fix(theme): apply imported syntax colors

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What Changed

• Preserve validated VS Code tokenColors when importing, pairing, copying, editing, and serializing custom themes, including Open VSX include chains.
• Register content-addressed Shiki themes for imported syntax rules while retaining the existing Pierre light/dark fallback for themes without them.
• Apply the active syntax theme consistently across diffs, workers, file and PR previews, chat code blocks, review comments, search results, and code font previews.
• Keep palette colors and syntax rules together as atomic light/dark modes, and activate Shiki registrations at the imperative theme-application seam rather than during React render.
• Cache syntax highlighters by both language and theme so switching imported themes cannot reuse stale highlighting.

Why

Imported themes currently update T3 Code's application palette, but syntax-highlighted surfaces continue using the fixed pierre-light or pierre-dark themes. This makes imported themes look incomplete and can produce low-contrast token colors.

This is a focused follow-up to the modular theme library merged in #5226: it fixes the missing syntax-token half of imported VS Code themes rather than introducing a separate theming system.

This keeps the change within the existing theme import and Pierre/Shiki pipelines: imported TextMate rules are bounded and sanitized, themes without syntax rules behave exactly as before, and no new dependency or desktop integration is introduced.

UI Changes

Syntax colors now follow the active imported theme instead of remaining on the Pierre fallback. No animation or interaction behavior changes.

Both screenshots use the same imported Solarized Dark palette. The only difference is whether its VS Code tokenColors are preserved.

Before — Pierre fallback	After — imported syntax colors

Testing

• Full web unit suite: 265 files, 2,593 tests
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web typecheck
• Full repository lint (passes with existing unrelated warnings)
• pnpm fmt:check
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web build
• Runtime smoke test registering a custom theme with @pierre/diffs and rendering TypeScript through the shared Shiki highlighter

Local commands ran on Node 26.4.0; the repo declares Node ^24.13.1, so pnpm emitted an engine warning.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for the UI change
• No animation or interaction changes require a video

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Custom themes now support appearance-specific syntax highlighting and token colors.
  • Code views, diffs, search results, previews, and file views use the selected syntax theme.
  • Theme editing and importing preserve multi-mode colors and syntax settings.
  • Theme imports validate syntax data and limit batches to 64 files or 2 MiB.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved rendering when updated files share the same path.
  • Failed syntax-highlighting loads can retry automatically.
  • Theme previews more reliably display mode-specific colors.

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Medium Risk
Touches theme storage shape, imperative theme activation, and many highlighting surfaces; invalid syntax is bounded at import but custom theme updates must propagate correctly.

Overview
Imported VS Code tokenColors now drive syntax highlighting instead of always using pierre-light / pierre-dark.

Theme model:ThemeDefinition moves palette and syntax into per-appearance modes (replacing top-level colors / variants). Import, edit, pair, and serialize paths preserve validated tokenColors; themes without syntax rules keep the Pierre fallback.

Runtime:useTheme calls activateSyntaxTheme when applying a theme and exposes syntaxThemeName. Content-addressed Shiki themes are registered from sanitized rules; highlighters cache by language + theme. Diff workers, chat blocks, search, file/PR previews, and related UI consume syntaxThemeName instead of deriving it from light/dark alone.

Rendering: Diff parse caches drop theme from keys; code view item version includes syntax theme so colors refresh without reminting file ids.

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Note

Apply imported VS Code syntax token colors to code highlighting

• Introduces ThemeSyntax and per-appearance ThemeMode structures in themePalette.ts, replacing top-level colors/variants with a modes map that can carry validated tokenColors per appearance.
• Adds themeSyntax.ts with normalizeThemeTokenColors (max 4,096 rules, hex normalization, scope/fontStyle validation) and parseThemeTokenColors; imports from VS Code and OpenVSX extensions now extract, validate, and attach token colors to the parsed theme.
• Adds syntaxTheme.ts with activateSyntaxTheme, which registers content-addressed custom Shiki themes when a theme carries syntax rules, falling back to bundled pierre-light/pierre-dark themes otherwise.
• useTheme() now exposes syntaxThemeName and resolvedTheme; all diff, file preview, search, and chat components consume syntaxThemeName directly instead of deriving it from resolvedTheme via resolveDiffThemeName.
• getSyntaxHighlighterPromise is keyed per (themeName, language) with a 128-entry FIFO cache and failed-entry eviction.
• Risk: stored themes are round-tripped through a V1 projection (colors/variants/syntax) on write; malformed stored syntax causes the stored theme to be rejected at read time.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds mode-based theme definitions, normalized syntax rules, custom syntax-theme activation, theme-aware highlighter caching, and direct syntax-theme propagation through rendering components. Theme editing and import validation now preserve modes and enforce size limits.

Changes

Theme and syntax handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mode-based theme model and imports apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts, apps/web/src/themePalette.ts, apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts, apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts, apps/web/src/*test.ts	Themes store colors and syntax rules in appearance-specific modes. Importers normalize syntax rules, enforce limits, and retain v1 serialization.
Syntax-theme activation and caching apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts	useTheme exposes an activated syntax theme name. Highlighter promises cache by language and theme, remove rejected entries, and cap the cache at 128 entries.
Syntax-theme renderer wiring apps/web/src/components/{ChatMarkdown,ChatView,DiffPanel,DiffWorkerPoolProvider}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/files/*, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*, apps/web/src/components/search/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx	Chat, diff, file, pull request, search, and preview renderers use syntaxThemeName directly. Search token rendering preserves match backgrounds and combines text decorations.
Theme editing, import limits, and rendering identity apps/web/src/components/settings/{ThemeEditorPanel,ThemeImportDialog}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/diffs/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/*test.ts	Theme edits preserve complete mode maps. Batch imports reject selections over 64 files or 2 MiB. Diff item versions include rendered file-diff keys.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to 8d32e

The change makes syntax highlighting follow imported themes, but current caching and preview invalidation can retain old colors after theme changes, causing PR diffs or settings previews to display incorrect highlighting; this bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant ThemeEditor
participant ThemePalette
participant useTheme
participant SyntaxTheme
participant DiffRenderer
ThemeEditor->>ThemePalette: createThemeDefinition with modes
ThemePalette-->>useTheme: resolved theme definition
useTheme->>SyntaxTheme: activateSyntaxTheme
SyntaxTheme-->>useTheme: syntaxThemeName
useTheme->>DiffRenderer: syntaxThemeName
DiffRenderer-->>ThemeEditor: rendered themed content

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Verdict: Needs human review

This PR introduces new syntax color theming capability with significant changes across the theme system, including new data structures, dynamic theme registration, and state propagation through multiple components. Despite the 'fix' label, this is a substantial feature that modifies core theme infrastructure and merits human review.

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apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx (1)

131-139: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear stale preview HTML before loading the new syntax theme.

When themeName changes, htmlByFile keeps the previous theme output until the new preload resolves. If the preload fails, the old syntax colors remain visible. Reset the state before starting the request and handle the rejected request.

Proposed fix

 useEffect(() => {
let cancelled = false;
- void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName).then((html) => {- if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);- });+ setHtmlByFile(null);+ void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName)+ .then((html) => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);+ })+ .catch(() => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(null);+ });
return () => {
cancelled = true;
};
}, [themeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx` around lines 131 -
139, Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear htmlByFile before starting
loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload promises without leaving the
previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation guard so late results from
the prior theme cannot update state.

apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx (1)

717-744: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Key the parsed-slice cache by syntaxThemeName.

The viewer uses syntaxThemeName, but parsedSlices still keys parseCache with resolvedTheme. A syntax-only theme change keeps the same cache key and reuses parsed output from the previous syntax theme.

Replace resolvedTheme in the cache key and the parsedSlices dependency list with syntaxThemeName.

Proposed fix

-const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${resolvedTheme}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;+const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${syntaxThemeName}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;
...
-}, [loadedSlices, resolvedTheme, scopeKey]);+}, [loadedSlices, scopeKey, syntaxThemeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx` around lines 717
- 744, Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to use
syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.test.tsx`:
- Around line 46-88: Update the test around getRenderablePatch so it creates two
distinct patch contents while using the same cache scope, then renders both
through AnnotatableCodeView. Keep the assertions that the file id remains
src/example.ts and that the second codeViewItems version differs from the first.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx`:
- Around line 717-744: Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to
use syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.
In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx`:
- Around line 131-139: Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear
htmlByFile before starting loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload
promises without leaving the previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation
guard so late results from the prior theme cannot update state.

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• apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.test.tsx
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• apps/web/src/components/clerk/clerkAppearance.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.test.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/files/FilePreviewPanel.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/search/HighlightedSearchLine.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/search/ProjectContentSearchDialog.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeEditorPanel.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemePreviewCircles.tsx
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/diffRendering.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.test.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.test.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.ts
• apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.test.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts

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UI consistency review of the syntax-theme threading. One finding: the pull request code tab still derives its diff parse-cache identity from resolvedTheme, so imported syntax themes that share an appearance will not repaint there, unlike DiffPanel. Everything else (theme option threading, AnnotatableCodeView item identity/version split, search token styling, worker theme sync) looks consistent.

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One theming-consistency finding on the file preview mount key. The previously flagged PullRequestCodeTab parse-cache keying (still on resolvedTheme) remains open; not re-posting it.

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Two theme-invalidation gaps in FilePreviewPanel: both file-preview surfaces still key their render identity on resolvedTheme (or on nothing), while the tokens they render now come from syntaxThemeName. Since two imported themes can share an appearance, syntaxThemeName can change while resolvedTheme stays dark, which is exactly the case the rest of this PR fixes elsewhere (e.g. DiffPanel's parse scope and PullRequestCodeTab's cacheKey).

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Addressed the remaining CodeRabbit outside-diff finding in 23fa48b: font-preview HTML is now tagged with its syntax theme, hidden immediately when the theme changes, guarded against late results, and cleared if preload fails.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx`:
- Around line 359-369: Update the local parse cache key in the loaded-slice
parsing logic to use the theme-independent pull-request slice scope, removing
syntaxThemeName from parseCacheKey. Keep the existing getRenderablePatch scope
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One finding on the pull-request diff surface: the tokenizer cache scope no longer carries the syntax theme, which diverges from how DiffPanel invalidates the same renderer.

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We're closing this PR as we clean up the T3 Code backlog. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

This combines theme parsing and serialization, Open VSX include limits, Shiki registration, cache keys, retries, and every highlighted surface in one 32-file repair. Those coupled changes need smaller, bounded fixes before useful review.

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What Changed

• Preserve validated VS Code tokenColors when importing, pairing, copying, editing, and serializing custom themes, including Open VSX include chains.
• Register content-addressed Shiki themes for imported syntax rules while retaining the existing Pierre light/dark fallback for themes without them.
• Apply the active syntax theme consistently across diffs, workers, file and PR previews, chat code blocks, review comments, search results, and code font previews.
• Keep palette colors and syntax rules together as atomic light/dark modes, and activate Shiki registrations at the imperative theme-application seam rather than during React render.
• Cache syntax highlighters by both language and theme so switching imported themes cannot reuse stale highlighting.

Why

Imported themes currently update T3 Code's application palette, but syntax-highlighted surfaces continue using the fixed pierre-light or pierre-dark themes. This makes imported themes look incomplete and can produce low-contrast token colors.

This is a focused follow-up to the modular theme library merged in #5226: it fixes the missing syntax-token half of imported VS Code themes rather than introducing a separate theming system.

This keeps the change within the existing theme import and Pierre/Shiki pipelines: imported TextMate rules are bounded and sanitized, themes without syntax rules behave exactly as before, and no new dependency or desktop integration is introduced.

UI Changes

Syntax colors now follow the active imported theme instead of remaining on the Pierre fallback. No animation or interaction behavior changes.

Both screenshots use the same imported Solarized Dark palette. The only difference is whether its VS Code tokenColors are preserved.

Before — Pierre fallback	After — imported syntax colors

Testing

• Full web unit suite: 265 files, 2,593 tests
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web typecheck
• Full repository lint (passes with existing unrelated warnings)
• pnpm fmt:check
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web build
• Runtime smoke test registering a custom theme with @pierre/diffs and rendering TypeScript through the shared Shiki highlighter

Local commands ran on Node 26.4.0; the repo declares Node ^24.13.1, so pnpm emitted an engine warning.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for the UI change
• No animation or interaction changes require a video

Built with GPT-5.6 Sol in pi.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Custom themes now support appearance-specific syntax highlighting and token colors.
  • Code views, diffs, search results, previews, and file views use the selected syntax theme.
  • Theme editing and importing preserve multi-mode colors and syntax settings.
  • Theme imports validate syntax data and limit batches to 64 files or 2 MiB.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved rendering when updated files share the same path.
  • Failed syntax-highlighting loads can retry automatically.
  • Theme previews more reliably display mode-specific colors.

---

Note

Medium Risk
Touches theme storage shape, imperative theme activation, and many highlighting surfaces; invalid syntax is bounded at import but custom theme updates must propagate correctly.

Overview
Imported VS Code tokenColors now drive syntax highlighting instead of always using pierre-light / pierre-dark.

Theme model:ThemeDefinition moves palette and syntax into per-appearance modes (replacing top-level colors / variants). Import, edit, pair, and serialize paths preserve validated tokenColors; themes without syntax rules keep the Pierre fallback.

Runtime:useTheme calls activateSyntaxTheme when applying a theme and exposes syntaxThemeName. Content-addressed Shiki themes are registered from sanitized rules; highlighters cache by language + theme. Diff workers, chat blocks, search, file/PR previews, and related UI consume syntaxThemeName instead of deriving it from light/dark alone.

Rendering: Diff parse caches drop theme from keys; code view item version includes syntax theme so colors refresh without reminting file ids.

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Note

Apply imported VS Code syntax token colors to code highlighting

• Introduces ThemeSyntax and per-appearance ThemeMode structures in themePalette.ts, replacing top-level colors/variants with a modes map that can carry validated tokenColors per appearance.
• Adds themeSyntax.ts with normalizeThemeTokenColors (max 4,096 rules, hex normalization, scope/fontStyle validation) and parseThemeTokenColors; imports from VS Code and OpenVSX extensions now extract, validate, and attach token colors to the parsed theme.
• Adds syntaxTheme.ts with activateSyntaxTheme, which registers content-addressed custom Shiki themes when a theme carries syntax rules, falling back to bundled pierre-light/pierre-dark themes otherwise.
• useTheme() now exposes syntaxThemeName and resolvedTheme; all diff, file preview, search, and chat components consume syntaxThemeName directly instead of deriving it from resolvedTheme via resolveDiffThemeName.
• getSyntaxHighlighterPromise is keyed per (themeName, language) with a 128-entry FIFO cache and failed-entry eviction.
• Risk: stored themes are round-tripped through a V1 projection (colors/variants/syntax) on write; malformed stored syntax causes the stored theme to be rejected at read time.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds mode-based theme definitions, normalized syntax rules, custom syntax-theme activation, theme-aware highlighter caching, and direct syntax-theme propagation through rendering components. Theme editing and import validation now preserve modes and enforce size limits.

Changes

Theme and syntax handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mode-based theme model and imports apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts, apps/web/src/themePalette.ts, apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts, apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts, apps/web/src/*test.ts	Themes store colors and syntax rules in appearance-specific modes. Importers normalize syntax rules, enforce limits, and retain v1 serialization.
Syntax-theme activation and caching apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts	useTheme exposes an activated syntax theme name. Highlighter promises cache by language and theme, remove rejected entries, and cap the cache at 128 entries.
Syntax-theme renderer wiring apps/web/src/components/{ChatMarkdown,ChatView,DiffPanel,DiffWorkerPoolProvider}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/files/*, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*, apps/web/src/components/search/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx	Chat, diff, file, pull request, search, and preview renderers use syntaxThemeName directly. Search token rendering preserves match backgrounds and combines text decorations.
Theme editing, import limits, and rendering identity apps/web/src/components/settings/{ThemeEditorPanel,ThemeImportDialog}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/diffs/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/*test.ts	Theme edits preserve complete mode maps. Batch imports reject selections over 64 files or 2 MiB. Diff item versions include rendered file-diff keys.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to 8d32e

The change makes syntax highlighting follow imported themes, but current caching and preview invalidation can retain old colors after theme changes, causing PR diffs or settings previews to display incorrect highlighting; this bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant ThemeEditor
participant ThemePalette
participant useTheme
participant SyntaxTheme
participant DiffRenderer
ThemeEditor->>ThemePalette: createThemeDefinition with modes
ThemePalette-->>useTheme: resolved theme definition
useTheme->>SyntaxTheme: activateSyntaxTheme
SyntaxTheme-->>useTheme: syntaxThemeName
useTheme->>DiffRenderer: syntaxThemeName
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apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx (1)

131-139: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear stale preview HTML before loading the new syntax theme.

When themeName changes, htmlByFile keeps the previous theme output until the new preload resolves. If the preload fails, the old syntax colors remain visible. Reset the state before starting the request and handle the rejected request.

Proposed fix

 useEffect(() => {
let cancelled = false;
- void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName).then((html) => {- if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);- });+ setHtmlByFile(null);+ void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName)+ .then((html) => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);+ })+ .catch(() => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(null);+ });
return () => {
cancelled = true;
};
}, [themeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx` around lines 131 -
139, Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear htmlByFile before starting
loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload promises without leaving the
previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation guard so late results from
the prior theme cannot update state.

apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx (1)

717-744: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Key the parsed-slice cache by syntaxThemeName.

The viewer uses syntaxThemeName, but parsedSlices still keys parseCache with resolvedTheme. A syntax-only theme change keeps the same cache key and reuses parsed output from the previous syntax theme.

Replace resolvedTheme in the cache key and the parsedSlices dependency list with syntaxThemeName.

Proposed fix

-const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${resolvedTheme}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;+const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${syntaxThemeName}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;
...
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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx` around lines 717
- 744, Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to use
syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.test.tsx`:
- Around line 46-88: Update the test around getRenderablePatch so it creates two
distinct patch contents while using the same cache scope, then renders both
through AnnotatableCodeView. Keep the assertions that the file id remains
src/example.ts and that the second codeViewItems version differs from the first.
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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx`:
- Around line 717-744: Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to
use syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.
In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx`:
- Around line 131-139: Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear
htmlByFile before starting loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload
promises without leaving the previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation
guard so late results from the prior theme cannot update state.

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• apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx
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• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemePreviewCircles.tsx
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/diffRendering.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.test.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.test.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.ts
• apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.test.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts

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UI consistency review of the syntax-theme threading. One finding: the pull request code tab still derives its diff parse-cache identity from resolvedTheme, so imported syntax themes that share an appearance will not repaint there, unlike DiffPanel. Everything else (theme option threading, AnnotatableCodeView item identity/version split, search token styling, worker theme sync) looks consistent.

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One theming-consistency finding on the file preview mount key. The previously flagged PullRequestCodeTab parse-cache keying (still on resolvedTheme) remains open; not re-posting it.

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Two theme-invalidation gaps in FilePreviewPanel: both file-preview surfaces still key their render identity on resolvedTheme (or on nothing), while the tokens they render now come from syntaxThemeName. Since two imported themes can share an appearance, syntaxThemeName can change while resolvedTheme stays dark, which is exactly the case the rest of this PR fixes elsewhere (e.g. DiffPanel's parse scope and PullRequestCodeTab's cacheKey).

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Addressed the remaining CodeRabbit outside-diff finding in 23fa48b: font-preview HTML is now tagged with its syntax theme, hidden immediately when the theme changes, guarded against late results, and cleared if preload fails.

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- Around line 359-369: Update the local parse cache key in the loaded-slice
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One finding on the pull-request diff surface: the tokenizer cache scope no longer carries the syntax theme, which diverges from how DiffPanel invalidates the same renderer.

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We're closing this PR as we clean up the T3 Code backlog. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

This combines theme parsing and serialization, Open VSX include limits, Shiki registration, cache keys, retries, and every highlighted surface in one 32-file repair. Those coupled changes need smaller, bounded fixes before useful review.

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What Changed

• Preserve validated VS Code tokenColors when importing, pairing, copying, editing, and serializing custom themes, including Open VSX include chains.
• Register content-addressed Shiki themes for imported syntax rules while retaining the existing Pierre light/dark fallback for themes without them.
• Apply the active syntax theme consistently across diffs, workers, file and PR previews, chat code blocks, review comments, search results, and code font previews.
• Keep palette colors and syntax rules together as atomic light/dark modes, and activate Shiki registrations at the imperative theme-application seam rather than during React render.
• Cache syntax highlighters by both language and theme so switching imported themes cannot reuse stale highlighting.

Why

Imported themes currently update T3 Code's application palette, but syntax-highlighted surfaces continue using the fixed pierre-light or pierre-dark themes. This makes imported themes look incomplete and can produce low-contrast token colors.

This is a focused follow-up to the modular theme library merged in #5226: it fixes the missing syntax-token half of imported VS Code themes rather than introducing a separate theming system.

This keeps the change within the existing theme import and Pierre/Shiki pipelines: imported TextMate rules are bounded and sanitized, themes without syntax rules behave exactly as before, and no new dependency or desktop integration is introduced.

UI Changes

Syntax colors now follow the active imported theme instead of remaining on the Pierre fallback. No animation or interaction behavior changes.

Both screenshots use the same imported Solarized Dark palette. The only difference is whether its VS Code tokenColors are preserved.

Before — Pierre fallback	After — imported syntax colors

Testing

• Full web unit suite: 265 files, 2,593 tests
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web typecheck
• Full repository lint (passes with existing unrelated warnings)
• pnpm fmt:check
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web build
• Runtime smoke test registering a custom theme with @pierre/diffs and rendering TypeScript through the shared Shiki highlighter

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Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for the UI change
• No animation or interaction changes require a video

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Custom themes now support appearance-specific syntax highlighting and token colors.
  • Code views, diffs, search results, previews, and file views use the selected syntax theme.
  • Theme editing and importing preserve multi-mode colors and syntax settings.
  • Theme imports validate syntax data and limit batches to 64 files or 2 MiB.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved rendering when updated files share the same path.
  • Failed syntax-highlighting loads can retry automatically.
  • Theme previews more reliably display mode-specific colors.

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Medium Risk
Touches theme storage shape, imperative theme activation, and many highlighting surfaces; invalid syntax is bounded at import but custom theme updates must propagate correctly.

Overview
Imported VS Code tokenColors now drive syntax highlighting instead of always using pierre-light / pierre-dark.

Theme model:ThemeDefinition moves palette and syntax into per-appearance modes (replacing top-level colors / variants). Import, edit, pair, and serialize paths preserve validated tokenColors; themes without syntax rules keep the Pierre fallback.

Runtime:useTheme calls activateSyntaxTheme when applying a theme and exposes syntaxThemeName. Content-addressed Shiki themes are registered from sanitized rules; highlighters cache by language + theme. Diff workers, chat blocks, search, file/PR previews, and related UI consume syntaxThemeName instead of deriving it from light/dark alone.

Rendering: Diff parse caches drop theme from keys; code view item version includes syntax theme so colors refresh without reminting file ids.

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Apply imported VS Code syntax token colors to code highlighting

• Introduces ThemeSyntax and per-appearance ThemeMode structures in themePalette.ts, replacing top-level colors/variants with a modes map that can carry validated tokenColors per appearance.
• Adds themeSyntax.ts with normalizeThemeTokenColors (max 4,096 rules, hex normalization, scope/fontStyle validation) and parseThemeTokenColors; imports from VS Code and OpenVSX extensions now extract, validate, and attach token colors to the parsed theme.
• Adds syntaxTheme.ts with activateSyntaxTheme, which registers content-addressed custom Shiki themes when a theme carries syntax rules, falling back to bundled pierre-light/pierre-dark themes otherwise.
• useTheme() now exposes syntaxThemeName and resolvedTheme; all diff, file preview, search, and chat components consume syntaxThemeName directly instead of deriving it from resolvedTheme via resolveDiffThemeName.
• getSyntaxHighlighterPromise is keyed per (themeName, language) with a 128-entry FIFO cache and failed-entry eviction.
• Risk: stored themes are round-tripped through a V1 projection (colors/variants/syntax) on write; malformed stored syntax causes the stored theme to be rejected at read time.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds mode-based theme definitions, normalized syntax rules, custom syntax-theme activation, theme-aware highlighter caching, and direct syntax-theme propagation through rendering components. Theme editing and import validation now preserve modes and enforce size limits.

Changes

Theme and syntax handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mode-based theme model and imports apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts, apps/web/src/themePalette.ts, apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts, apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts, apps/web/src/*test.ts	Themes store colors and syntax rules in appearance-specific modes. Importers normalize syntax rules, enforce limits, and retain v1 serialization.
Syntax-theme activation and caching apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts	useTheme exposes an activated syntax theme name. Highlighter promises cache by language and theme, remove rejected entries, and cap the cache at 128 entries.
Syntax-theme renderer wiring apps/web/src/components/{ChatMarkdown,ChatView,DiffPanel,DiffWorkerPoolProvider}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/files/*, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*, apps/web/src/components/search/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx	Chat, diff, file, pull request, search, and preview renderers use syntaxThemeName directly. Search token rendering preserves match backgrounds and combines text decorations.
Theme editing, import limits, and rendering identity apps/web/src/components/settings/{ThemeEditorPanel,ThemeImportDialog}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/diffs/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/*test.ts	Theme edits preserve complete mode maps. Batch imports reject selections over 64 files or 2 MiB. Diff item versions include rendered file-diff keys.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to 8d32e

The change makes syntax highlighting follow imported themes, but current caching and preview invalidation can retain old colors after theme changes, causing PR diffs or settings previews to display incorrect highlighting; this bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant ThemeEditor
participant ThemePalette
participant useTheme
participant SyntaxTheme
participant DiffRenderer
ThemeEditor->>ThemePalette: createThemeDefinition with modes
ThemePalette-->>useTheme: resolved theme definition
useTheme->>SyntaxTheme: activateSyntaxTheme
SyntaxTheme-->>useTheme: syntaxThemeName
useTheme->>DiffRenderer: syntaxThemeName
DiffRenderer-->>ThemeEditor: rendered themed content

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apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx (1)

131-139: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear stale preview HTML before loading the new syntax theme.

When themeName changes, htmlByFile keeps the previous theme output until the new preload resolves. If the preload fails, the old syntax colors remain visible. Reset the state before starting the request and handle the rejected request.

Proposed fix

 useEffect(() => {
let cancelled = false;
- void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName).then((html) => {- if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);- });+ setHtmlByFile(null);+ void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName)+ .then((html) => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);+ })+ .catch(() => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(null);+ });
return () => {
cancelled = true;
};
}, [themeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx` around lines 131 -
139, Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear htmlByFile before starting
loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload promises without leaving the
previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation guard so late results from
the prior theme cannot update state.

apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx (1)

717-744: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Key the parsed-slice cache by syntaxThemeName.

The viewer uses syntaxThemeName, but parsedSlices still keys parseCache with resolvedTheme. A syntax-only theme change keeps the same cache key and reuses parsed output from the previous syntax theme.

Replace resolvedTheme in the cache key and the parsedSlices dependency list with syntaxThemeName.

Proposed fix

-const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${resolvedTheme}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;+const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${syntaxThemeName}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;
...
-}, [loadedSlices, resolvedTheme, scopeKey]);+}, [loadedSlices, scopeKey, syntaxThemeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx` around lines 717
- 744, Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to use
syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.test.tsx`:
- Around line 46-88: Update the test around getRenderablePatch so it creates two
distinct patch contents while using the same cache scope, then renders both
through AnnotatableCodeView. Keep the assertions that the file id remains
src/example.ts and that the second codeViewItems version differs from the first.
---
Outside diff comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx`:
- Around line 717-744: Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to
use syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.
In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx`:
- Around line 131-139: Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear
htmlByFile before starting loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload
promises without leaving the previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation
guard so late results from the prior theme cannot update state.

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• apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.test.tsx
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• apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/search/HighlightedSearchLine.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/search/ProjectContentSearchDialog.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeEditorPanel.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemePreviewCircles.tsx
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/diffRendering.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.test.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.test.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.ts
• apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.test.ts
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Two theme-invalidation gaps in FilePreviewPanel: both file-preview surfaces still key their render identity on resolvedTheme (or on nothing), while the tokens they render now come from syntaxThemeName. Since two imported themes can share an appearance, syntaxThemeName can change while resolvedTheme stays dark, which is exactly the case the rest of this PR fixes elsewhere (e.g. DiffPanel's parse scope and PullRequestCodeTab's cacheKey).

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What Changed

• Preserve validated VS Code tokenColors when importing, pairing, copying, editing, and serializing custom themes, including Open VSX include chains.
• Register content-addressed Shiki themes for imported syntax rules while retaining the existing Pierre light/dark fallback for themes without them.
• Apply the active syntax theme consistently across diffs, workers, file and PR previews, chat code blocks, review comments, search results, and code font previews.
• Keep palette colors and syntax rules together as atomic light/dark modes, and activate Shiki registrations at the imperative theme-application seam rather than during React render.
• Cache syntax highlighters by both language and theme so switching imported themes cannot reuse stale highlighting.

Why

Imported themes currently update T3 Code's application palette, but syntax-highlighted surfaces continue using the fixed pierre-light or pierre-dark themes. This makes imported themes look incomplete and can produce low-contrast token colors.

This is a focused follow-up to the modular theme library merged in #5226: it fixes the missing syntax-token half of imported VS Code themes rather than introducing a separate theming system.

This keeps the change within the existing theme import and Pierre/Shiki pipelines: imported TextMate rules are bounded and sanitized, themes without syntax rules behave exactly as before, and no new dependency or desktop integration is introduced.

UI Changes

Syntax colors now follow the active imported theme instead of remaining on the Pierre fallback. No animation or interaction behavior changes.

Both screenshots use the same imported Solarized Dark palette. The only difference is whether its VS Code tokenColors are preserved.

Before — Pierre fallback	After — imported syntax colors

Testing

• Full web unit suite: 265 files, 2,593 tests
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• pnpm fmt:check
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web build
• Runtime smoke test registering a custom theme with @pierre/diffs and rendering TypeScript through the shared Shiki highlighter

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Custom themes now support appearance-specific syntax highlighting and token colors.
  • Code views, diffs, search results, previews, and file views use the selected syntax theme.
  • Theme editing and importing preserve multi-mode colors and syntax settings.
  • Theme imports validate syntax data and limit batches to 64 files or 2 MiB.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved rendering when updated files share the same path.
  • Failed syntax-highlighting loads can retry automatically.
  • Theme previews more reliably display mode-specific colors.

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Medium Risk
Touches theme storage shape, imperative theme activation, and many highlighting surfaces; invalid syntax is bounded at import but custom theme updates must propagate correctly.

Overview
Imported VS Code tokenColors now drive syntax highlighting instead of always using pierre-light / pierre-dark.

Theme model:ThemeDefinition moves palette and syntax into per-appearance modes (replacing top-level colors / variants). Import, edit, pair, and serialize paths preserve validated tokenColors; themes without syntax rules keep the Pierre fallback.

Runtime:useTheme calls activateSyntaxTheme when applying a theme and exposes syntaxThemeName. Content-addressed Shiki themes are registered from sanitized rules; highlighters cache by language + theme. Diff workers, chat blocks, search, file/PR previews, and related UI consume syntaxThemeName instead of deriving it from light/dark alone.

Rendering: Diff parse caches drop theme from keys; code view item version includes syntax theme so colors refresh without reminting file ids.

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Note

Apply imported VS Code syntax token colors to code highlighting

• Introduces ThemeSyntax and per-appearance ThemeMode structures in themePalette.ts, replacing top-level colors/variants with a modes map that can carry validated tokenColors per appearance.
• Adds themeSyntax.ts with normalizeThemeTokenColors (max 4,096 rules, hex normalization, scope/fontStyle validation) and parseThemeTokenColors; imports from VS Code and OpenVSX extensions now extract, validate, and attach token colors to the parsed theme.
• Adds syntaxTheme.ts with activateSyntaxTheme, which registers content-addressed custom Shiki themes when a theme carries syntax rules, falling back to bundled pierre-light/pierre-dark themes otherwise.
• useTheme() now exposes syntaxThemeName and resolvedTheme; all diff, file preview, search, and chat components consume syntaxThemeName directly instead of deriving it from resolvedTheme via resolveDiffThemeName.
• getSyntaxHighlighterPromise is keyed per (themeName, language) with a 128-entry FIFO cache and failed-entry eviction.
• Risk: stored themes are round-tripped through a V1 projection (colors/variants/syntax) on write; malformed stored syntax causes the stored theme to be rejected at read time.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds mode-based theme definitions, normalized syntax rules, custom syntax-theme activation, theme-aware highlighter caching, and direct syntax-theme propagation through rendering components. Theme editing and import validation now preserve modes and enforce size limits.

Changes

Theme and syntax handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mode-based theme model and imports apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts, apps/web/src/themePalette.ts, apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts, apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts, apps/web/src/*test.ts	Themes store colors and syntax rules in appearance-specific modes. Importers normalize syntax rules, enforce limits, and retain v1 serialization.
Syntax-theme activation and caching apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts	useTheme exposes an activated syntax theme name. Highlighter promises cache by language and theme, remove rejected entries, and cap the cache at 128 entries.
Syntax-theme renderer wiring apps/web/src/components/{ChatMarkdown,ChatView,DiffPanel,DiffWorkerPoolProvider}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/files/*, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*, apps/web/src/components/search/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx	Chat, diff, file, pull request, search, and preview renderers use syntaxThemeName directly. Search token rendering preserves match backgrounds and combines text decorations.
Theme editing, import limits, and rendering identity apps/web/src/components/settings/{ThemeEditorPanel,ThemeImportDialog}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/diffs/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/*test.ts	Theme edits preserve complete mode maps. Batch imports reject selections over 64 files or 2 MiB. Diff item versions include rendered file-diff keys.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to 8d32e

The change makes syntax highlighting follow imported themes, but current caching and preview invalidation can retain old colors after theme changes, causing PR diffs or settings previews to display incorrect highlighting; this bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant ThemeEditor
participant ThemePalette
participant useTheme
participant SyntaxTheme
participant DiffRenderer
ThemeEditor->>ThemePalette: createThemeDefinition with modes
ThemePalette-->>useTheme: resolved theme definition
useTheme->>SyntaxTheme: activateSyntaxTheme
SyntaxTheme-->>useTheme: syntaxThemeName
useTheme->>DiffRenderer: syntaxThemeName
DiffRenderer-->>ThemeEditor: rendered themed content

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apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx (1)

131-139: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear stale preview HTML before loading the new syntax theme.

When themeName changes, htmlByFile keeps the previous theme output until the new preload resolves. If the preload fails, the old syntax colors remain visible. Reset the state before starting the request and handle the rejected request.

Proposed fix

 useEffect(() => {
let cancelled = false;
- void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName).then((html) => {- if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);- });+ setHtmlByFile(null);+ void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName)+ .then((html) => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);+ })+ .catch(() => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(null);+ });
return () => {
cancelled = true;
};
}, [themeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx` around lines 131 -
139, Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear htmlByFile before starting
loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload promises without leaving the
previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation guard so late results from
the prior theme cannot update state.

apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx (1)

717-744: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Key the parsed-slice cache by syntaxThemeName.

The viewer uses syntaxThemeName, but parsedSlices still keys parseCache with resolvedTheme. A syntax-only theme change keeps the same cache key and reuses parsed output from the previous syntax theme.

Replace resolvedTheme in the cache key and the parsedSlices dependency list with syntaxThemeName.

Proposed fix

-const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${resolvedTheme}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;+const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${syntaxThemeName}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;
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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx` around lines 717
- 744, Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to use
syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
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through AnnotatableCodeView. Keep the assertions that the file id remains
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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx`:
- Around line 717-744: Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to
use syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.
In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx`:
- Around line 131-139: Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear
htmlByFile before starting loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload
promises without leaving the previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation
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• apps/web/src/themePalette.ts
• apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.test.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts

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One theming-consistency finding on the file preview mount key. The previously flagged PullRequestCodeTab parse-cache keying (still on resolvedTheme) remains open; not re-posting it.

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Two theme-invalidation gaps in FilePreviewPanel: both file-preview surfaces still key their render identity on resolvedTheme (or on nothing), while the tokens they render now come from syntaxThemeName. Since two imported themes can share an appearance, syntaxThemeName can change while resolvedTheme stays dark, which is exactly the case the rest of this PR fixes elsewhere (e.g. DiffPanel's parse scope and PullRequestCodeTab's cacheKey).

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One finding on the pull-request diff surface: the tokenizer cache scope no longer carries the syntax theme, which diverges from how DiffPanel invalidates the same renderer.

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We're closing this PR as we clean up the T3 Code backlog. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

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If you believe we closed this in error, please reopen the PR and leave a comment explaining what we missed.

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What Changed

• Preserve validated VS Code tokenColors when importing, pairing, copying, editing, and serializing custom themes, including Open VSX include chains.
• Register content-addressed Shiki themes for imported syntax rules while retaining the existing Pierre light/dark fallback for themes without them.
• Apply the active syntax theme consistently across diffs, workers, file and PR previews, chat code blocks, review comments, search results, and code font previews.
• Keep palette colors and syntax rules together as atomic light/dark modes, and activate Shiki registrations at the imperative theme-application seam rather than during React render.
• Cache syntax highlighters by both language and theme so switching imported themes cannot reuse stale highlighting.

Why

Imported themes currently update T3 Code's application palette, but syntax-highlighted surfaces continue using the fixed pierre-light or pierre-dark themes. This makes imported themes look incomplete and can produce low-contrast token colors.

This is a focused follow-up to the modular theme library merged in #5226: it fixes the missing syntax-token half of imported VS Code themes rather than introducing a separate theming system.

This keeps the change within the existing theme import and Pierre/Shiki pipelines: imported TextMate rules are bounded and sanitized, themes without syntax rules behave exactly as before, and no new dependency or desktop integration is introduced.

UI Changes

Syntax colors now follow the active imported theme instead of remaining on the Pierre fallback. No animation or interaction behavior changes.

Both screenshots use the same imported Solarized Dark palette. The only difference is whether its VS Code tokenColors are preserved.

Before — Pierre fallback	After — imported syntax colors

Testing

• Full web unit suite: 265 files, 2,593 tests
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web typecheck
• Full repository lint (passes with existing unrelated warnings)
• pnpm fmt:check
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web build
• Runtime smoke test registering a custom theme with @pierre/diffs and rendering TypeScript through the shared Shiki highlighter

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• New Features

  • Custom themes now support appearance-specific syntax highlighting and token colors.
  • Code views, diffs, search results, previews, and file views use the selected syntax theme.
  • Theme editing and importing preserve multi-mode colors and syntax settings.
  • Theme imports validate syntax data and limit batches to 64 files or 2 MiB.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved rendering when updated files share the same path.
  • Failed syntax-highlighting loads can retry automatically.
  • Theme previews more reliably display mode-specific colors.

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Medium Risk
Touches theme storage shape, imperative theme activation, and many highlighting surfaces; invalid syntax is bounded at import but custom theme updates must propagate correctly.

Overview
Imported VS Code tokenColors now drive syntax highlighting instead of always using pierre-light / pierre-dark.

Theme model:ThemeDefinition moves palette and syntax into per-appearance modes (replacing top-level colors / variants). Import, edit, pair, and serialize paths preserve validated tokenColors; themes without syntax rules keep the Pierre fallback.

Runtime:useTheme calls activateSyntaxTheme when applying a theme and exposes syntaxThemeName. Content-addressed Shiki themes are registered from sanitized rules; highlighters cache by language + theme. Diff workers, chat blocks, search, file/PR previews, and related UI consume syntaxThemeName instead of deriving it from light/dark alone.

Rendering: Diff parse caches drop theme from keys; code view item version includes syntax theme so colors refresh without reminting file ids.

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Apply imported VS Code syntax token colors to code highlighting

• Introduces ThemeSyntax and per-appearance ThemeMode structures in themePalette.ts, replacing top-level colors/variants with a modes map that can carry validated tokenColors per appearance.
• Adds themeSyntax.ts with normalizeThemeTokenColors (max 4,096 rules, hex normalization, scope/fontStyle validation) and parseThemeTokenColors; imports from VS Code and OpenVSX extensions now extract, validate, and attach token colors to the parsed theme.
• Adds syntaxTheme.ts with activateSyntaxTheme, which registers content-addressed custom Shiki themes when a theme carries syntax rules, falling back to bundled pierre-light/pierre-dark themes otherwise.
• useTheme() now exposes syntaxThemeName and resolvedTheme; all diff, file preview, search, and chat components consume syntaxThemeName directly instead of deriving it from resolvedTheme via resolveDiffThemeName.
• getSyntaxHighlighterPromise is keyed per (themeName, language) with a 128-entry FIFO cache and failed-entry eviction.
• Risk: stored themes are round-tripped through a V1 projection (colors/variants/syntax) on write; malformed stored syntax causes the stored theme to be rejected at read time.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds mode-based theme definitions, normalized syntax rules, custom syntax-theme activation, theme-aware highlighter caching, and direct syntax-theme propagation through rendering components. Theme editing and import validation now preserve modes and enforce size limits.

Changes

Theme and syntax handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mode-based theme model and imports apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts, apps/web/src/themePalette.ts, apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts, apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts, apps/web/src/*test.ts	Themes store colors and syntax rules in appearance-specific modes. Importers normalize syntax rules, enforce limits, and retain v1 serialization.
Syntax-theme activation and caching apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts	useTheme exposes an activated syntax theme name. Highlighter promises cache by language and theme, remove rejected entries, and cap the cache at 128 entries.
Syntax-theme renderer wiring apps/web/src/components/{ChatMarkdown,ChatView,DiffPanel,DiffWorkerPoolProvider}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/files/*, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*, apps/web/src/components/search/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx	Chat, diff, file, pull request, search, and preview renderers use syntaxThemeName directly. Search token rendering preserves match backgrounds and combines text decorations.
Theme editing, import limits, and rendering identity apps/web/src/components/settings/{ThemeEditorPanel,ThemeImportDialog}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/diffs/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/*test.ts	Theme edits preserve complete mode maps. Batch imports reject selections over 64 files or 2 MiB. Diff item versions include rendered file-diff keys.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to 8d32e

The change makes syntax highlighting follow imported themes, but current caching and preview invalidation can retain old colors after theme changes, causing PR diffs or settings previews to display incorrect highlighting; this bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant ThemeEditor
participant ThemePalette
participant useTheme
participant SyntaxTheme
participant DiffRenderer
ThemeEditor->>ThemePalette: createThemeDefinition with modes
ThemePalette-->>useTheme: resolved theme definition
useTheme->>SyntaxTheme: activateSyntaxTheme
SyntaxTheme-->>useTheme: syntaxThemeName
useTheme->>DiffRenderer: syntaxThemeName
DiffRenderer-->>ThemeEditor: rendered themed content

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This PR introduces new syntax color theming capability with significant changes across the theme system, including new data structures, dynamic theme registration, and state propagation through multiple components. Despite the 'fix' label, this is a substantial feature that modifies core theme infrastructure and merits human review.

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apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx (1)

131-139: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear stale preview HTML before loading the new syntax theme.

When themeName changes, htmlByFile keeps the previous theme output until the new preload resolves. If the preload fails, the old syntax colors remain visible. Reset the state before starting the request and handle the rejected request.

Proposed fix

 useEffect(() => {
let cancelled = false;
- void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName).then((html) => {- if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);- });+ setHtmlByFile(null);+ void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName)+ .then((html) => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);+ })+ .catch(() => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(null);+ });
return () => {
cancelled = true;
};
}, [themeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx` around lines 131 -
139, Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear htmlByFile before starting
loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload promises without leaving the
previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation guard so late results from
the prior theme cannot update state.

apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx (1)

717-744: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Key the parsed-slice cache by syntaxThemeName.

The viewer uses syntaxThemeName, but parsedSlices still keys parseCache with resolvedTheme. A syntax-only theme change keeps the same cache key and reuses parsed output from the previous syntax theme.

Replace resolvedTheme in the cache key and the parsedSlices dependency list with syntaxThemeName.

Proposed fix

-const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${resolvedTheme}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;+const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${syntaxThemeName}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;
...
-}, [loadedSlices, resolvedTheme, scopeKey]);+}, [loadedSlices, scopeKey, syntaxThemeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx` around lines 717
- 744, Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to use
syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.test.tsx`:
- Around line 46-88: Update the test around getRenderablePatch so it creates two
distinct patch contents while using the same cache scope, then renders both
through AnnotatableCodeView. Keep the assertions that the file id remains
src/example.ts and that the second codeViewItems version differs from the first.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx`:
- Around line 717-744: Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to
use syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.
In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx`:
- Around line 131-139: Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear
htmlByFile before starting loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload
promises without leaving the previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation
guard so late results from the prior theme cannot update state.

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• apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.test.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/clerk/clerkAppearance.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.test.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/files/FilePreviewPanel.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/search/HighlightedSearchLine.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/search/ProjectContentSearchDialog.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeEditorPanel.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemePreviewCircles.tsx
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/diffRendering.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.test.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.test.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.ts
• apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.test.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts

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UI consistency review of the syntax-theme threading. One finding: the pull request code tab still derives its diff parse-cache identity from resolvedTheme, so imported syntax themes that share an appearance will not repaint there, unlike DiffPanel. Everything else (theme option threading, AnnotatableCodeView item identity/version split, search token styling, worker theme sync) looks consistent.

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One theming-consistency finding on the file preview mount key. The previously flagged PullRequestCodeTab parse-cache keying (still on resolvedTheme) remains open; not re-posting it.

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Two theme-invalidation gaps in FilePreviewPanel: both file-preview surfaces still key their render identity on resolvedTheme (or on nothing), while the tokens they render now come from syntaxThemeName. Since two imported themes can share an appearance, syntaxThemeName can change while resolvedTheme stays dark, which is exactly the case the rest of this PR fixes elsewhere (e.g. DiffPanel's parse scope and PullRequestCodeTab's cacheKey).

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Addressed the remaining CodeRabbit outside-diff finding in 23fa48b: font-preview HTML is now tagged with its syntax theme, hidden immediately when the theme changes, guarded against late results, and cleared if preload fails.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx`:
- Around line 359-369: Update the local parse cache key in the loaded-slice
parsing logic to use the theme-independent pull-request slice scope, removing
syntaxThemeName from parseCacheKey. Keep the existing getRenderablePatch scope
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One finding on the pull-request diff surface: the tokenizer cache scope no longer carries the syntax theme, which diverges from how DiffPanel invalidates the same renderer.

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What Changed

• Preserve validated VS Code tokenColors when importing, pairing, copying, editing, and serializing custom themes, including Open VSX include chains.
• Register content-addressed Shiki themes for imported syntax rules while retaining the existing Pierre light/dark fallback for themes without them.
• Apply the active syntax theme consistently across diffs, workers, file and PR previews, chat code blocks, review comments, search results, and code font previews.
• Keep palette colors and syntax rules together as atomic light/dark modes, and activate Shiki registrations at the imperative theme-application seam rather than during React render.
• Cache syntax highlighters by both language and theme so switching imported themes cannot reuse stale highlighting.

Why

Imported themes currently update T3 Code's application palette, but syntax-highlighted surfaces continue using the fixed pierre-light or pierre-dark themes. This makes imported themes look incomplete and can produce low-contrast token colors.

This is a focused follow-up to the modular theme library merged in #5226: it fixes the missing syntax-token half of imported VS Code themes rather than introducing a separate theming system.

This keeps the change within the existing theme import and Pierre/Shiki pipelines: imported TextMate rules are bounded and sanitized, themes without syntax rules behave exactly as before, and no new dependency or desktop integration is introduced.

UI Changes

Syntax colors now follow the active imported theme instead of remaining on the Pierre fallback. No animation or interaction behavior changes.

Both screenshots use the same imported Solarized Dark palette. The only difference is whether its VS Code tokenColors are preserved.

Before — Pierre fallback	After — imported syntax colors

Testing

• Full web unit suite: 265 files, 2,593 tests
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web typecheck
• Full repository lint (passes with existing unrelated warnings)
• pnpm fmt:check
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web build
• Runtime smoke test registering a custom theme with @pierre/diffs and rendering TypeScript through the shared Shiki highlighter

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Checklist

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• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for the UI change
• No animation or interaction changes require a video

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Custom themes now support appearance-specific syntax highlighting and token colors.
  • Code views, diffs, search results, previews, and file views use the selected syntax theme.
  • Theme editing and importing preserve multi-mode colors and syntax settings.
  • Theme imports validate syntax data and limit batches to 64 files or 2 MiB.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved rendering when updated files share the same path.
  • Failed syntax-highlighting loads can retry automatically.
  • Theme previews more reliably display mode-specific colors.

---

Note

Medium Risk
Touches theme storage shape, imperative theme activation, and many highlighting surfaces; invalid syntax is bounded at import but custom theme updates must propagate correctly.

Overview
Imported VS Code tokenColors now drive syntax highlighting instead of always using pierre-light / pierre-dark.

Theme model:ThemeDefinition moves palette and syntax into per-appearance modes (replacing top-level colors / variants). Import, edit, pair, and serialize paths preserve validated tokenColors; themes without syntax rules keep the Pierre fallback.

Runtime:useTheme calls activateSyntaxTheme when applying a theme and exposes syntaxThemeName. Content-addressed Shiki themes are registered from sanitized rules; highlighters cache by language + theme. Diff workers, chat blocks, search, file/PR previews, and related UI consume syntaxThemeName instead of deriving it from light/dark alone.

Rendering: Diff parse caches drop theme from keys; code view item version includes syntax theme so colors refresh without reminting file ids.

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Note

Apply imported VS Code syntax token colors to code highlighting

• Introduces ThemeSyntax and per-appearance ThemeMode structures in themePalette.ts, replacing top-level colors/variants with a modes map that can carry validated tokenColors per appearance.
• Adds themeSyntax.ts with normalizeThemeTokenColors (max 4,096 rules, hex normalization, scope/fontStyle validation) and parseThemeTokenColors; imports from VS Code and OpenVSX extensions now extract, validate, and attach token colors to the parsed theme.
• Adds syntaxTheme.ts with activateSyntaxTheme, which registers content-addressed custom Shiki themes when a theme carries syntax rules, falling back to bundled pierre-light/pierre-dark themes otherwise.
• useTheme() now exposes syntaxThemeName and resolvedTheme; all diff, file preview, search, and chat components consume syntaxThemeName directly instead of deriving it from resolvedTheme via resolveDiffThemeName.
• getSyntaxHighlighterPromise is keyed per (themeName, language) with a 128-entry FIFO cache and failed-entry eviction.
• Risk: stored themes are round-tripped through a V1 projection (colors/variants/syntax) on write; malformed stored syntax causes the stored theme to be rejected at read time.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds mode-based theme definitions, normalized syntax rules, custom syntax-theme activation, theme-aware highlighter caching, and direct syntax-theme propagation through rendering components. Theme editing and import validation now preserve modes and enforce size limits.

Changes

Theme and syntax handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mode-based theme model and imports apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts, apps/web/src/themePalette.ts, apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts, apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts, apps/web/src/*test.ts	Themes store colors and syntax rules in appearance-specific modes. Importers normalize syntax rules, enforce limits, and retain v1 serialization.
Syntax-theme activation and caching apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts	useTheme exposes an activated syntax theme name. Highlighter promises cache by language and theme, remove rejected entries, and cap the cache at 128 entries.
Syntax-theme renderer wiring apps/web/src/components/{ChatMarkdown,ChatView,DiffPanel,DiffWorkerPoolProvider}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/files/*, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*, apps/web/src/components/search/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx	Chat, diff, file, pull request, search, and preview renderers use syntaxThemeName directly. Search token rendering preserves match backgrounds and combines text decorations.
Theme editing, import limits, and rendering identity apps/web/src/components/settings/{ThemeEditorPanel,ThemeImportDialog}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/diffs/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/*test.ts	Theme edits preserve complete mode maps. Batch imports reject selections over 64 files or 2 MiB. Diff item versions include rendered file-diff keys.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to 8d32e

The change makes syntax highlighting follow imported themes, but current caching and preview invalidation can retain old colors after theme changes, causing PR diffs or settings previews to display incorrect highlighting; this bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant ThemeEditor
participant ThemePalette
participant useTheme
participant SyntaxTheme
participant DiffRenderer
ThemeEditor->>ThemePalette: createThemeDefinition with modes
ThemePalette-->>useTheme: resolved theme definition
useTheme->>SyntaxTheme: activateSyntaxTheme
SyntaxTheme-->>useTheme: syntaxThemeName
useTheme->>DiffRenderer: syntaxThemeName
DiffRenderer-->>ThemeEditor: rendered themed content

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This PR introduces new syntax color theming capability with significant changes across the theme system, including new data structures, dynamic theme registration, and state propagation through multiple components. Despite the 'fix' label, this is a substantial feature that modifies core theme infrastructure and merits human review.

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apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx (1)

131-139: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear stale preview HTML before loading the new syntax theme.

When themeName changes, htmlByFile keeps the previous theme output until the new preload resolves. If the preload fails, the old syntax colors remain visible. Reset the state before starting the request and handle the rejected request.

Proposed fix

 useEffect(() => {
let cancelled = false;
- void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName).then((html) => {- if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);- });+ setHtmlByFile(null);+ void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName)+ .then((html) => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);+ })+ .catch(() => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(null);+ });
return () => {
cancelled = true;
};
}, [themeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx` around lines 131 -
139, Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear htmlByFile before starting
loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload promises without leaving the
previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation guard so late results from
the prior theme cannot update state.

apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx (1)

717-744: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Key the parsed-slice cache by syntaxThemeName.

The viewer uses syntaxThemeName, but parsedSlices still keys parseCache with resolvedTheme. A syntax-only theme change keeps the same cache key and reuses parsed output from the previous syntax theme.

Replace resolvedTheme in the cache key and the parsedSlices dependency list with syntaxThemeName.

Proposed fix

-const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${resolvedTheme}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;+const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${syntaxThemeName}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;
...
-}, [loadedSlices, resolvedTheme, scopeKey]);+}, [loadedSlices, scopeKey, syntaxThemeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx` around lines 717
- 744, Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to use
syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
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In `@apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.test.tsx`:
- Around line 46-88: Update the test around getRenderablePatch so it creates two
distinct patch contents while using the same cache scope, then renders both
through AnnotatableCodeView. Keep the assertions that the file id remains
src/example.ts and that the second codeViewItems version differs from the first.
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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx`:
- Around line 717-744: Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to
use syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.
In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx`:
- Around line 131-139: Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear
htmlByFile before starting loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload
promises without leaving the previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation
guard so late results from the prior theme cannot update state.

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• apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx
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• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemePreviewCircles.tsx
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/diffRendering.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.test.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.test.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.ts
• apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.test.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts

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UI consistency review of the syntax-theme threading. One finding: the pull request code tab still derives its diff parse-cache identity from resolvedTheme, so imported syntax themes that share an appearance will not repaint there, unlike DiffPanel. Everything else (theme option threading, AnnotatableCodeView item identity/version split, search token styling, worker theme sync) looks consistent.

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One theming-consistency finding on the file preview mount key. The previously flagged PullRequestCodeTab parse-cache keying (still on resolvedTheme) remains open; not re-posting it.

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Two theme-invalidation gaps in FilePreviewPanel: both file-preview surfaces still key their render identity on resolvedTheme (or on nothing), while the tokens they render now come from syntaxThemeName. Since two imported themes can share an appearance, syntaxThemeName can change while resolvedTheme stays dark, which is exactly the case the rest of this PR fixes elsewhere (e.g. DiffPanel's parse scope and PullRequestCodeTab's cacheKey).

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Addressed the remaining CodeRabbit outside-diff finding in 23fa48b: font-preview HTML is now tagged with its syntax theme, hidden immediately when the theme changes, guarded against late results, and cleared if preload fails.

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- Around line 359-369: Update the local parse cache key in the loaded-slice
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One finding on the pull-request diff surface: the tokenizer cache scope no longer carries the syntax theme, which diverges from how DiffPanel invalidates the same renderer.

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We're closing this PR as we clean up the T3 Code backlog. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

This combines theme parsing and serialization, Open VSX include limits, Shiki registration, cache keys, retries, and every highlighted surface in one 32-file repair. Those coupled changes need smaller, bounded fixes before useful review.

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What Changed

• Preserve validated VS Code tokenColors when importing, pairing, copying, editing, and serializing custom themes, including Open VSX include chains.
• Register content-addressed Shiki themes for imported syntax rules while retaining the existing Pierre light/dark fallback for themes without them.
• Apply the active syntax theme consistently across diffs, workers, file and PR previews, chat code blocks, review comments, search results, and code font previews.
• Keep palette colors and syntax rules together as atomic light/dark modes, and activate Shiki registrations at the imperative theme-application seam rather than during React render.
• Cache syntax highlighters by both language and theme so switching imported themes cannot reuse stale highlighting.

Why

Imported themes currently update T3 Code's application palette, but syntax-highlighted surfaces continue using the fixed pierre-light or pierre-dark themes. This makes imported themes look incomplete and can produce low-contrast token colors.

This is a focused follow-up to the modular theme library merged in #5226: it fixes the missing syntax-token half of imported VS Code themes rather than introducing a separate theming system.

This keeps the change within the existing theme import and Pierre/Shiki pipelines: imported TextMate rules are bounded and sanitized, themes without syntax rules behave exactly as before, and no new dependency or desktop integration is introduced.

UI Changes

Syntax colors now follow the active imported theme instead of remaining on the Pierre fallback. No animation or interaction behavior changes.

Both screenshots use the same imported Solarized Dark palette. The only difference is whether its VS Code tokenColors are preserved.

Before — Pierre fallback	After — imported syntax colors

Testing

• Full web unit suite: 265 files, 2,593 tests
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web typecheck
• Full repository lint (passes with existing unrelated warnings)
• pnpm fmt:check
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web build
• Runtime smoke test registering a custom theme with @pierre/diffs and rendering TypeScript through the shared Shiki highlighter

Local commands ran on Node 26.4.0; the repo declares Node ^24.13.1, so pnpm emitted an engine warning.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for the UI change
• No animation or interaction changes require a video

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Custom themes now support appearance-specific syntax highlighting and token colors.
  • Code views, diffs, search results, previews, and file views use the selected syntax theme.
  • Theme editing and importing preserve multi-mode colors and syntax settings.
  • Theme imports validate syntax data and limit batches to 64 files or 2 MiB.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved rendering when updated files share the same path.
  • Failed syntax-highlighting loads can retry automatically.
  • Theme previews more reliably display mode-specific colors.

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Medium Risk
Touches theme storage shape, imperative theme activation, and many highlighting surfaces; invalid syntax is bounded at import but custom theme updates must propagate correctly.

Overview
Imported VS Code tokenColors now drive syntax highlighting instead of always using pierre-light / pierre-dark.

Theme model:ThemeDefinition moves palette and syntax into per-appearance modes (replacing top-level colors / variants). Import, edit, pair, and serialize paths preserve validated tokenColors; themes without syntax rules keep the Pierre fallback.

Runtime:useTheme calls activateSyntaxTheme when applying a theme and exposes syntaxThemeName. Content-addressed Shiki themes are registered from sanitized rules; highlighters cache by language + theme. Diff workers, chat blocks, search, file/PR previews, and related UI consume syntaxThemeName instead of deriving it from light/dark alone.

Rendering: Diff parse caches drop theme from keys; code view item version includes syntax theme so colors refresh without reminting file ids.

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Note

Apply imported VS Code syntax token colors to code highlighting

• Introduces ThemeSyntax and per-appearance ThemeMode structures in themePalette.ts, replacing top-level colors/variants with a modes map that can carry validated tokenColors per appearance.
• Adds themeSyntax.ts with normalizeThemeTokenColors (max 4,096 rules, hex normalization, scope/fontStyle validation) and parseThemeTokenColors; imports from VS Code and OpenVSX extensions now extract, validate, and attach token colors to the parsed theme.
• Adds syntaxTheme.ts with activateSyntaxTheme, which registers content-addressed custom Shiki themes when a theme carries syntax rules, falling back to bundled pierre-light/pierre-dark themes otherwise.
• useTheme() now exposes syntaxThemeName and resolvedTheme; all diff, file preview, search, and chat components consume syntaxThemeName directly instead of deriving it from resolvedTheme via resolveDiffThemeName.
• getSyntaxHighlighterPromise is keyed per (themeName, language) with a 128-entry FIFO cache and failed-entry eviction.
• Risk: stored themes are round-tripped through a V1 projection (colors/variants/syntax) on write; malformed stored syntax causes the stored theme to be rejected at read time.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds mode-based theme definitions, normalized syntax rules, custom syntax-theme activation, theme-aware highlighter caching, and direct syntax-theme propagation through rendering components. Theme editing and import validation now preserve modes and enforce size limits.

Changes

Theme and syntax handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mode-based theme model and imports apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts, apps/web/src/themePalette.ts, apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts, apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts, apps/web/src/*test.ts	Themes store colors and syntax rules in appearance-specific modes. Importers normalize syntax rules, enforce limits, and retain v1 serialization.
Syntax-theme activation and caching apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts	useTheme exposes an activated syntax theme name. Highlighter promises cache by language and theme, remove rejected entries, and cap the cache at 128 entries.
Syntax-theme renderer wiring apps/web/src/components/{ChatMarkdown,ChatView,DiffPanel,DiffWorkerPoolProvider}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/files/*, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*, apps/web/src/components/search/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx	Chat, diff, file, pull request, search, and preview renderers use syntaxThemeName directly. Search token rendering preserves match backgrounds and combines text decorations.
Theme editing, import limits, and rendering identity apps/web/src/components/settings/{ThemeEditorPanel,ThemeImportDialog}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/diffs/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/*test.ts	Theme edits preserve complete mode maps. Batch imports reject selections over 64 files or 2 MiB. Diff item versions include rendered file-diff keys.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to 8d32e

The change makes syntax highlighting follow imported themes, but current caching and preview invalidation can retain old colors after theme changes, causing PR diffs or settings previews to display incorrect highlighting; this bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant ThemeEditor
participant ThemePalette
participant useTheme
participant SyntaxTheme
participant DiffRenderer
ThemeEditor->>ThemePalette: createThemeDefinition with modes
ThemePalette-->>useTheme: resolved theme definition
useTheme->>SyntaxTheme: activateSyntaxTheme
SyntaxTheme-->>useTheme: syntaxThemeName
useTheme->>DiffRenderer: syntaxThemeName
DiffRenderer-->>ThemeEditor: rendered themed content

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This PR introduces new syntax color theming capability with significant changes across the theme system, including new data structures, dynamic theme registration, and state propagation through multiple components. Despite the 'fix' label, this is a substantial feature that modifies core theme infrastructure and merits human review.

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apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx (1)

131-139: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear stale preview HTML before loading the new syntax theme.

When themeName changes, htmlByFile keeps the previous theme output until the new preload resolves. If the preload fails, the old syntax colors remain visible. Reset the state before starting the request and handle the rejected request.

Proposed fix

 useEffect(() => {
let cancelled = false;
- void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName).then((html) => {- if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);- });+ setHtmlByFile(null);+ void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName)+ .then((html) => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);+ })+ .catch(() => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(null);+ });
return () => {
cancelled = true;
};
}, [themeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx` around lines 131 -
139, Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear htmlByFile before starting
loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload promises without leaving the
previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation guard so late results from
the prior theme cannot update state.

apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx (1)

717-744: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Key the parsed-slice cache by syntaxThemeName.

The viewer uses syntaxThemeName, but parsedSlices still keys parseCache with resolvedTheme. A syntax-only theme change keeps the same cache key and reuses parsed output from the previous syntax theme.

Replace resolvedTheme in the cache key and the parsedSlices dependency list with syntaxThemeName.

Proposed fix

-const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${resolvedTheme}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;+const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${syntaxThemeName}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;
...
-}, [loadedSlices, resolvedTheme, scopeKey]);+}, [loadedSlices, scopeKey, syntaxThemeName]);

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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx` around lines 717
- 744, Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to use
syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.test.tsx`:
- Around line 46-88: Update the test around getRenderablePatch so it creates two
distinct patch contents while using the same cache scope, then renders both
through AnnotatableCodeView. Keep the assertions that the file id remains
src/example.ts and that the second codeViewItems version differs from the first.
---
Outside diff comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx`:
- Around line 717-744: Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to
use syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
usage unchanged.
In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx`:
- Around line 131-139: Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear
htmlByFile before starting loadDiffPreviewHtml, and handle rejected preload
promises without leaving the previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation
guard so late results from the prior theme cannot update state.

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• apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.test.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/clerk/clerkAppearance.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.test.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/files/FilePreviewPanel.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/search/HighlightedSearchLine.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/search/ProjectContentSearchDialog.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeEditorPanel.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.test.ts
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemeImportDialog.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ThemePreviewCircles.tsx
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/diffRendering.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.test.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.test.ts
• apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.test.ts
• apps/web/src/themePalette.ts
• apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.test.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts

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UI consistency review of the syntax-theme threading. One finding: the pull request code tab still derives its diff parse-cache identity from resolvedTheme, so imported syntax themes that share an appearance will not repaint there, unlike DiffPanel. Everything else (theme option threading, AnnotatableCodeView item identity/version split, search token styling, worker theme sync) looks consistent.

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What Changed

• Preserve validated VS Code tokenColors when importing, pairing, copying, editing, and serializing custom themes, including Open VSX include chains.
• Register content-addressed Shiki themes for imported syntax rules while retaining the existing Pierre light/dark fallback for themes without them.
• Apply the active syntax theme consistently across diffs, workers, file and PR previews, chat code blocks, review comments, search results, and code font previews.
• Keep palette colors and syntax rules together as atomic light/dark modes, and activate Shiki registrations at the imperative theme-application seam rather than during React render.
• Cache syntax highlighters by both language and theme so switching imported themes cannot reuse stale highlighting.

Why

Imported themes currently update T3 Code's application palette, but syntax-highlighted surfaces continue using the fixed pierre-light or pierre-dark themes. This makes imported themes look incomplete and can produce low-contrast token colors.

This is a focused follow-up to the modular theme library merged in #5226: it fixes the missing syntax-token half of imported VS Code themes rather than introducing a separate theming system.

This keeps the change within the existing theme import and Pierre/Shiki pipelines: imported TextMate rules are bounded and sanitized, themes without syntax rules behave exactly as before, and no new dependency or desktop integration is introduced.

UI Changes

Syntax colors now follow the active imported theme instead of remaining on the Pierre fallback. No animation or interaction behavior changes.

Both screenshots use the same imported Solarized Dark palette. The only difference is whether its VS Code tokenColors are preserved.

Before — Pierre fallback	After — imported syntax colors

Testing

• Full web unit suite: 265 files, 2,593 tests
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web typecheck
• Full repository lint (passes with existing unrelated warnings)
• pnpm fmt:check
• pnpm --filter @t3tools/web build
• Runtime smoke test registering a custom theme with @pierre/diffs and rendering TypeScript through the shared Shiki highlighter

Local commands ran on Node 26.4.0; the repo declares Node ^24.13.1, so pnpm emitted an engine warning.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for the UI change
• No animation or interaction changes require a video

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Custom themes now support appearance-specific syntax highlighting and token colors.
  • Code views, diffs, search results, previews, and file views use the selected syntax theme.
  • Theme editing and importing preserve multi-mode colors and syntax settings.
  • Theme imports validate syntax data and limit batches to 64 files or 2 MiB.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved rendering when updated files share the same path.
  • Failed syntax-highlighting loads can retry automatically.
  • Theme previews more reliably display mode-specific colors.

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Medium Risk
Touches theme storage shape, imperative theme activation, and many highlighting surfaces; invalid syntax is bounded at import but custom theme updates must propagate correctly.

Overview
Imported VS Code tokenColors now drive syntax highlighting instead of always using pierre-light / pierre-dark.

Theme model:ThemeDefinition moves palette and syntax into per-appearance modes (replacing top-level colors / variants). Import, edit, pair, and serialize paths preserve validated tokenColors; themes without syntax rules keep the Pierre fallback.

Runtime:useTheme calls activateSyntaxTheme when applying a theme and exposes syntaxThemeName. Content-addressed Shiki themes are registered from sanitized rules; highlighters cache by language + theme. Diff workers, chat blocks, search, file/PR previews, and related UI consume syntaxThemeName instead of deriving it from light/dark alone.

Rendering: Diff parse caches drop theme from keys; code view item version includes syntax theme so colors refresh without reminting file ids.

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Apply imported VS Code syntax token colors to code highlighting

• Introduces ThemeSyntax and per-appearance ThemeMode structures in themePalette.ts, replacing top-level colors/variants with a modes map that can carry validated tokenColors per appearance.
• Adds themeSyntax.ts with normalizeThemeTokenColors (max 4,096 rules, hex normalization, scope/fontStyle validation) and parseThemeTokenColors; imports from VS Code and OpenVSX extensions now extract, validate, and attach token colors to the parsed theme.
• Adds syntaxTheme.ts with activateSyntaxTheme, which registers content-addressed custom Shiki themes when a theme carries syntax rules, falling back to bundled pierre-light/pierre-dark themes otherwise.
• useTheme() now exposes syntaxThemeName and resolvedTheme; all diff, file preview, search, and chat components consume syntaxThemeName directly instead of deriving it from resolvedTheme via resolveDiffThemeName.
• getSyntaxHighlighterPromise is keyed per (themeName, language) with a 128-entry FIFO cache and failed-entry eviction.
• Risk: stored themes are round-tripped through a V1 projection (colors/variants/syntax) on write; malformed stored syntax causes the stored theme to be rejected at read time.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds mode-based theme definitions, normalized syntax rules, custom syntax-theme activation, theme-aware highlighter caching, and direct syntax-theme propagation through rendering components. Theme editing and import validation now preserve modes and enforce size limits.

Changes

Theme and syntax handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mode-based theme model and imports apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts, apps/web/src/themePalette.ts, apps/web/src/openVsxThemes.ts, apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.ts, apps/web/src/*test.ts	Themes store colors and syntax rules in appearance-specific modes. Importers normalize syntax rules, enforce limits, and retain v1 serialization.
Syntax-theme activation and caching apps/web/src/hooks/useTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxTheme.ts, apps/web/src/lib/syntaxHighlighting.ts	useTheme exposes an activated syntax theme name. Highlighter promises cache by language and theme, remove rejected entries, and cap the cache at 128 entries.
Syntax-theme renderer wiring apps/web/src/components/{ChatMarkdown,ChatView,DiffPanel,DiffWorkerPoolProvider}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/files/*, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/*, apps/web/src/components/search/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx	Chat, diff, file, pull request, search, and preview renderers use syntaxThemeName directly. Search token rendering preserves match backgrounds and combines text decorations.
Theme editing, import limits, and rendering identity apps/web/src/components/settings/{ThemeEditorPanel,ThemeImportDialog}.tsx, apps/web/src/components/diffs/*, apps/web/src/components/settings/*test.ts	Theme edits preserve complete mode maps. Batch imports reject selections over 64 files or 2 MiB. Diff item versions include rendered file-diff keys.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to 8d32e

The change makes syntax highlighting follow imported themes, but current caching and preview invalidation can retain old colors after theme changes, causing PR diffs or settings previews to display incorrect highlighting; this bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant ThemeEditor
participant ThemePalette
participant useTheme
participant SyntaxTheme
participant DiffRenderer
ThemeEditor->>ThemePalette: createThemeDefinition with modes
ThemePalette-->>useTheme: resolved theme definition
useTheme->>SyntaxTheme: activateSyntaxTheme
SyntaxTheme-->>useTheme: syntaxThemeName
useTheme->>DiffRenderer: syntaxThemeName
DiffRenderer-->>ThemeEditor: rendered themed content

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This PR introduces new syntax color theming capability with significant changes across the theme system, including new data structures, dynamic theme registration, and state propagation through multiple components. Despite the 'fix' label, this is a substantial feature that modifies core theme infrastructure and merits human review.

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apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx (1)

131-139: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear stale preview HTML before loading the new syntax theme.

When themeName changes, htmlByFile keeps the previous theme output until the new preload resolves. If the preload fails, the old syntax colors remain visible. Reset the state before starting the request and handle the rejected request.

Proposed fix

 useEffect(() => {
let cancelled = false;
- void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName).then((html) => {- if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);- });+ setHtmlByFile(null);+ void loadDiffPreviewHtml(themeName)+ .then((html) => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(html);+ })+ .catch(() => {+ if (!cancelled) setHtmlByFile(null);+ });
return () => {
cancelled = true;
};
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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx` around lines 131 -
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previous preview visible. Preserve the cancellation guard so late results from
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apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx (1)

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Key the parsed-slice cache by syntaxThemeName.

The viewer uses syntaxThemeName, but parsedSlices still keys parseCache with resolvedTheme. A syntax-only theme change keeps the same cache key and reuses parsed output from the previous syntax theme.

Replace resolvedTheme in the cache key and the parsedSlices dependency list with syntaxThemeName.

Proposed fix

-const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${resolvedTheme}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;+const cacheKey = `pull-request:${scopeKey}:${syntaxThemeName}:${slice.cursor ?? "first"}:${fnv1a32(slice.patch)}`;
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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx` around lines 717
- 744, Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to use
syntaxThemeName instead of resolvedTheme, so syntax-only theme changes
invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
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In `@apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx`:
- Around line 717-744: Update the parsedSlices cache key and dependency list to
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invalidate and recompute the parsed output. Leave the diffViewOptions themeType
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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsFontPreviews.tsx`:
- Around line 131-139: Update the useEffect keyed by themeName to clear
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• apps/web/src/themeSyntax.ts
• apps/web/src/vscodeThemeImport.test.ts
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UI consistency review of the syntax-theme threading. One finding: the pull request code tab still derives its diff parse-cache identity from resolvedTheme, so imported syntax themes that share an appearance will not repaint there, unlike DiffPanel. Everything else (theme option threading, AnnotatableCodeView item identity/version split, search token styling, worker theme sync) looks consistent.

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One theming-consistency finding on the file preview mount key. The previously flagged PullRequestCodeTab parse-cache keying (still on resolvedTheme) remains open; not re-posting it.

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Two theme-invalidation gaps in FilePreviewPanel: both file-preview surfaces still key their render identity on resolvedTheme (or on nothing), while the tokens they render now come from syntaxThemeName. Since two imported themes can share an appearance, syntaxThemeName can change while resolvedTheme stays dark, which is exactly the case the rest of this PR fixes elsewhere (e.g. DiffPanel's parse scope and PullRequestCodeTab's cacheKey).

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One finding on the pull-request diff surface: the tokenizer cache scope no longer carries the syntax theme, which diverges from how DiffPanel invalidates the same renderer.

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