fix(web): navigate markdown images as galleries

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Markdown images in agent replies, pull request bodies/comments, and markdown file previews now open as an ordered gallery with side arrows, left/right keyboard navigation, and an image count on web and desktop. The arrows use 28px chevrons at 65% white with larger click targets. Galleries span PR sections separated by videos, preserve linked destinations and media actions, and keep the correct position for duplicate images and multiple images inside one link.

Verified in the real app with chat galleries, a 13-image PR, workspace/raw HTML images, linked and duplicate images, narrow/light layouts, and repeated keyboard events; web typecheck and 56 existing tests pass, with targeted lint reporting only existing warnings. Keyboard handlers were exercised with DOM events because native background key injection dispatched no events; the video is a low-frame-rate live preview screencast with measured capture intervals, inspected through every captured state in the uploaded player.

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Note

Open markdown images as navigable galleries in ChatMarkdown

• Registers each rendered markdown image in a WeakMap with its source, display name, and media action source so clicking an image builds a gallery from sibling images in the same scope
• Gallery builder in markdownImageGallery.ts selects the closest image-gallery or ChatMarkdown container, collects images in document order, and excludes images linked to non-image media
• Expandable-image and media-link handlers now route through the gallery helper; asynchronously resolved image results open in the surrounding gallery while video results keep existing behavior
• ExpandedImageDialog.tsx updates navigation controls to larger overlay buttons and normalizes the image offset modulo gallery length
• Risk: images rendered outside a container marked with the image-gallery scope or a ChatMarkdown root will not be collected into a gallery and fall back to single-image preview; verify any other markdown renderers that need gallery support add the scope attribute as done in PullRequestMarkdown.tsx

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added image galleries for images displayed in chat and pull request markdown.
  • Opened images can be browsed with previous and next controls, including content with duplicate image URLs.
  • Change request links can open in the dedicated pull request panel while preserving the relevant environment context.
• Bug Fixes
  • Image navigation now cycles correctly from the first image to the last and vice versa.
• Style
  • Updated expanded image navigation controls with improved overlay styling and readability.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes existing markdown-media interactions to open navigable galleries across chat and pull-request content, adding new runtime behavior in several production UI paths. The change is localized, but its user-facing scope exceeds a small self-contained adjustment.

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Walkthrough

This change adds scoped markdown image galleries. Rendered images register metadata, linked media resolves through the markdown container, and expanded dialogs navigate grouped images with bounded indexes.

Changes

Markdown image gallery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Gallery registration and resolution apps/web/src/components/chat/markdownImageGallery.ts	Registers image metadata in a WeakMap, collects scoped images in document order, resolves linked media, and builds grouped previews.
Markdown rendering integration apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestMarkdown.tsx	Registers rendered images, adds a markdown container ref, resolves selected linked images through the gallery, marks pull request markdown as an image-gallery scope, and routes change request links through the standalone panel.
Gallery dialog navigation apps/web/src/components/chat/ExpandedImageDialog.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ui/button.tsx	Wraps previous and next navigation within the image count and updates navigation, caption, and overlay button styles.

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Markdown images now open in scoped, navigable galleries, but duplicate or missing image URLs may still prevent accessibility details from opening correctly or associate them with the wrong gallery item.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatMarkdown
  participant markdownImageGallery
  participant ExpandedImageDialog
  ChatMarkdown->>markdownImageGallery: Register rendered image metadata
  ChatMarkdown->>markdownImageGallery: Build preview for selected image
  markdownImageGallery-->>ChatMarkdown: Return ordered image preview
  ChatMarkdown->>ExpandedImageDialog: Open gallery preview
  ExpandedImageDialog-->>ChatMarkdown: Navigate within preview images

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding gallery navigation for markdown images.
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- Line 2231: Update openMarkdownMedia and its markdownImageGallery call to
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142-144: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Key accessibility details by gallery item, not by item.src.

item.src is nullable, and the dialog can still have accessibility details when item.source is available. If item.src is null, the toggle stores null, so the details view never opens. The same key also conflates duplicate gallery items with different source metadata. Store the current gallery index or item identity instead.

Proposed fix

-  const [accessibilityDetailsSrc, setAccessibilityDetailsSrc] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const [accessibilityDetailsIndex, setAccessibilityDetailsIndex] = useState<number | null>(null);

-    Boolean(accessibilityDetails) && accessibilityDetailsSrc === item.src;
+    Boolean(accessibilityDetails) && accessibilityDetailsIndex === index;

-                        setAccessibilityDetailsSrc(showingAccessibilityDetails ? null : item.src)
+                        setAccessibilityDetailsIndex(showingAccessibilityDetails ? null : index)

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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/ExpandedImageDialog.tsx` around lines 142 - 144,
Key accessibility details by the current gallery item or its index rather than
item.src. Update the accessibility toggle state and the
showingAccessibilityDetails check in ExpandedImageDialog so null sources and
duplicate src values remain distinguishable, while preserving the existing
snapShotAccessibilityDetails behavior for item.source.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/ExpandedImageDialog.tsx`:
- Around line 142-144: Key accessibility details by the current gallery item or
its index rather than item.src. Update the accessibility toggle state and the
showingAccessibilityDetails check in ExpandedImageDialog so null sources and
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