fix(web): keep error banners above the workspace panel

[NikitaMGrimm]

Problem

When the main sidebar is open, the chat is narrow enough that the thread details card opens as a floating workspace panel. That panel covers the provider-status and thread error banners, so the message is cut off and the banner's × cannot be clicked: the click lands on the panel's "Run context" button instead.

Change

The banners were at z-20, while the floating workspace panel shared the docked-sheet layer (--z-sheet, 46). This PR gives each of the three its own named layer in index.css: workspace panel (44), then chat banners (45), then docked sheets (46, unchanged).

Moving only the banners up was not enough. Lifting them above 46 would also put them over the mobile-web sidebar and the narrow-window right panel sheet, which share that layer. With the new order, banners sit above the workspace panel and stay below sheets, the preview mini-player (47–49), and dialogs and popovers (50 and up). The panel stays above the timeline overlays at 40.

Clicking × still closes the floating workspace panel as well as the banner. The floating panel closes on any outside press, and the banner is outside it. The docked card does not, so it stays open. That is existing panel behavior, not part of this overlap, so this PR leaves it alone.

Scope and approval

Submitted under the very small, focused fix for an obvious bug exception. The change is a layer order across three lines. It follows #15454, which moved workspace panels below dialogs but left error banners beneath the panel.

It is complementary to #17094 (fixing #17052), which moved the banners into the chat lane beside the docked details card. The floating panel does not shift that lane, so on current main it still covers the banner. This branch is rebased on #17094 and keeps its chat-banner-lane class.

Verification

All checks used T3's Browser panel against an isolated worktree database, with a stub Claude binary that produces a provider-status warning banner.

• Workspace panel (1100×760, main sidebar open, thread details in popover mode). I checked document.elementFromPoint at the center of × and on the banner text.
  • Before, on main at 454b94a13a (includes fix(web): keep chat banners inside the lane beside the docked details card #17094): both points return the workspace panel.
  • After: both return the banner, and a real click on × dismisses it.
• Docked sheets (960×760, right panel sheet open). Points across the banner return the sheet, so sheets still cover banners.
• Checks. vp lint on ChatView.tsx and popover.tsx reports no errors; existing React Compiler warnings in ChatView.tsx remain. vp fmt --check passes on the three changed files.
• After rebasing onto main at 5f7294d452. fix(web): find bar and thread details panel stop covering each other #17858 rewrote the panel's positioner line in popover.tsx. The rebase keeps that line and changes only its layer token. Lint and format checks were re-run on the rebased head; the Browser panel checks above were run before this rebase and not repeated.
• Not covered. No automated test was added: the fix is a stacking order, which jsdom does not compute, and asserting class strings would only mirror the implementation. Typecheck was not run, since only class strings, CSS variables, and comments changed. Native Electron and React Native clients were not run. Desktop wraps this web UI; mobile has a separate UI without this panel.
• Trade-off at the top right. Where the find bar (z-40) and a banner overlap, the banner now draws over the find bar. Before, the find bar covered the banner's ×. Now the × is reachable, dismissing the banner uncovers the find bar, and Escape still closes Find.

Note

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 75ee2c2

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, self-contained stacking-order fix that makes existing error banners clickable above the floating workspace panel while preserving sheets and higher-priority overlays. It changes no APIs, data handling, product settings, or static-analysis configuration.

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📝 Walkthrough

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Walkthrough

The app defines separate z-index tokens for floating panels and chat banners. The panel popover and chat banner lane use these tokens.

Changes

Floating panel and chat banner stacking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define and apply stacking tokens apps/web/src/index.css, apps/web/src/components/ui/popover.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx	The app sets the floating panel level to 44 and the chat banner level to 45. The panel popover and chat banner lane use their respective tokens. The docked sheet level remains 46.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

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Dismissing a chat banner also closes the floating workspace panel, which may disrupt the current interaction but is recoverable. The PR is mergeable with awareness of this behavior.

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🤖 gpt-6.1-sol responding on behalf of NikitaMGrimm

The original stacking-only fix is 6ac3624: one file, 2 insertions and 2 deletions. It changes the existing banner wrapper from z-20 to z-[49] and updates the nearby comment. That commit alone fixes the overlap and makes the error and its close button accessible above the workspace panel.

Keeping the workspace panel open when interacting with or dismissing an error is isolated in 89d0c5a, along with its regression tests. If you prefer the existing outside-click dismissal behavior, you can take only the first commit for the smaller overlap fix.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx:
- Line 11358: Update the outside-press handling for the workspace panel near the
chat-banner lane so presses targeting provider-status or thread-error banners,
including their close buttons, do not dismiss the panel. Preserve dismissal for
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Reopening, this was closed by mistake. Sorry for the noise!

Dismissing prior approval to re-evaluate 75ee2c2