goodbuddy/docs/features/magic-notes/technical-design.md

Magic Notes Technical Design

Main IPC Ownership

magic-notes-ipc.ts owns note search/list/get/create/update/delete, entry create/update/delete and todo list/status/update handlers, including conversation-source validation and entry content mapping. Its two registration functions receive the existing tracked registerHandler, window and database from ipc.ts, preserving registration order: note CRUD, entry/draft analysis, todo CRUD, then todo analysis. magic-notes-analysis-ipc.ts owns the three analysis handlers through two registration functions. It receives the window, database, settings readers, usage persistence callback and existing error formatter; it imports createDefaultModelRuntime directly. ipc.ts retains tracked registration/removal and shared usage persistence. Sender checks and shared input schemas stay at each handler boundary. rich-content.ts remains shared by CRUD and draft analysis. Analysis retains revision checks, hidden task status, stream events, error causes and nested release/dispose cleanup.

Continuous Record Workspace

The detail mounts every entry in a continuous newest-first stream. The left index and AI source buttons scroll to an entry ID without changing the active editor, clearing a composer, flushing content or invoking the draft-switch guard. Opening a note shows a blank composer below the title and above the stream, without a New record button. Editing another entry or leaving the note still checks unsaved content after flushing canvas changes. MagicNotesWorkspace.onBeforeLeave registers this same check with the App navigation gate, including sidebar, application launcher and conversation jumps. The gate waits for canvas flush, then offers Continue editing or Discard draft and switch for dirty body or title content. Workspace cache eviction does not serve as draft protection. Non-title detail responses retain a dirty title. A title-save response acknowledges only the submitted input; text entered while that request runs remains a draft. The shared store returns MagicNoteEntryCreateResult, the existing detail shape plus a required createdEntryId. Production IPC and preload preserve that ID. Creating an entry selects this exact ID and resets the composer through its key; it does not enter editing, including after automatic analysis. Text/canvas selection is retained. Canvas capture for automatic analysis completes before the reset. the renderer never infers it from a list difference or timestamp. Agent/MCP creation delegates to the same store; its existing public note projection is unchanged. Explicit Edit opens a saved record. Update and automatic-analysis responses advance its revision, so subsequent saves use updateEntry and the returned revision. Failed writes retain the draft.

The dirty baseline belongs to the mounted editor. MagicNoteEditor.onReady reports Quill's normalized contents after loading; MagicCanvasEditor.onReady reports the first completed core flush, after Fabric restoration and flow pagination. Canvas input stays disabled until this baseline exists, and imperative flush waits for the same initialization promise. Raw stored JSON is not a valid comparison baseline for an initialized editor: Quill can add its terminal newline, and Fabric/flow serialization can add defaults or change field order. Later changes and navigation flushes compare with the initialized baseline without resetting it. A successful save remounts at the returned revision and establishes a new baseline; an unchanged background revision retains the existing editor and baseline. Aborted canvas initialization and file reads for an unmounted text editor cannot write back.

The real saved formatted-text probe reproduced identical values with different Delta key order: storage returned {insert, attributes} and Quill emitted {attributes, insert}. The old JSON.stringify comparison therefore reported dirty after a successful save. The saved PDF probe's initialized content and subsequent flush were byte-for-byte equal; readiness is still awaited for canvas restoration rather than assumed from the save response.

Saving or leaving an editing context clears the immediate-analysis timer, queued content and streamed draft comments through the shared draft-analysis cleanup. The context counter rejects late results and prevents dispatch after abandoned settings preparation. This cleanup does not clear the new-entry composer's content.

The left index defaults to 168px and resizes from its right edge between 140px and 320px. It shares the AI pane's pointer-capture handlers, separator styling and keyboard semantics (16px arrow steps, Home/End limits). Both widths are stored in goodbuddy.magic-notes-layout.v1; missing index width defaults to 168px. Displayed widths clamp together to reserve at least 300px for the stream, without overwriting saved widths when the window shrinks. The page header places the index toggle immediately after the back button, followed by the AI toggle. All three use icons and visible localized text; pane toggle labels reflect their current show/hide action. Collapsing hides the entire index and removes its grid column, border, resize separator and occupied width. AI has a separate right pane with its existing resize separator and header toggle. Both panes scroll independently and persist independent desktop visibility. At container widths of 800px or less, the index defaults to hidden and the same header toggle opens or closes a fixed 168px drawer below the header, without reserving a rail or showing an index resize separator; choosing an item or pressing Escape closes it. AI moves below the stream, limited to 40% of layout height and 280px. Overview search, scroll, task selection and return focus stay mounted.

MagicCanvasThumbnail lazily queues visible records through a temporary core renderer and caches results by content identity in a WeakMap. Core capturePages accepts firstPageOnly and thumbnailWidth; thumbnails capture page zero at 240px width, including paper/PDF background, Quill flow, images and Fabric objects. They do not capture all pages or leave an editor mounted for every record. An abort listener calls core destroy() immediately: PDF render cancellation and the Fabric abort happen synchronously, before waiting for capture to settle. The finally path awaits the same destruction promise and removes the temporary surface, without destroying twice or waiting for capture before cancellation. AI capture uses the configured page prefix described under Canvas Analysis and Comments. Main canvas page height, wheel handling and file storage are unchanged.

Background refresh preserves dirty editing content and its original optimistic revision, including externally deleted entries. Clean editors adopt refreshed entries; deleting a clean selection updates selectedEntryId to a remaining entry or the empty state. Later appends preserve that actual selection, rather than recalculating a render-only fallback. Dirty deleted entries remain open until explicitly discarded. No background refresh saves a draft.

Canvas Storage Contract

MagicNoteContent is the union of unchanged v1 Quill rich content and v2 paged-canvas. The shared schema is authoritative. Canvas pages carry dimensions, template/PDF backgrounds, opaque Fabric object records and optional flowAuto. The optional Quill flow accepts native PeopleLib version: 1 and page-break embeds. Template names are blank, ruled, grid, dot; PDF backgrounds use one-based pageNumber and optional extracted text.

API assets are document-local {id,name,mimeType,dataUrl} records. Backgrounds and image objects reference stable asset IDs; image objects can also embed raster data directly. Main validates data encoding, image/PDF signatures and references. Canvas has no v1 resource-size budget. image_bytes counts decoded embedded resource bytes for new entries. Bodies and binary assets use the file storage contract below; there is no separate resource table, resource staging or extra resource IPC. Renderer, preload and IPC continue to exchange hydrated v1/v2 content with data URLs.

Schema 38 replaces SQLite body payloads with file markers. Schema 37 was the earlier canvas compatibility marker; its embedded-payload layout is historical. Plain text combines flow text, PDF extracted text and object text for search. Checklist indexes depend only on flow checklist lines; moving objects does not change todo identity. Completion updates flow without replacing pages or assets. Entry edits retain optimistic revisions. Canvas comment retention depends on the actual analysis input, as described below.

note_get reports content kind/version and plainTextEditable. The text update tool rejects canvas entries before mutation. These tools execute in the desktop gateway; remote gbagent's injected image MCP server is unaffected. Browser page renders can be sent as analysisOptions.canvasImages; analysis comments and draft results can retain the actual inputMode used.

File Storage and Writes

MagicNoteStorage owns files under dirname(assistantDatabasePath)/notes:

notes/<noteId>/
  note.json                  # Derived {id, entries} membership manifest
  entries/<entryId>.json      # Authoritative body envelope
  assets/<sha256>.<ext>       # Binary assets deduplicated within this note

Each body envelope contains id, noteId, revision, updatedAt and content. SQLite owns note metadata, entry membership, search/plain-text and byte indexes, optimistic revisions, todos and comments. Entry content_json contains only {storage: "file", version: <content version>, revision: <body revision>}. Comment-only revision increments do not change the indexed body revision.

Known media fields become {$asset: "assets/<sha256>.<ext>", mimeType: "..."} on disk and hydrate back to data URLs on API reads. These fields are v1 insert.image, localVideo.dataUrl and attachment.dataUrl; canvas assets[].dataUrl, preview, flow embeds and image-object src, including nested objects. Ordinary text, insert strings, names and arbitrary $asset objects remain unchanged. Canvas asset IDs and PDF references are preserved. Write, read and garbage collection use the same scoped field traversal.

Revision checks run under BEGIN IMMEDIATE before file writes. Assets are written before the temporary body file is atomically renamed over the entry file; the database then commits its marker and indexes. This is not a single atomic transaction spanning SQLite and the filesystem. If a replacement body was renamed but indexing failed, the next database access or reopen reads it back, repairs plain text, byte counts and todos, advances revisions and invalidates old analysis. Missing bodies raise an error instead of becoming empty content. Failed creates leave no accepted database membership; their unaccepted files are removed on the next access or reopen.

After commit, reconciliation derives note.json from database membership and scans all retained entry files before removing unreferenced assets. Manifest or GC failures log console.warn with the note ID and error and remain in an in-memory retry set. Later database access retries; reopening derives cleanup again from membership. These cleanup failures do not turn a committed save, delete or reset into a failed operation or suppress its notifications. Body persistence and index-repair failures still propagate. Entry deletion, note deletion and assistant-data reset share this cleanup path; deferred whole-tree cleanup checks current membership so it preserves notes created after reset. There is no persistent retry journal, and renderer-only drafts create no files.

Schema 38 Migration

The existing startup storage worker runs before the business connection opens. It upgrades the schema and converts legacy payloads one entry per SQLite transaction: write assets and body, read back hydrated content, compare JSON equality, then replace the old content_json payload with its file marker. Already converted entries are reconciled on retry. Matching body revisions do not require rehydrating binary payloads. Direct AssistantDatabase.initialize callers and tests also run storage repair.

Space reclamation is separate from structure upgrades and conversion. Startup detects legacy note payloads and retains the conversion/reclamation decision in memory for that startup's worker retries. Only a required legacy conversion permits checking PRAGMA freelist_count and running VACUUM. A structure-only upgrade does not repair notes in the worker or reclaim ordinary free pages. Cancellation after conversion or a VACUUM failure can retry reclamation within the same startup. After quitting, startup checks the schema and remaining legacy payloads again; free pages alone do not trigger another upgrade, and SQLite can reuse them. No additional persistent migration marker is stored. General migration requirements are in the database migration guide.

Backup and Restore

A restorable backup must pair a consistent SQLite backup with the adjacent notes/ tree from the same period with note writes paused, or with the app closed. Handle active WAL through SQLite's consistent backup mechanism; copying only the database main file while it is active is insufficient. Restore both parts together. SQLite-only backups of file-backed entries cannot recover bodies or assets, and note.json alone cannot recover database metadata, revisions, todos or comments.

The product has no one-click assistant backup action. This is an operational backup boundary, not a new UI capability. The tested backup/restore and migration scope, including the lack of a real user historical database run, is recorded in progress.

Canvas Editor and Export

MagicNotesWorkspace selects rich-text or canvas content for new entries and opens saved canvases in MagicCanvasEditor; MagicNoteContent delegates saved canvas rendering to the paginated MagicCanvasContent viewer. The React adapter wraps the retained PeopleLib Fabric + Quill core. Fabric owns page annotations; Quill owns the continuous body flow. Saving awaits flush() so queued imports, text edits and pagination reach the existing preload/IPC create/update handlers. There is no autosave or separate canvas persistence path.

Editor and viewer heights follow the current paper element's displayed height through natural CSS layout, including wrapped toolbars and viewport padding. No fixed preview height or viewport-height cap clips the page. The outer note stream scrolls vertically; the paper viewport retains horizontal scrolling. View zoom is local to each mounted core instance. A displayed-size outer box and one transformed logical-size surface keep PDF, flow and Fabric aligned; Quill screen measurements are converted back to logical coordinates. Neither zoom nor fit-width resize calls onChange, changes the persisted model, invalidates AI comments or alters PNG/PDF export dimensions. See the view zoom implementation for controls, bounds, page-switch policy and observer cleanup.

Paper templates, pen, highlighter, whole-object eraser, selection/transforms, floating text, images and PDF page backgrounds are integrated. Native PDF text is stored on its background for search and analysis; scanned pages remain visual without automatic OCR. The toolbar exports a raster PDF through jsPDF, composing background, flow text and annotations per page. It does not retain a searchable PDF text layer. capturePages() provides PNG data URLs for AI input, not a PNG download button. Undo/redo is per annotation page or Quill mode; page operations and PDF imports are not global undo steps.

Flow page-break removal and rejected-input history handling follow the canvas editing and limit rules. canvas-core.electron.test.ts feeds the real Electron flow's before/after content into production AssistantDatabase create/update and reopen, checking that the derived checklist todo and its identity survive page-break removal. History coverage exercises accepted typing, rejected overflow, selection and redo.

The canvas integration reference owns core limits, import behavior and lifecycle details. Vite bundles Fabric, Quill, jsPDF, PDF.js workers and binary assets; PDF workers use explicit module Workers and local assets under the production file:// CSP. The renderer does not need Node integration or remote asset services.

Canvas Analysis and Comments

Draft, saved-entry and todo analysis use the existing typed preload/IPC methods and createDefaultModelRuntime. Each canvas request reads the current default model profile's supportsImageInput (or the resolved default setting when no profile is selected). Main resolves settings again for the actual request. This does not change an Agent runtime or desktop-to-Agent protocol. All three handlers read global resolved settings per request, without applying chat/project runtime selection. The factory creates a tool-free direct ModelAgentRuntime, using the resolved default model connection and that profile's headers, body options and output limit. Environment-managed default credentials retain the settings store's environment overrides. The existing context-compression configuration can select a separate summary model; it does not select the main analysis model.

magicNoteCanvasPageCount is an application preference: an integer from 1 to 8, defaulting to 1 when absent in historical settings. The application center and goodbuddy_config application.update/get share the settings schema, store and change event. It counts pages within the canvas being analyzed, never entries. The first N pages follow the current content.pages array order, independent of the viewed page, page IDs or PDF source page numbers. Fewer than N pages selects the whole canvas. Saving and PDF export retain the 50-page canvas limit.

Renderer and Main share selectMagicNotePages. The core selects the prefix before compositing, so it never captures 50 pages just to discard 49. Analysis capture returns the selected pages' Quill text measured from the actual CSS columns; binary searches locate the character boundaries for explicit and automatic page breaks. Text-only requests skip image compositing but still read page text. The transient canvasPageText IPC field carries these page IDs and text, without changing saved canvas content. Main reads the persisted page count for all three handlers, selects page text, PDF text, objects and images in the same order, and ignores captures outside the prefix. A partial canvas with flow requires matching page text; missing data fails instead of including the full cross-page flow. Prompts state the selected and total page counts. A changed setting applies to the next analysis; existing comments are not automatically regenerated.

Default model capability	Analysis input and result
Image input supported	Renderer captures the selected prefix; Main requires each selected page's PNG/JPEG capture and sends it alongside that page's flow, PDF and object text. Comments carry inputMode: canvas-images.
No image input	Only text from the selected prefix is sent, with an explicit instruction that handwriting, images and layout were not seen. Comments carry inputMode: text-fallback.
No image input and no extracted text in the selected entry/draft pages	Analysis fails with guidance to switch to an image-capable default model; no visual understanding is claimed.

Todo analysis includes its title and instructions plus the source canvas context, and uses the same capability and capture rules. Non-canvas content keeps the text analysis path. All analysis remains read-only with no tool calls.

Saved-entry requests accept expectedRevision; todo requests accept sourceEntryRevision. Nonempty canvasImages or canvasPageText requires the corresponding revision, even when the resolved model uses text fallback. Main loads the source after resolving settings and checks the supplied revision before model invocation. Existing rich-text callers may omit these fields. Entry writeback retains its revision check; canvas todo writeback also requires the source entry revision, including when no comments existed at request time. No additional stored snapshot or schema migration is needed.

Canvas immediate mode provides an Analyze canvas draft action without a persistent instruction banner; pen strokes do not trigger automatic requests. after-save-auto prepares analysis input and then saves manually submitted content. Settings or capture errors are caught so storage still proceeds; after a successful save, the UI reports that automatic analysis failed. A later model error likewise does not roll back the save. Failure to flush the document itself still prevents saving incomplete content.

For v2-to-v2 entry updates, identical content retains saved comments. If all comments have text or text-fallback input mode, equal analysis text from shared magicNoteCanvasAnalysisText(content) (including page numbers) also retains comments across layout-only changes. Other changed canvas content, including layout changes with canvas-images comments, clears saved entry comments and analyzed_at. Source canvas changes apply the same rule to saved todo comments and increment the affected todo revision without replacing its ID. In after-save-auto, visual comments trigger renewed analysis when content changes, while existing text-only comments trigger it when analysis text changes. A changed draft clears its prior canvas draft analysis. The UI labels the actual input mode so a text fallback is visible to the user.

Workspace captures the saved entry and its revision before awaiting image capture; an external refresh cannot pair an old capture with a newer revision. Automatic post-save analysis takes the revision from the save response using createdEntryId or the edited entry ID. Todo capture uses the selected source entry's actual page IDs and revision. Renderer text-only change detection uses the same shared analysis-text helper as persistence, so inserting a blank page before text triggers renewed analysis when its cited page number changes. Draft analysis remains unversioned.

Change Notifications

AssistantDatabase accepts onMagicNotesChanged: () => void. Every successful note/entry create, update or delete emits once after the write commits, including empty-note creation, initial content, title/pin updates and cascading deletion. Saved note analysis, todo completion, saved todo analysis and assistant-data clearing also emit. Revision conflicts, missing rows, rolled-back writes and unchanged todo completion do not emit. Startup schema migrations run before the workbench loads and do not publish notifications.

Desktop IPC and KnowledgeMcpGateway use this same database instance. The latter also serves Agent tools; no tool-specific notification or daemon protocol change is needed. Raw SQL writes from an unrelated process are outside this callback contract.

Main queues notification delivery to the live window on magic-notes:changed. The typed preload method magicNotes.onChanged(listener) exposes no Electron objects and returns a function removing that listener. The existing onTodoStatusChanged event remains the separate sidebar-count signal.

Refresh Lifecycle

The overview's libraryView and the optional note-only detailView are independent: opening a todo's source note does not lose the originating task view. The overview remains mounted but hidden while detail is open, retaining scroll position and filters. Returning restores the initiating control's focus and invalidates outstanding detail requests. Initial loading fetches summaries and todos without selecting the first note or task. Navigation away from unsaved content or an unsaved title uses the existing draft confirmation; active writes finish before navigation. No new persistence or IPC contract is required.

MagicNotesWorkspace subscribes on mount and coalesces notifications with a 100 ms debounce. Pending notifications wait for an active local save or analysis to finish. Cleanup removes the listener, clears its timer and invalidates pending refresh results. This does not introduce periodic database polling.

The existing list/detail loader reloads notes and todos, then the preferred note. Request counters reject superseded results and preserve newer user selections. Todo selection survives list reordering while the item exists; replacing the todo snapshot also reloads the selected todo's source entry. Search, filters and layout state are not reset.

Background application of a detail reads the current draft state after the asynchronous fetch. A dirty title is retained, and the composer is not remounted. A dirty entry editor uses its original editing content and revision for both its React key and save request; external revisions cannot remount that draft or bypass optimistic concurrency checks. Clean editors adopt newer revisions. Deleted entries remain displayed only while their editor has a draft. If an externally deleted note has a draft, its editor remains available with a deletion explanation instead of moving the draft to another note.

Read failures use the existing retryable refresh error and retain successful data and drafts. Retry uses the same draft-preserving loader. Interaction rules are owned by the UI design system.

Todo Task View

The To-dos panel has its own search/status toolbar and independently scrolling task list, grouped by source note. selectedTodoId controls one sibling detail pane; the selected item is derived from the filtered list. Completion updates the existing item and source cache without selecting or opening another task. Items that no longer match the status filter leave the list. A removed focused control returns focus to an available list/filter control.

Detail content includes instructions, the source entry, its existing note navigation action, and AI controls/comments. AI requests still use the existing analysis options and streaming subscription; failed analysis retains saved comments. Source reads are guarded against superseded selections, report failures through notifications and offer inline retry. The grid reserves both columns even without a selection, so selecting or switching tasks cannot move list rows. The detail is keyed by task ID to start each newly selected task at its top. At a page container width of 700px or less, CSS hides the mounted list while a task is selected and shows an explicit return button in the detail area. Returning clears selection and restores row focus without scrolling; source-note return retains selection and focuses this visible return button on narrow layouts. There is no todo detail route or separate AI sidebar. A shared accessible resize separator displays a 1px line with a transparent 9px hit area and 8px adjacent content padding. It adjusts the list width, initially 320px, with a 240px minimum and at least 300px reserved for detail. Pointer dragging and 16px arrow steps/Home/End persist todoPaneWidth in goodbuddy.magic-notes-layout.v1. Narrow layouts hide the separator; window constraints do not overwrite the saved desktop width. Each source-note heading is a disclosure button with its matching task count. Groups start expanded and can independently hide their mounted rows without clearing the selected detail. Collapse state lasts while the group is mounted. Note detail retains its existing AI pane preferences.

A single secondary button lives in PageHeader.actions before New note. Its label and icon describe the destination, and requestDraftSwitch retains the existing draft guard. Focus returns to the same magic-library-switch button after switching. The overview section keeps its localized list aria-label; there are no tab, tablist or tabpanel roles or tab-label references. The button follows content width at all sizes. The shared status SegmentedControl follows search in one wrapping toolbar.

Only note detail applies magic-notes-layout--detail to remove the layout frame and corner radius. Its stream pane has no extra padding; editor borders and the AI divider remain. Overview cards and the independent todo layout keep their existing frame and spacing. These changes do not affect Main, preload or storage.

Note List Actions

Each overview card has an open-detail button and a sibling action-menu button. The menu uses the conversation action styles and shared DestructiveConfirmActions, and is portalled to document.body. Its position follows the trigger on scrolling, window resizing and confirmation-size changes. Entering detail, filtering out the target or leaving the notes panel closes the menu.

Pinning uses the target summary's ID and revision through the existing update IPC. It updates the sorted summary and matching selected detail without resetting title, composer or entry-edit drafts. Deleting uses the explicitly confirmed target ID and refreshes the overview after success, without opening another note. These actions are available only in the overview. Database and Agent contracts are unchanged.

Agent Search Contract

note_search accepts an integer limit from 1 to 100, defaulting to 8. The shared schema supplies both model tool definitions and MCP validation; the existing 128 KiB output budget can reduce the returned result count. The built-in MCP gateway returns invalid scoped-tool arguments as an isError: true tool result with the field and validation message, allowing the model to correct its arguments without an MCP internal-error response. Validation failures do not execute the tool.

These note tools run in the desktop gateway. Remote gbagent ACP sessions currently inject only the image MCP server, so this change requires no daemon implementation update.

Conversation Integration

The desktop API and renderer integration are implemented. Scope and behavior are owned by the PRD, logic design and UI design. Real Electron acceptance passed; focused results, fixture repairs and non-green repository checks are recorded in progress.

Workbar and Capture

WORKBAR_APP_DEFINITIONS registers notes as an optional, closable, reorderable singleton with application scope, no targetRef and defaultOpen: false. RightAssistantSidebar opens or activates it through the existing workbar tab model, and removes it when Magic Notes is disabled. Sidebar pinning does not control this availability. MagicNotesPanel renders the compact view; WorkbarShell supplies the shared tab controls. The footer shortcut and collapsed-sidebar chat-header shortcut both activate the same instance.

App.captureToNote receives the message identity from ChatTimeline, or calls ensureConversationHistory for whole-conversation capture. It freezes text and source IDs before opening the preview and waits for queued conversation persistence so Main can validate newly completed messages. Whole-conversation text includes nonempty user/assistant bodies with role headings. It excludes reasoning, tool logs and attachment binaries, and rejects streaming conversations.

useMagicNoteDraft lives in App and owns the draft, selected note, saving state and one shared confirmation promise. Selection and drafts survive panel remounts and conversation/project switches, but are not persisted across app restarts. The guard rejects leaving while saving and confirms discarding pending input; explicit cancellation compares text/title with their initial preview values. Application disablement and tab closing call the same guard. Workspace navigation also passes through the full workspace's existing leave check.

capturedNoteContent converts text into v1 Quill string inserts, preserving newlines and adding the terminal newline when needed. It splits inserts at the 200,000-code-unit operation limit without splitting surrogate pairs; the complete record still passes the shared rich-content schema. Markdown stays literal text. No summarization or attachment copying runs during capture. New-note titles are limited to 100 characters. A synchronous submission ref prevents duplicate writes.

magicNotes.create({ title, content?, source? }) returns MagicNoteCreateResult, with createdEntryId when initial content exists. createMagicNote inserts the note, first entry, source and derived todos inside one SQLite transaction; failure leaves no committed empty note and sends no success notification. This atomicity applies to database membership; filesystem writes retain the reconciliation boundary in File Storage and Writes. magicNotes.createEntry({ noteId, content, source? }) always returns the exact createdEntryId. The panel uses that ID to scroll, focus and briefly highlight the new record. Opening the full workspace passes {noteId, entryId?, requestId} into its existing guarded note-navigation path.

magicNotes.search({ query, limit? }) is exposed by DesktopApi, preload and magic-notes:search. Trusted-sender and shared-schema validation precede AssistantDatabase.searchMagicNoteSummaries. The trimmed query has a 1,000-character limit; result limits are 1-200, defaulting to 200. The panel requests 100 results and debounces nonempty queries by 180 ms. SQL searches note titles or indexed entry text using EXISTS, so each note occurs once before LIMIT. Empty queries list notes; ordering is pinned first, then updated time and row ID descending. %, _ and backslashes are escaped for literal matching. Agent note_search retains its separate entry-level output and 1-100 limit.

Source Metadata

magicNoteSourceSchema defines kind (message or conversation), conversationId, nonempty unique messageIds, ISO capturedAt, conversationTitle, and optional projectId / projectName. A message source requires exactly one message ID. Create/create-entry inputs accept source; note creation requires initial content when source is supplied. Entry reads return it independently of editable content, while update inputs cannot replace it.

The IPC helper resolveMagicNoteSource loads the stored conversation and verifies that every message ID belongs to it; a single-message source must identify an assistant message. It replaces renderer-supplied title/project labels with current database values while retaining the supplied capture time and IDs. Preview labels therefore describe capture time, but stored labels describe save time. Missing source rows reject creation; later source deletion does not block note reads or edits.

Schema 48 adds nullable magic_note_entries.source_json in a transaction and advances PRAGMA user_version. Existing entries read without a source. It adds no conversation foreign key or deletion cascade, and does not rewrite file-backed bodies. Schema 38 remains the historical body migration. Structure-only upgrade does not independently trigger body conversion or VACUUM; see the database migration guide. Coordinated SQLite/files backups include the source metadata.

MagicNoteSource is shared by panel summaries and workspace records. Its callback App.openNoteSource reads conversations.get, then navigates through the workspace leave guard. Message navigation increases the mounted timeline range before scrolling and focusing. A missing message opens its conversation with a notice; a confirmed missing conversation disables that source bar's jump buttons. Other read errors remain retryable. No deleted-source flag is stored.

Refresh and Validation

Both views use the same Main store and magic-notes:changed notification. The panel reloads search and selected detail when active, and ignores superseded responses. Search/loading state belongs to the mounted panel; input and selected note belong to App. A deleted selected note clears the selection and matching target ID while preserving draft text. Read and save failures have local recovery feedback. The full workspace retains its existing revision and dirty-editor rules.

After a successful save, only after-save-auto starts entry analysis using the returned createdEntryId and configured comment format. Analysis errors notify without undoing the save or recreating the entry. Other comment modes perform no panel analysis.

Regression cases are in MagicNotesPanel.test.tsx, App.test.tsx, ChatTimeline.test.tsx, MagicNotesWorkspace.test.tsx, workbar contract tests, database/storage tests and production preload/IPC integration tests. tests/magic-notes-capture.electron.test.ts mounts the real App with production preload and capture IPC, backed by SQLite/files. It validates existing/new-note saves, verbatim 502-message history, workspace/source navigation, native keyboard input in a narrow panel, database reopen and retention after source deletion, with zero model calls. Failed writes and external refresh retain their focused regression coverage; this Electron result does not claim every failure path. Repository test/typecheck failures and repaired migration fixtures are documented separately in progress.

Validation

• magic-note-storage.test.ts uses real files and SQLite for migration equality, reopen/repair, binary deduplication, coordinated backup/restore and physical database shrink. Failure injection covers body rename, manifest/GC cleanup, delete/reset retries, post-conversion cancellation and VACUUM retry.
• Canvas integration coverage includes MagicCanvasEditor.test.tsx, MagicNoteContent.test.tsx, rich-content.test.ts, magic-note-analyzer.test.ts and tests/magic-note-canvas-text.test.ts. canvas-ipc.integration.test.ts runs production preload and registered IPC handlers against real SQLite with mocked Electron transport and model output. Interactive workspace/SQLite and production core export evidence is recorded separately in progress.
• assistant-database.test.ts checks committed writes with a second SQLite connection, successful mutation coverage, failures, no-op completion and reset.
• knowledge-mcp-gateway.test.ts exercises real database CRUD through Agent/MCP access, including revision failure without an extra notification. A real HTTP MCP client also checks searches above ten results, the published limit schema, invalid arguments and successful retry against SQLite.
• magic-notes-events.test.ts executes the production preload, checking the channel, payload-free callback and listener removal.
• MagicNotesWorkspace.test.tsx covers external updates and deletion, selection, source reload, editor identity and draft saves, coalescing, deferred writes, asynchronous selection races, error retry and unmount cleanup. List-action coverage includes portal placement, keyboard navigation, dismissal, delete confirmation, target selection, revision failures and draft preservation.

Schema 48 adds source metadata to the schema 38 file-backed body layout; refresh notifications need no separate storage or network service. Dated validation results and remaining repository checks are owned by progress.