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## Why The Inbox mixed overlapping feed categories with personal work queues, so **All** was not actually comprehensive and several filters did not make it clear why an item appeared. Threads and DMs could produce one row per event instead of one row per conversation, drafts were hidden until selected, and reminders appeared through multiple competing presentations. This refactor makes the **Inbox** a focused, conversation-oriented place to catch up on work relevant to you. It is intentionally not a mirror of every unread event in every channel. ## What changed - Keep the destination named **Inbox** and use the standard Lucide bell icon. - Refocus **All** on DMs, mentions, thread replies, needs-action items, replies from agents the user owns or controls, due reminders, and active drafts. - Exclude generic top-level channel traffic and updates from agents the user does not own or control. - Group each thread or DM into one row, sorted by latest activity. - Resume an unread conversation at its oldest unread message while opening the full thread or DM in the detail pane. - Reuse the existing **New** divider at the unread boundary. - Make the detail title a direct link to the canonical conversation. - Give Reminders and Drafts the same list/detail interaction and location metadata as conversation rows. - Separate Reminders and Drafts from message filters with a subtle divider, without adding another labeled section. - Put reminder and draft counts beside their corresponding filter labels instead of on the generic filter button. - Preserve the selected conversation when switching filters if it remains valid; otherwise select a valid replacement without flashing stale detail. - Use filter-specific empty states and rename the options toggle to **Show unread only**. - Ship the focused behavior directly. The earlier experiment gate, Custom view, and default-view controls have been removed from this PR to keep the first pass focused. ## Filter model | Filter | What appears | | --- | --- | | **All** | One row per personally relevant conversation, plus due reminders and active drafts. Includes DMs, mentions, thread replies, explicit needs-action items, and replies from agents the current user owns or controls. Excludes generic top-level channel traffic, other agents' updates, and reminders that are not due yet. | | **Mentions** | Conversations containing a direct mention. Each conversation appears once and opens with full context. | | **Threads** | Conventional threaded replies, grouped to one row per thread. Broadcast replies are not treated as conventional thread replies. | | **Needs action** | Feed items explicitly classified as requiring action. | | **Agents** | Conversations whose representative response was authored by an agent the current user owns or controls, including top-level DM responses. If a human replies afterward, the conversation leaves this filter until an owned agent responds again. | | **Reminders** | All pending reminders, including upcoming reminders that stay out of **All** until they are due. | | **Drafts** | Active drafts, ordered by their last real edit time. | ## Grouping, ordering, and state - A thread or DM creates one Inbox row rather than one row per event. - An unread conversation resumes at its oldest unread message so intervening context is not skipped. - Conversation rows still sort by their latest activity. - The detail pane opens the full available conversation and shows the shared **New** divider before the first unread message. - Upcoming reminders appear only in **Reminders**. - When a reminder becomes due, it enters **All** at its trigger time. If its source conversation is already represented, the reminder state merges into that row instead of creating a duplicate; otherwise it appears as a standalone reminder row. - A due reminder can enrich a row in another relative filter when that conversation already qualifies for the filter. Reminder lifecycle remains separate from message read state. - Drafts appear in **All** by their last real edit time. Opening an unchanged draft does not move it to the top. - Reminder and draft rows show their location as `In #channel` or `In DM with <name>`. - **Show unread only** hides reminder and draft work queues because they do not share message unread semantics. ## Removed or narrowed - **Remove the old Activity filter.** It overlapped with All while still omitting items All now includes. - **Narrow Agents.** It no longer gathers every agent participating in a shared thread or subsequent human follow-ups. - **Remove duplicate reminder presentations.** The aggregate pending-reminders jump and duplicate generic feed rows are replaced by one list/detail model. - **Remove Custom and default-view settings from this pass.** They added considerable state and UI before the core model had been validated. - **Do not add section labels for Reminders and Drafts.** A divider communicates the distinction without creating another hierarchy in the menu. ## Risk assessment Medium implementation risk because this changes composition, grouping, ordering, read behavior, and personal queues in a primary desktop view. The implementation is scoped to the desktop UI and its local feed projection; it does not change relay schemas or public APIs. ## Testing - Desktop formatting, lint, file-size, text-size, and TypeScript checks passed. - Desktop unit suite: **3,663 passed, 0 failed**. - Desktop E2E production build passed. - Playwright smoke coverage across every spec touching this surface (`channels`, `smoke`, `profile`, `project-inbox`, `community-rail`, `integration`, `drafts-screenshots`): **118 passed, 0 failed**. - Full Playwright smoke project: **732 passed, 1 skipped**. Three local failures were investigated and cleared — `community-rail` keyboard reorder passed on re-run (flaky), while `relay-reconnect:97` and `video-attachment:223` are untouched by this commit (the only change to shared `tests/helpers/bridge.ts` is a comment) and pass in CI. - Unit coverage includes focused All matching, owned-agent filtering, conversation grouping, oldest-unread selection, selection stability, chronological reminder/draft composition, trigger-time reminder ordering, and duplicate reminder suppression. ## Update: July 27, 2026 The naming decision is settled: the surface stays **Inbox**. An earlier pass in this branch had renamed it to **Activity**; that rename has been reverted in `9c00d2d6e`, which is naming-only and changes no behavior. The revert covers file names, component/hook/type/constant identifiers, the sidebar label and tooltip, the `Inbox options` and `Filter inbox:` aria-labels, and the corresponding test names, test ids, and fixture ids. Three things were deliberately left as `activity`: - **The feed API contract** — the `activity` / `agent_activity` categories, the `feed.activity` and `feed.agentActivity` keys, and the `types=` query parameter. These are the server's names, not the surface's. - **Plain-noun usage** — empty states such as "No activity yet", plus `latestActivityAt` and `PROJECT_ACTIVITY_KINDS`. - **Pre-existing agent, project, and profile activity code**, which refers to a different concept entirely. The earlier experiment-gate approach has also been dropped, so `tests/helpers/bridge.ts` no longer claims that an Activity preview feature exists — `preview-features.json` has no such entry and the seed helper enables every desktop feature. Generated with Codex --------- Signed-off-by: Clay Delk <clay.delk@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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