feat(web): reopen closed tabs across the app

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Replaces #13063 after the orchestrator V2 transition. GitHub refused reopening the original. Julius approved the original scope and requested a fresh PR on the V2 base. This replacement still needs review of its V2 implementation.

Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T reopens the last closed app tab, even after switching threads or opening Settings. It covers file, diff, pull request, browser, and device tabs, including tabs on the Pull Requests page. Implements discussion #12637.

Shared history keeps the last 20 closed tabs and returns to the owning thread or page. Reopening skips tabs already open and keeps failed restores available to retry. Browser tabs enter history only after their close succeeds, so a failed close cannot evict older history. The view.reopenClosed command is editable in Settings → Key Bindings and works while a terminal or desktop browser has focus. Hiding a panel or terminal drawer and closing a terminal do not add to tab history.

Browser tabs reopen their saved page, profile, and viewport in a new session; page history is not restored. Incognito reopen entries stay in memory until reload or exit and are excluded from saved history. Older saved incognito entries are removed on upgrade. This shortcut does not undo deleted work. Browsers may reserve Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T, so choose another binding if the browser takes it first.

Verified on revision de772831673b49de1ac0ccf982b9707d1f5f87f6, merged with current main at b38aa18365fe314e079d99670932bedfc7407e5a. All 394 focused history, reopening, panel, keybinding, desktop preview, and CDP relay tests pass. Web, desktop, contracts, and shared type checks pass, along with changed-file lint and formatting. Ponytail review returned Lean already. Ship. before each commit. Private-history and navigation-failure regressions failed before their fixes. CI and automated reviews are running for the updated head.

Original before/after evidence:

Model: GPT-6.1 Sol High. Harness: native Codex.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a cross-cutting closed-view history and restore workflow spanning persisted web state, panel lifecycle behavior, browser recreation, routing, and desktop IPC. It also adds a new default keyboard binding, so the product-default change and broad runtime scope require human review.

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The change adds persisted closed-view history and a mod+shift+t command to reopen eligible views. It records panel and browser closures, restores supported views, and forwards configured shortcuts from focused desktop preview content to the host window.

Changes

Closed-view history and restoration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shortcut command and matching packages/contracts/src/keybindings.ts, packages/shared/src/keybindings.ts, apps/web/src/keybindings.ts, apps/web/src/lib/utils.ts, apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts, apps/web/src/keybindings.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/KeybindingsSettings.logic.ts, docs/user/keybindings.md	Adds the view.reopenClosed command and shared key matching utilities. The web layer exposes all effective shortcuts for a command and uses the shared matching helpers. The settings label and documentation describe the command.
Closed-view recording and persistence apps/web/src/closedViewStore.ts, apps/web/src/rightPanelStore.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/closePreviewSession.ts, related tests	Persists up to 20 closed-view entries. Eligible panel and browser closures are recorded after successful closure.
Reopen planning and shortcut handling apps/web/src/reopenClosedView.ts, apps/web/src/components/ReopenClosedViewShortcut.tsx, apps/web/src/routes/__root.tsx, related tests	Selects and restores eligible entries through the shortcut or desktop menu action. The root route mounts the shortcut component.
Desktop preview shortcut forwarding packages/contracts/src/ipc.ts, apps/desktop/src/ipc/*, apps/desktop/src/preload.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts, related tests	Adds the bridge and IPC method for forwarded shortcuts. PreviewManager matches focused guest keydowns and sends eligible commands to the host window.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ReopenClosedViewShortcut
  participant ClosedViewStore
  participant ReopenClosedView
  participant RightPanelStore
  User->>ReopenClosedViewShortcut: Press reopen shortcut
  ReopenClosedViewShortcut->>ClosedViewStore: Read and plan history entry
  ReopenClosedViewShortcut->>ReopenClosedView: Restore selected view
  ReopenClosedView->>RightPanelStore: Open supported panel surface
  ReopenClosedViewShortcut->>ClosedViewStore: Remove restored entry

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Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#13063: Implements the same reopen-closed-tabs behavior, including shared history, a keyboard command, and desktop shortcut forwarding.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 62695

Failed tabs remain retryable without blocking older tabs, and malformed saved history no longer prevents migration. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 62695

Ordinary closed-tab metadata becomes persistent, while private-tab entries remain excluded from saved history. Reopening follows the existing session-creation path, and failed restores remain retryable. No introduced security bypass was established, but protection of saved metadata has not been fully confirmed.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new retention surface is the app's local history, which can contain references and browsing metadata from multiple connected environments. Normal capture is limited to 20 entries. Restores can create sessions through existing environment-specific commands, but the inspected path does not add server privileges or restore saved agent ownership.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Saved navigation URLs reach the existing preview-open handler, whose manager applies URL normalization. Preview opening remains mapped to the orchestration-operate scope, and the existing authorization middleware checks connection scopes. These controls are unchanged from the PR base; this inspection does not establish finer-grained thread authorization.
• observed — Desktop forwarding requires a focused guest, a live host, a matching key-down event and no composition; auto-repeat does not send another command. Configuration is schema-bounded, and the inspected guest preferences retain sandboxing with Node integration disabled. These are counterevidence to treating shortcut forwarding as arbitrary page-controlled authority, not proof of the packaged preload boundary.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider applying validation, incognito exclusion and the history bound on every hydration path, including current-version data, to make persistence invariants explicit as the format evolves. This is defensive hardening, not an established disclosure or authorization flaw.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: reopening closed tabs across the app.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem and change, links the related discussion and prior scope approval, reports focused verification results and limitations, and includes before-and-after screenshots.…
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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the entry available for retry but move it behind older history so it no longer
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Addressed the current review summary in three commits, while preserving the original reopen-tab feature and media.

• f318bd5e66 merges current main. Shortcut forwarding remains in the desktop preview manager; main now drives browser automation through its server/CDP path, so the removed native automation code and its old fixtures stay removed.
• d8294f032e keeps incognito closed-tab descriptors in memory only. Persistence excludes their URLs and titles, and a versioned migration removes older saved private entries. Both regression tests failed before the fix.
• de77283167 removes a successfully restored tab from history before route navigation. A navigation failure can no longer create another browser session on the next reopen press. The regression failed before the fix and verifies that older history remains reachable.

All 394 focused tests pass. Web, desktop, contracts, and shared type checks pass. Changed-file lint and formatting pass. Ponytail review returned Lean already. Ship. before each commit. No browser or computer-use checks were run. CI and automated reviews are running for the new head.

The low-priority interruption concern does not give client storage and a server RPC an atomic commit. This change closes the demonstrated navigation-failure window; a process exit before the browser-open RPC result reaches the client remains a general RPC recovery limit.

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Reviewed at 626958b. The scope was approved on #13063, and this V2 implementation holds up.

• Tabs are recorded in the right places. Panel closes are captured once, in the right-panel store, through closeAction. Thread removal and hiding a panel don't add to history, and browser tabs are recorded only after their close succeeds.
• Reopening skips tabs that are already open, stops instead of guessing while the environment catalog is still loading, and moves a failed restore to the back of history so it can be retried.
• Moving the keyboard-matching helpers into @t3tools/shared lets the desktop preview forward the shortcut using the same matching rules as the web app.
• Persistence is migrated and validated. Incognito tabs never reach storage.
• I checked every bot finding against this head, and all of them are addressed.

The focused tests pass locally: 281 web tests across seven files and 95 desktop preview-manager tests. CI is green.