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#221 made the solver toggle do a real switch. The extension watcher sees {status:"switching"}, re-preps the session config, and restarts the opencode server. The webview survives that; its SSE stream does not.

Nothing narrated the gap. The reconnect loop retries silently, so a deliberate tier change looks like a hang — the endless "thinking" wave.

ConnectionBanner used to cover this, but it was unmounted on 2026-08-07 (f696388, a03aa04) after #132's stuck pill, and has been dead code since.

What this is not

This does not reinstate ConnectionBanner. The new banner speaks only for a switch the app itself requested, so a transient blip can never strand it. Whether general connection drops deserve a warning again stays an open question — not one this PR answers by the back door.

It also is not the staged overlay from the stale #14. That polled GET /amicode/solver-mode, which does not exist (only POST shipped), and its hp stages assume an hp flip from a button — which #221 removed by design.

What it does

requested → restarting → ready, then it clears itself.

beginSolverSwitch() mirrors a request, never causes one hp still rides the validated credential, piccolo rides POST /amicode/solver-mode. A banner that could initiate a flip is the duplicate writer ADR 0001 forbids.
sawDrop is latched Once the server has gone down, coming back up is the switch completing — not the request still waiting to be picked up.
Two expiry windows, not one A request that has not dropped the server in 12s is not going to (no extension host, stale binary, a write that never landed) → abandon quietly. A restart in flight gets the full 90s ceiling inherited from #14's safety valve. One shared timeout would either strand the pill or cut a slow restart off mid-flight.

Phase logic is pure helpers in packages/ui/src/amicode/solver-switch.ts, matching solver-toggle.tsx's decision-helper split so the contract is testable without a DOM.

Design

Progress renders neutral; completion renders as the brand chip (--accent fill, near-black --accent-ink).

That is the design system's rule, not a preference: #fff676 is ~1.1:1 on white, so yellow may never be a foreground on light — if it needs to be yellow there, it has to be a filled chip. All geometry on tokens; one new named token (--elev-float) replaces what would have been a scattered rgba() literal.

role="status" + aria-live="polite"; the pulse rides the file's existing global prefers-reduced-motion reset.

Verification

  • bun turbo typecheck30/30 successful
  • oxlint on the changed files — 0 errors (repo's 1 error is pre-existing in session-ui/.../prompt-input/index.tsx, untouched here)
  • packages/ui435 pass / 0 fail, including 9 new
  • packages/app unit — 914 pass / 1 fail; the failure is i18n parity, confirmed identical on a clean stash of this branch

Not smoke-tested against a live switch yet — the phase reducer is covered by unit tests, but the drop/reconnect timing has only been reasoned through, not watched.

Note for whoever pulls this

Typecheck needs Node ≥18.19 (getExePath uses import.meta.resolve). On Node 18.16 every tsgo task dies with a misleading "Unable to resolve @typescript/native-preview-darwin-arm64" that looks like a missing package. Separately, this clone's top-level symlink for that package pointed at 20260707.2 while bun.lock pins 20251207.1; I repointed it.

Refs #78.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a visible status banner for solver-mode changes.
    • Displays progress as the app disconnects, reconnects, and becomes ready.
    • Supports switching between HP and Piccolo modes with clearer feedback.
    • Automatically clears completed or stalled switch notifications.
    • Respects reduced-motion accessibility preferences.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Solver transitions now begin before the requested mode is selected, improving status accuracy.

… real

#221 made the solver toggle do a real switch: the extension watcher sees
{status:"switching"}, re-preps the session config, and restarts the opencode
server. The webview survives that; its SSE stream does not. Nothing narrated
the gap, so a deliberate tier change looked like a hang — the reconnect loop
retries silently, which reads as an endless "thinking" wave.

The old ConnectionBanner used to cover this, but it was unmounted on 2026-08-07
(f696388, a03aa04) after opencode#132's stuck pill, and the component has been
dead code since. This does NOT reinstate it: the new banner speaks only for a
switch the app itself requested, so a transient blip can never strand it, and
whether general drops deserve a warning again stays an open question rather
than one this change answers by the back door.

- solver-switch.ts: the phase contract as pure helpers (requested → restarting
  → ready), matching solver-toggle.tsx's decision-helper split so it is
  testable without a DOM. sawDrop is latched — once the server has gone down,
  coming back up is the switch completing, not the request still waiting to be
  picked up.
- Two expiry windows, not one. A request that has not taken the server down
  inside 12s is not going to (no extension host, stale binary, a write that
  never landed) and is abandoned quietly; a restart in flight gets the full 90s
  ceiling inherited from the stale #14 wizard's safety valve. Collapsing them
  into a single timeout would either strand the pill or cut a slow restart off
  mid-flight.
- beginSolverSwitch() only MIRRORS a request, it never causes one. hp still
  rides the validated credential and piccolo rides POST /amicode/solver-mode —
  a banner that could initiate a flip would be the duplicate writer ADR 0001
  forbids.

Progress renders neutral and completion renders as the brand chip (--accent
fill, near-black --accent-ink). That is the design system's rule, not a
preference: #fff676 is ~1.1:1 on white, so yellow may never be a foreground on
light — if it needs to be yellow there, it has to be a filled chip.

Not included: the staged multi-step overlay from the stale #14. It polled
GET /amicode/solver-mode, which does not exist (only POST shipped), and its hp
stages assume an hp flip from a button — which #221 removed by design.

Closes #78 follow-up.
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Walkthrough

The app now tracks solver-mode changes through shared phase helpers and displays a connection-aware status banner. HP and Piccolo selection paths announce transitions before sending existing mode requests.

Changes

Solver switch status

Layer / File(s) Summary
Phase contract and validation
packages/ui/src/amicode/solver-switch.ts, packages/ui/src/amicode/solver-switch.test.ts, packages/ui/src/components/amicode-solver-switch.tsx
Defines solver-switch phases, expiration thresholds, mode names, and status labels. Tests cover transitions, timeouts, and labels.
Banner lifecycle and rendering
packages/app/src/components/solver-switch-banner.tsx
Tracks requested switches and server reconnection, expires stalled states, delays completion cleanup, and renders accessible status text.
Request wiring and layout presentation
packages/app/src/components/amicode-defaults-capsule.tsx, packages/app/src/components/status-popover-body.tsx, packages/app/src/pages/layout-new.tsx, packages/app/src/design-polish.css
Announces HP and Piccolo switches, mounts the banner in NewLayout, and adds banner styling, animation, and reduced-motion support.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 139ef

Consecutive solver-switch requests may cause the banner to show completion too early or disappear before the restart finishes, making a real switch appear complete when it is not. The changed CSS also has a lint error, so the PR is not merge-ready until these bounded issues are addressed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StatusPopoverBody
  participant beginSolverSwitch
  participant SolverSwitchBanner
  participant ServerSDK
  StatusPopoverBody->>beginSolverSwitch: announce target mode
  beginSolverSwitch->>SolverSwitchBanner: update shared switch request
  SolverSwitchBanner->>ServerSDK: observe connection state
  ServerSDK-->>SolverSwitchBanner: report disconnect and reconnect
  SolverSwitchBanner-->>StatusPopoverBody: render phase-specific status
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the solver switch banner and its restart-related purpose.
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In `@packages/app/src/components/solver-switch-banner.tsx`:
- Around line 33-36: Update beginSolverSwitch to start a new request generation
and reset sawDrop, elapsed-time tracking, and the completion-timeout state for
every call, including consecutive requests with the same target. Ensure
solverSwitchPhase and the ready-timeout effect use the current generation so
prior-request state or timers cannot complete the new switch early, and add a
lifecycle test covering consecutive requests.

In `@packages/app/src/design-polish.css`:
- Line 171: Update the background declaration in the affected CSS rule to use
the lowercase currentcolor keyword, satisfying the configured value-keyword-case
rule without changing other styling.
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  • packages/app/src/components/amicode-defaults-capsule.tsx
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Comment on lines +33 to +36
export function beginSolverSwitch(mode: SolverMode) {
setTarget(mode)
setStartedAt(Date.now())
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reset lifecycle state for each solver-switch request.

beginSolverSwitch only updates target and startedAt. A second request can inherit sawDrop === true from a completed request.

If the target changes while connected, solverSwitchPhase returns "ready" immediately. If the target is unchanged, the existing ready timeout remains active because no effect tracks startedAt; it can clear the new request before the server drops.

Associate sawDrop, elapsed time, and the completion timeout with a request generation. Reset them for every beginSolverSwitch call. Add a lifecycle test for consecutive requests.

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In `@packages/app/src/components/solver-switch-banner.tsx` around lines 33 - 36,
Update beginSolverSwitch to start a new request generation and reset sawDrop,
elapsed-time tracking, and the completion-timeout state for every call,
including consecutive requests with the same target. Ensure solverSwitchPhase
and the ready-timeout effect use the current generation so prior-request state
or timers cannot complete the new switch early, and add a lifecycle test
covering consecutive requests.

width: 6px;
height: 6px;
border-radius: var(--radius-full);
background: currentColor;

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the Stylelint keyword case.

Line 171 uses currentColor. The configured value-keyword-case rule requires currentcolor. Change the value so changed-file lint passes.

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[error] 171-171: Expected "currentColor" to be "currentcolor" (value-keyword-case)

(value-keyword-case)

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In `@packages/app/src/design-polish.css` at line 171, Update the background
declaration in the affected CSS rule to use the lowercase currentcolor keyword,
satisfying the configured value-keyword-case rule without changing other
styling.

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Smoke-tested in a browser now, which supersedes the "not smoke-tested" caveat above.

All four behaviours verified live:

t= 0s  requested   "Switching to Piccolo…"
t= 1s  restarting  "Restarting session server…"
t= 7s  server back up
t=10s  ready       "Piccolo ready"   (brand chip)
t=13s  cleared     (auto-clear after the 3s hold)

This needs #227 to land first. On its own, this branch reaches restarting and stops there: the app never reconnects after the server restarts, so connected never comes back and ready is unreachable. That turned out to be a real pre-existing bug in the SSE reconnect loop — the v1 stream's iterator never ends on failure, so the retry never runs — and #227 fixes it. Found precisely because this banner surfaced it.

Also worth noting for review: it is very likely the same bug that made ConnectionBanner look broken and got it unmounted in f696388, which is the decision this PR deliberately does not reverse.

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Folded into #228 — same two commits, one PR. Closing this to keep review in one place.

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