fix(web): simplify agent approval prompts

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What Changed

Keep Approve and Decline on the right, centered vertically beside the request. A three-dot button opens a compact vertical menu with ghost buttons for Cancel and longer-lived approval choices. Warning icons keep the full warning available on hover and keyboard focus without adding a paragraph to the menu. Give the request type and full detail separate lines, and remove the repeated detail from the disabled composer.

This shared layout covers command approvals (including worktree commands), file reads, file changes, and app access in web and desktop. Provider labels, warnings, decisions, and pending states are preserved. Native mobile UI is outside this change.

Why

Up to five inline actions squeezed the request text into a narrow strip. The compact action row gives the request room to stay readable and moves below it, right-aligned, in narrow panes.

Validation

• 7 focused approval tests passed; web typecheck and build passed.
• Targeted lint had no errors; existing ChatComposer warnings remain. Formatting and diff checks passed.
• Chromium checks covered all approval kinds at 320, 390, and 1280 px, with an extra 768 px pass for app access. Checked all five decisions, pending-state disabling, warning tooltips on hover and keyboard focus, Escape/Enter, scrolling long commands, vertically centered actions, and stacked menu choices. Used isolated UI fixtures and intercepted approval replies; no live provider approval was granted.

UI Changes

Before:

After:

Expanded menu:

Narrow pane:

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes
• I included a video for animation/interaction changes

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Approval prompts now use a clearer stacked layout with warning emphasis and improved handling of long app names and approval details.
  • Primary approve and decline actions remain visible, while secondary decisions are available through a “More approval options” menu.
  • Approval banners support improved spacing and responsive wrapping in narrow layouts.
  • Approval-mode editors now have consistent sizing and continuation placeholder text.
  • Custom provider decision labels appear on primary action buttons.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at b6a7297

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a contained web UI refinement that keeps approval decisions and callbacks intact while reorganizing secondary choices into a menu and improving responsive readability. The shared component change is additive, and no sensitive, schema, deployment, product-default, or static-analysis behavior is affected.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The pending approval composer now uses a stacked approval panel, primary decision buttons, and a menu for secondary decisions. The banner adds dedicated spacing and warning layout behavior. Approval mode also updates editor sizing and placeholder text.

Changes

Pending approval UI

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Approval detail layout apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerPendingApprovalPanel.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerPendingApprovalPanel.test.tsx	The panel uses stacked content, warning-styled headers, request-type-specific detail elements, and updated content-focused tests.
Approval decision controls apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerPendingApprovalActions.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerPendingApprovalActions.test.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ui/menu.tsx	Accept and decline decisions remain primary buttons. Other decisions render in a ghost menu. Custom provider labels remain supported.
Composer approval integration apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerBanner.tsx	The approval banner adds a shield icon, dedicated spacing and responsive warning layout, minimum editor height, and a generic continuation placeholder.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ComposerBanner
  participant ComposerPendingApprovalActions
  participant ApprovalResponseHandler
  User->>ComposerBanner: View pending approval
  ComposerBanner->>ComposerPendingApprovalActions: Render primary and secondary decisions
  User->>ComposerPendingApprovalActions: Select a button or menu option
  ComposerPendingApprovalActions->>ApprovalResponseHandler: Call onRespondToApproval with the decision

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b6a72

Approval actions retain their supported decisions and response behavior, with no material user-facing failure evidenced.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 16.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 7 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the web approval-prompt simplification, which is the main change in the pull request.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the changes, rationale, UI updates, validation, screenshots, and checklist. It is complete and aligned with the pull request objectives.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerPendingApprovalActions.tsx`:
- Around line 67-105: Add an interaction test covering a secondary approval
option in ComposerPendingApprovalActions: render ChatComposer with an option
such as cancel or acceptForSession, open the MenuTrigger, select the
corresponding MenuItem, and assert onRespondToApproval receives the original
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apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerPendingApprovalActions.test.tsx (1)

23-40: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the portaled approval menu. MenuPopup renders through a portal, so renderToStaticMarkup excludes its items. The absence assertion can pass when acceptAlways is missing, and this test does not provide acceptForSession. Use a DOM test to open the menu, assert both secondary labels, and verify that selecting each item calls onRespondToApproval with the correct request ID and decision.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerPendingApprovalActions.test.tsx` around
lines 23 - 40, Update the test around ComposerPendingApprovalActions to use a
DOM-based render and open the portaled MenuPopup before asserting its contents.
Include the acceptForSession option, verify both secondary labels are present,
and select each menu item to confirm onRespondToApproval receives
ApprovalRequestId.make("approval-safari") with the corresponding decision.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerPendingApprovalActions.test.tsx`:
- Around line 23-40: Update the test around ComposerPendingApprovalActions to
use a DOM-based render and open the portaled MenuPopup before asserting its
contents. Include the acceptForSession option, verify both secondary labels are
present, and select each menu item to confirm onRespondToApproval receives
ApprovalRequestId.make("approval-safari") with the corresponding decision.

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Final review notes: the remaining CodeRabbit menu-test nit repeats the suggestion addressed in #12082 (comment). The committed static tests cover visible labels only; real menu interaction was checked in Chromium, including all secondary decisions and exact response payloads. A committed DOM interaction suite is deferred to avoid introducing new test infrastructure in this layout PR. The docstring-coverage warning is not actionable here: the task instructions explicitly prohibit adding comments or docstrings unless requested. No production behavior issue remains from either note.

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