Multi-step UX refactor of the assistant chat session screen, run via the
$impeccable skill. Heuristic score moved 24/40 → 33/40 (+9), with the biggest
gains on Aesthetic & Minimalist (1→3), Consistency & Standards (1→3), and
Recognition Rather Than Recall (2→4).
Distill — chat region:
- Remove the "Suggested checks" chip strip + selected-chip detail card; the
TaskLane is the single canonical home for "what to do next"
- Add an inline Next steps · N pending cue above the latest action-bearing
AI bubble (anchors attention without duplicating the lane's items)
- Link banner ↔ script-panel lifecycle: collapsing or dismissing the
ProposalBanner now also hides the InlineNoTemplateDialog / TemplateMatchPanel
- Drop backdrop-blur on the handoff-context overlay (DESIGN-SYSTEM hard rule)
Quieter — drop decoration overshoot:
- Remove 3px side stripes on TaskLane done cards, all 6 ProposalBanner modes,
WhatWeKnowItem fact rows
- Drop bg-gradient surfaces on WhatWeKnow + every ProposalBanner mode
- Drop 2px accent borderTop on the TaskLane header
- Replace bordered avatar boxes in banners with inline state-colored icons
- Each surface now uses a single decoration channel (top border + inline icon)
Layout:
- Header consolidates to Resolve + Escalate + ⋯ kebab; Context, New Ticket,
Update Ticket, Pause now live behind the kebab on desktop, with feature
parity in the existing mobile overflow menu
- Messages column anchors to max-w-3xl mx-auto to match the composer
- Chat bubbles drop from rounded-2xl to rounded-xl for vocabulary alignment
Typeset:
- Unify text sizing from 14 distinct sizes (with sub-pixel oddities and
rem/px duplicates) to a 5-step scale: 10px / 11px / text-xs / 13px / text-sm
WhatWeKnow collapsible:
- Header is now a toggle; section body hides when collapsed
- Auto-collapses on first render when facts ≥ 5 so Questions / Diagnostic
Checks stay above the fold
- Engineer's choice persists in sessionStorage per session and beats the
auto-collapse heuristic on subsequent renders
- key=activeChatId on both render sites resets state cleanly across sessions
Polish:
- Split MessageCircleQuestion into Pencil (question Answer CTA, write
affordance) + HelpCircle (per-check Explain toggle, universal help icon) —
same icon for two different jobs was a discoverability bug
- Drop redundant text-xs from font-sans text-[0.625rem] / text-[0.6875rem]
double-class definitions; the more-specific size always wins
TaskLane keyboard flow:
- Enter submits and auto-advances to the next pending task; Shift+Enter
inserts a newline (consistent across question and action textareas — paste
events don't fire keydown, so paste-then-Enter still works as expected)
- Esc cancels (same as the Cancel button)
- After the last pending task is submitted, focus moves to the Send Responses
button so the engineer can fire the whole batch with one more keystroke
- Subtle hint row under each open input teaches the shortcut
Type-check, lint, and build all clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Michael Chihlas
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