The Share popover is one flow: Online (the file is published to the server in
Preferences and the server names its links with short codes) or Local network
(the app hosts; the code carries its address and the session's secret), one
Start sharing button, the code large with Copy code and Copy link, who is here,
can edit / can view, and Stop sharing. Join with a code is one field in the
popover, on the home screen and in the Join dialog, for a code of either kind
or an invite link.
Protocol (within version 2, new variants last): Resolve / Resolved and Admin
code. The server keeps a stretched hash and the wrapped token, never the code,
and limits wrong codes per address (with a lockout) and for everyone. Older
servers leave the links in place of a code; older apps join by link.
collab.share, collab.join {code}, code and share in collab.peers; the server
preference defaults to the built-in server and can be reset or turned off.
Live sessions are per document instead of one for the whole app.
- **Engine** (`crates/engine/src/live.rs`): `Session.live` is now `Lives`: the app-wide parts (the
installed link, the invite-link registration) plus one `Live` per session. One place resolves
"the session of this document": `Session::live()` (the active document's; status off when it
has none), `live_mut()`, `live_of(uid)`. Sync, undo, read-only checks, follow, cursor chat,
spotlight and presence all go through the session of the document they are about, so edits and
presence never cross. Sessions behind the active tab keep syncing; your presence there is empty.
- **Link** (`LiveLink`): every call takes the `SessionId` the engine picked and `poll` returns
`(SessionId, Event)`, so one link carries several sessions. The desktop link and the browser
link keep them in a shared table with one mailbox per session
(`crates/collab-net/src/sessions.rs`); each hosted document listens on its own port.
- **Commands**: `collab.*` act on the active document's session; no parameters changed.
`collab.peers` keeps its shape and gains `session` (its id, null when the document isn't in
one) and `sessions` (every session: `{session, document, status, reason, role, fileName, link,
peers}`). `collab.join` returns the new session and opens its file in a tab of its own without
touching other sessions; until then (or if it fails) it shows on the tab it was started from.
Starting a session for a document replaces only that document's own session. Closing a document
ends its session only.
- **UI** (`crates/ui-egui/src/live.rs`): the Share popover, avatars, cursors, chat, spotlight
banner, follow frame and read-only reason read the session of the tab in front, per window. What
belongs to one session in the window (cursors shown, your chat box, a report being written) is
dropped when another tab comes to the front. `ui.inspect`'s `live` gains `session` and
`sessions`. No new strings or command ids.
- **Docs**: `docs/collab-protocol.md`, `docs/mcp.md`, `docs/control-protocol.md`,
`docs/collaboration-parity.md`, `docs/gaps.md` (gap 2), `ROADMAP.md`.
Two presence features for live sessions, with no accounts needed:
- **Cursor chat.** In a live session, `/` on the canvas opens a bubble in your colour at your pointer. What you type goes to everyone as you type, and others see it next to your cursor in place of your name tag. Enter (or clicking away) sends it and closes the box. On every screen it fades a few seconds after its last change (5 s, then a 1 s fade; with reduced motion it vanishes without fading). Escape takes it back at once and doesn't deselect. A box left open without typing closes by itself. Limits: 100 characters, control characters become spaces. Agents use `collab.cursorChat {text}`.
- **Spotlight.** Your avatar (top of the right panel) now has a menu with Spotlight me / Stop spotlighting (`collab.spotlight {on?}`). Everyone else follows your view and page, using the existing follow. People who join later are told by the server and follow too. Anyone who pans, zooms or presses Escape stops following, and a canvas banner ("Hana is spotlighting", Follow) lets them follow again. A newer spotlight takes over the old one. The presenter leaving or stopping ends it. The presenter sees a banner with Stop. After a reconnect, your spotlight goes out again.
- **Protocol: signals.** New `ClientMsg::Signal {kind, text}` and `ServerMsg::Signal {client_id, signal}` carry ephemeral presence. Signals never go into the document, the log or a saved state; the server keeps only who is spotlighting, for newcomers. The server cleans each signal: unknown kinds, malformed spotlights, a client's `ready` and anything over 1 KiB are dropped, and chat is capped and has control characters replaced. The app checks what arrives again before showing it. The hub rate-limits signals per connection (20 a second, bursts of 40) and drops the excess without closing the connection.
- **Compatibility, both directions.** A client that reads signals announces it with the word `signals` in its hello's `client_version`, and the server sends signals only to those clients, so older clients never see a message they can't decode. A server that takes signals answers with a `ready` signal after the welcome, and the client sends signals only after that, so older servers never get one; the app says the host runs an older version. Signals are kind plus text, so clients skip kinds added later and servers drop them.
- Engine: `Live` keeps `signals`, `chats`, `chat`, `spotlight` and `spotlighting`, all reported by `collab.peers`. UI: chat bubbles, the chat box, the spotlight banner (the existing canvas banner widget), the avatar menu and `ui.inspect` fields. Keymap: `/` maps to `collab.cursorChat` (Essential). Spanish labels for both commands, plus en/es UI strings.
- Docs: collab-protocol (messages, compatibility, Presence, security limits, agents), mcp.md, collaboration-parity rows, target-app-parity, ROADMAP, gaps, ui-parity.
Clicks on a boolean group test its computed result, so a click in a subtracted hole reaches what is behind it. Layers inside a group, boolean group or instance stay in their parent when dragged (one shared rule). View > Frame outlines and Slices now draw. The idle test's flake came from the render worker clearing its in-flight flag before waking the UI; jobs now carry sequence numbers.
figcraft-server hosts many files over the same hub the app uses for sessions, persists each as a checksummed snapshot plus an append-only log (synced before replies, compacted, damaged files skipped and reported) so restarts lose nothing confirmed, and gives per-file share links with edit or view access (hashed 128-bit tokens, revocable). The app can publish a file to a server and join server-hosted files; view-only tabs refuse edits. Protocol version 2.
- Styles, variables, collections, modes and comment threads created in a live
session take ids from the creator's client space (figcraft_doc::ids: a
number from the node id allocator, client_id << 32 | counter); outside a
session ids are made exactly as before. The server refuses a new entry in
another connected client's space (removed entries can be put back by undo),
keeps removed entries in its saved state, and starts client ids above every
space used by any kind of id.
- Others' text carets and selected characters show on the canvas in their
colour at the glyph positions, with their name above the caret (no blinking,
no frames of their own). Typing in a layer someone else is typing in says so
(toast and tag); collab.peers reports who types where.
- Toasts wrap at a readable width.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- Browser client (step 4): the web build joins sessions a desktop app hosts
through the browser's WebSocket API (web-sys, binary frames, the same
message encoding). Its connection logic is a target-independent state
machine (collab-net driver.rs): hello on open, changes and presence held
until the welcome, throttled presence, keep-alive pings, a silent host
counted as dropped, reconnect with backoff, final refusals. Tested natively
against a scripted socket and a real host over loopback. Hosting stays
desktop-only (LiveLink::can_host; collab.peers canHost). https pages are
told up front that they can only reach ws:// sessions on this computer.
- Shared join logic (join.rs: GuestConfig, outcomes, taking in host messages)
and transport limits (limits.rs) used by the native guest and the browser.
- Invite links: `figcraft figcraft://join?...` joins on start (a bad link
opens the Join dialog with it); file:// arguments are paths. Windows
registers a per-user figcraft:// opener (HKCU\Software\Classes\figcraft)
behind a Registry trait (tests use a fake): collab.registerLinks {on?} and a
Preferences checkbox, default on for installed builds, never for builds
from source. macOS Info.plist declares CFBundleURLTypes; the Linux desktop
entry declares x-scheme-handler/figcraft and passes %U.
- Join dialog: Escape closes it and no longer reaches the canvas (selection
kept); its field has the keyboard when it opens.
- Docs: collab-protocol (browser client, links, mixed content), mcp,
control-protocol, README, web hosting notes, collaboration wording in the
progress docs (numbers unchanged).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* M9: real-time collaboration protocol (design)
docs/collab-protocol.md: WebSocket sessions with a server-ordered,
per-property last-writer-wins document sync, client-scoped ids,
fractional positions for children, ephemeral presence (cursors,
selections, follow), per-user undo, hosting from the app first and a
self-hosted server next, and the implementation plan. ROADMAP gains M9.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* M9: collaboration core: ids, change sets, server ordering, convergence
Step 1 of docs/collab-protocol.md, no networking:
- Client-scoped node ids: Document::set_client_id makes alloc_id hand out
client << 32 | counter; single-user files allocate as before; the id
counter is no longer part of document equality.
- crates/collab (layer 2): the synced object/property model (every saved
Node field, plus document-level styles, comments, variables, images,
dev snapshots, library data), Change batches, an O(changed) diff, strict
and lenient apply, fractional sibling positions, snapshots.
- Server (ordering, validation, rejects with fixes) and Client (optimistic
view, replay under remote batches, author-side repair of derived data)
as pure state machines; binary (version byte + postcard, JSON values) and
JSON message forms, fuzzed decoders.
- Engine: normalize as the recompute hook, collab.diff.
- Tests: round trips over random real commands, an N-client convergence
fuzz test over delayed in-order links, junk batches.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* M9: fmt after merge
* M9: live sessions: host from the app, invite links, live cursors and presence
Step 2 of docs/collab-protocol.md, networking and presence half:
- crates/collab-net (layer 6): WebSocket transport (sync tungstenite, a
reader and a writer thread per connection, no async runtime), the
session host the app embeds (runs figcraft_collab::Server as the
authority, carries its messages), invite links, presence throttling
(~30 Hz, latest wins), limits (sockets, hello/idle timeouts, message
size, rate, slow clients), keep-alive, clean close, reconnect with
backoff; a browser stand-in until the web-sys client (step 4).
- engine: live session state (status, peers, presence, follow) and the
collab.host/stop/join/leave/peers/follow/cursor commands; the network
is reached only through the LiveLink the app installs.
- ui-egui: remote cursors (pointer drawn in code, name tag, gliding),
selection outlines (once documents sync), avatars in the right panel
with follow, the Share popover (start, invite link + URL with Copy,
stop), File > Join live session.
- desktop app and MCP headless session install the link; xtask layers
keeps networking crates out of L0-L5.
- Documents don't sync between apps yet (follow-up).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* M9: live sessions: document sync between apps
- The host's session runs figcraft_collab::Server seeded with the shared
document; every app (the host's too, through the hub without a socket)
is a collab Client. Guests open the host's file from the welcome as a
new tab; leaving keeps it as a local copy.
- Engine: after each local action (a gesture once it ends; nothing during
version or text previews) the session document is diffed into one
Changes batch; server batches go through Client::receive with
EngineRecompute and are installed with Session::apply_remote, which
never touches the undo history. Batches arriving mid-gesture wait.
- Transport: Changes/Reject/Welcome reach the engine as Event::Sync;
LiveLink::send carries batches in order; hellos are limited to 64 KiB,
joined clients to the core's message size.
- Tests: engine sync against a real Server (ids in the client's space,
one batch per gesture, remote edits skip undo, deferral, closing the
file leaves), three apps over loopback converging (create, move,
recolour, delete, rename) and a late joiner getting the server's state.
- Docs: collab-protocol, mcp, README, roadmap docs; the UI's
"cursors only" note is gone, replaced by the per-person undo caveat.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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