fix(web): keep sidebar terminal pulses in sync

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Terminal icons in the sidebar pulse out of sync. Each icon starts its own CSS animation when its terminal process starts, so a sidebar with several running terminals shows several different pulse phases.

Keep the pulse and pin each terminal pulse's start time to the document timeline when it starts. New or remounted icons join the same cycle. This applies in both sidebar layouts and the command palette. The pulse now also respects prefers-reduced-motion through motion-safe:, the same as other status pulses on main.

The existing two-second stepped opacity keyframes stay. No timers, frame loops, or React state updates.

Validation:

• Headless Chromium, isolated page with the same keyframes and handler: three icons added at different times had pulse phases of 1467, 1100, and 283 ms without the handler. With the handler, all three were at 1509 ms.
• lucide-react 0.564 passes rest props to the <svg>, so onAnimationStart reaches the animated element.
• Focused web tests, web typecheck, targeted lint, and format checks pass. Lint warnings are in unchanged code.
• Not verified: a full pass in the running app. The T3 Browser panel was not available in this session.

Originally created by Theo with GPT-6 Astra in Codex. Rebased onto current main, squashed, and finished by Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) in T3 Code.

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  • Terminal status indicators now synchronize their pulse animation consistently and respect motion settings, including reduced-motion preferences.

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Terminal status icons use motion-safe pulse animations. When a pulse animation starts, synchronizeTerminalPulse resets its start time. A test verifies that other animations retain their start times.

Changes

Terminal status pulse

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Synchronize pulse animation start times apps/web/src/components/ThreadStatusIndicators.tsx	The exported handler ignores other animation names and resets the start time of each active status-pulse animation.
Wire motion-safe pulses and validate synchronization apps/web/src/components/ThreadStatusIndicators.tsx, apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx, apps/web/src/components/LegacySidebar.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ThreadStatusIndicators.test.ts	Terminal icons use the motion-safe:animate-status-pulse class and call the handler when animation starts. The test verifies that only status-pulse animation start times are reset.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ac0dd

Terminal pulses are wired to synchronize across the sidebar layouts and command palette, with no unsynchronized terminal path found. The checked-in test does not protect that renderer integration, so a regression could go unnoticed; this is a bounded follow-up rather than a demonstrated user-facing failure.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	13.5 KiB	13.5 KiB	−39 B (−0.3%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	7.1 KiB	7.1 KiB	−3 B (−0.0%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.5 KiB	6.4 KiB	−36 B (−0.5%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	56.3 KiB	56.2 KiB	−44 B (−0.1%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	10	9	−1 (−10.0%)	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	13.5 KiB	13.6 KiB	+69 B (+0.5%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	7.1 KiB	7.1 KiB	−5 B (−0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.4 KiB	6.5 KiB	+74 B (+1.1%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	57.0 KiB	57.1 KiB	+44 B (+0.1%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	9	10	+1 (+11.1%)	21	✅

Baseline: 9c524d5 · PR result: ac0dd7b · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 114.0 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.7 KiB

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Verdict: Approved at ac0dd7b

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, self-contained sidebar UI fix that synchronizes existing CSS pulses across layouts and the command palette while respecting reduced-motion preferences. It adds focused test coverage without changing application state, APIs, workflows, product defaults, or static-analysis configuration.

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apps/web/src/components/ThreadStatusIndicators.test.ts (1)

15-19: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add a browser-level pulse synchronization test.

animationStartEvent creates a plain object cast to AnimationEvent, and the tests call synchronizeTerminalPulse with fabricated animations. They do not render the three TerminalIcon call sites, deliver a real animationstart event, or inspect the status-pulse animation. Add a focused browser test that asserts the rendered terminal pulses share the intended timeline.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/ThreadStatusIndicators.test.ts` around lines 15 - 19,
Add a focused browser-level test around the three TerminalIcon call sites that
renders them, dispatches a real animationstart event, and verifies their
status-pulse animations share the intended timeline. Keep the existing
fabricated animationStartEvent unit coverage separate, and inspect actual
rendered animation state rather than calling synchronizeTerminalPulse with
mocked animations.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/ThreadStatusIndicators.tsx`:
- Line 577: Update the terminal-status indicator class in
apps/web/src/components/ThreadStatusIndicators.tsx at line 577, and the
corresponding renderer classes in apps/web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx at line
1531 and apps/web/src/components/LegacySidebar.tsx at line 829, to include
motion-reduce:animate-none alongside animate-status-pulse.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/ThreadStatusIndicators.test.ts`:
- Around line 15-19: Add a focused browser-level test around the three
TerminalIcon call sites that renders them, dispatches a real animationstart
event, and verifies their status-pulse animations share the intended timeline.
Keep the existing fabricated animationStartEvent unit coverage separate, and
inspect actual rendered animation state rather than calling
synchronizeTerminalPulse with mocked animations.

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