* feat(MCP): follow agent activity in canvas
* feat(collab): show MCP, ACP, and harness sessions as agents
MCP clients worked on the document unseen: only the built-in chat had a
presence, and following agent activity meant a separate setting that
moved the viewport after every MCP tool. Each MCP session now shows as
an agent with a callsign in its owner's color, like the chat: the MCP
server forwards the session and the client's name with each tool call,
the app's own ACP and Pi harness chats mark their sessions with a
header, and the agent points at the layers each call reads or changes
on their page. It rests after a quiet spell, leaves when its session
ends or the server disconnects, and collaborators see it through
awareness. Following it works like following anyone else, from the
avatars, so the default-on follow setting and its viewport fitting go.
Co-authored-by: Victor Wads <victor@wads.dev>
* feat(ai): move the chat's agent through JSX as it streams
While the built-in chat streamed a render call, its preview grew on the
canvas but the agent stood still until the tool finished. The preview
now reports, after each update, the element that appeared last and the
bounds of what the JSX builds; the agent's cursor follows that element
and its outline traces the preview, for collaborators too, until the
tool runs and the agent outlines the real layers. Peers' outlines are
validated and capped like their selections.
Co-authored-by: Victor Wads <victor@wads.dev>
* feat(collab): glide cursors and the followed view instead of jumping
People's and agents' cursors jumped to each new point, which with
throttled awareness and an agent streaming JSX made them stutter, and
following re-centered the view in one jump on every update. Cursors now
ease to each new point from wherever they are drawn, and following pans
and zooms the view there the same way, stopping in place when you take
over. With animations off or reduced motion, both move at once. Each
cursor carries an id so it keeps its glide between updates.
Co-authored-by: Victor Wads <victor@wads.dev>
* test(collab): cover MCP agents and the streaming agent in the browser
Test runs send MCP requests through the bridge's own command handler, so
a browser test can show an MCP session as an agent to the editor and to
a collaborator without a separate server. The streaming JSX test checks
that the chat's agent cursor and outline follow the newest element.
Co-authored-by: Victor Wads <victor@wads.dev>
* docs: describe agent sessions, streaming cursors, and gliding follow
Co-authored-by: Victor Wads <victor@wads.dev>
* fix(ai): keep the streaming agent's name off the text it writes
The chat's agent sat at the newest streamed element's top-left corner,
so its name label covered the text being written. It now sits at the
element's trailing corner, where content grows.
Co-authored-by: Victor Wads <victor@wads.dev>
* fix(collab): end only a closed connection's own MCP sessions
When the app's connection to the MCP server closed, every MCP session's
agent left, including sessions that never came over that connection,
such as a second editor's. The bridge now remembers the sessions each
connection carried and ends only those.
Co-authored-by: Victor Wads <victor@wads.dev>
* feat(ai): follow your agents automatically while they work
Agents spun up from the chat or an MCP client worked out of sight and
then went idle, so people had to find what changed, and the agent skill
told agents to move the user's view and selection after every edit. A
Follow agents toggle in the AI panel's header, on by default, now has
the view follow our agents from the start of each run: whichever starts
first, then the next one at work once the followed agent rests. Leaving
the page, moving the view, Escape, or Stop following leaves that agent
alone until it rests; people are never followed this way. The skill no
longer asks agents to select and zoom to their work.
Co-authored-by: Victor Wads <victor@wads.dev>
* fix(collab): keep an MCP agent when a restarted bridge carries its session
Restarting MCP disconnects the old bridge and opens a new one at once,
but the browser reports the old socket's close only after its close
handshake. A tool call that reached the new connection in between was
undone by that close, which ended the session and removed its agent.
Sessions now record every connection their calls came over, across
bridges, and end only when the last of them closes.
The docs no longer say that following an agent keeps it from editing
out of sight: following moves your view, and the stale variables and
follow bullets the changelog's union merge brought back are removed.
Co-authored-by: Victor Wads <victor@wads.dev>
* test(collab): record what the bridge sends instead of an empty fake method
Co-authored-by: Victor Wads <victor@wads.dev>
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Co-authored-by: Danila Poyarkov <dev@dannote.net>
* fix: stop ancestor walks from hanging on a parent cycle
A collaborator's concurrent reparent can leave two layers as each other's
parent. isDescendant, the design check's pageOf, and component sync walked
parentId without a bound, so applying such a change froze the editor.
Add SceneGraph.closest(), a bounded nearest-ancestor lookup, and use it for
these walks so bad data ends the walk instead of the tab.
* fix(collab): sync layer moves without parent cycles or stale child lists
Remote changes assigned each layer's synced parentId and childIds as plain
properties. Two peers moving layers into each other made them each other's
parent, a moved layer stayed listed under its old parent, reorders never
synced, and concurrent additions ended up in different orders or missing
from the parent's list.
Apply the tree after a change's properties: move layers to their synced
parents, skip a move that would make a layer its own ancestor and write the
layer's current parent and position back so every peer settles on it, and
derive each touched parent's childIds from its synced order followed by
unlisted children by id. Locally, a parent's child list syncs once after
each edit that adds, removes, moves, or reorders its children.
Fixes#888Fixes#889
* refactor(scene-graph)!: move sibling order keys to scene-graph
Collaboration needs the same fractional keys as .fig export to order
siblings, and the app must not depend on @open-pencil/fig for them. Move
fractionalPosition, orderKeyBetween, and siblingOrderKeys to
@open-pencil/scene-graph/order-keys.
orderKeyBetween now always returns a key: when no printable key fits it
returns one above lo, which hasOrderKeyBetween detects, so callers no
longer branch on null. It takes an optional suffix, and siblingOrderKeys
can request one per key, so two peers inserting at one spot get distinct
keys. .fig export keeps its keys.
* fix(scene-graph): report instance child reorders as graph events
Instance sync sorted an instance's children in place, so nothing that
listens to graph events saw the new order; in a shared room the order
never reached other peers. Move each child that changes position with
insertChildAt, which reports the reorder.
* feat(collab): resolve the layer tree from each layer's parent history
Add a pure LayerTree for the shared document: each layer records every
parent it was moved under with a move counter and an order key. A layer
sits under its newest parent, ties broken by parent id; when concurrent
moves close a loop, the latest move in the loop falls back to the
layer's next entry until none is left, and a layer no parent can take
goes to its page (Evan Wallace's mutable tree hierarchy CRDT).
The result depends only on the entries, and resolution revisits only
changed, orphaned, and displaced layers. Seeded random runs check that
peers converge and that the incremental result matches a full one.
* fix(collab): sync layer moves as parent history and order keys
Each layer's shared map now records every parent it was moved under with
a move counter from a document-wide Lamport clock, and its order key
among siblings, instead of parentId and childIds. Every peer derives
parentId and childIds from these with LayerTree, so concurrent moves,
reorders, and additions merge, a loop from concurrent moves undoes its
latest move, and a layer whose new parent was deleted meanwhile returns
to its previous one.
A local edit's graph events are written once after the edit, in one
transaction. It records a parent entry for each layer whose parent
changed, a new entry for displaced layers on the touched paths so a move cannot pull
them back, and keys between the moved layers' neighbours with a random
suffix, so concurrent inserts at one spot get distinct keys. Remote
changes find their layers through each event's path, resolve only what
they touch, and move and sort layers through insertChildAt.
This replaces the childIds merge and the write-back of rejected moves:
a rejected move now resolves the same way on every peer from the shared
history, so nothing needs to be written back.
Fixes#888Fixes#889
* feat(collab)!: convert saved rooms and keep mismatched builds apart
A room saved by an earlier build records parentId and childIds. When a
change brings in such layers, from this browser's storage or a peer,
convert them in one transaction: each layer's synced parent becomes its
only entry with counter 0, its position in the parent's synced childIds
becomes an order key, and the old fields go. The result depends only on
the document, so two peers converting at once write the same values,
and converting again writes nothing. The document's meta map records
treeFormat 2.
Builds that record the tree differently would corrupt each other's
rooms, so the collaboration namespace becomes openpencil/2 for Trystero
and the test relay alike, and each peer publishes its treeFormat in
awareness for future version messages.
* fix(collab): send a layer whose parents were all deleted back to its own page
Each layer's shared map records the page it was last placed on, and the
layers under a frame moved to another page are re-recorded. A layer whose
parent chain was deleted goes back to that page, falling back to the first
page only when the recorded one is gone. Saved rooms record pages when
they are converted.
* fix(collab): keep one root per room when peers edit their own documents
Joining a room keeps the joiner's earlier document in its graph, and an
undo or an edit made before the room arrived could still reach it. That
edit shared the joiner's root, every peer adopted it, and the room's
pages disappeared.
The room now records its root as claims in meta, each with the time it
was made, and every peer follows the earliest. Sharing claims the room,
and so does the first edit in a room nobody has shared, which now shares
the whole document as Share does. A peer shares only layers under the
room's root. Converted rooms claim the root with the most children.
Move counters must also be safe integers, so an oversized counter from
another peer cannot stop the move clock from advancing.
* fix(collab): rank root claims by how they were made, not by clocks
Root claims carried the claiming peer's wall-clock time, so a guest whose
clock ran behind the sharer's could still win the room with an edit made
before the room reached them. A claim now records whether it came from
Share or a converted room, or from the first edit in an unshared room;
a shared root outranks an edited one, and the lower id breaks a tie.
A claim also replaces an invalid value already stored for its root.
* fix(collab): keep every root claim through concurrent writes
A root claim was one key per root holding its kind, so two peers claiming
the same root by Share and by an edit at once kept only one of the two
values, and the shared claim could be lost. Each kind of claim on a root
is now its own key. Converting a saved room also claims its root unless
a shared claim exists, so a guest's earlier edited claim no longer keeps
the converted room from outranking it.
* fix(collab): mint layer IDs under a session of each editor window
Every editor window started its IDs at 0:1 from the same counter, so two
people adding layers to a shared room at once could mint the same IDs,
and one person's layers replaced the other's in the room. A joiner's
starting page also took the sharer's page ID and stayed in their list.
SceneGraph's default IDs now carry a session set with setIdSession, as
in Figma's sessionID:localID GUIDs. The editor picks a random 32-bit
session at startup, as Yjs does for each document's clientID; headless
tools keep session 0, so the CLI and MCP server give a file's layers the
same IDs on every run.
* fix(collab): let only Share set a room's root
A guest's first edit in a room whose contents had not arrived claimed
the room and wrote the guest's whole open document into it, images
included, and adopting the sharer's root later only hid it. Every room
starts with someone sharing a document, so a guest has nothing to claim:
only Share, or converting a saved room, now sets the room's root, as a
single value in meta, and a peer writes nothing until the root is known.
Unbinding a room also writes an edit still waiting to be sent, so a move
or deletion made just before leaving reaches the room.
* feat(collab)!: open each room in a tab of its own
Joining a room bound it to whatever tab was active, so a pasted link
could turn a saved file into the room's document, and a share link first
showed an editable blank document. A room is now a document: joining
always opens it in a new tab, or switches to the tab already showing it,
and only Share puts an existing tab's document into a room.
Every room tab owns its session (src/app/collab/rooms.ts and
session.ts), so several rooms can be live at once and keep syncing in
the background. The collaboration panel, presence, following, and the
/share/<id> address follow the active tab, and a canvas publishes its
cursor and selection only to its own tab's room.
A room tab derives its state: joining while its saved copy loads, then
waiting, with an explanation, while nobody who has the file is online;
live with others, or alone on this device's copy. Until the document
arrives the room's screen replaces the editor. Reloading a share link
rejoins it; leaving a room you joined keeps its file as a local unsaved
copy. "Connected" now means another peer answered. Pasted links and IDs
are normalised and validated, and invalid ones say so.
People join right away under a generated name such as "Teal Fox", with
a hint to set one; the one app-wide name is set in the share panel or
in Settings. On a phone, Share copies the room's link instead of making
a new room, and the presence popover shows the room's state.
* feat(desktop): open rooms from openpencil://join links and Home
The desktop app could not receive a share link: links point at the web
app, and openpencil:// only opened files. openpencil://join?room=<id>
now opens the room in a tab of its own. The native parser refuses
anything but a room ID, queues rooms for the frontend through
take_pending_rooms, and a second launch on Windows and Linux forwards
its link through the single-instance handler.
In a browser on a computer, the room's screen and the share panel offer
Open in desktop app, a link the browser hands to the app on click; it
never opens the app by itself. Home gains Join room…, which takes a
pasted room link or ID and opens the room in a new tab.
* feat(collab): set your name on the room screen
The room screen told someone joining under a generated name to set
their name but offered nowhere to do it before the file arrived. It now
has the same name field as the room panel.
* feat(collab): offer the desktop download beside Open in desktop app
A browser on a computer offers a room's openpencil://join link, which
does nothing where the app is not installed. The room screen and panel
now link to the latest release beside it.
* docs: describe joining rooms in the German, Polish, and Russian guides
Bring the translated collaboration pages up to the English one: Share as
the only way into a room, joining in a tab of its own, the waiting
screen, leaving with a local copy, and how layer moves merge. The
English page now names the panel's Leave room button.
* fix(collab): lay out the room screens like the app's empty states
The joining and waiting screens were a left-aligned card with a stray
spinner, a primary Copy link button beside an outline button and a
bare link, and a name field on a screen that lasts seconds. They now use
AppPlaceholder, centred over the tab: a heading, the explanation, the
two hints, secondary Copy link and Leave, a 'You'll appear as' line
whose Change opens a small rename popover, and the desktop handoff on
one muted line. The room panel lines its status dot up with wrapped
text, no longer selects the room link when it opens, and puts the
desktop links and Leave room on one footer line.
* fix(collab): show what a room tab is doing instead of a timed guess
A joined tab said nobody with the file was online five seconds after it
opened, whether or not it had reached the signaling service or met the
people already in the room. Its state now follows what the tab can
observe: connecting until the service answers, looking for people for as
long as that transport takes to introduce everyone, getting the file
from someone who says they have it, waiting when nobody who has it
showed up (naming other guests waiting too), and a can't-connect screen
when the service cannot be reached. Each peer says in its presence
whether it has the room's file.
* fix(collab): list other waiting guests with the explanation
The line naming other guests who are waiting too is information, not an
action, so it follows the hints above the buttons. Peers' hasFile flag
is optional, as older builds do not send it.
* fix(collab): send a canvas's cursor and selection to its tab's room again
Canvases read the editor through a proxy that follows the active tab,
and the room lookup by store never matched it, so pointer moves and
selections stopped reaching the room: collaborators lost each other's
cursors, selections, and page markers. The canvas now looks up its
room by its tab's own store, and its selection listener ends when the
canvas unmounts instead of piling up across tab switches.
* feat(collab): one avatar stack for the toolbar, the mobile pill, and pages
The toolbar, the page list, and the mobile HUD each drew the people in a
room their own way, and the mobile pill read 'Online: 3' in hard-coded
English beside a status dot too small to render. AvatarStack now draws
people overlapping with their agent counts and '+N', and every place
uses it: the toolbar wraps each avatar in its menu or hover card, the
mobile pill shows the room's state dot and the stack with a translated
name, and hovering a page with people on it opens a card with the stack
and who is there, with their agents, to follow. The mobile list is the
shared presence list, so it is translated and can follow agents too.
* docs: note the page hover card and mobile avatars in the changelog
* fix(collab): stop listening to a room once its tab leaves it
A session left its Yjs observers and its awareness listener attached
after dispose, relying on destroy() and the order of teardown not to
touch the tab again. It now removes them explicitly and clears its peer
list. Also fix a missing comma in the Polish collaboration guide.
Eleven translated pages changed in English since the last release without
matching updates: system requirements, the Lint tab, AI chat diff tools,
collaboration with agents, design JSX imports and export fidelity,
Storybook and live-app export, lint fixes, page navigation, and Checking
Designs. Bring de, es, fr, it, pl, and ru up to date, add the sections
the abridged translations lacked where a change landed, use each
language's UI labels, and point the export page at documents list.
Victor Wads