feat: add setting to keep AI groups expanded after context navigation

[voidless]

Summary

Navigating from the Visible Context panel temporarily expands the target AI group to show the highlighted turn or tool, but it collapses again once the 2-second highlight fades. This makes it hard to inspect the content you just navigated to.

A new "Keep expanded after context navigation" toggle (Settings > General, off by default) calls expandAIGroupForTab alongside the highlight so the group stays open until manually collapsed.

Changes

• Add keepContextNavExpanded to DisplayConfig with default false
• Wire the setting through config validation, safe config, and reset defaults
• In ChatHistory, read the flag during turn and tool navigation handlers and persist expansion when enabled
• Add toggle to General settings section using existing onDisplayToggle handler
• Update test mock with the new config key

Test plan

• Toggle OFF (default): navigate from Visible Context panel — group expands briefly, collapses after highlight fades (existing behavior unchanged)
• Toggle ON: navigate from Visible Context panel — group stays expanded after highlight fades
• Toggle ON: navigate to a tool within an AI group — group stays expanded, tool is highlighted
• Setting persists after restarting the app
• Reset to defaults reverts the toggle to OFF

Summary by CodeRabbit

Release Notes

• New Features
  • Added a new display setting "Keep expanded after context navigation" in General settings. When enabled, AI groups remain expanded when navigating between turns and tools from the Visible Context panel.

[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request introduces a new configuration setting, keepContextNavExpanded, which allows AI response groups to remain expanded after navigating to them from the Visible Context panel. The implementation includes updates to configuration validation, default settings, the settings UI, and the navigation logic within the chat history component. Review feedback suggests refactoring the repeated state access for this new setting into a memoized variable or custom hook to improve code maintainability and readability.

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• src/main/ipc/configValidation.ts
• src/main/services/infrastructure/ConfigManager.ts
• src/renderer/components/chat/ChatHistory.tsx
• src/renderer/components/settings/SettingsView.tsx
• src/renderer/components/settings/hooks/useSettingsConfig.ts
• src/renderer/components/settings/hooks/useSettingsHandlers.ts
• src/renderer/components/settings/sections/GeneralSection.tsx
• src/shared/types/notifications.ts
• test/mocks/electronAPI.ts

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

A new boolean configuration setting keepContextNavExpanded has been introduced across the application. This setting allows users to preserve expanded AI groups after navigating from the Visible Context panel. The feature includes configuration validation, persistence, a UI toggle in the Settings panel, and conditional expansion logic in the ChatHistory component.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Configuration & Type Definitions src/shared/types/notifications.ts, src/main/ipc/configValidation.ts, src/main/services/infrastructure/ConfigManager.ts	Added keepContextNavExpanded boolean property to AppConfig.display, extended config validation to accept the new field, and initialized it in the default configuration with value false.
Settings UI src/renderer/components/settings/SettingsView.tsx, src/renderer/components/settings/sections/GeneralSection.tsx, src/renderer/components/settings/hooks/useSettingsConfig.ts, src/renderer/components/settings/hooks/useSettingsHandlers.ts	Added UI toggle in GeneralSection for the new setting, wired display toggle handlers through SettingsView, exposed the setting in SafeConfig with safe fallbacks, and updated default reset values to include the new field.
Feature Implementation src/renderer/components/chat/ChatHistory.tsx	Conditionally calls expandAIGroup when navigating to a turn or tool if keepContextNavExpanded is enabled, with updated hook dependencies.
Test Mocks test/mocks/electronAPI.ts	Added keepContextNavExpanded with default value false to the mocked config object.

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