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TonioandClaude Fable 5.1 341b622604 feat(ui): Artifacts V1 behind an experimental setting — Artifacts page, panel tab and task thread (#17228)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agents produce artifacts: documents, files, pictures, video and
links. The app shows them on the Artifacts page, in the right panel's
Artifacts tab and in the task thread
> - The artifact directions lab (#17213) settled a presentation for
those surfaces, MVP V1, drawn from the PCLP-Core mocks. It is a
reference, not product code
> - Shipping it means product components on product data, token-only,
behind a switch, one surface at a time, so the current presentation
stays the default until the new one has been used
> - This pull request adds the switch (Settings > Experimental >
Artifacts V1), the `--artifact-*` tokens, the V1 primitives as product
components, and the V1 presentation on all three surfaces behind the
switch: the Artifacts page, the panel's Artifacts tab and the task
thread
> - The benefit is the redesign in the product, reversible by one
setting, with every existing behaviour of those surfaces kept

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public issue exists. This section follows the feature request
template; the plan is `doc/plans/2026-10-22-artifacts-mvp-v1.md`.

**Subsystem affected**

The web UI (`ui/`): the Artifacts page, the right panel's Artifacts tab
and the task thread. The experimental settings contract in
`packages/shared` and `server` gains one boolean.

**Problem or motivation**

The three artifact surfaces grew separately and their artifact
presentation is dated and inconsistent. The lab produced a measured
direction; nothing in the product uses it yet.

**Proposed solution**

An experimental setting, `enableArtifactsV1`, default off, with the same
plumbing as the other experimental settings. Product primitives under
`ui/src/components/artifacts/v1` (kind helpers and adapters, the sheet
and print artwork, the stack, the page tiles with the Paper Mono pill,
the row the panel and thread will share), driven by `--artifact-*`
tokens in `index.css` with light and dark values. With the setting on:
the Artifacts page shows one row of views (Tasks, All files, Images,
Videos, Documents, Text, Files) and the V1 tiles, a task with several
artifacts as a stack whose newest artifact is the first page, everything
else as single tiles; the panel's Artifacts tab is one flat list of V1
rows, newest first, with the expandable rows (Markdown review surface,
document annotations, deep links) keeping their behaviour behind the row
as their face; the thread shows a message's files as rows under its
footer and registered deliverables and documents as one row each. The
hover movement respects reduced motion.

**Alternatives considered**

Replacing the current cards outright: no fallback and three surfaces to
land at once. Mounting the lab's components: they are typed on lab
fixtures and keep lab-local tokens, which the token gates reject. The
primitives were ported instead and the lab stays a reference.

**Roadmap alignment**

Supports the "Artifacts & Work Products" theme in `ROADMAP.md`.
Presentation only; no data model change.

**Additional context**

No new API fields: the tiles show title, identifier, count and "Updated
…"; rows take sizes from the work-product and attachment payloads; a
picture's aspect ratio comes from the loaded image, 4:3 until it loads.
The plan records what each surface keeps and what it drops (run sections
in the panel; the "Images · N / Files · N" labels and the four-up grid
in the thread).

## What Changed

- Add the `enableArtifactsV1` experimental setting: shared type,
validator and feature catalog, server defaults and managed keys, the
`useArtifactsV1Enabled` hook, and the Settings > Experimental toggle (in
its alphabetical place).
- Add the `--artifact-*` tokens and the Artifacts V1 component rules to
`ui/src/index.css`: light values on `:root`, dark overrides, and the
hover movement under `prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference`.
- Add `ui/src/components/artifacts/v1/`: `kinds.ts` (kind treatment,
labels, glyphs, the server's media-kind rule, adapters from
`CompanyArtifact`), `geometry.ts` (the measured constants), `when.ts`,
`ArtifactSheet`, `ArtifactPrint`, `ArtifactStack`, `ArtifactFront`,
`ArtifactTile` (stack and single tiles, caption, grid), `ArtifactRow`
(the row and its inline group), `ArtifactsV1Filters`, with the mock's
SVG assets.
- Wire the Artifacts page: with the setting on, the toolbar's filter row
becomes the V1 views and the grid renders V1 tiles; the toolbar takes an
optional `filters` row for this. The old cards and kind filters stay the
default.
- Wire the panel's Artifacts tab (`IssuePropertiesArtifactsTab`): with
the setting on, one flat list of V1 rows, newest first; `DocumentRow`
and `MarkdownWorkProductRow` take a `face` render prop so the V1 row
fronts their unchanged expansion, review and deep-link behaviour;
`PanelFileRow` opens attachments and attachment-backed work products the
way the shipped card does (gallery, text tab, new tab) with open and
download beside the name; other work products are a link row with their
status.
- Wire the task thread: `TaskChatBubble` hangs a message's files under
its footer as V1 rows inline (pictures and video to the gallery, text to
a text tab, files to a new tab) in place of the media grid and file
chips; `TaskChatProtocolCard`'s resource rows render deliverables,
documents and attachments as one V1 row each, opening where the card
did.
- `ArtifactRow` keeps trailing controls beside its own control (no
nested interactive elements) and can be a link, an in-app anchor, a
new-tab anchor or a button; adapters read work products, documents,
attachments and message references.
- Add a catalogued Storybook story, `Components/Artifact V1 primitives`,
under `documents-artifacts`, on fixtures.
- Add tests: the primitives (kinds, dates, print fitting, tiles, rows),
the hook, the Artifacts page, the panel's Artifacts tab, the task-chat
bubble and the protocol card, each with the setting on and off; the
settings page and server tests list the new key.
- Add `doc/plans/2026-10-22-artifacts-mvp-v1.md`.

## Verification

- Run `cd ui && pnpm typecheck`: the Storybook catalog accepts the new
story, and `tsc -b` is clean apart from the five pre-existing
`PluginOrganizationSwitcher` errors.
- Run `pnpm check:token-gates` and `node scripts/check-maps.mjs`: clean.
- Run `cd ui && npx vitest run src/components/artifacts
src/components/issue-properties
src/components/task-chat/TaskChatBubble.test.tsx
src/components/task-chat/TaskChatBubble.artifactsV1.test.tsx
src/components/task-chat/TaskChatProtocolCard.test.tsx
src/components/task-chat/TaskChatProtocolCard.artifactsV1.test.tsx
src/pages/Artifacts.test.tsx src/hooks/useArtifactsV1Enabled.test.ts
src/pages/InstanceExperimentalSettings.test.tsx`: the suites pass (151
tests in the last run).
- Run `cd packages/shared && npx vitest run src/feature-catalog.test.ts`
and `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/instance-settings-service.test.ts`: pass.
- Manual: open Settings > Experimental, turn on Artifacts V1. On the
Artifacts page the view row reads Tasks, All files, Images, Videos,
Documents, Text, Files; tasks with several artifacts show as stacks,
hovering fans the pages and lifts the artwork (not under reduced
motion); Images shows single tiles with bordered prints. Open a task's
Artifacts tab: one list of rows, newest first; a Markdown work product
still expands into its review surface, a document still opens in its
tab. In the thread, a message's files sit under its footer as rows. Turn
the setting off: everything returns to the current presentation.
- Storybook: `Tasks and conversations / Documents, attachments, and work
products / Components / Artifact V1 primitives`.
- Not run: the full `pnpm test:run` and `pnpm build` (CI runs them), and
a browser pass against a dev instance with real artifacts on the three
surfaces; that pass is the remaining step before this leaves draft.

## Risks

- Off by default; with the setting off, the only changes on a product
path are an optional `filters` prop on the toolbar, an optional `face`
prop on two panel rows, a read of the setting in the bubble and the
protocol card, and the new token declarations.
- With the setting on, the Artifacts page's view tabs set two URL
parameters (`groupBy`, `kind`) at once; the group-by menu and search are
unchanged.
- A picture with unknown dimensions renders at 4:3 until it loads, then
the print refits once; the frame's height is fixed so nothing below it
moves.
- About thirty new `--artifact-*` tokens, namespaced and documented in
place.

## Model Used

- Claude Fable 5.1 by Anthropic, model ID `claude-fable-5-1`, used
through Claude Code in the desktop app. Extended reasoning was on.
Capabilities used: tool use (shell, file edits, a headless Playwright
browser for the lab's measurements, the Figma MCP server for the mocks
during the lab work) and image input. The context window is the Claude
Code session's; its exact size is not surfaced to the session.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above (#17213 is the lab this builds on)
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass (the suites listed above;
CI runs the full set)
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes (the
plan document; no command or product behaviour changes outside the
setting)
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-22 15:14:58 -07:00
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