AI Buddy visiblity

AI Buddy can now be turned on by a VITE config parameter or by adding    ?aibuddy=1 to the URL line in a release.

Author: fgrossman

src/components/navbar.tsx

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ import UploadFileDlg from '@/components/dialogs/uploadfiledlg';
 import EditorMgr, { EditorSession, EdSearchParams } from '@/managers/editormgr';
 import { useLocalStorage } from 'usehooks-ts';
 import { StorageKeys } from '@/utils/localstorage';
+import { isAiBuddyMenuEnabled } from '@/utils/aiBuddyAccess';
 import FileSaver from 'file-saver';
 import PowerSwitchAlert from '@/components/dialogs/power-switchdlg';
 import ViewPythonDlg from '@/components/dialogs/view-pythondlg';
@@ -1368,11 +1369,13 @@ function NavBar({ layoutref }: NavBarProps) {
     ];
 
     const moreMenu: MenuDataItem[] = [
-        {
-            label: t('ai-chat'),
-            iconImage: chatbot,
-            clicked: onAiClicked,
-        },
+        ...(isAiBuddyMenuEnabled()
+            ? [{
+                label: t('ai-chat'),
+                iconImage: chatbot,
+                clicked: onAiClicked,
+            }]
+            : []),
         {
             label: t('dashboard'),
             iconImage: dashboard,

src/main.tsx

@@ -3,10 +3,13 @@ import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';
 import '@/index.css';
 import '@/utils/i18n';
 import '@/utils/blockly-global'; // Expose Blockly globally for external plugins
+import { initAiBuddyAccess } from '@/utils/aiBuddyAccess';
 import App from '@/App.tsx';
 import { GoogleOAuthProvider } from '@react-oauth/google';
 import { ThemeInit } from '../.flowbite-react/init';
 
+initAiBuddyAccess();
+
 function Root() {
     const [googleClientId, setGoogleClientId] = useState<string | null>(null);
     const googleAuthBackendUrl = import.meta.env.GOOGLE_AUTH_URL;

src/utils/aiBuddyAccess.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/** Set when ?aibuddy=1 is present on initial page load (cleared on full reload). */
+let aiBuddyMenuEnabled = false;
+
+/**
+ * Demo / release backdoor for AI Buddy. Call once before the app renders.
+ *
+ * URL param on page load:
+ *   ?aibuddy=1 — show AI Buddy in the More menu until the tab is reloaded
+ *   ?aibuddy=0 — hide AI Buddy (useful to reset after testing ?aibuddy=1)
+ *
+ * Build flag: VITE_ENABLE_AI_BUDDY=true always shows the menu item.
+ */
+export function initAiBuddyAccess(): void {
+    // Remove legacy session flag from earlier builds
+    sessionStorage.removeItem('xrp-ai-buddy-enabled');
+
+    const params = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
+    const value = params.get('aibuddy')?.toLowerCase();
+
+    if (value === '1' || value === 'true') {
+        aiBuddyMenuEnabled = true;
+    } else if (value === '0' || value === 'false') {
+        aiBuddyMenuEnabled = false;
+    }
+
+    if (value) {
+        params.delete('aibuddy');
+        const query = params.toString();
+        const cleanUrl = query
+            ? `${window.location.pathname}?${query}${window.location.hash}`
+            : `${window.location.pathname}${window.location.hash}`;
+        window.history.replaceState({}, '', cleanUrl);
+    }
+}
+
+export function isAiBuddyMenuEnabled(): boolean {
+    if (import.meta.env.VITE_ENABLE_AI_BUDDY === 'true') {
+        return true;
+    }
+    return aiBuddyMenuEnabled;
+}