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Desktop owns browser chat, tools, limits, chat history and the vault. The Pro browser extension is a thin client: it reads pages, clicks, fills and shows controls. This PR has the Desktop core side. It also contains #184, merged in, so there is one OGAD PR for this work.

Companion PRs, all on feat/browser-thin-client:

• desktop-pro #95
• browser-extension #10
• shared #47 (@offgrid/models: conversation summaries, tool-error recovery, repeat-call stop). It must be on shared/main before this PR's CI can pass. See CI status.

What is in it

Browser bridge:

• Bounded chat.start / chat.read / chat.stop / chat.control / chat.guide. Desktop selects tools and sets request budgets; the browser never sends a tool catalog.
• The page arrives as page: { title, url, text } (text up to 100,000 characters). Desktop builds the fenced page block and its budget. Page tags inside page text are escaped.
• One origin rule for tools.list, tools.run and browser chat. A paired browser never gets computer_use. Plain browser chat gets only read tools; page-changing tools and write connectors need Agent mode.
• Settings, models, voices, transcription and speech over the sealed bridge. The voice section now carries the playback speed, bounded by the same rule as the Voice tab.
• An action the page did not confirm is "uncertain". Desktop never sends it again (also when a new snapshot gives the control a new ref), checks the page first, and waits for the user after two in a row. The text that older extensions send maps to the same path.
• When a web task opens a new tab (Apply Now), the task follows it.

Desktop chat:

• Enter queues, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter sends now. Send and delete a single queued message. Queued messages survive a restart, saved as file references.
• Resend, edit and regenerate keep earlier answers as versions; the selected version is what sync, memory, search and the browser read.
• A chat that fills its context window is summarized by one model call, and the summary is sent in place of the earlier turns on later sends.
• Standing rules close every system prompt. A conversation keeps its offered tools from turn to turn, so the prompt cache is reused.
• Chat logic lives in tested modules in src/renderer/src/lib.

Models:

• Choose where model files live. Move copies only Off Grid's own files, verifies them and deletes the old copies after the next start. Leave keeps the files and scans the old folder. Image, voice and transcription models are read from every model folder.
• Kev 1.0 checkpoint for Kev 4B. Gemma 4 E4B and 12B MTP companions. "Use fastest settings", and fresh installs start on them. A quiet model load gets ten minutes before the next engine is tried.

Web Use:

• Step history and guidance memory, a nudge after steps without progress, planning from the page already open, and a debugger fallback session that moves to in-page tools while another extension blocks Chrome's debugger.

Merge of #184

#182 started on 2026-10-11 as a port of #184's work, and both branches then changed the same files. The merge (69ef729) resolved 37 files:

• Where both changed a file, Use Desktop browser budgets and add queued chat with saved reply versions #182's reviewed version is kept and Kev 1.0, added model folders, slow-drive startup and Web Use follow-ups #184's later changes are carried onto it.
• Model storage keeps Use Desktop browser budgets and add queued chat with saved reply versions #182's design. Kev 1.0, added model folders, slow-drive startup and Web Use follow-ups #184's storage checks before embeddings and speech load are not kept: that pattern broke memory search when the folder was missing.
• Kev 1.0, added model folders, slow-drive startup and Web Use follow-ups #184's sticky tool set moved into chat-tool-selection; the compaction summary moved into src/shared/chat-history; send/delete for a queued message uses Use Desktop browser budgets and add queued chat with saved reply versions #182's queue store.
• Kev 1.0, added model folders, slow-drive startup and Web Use follow-ups #184's debugger fallback session replaces Use Desktop browser budgets and add queued chat with saved reply versions #182's whole-task retry after a debugger drop.
• A line-by-line check found no Kev 1.0, added model folders, slow-drive startup and Web Use follow-ups #184 behavior missing. The lines Kev 1.0, added model folders, slow-drive startup and Web Use follow-ups #184 added that are not in the merge are its older version of logic Use Desktop browser budgets and add queued chat with saved reply versions #182 rewrote, or the same code formatted by Prettier.

Validation

Run locally under Electron's Node (the SQLite driver is built for Electron) on the final head:

• Core and Pro typecheck and lint: clean.
• Unit suite: 7,297 pass. The only failure, macos-artifact-integrity (17 cases), fails under Electron on every head on this Mac and passes under plain Node.
• DB suite (real SQLite): 586 pass. Failing files: memory-chat-tts.ui, meeting-persistence, fresh-setup-first-use and image-runtime-reliability, which also fail on the untouched base on this Mac and pass in CI; and tools-vision, which times out on a cold start and passes when run again (it also failed before the merge).
• Native Electron suites: extension-chat, extension-bridge, chat-next-action, task-stop, web-use-debugger and web-use-failure pass. web-use-failure now drives the real task host with a synthetic model server and browser link to check the uncertain-action rules.
• New tests use no mocks: the real host with contract-faithful fakes only for the model provider and the browser.

Not run for this head: the Electron journeys (chat-queue-versions, app093-image-generation-persistence). CI runs them.

CI status

At 3d2077b, Typecheck (core and Pro) and both Native recording jobs fail because CI checks out shared at main, which does not yet have shared #47's exports. Merging shared #47 fixes this; the failed jobs then need a rerun. CodeQL also reports a failure on this head.

Evidence

Synthetic demo data from the Electron e2e. Each image was checked against its caption.

Vault with every item kind	Login with folder, favorite, two websites and TOTP

The feature is unreleased.

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src/main/bootstrap/hookRegistry.ts (1)

106-106: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Give extensionChatRequest its own doc comment.

The new key sits between the vault hook's JSDoc block and extensionVaultRequest. Editors will now show the vault description on extensionChatRequest. The extensionVaultRequest key loses its description. Add a separate doc comment for the chat hook above its key, and keep the vault comment directly above extensionVaultRequest.

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Review comment at @src/main/bootstrap/hookRegistry.ts at line 106:
In the hook registry, add a separate JSDoc comment directly above
`extensionChatRequest` so it does not inherit the vault hook’s description, and
keep the vault JSDoc directly above `extensionVaultRequest`.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/renderer/src/components/MemoryChat/index.tsx:
- Line 3083: Update the message truncation in sendMessage so it removes only
messages after the prior answer, preserving that answer until preparation
succeeds. Keep the prior answer hidden once streaming begins through the
existing replacementMessageId handling in mergeDurableAndStreaming.
- Around line 1506-1508: Add terminal cleanup for reattached image jobs and
restored RAG streams that clears the cancellation flag and drains the queued
sends after the active operation settles. Keep this cleanup separate from the
live sendMessage path so it cannot run before persistence and finally cleanup
complete; preserve the existing stopGeneration behavior for live sends.

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Review comments at @src/main/bootstrap/hookRegistry.ts:
- Line 106: In the hook registry, add a separate JSDoc comment directly above
`extensionChatRequest` so it does not inherit the vault hook’s description, and
keep the vault JSDoc directly above `extensionVaultRequest`.

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• e2e/fixtures/chat-queue-versions-llama-server.mjs
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• pro
• src/main/bootstrap/hookRegistry.ts
• src/main/extension-bridge/__tests__/bridge-service.test.ts
• src/main/extension-bridge/bridge-chat-handlers.ts
• src/main/extension-bridge/bridge-chat.ts
• src/main/extension-bridge/bridge-electron.ts
• src/main/extension-bridge/bridge-protocol.ts
• src/main/extension-bridge/bridge-service.ts
• src/main/tools.ts
• src/main/tools/__tests__/tool-ranking.test.ts
• src/main/tools/tool-budget.ts
• src/renderer/src/components/ChatDraftInput.tsx
• src/renderer/src/components/MemoryChat/components/AssistantMessageActions.tsx
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• src/renderer/src/components/MemoryChat/index.tsx
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• src/renderer/src/components/__tests__/ChatDraftInput.keyboard.test.tsx
• src/renderer/src/components/__tests__/MemoryChat.chat-lifecycle.test.tsx
• src/renderer/src/components/__tests__/MemoryChat.voice-turn-modes.integration.test.tsx
• src/renderer/src/components/__tests__/harness/chat-boundary.tsx
• src/renderer/src/lib/__tests__/chat-queue.test.ts
• src/renderer/src/lib/__tests__/response-versions.test.ts
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e2e/app093-image-generation-persistence.spec.ts (1)

158-167: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Filter the runtime log before you parse each line.

Lines 160-166 do not filter out empty lines. The other two events() helpers in this file do filter them. The log is written only by appends, so a blank line here is unlikely. Add .filter(Boolean) for consistency, or reuse a shared helper.

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158 - 167:
Update the `progressEvents` log-processing chain to filter out empty lines
before parsing them with `JSON.parse`, matching the existing `events()` helpers
in this file.

e2e/chat-queue-versions.spec.ts (1)

399-402: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use ControlOrMeta+Enter instead of choosing the modifier by platform.

Playwright maps ControlOrMeta to Meta on macOS and to Control on other platforms. The manual process.platform check repeats that mapping. The same pattern probably appears in the earlier Send Now test in this file.

Proposed change

       if (sendNow)
-        await submit(
-          'Send this ahead of the queue.',
-          process.platform === 'darwin' ? 'Meta+Enter' : 'Control+Enter'
-        )
+        await submit('Send this ahead of the queue.', 'ControlOrMeta+Enter')

Based on learnings: "In Playwright tests, use the ControlOrMeta modifier key for keyboard shortcuts ... instead of manually detecting the platform and choosing Control vs Meta/Command."

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Review comment at @e2e/chat-queue-versions.spec.ts around lines 399 - 402:
Update the `submit` call in the Send Now test to use Playwright’s
`ControlOrMeta+Enter` shortcut instead of selecting `Meta+Enter` or
`Control+Enter` based on `process.platform`. Apply the same change to the
earlier Send Now test if it uses the same platform check.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @e2e/app093-image-generation-persistence.spec.ts:
- Around line 158-167: Update the `progressEvents` log-processing chain to
filter out empty lines before parsing them with `JSON.parse`, matching the
existing `events()` helpers in this file.

Review comments at @e2e/chat-queue-versions.spec.ts:
- Around line 399-402: Update the `submit` call in the Send Now test to use
Playwright’s `ControlOrMeta+Enter` shortcut instead of selecting `Meta+Enter` or
`Control+Enter` based on `process.platform`. Apply the same change to the
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