format!("Installing @playwright/cli into {}/node_modules…", INSTALL_DIR),
     );
 
-    let mut step = npm_install(app, project_id, container_id, VIEWER_PACKAGE).await?;
+    let mut step = npm_install(app, project_id, container_id, &[VIEWER_PACKAGE]).await?;
     if step.exit_code != 0 {
         return Err(format!(
             "npm couldn't install the viewer package in this container (exit {}).\n\nnpm said:\n{}",
@@ -246,9 +259,15 @@ pub async fn install_packages(
 
     // Second, `playwright` at the version the viewer package pins — see
     // `VIEWER_PACKAGE`. Installing it as `@latest` is what splits the tree.
+    //
+    // The viewer package is named *again* here. It is already installed, so
+    // this adds no work, but omitting it is what made npm prune it back out —
+    // see the note on `npm_install`. The pin can only be read after the first
+    // install has written the manifest, which is why this stays two commands
+    // rather than one.
     let spec = pinned_playwright_spec(container_id).await;
     emit_progress(app, project_id, &format!("Installing {}…", spec));
-    let second = npm_install(app, project_id, container_id, &spec).await?;
+    let second = npm_install(app, project_id, container_id, &[VIEWER_PACKAGE, &spec]).await?;
     if second.exit_code != 0 {
         return Err(format!(
             "npm couldn't install {} in this container (exit {}).\n\nnpm said:\n{}",
@@ -290,7 +309,7 @@ pub async fn install_packages(
     })
 }
 
-/// One `npm install` of one spec, into [`INSTALL_DIR`], as `claude`.
+/// One `npm install` of one or more specs, into [`INSTALL_DIR`], as `claude`.
 ///
 /// `env VAR=… cmd` rather than an exec env: it keeps the one exec path in
 /// `docker/exec.rs` untouched, and `env` is a real binary so no shell is
@@ -298,13 +317,24 @@ pub async fn install_packages(
 /// has no postinstall (verified — `playwright@1.62.1` declares no `scripts` at
 /// all), but if a future release brings the browser download back, this step
 /// must stay small and the download must stay the step the user asked for.
+///
+/// **Every package that must survive has to appear in `specs`.** `--no-save`
+/// in a directory with no `package.json` — which [`INSTALL_DIR`] is — leaves
+/// npm with the command line as its only statement of what the tree should
+/// contain, and npm ≥7 reconciles the tree against that on every run by
+/// removing whatever it now considers extraneous. Installing `@playwright/cli`
+/// and then installing `playwright` in a second command therefore *deletes the
+/// first one*: verified in a container, `removed 3 packages`, leaving an empty
+/// `node_modules/@playwright/` behind `playwright` and `playwright-core`. That
+/// empty directory is why a fresh setup could report success and still leave
+/// the pane saying `@playwright/cli` was not installed.
 async fn npm_install(
     app: &AppHandle,
     project_id: &str,
     container_id: &str,
-    spec: &str,
+    specs: &[&str],
 ) -> Result<StepResult, String> {
-    let cmd = vec![
+    let mut cmd = vec![
         "env".to_string(),
         "PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1".to_string(),
         "npm".to_string(),
@@ -313,8 +343,8 @@ async fn npm_install(
         "--no-save".to_string(),
         "--no-fund".to_string(),
         "--no-audit".to_string(),
-        spec.to_string(),
     ];
+    cmd.extend(specs.iter().map(|s| s.to_string()));
     run_step(
         app,
         project_id,
@@ -704,7 +734,7 @@ async fn verify_launch(
         ],
         vec![
             format!("TRIPLE_C_PW_DIR={}", dir),
-            format!("TRIPLE_C_PW_CHANNEL={}", target.channel().unwrap_or("")),
+            format!("TRIPLE_C_PW_CHANNELS={}", target.channels()),
             format!("TRIPLE_C_PW_URL={}", REACHABILITY_URL),
         ],
     );
@@ -795,27 +825,43 @@ fn parse_launch_output(output: &str) -> LaunchVerdict {
 /// The launch check. One `argv` element, no newlines, same contract as the
 /// detection probe.
 ///
-/// Playwright leaves the Chromium sandbox disabled by default, which is what
-/// makes this work in a container at all. The timeout exists so a browser that
-/// hangs on a missing library still returns a verdict rather than sitting there
-/// until the exec is torn down. The navigation is best-effort and never decides
-/// `ok` — it exists to tell a TLS-intercepted network apart from a broken
-/// install.
+/// `chromiumSandbox` is set explicitly rather than left to Playwright's
+/// default, so this check states the same thing the seeded
+/// `cli.config.json` does instead of agreeing with it by coincidence. The
+/// containers forbid unprivileged user namespaces, so a sandboxed Chromium
+/// aborts on launch; nothing here should be able to drift back into testing a
+/// configuration the viewer will not use.
+///
+/// Each channel in `TRIPLE_C_PW_CHANNELS` is launched in turn — see
+/// [`BrowserTarget::channels`] for why Chromium needs two — and a failure
+/// names the channel that failed, because "is not installed" is meaningless
+/// without it. Only the last launch loads a page: the navigation is
+/// best-effort, never decides `ok`, and exists to tell a TLS-intercepted
+/// network apart from a broken install, so doing it once is enough.
+///
+/// The timeout exists so a browser that hangs on a missing library still
+/// returns a verdict rather than sitting there until the exec is torn down.
 const LAUNCH_PROBE: &str = concat!(
-    r#"const d=process.env.TRIPLE_C_PW_DIR,ch=process.env.TRIPLE_C_PW_CHANNEL||undefined,u=process.env.TRIPLE_C_PW_URL;"#,
+    r#"const d=process.env.TRIPLE_C_PW_DIR,chs=process.env.TRIPLE_C_PW_CHANNELS||"default",u=process.env.TRIPLE_C_PW_URL;"#,
     r#"let done=false;const say=(ok,detail,nav)=>{if(done)return;done=true;"#,
     r#"process.stdout.write("\n__TRIPLE_C_BROWSER_LAUNCH__"+JSON.stringify({ok,detail,nav:nav||null})+"\n");};"#,
     r#"const one=(e)=>String((e&&e.message)||e).split("\n").slice(0,8).join(" | ");"#,
     r#"const t=setTimeout(()=>{say(false,"the browser did not finish starting within 90s");process.exit(0);},90000);"#,
-    r#"(async()=>{let b=null;try{const {chromium}=require(d);b=await chromium.launch(ch?{channel:ch}:{});"#,
-    r#"let v="";try{v=b.version();}catch(e){}"#,
-    r#"let nav={ok:true,cert:false,detail:""};"#,
+    r#"(async()=>{let b=null,cur="";try{const {chromium}=require(d);"#,
+    r#"const list=chs.split(",").map(s=>s.trim()).filter(Boolean);"#,
+    r#"let v="",nav={ok:true,cert:false,detail:""};"#,
+    r#"for(let i=0;i<list.length;i++){cur=list[i];const c=cur==="default"?undefined:cur;"#,
+    r#"b=await chromium.launch(Object.assign({chromiumSandbox:false},c?{channel:c}:{}));"#,
+    r#"try{v=b.version();}catch(e){}"#,
+    r#"if(i===list.length-1){"#,
     r#"try{const p=await b.newPage();await p.goto(u,{timeout:20000});}"#,
     // A certificate failure is classified here, next to the message, because
     // Chromium's wording is the only place the distinction exists.
-    r#"catch(e){const m=one(e);nav={ok:false,cert:/ERR_CERT|CERT_AUTHORITY|ERR_SSL|SSL_ERROR|self.signed/i.test(m),detail:m};}"#,
-    r#"await b.close();clearTimeout(t);say(true,v,nav);}"#,
-    r#"catch(e){clearTimeout(t);try{if(b)await b.close();}catch(e2){}say(false,one(e));}"#,
+    r#"catch(e){const m=one(e);nav={ok:false,cert:/ERR_CERT|CERT_AUTHORITY|ERR_SSL|SSL_ERROR|self.signed/i.test(m),detail:m};}}"#,
+    r#"await b.close();b=null;}"#,
+    r#"clearTimeout(t);say(true,v,nav);}"#,
+    r#"catch(e){clearTimeout(t);try{if(b)await b.close();}catch(e2){}"#,
+    r#"say(false,(cur&&cur!=="default"?"channel "+cur+": ":"")+one(e));}"#,
     r#"process.exit(0);})();"#,
 );
 
@@ -984,8 +1030,10 @@ mod tests {
         // `@playwright/mcp` asks for the chrome channel specifically, so the UI
         // must be able to say so.
         assert!(BrowserTarget::Chrome.needed_for().contains("@playwright/mcp"));
-        assert_eq!(BrowserTarget::Chrome.channel(), Some("chrome"));
-        assert_eq!(BrowserTarget::Chromium.channel(), None);
+        assert_eq!(BrowserTarget::Chrome.channels(), "chrome");
+        // Both of Chromium's consumers, or the check passes for a browser the
+        // viewer cannot open — see `channels`.
+        assert_eq!(BrowserTarget::Chromium.channels(), "default,chrome-for-testing");
         // And a size, before the click, for both.
         for t in [BrowserTarget::Chromium, BrowserTarget::Chrome] {
             assert!(t.download_note().to_lowercase().contains("mb"), "{:?}", t);

app/src-tauri/src/browser_view/mod.rs

@@ -34,14 +34,22 @@
 //!
 //! ## Lifecycle
 //!
-//! Off by default and per-project opt-in, exactly like `auth_bridge_enabled`.
+//! Off by default and per-project opt-in. The opt-in itself is
+//! [`Project::browser_view_enabled`](crate::models::Project), persisted like
+//! `auth_bridge_enabled` and read from the store on demand rather than cached
+//! here — so the pane comes back the way it was left. What does *not* persist
+//! is the session: nothing starts a viewer on app start, so a project left
+//! enabled reports `enabled: true` with a state of `Off` until the pane asks
+//! for one. That is deliberate, and the reason the flag and the session are
+//! separate ideas — see [`BrowserViewManager::status`].
+//!
 //! One supervisor task per session owns the proxy and the viewer process, and it
 //! is the only thing that tears them down, so every way a session can end funnels
 //! through one code path:
 //!
 //! | Trigger | Path |
 //! |---|---|
-//! | Turned off in the UI | `set_browser_view_enabled(false)` → [`BrowserViewManager::stop`] |
+//! | Turned off in the UI | `set_browser_view_enabled(false)` → persist `false`, then [`BrowserViewManager::stop`] |
 //! | Container stopped, by the UI or otherwise | supervisor's `is_container_running` check |
 //! | Project deleted | supervisor's `store.get()` check |
 //! | Container rebuilt | old container stops → supervisor exits; the new one is not auto-started |
@@ -59,7 +67,10 @@
 //! orphan is reachable on container loopback only: the host-side port dies with
 //! the app, and [`crate::auth_bridge::RESERVED_CONTAINER_PORTS`] is a constant
 //! precisely so the bridge will not mirror an orphan the next time the app
-//! starts. The next [`BrowserViewManager::start`] reclaims it.
+//! starts. The next [`BrowserViewManager::start`] reclaims it — and since the
+//! opt-in is now durable, the restarted app says `enabled` with nothing running,
+//! which is exactly the state that invites the user to press the button that
+//! reclaims it. Nothing reclaims it on its own, because nothing auto-starts.
 
 pub mod commands;
 pub mod detect;
@@ -134,7 +145,10 @@ pub enum BrowserViewState {
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize)]
 pub struct BrowserViewStatus {
-    /// The per-project opt-in. Off by default.
+    /// The per-project opt-in, read from the persisted project record. Off by
+    /// default, and true without a `Running` state whenever the view is turned
+    /// on but has nothing up — a stopped container, or an app that has just
+    /// restarted and does not auto-start viewers.
     pub enabled: bool,
     pub state: BrowserViewState,
     /// Fully-formed, token-bearing URL for the pane's iframe. Loopback only.
@@ -201,17 +215,20 @@ struct Session {
 
 type SessionMap = Arc<Mutex<HashMap<String, Session>>>;
 
+/// Live sessions, and nothing else.
+///
+/// The per-project opt-in deliberately is **not** a field here. It lives on
+/// the project record as
+/// [`browser_view_enabled`](crate::models::Project::browser_view_enabled) and
+/// is read from [`ProjectsStore`] at each use, exactly as
+/// [`crate::auth_bridge::AuthBridgeManager`] treats `auth_bridge_enabled`:
+/// one copy, durable across a restart, and impossible to get out of step with
+/// what the Config tab shows. A cached copy here was the previous design and
+/// its only observable behaviour was forgetting the user's choice on every
+/// app start.
 #[derive(Default)]
 pub struct BrowserViewManager {
     sessions: SessionMap,
-    /// The per-project opt-in.
-    ///
-    /// NOTE: in memory only, so it does not survive an app restart. The durable
-    /// home for this is a `browser_view_enabled: bool` field on
-    /// `models::Project` (see the report) — `models/project.rs` is out of scope
-    /// for this change, so the flag lives here and the wiring is otherwise
-    /// identical to `auth_bridge_enabled`.
-    enabled: Mutex<std::collections::HashSet<String>>,
     next_epoch: AtomicU64,
 }
 
@@ -226,22 +243,15 @@ pub fn manager() -> &'static Arc<BrowserViewManager> {
 }
 
 impl BrowserViewManager {
-    pub async fn is_enabled(&self, project_id: &str) -> bool {
-        self.enabled.lock().await.contains(project_id)
-    }
-
-    async fn set_enabled(&self, project_id: &str, enabled: bool) {
-        let mut set = self.enabled.lock().await;
-        if enabled {
-            set.insert(project_id.to_string());
-        } else {
-            set.remove(project_id);
-        }
-    }
-
     /// Current status without touching the container.
-    pub async fn status(&self, project_id: &str) -> BrowserViewStatus {
-        let enabled = self.is_enabled(project_id).await;
+    ///
+    /// `enabled` is passed in rather than looked up, the way
+    /// [`crate::auth_bridge::AuthBridgeManager::status`] takes it: the flag is
+    /// the caller's to read from the store, and keeping it out of here is what
+    /// stops a second copy of it appearing. A project whose view is enabled but
+    /// whose container is stopped — or whose app has just restarted — reports
+    /// `enabled: true` with a state of `Off`, which is the honest answer.
+    pub async fn status(&self, project_id: &str, enabled: bool) -> BrowserViewStatus {
         match self.sessions.lock().await.get(project_id) {
             Some(session) => BrowserViewStatus {
                 enabled,
@@ -261,6 +271,14 @@ impl BrowserViewManager {
     ///
     /// Idempotent: a call while a live session exists returns that session's
     /// status untouched, so re-opening the tab does not restart the dashboard.
+    ///
+    /// This is the single funnel for turning the view **on**, so it is also
+    /// where the durable flag is written — both call sites (the toggle and
+    /// `open_page_in_container_browser`, which opens a page and then shows it)
+    /// mean "on", and neither can forget. The **off** direction is not
+    /// symmetric and must not be: [`Self::stop`] is reached by teardown paths
+    /// that are not the user changing their mind, so the command owns that
+    /// write. See [`Self::stop`].
     pub async fn start(
         &self,
         project_id: String,
@@ -268,7 +286,7 @@ impl BrowserViewManager {
         app: AppHandle,
         store: Arc<ProjectsStore>,
     ) -> Result<BrowserViewStatus, String> {
-        self.set_enabled(&project_id, true).await;
+        store.set_browser_view_enabled(&project_id, true)?;
 
         // Bind the answer before acting on it: `status()` takes the same lock,
         // and this mutex is not reentrant.
@@ -279,7 +297,7 @@ impl BrowserViewManager {
             .get(&project_id)
             .is_some_and(|s| !s.supervisor.is_finished());
         if already_live {
-            return Ok(self.status(&project_id).await);
+            return Ok(self.status(&project_id, true).await);
         }
 
         let detection = detect::detect(&container_id).await?;
@@ -304,21 +322,7 @@ impl BrowserViewManager {
         // a container with no dashboard makes this a no-op.
         let _ = kill_dashboard(&container_id, &cli_entry).await;
 
-        let container_port = pick_viewer_port(&container_id).await?;
-        launch_viewer(&container_id, &cli_entry, container_port).await?;
-
-        // Wait for it to actually answer, and learn the entry URL while we're
-        // there — see `probe_entry_path` for why that matters. This, not the
-        // launcher's stdout, is the readiness signal: verified that the
-        // "Listening on …" line is printed only on the very first start.
-        let entry_path = match wait_until_ready(&container_id, container_port).await {
-            Ok(path) => path,
-            Err(e) => {
-                let log = read_viewer_log(&container_id).await;
-                let _ = kill_dashboard(&container_id, &cli_entry).await;
-                return Err(explain_start_failure(&e, &log));
-            }
-        };
+        let (container_port, entry_path) = start_viewer(&container_id, &cli_entry).await?;
 
         let token = generate_token();
         // `--host 127.0.0.1` is ours to set, so the family is known and there is
@@ -378,14 +382,21 @@ impl BrowserViewManager {
             },
         );
 
-        let status = self.status(&project_id).await;
+        let status = self.status(&project_id, true).await;
         emit(&app, &project_id, &status);
         Ok(status)
     }
 
     /// Stop one project's view and wait until its host port has been released.
+    ///
+    /// Tears the *session* down and deliberately leaves the durable flag alone.
+    /// Most callers are not the user turning the feature off — a migration
+    /// removes the container out from under a running view
+    /// (`migration_commands`), and the container can stop for any other reason
+    /// — and persisting `false` for those would quietly opt the project out of
+    /// a feature it never asked to lose. `set_browser_view_enabled(false)` is
+    /// the one caller that means it, and it writes the flag itself first.
     pub async fn stop(&self, project_id: &str) {
-        self.set_enabled(project_id, false).await;
         // Remove under the lock, then release it before awaiting: the
         // supervisor takes the same lock to deregister itself on exit.
         let session = self.sessions.lock().await.remove(project_id);
@@ -497,7 +508,12 @@ async fn supervise(
     // longer exists. The session owns it, and this is where the session ends.
     let _ = popout::close(&app, &project_id);
 
-    let enabled = manager().is_enabled(&project_id).await;
+    // Straight from the store, like the auth bridge's own teardown emit: the
+    // session is over, but the project may well still be opted in — a stopped
+    // container is not a changed mind, and the pane has to show the difference.
+    let enabled = store
+        .get(&project_id)
+        .is_some_and(|p| p.browser_view_enabled);
     emit(&app, &project_id, &BrowserViewStatus::off(enabled));
 }
 
@@ -601,12 +617,91 @@ async fn read_viewer_log(container_id: &str) -> String {
 // Readiness, ports, URLs
 // ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-/// First port in [`VIEWER_PORTS`] that nothing in the container is listening on.
-async fn pick_viewer_port(container_id: &str) -> Result<u16, String> {
+/// How many free ports a start will try before giving up.
+///
+/// More than one because port choice is a check-then-bind: the free list comes
+/// from a snapshot of the container's `/proc/net/tcp`, and anything in the
+/// container may bind the port we picked before the dashboard gets to it. One
+/// retry per lost race is the recovery; the cap is what stops a container that
+/// binds every candidate from holding a start open for
+/// `MAX_PORT_ATTEMPTS × READY_TIMEOUT`.
+const MAX_PORT_ATTEMPTS: usize = 3;
+
+/// Get a viewer listening inside the container and return the port it is on
+/// plus the path the pane should load.
+///
+/// ## The check/bind race
+///
+/// [`pick_viewer_port`] reads a *snapshot* of container listeners; the dashboard
+/// binds some milliseconds later. Nothing here can make that atomic — the bind
+/// happens in another process, in another namespace, and `playwright-cli show`
+/// reports the port it actually took only on a first-ever start (see
+/// [`wait_until_ready`]). What is possible is to stop treating the first
+/// candidate as the only one: if the port we picked does not come up, walk to
+/// the next free candidate rather than failing the whole start.
+///
+/// Residual, stated rather than glossed: a container-side process that binds the
+/// candidate port *and answers HTTP* is indistinguishable from the dashboard at
+/// this layer, and the pane would then front it. What contains that is
+/// downstream — the host proxy is loopback-only and token-gated, and the pane's
+/// iframe is sandboxed — not this function.
+async fn start_viewer(container_id: &str, cli_entry: &str) -> Result<(u16, String), String> {
+    let mut tried: Vec<u16> = Vec::new();
+    let mut last: Option<String> = None;
+
+    for _ in 0..MAX_PORT_ATTEMPTS {
+        // Re-read the listener snapshot each attempt: the port that was free a
+        // moment ago is exactly the one we may have just lost.
+        let port = match pick_viewer_port(container_id, &tried).await {
+            Ok(p) => p,
+            Err(e) => {
+                // Report why the *attempts* failed, not just "nothing free":
+                // the exhausted range is the symptom, the last start failure is
+                // the thing the user can act on.
+                return Err(match last {
+                    Some(prev) => format!("{} ({})", e, prev),
+                    None => e,
+                });
+            }
+        };
+        tried.push(port);
+
+        launch_viewer(container_id, cli_entry, port).await?;
+
+        // Wait for it to actually answer, and learn the entry URL while we're
+        // there — see `probe_entry_path` for why that matters. This, not the
+        // launcher's stdout, is the readiness signal: verified that the
+        // "Listening on …" line is printed only on the very first start.
+        match wait_until_ready(container_id, port).await {
+            Ok(path) => return Ok((port, path)),
+            Err(e) => {
+                let log = read_viewer_log(container_id).await;
+                // Always kill before retrying: the dashboard is a singleton, so
+                // a launcher that came up on some *other* port would otherwise
+                // make every further attempt a no-op that silently ignores the
+                // port we asked for.
+                let _ = kill_dashboard(container_id, cli_entry).await;
+                last = Some(explain_start_failure(&e, &log));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    Err(last.unwrap_or_else(|| "The Playwright viewer did not start.".to_string()))
+}
+
+/// First port in [`VIEWER_PORTS`] that nothing in the container is listening on
+/// and that this start has not already tried.
+async fn pick_viewer_port(container_id: &str, tried: &[u16]) -> Result<u16, String> {
     let text = exec_oneshot(
         container_id,
         vec![
-            "cat".to_string(),
+            // Absolute path, deliberately, for the same reason the auth bridge
+            // uses one: `container/Dockerfile` puts a container-writable
+            // directory first on `PATH`, so a bare `cat` is a name the container
+            // can rebind to a shim. A shimmed listener list is a shimmed answer
+            // to "which port is free" — i.e. the container choosing which port
+            // the viewer, and therefore the host-side proxy, ends up on.
+            "/usr/bin/cat".to_string(),
             "/proc/net/tcp".to_string(),
             "/proc/net/tcp6".to_string(),
         ],
@@ -616,7 +711,7 @@ async fn pick_viewer_port(container_id: &str) -> Result<u16, String> {
     let taken = proc_net::parse_loopback_listeners(&text);
     VIEWER_PORTS
         .clone()
-        .find(|p| !taken.contains_key(p))
+        .find(|p| !taken.contains_key(p) && !tried.contains(p))
         .ok_or_else(|| {
             format!(
                 "No free port in {}–{} inside the container for the Playwright viewer.",
@@ -850,6 +945,25 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(s.url.is_none());
     }
 
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn the_opt_in_and_the_live_session_are_separate_answers() {
+        let manager = BrowserViewManager::default();
+
+        // Exactly what the pane reads on mount after an app restart of a
+        // project that was left enabled: the durable flag says on, and nothing
+        // auto-starts, so the state is honestly `Off`. The old in-memory flag
+        // could not express this — it came back `false` and the pane silently
+        // showed the feature as never having been turned on.
+        let status = manager.status("p1", true).await;
+        assert!(status.enabled);
+        assert_eq!(status.state, BrowserViewState::Off);
+        assert!(status.url.is_none());
+
+        // The flag belongs to the caller, read from the store. The manager
+        // keeps no copy, so it has nothing to contradict it with.
+        assert!(!manager.status("p1", false).await.enabled);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn an_unavailable_status_keeps_the_detail_the_user_needs() {
         let mut d = PlaywrightDetection::default();

app/src-tauri/src/command_census.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,581 @@
+//! The command census shared by `build.rs` and the `cargo test` suite.
+//!
+//! `build.rs` pulls this file in with `#[path = "src/command_census.rs"]` and `lib.rs` with
+//! `#[cfg(test)] mod command_census;`, so the parser that decides what the Tauri `AppManifest`
+//! declares is the parser the tests exercise, and the rules that decide whether the build
+//! passes have unit tests. Nothing here may reference the crate: only `std` and `serde_json`
+//! (a dependency of both the crate and the build script).
+//!
+//! Spec: `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-22-app-manifest-lockdown-design.md` §3.2.
+
+use std::collections::{BTreeMap, BTreeSet};
+
+/// The command names inside `generate_handler![ … ])` in `lib.rs`, in registration order,
+/// duplicates kept (the caller decides whether that is an error). `None` if the block is
+/// missing or unterminated.
+///
+/// Comma-split, not line-split: `// Docker` style comments are stripped from every line first
+/// (a whole-line comment strips to nothing; a trailing one leaves the code before it), and the
+/// *cleaned* text is then split on `,` so each grant is its own item regardless of how many
+/// share a line. A line-split version of this parser shipped first and used
+/// `rsplit("::").next()` once *per line*: two commands on one line (`a::x, b::y,`) collapsed to
+/// a single item, silently dropping `a::x` — a denied command at runtime with nothing flagging
+/// it. Comma-splitting fixes that because it no longer assumes one item per line.
+pub fn registered_commands(lib_rs: &str) -> Option<Vec<String>> {
+    let (_, rest) = lib_rs.split_once("generate_handler![")?;
+    let (inside, _) = rest.split_once("])")?;
+    let cleaned: String = inside
+        .lines()
+        // Strip a trailing `//` comment (and a whole-line one, which strips to "").
+        .map(|l| l.split("//").next().unwrap_or(""))
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+        .join("\n");
+    Some(
+        cleaned
+            .split(',')
+            .map(str::trim)
+            .filter(|s| !s.is_empty())
+            .filter_map(|s| {
+                // `a::b::name` → `name`; a bare `name` (no `::`) is its own last segment.
+                s.rsplit("::").next().map(|n| n.trim().to_string())
+            })
+            .filter(|n| !n.is_empty())
+            .collect(),
+    )
+}
+
+/// `viewer_read_file` → `allow-viewer-read-file`. tauri-utils 2.9.0 (`acl/build.rs:290`)
+/// replaces only `_`; permission identifiers may not contain `_`, but the command name inside
+/// the generated permission stays snake_case.
+pub fn allow_permission(command: &str) -> String {
+    format!("allow-{}", command.replace('_', "-"))
+}
+
+/// The `windows` list of the one capability file that may grant `command`. A command that
+/// must be callable from both windows is a design change: make it here, visibly, rather than
+/// by widening a capability file.
+pub fn expected_windows(command: &str) -> &'static [&'static str] {
+    if command.starts_with("viewer_") {
+        &["file-viewer-*"]
+    } else {
+        &["main"]
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct CapabilityFile {
+    pub name: String,
+    pub windows: Vec<String>,
+    pub bare: Vec<String>,
+}
+
+/// One `capabilities/*.json`, reduced to what the census checks. Plugin and core grants
+/// (anything with a `:`) are not this module's business; the exact-set tests in `lib.rs` and
+/// `file_viewer/mod.rs` pin those.
+pub fn capability_file(name: &str, json: &str) -> Result<CapabilityFile, String> {
+    let value: serde_json::Value =
+        serde_json::from_str(json).map_err(|e| format!("{name}: not valid JSON: {e}"))?;
+    // `webviews` would extend the grants to webviews by label (the browser-view pop-out is
+    // meant to be in no capability), and `remote` would extend them to a remote origin. The
+    // census reasons about `windows` only, so either key is refused rather than half-checked.
+    for key in ["webviews", "remote"] {
+        if value.get(key).is_some() {
+            return Err(format!(
+                "{name}: `{key}` is not allowed; capabilities here are scoped by `windows` only"
+            ));
+        }
+    }
+    let windows = value["windows"]
+        .as_array()
+        .ok_or_else(|| format!("{name}: `windows` must be an array"))?
+        .iter()
+        .map(|w| {
+            w.as_str()
+                .map(str::to_string)
+                .ok_or_else(|| format!("{name}: `windows` entries must be strings"))
+        })
+        .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()?;
+    let mut bare = Vec::new();
+    for grant in value["permissions"]
+        .as_array()
+        .ok_or_else(|| format!("{name}: `permissions` must be an array"))?
+    {
+        let id = match grant {
+            serde_json::Value::String(s) => s.as_str(),
+            serde_json::Value::Object(o) => o
+                .get("identifier")
+                .and_then(|i| i.as_str())
+                .ok_or_else(|| format!("{name}: a scoped grant needs a string `identifier`"))?,
+            _ => return Err(format!("{name}: a grant is a string or an object")),
+        };
+        if !id.contains(':') {
+            bare.push(id.to_string());
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(CapabilityFile { name: name.to_string(), windows, bare })
+}
+
+/// Why an entry directly under `capabilities/` cannot be a capability the census reads, or
+/// `None` if it is one (a top-level `*.json` file). tauri-build loads `capabilities/**/*` with
+/// the extensions `json`, `toml` and (with a feature) `json5`, subdirectories included; the
+/// census reads only top-level JSON, so anything else tauri might load is refused rather than
+/// left for tauri to grant from unchecked. OS and editor junk, which tauri never loads, is the
+/// caller's to skip first (see [`is_os_junk`]).
+pub fn stray_capability_entry(name: &str, is_file: bool) -> Option<String> {
+    if !is_file {
+        return Some(format!(
+            "capabilities/{name} is not a regular file; tauri loads capabilities from \
+             subdirectories too, so every capability must be a top-level capabilities/*.json"
+        ));
+    }
+    if name.ends_with(".json") {
+        return None;
+    }
+    Some(format!(
+        "capabilities/{name} is not a .json file; tauri may load it (it reads .toml and .json5 \
+         too) but the census cannot check it, so every capability must be a top-level \
+         capabilities/*.json"
+    ))
+}
+
+/// Files the OS or an editor drops next to real ones (`.DS_Store`, `Thumbs.db`, `desktop.ini`,
+/// Vim swap files, `name~` backups). tauri-build loads only `json`/`toml`/`json5` from
+/// `capabilities/` and `permissions/`, so a junk name with one of those extensions (an Emacs
+/// `.#default.json` lock, a macOS `._default.json`) is *not* junk: tauri would try to load it,
+/// and the caller must refuse it.
+pub fn is_os_junk(name: &str) -> bool {
+    let loadable = [".json", ".json5", ".toml"].iter().any(|e| name.ends_with(e));
+    !loadable
+        && (matches!(name, ".DS_Store" | "Thumbs.db" | "desktop.ini")
+            || name.ends_with(".swp")
+            || name.ends_with(".swo")
+            || name.ends_with('~'))
+}
+
+/// Which files next to `Cargo.toml` tauri reads as its config: `tauri.conf.json[5]`,
+/// `Tauri.toml` and the per-platform `tauri.<platform>.conf.json[5]` / `Tauri.<platform>.toml`
+/// (tauri-utils `config/parse.rs`). `Some(true)` = JSON the census can read, `Some(false)` = a
+/// format it cannot (JSON5/TOML), `None` = not a tauri config file.
+pub fn tauri_config_file(name: &str) -> Option<bool> {
+    if name.starts_with("tauri.") && name.ends_with(".conf.json") {
+        Some(true)
+    } else if (name.starts_with("tauri.") && name.ends_with(".conf.json5"))
+        || (name.starts_with("Tauri.") && name.ends_with(".toml"))
+    {
+        Some(false)
+    } else {
+        None
+    }
+}
+
+/// A problem with a tauri config (a `tauri*.conf.json` file, or the `TAURI_CONFIG` JSON that
+/// tauri-build merges over it), or `None`. `app.security.capabilities` is refused whenever it
+/// is non-empty: an inline object is a capability the census never sees, and a list of
+/// identifiers switches every *other* capability file off, which the census also assumes is
+/// not happening.
+pub fn tauri_config_problem(name: &str, json: &str) -> Option<String> {
+    let value: serde_json::Value = match serde_json::from_str(json) {
+        Ok(v) => v,
+        Err(e) => return Some(format!("{name}: not valid JSON: {e}")),
+    };
+    match value.pointer("/app/security/capabilities") {
+        None | Some(serde_json::Value::Null) => None,
+        Some(serde_json::Value::Array(a)) if a.is_empty() => None,
+        Some(_) => Some(format!(
+            "{name}: app.security.capabilities is not allowed; every capability lives in a \
+             top-level capabilities/*.json file, where the census checks it"
+        )),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Everything that must hold between the handler list and the capability files. Returns every
+/// violation rather than the first, so a batch of forgotten grants is one build failure; an
+/// empty vector is a pass.
+pub fn check(commands: &[String], files: &[CapabilityFile]) -> Vec<String> {
+    let mut problems = Vec::new();
+    if commands.is_empty() {
+        problems.push(
+            "no commands were parsed out of generate_handler! — an empty AppManifest would \
+             silently leave every app command ungated"
+                .to_string(),
+        );
+        return problems;
+    }
+
+    let mut seen: BTreeSet<&str> = BTreeSet::new();
+    for c in commands {
+        if !c.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_lowercase() || b.is_ascii_digit() || b == b'_') {
+            problems.push(format!("{c:?} is not a command name ([a-z0-9_]+)"));
+        }
+        if !seen.insert(c.as_str()) {
+            problems.push(format!("{c} is registered more than once"));
+        }
+    }
+
+    let known: BTreeMap<String, &str> =
+        seen.iter().map(|c| (allow_permission(c), *c)).collect();
+    for f in files {
+        let windows: Vec<&str> = f.windows.iter().map(String::as_str).collect();
+        for id in &f.bare {
+            match known.get(id) {
+                Some(command) => {
+                    let want = expected_windows(command);
+                    if windows.as_slice() != want {
+                        problems.push(format!(
+                            "{}: {id} must be granted in the capability file whose windows are \
+                             {want:?}, not {windows:?}",
+                            f.name
+                        ));
+                    }
+                }
+                None if id.starts_with("deny-") => problems.push(format!(
+                    "{}: {id}: deny-* is global in tauri 2.11 — it would deny the command for \
+                     every window, not just this one; use allow-lists only",
+                    f.name
+                )),
+                None if id.starts_with("allow-") => problems.push(format!(
+                    "{}: {id} names no registered command (the identifier is allow-<command> \
+                     with every `_` replaced by `-`)",
+                    f.name
+                )),
+                None => problems.push(format!(
+                    "{}: {id}: only allow-<command> app grants are permitted as bare identifiers",
+                    f.name
+                )),
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    for c in &seen {
+        let id = allow_permission(c);
+        let holders: Vec<&str> = files
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|f| f.bare.iter().any(|b| b == &id))
+            .map(|f| f.name.as_str())
+            .collect();
+        match holders.len() {
+            0 => problems.push(format!(
+                "{c} is registered but no capability file grants {id}; add it to the file \
+                 whose windows are {:?}",
+                expected_windows(c)
+            )),
+            1 => {}
+            _ => problems.push(format!(
+                "{id} is granted in more than one capability file: {holders:?}"
+            )),
+        }
+    }
+    problems
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn cmds(names: &[&str]) -> Vec<String> {
+        names.iter().map(|n| n.to_string()).collect()
+    }
+
+    fn file(name: &str, windows: &[&str], bare: &[&str]) -> CapabilityFile {
+        CapabilityFile {
+            name: name.to_string(),
+            windows: windows.iter().map(|w| w.to_string()).collect(),
+            bare: bare.iter().map(|b| b.to_string()).collect(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The two files as they must look after the lockdown, for a three-command app.
+    fn good_files() -> Vec<CapabilityFile> {
+        vec![
+            file("default.json", &["main"], &["allow-check-docker", "allow-open-file-viewer"]),
+            file("file-viewer.json", &["file-viewer-*"], &["allow-viewer-read-file"]),
+        ]
+    }
+
+    const THREE: &[&str] = &["check_docker", "open_file_viewer", "viewer_read_file"];
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_parser_reads_the_handler_list_in_order_and_ignores_comments() {
+        let lib_rs = r#"
+            .invoke_handler(tauri::generate_handler![
+                // Docker
+                commands::docker_commands::check_docker,
+                commands::docker_commands::build_image, // trailing comment is not a command
+                url_open::open_url_external,
+
+                // Viewer
+                commands::file_viewer_commands::viewer_read_file
+            ])
+            .run(tauri::generate_context!())
+        "#;
+        assert_eq!(
+            registered_commands(lib_rs).unwrap(),
+            cmds(&["check_docker", "build_image", "open_url_external", "viewer_read_file"])
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_parser_keeps_duplicates_so_the_caller_can_report_them() {
+        let lib_rs = "generate_handler![\n a::x,\n b::x,\n])";
+        assert_eq!(registered_commands(lib_rs).unwrap(), cmds(&["x", "x"]));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_parser_returns_none_without_a_handler_block() {
+        assert_eq!(registered_commands("fn main() {}"), None);
+        assert_eq!(registered_commands("generate_handler![ a::b, "), None, "unterminated");
+    }
+
+    /// The bug this regression-tests: a line-split parser applies `rsplit("::").next()` once
+    /// per *line*, so two commands sharing a line collapse into one item and the first is
+    /// silently dropped. Comma-splitting must keep both regardless of layout.
+    #[test]
+    fn two_commands_on_one_line_are_both_kept() {
+        let lib_rs = "generate_handler![\n a::x, b::y,\n])";
+        assert_eq!(registered_commands(lib_rs).unwrap(), cmds(&["x", "y"]));
+    }
+
+    /// Mirrors the real `lib.rs` handler list's shape: `// Section` comments between groups,
+    /// and command paths one (`open_url_external`), two (`url_open::open_url_external`) and
+    /// three (`commands::docker_commands::check_docker`) segments deep, all ending in a comma
+    /// except the last entry before `])`.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_fixture_shaped_like_the_real_handler_list_parses_every_command() {
+        let lib_rs = r#"
+            .invoke_handler(tauri::generate_handler![
+                // Docker
+                commands::docker_commands::check_docker,
+                commands::docker_commands::build_image,
+                // Opening a link in the host browser
+                url_open::open_url_external,
+                // Bare, module-less command
+                open_help,
+                // Terminal file viewer
+                commands::file_viewer_commands::viewer_read_file
+            ])
+            .run(tauri::generate_context!())
+        "#;
+        assert_eq!(
+            registered_commands(lib_rs).unwrap(),
+            cmds(&[
+                "check_docker",
+                "build_image",
+                "open_url_external",
+                "open_help",
+                "viewer_read_file",
+            ])
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn permission_identifiers_replace_only_underscores() {
+        assert_eq!(allow_permission("check_docker"), "allow-check-docker");
+        assert_eq!(allow_permission("viewer_read_file"), "allow-viewer-read-file");
+        assert_eq!(allow_permission("aws_sso_refresh"), "allow-aws-sso-refresh");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn viewer_commands_belong_to_the_viewer_windows_and_nothing_else_does() {
+        assert_eq!(expected_windows("viewer_read_file"), ["file-viewer-*"]);
+        assert_eq!(expected_windows("open_file_viewer"), ["main"]);
+        assert_eq!(expected_windows("check_docker"), ["main"]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_capability_file_yields_its_windows_and_bare_grants_only() {
+        let json = r#"{
+            "identifier": "default",
+            "description": "x",
+            "windows": ["main"],
+            "permissions": [
+                "core:event:allow-listen",
+                { "identifier": "fs:allow-read", "allow": [{ "path": "$APPDATA/*" }] },
+                "allow-check-docker",
+                { "identifier": "allow-list-projects" }
+            ]
+        }"#;
+        let parsed = capability_file("default.json", json).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(parsed.name, "default.json");
+        assert_eq!(parsed.windows, vec!["main"]);
+        assert_eq!(parsed.bare, vec!["allow-check-docker", "allow-list-projects"]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_capability_file_without_windows_or_permissions_is_an_error() {
+        assert!(capability_file("x.json", r#"{"permissions": []}"#).unwrap_err().contains("windows"));
+        assert!(capability_file("x.json", r#"{"windows": ["main"]}"#).unwrap_err().contains("permissions"));
+        assert!(capability_file("x.json", "not json").unwrap_err().contains("x.json"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn webviews_and_remote_keys_are_refused() {
+        let with = |extra: &str| {
+            format!(r#"{{"windows": ["main"], {extra}, "permissions": ["allow-check-docker"]}}"#)
+        };
+        let err = capability_file("d.json", &with(r#""webviews": ["browser-view-*"]"#)).unwrap_err();
+        assert!(err.contains("d.json") && err.contains("`webviews`"), "{err}");
+        let err = capability_file("d.json", &with(r#""remote": {"urls": ["https://*"]}"#)).unwrap_err();
+        assert!(err.contains("`remote`"), "{err}");
+        // Present-but-empty is still refused: the key itself is the widening surface.
+        assert!(capability_file("d.json", &with(r#""webviews": []"#)).is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn only_top_level_json_files_are_capabilities() {
+        assert_eq!(stray_capability_entry("default.json", true), None);
+        for name in ["extra.toml", "extra.json5", "notes.txt", ".DS_Store"] {
+            let err = stray_capability_entry(name, true).expect(name);
+            assert!(err.contains(name) && err.contains("not a .json file"), "{err}");
+        }
+        let err = stray_capability_entry("sub", false).unwrap();
+        assert!(err.contains("capabilities/sub") && err.contains("not a regular file"), "{err}");
+        // A directory named like a capability is still a directory.
+        assert!(stray_capability_entry("x.json", false).is_some());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn os_junk_is_recognised_but_never_something_tauri_would_load() {
+        for junk in [".DS_Store", "Thumbs.db", "desktop.ini", ".default.json.swp", ".x.swo", "default.json~"] {
+            assert!(is_os_junk(junk), "{junk}");
+        }
+        for real in ["default.json", "x.toml", "x.json5", ".#default.json", "._default.json", "notes.txt", "extra"] {
+            assert!(!is_os_junk(real), "{real}");
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn tauri_config_files_are_found_by_name_and_format() {
+        assert_eq!(tauri_config_file("tauri.conf.json"), Some(true));
+        assert_eq!(tauri_config_file("tauri.linux.conf.json"), Some(true));
+        assert_eq!(tauri_config_file("tauri.conf.json5"), Some(false));
+        assert_eq!(tauri_config_file("tauri.windows.conf.json5"), Some(false));
+        assert_eq!(tauri_config_file("Tauri.toml"), Some(false));
+        assert_eq!(tauri_config_file("Tauri.macos.toml"), Some(false));
+        assert_eq!(tauri_config_file("Cargo.toml"), None);
+        assert_eq!(tauri_config_file("build.rs"), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn inline_capabilities_in_the_tauri_config_are_refused() {
+        let ok = r#"{"app": {"security": {"csp": "default-src 'self'"}}}"#;
+        assert_eq!(tauri_config_problem("tauri.conf.json", ok), None);
+        assert_eq!(tauri_config_problem("t", r#"{"app": {"security": {"capabilities": []}}}"#), None);
+        assert_eq!(tauri_config_problem("t", r#"{"build": {"beforeBuildCommand": ""}}"#), None);
+        let inline = r#"{"app": {"security": {"capabilities": [
+            {"identifier": "x", "windows": ["file-viewer-*"], "permissions": ["allow-read-container-file"]}
+        ]}}}"#;
+        let err = tauri_config_problem("tauri.conf.json", inline).unwrap();
+        assert!(err.contains("tauri.conf.json") && err.contains("app.security.capabilities"), "{err}");
+        let by_name = r#"{"app": {"security": {"capabilities": ["default"]}}}"#;
+        assert!(tauri_config_problem("TAURI_CONFIG", by_name).unwrap().contains("TAURI_CONFIG"));
+        assert!(tauri_config_problem("t", "{").unwrap().contains("not valid JSON"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_correct_census_has_no_problems() {
+        assert_eq!(check(&cmds(THREE), &good_files()), Vec::<String>::new());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_empty_command_list_is_refused_because_it_would_disable_the_acl() {
+        let problems = check(&[], &good_files());
+        assert_eq!(problems.len(), 1);
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("no commands"), "{problems:?}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_command_without_a_grant_is_named_together_with_the_file_it_belongs_in() {
+        let files = vec![
+            file("default.json", &["main"], &["allow-check-docker"]),
+            file("file-viewer.json", &["file-viewer-*"], &["allow-viewer-read-file"]),
+        ];
+        let problems = check(&cmds(THREE), &files);
+        assert_eq!(problems.len(), 1, "{problems:?}");
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("open_file_viewer"));
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("allow-open-file-viewer"));
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("[\"main\"]"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_grant_in_two_files_is_reported_once_naming_both() {
+        let files = vec![
+            file("default.json", &["main"], &["allow-check-docker", "allow-open-file-viewer"]),
+            file("extra.json", &["main"], &["allow-check-docker"]),
+            file("file-viewer.json", &["file-viewer-*"], &["allow-viewer-read-file"]),
+        ];
+        let problems = check(&cmds(THREE), &files);
+        assert_eq!(problems.len(), 1, "{problems:?}");
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("allow-check-docker"));
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("default.json") && problems[0].contains("extra.json"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_grant_that_names_no_command_is_a_typo() {
+        let mut files = good_files();
+        files[0].bare.push("allow-check-dokcer".to_string());
+        let problems = check(&cmds(THREE), &files);
+        assert_eq!(problems.len(), 1, "{problems:?}");
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("default.json: allow-check-dokcer"));
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("no registered command"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn deny_grants_are_refused_with_the_reason() {
+        let mut files = good_files();
+        files[1].bare.push("deny-check-docker".to_string());
+        let problems = check(&cmds(THREE), &files);
+        assert_eq!(problems.len(), 1, "{problems:?}");
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("file-viewer.json: deny-check-docker"));
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("global"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn other_bare_identifiers_are_refused() {
+        let mut files = good_files();
+        files[0].bare.push("default".to_string());
+        let problems = check(&cmds(THREE), &files);
+        assert_eq!(problems.len(), 1, "{problems:?}");
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("default.json: default"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_grant_in_the_wrong_file_is_refused_even_though_it_is_granted_exactly_once() {
+        let files = vec![
+            file("default.json", &["main"], &["allow-check-docker", "allow-open-file-viewer", "allow-viewer-read-file"]),
+            file("file-viewer.json", &["file-viewer-*"], &[]),
+        ];
+        let problems = check(&cmds(THREE), &files);
+        assert_eq!(problems.len(), 1, "{problems:?}");
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("allow-viewer-read-file"));
+        assert!(problems[0].contains("[\"file-viewer-*\"]"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_widened_windows_list_is_the_wrong_file_too() {
+        let files = vec![
+            file("default.json", &["main", "file-viewer-*"], &["allow-check-docker", "allow-open-file-viewer"]),
+            file("file-viewer.json", &["file-viewer-*"], &["allow-viewer-read-file"]),
+        ];
+        let problems = check(&cmds(THREE), &files);
+        assert_eq!(problems.len(), 2, "{problems:?}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn bad_names_and_duplicate_registrations_are_refused() {
+        let commands = cmds(&["check_docker", "Check-Docker", "check_docker", "open_file_viewer", "viewer_read_file"]);
+        let problems = check(&commands, &good_files());
+        assert!(problems.iter().any(|p| p.contains("\"Check-Docker\"") && p.contains("[a-z0-9_]+")), "{problems:?}");
+        assert!(problems.iter().any(|p| p.contains("check_docker is registered more than once")), "{problems:?}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn every_problem_is_reported_in_one_pass() {
+        let files = vec![
+            file("default.json", &["main"], &["allow-check-docker", "allow-nope", "deny-check-docker"]),
+            file("file-viewer.json", &["file-viewer-*"], &[]),
+        ];
+        let problems = check(&cmds(THREE), &files);
+        // typo, deny, open_file_viewer missing, viewer_read_file missing
+        assert_eq!(problems.len(), 4, "{problems:?}");
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/commands/auth_token_commands.rs

@@ -1188,16 +1188,53 @@ pub async fn has_claude_token() -> Result<bool, String> {
     Ok(secure::has_claude_oauth_token())
 }
 
-/// What [`clear_claude_token`] managed to reach. The keychain entry is always
-/// gone by the time this is returned — the rest is about copies of the token
-/// that live outside it.
-#[derive(Debug, Default, serde::Serialize)]
+/// The tail of every refusal [`crate::project_lock::try_acquire`] produces.
+///
+/// [`crate::docker::container::scrub_secrets_from_snapshots`] folds two very
+/// different things into one `failed` list: an image that genuinely could not
+/// be rewritten, and one that was never *attempted* because another operation
+/// held the project. Only the second is retryable, and only the second should
+/// be described to the user as "come back in a minute" rather than "reset this
+/// project". Splitting them needs a discriminator, and the refusal string is
+/// the only one that crosses the module boundary — `try_acquire` returns
+/// `Result<ProjectGuard, String>`, and `container.rs` pushes that `String`
+/// through unchanged.
+///
+/// Matching on prose is normally a mistake, so this is pinned by
+/// [`tests::a_real_lock_refusal_is_recognised_as_retryable`], which builds a
+/// refusal by actually taking a guard rather than by copying the wording. If
+/// `project_lock` ever rephrases, that test fails instead of this silently
+/// misclassifying a credential that was left in place.
+const PROJECT_BUSY_MARKER: &str = "Wait for it to finish before ";
+
+/// Whether a scrub failure means "somebody else has this project right now",
+/// which is transient, rather than "this image cannot be rewritten", which is
+/// not. Nothing bollard returns contains [`PROJECT_BUSY_MARKER`].
+fn is_project_busy_refusal(reason: &str) -> bool {
+    reason.contains(PROJECT_BUSY_MARKER)
+}
+
+/// What a cleanup managed to reach. Every field is about copies of the token
+/// that live *outside* the keychain — snapshot images — so the same shape
+/// serves [`clear_claude_token`], where the keychain entry is already gone by
+/// the time this is returned, and [`sweep_claude_token_snapshots`], where the
+/// keychain was never touched.
+///
+/// Three lists rather than one, because "we rewrote it", "we could not rewrite
+/// it" and "we did not try" are three different things to tell somebody who
+/// just revoked a credential, and only the last one is fixed by waiting.
+#[derive(Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, serde::Serialize)]
 pub struct ClearTokenOutcome {
     /// Snapshot images that were holding the token and have been rewritten.
     pub snapshots_scrubbed: Vec<String>,
     /// Images still holding it, with the reason each could not be rewritten.
     /// Non-empty means the revocation is **incomplete** and the UI must say so.
     pub snapshots_failed: Vec<String>,
+    /// Images still holding it that were **not attempted**, because another
+    /// operation held the project (a start, a compaction, a migration). Also an
+    /// incomplete revocation — but a retryable one, and the UI must not offer
+    /// "Reset the project" as the remedy for it.
+    pub snapshots_skipped: Vec<String>,
     /// Rewritten, but the pre-rewrite image object could not be deleted because
     /// a container is still running off it. Worth mentioning, not worth
     /// alarming about — see `SnapshotScrubReport::superseded_retained`.
@@ -1207,7 +1244,130 @@ pub struct ClearTokenOutcome {
     pub docker_unavailable: Option<String>,
 }
 
-/// Forget the shared Claude token.
+impl ClearTokenOutcome {
+    /// Whether a copy of the credential is known — or suspected — to still be
+    /// reachable, so the caller should offer to run the sweep again.
+    ///
+    /// `snapshots_superseded` is deliberately not counted: that image is
+    /// untagged, nothing new is built from it, and it goes away on the next
+    /// restart. Re-running would report it forever and train the user to
+    /// ignore the warning.
+    pub fn needs_another_pass(&self) -> bool {
+        !self.snapshots_failed.is_empty()
+            || !self.snapshots_skipped.is_empty()
+            || self.docker_unavailable.is_some()
+    }
+}
+
+/// Fold a scrub report into the IPC shape, splitting the busy projects out of
+/// the failures. Separate from the command so it can be tested without Docker.
+fn summarise_scrub(report: crate::docker::container::SnapshotScrubReport) -> ClearTokenOutcome {
+    let mut outcome = ClearTokenOutcome {
+        snapshots_scrubbed: report.scrubbed,
+        snapshots_superseded: report.superseded_retained,
+        docker_unavailable: report.unavailable,
+        ..Default::default()
+    };
+    for (image, reason) in report.failed {
+        let line = format!("{}: {}", image, reason);
+        if is_project_busy_refusal(&reason) {
+            outcome.snapshots_skipped.push(line);
+        } else {
+            outcome.snapshots_failed.push(line);
+        }
+    }
+    outcome
+}
+
+/// Which halves of a cleanup to run.
+///
+/// The distinction has to exist **on the wire**, not in a toast string. The UI
+/// offers a "Retry snapshot cleanup" button after an incomplete revocation, and
+/// while [`clear_claude_token`] was the only command behind it that button was
+/// a *second revoke* wearing a retry's label: it deleted the keychain entry
+/// unconditionally, with no confirmation, in a panel that survived the user
+/// re-authenticating from the button directly above it. Pressing it then threw
+/// away the token they had just acquired and said only that some images had
+/// been checked.
+///
+/// [`Cleanup::ImagesOnly`] is the honest primitive the retry actually wanted:
+/// the images are the durable record of what is left to do, so re-deriving the
+/// work from Docker needs no keychain entry and must not consume one.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+enum Cleanup {
+    /// Delete the keychain entry, then rewrite the images. What "Revoke" does,
+    /// behind its confirmation modal.
+    KeychainThenImages,
+    /// Rewrite the images and leave the keychain entirely alone. What "Retry
+    /// snapshot cleanup" and "Check snapshot images" do.
+    ImagesOnly,
+}
+
+/// The body of both cleanup commands, with its two halves injected so the
+/// *order* — and the fact that [`Cleanup::ImagesOnly`] never reaches the
+/// keychain at all — can be tested without a keychain or a Docker daemon.
+async fn run_cleanup<K, S, F>(
+    what: Cleanup,
+    delete_keychain: K,
+    sweep: S,
+) -> Result<ClearTokenOutcome, String>
+where
+    K: FnOnce() -> Result<(), String>,
+    S: FnOnce() -> F,
+    F: std::future::Future<Output = crate::docker::container::SnapshotScrubReport>,
+{
+    let revoking = what == Cleanup::KeychainThenImages;
+
+    if revoking {
+        // First, and before anything slow — see "Why the keychain goes first".
+        // Nothing has been touched if this fails, so the error is the whole
+        // answer: the caller still has its Revoke button, and the standalone
+        // sweep is available for the images regardless.
+        if let Err(e) = delete_keychain() {
+            log::error!(
+                "Could not delete the shared Claude token from the keychain; no snapshot image \
+                 was touched: {}",
+                e
+            );
+            return Err(e);
+        }
+        log::info!("Cleared the shared Claude authentication token from the keychain");
+    }
+
+    let report = sweep().await;
+    let swept_clean = !report.left_something_behind();
+    let outcome = summarise_scrub(report);
+
+    let lead = if revoking {
+        "Revoked the shared Claude token but"
+    } else {
+        "Swept the snapshot images but"
+    };
+    for image in &outcome.snapshots_failed {
+        log::warn!("{} could not clear it from {}", lead, image);
+    }
+    for image in &outcome.snapshots_skipped {
+        log::warn!(
+            "{} left it in {} — the project was busy; running the snapshot sweep again will retry",
+            lead,
+            image
+        );
+    }
+    if let Some(ref reason) = outcome.docker_unavailable {
+        log::warn!("{} checked no snapshot image at all: {}", lead, reason);
+    }
+    if swept_clean && !outcome.needs_another_pass() {
+        log::info!(
+            "No snapshot image is still holding the shared Claude token ({} rewritten)",
+            outcome.snapshots_scrubbed.len()
+        );
+    }
+
+    Ok(outcome)
+}
+
+/// Forget the shared Claude token, and remove the copies of it that outlive the
+/// keychain entry.
 ///
 /// Deleting the keychain entry is the easy half. The token also exists in two
 /// other places, and a "Revoke" button that leaves either of them behind is
@@ -1223,34 +1383,81 @@ pub struct ClearTokenOutcome {
 ///    as long as the image exists. New commits no longer bake it in (see
 ///    [`crate::docker::container::commit_container_snapshot`]), but images
 ///    committed by earlier builds have to be rewritten, which is what
-///    [`scrub_secrets_from_snapshots`] does here.
+///    [`crate::docker::container::scrub_secrets_from_snapshots`] does here.
 ///
-/// The keychain deletion is never rolled back if the scrub fails; a partially
-/// completed revocation is still better than none, and the outcome is reported
-/// so the UI can be explicit about what is left.
+/// ## Why the keychain goes first
+///
+/// The sweep is not quick. It lists every `triple-c-snapshot-*` image and then
+/// inspects, creates, commits and removes *per image*, over bollard's Docker
+/// socket with its 120-second-per-request default. Deferring the keychain
+/// delete behind all of that leaves the credential live for the whole window
+/// while the UI says "Revoking…", and two separate things go wrong in it:
+///
+///  * A quit, a crash or a kill mid-sweep and the entry was never deleted at
+///    all. The token the user believes they revoked is still in the keychain,
+///    still ~1-year valid, and still injected into every container start.
+///  * [`has_claude_token`] stays true throughout, and
+///    [`crate::docker::container::create_container`] reads the keychain at
+///    container-**create** time rather than at app start. The per-project
+///    [`crate::project_lock::ProjectOp::SecretScrub`] guard is released as soon
+///    as that one project's image has been rewritten — so a project scrubbed
+///    early in the sweep can be started again later in the *same* sweep and be
+///    handed a fresh copy of the credential in its env. The images end up clean
+///    and the running fleet does not.
+///
+/// An earlier version ran the sweep first, on the argument that a crash
+/// mid-sweep would otherwise leave the token in an image with the keychain
+/// entry — and therefore the Revoke button — already gone. That argument was
+/// about *recoverability*, and [`sweep_claude_token_snapshots`] answers it
+/// directly: the images are the durable record, so the retry needs no keychain
+/// entry to exist and no persisted to-do list. The comment that ordering
+/// carried ("no window in which a scrubbed image is re-poisoned") was true of
+/// images and silent about containers, which is where the leak was, and silent
+/// about the minutes the token stayed live.
+///
+/// The keychain deletion is never rolled back if the scrub then fails; a
+/// partially completed revocation is still better than none, and the outcome is
+/// reported so the UI can be explicit about what is left.
 #[tauri::command]
 pub async fn clear_claude_token() -> Result<ClearTokenOutcome, String> {
-    secure::delete_claude_oauth_token()?;
-    log::info!("Cleared the shared Claude authentication token");
+    run_cleanup(
+        Cleanup::KeychainThenImages,
+        secure::delete_claude_oauth_token,
+        crate::docker::container::scrub_secrets_from_snapshots,
+    )
+    .await
+}
 
-    let report = crate::docker::container::scrub_secrets_from_snapshots().await;
-    if report.left_something_behind() {
-        log::warn!(
-            "Revoked the shared Claude token but {} snapshot image(s) may still contain it",
-            report.failed.len()
-        );
-    }
-
-    Ok(ClearTokenOutcome {
-        snapshots_scrubbed: report.scrubbed,
-        snapshots_failed: report
-            .failed
-            .into_iter()
-            .map(|(image, reason)| format!("{}: {}", image, reason))
-            .collect(),
-        snapshots_superseded: report.superseded_retained,
-        docker_unavailable: report.unavailable,
-    })
+/// Rewrite every snapshot image that still carries a credential, **without
+/// touching the keychain**.
+///
+/// This is the retry, and it is its own command because the retry is its own
+/// act. `docker commit` copied the token into each project's snapshot image;
+/// rewriting those images is a cleanup that has nothing to do with whether a
+/// token is stored today, and folding it into [`clear_claude_token`] made every
+/// press of "Retry snapshot cleanup" an unconfirmed credential deletion.
+///
+/// Safe to call at any time and in any state:
+///
+///  * with a token stored — a snapshot committed by an older build carries the
+///    *current* token, and clearing it out of the image does not stop the
+///    keychain entry being injected on the next container start;
+///  * with nothing stored — images committed by earlier builds still carry
+///    whatever token was live when they were committed, which is exactly the
+///    case the old sweep-first ordering could strand;
+///  * repeatedly — the work is re-derived from Docker each time, so an image
+///    whose project was busy on the last pass is simply picked up on this one.
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn sweep_claude_token_snapshots() -> Result<ClearTokenOutcome, String> {
+    run_cleanup(
+        Cleanup::ImagesOnly,
+        // Never called; the `ImagesOnly` branch is the entire point of this
+        // command, and a change that made it reachable must fail loudly rather
+        // than delete a credential quietly.
+        || -> Result<(), String> { unreachable!("an images-only sweep must never touch the keychain") },
+        crate::docker::container::scrub_secrets_from_snapshots,
+    )
+    .await
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
@@ -1761,5 +1968,265 @@ mod tests {
         seen.push_str(&s.push(format!("\nYour token: {}\n", tok).as_bytes()));
         assert_eq!(parse_setup_token(&seen), Some(tok));
     }
-}
 
+    // ── Revocation: what the sweep leaves behind, and how it is described ──
+
+    use crate::docker::container::SnapshotScrubReport;
+    use crate::project_lock::{try_acquire, ProjectOp};
+
+    /// The classifier is a substring match on a message another module owns,
+    /// which is only safe if something notices when that module rephrases. So
+    /// build the refusal the way production does — by actually losing the
+    /// race — rather than by pasting the wording in here.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_real_lock_refusal_is_recognised_as_retryable() {
+        let project = "auth-token-test-busy-project";
+        let _held = try_acquire(project, ProjectOp::Compaction).expect("first claim");
+        let refusal = try_acquire(project, ProjectOp::SecretScrub)
+            .expect_err("a second claim on the same project must be refused");
+
+        assert!(
+            is_project_busy_refusal(&refusal),
+            "project_lock's refusal is no longer recognised as retryable: {:?}",
+            refusal
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_docker_failure_is_not_mistaken_for_a_busy_project() {
+        for reason in [
+            "could not inspect: error trying to connect: No such file or directory",
+            "could not create a scratch container: conflict: name already in use",
+            "an untagged snapshot image holds a credential and cannot be rewritten",
+        ] {
+            assert!(
+                !is_project_busy_refusal(reason),
+                "{:?} was misclassified as a transient lock refusal",
+                reason
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn summarise_scrub_separates_a_busy_project_from_a_broken_image() {
+        let project = "auth-token-test-summarise-busy";
+        let _held = try_acquire(project, ProjectOp::Recreate).expect("first claim");
+        let refusal = try_acquire(project, ProjectOp::SecretScrub).expect_err("refused");
+
+        let outcome = summarise_scrub(SnapshotScrubReport {
+            scrubbed: vec!["triple-c-snapshot-a:latest".into()],
+            failed: vec![
+                ("triple-c-snapshot-b:latest".into(), refusal),
+                (
+                    "triple-c-snapshot-c:latest".into(),
+                    "could not create a scratch container: no such image".into(),
+                ),
+            ],
+            superseded_retained: vec!["triple-c-snapshot-a:latest".into()],
+            unavailable: None,
+        });
+
+        assert_eq!(outcome.snapshots_scrubbed, vec!["triple-c-snapshot-a:latest"]);
+        assert_eq!(outcome.snapshots_skipped.len(), 1, "{:?}", outcome);
+        assert!(outcome.snapshots_skipped[0].starts_with("triple-c-snapshot-b:latest: "));
+        assert_eq!(outcome.snapshots_failed.len(), 1, "{:?}", outcome);
+        assert!(outcome.snapshots_failed[0].starts_with("triple-c-snapshot-c:latest: "));
+        // The whole point: a skipped image is never folded into the scrubbed
+        // list, which is what "success" is rendered from.
+        assert!(!outcome.snapshots_scrubbed.iter().any(|s| s.contains("snapshot-b")));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_clean_sweep_needs_no_second_pass() {
+        let outcome = summarise_scrub(SnapshotScrubReport {
+            scrubbed: vec!["triple-c-snapshot-a:latest".into()],
+            ..Default::default()
+        });
+        assert!(!outcome.needs_another_pass());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_retained_superseded_image_alone_does_not_ask_for_a_second_pass() {
+        // The tag is clean; what is left is untagged and dies with the running
+        // container. Asking the user to sweep again would never stop.
+        let outcome = summarise_scrub(SnapshotScrubReport {
+            scrubbed: vec!["triple-c-snapshot-a:latest".into()],
+            superseded_retained: vec!["triple-c-snapshot-a:latest".into()],
+            ..Default::default()
+        });
+        assert!(!outcome.needs_another_pass());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn anything_still_holding_the_credential_asks_for_a_second_pass() {
+        let skipped = summarise_scrub(SnapshotScrubReport {
+            failed: vec![(
+                "triple-c-snapshot-b:latest".into(),
+                format!("This project is being reset. {}resetting it.", PROJECT_BUSY_MARKER),
+            )],
+            ..Default::default()
+        });
+        assert!(skipped.needs_another_pass());
+        assert_eq!(skipped.snapshots_skipped.len(), 1);
+
+        let failed = summarise_scrub(SnapshotScrubReport {
+            failed: vec![("triple-c-snapshot-c:latest".into(), "could not inspect: boom".into())],
+            ..Default::default()
+        });
+        assert!(failed.needs_another_pass());
+
+        let blind = summarise_scrub(SnapshotScrubReport {
+            unavailable: Some("Docker is not running".into()),
+            ..Default::default()
+        });
+        assert!(blind.needs_another_pass());
+        assert!(blind.snapshots_scrubbed.is_empty());
+    }
+
+    /// The IPC contract the frontend reads. A field renamed on this side and
+    /// not on that one is a silent "nothing was skipped".
+    #[test]
+    fn the_outcome_serialises_under_the_names_the_frontend_reads() {
+        let json = serde_json::to_value(ClearTokenOutcome::default()).expect("serialise");
+        let object = json.as_object().expect("an object");
+        for key in [
+            "snapshots_scrubbed",
+            "snapshots_failed",
+            "snapshots_skipped",
+            "snapshots_superseded",
+            "docker_unavailable",
+        ] {
+            assert!(object.contains_key(key), "missing {} in {:?}", key, object);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // ── The order of a revocation, and what a retry may touch ─────────────
+    //
+    // `run_cleanup` takes both halves as arguments precisely so this can be
+    // asserted with no keychain and no Docker daemon: the recorded order *is*
+    // the subject. Sweep-first put a live ~1-year credential behind a
+    // per-image inspect/create/commit/rmi loop — minutes, at bollard's
+    // 120s-per-request default — during which `has_claude_token` stayed true
+    // and `create_container` kept handing the token to anything started.
+
+    /// Records which half ran, in order.
+    type Trace = std::sync::Arc<std::sync::Mutex<Vec<&'static str>>>;
+
+    fn trace() -> Trace {
+        std::sync::Arc::new(std::sync::Mutex::new(Vec::new()))
+    }
+
+    fn scrubbed_one() -> SnapshotScrubReport {
+        SnapshotScrubReport {
+            scrubbed: vec!["triple-c-snapshot-a:latest".into()],
+            ..Default::default()
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn the_keychain_entry_is_gone_before_the_first_image_is_touched() {
+        let t = trace();
+        let (tk, ts) = (t.clone(), t.clone());
+
+        let outcome = run_cleanup(
+            Cleanup::KeychainThenImages,
+            move || {
+                tk.lock().unwrap().push("keychain");
+                Ok(())
+            },
+            move || async move {
+                ts.lock().unwrap().push("sweep");
+                scrubbed_one()
+            },
+        )
+        .await
+        .expect("a cleanup whose halves both succeed is not an error");
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            *t.lock().unwrap(),
+            ["keychain", "sweep"],
+            "the token stayed in the keychain — and therefore in every container created — \
+             for the whole length of the image sweep"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(outcome.snapshots_scrubbed, vec!["triple-c-snapshot-a:latest"]);
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn a_keychain_failure_leaves_the_images_untouched_and_is_reported() {
+        let t = trace();
+        let ts = t.clone();
+
+        let err = run_cleanup(
+            Cleanup::KeychainThenImages,
+            || Err("the keychain is locked".to_string()),
+            move || async move {
+                ts.lock().unwrap().push("sweep");
+                SnapshotScrubReport::default()
+            },
+        )
+        .await
+        .expect_err("a keychain that refused the delete must be reported, not swallowed");
+
+        assert_eq!(err, "the keychain is locked");
+        assert!(
+            t.lock().unwrap().is_empty(),
+            "images were rewritten for a revocation that never happened; the report is then \
+             discarded with the error and the user is told nothing they can act on"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// The bug the images-only primitive exists to close: the "Retry snapshot
+    /// cleanup" button used to run `clear_claude_token`, so pressing it after
+    /// re-authenticating deleted the brand-new token with no confirmation.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn an_images_only_cleanup_never_reaches_the_keychain() {
+        let t = trace();
+        let (tk, ts) = (t.clone(), t.clone());
+
+        let outcome = run_cleanup(
+            Cleanup::ImagesOnly,
+            move || {
+                tk.lock().unwrap().push("keychain");
+                Ok(())
+            },
+            move || async move {
+                ts.lock().unwrap().push("sweep");
+                scrubbed_one()
+            },
+        )
+        .await
+        .expect("a sweep-only cleanup is not an error");
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            *t.lock().unwrap(),
+            ["sweep"],
+            "the retry deleted a credential nobody confirmed deleting"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(outcome.snapshots_scrubbed, vec!["triple-c-snapshot-a:latest"]);
+    }
+
+    /// …and it still has to report what it could not finish, because "run it
+    /// again once that project is idle" is the whole affordance.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn an_images_only_cleanup_still_reports_what_it_could_not_finish() {
+        let outcome = run_cleanup(
+            Cleanup::ImagesOnly,
+            || -> Result<(), String> { unreachable!("images only") },
+            || async {
+                SnapshotScrubReport {
+                    failed: vec![(
+                        "triple-c-snapshot-b:latest".into(),
+                        format!("This project is being started. {}removing a credential from its snapshot.", PROJECT_BUSY_MARKER),
+                    )],
+                    ..Default::default()
+                }
+            },
+        )
+        .await
+        .expect("an image left for the next pass is not a command failure");
+
+        assert!(outcome.needs_another_pass());
+        assert_eq!(outcome.snapshots_skipped.len(), 1, "{:?}", outcome);
+        assert!(outcome.snapshots_failed.is_empty(), "{:?}", outcome);
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/commands/docker_commands.rs

@@ -37,20 +37,3 @@ pub async fn get_container_info(
     docker::get_container_info(&project).await
 }
 
-#[tauri::command]
-pub async fn list_sibling_containers() -> Result<Vec<serde_json::Value>, String> {
-    let containers = docker::list_sibling_containers().await?;
-    let result: Vec<serde_json::Value> = containers
-        .into_iter()
-        .map(|c| {
-            serde_json::json!({
-                "id": c.id,
-                "names": c.names,
-                "image": c.image,
-                "state": c.state,
-                "status": c.status,
-            })
-        })
-        .collect();
-    Ok(result)
-}

app/src-tauri/src/commands/file_viewer_commands.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,365 @@
+//! IPC for the terminal file viewer. Every command here is gated on the calling
+//! window's label and reads its target from the registry — no path, no label, no
+//! project id crosses IPC from a viewer window. See spec §6.
+
+use base64::engine::general_purpose::STANDARD as BASE64;
+use base64::Engine as _;
+use serde::Serialize;
+use tauri::{AppHandle, Emitter, Manager, State};
+
+use crate::commands::file_commands::{
+    fetch_container_file, not_running_message, require_running, validate_container_write_path, MAX_READ_BYTES,
+};
+use crate::file_viewer::is_viewer_label;
+use crate::file_viewer::poll::{poll_file, ViewerPoll};
+use crate::file_viewer::registry::{
+    Choice, Location, Reservation, ViewerRegistry, ViewerTarget, ViewerTargetState,
+};
+use crate::file_viewer::resolve::{candidate_paths, probe_candidates};
+use crate::file_viewer::window::open_viewer_window;
+use crate::file_viewer::write::{sha256_hex, write_file, SavedFile, MAX_WRITE_BYTES};
+use crate::models::Project;
+use crate::AppState;
+
+pub const GOTO_EVENT: &str = "file-viewer-goto";
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize)]
+pub struct ViewerState {
+    pub project_id: String,
+    pub project_name: String,
+    pub raw_path: String,
+    pub state: ViewerTargetState,
+    pub initial: Location,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize)]
+pub struct ViewerFile {
+    pub contents_base64: String,
+    pub truncated: bool,
+    pub size: u64,
+    pub hash: String,
+    pub editable: bool,
+    pub readonly_reason: Option<String>,
+}
+
+fn require_main(window_label: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    if window_label == "main" {
+        Ok(())
+    } else {
+        Err("Only the main window can open files.".into())
+    }
+}
+
+fn require_viewer(window_label: &str) -> Result<String, String> {
+    if is_viewer_label(window_label) {
+        Ok(window_label.to_string())
+    } else {
+        Err("This command belongs to a file window.".into())
+    }
+}
+
+fn viewer_state_of(_label: &str, target: ViewerTarget) -> ViewerState {
+    ViewerState {
+        project_id: target.project_id,
+        project_name: target.project_name,
+        raw_path: target.raw_path,
+        state: target.state,
+        initial: target.initial,
+    }
+}
+
+fn window_title(raw_path: &str, project_name: &str) -> String {
+    let base = raw_path.trim_end_matches('/').rsplit('/').next().unwrap_or(raw_path);
+    format!("{} — {}", base, project_name)
+}
+
+/// Refuses a save payload before decoding it: base64 of at most
+/// [`MAX_WRITE_BYTES`] is at most `4 * ceil(MAX_WRITE_BYTES / 3)` characters.
+/// `write_file` enforces the cap on the decoded bytes too; this stops a
+/// compromised viewer from making the app allocate and decode an arbitrarily
+/// large string first.
+fn check_encoded_len(encoded_len: usize) -> Result<(), String> {
+    if encoded_len > MAX_WRITE_BYTES.div_ceil(3) * 4 {
+        return Err("Files over 1 MiB are read-only in the viewer.".into());
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// The caller's registry entry, or a sentence.
+fn own_target(
+    window: &tauri::Window,
+    registry: &ViewerRegistry,
+) -> Result<(String, ViewerTarget), String> {
+    let label = require_viewer(window.label())?;
+    let target = registry
+        .get(&label)
+        .ok_or_else(|| "This file window is no longer registered.".to_string())?;
+    Ok((label, target))
+}
+
+fn resolved_path(target: &ViewerTarget) -> Result<String, String> {
+    match &target.state {
+        ViewerTargetState::Resolved { container_path } => Ok(container_path.clone()),
+        _ => Err("Choose a file first.".into()),
+    }
+}
+
+/// The one place a viewer command looks up its project (P14).
+fn project_of(state: &AppState, project_id: &str) -> Result<Project, String> {
+    state
+        .projects_store
+        .get(project_id)
+        .ok_or_else(|| "This project no longer exists.".to_string())
+}
+
+/// `action` completes "Start the project before …", e.g. "saving this file".
+async fn running_container_of(project: &Project, action: &str) -> Result<String, String> {
+    let container_id = project
+        .container_id
+        .clone()
+        .ok_or_else(|| not_running_message(action, "files live in its container"))?;
+    require_running(&container_id, action).await?;
+    Ok(container_id)
+}
+
+/// The container of the project a viewer window belongs to, if it is running.
+async fn running_container_for(
+    state: &AppState,
+    target: &ViewerTarget,
+    action: &str,
+) -> Result<String, String> {
+    running_container_of(&project_of(state, &target.project_id)?, action).await
+}
+
+/// Raises an existing viewer window and moves it to `location`.
+fn focus_viewer(app: &AppHandle, label: &str, location: Location) {
+    if let Some(existing) = app.get_webview_window(label) {
+        let _ = existing.unminimize();
+        let _ = existing.set_focus();
+        let _ = app.emit_to(label, GOTO_EVENT, location);
+    }
+}
+
+// Nine parameters are fixed by the IPC contract (P10); four injected by Tauri.
+#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn open_file_viewer(
+    project_id: String,
+    path: String,
+    line: Option<u32>,
+    col: Option<u32>,
+    end_line: Option<u32>,
+    window: tauri::Window,
+    app: AppHandle,
+    registry: State<'_, ViewerRegistry>,
+    state: State<'_, AppState>,
+) -> Result<(), String> {
+    require_main(window.label())?;
+    let project = project_of(&state, &project_id)?;
+    let container_id = running_container_of(&project, "opening files").await?;
+
+    let mounts: Vec<String> = project.paths.iter().map(|p| p.mount_name.clone()).collect();
+    let candidates = candidate_paths(&path, &mounts)?;
+    let matches = probe_candidates(&container_id, &candidates).await?;
+    let initial = Location { line, col, end_line };
+
+    let target_state = match matches.len() {
+        0 => ViewerTargetState::NotFound { tried: candidates },
+        1 => ViewerTargetState::Resolved { container_path: matches[0].clone() },
+        _ => ViewerTargetState::Choose { candidates: matches },
+    };
+
+    let title = window_title(&path, &project.name);
+    let target = ViewerTarget {
+        project_id,
+        project_name: project.name.clone(),
+        raw_path: path,
+        state: target_state,
+        initial: initial.clone(),
+    };
+    // Dedupe, stale pruning and the cap are one registry call, so a second click
+    // while the first window is still being built finds it rather than reading
+    // its not-yet-existing window as stale.
+    let label = match registry.reserve(target, |l| app.get_webview_window(l).is_some())? {
+        Reservation::Reserved(label) => label,
+        // Still being built: it opens at its own location in a moment.
+        Reservation::Existing { built: false, .. } => return Ok(()),
+        Reservation::Existing { label, built: true } => {
+            focus_viewer(&app, &label, initial);
+            return Ok(());
+        }
+    };
+    if let Err(e) = open_viewer_window(&app, &label, &title) {
+        registry.remove(&label);
+        return Err(e);
+    }
+    registry.mark_built(&label);
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn viewer_get_state(
+    window: tauri::Window,
+    registry: State<'_, ViewerRegistry>,
+) -> Result<ViewerState, String> {
+    let (label, target) = own_target(&window, &registry)?;
+    Ok(viewer_state_of(&label, target))
+}
+
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn viewer_choose_file(
+    index: usize,
+    window: tauri::Window,
+    registry: State<'_, ViewerRegistry>,
+) -> Result<ViewerState, String> {
+    let (label, target) = own_target(&window, &registry)?;
+    let chosen = match &target.state {
+        ViewerTargetState::Choose { candidates } => candidates
+            .get(index)
+            .cloned()
+            .ok_or_else(|| "That choice is no longer available.".to_string())?,
+        _ => return Err("This window is not choosing a file.".into()),
+    };
+    let app = window.app_handle();
+    match registry.choose(&label, chosen, |l| app.get_webview_window(l).is_some())? {
+        Choice::Resolved(updated) => Ok(viewer_state_of(&label, updated)),
+        // Another window already has this file. This window was only ever a
+        // chooser, so hand over to that one and close this one, as a second
+        // click on the same path would have. The error is what this window
+        // shows if the destroy fails.
+        Choice::AlreadyOpen { label: other, .. } => {
+            focus_viewer(app, &other, target.initial);
+            let _ = window.destroy();
+            Err("This file is already open in another window.".into())
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn viewer_read_file(
+    max_bytes: u64,
+    window: tauri::Window,
+    registry: State<'_, ViewerRegistry>,
+    state: State<'_, AppState>,
+) -> Result<ViewerFile, String> {
+    let (_label, target) = own_target(&window, &registry)?;
+    let path = resolved_path(&target)?;
+    let container_id = running_container_for(&state, &target, "opening files").await?;
+    let cap = max_bytes.clamp(1, MAX_READ_BYTES);
+    let fetched = fetch_container_file(&container_id, &path, cap).await?;
+    let (editable, readonly_reason) = match validate_container_write_path("File", &path) {
+        Ok(()) => (true, None),
+        Err(reason) => (false, Some(reason)),
+    };
+    Ok(ViewerFile {
+        hash: sha256_hex(&fetched.bytes),
+        contents_base64: BASE64.encode(&fetched.bytes),
+        truncated: fetched.truncated,
+        size: fetched.size,
+        editable,
+        readonly_reason,
+    })
+}
+
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn viewer_poll_file(
+    window: tauri::Window,
+    registry: State<'_, ViewerRegistry>,
+    state: State<'_, AppState>,
+) -> Result<ViewerPoll, String> {
+    let (_label, target) = own_target(&window, &registry)?;
+    let path = resolved_path(&target)?;
+    let container_id = running_container_for(&state, &target, "checking this file for changes").await?;
+    poll_file(&container_id, &path).await
+}
+
+/// Errors from `write_file` pass through unchanged: the frontend matches the
+/// `write::CONFLICT_PREFIX`/`GONE_PREFIX` prefixes and `READ_ONLY_MESSAGE` (TS copies in
+/// `app/src/viewer/ipcMessages.ts`), and anything else (a full disk) is already a
+/// sentence it shows as is. Success is a `SavedFile`: the new base hash and the hash
+/// the disk held right after the swap.
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn viewer_write_file(
+    contents_base64: String,
+    base_hash: String,
+    window: tauri::Window,
+    registry: State<'_, ViewerRegistry>,
+    state: State<'_, AppState>,
+) -> Result<SavedFile, String> {
+    let (_label, target) = own_target(&window, &registry)?;
+    let path = resolved_path(&target)?;
+    validate_container_write_path("File", &path)?;
+    check_encoded_len(contents_base64.len())?;
+    let bytes = BASE64
+        .decode(contents_base64.as_bytes())
+        .map_err(|_| "The editor sent malformed content.".to_string())?;
+    let container_id = running_container_for(&state, &target, "saving this file").await?;
+    write_file(&container_id, &state.exec_manager, &path, &bytes, &base_hash).await
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn open_is_main_only_and_viewer_commands_are_viewer_only() {
+        assert!(require_main("main").is_ok());
+        assert!(require_main("file-viewer-1").is_err());
+        assert!(require_main("browser-view-x").is_err());
+        assert_eq!(require_viewer("file-viewer-7").unwrap(), "file-viewer-7");
+        assert!(require_viewer("main").is_err());
+        assert!(require_viewer("file-viewer-").is_err());
+    }
+
+    /// Both "no container" refusals a viewer command can give start with the prefix
+    /// the viewer reads as "Container not running" (`ipcMessages.ts`).
+    #[test]
+    fn not_running_refusals_carry_the_shared_prefix() {
+        use crate::commands::file_commands::NOT_RUNNING_PREFIX;
+        let m = not_running_message("checking this file for changes", "files live in its container");
+        assert_eq!(m, "Start the project before checking this file for changes — files live in its container.");
+        assert!(m.starts_with(NOT_RUNNING_PREFIX));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_saved_file_serialises_both_hashes() {
+        let json = serde_json::to_value(SavedFile { hash: "a".into(), disk_hash: "b".into() }).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(json, serde_json::json!({ "hash": "a", "disk_hash": "b" }));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_title_is_basename_then_project() {
+        assert_eq!(window_title("app/src/lib/urlRelay.ts", "Triple-C"), "urlRelay.ts — Triple-C");
+        assert_eq!(window_title("/workspace/x/README.md", "x"), "README.md — x");
+        assert_eq!(window_title("Makefile", "p"), "Makefile — p");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn viewer_state_serialises_the_ipc_shape() {
+        let target = ViewerTarget {
+            project_id: "pid".into(),
+            project_name: "P".into(),
+            raw_path: "src/a.rs".into(),
+            state: ViewerTargetState::Resolved { container_path: "/workspace/p/src/a.rs".into() },
+            initial: Location { line: Some(3), col: Some(2), end_line: None },
+        };
+        let json = serde_json::to_value(viewer_state_of("file-viewer-1", target)).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(json["project_id"], "pid");
+        assert_eq!(json["state"]["kind"], "resolved");
+        assert_eq!(json["state"]["container_path"], "/workspace/p/src/a.rs");
+        assert_eq!(json["initial"]["line"], 3);
+        assert!(json["initial"]["end_line"].is_null());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_encoded_length_is_capped_before_decoding() {
+        let at_cap = BASE64.encode(vec![0u8; MAX_WRITE_BYTES]);
+        assert!(check_encoded_len(at_cap.len()).is_ok());
+        // MAX + 1 and MAX + 2 bytes pad to the same length as MAX; `write_file`'s
+        // decoded check refuses those. The first size this bound itself refuses:
+        let over_cap = BASE64.encode(vec![0u8; MAX_WRITE_BYTES + 3]);
+        assert!(check_encoded_len(over_cap.len()).is_err());
+        assert!(check_encoded_len(at_cap.len() + 1).is_err());
+        assert!(check_encoded_len(0).is_ok());
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/commands/inspect_commands.rs

@@ -164,6 +164,11 @@ pub struct ScheduledTask {
     /// Only known for enabled one-shot tasks (their `at` time). Recurring cron
     /// expressions are not evaluated here.
     pub next_run: Option<String>,
+    /// Whether a run is in flight right now, from the runner's state file in
+    /// `~/.claude/scheduler/running/<id>.json` with its pid verified live.
+    pub running: bool,
+    /// When the in-flight run started, ISO 8601 (UTC). `None` unless `running`.
+    pub running_since: Option<String>,
 }
 
 /// A completion notice written by `triple-c-task-runner` after a task ran.
@@ -614,13 +619,25 @@ const SCHEDULER_LIST_SCRIPT: &str = r#"exec 2>/dev/null
 set -u
 TASKS="$HOME/.claude/scheduler/tasks"
 LOGS="$HOME/.claude/scheduler/logs"
+RUNNING="$HOME/.claude/scheduler/running"
 [ -d "$TASKS" ] || { echo '[]'; exit 0; }
 for f in "$TASKS"/*.json; do
   [ -f "$f" ] || continue
   id=$(jq -r '.id // ""' "$f") || continue
   [ -n "$id" ] || id=$(basename "$f" .json)
   last=$(find "$LOGS/$id" -name '*.log' -type f -printf '%T@\n' | sort -rn | head -1)
-  jq -c --arg fallback_id "$id" --arg lr "${last%%.*}" '{
+  # Live-run state. The pid is checked, not trusted: a container stopped
+  # mid-run cannot fire the runner's cleanup trap, and a task stuck on
+  # "running" forever is a worse lie than showing nothing.
+  started=""
+  state="$RUNNING/$id.json"
+  if [ -f "$state" ]; then
+    pid=$(jq -r '.pid // empty' "$state")
+    if [ -n "$pid" ] && kill -0 "$pid" 2>/dev/null; then
+      started=$(jq -r '.started_epoch // empty' "$state")
+    fi
+  fi
+  jq -c --arg fallback_id "$id" --arg lr "${last%%.*}" --arg started "$started" '{
       id: (if (.id // "") == "" then $fallback_id else .id end),
       name: (.name // ""),
       prompt: (.prompt // ""),
@@ -630,7 +647,8 @@ for f in "$TASKS"/*.json; do
       enabled: (.enabled == true),
       working_dir: (.working_dir // "/workspace"),
       created_at: (.created_at // null),
-      last_run_epoch: (if $lr == "" then null else ($lr | tonumber) end)
+      last_run_epoch: (if $lr == "" then null else ($lr | tonumber) end),
+      running_since_epoch: (if $started == "" then null else ($started | tonumber) end)
     }' "$f"
 done | jq -s 'sort_by(.name, .id)'
 "#;
@@ -673,6 +691,7 @@ struct RawScheduledTask {
     working_dir: String,
     created_at: Option<String>,
     last_run_epoch: Option<i64>,
+    running_since_epoch: Option<i64>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
@@ -723,6 +742,8 @@ pub async fn list_scheduled_tasks(
                 created_at: t.created_at,
                 last_run: t.last_run_epoch.map(epoch_to_iso),
                 next_run,
+                running: t.running_since_epoch.is_some(),
+                running_since: t.running_since_epoch.map(epoch_to_iso),
             }
         })
         .collect())
@@ -1179,9 +1200,14 @@ pub async fn add_scheduled_task(
 /// * **In that order**, so a rejected `add` leaves the original untouched
 ///   rather than deleting a prompt the user cannot get back. The cost is a
 ///   sub-second window in which both tasks are in the crontab.
-/// * The task therefore gets a **new id**. Its old log directory
-///   (`~/.claude/scheduler/logs/<old-id>/`) stays behind under the old id; the
-///   UI warns about this before saving.
+/// * The task therefore gets a **new id**, and its old log directory
+///   (`~/.claude/scheduler/logs/<old-id>/`) goes with the removal — the
+///   scheduler reaps a task's logs when the task stops existing, because
+///   nothing can name that id again afterwards. The UI warns before saving.
+///   (A project still running an older base image carries the older
+///   `/usr/local/bin/triple-c-scheduler`, which left the directory behind;
+///   `/usr/local/bin` only changes on a base-image migration or a Reset. The
+///   copy is deliberately written for the case that loses data.)
 /// * `enabled` is carried over explicitly, because `add` always creates an
 ///   enabled task and silently re-enabling a task the user had switched off
 ///   would schedule a run they did not ask for.

app/src-tauri/src/commands/mod.rs

@@ -3,13 +3,16 @@ pub mod auth_token_commands;
 pub mod aws_commands;
 pub mod docker_commands;
 pub mod file_commands;
+pub mod file_viewer_commands;
 pub mod gateway_commands;
 pub mod help_commands;
 pub mod inspect_commands;
 pub mod install_helper_commands;
 pub mod migration_commands;
+pub mod notes_commands;
 pub mod project_commands;
 pub mod settings_commands;
+pub mod settings_export_commands;
 pub mod stt_commands;
 pub mod terminal_commands;
 pub mod update_commands;

app/src-tauri/src/commands/notes_commands.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+use crate::models::Note;
+use crate::storage::notes_store;
+
+/// Every project's notes, oldest concept first: pinned notes, then most
+/// recently edited.
+///
+/// Sorted here rather than in the webview so the dock and the tab — two views
+/// of the same list — cannot drift into two different orders.
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn list_notes(project_id: String) -> Result<Vec<Note>, String> {
+    let mut notes = notes_store::load(&project_id)?;
+    notes.sort_by(|a, b| {
+        b.pinned
+            .cmp(&a.pinned)
+            .then_with(|| b.updated_at.cmp(&a.updated_at))
+    });
+    Ok(notes)
+}
+
+/// Insert or replace one note.
+///
+/// There is deliberately no whole-list setter. A bulk write is exactly the
+/// clobbering this store's per-project file exists to avoid, and every caller
+/// here is editing one note.
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn save_note(project_id: String, note: Note) -> Result<Note, String> {
+    notes_store::upsert(&project_id, note)
+}
+
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn delete_note(project_id: String, note_id: String) -> Result<(), String> {
+    notes_store::delete(&project_id, &note_id)
+}

app/src-tauri/src/commands/settings_commands.rs

@@ -10,12 +10,72 @@ pub async fn get_settings(state: State<'_, AppState>) -> Result<AppSettings, Str
     Ok(state.settings_store.get())
 }
 
+/// Everything `update_settings` refuses a save over, run against the store's
+/// *current* value and the incoming one.
+///
+/// Pulled out so a caller that does other, harder-to-undo work alongside a
+/// settings save — `settings_export_commands::apply_settings_import`
+/// restores three keychain secrets in the same command — can run this
+/// *first* and bail before touching anything, rather than discovering the
+/// rejection only when `update_settings` itself runs partway through.
+pub fn validate_settings_update(
+    before: &AppSettings,
+    incoming: &AppSettings,
+) -> Result<(), String> {
+    // The global half of the same rule the project half gets in
+    // `update_project`: a global custom env var is merged into every project's
+    // container environment, so an unchecked name here reaches all of them.
+    crate::models::validate_env_vars_update(
+        &before.global_custom_env_vars,
+        &incoming.global_custom_env_vars,
+    )?;
+
+    // The same for the two host paths this struct owns. `update_project`
+    // validated its per-project overrides and this side validated nothing,
+    // which left the wider hole of the two: `default_ssh_key_path` is the
+    // fallback for **every** project without an override
+    // (`container.rs`'s `create_container`), so `/` here read-only bind-mounts
+    // the whole host at `/tmp/.host-ssh` for all of them — and `entrypoint.sh`
+    // then does `cp -a /tmp/.host-ssh ~/.ssh`, recursively copying it into the
+    // home volume this release exists to bound.
+    //
+    // Grandfathered the same way project paths are: a value carried over
+    // unchanged still saves, so a store written before this check cannot lock
+    // the user out of their own settings.
+    crate::commands::project_commands::validate_mounted_host_path(
+        "SSH key path",
+        before.default_ssh_key_path.as_deref(),
+        incoming.default_ssh_key_path.as_deref(),
+    )?;
+    crate::commands::project_commands::validate_mounted_host_path(
+        "CA certificate path",
+        before.ca_cert_path.as_deref(),
+        incoming.ca_cert_path.as_deref(),
+    )?;
+
+    // Third host path this struct owns, same reasoning: any project with
+    // `allow_docker_access` bind-mounts this path in as the Docker socket
+    // (`project_commands.rs`'s container creation), so an unchecked value
+    // here is a read-write bind mount of whatever it names into every such
+    // project's container.
+    crate::commands::project_commands::validate_mounted_host_path(
+        "Docker socket path",
+        before.docker_socket_path.as_deref(),
+        incoming.docker_socket_path.as_deref(),
+    )?;
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 #[tauri::command]
 pub async fn update_settings(
     settings: AppSettings,
     state: State<'_, AppState>,
 ) -> Result<AppSettings, String> {
     let before = state.settings_store.get();
+
+    validate_settings_update(&before, &settings)?;
+
     let saved = state.settings_store.update(settings)?;
 
     // Persisting a setting is not the same as applying it. The gateway is the
@@ -90,7 +150,10 @@ async fn reconcile_gateway(before: &GatewaySettings, after: &GatewaySettings) {
         GatewayAction::StopIfRunning => {
             log::info!("Model gateway disabled in settings — stopping the container");
             if let Err(e) = docker::gateway::stop_gateway_container().await {
-                log::error!("Failed to stop the model gateway after it was disabled: {}", e);
+                log::error!(
+                    "Failed to stop the model gateway after it was disabled: {}",
+                    e
+                );
             }
         }
         GatewayAction::RestartIfRunning => {
@@ -106,10 +169,7 @@ async fn reconcile_gateway(before: &GatewaySettings, after: &GatewaySettings) {
 }
 
 #[tauri::command]
-pub async fn pull_image(
-    image_name: String,
-    app_handle: tauri::AppHandle,
-) -> Result<(), String> {
+pub async fn pull_image(image_name: String, app_handle: tauri::AppHandle) -> Result<(), String> {
     use tauri::Emitter;
     docker::pull_image(&image_name, move |msg| {
         let _ = app_handle.emit("image-pull-progress", msg);
@@ -302,7 +362,10 @@ mod tests {
         let before = enabled_gateway();
         let mut after = before.clone();
         after.enabled = false;
-        assert_eq!(gateway_action(&before, &after), GatewayAction::StopIfRunning);
+        assert_eq!(
+            gateway_action(&before, &after),
+            GatewayAction::StopIfRunning
+        );
         // Still true when it was already off — a stray running container is
         // still a container that shouldn't be up.
         assert_eq!(gateway_action(&after, &after), GatewayAction::StopIfRunning);

app/src-tauri/src/commands/settings_export_commands.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,654 @@
+//! Settings export/import — see triple-c#35.
+//!
+//! Exports the *host* environment (global `AppSettings` plus the global
+//! secrets kept in the OS keychain: the shared Claude Code OAuth login and
+//! the model gateway's two keys), encrypted with a user-chosen password —
+//! see `storage::settings_crypto` for the actual cryptography. Deliberately
+//! out of scope: per-project settings, per-project secrets, and anything
+//! living in a project's Docker volumes.
+//!
+//! **The save/open dialogs are opened from Rust**, the same pattern
+//! `file_commands.rs`'s `pick_save_path`/`pick_files_to_upload` already
+//! establish and document at length: a frontend-driven dialog handing Rust a
+//! host path string is the exact shape of bug that produced this app's past
+//! criticals, so the boundary here is drawn the same place. The frontend can
+//! ask for a picker; it cannot name a host path as an *input*. `preview_
+//! settings_import` resolves the chosen path itself and remembers it
+//! (`AppState::pending_settings_import`) so `apply_settings_import` re-reads
+//! the same file without the path ever crossing back over IPC.
+//!
+//! The *decrypted payload* is not cached between preview and apply — the
+//! password the frontend passes to each call is what it already held for
+//! the first, not a fresh secret extracted from the user, but nothing here
+//! keeps the plaintext itself — export/import secrets included — around for
+//! longer than one command's execution; `apply_settings_import` re-decrypts
+//! the file rather than reusing anything `preview_settings_import` computed.
+//!
+//! **This is new attack surface**: a settings export is a file one person
+//! can hand another and ask them to import, together with a password, and
+//! `apply_settings_import` applies whatever `AppSettings` it decrypts to
+//! wholesale — see the module doc on `models::settings_export` for the
+//! `web_terminal.access_token` carve-out a review of this feature found,
+//! and treat that as the standing example of the class of thing to keep
+//! checking for here, not a one-off fixed bug.
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+use std::path::Path;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+use sha2::{Digest, Sha256};
+use tauri::State;
+use tauri_plugin_dialog::DialogExt;
+use zeroize::Zeroizing;
+
+use crate::models::{
+    AppSettings, ExportedSecrets, SettingsExportPayload, SettingsImportOutcome,
+    SettingsImportPreview, SETTINGS_EXPORT_FORMAT_VERSION,
+};
+use crate::storage::{secure, settings_crypto};
+use crate::AppState;
+
+/// What `preview_settings_import` pins so `apply_settings_import` can tell
+/// whether the file it's about to re-read is the same one the user actually
+/// saw a preview of. Confirming a preview is only meaningful if it's binding
+/// on what gets applied — without this, a file replaced on disk between the
+/// two calls (this app's own stated threat model is a file shared between
+/// people, which may sit in a synced or shared directory) would decrypt and
+/// apply silently different content than what the confirmation dialog showed.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct PendingSettingsImport {
+    path: PathBuf,
+    ciphertext_hash: [u8; 32],
+}
+
+fn hash_ciphertext(data: &[u8]) -> [u8; 32] {
+    Sha256::digest(data).into()
+}
+
+const FILE_EXTENSION: &str = "triplec";
+
+/// Enforced here, not only in the export modal: the frontend's minimum is a
+/// UX nudge, but `export_settings` is the actual boundary a weak password
+/// has to cross, and Argon2id's memory-hardness buys little against an
+/// attacker who can just try a three-character password directly.
+const MIN_PASSWORD_LEN: usize = 8;
+
+fn suggested_export_name() -> String {
+    // Timestamped so exporting more than once doesn't silently overwrite an
+    // earlier file just because the save dialog defaults to the same name.
+    format!(
+        "triple-c-settings-{}.{}",
+        chrono::Utc::now().format("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"),
+        FILE_EXTENSION
+    )
+}
+
+async fn pick_export_save_path(window: &tauri::Window, suggested: &str) -> Option<PathBuf> {
+    let (tx, rx) = tokio::sync::oneshot::channel();
+    window
+        .dialog()
+        .file()
+        .set_parent(window)
+        .set_title("Export Triple-C settings")
+        .set_file_name(suggested)
+        .add_filter("Triple-C settings export", &[FILE_EXTENSION])
+        .save_file(move |picked| {
+            let _ = tx.send(picked);
+        });
+    rx.await.ok().flatten().and_then(|p| p.into_path().ok())
+}
+
+async fn pick_import_open_path(window: &tauri::Window) -> Option<PathBuf> {
+    let (tx, rx) = tokio::sync::oneshot::channel();
+    window
+        .dialog()
+        .file()
+        .set_parent(window)
+        .set_title("Import Triple-C settings")
+        .add_filter("Triple-C settings export", &[FILE_EXTENSION])
+        .pick_file(move |picked| {
+            let _ = tx.send(picked);
+        });
+    rx.await.ok().flatten().and_then(|p| p.into_path().ok())
+}
+
+/// Gather the current global secrets, and hand back the `AppSettings` to
+/// export with the web-terminal token blanked out of it — see the module
+/// doc comment on `models::settings_export` for why that field cannot
+/// travel through `settings` like the rest of this struct.
+///
+/// A missing keychain secret reads as `None` — a keychain read failure is
+/// treated as "nothing to export" for that one entry rather than aborting
+/// the whole export, matching how the rest of this app degrades a keychain
+/// error to "absent" (`has_claude_oauth_token`, `has_gateway_api_key`)
+/// rather than surfacing it as a hard failure.
+fn split_settings_and_secrets(current: AppSettings) -> (AppSettings, ExportedSecrets) {
+    let mut settings = current;
+    let web_terminal_access_token = settings.web_terminal.access_token.take();
+
+    let secrets = ExportedSecrets {
+        claude_oauth_token: secure::get_claude_oauth_token().unwrap_or_default(),
+        gateway_api_key: secure::get_gateway_api_key().unwrap_or_default(),
+        gateway_master_key: secure::get_gateway_master_key().unwrap_or_default(),
+        web_terminal_access_token,
+    };
+
+    (settings, secrets)
+}
+
+/// Export the current global settings and secrets to a password-encrypted
+/// file. `Ok(false)` means the save dialog was dismissed — not an error, and
+/// deliberately distinguishable from one so the frontend shows nothing
+/// rather than a "failed" toast for a plain cancel.
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn export_settings(
+    password: String,
+    window: tauri::Window,
+    state: State<'_, AppState>,
+) -> Result<bool, String> {
+    // `.chars().count()` — Unicode scalar values, not bytes — to stay as
+    // close as this pair of languages allows to the frontend's `.length`
+    // check (UTF-16 code units); the two only diverge on astral-plane
+    // characters, which no reasonable password touches.
+    if password.chars().count() < MIN_PASSWORD_LEN {
+        return Err(format!(
+            "Use a password of at least {} characters.",
+            MIN_PASSWORD_LEN
+        ));
+    }
+
+    let Some(dest) = pick_export_save_path(&window, &suggested_export_name()).await else {
+        return Ok(false);
+    };
+
+    let (settings, secrets) = split_settings_and_secrets(state.settings_store.get());
+    if secrets.is_empty() {
+        log::info!("Exporting settings with no global secrets configured on this machine");
+    }
+
+    let payload = SettingsExportPayload {
+        format_version: SETTINGS_EXPORT_FORMAT_VERSION,
+        exported_at: chrono::Utc::now().to_rfc3339(),
+        app_version: env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION").to_string(),
+        settings,
+        secrets,
+    };
+
+    let plaintext = Zeroizing::new(
+        serde_json::to_vec(&payload)
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to prepare settings for export: {}", e))?,
+    );
+    let encrypted = settings_crypto::encrypt(&plaintext, &password)?;
+
+    std::fs::write(&dest, &encrypted).map_err(|e| format!("Failed to write export file: {}", e))?;
+
+    Ok(true)
+}
+
+/// Open a file picker, decrypt the chosen file with `password`, and return a
+/// preview (counts and presence flags only — never a secret value) for a
+/// confirmation UI. `Ok(None)` means the picker was dismissed.
+///
+/// Remembers the resolved path *and a hash of the file's ciphertext* in
+/// `AppState::pending_settings_import` for `apply_settings_import` to check
+/// against — does **not** remember the decrypted payload itself, so the
+/// password must be supplied again to actually apply it — seeing the preview
+/// is not the same as committing to it. The hash exists so it also can't be
+/// swapped out from under that commitment: `apply_settings_import` refuses to
+/// proceed if the file on disk no longer matches what was just previewed.
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn preview_settings_import(
+    password: String,
+    window: tauri::Window,
+    state: State<'_, AppState>,
+) -> Result<Option<SettingsImportPreview>, String> {
+    if password.is_empty() {
+        return Err("A password is required to open a settings export.".to_string());
+    }
+
+    let Some(path) = pick_import_open_path(&window).await else {
+        return Ok(None);
+    };
+
+    let encrypted = std::fs::read(&path).map_err(|e| format!("Failed to read export file: {}", e))?;
+    let payload = read_and_decrypt_bytes(&encrypted, &password)?;
+    let preview = SettingsImportPreview::from_payload(&payload);
+
+    *state.pending_settings_import.lock().await = Some(PendingSettingsImport {
+        path,
+        ciphertext_hash: hash_ciphertext(&encrypted),
+    });
+
+    Ok(Some(preview))
+}
+
+/// Apply the import a prior `preview_settings_import` call resolved a path
+/// for. Fails if no preview is pending — this is not a general "decrypt and
+/// apply this file" entry point, deliberately: seeing the preview first is
+/// required, not just encouraged, since it is the only place a user is told
+/// what an import is about to touch before it touches it. That requirement
+/// is only real if the file can't change out from under it, so this also
+/// refuses to proceed if the file's ciphertext no longer matches the hash
+/// `preview_settings_import` pinned — a file replaced on disk between the
+/// two calls (this feature's own threat model is a file shared between
+/// people, which may sit in a synced or shared directory) must not be able
+/// to apply silently different content than what the confirmation dialog
+/// showed.
+///
+/// Global settings are replaced wholesale — an import is "restore this
+/// environment," not a field-by-field merge. Global secrets are handled
+/// differently and on purpose: **only secrets actually present in the
+/// import are written**; a secret the export doesn't have is left alone on
+/// this machine rather than cleared, because an absent secret in the export
+/// means "the source machine never had this configured," not "delete this
+/// on import." A user who wants to clear a secret already has dedicated UI
+/// for that (signing out of shared auth, clearing the gateway key).
+///
+/// Order matters here, twice over.
+///
+/// First: the imported settings are **validated before any secret is
+/// written**, using the same checks `update_settings` itself runs
+/// (`settings_commands::validate_settings_update`). Restoring a secret is
+/// hard to undo unnoticed — a stale env-var-name rejection or a disallowed
+/// host path used to be caught only when `update_settings` ran, by which
+/// point the three keychain secrets below were already overwritten with the
+/// file's, each with a fresh rotation id, silently flagging every project
+/// container for recreation — while the error the user saw talked only
+/// about the rejected setting and said nothing about the credentials that
+/// had already moved. Failing this check first makes a rejected import
+/// leave nothing touched, matching what "the import failed" is supposed to
+/// mean.
+///
+/// Second, among the things that *do* get written: secrets are restored
+/// **before** the settings replace runs (which is what triggers
+/// `reconcile_gateway`), so a gateway recreation that replace provokes sees
+/// the final key material rather than racing it — restoring the other way
+/// round left a real window where the running gateway and the keychain
+/// briefly disagreed. A gateway *secret* alone (same shape, new key) is
+/// invisible to `reconcile_gateway`'s shape comparison, so this additionally
+/// nudges a running gateway container to recreate itself whenever a secret
+/// this import carried was actually written — otherwise the running
+/// container keeps serving the old key material indefinitely while every
+/// project container is handed the new one.
+///
+/// A keychain write failing is reported back rather than only logged: an
+/// import that silently restores two of three secrets but not the third
+/// must not read as unqualified success.
+///
+/// The pending import is only cleared on success. A failure here (rejected
+/// by the validation above, a stale-file mismatch, or some other error)
+/// leaves it pending so the frontend can let the user retry `apply` without
+/// making them pick the file and re-enter the password again — the
+/// preview's job was confirming *what* to import, not spending the one
+/// attempt at applying it.
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn apply_settings_import(
+    password: String,
+    state: State<'_, AppState>,
+) -> Result<SettingsImportOutcome, String> {
+    if password.is_empty() {
+        return Err("A password is required to import settings.".to_string());
+    }
+
+    let pending = state
+        .pending_settings_import
+        .lock()
+        .await
+        .clone()
+        .ok_or_else(|| "No import is pending — choose a file first.".to_string())?;
+
+    let encrypted = std::fs::read(&pending.path)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to read export file: {}", e))?;
+    if hash_ciphertext(&encrypted) != pending.ciphertext_hash {
+        return Err(
+            "This file changed since you reviewed it — choose it again to see an up-to-date preview."
+                .to_string(),
+        );
+    }
+    let payload = read_and_decrypt_bytes(&encrypted, &password)?;
+
+    let current = state.settings_store.get();
+
+    // The web-terminal token lives inside `AppSettings` itself rather than
+    // the keychain, so "leave an absent secret alone" has to be done by
+    // hand here: carry the destination's current token forward when the
+    // import doesn't have one, instead of letting the wholesale replace
+    // below blank it (every export writes `None` there — see
+    // `split_settings_and_secrets`).
+    let mut settings = payload.settings;
+    settings.web_terminal.access_token = non_blank(payload.secrets.web_terminal_access_token)
+        .or_else(|| current.web_terminal.access_token.clone());
+
+    crate::commands::settings_commands::validate_settings_update(&current, &settings)?;
+
+    let mut secret_restore_warnings = Vec::new();
+    let mut gateway_secret_changed = false;
+
+    if let Some(token) = non_blank(payload.secrets.claude_oauth_token) {
+        if let Err(e) = secure::store_claude_oauth_token(&token) {
+            log::warn!(
+                "Settings import: could not restore the shared Claude login: {}",
+                e
+            );
+            secret_restore_warnings
+                .push(format!("Could not restore your shared Claude login: {}", e));
+        }
+    }
+    if let Some(key) = non_blank(payload.secrets.gateway_api_key) {
+        match secure::store_gateway_api_key(&key) {
+            Ok(()) => gateway_secret_changed = true,
+            Err(e) => {
+                log::warn!(
+                    "Settings import: could not restore the gateway provider API key: {}",
+                    e
+                );
+                secret_restore_warnings.push(format!(
+                    "Could not restore the gateway provider API key: {}",
+                    e
+                ));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    if let Some(key) = non_blank(payload.secrets.gateway_master_key) {
+        match secure::store_gateway_master_key(&key) {
+            Ok(()) => gateway_secret_changed = true,
+            Err(e) => {
+                log::warn!(
+                    "Settings import: could not restore the gateway master key: {}",
+                    e
+                );
+                secret_restore_warnings
+                    .push(format!("Could not restore the gateway master key: {}", e));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    let saved =
+        crate::commands::settings_commands::update_settings(settings, state.clone()).await?;
+
+    // `reconcile_gateway` (inside `update_settings`) only reacts to a changed
+    // *shape* — port, provider, base URL, models — because that's what's
+    // rendered into the container's config. A secret changing with the shape
+    // held constant is invisible to it, so a running gateway container would
+    // otherwise keep serving the old key material forever after an import
+    // that restored a new one, while `docker::gateway`'s own fingerprint
+    // (which does include the secret rotation id) means the *next* unrelated
+    // settings save would suddenly and confusingly recreate it instead.
+    if gateway_secret_changed && saved.gateway.enabled {
+        match crate::docker::gateway::gateway_container_presence().await {
+            Ok((true, true)) => {
+                if let Err(e) = crate::docker::gateway::ensure_gateway_running(&saved.gateway).await
+                {
+                    log::error!(
+                        "Settings import: could not apply the restored gateway credentials to the running gateway container: {}",
+                        e
+                    );
+                }
+            }
+            Ok(_) => {}
+            Err(e) => log::debug!("Settings import: gateway reconcile skipped ({})", e),
+        }
+    }
+
+    state.pending_settings_import.lock().await.take();
+
+    Ok(SettingsImportOutcome {
+        settings: saved,
+        secret_restore_warnings,
+    })
+}
+
+fn non_blank(value: Option<String>) -> Option<String> {
+    value.filter(|v| !v.trim().is_empty())
+}
+
+/// Only the field `read_and_decrypt` needs before deciding whether the rest
+/// of the payload is even worth attempting to parse.
+#[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
+struct FormatVersionProbe {
+    format_version: u32,
+}
+
+/// Read and decrypt an export file at `path`, then parse it — see
+/// `read_and_decrypt_bytes` for why the format-version check runs before the
+/// full parse. Every real caller already has the file's bytes in hand by the
+/// time it needs this (`preview_settings_import`/`apply_settings_import`
+/// both hash the ciphertext first) and calls `read_and_decrypt_bytes`
+/// directly to avoid reading the file twice; this path-based wrapper only
+/// exists now for tests that don't need that.
+#[cfg(test)]
+fn read_and_decrypt(path: &Path, password: &str) -> Result<SettingsExportPayload, String> {
+    let encrypted =
+        std::fs::read(path).map_err(|e| format!("Failed to read export file: {}", e))?;
+    read_and_decrypt_bytes(&encrypted, password)
+}
+
+/// Decrypt and parse an already-read export file's bytes, checking the
+/// format version **before** attempting to deserialize the full payload.
+///
+/// That ordering is not just tidiness: a version bump that isn't
+/// deserialize-compatible (a field's type changes, not just a new
+/// `#[serde(default)]`-covered one) is exactly the case this check exists
+/// for, and parsing the full struct first would fail on the shape mismatch
+/// before the version check ever ran, surfacing a raw parse error instead
+/// of "update Triple-C" — and, more seriously, `serde_json`'s type-mismatch
+/// errors quote the offending value inline. This file is not attacker
+/// content in the usual sense (it must still decrypt under the right
+/// password), but the plaintext it decrypts to can hold a live credential,
+/// so neither error path below ever interpolates what `serde_json`
+/// actually says — only a fixed, generic message.
+fn read_and_decrypt_bytes(encrypted: &[u8], password: &str) -> Result<SettingsExportPayload, String> {
+    let plaintext = settings_crypto::decrypt(encrypted, password)?;
+
+    let probe: FormatVersionProbe = serde_json::from_slice(&plaintext)
+        .map_err(|_| "This file doesn't look like a valid settings export.".to_string())?;
+    if probe.format_version > SETTINGS_EXPORT_FORMAT_VERSION {
+        return Err(format!(
+            "This export was made by a newer version of Triple-C (format {}, this app supports up to {}). \
+             Update Triple-C before importing it.",
+            probe.format_version, SETTINGS_EXPORT_FORMAT_VERSION
+        ));
+    }
+
+    serde_json::from_slice(&plaintext).map_err(|_| {
+        "This file doesn't look like a valid settings export (unexpected shape).".to_string()
+    })
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn non_blank_treats_whitespace_only_as_absent() {
+        assert_eq!(non_blank(Some("   ".to_string())), None);
+        assert_eq!(non_blank(Some("".to_string())), None);
+        assert_eq!(non_blank(None), None);
+        assert_eq!(non_blank(Some(" a ".to_string())), Some(" a ".to_string()));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn ciphertext_hashing_is_deterministic_and_tamper_sensitive() {
+        // What `apply_settings_import` compares against the pinned hash from
+        // `preview_settings_import` to detect a file swapped out from under a
+        // pending import — this only defends anything if identical bytes
+        // always hash identically and any change to those bytes changes the
+        // hash.
+        let bytes = b"pretend this is an encrypted export file";
+        assert_eq!(hash_ciphertext(bytes), hash_ciphertext(bytes));
+
+        let mut tampered = bytes.to_vec();
+        tampered[0] ^= 0xFF;
+        assert_ne!(hash_ciphertext(bytes), hash_ciphertext(&tampered));
+    }
+
+    fn write_export(
+        dir: &std::path::Path,
+        name: &str,
+        payload: &SettingsExportPayload,
+        password: &str,
+    ) -> PathBuf {
+        write_raw_export(dir, name, &serde_json::to_value(payload).unwrap(), password)
+    }
+
+    /// Like `write_export`, but takes an arbitrary `serde_json::Value` rather
+    /// than a real `SettingsExportPayload` — for fixtures that are
+    /// deliberately not shape-compatible, which the typed helper above can't
+    /// produce at all.
+    fn write_raw_export(
+        dir: &std::path::Path,
+        name: &str,
+        value: &serde_json::Value,
+        password: &str,
+    ) -> PathBuf {
+        let plaintext = serde_json::to_vec(value).unwrap();
+        let encrypted = settings_crypto::encrypt(&plaintext, password).unwrap();
+        let path = dir.join(name);
+        std::fs::write(&path, &encrypted).unwrap();
+        path
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn splitting_settings_moves_the_web_terminal_token_out_rather_than_copying_it() {
+        let mut settings = AppSettings::default();
+        settings.web_terminal.access_token = Some("super-secret-token".to_string());
+
+        let (settings, secrets) = split_settings_and_secrets(settings);
+
+        assert_eq!(settings.web_terminal.access_token, None);
+        assert_eq!(
+            secrets.web_terminal_access_token,
+            Some("super-secret-token".to_string())
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn splitting_settings_with_no_token_leaves_it_absent_on_both_sides() {
+        let (settings, secrets) = split_settings_and_secrets(AppSettings::default());
+
+        assert_eq!(settings.web_terminal.access_token, None);
+        assert_eq!(secrets.web_terminal_access_token, None);
+    }
+
+    fn sample_payload(format_version: u32) -> SettingsExportPayload {
+        SettingsExportPayload {
+            format_version,
+            exported_at: "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z".to_string(),
+            app_version: "0.4.14".to_string(),
+            settings: AppSettings::default(),
+            secrets: ExportedSecrets::default(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn temp_dir(name: &str) -> PathBuf {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!(
+            "triple-c-settings-export-test-{}-{}",
+            name,
+            uuid::Uuid::new_v4().simple()
+        ));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        dir
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_file_from_a_newer_format_is_refused_before_the_full_shape_is_parsed() {
+        // Shape-incompatible with the *current* `SettingsExportPayload` (a
+        // future version could easily have changed `settings` from an object
+        // to something else) as well as newer — so this only passes under
+        // the probe-first ordering. Parsing the full struct first (the old
+        // behavior) would fail on the shape mismatch and never reach the
+        // version check, producing the "unexpected shape" message instead of
+        // "newer version" / "Update Triple-C".
+        let dir = temp_dir("newer-format");
+        let path = write_raw_export(
+            &dir,
+            "export.triplec",
+            &serde_json::json!({
+                "format_version": SETTINGS_EXPORT_FORMAT_VERSION + 1,
+                "exported_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z",
+                "app_version": "9.9.9",
+                "settings": "this-app-version-stores-settings-differently",
+                "secrets": {},
+            }),
+            "correct password",
+        );
+
+        let err = read_and_decrypt(&path, "correct password").unwrap_err();
+        assert!(err.contains("newer version"), "unexpected message: {}", err);
+        assert!(err.contains("Update Triple-C"));
+
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_file_at_the_current_format_is_accepted() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("current-format");
+        let path = write_export(
+            &dir,
+            "export.triplec",
+            &sample_payload(SETTINGS_EXPORT_FORMAT_VERSION),
+            "correct password",
+        );
+
+        let payload = read_and_decrypt(&path, "correct password").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(payload.format_version, SETTINGS_EXPORT_FORMAT_VERSION);
+
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_malformed_payload_produces_a_generic_error_not_a_raw_serde_message() {
+        // A `format_version` the probe accepts, but a `settings` field of
+        // the wrong *type* rather than just a missing field — this is what
+        // makes `serde_json` produce an "invalid type: string `...`, expected
+        // struct AppSettings" error that quotes the offending value
+        // verbatim. That value here stands in for plaintext that, in a real
+        // export, could be a live credential — the assertion below is only
+        // meaningful against a fixture that actually exercises serde's
+        // value-quoting behavior, which a merely-missing-field fixture does
+        // not.
+        let dir = temp_dir("malformed");
+        let path = write_raw_export(
+            &dir,
+            "export.triplec",
+            &serde_json::json!({
+                "format_version": SETTINGS_EXPORT_FORMAT_VERSION,
+                "exported_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z",
+                "app_version": "0.4.14",
+                "settings": "NOT-A-REAL-CREDENTIAL-abc123",
+                "secrets": {},
+            }),
+            "correct password",
+        );
+
+        let err = read_and_decrypt(&path, "correct password").unwrap_err();
+        assert!(
+            !err.contains("NOT-A-REAL-CREDENTIAL-abc123"),
+            "leaked plaintext into the error: {}",
+            err
+        );
+        assert!(err.contains("doesn't look like a valid settings export"));
+
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_wrong_password_is_reported_without_a_version_check_ever_running() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("wrong-password");
+        let path = write_export(
+            &dir,
+            "export.triplec",
+            &sample_payload(SETTINGS_EXPORT_FORMAT_VERSION),
+            "correct password",
+        );
+
+        let err = read_and_decrypt(&path, "wrong password").unwrap_err();
+        assert!(
+            err.contains("Wrong password"),
+            "unexpected message: {}",
+            err
+        );
+
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/commands/terminal_commands.rs

@@ -6,10 +6,58 @@ use crate::AppState;
 
 /// Build the command to run in the container terminal.
 ///
-/// For Bedrock Profile projects, wraps `claude` in a bash script that validates
-/// the AWS session first. If the SSO session is expired, runs `aws sso login`
-/// so the user can re-authenticate (the URL is clickable via xterm.js WebLinksAddon).
+/// Always a `bash -c` script, because every session runs [`UPDATE_PRELUDE`]
+/// before `exec claude`. For Bedrock Profile projects the script additionally
+/// validates the AWS session first, and runs `aws sso login` if it has expired
+/// so the user can re-authenticate (the URL is clickable via xterm.js
+/// WebLinksAddon).
 fn build_terminal_cmd(project: &Project, state: &AppState, session_name: Option<&str>) -> Vec<String> {
+    let settings = state.settings_store.get();
+    build_claude_terminal_cmd(
+        project,
+        settings.global_aws.aws_profile.as_deref(),
+        session_name,
+    )
+}
+
+/// Shell line run immediately before `exec claude` in every Claude terminal
+/// session.
+///
+/// `container/entrypoint.sh` already runs `claude update` when the container
+/// starts, but containers here use a stop/start (and often just keep running)
+/// model, so a long-lived container's CLI goes stale between restarts. Running
+/// it per session is what keeps a week-old container current.
+///
+/// Deliberately non-fatal and time-bounded: `|| echo` swallows a failure (no
+/// network, npm registry down) so a session always opens, and `timeout 60`
+/// bounds how long a user waits for a terminal.
+///
+/// **`flock` is load-bearing, not tidiness.** Nothing serialises this against
+/// the entrypoint's own `claude update`, and the entrypoint prints "container
+/// ready" only *after* its copy finishes — so "start the project, open a tab"
+/// races two updaters against the same `~/.claude/bin` install, as does
+/// opening two tabs at once. `|| echo` would then hide a half-written install
+/// behind a friendly message and the very next line (`exec claude`) would run
+/// it. `-w 90` gives the entrypoint's `timeout 120` copy room to finish rather
+/// than failing the wait, and `-E 0` makes losing the race a success: the
+/// other holder just updated, so there is nothing left to do.
+pub(crate) const UPDATE_PRELUDE: &str = concat!(
+    "flock -w 90 -E 0 /tmp/.triple-c-claude-update.lock ",
+    r#"timeout 60 claude update 2>&1 || echo "(update skipped — continuing)""#,
+);
+
+/// Single-quote one argument for interpolation into a shell script string.
+fn shell_quote_arg(arg: &str) -> String {
+    format!(" '{}'", arg.replace('\'', "'\\''"))
+}
+
+/// The testable core of [`build_terminal_cmd`], taking the resolved global AWS
+/// profile rather than the whole [`AppState`].
+fn build_claude_terminal_cmd(
+    project: &Project,
+    global_aws_profile: Option<&str>,
+    session_name: Option<&str>,
+) -> Vec<String> {
     let is_bedrock_profile = project.backend == Backend::Bedrock
         && project
             .bedrock_config
@@ -19,36 +67,27 @@ fn build_terminal_cmd(project: &Project, state: &AppState, session_name: Option<
 
     let permission_args = project.effective_permission_mode().cli_args();
 
+    // The args are interpolated into a shell script string, so single-quote
+    // each one.
+    let name_flag = session_name
+        .filter(|n| !n.is_empty())
+        .map(|n| format!(" -n{}", shell_quote_arg(n)))
+        .unwrap_or_default();
+    let permission_flags: String = permission_args.iter().map(|a| shell_quote_arg(a)).collect();
+    let claude_cmd = format!("exec claude{}{}", permission_flags, name_flag);
+
     if !is_bedrock_profile {
-        let mut cmd = vec!["claude".to_string()];
-        cmd.extend(permission_args);
-        if let Some(name) = session_name {
-            if !name.is_empty() {
-                cmd.push("-n".to_string());
-                cmd.push(name.to_string());
-            }
-        }
-        return cmd;
+        return vec![
+            "bash".to_string(),
+            "-c".to_string(),
+            format!("{}\n{}\n", UPDATE_PRELUDE, claude_cmd),
+        ];
     }
 
-    let profile = aws_commands::resolve_profile_for_project(
-        project,
-        state.settings_store.get().global_aws.aws_profile.as_deref(),
-    );
+    let profile = aws_commands::resolve_profile_for_project(project, global_aws_profile);
 
     // Build a bash wrapper that validates credentials, re-auths if needed,
     // then exec's into claude.
-    let name_flag = session_name
-        .filter(|n| !n.is_empty())
-        .map(|n| format!(" -n '{}'", n.replace('\'', "'\\''")))
-        .unwrap_or_default();
-    // The args are interpolated into a shell script string, so single-quote
-    // each one (same escaping style as name_flag above).
-    let permission_flags: String = permission_args
-        .iter()
-        .map(|a| format!(" '{}'", a.replace('\'', "'\\''")))
-        .collect();
-    let claude_cmd = format!("exec claude{}{}", permission_flags, name_flag);
 
     let script = format!(
         r#"
@@ -75,9 +114,11 @@ else
         echo ""
     fi
 fi
+{update_prelude}
 {claude_cmd}
 "#,
         profile = profile,
+        update_prelude = UPDATE_PRELUDE,
         claude_cmd = claude_cmd
     );
 
@@ -196,31 +237,64 @@ pub async fn upload_host_file_to_terminal(
     host_path: String,
     state: State<'_, AppState>,
 ) -> Result<String, String> {
+    // The drop target is a host path chosen by the webview, not by the OS drag
+    // itself, so it goes through `file_commands`' host-read policy: absolute,
+    // no traversal, and nothing whose path passes through a hidden directory
+    // (`~/.ssh`, `~/.aws`, `~/.local/bin`) or a system location — applied to
+    // the path with its symlinks already resolved, so a visible directory that
+    // *leads* to one of those is refused too. What comes back is that resolved
+    // path, and it is what gets opened. Four commands touch a host path now,
+    // but only two take it *over IPC*: this one and `download_container_backup`.
+    // The Files pane's `download_container_file` and `upload_files_to_container`
+    // open their dialog from Rust instead, so for them the policy above is
+    // defence in depth and for these two it is the boundary itself.
+    // The name is taken from the path the user actually dropped, *before*
+    // resolution. Deriving it from the resolved path renames the file behind
+    // the user's back: dropping `~/Downloads/latest.log`, where `latest.log` is
+    // a symlink, would land it in the container as `2026-08-23.log`.
+    let base = crate::commands::file_commands::host_upload_name(&host_path)?;
+    let host_path = crate::commands::file_commands::resolve_host_read_path(&host_path).await?;
+
     let container_id = state.exec_manager.get_container_id(&session_id).await?;
 
     let meta = tokio::fs::metadata(&host_path)
         .await
         .map_err(|e| format!("Cannot access {}: {}", host_path, e))?;
-    if meta.is_dir() {
-        return Err(format!("{} is a directory — drop individual files", host_path));
+    // `!is_file()`, not `!is_dir()`. A FIFO is neither a directory nor a
+    // regular file, reports `len() == 0`, and passes both the directory check
+    // and the size cap below — and `std::fs::File::open` on one blocks forever
+    // with no writer, with no timeout anywhere on this path. The upload then
+    // never returns, the toast sticks on "Adding N files…" for the session and
+    // the rest of the batch is abandoned. Sockets and device nodes are the same
+    // shape. This is one of two routes for getting a host file into a
+    // container (the Files pane's upload is the other), so it is the wrong
+    // place to be clever.
+    if !meta.is_file() {
+        return Err(if meta.is_dir() {
+            format!("{} is a directory — drop individual files", host_path)
+        } else {
+            format!(
+                "{} is not a regular file — only ordinary files can be dropped into a terminal",
+                host_path
+            )
+        });
     }
 
     // Guard against ballooning host RAM: the file is packed into an in-memory
-    // tar before upload, so cap the size of a dropped file.
-    const MAX_DROP_BYTES: u64 = 256 * 1024 * 1024; // 256 MiB
+    // tar before upload, so cap the size of a dropped file. The ceiling lives
+    // with the code that does the reading, which re-applies it to the open
+    // descriptor — this check is here only so the refusal reads like a sentence
+    // instead of arriving after a 300 MB read.
+    use crate::docker::exec::MAX_DROP_BYTES;
     if meta.len() > MAX_DROP_BYTES {
         return Err(format!(
-            "File too large to drop into the terminal ({:.0} MB; limit {} MB). Mount it into the project or use the Files panel instead.",
+            "File too large to drop into the terminal ({:.0} MB; limit {} MB). Mount it into the project instead.",
             meta.len() as f64 / (1024.0 * 1024.0),
             MAX_DROP_BYTES / (1024 * 1024)
         ));
     }
 
-    let base = std::path::Path::new(&host_path)
-        .file_name()
-        .map(|s| s.to_string_lossy().to_string())
-        .filter(|s| !s.is_empty())
-        .unwrap_or_else(|| "dropped-file".to_string());
+
 
     // Ensure the destination directory exists rather than relying on Docker's
     // archive extractor to create the parent for the uploaded tar entry.
@@ -231,7 +305,13 @@ pub async fn upload_host_file_to_terminal(
     .await?;
 
     let file_name = format!("triple-c-drops/{}", base);
-    crate::docker::exec::upload_host_file_to_container(&container_id, &host_path, &file_name).await
+    crate::docker::exec::upload_host_file_to_container(
+        &container_id,
+        &host_path,
+        "/tmp",
+        &file_name,
+    )
+    .await
 }
 
 #[tauri::command]
@@ -283,3 +363,156 @@ pub async fn stop_audio_bridge(
     state.exec_manager.close_session(&audio_session_id).await;
     Ok(())
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::{build_claude_terminal_cmd, UPDATE_PRELUDE};
+    use crate::models::Project;
+
+    /// A dropped file must be named the way the *user* named it.
+    ///
+    /// The bug this pins: `upload_host_file_to_terminal` derived the tar entry
+    /// name from the path *after* symlink resolution, so dropping
+    /// `~/Downloads/latest.log` — where `latest.log` is a symlink to
+    /// `2026-08-23.log` — silently landed the file in the container under the
+    /// target's name. Nothing errored; the user just got a name they never
+    /// typed.
+    ///
+    /// This asserts the shared helper's contract from the terminal side: the
+    /// answer comes from the spelling, and a path that does not name a file is
+    /// refused rather than silently substituted (it used to fall back to
+    /// `"dropped-file"`).
+    /// A `Project` with only the fields these tests care about set; the rest
+    /// come through serde so the test does not have to track every field.
+    fn project(backend: &str, bedrock_config: serde_json::Value) -> Project {
+        serde_json::from_value(serde_json::json!({
+            "id": "p1",
+            "name": "Test",
+            "paths": [],
+            "container_id": null,
+            "status": "running",
+            "backend": backend,
+            "bedrock_config": bedrock_config,
+            "ollama_config": null,
+            "openai_compatible_config": null,
+            "allow_docker_access": false,
+            "full_permissions": false,
+            "ssh_key_path": null,
+            "git_user_name": null,
+            "git_user_email": null,
+            "created_at": "now",
+            "updated_at": "now"
+        }))
+        .expect("test project deserializes")
+    }
+
+    /// Every Claude session updates the CLI before launching it.
+    ///
+    /// `container/entrypoint.sh` only updates at container *start*, and these
+    /// containers are long-lived, so a stale CLI is the normal case without
+    /// this. The plain (non-Bedrock) path therefore has to be a `bash -c`
+    /// wrapper rather than a bare `claude` argv.
+    #[test]
+    fn build_terminal_cmd_updates_before_launching_claude() {
+        let cmd = build_claude_terminal_cmd(&project("anthropic", serde_json::Value::Null), None, None);
+
+        assert_eq!(cmd[0], "bash");
+        assert_eq!(cmd[1], "-c");
+        assert!(
+            cmd[2].contains(UPDATE_PRELUDE),
+            "plain path must run the update prelude: {}",
+            cmd[2]
+        );
+        assert!(cmd[2].contains("exec claude"), "got: {}", cmd[2]);
+        // The update has to happen *before* the exec, which never returns.
+        assert!(
+            cmd[2].find(UPDATE_PRELUDE).unwrap() < cmd[2].find("exec claude").unwrap(),
+            "prelude must precede the exec: {}",
+            cmd[2]
+        );
+        assert!(
+            UPDATE_PRELUDE.contains("timeout 60") && UPDATE_PRELUDE.contains("||"),
+            "the update must stay time-bounded and non-fatal"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// The session name is interpolated into a shell script, so a quote in it
+    /// must not break out of its single-quoted argument.
+    #[test]
+    fn build_terminal_cmd_escapes_a_quoted_session_name() {
+        let cmd = build_claude_terminal_cmd(
+            &project("anthropic", serde_json::Value::Null),
+            None,
+            Some("Bob's tab; rm -rf /"),
+        );
+
+        assert!(
+            cmd[2].contains(r#"exec claude -n 'Bob'\''s tab; rm -rf /'"#),
+            "session name must be single-quote escaped: {}",
+            cmd[2]
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// Permission flags travel the same escaped path, and an empty name adds
+    /// no `-n` at all.
+    #[test]
+    fn build_terminal_cmd_quotes_permission_flags_and_omits_an_empty_name() {
+        let mut p = project("anthropic", serde_json::Value::Null);
+        p.full_permissions = true;
+        let cmd = build_claude_terminal_cmd(&p, None, Some(""));
+
+        assert!(
+            cmd[2].contains("exec claude '--dangerously-skip-permissions'\n"),
+            "got: {}",
+            cmd[2]
+        );
+        assert!(!cmd[2].contains(" -n "), "empty name must add no flag: {}", cmd[2]);
+    }
+
+    /// The Bedrock-profile path keeps its AWS validation *and* gains the
+    /// prelude, immediately before the exec.
+    #[test]
+    fn build_terminal_cmd_bedrock_validates_aws_and_updates() {
+        let cmd = build_claude_terminal_cmd(
+            &project("bedrock", serde_json::json!({
+                "auth_method": "profile",
+                "aws_region": "us-east-1",
+                "aws_profile": "acme",
+                "model_id": null,
+                "disable_prompt_caching": false
+            })),
+            None,
+            Some("it's fine"),
+        );
+
+        assert_eq!(cmd[0], "bash");
+        let script = &cmd[2];
+        assert!(script.contains("aws sts get-caller-identity --profile 'acme'"), "got: {}", script);
+        assert!(script.contains("triple-c-sso-refresh"), "got: {}", script);
+        assert!(script.contains(UPDATE_PRELUDE), "got: {}", script);
+        assert!(script.contains(r#"exec claude -n 'it'\''s fine'"#), "got: {}", script);
+        assert!(
+            script.find(UPDATE_PRELUDE).unwrap() < script.find("exec claude").unwrap(),
+            "prelude must precede the exec: {}",
+            script
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_dropped_file_keeps_the_name_the_user_dropped() {
+        use crate::commands::file_commands::host_upload_name;
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            host_upload_name("/home/u/Downloads/latest.log").unwrap(),
+            "latest.log"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            host_upload_name("/home/u/Downloads/").is_err(),
+            "a directory is not a file to drop"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            host_upload_name("/home/u/..").is_err(),
+            "the name becomes a tar entry, a container path and an argv element"
+        );
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/commands/update_commands.rs

@@ -16,9 +16,37 @@ const REGISTRY_API_BASE: &str =
 const GHCR_TOKEN_URL: &str =
     "https://ghcr.io/token?scope=repository:shadowdao/triple-c-sandbox:pull";
 
+/// The build-time preview suffix, if one was baked in and isn't blank.
+///
+/// The bundle version itself (`tauri.conf.json`, `Cargo.toml`, `package.json`)
+/// is never given a `-preview.<sha>` suffix — `build-app-preview.yml` strips
+/// it before patching those files, because the Windows MSI's `ProductVersion`
+/// is a fixed-width numeric field with no room for one, and nothing here can
+/// verify a change to that without an actual Windows build. `TRIPLE_C_BUILD_SUFFIX`
+/// is the workaround: set as a build-time env var in the preview workflow
+/// only, so `option_env!` bakes it into the binary without the bundle version
+/// ever seeing it. A production build sets nothing, so `option_env!` reads
+/// `None` here — see triple-c#32.
+///
+/// The single source of truth for "is this a preview build": both
+/// `get_app_version()` (what the About panel shows) and `check_for_updates()`
+/// (whether a same-numbered release counts as an update — see `pick_update`)
+/// read this rather than each calling `option_env!` themselves, so the two
+/// can never silently disagree about which build this is.
+fn preview_build_suffix() -> Option<&'static str> {
+    option_env!("TRIPLE_C_BUILD_SUFFIX").filter(|s| !s.is_empty())
+}
+
+fn format_app_version(base: &str, build_suffix: Option<&str>) -> String {
+    match build_suffix {
+        Some(suffix) if !suffix.is_empty() => format!("{}-{}", base, suffix),
+        _ => base.to_string(),
+    }
+}
+
 #[tauri::command]
 pub fn get_app_version() -> String {
-    env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION").to_string()
+    format_app_version(env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"), preview_build_suffix())
 }
 
 #[tauri::command]
@@ -51,30 +79,20 @@ pub async fn check_for_updates() -> Result<Option<UpdateInfo>, String> {
         &[".AppImage", ".deb", ".rpm"]
     };
 
-    // Filter releases that have at least one asset matching the current platform
-    let platform_releases: Vec<&GitHubRelease> = releases
-        .iter()
-        .filter(|r| {
-            r.assets.iter().any(|a| {
-                platform_extensions.iter().any(|ext| a.name.ends_with(ext))
-            })
-        })
-        .collect();
+    // `current_version` above is always the bare, stripped `CARGO_PKG_VERSION`
+    // — the preview workflow patches `Cargo.toml` with that before compiling,
+    // never the `-preview.<sha>`-suffixed one `get_app_version()` reports —
+    // so a preview build and the release it precedes compile to the identical
+    // numeric tuple by construction (see `build-app-preview.yml`'s "highest
+    // tag used, +1" computation). A strict `>` therefore never fires for the
+    // one release a preview most needs to be offered. `is_preview_build`
+    // relaxes that one comparison to `>=` so "there is a real release at my
+    // own number" reads as an update, without touching the production case
+    // — see `pick_update`.
+    let is_preview_build = preview_build_suffix().is_some();
 
-    // Find the latest release with a higher semver version
-    let mut best: Option<(&GitHubRelease, (u32, u32, u32))> = None;
-    for release in &platform_releases {
-        if let Some(ver) = parse_semver_from_tag(&release.tag_name) {
-            if ver > current_semver {
-                if best.is_none() || ver > best.unwrap().1 {
-                    best = Some((release, ver));
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    match best {
-        Some((release, _)) => {
+    match pick_update(&releases, current_semver, platform_extensions, is_preview_build) {
+        Some(release) => {
             // Only include assets matching the current platform
             let assets = release
                 .assets
@@ -105,6 +123,51 @@ pub async fn check_for_updates() -> Result<Option<UpdateInfo>, String> {
     }
 }
 
+/// Pick the newest available update out of a release list, or `None` if
+/// nothing beats `current_semver`. Pure and synchronous — split out of
+/// `check_for_updates` so the prerelease/platform/version filtering can be
+/// tested without a live HTTP call.
+///
+/// Three filters, all of which must pass: not a prerelease (see the long
+/// comment on `GitHubRelease::prerelease`), at least one asset for this
+/// platform, and a tag that parses as semver *and* beats what is running. A
+/// tag that does not parse — `preview-<sha>` (the shape
+/// `build-app-preview.yml` actually creates release tags with), most
+/// realistically — is skipped rather than erroring, the same as it always
+/// has been; nothing here changes what an update tag is expected to look
+/// like, only what channel it is allowed to come from.
+///
+/// `is_preview_build` relaxes "beats" from `>` to `>=`. A preview build's
+/// `current_semver` is the bare number it was compiled with, which is by
+/// construction identical to the release it precedes — see the comment at
+/// `check_for_updates`'s call site — so a strict `>` would never fire for
+/// exactly the release a preview install most needs to be told about.
+fn pick_update<'a>(
+    releases: &'a [GitHubRelease],
+    current_semver: (u32, u32, u32),
+    platform_extensions: &[&str],
+    is_preview_build: bool,
+) -> Option<&'a GitHubRelease> {
+    releases
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|r| !r.prerelease)
+        .filter(|r| {
+            r.assets
+                .iter()
+                .any(|a| platform_extensions.iter().any(|ext| a.name.ends_with(ext)))
+        })
+        .filter_map(|r| parse_semver_from_tag(&r.tag_name).map(|ver| (r, ver)))
+        .filter(|(_, ver)| {
+            if is_preview_build {
+                *ver >= current_semver
+            } else {
+                *ver > current_semver
+            }
+        })
+        .max_by_key(|(_, ver)| *ver)
+        .map(|(r, _)| r)
+}
+
 /// Parse a semver string like "0.2.5" -> (0, 2, 5)
 fn parse_semver(version: &str) -> Option<(u32, u32, u32)> {
     let clean = version.trim_start_matches('v');
@@ -131,6 +194,120 @@ fn extract_version_from_tag(tag: &str) -> Option<String> {
     Some(format!("{}.{}.{}", major, minor, patch))
 }
 
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::models::GitHubAsset;
+
+    // ── format_app_version ──────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_production_build_reports_the_bare_version() {
+        assert_eq!(format_app_version("0.4.12", None), "0.4.12");
+        // An empty env var (set but blank) must not print a trailing dash.
+        assert_eq!(format_app_version("0.4.12", Some("")), "0.4.12");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_preview_build_reports_its_suffix() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            format_app_version("0.4.12", Some("preview.a1b2c3d")),
+            "0.4.12-preview.a1b2c3d"
+        );
+    }
+
+    // ── pick_update ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    fn release(tag: &str, prerelease: bool, asset_names: &[&str]) -> GitHubRelease {
+        GitHubRelease {
+            tag_name: tag.to_string(),
+            html_url: format!("https://example.invalid/{}", tag),
+            body: String::new(),
+            assets: asset_names
+                .iter()
+                .map(|name| GitHubAsset {
+                    name: name.to_string(),
+                    browser_download_url: String::new(),
+                    size: 0,
+                })
+                .collect(),
+            published_at: "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z".to_string(),
+            prerelease,
+        }
+    }
+
+    const LINUX_EXTENSIONS: &[&str] = &[".AppImage", ".deb", ".rpm"];
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_prerelease_is_never_offered_even_if_its_tag_would_otherwise_win() {
+        let releases = vec![release("v9.9.9", true, &["app-9.9.9.AppImage"])];
+        assert!(pick_update(&releases, (0, 4, 10), LINUX_EXTENSIONS, false).is_none());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_release_with_no_asset_for_this_platform_is_skipped() {
+        let releases = vec![release("v0.4.12", false, &["app-0.4.12.msi"])];
+        assert!(pick_update(&releases, (0, 4, 10), LINUX_EXTENSIONS, false).is_none());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_release_that_is_not_newer_is_not_offered() {
+        let releases = vec![release("v0.4.10", false, &["app.AppImage"])];
+        assert!(pick_update(&releases, (0, 4, 10), LINUX_EXTENSIONS, false).is_none());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_untagged_or_unparseable_release_is_skipped_not_fatal() {
+        // A `-preview.<sha>` tag is exactly the shape this must not choke on
+        // or mistake for an update — it simply never parses as a bare semver.
+        let releases = vec![
+            release("preview-a1b2c3d", false, &["app.AppImage"]),
+            release("v0.4.12", false, &["app.AppImage"]),
+        ];
+        let best = pick_update(&releases, (0, 4, 10), LINUX_EXTENSIONS, false).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(best.tag_name, "v0.4.12");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_highest_qualifying_version_wins_not_the_first_or_last_in_the_list() {
+        let releases = vec![
+            release("v0.4.11", false, &["app.AppImage"]),
+            release("v0.4.13", false, &["app.AppImage"]),
+            release("v0.4.12", false, &["app.AppImage"]),
+        ];
+        let best = pick_update(&releases, (0, 4, 10), LINUX_EXTENSIONS, false).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(best.tag_name, "v0.4.13");
+    }
+
+    // ── is_preview_build (>= instead of >) ─────────────────────────────────
+
+    /// The exact scenario triple-c#32 was filed to fix: a preview compiled as
+    /// `0.4.12-preview.<sha>` (bare `CARGO_PKG_VERSION` "0.4.12") must be
+    /// offered the `v0.4.12` release that follows it, even though the two
+    /// compute to the identical numeric tuple.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_preview_build_is_offered_the_release_it_precedes() {
+        let releases = vec![release("v0.4.12", false, &["app.AppImage"])];
+        assert!(pick_update(&releases, (0, 4, 12), LINUX_EXTENSIONS, false).is_none());
+        let best = pick_update(&releases, (0, 4, 12), LINUX_EXTENSIONS, true).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(best.tag_name, "v0.4.12");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_preview_build_is_not_offered_an_older_release() {
+        let releases = vec![release("v0.4.11", false, &["app.AppImage"])];
+        assert!(pick_update(&releases, (0, 4, 12), LINUX_EXTENSIONS, true).is_none());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_production_build_still_requires_strictly_newer() {
+        // A production build must never treat "equal" as an update — that
+        // would perpetually re-offer the version already running.
+        let releases = vec![release("v0.4.12", false, &["app.AppImage"])];
+        assert!(pick_update(&releases, (0, 4, 12), LINUX_EXTENSIONS, false).is_none());
+    }
+}
+
 /// Check whether a newer container image is available in the registry.
 ///
 /// Compares the local image digest with the remote registry digest using the

app/src-tauri/src/docker/exec.rs

@@ -301,21 +301,10 @@ impl ExecSessionManager {
     ) -> Result<String, String> {
         let docker = get_docker()?;
 
-        // Build a tar archive in memory containing the file
-        let mut tar_buf = Vec::new();
-        {
-            let mut builder = tar::Builder::new(&mut tar_buf);
-            let mut header = tar::Header::new_gnu();
-            header.set_size(data.len() as u64);
-            header.set_mode(0o644);
-            header.set_cksum();
-            builder
-                .append_data(&mut header, file_name, data)
-                .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to create tar entry: {}", e))?;
-            builder
-                .finish()
-                .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to finalize tar: {}", e))?;
-        }
+        // Owned by the container user, stamped now: a default tar header would
+        // land it as root:root/1970 and Claude Code could not rewrite it.
+        let (uid, gid) = container_user_ids(container_id).await;
+        let tar_buf = build_single_file_tar(file_name, data, 0o644, uid, gid, now_epoch_secs())?;
 
         docker
             .upload_to_container(
@@ -333,40 +322,85 @@ impl ExecSessionManager {
     }
 }
 
-/// Upload a host file into the container's `/tmp` under `dest_name`. The file is
+/// Ceiling on one host file packed into a container upload.
+///
+/// The file goes through host RAM twice — once as bytes, once inside the tar —
+/// so this is a memory bound, and it is checked against the *descriptor* that
+/// was opened rather than a `metadata` call that described whatever the path
+/// meant a moment earlier.
+pub const MAX_DROP_BYTES: u64 = 256 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+/// Upload a host file into `dest_dir` under `dest_name`. The file is
 /// read and packed into the tar inside a blocking task, so the synchronous IO
 /// runs off the async worker. The tar's declared entry size is taken from the
 /// bytes actually read (not a separate `stat`), so a file changing size between
 /// a size check and the read can't desync the header and corrupt the archive.
-/// Returns the in-container path (`/tmp/<dest_name>`).
+/// Returns the in-container path (`<dest_dir>/<dest_name>`).
+///
+/// `dest_dir` must already exist and must already have been checked by the
+/// caller — Docker's archive extractor writes wherever it is pointed. The two
+/// callers both do that first, by different routes because they are answering
+/// different questions: the terminal drop stages into a fixed `/tmp` path it
+/// creates itself, and the Files pane passes the directory the user is looking
+/// at, which `file_commands::resolve_container_dir` has already confirmed
+/// resolves inside `CONTAINER_WRITE_ROOTS`.
 pub async fn upload_host_file_to_container(
     container_id: &str,
     host_path: &str,
+    dest_dir: &str,
     dest_name: &str,
+) -> Result<String, String> {
+    let ids = container_user_ids(container_id).await;
+    upload_host_file_with_ids(container_id, host_path, dest_dir, dest_name, ids).await
+}
+
+/// [`upload_host_file_to_container`] for a caller that already knows the
+/// container user's ids.
+///
+/// `container_user_ids` is a `docker exec`, and the Files pane's upload is a
+/// *selection* — one dialog can hand back twenty files. Resolving the ids per
+/// file made twenty extra round trips to answer the same `id -u` twenty times,
+/// which is seconds of latency for a fact that cannot change inside one
+/// container's lifetime. So the loop resolves once and passes the answer in.
+/// The wrapper above keeps the single-file callers unchanged.
+pub async fn upload_host_file_with_ids(
+    container_id: &str,
+    host_path: &str,
+    dest_dir: &str,
+    dest_name: &str,
+    (uid, gid): (u64, u64),
 ) -> Result<String, String> {
     let host_path = host_path.to_string();
     let dest_name = dest_name.to_string();
     let dest_for_blk = dest_name.clone();
+    let mtime = now_epoch_secs();
 
     let tar_buf = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || -> Result<Vec<u8>, String> {
-        let data = std::fs::read(&host_path)
+        // The caller resolved this path (`resolve_host_read_path`); opening it
+        // is a second trip through the same directories, so the descriptor is
+        // checked against the path that was validated before its bytes are
+        // packed into anything. Two paths reach here: the terminal's drop
+        // target, and the Files pane's upload via `upload_host_file_with_ids`.
+        // Between them they are how host bytes enter a container.
+        let file = std::fs::File::open(&host_path)
             .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to read {}: {}", host_path, e))?;
-        let mut tar_buf = Vec::with_capacity(data.len() + 1024);
-        {
-            let mut builder = tar::Builder::new(&mut tar_buf);
-            let mut header = tar::Header::new_gnu();
-            // Size comes from the bytes in hand, so header and payload can't disagree.
-            header.set_size(data.len() as u64);
-            header.set_mode(0o644);
-            header.set_cksum();
-            builder
-                .append_data(&mut header, &dest_for_blk, &data[..])
-                .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to create tar entry: {}", e))?;
-            builder
-                .finish()
-                .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to finalize tar: {}", e))?;
+        crate::commands::file_commands::verify_opened_path(
+            &file,
+            std::path::Path::new(&host_path),
+        )?;
+        let mut data = Vec::new();
+        std::io::Read::read_to_end(
+            &mut std::io::Read::take(file, MAX_DROP_BYTES.saturating_add(1)),
+            &mut data,
+        )
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to read {}: {}", host_path, e))?;
+        if data.len() as u64 > MAX_DROP_BYTES {
+            return Err(format!(
+                "File too large to upload (limit {} MB)",
+                MAX_DROP_BYTES / (1024 * 1024)
+            ));
         }
-        Ok(tar_buf)
+        build_single_file_tar(&dest_for_blk, &data[..], 0o644, uid, gid, mtime)
     })
     .await
     .map_err(|e| format!("Upload task panicked: {}", e))??;
@@ -376,7 +410,7 @@ pub async fn upload_host_file_to_container(
         .upload_to_container(
             container_id,
             Some(UploadToContainerOptions {
-                path: "/tmp".to_string(),
+                path: dest_dir.to_string(),
                 ..Default::default()
             }),
             tar_buf.into(),
@@ -384,7 +418,17 @@ pub async fn upload_host_file_to_container(
         .await
         .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to upload file to container: {}", e))?;
 
-    Ok(format!("/tmp/{}", dest_name))
+    Ok(container_join(dest_dir, &dest_name))
+}
+
+/// Join a container directory to a name that may itself carry separators.
+///
+/// Only the *reported* path — the bytes have already landed by the time this is
+/// called — but that path is what the terminal echoes and what the Files pane
+/// puts in its toast, so `/tmp//x` reading back as a different file than `/tmp/x`
+/// is worth the four lines. `"/"` trims to `""` and yields `/x`.
+fn container_join(dir: &str, name: &str) -> String {
+    format!("{}/{}", dir.trim_end_matches('/'), name.trim_start_matches('/'))
 }
 
 /// Write `data` into the container at `<dest_dir>/<file_name>` with `mode`.
@@ -402,20 +446,10 @@ pub async fn upload_bytes_to_container(
 ) -> Result<String, String> {
     let docker = get_docker()?;
 
-    let mut tar_buf = Vec::with_capacity(data.len() + 1024);
-    {
-        let mut builder = tar::Builder::new(&mut tar_buf);
-        let mut header = tar::Header::new_gnu();
-        header.set_size(data.len() as u64);
-        header.set_mode(mode);
-        header.set_cksum();
-        builder
-            .append_data(&mut header, file_name, data)
-            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to create tar entry: {}", e))?;
-        builder
-            .finish()
-            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to finalize tar: {}", e))?;
-    }
+    // Root-owned on purpose: the only caller is migration, whose `tar -T` list
+    // is read back as root. The mtime still gets stamped so the file doesn't
+    // read as 1970.
+    let tar_buf = build_single_file_tar(file_name, data, mode, 0, 0, now_epoch_secs())?;
 
     docker
         .upload_to_container(
@@ -432,6 +466,74 @@ pub async fn upload_bytes_to_container(
     Ok(format!("{}/{}", dest_dir.trim_end_matches('/'), file_name))
 }
 
+/// Build an in-memory tar archive holding a single regular file.
+///
+/// The uid/gid/mtime arguments exist because `tar::Header::new_gnu()` zeroes
+/// them and Docker's archive extractor honours the header verbatim: a header
+/// left at the defaults lands the file inside the container as `root:root`
+/// with a 1970-01-01 mtime — not writable by `claude`, and confusing in any
+/// listing. Callers that upload on a user's behalf should pass the container
+/// user's ids from [`container_user_ids`].
+pub fn build_single_file_tar(
+    file_name: &str,
+    data: &[u8],
+    mode: u32,
+    uid: u64,
+    gid: u64,
+    mtime: u64,
+) -> Result<Vec<u8>, String> {
+    let mut tar_buf = Vec::with_capacity(data.len() + 1024);
+    {
+        let mut builder = tar::Builder::new(&mut tar_buf);
+        let mut header = tar::Header::new_gnu();
+        // Size comes from the bytes in hand, so header and payload can't disagree.
+        header.set_size(data.len() as u64);
+        header.set_mode(mode);
+        header.set_uid(uid);
+        header.set_gid(gid);
+        header.set_mtime(mtime);
+        header.set_cksum();
+        builder
+            .append_data(&mut header, file_name, data)
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to create tar entry: {}", e))?;
+        builder
+            .finish()
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to finalize tar: {}", e))?;
+    }
+    Ok(tar_buf)
+}
+
+/// Seconds since the Unix epoch, for a tar header mtime.
+pub fn now_epoch_secs() -> u64 {
+    std::time::SystemTime::now()
+        .duration_since(std::time::UNIX_EPOCH)
+        .map(|d| d.as_secs())
+        .unwrap_or(0)
+}
+
+/// The numeric uid/gid of the container's `claude` user.
+///
+/// It is not a constant: `entrypoint.sh` remaps `claude` to the *host* user's
+/// ids on Unix so bind-mounted project files stay writable, and deliberately
+/// does not on Windows. So the only reliable answer comes from asking the
+/// container. Falls back to 1000:1000 (the image's build-time ids) if the exec
+/// fails, which is strictly better than the 0:0 a default tar header carries.
+pub async fn container_user_ids(container_id: &str) -> (u64, u64) {
+    let out = exec_oneshot_limited(
+        container_id,
+        vec!["sh".to_string(), "-c".to_string(), "id -u; id -g".to_string()],
+        256,
+    )
+    .await
+    .unwrap_or_default();
+
+    let mut ids = out.lines().filter_map(|l| l.trim().parse::<u64>().ok());
+    match (ids.next(), ids.next()) {
+        (Some(uid), Some(gid)) => (uid, gid),
+        _ => (1000, 1000),
+    }
+}
+
 /// Ceiling on how much container output a one-shot exec will buffer into the
 /// host process.
 ///
@@ -450,14 +552,31 @@ pub const MAX_ONESHOT_OUTPUT: usize = 8 * 1024 * 1024;
 /// past anything genuine, far short of a problem.
 pub const PROC_NET_OUTPUT_LIMIT: usize = 1024 * 1024;
 
-/// Append to `buf` while it stays inside `limit`. Returns `false` once the
-/// limit is exceeded, at which point the caller must stop reading.
-fn push_capped(buf: &mut String, chunk: &str, limit: usize) -> bool {
+/// Marker on the "that command printed more than this will buffer" refusal.
+///
+/// The byte count on its own is a fact about the transport, not about what the
+/// user did — "Command output exceeded 8388608 bytes" is not a sentence anybody
+/// can act on. A caller that knows what it was reading can recognise this and
+/// say the useful thing instead; see `list_container_files`, where the real
+/// cause is a directory with more entries than the panel can render.
+pub const OUTPUT_LIMIT_MARKER: &str = "OUTPUT_LIMIT";
+
+/// Append to `buf` while it stays inside `limit`, returning the range the chunk
+/// now occupies. `None` once the limit is exceeded, at which point the caller
+/// must stop reading — and nothing is appended, so a caller that ignored the
+/// answer cannot parse a half-read document.
+///
+/// Bytes rather than `str` on purpose: Docker frames a stream wherever it
+/// likes, so a chunk boundary can fall inside a UTF-8 sequence. Decoding each
+/// chunk on its own turned that into two replacement characters in the middle
+/// of a filename; the decode happens once, at the end, over the whole buffer.
+fn push_capped(buf: &mut Vec<u8>, chunk: &[u8], limit: usize) -> Option<(usize, usize)> {
     if buf.len() + chunk.len() > limit {
-        return false;
+        return None;
     }
-    buf.push_str(chunk);
-    true
+    let start = buf.len();
+    buf.extend_from_slice(chunk);
+    Some((start, buf.len()))
 }
 
 /// Run a one-shot (non-interactive) exec command in a container and collect stdout.
@@ -521,6 +640,65 @@ pub async fn exec_oneshot_as(
     exec_oneshot_inner(container_id, user, cmd, env, MAX_ONESHOT_OUTPUT).await
 }
 
+/// What a one-shot exec printed, with the two streams still tellable apart.
+///
+/// `combined` is stdout and stderr interleaved in arrival order — the shape
+/// every existing caller reads, and the right one for surfacing "why did that
+/// fail". `stdout_ranges` indexes the parts of it that came from stdout, so a
+/// caller that is *parsing* output can have just that without the buffer being
+/// held twice.
+struct OneshotOutput {
+    combined: Vec<u8>,
+    stdout_ranges: Vec<(usize, usize)>,
+    exit_code: i64,
+}
+
+impl OneshotOutput {
+    /// Everything the command printed, in the order it printed it.
+    fn text(&self) -> String {
+        String::from_utf8_lossy(&self.combined).into_owned()
+    }
+
+    /// stdout alone — for callers that parse it, where a diagnostic spliced in
+    /// mid-record is a parse error at best.
+    fn stdout(&self) -> String {
+        let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(self.combined.len());
+        for (start, end) in &self.stdout_ranges {
+            out.extend_from_slice(&self.combined[*start..*end]);
+        }
+        String::from_utf8_lossy(&out).into_owned()
+    }
+
+    /// stderr alone — the complement of [`Self::stdout`], i.e. the diagnostics.
+    fn stderr(&self) -> String {
+        let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(self.combined.len());
+        let mut cursor = 0usize;
+        for (start, end) in &self.stdout_ranges {
+            out.extend_from_slice(&self.combined[cursor..*start]);
+            cursor = *end;
+        }
+        out.extend_from_slice(&self.combined[cursor..]);
+        String::from_utf8_lossy(&out).into_owned()
+    }
+}
+
+/// [`exec_oneshot_as`] with the two streams kept apart, for callers that parse
+/// stdout.
+///
+/// `find`'s own diagnostics ("Permission denied") used to arrive inside the
+/// records its `-printf` was emitting. GNU `find` escapes tabs and newlines in
+/// those messages, so the listing parser held — but "the parser holds" is not
+/// the same as "the input is trustworthy", and the fix costs one enum match.
+pub async fn exec_oneshot_streams_as(
+    container_id: &str,
+    user: &str,
+    cmd: Vec<String>,
+    env: Vec<String>,
+) -> Result<(String, String, i64), String> {
+    let out = exec_oneshot_raw(container_id, user, cmd, env, MAX_ONESHOT_OUTPUT).await?;
+    Ok((out.stdout(), out.stderr(), out.exit_code))
+}
+
 async fn exec_oneshot_inner(
     container_id: &str,
     user: &str,
@@ -528,6 +706,17 @@ async fn exec_oneshot_inner(
     env: Vec<String>,
     limit: usize,
 ) -> Result<(String, i64), String> {
+    let out = exec_oneshot_raw(container_id, user, cmd, env, limit).await?;
+    Ok((out.text(), out.exit_code))
+}
+
+async fn exec_oneshot_raw(
+    container_id: &str,
+    user: &str,
+    cmd: Vec<String>,
+    env: Vec<String>,
+    limit: usize,
+) -> Result<OneshotOutput, String> {
     let docker = get_docker()?;
 
     let exec = docker
@@ -550,22 +739,31 @@ async fn exec_oneshot_inner(
         .await
         .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to start exec: {}", e))?;
 
-    let mut combined = String::new();
+    let mut combined: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();
+    let mut stdout_ranges: Vec<(usize, usize)> = Vec::new();
     match result {
         StartExecResults::Attached { mut output, .. } => {
             while let Some(msg) = output.next().await {
                 match msg {
                     Ok(data) => {
-                        let chunk = String::from_utf8_lossy(&data.into_bytes()).into_owned();
-                        if !push_capped(&mut combined, &chunk, limit) {
+                        let from_stdout = matches!(data, LogOutput::StdOut { .. });
+                        let bytes = data.into_bytes();
+                        match push_capped(&mut combined, &bytes, limit) {
+                            Some(range) => {
+                                if from_stdout {
+                                    stdout_ranges.push(range);
+                                }
+                            }
                             // Stop reading rather than truncate silently: every
                             // caller parses this output, and a half-read
                             // manifest or JSON array is worse than an error.
                             // Dropping `output` kills the exec's stream.
+                            None => {
                                 return Err(format!(
-                                "Command output exceeded {} bytes and was abandoned",
-                                limit
-                            ));
+                                    "{}: Command output exceeded {} bytes and was abandoned",
+                                    OUTPUT_LIMIT_MARKER, limit
+                                ))
+                            }
                         }
                     }
                     Err(e) => return Err(format!("Exec output error: {}", e)),
@@ -577,23 +775,60 @@ async fn exec_oneshot_inner(
 
     // The output stream draining doesn't strictly guarantee inspect_exec has the
     // final exit_code populated yet, so poll until the exec reports finished.
-    let exit_code = wait_for_exec_exit(&exec.id).await.unwrap_or(0);
+    let exit_code = require_exit_code(wait_for_exec_exit(&exec.id).await)?;
 
-    Ok((combined, exit_code))
+    Ok(OneshotOutput {
+        combined,
+        stdout_ranges,
+        exit_code,
+    })
+}
+
+/// Turn "the exit code could not be determined" into an error rather than a 0.
+///
+/// `unwrap_or(0)` is how a rename that never happened reported success: callers
+/// branch on `code != 0`, so an unreadable status silently became "it worked",
+/// the UI closed its rename box and the file had not moved. An exec whose
+/// outcome cannot be established has not been established to have succeeded —
+/// fail closed and let the caller surface it.
+///
+/// The `test -e` probe in `rename_container_path` also fails closed under this:
+/// it propagates the error instead of reading an undeterminable status as
+/// "the destination does not exist".
+fn require_exit_code(code: Option<i64>) -> Result<i64, String> {
+    code.ok_or_else(|| {
+        "Could not determine whether the command finished (Docker did not report an exit status)"
+            .to_string()
+    })
 }
 
 /// Poll `inspect_exec` until the exec reports finished and return its exit code.
 /// Returns `None` if the code can't be determined (inspect error, or the exec
-/// doesn't report finished within ~1s — which shouldn't happen once its output
+/// doesn't report finished within ~5s — which shouldn't happen once its output
 /// stream has drained).
+///
+/// The window is generous because `None` is no longer a shrug: since
+/// [`require_exit_code`], it fails the whole call. Waiting a few seconds longer
+/// for a busy daemon to settle costs nothing in the normal case — the loop exits
+/// on the first poll that reports finished — and it is the difference between a
+/// spurious "the rename failed" and a real one.
 pub async fn wait_for_exec_exit(exec_id: &str) -> Option<i64> {
     let docker = get_docker().ok()?;
-    for _ in 0..40 {
+    for _ in 0..200 {
         match docker.inspect_exec(exec_id).await {
             Ok(info) => {
                 if info.running != Some(true) {
-                    // Finished: use the reported code (default 0 if somehow absent).
-                    return Some(info.exit_code.unwrap_or(0));
+                    // Finished. `exit_code` rather than `unwrap_or(0)`: an exec
+                    // that has stopped without a reported code is a status
+                    // nobody can vouch for, and flattening it to *success* is
+                    // the wrong default when a caller is deciding whether to
+                    // rename a downloaded file over the user's own.
+                    // `download_container_file` treats `None` as a failure
+                    // precisely because it cannot tell that silence from a
+                    // clean exit; an `unwrap_or` here made that check
+                    // unreachable. Callers that only care about "did it fail
+                    // loudly" use `is_some_and`, which reads `None` as before.
+                    return info.exit_code;
                 }
             }
             Err(_) => return None,
@@ -607,31 +842,96 @@ pub async fn wait_for_exec_exit(exec_id: &str) -> Option<i64> {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    /// The frames a demultiplexed exec hands back, as `(is_stdout, bytes)`.
+    fn collect(frames: &[(bool, &[u8])]) -> OneshotOutput {
+        let mut combined = Vec::new();
+        let mut stdout_ranges = Vec::new();
+        for (from_stdout, bytes) in frames {
+            let range = push_capped(&mut combined, bytes, usize::MAX).unwrap();
+            if *from_stdout {
+                stdout_ranges.push(range);
+            }
+        }
+        OneshotOutput {
+            combined,
+            stdout_ranges,
+            exit_code: 0,
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn output_under_the_limit_is_buffered_whole() {
-        let mut buf = String::new();
-        assert!(push_capped(&mut buf, "hello ", 16));
-        assert!(push_capped(&mut buf, "world", 16));
-        assert_eq!(buf, "hello world");
+        let mut buf = Vec::new();
+        assert_eq!(push_capped(&mut buf, b"hello ", 16), Some((0, 6)));
+        assert_eq!(push_capped(&mut buf, b"world", 16), Some((6, 11)));
+        assert_eq!(buf, b"hello world");
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn output_over_the_limit_is_refused_rather_than_truncated() {
         // The abandoned chunk must not land in the buffer either: a caller that
         // ignored the error would otherwise parse a half-read document.
-        let mut buf = String::new();
-        assert!(push_capped(&mut buf, "0123456789", 12));
-        assert!(!push_capped(&mut buf, "0123456789", 12));
-        assert_eq!(buf, "0123456789");
+        let mut buf = Vec::new();
+        assert!(push_capped(&mut buf, b"0123456789", 12).is_some());
+        assert!(push_capped(&mut buf, b"0123456789", 12).is_none());
+        assert_eq!(buf, b"0123456789");
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn a_single_oversized_chunk_is_refused() {
-        let mut buf = String::new();
-        assert!(!push_capped(&mut buf, "0123456789", 4));
+        let mut buf = Vec::new();
+        assert!(push_capped(&mut buf, b"0123456789", 4).is_none());
         assert!(buf.is_empty());
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn a_character_split_across_two_frames_survives_the_decode() {
+        // Docker frames a stream wherever it likes, and a filename is where
+        // that shows: decoding each chunk on its own turned the two halves of
+        // `ü` into two replacement characters in the middle of a name.
+        let out = collect(&[(true, &[0xc3]), (true, &[0xbc, b'.', b't', b'x', b't'])]);
+        assert_eq!(out.stdout(), "ü.txt");
+        assert_eq!(out.text(), "ü.txt");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_diagnostic_never_lands_in_the_stream_a_caller_parses() {
+        // `find`'s "Permission denied" used to arrive inside the records its
+        // `-printf` was emitting. Arrival order is still available for the
+        // error message; the parser gets stdout alone.
+        let out = collect(&[
+            (true, b"first"),
+            (false, b"find: /x: Permission denied\n"),
+            (true, b"second"),
+        ]);
+        assert_eq!(out.stdout(), "firstsecond");
+        assert_eq!(out.stderr(), "find: /x: Permission denied\n");
+        assert_eq!(out.text(), "firstfind: /x: Permission denied\nsecond");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_output_limit_refusal_is_marked_so_a_caller_can_reword_it() {
+        // "Command output exceeded 8388608 bytes" is a fact about a buffer.
+        // The marker is what lets `list_container_files` say "too many entries"
+        // instead, which is the thing that actually happened.
+        assert!(!OUTPUT_LIMIT_MARKER.is_empty());
+        let refusal = format!(
+            "{}: Command output exceeded {} bytes and was abandoned",
+            OUTPUT_LIMIT_MARKER, MAX_ONESHOT_OUTPUT
+        );
+        assert!(refusal.starts_with(OUTPUT_LIMIT_MARKER));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_undeterminable_exit_status_is_an_error_not_a_zero() {
+        // The bug this guards: `unwrap_or(0)` made every caller that branches on
+        // `code != 0` — rename, mkdir — report success for an exec whose outcome
+        // nobody could read.
+        assert_eq!(require_exit_code(Some(0)).unwrap(), 0);
+        assert_eq!(require_exit_code(Some(1)).unwrap(), 1);
+        assert!(require_exit_code(None).is_err());
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn the_bridge_budget_is_far_smaller_than_the_general_one() {
         // The auth bridge re-reads container-controlled procfs every 2s, so it
@@ -640,4 +940,25 @@ mod tests {
         // …but still comfortably above a genuine /proc/net/tcp{,6} pair.
         assert!(PROC_NET_OUTPUT_LIMIT > 100 * 150);
     }
+
+    /// The reported path, which is what the terminal echoes back to Claude and
+    /// what the Files pane puts in its log line. `/tmp//x` and `/tmp/x` are the
+    /// same file to the kernel and different strings to a person reading either
+    /// of those.
+    #[test]
+    fn container_join_produces_one_separator() {
+        assert_eq!(container_join("/tmp", "a.txt"), "/tmp/a.txt");
+        // The terminal's drop passes a nested name; it must not gain a second
+        // slash at the seam.
+        assert_eq!(
+            container_join("/tmp", "triple-c-drops/a.txt"),
+            "/tmp/triple-c-drops/a.txt"
+        );
+        // A directory the user navigated to can carry a trailing slash, and the
+        // container root is the case where trimming it must not eat the only
+        // separator there is.
+        assert_eq!(container_join("/workspace/", "a.txt"), "/workspace/a.txt");
+        assert_eq!(container_join("/", "a.txt"), "/a.txt");
+        assert_eq!(container_join("/", "/a.txt"), "/a.txt");
+    }
 }

app/src-tauri/src/file_viewer/mod.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+//! The terminal file viewer: one OS window per clicked path.
+//!
+//! Every window is a `file-viewer-<n>` label registered in [`registry::ViewerRegistry`];
+//! the commands in `commands/file_viewer_commands.rs` gate on the label and act only on
+//! the caller's own entry, which is why nothing here takes a path from a window.
+//!
+//! `file-viewer-*` is also the `windows` glob of `capabilities/file-viewer.json`, which grants
+//! exactly the five `viewer_*` commands and nothing else. Labels are minted only here; a window
+//! created anywhere else with a matching label would inherit those grants.
+
+pub mod poll;
+pub mod registry;
+pub mod resolve;
+pub mod window;
+pub mod write;
+
+/// Spec §3: the 21st click is refused with a toast.
+pub const MAX_VIEWER_WINDOWS: usize = 20;
+pub const VIEWER_LABEL_PREFIX: &str = "file-viewer-";
+
+pub fn is_viewer_label(label: &str) -> bool {
+    label
+        .strip_prefix(VIEWER_LABEL_PREFIX)
+        .is_some_and(|rest| !rest.is_empty() && rest.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_digit()))
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn only_numbered_viewer_labels_pass() {
+        assert!(is_viewer_label("file-viewer-1"));
+        assert!(is_viewer_label("file-viewer-20"));
+        assert!(!is_viewer_label("file-viewer-"));
+        assert!(!is_viewer_label("file-viewer-x"));
+        assert!(!is_viewer_label("main"));
+        assert!(!is_viewer_label("browser-view-abc"));
+    }
+
+    /// Both Vite's dev server and Tauri's asset lookup fall back to `index.html`
+    /// when `viewer.html` is missing, so a broken entry opens the *main app* in
+    /// the viewer window with no error anywhere. Pin the two files the entry needs.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_viewer_entry_exists_and_is_a_vite_input() {
+        let app_dir = std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("..");
+        let html = std::fs::read_to_string(app_dir.join("viewer.html")).expect("app/viewer.html");
+        assert!(html.contains("/src/viewer/main.tsx"));
+        assert!(!html.contains("<style"), "an inline <style> makes Tauri add a style nonce, which disables 'unsafe-inline' and breaks CodeMirror");
+        let vite = std::fs::read_to_string(app_dir.join("vite.config.ts")).expect("vite.config.ts");
+        assert!(vite.contains("viewer.html"), "vite.config.ts must list viewer.html in build.rollupOptions.input");
+    }
+
+    #[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
+    struct Capability {
+        windows: Vec<String>,
+        permissions: Vec<String>,
+    }
+
+    /// Task 12: a substring check on the capability JSON (the form this test used to take)
+    /// only proves a permission string appears *somewhere* in the file — it would not catch
+    /// `windows` widened past `file-viewer-*`, nor an extra grant slipped in beside the ones
+    /// this window actually needs. Parse both capability files and pin `windows`/`permissions`
+    /// exactly, so a later widening of either file is a failing test, not a silent threat-model
+    /// drift — this file *is* the reviewed threat model of record (see its own description).
+    #[test]
+    fn the_viewer_capability_grants_exactly_the_reviewed_windows_and_permissions() {
+        let app_dir = std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("..");
+        let raw = std::fs::read_to_string(app_dir.join("src-tauri/capabilities/file-viewer.json"))
+            .expect("capabilities/file-viewer.json");
+        let cap: Capability = serde_json::from_str(&raw).expect("file-viewer.json must be valid JSON");
+
+        assert_eq!(cap.windows, vec!["file-viewer-*"]);
+
+        let mut permissions = cap.permissions;
+        permissions.sort();
+        assert_eq!(
+            permissions,
+            vec![
+                // App commands (bare): the five viewer commands, and nothing else — build.rs
+                // refuses any other bare grant in this file.
+                "allow-viewer-choose-file",
+                "allow-viewer-get-state",
+                "allow-viewer-poll-file",
+                "allow-viewer-read-file",
+                "allow-viewer-write-file",
+                // Plugin/core grants, unchanged.
+                "core:event:allow-listen",
+                "core:event:allow-unlisten",
+                "core:webview:allow-internal-toggle-devtools",
+                "core:window:allow-destroy",
+            ]
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// The main window's capability file must stay scoped to `main` — a `windows` list that
+    /// grew to include `file-viewer-*` would hand every viewer window the dialog/store surface
+    /// `default.json` grants `main`, which is a much larger IPC surface than the one
+    /// `file-viewer.json` was deliberately kept small.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_default_capability_is_scoped_to_the_main_window_only() {
+        let app_dir = std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("..");
+        let raw = std::fs::read_to_string(app_dir.join("src-tauri/capabilities/default.json"))
+            .expect("capabilities/default.json");
+        let cap: Capability = serde_json::from_str(&raw).expect("default.json must be valid JSON");
+
+        assert_eq!(cap.windows, vec!["main"]);
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/file_viewer/poll.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+//! One cheap exec per tick: the file's full hash and size, or "gone".
+//!
+//! This is what the 2 s poll asks, instead of re-downloading up to 1 MiB of archive per
+//! window per tick. The hash is coreutils `sha256sum`, which equals `write::sha256_hex`
+//! of the bytes whenever the read was not truncated — the only case in which the
+//! editor uses a hash as its save base.
+
+use serde::Serialize;
+
+use crate::docker::exec::exec_oneshot_streams_as;
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct ViewerPoll {
+    pub exists: bool,
+    pub hash: Option<String>,
+    pub size: Option<u64>,
+}
+
+/// Exit 4 = gone. A failure after `test -f` passed is re-checked: if the file vanished
+/// in between (deleted while being hashed), that is "gone", not an error (M6).
+pub const POLL_SCRIPT: &str = r#"test -f "$1" || exit 4
+sha256sum -- "$1" && stat -c %s -- "$1" && exit 0
+test -f "$1" || exit 4
+exit 1"#;
+
+pub fn parse_poll_output(code: i64, stdout: &str) -> ViewerPoll {
+    if code == 4 {
+        return ViewerPoll { exists: false, hash: None, size: None };
+    }
+    let mut lines = stdout.lines();
+    let hash = lines
+        .next()
+        .and_then(|l| l.split_whitespace().next())
+        // GNU `sha256sum` prefixes the line with `\` when the name contains a
+        // backslash or a newline; strip it before validating the hex (P15).
+        .map(|h| h.trim_start_matches('\\'))
+        .filter(|h| super::write::is_sha256_hex(h))
+        .map(str::to_string);
+    let size = lines.next().and_then(|l| l.trim().parse::<u64>().ok());
+    ViewerPoll { exists: true, hash, size }
+}
+
+pub async fn poll_file(container_id: &str, container_path: &str) -> Result<ViewerPoll, String> {
+    let cmd = vec![
+        "sh".to_string(),
+        "-c".to_string(),
+        POLL_SCRIPT.to_string(),
+        "poll".to_string(),
+        container_path.to_string(),
+    ];
+    let (stdout, stderr, code) =
+        exec_oneshot_streams_as(container_id, "claude", cmd, Vec::new()).await?;
+    if code != 0 && code != 4 {
+        return Err(format!(
+            "Could not check the file: {}",
+            crate::commands::file_commands::clip_container_text(&stderr)
+        ));
+    }
+    Ok(parse_poll_output(code, &stdout))
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_present_file_yields_hash_and_size() {
+        let out = "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855  /workspace/x\n42\n";
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse_poll_output(0, out),
+            ViewerPoll {
+                exists: true,
+                hash: Some("e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855".into()),
+                size: Some(42)
+            }
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn exit_four_means_gone() {
+        assert_eq!(parse_poll_output(4, ""), ViewerPoll { exists: false, hash: None, size: None });
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn garbage_is_not_a_hash() {
+        let p = parse_poll_output(0, "not a hash  /x\nabc\n");
+        assert_eq!(p, ViewerPoll { exists: true, hash: None, size: None });
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_script_tests_existence_before_hashing() {
+        assert!(POLL_SCRIPT.contains("test -f \"$1\" || exit 4"));
+        assert!(POLL_SCRIPT.contains("sha256sum -- \"$1\""));
+        assert!(POLL_SCRIPT.contains("stat -c %s -- \"$1\""));
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    fn run_poll_script(path_env: Option<&str>, target: &std::path::Path) -> (i64, String, String) {
+        let mut cmd = std::process::Command::new("sh");
+        if let Some(p) = path_env {
+            cmd.env("PATH", p);
+        }
+        let out = cmd.arg("-c").arg(POLL_SCRIPT).arg("poll").arg(target).output().unwrap();
+        (
+            out.status.code().unwrap_or(-1) as i64,
+            String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout).into_owned(),
+            String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr).into_owned(),
+        )
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    fn test_dir(name: &str) -> std::path::PathBuf {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("tc-poll-{}-{}", name, uuid::Uuid::new_v4()));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        dir
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn on_the_host_the_poll_script_reports_hash_size_and_gone() {
+        let dir = test_dir("plain");
+        let target = dir.join("t.txt");
+        std::fs::write(&target, b"hello\n").unwrap();
+        let (code, stdout, stderr) = run_poll_script(None, &target);
+        assert_eq!(code, 0, "stderr={stderr}");
+        let p = parse_poll_output(code, &stdout);
+        assert_eq!(p.hash.as_deref(), Some(super::super::write::sha256_hex(b"hello\n").as_str()));
+        assert_eq!(p.size, Some(6));
+
+        let (code, _, _) = run_poll_script(None, &dir.join("missing"));
+        assert_eq!(code, 4);
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
+    /// M6: the file is deleted after `test -f` passed but before `sha256sum` read it
+    /// (a `sha256sum` shim on PATH deletes it and fails). That is "gone", not an error
+    /// the viewer would have to explain.
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn on_the_host_a_file_deleted_mid_poll_reads_as_gone() {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+        let dir = test_dir("race");
+        let bin = dir.join("bin");
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&bin).unwrap();
+        let shim = bin.join("sha256sum");
+        std::fs::write(&shim, "#!/bin/sh\nrm -f -- \"$2\"\necho 'sha256sum: No such file or directory' >&2\nexit 1\n").unwrap();
+        std::fs::set_permissions(&shim, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o755)).unwrap();
+        let target = dir.join("t.txt");
+        std::fs::write(&target, b"x").unwrap();
+        let path = format!("{}:{}", bin.display(), std::env::var("PATH").unwrap_or_default());
+
+        let (code, stdout, stderr) = run_poll_script(Some(&path), &target);
+
+        assert_eq!(code, 4, "stderr={stderr}");
+        assert_eq!(parse_poll_output(code, &stdout), ViewerPoll { exists: false, hash: None, size: None });
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
+    /// A failure with the file still present stays a real error (exit 1), which
+    /// `poll_file` turns into "Could not check the file: …".
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn on_the_host_a_hash_failure_on_a_present_file_is_an_error() {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+        let dir = test_dir("fail");
+        let bin = dir.join("bin");
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&bin).unwrap();
+        let shim = bin.join("sha256sum");
+        std::fs::write(&shim, "#!/bin/sh\necho 'sha256sum: Permission denied' >&2\nexit 1\n").unwrap();
+        std::fs::set_permissions(&shim, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o755)).unwrap();
+        let target = dir.join("t.txt");
+        std::fs::write(&target, b"x").unwrap();
+        let path = format!("{}:{}", bin.display(), std::env::var("PATH").unwrap_or_default());
+
+        let (code, _stdout, stderr) = run_poll_script(Some(&path), &target);
+
+        assert_eq!(code, 1, "stderr={stderr}");
+        assert!(stderr.contains("Permission denied"));
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
+    /// P15: a path containing a backslash makes GNU `sha256sum` prefix the whole
+    /// line with `\`; that must not blind change detection by yielding `hash: None`.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_backslash_prefixed_hash_is_still_recognised() {
+        let out = "\\e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855  /workspace/x\\y\n7\n";
+        let p = parse_poll_output(0, out);
+        assert_eq!(
+            p.hash.as_deref(),
+            Some("e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(p.size, Some(7));
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/file_viewer/registry.rs

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+//! Which viewer window is looking at what.
+//!
+//! Managed with `app.manage(ViewerRegistry::default())` rather than as a field on
+//! `AppState`, like the browser view keeps its own state. A label is reserved *before*
+//! the window is built so two concurrent clicks cannot both pass the cap check.
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering};
+use std::sync::Mutex;
+
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+use super::{MAX_VIEWER_WINDOWS, VIEWER_LABEL_PREFIX};
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
+pub struct Location {
+    pub line: Option<u32>,
+    pub col: Option<u32>,
+    pub end_line: Option<u32>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[serde(tag = "kind", rename_all = "snake_case")]
+pub enum ViewerTargetState {
+    Resolved { container_path: String },
+    Choose { candidates: Vec<String> },
+    NotFound { tried: Vec<String> },
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct ViewerTarget {
+    pub project_id: String,
+    pub project_name: String,
+    pub raw_path: String,
+    pub state: ViewerTargetState,
+    pub initial: Location,
+}
+
+/// What [`ViewerRegistry::reserve`] decided.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum Reservation {
+    /// A window is already registered on this file. `built` is false while that
+    /// window is still being created: it has no `WebviewWindow` to focus yet, and
+    /// it will open at its own location, so the caller should simply return.
+    Existing { label: String, built: bool },
+    /// A new label, registered and counted against the cap; build its window,
+    /// then call [`ViewerRegistry::mark_built`] (or `remove` if building failed).
+    Reserved(String),
+}
+
+/// What [`ViewerRegistry::choose`] decided.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum Choice {
+    /// The caller's entry now points at the chosen file.
+    Resolved(ViewerTarget),
+    /// Another window already has that file; the caller's entry is unchanged.
+    AlreadyOpen { label: String, built: bool },
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct Entry {
+    target: ViewerTarget,
+    /// Set once the window's `build()` has returned. Until then the label has no
+    /// window by design, so "registered but windowless" means "being built", not
+    /// "stale" — only built entries are ever pruned.
+    built: bool,
+}
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct ViewerRegistry {
+    entries: Mutex<HashMap<String, Entry>>,
+    next: AtomicU64,
+}
+
+fn same_file(t: &ViewerTarget, project_id: &str, container_path: &str) -> bool {
+    t.project_id == project_id
+        && matches!(&t.state, ViewerTargetState::Resolved { container_path: p } if p == container_path)
+}
+
+fn open_on(
+    entries: &HashMap<String, Entry>,
+    project_id: &str,
+    container_path: &str,
+    except: Option<&str>,
+) -> Option<(String, bool)> {
+    entries
+        .iter()
+        .find(|(label, e)| Some(label.as_str()) != except && same_file(&e.target, project_id, container_path))
+        .map(|(label, e)| (label.clone(), e.built))
+}
+
+/// Drops built entries whose window is gone, whatever their state. `Destroyed`
+/// normally removes an entry; this is the backstop for one it missed, so a leak
+/// can never hold a cap slot for good.
+fn prune(entries: &mut HashMap<String, Entry>, is_live: &dyn Fn(&str) -> bool) {
+    entries.retain(|label, e| !e.built || is_live(label));
+}
+
+impl ViewerRegistry {
+    fn lock(&self) -> std::sync::MutexGuard<'_, HashMap<String, Entry>> {
+        self.entries.lock().unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner())
+    }
+
+    /// Finds the window already open on a resolved target, or reserves a label,
+    /// in one critical section, after pruning built entries `is_live` says are
+    /// gone. `is_live` runs under the registry lock and must not call back into
+    /// the registry.
+    pub fn reserve(
+        &self,
+        target: ViewerTarget,
+        is_live: impl Fn(&str) -> bool,
+    ) -> Result<Reservation, String> {
+        let mut entries = self.lock();
+        prune(&mut entries, &is_live);
+        if let ViewerTargetState::Resolved { container_path } = &target.state {
+            if let Some((label, built)) = open_on(&entries, &target.project_id, container_path, None) {
+                return Ok(Reservation::Existing { label, built });
+            }
+        }
+        if entries.len() >= MAX_VIEWER_WINDOWS {
+            return Err(format!(
+                "{} file windows are already open — close one before opening another.",
+                MAX_VIEWER_WINDOWS
+            ));
+        }
+        let n = self.next.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst) + 1;
+        let label = format!("{}{}", VIEWER_LABEL_PREFIX, n);
+        entries.insert(label.clone(), Entry { target, built: false });
+        Ok(Reservation::Reserved(label))
+    }
+
+    /// Records that `label`'s window exists. A no-op if it was already removed
+    /// (a window destroyed the moment it appeared).
+    pub fn mark_built(&self, label: &str) {
+        if let Some(e) = self.lock().get_mut(label) {
+            e.built = true;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Points `label`'s entry at `container_path`, unless another window already
+    /// has that file open — then the entry is left alone, so no two entries are
+    /// ever resolved to the same file.
+    pub fn choose(
+        &self,
+        label: &str,
+        container_path: String,
+        is_live: impl Fn(&str) -> bool,
+    ) -> Result<Choice, String> {
+        let mut entries = self.lock();
+        prune(&mut entries, &is_live);
+        let project_id = entries
+            .get(label)
+            .ok_or_else(|| "This file window is no longer registered.".to_string())?
+            .target
+            .project_id
+            .clone();
+        if let Some((other, built)) = open_on(&entries, &project_id, &container_path, Some(label)) {
+            return Ok(Choice::AlreadyOpen { label: other, built });
+        }
+        let entry = entries.get_mut(label).expect("checked above under the same lock");
+        entry.target.state = ViewerTargetState::Resolved { container_path };
+        Ok(Choice::Resolved(entry.target.clone()))
+    }
+
+    pub fn get(&self, label: &str) -> Option<ViewerTarget> {
+        self.lock().get(label).map(|e| e.target.clone())
+    }
+
+    pub fn set_state(&self, label: &str, state: ViewerTargetState) -> Result<ViewerTarget, String> {
+        let mut entries = self.lock();
+        let entry = entries
+            .get_mut(label)
+            .ok_or_else(|| "This file window is no longer registered.".to_string())?;
+        entry.target.state = state;
+        Ok(entry.target.clone())
+    }
+
+    pub fn remove(&self, label: &str) {
+        self.lock().remove(label);
+    }
+
+    pub fn find_open(&self, project_id: &str, container_path: &str) -> Option<String> {
+        open_on(&self.lock(), project_id, container_path, None).map(|(label, _)| label)
+    }
+
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.lock().len()
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.len() == 0
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn target(project: &str, path: &str) -> ViewerTarget {
+        ViewerTarget {
+            project_id: project.into(),
+            project_name: "Demo".into(),
+            raw_path: path.into(),
+            state: ViewerTargetState::Resolved { container_path: path.into() },
+            initial: Location { line: Some(3), col: None, end_line: None },
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn all_live(_: &str) -> bool {
+        true
+    }
+
+    /// Reserves a label that must be new.
+    fn fresh(r: &ViewerRegistry, t: ViewerTarget) -> String {
+        match r.reserve(t, all_live).unwrap() {
+            Reservation::Reserved(label) => label,
+            other => panic!("expected a new label, got {:?}", other),
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn choosing(project: &str, candidates: &[&str]) -> ViewerTarget {
+        ViewerTarget {
+            state: ViewerTargetState::Choose { candidates: candidates.iter().map(|c| c.to_string()).collect() },
+            ..target(project, "a")
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn labels_are_sequential_and_never_reused() {
+        let r = ViewerRegistry::default();
+        let a = fresh(&r, target("p", "/workspace/a"));
+        let b = fresh(&r, target("p", "/workspace/b"));
+        assert_eq!(a, "file-viewer-1");
+        assert_eq!(b, "file-viewer-2");
+        r.remove(&a);
+        let c = fresh(&r, target("p", "/workspace/c"));
+        assert_eq!(c, "file-viewer-3");
+        assert_eq!(r.len(), 2);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_cap_refuses_the_twenty_first_window() {
+        let r = ViewerRegistry::default();
+        for i in 0..MAX_VIEWER_WINDOWS {
+            fresh(&r, target("p", &format!("/workspace/{}", i)));
+        }
+        let err = r.reserve(target("p", "/workspace/one-more"), all_live).unwrap_err();
+        assert!(err.contains("20"), "{}", err);
+        assert_eq!(r.len(), MAX_VIEWER_WINDOWS);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_open_resolved_file_is_found_by_project_and_path() {
+        let r = ViewerRegistry::default();
+        let label = fresh(&r, target("p", "/workspace/a"));
+        assert_eq!(r.find_open("p", "/workspace/a"), Some(label.clone()));
+        assert_eq!(r.find_open("other", "/workspace/a"), None);
+        // A window still choosing is not "open on" any path.
+        r.set_state(&label, ViewerTargetState::Choose { candidates: vec!["/workspace/a".into()] }).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(r.find_open("p", "/workspace/a"), None);
+        r.remove(&label);
+        assert_eq!(r.get(&label), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn set_state_on_an_unknown_label_is_an_error() {
+        let r = ViewerRegistry::default();
+        assert!(r.set_state("file-viewer-9", ViewerTargetState::NotFound { tried: vec![] }).is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn target_state_serialises_with_a_kind_tag() {
+        let s = serde_json::to_string(&ViewerTargetState::NotFound { tried: vec!["/x".into()] }).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(s, r#"{"kind":"not_found","tried":["/x"]}"#);
+    }
+
+    /// I1: a second click while the first window is still being built must find
+    /// that window, not read it as stale and reserve a second one.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_window_being_built_is_found_not_replaced() {
+        let r = ViewerRegistry::default();
+        let a = fresh(&r, target("p", "/workspace/a"));
+        // No window exists yet for `a`: `is_live` says so, and it must not matter.
+        let second = r.reserve(target("p", "/workspace/a"), |_| false).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(second, Reservation::Existing { label: a.clone(), built: false });
+        assert!(r.get(&a).is_some());
+        assert_eq!(r.len(), 1);
+
+        r.mark_built(&a);
+        let third = r.reserve(target("p", "/workspace/a"), all_live).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(third, Reservation::Existing { label: a, built: true });
+        assert_eq!(r.len(), 1);
+    }
+
+    /// A built entry whose window is gone is stale: pruned, and the file reopens.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_built_entry_without_a_window_is_pruned_and_the_file_reopens() {
+        let r = ViewerRegistry::default();
+        let a = fresh(&r, target("p", "/workspace/a"));
+        r.mark_built(&a);
+        let again = r.reserve(target("p", "/workspace/a"), |_| false).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(again, Reservation::Reserved("file-viewer-2".into()));
+        assert_eq!(r.get(&a), None);
+        assert_eq!(r.len(), 1);
+    }
+
+    /// M2: a leaked entry of any state cannot hold a cap slot once built and gone,
+    /// and an entry still being built always keeps its slot.
+    #[test]
+    fn leaked_entries_of_every_state_free_their_cap_slot() {
+        let r = ViewerRegistry::default();
+        let mut labels = Vec::new();
+        for i in 0..MAX_VIEWER_WINDOWS {
+            let t = match i % 3 {
+                0 => target("p", &format!("/workspace/{}", i)),
+                1 => choosing("p", &["/workspace/x", "/workspace/y"]),
+                _ => ViewerTarget { state: ViewerTargetState::NotFound { tried: vec![] }, ..target("p", "z") },
+            };
+            labels.push(fresh(&r, t));
+        }
+        // All still being built: none may be pruned, so the cap holds.
+        assert!(r.reserve(target("p", "/workspace/new"), |_| false).is_err());
+        for l in &labels {
+            r.mark_built(l);
+        }
+        // Built, and one of each state has lost its window.
+        let dead = [labels[0].clone(), labels[1].clone(), labels[2].clone()];
+        let live = |l: &str| !dead.iter().any(|d| d == l);
+        assert!(matches!(r.reserve(target("p", "/workspace/new"), live), Ok(Reservation::Reserved(_))));
+        assert_eq!(r.len(), MAX_VIEWER_WINDOWS - 2);
+        for d in &dead {
+            assert_eq!(r.get(d), None);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn mark_built_on_a_removed_label_is_a_no_op() {
+        let r = ViewerRegistry::default();
+        let a = fresh(&r, target("p", "/workspace/a"));
+        r.remove(&a);
+        r.mark_built(&a);
+        assert_eq!(r.get(&a), None);
+    }
+
+    /// M5: choosing a file another window already has leaves the chooser alone,
+    /// so two entries are never resolved to the same file.
+    #[test]
+    fn choosing_a_file_open_elsewhere_does_not_resolve_a_second_entry() {
+        let r = ViewerRegistry::default();
+        let open = fresh(&r, target("p", "/workspace/x"));
+        r.mark_built(&open);
+        let chooser = fresh(&r, choosing("p", &["/workspace/x", "/workspace/y"]));
+        r.mark_built(&chooser);
+
+        let c = r.choose(&chooser, "/workspace/x".into(), all_live).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c, Choice::AlreadyOpen { label: open.clone(), built: true });
+        assert!(matches!(r.get(&chooser).unwrap().state, ViewerTargetState::Choose { .. }));
+
+        match r.choose(&chooser, "/workspace/y".into(), all_live).unwrap() {
+            Choice::Resolved(t) => assert_eq!(t.state, ViewerTargetState::Resolved { container_path: "/workspace/y".into() }),
+            other => panic!("expected Resolved, got {:?}", other),
+        }
+        assert_eq!(r.find_open("p", "/workspace/y"), Some(chooser));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn choosing_the_same_path_in_another_project_is_not_a_duplicate() {
+        let r = ViewerRegistry::default();
+        fresh(&r, target("other", "/workspace/x"));
+        let chooser = fresh(&r, choosing("p", &["/workspace/x"]));
+        assert!(matches!(r.choose(&chooser, "/workspace/x".into(), all_live), Ok(Choice::Resolved(_))));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn choose_on_an_unknown_label_is_an_error() {
+        let r = ViewerRegistry::default();
+        assert!(r.choose("file-viewer-9", "/workspace/x".into(), all_live).is_err());
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/file_viewer/resolve.rs

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+//! Turning what Claude printed into a container path that exists.
+//!
+//! Relative paths are the common case (Claude prints project-relative paths). The
+//! terminal exec's cwd is `/workspace`, and each project path is mounted at
+//! `/workspace/<mount_name>`, so those are the roots probed, in that order. The probe
+//! is one exec as the container user and prints `realpath -e` of every candidate that
+//! is a regular file: `fetch_container_file` refuses a symlink, so the registry must
+//! hold the resolved path, not the one that was clicked.
+
+use crate::commands::file_commands::validate_container_path;
+use crate::docker::exec::exec_oneshot_streams_as;
+
+pub const MAX_CANDIDATES: usize = 16;
+const MAX_RAW_LEN: usize = 4096;
+
+/// `$@` are the candidates. For each regular file, print its resolved path.
+pub const PROBE_SCRIPT: &str = r#"for c in "$@"; do if test -f "$c"; then realpath -e -- "$c" 2>/dev/null; fi; done; exit 0"#;
+
+pub fn candidate_paths(raw: &str, mount_names: &[String]) -> Result<Vec<String>, String> {
+    if raw.is_empty() {
+        return Err("The path is empty.".into());
+    }
+    if raw.len() > MAX_RAW_LEN {
+        return Err("The path is too long.".into());
+    }
+    if raw.contains('\0') {
+        return Err("The path contains a NUL byte.".into());
+    }
+    if raw.split('/').any(|seg| seg == "..") {
+        return Err(format!("{} climbs out of its folder with `..`; refusing.", raw));
+    }
+
+    if raw.starts_with('/') {
+        let normalised = collapse(raw);
+        validate_container_path("File", &normalised)?;
+        return Ok(vec![normalised]);
+    }
+
+    let rel = collapse(raw.strip_prefix("./").unwrap_or(raw));
+    let rel = rel.trim_start_matches("./");
+    if rel.is_empty() {
+        return Err("The path is empty.".into());
+    }
+
+    let mut out: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
+    let mut push = |candidate: String| {
+        if out.len() < MAX_CANDIDATES && !out.contains(&candidate) {
+            out.push(candidate);
+        }
+    };
+    push(format!("/workspace/{}", rel));
+    for mount in mount_names {
+        if mount.is_empty() || mount.contains('/') || mount == "." || mount == ".." {
+            continue;
+        }
+        push(format!("/workspace/{}/{}", mount, rel));
+    }
+    for c in &out {
+        validate_container_path("File", c)?;
+    }
+    Ok(out)
+}
+
+/// `a//b/./c` → `a/b/c`. Never touches `..` (rejected before this runs).
+fn collapse(path: &str) -> String {
+    let absolute = path.starts_with('/');
+    let joined = path
+        .split('/')
+        .filter(|seg| !seg.is_empty() && *seg != ".")
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+        .join("/");
+    if absolute { format!("/{}", joined) } else { joined }
+}
+
+/// One resolved path per line; anything that is not an absolute, valid container path is
+/// dropped (the script's own diagnostics go to stderr, but a hostile `realpath` output is
+/// still container-authored text).
+pub fn parse_probe_output(stdout: &str) -> Vec<String> {
+    let mut seen: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
+    for line in stdout.lines() {
+        let line = line.trim();
+        if line.is_empty() || validate_container_path("File", line).is_err() {
+            continue;
+        }
+        if !seen.iter().any(|s| s == line) {
+            seen.push(line.to_string());
+        }
+    }
+    seen
+}
+
+pub async fn probe_candidates(
+    container_id: &str,
+    candidates: &[String],
+) -> Result<Vec<String>, String> {
+    let mut cmd: Vec<String> = vec!["sh".into(), "-c".into(), PROBE_SCRIPT.into(), "probe".into()];
+    cmd.extend(candidates.iter().cloned());
+    let (stdout, _stderr, _code) =
+        exec_oneshot_streams_as(container_id, "claude", cmd, Vec::new()).await?;
+    Ok(parse_probe_output(&stdout))
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn mounts(names: &[&str]) -> Vec<String> {
+        names.iter().map(|s| s.to_string()).collect()
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_absolute_path_is_its_own_only_candidate() {
+        let c = candidate_paths("/workspace/api/src/main.rs", &mounts(&["api"])).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c, vec!["/workspace/api/src/main.rs"]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_relative_path_probes_workspace_then_each_mount() {
+        let c = candidate_paths("src/main.rs", &mounts(&["api", "web"])).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            c,
+            vec!["/workspace/src/main.rs", "/workspace/api/src/main.rs", "/workspace/web/src/main.rs"]
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn dot_prefix_and_duplicate_slashes_are_normalised_and_candidates_deduped() {
+        let c = candidate_paths("./src//main.rs", &mounts(&["api", "api", ""])).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c, vec!["/workspace/src/main.rs", "/workspace/api/src/main.rs"]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn traversal_nul_and_oversize_are_refused() {
+        assert!(candidate_paths("../etc/passwd", &[]).is_err());
+        assert!(candidate_paths("src/../../x", &[]).is_err());
+        assert!(candidate_paths("/workspace/../etc/passwd", &[]).is_err());
+        assert!(candidate_paths("a\0b", &[]).is_err());
+        assert!(candidate_paths("", &[]).is_err());
+        assert!(candidate_paths(&"a".repeat(5000), &[]).is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn candidate_list_is_capped() {
+        let many: Vec<String> = (0..40).map(|i| format!("m{}", i)).collect();
+        let c = candidate_paths("x.rs", &many).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c.len(), MAX_CANDIDATES);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn probe_output_keeps_valid_resolved_regular_files_only() {
+        let out = "/workspace/api/src/main.rs\n/workspace/api/src/main.rs\n\nrelative/junk\n/etc/../x\n/workspace/web/src/main.rs\n";
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse_probe_output(out),
+            vec!["/workspace/api/src/main.rs", "/workspace/web/src/main.rs"]
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_probe_script_prints_resolved_paths_of_regular_files() {
+        // Shape assertions: the script is data handed to `sh -c`, and these are the
+        // three things a later edit must not lose.
+        assert!(PROBE_SCRIPT.contains("test -f"));
+        assert!(PROBE_SCRIPT.contains("realpath -e --"));
+        assert!(PROBE_SCRIPT.contains("for c in \"$@\""));
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/file_viewer/window.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+//! The viewer window itself. Mirrors `browser_view/popout.rs`, with two differences:
+//! the URL is the app's own second entry (`WebviewUrl::App`), so the capability in
+//! `capabilities/file-viewer.json` applies; and the registry entry is removed on
+//! `Destroyed`, which fires for both the X button (after JS calls `destroy()`) and a
+//! Rust-side `destroy()`.
+
+use tauri::{AppHandle, Manager, WebviewUrl, WebviewWindowBuilder, WindowEvent};
+
+use super::registry::ViewerRegistry;
+
+pub fn open_viewer_window(app: &AppHandle, label: &str, title: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    let window = WebviewWindowBuilder::new(app, label, WebviewUrl::App("viewer.html".into()))
+        .title(title)
+        .inner_size(900.0, 700.0)
+        .min_inner_size(480.0, 320.0)
+        .build()
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Could not open the file window: {}", e))?;
+
+    let app_for_event = app.clone();
+    let label_owned = label.to_string();
+    window.on_window_event(move |event| {
+        if let WindowEvent::Destroyed = event {
+            app_for_event.state::<ViewerRegistry>().remove(&label_owned);
+        }
+    });
+    Ok(())
+}

app/src-tauri/src/file_viewer/write.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,604 @@
+//! Saving: stage in `/tmp`, then swap in as the container user.
+//!
+//! The Docker archive API writes as root, so it is used for exactly one thing — landing
+//! the payload at `/tmp/triple-c-viewer-<uuid>`, owned by the container user (the
+//! existing `write_file_to_container`). Everything that touches the *target directory*
+//! runs in an exec as `claude`, so a save can do nothing the user's own shell could not.
+//! A non-root process cannot `chown`, so the saved file is owned by the container user,
+//! as it would be after Claude Code edited it; mode is kept with `chmod --reference`.
+
+use serde::Serialize;
+use sha2::{Digest, Sha256};
+
+use crate::commands::file_commands::clip_container_text;
+use crate::docker::exec::{exec_oneshot_streams_as, ExecSessionManager};
+
+/// Spec §4/§5: only untruncated (≤ 1 MiB) text is editable, so nothing larger is saved.
+pub const MAX_WRITE_BYTES: usize = 1024 * 1024;
+
+pub fn sha256_hex(bytes: &[u8]) -> String {
+    let digest = Sha256::digest(bytes);
+    digest.iter().map(|b| format!("{:02x}", b)).collect()
+}
+
+pub fn is_sha256_hex(s: &str) -> bool {
+    s.len() == 64 && s.bytes().all(|b| matches!(b, b'0'..=b'9' | b'a'..=b'f'))
+}
+
+/// `$1` target, `$2` staged payload in /tmp, `$3` the hash the editor loaded from.
+/// Exit 1 = a step failed (unreadable target, a failed stage/replace, …), 3 = changed
+/// on disk, 4 = gone, 5 = the target is not writable by the container user; stdout on
+/// success is `sha256sum` of the target *after* the write. That is not necessarily the
+/// hash of what we wrote: another writer (Claude Code, on the same file) can land
+/// between `mv` and `sha256sum`. `saved_file` therefore takes the save's base from the
+/// bytes and only reports this one as what the disk held afterwards (M2).
+///
+/// P15: `sha256sum -- "$target"` prefixes its whole line with `\` when the path
+/// contains a backslash or a newline, so `$actual` has that prefix stripped before
+/// it is compared with `$expect` (which never carries one) — otherwise such a path
+/// would conflict forever.
+///
+/// I1: `$actual` is read from a plain `sha256sum` command substitution, not a
+/// pipeline into `cut` — POSIX sh has no `pipefail`, so `cmd | cut … || exit 1` tests
+/// only `cut`'s exit status and an unreadable file (EACCES, EIO) fell through as a
+/// false "changed on disk" conflict (empty `$actual` never equals `$expect`) instead
+/// of a real error, hiding the actual failure from the user and from `classify_write`.
+///
+/// I2/M3: `$staged` is created by `mktemp` (exclusive — never follows a planted
+/// symlink or stale leftover at that name) and is part of the `EXIT` trap from the
+/// moment it is assigned, so a failure at any later step (`cp`, `chmod`, `mv`) cannot
+/// leave a partial `.<name>.triple-c-<suffix>` behind in the user's own directory —
+/// including on a signal, for the steps after the trap covers it.
+pub const WRITE_SCRIPT: &str = r#"target=$1; tmp=$2; expect=$3
+staged=
+trap 'rm -f -- "$tmp" ${staged:+"$staged"}' EXIT
+test -f "$target" || exit 4
+actual=$(sha256sum -- "$target") || exit 1
+actual=${actual%% *}; actual=${actual#\\}
+[ "$actual" = "$expect" ] || exit 3
+# I3: the file's own mode is a boundary the user set from outside the container (0444,
+# a different owning uid, a read-only bind mount, …). Replacing it via rename or
+# truncating it in place would silently cross that boundary even though `claude` is
+# allowed to — an editor such as vim, or a plain `echo > file` in the user's own shell,
+# would refuse. This is stricter than spec §5 step 3's literal "if the directory is
+# writable" branch, which never looks at the file's own permissions; the branch below
+# only ever chooses *how* to write, never *whether*.
+#
+# The rename branch replaces whatever is at "$target" (a symlink planted there after
+# the window opened is replaced, not followed). The in-place `cat >` fallback, taken
+# only for a writable file in a read-only directory, DOES follow such a symlink and
+# writes through it. That is accepted: the write runs as `claude`, so it can reach
+# nothing Claude Code in the same container cannot already write.
+[ -w "$target" ] || { echo "The file is read-only for the container user." >&2; exit 5; }
+dir=$(dirname -- "$target"); name=$(basename -- "$target")
+if [ -w "$dir" ]; then
+  staged=$(mktemp -- "$dir/.$name.triple-c-XXXXXX") || exit 1
+  cp -- "$tmp" "$staged" || exit 1
+  chmod --reference="$target" "$staged" 2>/dev/null
+  mv -f -- "$staged" "$target" || exit 1
+else
+  cat -- "$tmp" > "$target" || exit 1
+fi
+sha256sum -- "$target""#;
+
+/// A save refused because the file changed since its base hash. The frontend matches
+/// this prefix; its copy lives in `app/src/viewer/ipcMessages.ts` (pinned by a test).
+pub const CONFLICT_PREFIX: &str = "conflict:";
+/// A save refused because the file no longer exists; mirrored in `ipcMessages.ts`.
+pub const GONE_PREFIX: &str = "gone:";
+/// The read-only refusal. The script echoes the same sentence (pinned by a test), but
+/// the caller always gets this constant, whatever the script printed; mirrored in
+/// `ipcMessages.ts`.
+pub const READ_ONLY_MESSAGE: &str = "The file is read-only for the container user.";
+
+/// I3: distinct from the generic failure code so the caller can hand back a specific,
+/// readable message instead of whatever the script's own diagnostic text says.
+const EXIT_READ_ONLY: i64 = 5;
+
+pub enum WriteOutcome {
+    Saved(String),
+    Conflict,
+    Gone,
+    Failed(String),
+}
+
+pub fn classify_write(code: i64, stdout: &str, stderr: &str) -> WriteOutcome {
+    match code {
+        3 => WriteOutcome::Conflict,
+        4 => WriteOutcome::Gone,
+        EXIT_READ_ONLY => WriteOutcome::Failed(READ_ONLY_MESSAGE.into()),
+        0 => match stdout
+            .split_whitespace()
+            .next()
+            .map(|h| h.trim_start_matches('\\'))
+            .filter(|h| is_sha256_hex(h))
+        {
+            Some(h) => WriteOutcome::Saved(h.to_string()),
+            None => WriteOutcome::Failed(
+                "The container did not report the saved file's hash.".into(),
+            ),
+        },
+        _ => WriteOutcome::Failed(clip_container_text(stderr)),
+    }
+}
+
+/// The write script's argv beyond `sh -c SCRIPT`: `$0=save`, `$1=target`, `$2=tmp`,
+/// `$3=base_hash` — pulled out pure so the argument shape has a unit test (P8).
+fn write_command(target: &str, tmp: &str, base_hash: &str) -> Vec<String> {
+    vec![
+        "sh".to_string(),
+        "-c".to_string(),
+        WRITE_SCRIPT.to_string(),
+        "save".to_string(),
+        target.to_string(),
+        tmp.to_string(),
+        base_hash.to_string(),
+    ]
+}
+
+/// Refuses a payload too large to be editable, or a malformed base hash, before
+/// anything is staged in the container (P8).
+fn check_write_input(len: usize, base_hash: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    if len > MAX_WRITE_BYTES {
+        return Err("Files over 1 MiB are read-only in the viewer.".into());
+    }
+    if !is_sha256_hex(base_hash) {
+        return Err("The editor's base hash is malformed; reload the file.".into());
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// What a successful save reports: `hash` is the new base, `sha256_hex` of the bytes
+/// we wrote; `disk_hash` is what the container hashed right after the swap. They differ
+/// only when another writer landed in between, and then the editor must show "Changed
+/// on disk" rather than adopt the other writer's hash as its base (M2).
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct SavedFile {
+    pub hash: String,
+    pub disk_hash: String,
+}
+
+/// `viewer_write_file`'s result, pure so the error-prefix contract has a unit test.
+fn saved_file(outcome: WriteOutcome, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<SavedFile, String> {
+    match outcome {
+        WriteOutcome::Saved(disk_hash) => Ok(SavedFile { hash: sha256_hex(bytes), disk_hash }),
+        WriteOutcome::Conflict => Err(format!(
+            "{} the file changed on disk since it was loaded.",
+            CONFLICT_PREFIX
+        )),
+        WriteOutcome::Gone => Err(format!("{} the file no longer exists.", GONE_PREFIX)),
+        WriteOutcome::Failed(msg) => Err(format!("Could not save the file: {}", msg)),
+    }
+}
+
+pub async fn write_file(
+    container_id: &str,
+    exec_manager: &ExecSessionManager,
+    target: &str,
+    bytes: &[u8],
+    base_hash: &str,
+) -> Result<SavedFile, String> {
+    check_write_input(bytes.len(), base_hash)?;
+    let tmp_name = format!("triple-c-viewer-{}", uuid::Uuid::new_v4().simple());
+    let tmp_path = exec_manager
+        .write_file_to_container(container_id, &tmp_name, bytes)
+        .await?;
+    let cmd = write_command(target, &tmp_path, base_hash);
+    let (stdout, stderr, code) =
+        exec_oneshot_streams_as(container_id, "claude", cmd, Vec::new()).await?;
+    saved_file(classify_write(code, &stdout, &stderr), bytes)
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn sha256_matches_coreutils() {
+        // `printf 'hello\n' | sha256sum`
+        assert_eq!(
+            sha256_hex(b"hello\n"),
+            "5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03"
+        );
+        assert!(is_sha256_hex(&sha256_hex(b"")));
+        assert!(!is_sha256_hex("ABC"));
+        assert!(!is_sha256_hex(&"g".repeat(64)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn exit_codes_map_to_outcomes() {
+        let h = "5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03";
+        assert!(matches!(classify_write(0, &format!("{}  /x\n", h), ""), WriteOutcome::Saved(s) if s == h));
+        assert!(matches!(classify_write(3, "", ""), WriteOutcome::Conflict));
+        assert!(matches!(classify_write(4, "", ""), WriteOutcome::Gone));
+        assert!(matches!(classify_write(1, "", "cp: Permission denied"), WriteOutcome::Failed(m) if m.contains("Permission denied")));
+        // Success without a parseable hash is still a failure: the editor's base would be wrong.
+        assert!(matches!(classify_write(0, "junk", ""), WriteOutcome::Failed(_)));
+    }
+
+    /// I3: exit 5 is the script's read-only refusal, and it must not be swallowed by
+    /// the generic `_ => Failed(stderr)` arm — the caller gets a fixed, readable
+    /// message regardless of exactly what the script printed.
+    #[test]
+    fn exit_five_is_a_distinct_read_only_refusal() {
+        assert!(matches!(
+            classify_write(5, "", "The file is read-only for the container user."),
+            WriteOutcome::Failed(m) if m.contains("read-only")
+        ));
+    }
+
+    /// M2: the new base is the hash of the bytes we wrote, never the script's
+    /// post-`mv` hash, which may belong to a writer that landed after us.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_save_takes_its_base_from_the_written_bytes() {
+        let ours = sha256_hex(b"new\n");
+        let same = saved_file(WriteOutcome::Saved(ours.clone()), b"new\n").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(same, SavedFile { hash: ours.clone(), disk_hash: ours.clone() });
+
+        let foreign = sha256_hex(b"someone else's\n");
+        let raced = saved_file(WriteOutcome::Saved(foreign.clone()), b"new\n").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(raced.hash, ours, "the base must be what we wrote");
+        assert_eq!(raced.disk_hash, foreign, "the foreign hash is reported, not adopted");
+    }
+
+    /// Important #4: the frontend matches these exact strings
+    /// (`app/src/viewer/ipcMessages.ts`), so pin them here too.
+    #[test]
+    fn save_errors_keep_the_prefix_contract() {
+        let conflict = saved_file(WriteOutcome::Conflict, b"").unwrap_err();
+        assert!(conflict.starts_with("conflict:"), "{conflict}");
+        assert_eq!(conflict, "conflict: the file changed on disk since it was loaded.");
+
+        let gone = saved_file(WriteOutcome::Gone, b"").unwrap_err();
+        assert!(gone.starts_with("gone:"), "{gone}");
+        assert_eq!(gone, "gone: the file no longer exists.");
+
+        let read_only = saved_file(classify_write(5, "", "whatever the script said"), b"").unwrap_err();
+        assert_eq!(read_only, "Could not save the file: The file is read-only for the container user.");
+        assert!(!read_only.starts_with(CONFLICT_PREFIX) && !read_only.starts_with(GONE_PREFIX));
+
+        let other = saved_file(classify_write(1, "", "No space left on device"), b"").unwrap_err();
+        assert_eq!(other, "Could not save the file: No space left on device");
+
+        // The script's own refusal text is the same sentence the caller is given.
+        assert!(WRITE_SCRIPT.contains(&format!("echo \"{}\" >&2; exit 5", READ_ONLY_MESSAGE)));
+    }
+
+    /// The TypeScript side keeps one copy of each matched string; a change on either
+    /// side without the other fails here.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_frontend_copies_of_the_ipc_messages_match() {
+        let path = std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../src/viewer/ipcMessages.ts");
+        let ts = std::fs::read_to_string(&path).expect("app/src/viewer/ipcMessages.ts");
+        for (name, value) in [
+            ("CONFLICT_PREFIX", CONFLICT_PREFIX),
+            ("GONE_PREFIX", GONE_PREFIX),
+            ("READ_ONLY_MESSAGE", READ_ONLY_MESSAGE),
+            ("NOT_RUNNING_PREFIX", crate::commands::file_commands::NOT_RUNNING_PREFIX),
+        ] {
+            let line = format!("export const {} = \"{}\";", name, value);
+            assert!(ts.contains(&line), "ipcMessages.ts must contain `{line}`");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// P15: a target path with a backslash makes `sha256sum` prefix the line;
+    /// the parsed hash must still be recognised as the saved hash.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_backslash_prefixed_saved_hash_is_still_recognised() {
+        let h = "5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03";
+        assert!(matches!(
+            classify_write(0, &format!("\\{}  /x\\y\n", h), ""),
+            WriteOutcome::Saved(s) if s == h
+        ));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_write_script_checks_then_swaps_and_always_cleans_up() {
+        for needle in [
+            "test -f \"$target\" || exit 4",
+            "exit 3",
+            "chmod --reference=\"$target\"",
+            "mv -f --",
+            "cat -- \"$tmp\" > \"$target\"",
+            // I2/M3: the trap covers the staged file too, and it comes from `mktemp`.
+            "trap 'rm -f -- \"$tmp\" ${staged:+\"$staged\"}' EXIT",
+            "mktemp -- \"$dir/.$name.triple-c-XXXXXX\"",
+            // I1: a plain command substitution, not a pipeline `cut` could mask.
+            "actual=$(sha256sum -- \"$target\") || exit 1",
+            // I3: a read-only target is refused before any write is attempted.
+            "[ -w \"$target\" ] || { echo \"The file is read-only for the container user.\" >&2; exit 5; }",
+        ] {
+            assert!(WRITE_SCRIPT.contains(needle), "missing: {}", needle);
+        }
+        // The old pipeline form must be gone, not merely superseded.
+        assert!(!WRITE_SCRIPT.contains("cut -d' ' -f1"));
+    }
+
+    /// P8: the write script's test list is binding, and the argument order is
+    /// exactly what a later edit could silently break.
+    #[test]
+    fn write_command_has_the_expected_argv_shape() {
+        let cmd = write_command("/w/t.txt", "/tmp/x", "abc123");
+        assert_eq!(
+            cmd,
+            vec![
+                "sh".to_string(),
+                "-c".to_string(),
+                WRITE_SCRIPT.to_string(),
+                "save".to_string(),
+                "/w/t.txt".to_string(),
+                "/tmp/x".to_string(),
+                "abc123".to_string(),
+            ]
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// P8: the size cap and base-hash checks are unit-testable in isolation from
+    /// the async `write_file`.
+    #[test]
+    fn check_write_input_refuses_oversized_payload_and_malformed_hash() {
+        let h = "5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03";
+        assert!(check_write_input(MAX_WRITE_BYTES, h).is_ok());
+        assert!(check_write_input(MAX_WRITE_BYTES + 1, h).is_err());
+        assert!(check_write_input(0, "not-a-hash").is_err());
+    }
+
+    // ── M10: WRITE_SCRIPT run for real, against a temp dir on the host ──────────
+    //
+    // The needle test above only proves the script *contains* certain substrings; it
+    // cannot catch the pipefail-shaped bug I1 was (the needle text was correct, the
+    // shell semantics were not). These run the exact `sh -c SCRIPT save target tmp
+    // hash` invocation `write_command` builds, so they pin the exit codes and cleanup
+    // behaviour that `write_file`/`classify_write` actually depend on. `sh` and the
+    // coreutils used here (`sha256sum`, `mktemp`, `dirname`, `basename`) are present
+    // on dev machines and CI alike.
+
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    fn run_write_script(
+        target: &std::path::Path,
+        tmp: &std::path::Path,
+        base_hash: &str,
+    ) -> (i32, String, String) {
+        let out = std::process::Command::new("sh")
+            .arg("-c")
+            .arg(WRITE_SCRIPT)
+            .arg("save")
+            .arg(target)
+            .arg(tmp)
+            .arg(base_hash)
+            .output()
+            .expect("sh must be on PATH to run this test");
+        (
+            out.status.code().unwrap_or(-1),
+            String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout).into_owned(),
+            String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr).into_owned(),
+        )
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    fn unique_test_dir(name: &str) -> std::path::PathBuf {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("tc-write-{}-{}", name, uuid::Uuid::new_v4()));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        dir
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn on_the_host_a_clean_save_replaces_the_file_and_cleans_up() {
+        let dir = unique_test_dir("clean");
+        let target = dir.join("t.txt");
+        let tmp = dir.join("payload");
+        std::fs::write(&target, b"old\n").unwrap();
+        std::fs::write(&tmp, b"new\n").unwrap();
+        let base = sha256_hex(b"old\n");
+
+        let (code, stdout, stderr) = run_write_script(&target, &tmp, &base);
+
+        assert_eq!(code, 0, "stdout={stdout} stderr={stderr}");
+        let new_hash = sha256_hex(b"new\n");
+        assert!(stdout.contains(&new_hash), "stdout={stdout}");
+        // With no other writer, the reported disk hash is ours, so no conflict is shown.
+        let saved = saved_file(classify_write(code as i64, &stdout, &stderr), b"new\n").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(saved, SavedFile { hash: new_hash.clone(), disk_hash: new_hash.clone() });
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(&target).unwrap(), b"new\n");
+        assert!(!tmp.exists(), "the staged /tmp payload must be cleaned up");
+
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
+    /// M2, for real: another writer lands between the script's `mv` and its final
+    /// `sha256sum` (simulated by a `sha256sum` shim on PATH that rewrites the target on
+    /// its second call). The save's base must still be the hash of our bytes, and the
+    /// foreign hash must come back as `disk_hash`, so the editor shows "Changed on disk".
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn on_the_host_a_write_that_lands_after_ours_is_reported_not_adopted() {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+        let real = std::process::Command::new("sh")
+            .args(["-c", "command -v sha256sum"])
+            .output()
+            .expect("sh");
+        let real = String::from_utf8_lossy(&real.stdout).trim().to_string();
+        assert!(!real.is_empty(), "sha256sum must be on PATH");
+
+        let dir = unique_test_dir("race");
+        let bin = dir.join("bin");
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&bin).unwrap();
+        let mark = dir.join("called-once");
+        let shim = bin.join("sha256sum");
+        std::fs::write(
+            &shim,
+            format!(
+                "#!/bin/sh\nif [ -e '{mark}' ]; then printf 'theirs\\n' > \"$2\"; fi\n: > '{mark}'\nexec '{real}' \"$@\"\n",
+                mark = mark.display(),
+                real = real
+            ),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        std::fs::set_permissions(&shim, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o755)).unwrap();
+
+        let target = dir.join("t.txt");
+        let tmp = dir.join("payload");
+        std::fs::write(&target, b"old\n").unwrap();
+        std::fs::write(&tmp, b"new\n").unwrap();
+        let path = format!("{}:{}", bin.display(), std::env::var("PATH").unwrap_or_default());
+        let out = std::process::Command::new("sh")
+            .env("PATH", path)
+            .arg("-c")
+            .arg(WRITE_SCRIPT)
+            .arg("save")
+            .arg(&target)
+            .arg(&tmp)
+            .arg(sha256_hex(b"old\n"))
+            .output()
+            .unwrap();
+        let (stdout, stderr) = (String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout), String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr));
+        assert_eq!(out.status.code(), Some(0), "stdout={stdout} stderr={stderr}");
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(&target).unwrap(), b"theirs\n", "the shim's write landed last");
+
+        let saved = saved_file(classify_write(0, &stdout, &stderr), b"new\n").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(saved.hash, sha256_hex(b"new\n"));
+        assert_eq!(saved.disk_hash, sha256_hex(b"theirs\n"));
+
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn on_the_host_a_stale_base_hash_conflicts_and_leaves_everything_untouched() {
+        let dir = unique_test_dir("stale");
+        let target = dir.join("t.txt");
+        let tmp = dir.join("payload");
+        std::fs::write(&target, b"old\n").unwrap();
+        std::fs::write(&tmp, b"new\n").unwrap();
+        let wrong_base = sha256_hex(b"not what is on disk\n");
+
+        let (code, _stdout, stderr) = run_write_script(&target, &tmp, &wrong_base);
+
+        assert_eq!(code, 3, "stderr={stderr}");
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(&target).unwrap(), b"old\n", "must be untouched");
+        assert!(!tmp.exists(), "the staged /tmp payload must still be cleaned up");
+
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn on_the_host_a_missing_target_reports_gone() {
+        let dir = unique_test_dir("gone");
+        let target = dir.join("does-not-exist");
+        let tmp = dir.join("payload");
+        std::fs::write(&tmp, b"new\n").unwrap();
+
+        let (code, _stdout, stderr) = run_write_script(&target, &tmp, &sha256_hex(b"whatever"));
+
+        assert_eq!(code, 4, "stderr={stderr}");
+
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
+    /// I1: a real read failure must be a real error (exit 1), never the exit-3
+    /// conflict a bare `sha256sum | cut` pipeline (no `pipefail` in POSIX sh) would
+    /// silently produce.
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn on_the_host_an_unreadable_target_is_an_error_not_a_conflict() {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+        let dir = unique_test_dir("unreadable");
+        let target = dir.join("t.txt");
+        let tmp = dir.join("payload");
+        std::fs::write(&target, b"old\n").unwrap();
+        std::fs::write(&tmp, b"new\n").unwrap();
+        std::fs::set_permissions(&target, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o000)).unwrap();
+
+        if std::fs::read(&target).is_ok() {
+            // Running as root (or some other bypass): 0o000 does not block reads,
+            // so this scenario cannot be reproduced here.
+            eprintln!("skipping: still able to read a 0o000 file (root?)");
+            let _ = std::fs::set_permissions(&target, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o644));
+            let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        let (code, _stdout, stderr) = run_write_script(&target, &tmp, &sha256_hex(b"old\n"));
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            code, 1,
+            "an unreadable target must be a real error, not exit 3; stderr={stderr}"
+        );
+        assert!(!tmp.exists(), "the staged /tmp payload must still be cleaned up");
+
+        let _ = std::fs::set_permissions(&target, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o644));
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
+    /// I3: a target the container user cannot write is refused outright, never
+    /// replaced via rename.
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn on_the_host_a_read_only_target_is_refused_not_replaced() {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+        let dir = unique_test_dir("readonly");
+        let target = dir.join("t.txt");
+        let tmp = dir.join("payload");
+        std::fs::write(&target, b"old\n").unwrap();
+        std::fs::write(&tmp, b"new\n").unwrap();
+        std::fs::set_permissions(&target, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o444)).unwrap();
+
+        if std::fs::OpenOptions::new().write(true).open(&target).is_ok() {
+            eprintln!("skipping: still able to write a 0o444 file (root?)");
+            let _ = std::fs::set_permissions(&target, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o644));
+            let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        let (code, _stdout, stderr) = run_write_script(&target, &tmp, &sha256_hex(b"old\n"));
+
+        assert_eq!(code as i64, EXIT_READ_ONLY, "stderr={stderr}");
+        assert!(stderr.contains("read-only"), "stderr={stderr}");
+        assert_eq!(
+            std::fs::read(&target).unwrap(),
+            b"old\n",
+            "a read-only file must not be replaced"
+        );
+        assert!(!tmp.exists(), "the staged /tmp payload must still be cleaned up");
+
+        let _ = std::fs::set_permissions(&target, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o644));
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
+    /// I2: a failed stage (here: an unreadable source payload, so `cp` fails after
+    /// `mktemp` has already created the destination) must not leave a partial
+    /// `.<name>.triple-c-<suffix>` behind in the user's own directory.
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[test]
+    fn on_the_host_a_failed_stage_leaves_no_partial_file_behind() {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+        let dir = unique_test_dir("cpfail");
+        let target = dir.join("t.txt");
+        let tmp = dir.join("payload");
+        std::fs::write(&target, b"old\n").unwrap();
+        std::fs::write(&tmp, b"new\n").unwrap();
+        std::fs::set_permissions(&tmp, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o000)).unwrap();
+
+        if std::fs::read(&tmp).is_ok() {
+            eprintln!("skipping: still able to read a 0o000 file (root?)");
+            let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        let (code, _stdout, stderr) = run_write_script(&target, &tmp, &sha256_hex(b"old\n"));
+
+        assert_eq!(code, 1, "stderr={stderr}");
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(&target).unwrap(), b"old\n", "must be untouched");
+        let leftovers: Vec<_> = std::fs::read_dir(&dir)
+            .unwrap()
+            .filter_map(|e| e.ok())
+            .map(|e| e.file_name().to_string_lossy().into_owned())
+            .filter(|n| n.starts_with(".t.txt.triple-c-"))
+            .collect();
+        assert!(leftovers.is_empty(), "staged file(s) left behind: {leftovers:?}");
+
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/lib.rs

@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 mod auth_bridge;
 mod browser_view;
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod command_census;
 mod commands;
 mod docker;
+pub mod file_viewer;
 mod install_helper;
 mod logging;
 mod models;
+mod project_lock;
 mod storage;
+pub mod url_open;
 pub mod web_terminal;
 
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
@@ -28,6 +33,21 @@ pub struct AppState {
     pub auth_bridge: Arc<AuthBridgeManager>,
     pub web_terminal_server: Arc<tokio::sync::Mutex<Option<WebTerminalServer>>>,
     pub lifecycle: Arc<Lifecycle>,
+    /// The file `preview_settings_import` last decrypted successfully, held
+    /// so `apply_settings_import` can re-read and re-decrypt the same file
+    /// without the frontend ever passing a host path back to Rust as an
+    /// argument — see the doc comment on `commands::settings_export_commands`
+    /// for why that direction specifically is the one this app treats as
+    /// dangerous. Deliberately re-decrypted rather than cached in plaintext:
+    /// nothing here holds a decrypted secret in memory for longer than one
+    /// command's execution.
+    ///
+    /// Also pins a hash of the file's ciphertext at preview time, so
+    /// `apply_settings_import` can refuse to proceed if the file on disk
+    /// changed underneath the pending import — otherwise confirming a
+    /// preview is not actually binding on what gets applied.
+    pub pending_settings_import:
+        Arc<tokio::sync::Mutex<Option<commands::settings_export_commands::PendingSettingsImport>>>,
 }
 
 // ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -212,7 +232,6 @@ pub fn run() {
     let lifecycle_setup = lifecycle.clone();
 
     tauri::Builder::default()
-        .plugin(tauri_plugin_store::Builder::default().build())
         .plugin(tauri_plugin_dialog::init())
         .plugin(tauri_plugin_opener::init())
         .manage(AppState {
@@ -222,7 +241,9 @@ pub fn run() {
             auth_bridge,
             web_terminal_server: Arc::new(tokio::sync::Mutex::new(None)),
             lifecycle,
+            pending_settings_import: Arc::new(tokio::sync::Mutex::new(None)),
         })
+        .manage(file_viewer::registry::ViewerRegistry::default())
         .setup(move |app| {
             match tauri::image::Image::from_bytes(include_bytes!("../icons/icon.png")) {
                 Ok(icon) => {
@@ -235,6 +256,48 @@ pub fn run() {
                 }
             }
 
+            // ── Startup disk housekeeping ────────────────────────────────
+            // Until now the only sweep ran *after* a recreation, so a user who
+            // simply stopped launching a project kept its orphaned snapshot
+            // layers forever, and anything a crash left behind (a probe
+            // container pinning a base image, a rollback pin whose migration
+            // record is gone) had no path back at all. All of it is
+            // read-mostly and finishes in well under a second on an idle daemon,
+            // but they are detached anyway: housekeeping must never delay the
+            // window appearing, and a daemon that is not running yet is a
+            // logged warning rather than a failed start.
+            //
+            // Ordering matters. Probes are removed first because a probe holds
+            // an image open and the sweep will not force — both the probe
+            // containers and the probe images, the latter being the one orphan
+            // the sweep can never reach on its own; pins are untagged
+            // second so the images they were holding are dangling by the time
+            // the sweep lists them; the sweep runs last and collects both.
+            let projects_store_for_cleanup = projects_store_setup.clone();
+            tauri::async_runtime::spawn(async move {
+                crate::docker::reap_probe_containers().await;
+                // Probe *images* too, and for a sharper reason: a probe
+                // container merely pins an image the sweep then refuses to
+                // touch, whereas a leftover probe image is tagged and so
+                // nothing else in this app can ever collect it. See
+                // `reap_probe_images`.
+                crate::docker::reap_probe_images().await;
+                let reaped = crate::docker::reap_stale_migration_pins().await;
+                if reaped > 0 {
+                    log::info!("Startup housekeeping dropped {} stale rollback pin(s)", reaped);
+                }
+                crate::docker::sweep_orphaned_snapshots_logged("startup").await;
+                // A container/image/volume `remove_project` could not delete
+                // is recorded rather than lost — see triple-c#31 — and this is
+                // the only place anything ever retries it. Takes the store so
+                // it can refuse to touch a project that turns out to still be
+                // live — see the long comment on the function itself.
+                crate::commands::project_commands::retry_pending_cleanup_logged(
+                    &projects_store_for_cleanup,
+                )
+                .await;
+            });
+
             // Auto-start web terminal server if enabled in settings
             let settings = settings_store_setup.get();
             if settings.web_terminal.enabled {
@@ -411,7 +474,6 @@ pub fn run() {
             commands::docker_commands::check_image_exists,
             commands::docker_commands::build_image,
             commands::docker_commands::get_container_info,
-            commands::docker_commands::list_sibling_containers,
             // Projects
             commands::project_commands::list_projects,
             commands::project_commands::add_project,
@@ -421,6 +483,10 @@ pub fn run() {
             commands::project_commands::stop_project_container,
             commands::project_commands::rebuild_project_container,
             commands::project_commands::reconcile_project_statuses,
+            // Notes
+            commands::notes_commands::list_notes,
+            commands::notes_commands::save_note,
+            commands::notes_commands::delete_note,
             // Container base-image migration
             commands::migration_commands::get_container_staleness,
             commands::migration_commands::migrate_project_to_base,
@@ -452,6 +518,7 @@ pub fn run() {
             commands::auth_token_commands::cancel_claude_token,
             commands::auth_token_commands::has_claude_token,
             commands::auth_token_commands::clear_claude_token,
+            commands::auth_token_commands::sweep_claude_token_snapshots,
             // Settings
             commands::settings_commands::get_settings,
             commands::settings_commands::update_settings,
@@ -460,6 +527,10 @@ pub fn run() {
             commands::settings_commands::inspect_ca_cert_path,
             commands::settings_commands::list_aws_profiles,
             commands::settings_commands::detect_host_timezone,
+            // Settings export/import
+            commands::settings_export_commands::export_settings,
+            commands::settings_export_commands::preview_settings_import,
+            commands::settings_export_commands::apply_settings_import,
             // Terminal
             commands::terminal_commands::open_terminal_session,
             commands::terminal_commands::terminal_input,
@@ -472,9 +543,19 @@ pub fn run() {
             commands::terminal_commands::stop_audio_bridge,
             // Files
             commands::file_commands::list_container_files,
-            commands::file_commands::download_container_file,
             commands::file_commands::download_container_backup,
-            commands::file_commands::upload_file_to_container,
+            commands::file_commands::download_container_file,
+            commands::file_commands::upload_files_to_container,
+            commands::file_commands::read_container_file,
+            commands::file_commands::rename_container_path,
+            commands::file_commands::create_container_directory,
+            // Terminal file viewer
+            commands::file_viewer_commands::open_file_viewer,
+            commands::file_viewer_commands::viewer_get_state,
+            commands::file_viewer_commands::viewer_choose_file,
+            commands::file_viewer_commands::viewer_read_file,
+            commands::file_viewer_commands::viewer_poll_file,
+            commands::file_viewer_commands::viewer_write_file,
             // AWS
             commands::aws_commands::aws_sso_refresh,
             // Updates
@@ -483,6 +564,9 @@ pub fn run() {
             commands::update_commands::check_image_update,
             // Help
             commands::help_commands::get_help_content,
+            // Opening a link in the host browser (see `url_open` for why this
+            // is not `@tauri-apps/plugin-opener` on Linux)
+            url_open::open_url_external,
             // Install helper
             commands::install_helper_commands::detect_install_options,
             commands::install_helper_commands::run_docker_install,
@@ -652,4 +736,333 @@ mod tests {
         lifecycle.settle_startup_tasks().await;
         assert!(started.elapsed() <= STARTUP_CANCEL_BUDGET + Duration::from_secs(1));
     }
+
+    /// The capability file is the app's entire IPC attack surface, and it is
+    /// data — nothing in `cargo test` reads it, so a widened grant lands with a
+    /// green suite. This is what noticing looks like.
+    ///
+    /// It exists because `core:default` was granted for months. That alias
+    /// pulls in `core:image:default` → `allow-from-path`, which is an
+    /// unconditional `std::fs::read` of any host path with no scope check, and
+    /// nothing in the frontend has ever imported `@tauri-apps/api/image`.
+    /// Every `#[tauri::command]` is registered, and every registration names a
+    /// command that exists.
+    ///
+    /// This is the shape of the bug that caused the original OAuth-callback
+    /// complaint: `set_auth_bridge_enabled` existed, worked, and had a typed
+    /// frontend wrapper — with **zero call sites**. The switch the docs told
+    /// users to flip was never wired to anything, so the bridge stayed off and
+    /// every login callback was refused. Nothing failed; the feature was simply
+    /// absent, and no test noticed because both halves compiled.
+    ///
+    /// The reverse direction matters too, and for a sharper reason: a command
+    /// that is registered but reachable from nowhere is still IPC surface a
+    /// compromised webview can call. `list_sibling_containers` — which returned
+    /// every container on the daemon, including the user's unrelated work —
+    /// sat in exactly that state, and this test is what found it. It has since
+    /// been removed at all four levels: registration, command, docker helper,
+    /// and the frontend wrapper and type.
+    ///
+    /// So this asserts the two lists agree, and leaves *deciding* what belongs
+    /// on them to a human. It cannot see frontend call sites; `tsc` and the
+    /// vitest suite cover that side.
+    #[test]
+    fn every_command_is_registered_exactly_once() {
+        use std::collections::BTreeSet;
+
+        let mut defined: BTreeSet<String> = BTreeSet::new();
+
+        // Walk the source tree for the command attribute and take the `fn` name
+        // that follows.
+        //
+        // The first version of this matched `line.trim() == "#[tauri::command]"`
+        // exactly and broke on the first non-`#` line. An audit got five real,
+        // compiling, unregistered commands past it — `#[tauri::command(async)]`,
+        // `#[tauri::command(rename_all = "snake_case")]`, a trailing comment,
+        // spaces in the path, and a bare `#[command]` after `use tauri::command`
+        // — plus `pub(crate) fn` and a `///` line between attribute and `fn`.
+        // Every one of those is a command the frontend could not call, which is
+        // the bug this test exists for, and the test stayed green.
+        //
+        // The asymmetry matters: confusion on the *definition* side is a silent
+        // pass, while on the *registration* side it fails loudly against
+        // legitimate code — and rustc already covers that direction. So this
+        // errs toward over-matching definitions.
+        fn collect(dir: &std::path::Path, out: &mut BTreeSet<String>) {
+            let Ok(entries) = std::fs::read_dir(dir) else { return };
+            for entry in entries.flatten() {
+                let path = entry.path();
+                if path.is_dir() {
+                    collect(&path, out);
+                } else if path.extension().is_some_and(|e| e == "rs") {
+                    let Ok(text) = std::fs::read_to_string(&path) else { continue };
+                    let lines: Vec<&str> = text.lines().collect();
+                    for (i, line) in lines.iter().enumerate() {
+                        let t = line.trim();
+                        // `#[tauri::command]`, `#[tauri::command(async)]`,
+                        // `#[tauri :: command]`, a bare `#[command]` under
+                        // `use tauri::command`, and any of those with a
+                        // trailing comment.
+                        let attr = t.strip_prefix("#[").map(|a| {
+                            a.split(']').next().unwrap_or("").replace(' ', "")
+                        });
+                        let is_command_attr = attr.is_some_and(|a| {
+                            a == "command" || a == "tauri::command"
+                                || a.starts_with("command(")
+                                || a.starts_with("tauri::command(")
+                        });
+                        if !is_command_attr {
+                            continue;
+                        }
+                        // Skip further attributes and doc comments rather than
+                        // giving up at the first line that is not an attribute.
+                        for next in lines.iter().skip(i + 1) {
+                            let t = next.trim();
+                            if t.starts_with('#') || t.starts_with("//") || t.is_empty() {
+                                continue;
+                            }
+                            // Any visibility, then `fn` or `async fn`.
+                            let after_vis = t
+                                .strip_prefix("pub(crate) ")
+                                .or_else(|| t.strip_prefix("pub(super) "))
+                                .or_else(|| t.strip_prefix("pub(in crate) "))
+                                .or_else(|| t.strip_prefix("pub "))
+                                .unwrap_or(t);
+                            let after_async =
+                                after_vis.strip_prefix("async ").unwrap_or(after_vis);
+                            if let Some(rest) = after_async.strip_prefix("fn ") {
+                                if let Some(name) = rest.split(['(', '<']).next() {
+                                    out.insert(name.trim().to_string());
+                                }
+                            }
+                            break;
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        collect(
+            std::path::Path::new(concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "/src")),
+            &mut defined,
+        );
+
+        // The registration list, read from this file by the same parser `build.rs` uses to
+        // declare the AppManifest — so if this test can see a command, the ACL can too.
+        let ordered = crate::command_census::registered_commands(include_str!("lib.rs"))
+            .expect("lib.rs should contain a generate_handler! list");
+        let registered: BTreeSet<String> = ordered.iter().cloned().collect();
+
+        assert!(
+            !defined.is_empty() && !registered.is_empty(),
+            "the scan found nothing — it has stopped testing anything (defined={}, registered={})",
+            defined.len(),
+            registered.len()
+        );
+
+        let unregistered: Vec<&String> = defined.difference(&registered).collect();
+        assert!(
+            unregistered.is_empty(),
+            "these commands exist but are not registered, so the frontend cannot call them: {:?}",
+            unregistered
+        );
+
+        let undefined: Vec<&String> = registered.difference(&defined).collect();
+        assert!(
+            undefined.is_empty(),
+            "these are registered but no `#[tauri::command]` defines them: {:?}",
+            undefined
+        );
+
+        // "exactly once" was in this test's name and not in its body: both
+        // sides were sets, so registering the same command twice in a
+        // hand-maintained 118-line list compiled, warned about nothing, and
+        // passed here.
+        let mut seen: Vec<&str> = Vec::new();
+        let mut duplicated: Vec<&str> = Vec::new();
+        for name in &ordered {
+            if seen.contains(&name.as_str()) {
+                duplicated.push(name);
+            } else {
+                seen.push(name);
+            }
+        }
+        assert!(
+            duplicated.is_empty(),
+            "these are registered more than once: {:?}",
+            duplicated
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_capability_grants_are_the_ones_that_were_reviewed() {
+        let raw = include_str!("../capabilities/default.json");
+        let parsed: serde_json::Value =
+            serde_json::from_str(raw).expect("capabilities/default.json must parse");
+        let listed: Vec<String> = parsed["permissions"]
+            .as_array()
+            .expect("a `permissions` array")
+            .iter()
+            .map(|p| match p {
+                // A scoped grant is an object; its identifier is what matters here.
+                serde_json::Value::Object(o) => o["identifier"]
+                    .as_str()
+                    .expect("a scoped grant needs an identifier")
+                    .to_string(),
+                other => other.as_str().expect("a grant is a string or an object").to_string(),
+            })
+            .collect();
+
+        // Plugin and core grants: the exact reviewed list, unchanged by the lockdown.
+        let (bare, prefixed): (Vec<String>, Vec<String>) =
+            listed.iter().cloned().partition(|g| !g.contains(':'));
+        let mut sorted = prefixed;
+        sorted.sort();
+        let mut expected = vec![
+            "core:event:allow-listen",
+            "core:event:allow-unlisten",
+            "core:webview:allow-internal-toggle-devtools",
+            "dialog:allow-open",
+            "dialog:allow-save",
+        ];
+        expected.sort();
+        assert_eq!(
+            sorted, expected,
+            "the plugin/core capability set changed. That is allowed — but it is the IPC \
+             surface a compromised webview can call, so update this list \
+             deliberately rather than to make the test pass."
+        );
+
+        // App commands: since build.rs declares the AppManifest, the bare `allow-*` grants
+        // are the complete list of app commands the main window may call. `build.rs` already
+        // fails the build when they disagree with generate_handler!; this keeps the reviewed
+        // rule ("every non-viewer command, exactly") visible where the plugin census lives.
+        let registered = crate::command_census::registered_commands(include_str!("lib.rs"))
+            .expect("lib.rs should contain a generate_handler! list");
+        let mut expected_bare: Vec<String> = registered
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|c| crate::command_census::expected_windows(c) == ["main"])
+            .map(|c| crate::command_census::allow_permission(c))
+            .collect();
+        expected_bare.sort();
+        let mut bare = bare;
+        bare.sort();
+        assert_eq!(
+            bare, expected_bare,
+            "default.json's app-command grants must be exactly the main-window commands"
+        );
+        assert!(bare.len() >= 100, "the census found {} app grants; the parser has stopped seeing the list", bare.len());
+
+        // Belt and braces: the `*:default` aliases are the specific trap here,
+        // because they expand to a set the file never spells out. `store:*` in
+        // particular was an arbitrary host-file read/write primitive.
+        for grant in &listed {
+            assert!(
+                !grant.ends_with(":default"),
+                "{} is an alias — it expands to permissions this file does not \
+                 name. Enumerate them instead.",
+                grant
+            );
+            assert!(
+                !grant.starts_with("store:"),
+                "store:* is `PathBuf::push` against AppData, which an absolute \
+                 path discards: an arbitrary host-file read/write."
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// `build.rs` derives the AppManifest from the handler list and this reads back what
+    /// tauri-build actually embedded. `cargo test` runs the build script first, so
+    /// `gen/schemas/acl-manifests.json` is fresh. This guards against the committed/generated
+    /// artifact diverging from `generate_handler!` — a stale `acl-manifests.json`, or a
+    /// tauri-build naming change — using the same `registered_commands` parser `build.rs` used
+    /// to derive the manifest in the first place. It is *not* independent of a parser dropout on
+    /// its own: if `registered_commands` lost half the list, `build.rs` would declare half a
+    /// manifest and this would still compare it against the same half. That guarantee is
+    /// transitive, not local — `every_command_is_registered_exactly_once` covers it, by
+    /// cross-checking the parser's output against an independent `#[tauri::command]` scan, so a
+    /// parser regression that silently dropped commands fails there rather than going unnoticed
+    /// here.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_generated_app_manifest_matches_the_handler_list() {
+        use std::collections::BTreeSet;
+
+        let path = concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "/gen/schemas/acl-manifests.json");
+        let raw = std::fs::read_to_string(path)
+            .expect("gen/schemas/acl-manifests.json is written by build.rs on every build");
+        let manifests: serde_json::Value =
+            serde_json::from_str(&raw).expect("acl-manifests.json must parse");
+        let app = manifests.get("__app-acl__").expect(
+            "build.rs must declare an AppManifest — without it tauri skips the ACL for every \
+             app command",
+        );
+        let embedded: BTreeSet<String> = app["permissions"]
+            .as_object()
+            .expect("the app manifest has a permissions map")
+            .keys()
+            .cloned()
+            .collect();
+
+        let registered = crate::command_census::registered_commands(include_str!("lib.rs"))
+            .expect("lib.rs should contain a generate_handler! list");
+        let expected: BTreeSet<String> = registered
+            .iter()
+            .flat_map(|c| {
+                let allow = crate::command_census::allow_permission(c);
+                let deny = format!("deny-{}", &allow["allow-".len()..]);
+                [allow, deny]
+            })
+            .collect();
+
+        assert!(registered.len() >= 100, "the parser sees {} commands", registered.len());
+        assert_eq!(
+            embedded, expected,
+            "the embedded app manifest and generate_handler! disagree: build.rs and \
+             tauri-build should have produced the same list"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            app["permission_sets"].as_object().is_some_and(|s| s.is_empty()),
+            "no permission sets: every grant is a literal allow-* string in a capability file"
+        );
+        assert!(app["default_permission"].is_null(), "no app `default` permission set");
+    }
+
+    /// `build.rs`'s `check_tauri_config` (inline `app.security.capabilities`, a JSON5/TOML tauri
+    /// config, `TAURI_CONFIG`) only runs inside the build script, so it only re-runs on a clean
+    /// build or in CI — cargo's incremental build has no reason to notice a new
+    /// `tauri.<platform>.conf.json` dropped into an already-built tree (CLAUDE.md, "Known
+    /// limit"). This runs the same check, using the same `command_census` functions build.rs
+    /// calls, directly against the real `app/src-tauri` directory on every `cargo test`, so that
+    /// gap is closed locally too.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_tauri_config_capability_check_runs_against_the_real_tree() {
+        let dir = env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR");
+        let mut problems = Vec::new();
+        for entry in std::fs::read_dir(dir).expect("readable src-tauri/") {
+            let path = entry.expect("readable entry in src-tauri/").path();
+            let name = path
+                .file_name()
+                .expect("a directory entry has a file name")
+                .to_string_lossy()
+                .into_owned();
+            match crate::command_census::tauri_config_file(&name) {
+                None => {}
+                Some(false) => problems.push(format!(
+                    "{name}: the census reads JSON tauri configs only; a JSON5/TOML config \
+                     could declare capabilities it cannot see"
+                )),
+                Some(true) => {
+                    let json =
+                        std::fs::read_to_string(&path).unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("{name}: {e}"));
+                    problems.extend(crate::command_census::tauri_config_problem(&name, &json));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if let Ok(json) = std::env::var("TAURI_CONFIG") {
+            problems.extend(crate::command_census::tauri_config_problem("TAURI_CONFIG", &json));
+        }
+        assert!(
+            problems.is_empty(),
+            "cargo test found what build.rs would refuse on a clean build: {problems:?}"
+        );
+    }
 }

app/src-tauri/src/logging.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 use std::fs;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
+/// The level the dispatch is built with, and the level restored by hand if
+/// installing it fails — see the failure branch in [`init`] for why that
+/// matters more than it looks.
+const LOG_LEVEL: log::LevelFilter = log::LevelFilter::Info;
+
 /// Returns the log directory path: `<data_dir>/triple-c/logs/`
 fn log_dir() -> Option<PathBuf> {
     dirs::data_dir().map(|d| d.join("triple-c").join("logs"))
@@ -33,7 +38,7 @@ pub fn init() {
                 message
             ))
         })
-        .level(log::LevelFilter::Info)
+        .level(LOG_LEVEL)
         .chain(std::io::stderr());
 
     if let Some((_path, file)) = &log_file_path {
@@ -41,7 +46,28 @@ pub fn init() {
     }
 
     if let Err(e) = dispatch.apply() {
-        eprintln!("Failed to initialise logger: {}", e);
+        // H2's other half. `fern::Dispatch::apply` calls `log::set_boxed_logger`
+        // and only then `log::set_max_level`, so a failure returns with the
+        // global filter still at its default, `LevelFilter::Off`. That is not
+        // merely "no log output": every `log::info!(…)` expands to
+        // `if Info <= max_level() { … }`, so at `Off` the macro never evaluates
+        // its own arguments. Anything a call site put in an argument list —
+        // a function call, an `await`, a side effect — silently stops
+        // happening, app-wide, because a logger could not be installed.
+        //
+        // Call sites must not put effects in log arguments (see the
+        // pre-migration scrub in `migration_commands.rs`), but "the whole
+        // program's log macros are dead and nothing said so" is its own
+        // hazard, so the level this dispatch was configured with is restored
+        // by hand. Nothing is listening — `log`'s default logger is a no-op —
+        // but the macros evaluate, and the one thing that *is* guaranteed to
+        // reach the user, the stderr line below, says what happened.
+        eprintln!(
+            "Failed to initialise logger: {}. Log output is disabled for this run; \
+             log macros still evaluate their arguments.",
+            e
+        );
+        log::set_max_level(LOG_LEVEL);
     }
 
     // Install a panic hook that writes to the log file so crashes are captured.
@@ -71,3 +97,40 @@ pub fn init() {
         log::info!("Logging to {}", path.display());
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_logger_that_could_not_be_installed_still_leaves_the_macros_evaluating() {
+        // H2: `log::info!(…)` expands to `if Info <= max_level() { … }`, so at
+        // `LevelFilter::Off` the arguments are never evaluated. `fern` returns
+        // before `set_max_level` when `apply()` fails, which leaves exactly
+        // that state — and a call site that folded an effect into an argument
+        // list then stops performing it, app-wide, because a log file could not
+        // be opened. The failure branch restores the level for that reason.
+        //
+        // Asserted on the level itself rather than by driving `init`, which
+        // installs a process-global logger and a panic hook and can only run
+        // once per process.
+        assert_ne!(LOG_LEVEL, log::LevelFilter::Off);
+
+        // The property that makes the above worth asserting, demonstrated
+        // against the macro itself: a side effect in an argument list runs only
+        // while the level admits the record.
+        let mut ran = false;
+        let effect = |v: &mut bool| {
+            *v = true;
+            0
+        };
+        let previous = log::max_level();
+        log::set_max_level(log::LevelFilter::Off);
+        log::info!("{}", effect(&mut ran));
+        assert!(!ran, "the premise is wrong: arguments evaluated at LevelFilter::Off");
+        log::set_max_level(LOG_LEVEL);
+        log::info!("{}", effect(&mut ran));
+        assert!(ran, "arguments did not evaluate at the level this module configures");
+        log::set_max_level(previous);
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/main.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,157 @@
 // Prevents additional console window on Windows in release
 #![cfg_attr(not(debug_assertions), windows_subsystem = "windows")]
 
+/// WebKitGTK's DMA-BUF renderer (its default accelerated-compositing path
+/// since 2.42) fails outright on some Mesa/driver/compositor combinations
+/// under Wayland, killing the webview and leaving a blank window — see
+/// triple-c#34, reported on CachyOS/Arch with Wayland.
+///
+/// **This is not the only cause of a blank window, and the error text alone
+/// does not tell them apart.** An earlier version of this comment quoted
+/// `Could not create default EGL display: EGL_BAD_PARAMETER. Aborting.` as
+/// the error this fixes. The AppImage produces that same string for an
+/// entirely unrelated reason: it bundled a `libwayland-client.so.0` that
+/// shadowed the host's, and the host's `libEGL_mesa.so.0` has a hard
+/// DT_NEEDED on that library, so the EGL driver failed to load before any
+/// renderer choice was reachable. This flag was set, and correctly, and made no difference —
+/// which cost a round of debugging that started from the comment rather than
+/// from the evidence. See `scripts/unbundle-wayland-client.sh`.
+///
+/// Set unconditionally on Linux rather than gated on `WAYLAND_DISPLAY`: that
+/// variable is exported into an XWayland client's environment too, so a
+/// gate on it wouldn't even cleanly separate "Wayland" from "X11" — and
+/// there is no reliable heuristic at all for the actual variable that
+/// matters, which Mesa/driver/compositor combination is affected. This is
+/// the blunt instrument, chosen deliberately because the fallback is a real
+/// trade, not a free one: the terminal's `@xterm/addon-webgl` renderer
+/// (`TerminalView.tsx`) is the one surface in this app actually asking for
+/// GPU compositing, and it degrades to xterm's canvas renderer under this
+/// setting — slower on very heavy output, but the addon's own construction
+/// is already wrapped in a fallback (`WebGL not available` is a handled
+/// case, not a crash), so this is a real but graceful downgrade, traded
+/// against a startup abort that has no fallback at all.
+///
+/// Must be set before `triple_c_lib::run()` — GTK/WebKitGTK reads it at
+/// their own init time, which happens inside the Tauri builder that
+/// function calls into, not at binary load.
+///
+/// A user who has already set this themselves is left alone — with one
+/// correction. The earlier version of this function left *any* pre-set value
+/// alone, including `0`, on the assumption WebKitGTK reads the variable as a
+/// boolean. WebKitGTK reads it as presence-only, so `WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_
+/// RENDERER=0` disabled DMA-BUF exactly like `=1` did, and there was no value
+/// at all a user could set to get the accelerated path back: the escape hatch
+/// the comment described did not exist. `0`, `false` and empty are now treated
+/// as an explicit opt-out and the variable is *removed*, which is the only
+/// thing WebKitGTK reads as "enabled". The default is unchanged — unset still
+/// means disabled on Linux, so nobody who was not deliberately overriding this
+/// sees any difference.
+///
+/// That matters more than it looks, because the trade described above is not
+/// the trade actually being made. `@xterm/addon-webgl` does not fall back to
+/// the canvas renderer here: its constructor throws only when WebGL is
+/// *absent*, and with DMA-BUF disabled WebGL is still present — served by
+/// software rasterisation. So the addon loads happily and every terminal frame
+/// is rendered on the CPU and copied, which is slower than the canvas renderer
+/// this comment assumed it would degrade to, not faster. See
+/// `terminal_gpu_rendering` in `AppSettings` for the switch that decides
+/// whether the addon is loaded at all.
+///
+/// This env var also leaks to whatever the app spawns afterwards — notably
+/// a cold-launched default browser via the `opener` plugin's `xdg-open`
+/// call. Narrow in practice (an already-running browser just receives the
+/// URL; most non-WebKitGTK browsers ignore the variable entirely), but
+/// worth knowing before chasing the "links don't open" half of triple-c#34
+/// as a separate, unrelated cause.
+///
+/// That leak is now plugged rather than merely documented: `url_open` hands
+/// the opener a child environment with this variable (and the AppImage's own
+/// `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`/`GTK_PATH`/... ) restored or removed. Setting it here
+/// stays process-wide because GTK/WebKitGTK need it; what changed is that the
+/// children no longer inherit it.
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+const DMABUF_VAR: &str = "WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER";
+
+/// What to do with `WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER`, given whatever it is
+/// already set to. Split from the mutation so it can be tested without
+/// touching process-wide environment state from a parallel test runner.
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+enum DmabufAction {
+    /// Not set by the user — apply the workaround.
+    Disable,
+    /// Explicitly opted out. WebKitGTK reads presence, not value, so the only
+    /// way to express "enabled" is for the variable not to exist.
+    Remove,
+    /// Set to something meaning "disabled". Already what we want; leave it.
+    LeaveAlone,
+}
+
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+fn dmabuf_action(current: Option<&str>) -> DmabufAction {
+    match current {
+        None => DmabufAction::Disable,
+        Some(value) => match value.trim().to_ascii_lowercase().as_str() {
+            "" | "0" | "false" | "no" => DmabufAction::Remove,
+            _ => DmabufAction::LeaveAlone,
+        },
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+fn apply_webkit_wayland_workaround() {
+    let current = std::env::var(DMABUF_VAR).ok();
+    match dmabuf_action(current.as_deref()) {
+        DmabufAction::Disable => std::env::set_var(DMABUF_VAR, "1"),
+        DmabufAction::Remove => std::env::remove_var(DMABUF_VAR),
+        DmabufAction::LeaveAlone => {}
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(test, target_os = "linux"))]
+mod tests {
+    use super::{dmabuf_action, DmabufAction};
+
+    #[test]
+    fn unset_gets_the_workaround() {
+        assert_eq!(dmabuf_action(None), DmabufAction::Disable);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn falsey_values_opt_out_by_removing_the_variable() {
+        // The bug this replaces: these all previously read as "user set it,
+        // leave it alone", and WebKitGTK then disabled DMA-BUF anyway because
+        // it only checks presence. There was no way to ask for the GPU path.
+        for value in ["0", "false", "no", "", "  0  ", "FALSE", "No"] {
+            assert_eq!(
+                dmabuf_action(Some(value)),
+                DmabufAction::Remove,
+                "{value:?} should opt out"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn other_values_are_left_alone() {
+        for value in ["1", "true", "yes", "anything"] {
+            assert_eq!(
+                dmabuf_action(Some(value)),
+                DmabufAction::LeaveAlone,
+                "{value:?} should be left alone"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 fn main() {
+    // Before *any* `std::env::set_var` — `url_open` hands a child process the
+    // environment this app was started with, and the workaround below is one
+    // of the things that must not leak into it (see triple-c#34). Anything
+    // added here that mutates the environment belongs after this line.
+    triple_c_lib::url_open::capture_pristine_environment();
+
+    #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+    apply_webkit_wayland_workaround();
+
     triple_c_lib::run()
 }

app/src-tauri/src/models/app_settings.rs

@@ -135,6 +135,26 @@ pub struct AppSettings {
     pub gateway: GatewaySettings,
     #[serde(default)]
     pub global_claude_code_settings: Option<ClaudeCodeSettings>,
+    /// Whether the terminal loads `@xterm/addon-webgl`.
+    ///
+    /// `None` is "auto", and auto is not the same answer on every platform.
+    /// On Linux the app disables WebKitGTK's DMA-BUF renderer at startup (see
+    /// `apply_webkit_wayland_workaround` in `main.rs`, and triple-c#34), which
+    /// does not remove WebGL — it leaves it backed by software rasterisation.
+    /// The addon therefore loads successfully and then renders every frame on
+    /// the CPU, which is slower than the canvas renderer it would otherwise
+    /// have fallen back to. So auto means enabled on macOS and Windows, and
+    /// disabled on Linux.
+    ///
+    /// `Some(true)` / `Some(false)` force it either way on any platform. A
+    /// Linux user running X11, or one whose driver stack is unaffected, can
+    /// turn it back on; anyone seeing terminal lag can turn it off without
+    /// waiting for a release. Deliberately `Option<bool>` rather than `bool`:
+    /// the zero value has to mean "we choose", not "off", or every existing
+    /// settings file would silently pin the answer at whatever the default was
+    /// the day it was written.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub terminal_gpu_rendering: Option<bool>,
 }
 
 fn default_stt_model() -> String {
@@ -226,6 +246,7 @@ impl Default for AppSettings {
             stt: SttSettings::default(),
             gateway: GatewaySettings::default(),
             global_claude_code_settings: None,
+            terminal_gpu_rendering: None,
         }
     }
 }

app/src-tauri/src/models/mod.rs

@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
-pub mod project;
-pub mod container_config;
 pub mod app_settings;
+pub mod container_config;
 pub mod gateway_settings;
 pub mod migration;
+pub mod note;
+pub mod project;
+pub mod settings_export;
 pub mod update_info;
 
-pub use project::*;
-pub use container_config::*;
 pub use app_settings::*;
+pub use container_config::*;
 pub use gateway_settings::*;
 pub use migration::*;
+pub use note::*;
+pub use project::*;
+pub use settings_export::*;
 pub use update_info::*;

app/src-tauri/src/models/note.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+/// One note. A scratchpad entry the user can also fire at a running Claude
+/// session.
+///
+/// Deliberately has no `kind`/`type` field. What makes a note "for the agent"
+/// is that the user pressed Send, not a mode chosen when it was written — a
+/// classification decision at writing time is one the user is least willing to
+/// make, and it would turn one pane into two features.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq)]
+pub struct Note {
+    pub id: String,
+    pub title: String,
+    pub body: String,
+    /// Pinned notes sort first, then by `updated_at` descending.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub pinned: bool,
+    pub created_at: String,
+    pub updated_at: String,
+}
+
+impl Note {
+    pub fn new(title: String, body: String) -> Self {
+        let now = chrono::Utc::now().to_rfc3339();
+        Self {
+            id: uuid::Uuid::new_v4().to_string(),
+            title,
+            body,
+            pinned: false,
+            created_at: now.clone(),
+            updated_at: now,
+        }
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/models/project.rs

@@ -8,6 +8,100 @@ pub struct EnvVar {
     pub value: String,
 }
 
+/// Whether `key` is a name a shell will read back as an ordinary variable:
+/// `[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*`.
+///
+/// ## Why a charset rule, and not just the reserved-name list
+///
+/// `docker::container::is_reserved_env_key` answers a different question — "is
+/// this one of the names Triple-C manages itself" — and nothing anywhere asked
+/// what the *characters* were. A key is joined into `KEY=VALUE` and handed to
+/// the daemon, which puts it in the container's environment verbatim, so a name
+/// that is not an identifier travels through unchallenged.
+///
+/// The one that matters is `BASH_FUNC_name%%`, bash's wire format for an
+/// exported shell function: bash imports those at startup and the *body* is the
+/// value. Today that is latent rather than live — the image's `/bin/sh` is
+/// dash, which does not import them, and an auditor confirmed the vector fires
+/// under `bash -c` and not under `sh -c` in the shipped image. But the
+/// pre-commit scrub runs `/bin/sh -c` **as root**, `/bin/sh` is whatever
+/// `ubuntu:24.04` points it at, and nothing pins that. One base-image change,
+/// or one call site spelled `bash`, turns a stored project setting into root
+/// code execution inside the container at commit time.
+///
+/// So the rule is the shape of the thing rather than a list of the names that
+/// are known to be dangerous: `IFS`, `LD_PRELOAD` and `PATH` are all perfectly
+/// good identifiers and are the user's business, while nothing legitimate needs
+/// a `%`, a `(` or a space in an environment variable name.
+///
+/// The key is judged **trimmed**, because that is what `create_container` sends
+/// — ` FOO ` already reaches the container as `FOO`, and refusing it here would
+/// break a setting that works.
+pub fn is_valid_env_key(key: &str) -> bool {
+    let mut chars = key.trim().chars();
+    match chars.next() {
+        Some(c) if c.is_ascii_alphabetic() || c == '_' => {}
+        _ => return false,
+    }
+    chars.all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || c == '_')
+}
+
+/// Validate a custom environment variable list that is about to be stored,
+/// admitting the entries it is already stored with.
+///
+/// Same shape, and the same reasoning, as
+/// `commands::project_commands::validate_project_paths_update`: nothing ever
+/// checked these keys, so `projects.json` and `settings.json` in the field can
+/// hold whatever was typed. Holding every save to the new rule would make such
+/// a project unsavable *entirely* — `update_project` is the single command
+/// behind the whole Config tab — and would buy nothing, because the stored key
+/// is already being handed to every container that starts. An entry carried
+/// over verbatim is admitted; a new or edited one is held to the rule, which is
+/// what keeps the escalation closed, since escalation means *introducing* a bad
+/// key through this command.
+///
+/// Counted rather than set-tested, for the same reason as the folder rows: a
+/// second copy of an existing entry is a new entry.
+///
+/// The blank entry is not a violation. "+ Add variable" appends
+/// `{key: "", value: ""}` and saves the list immediately, so refusing it would
+/// turn the button itself into an error toast; `create_container` skips an
+/// empty key, so it reaches nothing.
+pub fn validate_env_vars_update(stored: &[EnvVar], incoming: &[EnvVar]) -> Result<(), String> {
+    // An entry with no key is the placeholder, whatever is in its value:
+    // `create_container` skips it, so it reaches nothing and there is nothing
+    // to refuse. The editor saves on every blur, and typing the value before
+    // the name is an ordinary way to fill a row in.
+    let is_blank = |v: &EnvVar| v.key.trim().is_empty();
+
+    let mut carried: std::collections::HashMap<(&str, &str), usize> =
+        std::collections::HashMap::new();
+    for v in stored.iter().filter(|v| !is_blank(v)) {
+        *carried
+            .entry((v.key.as_str(), v.value.as_str()))
+            .or_insert(0) += 1;
+    }
+
+    for v in incoming.iter().filter(|v| !is_blank(v)) {
+        match carried.get_mut(&(v.key.as_str(), v.value.as_str())) {
+            Some(remaining) if *remaining > 0 => {
+                *remaining -= 1;
+            }
+            _ => {
+                if !is_valid_env_key(&v.key) {
+                    return Err(format!(
+                        "'{}' is not a usable environment variable name. Use a letter or \
+                         underscore followed by letters, digits or underscores.",
+                        v.key
+                    ));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq)]
 pub struct ProjectPath {
     pub host_path: String,
@@ -38,6 +132,26 @@ fn default_use_shared_auth_token() -> bool {
     true
 }
 
+/// `auth_bridge_enabled` defaults to **on**, and the default is what makes
+/// `claude login` work at all.
+///
+/// The login flow binds a *random* ephemeral loopback port inside the
+/// container and then sends the host's browser to `127.0.0.1:<that port>`.
+/// On the host nothing is listening there, so the callback lands on a closed
+/// port and the CLI waits for a redirect that can never arrive. The bridge
+/// mirrors the container's loopback listeners onto the same host port, which
+/// is the only thing that closes that loop — so off-by-default made a hang the
+/// out-of-the-box experience.
+///
+/// Returning `true` from a `#[serde(default)]` helper (rather than flipping the
+/// constructor alone) is deliberate: existing `projects.json` records were
+/// written before this field existed, or while it was off, and an absent key is
+/// what the default is read for. A project that wants the old behaviour turns
+/// the toggle off, which persists an explicit `false`.
+fn default_auth_bridge_enabled() -> bool {
+    true
+}
+
 /// How much autonomy Claude Code is granted inside the container.
 ///
 /// Maps onto Claude Code CLI flags — see [`PermissionMode::cli_args`], which is
@@ -85,31 +199,141 @@ impl PermissionMode {
 /// Settings for Claude Code CLI behavior inside the container.
 /// These map to Claude Code env vars and ~/.claude/settings.json entries.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Default)]
+#[serde(from = "StoredClaudeCodeSettings")]
+/// Every field is three-state, and the third state is load-bearing.
+///
+/// `None` means "not set at this level". For a *project* that is "inherit
+/// whatever the global settings say"; for the *global* settings it is "leave
+/// Claude Code's own default alone". `Some(false)` is a deliberate off, which
+/// is what lets a project turn a globally-enabled setting back off — with a
+/// plain `bool` there is no value that can express that, which is why these
+/// were widened from `bool`.
 pub struct ClaudeCodeSettings {
-    /// TUI rendering mode: None = default, Some("fullscreen") = flicker-free alt-screen
-    #[serde(default)]
+    /// TUI renderer. `None` leaves settings.json's `tui` key unset, which is
+    /// what lets Claude Code pick the renderer itself; `Some("default")` pins
+    /// the classic main-screen renderer and `Some("fullscreen")` the alt-screen
+    /// one. All three are distinct — "let it choose" is not "classic".
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     pub tui_mode: Option<String>,
-    /// Effort level: None = default, Some("low"|"medium"|"high")
-    #[serde(default)]
+    /// Saved `/effort` level: `None` = unset, otherwise one of
+    /// `"low" | "medium" | "high" | "xhigh"`. Written to settings.json as
+    /// `effortLevel` (**not** `effort`, which Claude Code has never read).
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     pub effort: Option<String>,
-    /// Disable auto-scroll in fullscreen TUI mode
-    #[serde(default)]
-    pub auto_scroll_disabled: bool,
-    /// Enable focus mode (collapsed tool output)
-    #[serde(default)]
-    pub focus_mode: bool,
+    /// Disable auto-scroll in fullscreen TUI mode. Held in the *disabled* sense
+    /// because Claude Code's `autoScrollEnabled` defaults to `true`, so the
+    /// zero value of this field has to mean "leave it on".
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub auto_scroll_disabled: Option<bool>,
+    /// Collapse tool output to one-line summaries. Written to settings.json as
+    /// `viewMode: "focus"`; there is no `focusMode` key in Claude Code.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub focus_mode: Option<bool>,
     /// Show thinking summaries in responses
-    #[serde(default)]
-    pub show_thinking_summaries: bool,
-    /// Enable session recap when returning to a session
-    #[serde(default)]
-    pub enable_session_recap: bool,
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub show_thinking_summaries: Option<bool>,
+    /// Turn the session recap **off**.
+    ///
+    /// Held in the disabled sense for the same reason as `auto_scroll_disabled`,
+    /// and the rename from the old `enable_session_recap` is load-bearing rather
+    /// than cosmetic. Claude Code's recap is on by default, so the old field was
+    /// inverted: switching it on was a no-op and switching it off did nothing at
+    /// all. Reusing the name with the opposite meaning would have read every
+    /// stored `enable_session_recap: false` — which is what every project that
+    /// never touched the control holds — as "the user turned the recap off" and
+    /// silently disabled it for all of them. A new name lets the old key be
+    /// ignored, which lands every existing project on the correct default.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub session_recap_disabled: Option<bool>,
     /// Strip credentials from subprocess environments
-    #[serde(default)]
-    pub env_scrub: bool,
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub env_scrub: Option<bool>,
     /// Enable 1-hour prompt cache TTL (vs default 5-minute)
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub prompt_caching_1h: Option<bool>,
+}
+
+/// `ClaudeCodeSettings` in every shape `projects.json` and `settings.json` can
+/// be holding, which is what [`ClaudeCodeSettings`] is actually deserialised
+/// through.
+///
+/// ## The upgrade this exists to survive
+///
+/// Before the widening, the five booleans were plain `bool`s with
+/// `#[serde(default)]` and no `skip_serializing_if`, so **every** settings
+/// object ever written carries an explicit `"env_scrub": false` — not because
+/// anyone chose it, but because that is what a `bool` serialises to. Under the
+/// old merge (`if p.x { true } else { g.x }`) that `false` carried no
+/// information at all: it was the only value an unset switch could produce, and
+/// the global always won.
+///
+/// Read as `Some(false)` by the new code it becomes a *deliberate off* that
+/// beats a global `Some(true)` — so upgrading silently turned five settings off
+/// for every project that had ever opened this editor, `env_scrub` ("strip
+/// credentials from subprocess environments") among them. There is no store
+/// migration anywhere: `projects_store` parses these structs directly.
+///
+/// ## How an old record is told apart from a new one
+///
+/// By `enable_session_recap`. It was in the struct from the day it existed and
+/// was a plain `bool`, so its key is present in every pre-widening record and
+/// in no other — the field was *renamed* to `session_recap_disabled` precisely
+/// so the old key could be ignored (see the doc on that field), and the new
+/// code has never written it. Its presence is therefore an exact statement that
+/// these bytes were written by a binary in which `false` meant "unset", and the
+/// booleans are read back that way: `true` is a real choice and survives,
+/// `false` becomes `None` and inherits again.
+///
+/// Nothing marks a *new* record, and nothing needs to: absent is `None` (the
+/// fields skip serialising when unset) and a present `false` is the deliberate
+/// off the widening was for. That is also what keeps a downgrade survivable —
+/// an older binary reads an absent key as `false` through its own
+/// `#[serde(default)]`, where a `null` would fail to parse and take the whole
+/// of `projects.json` down with it, since `ProjectsStore` parses all-or-nothing
+/// and starts empty on an error.
+#[derive(Deserialize)]
+struct StoredClaudeCodeSettings {
     #[serde(default)]
-    pub prompt_caching_1h: bool,
+    tui_mode: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    effort: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    auto_scroll_disabled: Option<bool>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    focus_mode: Option<bool>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    show_thinking_summaries: Option<bool>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    session_recap_disabled: Option<bool>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    env_scrub: Option<bool>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    prompt_caching_1h: Option<bool>,
+    /// The pre-widening spelling of `session_recap_disabled`, and the *only*
+    /// use of its value: presence dates the record. Its meaning was inverted
+    /// and it never worked, so it is read for the marker and discarded.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    enable_session_recap: Option<bool>,
+}
+
+impl From<StoredClaudeCodeSettings> for ClaudeCodeSettings {
+    fn from(stored: StoredClaudeCodeSettings) -> Self {
+        let pre_widening = stored.enable_session_recap.is_some();
+        // On a pre-widening record `false` is what an untouched switch wrote,
+        // so it means "not set at this level" and must inherit. A `true` was a
+        // real choice either way.
+        let read = |v: Option<bool>| if pre_widening { v.filter(|on| *on) } else { v };
+        ClaudeCodeSettings {
+            tui_mode: stored.tui_mode,
+            effort: stored.effort,
+            auto_scroll_disabled: read(stored.auto_scroll_disabled),
+            focus_mode: read(stored.focus_mode),
+            show_thinking_summaries: read(stored.show_thinking_summaries),
+            session_recap_disabled: read(stored.session_recap_disabled),
+            env_scrub: read(stored.env_scrub),
+            prompt_caching_1h: read(stored.prompt_caching_1h),
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
@@ -132,19 +356,48 @@ pub struct Project {
     pub sandbox_mode_enabled: bool,
     #[serde(default)]
     pub mission_control_enabled: bool,
-    /// Opt in to the auth bridge: while the container runs, its loopback
-    /// listeners are mirrored onto the host's loopback so browser OAuth
-    /// callbacks (`claude login`, `fly login`, `aws sso login`) can reach them.
+    /// The auth bridge: while the container runs, its loopback listeners are
+    /// mirrored onto the host's loopback so browser OAuth callbacks
+    /// (`claude login`, `fly login`, `aws sso login`) can reach them.
     /// Purely host-side — it deliberately has no container-recreation label,
     /// because toggling it changes nothing about the container itself.
-    #[serde(default)]
+    ///
+    /// **On by default**, and opt-*out* rather than opt-in — see
+    /// [`default_auth_bridge_enabled`] for why the default is the feature.
+    #[serde(default = "default_auth_bridge_enabled")]
     pub auth_bridge_enabled: bool,
     /// Opt in to the browser-view pane, which watches and takes over the
     /// browser Claude drives with Playwright inside the container. Purely
     /// host-side like `auth_bridge_enabled`, so it likewise has no
     /// container-recreation label.
+    ///
+    /// This is the *durable* home of the flag: `BrowserViewManager` reads it
+    /// rather than keeping its own copy, so the pane comes back the way it was
+    /// left. Off by default, and unlike the auth bridge it stays that way — a
+    /// view costs a container exec, a Node daemon and a host port, and a
+    /// container without Playwright cannot serve one at all.
+    ///
+    /// Durable does **not** mean auto-started: nothing brings a viewer up on
+    /// app start, so a project left enabled reports `enabled` with a state of
+    /// `Off` until the pane (or `open_page_in_container_browser`) asks for one.
     #[serde(default)]
     pub browser_view_enabled: bool,
+    /// Grant the container what a VPN client needs to build a tunnel:
+    /// `CAP_NET_ADMIN`, the `/dev/net/tun` device, and the WireGuard
+    /// `src_valid_mark` sysctl. Without all three a client (PIA, WireGuard,
+    /// OpenVPN) installs and runs but its connection attempt hangs until it
+    /// times out, because it cannot create the tunnel interface or touch the
+    /// routing table.
+    ///
+    /// Off by default and deliberately opt-in: `NET_ADMIN` lets anything in the
+    /// container reconfigure its own network stack, which reaches further than
+    /// it sounds — see `vpn_host_config` for what it does and does not confer.
+    /// Unlike `auth_bridge_enabled` this *is*
+    /// container state, so it carries a `triple-c.vpn-support` label and is
+    /// compared in `container_needs_recreation` — capabilities and devices are
+    /// fixed at creation and can only change by recreating the container.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub vpn_support_enabled: bool,
     /// Use the shared, long-lived Claude Code OAuth token (from
     /// `claude setup-token`, held in the OS keychain) for this project instead
     /// of requiring its own `claude login`. Only consulted when `backend` is
@@ -202,6 +455,61 @@ pub enum ProjectStatus {
     Error,
 }
 
+/// What `remove_project` could not delete, named so the UI can say so instead
+/// of reporting a clean removal that was not one.
+///
+/// The project record is dropped from `projects.json` regardless — see the
+/// long comment on `remove_project` for why refusing is not the answer — but
+/// anything named here is also written to a pending-cleanup record that
+/// startup housekeeping retries, so it stays reachable after the project it
+/// belonged to no longer exists.
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct ProjectRemovalReport {
+    /// The project's container, if it could not be removed. Named by its
+    /// deterministic `triple-c-{id}` name (see `Project::container_name`),
+    /// not the container id, since the id can be stale or absent and the
+    /// name is what a later retry can still resolve.
+    pub container: Option<String>,
+    /// The `triple-c-snapshot-{id}` image, if it could not be removed.
+    pub image: Option<String>,
+    /// Named volumes (home, claude config) that could not be removed.
+    pub volumes: Vec<String>,
+    /// True once the leftovers above were durably recorded for automatic
+    /// retry on the next launch. False means the pending-cleanup record
+    /// itself could not be written — nothing will retry these, and the UI
+    /// must say so rather than promising a retry that will not happen.
+    /// Meaningless (and left at its default) when `is_clean()` is true.
+    pub retry_scheduled: bool,
+}
+
+impl ProjectRemovalReport {
+    /// True when nothing was left behind.
+    pub fn is_clean(&self) -> bool {
+        self.container.is_none() && self.image.is_none() && self.volumes.is_empty()
+    }
+}
+
+/// What `rebuild_project_container` (Reset) produced: the project as it
+/// stands after restarting, and anything Reset could not clear.
+///
+/// Reset's contract is "back to a clean base image", so a leftover volume or
+/// image here is reused/rebuilt-from as-is by the container this creates —
+/// the opposite of what was asked for — and unlike [`ProjectRemovalReport`]
+/// there is no pending-cleanup record for either: the project id survives
+/// Reset, so a later Reset attempt can retry them itself.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize)]
+pub struct ProjectResetOutcome {
+    pub project: Project,
+    /// The `triple-c-snapshot-{id}` image, if Reset could not remove it. The
+    /// more serious of the two leftovers here: the new container is created
+    /// from this image whenever it exists, so a surviving image means Reset
+    /// silently rebuilt the exact system layer it was asked to discard.
+    pub leftover_image: Option<String>,
+    /// Volumes that survived Reset and were mounted into the new container
+    /// unchanged.
+    pub leftover_volumes: Vec<String>,
+}
+
 /// Which AI model backend/provider the project uses.
 /// - `Anthropic`: Direct Anthropic API (user runs `claude login` inside the container)
 /// - `Bedrock`: AWS Bedrock with per-project AWS credentials
@@ -364,8 +672,9 @@ impl Project {
             allow_docker_access: false,
             sandbox_mode_enabled: false,
             mission_control_enabled: false,
-            auth_bridge_enabled: false,
+            auth_bridge_enabled: default_auth_bridge_enabled(),
             browser_view_enabled: false,
+            vpn_support_enabled: false,
             use_shared_auth_token: default_use_shared_auth_token(),
             full_permissions: false,
             permission_mode: None,
@@ -424,3 +733,254 @@ impl Project {
         val
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    // ── ProjectRemovalReport ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_report_is_clean_only_with_nothing_left_behind() {
+        assert!(ProjectRemovalReport::default().is_clean());
+
+        let mut r = ProjectRemovalReport::default();
+        r.container = Some("abc123".to_string());
+        assert!(!r.is_clean(), "a leftover container must not read as clean");
+
+        let mut r = ProjectRemovalReport::default();
+        r.image = Some("triple-c-snapshot-x:latest".to_string());
+        assert!(!r.is_clean(), "a leftover image must not read as clean");
+
+        let mut r = ProjectRemovalReport::default();
+        r.volumes.push("triple-c-home-x".to_string());
+        assert!(!r.is_clean(), "a leftover volume must not read as clean");
+    }
+
+    // ── Custom environment variable names ─────────────────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_env_var_name_has_to_be_a_shell_identifier() {
+        for ok in ["PATH", "_", "_x", "MY_VAR2", "a", " SPACED_BY_THE_EDITOR "] {
+            assert!(is_valid_env_key(ok), "'{}' should be a usable name", ok);
+        }
+        for bad in [
+            // bash's wire format for an exported shell function: the value is
+            // the body, and a `bash` that imports it runs it. The scrub exec is
+            // `/bin/sh -c` as root, and nothing pins `/bin/sh` to dash.
+            "BASH_FUNC_stat%%",
+            "BASH_FUNC_ls()",
+            "MY VAR",
+            "2FAST",
+            "WITH-DASH",
+            "WITH.DOT",
+            "",
+            "   ",
+            "$(id)",
+            "A=B",
+        ] {
+            assert!(!is_valid_env_key(bad), "'{}' should be refused", bad);
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn env(key: &str, value: &str) -> EnvVar {
+        EnvVar { key: key.to_string(), value: value.to_string() }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_bad_env_var_name_cannot_be_introduced_but_a_stored_one_does_not_brick_the_editor() {
+        let bad = [env("BASH_FUNC_stat%%", "() { id; }")];
+        // Introducing it through the Config tab is the escalation.
+        assert!(validate_env_vars_update(&[], &bad).is_err());
+        // Already stored: it is handed to every container that starts whether
+        // or not an unrelated save is allowed through, and refusing the save
+        // would make every toggle on the Config tab fail.
+        assert!(validate_env_vars_update(&bad, &bad).is_ok());
+        // Editing its value is a new entry, and refused again.
+        assert!(
+            validate_env_vars_update(&bad, &[env("BASH_FUNC_stat%%", "() { rm -rf /; }")]).is_err()
+        );
+        // Fixing the name is what the message asks for, and it saves.
+        assert!(validate_env_vars_update(&bad, &[env("STAT", "() { id; }")]).is_ok());
+        // Dropping it entirely is always fine.
+        assert!(validate_env_vars_update(&bad, &[]).is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_blank_row_the_add_button_saves_is_not_an_error() {
+        // "+ Add variable" appends an empty entry and saves the list at once,
+        // so this is the button, not an attempt at anything.
+        assert!(validate_env_vars_update(&[], &[env("", "")]).is_ok());
+        // Typing the value before the name is an ordinary way to fill it in,
+        // and an entry with no name reaches no container either way.
+        assert!(validate_env_vars_update(&[], &[env("", "value-first")]).is_ok());
+        assert!(validate_env_vars_update(&[], &[env("GOOD", "v"), env("", "")]).is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_stored_entry_may_be_kept_but_not_multiplied() {
+        let stored = [env("BAD NAME", "v")];
+        assert!(validate_env_vars_update(&stored, &stored).is_ok());
+        // A second copy is a new entry, and held to the rule.
+        assert!(
+            validate_env_vars_update(&stored, &[env("BAD NAME", "v"), env("BAD NAME", "v")])
+                .is_err()
+        );
+    }
+
+    // ── Claude Code settings written before the fields were widened ───────
+
+    /// `projects.json` exactly as the shipped `main` binary wrote it: the five
+    /// booleans were plain `bool`s that always serialised, so every project
+    /// that ever opened the editor carries `false` for the ones it never
+    /// touched.
+    const MAIN_SHAPE_PROJECT: &str = r#"{
+        "id": "p1",
+        "name": "demo",
+        "paths": [{ "host_path": "/home/u/demo", "mount_name": "demo" }],
+        "container_id": null,
+        "status": "stopped",
+        "backend": "anthropic",
+        "bedrock_config": null,
+        "ollama_config": null,
+        "openai_compatible_config": null,
+        "allow_docker_access": false,
+        "ssh_key_path": null,
+        "git_user_name": null,
+        "git_user_email": null,
+        "claude_code_settings": {
+            "tui_mode": "fullscreen",
+            "effort": null,
+            "auto_scroll_disabled": false,
+            "focus_mode": false,
+            "show_thinking_summaries": false,
+            "enable_session_recap": false,
+            "env_scrub": false,
+            "prompt_caching_1h": false
+        },
+        "created_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
+        "updated_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"
+    }"#;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_setting_stored_as_false_by_the_old_binary_still_inherits_the_global() {
+        let project: Project = serde_json::from_str(MAIN_SHAPE_PROJECT).unwrap();
+        let stored = project.claude_code_settings.expect("settings should parse");
+
+        // Read verbatim these would be `Some(false)`, which under
+        // `docker::container::merge_claude_code_settings` beats the global.
+        assert_eq!(stored.env_scrub, None);
+        assert_eq!(stored.auto_scroll_disabled, None);
+        assert_eq!(stored.focus_mode, None);
+        assert_eq!(stored.show_thinking_summaries, None);
+        assert_eq!(stored.prompt_caching_1h, None);
+        assert_eq!(stored.session_recap_disabled, None);
+        // A value the user did choose is untouched.
+        assert_eq!(stored.tui_mode.as_deref(), Some("fullscreen"));
+
+        // The merge rule itself, spelled the way
+        // `merge_claude_code_settings` spells it. `main` resolved this with
+        // `if p.env_scrub { true } else { g.env_scrub }`, i.e. the global won —
+        // and it has to go on winning, because the user never turned this off.
+        let global = ClaudeCodeSettings { env_scrub: Some(true), ..Default::default() };
+        assert_eq!(
+            stored.env_scrub.or(global.env_scrub),
+            Some(true),
+            "upgrading silently turned off 'strip credentials from subprocess environments'"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_off_chosen_in_the_new_editor_still_beats_a_global_on() {
+        // Same record without the pre-widening key: this `false` is the
+        // deliberate off the widening exists to make expressible.
+        let json = r#"{ "env_scrub": false }"#;
+        let chosen: ClaudeCodeSettings = serde_json::from_str(json).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(chosen.env_scrub, Some(false));
+        let global = ClaudeCodeSettings { env_scrub: Some(true), ..Default::default() };
+        assert_eq!(chosen.env_scrub.or(global.env_scrub), Some(false));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_unset_setting_is_written_as_absent_rather_than_null() {
+        // A downgrade parses these fields as plain `bool` with
+        // `#[serde(default)]`: an absent key is `false`, a `null` is a parse
+        // error — and `ProjectsStore` parses all-or-nothing, so one project
+        // with one null empties the whole list and the next save persists that.
+        let json = serde_json::to_string(&ClaudeCodeSettings::default()).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(json, "{}");
+        assert!(!json.contains("null"));
+
+        let partial = ClaudeCodeSettings { env_scrub: Some(false), ..Default::default() };
+        let json = serde_json::to_string(&partial).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(json, r#"{"env_scrub":false}"#);
+        // And it reads back as what it is.
+        let round_tripped: ClaudeCodeSettings = serde_json::from_str(&json).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(round_tripped, partial);
+    }
+
+    // ── The host-side per-project toggles ─────────────────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_project_stored_before_the_auth_bridge_existed_gets_it_turned_on() {
+        // The whole point of the serde default: `MAIN_SHAPE_PROJECT` is a real
+        // record written by a shipped binary and has no `auth_bridge_enabled`
+        // key at all. Without this, every existing project keeps hanging on
+        // `claude login` until its owner finds the toggle.
+        assert!(!MAIN_SHAPE_PROJECT.contains("auth_bridge_enabled"));
+        let project: Project = serde_json::from_str(MAIN_SHAPE_PROJECT).unwrap();
+        assert!(project.auth_bridge_enabled);
+
+        // The browser view is the other way round and must stay so: it costs a
+        // Node daemon, a container exec loop and a host port, and most
+        // containers have no Playwright to serve it with.
+        assert!(!project.browser_view_enabled);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn turning_the_auth_bridge_off_survives_the_default() {
+        // Opt-out has to be expressible, or the toggle does nothing across a
+        // restart. An explicit `false` in the file beats the default.
+        let json = r#"{ "auth_bridge_enabled": false }"#;
+        #[derive(Deserialize)]
+        struct JustTheFlag {
+            #[serde(default = "default_auth_bridge_enabled")]
+            auth_bridge_enabled: bool,
+        }
+        let parsed: JustTheFlag = serde_json::from_str(json).unwrap();
+        assert!(!parsed.auth_bridge_enabled);
+
+        // And a saved project always writes the key, so the choice is pinned
+        // rather than re-defaulted on the next load.
+        let mut p = Project::new("demo".to_string(), Vec::new());
+        p.auth_bridge_enabled = false;
+        let round_tripped: Project =
+            serde_json::from_str(&serde_json::to_string(&p).unwrap()).unwrap();
+        assert!(!round_tripped.auth_bridge_enabled);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_new_project_starts_with_the_bridge_on_and_the_view_off() {
+        let p = Project::new("demo".to_string(), Vec::new());
+        assert!(p.auth_bridge_enabled);
+        assert!(!p.browser_view_enabled);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_path_migration_never_writes_the_flags_and_so_cannot_defeat_the_default() {
+        // `ProjectsStore::new` runs every record through this before
+        // deserialising. If it inserted either key — even as `false` — the
+        // serde default above would never be consulted for an existing project
+        // and this change would be a no-op on exactly the projects it is for.
+        let legacy = serde_json::json!({
+            "id": "p1",
+            "name": "demo",
+            "path": "/home/u/demo",
+        });
+        let migrated = Project::migrate_from_value(legacy);
+        let obj = migrated.as_object().unwrap();
+        assert!(obj.contains_key("paths"), "the migration should still do its own job");
+        assert!(!obj.contains_key("auth_bridge_enabled"));
+        assert!(!obj.contains_key("browser_view_enabled"));
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/models/settings_export.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,366 @@
+//! Settings export/import — see triple-c#35.
+//!
+//! `SettingsExportPayload` is the whole plaintext export before encryption
+//! and after decryption (see `storage::settings_crypto`). It bundles
+//! `AppSettings` — with one field carved out, see below — with the global
+//! secrets that live in the OS keychain instead: the shared Claude Code
+//! OAuth login and the model gateway's two keys. Per-project settings,
+//! per-project secrets, and anything living in a project's Docker volumes
+//! are deliberately out of scope: this exports the *host* environment, not
+//! any one project's.
+//!
+//! **`AppSettings` is not entirely the non-secret shape it looks like.**
+//! `WebTerminalSettings::access_token` is a live bearer credential for a
+//! server that binds every interface, stored as a plain field on the
+//! struct that is otherwise safe to treat as config. A review of this
+//! feature caught it: exporting `AppSettings` wholesale would have carried
+//! that token along as if it were as inert as a port number, and — worse —
+//! importing it would apply `web_terminal.enabled` and the token together
+//! with no more warning than any other setting, letting a crafted export
+//! silently stand up a LAN-listening terminal server with an
+//! attacker-known token on the next launch. `export_settings` /
+//! `apply_settings_import` blank this field out of the `settings` they
+//! read from and write to, and it travels only through
+//! [`ExportedSecrets::web_terminal_access_token`] instead, with the same
+//! "only overwrite what the import actually has" treatment as the other
+//! three secrets.
+
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+use super::{AppSettings, ImageSource};
+
+/// Bumped when the shape of [`SettingsExportPayload`] changes in a way that
+/// isn't just an additive, `#[serde(default)]`-covered field — e.g. if a
+/// field is ever removed or its meaning changes. `apply_settings_import`
+/// checks this before touching anything.
+pub const SETTINGS_EXPORT_FORMAT_VERSION: u32 = 1;
+
+/// The global secrets bundled into an export. Deliberately a separate struct
+/// from `AppSettings`: these live in the OS keychain, never in
+/// `settings.json`, and — outside of this export/import flow — the values
+/// themselves never cross into the frontend; see the doc comments on
+/// `storage::secure::get_gateway_api_key` and
+/// `commands::settings_export_commands` for why that boundary matters here
+/// too.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, Default)]
+pub struct ExportedSecrets {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub claude_oauth_token: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub gateway_api_key: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub gateway_master_key: Option<String>,
+    /// See the module doc comment — this is `AppSettings::web_terminal
+    /// .access_token`, carved out because it is a live bearer credential,
+    /// not config, despite living on a struct that is otherwise safe to
+    /// export wholesale.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub web_terminal_access_token: Option<String>,
+}
+
+impl ExportedSecrets {
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        let blank = |s: &Option<String>| s.as_deref().is_none_or(|v| v.trim().is_empty());
+        blank(&self.claude_oauth_token)
+            && blank(&self.gateway_api_key)
+            && blank(&self.gateway_master_key)
+            && blank(&self.web_terminal_access_token)
+    }
+}
+
+/// What `apply_settings_import` hands back: the settings that were actually
+/// saved, plus a human-readable note for each keychain secret this import
+/// carried but could not be restored. A keychain write failing partway
+/// through must not read as unqualified success just because the settings
+/// half of the import went through.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct SettingsImportOutcome {
+    pub settings: AppSettings,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub secret_restore_warnings: Vec<String>,
+}
+
+/// The full plaintext payload — this is what gets encrypted on export and
+/// what decryption recovers on import. Never written to disk unencrypted;
+/// see `storage::settings_crypto`.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct SettingsExportPayload {
+    pub format_version: u32,
+    /// RFC3339. Purely informational — shown in the import preview so a user
+    /// picking between a few old export files has something to go on.
+    pub exported_at: String,
+    /// The exporting app's `CARGO_PKG_VERSION`. Also informational: every
+    /// field below already round-trips through `#[serde(default)]`-covered
+    /// `AppSettings`, so an older or newer export still deserializes; this is
+    /// for a human to notice "this is from a much older version" if an import
+    /// ever looks wrong, not something the code branches on.
+    pub app_version: String,
+    pub settings: AppSettings,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub secrets: ExportedSecrets,
+}
+
+/// What `preview_settings_import` hands the frontend before anything is
+/// applied — counts and presence flags only, **never** a secret value itself,
+/// so this type is safe to return across the IPC boundary and render
+/// directly. The confirmation UI is built from this.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct SettingsImportPreview {
+    pub exported_at: String,
+    pub app_version: String,
+    pub custom_env_var_count: usize,
+    pub gateway_model_count: usize,
+    pub has_claude_code_settings: bool,
+    pub has_claude_oauth_token: bool,
+    pub has_gateway_api_key: bool,
+    pub has_gateway_master_key: bool,
+    pub has_web_terminal_access_token: bool,
+    /// Whether the imported settings turn the web terminal on. Named
+    /// separately from the token above: `enabled` and the token are two
+    /// different fields, either can be true without the other, and
+    /// "this import turns on a service that listens on your network" is
+    /// exactly the kind of change a wholesale settings replace must not
+    /// bury in a generic "settings replaced" line — see the module doc
+    /// comment on why this field exists at all.
+    pub enables_web_terminal: bool,
+    /// Non-blank custom base URLs the import would set, so a redirect of
+    /// model traffic to somewhere other than the usual provider is visible
+    /// at import time rather than discovered later. These are endpoints, not
+    /// secrets — safe to show verbatim, unlike everything above.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub ollama_base_url: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub llamacpp_base_url: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub openai_compatible_base_url: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub gateway_api_base: Option<String>,
+    /// Whether the import sets a custom Docker image, and its name if so —
+    /// disclosed for the same reason as the base URLs above, and arguably
+    /// more sharply: this is the image *every* project container is created
+    /// from (`models::container_config::resolve_image_name`), so a crafted
+    /// export pointing it at an attacker-controlled image is a path to
+    /// running arbitrary code with whatever a project's containers are
+    /// allowed to reach (the Docker socket, an SSH key, project files) —
+    /// not merely a redirected API endpoint.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub image_source: ImageSource,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub custom_image_name: Option<String>,
+}
+
+/// A cap on how much of a decrypted, not-yet-trusted string gets echoed back
+/// into a preview a user reads and a UI renders without truncation of its
+/// own. Applied to every field above that carries free-form text straight
+/// from the import file rather than a count or a boolean — a base URL or an
+/// image name a hostile export author controls has had no validation done
+/// on it yet at preview time, and nothing stops it from being pathological
+/// (embedded control characters, or long enough to blow out the confirmation
+/// dialog and push the security warnings below it off screen).
+const MAX_PREVIEW_STRING_LEN: usize = 100;
+
+fn sanitize_for_preview(value: &str) -> String {
+    let cleaned: String = value.chars().filter(|c| !c.is_control()).collect();
+    let trimmed = cleaned.trim();
+    if trimmed.chars().count() > MAX_PREVIEW_STRING_LEN {
+        let truncated: String = trimmed.chars().take(MAX_PREVIEW_STRING_LEN).collect();
+        format!("{}…", truncated)
+    } else {
+        trimmed.to_string()
+    }
+}
+
+impl SettingsImportPreview {
+    pub fn from_payload(payload: &SettingsExportPayload) -> Self {
+        let non_blank = |s: &Option<String>| s.as_deref().is_some_and(|v| !v.trim().is_empty());
+        let sanitized_non_blank = |s: &Option<String>| {
+            s.as_deref()
+                .map(sanitize_for_preview)
+                .filter(|v| !v.is_empty())
+        };
+        Self {
+            exported_at: payload.exported_at.clone(),
+            app_version: payload.app_version.clone(),
+            custom_env_var_count: payload.settings.global_custom_env_vars.len(),
+            gateway_model_count: payload.settings.gateway.models.len(),
+            has_claude_code_settings: payload.settings.global_claude_code_settings.is_some(),
+            has_claude_oauth_token: non_blank(&payload.secrets.claude_oauth_token),
+            has_gateway_api_key: non_blank(&payload.secrets.gateway_api_key),
+            has_gateway_master_key: non_blank(&payload.secrets.gateway_master_key),
+            has_web_terminal_access_token: non_blank(&payload.secrets.web_terminal_access_token),
+            enables_web_terminal: payload.settings.web_terminal.enabled,
+            ollama_base_url: sanitized_non_blank(&payload.settings.global_ollama.base_url),
+            llamacpp_base_url: sanitized_non_blank(&payload.settings.global_llamacpp.base_url),
+            openai_compatible_base_url: sanitized_non_blank(
+                &payload.settings.global_openai_compatible.base_url,
+            ),
+            gateway_api_base: sanitized_non_blank(&payload.settings.gateway.api_base),
+            image_source: payload.settings.image_source.clone(),
+            custom_image_name: sanitized_non_blank(&payload.settings.custom_image_name),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::models::AppSettings;
+
+    fn payload_with(secrets: ExportedSecrets) -> SettingsExportPayload {
+        let settings = AppSettings {
+            global_custom_env_vars: vec![
+                crate::models::EnvVar {
+                    key: "A".to_string(),
+                    value: "1".to_string(),
+                },
+                crate::models::EnvVar {
+                    key: "B".to_string(),
+                    value: "2".to_string(),
+                },
+            ],
+            ..AppSettings::default()
+        };
+        SettingsExportPayload {
+            format_version: SETTINGS_EXPORT_FORMAT_VERSION,
+            exported_at: "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z".to_string(),
+            app_version: "0.4.14".to_string(),
+            settings,
+            secrets,
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_preview_never_carries_a_secret_value() {
+        let payload = payload_with(ExportedSecrets {
+            claude_oauth_token: Some("sk-super-secret-token".to_string()),
+            gateway_api_key: Some("sk-another-secret".to_string()),
+            gateway_master_key: Some("sk-triple-c-yet-another".to_string()),
+            web_terminal_access_token: Some("wt-super-secret-token".to_string()),
+        });
+        let preview = SettingsImportPreview::from_payload(&payload);
+        let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&preview).unwrap();
+
+        assert!(!serialized.contains("sk-super-secret-token"));
+        assert!(!serialized.contains("sk-another-secret"));
+        assert!(!serialized.contains("sk-triple-c-yet-another"));
+        assert!(!serialized.contains("wt-super-secret-token"));
+        assert!(preview.has_claude_oauth_token);
+        assert!(preview.has_gateway_api_key);
+        assert!(preview.has_gateway_master_key);
+        assert!(preview.has_web_terminal_access_token);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_blank_secret_reads_as_absent_in_the_preview() {
+        // A keychain entry that exists but holds only whitespace must not
+        // read as "present" — same "blank counts as absent" rule the
+        // keychain layer itself applies when storing these.
+        let payload = payload_with(ExportedSecrets {
+            claude_oauth_token: Some("   ".to_string()),
+            gateway_api_key: None,
+            gateway_master_key: None,
+            web_terminal_access_token: Some("   ".to_string()),
+        });
+        let preview = SettingsImportPreview::from_payload(&payload);
+        assert!(!preview.has_claude_oauth_token);
+        assert!(!preview.has_gateway_api_key);
+        assert!(!preview.has_gateway_master_key);
+        assert!(!preview.has_web_terminal_access_token);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn enabling_the_web_terminal_is_surfaced_regardless_of_whether_a_token_came_with_it() {
+        // `enabled` and the token are independent fields — a crafted export
+        // could set one without the other, and both are worth a user's
+        // attention: this is the field that exists specifically so "this
+        // import turns on a service that listens on your network" cannot
+        // hide inside a generic "settings replaced" summary.
+        let mut payload = payload_with(ExportedSecrets::default());
+        payload.settings.web_terminal.enabled = true;
+        let preview = SettingsImportPreview::from_payload(&payload);
+        assert!(preview.enables_web_terminal);
+        assert!(!preview.has_web_terminal_access_token);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn custom_base_urls_are_surfaced_but_blank_ones_read_as_absent() {
+        let mut payload = payload_with(ExportedSecrets::default());
+        payload.settings.global_ollama.base_url = Some("http://attacker.example:11434".to_string());
+        payload.settings.global_llamacpp.base_url = Some("   ".to_string());
+        payload.settings.gateway.api_base = Some("https://gateway.example/v1".to_string());
+
+        let preview = SettingsImportPreview::from_payload(&payload);
+        assert_eq!(
+            preview.ollama_base_url.as_deref(),
+            Some("http://attacker.example:11434")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(preview.llamacpp_base_url, None);
+        assert_eq!(preview.openai_compatible_base_url, None);
+        assert_eq!(
+            preview.gateway_api_base.as_deref(),
+            Some("https://gateway.example/v1")
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn counts_reflect_the_real_settings() {
+        let payload = payload_with(ExportedSecrets::default());
+        let preview = SettingsImportPreview::from_payload(&payload);
+        assert_eq!(preview.custom_env_var_count, 2);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_empty_secrets_bundle_reports_itself_as_empty() {
+        assert!(ExportedSecrets::default().is_empty());
+        assert!(!ExportedSecrets {
+            claude_oauth_token: Some("x".to_string()),
+            ..Default::default()
+        }
+        .is_empty());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_secrets_bundle_holding_only_whitespace_still_reports_itself_as_empty() {
+        // Matches the "blank counts as absent" rule every other consumer of
+        // these fields applies (`has_claude_oauth_token` and friends above) —
+        // a keychain entry that exists but holds only whitespace carries
+        // nothing usable, so the export-time "nothing to export" log line
+        // must still fire for it.
+        assert!(ExportedSecrets {
+            claude_oauth_token: Some("   ".to_string()),
+            ..Default::default()
+        }
+        .is_empty());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_custom_docker_image_is_surfaced() {
+        let mut payload = payload_with(ExportedSecrets::default());
+        payload.settings.image_source = crate::models::ImageSource::Custom;
+        payload.settings.custom_image_name = Some("ghcr.io/attacker/triple-c:latest".to_string());
+
+        let preview = SettingsImportPreview::from_payload(&payload);
+        assert_eq!(preview.image_source, crate::models::ImageSource::Custom);
+        assert_eq!(
+            preview.custom_image_name.as_deref(),
+            Some("ghcr.io/attacker/triple-c:latest")
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn preview_strings_are_stripped_of_control_characters_and_capped_in_length() {
+        let mut payload = payload_with(ExportedSecrets::default());
+        payload.settings.global_ollama.base_url =
+            Some(format!("http://example.test/{}\u{0007}bell", "x".repeat(200)));
+
+        let preview = SettingsImportPreview::from_payload(&payload);
+        let shown = preview.ollama_base_url.expect("non-blank base url");
+        assert!(!shown.contains('\u{0007}'), "control character leaked into the preview");
+        // +1 for the trailing ellipsis appended when truncated.
+        assert!(
+            shown.chars().count() <= MAX_PREVIEW_STRING_LEN + 1,
+            "preview string was not capped: {} chars",
+            shown.chars().count()
+        );
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/models/update_info.rs

@@ -26,6 +26,24 @@ pub struct GitHubRelease {
     pub body: String,
     pub assets: Vec<GitHubAsset>,
     pub published_at: String,
+    /// Whether GitHub itself has this release marked as a prerelease.
+    /// `#[serde(default)]` rather than required: every response GitHub sends
+    /// carries this, but nothing here should refuse to parse the rest of a
+    /// release over one missing field. Defaults to `false` (offered) rather
+    /// than `true` (excluded) — a missing field only happens if GitHub's API
+    /// shape changes, and "API changed, therefore updates silently stop
+    /// working forever" is the worse failure of the two.
+    ///
+    /// `build-app.yml`'s own mirror never publishes a prerelease, but
+    /// `.gitea/workflows/backfill-releases.yml` forwards every Gitea release
+    /// unfiltered, `prerelease` included. A preview release's `preview-<sha>`
+    /// tag already fails semver parsing on its own, so this field is not what
+    /// stops *that* case — it is what stops the case tag-parsing can't catch:
+    /// a normally-tagged release (`v0.4.13`) that someone marks as a
+    /// prerelease on Gitea (a hotfix candidate, an RC) and a backfill then
+    /// mirrors as-is. Real defence for that case, not a no-op.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub prerelease: bool,
 }
 
 /// GitHub API asset response (internal).

app/src-tauri/src/project_lock.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,370 @@
+//! Per-project mutual exclusion for everything that rewrites a project's
+//! container or its snapshot image.
+//!
+//! ## Why polling was not enough
+//!
+//! Until this module existed the app had exactly one mutual-exclusion
+//! primitive — the `ACTIVE_MIGRATIONS` set behind
+//! `migration_commands::is_migrating` — and it was **one-way**. A migration
+//! took a guard for its whole run; everything else merely *asked once, at
+//! entry*, whether a migration was in flight and then proceeded with no claim
+//! of its own. Two non-migration operations on the same project could not see
+//! each other at all, and a migration could start underneath one that was
+//! already halfway through.
+//!
+//! That is not a theoretical gap. Compaction resolves
+//! `triple-c-snapshot-{id}:latest` when its build starts and commits back over
+//! that same tag minutes later, and the Settings panel is a sidebar rather than
+//! a modal — so Project Home stays live with Start, Stop, Reset and Migrate all
+//! clickable while a compaction runs. Three interleavings were reproduced:
+//!
+//! * Compaction commits `flat(A)` over `:latest` after a migration has already
+//!   moved that tag to a new lineage. The migration is silently reverted, the
+//!   config replay lands twice, and the migration record says
+//!   `awaiting-confirmation` against a base the tag no longer points at.
+//! * Compaction resolves A, the user starts the project and works for an hour,
+//!   a recreate commits D over `:latest`, and the compaction then overwrites it
+//!   with `flat(A)` — orphaning an hour of system-layer work while reporting
+//!   success and a byte saving.
+//! * Compaction resurrects the system layer a Reset had just destroyed.
+//!
+//! Every one of those is "two writers of `:latest`, neither holding anything".
+//! So this registry replaces the polling with an actual claim: an operation
+//! **acquires** a [`ProjectGuard`] and holds it for its whole run, and a second
+//! operation on the same project is refused with a message naming the holder.
+//!
+//! ## What this does NOT protect against, stated plainly
+//!
+//! **This is in-process state.** Two copies of the app pointed at the same
+//! Docker daemon share nothing here: instance A's compaction and instance B's
+//! migration will both acquire happily and then race exactly as before.
+//! `reap_probe_containers` and the `triple-c-compact-*` / `triple-c-scrub-*`
+//! sweeps are worse than that — they are daemon-wide force-removals driven by
+//! a name or a label, so instance B can destroy a container instance A is
+//! mid-commit against.
+//!
+//! A daemon-visible lock was considered and rejected for now, and the reasoning
+//! is recorded here so it is not re-derived from scratch:
+//!
+//! * A **lock container** would work — container names are unique daemon-wide
+//!   and `create` fails atomically on a name conflict — but a container has to
+//!   be created *from an image*, and that pins the image. A lock on
+//!   `triple-c-snapshot-{id}` would block the very `rmi`/sweep paths it guards,
+//!   and a leaked lock container would pin multiple gigabytes forever.
+//! * A **named volume** is not usable: `create_volume` on an existing name
+//!   returns the existing volume rather than failing, so it cannot be a
+//!   test-and-set.
+//! * A **label on the snapshot image** is not atomic — read/modify/commit has
+//!   the same race it would be trying to close.
+//!
+//! So the cross-process case is **documented, not solved**. What this module
+//! does do about it is bound the damage: [`any_held_excluding`] lets the daemon-wide
+//! reapers skip work while this process is mid-operation, and the reapers
+//! themselves gained age gates so a young container belonging to somebody else
+//! is left alone (see `docker::migration::reap_probe_containers`).
+//!
+//! ## Refuse, do not queue
+//!
+//! [`try_acquire`] never waits. Every caller is a user-initiated action behind
+//! a button, and a button that blocks for the four minutes a compaction takes
+//! is worse than one that says what is running. The refusal string is written
+//! for the user and names the holder.
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::sync::{Mutex, OnceLock};
+
+/// The operations that claim a project.
+///
+/// One variant per *class of writer*, not per command: `Recreate` covers Start
+/// as well, because Start's create-and-commit path is the same writer of
+/// `triple-c-snapshot-{id}:latest` that a recreate is.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum ProjectOp {
+    /// `migrate_project_to_base`, `resume_migration`, `rollback_migration`,
+    /// `confirm_migration`.
+    Migration,
+    /// `disk::compact_snapshot` — the long one, and the reason this exists.
+    ///
+    /// Not constructed on this branch: the Disk panel and its compaction were
+    /// held back for separate hardening and live on `hold/disk-and-dragout`.
+    /// The variant stays because this registry is the thing that made those
+    /// operations safe to re-land, and a re-land that had to re-derive the
+    /// claim classes would be re-deriving the bug.
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    Compaction,
+    /// Start / stop / recreate. Anything in `start_project_container`'s path.
+    Recreate,
+    /// `rebuild_project_container` — deletes both volumes and the snapshot.
+    Reset,
+    /// `disk::destroy` — a volume, a snapshot image, or a rollback pin.
+    Destroy,
+    /// `disk::clear_caches` — an exec into the live container. It does not
+    /// write `:latest`, but it must not run while the container is being
+    /// removed out from under it.
+    ///
+    /// Not constructed on this branch, for the same reason as
+    /// [`ProjectOp::Compaction`].
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    CacheClear,
+    /// `container::scrub_secrets_from_snapshots` — the third writer of
+    /// `triple-c-snapshot-{id}:latest`, reached from `clear_claude_token`. It
+    /// creates a scratch container from the snapshot and commits back over the
+    /// same tag, so it is the same read-modify-write shape as a compaction and
+    /// loses the same race: any `:latest` move landing between its create and
+    /// its commit is overwritten by an image derived from the pre-read state.
+    SecretScrub,
+}
+
+impl ProjectOp {
+    /// What is happening, phrased for the message a user reads.
+    pub fn describe(self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            ProjectOp::Migration => "A container base update is running for this project",
+            ProjectOp::Compaction => "This project's snapshot is being compacted",
+            ProjectOp::Recreate => "This project's container is being started or recreated",
+            ProjectOp::Reset => "This project is being reset",
+            ProjectOp::Destroy => "Something of this project's is being deleted",
+            ProjectOp::CacheClear => "This project's caches are being cleared",
+            ProjectOp::SecretScrub => "A revoked credential is being removed from this project's snapshot",
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// What the *refused* caller was trying to do, for the tail of the message.
+    fn blocked_action(self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            ProjectOp::Migration => "starting a base update",
+            ProjectOp::Compaction => "compacting its snapshot",
+            ProjectOp::Recreate => "starting or recreating its container",
+            ProjectOp::Reset => "resetting it",
+            ProjectOp::Destroy => "deleting anything of its",
+            ProjectOp::CacheClear => "clearing its caches",
+            ProjectOp::SecretScrub => "removing a credential from its snapshot",
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Project id → the operation currently holding it.
+///
+/// A `std::sync::Mutex` rather than a `tokio` one on purpose: it is only ever
+/// held for the length of a `HashMap` insert or remove, never across an await,
+/// and [`is_held_by`] has to be callable from the synchronous helpers in
+/// `disk.rs` that already ask this question.
+static HOLDERS: OnceLock<Mutex<HashMap<String, ProjectOp>>> = OnceLock::new();
+
+fn holders() -> &'static Mutex<HashMap<String, ProjectOp>> {
+    HOLDERS.get_or_init(|| Mutex::new(HashMap::new()))
+}
+
+/// A claim on one project, released on drop.
+///
+/// RAII rather than an explicit release for the reason [`ProjectOp::Migration`]'s
+/// predecessor already learned: a plain release statement is skipped by an
+/// early `?`, by a panic, and by the future simply being dropped. A guard is
+/// not.
+/// Dropping this releases the claim, so a caller that discards it has taken no
+/// lock at all — `let _ = try_acquire(...)` drops immediately and reads as
+/// success. `#[must_use]` makes that a compile warning rather than a race.
+#[must_use = "the claim is released as soon as this guard is dropped; bind it for the whole operation"]
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct ProjectGuard {
+    project_id: String,
+}
+
+impl Drop for ProjectGuard {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        // `into_inner` on a poisoned lock: a panic while some other thread held
+        // this map for the duration of one insert cannot have left it
+        // inconsistent, and refusing to release afterwards would strand the
+        // project as permanently busy.
+        holders()
+            .lock()
+            .unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner())
+            .remove(&self.project_id);
+    }
+}
+
+/// Claim a project for `op`, or say who has it.
+///
+/// The error is user-facing copy, not a debug string — it goes straight back
+/// over IPC to a toast.
+pub fn try_acquire(project_id: &str, op: ProjectOp) -> Result<ProjectGuard, String> {
+    let mut map = holders().lock().unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner());
+    if let Some(holder) = map.get(project_id).copied() {
+        return Err(format!(
+            "{}. Wait for it to finish before {}.",
+            holder.describe(),
+            op.blocked_action()
+        ));
+    }
+    map.insert(project_id.to_string(), op);
+    Ok(ProjectGuard {
+        project_id: project_id.to_string(),
+    })
+}
+
+/// Which operation holds this project, if any.
+pub fn held(project_id: &str) -> Option<ProjectOp> {
+    holders()
+        .lock()
+        .unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner())
+        .get(project_id)
+        .copied()
+}
+
+/// Whether this project is held by exactly `op`.
+///
+/// `migration_commands::is_migrating` is this, specialised — which is the whole
+/// point of folding `ACTIVE_MIGRATIONS` into this registry: there is now one
+/// answer to "is something happening to this project", not two that can
+/// disagree.
+pub fn is_held_by(project_id: &str, op: ProjectOp) -> bool {
+    held(project_id) == Some(op)
+}
+
+/// Whether any project **other than** `exclude_project_id` is currently held by
+/// `op`. Pass an empty id to ask about every project.
+///
+/// Used by the daemon-wide reapers, which cannot tell which project a
+/// `triple-c-compact-*` container belongs to — the name carries a random uuid,
+/// not a project id — so "is this process compacting anything right now" is the
+/// only in-process question they can ask before force-removing one. The
+/// exclusion is for the reaper that runs *inside* a compaction, which is
+/// already holding a claim of its own and would otherwise see it and skip.
+///
+/// No production caller on this branch: the compaction reaper it was written
+/// for went to `hold/disk-and-dragout` with the rest of the Disk panel. Kept
+/// (and still tested) because it is the only bound this module offers on the
+/// cross-process case documented above.
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+pub fn any_held_excluding(op: ProjectOp, exclude_project_id: &str) -> bool {
+    holders()
+        .lock()
+        .unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner())
+        .iter()
+        .any(|(project_id, held)| *held == op && project_id != exclude_project_id)
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// Ids are namespaced per test: the registry is process-global, and
+    /// `cargo test` runs these on several threads at once.
+    fn id(name: &str) -> String {
+        format!("project-lock-test-{}", name)
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_second_acquire_on_the_same_project_is_refused() {
+        let p = id("second-acquire");
+        let first = try_acquire(&p, ProjectOp::Compaction).expect("first claim");
+        let second = try_acquire(&p, ProjectOp::Recreate);
+        let err = second.expect_err("a second claim must be refused, not queued");
+        // The refusal has to name the holder — "busy" alone leaves the user
+        // with nothing to wait for.
+        assert!(err.contains("snapshot is being compacted"), "{}", err);
+        assert!(err.contains("starting or recreating"), "{}", err);
+        drop(first);
+        // And it has to be retakeable the moment the holder goes away. Bound
+        // rather than discarded: `#[must_use]` is what stops a real caller
+        // writing `try_acquire(...)` and believing it holds something.
+        let retaken = try_acquire(&p, ProjectOp::Recreate).expect("released on drop");
+        drop(retaken);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_guard_releases_on_an_early_return() {
+        let p = id("early-return");
+        fn bails(project_id: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+            let _guard = try_acquire(project_id, ProjectOp::Reset)?;
+            Err("something failed".to_string())
+        }
+        assert!(bails(&p).is_err());
+        assert_eq!(held(&p), None, "an early `?` must not strand the claim");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_guard_releases_on_a_panic() {
+        let p = id("panic");
+        let result = std::panic::catch_unwind(|| {
+            let _guard = try_acquire(&id("panic"), ProjectOp::Migration).unwrap();
+            panic!("boom");
+        });
+        assert!(result.is_err());
+        assert_eq!(held(&p), None, "a panic must not strand the claim either");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn two_projects_do_not_block_each_other() {
+        let a = id("independent-a");
+        let b = id("independent-b");
+        let _one = try_acquire(&a, ProjectOp::Compaction).expect("a");
+        let _two = try_acquire(&b, ProjectOp::Compaction).expect("b");
+        assert!(is_held_by(&a, ProjectOp::Compaction));
+        assert!(is_held_by(&b, ProjectOp::Compaction));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn is_held_by_distinguishes_the_operation() {
+        let p = id("which-op");
+        let _guard = try_acquire(&p, ProjectOp::Compaction).unwrap();
+        assert!(is_held_by(&p, ProjectOp::Compaction));
+        assert!(
+            !is_held_by(&p, ProjectOp::Migration),
+            "a compaction is not a migration — `is_migrating` is built on this"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn any_held_sees_across_projects() {
+        let p = id("any-held");
+        assert!(!any_held_excluding(ProjectOp::Destroy, ""));
+        let _guard = try_acquire(&p, ProjectOp::Destroy).unwrap();
+        assert!(any_held_excluding(ProjectOp::Destroy, ""));
+        // …and a holder can ask the question without its own claim answering
+        // it, which is what lets a compaction sweep leftovers before it starts.
+        assert!(!any_held_excluding(ProjectOp::Destroy, &p));
+    }
+
+    /// Concurrency, not just sequencing: N threads racing for one project must
+    /// produce exactly one winner.
+    #[test]
+    fn exactly_one_of_many_racing_threads_wins() {
+        use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
+        use std::sync::Arc;
+
+        let p = id("race");
+        let start = Arc::new(std::sync::Barrier::new(8));
+        // The second barrier is what makes this deterministic rather than
+        // merely likely: no winner releases until every thread has had its
+        // turn, so "only one got in" cannot be an artefact of a loser arriving
+        // after the winner already left.
+        let attempted = Arc::new(std::sync::Barrier::new(8));
+        let won = Arc::new(AtomicUsize::new(0));
+        let mut handles = Vec::new();
+        for _ in 0..8 {
+            let start = Arc::clone(&start);
+            let attempted = Arc::clone(&attempted);
+            let won = Arc::clone(&won);
+            let p = p.clone();
+            handles.push(std::thread::spawn(move || {
+                start.wait();
+                let claim = try_acquire(&p, ProjectOp::Compaction);
+                if claim.is_ok() {
+                    won.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+                }
+                attempted.wait();
+                drop(claim);
+            }));
+        }
+        for handle in handles {
+            handle.join().unwrap();
+        }
+        assert_eq!(
+            won.load(Ordering::SeqCst),
+            1,
+            "eight threads raced for one project and more than one got in"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(held(&p), None);
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/storage/migration_store.rs

@@ -49,6 +49,29 @@ fn sanitize(project_id: &str) -> String {
 /// Read a project's migration state. `Ok(None)` means no migration is in
 /// flight; an unparseable file is treated the same way (and logged) rather than
 /// blocking every future migration on a corrupt record.
+///
+/// **A corrupt record is copied aside and left in place.** An earlier version
+/// *renamed* it to `.bak`, on the reasoning that a file nothing can parse
+/// should stop making the project look busy. That destroyed the one signal
+/// [`has_record`] exists to carry. The chain, in order:
+///
+/// 1. The rename makes the file vanish, so `has_record` — pure filesystem
+///    presence — flips to false.
+/// 2. `reconcile_migration` calls this, gets `Ok(None)`, and returns. An
+///    in-flight or interrupted migration becomes invisible: no resume offer, no
+///    rollback offer, and the phase is never normalised.
+/// 3. Both pin reapers use `has_record` as their conservative guard, so the
+///    project's `:pre-migration-*` tag — the only copy of its pre-migration
+///    system layer — is now "ownerless" to both of them, and the startup sweep
+///    turns the untag into a deletion.
+///
+/// A record that cannot be parsed is exactly the case where the *most*
+/// conservative answer is wanted, not the least. So the bytes are copied to a
+/// **uniquely named** backup (a fixed `.bak` meant a second corruption silently
+/// overwrote the first, and nothing ever read either back) and the original
+/// stays where it is. The pin it describes then ages out through the ownerless
+/// tombstone in `docker::migration::reap_stale_migration_pins` rather than
+/// being reaped on the next app start.
 pub fn load(project_id: &str) -> Result<Option<MigrationState>, String> {
     let path = state_path(project_id)?;
     if !path.exists() {
@@ -59,27 +82,326 @@ pub fn load(project_id: &str) -> Result<Option<MigrationState>, String> {
     match serde_json::from_str::<MigrationState>(&data) {
         Ok(state) => Ok(Some(state)),
         Err(e) => {
+            // Three outcomes, and they must not be conflated: a copy was made,
+            // a copy was deliberately not made, or a copy failed. The previous
+            // version folded "already kept enough" into `Ok(())` and then told
+            // the user "a copy was kept at <path>" — naming a file that was
+            // never created. A message that invents a backup is worse than no
+            // message, because it is what someone reads before going to look
+            // for their data.
+            let backup = corrupt_backup_path(&path, &chrono::Utc::now());
+            let kept = if backup.exists() {
+                Kept::AlreadyThere
+            } else if corrupt_backups_full(&path) {
+                Kept::EnoughAlready(MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS)
+            } else {
+                match fs::copy(&path, &backup) {
+                    Ok(_) => Kept::Copied,
+                    Err(e) => Kept::Failed(e.to_string()),
+                }
+            };
             log::error!(
-                "Failed to parse migration state for project {}: {} — treating as absent",
+                "Failed to parse migration state for project {}: {} — treating as absent, but \
+                 the record is left in place so `has_record` still protects its rollback pin{}",
                 project_id,
-                e
+                e,
+                match kept {
+                    Kept::Copied | Kept::AlreadyThere =>
+                        format!(" (a copy is at {})", backup.display()),
+                    // The earliest copies are the ones worth having, so the cap
+                    // keeps those and drops this one. Say so, rather than
+                    // implying a file exists.
+                    Kept::EnoughAlready(n) => format!(
+                        " (no copy kept — {} earlier copies of this record are already saved \
+                         alongside it)",
+                        n
+                    ),
+                    Kept::Failed(ref e) => format!(" (could not keep a copy: {})", e),
+                }
             );
             Ok(None)
         }
     }
 }
 
-/// Atomically write a project's migration state.
+/// What [`load`] did about a copy of an unparseable record, so the log line can
+/// tell the truth about whether a file exists.
+enum Kept {
+    Copied,
+    /// This exact second's copy was already on disk.
+    AlreadyThere,
+    /// The cap is reached; the earlier copies are kept and this one is not.
+    EnoughAlready(usize),
+    Failed(String),
+}
+
+/// Where a copy of an unparseable record is kept.
+///
+/// Timestamped rather than a fixed `.bak`: a second corruption used to
+/// overwrite the first, so the one case where the user's bytes matter most was
+/// the case where they were most likely to be gone.
+fn corrupt_backup_path(path: &std::path::Path, now: &chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc>) -> PathBuf {
+    path.with_extension(format!("json.corrupt-{}.bak", now.format("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")))
+}
+
+/// How many timestamped copies of one project's corrupt record are kept.
+///
+/// Timestamping fixed the "second corruption overwrote the first" bug and
+/// introduced its opposite: [`load`] runs on every reconcile, every survey and
+/// every reaper pass, so a record that is *persistently* unparseable — the
+/// normal case, since nothing repairs it — mints a new copy every time the
+/// clock's second changes. Nothing ever reads them back and nothing ever
+/// removed them.
+///
+/// Four is enough for the only use there is: a human looking at what the file
+/// held. See [`corrupt_backups_full`] for why the cap is applied before the
+/// copy rather than by pruning after it.
+const MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS: usize = 4;
+
+/// Whether [`MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS`] copies of this record already exist.
+///
+/// Asked *before* the copy rather than pruning after it, so the cap is not
+/// implemented by writing a file and deleting it again on every pass — and so
+/// the copies that survive are the oldest, which are the ones taken closest to
+/// whatever produced the corruption.
+///
+/// A directory that cannot be listed answers "not full": failing open here
+/// costs at most one extra file, and failing closed would drop the very first
+/// copy of a record nothing else has kept.
+fn corrupt_backups_full(path: &std::path::Path) -> bool {
+    let (Some(dir), Some(stem)) = (path.parent(), path.file_stem()) else {
+        return false;
+    };
+    // `{stem}.json.corrupt-` — the same shape `corrupt_backup_path` builds, so
+    // this can never match another project's copies or an unrelated `.bak`.
+    let prefix = format!("{}.json.corrupt-", stem.to_string_lossy());
+    let Ok(entries) = fs::read_dir(dir) else {
+        return false;
+    };
+    entries
+        .flatten()
+        .filter(|e| {
+            let name = e.file_name().to_string_lossy().to_string();
+            name.starts_with(&prefix) && name.ends_with(".bak")
+        })
+        .count()
+        >= MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS
+}
+
+/// Whether a project has a migration record on disk *at all*, without parsing
+/// it.
+///
+/// The pin reaper needs "is this project's rollback image still somebody's only
+/// copy?" and must answer it conservatively. [`load`] cannot be used for that
+/// question on its own — it deliberately reports a corrupt record as absent —
+/// so this asks the filesystem instead. `load` moving a corrupt record aside is
+/// what keeps the two answers from disagreeing forever.
+pub fn has_record(project_id: &str) -> Result<bool, String> {
+    Ok(state_path(project_id)?.exists())
+}
+
+/// Atomically **and durably** write a project's migration state.
+///
+/// Write-temp-then-rename alone is only half of it, and the missing half is the
+/// half this record exists for. `fs::write` returns once the bytes are in the
+/// page cache; a rename over them is atomic *with respect to other readers*,
+/// not with respect to power loss. Losing power in that window leaves the
+/// rename applied and the data not yet written — i.e. a 0-byte or truncated
+/// `{id}.json` — which is precisely the corrupt-record case above, produced by
+/// the code whose job is to make that case impossible.
+///
+/// So: fsync the file before the rename, and fsync the *directory* after it,
+/// because the rename itself is directory metadata and is not durable until the
+/// directory is synced. A sync that fails is reported rather than swallowed —
+/// this is the crash record, and "probably written" is not a state it may be
+/// in.
 pub fn save(project_id: &str, state: &MigrationState) -> Result<(), String> {
     let path = state_path(project_id)?;
     let data = serde_json::to_string_pretty(state)
         .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to serialize migration state: {}", e))?;
     let tmp = path.with_extension("json.tmp");
-    fs::write(&tmp, data).map_err(|e| format!("Failed to write migration state: {}", e))?;
+
+    {
+        use std::io::Write;
+        let mut file = fs::File::create(&tmp)
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to write migration state: {}", e))?;
+        file.write_all(data.as_bytes())
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to write migration state: {}", e))?;
+        file.sync_all()
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to flush migration state to disk: {}", e))?;
+    }
+
     fs::rename(&tmp, &path).map_err(|e| format!("Failed to commit migration state: {}", e))?;
+    sync_dir(&path);
+    // A project with a record is not ownerless, whatever a reaper concluded
+    // before this write — so the grace clock is thrown away rather than left to
+    // expire against a pin that now has an owner again.
+    clear_ownerless_for_project(project_id);
     Ok(())
 }
 
+/// fsync the directory holding `path`, so a rename into it survives power loss.
+///
+/// Best effort *only* on the platforms where it is meaningless: Windows has no
+/// directory handle to sync and returns an error for the attempt, so a failure
+/// is logged rather than propagated. The file's own `sync_all` above is the
+/// part that carries the data, and it is not best effort.
+fn sync_dir(path: &std::path::Path) {
+    let Some(dir) = path.parent() else {
+        return;
+    };
+    match fs::File::open(dir).and_then(|d| d.sync_all()) {
+        Ok(()) => {}
+        Err(e) => log::debug!(
+            "Could not fsync the migrations directory {}: {} — the record itself was flushed",
+            dir.display(),
+            e
+        ),
+    }
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Ownerless-pin tombstones
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// Marker recording **when a rollback pin was first seen with no record behind
+/// it**.
+///
+/// ## Why the grace period cannot be measured from the tag
+///
+/// `docker::migration::pin_is_reapable` used to date a pin from the timestamp
+/// encoded in `pre-migration-<YYYYmmdd-HHMMSS>` — i.e. from when the migration
+/// *started*. That is the wrong epoch by a whole feature. A migration is
+/// allowed to sit at `awaiting-confirmation` indefinitely; `keep_rollback`
+/// exists precisely so a user can run on the new base for a month before
+/// deciding. If that project's record is then lost — a corrupt file, a deleted
+/// state file, a half-restored data directory — the pin is fourteen days old on
+/// the very first check, so it is untagged on the next app start and the
+/// startup sweep deletes the image two lines later. The fourteen-day grace
+/// period the constant promises is zero in the only situation it was written
+/// for.
+///
+/// The clock has to start when the *claim* was lost, and nothing on the daemon
+/// records that moment. So it is written down here, the first time a reaper
+/// notices, and the age is measured from the marker.
+///
+/// One file per `(project_id, tag)` in the migrations directory, holding an
+/// RFC3339 instant. Tiny, and losing one costs a fresh fourteen days rather
+/// than a deletion — the failure direction that keeps somebody's only rollback
+/// copy.
+fn ownerless_marker_path(project_id: &str, tag: &str) -> Result<PathBuf, String> {
+    Ok(migrations_dir()?.join(format!(
+        "{}.{}.ownerless",
+        sanitize(project_id),
+        sanitize(tag)
+    )))
+}
+
+/// Read the first-observed instant for a pin, creating the marker if this is
+/// the first sighting. Returns `None` when the clock has not started yet.
+///
+/// **Clock skew is handled here rather than at the comparison.** A host clock
+/// that was running fast when the marker was written leaves a timestamp in the
+/// future; measured naively that is a negative age, which a `num_days() >= 14`
+/// test reads as "never reapable" — a pin that can never be collected, forever.
+/// A marker dated after `now` is therefore rewritten to `now`, restarting the
+/// grace period. The other direction — a clock jumping forward — cannot shorten
+/// the period below what has actually elapsed on the *marker's* terms, because
+/// there is nothing to compare against but wall time; what it cannot do any
+/// more is make every pin instantly reapable, which dating from the tag did.
+///
+/// ## Why the write re-checks `has_record`
+///
+/// Both reapers ask [`has_record`] and only call this when the answer is no,
+/// which leaves a window: a [`save`] landing between the two runs its
+/// `clear_ownerless_for_project` against a marker that does not exist yet, and
+/// this then plants one — dated *now* — behind a perfectly valid record. The
+/// marker is invisible while the record stands, so nothing notices. It only
+/// matters later, if that record is legitimately lost: the pin is then already
+/// fourteen days ownerless on its very first check and is reaped with **zero**
+/// grace, which is the exact failure the tombstone exists to prevent.
+///
+/// So the write is followed by a second `has_record`, and a marker that turns
+/// out to sit behind a record is removed again. The two orderings that remain
+/// are both safe: a `save` completing *after* this re-check clears the marker
+/// itself, and one completing before it is what the re-check sees.
+pub fn note_ownerless_since(
+    project_id: &str,
+    tag: &str,
+    now: &chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc>,
+) -> Option<chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc>> {
+    let path = ownerless_marker_path(project_id, tag).ok()?;
+    let existing = fs::read_to_string(&path).ok().and_then(|raw| {
+        chrono::DateTime::parse_from_rfc3339(raw.trim())
+            .ok()
+            .map(|t| t.with_timezone(&chrono::Utc))
+    });
+    match existing {
+        Some(seen) if seen <= *now => Some(seen),
+        // Absent, unparseable, or dated in the future: (re)start the clock.
+        _ => {
+            if let Err(e) = fs::write(&path, now.to_rfc3339()) {
+                log::warn!(
+                    "Could not record that rollback pin {}:{} is ownerless: {} — its grace \
+                     period restarts on the next check",
+                    project_id,
+                    tag,
+                    e
+                );
+                return None;
+            }
+            // A record that appeared while this was being written owns the pin,
+            // and a tombstone behind an owned pin is a fourteen-day head start
+            // on reaping it the moment that record is next lost.
+            if has_record(project_id).unwrap_or(false) {
+                log::debug!(
+                    "A migration record for {} appeared while marking {} ownerless; \
+                     the marker was dropped again",
+                    project_id,
+                    tag
+                );
+                clear_ownerless(project_id, tag);
+            }
+            None
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Forget a pin's ownerless marker. Missing is success.
+///
+/// Called when the pin is untagged, and when a record reappears for the
+/// project — a re-migrated project must not inherit the previous run's clock.
+pub fn clear_ownerless(project_id: &str, tag: &str) {
+    let Ok(path) = ownerless_marker_path(project_id, tag) else {
+        return;
+    };
+    match fs::remove_file(&path) {
+        Ok(()) => {}
+        Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => {}
+        Err(e) => log::warn!("Could not remove {}: {}", path.display(), e),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Drop every ownerless marker belonging to one project.
+///
+/// A project that has a record again is by definition not ownerless, whatever
+/// a reaper concluded before.
+pub fn clear_ownerless_for_project(project_id: &str) {
+    let Ok(dir) = migrations_dir() else {
+        return;
+    };
+    let prefix = format!("{}.", sanitize(project_id));
+    let Ok(entries) = fs::read_dir(&dir) else {
+        return;
+    };
+    for entry in entries.flatten() {
+        let name = entry.file_name().to_string_lossy().to_string();
+        if name.starts_with(&prefix) && name.ends_with(".ownerless") {
+            let _ = fs::remove_file(entry.path());
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Remove a project's migration state file. Missing is success.
 pub fn clear(project_id: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
     let path = state_path(project_id)?;
@@ -104,6 +426,39 @@ pub fn clear_staging(project_id: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    #[test]
+    fn corrupt_copies_of_one_record_are_capped() {
+        // `load` runs on every reconcile, every survey and every reaper pass,
+        // and nothing repairs an unparseable record — so a persistently corrupt
+        // one minted a new timestamped copy every time the clock's second
+        // changed, and nothing ever removed them.
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!(
+            "triple-c-corrupt-cap-{}",
+            uuid::Uuid::new_v4().simple()
+        ));
+        fs::create_dir_all(&dir).expect("temp dir");
+        let record = dir.join("some-project.json");
+
+        assert!(!corrupt_backups_full(&record), "an empty directory is not full");
+        for n in 0..MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS {
+            fs::write(
+                dir.join(format!("some-project.json.corrupt-2026010{}-000000.bak", n)),
+                "x",
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+        }
+        assert!(corrupt_backups_full(&record));
+
+        // Another project's copies, and an unrelated `.bak`, are not this
+        // record's — the prefix is the whole point of the naming.
+        let other = dir.join("other-project.json");
+        assert!(!corrupt_backups_full(&other));
+        fs::write(dir.join("some-project.json.bak"), "x").unwrap();
+        assert!(!corrupt_backups_full(&other));
+
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn project_ids_cannot_escape_the_migrations_directory() {
         assert_eq!(sanitize("../../etc/passwd"), "______etc_passwd");
@@ -115,4 +470,43 @@ mod tests {
             "ab62cd24-51aa-4645-8f5c-17a124062050"
         );
     }
+
+    /// The log line must not name a backup that was never written.
+    ///
+    /// `load` runs on every reconcile, every survey and every reaper pass, so a
+    /// persistently corrupt record hits the `MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS` cap within
+    /// seconds. The previous code folded "already kept enough" into `Ok(())`
+    /// and then reported " (a copy was kept at <path>)" — pointing at a file
+    /// that does not exist. That is the message someone reads immediately
+    /// before going to look for their data.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_corrupt_record_message_only_claims_a_copy_that_exists() {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!(
+            "tc-mstore-{}",
+            uuid::Uuid::new_v4().simple()
+        ));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        let path = dir.join("p.json");
+        std::fs::write(&path, b"{ not json").unwrap();
+
+        // Fill the cap with copies that really are on disk.
+        for i in 0..MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS {
+            let b = path.with_extension(format!("json.corrupt-2026010{}-000000.bak", i));
+            std::fs::write(&b, b"{ not json").unwrap();
+        }
+        assert!(corrupt_backups_full(&path), "precondition: the cap is reached");
+
+        // With the cap reached, no new copy may be created — and that is the
+        // state in which the old message lied.
+        let before: Vec<_> = std::fs::read_dir(&dir).unwrap().flatten().collect();
+        let fresh = corrupt_backup_path(&path, &chrono::Utc::now());
+        assert!(
+            !fresh.exists(),
+            "the cap is reached, so this timestamped copy must not be written"
+        );
+        let after: Vec<_> = std::fs::read_dir(&dir).unwrap().flatten().collect();
+        assert_eq!(before.len(), after.len(), "nothing new appeared on disk");
+
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
 }

app/src-tauri/src/storage/mod.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 pub mod migration_store;
+pub mod notes_store;
+pub mod pending_cleanup;
 pub mod projects_store;
 pub mod secure;
+pub mod settings_crypto;
 pub mod settings_store;
 
 #[allow(unused_imports)]

app/src-tauri/src/storage/notes_store.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,593 @@
+//! Host-side persistence for per-project notes.
+//!
+//! One JSON file per project under `<data_dir>/triple-c/notes/`, on the same
+//! free-function shape as `migration_store` — no struct, nothing in
+//! `AppState`, no in-memory copy. `ProjectsStore` holds a `Mutex` because it
+//! caches the project list; a store that reads and writes the file per call
+//! has nothing to cache and nothing to guard.
+//!
+//! Deliberately *not* a field on `Project`. `projects.json` is rewritten on
+//! every blur by the debounced-nothing save path in `useSaveState`, so notes
+//! there would mean the whole project list is rewritten per edit, and a note
+//! save racing a Config save would silently drop one of them.
+
+use std::fs;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+use std::sync::{Mutex, OnceLock};
+
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+use crate::models::Note;
+
+/// The version stamped into every notes file this build writes.
+const NOTES_FORMAT_VERSION: u32 = 1;
+
+/// What is actually on disk: a version envelope around the notes.
+///
+/// The list is wrapped rather than written bare because the wrapper costs
+/// nothing today and cannot be added cheaply later — once files exist in the
+/// field, every reader has to sniff two shapes forever. `version` is written
+/// and read back but nothing branches on it yet: it is the hook a future
+/// format change hangs off, and its value is only useful if it has been there
+/// since the first file.
+///
+/// Not in `models/` and not exposed over IPC: the frontend receives
+/// `Vec<Note>` from `list_notes` and never sees the envelope, so this is a
+/// storage detail rather than part of the IPC contract.
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+struct ProjectNotes {
+    version: u32,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    notes: Vec<Note>,
+}
+
+/// Serialises the read-modify-write half of an upsert or delete.
+///
+/// Nothing here is cached, so there is no shared state to protect — but an
+/// upsert reads the whole file, edits one entry and writes it back, and two of
+/// those interleaving would lose whichever note was written first. The read
+/// path does not take it.
+fn write_lock() -> &'static Mutex<()> {
+    static LOCK: OnceLock<Mutex<()>> = OnceLock::new();
+    LOCK.get_or_init(|| Mutex::new(()))
+}
+
+/// `<data_dir>/triple-c/notes`, created on demand.
+pub fn notes_dir() -> Result<PathBuf, String> {
+    let dir = dirs::data_dir()
+        .ok_or_else(|| {
+            "Could not determine data directory. Set XDG_DATA_HOME on Linux.".to_string()
+        })?
+        .join("triple-c")
+        .join("notes");
+    fs::create_dir_all(&dir).map_err(|e| format!("Failed to create notes directory: {}", e))?;
+    Ok(dir)
+}
+
+/// Project ids are UUIDs, but they arrive over IPC, so refuse to let one steer
+/// the write anywhere but the notes directory.
+fn sanitize(project_id: &str) -> String {
+    project_id
+        .chars()
+        .map(|c| if c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || c == '-' || c == '_' { c } else { '_' })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+fn notes_path_in(dir: &Path, project_id: &str) -> PathBuf {
+    dir.join(format!("{}.json", sanitize(project_id)))
+}
+
+// ── Public API. Each resolves the real directory, then defers to the `_in`
+// variant, which is what the tests exercise against a temp dir. `ProjectsStore`
+// hardcodes `dirs::data_dir()` in its constructor and is therefore untestable
+// as a unit; this store does not inherit that. ─────────────────────────────
+
+pub fn load(project_id: &str) -> Result<Vec<Note>, String> {
+    load_in(&notes_dir()?, project_id)
+}
+
+pub fn upsert(project_id: &str, note: Note) -> Result<Note, String> {
+    upsert_in(&notes_dir()?, project_id, note)
+}
+
+pub fn delete(project_id: &str, note_id: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    delete_in(&notes_dir()?, project_id, note_id)
+}
+
+/// Remove a project's notes file entirely. Missing is success.
+pub fn clear(project_id: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    clear_in(&notes_dir()?, project_id)
+}
+
+// ── Implementation ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/// Read a project's notes. A missing file is an empty list.
+///
+/// **An unparseable file is copied aside and left in place**, then reported as
+/// empty. Erroring instead would make the Notes tab permanently unusable for
+/// that project with no way out through the UI; deleting instead would destroy
+/// the only copy of what the user wrote. The copy is timestamped so a second
+/// corruption cannot overwrite the first — which is the one taken before
+/// anything rewrote the file, and therefore the one worth having — and capped,
+/// because `list_notes` runs on *every* panel mount. See [`keep_corrupt_copy`].
+fn load_in(dir: &Path, project_id: &str) -> Result<Vec<Note>, String> {
+    let path = notes_path_in(dir, project_id);
+    if !path.exists() {
+        return Ok(Vec::new());
+    }
+    let data = fs::read_to_string(&path).map_err(|e| format!("Failed to read notes: {}", e))?;
+    match parse(&data) {
+        Ok(notes) => Ok(notes),
+        Err(e) => {
+            let kept = keep_corrupt_copy(&path, &chrono::Utc::now());
+            log::error!(
+                "Failed to parse notes for project {}: {} — treating as empty; the file is \
+                 left in place{}",
+                project_id,
+                e,
+                kept.describe()
+            );
+            Ok(Vec::new())
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Parse a notes file: the versioned envelope, or a bare array.
+///
+/// The bare array is what this store wrote before [`ProjectNotes`] existed —
+/// only ever on a development build, but a developer's own notes are still
+/// prose nothing else holds a copy of, and the alternative is `load_in`
+/// declaring a perfectly readable file corrupt. It is read, never written: the
+/// first save rewrites the file with an envelope.
+fn parse(data: &str) -> Result<Vec<Note>, serde_json::Error> {
+    match serde_json::from_str::<ProjectNotes>(data) {
+        Ok(file) => Ok(file.notes),
+        // Report the envelope's error, not the array's — the envelope is the
+        // shape this store writes, so its message is the one that describes
+        // what is actually wrong with the file.
+        Err(envelope_err) => serde_json::from_str::<Vec<Note>>(data).map_err(|_| envelope_err),
+    }
+}
+
+/// How many timestamped copies of one project's corrupt notes file are kept.
+///
+/// Timestamping fixes "a second corruption overwrote the first" and introduces
+/// its opposite: `load_in` runs on every `list_notes`, which is every panel
+/// mount — every project switch, every dock-follows-tab change, every sub-tab
+/// toggle. A file that is *persistently* unparseable (the normal case, since
+/// nothing repairs it) would otherwise mint a fresh full copy of the user's
+/// prose every time the clock's second changed. Nothing ever reads them back
+/// and nothing ever removed them.
+///
+/// Four is enough for the only use there is: a human looking at what the file
+/// held. Same constant, same reasoning as `migration_store`.
+const MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS: usize = 4;
+
+/// What [`keep_corrupt_copy`] did, so the log line can tell the truth about
+/// whether a file exists.
+///
+/// Three outcomes, and they must not be conflated. Folding "already kept
+/// enough" into success and then saying "a copy was kept" names a file that
+/// was never created — which is what someone reads before going to look for
+/// their data.
+enum Kept {
+    Copied(PathBuf),
+    /// This exact second's copy was already on disk.
+    AlreadyThere(PathBuf),
+    /// The cap is reached; the earlier copies are kept and this one is not.
+    EnoughAlready(usize),
+    Failed(String),
+}
+
+impl Kept {
+    fn describe(&self) -> String {
+        match self {
+            Kept::Copied(p) | Kept::AlreadyThere(p) => format!(" (a copy is at {})", p.display()),
+            // The earliest copies are the ones worth having, so the cap keeps
+            // those and drops this one. Say so, rather than implying a file
+            // exists.
+            Kept::EnoughAlready(n) => format!(
+                " (no copy kept — {} earlier copies of this file are already saved alongside it)",
+                n
+            ),
+            Kept::Failed(e) => format!(" (could not keep a copy: {})", e),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Where a copy of an unreadable notes file is kept.
+fn corrupt_backup_path(path: &Path, now: &chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc>) -> PathBuf {
+    path.with_extension(format!("json.corrupt-{}.bak", now.format("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")))
+}
+
+/// Whether [`MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS`] copies of this project's file already exist.
+///
+/// Asked *before* the copy rather than pruning after it, so the cap is not
+/// implemented by writing a file and deleting it again on every pass — and so
+/// the copies that survive are the oldest, which are the ones taken closest to
+/// whatever produced the corruption.
+///
+/// A directory that cannot be listed answers "not full": failing open costs at
+/// most one extra file, and failing closed would drop the very first copy of
+/// prose nothing else has kept.
+fn corrupt_backups_full(path: &Path) -> bool {
+    let (Some(dir), Some(stem)) = (path.parent(), path.file_stem()) else {
+        return false;
+    };
+    // `{stem}.json.corrupt-` — the same shape `corrupt_backup_path` builds, so
+    // this can never match another project's copies or an unrelated `.bak`.
+    let prefix = format!("{}.json.corrupt-", stem.to_string_lossy());
+    let Ok(entries) = fs::read_dir(dir) else {
+        return false;
+    };
+    entries
+        .flatten()
+        .filter(|e| {
+            let name = e.file_name().to_string_lossy().to_string();
+            name.starts_with(&prefix) && name.ends_with(".bak")
+        })
+        .count()
+        >= MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS
+}
+
+fn keep_corrupt_copy(path: &Path, now: &chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc>) -> Kept {
+    let backup = corrupt_backup_path(path, now);
+    if backup.exists() {
+        return Kept::AlreadyThere(backup);
+    }
+    if corrupt_backups_full(path) {
+        return Kept::EnoughAlready(MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS);
+    }
+    match fs::copy(path, &backup) {
+        Ok(_) => Kept::Copied(backup),
+        Err(e) => Kept::Failed(e.to_string()),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Insert or replace one note, leaving the rest untouched.
+///
+/// `created_at` and `id` are the store's, not the caller's: the webview sends
+/// a whole `Note` back and must not be able to rewrite when a note was made.
+/// `updated_at` is stamped here for the same reason.
+fn upsert_in(dir: &Path, project_id: &str, mut note: Note) -> Result<Note, String> {
+    let _guard = write_lock().lock().unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner());
+    let mut notes = load_in(dir, project_id)?;
+    note.updated_at = chrono::Utc::now().to_rfc3339();
+    match notes.iter_mut().find(|n| n.id == note.id) {
+        Some(existing) => {
+            note.created_at = existing.created_at.clone();
+            *existing = note.clone();
+        }
+        None => notes.push(note.clone()),
+    }
+    save_all(dir, project_id, &notes)?;
+    Ok(note)
+}
+
+/// Remove one note. Removing one that is already gone is success — the UI can
+/// retry a delete whose result it never saw.
+fn delete_in(dir: &Path, project_id: &str, note_id: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    let _guard = write_lock().lock().unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner());
+    let mut notes = load_in(dir, project_id)?;
+    let before = notes.len();
+    notes.retain(|n| n.id != note_id);
+    if notes.len() == before {
+        return Ok(());
+    }
+    save_all(dir, project_id, &notes)
+}
+
+fn clear_in(dir: &Path, project_id: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    let _guard = write_lock().lock().unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner());
+    let path = notes_path_in(dir, project_id);
+    match fs::remove_file(&path) {
+        Ok(()) => Ok(()),
+        Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => Ok(()),
+        Err(e) => Err(format!("Failed to remove notes: {}", e)),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Atomically **and durably** write the whole list.
+///
+/// Write-temp-then-rename alone is only half of it. `fs::write` returns once
+/// the bytes are in the page cache; the rename is atomic with respect to other
+/// readers, not to power loss. Losing power in that window leaves the rename
+/// applied and the data not written — a truncated file, produced by the code
+/// whose job is to prevent one. So the file is fsynced before the rename and
+/// the directory after it, since the rename is directory metadata. Notes are
+/// prose the user typed and nothing else holds a copy.
+fn save_all(dir: &Path, project_id: &str, notes: &[Note]) -> Result<(), String> {
+    let path = notes_path_in(dir, project_id);
+    let file = ProjectNotes {
+        version: NOTES_FORMAT_VERSION,
+        notes: notes.to_vec(),
+    };
+    let data = serde_json::to_string_pretty(&file)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to serialize notes: {}", e))?;
+    let tmp = path.with_extension("json.tmp");
+
+    {
+        use std::io::Write;
+        let mut file =
+            fs::File::create(&tmp).map_err(|e| format!("Failed to write notes: {}", e))?;
+        file.write_all(data.as_bytes())
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to write notes: {}", e))?;
+        file.sync_all()
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to flush notes to disk: {}", e))?;
+    }
+
+    fs::rename(&tmp, &path).map_err(|e| format!("Failed to commit notes: {}", e))?;
+    sync_dir(&path);
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// fsync the directory holding `path`, so the rename survives power loss.
+///
+/// Best effort only where it is meaningless: Windows has no directory handle
+/// to sync and returns an error for the attempt, so a failure is logged rather
+/// than propagated. The file's own `sync_all` carries the data and is not best
+/// effort.
+fn sync_dir(path: &Path) {
+    let Some(dir) = path.parent() else { return };
+    if let Err(e) = fs::File::open(dir).and_then(|d| d.sync_all()) {
+        log::debug!(
+            "Could not fsync the notes directory {}: {} — the file itself was flushed",
+            dir.display(),
+            e
+        );
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn temp_dir(tag: &str) -> std::path::PathBuf {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!(
+            "triple-c-notes-{}-{}",
+            tag,
+            uuid::Uuid::new_v4().simple()
+        ));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).expect("temp dir");
+        dir
+    }
+
+    fn corrupt_copies(dir: &std::path::Path) -> Vec<String> {
+        std::fs::read_dir(dir)
+            .unwrap()
+            .flatten()
+            .map(|e| e.file_name().to_string_lossy().to_string())
+            .filter(|n| n.contains(".corrupt-"))
+            .collect()
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn project_ids_cannot_escape_the_notes_directory() {
+        // The id arrives over IPC. It must not be able to steer the write.
+        assert_eq!(sanitize("../../etc/passwd"), "______etc_passwd");
+        assert_eq!(sanitize("a/b"), "a_b");
+        assert_eq!(sanitize("a\\b"), "a_b");
+        // A real UUID must survive untouched, or every note file would move
+        // the first time this function changed.
+        assert_eq!(
+            sanitize("ab62cd24-51aa-4645-8f5c-17a124062050"),
+            "ab62cd24-51aa-4645-8f5c-17a124062050"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_missing_file_is_an_empty_list_not_an_error() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("missing");
+        assert_eq!(load_in(&dir, "nobody").unwrap(), Vec::<Note>::new());
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_upserted_note_round_trips() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("roundtrip");
+        let note = Note::new("Deploy steps".into(), "one\ntwo".into());
+        let saved = upsert_in(&dir, "p1", note.clone()).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(saved.id, note.id);
+
+        let loaded = load_in(&dir, "p1").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(loaded.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(loaded[0].body, "one\ntwo");
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn upserting_an_existing_id_replaces_it_and_keeps_created_at() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("replace");
+        let mut note = Note::new("Title".into(), "first".into());
+        upsert_in(&dir, "p1", note.clone()).unwrap();
+
+        note.body = "second".into();
+        note.created_at = "1999-01-01T00:00:00Z".into(); // a client must not rewrite this
+        let saved = upsert_in(&dir, "p1", note.clone()).unwrap();
+
+        let loaded = load_in(&dir, "p1").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(loaded.len(), 1, "an upsert must not append a duplicate");
+        assert_eq!(loaded[0].body, "second");
+        assert_ne!(
+            saved.created_at, "1999-01-01T00:00:00Z",
+            "created_at is owned by the store, not by whatever the webview sent"
+        );
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn deleting_a_note_leaves_the_others_and_a_missing_one_is_success() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("delete");
+        let keep = upsert_in(&dir, "p1", Note::new("keep".into(), "".into())).unwrap();
+        let drop = upsert_in(&dir, "p1", Note::new("drop".into(), "".into())).unwrap();
+
+        delete_in(&dir, "p1", &drop.id).unwrap();
+        let loaded = load_in(&dir, "p1").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(loaded.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(loaded[0].id, keep.id);
+
+        // Idempotent: removing what is already gone is not an error, because
+        // the UI can retry a delete it never saw the result of.
+        delete_in(&dir, "p1", &drop.id).unwrap();
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_unreadable_file_is_copied_aside_and_reads_as_empty() {
+        // Same reasoning as migration_store: a corrupt file must not make the
+        // tab permanently unusable, and the bytes must not be destroyed.
+        let dir = temp_dir("corrupt");
+        let path = notes_path_in(&dir, "p1");
+        std::fs::write(&path, b"{ not json").unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(load_in(&dir, "p1").unwrap(), Vec::<Note>::new());
+        assert!(path.exists(), "the unreadable file is left in place");
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            corrupt_copies(&dir).len(),
+            1,
+            "the bytes must be kept exactly once"
+        );
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn what_is_written_is_a_version_envelope_not_a_bare_array() {
+        // The envelope costs nothing now and cannot be added cheaply once
+        // files exist in the field, so the very first file has to carry it.
+        let dir = temp_dir("envelope");
+        upsert_in(&dir, "p1", Note::new("t".into(), "b".into())).unwrap();
+
+        let raw = std::fs::read_to_string(notes_path_in(&dir, "p1")).unwrap();
+        let parsed: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(&raw).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(parsed["version"], NOTES_FORMAT_VERSION);
+        assert_eq!(parsed["notes"].as_array().unwrap().len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(parsed["notes"][0]["body"], "b");
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_pre_envelope_bare_array_still_reads_and_is_not_called_corrupt() {
+        // Only a development build ever wrote this shape, but declaring a
+        // perfectly readable file corrupt is the one outcome this store exists
+        // to avoid. It is read, never written back.
+        let dir = temp_dir("legacy");
+        let note = Note::new("Deploy".into(), "one\ntwo".into());
+        std::fs::write(
+            notes_path_in(&dir, "p1"),
+            serde_json::to_string(&vec![note.clone()]).unwrap(),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
+        let loaded = load_in(&dir, "p1").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(loaded.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(loaded[0].body, "one\ntwo");
+        let copies = corrupt_copies(&dir);
+        assert!(copies.is_empty(), "a readable file must not be copied aside");
+
+        // The next write upgrades it in place.
+        upsert_in(&dir, "p1", note).unwrap();
+        let raw = std::fs::read_to_string(notes_path_in(&dir, "p1")).unwrap();
+        assert!(raw.contains("\"version\""));
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn corrupt_copies_are_capped_rather_than_one_per_second() {
+        // `list_notes` runs on every panel mount, so an unrepaired file would
+        // otherwise mint a full copy of the user's prose every time the
+        // clock's second changed.
+        let dir = temp_dir("cap");
+        let path = notes_path_in(&dir, "p1");
+        std::fs::write(&path, b"{ not json").unwrap();
+
+        let base = chrono::Utc::now();
+        for i in 0..MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS as i64 + 3 {
+            let at = base + chrono::Duration::seconds(i);
+            let kept = keep_corrupt_copy(&path, &at);
+            if i < MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS as i64 {
+                assert!(matches!(kept, Kept::Copied(_)), "copy {} should be kept", i);
+            } else {
+                assert!(
+                    matches!(kept, Kept::EnoughAlready(MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS)),
+                    "copy {} should be refused by the cap",
+                    i
+                );
+            }
+        }
+        assert_eq!(corrupt_copies(&dir).len(), MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS);
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_second_read_in_the_same_second_does_not_re_copy() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("samesecond");
+        let path = notes_path_in(&dir, "p1");
+        std::fs::write(&path, b"{ not json").unwrap();
+
+        let at = chrono::Utc::now();
+        assert!(matches!(keep_corrupt_copy(&path, &at), Kept::Copied(_)));
+        assert!(matches!(
+            keep_corrupt_copy(&path, &at),
+            Kept::AlreadyThere(_)
+        ));
+        assert_eq!(corrupt_copies(&dir).len(), 1);
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_log_line_never_claims_a_backup_that_was_not_written() {
+        // A message that invents a backup is worse than no message: it is what
+        // someone reads before going to look for their data.
+        let dir = temp_dir("honesty");
+        let path = notes_path_in(&dir, "p1");
+        std::fs::write(&path, b"{ not json").unwrap();
+
+        let copied = keep_corrupt_copy(&path, &chrono::Utc::now()).describe();
+        assert!(copied.contains("a copy is at"));
+
+        let refused = Kept::EnoughAlready(MAX_CORRUPT_BACKUPS).describe();
+        assert!(refused.contains("no copy kept"));
+        assert!(!refused.contains("a copy is at"));
+
+        let failed = Kept::Failed("permission denied".into()).describe();
+        assert!(failed.contains("could not keep a copy"));
+        assert!(!failed.contains("a copy is at"));
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_write_leaves_no_temp_file_behind() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("tmp");
+        upsert_in(&dir, "p1", Note::new("t".into(), "b".into())).unwrap();
+        let leftovers: Vec<_> = std::fs::read_dir(&dir)
+            .unwrap()
+            .flatten()
+            .filter(|e| e.file_name().to_string_lossy().ends_with(".tmp"))
+            .collect();
+        assert!(leftovers.is_empty(), "the rename must have consumed the temp file");
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn clearing_a_project_removes_its_file_and_missing_is_success() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("clear");
+        upsert_in(&dir, "p1", Note::new("t".into(), "b".into())).unwrap();
+        assert!(notes_path_in(&dir, "p1").exists());
+
+        clear_in(&dir, "p1").unwrap();
+        assert!(!notes_path_in(&dir, "p1").exists());
+        clear_in(&dir, "p1").unwrap(); // idempotent
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn clearing_is_what_project_removal_calls_and_it_never_fails_on_absence() {
+        // `remove_project` must not be able to fail because a project simply
+        // never had any notes — an orphaned notes file is harmless, a project
+        // that cannot be removed is not.
+        let dir = temp_dir("removal");
+        assert!(clear_in(&dir, "never-had-notes").is_ok());
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/storage/pending_cleanup.rs

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+//! Host-side record of Docker resources `remove_project` could not delete.
+//!
+//! `remove_project` drops a project's id from `projects.json` unconditionally
+//! — see the comment on `ProjectRemovalReport` — so once that happens nothing
+//! in the app can name the leftover container, image or volume again by any
+//! path a user can reach. This is what keeps it reachable anyway: one JSON
+//! file per affected project under `<data_dir>/triple-c/pending-cleanup/`,
+//! written *before* the project record is dropped. Startup housekeeping
+//! retries every record on the next launch (see
+//! `commands::project_commands::retry_pending_cleanup_logged`) and deletes
+//! the ones that fully succeed.
+//!
+//! **This record is written in the same instant its record in `projects.json`
+//! is destroyed, and it is the only remaining handle on the leftover
+//! resource** — which is a stronger claim on durability than an ordinary
+//! write-temp-then-rename gives. `storage::migration_store::save` carries the
+//! same reasoning for the migration state file: `fs::write` returns once the
+//! bytes are in the page cache, and a rename over them is atomic with respect
+//! to other readers, not to power loss. A crash in that window leaves the
+//! rename applied and the data half-written, which [`list`] then treats as
+//! unparseable and skips — reproducing the exact bug this module exists to
+//! close, silently, with only a startup log line as evidence. So `save` here
+//! takes the same `File::create` → `write_all` → `sync_all` → `rename` →
+//! directory-sync shape `migration_store` does.
+
+use std::fs;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct PendingCleanup {
+    pub project_id: String,
+    /// Kept only so a log line or a future UI can name the project without a
+    /// second lookup — the project record itself is already gone by the time
+    /// this is read back.
+    pub project_name: String,
+    /// The project's container, if it could not be removed. Named by its
+    /// deterministic `triple-c-{id}` name rather than the (possibly stale)
+    /// container id Docker handed out — Docker's remove-container API
+    /// accepts either, and the name is the one identifier guaranteed to still
+    /// resolve to the same container by the time a retry runs.
+    pub container_id: Option<String>,
+    pub image: Option<String>,
+    pub volumes: Vec<String>,
+    pub recorded_at: String,
+}
+
+impl PendingCleanup {
+    /// True once nothing named here still needs to be removed.
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.container_id.is_none() && self.image.is_none() && self.volumes.is_empty()
+    }
+}
+
+/// `<data_dir>/triple-c/pending-cleanup`, created on demand.
+fn dir() -> Result<PathBuf, String> {
+    let dir = dirs::data_dir()
+        .ok_or_else(|| {
+            "Could not determine data directory. Set XDG_DATA_HOME on Linux.".to_string()
+        })?
+        .join("triple-c")
+        .join("pending-cleanup");
+    fs::create_dir_all(&dir)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to create pending-cleanup directory: {}", e))?;
+    Ok(dir)
+}
+
+/// Project ids are UUIDs, but they arrive over IPC, so refuse to let one steer
+/// the write anywhere but the pending-cleanup directory. Mirrors
+/// `storage::migration_store::sanitize`.
+fn sanitize(project_id: &str) -> String {
+    project_id
+        .chars()
+        .map(|c| if c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || c == '-' || c == '_' { c } else { '_' })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// Write (or overwrite) a project's pending-cleanup record.
+pub fn save(record: &PendingCleanup) -> Result<(), String> {
+    save_in(&dir()?, record)
+}
+
+/// Remove a project's pending-cleanup record. Missing is success — this is
+/// how a fully-succeeded retry (or a record that never existed) is expressed.
+pub fn clear(project_id: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    clear_in(&dir()?, project_id)
+}
+
+/// Every pending-cleanup record on disk. An unparseable file is logged and
+/// skipped rather than blocking every other project's retry — the same
+/// "one bad record can't wedge the rest" reasoning as the migration store.
+pub fn list() -> Vec<PendingCleanup> {
+    let Ok(dir) = dir() else { return Vec::new() };
+    list_in(&dir)
+}
+
+fn path_in(dir: &Path, project_id: &str) -> PathBuf {
+    dir.join(format!("{}.json", sanitize(project_id)))
+}
+
+/// Durable write: fsync the file before the rename, and fsync the directory
+/// after it — see the module doc comment for why a plain
+/// write-temp-then-rename is not enough here. Mirrors
+/// `storage::migration_store::save`/`sync_dir`.
+fn save_in(dir: &Path, record: &PendingCleanup) -> Result<(), String> {
+    let path = path_in(dir, &record.project_id);
+    let data = serde_json::to_string_pretty(record)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to serialize pending cleanup record: {}", e))?;
+    let tmp = path.with_extension("json.tmp");
+
+    {
+        use std::io::Write;
+        let mut file = fs::File::create(&tmp)
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to write pending cleanup record: {}", e))?;
+        file.write_all(data.as_bytes())
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to write pending cleanup record: {}", e))?;
+        file.sync_all()
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to flush pending cleanup record to disk: {}", e))?;
+    }
+
+    fs::rename(&tmp, &path)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to commit pending cleanup record: {}", e))?;
+    sync_dir(&path);
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn clear_in(dir: &Path, project_id: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    let path = path_in(dir, project_id);
+    match fs::remove_file(&path) {
+        Ok(()) => Ok(()),
+        Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => Ok(()),
+        Err(e) => Err(format!("Failed to remove pending cleanup record: {}", e)),
+    }
+}
+
+fn list_in(dir: &Path) -> Vec<PendingCleanup> {
+    let Ok(entries) = fs::read_dir(dir) else { return Vec::new() };
+
+    entries
+        .flatten()
+        .filter(|e| e.path().extension().is_some_and(|ext| ext == "json"))
+        .filter_map(|e| {
+            let path = e.path();
+            let data = fs::read_to_string(&path).ok()?;
+            match serde_json::from_str::<PendingCleanup>(&data) {
+                Ok(record) => Some(record),
+                Err(err) => {
+                    // Moved aside rather than left in place: a record nothing
+                    // ever repairs would otherwise warn on every single
+                    // startup forever, same as an ordinary `.json` file it
+                    // would keep looking like one to `list_in` on the next
+                    // call too. One aside-copy is enough here — this only
+                    // ever holds names to retry removing, not the class of
+                    // once-in-a-lifetime crash evidence `migration_store`
+                    // keeps multiple timestamped backups of.
+                    let corrupt = path.with_extension("json.corrupt");
+                    let moved = !corrupt.exists() && fs::rename(&path, &corrupt).is_ok();
+                    log::warn!(
+                        "Could not parse pending cleanup record {}: {}{}",
+                        path.display(),
+                        err,
+                        if moved {
+                            format!(" — moved aside to {}", corrupt.display())
+                        } else {
+                            " — leaving it in place".to_string()
+                        }
+                    );
+                    None
+                }
+            }
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// fsync the directory holding `path`, so a rename into it survives power
+/// loss. Best effort only on the platforms where it is meaningless: Windows
+/// has no directory handle to sync and errors on the attempt, so failure is
+/// logged rather than propagated — the file's own `sync_all` above is what
+/// carries the data. Mirrors `storage::migration_store::sync_dir`, which is
+/// private to that module, so this is a small deliberate duplicate rather
+/// than a shared dependency between two otherwise-independent stores.
+fn sync_dir(path: &Path) {
+    let Some(dir) = path.parent() else { return };
+    match fs::File::open(dir).and_then(|d| d.sync_all()) {
+        Ok(()) => {}
+        Err(e) => log::debug!(
+            "Could not fsync the pending-cleanup directory {}: {} — the record itself was flushed",
+            dir.display(),
+            e
+        ),
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn temp_dir(name: &str) -> PathBuf {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!(
+            "triple-c-pending-cleanup-{}-{}",
+            name,
+            uuid::Uuid::new_v4().simple()
+        ));
+        fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        dir
+    }
+
+    fn record(project_id: &str) -> PendingCleanup {
+        PendingCleanup {
+            project_id: project_id.to_string(),
+            project_name: "Some Project".to_string(),
+            container_id: Some("triple-c-abc".to_string()),
+            image: Some("triple-c-snapshot-abc:latest".to_string()),
+            volumes: vec!["triple-c-home-abc".to_string()],
+            recorded_at: "2026-08-25T00:00:00Z".to_string(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn project_ids_cannot_escape_the_pending_cleanup_directory() {
+        assert_eq!(sanitize("../../etc/passwd"), "______etc_passwd");
+        assert_eq!(sanitize("a/b"), "a_b");
+        assert_eq!(
+            sanitize("ab62cd24-51aa-4645-8f5c-17a124062050"),
+            "ab62cd24-51aa-4645-8f5c-17a124062050"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn is_empty_reflects_whatever_still_needs_removing() {
+        let mut r = record("p1");
+        assert!(!r.is_empty());
+
+        r.container_id = None;
+        r.image = None;
+        assert!(!r.is_empty(), "a leftover volume alone still counts");
+
+        r.volumes.clear();
+        assert!(r.is_empty());
+    }
+
+    /// Exercises the real `save_in`/`list_in`/`clear_in` — not a
+    /// re-implementation of their bodies — against a temp directory standing
+    /// in for `dir()`.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_saved_record_round_trips_and_clearing_removes_it() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("roundtrip");
+        let rec = record("proj-1");
+
+        save_in(&dir, &rec).expect("save");
+        let found = list_in(&dir);
+        assert_eq!(found.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(found[0].project_id, "proj-1");
+        assert_eq!(found[0].volumes, vec!["triple-c-home-abc".to_string()]);
+
+        clear_in(&dir, "proj-1").expect("clear");
+        assert!(list_in(&dir).is_empty());
+
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    /// A second `save` for the same project overwrites rather than appending
+    /// — a retry that narrows the leftovers must not leave the old, wider
+    /// record behind it.
+    #[test]
+    fn saving_the_same_project_twice_overwrites_not_appends() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("overwrite");
+        let mut rec = record("proj-1");
+        save_in(&dir, &rec).expect("save");
+
+        rec.container_id = None;
+        rec.image = None;
+        save_in(&dir, &rec).expect("save again");
+
+        let found = list_in(&dir);
+        assert_eq!(found.len(), 1, "one file per project, not one per save");
+        assert!(found[0].container_id.is_none());
+        assert_eq!(found[0].volumes, vec!["triple-c-home-abc".to_string()]);
+
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    /// A record that fails to parse must not poison the rest of the listing.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_unparseable_record_is_skipped_not_fatal() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("corrupt");
+        fs::write(dir.join("bad.json"), "{ not json").unwrap();
+        save_in(&dir, &record("proj-2")).expect("save");
+
+        let found = list_in(&dir);
+        assert_eq!(found.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(found[0].project_id, "proj-2");
+
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    /// A record that fails to parse is moved aside once, rather than left in
+    /// place to be re-warned about — and re-warned about — on every future
+    /// launch forever.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_unparseable_record_is_moved_aside_exactly_once() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("corrupt-aside");
+        let bad = dir.join("bad.json");
+        fs::write(&bad, "{ not json").unwrap();
+
+        list_in(&dir);
+        assert!(!bad.exists(), "the bad file should have been moved aside");
+        let corrupt = dir.join("bad.json.corrupt");
+        assert!(corrupt.exists(), "and the moved copy should be at .json.corrupt");
+
+        // A second pass must not warn about `bad.json` again — it is gone —
+        // and must not choke on `.json.corrupt` already being there.
+        assert!(list_in(&dir).is_empty());
+        assert!(corrupt.exists(), "the aside copy is not itself deleted");
+
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    /// `list_in` must not pick up the `.json.tmp` staging file `save_in`
+    /// leaves behind if a crash lands between the write and the rename — the
+    /// whole point of the temp-then-rename dance is that only the renamed
+    /// file is ever a complete record.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_leftover_tmp_file_is_not_listed() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("tmp-leftover");
+        fs::write(dir.join("proj-3.json.tmp"), "not a complete record").unwrap();
+        assert!(list_in(&dir).is_empty());
+
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    /// Clearing by project id must remove exactly the file that id maps to
+    /// under `sanitize`, and nothing else.
+    #[test]
+    fn clearing_one_project_does_not_touch_another() {
+        let dir = temp_dir("clear-scoped");
+        save_in(&dir, &record("proj-a")).unwrap();
+        save_in(&dir, &record("proj-b")).unwrap();
+
+        clear_in(&dir, "proj-a").unwrap();
+
+        let found = list_in(&dir);
+        assert_eq!(found.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(found[0].project_id, "proj-b");
+
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/storage/projects_store.rs

@@ -1,9 +1,65 @@
 use std::fs;
-use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::sync::Mutex;
 
 use crate::models::Project;
 
+/// The sticky marker for `projects.json`: `projects.json.corrupt`, beside it.
+///
+/// Derived from the file rather than from `dirs::data_dir()` so the marker
+/// always lands in the directory the store is actually using — and so the
+/// writer can be tested against a temp directory.
+fn corrupt_marker_for(file_path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
+    file_path.with_extension("json.corrupt")
+}
+
+/// Keep the bytes of an unparseable `projects.json`, and record that it
+/// happened.
+///
+/// **The existing `.bak` is never overwritten.** A second corruption used to
+/// clobber the first, and the first is the valuable one: it was taken before
+/// the app rewrote the file with whatever it had in memory, so it is the only
+/// copy that can still hold the full project list. Later ones are copies of an
+/// already-degraded file and get a timestamped name.
+fn record_corrupt_load(file_path: &Path, now: &chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc>) {
+    let first = file_path.with_extension("json.bak");
+    let backup = if first.exists() {
+        file_path.with_extension(format!("json.corrupt-{}.bak", now.format("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")))
+    } else {
+        first
+    };
+    if !backup.exists() {
+        if let Err(e) = fs::copy(file_path, &backup) {
+            log::error!("Failed to back up corrupted projects.json: {}", e);
+        } else {
+            log::error!(
+                "A copy of the unreadable projects.json was kept at {}",
+                backup.display()
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Sticky, and written even though nothing in the app reads it back on this
+    // branch: the Disk panel's `project_store_trust` was the reader and went to
+    // `hold/disk-and-dragout`. The marker stays because it is the only durable
+    // record that a project list was lost — the in-memory symptom does not
+    // survive the next save — and because re-deriving *when* it happened is
+    // impossible after the fact.
+    let marker = corrupt_marker_for(file_path);
+    if marker.exists() {
+        // The *first* corruption is the one that dates the loss.
+        return;
+    }
+    if let Err(e) = fs::write(&marker, now.to_rfc3339()) {
+        log::error!(
+            "Could not record the corrupt projects.json load at {}: {} — nothing will be able to \
+             tell later that the project list was incomplete",
+            marker.display(),
+            e
+        );
+    }
+}
+
 pub struct ProjectsStore {
     projects: Mutex<Vec<Project>>,
     file_path: PathBuf,
@@ -43,20 +99,14 @@ impl ProjectsStore {
                                 Ok(parsed) => (parsed, migrated),
                                 Err(e) => {
                                     log::error!("Failed to parse migrated projects.json: {}. Starting with empty list.", e);
-                                    let backup = file_path.with_extension("json.bak");
-                                    if let Err(be) = fs::copy(&file_path, &backup) {
-                                        log::error!("Failed to back up corrupted projects.json: {}", be);
-                                    }
+                                    record_corrupt_load(&file_path, &chrono::Utc::now());
                                     (Vec::new(), false)
                                 }
                             }
                         }
                         Err(e) => {
                             log::error!("Failed to parse projects.json: {}. Starting with empty list.", e);
-                            let backup = file_path.with_extension("json.bak");
-                            if let Err(be) = fs::copy(&file_path, &backup) {
-                                log::error!("Failed to back up corrupted projects.json: {}", be);
-                            }
+                            record_corrupt_load(&file_path, &chrono::Utc::now());
                             (Vec::new(), false)
                         }
                     }
@@ -191,6 +241,21 @@ impl ProjectsStore {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Granular setter for the browser view's opt-in, for the same reason
+    /// [`Self::set_auth_bridge_enabled`] has one: the pane toggles this while
+    /// the Config tab may be holding an older copy of the whole record.
+    pub fn set_browser_view_enabled(&self, project_id: &str, enabled: bool) -> Result<(), String> {
+        let mut projects = self.lock();
+        if let Some(p) = projects.iter_mut().find(|p| p.id == project_id) {
+            p.browser_view_enabled = enabled;
+            p.updated_at = chrono::Utc::now().to_rfc3339();
+            self.save(&projects)?;
+            Ok(())
+        } else {
+            Err(format!("Project {} not found", project_id))
+        }
+    }
+
     pub fn set_container_id(&self, project_id: &str, container_id: Option<String>) -> Result<(), String> {
         let mut projects = self.lock();
         if let Some(p) = projects.iter_mut().find(|p| p.id == project_id) {
@@ -203,3 +268,146 @@ impl ProjectsStore {
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn temp_dir(tag: &str) -> PathBuf {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!(
+            "triple-c-store-{}-{}",
+            tag,
+            uuid::Uuid::new_v4().simple()
+        ));
+        fs::create_dir_all(&dir).expect("temp dir");
+        dir
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_corrupt_load_leaves_a_marker_the_next_write_cannot_erase() {
+        // H-3, the whole chain in one test. `ProjectsStore::new()` swallows an
+        // unparseable file into an empty list *without rewriting it*, and the
+        // first `save()` after that — as little as `update_status()` — writes
+        // `[{one project}]` over it. Everything the old guard keyed on ("the
+        // list is empty and the file exists") is gone at that point, while
+        // every *other* project's volumes are still on the daemon claimed by
+        // nobody.
+        let dir = temp_dir("corrupt");
+        let file = dir.join("projects.json");
+        fs::write(&file, "{ this is not a project list").unwrap();
+
+        let now = chrono::Utc::now();
+        record_corrupt_load(&file, &now);
+
+        let marker = corrupt_marker_for(&file);
+        assert!(marker.exists(), "the corrupt load must be recorded on disk");
+        assert_eq!(fs::read_to_string(&marker).unwrap(), now.to_rfc3339());
+        assert!(
+            dir.join("projects.json.bak").exists(),
+            "the unreadable bytes must be kept"
+        );
+
+        // The write that used to erase the evidence. The marker is a separate
+        // file, so it does not care.
+        fs::write(&file, r#"[{"id":"the-one-project-started-since"}]"#).unwrap();
+        assert!(marker.exists());
+
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_second_corruption_keeps_the_first_copy_and_the_first_date() {
+        // The `.bak` used to be a fixed name, so a second corruption clobbered
+        // the first — and the first is the only copy taken before the app
+        // rewrote the file with whatever it had in memory, i.e. the only one
+        // that can still hold the full project list.
+        let dir = temp_dir("second");
+        let file = dir.join("projects.json");
+        fs::write(&file, "original bytes").unwrap();
+        let first = chrono::DateTime::parse_from_rfc3339("2026-01-01T00:00:00Z")
+            .unwrap()
+            .with_timezone(&chrono::Utc);
+        record_corrupt_load(&file, &first);
+
+        fs::write(&file, "degraded bytes").unwrap();
+        let second = chrono::DateTime::parse_from_rfc3339("2026-06-01T00:00:00Z")
+            .unwrap()
+            .with_timezone(&chrono::Utc);
+        record_corrupt_load(&file, &second);
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            fs::read_to_string(dir.join("projects.json.bak")).unwrap(),
+            "original bytes",
+            "the first copy must survive the second corruption"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            fs::read_to_string(dir.join("projects.json.corrupt-20260601-000000.bak")).unwrap(),
+            "degraded bytes"
+        );
+        // And the marker still dates the loss from the first failure, which is
+        // when the project list actually stopped being complete.
+        assert_eq!(
+            fs::read_to_string(corrupt_marker_for(&file)).unwrap(),
+            first.to_rfc3339()
+        );
+
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    /// A store over a temp file. `new()` insists on `dirs::data_dir()`, which
+    /// is the real user's; the fields are right here, so the granular setters
+    /// can be exercised against a directory the test owns.
+    fn store_over(dir: &Path, projects: Vec<Project>) -> ProjectsStore {
+        ProjectsStore {
+            projects: Mutex::new(projects),
+            file_path: dir.join("projects.json"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_browser_view_flag_is_written_to_disk_and_read_back() {
+        // The point of the whole exercise: before this the flag lived in a
+        // `HashSet` in `BrowserViewManager` and an app restart forgot it.
+        let dir = temp_dir("browser-view");
+        let project = Project::new("demo".to_string(), Vec::new());
+        let id = project.id.clone();
+        let store = store_over(&dir, vec![project]);
+
+        assert!(!store.get(&id).unwrap().browser_view_enabled);
+        store.set_browser_view_enabled(&id, true).unwrap();
+        assert!(store.get(&id).unwrap().browser_view_enabled);
+
+        // Durable, not merely in memory — this is what a restart reads.
+        let on_disk: Vec<Project> =
+            serde_json::from_str(&fs::read_to_string(dir.join("projects.json")).unwrap()).unwrap();
+        assert!(on_disk[0].browser_view_enabled);
+
+        store.set_browser_view_enabled(&id, false).unwrap();
+        assert!(!store.get(&id).unwrap().browser_view_enabled);
+
+        assert!(store.set_browser_view_enabled("no-such-project", true).is_err());
+
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_granular_toggle_leaves_every_other_field_alone() {
+        // Why these setters exist at all: the Config tab can be holding an
+        // older copy of the whole record while the pane flips one flag.
+        let dir = temp_dir("granular");
+        let mut project = Project::new("demo".to_string(), Vec::new());
+        project.claude_instructions = Some("keep me".to_string());
+        let id = project.id.clone();
+        let store = store_over(&dir, vec![project]);
+
+        store.set_browser_view_enabled(&id, true).unwrap();
+        store.set_auth_bridge_enabled(&id, false).unwrap();
+
+        let saved = store.get(&id).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(saved.claude_instructions.as_deref(), Some("keep me"));
+        assert!(saved.browser_view_enabled);
+        assert!(!saved.auth_bridge_enabled);
+
+        fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/storage/secure.rs

@@ -26,47 +26,122 @@ const CLAUDE_TOKEN_VERSION_SERVICE: &str = "triple-c-claude-oauth-token-version"
 /// Fixed account name used for every triple-c keychain entry.
 const KEYCHAIN_ACCOUNT: &str = "secret";
 
+/// Every per-project secret this app stores, and therefore every one it has to
+/// be able to delete.
+///
+/// This list is the **only** definition. It used to exist twice — once
+/// implicitly, as whatever `store_secrets_for_project` happened to write, and
+/// once explicitly, as a literal array inside `delete_project_secrets` — and
+/// the two drifted: `openai-compatible-api-key` was added to the writer and
+/// never to the deleter, so removing a project left a live provider API key in
+/// the user's login keychain with nothing left in the app that referenced it,
+/// or would ever offer to clean it up.
+///
+/// Drift is now a compile-time-shaped error rather than a review-time one:
+/// [`project_secret_entry`] refuses a key that is not in this list, so a new
+/// secret cannot be stored until it has been added here, and adding it here is
+/// what makes [`delete_project_secrets`] cover it.
+pub const PROJECT_SECRET_KEYS: &[&str] = &[
+    "git-token",
+    "aws-access-key-id",
+    "aws-secret-access-key",
+    "aws-session-token",
+    "aws-bearer-token",
+    "openai-compatible-api-key",
+];
+
+/// The keychain entry for one per-project secret, rejecting any key name not in
+/// [`PROJECT_SECRET_KEYS`]. See that constant for why the rejection matters.
+fn project_secret_entry(project_id: &str, key_name: &str) -> Result<keyring::Entry, String> {
+    if !PROJECT_SECRET_KEYS.contains(&key_name) {
+        return Err(format!(
+            "Unknown project secret '{}'. Add it to PROJECT_SECRET_KEYS so project deletion \
+             clears it too.",
+            key_name
+        ));
+    }
+    let service = format!("triple-c-project-{}-{}", project_id, key_name);
+    keyring::Entry::new(&service, KEYCHAIN_ACCOUNT).map_err(|e| format!("Keyring error: {}", e))
+}
+
 /// Store a per-project secret in the OS keychain.
 pub fn store_project_secret(project_id: &str, key_name: &str, value: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
-    let service = format!("triple-c-project-{}-{}", project_id, key_name);
-    let entry = keyring::Entry::new(&service, "secret")
-        .map_err(|e| format!("Keyring error: {}", e))?;
-    entry
+    project_secret_entry(project_id, key_name)?
         .set_password(value)
         .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to store project secret '{}': {}", key_name, e))
 }
 
 /// Retrieve a per-project secret from the OS keychain.
 pub fn get_project_secret(project_id: &str, key_name: &str) -> Result<Option<String>, String> {
-    let service = format!("triple-c-project-{}-{}", project_id, key_name);
-    let entry = keyring::Entry::new(&service, "secret")
-        .map_err(|e| format!("Keyring error: {}", e))?;
-    match entry.get_password() {
+    match project_secret_entry(project_id, key_name)?.get_password() {
         Ok(value) => Ok(Some(value)),
         Err(keyring::Error::NoEntry) => Ok(None),
         Err(e) => Err(format!("Failed to retrieve project secret '{}': {}", key_name, e)),
     }
 }
 
-/// Delete all known secrets for a project from the OS keychain.
-pub fn delete_project_secrets(project_id: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
-    let secret_keys = [
-        "git-token",
-        "aws-access-key-id",
-        "aws-secret-access-key",
-        "aws-session-token",
-        "aws-bearer-token",
-    ];
-    for key_name in &secret_keys {
-        let service = format!("triple-c-project-{}-{}", project_id, key_name);
-        let entry = keyring::Entry::new(&service, "secret")
-            .map_err(|e| format!("Keyring error: {}", e))?;
-        match entry.delete_credential() {
-            Ok(()) => {}
-            Err(keyring::Error::NoEntry) => {}
-            Err(e) => {
-                log::warn!("Failed to delete project secret '{}': {}", key_name, e);
+/// Delete one per-project secret, treating "wasn't there" as success.
+pub fn delete_project_secret(project_id: &str, key_name: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    match project_secret_entry(project_id, key_name)?.delete_credential() {
+        Ok(()) | Err(keyring::Error::NoEntry) => Ok(()),
+        Err(e) => Err(format!("Failed to delete project secret '{}': {}", key_name, e)),
     }
+}
+
+/// Write a per-project secret, or **clear** it when there is nothing to write.
+///
+/// This is the function every save path should call, and the reason it exists
+/// is that the obvious `if let Some(v) = … { store(v) }` is wrong. The editors
+/// in `components/projects/home/config/` send a blanked field as `null`
+/// (`AccessSection.tsx`: `save({ git_token: gitToken || null })`), so a `None`
+/// is a user asking for the secret to be *removed* — and skipping it left the
+/// old value in the keychain, where `load_secrets_for_project` read it straight
+/// back out and put it back on the project. Clearing a credential through the
+/// UI was therefore impossible: the field looked empty and the container kept
+/// getting the old token.
+///
+/// `Some("")` and `Some("   ")` are treated the same as `None` — a field the
+/// user emptied, whichever shape it arrives in — because a stored empty secret
+/// is not a secret, and `container_config` would inject it as an env var that
+/// overrides the unset case with a blank.
+// TODO(handoff): `commands/project_commands.rs::store_secrets_for_project` is
+// the one caller this is for, and it still uses the `if let Some(v) = … ` shape
+// that cannot clear anything. That file belongs to another change in this round,
+// so the switch is deliberately left to it; the six call sites there become
+// `store_or_clear_project_secret(&project.id, "<key>", field.as_deref())?`.
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+pub fn store_or_clear_project_secret(
+    project_id: &str,
+    key_name: &str,
+    value: Option<&str>,
+) -> Result<(), String> {
+    match secret_to_store(value) {
+        Some(v) => store_project_secret(project_id, key_name, v),
+        None => delete_project_secret(project_id, key_name),
+    }
+}
+
+/// The store-or-clear decision, split out so it can be tested without a
+/// keychain backend: `Some` means "write this", `None` means "remove whatever
+/// is there".
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+fn secret_to_store(value: Option<&str>) -> Option<&str> {
+    match value.map(str::trim) {
+        Some(v) if !v.is_empty() => Some(v),
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
+/// Delete every known secret for a project from the OS keychain.
+///
+/// Called when a project is removed, so it must cover [`PROJECT_SECRET_KEYS`]
+/// exhaustively — a key missed here outlives the project that explained it.
+/// One key failing does not stop the rest: a partial cleanup that keeps going
+/// leaves strictly fewer credentials behind than one that gives up.
+pub fn delete_project_secrets(project_id: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    for key_name in PROJECT_SECRET_KEYS {
+        if let Err(e) = delete_project_secret(project_id, key_name) {
+            log::warn!("Failed to delete project secret '{}': {}", key_name, e);
         }
     }
     Ok(())
@@ -246,26 +321,125 @@ pub fn delete_gateway_api_key() -> Result<(), String> {
 /// only enforces auth when a master key is configured, so Triple-C always
 /// configures one.
 pub fn get_or_create_gateway_master_key() -> Result<String, String> {
-    if let Some(existing) = read_entry(GATEWAY_MASTER_KEY_SERVICE, "the gateway master key")? {
-        if !existing.trim().is_empty() {
+    if let Some(existing) = get_gateway_master_key()? {
         return Ok(existing);
     }
-    }
     regenerate_gateway_master_key()
 }
 
+/// Read the gateway master key without minting one if none exists yet.
+/// Distinct from [`get_or_create_gateway_master_key`], which mints as a side
+/// effect the read half of that function must not have — settings export
+/// (triple-c#35) needs "is there one, and if so what is it", not "make sure
+/// one exists".
+pub fn get_gateway_master_key() -> Result<Option<String>, String> {
+    Ok(read_entry(GATEWAY_MASTER_KEY_SERVICE, "the gateway master key")?
+        .filter(|k| !k.trim().is_empty()))
+}
+
 /// Mint a new gateway master key, invalidating the old one. Projects using the
 /// previous value must be updated.
 pub fn regenerate_gateway_master_key() -> Result<String, String> {
     // LiteLLM requires the master key to start with `sk-`.
     let key = format!("sk-triple-c-{}", uuid::Uuid::new_v4().simple());
+    store_gateway_master_key(&key)?;
+    Ok(key)
+}
+
+/// Store an exact given gateway master key, replacing any previous one.
+///
+/// Distinct from [`regenerate_gateway_master_key`], which always mints a
+/// fresh random value: this exists for settings import (triple-c#35), where
+/// restoring the *same* key an export captured is the point — projects on
+/// the destination machine may not exist yet, but a project migrated or
+/// re-added later that still has the old key pasted into its config must
+/// keep working against it. Blank input is rejected rather than silently
+/// stored, matching every other `store_*` function in this module.
+pub fn store_gateway_master_key(key: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    if key.trim().is_empty() {
+        return Err("Refusing to store an empty gateway master key.".to_string());
+    }
 
     let entry = keyring::Entry::new(GATEWAY_MASTER_KEY_SERVICE, KEYCHAIN_ACCOUNT)
         .map_err(|e| format!("Keyring error: {}", e))?;
     entry
-        .set_password(&key)
+        .set_password(key.trim())
         .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to store the gateway master key: {}", e))?;
 
-    bump_gateway_secret_version()?;
-    Ok(key)
+    bump_gateway_secret_version()
+}
+
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// The regression this list exists for. `openai-compatible-api-key` was
+    /// written by `store_secrets_for_project` and missing from the delete list,
+    /// so it survived project deletion.
+    #[test]
+    fn every_secret_the_app_writes_is_one_it_can_delete() {
+        for key in [
+            "git-token",
+            "aws-access-key-id",
+            "aws-secret-access-key",
+            "aws-session-token",
+            "aws-bearer-token",
+            "openai-compatible-api-key",
+        ] {
+            assert!(
+                PROJECT_SECRET_KEYS.contains(&key),
+                "{} is written by commands/project_commands.rs but would outlive the project",
+                key
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_key_list_has_no_duplicates() {
+        let mut seen = std::collections::HashSet::new();
+        for key in PROJECT_SECRET_KEYS {
+            assert!(seen.insert(*key), "duplicate project secret key {}", key);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// A key that is not in the list is refused *before* any keychain entry is
+    /// constructed, which is what makes the list authoritative rather than
+    /// advisory. Without this, a new secret can be stored under a name nothing
+    /// ever deletes.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_unlisted_key_cannot_be_stored_at_all() {
+        let err = store_project_secret("some-project", "brand-new-token", "value")
+            .expect_err("an unlisted key must be refused");
+        assert!(
+            err.contains("PROJECT_SECRET_KEYS"),
+            "the refusal should say how to fix it: {}",
+            err
+        );
+
+        let err = get_project_secret("some-project", "brand-new-token")
+            .expect_err("an unlisted key must be refused on read too");
+        assert!(err.contains("brand-new-token"), "{}", err);
+
+        let err = delete_project_secret("some-project", "brand-new-token")
+            .expect_err("an unlisted key must be refused on delete too");
+        assert!(err.contains("brand-new-token"), "{}", err);
+    }
+
+    /// The blanked-field case. `AccessSection.tsx` sends `gitToken || null`, so
+    /// a cleared field arrives as `None` — and before this existed, `None` was
+    /// skipped and the old secret stayed in the keychain forever.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_blanked_field_clears_rather_than_being_skipped() {
+        assert_eq!(secret_to_store(None), None);
+        assert_eq!(secret_to_store(Some("")), None);
+        assert_eq!(secret_to_store(Some("   \t\n")), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_real_value_is_stored_trimmed() {
+        assert_eq!(secret_to_store(Some("ghp_abc123")), Some("ghp_abc123"));
+        // Pasted credentials routinely carry a trailing newline.
+        assert_eq!(secret_to_store(Some("  ghp_abc123\n")), Some("ghp_abc123"));
+    }
 }

app/src-tauri/src/storage/settings_crypto.rs

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+//! Password-based encryption for the settings export/import file — see
+//! triple-c#35.
+//!
+//! The exported payload can carry live credentials (the shared Claude OAuth
+//! token, the gateway provider/master keys — see
+//! `commands::settings_export_commands`), so this is not encryption for its
+//! own sake; a wrong or missing key here is a real credential leak, not a
+//! cosmetic bug. Argon2id derives a 256-bit key from the password (memory-
+//! hard, meaningfully resistant to GPU/ASIC brute-forcing in a way PBKDF2 at
+//! any reasonable iteration count is not), and AES-256-GCM is what actually
+//! encrypts — authenticated, so a wrong password is detected by a failed tag
+//! check rather than producing silent garbage.
+//!
+//! File format: `MAGIC (4 bytes) | salt (16 bytes) | nonce (12 bytes) |
+//! ciphertext+tag`. The salt and nonce are not secret — they are written in
+//! the clear right here, on purpose. The salt's only job is to make two
+//! exports with the same password derive different keys (defeats a
+//! precomputed-table attack against the password alone); the nonce's job is
+//! GCM's requirement that a (key, nonce) pair never repeat. Both hold
+//! because a fresh random value is drawn for each, on every call to
+//! [`encrypt`].
+//!
+//! The whole header (magic + salt + nonce) is passed to AES-GCM as
+//! associated data, not just placed alongside the ciphertext — free to do,
+//! and it makes tampering with any header byte fail the same authentication
+//! check the ciphertext gets, by construction rather than as a side effect
+//! of the salt/nonce also feeding key derivation and the cipher.
+
+use aes_gcm::aead::{Aead, KeyInit, Payload};
+use aes_gcm::{Aes256Gcm, Nonce};
+use argon2::{Algorithm, Argon2, Params, Version};
+use rand::RngCore;
+use zeroize::Zeroizing;
+
+/// Identifies the file as a Triple-C settings export and pins the format —
+/// a change to the salt/nonce lengths or the KDF/cipher choice below needs a
+/// new magic value, not a silent reinterpretation of old bytes.
+const MAGIC: &[u8; 4] = b"TCX1";
+const SALT_LEN: usize = 16;
+const NONCE_LEN: usize = 12;
+const KEY_LEN: usize = 32;
+const HEADER_LEN: usize = MAGIC.len() + SALT_LEN + NONCE_LEN;
+
+/// Argon2id parameters: memory cost in KiB, time cost (iterations),
+/// parallelism. `(19 MiB, 2, 1)` is OWASP's documented minimum recommendation
+/// for Argon2id — deliberately heavier than a login-flow KDF would use, since
+/// this runs once per export/import rather than on every request, so trading
+/// roughly a second of wall time for real brute-force resistance costs
+/// nothing a user would notice.
+fn argon2_params() -> Params {
+    Params::new(19 * 1024, 2, 1, Some(KEY_LEN)).expect("hardcoded Argon2 params are valid")
+}
+
+/// The derived key is wrapped in `Zeroizing` so it is overwritten with zeros
+/// when it drops rather than left in freed memory for whatever reuses that
+/// stack slot next — cheap insurance (`zeroize` is already in the dependency
+/// tree via `aes-gcm`) for material that exists only to decrypt live
+/// credentials.
+fn derive_key(password: &str, salt: &[u8]) -> Result<Zeroizing<[u8; KEY_LEN]>, String> {
+    let argon2 = Argon2::new(Algorithm::Argon2id, Version::V0x13, argon2_params());
+    let mut key = Zeroizing::new([0u8; KEY_LEN]);
+    argon2
+        .hash_password_into(password.as_bytes(), salt, &mut *key)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to derive encryption key: {}", e))?;
+    Ok(key)
+}
+
+/// Encrypt `plaintext` with a key derived from `password`. Returns the whole
+/// file's bytes (header + ciphertext) — see the module doc for the layout.
+pub fn encrypt(plaintext: &[u8], password: &str) -> Result<Vec<u8>, String> {
+    let mut salt = [0u8; SALT_LEN];
+    rand::rng().fill_bytes(&mut salt);
+    let key = derive_key(password, &salt)?;
+
+    let mut nonce_bytes = [0u8; NONCE_LEN];
+    rand::rng().fill_bytes(&mut nonce_bytes);
+    let nonce = Nonce::from_slice(&nonce_bytes);
+
+    let mut header = Vec::with_capacity(HEADER_LEN);
+    header.extend_from_slice(MAGIC);
+    header.extend_from_slice(&salt);
+    header.extend_from_slice(&nonce_bytes);
+
+    let cipher = Aes256Gcm::new_from_slice(&*key)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to initialize cipher: {}", e))?;
+    // The header (magic + salt + nonce) is authenticated as associated data
+    // even though none of it is secret: it costs nothing extra here, and it
+    // means tampering with any header byte is caught by the same tag check
+    // that already covers the ciphertext, by construction rather than as a
+    // side effect of the header also feeding key/nonce derivation.
+    let ciphertext = cipher
+        .encrypt(nonce, Payload { msg: plaintext, aad: &header })
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Encryption failed: {}", e))?;
+
+    let mut out = header;
+    out.extend_from_slice(&ciphertext);
+    Ok(out)
+}
+
+/// Decrypt a file produced by [`encrypt`]. The one error this returns for a
+/// wrong password is deliberately generic ("wrong password, or the file is
+/// corrupted") rather than distinguishing the two: GCM's authentication tag
+/// fails to verify for the wrong key on essentially any ciphertext, so there
+/// is no reliable way to tell "wrong password" from "corrupted file" apart,
+/// and guessing would be worse than saying so.
+///
+/// Returns `Zeroizing<Vec<u8>>` rather than a plain `Vec<u8>` — the plaintext
+/// this recovers is the whole settings-plus-secrets payload, so it gets the
+/// same "wipe it when it drops" treatment as the derived key in
+/// [`derive_key`].
+pub fn decrypt(data: &[u8], password: &str) -> Result<Zeroizing<Vec<u8>>, String> {
+    if data.len() < HEADER_LEN {
+        return Err("This does not look like a Triple-C settings export (file too short).".to_string());
+    }
+    if &data[..MAGIC.len()] != MAGIC {
+        return Err("This does not look like a Triple-C settings export (unrecognized file).".to_string());
+    }
+    let header = &data[..HEADER_LEN];
+    let salt = &data[MAGIC.len()..MAGIC.len() + SALT_LEN];
+    let nonce_bytes = &data[MAGIC.len() + SALT_LEN..HEADER_LEN];
+    let ciphertext = &data[HEADER_LEN..];
+
+    let key = derive_key(password, salt)?;
+    let cipher = Aes256Gcm::new_from_slice(&*key)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to initialize cipher: {}", e))?;
+    let nonce = Nonce::from_slice(nonce_bytes);
+    cipher
+        .decrypt(nonce, Payload { msg: ciphertext, aad: header })
+        .map(Zeroizing::new)
+        .map_err(|_| "Wrong password, or the file is corrupted.".to_string())
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_round_trip_with_the_right_password_recovers_the_plaintext() {
+        let plaintext = b"{\"settings\": \"whatever\"}";
+        let encrypted = encrypt(plaintext, "correct horse battery staple").unwrap();
+        let decrypted = decrypt(&encrypted, "correct horse battery staple").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(&*decrypted, plaintext);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_wrong_password_fails_rather_than_returning_garbage() {
+        let encrypted = encrypt(b"secret payload", "correct password").unwrap();
+        let result = decrypt(&encrypted, "wrong password");
+        assert!(result.is_err(), "decrypting with the wrong password must fail, not silently succeed");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn two_exports_of_the_same_plaintext_and_password_produce_different_files() {
+        // If this ever failed it would mean the salt or nonce stopped being
+        // randomized — either one repeating is a real security regression
+        // (a fixed salt lets an attacker precompute against the password
+        // alone; a repeated (key, nonce) pair breaks GCM's guarantees
+        // outright), not just a cosmetic one.
+        let a = encrypt(b"same plaintext", "same password").unwrap();
+        let b = encrypt(b"same plaintext", "same password").unwrap();
+        assert_ne!(a, b, "two independent exports must not be byte-identical");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn corrupting_a_single_byte_of_ciphertext_is_detected() {
+        let mut encrypted = encrypt(b"tamper-evident payload", "a password").unwrap();
+        let last = encrypted.len() - 1;
+        encrypted[last] ^= 0xFF;
+        assert!(decrypt(&encrypted, "a password").is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_file_that_is_too_short_is_rejected_cleanly_not_by_panicking() {
+        assert!(decrypt(b"short", "any password").is_err());
+        assert!(decrypt(b"", "any password").is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_file_with_the_wrong_magic_is_rejected() {
+        let mut encrypted = encrypt(b"payload", "password").unwrap();
+        encrypted[0] = b'X';
+        assert!(decrypt(&encrypted, "password").is_err());
+    }
+}

app/src-tauri/src/url_open.rs

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+//! Opening a URL in the *host's* browser — the half of triple-c#34 where
+//! "Open" appeared to do nothing on Linux.
+//!
+//! # Why this module exists rather than `openUrl` from `@tauri-apps/plugin-opener`
+//!
+//! The plugin's Linux path shells out to `xdg-open`, and the child inherits
+//! this process's environment verbatim. Inside an AppImage that environment is
+//! not the user's — it is the AppImage's, and it is actively hostile to any
+//! program that is not the one the bundle was built for:
+//!
+//!  - linuxdeploy's `AppRun`/`AppRun.wrapped` prepends the bundle's own
+//!    directories to `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, `PATH`, `XDG_DATA_DIRS`, `PYTHONPATH`,
+//!    `PERLLIB`, `QT_PLUGIN_PATH` and `GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR`.
+//!  - `linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk`'s hook adds `GTK_PATH`, `GTK_EXE_PREFIX`,
+//!    `GTK_DATA_PREFIX`, `GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE`, `GIO_MODULE_DIR` and
+//!    `GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE`.
+//!  - `scripts/finalize-appimage.sh` installs one more hook of our own
+//!    (`triple-c-wayland-fallback.sh`) that can prepend
+//!    `$APPDIR/usr/lib/wayland-fallback` to `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
+//!  - `main.rs` sets `WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER` process-wide, and the
+//!    comment there has flagged this leak for a while: it reaches whatever the
+//!    app spawns afterwards.
+//!
+//! A browser that is *already running* is unaffected — `xdg-open` just hands
+//! the URL to the existing instance over D-Bus/IPC and the new process exits.
+//! A **cold-launched** browser loads our bundled GTK/glib/pixbuf stack against
+//! the host's, aborts before it ever paints, and `xdg-open` has already
+//! returned 0. From the app's point of view the click did nothing. That is the
+//! reported symptom, and it is why the bug only reproduces for some people.
+//!
+//! # What this does instead
+//!
+//! `open_url_external` re-validates the URL (see below) and spawns the opener
+//! with a **sanitized child environment**. Sanitizing is
+//! [`sanitize_child_env`], a pure function over two maps so it can be tested
+//! without touching process-wide state:
+//!
+//!  1. If the AppImage saved the pre-launch value under a `*_ORIG` /
+//!     `APPIMAGE_ORIGINAL_*` name, restore that. Restoring a saved original is
+//!     strictly better than unsetting, because the user may genuinely have had
+//!     an `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` of their own.
+//!  2. Otherwise, if the variable differs from the value this process started
+//!     with, restore the start-up value. That is what undoes *our own*
+//!     `std::env::set_var` — `main.rs` snapshots the environment via
+//!     [`capture_pristine_environment`] before any mutation runs.
+//!  3. Otherwise, drop only the entries that point inside `$APPDIR`, keeping
+//!     the rest of the list intact. Blanket-unsetting would also discard
+//!     whatever the user's session had set; this removes exactly the
+//!     bundle's own contribution.
+//!
+//! Nothing is invented: a variable the pristine environment did not have and
+//! that does not point into `$APPDIR` is left alone, so outside an AppImage
+//! (`cargo tauri dev`, a distro build) this is very close to a no-op.
+//!
+//! # Portal vs. `xdg-open`
+//!
+//! `org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI` would sidestep both the environment leak
+//! *and* a missing `x-scheme-handler/https` association, but reaching it means
+//! a D-Bus client — `zbus` and its async stack — as a new dependency for one
+//! call, on the only platform where we ship a single self-contained binary.
+//! It also only helps where a portal is running, which is precisely the
+//! desktop-environment case in which `xdg-open` already works once the
+//! environment is clean. The environment *is* the bug here, so the cheap fix
+//! is the complete one. `gio open` is kept as a second candidate because it
+//! goes through GIO's own handler lookup rather than `xdg-open`'s shell
+//! heuristics, which covers most of what the portal would have covered.
+//!
+//! # Security
+//!
+//! The URL reaching this command originates in an **untrusted container** (see
+//! `app/src/lib/urlRelay.ts`). The frontend validates with `sanitizeRelayUrl`,
+//! but a compromised webview can call this command directly, so the rules are
+//! mirrored here and enforced again: `http`/`https` only, a non-empty host, no
+//! embedded credentials, no control characters or whitespace, and a length
+//! cap. The URL is never passed through a shell — `std::process::Command` with
+//! explicit arguments, so there is no word-splitting, no globbing and no
+//! metacharacter to escape.
+
+use std::collections::BTreeMap;
+use std::sync::OnceLock;
+
+use url::Url;
+
+/// Hard cap on a URL we will hand to the OS. Mirrors `MAX_RELAY_URL_LENGTH`
+/// in `app/src/lib/urlRelay.ts`.
+const MAX_URL_LEN: usize = 8192;
+
+/// The environment this process was started with, captured before anything
+/// mutates it. See [`capture_pristine_environment`].
+// Only the Linux spawn path reads these; the macOS/Windows path delegates to
+// the opener plugin. Kept unconditional (rather than `#[cfg(linux)]`) so the
+// tests and the documentation stay in one piece on every platform.
+#[cfg_attr(not(target_os = "linux"), allow(dead_code))]
+static PRISTINE_ENV: OnceLock<BTreeMap<String, String>> = OnceLock::new();
+
+/// Record the environment as it was at process start.
+///
+/// Must be called from `main()` **before** any `std::env::set_var` — today
+/// that means before `apply_webkit_wayland_workaround()`, which is the only
+/// mutation in the tree. Calling it twice is harmless; the first call wins.
+///
+/// This is the only reliable source of truth for "what did the user actually
+/// have?" for variables *we* set. It cannot recover what `AppRun` overwrote
+/// before `main()` ran — that is what the `*_ORIG` and `$APPDIR` rules in
+/// [`sanitize_child_env`] are for.
+pub fn capture_pristine_environment() {
+    let _ = PRISTINE_ENV.set(std::env::vars().collect());
+}
+
+/// Variables an AppImage launcher is known to override, and that break a
+/// cold-launched child that is not this app.
+///
+/// `PATH` is in the list for the same reason as the rest: `AppRun` prepends
+/// `$APPDIR/usr/bin`, and resolving `xdg-open` (or anything the browser's own
+/// wrapper script calls) out of the bundle is its own failure mode.
+// Only the Linux spawn path reads these; the macOS/Windows path delegates to
+// the opener plugin. Kept unconditional (rather than `#[cfg(linux)]`) so the
+// tests and the documentation stay in one piece on every platform.
+#[cfg_attr(not(target_os = "linux"), allow(dead_code))]
+const SANITIZED_VARS: &[&str] = &[
+    "GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR",
+    "GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE",
+    "GIO_MODULE_DIR",
+    "GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR",
+    "GTK_DATA_PREFIX",
+    "GTK_EXE_PREFIX",
+    "GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE",
+    "GTK_PATH",
+    "LD_LIBRARY_PATH",
+    "PATH",
+    "PERLLIB",
+    "PYTHONPATH",
+    "QT_PLUGIN_PATH",
+    "XDG_DATA_DIRS",
+    // Set by `main.rs`, not by AppRun — rule 2 (the pristine snapshot) is what
+    // removes it, since the pristine environment almost never has it.
+    "WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER",
+];
+
+/// What to do to one variable in the child: `Some(value)` sets it, `None`
+/// removes it.
+// Only the Linux spawn path reads these; the macOS/Windows path delegates to
+// the opener plugin. Kept unconditional (rather than `#[cfg(linux)]`) so the
+// tests and the documentation stay in one piece on every platform.
+#[cfg_attr(not(target_os = "linux"), allow(dead_code))]
+type EnvChange = (String, Option<String>);
+
+/// True when `entry` is `appdir` itself or a path inside it.
+// Only the Linux spawn path reads these; the macOS/Windows path delegates to
+// the opener plugin. Kept unconditional (rather than `#[cfg(linux)]`) so the
+// tests and the documentation stay in one piece on every platform.
+#[cfg_attr(not(target_os = "linux"), allow(dead_code))]
+fn is_inside(entry: &str, appdir: &str) -> bool {
+    let appdir = appdir.trim_end_matches('/');
+    if appdir.is_empty() {
+        return false;
+    }
+    entry == appdir || entry.strip_prefix(appdir).is_some_and(|r| r.starts_with('/'))
+}
+
+/// Drop the `$APPDIR` entries from a colon-separated list, keeping order and
+/// keeping everything else.
+///
+/// Single-valued variables (`GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE`, say) are just lists of
+/// one, so they need no separate case: a value inside `$APPDIR` filters down
+/// to nothing and the variable is removed.
+// Only the Linux spawn path reads these; the macOS/Windows path delegates to
+// the opener plugin. Kept unconditional (rather than `#[cfg(linux)]`) so the
+// tests and the documentation stay in one piece on every platform.
+#[cfg_attr(not(target_os = "linux"), allow(dead_code))]
+fn strip_appdir_entries(value: &str, appdir: &str) -> Option<String> {
+    let kept: Vec<&str> = value
+        .split(':')
+        .filter(|entry| !entry.is_empty() && !is_inside(entry, appdir))
+        .collect();
+    if kept.is_empty() {
+        None
+    } else {
+        Some(kept.join(":"))
+    }
+}
+
+/// Compute the changes that turn `current` into an environment safe to hand a
+/// cold-launched host program.
+///
+/// Pure on purpose — `current` and `pristine` are passed in rather than read
+/// from the process, so the rules can be tested without a global mutex around
+/// the environment. Returns changes sorted by variable name so assertions are
+/// deterministic.
+// Only the Linux spawn path reads these; the macOS/Windows path delegates to
+// the opener plugin. Kept unconditional (rather than `#[cfg(linux)]`) so the
+// tests and the documentation stay in one piece on every platform.
+#[cfg_attr(not(target_os = "linux"), allow(dead_code))]
+fn sanitize_child_env(
+    current: &BTreeMap<String, String>,
+    pristine: &BTreeMap<String, String>,
+    appdir: Option<&str>,
+) -> Vec<EnvChange> {
+    let mut changes: Vec<EnvChange> = Vec::new();
+
+    for var in SANITIZED_VARS {
+        let now = current.get(*var);
+
+        // 1. A saved original always wins. Both spellings are checked because
+        //    which one exists depends on the launcher: linuxdeploy's AppRun
+        //    and the various `AppRun.wrapped` generations have used each.
+        //    An empty saved value means "it was unset", not "set it to empty".
+        let saved = current
+            .get(&format!("{var}_ORIG"))
+            .or_else(|| current.get(&format!("APPIMAGE_ORIGINAL_{var}")));
+        if let Some(saved) = saved {
+            let restored = if saved.is_empty() {
+                None
+            } else {
+                Some(saved.clone())
+            };
+            if restored.as_ref() != now {
+                changes.push((var.to_string(), restored));
+            }
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        // 2. We changed it ourselves after start-up — put back what was there.
+        let at_start = pristine.get(*var);
+        if at_start != now {
+            changes.push((var.to_string(), at_start.cloned()));
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        // 3. Polluted before `main()` ran, with nothing saved. Remove the
+        //    bundle's own entries and keep the user's.
+        let (Some(now), Some(appdir)) = (now, appdir) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        let stripped = strip_appdir_entries(now, appdir);
+        if stripped.as_deref() != Some(now.as_str()) {
+            changes.push((var.to_string(), stripped));
+        }
+    }
+
+    changes.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.cmp(&b.0));
+    changes
+}
+
+/// Whether `candidate` holds a character that disqualifies it before parsing.
+///
+/// Mirrors `hasForbiddenChar` in `app/src/lib/urlRelay.ts`, and for the same
+/// reasons: C0/C1 controls and whitespace are invisible in the UI and are
+/// stripped rather than rejected by some URL parsers, and quote characters are
+/// illegal in a URL per RFC 3986 while being exactly what an argument-splitting
+/// opener downstream would act on. Written as a scan over code points rather
+/// than a regex so the control ranges cannot be mangled by an editing tool.
+fn has_forbidden_char(candidate: &str) -> bool {
+    candidate.chars().any(|ch| {
+        let code = ch as u32;
+        code <= 0x20
+            || code == 0x7f
+            || (0x80..=0x9f).contains(&code)
+            || ch == '"'
+            || ch == '\''
+            || ch == '`'
+            || ch.is_whitespace()
+    })
+}
+
+/// Validate a URL an untrusted source asked the host to open.
+///
+/// Returns the normalized URL, or a message safe to show the user. The message
+/// never echoes the input: it is the input that is untrusted, and this error
+/// is rendered in a toast.
+fn validate_external_url(raw: &str) -> Result<String, String> {
+    // Rust's `trim` strips slightly more than JavaScript's (NEL, U+0085, for
+    // one), so a string the frontend would have rejected can reach the parser
+    // here with its edges shaved. That only ever removes outer whitespace —
+    // everything that survives still has to pass every check below — so the
+    // divergence cannot widen what gets opened.
+    let candidate = raw.trim();
+
+    if candidate.is_empty() {
+        return Err("Refused to open an empty URL.".to_string());
+    }
+    if candidate.len() > MAX_URL_LEN {
+        return Err(format!(
+            "Refused to open a URL longer than {MAX_URL_LEN} characters."
+        ));
+    }
+    if has_forbidden_char(candidate) {
+        return Err(
+            "Refused to open a URL containing whitespace, quotes or control characters."
+                .to_string(),
+        );
+    }
+
+    let parsed = Url::parse(candidate).map_err(|_| "Refused to open a malformed URL.".to_string())?;
+
+    // Scheme allowlist. Nothing else, ever — `file:`, `javascript:`, `data:`
+    // and every registered protocol handler stay out of reach of the
+    // container. The scheme is safe to interpolate: the parser restricts it to
+    // ASCII alphanumerics, `+`, `-` and `.`.
+    if parsed.scheme() != "http" && parsed.scheme() != "https" {
+        return Err(format!(
+            "Refused to open a {}: URL — only http and https are allowed.",
+            parsed.scheme()
+        ));
+    }
+    if parsed.host_str().is_none_or(str::is_empty) {
+        return Err("Refused to open a URL with no host.".to_string());
+    }
+    // `https://claude.ai@evil.tld/x` reads as claude.ai anywhere the string is
+    // truncated, and navigates to evil.tld.
+    if !parsed.username().is_empty() || parsed.password().is_some() {
+        return Err("Refused to open a URL containing embedded credentials.".to_string());
+    }
+
+    let normalized = parsed.to_string();
+    if normalized.len() > MAX_URL_LEN {
+        return Err(format!(
+            "Refused to open a URL longer than {MAX_URL_LEN} characters."
+        ));
+    }
+    // A normalized http(s) URL is ASCII by construction — the host is
+    // punycoded and everything after it is percent-encoded. Asserting it means
+    // nothing non-ASCII can reach an `execvp` argument, whatever the parser
+    // decides to do in a future version.
+    if !normalized.is_ascii() {
+        return Err("Refused to open a URL with non-ASCII characters.".to_string());
+    }
+
+    Ok(normalized)
+}
+
+/// Openers to try, in order, each as (program, leading arguments).
+///
+/// `xdg-open` first because it is what the desktop expects to be asked and
+/// honours the user's `mimeapps.list`. `gio open` second: it is present
+/// wherever glib is (which, for a GTK app's host, is everywhere) and resolves
+/// the handler through GIO rather than `xdg-open`'s shell heuristics, so it
+/// still works when the `x-scheme-handler/https` association `xdg-open` looks
+/// for is missing or points at something broken.
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+const OPENERS: &[(&str, &[&str])] = &[("xdg-open", &[]), ("gio", &["open"])];
+
+/// How long a candidate opener is given to fail before it is assumed to have
+/// worked.
+///
+/// `xdg-open` usually returns immediately (it hands the URL to a running
+/// browser and exits), but in its generic fallback mode it *is* the browser's
+/// parent and stays alive for the session. So "still running" cannot be read
+/// as failure, and "exited non-zero quickly" is the only negative signal there
+/// is — though not, on its own, a trustworthy one. See
+/// [`exit_code_means_nothing_was_launched`].
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+const OPENER_GRACE: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_millis(400);
+
+/// Whether a non-zero exit says the opener certainly launched nothing, and so
+/// that the next candidate can be tried without risking a second tab.
+///
+/// The loop used to treat every quick non-zero exit as "it did nothing" and
+/// fall through. That is safe for most of `xdg-open`'s documented codes — 1
+/// (syntax), 2 (file not found) and 3 (a required tool could not be found) are
+/// all statements that it never got as far as launching a handler, and 3 is the
+/// missing-association case `gio open` is in [`OPENERS`] for. 127 is the same
+/// statement made by a shell, which is how a `$BROWSER` or `x-www-browser`
+/// wrapper naming a program that does not exist comes back.
+///
+/// Code 4 is the one that cannot be read that way, and it is the catch-all:
+/// "the action failed" also covers a handler that *was* launched and then
+/// returned non-zero. A browser that takes the URL, opens the tab in an already
+/// running instance and exits non-zero for its own reasons ends up here, as
+/// does a wrapper script that does its job and then returns the exit status of
+/// something else. Falling through on that hands the same URL to a second
+/// opener: two tabs for one click, and for an OAuth link two authorize
+/// requests.
+///
+/// So anything not recognised below — 4, an unfamiliar code, or a death by
+/// signal (`code()` is `None`) — ends the loop rather than continuing it. The
+/// caller is told the opener failed, which is the honest report of an
+/// ambiguous outcome, and no second request is made on the user's behalf. Note
+/// what this costs: an opener that genuinely failed with code 4 no longer falls
+/// through to `gio`, so a user whose `xdg-open` fails that way sees an error
+/// where they previously might have got a tab.
+///
+/// This is reasoning from `xdg-open`'s documented exit codes, not from an
+/// observed double-open in this app.
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+fn exit_code_means_nothing_was_launched(code: Option<i32>) -> bool {
+    matches!(code, Some(1 | 2 | 3 | 127))
+}
+
+/// Spawn `url` with an opener, under a sanitized environment.
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+fn spawn_with_clean_env(url: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    let current: BTreeMap<String, String> = std::env::vars().collect();
+    let pristine = PRISTINE_ENV.get().cloned().unwrap_or_else(|| current.clone());
+    let appdir = current.get("APPDIR").cloned();
+    let changes = sanitize_child_env(&current, &pristine, appdir.as_deref());
+
+    let mut failures: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
+
+    for (program, leading) in OPENERS {
+        let mut command = std::process::Command::new(program);
+        command.args(*leading).arg(url);
+        // The bundle's own identity is not the child's business either, and a
+        // browser that re-execs itself through a wrapper script can pick these
+        // up.
+        for var in ["APPDIR", "APPIMAGE", "ARGV0", "OWD"] {
+            command.env_remove(var);
+        }
+        for (key, value) in &changes {
+            match value {
+                Some(value) => command.env(key, value),
+                None => command.env_remove(key),
+            };
+        }
+        // Detached: the opener must not inherit our stdio, or a browser
+        // writing to stderr keeps a pipe to us open for the session.
+        command
+            .stdin(std::process::Stdio::null())
+            .stdout(std::process::Stdio::null())
+            .stderr(std::process::Stdio::null());
+
+        // A spawn failure — `ErrorKind::NotFound` for an opener that is not
+        // installed, `PermissionDenied` for one that cannot be executed — is
+        // the unambiguous case: nothing ran, so nothing was opened, and the
+        // next candidate is free to try.
+        let mut child = match command.spawn() {
+            Ok(child) => child,
+            Err(err) => {
+                failures.push(format!("{program}: {err}"));
+                continue;
+            }
+        };
+
+        std::thread::sleep(OPENER_GRACE);
+        match child.try_wait() {
+            Ok(Some(status)) if !status.success() => {
+                failures.push(format!("{program} exited with {status}"));
+                // A program that *ran* is not a program that did nothing.
+                if !exit_code_means_nothing_was_launched(status.code()) {
+                    return Err(format!(
+                        "Could not confirm the link opened. Tried: {}. It may have opened anyway \
+                         — check your browser before trying again.",
+                        failures.join("; ")
+                    ));
+                }
+                continue;
+            }
+            Ok(_) => {}
+            Err(err) => {
+                failures.push(format!("{program}: could not be waited on: {err}"));
+                continue;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Still running (it is the browser's parent) — reap it off-thread so it
+        // does not become a zombie for the life of the app.
+        std::thread::spawn(move || {
+            let _ = child.wait();
+        });
+        return Ok(());
+    }
+
+    Err(format!(
+        "Could not open the link. Tried: {}. Check that xdg-utils is installed and that a default browser is set.",
+        failures.join("; ")
+    ))
+}
+
+/// Open `url` in the user's browser.
+///
+/// On Linux this goes through [`spawn_with_clean_env`] rather than
+/// `@tauri-apps/plugin-opener`, for the AppImage reasons in this module's
+/// documentation (triple-c#34). macOS and Windows keep the plugin's path —
+/// neither has the environment problem, and `open`/`ShellExecute` are the
+/// right calls there — but they are reached through this same command so the
+/// frontend has one call site with one set of validation rules.
+///
+/// Errors are returned rather than logged-and-swallowed: "Open" silently doing
+/// nothing is the bug being fixed, so the failure has to be something the UI
+/// can show.
+#[tauri::command]
+pub async fn open_url_external(app: tauri::AppHandle, url: String) -> Result<(), String> {
+    let validated = validate_external_url(&url)?;
+
+    #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+    {
+        let _ = &app;
+        tauri::async_runtime::spawn_blocking(move || spawn_with_clean_env(&validated))
+            .await
+            .map_err(|err| format!("Could not open the link: {err}"))?
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))]
+    {
+        use tauri_plugin_opener::OpenerExt;
+        app.opener()
+            .open_url(validated, None::<&str>)
+            .map_err(|err| format!("Could not open the link: {err}"))
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn map(pairs: &[(&str, &str)]) -> BTreeMap<String, String> {
+        pairs
+            .iter()
+            .map(|(k, v)| (k.to_string(), v.to_string()))
+            .collect()
+    }
+
+    // ── URL re-validation ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn plain_http_and_https_urls_are_accepted() {
+        for url in [
+            "https://claude.ai/",
+            "http://localhost:1420/callback?code=abc",
+            "https://example.com/path#frag",
+        ] {
+            assert!(validate_external_url(url).is_ok(), "{url} should be allowed");
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn urls_are_returned_normalized() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_external_url("https://Example.COM").unwrap(),
+            "https://example.com/"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn only_http_and_https_survive() {
+        for url in [
+            "file:///etc/passwd",
+            "javascript:alert(1)",
+            "data:text/html,<script>",
+            "ftp://example.com/x",
+            "vscode://foo/bar",
+            "mailto:someone@example.com",
+        ] {
+            assert!(
+                validate_external_url(url).is_err(),
+                "{url} must not be openable"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn embedded_credentials_are_refused() {
+        for url in [
+            "https://claude.ai@evil.tld/x",
+            "https://user:pass@example.com/",
+            "https://:pass@example.com/",
+        ] {
+            assert!(
+                validate_external_url(url).is_err(),
+                "{url} must not be openable"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn control_characters_and_whitespace_are_refused() {
+        // `\n` in particular: parsers that strip it would turn the first of
+        // these into a `javascript:` URL.
+        for url in [
+            "java\nscript:alert(1)",
+            "https://example.com/\u{7f}",
+            "https://example.com/\u{85}x",
+            "https://example.com/a b",
+            "https://example.com/\u{00a0}x",
+            "https://example.com/\"",
+            "https://example.com/'",
+            "https://example.com/`",
+        ] {
+            assert!(
+                validate_external_url(url).is_err(),
+                "{url:?} must not be openable"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn empty_and_oversized_are_refused() {
+        assert!(validate_external_url("").is_err());
+        assert!(validate_external_url("   ").is_err());
+        let long = format!("https://example.com/{}", "a".repeat(MAX_URL_LEN));
+        assert!(validate_external_url(&long).is_err());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_host_is_required() {
+        assert!(validate_external_url("https://").is_err());
+        assert!(validate_external_url("http://:8080/").is_err());
+        // Not a missing host: WHATWG's "special authority ignore slashes"
+        // state eats the third slash, so this is the host `path` in both
+        // `new URL()` and here. Asserted so the parity is on the record.
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_external_url("http:///path").unwrap(),
+            "http://path/"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn error_messages_never_echo_the_input() {
+        // The input is attacker-controlled and the message goes into a toast.
+        let err = validate_external_url("file:///home/someone/.ssh/id_rsa").unwrap_err();
+        assert!(!err.contains("id_rsa"), "message leaked the input: {err}");
+    }
+
+    // ── Environment sanitization ─────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    #[test]
+    fn appdir_entries_are_stripped_and_the_users_own_are_kept() {
+        let current = map(&[
+            ("APPDIR", "/tmp/.mount_abc"),
+            ("LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "/tmp/.mount_abc/usr/lib:/opt/mine/lib"),
+            ("XDG_DATA_DIRS", "/tmp/.mount_abc/usr/share:/usr/share"),
+        ]);
+        let changes = sanitize_child_env(&current, &current, Some("/tmp/.mount_abc"));
+        assert_eq!(
+            changes,
+            vec![
+                (
+                    "LD_LIBRARY_PATH".to_string(),
+                    Some("/opt/mine/lib".to_string())
+                ),
+                ("XDG_DATA_DIRS".to_string(), Some("/usr/share".to_string())),
+            ]
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_variable_that_is_entirely_appdir_is_removed() {
+        let current = map(&[
+            ("APPDIR", "/tmp/.mount_abc"),
+            ("GTK_PATH", "/tmp/.mount_abc/usr/lib/gtk-3.0"),
+            (
+                "GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE",
+                "/tmp/.mount_abc/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders.cache",
+            ),
+        ]);
+        let changes = sanitize_child_env(&current, &current, Some("/tmp/.mount_abc"));
+        assert_eq!(
+            changes,
+            vec![
+                ("GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE".to_string(), None),
+                ("GTK_PATH".to_string(), None),
+            ]
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_saved_original_is_restored_rather_than_unset() {
+        // Restoring beats unsetting: the user may have had one of their own.
+        for saved_as in ["LD_LIBRARY_PATH_ORIG", "APPIMAGE_ORIGINAL_LD_LIBRARY_PATH"] {
+            let current = map(&[
+                ("APPDIR", "/tmp/.mount_abc"),
+                ("LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "/tmp/.mount_abc/usr/lib"),
+                (saved_as, "/home/someone/lib"),
+            ]);
+            let changes = sanitize_child_env(&current, &current, Some("/tmp/.mount_abc"));
+            assert_eq!(
+                changes,
+                vec![(
+                    "LD_LIBRARY_PATH".to_string(),
+                    Some("/home/someone/lib".to_string())
+                )],
+                "{saved_as} should be restored"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_empty_saved_original_means_it_was_unset() {
+        let current = map(&[
+            ("APPDIR", "/tmp/.mount_abc"),
+            ("LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "/tmp/.mount_abc/usr/lib"),
+            ("LD_LIBRARY_PATH_ORIG", ""),
+        ]);
+        let changes = sanitize_child_env(&current, &current, Some("/tmp/.mount_abc"));
+        assert_eq!(changes, vec![("LD_LIBRARY_PATH".to_string(), None)]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn our_own_set_var_is_undone_from_the_pristine_snapshot() {
+        // The leak `main.rs` documents: we set this after start-up, so the
+        // start-up snapshot is what says it should not exist at all.
+        let pristine = map(&[("HOME", "/home/someone")]);
+        let current = map(&[
+            ("HOME", "/home/someone"),
+            ("WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER", "1"),
+        ]);
+        let changes = sanitize_child_env(&current, &pristine, None);
+        assert_eq!(
+            changes,
+            vec![("WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER".to_string(), None)]
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_value_the_user_set_themselves_is_left_alone() {
+        let pristine = map(&[("WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER", "1")]);
+        let current = pristine.clone();
+        assert!(sanitize_child_env(&current, &pristine, None).is_empty());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn outside_an_appimage_nothing_is_touched() {
+        let env = map(&[
+            ("PATH", "/usr/bin:/bin"),
+            ("LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "/opt/mine/lib"),
+            ("XDG_DATA_DIRS", "/usr/share"),
+        ]);
+        assert!(
+            sanitize_child_env(&env, &env, None).is_empty(),
+            "a dev build or distro build must not have its environment rewritten"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn nothing_is_invented_for_variables_that_were_never_set() {
+        let env = map(&[("APPDIR", "/tmp/.mount_abc")]);
+        assert!(sanitize_child_env(&env, &env, Some("/tmp/.mount_abc")).is_empty());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_prefix_that_merely_looks_like_appdir_is_not_stripped() {
+        // `/tmp/.mount_abc-other` is not inside `/tmp/.mount_abc`.
+        let env = map(&[
+            ("APPDIR", "/tmp/.mount_abc"),
+            ("LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "/tmp/.mount_abc-other/lib"),
+        ]);
+        assert!(sanitize_child_env(&env, &env, Some("/tmp/.mount_abc")).is_empty());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_trailing_slash_on_appdir_still_matches() {
+        let env = map(&[
+            ("APPDIR", "/tmp/.mount_abc/"),
+            ("GTK_PATH", "/tmp/.mount_abc/usr/lib/gtk-3.0"),
+        ]);
+        let changes = sanitize_child_env(&env, &env, Some("/tmp/.mount_abc/"));
+        assert_eq!(changes, vec![("GTK_PATH".to_string(), None)]);
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(test, target_os = "linux"))]
+mod opener_fallback_tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// The codes `xdg-open` documents as "nothing was launched". Falling
+    /// through to the next opener on these is what keeps `gio open` reachable
+    /// for the case it was added for: no usable `x-scheme-handler/https`
+    /// association.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_codes_that_mean_no_handler_ran_fall_through() {
+        for code in [1, 2, 3, 127] {
+            assert!(
+                exit_code_means_nothing_was_launched(Some(code)),
+                "exit {code} means the opener never launched anything"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The regression this guards: `xdg-open` returns 4 both when it could not
+    /// act and when the handler it launched returned non-zero — including a
+    /// browser that had already opened the tab. Trying `gio open` next would
+    /// open it a second time, which for an OAuth URL is a second authorize
+    /// request.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_exit_that_may_follow_a_successful_open_does_not_fall_through() {
+        assert!(!exit_code_means_nothing_was_launched(Some(4)));
+        for code in [5, 7, 126, 255] {
+            assert!(
+                !exit_code_means_nothing_was_launched(Some(code)),
+                "exit {code} is not a documented 'did nothing', so it must not be assumed to be one"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Killed by a signal: `code()` is `None` and the outcome is unknowable,
+    /// so it is treated like any other unrecognised exit.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_death_by_signal_does_not_fall_through() {
+        assert!(!exit_code_means_nothing_was_launched(None));
+    }
+}

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 <head>
 <meta charset="UTF-8">
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
+<!--
+  This page is served by an axum server bound 0.0.0.0 (remote access is the
+  feature) behind a permissive CORS layer, and it fronts a shell in a container.
+  It gets a CSP of its own because nothing else gives it one: the app's
+  `tauri.conf.json` CSP covers the desktop webview, never this document.
+
+  `default-src 'none'` is the base, so anything not named below is refused
+  outright. What is named:
+    script-src  jsdelivr for the three xterm bundles, plus 'unsafe-inline' for
+                this page's own inline <script>. Nonces/hashes were considered
+                and rejected: the file is a static `include_str!()` asset, so a
+                hash would have to be recomputed by hand on every edit to the
+                script, and the failure mode of getting that wrong is a terminal
+                that silently will not start.
+    style-src   the xterm stylesheet, this page's <style>, and the one inline
+                `style=` attribute below (style attributes need 'unsafe-inline').
+    connect-src the WebSocket back to this same server. `ws:`/`wss:` as schemes
+                rather than an origin, because the host and port are whatever
+                the user reached this page on and are not knowable at build time.
+    form-action / base-uri / object-src / frame-ancestors — all 'none'. Note
+                `frame-ancestors` is ignored in a <meta> CSP; it is here as a
+                statement of intent, and the real protection would be a response
+                header from `server.rs`.
+  Deliberately absent: 'unsafe-eval', and any origin other than jsdelivr.
+-->
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="
+  default-src 'none';
+  script-src 'unsafe-inline' https://cdn.jsdelivr.net;
+  style-src 'unsafe-inline' https://cdn.jsdelivr.net;
+  img-src 'self' data:;
+  font-src 'self' data:;
+  connect-src 'self' ws: wss:;
+  form-action 'none';
+  base-uri 'none';
+  object-src 'none';
+  frame-ancestors 'none';
+">
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+<!--
+  Subresource Integrity on every CDN asset.
+
+  Without it this page executes whatever jsdelivr returns, inside a document
+  that holds the web terminal's access token and drives a shell in a container —
+  an upstream compromise, a hijacked package version or a MITM on a phone's
+  network is arbitrary code with that reach. The hashes below were computed
+  from the exact bytes at these pinned versions. `crossorigin="anonymous"` is
+  required for SRI to be checked on a cross-origin fetch.
+
+  Bumping a version means recomputing its hash:
+      curl -sS <url> | openssl dgst -sha384 -binary | openssl base64 -A
+  A mismatched hash blocks the asset, so a stale hash shows up immediately as a
+  terminal that does not render — never as an unverified load.
+
+  These are still remote loads: the remote terminal does not work with no
+  internet on the client side, and vendoring the ~300 KB of minified xterm into
+  this file would fix that. It was not done here — SRI already closes the
+  integrity half, which is the security half, and the availability half is a
+  separate call about binary size and diff readability.
+-->
+<link rel="stylesheet"
+      href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@xterm/xterm@5.5.0/css/xterm.min.css"
+      integrity="sha384-tStR1zLfWgsiXCF3IgfB3lBa8KmBe/lG287CL9WCeKgQYcp1bjb4/+mwN6oti4Co"
+      crossorigin="anonymous">
+<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@xterm/xterm@5.5.0/lib/xterm.min.js"
+        integrity="sha384-J4qzUjBl1FxyLsl/kQPQIOeINsmp17OHYXDOMpMxlKX53ZfYsL+aWHpgArvOuof9"
+        crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
+<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@xterm/addon-fit@0.10.0/lib/addon-fit.min.js"
+        integrity="sha384-XGqKrV8Jrukp1NITJbOEHwg01tNkuXr6uB6YEj69ebpYU3v7FvoGgEg23C1Gcehk"
+        crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
+<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@xterm/addon-web-links@0.11.0/lib/addon-web-links.min.js"
+        integrity="sha384-S1biLeI8L/bFduIVvCxbn/l4EtaG4nTqQjGF7qCYTbsGXGFe8KgIKXtw4+UWxprv"
+        crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
 <style>
   :root {
     --bg-primary: #1a1b26;
@@ -334,6 +401,9 @@
     autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" spellcheck="false"
     enterkeyhint="send" inputmode="text">
   <button class="key-btn" id="btnEnter">Enter</button>
+  <!-- A newline *without* submitting. There is no Shift on a phone keyboard,
+       so the chord the desktop app binds needs a key of its own here. -->
+  <button class="key-btn" id="btnNewline" title="Insert a newline without submitting (Shift+Enter)">&#8629;+</button>
   <button class="key-btn" id="btnTab">Tab</button>
   <button class="key-btn" id="btnCtrlC">^C</button>
 </div>
@@ -360,6 +430,19 @@
   const emptyState = document.getElementById('emptyState');
   const mobileInput = document.getElementById('mobileInput');
   const btnEnter = document.getElementById('btnEnter');
+  const btnNewline = document.getElementById('btnNewline');
+
+  // Whether the *active* session understands ESC+CR as "insert a newline".
+  //
+  // Only Claude Code does. `bash -l` has no readline binding for `\e\r`, so
+  // sending it there is a silent no-op — which is worse from the mobile bar
+  // than from a hardware key, because the bar puts a dedicated button on
+  // screen that appears to do nothing. The xterm key handler is already scoped
+  // this way; these two paths were not.
+  function activeSessionTakesEscCr() {
+    const s = activeSessionId && sessions[activeSessionId];
+    return !!s && s.type === 'claude';
+  }
   const btnTab = document.getElementById('btnTab');
   const btnCtrlC = document.getElementById('btnCtrlC');
   const scrollBottomBtn = document.getElementById('scrollBottomBtn');
@@ -519,7 +602,7 @@
         updateProjectList(msg.projects);
         break;
       case 'opened':
-        onSessionOpened(msg.session_id, msg.project_name);
+        onSessionOpened(msg.session_id, msg.project_name, msg.session_type);
         break;
       case 'output':
         onSessionOutput(msg.session_id, msg.data);
@@ -570,8 +653,18 @@
     });
   }
 
-  function onSessionOpened(sessionId, projectName) {
-    const sessionType = pendingSessionType || 'claude';
+  function onSessionOpened(sessionId, projectName, serverSessionType) {
+    // Prefer the type the *server* reports for this session. The old path read
+    // a single `pendingSessionType` global set at request time, so opening two
+    // sessions before the first reply landed swapped their labels — routine on
+    // mobile, where nothing disables the buttons. That was cosmetic until
+    // Shift+Enter became type-dependent: a Claude session labelled `shell`
+    // sends a bare CR and submits a half-written prompt.
+    //
+    // The fallback keeps an older server working, and defaults to `claude`,
+    // which is the safe direction — ESC+CR is an unbound no-op in bash, while
+    // a bare CR in Claude Code loses the prompt.
+    const sessionType = serverSessionType || pendingSessionType || 'claude';
     pendingSessionType = null;
 
     // Create terminal
@@ -647,6 +740,34 @@
       });
     });
 
+    // Shift+Enter inserts a newline in Claude Code's prompt instead of
+    // submitting it. xterm.js does not consult `shiftKey` for Enter, so
+    // without this Shift+Enter is byte-identical to Enter.
+    //
+    // `\x1b\r` — ESC then CR — is what Claude Code parses as `return` with
+    // meta, and it is the same sequence its own `/terminal-setup` installs for
+    // VS Code, Cursor, Alacritty and Zed. Do not "simplify" it to `\n`: that
+    // also works in Claude Code, but a shell would *run* the line, so the two
+    // session types would diverge. Claude sessions only, for that reason —
+    // `bash -l` has no readline binding for `\e\r`.
+    term.attachCustomKeyEventHandler(e => {
+      if (
+        e.type === 'keydown' && e.key === 'Enter' && e.shiftKey &&
+        !e.ctrlKey && !e.altKey && !e.metaKey && !e.isComposing &&
+        sessionType === 'claude'
+      ) {
+        sendTerminalInput('\x1b\r');
+        // `preventDefault()` is what stops the submit, not the `return false`.
+        // xterm's `_keyDown` returns before setting `_keyDownHandled`, so
+        // `_keyPress` still fires and emits a bare CR for Enter — inserting the
+        // newline and then submitting the prompt anyway. See the same comment
+        // in TerminalView.tsx.
+        e.preventDefault();
+        return false;
+      }
+      return true;
+    });
+
     // Track scroll position for scroll-to-bottom button
     term.onScroll(() => updateScrollButton());
 
@@ -698,6 +819,7 @@
       switchToSession(remaining[remaining.length - 1]);
     } else {
       activeSessionId = null;
+      syncNewlineButton();
       emptyState.style.display = '';
     }
   }
@@ -724,6 +846,7 @@
 
   function switchToSession(sessionId) {
     activeSessionId = sessionId;
+    syncNewlineButton();
 
     // Update tab styles
     document.querySelectorAll('.tab').forEach(t => t.classList.remove('active'));
@@ -799,7 +922,11 @@
         sendTerminalInput(val);
         mobileInput.value = '';
       }
-      sendTerminalInput('\r');
+      // Shift+Enter is a newline, not a submit — same bytes, and the same
+      // reasoning, as the terminal's own key handler above. A hardware
+      // keyboard on a tablet is the only way to reach this; the phone case is
+      // the dedicated newline button beside Enter.
+      sendTerminalInput(e.shiftKey && activeSessionTakesEscCr() ? '\x1b\r' : '\r');
     } else if (e.key === 'Tab') {
       e.preventDefault();
       sendTerminalInput('\t');
@@ -807,6 +934,27 @@
   });
 
   btnEnter.onclick = () => { sendTerminalInput('\r'); mobileInput.focus(); };
+  btnNewline.onclick = () => {
+    if (!activeSessionTakesEscCr()) { mobileInput.focus(); return; }
+    sendTerminalInput('\x1b\r');
+    mobileInput.focus();
+  };
+
+  // Keep the button's affordance honest: on a shell tab there is no byte that
+  // means "newline without running the line", so the control is disabled
+  // rather than left looking live.
+  function syncNewlineButton() {
+    const usable = activeSessionTakesEscCr();
+    btnNewline.disabled = !usable;
+    btnNewline.title = usable
+      ? 'Insert a newline without submitting (Shift+Enter)'
+      : 'Only Claude sessions support this — a shell runs the line instead';
+  }
+
+  // With no session open yet, `activeSessionTakesEscCr()` is already false —
+  // but nothing had called this, so the button rendered live before the first
+  // tab existed.
+  syncNewlineButton();
   btnTab.onclick = () => { sendTerminalInput('\t'); mobileInput.focus(); };
   btnCtrlC.onclick = () => { sendTerminalInput('\x03'); mobileInput.focus(); };
 

app/src-tauri/src/web_terminal/ws_handler.rs

@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@ enum ServerMessage {
     Opened {
         session_id: String,
         project_name: String,
+        /// Echoed back so the client can label the session from the reply
+        /// rather than from a global set at request time.
+        ///
+        /// Without it the client correlates through a single
+        /// `pendingSessionType`, so opening two sessions before the first
+        /// reply lands swaps their labels. That used to be cosmetic; it stopped
+        /// being cosmetic when Shift+Enter became type-dependent, because a
+        /// Claude session mislabelled as a shell now submits a half-written
+        /// prompt instead of inserting a newline.
+        session_type: String,
     },
     Output {
         session_id: String,
@@ -196,6 +206,11 @@ pub async fn handle_connection(socket: WebSocket, state: Arc<WebTerminalState>)
     writer_handle.abort();
 }
 
+/// The desktop terminal's update prelude, reused verbatim. Shared rather than
+/// copied so the web terminal cannot drift from it — a duplicated `const` with
+/// a "keep these identical" comment is only as good as the next reader.
+use crate::commands::terminal_commands::UPDATE_PRELUDE;
+
 /// Build the command for a terminal session, mirroring terminal_commands.rs logic.
 fn build_terminal_cmd(project: &Project, settings_store: &crate::storage::settings_store::SettingsStore) -> Vec<String> {
     let is_bedrock_profile = project.backend == Backend::Bedrock
@@ -207,17 +222,6 @@ fn build_terminal_cmd(project: &Project, settings_store: &crate::storage::settin
 
     let permission_args = project.effective_permission_mode().cli_args();
 
-    if !is_bedrock_profile {
-        let mut cmd = vec!["claude".to_string()];
-        cmd.extend(permission_args);
-        return cmd;
-    }
-
-    let profile = aws_commands::resolve_profile_for_project(
-        project,
-        settings_store.get().global_aws.aws_profile.as_deref(),
-    );
-
     // The args are interpolated into a shell script string below, so
     // single-quote each one.
     let permission_flags: String = permission_args
@@ -226,6 +230,19 @@ fn build_terminal_cmd(project: &Project, settings_store: &crate::storage::settin
         .collect();
     let claude_cmd = format!("exec claude{}", permission_flags);
 
+    if !is_bedrock_profile {
+        return vec![
+            "bash".to_string(),
+            "-c".to_string(),
+            format!("{}\n{}\n", UPDATE_PRELUDE, claude_cmd),
+        ];
+    }
+
+    let profile = aws_commands::resolve_profile_for_project(
+        project,
+        settings_store.get().global_aws.aws_profile.as_deref(),
+    );
+
     let script = format!(
         r#"
 echo "Validating AWS session for profile '{profile}'..."
@@ -250,9 +267,11 @@ else
         echo ""
     fi
 fi
+{update_prelude}
 {claude_cmd}
 "#,
         profile = profile,
+        update_prelude = UPDATE_PRELUDE,
         claude_cmd = claude_cmd
     );
 
@@ -319,6 +338,11 @@ async fn handle_open(
     let _ = out_tx.send(ServerMessage::Opened {
         session_id,
         project_name,
+        // Derived from the same match that chose `cmd` above, not echoed from
+        // the request: anything that is not exactly "bash" runs Claude, so
+        // echoing the raw value would label an unrecognised string as its own
+        // type and put the client back where it started.
+        session_type: if session_type == Some("bash") { "bash" } else { "claude" }.to_string(),
     });
 
     Ok(())

app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
       }
     ],
     "security": {
-      "csp": "default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; img-src 'self' asset: https://asset.localhost; font-src 'self' data:; connect-src 'self' ipc: http://ipc.localhost; frame-src http://127.0.0.1:47820 http://127.0.0.1:47821 http://127.0.0.1:47822 http://127.0.0.1:47823 http://127.0.0.1:47824 http://127.0.0.1:47825 http://127.0.0.1:47826 http://127.0.0.1:47827"
+      "csp": "default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; img-src 'self' blob:; font-src 'self'; connect-src 'self' ipc: http://ipc.localhost; frame-src http://127.0.0.1:47820 http://127.0.0.1:47821 http://127.0.0.1:47822 http://127.0.0.1:47823 http://127.0.0.1:47824 http://127.0.0.1:47825 http://127.0.0.1:47826 http://127.0.0.1:47827; form-action 'none'; base-uri 'none'; object-src 'none'"
     }
   },
   "bundle": {
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
       "icons/128x128.png",
       "icons/128x128@2x.png",
       "icons/icon.ico",
+      "icons/icon.icns",
       "icons/icon.png"
     ]
   },

app/src/App.tsx

@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ import { listen } from "@tauri-apps/api/event";
 import Sidebar from "./components/layout/Sidebar";
 import TopBar from "./components/layout/TopBar";
 import StatusBar from "./components/layout/StatusBar";
+import NotesDock from "./components/layout/NotesDock";
 import TerminalView from "./components/terminal/TerminalView";
 import DockerInstallDialog from "./components/DockerInstallDialog";
 import ProjectHome from "./components/projects/home/ProjectHome";
 import AddProjectDialog from "./components/projects/AddProjectDialog";
 import ToastHost from "./components/ui/ToastHost";
+import { PaneVisibilityProvider } from "./components/ui/PaneVisibility";
 import StatusIndicator from "./components/ui/StatusIndicator";
 import Button from "./components/ui/Button";
 import { useDocker } from "./hooks/useDocker";
@@ -128,23 +130,39 @@ export default function App() {
             <WelcomeScreen />
           ) : (
             <div className="w-full h-full">
+              {/* Every tab stays mounted and the inactive ones are merely
+                  `hidden`, which a dialog's portal to `document.body` does not
+                  inherit: a confirmation opened in one project stayed painted
+                  over whatever tab the user switched to, kept its focus trap,
+                  and — being a blocking overlay — refused every native file
+                  drop in the window. `PaneVisibilityProvider` is how a `Modal`
+                  inside a pane finds out the pane stepped aside. */}
               {homeProjectIds.map((projectId) => (
-                <ProjectHome
+                <PaneVisibilityProvider
                   key={projectId}
+                  visible={activeTabKey === homeTabKey(projectId)}
+                >
+                  <ProjectHome
                     projectId={projectId}
                     active={activeTabKey === homeTabKey(projectId)}
                   />
+                </PaneVisibilityProvider>
               ))}
               {sessions.map((session) => (
-                <TerminalView
+                <PaneVisibilityProvider
                   key={session.id}
+                  visible={session.id === activeSessionId}
+                >
+                  <TerminalView
                     sessionId={session.id}
                     active={session.id === activeSessionId}
                   />
+                </PaneVisibilityProvider>
               ))}
             </div>
           )}
         </main>
+        <NotesDock />
       </div>
       <StatusBar stt={stt} />
       <ToastHost />
@@ -156,6 +174,9 @@ export default function App() {
           className="fixed inset-0 z-50 flex items-center justify-center bg-[var(--bg-primary)]/95 backdrop-blur-sm"
           role="status"
           aria-live="polite"
+          /* Covers the whole window, so no pane underneath may accept a
+             native file drop while it is up — see `lib/dropTarget.ts`. */
+          data-blocks-drop="true"
           data-testid="shutdown-overlay"
         >
           <div className="flex flex-col items-center gap-2 px-6 text-center">

app/src/components/DockerInstallDialog.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
-import { openUrl } from "@tauri-apps/plugin-opener";
 import { useInstallHelper } from "../hooks/useInstallHelper";
+import { openUrlExternal } from "../lib/tauri-commands";
 import { useDocker } from "../hooks/useDocker";
 import Modal from "./ui/Modal";
 import Button from "./ui/Button";
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export default function DockerInstallDialog({ onClose }: Props) {
   const handleOpenDocs = async () => {
     if (!options) return;
     try {
-      await openUrl(options.docs_url);
+      await openUrlExternal(options.docs_url);
     } catch (e) {
       console.error("Failed to open docs URL:", e);
     }

app/src/components/layout/HelpDialog.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { renderMarkdown } from "./HelpDialog";
+
+/**
+ * `renderMarkdown` builds HTML by regex substitution and the result is handed
+ * to `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`. Its input is the help document, which is
+ * fetched from GitHub at runtime — remote, versioned by someone else, and not
+ * something the app gets to trust. These tests pin the escaping.
+ */
+/**
+ * Parse rendered HTML and return its first anchor, asserting that *no* element
+ * anywhere in the output grew an attribute outside the allowed set. A broken
+ * attribute value is only interesting if it becomes an attribute, so the check
+ * has to run through a real parser rather than over the string.
+ */
+const ALLOWED_ATTRS = new Set(["class", "href", "target", "rel", "id"]);
+
+function onlyAnchor(html: string): HTMLAnchorElement {
+  const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, "text/html");
+  for (const el of Array.from(doc.body.querySelectorAll("*"))) {
+    for (const name of attrNames(el)) {
+      expect(ALLOWED_ATTRS.has(name), `unexpected attribute ${name}`).toBe(true);
+    }
+  }
+  const anchors = doc.querySelectorAll("a");
+  expect(anchors.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  return anchors[0] as HTMLAnchorElement;
+}
+
+/** Attribute names the parser actually saw on an element. */
+function attrNames(el: Element): string[] {
+  return Array.from(el.attributes).map((a) => a.name);
+}
+
+describe("renderMarkdown escaping", () => {
+  it("escapes the quote characters an attribute value is delimited by", () => {
+    const html = renderMarkdown('He said "hi" and it\'s fine.');
+    expect(html).not.toMatch(/said "hi"/);
+    expect(html).toContain(""hi"");
+    expect(html).toContain("it's");
+  });
+
+  it("does not let a link target break out of href=\"…\"", () => {
+    // The sink: the URL capture is `[^)]+`, which includes `"` and spaces, and
+    // the value lands directly inside `href="…"`. Asserted through the DOM,
+    // not by string matching — the payload text legitimately survives *inside*
+    // the attribute value; what must not happen is it becoming an attribute.
+    const a = onlyAnchor(
+      renderMarkdown(
+        '[click](https://example.com/" onmouseover="steal() formaction="https://evil.example)',
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(attrNames(a)).toEqual(["class", "href", "target", "rel"]);
+    expect(a.getAttribute("href")).toContain('" onmouseover="');
+  });
+
+  it("does not let an in-document anchor break out of href=\"#…\"", () => {
+    const a = onlyAnchor(
+      renderMarkdown('[jump](#top" onfocus="steal() autofocus="x)'),
+    );
+    expect(attrNames(a)).toEqual(["class", "href"]);
+  });
+
+  it("does not let a bare URL break out of href=\"…\"", () => {
+    const a = onlyAnchor(
+      renderMarkdown('See https://example.com/a"onmouseover="steal()\n'),
+    );
+    expect(attrNames(a)).toEqual(["class", "href", "target", "rel"]);
+  });
+
+  it("still renders ordinary links intact", () => {
+    const html = renderMarkdown("[docs](https://example.com/a?x=1&y=2)");
+    // `&` was entity-escaped by the first pass and must not be escaped twice.
+    expect(html).toContain('href="https://example.com/a?x=1&y=2"');
+    expect(html).not.toContain("&");
+    expect(html).toContain('target="_blank"');
+    expect(html).toContain('rel="noopener noreferrer"');
+    expect(html).toContain(">docs</a>");
+  });
+
+  it("still renders an in-document anchor link intact", () => {
+    const html = renderMarkdown("[jump](#getting-started)");
+    expect(html).toContain('href="#getting-started"');
+  });
+
+  it("keeps header slugs stable across the new quote escaping", () => {
+    // The regression this guards: quotes now become entities *before*
+    // `slugify` sees them, and an entity's letters would otherwise survive
+    // into the id ("claude39s-setup"), silently breaking every
+    // `[…](#claudes-setup)` in the document.
+    expect(renderMarkdown("## Claude's setup")).toContain('id="claudes-setup"');
+    expect(renderMarkdown('## The "safe" mode')).toContain('id="the-safe-mode"');
+  });
+
+  it("still refuses to emit raw tags from the source document", () => {
+    const html = renderMarkdown("<img src=x onerror=alert(1)>");
+    expect(html).not.toContain("<img");
+    expect(html).toContain("&lt;img");
+  });
+});

app/src/components/layout/HelpDialog.tsx

@@ -12,21 +12,67 @@ function slugify(text: string): string {
   return text
     .toLowerCase()
     .replace(/<[^>]+>/g, "")       // strip HTML tags (e.g. from inline code)
+    // Quote characters are escaped to entities before this runs (see
+    // `renderMarkdown`). Drop those two entities whole, so a header with an
+    // apostrophe or a quote slugifies to what it did when the character was
+    // simply stripped — otherwise every such anchor id silently changes and
+    // the in-document links pointing at it stop resolving. `&amp;`/`&lt;`/
+    // `&gt;` are deliberately not in this list: they were already entities
+    // before, so their existing (odd) slugs are the established ones.
+    .replace(/&quot;|&#39;/g, "")
     .replace(/[^\w\s-]/g, "")      // remove non-word chars except spaces/dashes
     .replace(/\s+/g, "-")          // spaces to dashes
     .replace(/-+/g, "-")           // collapse consecutive dashes
     .replace(/^-|-$/g, "");        // trim leading/trailing dashes
 }
 
-/** Simple markdown-to-HTML converter for the help content. */
-function renderMarkdown(md: string): string {
+/**
+ * Escape a captured markdown value that is about to be interpolated into an
+ * HTML *attribute* value.
+ *
+ * `renderMarkdown` entity-escapes the whole document first, but that pass only
+ * covered `&`, `<` and `>` — not the quote characters, which is all an
+ * attribute value is delimited by. `[x](https://a" onload="…)` therefore closed
+ * `href="` and started a new attribute, because the URL capture is `[^)]+` and
+ * `"` is in `[^)]`. The document is remote GitHub markdown, so that capture is
+ * not ours to trust.
+ *
+ * Only quotes are escaped here: `&`, `<` and `>` have already been converted by
+ * the caller, and re-escaping the `&` would double-encode every `&amp;` in a
+ * query string.
+ */
+function attr(value: string): string {
+  return value.replace(/"/g, "&quot;").replace(/'/g, "&#39;");
+}
+
+/**
+ * Simple markdown-to-HTML converter for the help content.
+ *
+ * Exported for `HelpDialog.test.tsx`: the output goes to
+ * `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`, so the escaping rules below are security rules and
+ * need to be asserted rather than assumed.
+ */
+export function renderMarkdown(md: string): string {
   let html = md;
 
   // Normalize line endings
   html = html.replace(/\r\n/g, "\n");
 
-  // Escape HTML entities (but we'll re-introduce tags below)
-  html = html.replace(/&/g, "&amp;").replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;");
+  // Escape HTML entities (but we'll re-introduce tags below).
+  //
+  // The quote characters are part of this on purpose. Everything below builds
+  // HTML by regex substitution, and several of those substitutions drop a
+  // capture straight into an attribute value (`href="$2"`). Leaving `"` and `'`
+  // live meant a link target could close the attribute and open another one —
+  // in a document fetched from GitHub at runtime and handed to
+  // `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`. Escaping here closes every such sink at the
+  // source; `attr()` below is the belt to this pair of braces.
+  html = html
+    .replace(/&/g, "&amp;")
+    .replace(/</g, "&lt;")
+    .replace(/>/g, "&gt;")
+    .replace(/"/g, "&quot;")
+    .replace(/'/g, "&#39;");
 
   // Fenced code blocks (```...```)
   html = html.replace(/```(\w*)\n([\s\S]*?)```/g, (_m, _lang, code) => {
@@ -84,13 +130,15 @@ function renderMarkdown(md: string): string {
   // Markdown-style anchor links [text](#anchor)
   html = html.replace(
     /\[([^\]]+)\]\(#([^)]+)\)/g,
-    '<a class="help-link" href="#$2">$1</a>',
+    (_m, text: string, anchor: string) =>
+      `<a class="help-link" href="#${attr(anchor)}">${text}</a>`,
   );
 
   // Markdown-style external links [text](url)
   html = html.replace(
     /\[([^\]]+)\]\((https?:\/\/[^)]+)\)/g,
-    '<a class="help-link" href="$2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$1</a>',
+    (_m, text: string, url: string) =>
+      `<a class="help-link" href="${attr(url)}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">${text}</a>`,
   );
 
   // Unordered list items (- ...)
@@ -117,7 +165,8 @@ function renderMarkdown(md: string): string {
   // Links - convert bare URLs to clickable links (skip already-wrapped URLs)
   html = html.replace(
     /(?<!="|'>)(https?:\/\/[^\s<)]+)/g,
-    '<a class="help-link" href="$1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$1</a>',
+    (_m, url: string) =>
+      `<a class="help-link" href="${attr(url)}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">${url}</a>`,
   );
 
   // Wrap remaining loose text lines in paragraphs

app/src/components/layout/MainTabs.tsx

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
 } from "../../store/appState";
 import { effectivePermissionMode } from "../projects/PermissionModeControl";
 import { ProjectStatusIndicator } from "../ui/StatusIndicator";
+import { sessionDisplayName } from "../../lib/sessionName";
 import type { PermissionMode } from "../../lib/types";
 
 interface ContextMenuState {
@@ -195,11 +196,10 @@ export default function MainTabs() {
     }
     const session = sessions.find((s) => s.id === tabKeyId(key));
     if (!session) return "";
-    const custom = getCustomName(session.projectId, session.id);
-    return custom
-      ? `${session.projectName}: ${custom}`
-      : (session.sessionName ?? session.projectName) +
-          (session.sessionType === "bash" ? " (bash)" : "");
+    return sessionDisplayName(
+      session,
+      projects.find((p) => p.id === session.projectId),
+    );
   };
 
   const endDrag = () => {
@@ -358,13 +358,7 @@ export default function MainTabs() {
     const session = sessions.find((s) => s.id === sessionId);
     if (!session) return null;
     const project = projects.find((p) => p.id === session.projectId);
-    const customName = getCustomName(session.projectId, session.id);
-    const baseLabel =
-      (session.sessionName ?? session.projectName) +
-      (session.sessionType === "bash" ? " (bash)" : "");
-    const displayLabel = customName
-      ? `${session.projectName}: ${customName}`
-      : baseLabel;
+    const displayLabel = sessionDisplayName(session, project);
     const isRenaming = renamingId === session.id;
     const badge = project ? MODE_BADGE[effectivePermissionMode(project)] : null;
 

app/src/components/layout/NotesDock.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent } from "@testing-library/react";
+import NotesDock from "./NotesDock";
+import type { Project, TerminalSession } from "../../lib/types";
+
+vi.mock("../notes/NotesDockPanel", () => ({
+  default: ({ projectId }: { projectId: string }) => (
+    <div data-testid="panel">{`panel:${projectId}`}</div>
+  ),
+}));
+
+let state: Record<string, unknown> = {};
+vi.mock("../../store/appState", () => ({
+  useAppState: Object.assign(
+    (selector: (s: unknown) => unknown) => selector(state),
+    { getState: () => state },
+  ),
+  isHomeTab: (k: string) => k.startsWith("home:"),
+  isTerminalTab: (k: string) => k.startsWith("term:"),
+  tabKeyId: (k: string) => k.slice(k.indexOf(":") + 1),
+  // The mocked store module still needs to supply the width constants the
+  // dock imports from it for the separator's aria-value attributes.
+  NOTES_DOCK_MIN_WIDTH: 260,
+  NOTES_DOCK_MAX_WIDTH: 720,
+}));
+
+const session: TerminalSession = {
+  id: "s1",
+  projectId: "p9",
+  projectName: "api",
+  sessionType: "claude",
+  sessionName: null,
+};
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  state = {
+    notesDockOpen: true,
+    setNotesDockOpen: vi.fn(),
+    toggleNotesDock: vi.fn(),
+    notesDockWidth: 352,
+    setNotesDockWidth: vi.fn(),
+    activeTabKey: null,
+    sessions: [session],
+    projects: [{ id: "p9", name: "api" } as unknown as Project],
+  };
+});
+
+describe("NotesDock", () => {
+  it("renders nothing when closed", () => {
+    state.notesDockOpen = false;
+    const { container } = render(<NotesDock />);
+    expect(container).toBeEmptyDOMElement();
+  });
+
+  it("follows a project home tab", () => {
+    state.activeTabKey = "home:p1";
+    render(<NotesDock />);
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("panel")).toHaveTextContent("panel:p1");
+  });
+
+  it("follows the project of the active terminal tab", () => {
+    // The dock exists to be visible while the agent runs, so a terminal tab
+    // must resolve to its project, not to nothing.
+    state.activeTabKey = "term:s1";
+    render(<NotesDock />);
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("panel")).toHaveTextContent("panel:p9");
+  });
+
+  it("explains itself when no project is active", () => {
+    state.activeTabKey = null;
+    render(<NotesDock />);
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("panel")).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByText(/open a project/i)).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("shows nothing for a terminal whose session has gone", () => {
+    state.activeTabKey = "term:vanished";
+    render(<NotesDock />);
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("panel")).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("renders at the stored width", () => {
+    state.activeTabKey = "home:p1";
+    state.notesDockWidth = 420;
+    render(<NotesDock />);
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText("Notes")).toHaveStyle({ width: "420px" });
+  });
+
+  it("has a keyboard-reachable resize handle", () => {
+    // Drag is a mouse gesture; a separator that only responds to pointer
+    // events is unusable without one.
+    state.activeTabKey = "home:p1";
+    render(<NotesDock />);
+    const handle = screen.getByRole("separator", { name: /resize notes/i });
+    fireEvent.keyDown(handle, { key: "ArrowLeft" });
+    expect(state.setNotesDockWidth).toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("widens on ArrowLeft and narrows on ArrowRight, by the exact step", () => {
+    // The dock sits on the right edge, so dragging or pressing left grows it
+    // and right shrinks it. Asserting only "was called" would pass even if
+    // the branches were swapped or the sign inverted.
+    state.activeTabKey = "home:p1";
+    render(<NotesDock />);
+    const handle = screen.getByRole("separator", { name: /resize notes/i });
+
+    fireEvent.keyDown(handle, { key: "ArrowLeft" });
+    expect(state.setNotesDockWidth).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(368);
+
+    fireEvent.keyDown(handle, { key: "ArrowRight" });
+    expect(state.setNotesDockWidth).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(336);
+  });
+});

app/src/components/layout/NotesDock.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+import { useShallow } from "zustand/react/shallow";
+import {
+  useAppState,
+  isHomeTab,
+  isTerminalTab,
+  tabKeyId,
+  NOTES_DOCK_MIN_WIDTH,
+  NOTES_DOCK_MAX_WIDTH,
+} from "../../store/appState";
+import NotesDockPanel from "../notes/NotesDockPanel";
+import Button from "../ui/Button";
+
+/**
+ * Notes beside whatever is on screen.
+ *
+ * Project Home and Terminal are sibling top-level tabs, so notes living only
+ * in a sub-tab would be hidden exactly when the agent is running — which is
+ * when a note is worth sending. The dock is the answer to that.
+ *
+ * **It takes space from inside the window and never resizes it.** Growing the
+ * OS window was tried and rejected on evidence: honoured under XWayland,
+ * silently corrupting under native Wayland, where `outer_position()` returns a
+ * confident `Ok(0,0)` for a window that is somewhere else. See the design doc,
+ * §6.1. Narrowing the terminal instead costs nothing — `TerminalView`'s
+ * ResizeObserver already reflows xterm and resizes the container PTY.
+ */
+export default function NotesDock() {
+  const {
+    notesDockOpen,
+    setNotesDockOpen,
+    notesDockWidth,
+    setNotesDockWidth,
+    activeTabKey,
+    sessions,
+  } = useAppState(
+    useShallow((s) => ({
+      notesDockOpen: s.notesDockOpen,
+      setNotesDockOpen: s.setNotesDockOpen,
+      notesDockWidth: s.notesDockWidth,
+      setNotesDockWidth: s.setNotesDockWidth,
+      activeTabKey: s.activeTabKey,
+      sessions: s.sessions,
+    })),
+  );
+
+  // Dragging the separator. Pointer capture rather than window listeners, so
+  // the drag survives the pointer crossing the terminal — which swallows
+  // events — and ends correctly if the button is released outside the window.
+  const onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent<HTMLDivElement>) => {
+    e.preventDefault();
+    const handle = e.currentTarget;
+    handle.setPointerCapture(e.pointerId);
+    const startX = e.clientX;
+    const startWidth = notesDockWidth;
+    // The dock is on the right, so dragging left widens it.
+    const onMove = (move: PointerEvent) =>
+      setNotesDockWidth(startWidth + (startX - move.clientX));
+    const onUp = () => {
+      handle.releasePointerCapture(e.pointerId);
+      handle.removeEventListener("pointermove", onMove);
+      handle.removeEventListener("pointerup", onUp);
+    };
+    handle.addEventListener("pointermove", onMove);
+    handle.addEventListener("pointerup", onUp);
+  };
+
+  const onHandleKeyDown = (e: React.KeyboardEvent<HTMLDivElement>) => {
+    const step = e.shiftKey ? 64 : 16;
+    if (e.key === "ArrowLeft") {
+      e.preventDefault();
+      setNotesDockWidth(notesDockWidth + step);
+    } else if (e.key === "ArrowRight") {
+      e.preventDefault();
+      setNotesDockWidth(notesDockWidth - step);
+    }
+  };
+
+  if (!notesDockOpen) return null;
+
+  // Follow whatever is in front: a home tab is its own project, a terminal tab
+  // is the project it belongs to.
+  let projectId: string | null = null;
+  if (activeTabKey && isHomeTab(activeTabKey)) {
+    projectId = tabKeyId(activeTabKey);
+  } else if (activeTabKey && isTerminalTab(activeTabKey)) {
+    projectId =
+      sessions.find((s) => s.id === tabKeyId(activeTabKey))?.projectId ?? null;
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <aside
+      aria-label="Notes"
+      style={{ width: `${notesDockWidth}px` }}
+      className="relative flex-shrink-0 flex flex-col min-h-0 bg-[var(--bg-secondary)] border border-[var(--border-color)] rounded-[var(--radius-panel)] overflow-hidden"
+    >
+      {/* Separator, not decoration: it carries a role and arrow keys, because
+          a resize that only answers to a drag is unavailable to anyone not
+          using a mouse. */}
+      <div
+        role="separator"
+        aria-label="Resize notes panel"
+        aria-orientation="vertical"
+        aria-valuenow={notesDockWidth}
+        aria-valuemin={NOTES_DOCK_MIN_WIDTH}
+        aria-valuemax={NOTES_DOCK_MAX_WIDTH}
+        tabIndex={0}
+        onPointerDown={onPointerDown}
+        onKeyDown={onHandleKeyDown}
+        className="absolute left-0 top-0 h-full w-1.5 cursor-col-resize hover:bg-[var(--accent-muted)] transition-colors"
+      />
+      <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2 px-3 h-9 flex-shrink-0 border-b border-[var(--border-color)]">
+        <h2 className="text-[13px] font-semibold text-[var(--text-primary)]">Notes</h2>
+        <Button variant="ghost" onClick={() => setNotesDockOpen(false)} aria-label="Close notes">
+          Close
+        </Button>
+      </div>
+      <div className="flex-1 min-h-0">
+        {projectId ? (
+          <NotesDockPanel projectId={projectId} />
+        ) : (
+          <p className="p-4 text-[13px] text-[var(--text-secondary)]">
+            Open a project or a terminal to see its notes.
+          </p>
+        )}
+      </div>
+    </aside>
+  );
+}

app/src/components/layout/StatusBar.tsx

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ interface Props {
 export default function StatusBar({ stt }: Props) {
   const {
     projects, sessions, terminalHasSelection, activeSessionId, sttEnabled,
-    terminalAtBottom, scrollActiveToBottom,
+    notesDockOpen, toggleNotesDock, terminalMouseCaptured, releaseActiveMouse,
   } = useAppState(
     useShallow(s => ({
       projects: s.projects,
@@ -18,11 +18,18 @@ export default function StatusBar({ stt }: Props) {
       terminalHasSelection: s.terminalHasSelection,
       activeSessionId: s.activeSessionId,
       sttEnabled: s.appSettings?.stt?.enabled,
-      terminalAtBottom: s.terminalAtBottom,
-      scrollActiveToBottom: s.scrollActiveToBottom,
+      notesDockOpen: s.notesDockOpen,
+      toggleNotesDock: s.toggleNotesDock,
+      terminalMouseCaptured: s.terminalMouseCaptured,
+      releaseActiveMouse: s.releaseActiveMouse,
     }))
   );
   const running = projects.filter((p) => p.status === "running").length;
+  // Only in a Claude tab: the chord is bound there and nowhere else, and a hint
+  // for a key that does nothing is worse than no hint.
+  const inClaudeSession = sessions.some(
+    (s) => s.id === activeSessionId && s.sessionType === "claude",
+  );
 
   return (
     <div className="flex items-center h-6 px-4 bg-[var(--bg-tertiary)] border border-[var(--border-color)] rounded-[var(--radius-panel)] text-xs text-[var(--text-secondary)]">
@@ -45,17 +52,34 @@ export default function StatusBar({ stt }: Props) {
           </span>
         </>
       )}
-      {/* Right-aligned controls: Jump to Current + STT mic */}
+      {!terminalHasSelection && inClaudeSession && (
+        <>
+          <span className="mx-2">|</span>
+          <span title="Sends ESC+CR — the sequence Claude Code's own /terminal-setup installs. Alt+Enter does the same.">
+            Shift+Enter: newline
+          </span>
+        </>
+      )}
+      {/* Right-aligned controls: mouse release + Notes + STT mic */}
       <div className="ml-auto flex items-center gap-3 pl-2">
-        {activeSessionId && !terminalAtBottom && (
+        {activeSessionId && terminalMouseCaptured && (
           <button
-            onClick={() => scrollActiveToBottom()}
+            data-mouse-release="true"
+            onClick={() => releaseActiveMouse()}
             className="text-[var(--accent)] hover:text-[var(--accent-hover)] cursor-pointer"
-            title="Scroll the terminal to the latest output"
+            title="A program in the container is reading the mouse, so clicks and drags go to it instead of selecting text. Click, or press Ctrl+Shift+X, to take it back. To select text without taking it back, hold Shift while dragging (Option on macOS)."
           >
-            Jump to Current ↓
+            🖱 Mouse captured — release
           </button>
         )}
+        <button
+          onClick={toggleNotesDock}
+          aria-pressed={notesDockOpen}
+          className="text-[var(--accent)] hover:text-[var(--accent-hover)] cursor-pointer"
+          title="Show or hide the notes panel beside the current tab"
+        >
+          Notes
+        </button>
         {sttEnabled && activeSessionId && (
           <SttButton
             state={stt.state}

app/src/components/notes/NoteEditor.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+import SendToAgentButton from "./SendToAgentButton";
+import Button from "../ui/Button";
+
+interface Props {
+  projectId: string;
+  title: string;
+  body: string;
+  onTitleChange: (value: string) => void;
+  onBodyChange: (value: string) => void;
+  onCommit: () => void;
+  onDelete: () => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Title and body, saved when a field loses focus.
+ *
+ * Plain text on purpose. There is no markdown rendering and no view/edit split,
+ * so there is no moment where the text on screen is not the text that would be
+ * sent — which is what makes "the agent gets exactly what you see" true rather
+ * than nearly true.
+ */
+export default function NoteEditor({
+  projectId,
+  title,
+  body,
+  onTitleChange,
+  onBodyChange,
+  onCommit,
+  onDelete,
+}: Props) {
+  return (
+    <div className="flex flex-col h-full min-h-0 gap-2 p-3">
+      {/* Wraps rather than overflows. The two buttons are a group with a fixed
+          appetite (~190px) and the title field can shrink only so far, so in a
+          narrow dock the title takes the first row and the buttons the second.
+          Without the wrap the group is simply clipped by the dock's
+          `overflow-hidden`, which puts Delete off-window with no scrollbar to
+          reach it. */}
+      <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center gap-2">
+        <input
+          value={title}
+          onChange={(e) => onTitleChange(e.target.value)}
+          onBlur={onCommit}
+          placeholder="Note title"
+          aria-label="Note title"
+          className="flex-1 min-w-24 px-2 h-8 bg-[var(--bg-primary)] border border-[var(--border-color)] rounded-[var(--radius-control)] text-[13px] text-[var(--text-primary)] focus:border-[var(--accent)] transition-colors"
+        />
+        <div className="flex items-center gap-2 flex-shrink-0">
+          {/* The live editor text, not `note.body` — what is on screen is what
+              gets sent. */}
+          <SendToAgentButton projectId={projectId} body={body} />
+          <Button variant="danger" onClick={onDelete} aria-label="Delete note">
+            Delete
+          </Button>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+      <textarea
+        value={body}
+        onChange={(e) => onBodyChange(e.target.value)}
+        onBlur={onCommit}
+        placeholder="Reminders, gotchas, a prompt worth keeping…"
+        aria-label="Note body"
+        className="flex-1 min-h-0 w-full px-3 py-2 bg-[var(--bg-primary)] border border-[var(--border-color)] rounded-[var(--radius-control)] text-[13px] text-[var(--text-primary)] focus:border-[var(--accent)] resize-none font-mono transition-colors"
+      />
+      <p className="text-xs text-[var(--text-secondary)]">
+        Notes save when a field loses focus. Sending puts the note in the agent&rsquo;s
+        prompt — you press Enter.
+      </p>
+    </div>
+  );
+}

app/src/components/notes/NoteSwitcher.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent } from "@testing-library/react";
+import NoteSwitcher from "./NoteSwitcher";
+import type { Note } from "../../lib/types";
+
+const onTitleChange = vi.fn();
+const onCommit = vi.fn();
+const onSelect = vi.fn();
+
+const note = (over: Partial<Note> = {}): Note => ({
+  id: "n1",
+  title: "Deploy steps",
+  body: "",
+  pinned: false,
+  created_at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
+  updated_at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
+  ...over,
+});
+
+const setup = (notes: Note[], selectedId = notes[0]?.id ?? "", title = notes[0]?.title ?? "") =>
+  render(
+    <NoteSwitcher
+      notes={notes}
+      selectedId={selectedId}
+      title={title}
+      onTitleChange={onTitleChange}
+      onCommit={onCommit}
+      onSelect={onSelect}
+    />,
+  );
+
+beforeEach(() => vi.clearAllMocks());
+
+describe("NoteSwitcher", () => {
+  it("edits the title in place, committing on blur", () => {
+    setup([note()]);
+    const field = screen.getByLabelText("Note title");
+    expect(field).toHaveValue("Deploy steps");
+
+    fireEvent.change(field, { target: { value: "Deploy steps v2" } });
+    expect(onTitleChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith("Deploy steps v2");
+    expect(onCommit).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+    fireEvent.blur(field);
+    expect(onCommit).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the other notes out of the way until asked for", () => {
+    setup([note(), note({ id: "n2", title: "Gotchas" })]);
+    expect(screen.queryByText("Gotchas")).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /switch note/i }));
+    expect(screen.getByRole("option", { name: "Gotchas" })).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("reports whether the list is open", () => {
+    setup([note()]);
+    const trigger = screen.getByRole("button", { name: /switch note/i });
+    expect(trigger).toHaveAttribute("aria-expanded", "false");
+
+    fireEvent.click(trigger);
+    expect(trigger).toHaveAttribute("aria-expanded", "true");
+  });
+
+  it("marks the current note as the selected option", () => {
+    setup([note(), note({ id: "n2", title: "Gotchas" })], "n2", "Gotchas");
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /switch note/i }));
+
+    expect(screen.getByRole("option", { name: "Gotchas" })).toHaveAttribute(
+      "aria-selected",
+      "true",
+    );
+    expect(screen.getByRole("option", { name: "Deploy steps" })).toHaveAttribute(
+      "aria-selected",
+      "false",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("selects a note and closes", () => {
+    setup([note(), note({ id: "n2", title: "Gotchas" })]);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /switch note/i }));
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("option", { name: "Gotchas" }));
+
+    expect(onSelect).toHaveBeenCalledWith("n2");
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("listbox")).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("names an untitled note rather than showing an empty row", () => {
+    setup([note({ title: "   " })]);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /switch note/i }));
+    expect(screen.getByRole("option", { name: "Untitled note" })).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  // Notes are addressed by id, never by title. Two untitled notes are the
+  // ordinary case, and a title-keyed list would collapse them into one row.
+  it("lists two notes that share a title as two options", () => {
+    setup([note({ id: "n1", title: "" }), note({ id: "n2", title: "" })]);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /switch note/i }));
+
+    const options = screen.getAllByRole("option", { name: "Untitled note" });
+    expect(options).toHaveLength(2);
+
+    fireEvent.click(options[1]);
+    expect(onSelect).toHaveBeenCalledWith("n2");
+  });
+
+  it("closes on Escape without selecting anything", () => {
+    setup([note(), note({ id: "n2", title: "Gotchas" })]);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /switch note/i }));
+    fireEvent.keyDown(document, { key: "Escape" });
+
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("listbox")).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(onSelect).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});

app/src/components/notes/NoteSwitcher.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import type { Note } from "../../lib/types";
+
+export const UNTITLED = "Untitled note";
+
+interface Props {
+  notes: Note[];
+  selectedId: string;
+  title: string;
+  onTitleChange: (value: string) => void;
+  onCommit: () => void;
+  onSelect: (id: string) => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * One row that both names the current note and switches to another.
+ *
+ * The dock has no room for a permanent list of titles, so the title field
+ * doubles as the label of what is open and the chevron beside it holds the
+ * rest. Renaming therefore needs no separate affordance.
+ *
+ * Two honest controls rather than one `role="combobox"`: a text field and a
+ * button that opens a listbox. A real combobox owes its listbox keyboard
+ * navigation, active-descendant tracking and an input that filters — none of
+ * which this needs, and half of which is worse than not claiming the role.
+ *
+ * `OverflowMenu` is deliberately not reused here despite the shape being
+ * close. It keys its items by label, and notes are addressed by id: two
+ * untitled notes are the ordinary case and would collapse into one row.
+ */
+export default function NoteSwitcher({
+  notes,
+  selectedId,
+  title,
+  onTitleChange,
+  onCommit,
+  onSelect,
+}: Props) {
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+  const rootRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+
+  // Same dismissal contract as `OverflowMenu`, so the two feel identical.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!open) return;
+    const onDocClick = (e: MouseEvent) => {
+      if (!rootRef.current?.contains(e.target as Node)) setOpen(false);
+    };
+    const onKey = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
+      if (e.key === "Escape") setOpen(false);
+    };
+    document.addEventListener("mousedown", onDocClick);
+    document.addEventListener("keydown", onKey);
+    return () => {
+      document.removeEventListener("mousedown", onDocClick);
+      document.removeEventListener("keydown", onKey);
+    };
+  }, [open]);
+
+  return (
+    <div ref={rootRef} className="relative flex items-center gap-1 min-w-0">
+      <input
+        value={title}
+        onChange={(e) => onTitleChange(e.target.value)}
+        onBlur={onCommit}
+        placeholder="Note title"
+        aria-label="Note title"
+        className="flex-1 min-w-0 px-2 h-7 bg-[var(--bg-primary)] border border-[var(--border-color)] rounded-[var(--radius-control)] text-[13px] text-[var(--text-primary)] focus:border-[var(--accent)] transition-colors"
+      />
+      <button
+        type="button"
+        aria-label="Switch note"
+        aria-haspopup="listbox"
+        aria-expanded={open}
+        onClick={() => setOpen((o) => !o)}
+        className="inline-flex items-center justify-center h-7 w-6 flex-shrink-0 rounded-[var(--radius-control)] border border-[var(--border-color)] bg-[var(--bg-tertiary)] text-[var(--text-secondary)] hover:text-[var(--text-primary)] hover:bg-[var(--border-color)] transition-colors"
+      >
+        <span aria-hidden="true" className="leading-none text-[10px]">▾</span>
+      </button>
+      {open && (
+        <div
+          role="listbox"
+          aria-label="Notes"
+          className="absolute right-0 top-full mt-1 z-40 w-full max-h-64 overflow-y-auto py-1 bg-[var(--bg-overlay)] border border-[var(--border-color)] rounded-[var(--radius-panel)]"
+          style={{ boxShadow: "var(--shadow-overlay)" }}
+        >
+          {/* Buttons directly inside the listbox: wrapping each in an `<li>`
+              would put an implicit `listitem` between the listbox and its
+              options, which is not a child role a listbox owns. */}
+          {notes.map((n) => (
+            <button
+              key={n.id}
+              type="button"
+              role="option"
+              aria-selected={n.id === selectedId}
+              onClick={() => {
+                onSelect(n.id);
+                setOpen(false);
+              }}
+              className={`block w-full text-left px-3 py-1.5 text-xs truncate transition-colors hover:bg-[var(--bg-tertiary)] ${
+                n.id === selectedId
+                  ? "text-[var(--text-primary)] bg-[var(--bg-tertiary)]"
+                  : "text-[var(--text-secondary)]"
+              }`}
+            >
+              {n.title.trim() || UNTITLED}
+            </button>
+          ))}
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+}

app/src/components/notes/NotesDockPanel.test.tsx

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+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, waitFor } from "@testing-library/react";
+import NotesDockPanel from "./NotesDockPanel";
+import type { Note } from "../../lib/types";
+
+const saveNote = vi.fn(async () => true);
+const deleteNote = vi.fn(async () => true);
+const createNote = vi.fn();
+let notes: Note[] = [];
+let loading = false;
+
+vi.mock("../../hooks/useNotes", () => ({
+  useNotes: () => ({
+    notes,
+    loading,
+    saveState: { status: "idle", error: null },
+    createNote,
+    saveNote,
+    deleteNote,
+  }),
+}));
+
+const sendProps: Record<string, unknown>[] = [];
+vi.mock("./SendToAgentButton", () => ({
+  default: (props: Record<string, unknown>) => {
+    sendProps.push(props);
+    return <button type="button">Send to agent</button>;
+  },
+}));
+
+const note = (over: Partial<Note> = {}): Note => ({
+  id: "n1",
+  title: "Deploy steps",
+  body: "one\ntwo",
+  pinned: false,
+  created_at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
+  updated_at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
+  ...over,
+});
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  vi.clearAllMocks();
+  sendProps.length = 0;
+  notes = [];
+  loading = false;
+});
+
+describe("NotesDockPanel", () => {
+  it("says it is loading rather than flashing an empty state", () => {
+    loading = true;
+    render(<NotesDockPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    expect(screen.getByText(/loading notes/i)).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("offers a first note when the project has none", async () => {
+    render(<NotesDockPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /new note/i }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(createNote).toHaveBeenCalled());
+  });
+
+  // The point of the redesign: the dock spends its height on the note being
+  // written, not on a permanent list of the ones that are not.
+  it("shows one note at a time, the rest behind the switcher", () => {
+    notes = [note(), note({ id: "n2", title: "Gotchas" })];
+    render(<NotesDockPanel projectId="p1" />);
+
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText("Note title")).toHaveValue("Deploy steps");
+    expect(screen.queryByText("Gotchas")).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /switch note/i }));
+    expect(screen.getByRole("option", { name: "Gotchas" })).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("switches to the note picked from the list", () => {
+    notes = [note(), note({ id: "n2", title: "Gotchas", body: "careful" })];
+    render(<NotesDockPanel projectId="p1" />);
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /switch note/i }));
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("option", { name: "Gotchas" }));
+
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText("Note title")).toHaveValue("Gotchas");
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText("Note body")).toHaveValue("careful");
+  });
+
+  it("saves the body when it loses focus, and not before", () => {
+    notes = [note()];
+    render(<NotesDockPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    const body = screen.getByLabelText("Note body");
+
+    fireEvent.change(body, { target: { value: "one\ntwo\nthree" } });
+    expect(saveNote).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+    fireEvent.blur(body);
+    expect(saveNote).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.objectContaining({ id: "n1", body: "one\ntwo\nthree" }),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("keeps New and Delete in the overflow menu, out of the writing area", async () => {
+    notes = [note()];
+    render(<NotesDockPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /note actions/i }));
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("menuitem", { name: /delete note/i }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(deleteNote).toHaveBeenCalledWith("n1"));
+  });
+
+  it("opens the note it just created", async () => {
+    notes = [note()];
+    createNote.mockResolvedValueOnce(note({ id: "n9", title: "" }));
+    const view = render(<NotesDockPanel projectId="p1" />);
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /note actions/i }));
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("menuitem", { name: /new note/i }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(createNote).toHaveBeenCalled());
+
+    notes = [note(), note({ id: "n9", title: "" })];
+    view.rerender(<NotesDockPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    await waitFor(() =>
+      expect(screen.getByLabelText("Note title")).toHaveValue(""),
+    );
+  });
+
+  // The send bar sits on the dock's bottom edge, inside an `overflow-hidden`
+  // panel, so both of these are load-bearing rather than cosmetic.
+  it("sends from a full-width bar whose menu opens upward", () => {
+    notes = [note()];
+    render(<NotesDockPanel projectId="p1" />);
+
+    expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i })).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(sendProps.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ fullWidth: true, dropUp: true });
+  });
+
+  it("sends what is on screen, not what was last saved", () => {
+    notes = [note()];
+    render(<NotesDockPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText("Note body"), {
+      target: { value: "edited but not blurred" },
+    });
+
+    expect(sendProps.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ body: "edited but not blurred" });
+  });
+});

app/src/components/notes/NotesDockPanel.tsx

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+import { useMemo, useState } from "react";
+import { useNotes } from "../../hooks/useNotes";
+import { useNoteDraft } from "./useNoteDraft";
+import NoteSwitcher from "./NoteSwitcher";
+import SendToAgentButton from "./SendToAgentButton";
+import Button from "../ui/Button";
+import OverflowMenu from "../ui/OverflowMenu";
+import SaveIndicator from "../ui/SaveIndicator";
+
+interface Props {
+  projectId: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Notes at dock width.
+ *
+ * Deliberately not `NotesPanel` in a narrower box. The tab can afford a column
+ * of titles beside the editor; the dock cannot, and shrinking that layout
+ * spends its height on chrome — a title strip, a wrapped button row and a
+ * paragraph of help — for a body that ends up a few words wide.
+ *
+ * So the dock shows exactly one note. The title row names it and switches to
+ * another, the actions that are not writing live in the overflow menu, and
+ * everything left over is the body. Roughly 240px of height comes back.
+ *
+ * What the two surfaces share is the part that must not drift: `useNotes` for
+ * the cache and its write ordering, and `useNoteDraft` for when a keystroke
+ * becomes a save. Only the layout is different.
+ */
+export default function NotesDockPanel({ projectId }: Props) {
+  const { notes, loading, saveState, createNote, saveNote, deleteNote } =
+    useNotes(projectId);
+  const [selectedId, setSelectedId] = useState<string | null>(null);
+
+  const selected = useMemo(
+    () => notes.find((n) => n.id === selectedId) ?? notes[0] ?? null,
+    [notes, selectedId],
+  );
+
+  const { title, body, setTitle, setBody, commit } = useNoteDraft(
+    selected,
+    saveNote,
+  );
+
+  const onCreate = async () => {
+    const note = await createNote();
+    if (note) setSelectedId(note.id);
+  };
+
+  if (loading) {
+    return (
+      <p className="p-4 text-xs text-[var(--text-secondary)]">Loading notes…</p>
+    );
+  }
+
+  if (!selected) {
+    return (
+      <div className="flex-1 flex flex-col items-center justify-center gap-3 p-4">
+        <p className="text-[13px] text-[var(--text-secondary)] text-center">
+          Keep reminders here, and send any of them straight to a running Claude
+          session.
+        </p>
+        <Button variant="primary" onClick={onCreate}>
+          New note
+        </Button>
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <div className="flex flex-col h-full min-h-0">
+      <div className="flex items-center gap-1 px-2 py-1.5 flex-shrink-0 border-b border-[var(--border-color)]">
+        <div className="flex-1 min-w-0">
+          <NoteSwitcher
+            notes={notes}
+            selectedId={selected.id}
+            title={title}
+            onTitleChange={setTitle}
+            onCommit={commit}
+            onSelect={setSelectedId}
+          />
+        </div>
+        {/* Renders nothing while idle, so it costs no width until it matters. */}
+        <SaveIndicator state={saveState} />
+        <OverflowMenu
+          label="Note actions"
+          items={[
+            { label: "New note", onSelect: () => void onCreate() },
+            {
+              label: "Delete note",
+              danger: true,
+              onSelect: () => void deleteNote(selected.id),
+            },
+          ]}
+        />
+      </div>
+
+      <textarea
+        value={body}
+        onChange={(e) => setBody(e.target.value)}
+        onBlur={commit}
+        placeholder="Reminders, gotchas, a prompt worth keeping…"
+        aria-label="Note body"
+        className="flex-1 min-h-0 w-full px-3 py-2 bg-transparent text-[13px] text-[var(--text-primary)] resize-none font-mono"
+      />
+
+      <div className="px-2 py-2 flex-shrink-0 border-t border-[var(--border-color)]">
+        {/* The live draft, not `selected.body` — what is on screen is what gets
+            sent. `dropUp` because the dock clips its own overflow. */}
+        <SendToAgentButton
+          projectId={projectId}
+          body={body}
+          fullWidth
+          dropUp
+        />
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  );
+}

app/src/components/notes/NotesPanel.shared.test.tsx

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+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, within, fireEvent, waitFor } from "@testing-library/react";
+import NotesPanel from "./NotesPanel";
+import NotesDockPanel from "./NotesDockPanel";
+import { useAppState } from "../../store/appState";
+import type { Note } from "../../lib/types";
+
+/**
+ * Two panels, one project — the configuration the app actually runs in.
+ *
+ * `NotesTab` mounts a `NotesPanel` and `NotesDock` mounts a `NotesDockPanel`,
+ * and the dock follows the active tab's project, so opening the dock over a
+ * Project Home tab mounts both for the *same* project. Every other notes test
+ * mounts exactly one, which is precisely the configuration in which a
+ * per-panel cache looks correct: it is only with two that an edit made in one
+ * is seen — or lost — by the other. `useNotes` is deliberately **not** mocked
+ * here; the cache is what is under test.
+ *
+ * The two are different components on purpose, which is exactly why this test
+ * pairs them rather than mounting the same one twice: the layouts diverged,
+ * and the cache and draft rules they share are what must not.
+ */
+
+const files: Record<string, Note[]> = {};
+
+vi.mock("../../lib/tauri-commands", () => ({
+  listNotes: async (p: string) => [...(files[p] ?? [])],
+  saveNote: async (p: string, n: Note) => {
+    const list = files[p] ?? (files[p] = []);
+    const at = list.findIndex((x) => x.id === n.id);
+    if (at === -1) list.unshift(n);
+    else list[at] = n;
+    return n;
+  },
+  deleteNote: async (p: string, id: string) => {
+    files[p] = (files[p] ?? []).filter((x) => x.id !== id);
+  },
+}));
+
+vi.mock("./SendToAgentButton", () => ({
+  default: () => <button type="button">Send to agent</button>,
+}));
+
+const note = (over: Partial<Note> = {}): Note => ({
+  id: "n1",
+  title: "Deploy steps",
+  body: "one",
+  pinned: false,
+  created_at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
+  updated_at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
+  ...over,
+});
+
+/** The tab and the dock, mounted together the way `App` mounts them. */
+function renderBothSurfaces() {
+  render(
+    <>
+      <div data-testid="tab">
+        <NotesPanel projectId="p1" />
+      </div>
+      <div data-testid="dock">
+        <NotesDockPanel projectId="p1" />
+      </div>
+    </>,
+  );
+  return {
+    tab: () => within(screen.getByTestId("tab")),
+    dock: () => within(screen.getByTestId("dock")),
+  };
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  for (const key of Object.keys(files)) delete files[key];
+  files.p1 = [note()];
+  useAppState.setState({ notesByProject: {}, notesLoading: {}, toasts: [] });
+});
+
+describe("the tab and the dock both open on one project", () => {
+  it("shows an edit made in one surface in the other", async () => {
+    const { tab, dock } = renderBothSurfaces();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(tab().getByLabelText("Note body")).toHaveValue("one"));
+
+    const dockTitle = dock().getByLabelText("Note title");
+    fireEvent.change(dockTitle, { target: { value: "Deploy steps v2" } });
+    fireEvent.blur(dockTitle);
+
+    // The other surface's list *and* its editor, not just one of them.
+    await waitFor(() =>
+      expect(tab().getByRole("button", { name: /deploy steps v2/i })).toBeInTheDocument(),
+    );
+    expect(tab().getByLabelText("Note title")).toHaveValue("Deploy steps v2");
+  });
+
+  it("does not write one surface's stale copy over the other's edit", async () => {
+    // The reported repro: edit in the dock, then go back to the tab and edit
+    // there. With a cache per panel, the tab committed `{...staleNote, ...}`
+    // and the dock's edit was gone from disk with no error and no indicator.
+    const { tab, dock } = renderBothSurfaces();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(tab().getByLabelText("Note body")).toHaveValue("one"));
+
+    const dockTitle = dock().getByLabelText("Note title");
+    fireEvent.change(dockTitle, { target: { value: "Deploy steps v2" } });
+    fireEvent.blur(dockTitle);
+    await waitFor(() => expect(files.p1[0].title).toBe("Deploy steps v2"));
+
+    const tabBody = tab().getByLabelText("Note body");
+    fireEvent.change(tabBody, { target: { value: "two" } });
+    fireEvent.blur(tabBody);
+
+    await waitFor(() => expect(files.p1[0].body).toBe("two"));
+    expect(files.p1).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(files.p1[0].title).toBe("Deploy steps v2");
+  });
+
+  it("reads the project once for both surfaces", async () => {
+    // Two panels are two `useNotes`, but the in-flight flag is per project, so
+    // mounting the dock over an open Notes tab does not re-read the file.
+    const listNotes = vi.spyOn(
+      await import("../../lib/tauri-commands"),
+      "listNotes",
+    );
+    renderBothSurfaces();
+    await waitFor(() =>
+      expect(screen.getAllByLabelText("Note body")[0]).toHaveValue("one"),
+    );
+    expect(listNotes).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    listNotes.mockRestore();
+  });
+
+  it("keeps text the user is part-way through typing when the other surface saves", async () => {
+    // Showing a remote edit must never mean discarding an unsaved local one.
+    const { tab, dock } = renderBothSurfaces();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(tab().getByLabelText("Note body")).toHaveValue("one"));
+
+    const tabBody = tab().getByLabelText("Note body");
+    fireEvent.change(tabBody, { target: { value: "half-typed" } });
+
+    const dockBody = dock().getByLabelText("Note body");
+    fireEvent.change(dockBody, { target: { value: "saved in the dock" } });
+    fireEvent.blur(dockBody);
+    await waitFor(() => expect(files.p1[0].body).toBe("saved in the dock"));
+
+    expect(tabBody).toHaveValue("half-typed");
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to another note when the selected one is deleted", async () => {
+    // The claim a differently-named test in NotesPanel.test.tsx used to make
+    // and could not keep: `useNotes` is mocked there and its list never
+    // changes, so the fallback was invisible. Here the list is real.
+    files.p1 = [note(), note({ id: "n2", title: "Gotchas", body: "beware" })];
+    const { tab } = renderBothSurfaces();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(tab().getByLabelText("Note body")).toHaveValue("one"));
+
+    fireEvent.click(tab().getByRole("button", { name: /delete note/i }));
+
+    await waitFor(() => expect(tab().getByLabelText("Note body")).toHaveValue("beware"));
+    expect(tab().queryByRole("button", { name: /deploy steps/i })).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(files.p1).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  it("shows a note created in one surface in the other", async () => {
+    const { tab, dock } = renderBothSurfaces();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(tab().getByLabelText("Note body")).toHaveValue("one"));
+
+    // The dock keeps New behind its overflow menu — its height belongs to the
+    // note being written, not to a button row.
+    fireEvent.click(dock().getByRole("button", { name: /note actions/i }));
+    fireEvent.click(dock().getByRole("menuitem", { name: /new note/i }));
+
+    await waitFor(() =>
+      expect(tab().getAllByRole("button", { name: /untitled note/i })).toHaveLength(1),
+    );
+    expect(files.p1).toHaveLength(2);
+  });
+});

app/src/components/notes/NotesPanel.test.tsx

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+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, waitFor } from "@testing-library/react";
+import NotesPanel from "./NotesPanel";
+import type { Note } from "../../lib/types";
+
+const saveNote = vi.fn(async () => true);
+const deleteNote = vi.fn(async () => true);
+const createNote = vi.fn();
+let notes: Note[] = [];
+let loading = false;
+
+vi.mock("../../hooks/useNotes", () => ({
+  useNotes: () => ({
+    notes,
+    loading,
+    saveState: { status: "idle", error: null },
+    createNote,
+    saveNote,
+    deleteNote,
+  }),
+}));
+
+vi.mock("./SendToAgentButton", () => ({
+  default: ({ body }: { body: string }) => (
+    <button type="button" data-testid="send">{`send:${body}`}</button>
+  ),
+}));
+
+const note = (over: Partial<Note> = {}): Note => ({
+  id: "n1",
+  title: "Deploy steps",
+  body: "one\ntwo",
+  pinned: false,
+  created_at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
+  updated_at: "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
+  ...over,
+});
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  vi.clearAllMocks();
+  notes = [];
+  loading = false;
+});
+
+describe("NotesPanel", () => {
+  it("invites the user to start when there are no notes", () => {
+    render(<NotesPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    expect(screen.getByText(/no notes yet/i)).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("lists notes by title and selects the first", () => {
+    notes = [note(), note({ id: "n2", title: "Gotchas" })];
+    render(<NotesPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /deploy steps/i })).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText("Note body")).toHaveValue("one\ntwo");
+  });
+
+  it("shows an untitled note under a placeholder rather than a blank row", () => {
+    notes = [note({ title: "" })];
+    render(<NotesPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /untitled note/i })).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("switches the editor when another note is selected", () => {
+    notes = [note(), note({ id: "n2", title: "Gotchas", body: "beware" })];
+    render(<NotesPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /gotchas/i }));
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText("Note body")).toHaveValue("beware");
+  });
+
+  it("saves on blur, not on every keystroke", async () => {
+    notes = [note()];
+    render(<NotesPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    const body = screen.getByLabelText("Note body");
+
+    fireEvent.change(body, { target: { value: "edited" } });
+    expect(saveNote).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+    fireEvent.blur(body);
+    await waitFor(() => expect(saveNote).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.objectContaining({ id: "n1", body: "edited" }),
+    ));
+  });
+
+  it("does not save on blur when nothing changed", async () => {
+    // Clicking through notes to read them must not write the file.
+    notes = [note()];
+    render(<NotesPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    fireEvent.blur(screen.getByLabelText("Note body"));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(saveNote).not.toHaveBeenCalled());
+  });
+
+  it("hands the live editor text to the send button, not the last saved copy", () => {
+    // Sending what is on screen is the whole contract: no transform on the way
+    // out except the newline substitution.
+    notes = [note()];
+    render(<NotesPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText("Note body"), { target: { value: "fresh" } });
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("send")).toHaveTextContent("send:fresh");
+  });
+
+  it("asks the hook to delete the selected note", async () => {
+    // Only the call: `useNotes` is mocked here and the mocked list never
+    // changes, so nothing in this file can exercise what the panel selects
+    // afterwards. The fallback is covered against the real hook in
+    // NotesPanel.shared.test.tsx.
+    notes = [note(), note({ id: "n2", title: "Gotchas" })];
+    render(<NotesPanel projectId="p1" />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /delete note/i }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(deleteNote).toHaveBeenCalledWith("n1"));
+  });
+});

app/src/components/notes/NotesPanel.tsx

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+import { useMemo, useState } from "react";
+import { useNotes } from "../../hooks/useNotes";
+import { useNoteDraft } from "./useNoteDraft";
+import NoteEditor from "./NoteEditor";
+import Button from "../ui/Button";
+import SaveIndicator from "../ui/SaveIndicator";
+
+interface Props {
+  projectId: string;
+}
+
+const UNTITLED = "Untitled note";
+
+/**
+ * The notes surface itself, shared by the Project Home tab and the dock so the
+ * two cannot drift into different behaviour.
+ *
+ * Master/detail: titles beside the editor when there is room, stacked above it
+ * when there is not. That is a **container** query, not a viewport one, because
+ * the two surfaces differ in width while sharing a viewport — the dock opens at
+ * 352px and the tab is the width of the main area. A `md:` breakpoint would
+ * read the window and give both the same answer, which is the wrong answer for
+ * one of them.
+ *
+ * The threshold is arithmetic, not taste: side by side needs the 192px list,
+ * plus an editor wide enough for its own action row (~280px), plus the divider.
+ * Below ~473px the editor is narrower than its buttons, so `@lg` (512px) is the
+ * first stop that clears it.
+ *
+ * The editor holds draft text locally and commits on blur, which is how every
+ * other editable field in the app behaves (`ClaudeInstructionsEditor`, the
+ * Config tab).
+ */
+export default function NotesPanel({ projectId }: Props) {
+  const { notes, loading, saveState, createNote, saveNote, deleteNote } =
+    useNotes(projectId);
+  const [selectedId, setSelectedId] = useState<string | null>(null);
+
+  const selected = useMemo(
+    () => notes.find((n) => n.id === selectedId) ?? notes[0] ?? null,
+    [notes, selectedId],
+  );
+
+  const { title, body, setTitle, setBody, commit } = useNoteDraft(
+    selected,
+    saveNote,
+  );
+
+  const onCreate = async () => {
+    const note = await createNote();
+    if (note) setSelectedId(note.id);
+  };
+
+  if (loading) {
+    return (
+      <p className="p-4 text-xs text-[var(--text-secondary)]">Loading notes…</p>
+    );
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <div className="@container flex flex-col h-full min-h-0">
+      <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2 px-3 py-2 border-b border-[var(--border-color)]">
+        <Button variant="primary" onClick={onCreate}>
+          New note
+        </Button>
+        <SaveIndicator state={saveState} />
+      </div>
+
+      {notes.length === 0 ? (
+        <div className="flex-1 flex items-center justify-center p-4">
+          <p className="text-[13px] text-[var(--text-secondary)] text-center">
+            No notes yet. Keep reminders here, and send any of them straight to a
+            running Claude session.
+          </p>
+        </div>
+      ) : (
+        <div className="flex-1 min-h-0 flex flex-col @lg:flex-row">
+          {/* Stacked: a capped strip of titles above the editor, so the note
+              being written keeps most of the height. Side by side: a full-height
+              column of the fixed width the editor's arithmetic assumes. */}
+          <ul className="flex-shrink-0 overflow-y-auto py-1 max-h-32 border-b @lg:max-h-none @lg:w-48 @lg:border-b-0 @lg:border-r border-[var(--border-color)]">
+            {notes.map((n) => (
+              <li key={n.id}>
+                <button
+                  type="button"
+                  onClick={() => setSelectedId(n.id)}
+                  className={`w-full text-left px-3 py-1.5 text-xs truncate transition-colors ${
+                    selected?.id === n.id
+                      ? "bg-[var(--bg-tertiary)] text-[var(--text-primary)]"
+                      : "text-[var(--text-secondary)] hover:text-[var(--text-primary)]"
+                  }`}
+                >
+                  {n.title.trim() || UNTITLED}
+                </button>
+              </li>
+            ))}
+          </ul>
+          <div className="flex-1 min-w-0">
+            {selected && (
+              <NoteEditor
+                projectId={projectId}
+                title={title}
+                body={body}
+                onTitleChange={setTitle}
+                onBodyChange={setBody}
+                onCommit={commit}
+                onDelete={() => void deleteNote(selected.id)}
+              />
+            )}
+          </div>
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+}

app/src/components/notes/SendToAgentButton.test.tsx

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+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, waitFor } from "@testing-library/react";
+import SendToAgentButton from "./SendToAgentButton";
+import type { Project, TerminalSession } from "../../lib/types";
+
+const sendInput = vi.fn(async () => {});
+let sessions: TerminalSession[] = [];
+
+vi.mock("../../hooks/useTerminal", () => ({
+  useTerminal: () => ({ sessions, sendInput }),
+}));
+
+const setActiveTabKey = vi.fn();
+const requestTerminalFocus = vi.fn();
+const pushToast = vi.fn();
+let projects: Project[] = [];
+
+vi.mock("../../store/appState", () => ({
+  useAppState: Object.assign(
+    (selector: (s: unknown) => unknown) =>
+      selector({ projects, setActiveTabKey, requestTerminalFocus, pushToast }),
+    {
+      getState: () => ({
+        projects,
+        setActiveTabKey,
+        requestTerminalFocus,
+        pushToast,
+      }),
+    },
+  ),
+  terminalTabKey: (id: string) => `term:${id}`,
+}));
+
+const session = (over: Partial<TerminalSession> = {}): TerminalSession => ({
+  id: "s1",
+  projectId: "p1",
+  projectName: "api",
+  sessionType: "claude",
+  sessionName: null,
+  ...over,
+});
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  vi.clearAllMocks();
+  sessions = [];
+  projects = [{ id: "p1", name: "api", renamed_session_names: {} } as unknown as Project];
+});
+
+describe("SendToAgentButton", () => {
+  // Unavailable, not `disabled`: the reason a note cannot be sent is the whole
+  // content of these states, and native `disabled` announces it to nobody.
+  it("says why it cannot send when the project has no running session", () => {
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="hello" />);
+    const button = screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i });
+    expect(button).toHaveAttribute("aria-disabled", "true");
+    expect(button).toHaveAccessibleDescription(
+      "No running Claude session for this project",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("says why it cannot send an empty note", () => {
+    sessions = [session()];
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="   " />);
+    expect(
+      screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i }),
+    ).toHaveAccessibleDescription("Nothing to send — this note is empty");
+  });
+
+  it("is unavailable when the only session belongs to another project", () => {
+    sessions = [session({ projectId: "other" })];
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="hello" />);
+    expect(
+      screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i }),
+    ).toHaveAttribute("aria-disabled", "true");
+  });
+
+  it("is unavailable when the only session is a bash tab", () => {
+    // `bash -l`'s readline has no binding for ESC+CR and just bells, so a
+    // shell is never a target.
+    sessions = [session({ sessionType: "bash" })];
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="hello" />);
+    expect(
+      screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i }),
+    ).toHaveAttribute("aria-disabled", "true");
+  });
+
+  // `aria-disabled` is advisory — it blocks nothing on its own. Without the
+  // guard this swap would turn a greyed-out button into a live one.
+  it("sends nothing when activated while unavailable", () => {
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="hello" />);
+    const button = screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i });
+
+    fireEvent.click(button);
+    fireEvent.keyDown(button, { key: "Enter" });
+    fireEvent.keyDown(button, { key: " " });
+
+    expect(sendInput).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("menu")).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("sends straight to the one session, with newlines converted and no terminator", async () => {
+    sessions = [session()];
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body={"one\ntwo"} />);
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i }));
+
+    await waitFor(() => expect(sendInput).toHaveBeenCalledWith("s1", "one\x1b\rtwo"));
+    expect(sendInput.mock.calls[0][1].endsWith("\r")).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("focuses the terminal it sent to, so the user watches it land", async () => {
+    sessions = [session()];
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="hi" />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(setActiveTabKey).toHaveBeenCalledWith("term:s1"));
+  });
+
+  it("offers a menu of display names when several sessions are open", async () => {
+    sessions = [session(), session({ id: "s2", sessionName: "review" })];
+    projects = [
+      { id: "p1", name: "api", renamed_session_names: { s1: "release" } } as unknown as Project,
+    ];
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="hi" />);
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i }));
+    expect(sendInput).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByRole("menuitem", { name: "api: release" }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(sendInput).toHaveBeenCalledWith("s1", "hi"));
+  });
+
+  it("reports a failed send rather than looking like it worked", async () => {
+    sessions = [session()];
+    sendInput.mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error("session closed"));
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="hi" />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(pushToast).toHaveBeenCalled());
+  });
+
+  it("does nothing for an empty note", () => {
+    sessions = [session()];
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="   " />);
+    const button = screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i });
+    expect(button).toHaveAttribute("aria-disabled", "true");
+
+    fireEvent.click(button);
+    fireEvent.keyDown(button, { key: "Enter" });
+    expect(sendInput).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("opens the session menu upward when it sits at the foot of the dock", async () => {
+    sessions = [session({ id: "s1" }), session({ id: "s2" })];
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="hello" dropUp />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i }));
+
+    // Anchored to the button's top edge, not below it: the dock clips its own
+    // overflow, so a downward menu at the bottom edge is invisible.
+    await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByRole("menu")).toHaveClass("bottom-full"));
+  });
+
+  // Switching to the tab is not enough. When the dock is open beside the
+  // terminal it sends to, that terminal is already the active tab, so
+  // `setActiveTabKey` changes nothing and no effect re-runs — leaving focus on
+  // this button, one click short of the Enter the user came to press.
+  it("hands focus to the terminal so the next keystroke is Enter", async () => {
+    sessions = [session()];
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="hello" />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i }));
+
+    await waitFor(() => expect(requestTerminalFocus).toHaveBeenCalledWith("s1"));
+  });
+
+  it("leaves focus alone when the send failed", async () => {
+    sessions = [session()];
+    sendInput.mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error("pty gone"));
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="hello" />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i }));
+
+    await waitFor(() => expect(pushToast).toHaveBeenCalled());
+    expect(requestTerminalFocus).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("focuses the session picked from the menu, not the first one", async () => {
+    sessions = [session(), session({ id: "s2", sessionName: "review" })];
+    render(<SendToAgentButton projectId="p1" body="hello" />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /send to agent/i }));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByRole("menuitem", { name: "review" }));
+
+    await waitFor(() => expect(requestTerminalFocus).toHaveBeenCalledWith("s2"));
+  });
+});

app/src/components/notes/SendToAgentButton.tsx

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+import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import { useShallow } from "zustand/react/shallow";
+import { useTerminal } from "../../hooks/useTerminal";
+import { useAppState, terminalTabKey } from "../../store/appState";
+import { toClaudePayload } from "../../lib/claudeInput";
+import { sessionDisplayName } from "../../lib/sessionName";
+import Button from "../ui/Button";
+
+interface Props {
+  projectId: string;
+  body: string;
+  /**
+   * Open the session menu above the button instead of below. The dock puts
+   * this at its foot, and the dock clips its own overflow, so a downward menu
+   * there is drawn outside the panel and never seen.
+   */
+  dropUp?: boolean;
+  /** Fill the row. The dock's send bar is the width of the dock. */
+  fullWidth?: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Puts a note into a running Claude session's prompt.
+ *
+ * Three behaviours by target count: none disables the button, one sends
+ * straight there, several ask which. It never guesses — the note goes to a
+ * session the user named, or to the only one there is.
+ *
+ * Only `claude` sessions are offered. A bash tab would receive ESC+CR as an
+ * unbound readline key and answer with a bell (see `lib/claudeInput.ts`).
+ */
+export default function SendToAgentButton({
+  projectId,
+  body,
+  dropUp = false,
+  fullWidth = false,
+}: Props) {
+  const { sessions, sendInput } = useTerminal();
+  const { projects, setActiveTabKey, requestTerminalFocus, pushToast } =
+    useAppState(
+      useShallow((s) => ({
+        projects: s.projects,
+        setActiveTabKey: s.setActiveTabKey,
+        requestTerminalFocus: s.requestTerminalFocus,
+        pushToast: s.pushToast,
+      })),
+    );
+  const [menuOpen, setMenuOpen] = useState(false);
+  const rootRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+
+  const targets = useMemo(
+    () =>
+      sessions.filter(
+        (s) => s.projectId === projectId && s.sessionType === "claude",
+      ),
+    [sessions, projectId],
+  );
+
+  const project = projects.find((p) => p.id === projectId);
+  const hasBody = body.trim().length > 0;
+  const unavailable = targets.length === 0 || !hasBody;
+
+  // Same dismissal contract as `ui/OverflowMenu` and the tab context menu.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!menuOpen) return;
+    const onDocClick = (e: MouseEvent) => {
+      if (!rootRef.current?.contains(e.target as Node)) setMenuOpen(false);
+    };
+    const onKey = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
+      if (e.key === "Escape") setMenuOpen(false);
+    };
+    document.addEventListener("mousedown", onDocClick);
+    document.addEventListener("keydown", onKey);
+    return () => {
+      document.removeEventListener("mousedown", onDocClick);
+      document.removeEventListener("keydown", onKey);
+    };
+  }, [menuOpen]);
+
+  const send = useCallback(
+    async (sessionId: string) => {
+      setMenuOpen(false);
+      try {
+        // No trailing CR: the note lands in the prompt and the user presses
+        // Enter. Newlines become ESC+CR so it arrives as one message rather
+        // than one prompt per line.
+        await sendInput(sessionId, toClaudePayload(body));
+        // A courtesy, not part of the send: if the tab cannot be focused the
+        // text still went.
+        setActiveTabKey(terminalTabKey(sessionId));
+        // Switching tabs is not the same as taking focus, and when the dock is
+        // open beside the terminal it just sent to, that tab is already the
+        // active one — so nothing above moves the caret off this button. The
+        // note is sitting in the prompt waiting for Enter; put the user there.
+        requestTerminalFocus(sessionId);
+      } catch (e) {
+        pushToast({
+          kind: "error",
+          message: "Could not send the note to the agent",
+          detail: String(e),
+        });
+      }
+    },
+    [body, sendInput, setActiveTabKey, requestTerminalFocus, pushToast],
+  );
+
+  const onClick = useCallback(() => {
+    // The target is resolved at click time and pinned for the whole send, the
+    // hazard `useSTT` guards against by capturing its session at record start:
+    // the list can change while the request is in flight.
+    if (targets.length === 1) {
+      void send(targets[0].id);
+      return;
+    }
+    setMenuOpen((open) => !open);
+  }, [targets, send]);
+
+  const title = !hasBody
+    ? "Nothing to send — this note is empty"
+    : targets.length === 0
+      ? "No running Claude session for this project"
+      : "Put this note into the agent's prompt (you press Enter)";
+
+  return (
+    <div
+      ref={rootRef}
+      className={`relative ${fullWidth ? "block w-full" : "inline-block"}`}
+    >
+      <Button
+        variant="secondary"
+        size={fullWidth ? "md" : "sm"}
+        className={fullWidth ? "w-full" : ""}
+        // Not `disabled`: every one of these reasons is information, and
+        // `disabled` takes the button — reason and all — out of the
+        // accessibility tree. `Button` guards the click for us.
+        unavailable={unavailable}
+        unavailableReason={title}
+        onClick={onClick}
+        aria-haspopup={targets.length > 1 ? "menu" : undefined}
+        aria-expanded={targets.length > 1 ? menuOpen : undefined}
+        title={title}
+      >
+        Send to agent
+      </Button>
+      {menuOpen && targets.length > 1 && (
+        <div
+          role="menu"
+          className={`absolute right-0 z-40 min-w-[12rem] py-1 bg-[var(--bg-overlay)] border border-[var(--border-color)] rounded-[var(--radius-panel)] text-xs ${
+            dropUp ? "bottom-full mb-1" : "mt-1"
+          }`}
+          style={{ boxShadow: "var(--shadow-overlay)" }}
+        >
+          {targets.map((s) => (
+            <button
+              key={s.id}
+              type="button"
+              role="menuitem"
+              onClick={() => void send(s.id)}
+              className="w-full text-left px-3 py-1.5 text-[var(--text-primary)] hover:bg-[var(--bg-tertiary)] transition-colors"
+            >
+              {sessionDisplayName(s, project)}
+            </button>
+          ))}
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+}

app/src/components/notes/useNoteDraft.ts

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+import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import type { Note } from "../../lib/types";
+
+/**
+ * Draft text for the note being edited, committed when a field loses focus.
+ *
+ * This is the half the dock and the tab must never disagree on, so it lives
+ * here rather than in either layout. The two surfaces differ in how they show
+ * notes; they must not differ in when a keystroke becomes a save.
+ *
+ * The draft is "untouched" exactly while it still matches what was last copied
+ * out of the store, which is what lets an edit made on the *other* surface
+ * reach this one's editor without ever discarding half-typed text.
+ */
+export function useNoteDraft(
+  selected: Note | null,
+  saveNote: (note: Note) => Promise<unknown>,
+) {
+  const [title, setTitle] = useState("");
+  const [body, setBody] = useState("");
+  const seeded = useRef<{ id: string | null; title: string; body: string }>({
+    id: null,
+    title: "",
+    body: "",
+  });
+
+  // Re-seed on a change of note, and on a change to the *stored* text of the
+  // note already open — the second case is the dock and the tab showing one
+  // project at once.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!selected) {
+      seeded.current = { id: null, title: "", body: "" };
+      setTitle("");
+      setBody("");
+      return;
+    }
+    const untouched =
+      title === seeded.current.title && body === seeded.current.body;
+    if (seeded.current.id !== selected.id || untouched) {
+      seeded.current = {
+        id: selected.id,
+        title: selected.title,
+        body: selected.body,
+      };
+      setTitle(selected.title);
+      setBody(selected.body);
+    }
+  }, [selected?.id, selected?.title, selected?.body]); // eslint-disable-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+
+  const commit = () => {
+    if (!selected) return;
+    // Reading is not editing: clicking through notes must not rewrite the file.
+    if (title === selected.title && body === selected.body) return;
+    // Mark the draft as matching what was just committed, so the store update
+    // this save produces reads as "no change" rather than as a stale re-seed.
+    seeded.current = { id: selected.id, title, body };
+    void saveNote({ ...selected, title, body });
+  };
+
+  return { title, body, setTitle, setBody, commit };
+}