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The environmentIcon server setting held one of seven machine kinds. It now holds an EnvironmentIconOverride: a named icon with an optional color, an emoji, a one or two character monogram, or a capped inline PNG. The color, emoji, monogram, and Lucide-name leaves move to a shared packages/contracts/src/icon.ts that project icons import too, so there is one definition of each.

A bare machine kind still decodes, lifted into the named variant, and a plain pick of a legacy kind still encodes as that string. Anything richer encodes as the object, which older peers drop to null through the existing forward-compatible decoding.

One limit comes with that, and it is worth naming before it ships. A rich icon does not survive a server downgrade. The older build decodes the object to null, then stripDefaultServerSettings drops any value equal to its default, and null is this field's default, so the next updateSettings rewrites settings.json without the key. Loading alone is safe, because loadSettingsFromDisk writes only when folding legacy project settings changed something. The window is a downgrade followed by any settings change on the old build.

I would still take that over the alternative. Without the forward-compatible wrapper an unknown icon fails the whole file, settingsFileTrusted goes false, and every setting falls back to its default. Losing one icon beats losing the file, and preserving the value instead would mean carrying an unparsed copy of the settings file through decode. This is the only forward-compatible field in settings.ts, so it is the only one shaped this way.

applyServerSettingsPatch would have corrupted an object-valued setting. It sent the key through deepMerge, which fuses two variants with different keys into a hybrid. It is now a whole-value replacement, beside projectSettingsOverrides.

stripDefaultServerSettings has the same hazard one layer down, and it has no live bug. The field's default is null, so its recursion never reaches inside the object, which means the swap test passes for a reason that disappears the moment that default stops being null. environmentIcon joins ATOMIC_SETTINGS_KEYS so the guarantee comes from the set rather than from the default.

A monogram is held to two characters on the way in, by EnvironmentIconOverrideWrite, which ServerSettingsPatch uses. Projects check that bound in their decider; a settings patch has no decider behind it, so the contract is the only place left. The count is code points after stripping the combining marks and joiners the text schema admits. Intl.Segmenter would be exact and Hermes ships none, so using it where it exists would accept on the server and on web what mobile refuses. The bound deliberately does not run on decode either. A peer writing outside the picker can store a longer monogram, and checking it there would send that icon through ForwardCompatibleNullable to null with nothing telling the user why. Snapshots decode what is stored.

The inline image is PNG, not any data:image/. That is what keeps an SVG, which can script, out of the <img> on web, where the declared type picks the decoder. It has to carry the PNG signature too, checked as the encoded prefix iVBORw0KGg that base64 fixes for every PNG, so the declared type is the writer's claim and the prefix is the evidence.

A new environmentIconOverride capability tells clients the server stores the object form. The web picker writes the named variant and resolveEnvironmentMachineKind reads it back, so every renderer still receives a machine kind.

Why

Two generic servers wear the same glyph with no way to tell them apart. This is the storage half of fixing that; it is the layer the rest of the stack cannot cheaply walk back, so it lands alone.

This is the first of six stacked PRs. CONTRIBUTING.md says large PRs and feature work are least likely to be accepted, so this arrives knowing that. The stack is ordered so the third PR alone fixes the reported screenshot, which is the natural place to stop if you want less. Layers: contracts and storage (this), rename and widen the renderers, seven more curated icons, emoji and monogram and color, a shared Lucide list, then image icons with the mobile picker and container detection.

GitHub only accepts a base branch that lives in the base repository, and stacks cannot span a fork and its upstream, so the other five layers form a native stack on the fork, each based on the previous one. Each will be re-targeted here once its base merges: amanthanvi#1, amanthanvi#2, amanthanvi#3, amanthanvi#4, amanthanvi#5.

Verification

  • packages/contracts: settings.test.ts round-trips each variant, decodes the legacy string in both directions, collapses an unknown variant to null without failing the snapshot, and rejects an unknown variant in a patch. server.test.ts covers the resolver.
  • packages/shared: serverSettings.test.ts proves switching variants replaces rather than merges, and null still clears.
  • apps/server: serverSettings.test.ts inspects the raw persisted file across a variant swap and a legacy pick, and confirms null removes the key.
  • An adversarial review of this layer confirmed all four cross-version combinations empirically and found no severe defect. It corrected one claim. The default stripper has no live bug, so the atomic-key entry is insurance against the default changing rather than a fix, and the commit says that. It also found the monogram bound missing, and a first attempt put it on the decoded schema, where any stored monogram over the bound would have decoded to null instead of drawing. It now sits on the write schema, with an encode test on ServerSettingsPatch that the client-to-server direction had been missing.
  • Typecheck green for contracts, shared, server, web, and mobile.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for environment icons in named icon, emoji, monogram, and image formats, with optional colors.
    • Servers can indicate whether they support customized environment icons.
    • Preserved compatibility with older environment icon formats.
    • Added validation for icon names, monograms, and complete PNG images.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Changing icon types now fully replaces the previous selection.
    • Clearing an icon reliably removes the saved setting.
    • Improved fallback behavior for unsupported selections and settings persistence.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a substantial, persisted environment-icon capability spanning shared contracts, server settings, default capability advertisement, and the web UI, including new image data handling. It also adds a static-analysis suppression and has an unresolved legacy-server compatibility risk in the picker write path.

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The change adds shared icon schemas and structured environment icon overrides. It retains legacy machine-kind serialization, adds capability signaling and runtime resolution, and treats icon values as whole-value settings during patching and persistence.

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Environment icon overrides

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared icon contracts
packages/contracts/src/icon.ts, packages/contracts/src/index.ts, packages/contracts/src/orchestration.ts
Adds shared schemas for colors, icon names, emoji, monograms, and PNG image data URLs. Project icon schemas reuse these definitions.
Environment override contract
packages/contracts/src/environment.ts, packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts
Adds structured icon variants, legacy machine-kind decoding and encoding, and separate read and write validation. Tests cover variants, legacy formats, and invalid values.
Runtime resolution and client wiring
apps/web/src/components/settings/EnvironmentIconPicker.tsx, apps/server/src/environment/ServerEnvironment.ts, packages/contracts/src/server.ts, packages/contracts/src/server.test.ts
The picker writes structured icon objects. Server descriptors advertise structured override support. Machine-kind resolution falls back when the configured icon is unsupported.
Whole-value persistence
packages/shared/src/serverSettings.ts, packages/shared/src/serverSettings.test.ts, apps/server/src/serverSettings.ts, apps/server/src/serverSettings.test.ts
Environment icon patches replace the complete value instead of deep-merging variants. Default stripping preserves the complete value. Tests cover replacement, legacy serialization, and clearing.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant EnvironmentIconPicker
  participant ServerSettings
  participant applyServerSettingsPatch
  participant SettingsFile
  EnvironmentIconPicker->>ServerSettings: write structured environmentIcon
  ServerSettings->>applyServerSettingsPatch: apply environmentIcon patch
  applyServerSettingsPatch->>SettingsFile: replace and persist complete icon value
  SettingsFile-->>ServerSettings: return persisted icon value or null
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 63b7a

An invalid PNG-like environment icon can still be saved, but the current display falls back to the machine glyph. The legacy compatibility issue is fixed; merge risk is low, with full PNG validation remaining a follow-up.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 63b7a

The new icon formats have bounded input rules and preserve existing icon choices, but a rich icon can be lost if the server is downgraded and the older version subsequently saves settings. No introduced security issue was established; the settings-update access boundary remains unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: A persisted rich icon can be lost when an older server decodes it as null and later rewrites settings during an unrelated update. Loading alone does not trigger that rewrite. The loss is limited to this setting, but makes its value non-recoverable through that downgrade sequence.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new value affects a server-owned environment setting and its connected clients. The inspected picker emits only machine-kind selections, limiting exposure of rich values through that UI; other settings-update callers were not fully traced.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The picker checks the existing icon capability and denies a choice when operate access is denied. Those UI checks do not prove that every external settings-update request is authorized and decoded against the write schema before reaching persistence.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Replacing icon variants as whole values avoids retaining fields from a previous variant; failed persistence does not reach the subsequent cache update and change emission in the inspected service path.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before relying on rich icons across versions, verify server-side authorization and write-schema decoding at every external update entrypoint, and define a recovery path for rich values before downgrading a server.
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Two commits landed after your last pass, which covered up to b3439e0116:

  • 10f4ed45b5 moves the monogram length check from the shared schema to a write-only boundary schema, so a stored two-grapheme monogram written by a newer peer still decodes instead of collapsing to null on a runtime without Intl.Segmenter.
  • aea15ecccc pins the inline image prefix to PNG in this layer rather than the last one, so no intermediate layer in the stack accepts a format the final contract rejects.

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🟠 Major · Separate the frozen legacy wire format from detected machine kinds. · environment.ts:114-115

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Separate the frozen legacy wire format from detected machine kinds. isEnvironmentMachineKind uses the expandable ENVIRONMENT_MACHINE_KINDS list. If a new machine kind is added, the encoder serializes an uncolored icon with that name as a string. An older client cannot decode that new string and ForwardCompatibleNullable maps it to null, so the selected icon is lost. Use a dedicated frozen legacy set for string encoding. Update the compatibility test to assert that set exactly and verify that a newer machine kind remains object-encoded.

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In `@packages/contracts/src/environment.ts` around lines 114 - 115, Update the
icon encoding logic around the uncolored branch using isEnvironmentMachineKind
to check a dedicated frozen legacy machine-kind set instead of the expandable
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- Around line 114-115: Update the icon encoding logic around the uncolored
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@amanthanvi: I reviewed commits 10f4ed45b5 and aea15ecccc.

I found no new issues.

EnvironmentIconOverrideWrite applies the monogram length check only to ServerSettingsPatch. EnvironmentIconOverride remains the schema for stored settings snapshots.

IconImageDataUrl now accepts only PNG data URLs. The shared schema applies this restriction before an environment image icon is accepted.

The added tests cover the changed write, snapshot, encoding, and WebP-rejection behavior.

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Valid finding, and fixed in c22dbb6bba.

The encoder was keying off ENVIRONMENT_MACHINE_KINDS, which is the detection vocabulary and grows as detection improves. The bare-string wire form cannot grow with it: a server without environmentIconOverride accepts only the original seven, and an older client runs an unknown string through ForwardCompatibleNullable and gets null, which drops the pick.

What changed in packages/contracts/src/environment.ts:

  • LEGACY_ENVIRONMENT_MACHINE_KINDS is the frozen set of seven, with isLegacyEnvironmentMachineKind beside it. The encode branch in EnvironmentIconOverride now tests that instead.
  • ENVIRONMENT_MACHINE_KINDS stays expandable and is now derived from the frozen list plus whatever detection adds later. platform.machine and resolveEnvironmentIcon keep using it, since they map a detected kind to a glyph rather than choosing a wire form.

On the test: writes a plain pick of a legacy kind as the string an older server accepts now writes the seven names out literally and asserts LEGACY_ENVIRONMENT_MACHINE_KINDS equals them. Reading the list from the contract would have passed no matter how it grew, so the literal is what fails if someone extends the frozen set by mistake.

Two things worth noting for the rest of the stack. The layer that adds container extends only the detected list, and its test asserts container still encodes as { kind: "icon", name: "container" } rather than a bare string. The picker's capability gate keys off the frozen list too, so a kind added after the string form is offered only when the peer advertises environmentIconOverride.

At this PR alone the two sets were equal, so nothing was mis-encoded yet. The split is what keeps that true once detection grows.

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🟡 Minor · Validate decoded image bytes. · environment.ts:96-99

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Validate decoded image bytes.

IconImageDataUrl accepts data:image/png;base64,SGVsbG8= because it checks only the MIME prefix and Base64 syntax. That payload is not a PNG, but EnvironmentImageIcon accepts it. The server can persist an icon that does not satisfy the PNG-only contract. Decode the payload and validate it as PNG before accepting the setting.

Based on learnings, do not validate image uploads only from a client-supplied MIME type. Validate the actual binary content.

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In `@packages/contracts/src/environment.ts` around lines 96 - 99, Update
EnvironmentImageIcon to validate the decoded dataUrl bytes as an actual PNG, not
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Valid finding, and fixed in 3fba57e. data:image/png;base64,SGVsbG8= did pass, and the bytes spell "Hello".

I took the guarantee without decoding. Base64 encodes three bytes to four characters, so the eight byte PNG signature lands as iVBORw0KGgo=, and its first ten characters are fixed for every PNG: the ninth byte only starts influencing the eleventh character. The check is a second anchored pattern beside the existing one.

Schema.isPattern(/^data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGg/),

That matters because of where this runs. IconImageDataUrl decodes on every settings snapshot, and the server streams settings to every connected client on every change, so a per-decode atob plus a byte compare would allocate a buffer per client per change to learn something a ten character match already proves.

Two limits worth stating. The check proves the signature, not the rest of the file, so a signature followed by junk still passes. Reaching further means parsing IHDR and the chunk CRCs, which is a decoder on the hot path, and the failure it would catch is an image that draws as broken rather than one that is a different file type. And this is no longer a check on the client supplied MIME type at all: the declared type is the writer's claim, and the encoded signature is the evidence.

Tests in packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts cover the payload you named, a four byte truncation of the signature that stops at iVBORw==, a value that stops mid quartet, and an empty payload.

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Three fixes pushed, head is now 4d005ad44d.

The linux gap is real and my earlier scan was wrong (4d005ad44d)

I claimed no released build advertises environmentIcon and refuses the bare string linux. That claim came from grepping tree contents for the entry, which is not a reliable way to ask the question. git tag --contains <sha> is, and it disagrees with me:

environmentIcon capability shipped 2026-09-02
linux joined the accepted set 2026-09-06
Nightly tags in that window 25
Stable releases in that window 0

Each of those 25 nightlies advertises the capability and rejects the string, so picking the Linux glyph against one fails the whole settings patch. You were right about the mechanism.

I kept linux in the frozen list anyway, because taking it out costs more. isLegacyEnvironmentMachineKind gates the picker at EnvironmentIconPicker.logic.ts:51, so dropping the kind locks the Linux glyph on every stable server shipping today, none of which advertise environmentIconOverride. That trades 25 nightly builds for the entire current stable population. The comment on LEGACY_ENVIRONMENT_MACHINE_KINDS now names the window, the count, and the trade instead of claiming the set is clean.

Two other claims in the same pass were wrong and are rewritten rather than defended. The doc said a runtime without Intl.Segmenter counts monograms the same way the exact path does, which is false for a Devanagari conjunct. And it asserted this Hermes build ships no Intl.Segmenter, which nothing in the repo establishes. Both now state what is actually known.

The monogram fallback refused a monogram every other client accepts (4cf340d348)

MonogramText admits ZWJ and ZWNJ in the tail, but the code point fallback in isMonogramLength stripped only combining marks. So "A\u200dB" counted three and the write boundary refused it on any runtime lacking Intl.Segmenter, which is the one runtime the fallback exists for. Strip the joiners too.

The fallback still over-counts a Devanagari conjunct and a decomposed Hangul syllable. Exact clustering needs UAX #29, and that direction only ever refuses, so it can never store text too wide for the tile. The doc comment says that now.

Test added in packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts. It deletes Intl.Segmenter, runs the four shapes the schema admits through decodeServerSettingsPatch, and restores the property descriptor in a finally.

Icon settings are stripped as a whole value (d367e5c238)

environmentIcon joins ATOMIC_SETTINGS_KEYS in apps/server/src/serverSettings.ts. Outside that set stripDefaultServerSettings recurses field by field, which would write a partial icon object to settings.json, and a partial object is what deepMerge then rebuilds into a hybrid carrying keys from two variants.

No new test. stripDefaultServerSettings is module private, so a direct test would have to mirror the implementation, and the existing persists an environment icon whole and swaps variants without leftovers in apps/server/src/serverSettings.test.ts already reads the raw JSON and asserts a variant swap leaves nothing stale. That test passes today because the default is null and the recursion never runs. The key is what makes it hold once the default is anything else.

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vp test run on the contracts, shared, and server settings files: 166 and 82 tests pass. Typecheck clean on packages/contracts and apps/server.

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Rebased the whole stack onto main at 76cc9b08f1, which was 52 commits past the previous base. All 20 commits replayed with no conflicts, and 12 of the stack's 74 files fall in the region main touched.

git range-diff against the pre-rebase tips shows 19 of the 20 commits carry an identical patch. The one that differs is refactor(web,mobile): environment renderers take the resolved icon, and the difference is context only. Main added closeOnClick to the environment MenuRadioItem in BranchToolbar.tsx, two lines above the prop this stack renames. Both changes are present in the rebased file.

A clean textual replay does not prove the stack still holds together, so I went looking for the hazard that would hide behind one. Layer 2 renames resolveEnvironmentMachineKind across 40 files, so a call site added upstream would compile against a symbol this stack deletes. The 52 commits add none.

Each layer is its own pull request, so I verified each one standing alone rather than only at the tip:

layer typecheck tests
01 contracts 4 packages, 0 errors 7 files, 290 tests
02 rename 5 packages, 0 errors 7 files, 291 tests
03 curated 5 packages, 0 errors 7 files, 296 tests
04 rich 5 packages, 0 errors 9 files, 303 tests
05 lucide 5 packages, 0 errors 10 files, 307 tests
06 image, mobile, detect 6 packages, 0 errors 11 files, 321 tests

No review thread was open when I rebased, so the force push moved commits rather than answers. Line comments from earlier rounds now anchor to the old SHAs.

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Rebased onto current main, and the monogram counter lost its Intl.Segmenter branch

Rebased the stack onto main at aff9318bf4, four commits past the previous base. All 35 commits replayed with no conflicts, and 3 of the stack's 76 files fall where those four commits landed.

Those three overlaps are ConnectionsSettings.tsx, PullRequestDetailPanel.tsx, and _chat.pull-requests.tsx, and main's edits to them swap className="size-3.5" on Spinner and RefreshIcon for the new size prop. None of it touches the icon code this stack changes, and the stack adds no Spinner or RefreshIcon call site that should be using the new prop.

One thing in those four commits does bear on the stack. refactor(web): drop className overrides that repeat the base styles lowered RESTYLE_CEILING from 1247 to 1207, and main now sits at exactly 1207 with no slack, so any restyle finding this stack added would fail the gate. Each of the six layers measures exactly 1207.

The monogram count is now the same on every client

isMonogramLength in contracts and firstGrapheme on mobile each reached for Intl.Segmenter behind a typeof guard and counted code points otherwise. t3code/no-hermes-unsupported-apis is configured at error severity for packages/contracts/src/** and apps/mobile/src/** (vite.config.ts:195), and it reports the construction rather than the reference, so the guard did not satisfy it. Both branches are gone.

I deleted them rather than suppressing the rule, because the rule was right in both files. Hermes ships no segmenter, so the contracts guard accepted on the server and on web a monogram that mobile refused, and a validation bound that depends on the runtime reading it is the wrong shape for a bound. The mobile file only ever runs on Hermes, so its segmenter branch was dead in the app and live only in vitest on Node, which left three tests covering a path that never shipped.

The cost is real and worth naming. A two-cluster Devanagari conjunct or a decomposed Hangul syllable counts high, so those scripts get one cluster in a two-character monogram. In exchange every client agrees on what it will store, and the two tiles show exactly what the picker agreed to.

The write-schema split survives the change for a reason that never depended on the runtime. A decode-time bound would send a longer stored monogram through ForwardCompatibleNullable to null, and the user would get the detected glyph with nothing saying why.

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Each layer is its own pull request, so each was verified standing alone rather than only at the tip.

layer typecheck lint tests restyle
01 contracts 4 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 4 files, 245 tests 1207
02 rename 5 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 5 files, 276 tests 1207
03 curated 5 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 6 files, 285 tests 1207
04 rich 5 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 9 files, 296 tests 1207
05 lucide 5 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 10 files, 300 tests 1207
06 image, mobile, detect 5 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 12 files, 327 tests 1207

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Rebased onto current main

Rebased the stack onto main at f5ef0ddb90, 72 commits past the previous base. Two layers conflicted, and main also changed the lint rules this stack has to pass.

What main changed that this stack had to follow

shadcn/no-restyle is now a lint error rather than a counted warning (#13210), and the ceiling script is gone. Every layer here lints with 0 errors on the files it changes.

That made one commit unnecessary. fix(web): the icon dialog keeps its spacing off DialogPanel moved the dialog's flex column into a wrapper div to keep the old ceiling from growing. Main's own ProjectIconPickerDialog now puts flex min-h-0 flex-col on DialogPanel and lets the panel's built-in space-y-4 do the spacing, so this dialog does the same from the commit that introduces it. The wrapper and that commit are gone.

The layer 3 commit that deduplicates the icon submenu's lock row said it existed for the ceiling. It still removes a duplicated row, so it stays with a message that says only that.

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Review findings

Sourcery reviewed the last push. One finding was real and is fixed on layer 6: the web dialog let Save run while an image was still encoding, which wrote the previous image and dropped the new pick. The other two have replies on the threads. One asks mobile to hide the emoji glyph from screen readers, but mobile glyphs have been labeled on main all along. The other asks to reject a photo whose dimensions the picker did not report, which is a trade-off the code already records.

Layer 6 also drops an isEnvironmentMachineKind import the dialog stopped using.

Per-layer verification

Each layer is its own pull request, so each was checked standing alone.

layer typecheck lint tests
01 contracts 4 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 4 files, 244 tests
02 rename 5 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 5 files, 276 tests
03 curated 5 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 6 files, 285 tests
04 rich 5 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 9 files, 296 tests
05 lucide 5 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 10 files, 300 tests
06 image, mobile, detect 5 packages, 0 errors 0 errors 12 files, 327 tests

Layer 1 runs one test fewer than last time because main removed one of its own tests from settings.test.ts (#13115). The 12 tests this stack adds are all still there.

The force push moved commits, so line comments from earlier rounds now anchor to the old SHAs.

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…d image

The `environmentIcon` server setting held one of seven machine kinds, so
two generic servers wore the same glyph with no way to tell them apart.

Widen it to an `EnvironmentIconOverride` union of a named icon with an
optional color, an emoji, a one or two character monogram, and a capped
inline PNG or WebP. A bare machine kind still decodes, lifted into the
named variant, so settings files and snapshots from older servers keep
their pick; a plain pick of a legacy kind still encodes as that string,
so older servers accept the patch and older clients decode the snapshot.
Anything richer encodes as the object, which older peers drop to null
through the existing forward-compatible decoding.

One place would have corrupted an object-valued setting. `deepMerge`
fuses two variants with different keys into a hybrid, so the patch
applier now replaces `environmentIcon` whole. The default stripper is
fine as it is, because the field's default is `null` and the stripper
only recurses when both sides are objects. A new
`environmentIconOverride` capability tells clients the server stores the
object form.

A monogram is held to two characters in the schema itself. Projects check
that bound in the decider; a settings patch has no decider behind it, so
the environment contract is the write boundary.

The color, emoji, monogram, and Lucide-name leaves move to a shared
module that project icons now import, so there is one definition of each.

No user-visible change. The web picker writes the named variant and
`resolveEnvironmentMachineKind` reads it back, so every renderer still
receives a machine kind.

Tests cover each variant's round trip, the legacy string in both
directions, an unknown variant collapsing to null without failing the
snapshot, the merge replacement, and the persisted file after swapping
variants.

Claude Fable 5.1 via Claude Code
The two-character bound sat inside `EnvironmentIcon`, which is also the
decoded form of `EnvironmentIconOverride`, so it ran on every settings
snapshot rather than only on a write.

Grapheme counting depends on the runtime. `isMonogramLength` uses
`Intl.Segmenter` where it exists and strips combining marks otherwise,
and the two disagree: "क्षक्ष" counts 2 with a segmenter and 4 without.
Hermes ships no segmenter, so a monogram the server accepted could count
longer on mobile, fail the decode, and get dropped to null by
`ForwardCompatibleNullable`. That client alone would draw the detected
glyph, with no way to tell why.

The bound moves to `EnvironmentIconOverrideWrite`, used by
`ServerSettingsPatch`. Snapshots decode what is stored; writes are
checked. Both sibling comments already said this is where the check
belongs, in `icon.ts` and in `orchestration.ts`.

Also adds the missing encode coverage for `ServerSettingsPatch`. The
client-to-server direction was untested, so nothing pinned the behavior
that a plain pick of one of the seven legacy kinds still goes out as the
bare string an older server accepts.

Claude Opus 5 via Claude Code
The pattern accepted `image/webp` as well, which nothing writes. Both
clients downscale through a canvas and ask it for PNG, so a WebP value
could only arrive by hand-editing `settings.json`.

Narrowing it here rather than later keeps the accepted value space equal
to the produced one from the first commit that defines the field.

The comment also stops overstating the prefix. It is what keeps an SVG
out of the `<img>` on web, where Blink picks the decoder from the
declared type; mobile's image library sniffs content, so there the
guarantee comes from neither renderer having a script engine. And the
prefix says nothing about frame count, since APNG declares `image/png`.

Claude Opus 5 via Claude Code
…d kinds

The encoder wrote an uncoloured named icon as a bare string whenever its name
was in `ENVIRONMENT_MACHINE_KINDS`. That list is the set of kinds a server can
detect, and it grows. The container kind lands later in this stack. A build
that detects a new kind would have encoded it as a string no older peer knows,
and `ForwardCompatibleNullable` decodes an unknown string as null, so the
user's icon would disappear on the other side.

The two sets were equal here, so the bug was latent rather than live. Split
them anyway. `LEGACY_ENVIRONMENT_MACHINE_KINDS` is frozen at the seven kinds
that have ever had a bare-string wire form, the encoder keys off it, and
anything else travels as the object the capability flag already gates.

The test asserts the frozen list exactly, so growing it fails rather than
silently widening what goes on the wire.
The pattern accepted any run of base64 characters with optional padding, so
a truncated upload such as `data:image/png;base64,iVBORw` decoded to nothing
and every surface showing that environment drew a broken image.

Spell out whole quartets instead. Both clients validate through this schema
before writing, so the tighter rule reaches the web canvas path and the mobile
manipulator path without either repeating it.
The declared type in an inline data URL is the writer's claim, and nothing
downstream checks it. A value spelling "Hello" passed the schema and reached
every connected client, which drew a broken image for that environment.

Check the encoded signature instead of decoding. Base64 fixes the PNG magic
to `iVBORw0KGg` for any PNG whatever its ninth byte, so the guarantee costs
one anchored match on a path that runs for every client on every settings
change.
…Segmenter

`MonogramText` admits ZWJ and ZWNJ in the tail, but the code-point fallback
in `isMonogramLength` only stripped combining marks. So "A‍B" counted
three on a runtime lacking `Intl.Segmenter` and the write boundary refused a
monogram every other client accepts. Strip the joiners too.

The fallback still over-counts a Devanagari conjunct and a decomposed Hangul
syllable; exact clustering needs UAX pingdotgg#29. That direction only ever refuses,
so it cannot store text too wide for the tile, and the doc comment now says
so instead of implying the two branches agree.
`stripDefaultServerSettings` recurses field by field for any key outside
`ATOMIC_SETTINGS_KEYS`, so an icon object could persist as a fragment that
`deepMerge` then reassembles into a hybrid carrying keys from two variants.
Today the `null` default keeps the recursion from ever reaching inside the
object, which makes the existing "swaps variants without leftovers" test pass
for a reason that would disappear the moment the default stops being `null`.

Name the key so the guarantee comes from the set rather than from the default.
All three read as guarantees and none of them hold.

The frozen legacy list said a server without `environmentIconOverride`
accepts those seven kinds "and nothing else". `linux` is the exception. The
`environmentIcon` capability shipped 2026-09-02 and `linux` joined the set
2026-09-06, so 25 nightly builds in between advertise the capability and
reject the string. No stable release sits in that window, and dropping
`linux` from the list would lock the Linux glyph on every stable server
shipping today, so the list stays and the comment names the gap.

The write-boundary comment stated as fact that Hermes ships no
`Intl.Segmenter`. Nothing in this repo establishes that. The reason the
check lives at the write boundary does not depend on it, only on the count
differing by runtime.

The base64 quartet pattern was described as refusing a truncated value. It
refuses the three in four truncations that stop mid-quartet. One that stops
on a quartet boundary is still whole base64 with the right signature, and
reaches the renderer as a PNG with no pixels.
`isMonogramLength` reached `Intl.Segmenter` through a type assertion that
restated the lib declaration. `typeof Intl.Segmenter === "function"` reads the
real member and keeps the same guard, so a runtime that defines the property as
undefined still takes the code-point fallback.

Also rewrites five comments that used a colon as a mid-sentence connector.
`isMonogramLength` used `Intl.Segmenter` where it existed and counted code
points otherwise. Hermes ships no segmenter, so the same monogram was accepted
on the server and on web and refused on mobile. That divergence is also why
`t3code/no-hermes-unsupported-apis` reports the constructor inside
`packages/contracts`, at error severity.

Counting code points everywhere costs a two-cluster Devanagari or decomposed
Hangul monogram, which counts high and gets one cluster. In exchange every
client agrees on what it will store.

The write schema keeps the bound off decode for the reason that outlives this.
A decode-time check would send a longer stored monogram through
`ForwardCompatibleNullable` to null, and the user would get the detected glyph
with nothing saying why.
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Rebased onto current main

Rebased the stack onto main at 568c9bc4d0, 50 commits past the previous base. Every commit replayed with no conflicts.

Main added four web lint errors in that range: shadcn/no-raw-colors, no-unknown-classes, require-static-classes, and no-arbitrary-values. None of them fires on this stack. The web icon colors come from projectIconColors, which main had already moved to theme tokens, and of the stack's three arbitrary values, rounded-[25%] and text-[length:80cqh] are on main's allowlist for project icons and sm:w-[32rem] is a dialog width, which the rule treats as layout.

Two changes follow main:

  • refactor(server): the container marker check recovers with orElseSucceed. chore: clear Effect language service suggestions #13536 replaced Effect.catch(() => Effect.succeed(...)) with Effect.orElseSucceed across the server, including this file's other helpers. The container check this stack added was the last call in the old form, and the Effect language service reported it.
  • docs(user): the mobile icon path goes through the environment page. feat(mobile): manage environment and provider updates #13302 made Settings → Environments open a page per environment instead of expanding the row. The mobile picker still sits in the row's expanded body, which that page shows under Connection, so the user doc now names the page and the section.

Each layer typechecks with 0 errors in every package it changes, lints with 0 errors, and passes its tests, from 4 files and 244 tests at layer 1 to 12 files and 327 tests at layer 6. The fix commits cited in earlier review replies have new SHAs, and those replies now point at them.

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