Fix sidebar rail overflow on the chat page

The content offset was fine — the rail's glass panel was the problem. As a
flex-1 item in the row-flex aside, the panel's automatic minimum size
(min-width: auto) is its content's min-content width. The chat list's
search input (an <input> defaults to size=20) has a ~192px intrinsic
width, which with the New chat button stretched the panel to 345px — 89px
past the 268px rail — where it painted over the chat page: the header
title, the composer placeholder ("sk about your notes...") and the
context chip ("ts").

- min-w-0 on the panel so the rail width always wins and wide content
  truncates instead (the input and list rows already shrink/truncate).
- Chat suite: assert the panel stays inside the rail and the main content
  starts after it, expanded and collapsed (the old checks counted
  elements, never their boxes — this is what slipped through).
- README: history bullet + decision 49. SW -> freezmo-v36.

Verified on the dev instance and a production build: panel 244px inside
the 268px rail (60px in the 84px collapsed rail) at 1024-1920, content
starts after the rail, all sidebar pages unchanged, dark + light, and
the full e2e (12/12 suites, 516 checks).

README.md

@@ -765,11 +765,12 @@ have a step explained without leaving the app.
   allowlist and never accepts a model name from the client.
 - **Attachments.** Photos, PDFs and documents go through the existing vision/extraction step first
   (plain text), so any chat model works — text-only included.
-- **History.** Conversations live in a local IndexedDB store: a list on the left on desktop, a
+- **History.** Conversations live in a local IndexedDB store: the list sits in the main sidebar on
-  sheet on phones, with auto titles from your first question, rename, delete (with Undo) and a
+  desktop (it takes the deck navigation's place on `/chat`), a sheet on phones, with auto titles
-  search across titles and message text. Conversations remember their scope and model, reopen from
+  from your first question, rename, delete (with Undo) and a search across titles and message
-  `?c=<id>` (so a reload continues where you left off), stay readable offline, and are included in
+  text. Conversations remember their scope and model, reopen from `?c=<id>` (so a reload continues
-  the backup export and the encrypted sync — still never the key.
+  where you left off), stay readable offline, and are included in the backup export and the
+  encrypted sync — still never the key.
 - **From an answer.** Every answer can become a deck (**Turn into flashcards** opens New deck with
   the answer as notes, on the options step) or be appended to the scoped deck's notes (**Save to
   notes**, only offered when exactly one deck is in scope).
@@ -1258,11 +1259,20 @@ Things I chose while building, with the reasoning:
     Assistant answers also offer **Turn into flashcards** (opens New deck with the answer as notes,
     landing on the options step) and **Save to notes** (appends to the single scoped deck, trimming
     at 40k characters). Motion comes from `lib/motion.ts`: message fade-up, sheet springs, a 150 ms
-    composer height transition — all skipped under reduced motion. Verified by the chat suite (89
+    composer height transition — all skipped under reduced motion. Verified by the chat suite (92
     checks: everything from phase 1 plus history persistence, reload, rename/search/delete/undo,
     both actions, the export payload, a two-device sync round-trip of a chat, offline readability
     and the desktop panel).
 
+49. **The sidebar rail never lets its content widen it.** The desktop rail is a fixed-width `flex`
+    aside and its glass panel is a `flex-1` item, so the panel's automatic minimum size
+    (`min-width: auto`) is its content's min-content width. When the chat list moved into the
+    sidebar, its search input's intrinsic width (an `<input>` defaults to `size=20`) stretched the
+    panel 89 px past the rail, where it painted over the page — the content offset itself was
+    correct, which is what made it look like the page had lost its left margin. The panel now
+    carries `min-w-0` so wide content truncates instead, and the chat suite asserts that the panel
+    stays inside the rail and the main content starts after it, expanded and collapsed.
+
 36. **The mobile declutter pass reshapes, it doesn't fork.** Phones (≤639px) get a 3-step deck
     flow and a 2-step homework flow that share the exact state and handlers with the desktop
     cards (one `UploadScreen` / one `HomeworkInput`, two layouts switched by `useIsPhone()`);

components/Sidebar.tsx

@@ -373,8 +373,12 @@ export function Sidebar() {
         isCollapsed ? "w-[84px]" : "w-[268px]",
       )}
     >
-      {/* One tall inset glass panel, so the ice scene shows around it. */}
+      {/* One tall inset glass panel, so the ice scene shows around it. The
-      <div className="sidebar-surface flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col px-2.5 py-3">
+          min-w-0 keeps it inside the rail: as a flex item its automatic
+          minimum size is the content's min-content width, and wide content
+          (e.g. the chat list's search input) would otherwise stretch the
+          panel past the rail and paint over the page. */}
+      <div className="sidebar-surface flex min-h-0 min-w-0 flex-1 flex-col px-2.5 py-3">
         <NavContent collapsed={isCollapsed} />
       </div>
     </aside>

public/sw.js

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  *
  * Bumping CACHE_VERSION is how a new deploy invalidates old assets.
  */
-const CACHE_VERSION = "freezmo-v35";
+const CACHE_VERSION = "freezmo-v36";
 const SHELL_CACHE = `${CACHE_VERSION}-shell`;
 const ASSET_CACHE = `${CACHE_VERSION}-assets`;
 

tests/chat-test.mjs

@@ -256,6 +256,38 @@ try {
     await desktop.page.waitForTimeout(1200);
     check("desktop: chat route opens with the sidebar", desktop.page.url().endsWith("/chat") && (await desktop.page.locator("aside").count()) >= 1);
     check("desktop: no tab bar on chat", (await desktop.page.locator("nav.tabbar").count()) === 0);
+
+    /* The rail must not paint over the page: its glass panel stays inside the
+       rail and the chat content starts after it. Regression: a wide chat list
+       stretched the panel (flex item min-width: auto) past the rail and
+       covered the header title, composer and context chip. */
+    const railMetrics = () =>
+      desktop.page.evaluate(() => {
+        const aside = document.querySelector("aside[aria-label]");
+        const panel = aside?.firstElementChild;
+        const main = document.querySelector("main");
+        if (!aside || !panel || !main) return null;
+        const a = aside.getBoundingClientRect();
+        const p = panel.getBoundingClientRect();
+        const m = main.getBoundingClientRect();
+        return {
+          panelInside: p.right <= a.right - 1,
+          contentClear: m.left >= a.right - 1,
+          gap: Math.round(m.left - p.right),
+          overflowing: [...panel.querySelectorAll("*")].some((el) => el.getBoundingClientRect().right > p.right + 1),
+        };
+      });
+
+    const expandedRail = await railMetrics();
+    check("desktop: sidebar panel stays inside the rail", expandedRail !== null && expandedRail.panelInside && !expandedRail.overflowing);
+    check("desktop: chat content starts after the sidebar", expandedRail !== null && expandedRail.contentClear && expandedRail.gap > 0);
+
+    await desktop.page.getByRole("button", { name: "Collapse sidebar" }).click();
+    await desktop.page.waitForTimeout(400);
+    const collapsedRail = await railMetrics();
+    check("desktop: collapsed rail also stays inside and clear", collapsedRail !== null && collapsedRail.panelInside && !collapsedRail.overflowing && collapsedRail.contentClear);
+    await desktop.page.getByRole("button", { name: "Expand sidebar" }).click();
+    await desktop.page.waitForTimeout(400);
     await desktop.context.close();
 
     const phone = await makePage(browser);