hermes-agent/apps
Brooklyn Nicholson a7e6a4fc0b perf(desktop): fix "Enter jumps up" on long threads
User reported: after pressing Enter on a long thread, the view jumps up
— the just-submitted message disappears below the fold. Confirmed via
apps/desktop/scripts/measure-jump.mjs:

  before:  distFromBottom 0 → 49.5px, sticks there permanently
  after:   distFromBottom 0 → ~0 (worst case 4px for one frame)

Root cause in useThreadScrollAnchor (thread-virtualizer.tsx):

1. The sticky-bottom logic disarmed on any scroll event where
   `scrollTop < lastTopRef.current`. That check can't distinguish a
   user scrolling up from a programmatic `pinToBottom` write that
   the browser clamped short of bottom (because content also grew in
   the same frame, so `scrollTop = scrollHeight` lands at
   `scrollHeight - clientHeight` for the OLD scrollHeight, which is
   now below the NEW scrollHeight). Result: sticky-bottom disarmed
   permanently on the user's first submit.

2. There was no synchronous pin tied to React's commit phase. By the
   time the ResizeObserver fired and re-pinned, the user had already
   seen ~50ms of "message below the fold" — visually that reads as the
   view jumping up.

Fix:

- `programmaticScrollPendingRef` counter tracks scroll events we
  expect to be ours (one per `pinToBottom` write). The scroll handler
  skips the disarm check when consuming a pending tick, keeps the
  arm bit true, and re-pins synchronously if the browser clamped us
  short of bottom. A depth cap (8) breaks runaway loops in
  pathological streaming-burst layouts.

- `useLayoutEffect` on `groupCount` increase pins BEFORE the browser
  paints, eliminating the visible ~50ms window between optimistic
  user-message insert and the RO/scroll-event chain firing.

Verified on the long Cloud Shadows thread (7-8 turns, ~11k px tall):
all three repro runs now hold within 0–4 px of bottom across the
post-Enter transition. Submit latency unchanged (paint 77–107 ms),
streaming-typing latency unchanged.

Also adds three debug harnesses:
  - measure-jump.mjs   — sample thread scroll across Enter
  - probe-thread.mjs   — dump current thread / scroll state
  - diag-jump.mjs      — intercept scrollTop + RO + mutations across Enter
2026-05-21 17:45:55 -05:00
..
dashboard Merge branch 'main' into bb/gui 2026-05-20 16:01:41 -04:00
desktop perf(desktop): fix "Enter jumps up" on long threads 2026-05-21 17:45:55 -05:00
shared feat: move dashboard to apps/ so we can share ws proto 2026-05-02 13:38:49 -05:00