fix(web): sidebar rows show the branch again, not a truncated plan step

[t3dotgg]

Some sidebar rows stopped showing the branch name and showed a random-looking sentence fragment instead. Gross.

That text was the agent's current plan step. #5558 gave it the branch's slot on any working row, and #5672 made that sidebar the default, so it showed up everywhere at once. Two problems with it:

• The step text almost always overflowed and truncated to a half-sentence.
• The n/m progress counter sat inside the same truncating span, so it got cut off too.

The row gave up its most stable identifier and got nothing readable back. Now the subtitle is always the branch.

thread.planProgress is still on the wire and the chat view still derives its own step label from activities, so the in-chat working row is unchanged. The sidebar was the only reader of the server field, so getThreadPlanProgress is now dead weight in the projection snapshot query. Left it alone here since removing it touches the contract.

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Low Risk
Single conditional UI change in the sidebar with no auth, data, or API contract changes in this diff.

Overview
Sidebar card rows no longer swap the subtitle for the agent’s current plan step while a thread is Working. That slot always shows thread.branch again (or stays empty when there is no branch).

Previously, working rows prioritized thread.planProgress (step text plus completedSteps/totalSteps), which often truncated mid-sentence and hid the branch—the row’s most stable identifier. In-chat working UI still derives its step label from activities; only the sidebar read of server planProgress is removed here.

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Note

Fix sidebar thread rows to show branch instead of truncated plan step

In Sidebar.tsx, the secondary metadata line in SidebarThreadRow previously swapped to showing the current plan step and completed/total counters while a thread was in working status. It now unconditionally shows thread.branch when available, removing the plan progress display entirely.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved 57a0580

This is a simple UI fix that removes conditional rendering logic to always show the branch name in sidebar rows instead of conditionally showing plan step progress. The change is self-contained, affects only presentation, and the author is the primary editor of this code.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	11.3 KiB	11.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	5.5 KiB	5.5 KiB	+4 B (+0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	5.9 KiB	5.9 KiB	−4 B (−0.1%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	49.7 KiB	49.7 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	16	16	0 (0.0%)	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	11.3 KiB	11.3 KiB	+33 B (+0.3%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	5.5 KiB	5.5 KiB	+6 B (+0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	5.8 KiB	5.9 KiB	+27 B (+0.5%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	50.6 KiB	50.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	16	16	0 (0.0%)	21	✅

Baseline: 886195e · PR result: 57a0580 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 94.6 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 95.4 KiB

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