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Alan Wizemann 5cac3836cf M8: TabView root navigation (Chat / Dashboard / Memory / More)
Pass-1 loudest UX complaint — "I don't see any navigation" — was
rooted in the Dashboard-as-hub pattern. Chat/Memory/Cron/Skills/
Settings lived as a NavigationLink section halfway down a scrolling
List, below the stats + recent sessions. Users had to scroll to
find any feature. That was the right shape for a very-early MVP
but the wrong shape for a companion app whose primary tab should
be Chat.

New `ScarfGoTabRoot` renders a 4-tab TabView at the scene root:

- **Chat** — primary tab. Tapping the app opens straight into it.
- **Dashboard** — stats + recent sessions (stripped of Surfaces /
  Connected-to / Disconnect, which now live in More).
- **Memory** — MEMORY.md + USER.md + SOUL.md, unchanged.
- **More** — bucket for Cron / Skills / Settings plus the
  destructive Forget-this-server action. Also shows the host /
  user / port info as a read-only section.

Uses iOS 18's `.tabViewStyle(.sidebarAdaptable)` so the same tree
degrades to a bottom tab bar on iPhone and renders as a native
sidebar on iPadOS / macCatalyst if we add those targets later — no
UI code change required. Matches the M8 density research's sidebar
recommendation.

Each tab owns its own NavigationStack so push navigation (Cron
editor, Memory detail, chat session list) stays scoped to that tab
and doesn't bleed across.

DashboardView is now simpler: just stats + recent sessions. The
Forget confirmation + Disconnect button moved wholesale to
MoreTab inside ScarfGoTabRoot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-24 13:38:03 +02:00
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