feat(web): render mermaid diagrams in pull request bodies

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What Changed

mermaid fences in GitHub-authored markdown now render as diagrams in the pull request panel. That covers bodies, comments, and review annotations, since all of them go through PullRequestMarkdown. While a diagram renders, or when it cannot parse, the block shows the highlighted source it showed before. The copy button still copies the source.

flowchart LR
  Fence["mermaid fence"] --> Pre["ChatMarkdown pre renderer"]
  Pre -->|"mermaidDiagrams off or streaming"| Code["Highlighted source"]
  Pre -->|"mermaidDiagrams on"| Cache{"SVG cached?"}
  Cache -->|hit| Draw["Diagram"]
  Cache -->|miss| Render["Lazy import, serialized render"]
  Render --> Draw
  Render -->|parse error| Code

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• Mermaid loads through a dynamic import, so it stays out of the main bundle.
• Rendered SVG is cached per source and theme in an LRU. Scrolling a long body remounts its diagrams, and mermaid's layout pass is the expensive part.
• Mermaid's config and render target are module-global, so renders run one at a time instead of overwriting each other's theme. A failed diagram does not block the ones after it.
• securityLevel: "strict": pull request bodies are attacker-controlled, so mermaid's DOMPurify pass stays on and click/script directives stay off.
• Rendering is opt-in through a mermaidDiagrams prop, so chat rendering is unchanged. Streaming text keeps showing source, since a half-written diagram cannot parse.
• Desktop gets this from web. Mobile has no pull request body view.

Why

GitHub draws a mermaid fence in a pull request body as a diagram, so authors write them expecting a diagram. The panel showed the raw source instead.

This replaces #10104 with a smaller change: no source/diagram toggle, and less code around the renderer. Most of the diff is pnpm-lock.yaml entries for mermaid's dependencies (d3, cytoscape, and their types). The source change is about 120 lines plus a test.

UI Changes

Screenshots are from #10104 and show the same rendering. That version also had a source toggle in the block toolbar, which this PR drops.

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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 (nothing here animates)

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Verified with focused tests for the render cache, concurrent dedupe, per-theme reconfigure, and failure recovery, plus the existing markdown suites. Web typecheck, knip, lint, and format are clean.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Mermaid diagrams now render in pull request Markdown when supported fenced code blocks are present. Diagrams adapt to the active light or dark theme, and the original code block remains visible if rendering fails.
  • Diagrams fit the available width where possible; wider diagrams can overflow rather than being compressed. Rendering is skipped while a response is streaming.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a substantial Mermaid rendering integration and changes the standard pull-request markdown experience across bodies, comments, annotations, and previews. It also introduces a security-sensitive SVG rendering path for untrusted content, so the production behavior and dependency surface warrant human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The web app can render eligible Mermaid code fences in Markdown as SVG. Rendering uses a bounded cache keyed by theme and source. Pull request Markdown enables diagram rendering.

Changes

Mermaid Markdown rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
SVG rendering and cache apps/web/package.json, apps/web/src/lib/mermaid.ts, apps/web/src/lib/mermaid.test.ts	Adds Mermaid as a dependency and adds serialized SVG rendering with a bounded cache. Tests cover cache reuse, concurrent render deduplication, theme separation, and recovery after a render failure.
Markdown diagram rendering apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/MermaidDiagram.tsx, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/index.css	Adds an opt-in mermaidDiagrams setting. Eligible fences pass their source to MermaidDiagram, which displays a cached or rendered SVG and falls back to the existing content. Pull request Markdown enables rendering. CSS constrains SVG sizing.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatMarkdown
  participant MarkdownPre
  participant MermaidDiagram
  participant renderMermaidSvg
  participant Mermaid
  ChatMarkdown->>MarkdownPre: Pass diagram setting and rendering state
  MarkdownPre->>MermaidDiagram: Pass source for eligible Mermaid fences
  MermaidDiagram->>renderMermaidSvg: Request SVG when cache lookup misses
  renderMermaidSvg->>Mermaid: Initialize and render diagram
  Mermaid-->>renderMermaidSvg: Return SVG
  renderMermaidSvg-->>MermaidDiagram: Return SVG
  MermaidDiagram-->>MarkdownPre: Display SVG or fallback content

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d12ca

No concrete issue remains that should prevent merging the Mermaid rendering change after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e9590

Rendering diagrams from pull-request content adds a browser security and availability dependency. Strict rendering controls are configured, but a diagram-heavy body can still queue work after the viewer leaves the panel. The likely impact is limited to the viewer’s app session.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Attacker-authored pull-request Markdown can enqueue distinct diagram renders without a visible work limit; leaving the panel suppresses stale updates but does not cancel queued rendering. A diagram-heavy body could degrade that viewer’s app session.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new rendering path affects viewers of pull-request bodies and comments that use PullRequestMarkdown. The evidenced sink and render queue are in the web client; no service credential, server-side rendering path, or cross-service change was established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A pull-request author can place distinct Mermaid fences in content that reaches the client render queue. The cache limits stored SVG, while queued work survives component unmount; this is an availability path, not a demonstrated script-execution or data-exfiltration path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The source fallback, non-streaming gate, strict Mermaid configuration, theme-keyed cache, and failed-render recovery are visible controls before or around SVG insertion. The upstream producer’s normalization and the dependency’s effective sanitizer behavior are not established by the scoped source.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Unmount cleanup blocks stale React state updates, whereas the serialized render continues; queue rejection recovery prevents one parse failure from blocking later diagrams.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Bound diagram source size and per-view render work, and avoid processing queued work for views no longer displayed. Separately validate the dependency’s strict sanitizer against representative hostile Mermaid syntax before treating it as a proven browser boundary.

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: rendering Mermaid diagrams in pull request bodies.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes all required sections, explains the change and rationale, documents UI changes with before/after screenshots, and completes the checklist. It also provides relevant implementa…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 5 files.
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.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/MermaidDiagram.tsx`:
- Around line 39-43: Remove the outer role="img" and fixed aria-label from the
MermaidDiagram SVG container so assistive technology can use Mermaid’s accTitle
or accDescr metadata. Leave the SVG rendering and other container attributes
unchanged.
- Around line 36-43: Update the successful-render branch in MermaidDiagram so
readers can switch between the rendered SVG and the highlighted source in
children. Add a clearly labelled toggle, and render children when source view is
selected while preserving the current SVG view by default.

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