A free setting typed json and a declared object or array setting (a Switch
node's rules, HTTP headers) show one line of their value; clicking opens a
Monaco JSON editor in a dialog that saves only once the text parses.
Declared object settings were not shown at all before. Escape in a dialog
opened from a side panel no longer closes the panel too.
A provider set under Settings (OpenAI-compatible; key encrypted in
flow-data/ai.json) turns on an Assistant panel in the sidebar. Each turn runs
the FastMCP tools in-process as the person chatting, streams the rounds over
SSE and keeps one transcript per user. The panel floats on any screen and
shares the editor's lane: a settings panel keeps the top half, the chat the
bottom. The MCP client is now built once, for the endpoint and the chat.
The node, flow, widget and dashboard panels explained themselves in
paragraphs under every control. They now carry a caption and an info
tooltip, so a panel reads as a list of settings.
InfoTip, PanelSection and FieldLabel live beside PANEL_SECTION in
SidePanel.tsx, which the panels already share. InfoTip holds its own open
state because a Radix tooltip ignores a touch pointer, and below md the
whole panel is a full-screen sheet — hover-only help would leave a phone
with the caption and nothing else.
Dashboard/panels.tsx drops from 30 helper paragraphs to 5; the ones left
are empty states and status, not explanation. Em-dashes are out of the
user-facing strings, except where one separates the halves of a select
item.
Three things moved the viewport independently — the shape-fit effect, focusNode,
and React Flow's own fitView prop — so a fourth for "centre the node I just
selected" would have been a fourth party to the argument. There is one effect
now, and which branch it takes is decided by what changed rather than by what is
true: selecting a node brings that node into the lane the panel leaves, and
every other change — new wiring, a new endpoint, a panel opening — re-fits the
whole flow into the same lane. A selection centres once, so the port edits that
follow re-fit around it, which is what makes a new edge's far end visible.
The refit triggers on the edge count, not the bindings key: that key changes on
every keystroke in a message-name field, and refitting per character is not what
"an edge was created" means.
renderedNodes overwrote xyflow's own `selected` flag, so a box-selection of
several nodes was invisible even though delete and copy acted on all of them.
The logs panel was a popover anchored on its own button, which is why it sat off
centre, hugged the button and closed on any outside click. It is a plain surface
above the dock now, and the button is stateful. Escape still closes it.
Expanding a node's editor gives the panel the whole inset and puts the code on
the left with the settings beside it, while the toolbar and the flow name
translate off screen. Narrowing the window past `md` gives the room back — the
sheet it becomes has no second column to hold.
The zoom buttons are gone: there is a mouse, or there is a pinch.
The floating bars used to make way for a side panel, which hid Publish
exactly when a node had just been edited. They keep their lane now and
the panel is inset out of it; the enlarged code editor stays a floating
surface between the two bars rather than covering them.
Shortcuts are one small registry (`lib/shortcuts.ts`): undo, redo, ⌘K,
copy, paste, and ⌘S — which publishes the flow, or applies the code when
the editor has focus. Copying carries a node's own source through
localStorage, so a paste works in another flow too.
A flow is now named where a node is, at the top of its panel and only
there, and both take effect on Confirm. Flow-level edits go through the
undo stack with everything else, clicking the canvas puts the flow panel
away, a failing node opens the logs filtered to its own traceback, and
the panel carries its test id on a phone as well.
The shared duration tokens had been stretched to slow the pulses down, which
also slowed every panel and dock animation and left `motion.ts` out of step
with the CSS. Both are back to 200/300 ms, and the pulses use a new
`--duration-pulse` (500 ms): a message arriving is a signal, not a state
change, and it is the only thing here that should linger. The edge pulse read
its own 300 ms constant, so it now takes the token through `motion.ts` and the
two sides cannot drift again.
The code editor also expands: the same node panel fills the content region
beside the sidebar, the canvas chrome steps aside rather than floating on top,
and the settings above the editor keep a readable width.
- One dot per node now carries the whole story: primary while running, sage
after a good run, red when anything is wrong, with the explanation on hover.
The corner badge is gone, along with the second way of saying the same thing.
- A node that publishes something flashes a ring, so a running flow is legible
without reading the edge values. Nodes that consume but publish nothing stay
quiet, which is why the event carries an output count.
- Flow settings open in the same panel its nodes use, from a pencil in the
dock: the title, the name, and deleting the flow. NodePanel and FlowPanel
share the panel chrome rather than each drawing their own.
- Renaming is a server operation, because a flow's name is the namespace of its
messages: the directory moves and every other flow reading `old.message` is
repointed, instead of being left pointing at a flow that no longer exists.
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Melvin Strobl