feat(web): add previous/next turn navigation in minimap

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What Changed

• Added previous and next turn chevrons above and below the thread minimap.
• The controls follow the minimap's current visible turn marker and preserve its existing animated jump behavior.
• Added focused render coverage for both controls.

Why

Long threads are easier to scan when the minimap supports stepping through turns without needing to target individual markers.

UI Changes

Before:

After:

minimap.mp4

UPDATE: Updated to show the buttons on hover only

hover-minimap.mov

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Note

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Add resolveTimelineMinimapCurrentIndex resolver for chat minimap

Adds a resolver in MessagesTimeline.logic.ts that calculates the current timeline item based on the reader's scroll position. It returns the first item intersecting the viewport, or the last item positioned just above it if the viewport falls between items.

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Note

Low Risk
Localized chat UI and scroll math with tests; navigation reuses existing minimap jump behavior without touching auth or data paths.

Overview
Adds Previous turn / Next turn chevron controls on the thread minimap so readers can step between user turns without aiming at individual markers.

Scroll handling now derives a current turn index via new resolveTimelineMinimapCurrentIndex (first in-view minimap marker, or the last turn above the viewport). That index is passed into TimelineMinimap, which enables/disables the step buttons and uses it as the keyboard-focus default when the rail is focused. Clicks still use the existing animated scrollToIndex jump and onManualNavigation path.

The minimap layout is refactored slightly: navigation buttons sit outside the main hit-target button, with tests covering control markup and current-index resolution edge cases.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • The chat timeline minimap now highlights the currently visible conversation turn.
  • Added Previous turn and Next turn controls for quickly navigating between turns.
  • Navigation controls are disabled when there are no earlier or later turns.
  • Selecting the minimap jump control now focuses on the turn currently visible in the timeline.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The timeline minimap now resolves the visible turn from scroll bounds and provides previous and next turn controls. Tests cover control rendering and current-index resolution.

Changes

Timeline minimap navigation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Visible item index resolution apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.test.tsx	Adds resolveTimelineMinimapCurrentIndex to select the first visible marker or the nearest preceding marker. Tests cover resolved indexes and the null result.
Minimap state and navigation apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.test.tsx	Scroll handling updates the current minimap index. The minimap renders previous and next turn controls, disables controls at the boundaries, and focuses the resolved item. Tests verify both controls.
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate)	~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cdd73

The new turn controls work but remain hidden when users hover the minimap, making navigation difficult to discover. Fixing the hover trigger is recommended before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TimelineScroll
  participant resolveTimelineMinimapCurrentIndex
  participant TimelineMinimap
  TimelineScroll->>resolveTimelineMinimapCurrentIndex: provide viewport bounds and item bounds
  resolveTimelineMinimapCurrentIndex-->>TimelineScroll: return current item index
  TimelineScroll->>TimelineMinimap: pass currentIndex
  TimelineMinimap->>TimelineMinimap: render adjacent navigation controls

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks, t3dotgg

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the change and rationale, includes UI screenshots and an interaction video, and completes all checklist items.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: adding previous and next turn navigation to the minimap.
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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Reviewed the minimap turn-navigation changes against the shared UI primitives and the existing minimap interaction contract. Two findings, both in apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx.

• The current-turn index is derived from the last in-view turn, which makes Next skip turns and Previous a near no-op.
• The new nav Button re-declares most of what size="icon-micro" + variant="ghost-muted" already own.

Also worth noting (no inline comment): every other minimap computation (resolveTimelineMinimapHitStripWidth, resolveTimelineMinimapIndexFromPointer, ...) lives in MessagesTimeline.logic.ts and is unit-tested in MessagesTimeline.test.tsx. The new current-index resolution is inline in the scroll handler and the added test only asserts that the two aria-labels render, so the state transition that drives both buttons (and their disabled edges) is untested. Extracting it next to the sibling helpers would let it be covered the same way.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds new production chat navigation controls and changes minimap scroll/focus behavior, rather than making a mechanical or off-by-default change. The supplied unresolved Medium finding also concerns keyboard visibility of the new controls, although the current head appears to contain its requested CSS fix.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx`:
- Line 1232: Update the chevron visibility classes near the minimap controls to
use the existing group/minimap hover and focus state instead of the chevron’s
own hover state. Ensure the controls become visible when the minimap root is
hovered or focused, including when hasPersistentGutter is true, while preserving
the existing opacity transition.

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