remove: carve out the Project Ideas (background agent) module#711
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Removes the experimental "Ideas" launcher app — the Project Ideas feed backed by the off-session background-agent research pipeline. The other launcher apps (Verdicts, Autoresearch Loop, Watch) are unaffected; they were verified to not import any of the removed code. - Delete the top-level background-agent/ package, src/main/background-agent-host/, the background-agent IPC handlers, the renderer panel + useBackgroundAgent hook, and the background-agent-host architecture page. - Unwire main (app/index.ts, ipc-handlers, ipc/types), the preload channel whitelist, the internal panel contribution, and the backgroundAgent dock id (PANEL_IDS/TITLES/RESTORE_HINTS, StatusBar). - Retire the backgroundAgent panel id so existing saved layouts sanitize cleanly. - Update affected tests and architecture docs; drop dead tsconfig includes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Removes the experimental Ideas launcher app — the Project Ideas feed backed by the off-session
background-agentresearch pipeline (profile → research → synthesize → rank).Scope was verified before removal: the other launcher apps are independent and untouched —
manifold.loopplugin,manifold.watchplugin.None of them import the removed
background-agent/package or research infrastructure.What was removed
background-agent/package,src/main/background-agent-host/, thebackground-agent:*IPC handlers, the rendererBackgroundAgentPanel+useBackgroundAgenthook, and thebackground-agent-hostarchitecture page.app/index.ts,ipc-handlers.ts,ipc/types.ts), the preload channel whitelist, the internal panel contribution, and thebackgroundAgentdock-panel id (PANEL_IDS/PANEL_TITLES/PANEL_RESTORE_HINTS,StatusBar).Backward compatibility
backgroundAgentis added toRETIRED_PANEL_IDS, so existing users' saved dock layouts that persisted an Ideas panel are sanitized away cleanly (same pattern used to retireloop/search/memory).Also updated
verdictsmodule assertions), 4 architecture docs + the doc map, the user-facing README, and dropped the now-deadbackground-agent/tsconfiginclude globs.Testing
npm run typecheck(CI gate) — passesnpm run typecheck:web— cleannpm test— 2178 passed, 0 test failures (the 4 suite-load failures are the known localpdf.worker?urlsymlink artifact from a worktree's symlinkednode_modules; green on CI)bash scripts/wiki-lint.sh— structural checks PASS🤖 Generated with Claude Code