feat: add permission mode support and unify localStorage management (#132) (#226)

* feat: add permission mode support and unify localStorage management (#132)

## Type System Updates

### Shared Types (shared/types.ts)
- Add optional `permissionMode` field to `ChatRequest` interface
- Support "default" | "plan" | "acceptEdits" permission modes
- Maintain backward compatibility with optional field

### Frontend Types (frontend/src/types.ts)
- Add `PlanApprovalDialog` and `PlanMessage` interfaces for plan mode UI
- Extend `AllMessage` union type to include `PlanMessage`
- Add `isPlanMessage()` type guard function
- Define UI-focused `PermissionMode` type (excludes bypassPermissions)
- Add SDK integration utilities: `toSDKPermissionMode()`, `fromSDKPermissionMode()`
- Include `ChatStatePermissions` interface for state management
- Add `PermissionModePreference` for localStorage persistence
- Define realistic `PlanApprovalError` types: "user_rejected" | "network_error"

## localStorage Management Unification

### Centralized Storage (frontend/src/utils/storage.ts)
- Create centralized `STORAGE_KEYS` constants with `claude-code-webui-` prefix
- Add type-safe storage utilities: `getStorageItem()`, `setStorageItem()`
- Prevent key conflicts and improve maintenance

### Updated Components
- **useTheme.ts**: Use `STORAGE_KEYS.THEME` instead of hardcoded "theme"
- **EnterBehaviorContext.tsx**: Use `STORAGE_KEYS.ENTER_BEHAVIOR`
- **DemoPage.tsx**: Import and use `STORAGE_KEYS.THEME`
- **Demo Scripts**: Import `STORAGE_KEYS` for consistent theme handling
- **index.html**: Update to use prefixed key (HTML limitation, hardcoded)

## Implementation Notes
- All TypeScript files now use centralized `STORAGE_KEYS` constants
- Only `index.html` uses hardcoded string (TypeScript import limitation)
- Plan approval errors simplified to realistic scenarios only
- Complete backward compatibility maintained
- TypeScript compilation passes without errors

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* refactor: use centralized storage utilities instead of direct localStorage calls

## Changes

- **useTheme.ts**: Replace direct localStorage with type-safe `getStorageItem()`/`setStorageItem()`
- **EnterBehaviorContext.tsx**: Remove manual type checking and use storage utilities
- **DemoPage.tsx**: Simplify theme initialization with storage utilities

## Benefits

- ✅ Type safety with proper TypeScript inference (no more `as Theme` casting)
- ✅ Consistent error handling across all storage operations
- ✅ Automatic JSON serialization/deserialization
- ✅ Cleaner code without redundant conditional checks
- ✅ Centralized localStorage logic for easier maintenance

## Technical Details

- All components now use `getStorageItem(key, defaultValue)` with proper defaults
- System theme detection moved to default value calculation
- Removed manual type validation in favor of TypeScript type system
- Storage operations now have built-in try-catch error handling

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* refactor: complete storage utilities unification in demo scripts

Address Copilot review feedback by fully adopting storage utilities
instead of mixed localStorage usage patterns.

## Changes

- **record-demo.ts**: Use `setStorageItem()` instead of `localStorage.setItem()`
- **capture-screenshots.ts**: Use `setStorageItem()` instead of `localStorage.setItem()`
- Add `setStorageItem` imports to both demo scripts

## Benefits

- ✅ **Complete consistency** across ALL TypeScript files
- ✅ **Error handling** via storage utilities even in Playwright init scripts
- ✅ **Future-proof** storage strategy changes affect one place
- ✅ **Type safety** leverages TypeScript fully in all contexts

## Copilot Review Response

Copilot pointed out inconsistency between hardcoded strings and STORAGE_KEYS usage.
The correct solution is complete adoption of storage utilities, not reverting to literals.

Only exception: `index.html` uses hardcoded strings (HTML file limitation).

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: sugyan

frontend/index.html

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <script>
       // Prevent flash of unstyled content by setting theme class early
       (function () {
-        const theme = localStorage.getItem("theme");
+        const theme = localStorage.getItem("claude-code-webui-theme");
         if (
           theme === "dark" ||
           (!theme && window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches)

frontend/scripts/capture-screenshots.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { chromium } from "playwright";
 import { existsSync, mkdirSync } from "fs";
 import { join } from "path";
 import { type DemoScenario, type Theme } from "./demo-constants";
+import { STORAGE_KEYS, setStorageItem } from "../src/utils/storage";
 
 /**
  * Screenshot capture script using Playwright
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ async function captureScreenshot(options: ScreenshotOptions): Promise<void> {
     // Pre-configure theme to avoid flashing
     if (theme === "dark") {
       await page.addInitScript(() => {
-        localStorage.setItem("theme", "dark");
+        setStorageItem(STORAGE_KEYS.THEME, "dark");
         document.documentElement.classList.add("dark");
       });
     }

frontend/scripts/record-demo.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {
   type Theme,
   type RecordingOptions,
 } from "./demo-constants";
+import { STORAGE_KEYS, setStorageItem } from "../src/utils/storage";
 
 /**
  * Demo recording script using Playwright's native video recording
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ async function recordDemoVideo(options: RecordingOptions): Promise<void> {
     // Pre-configure theme to avoid flashing
     if (theme === "dark") {
       await page.addInitScript(() => {
-        localStorage.setItem("theme", "dark");
+        setStorageItem(STORAGE_KEYS.THEME, "dark");
         document.documentElement.classList.add("dark");
       });
     }
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ async function recordDemoVideo(options: RecordingOptions): Promise<void> {
     // Re-setup in recording context
     if (theme === "dark") {
       await page.addInitScript(() => {
-        localStorage.setItem("theme", "dark");
+        setStorageItem(STORAGE_KEYS.THEME, "dark");
         document.documentElement.classList.add("dark");
       });
     }

frontend/src/components/DemoPage.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { useEffect, useState, useRef, useCallback } from "react";
 import { useLocation } from "react-router-dom";
 import { type Theme } from "../hooks/useTheme";
+import { STORAGE_KEYS, getStorageItem, setStorageItem } from "../utils/storage";
 import { useChatState } from "../hooks/chat/useChatState";
 import { usePermissions } from "../hooks/chat/usePermissions";
 import { useDemoAutomation } from "../hooks/useDemoAutomation";
@@ -33,13 +34,11 @@ export function DemoPage() {
       return themeParam;
     }
     // Get system theme without using useTheme hook
-    const saved = localStorage.getItem("theme");
-    if (saved === "dark" || saved === "light") {
-      return saved;
-    }
-    return window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches
+    const systemDefault = window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)")
+      .matches
       ? "dark"
       : "light";
+    return getStorageItem(STORAGE_KEYS.THEME, systemDefault);
   });
 
   const toggleTheme = () => {
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ export function DemoPage() {
 
     // Save to localStorage (unless overridden by URL)
     if (!themeParam) {
-      localStorage.setItem("theme", theme);
+      setStorageItem(STORAGE_KEYS.THEME, theme);
     }
 
     console.log(`Demo theme applied: ${theme}`, {

frontend/src/contexts/EnterBehaviorContext.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import React, { useState, useEffect, useCallback, useMemo } from "react";
 import type { EnterBehavior } from "../types/enterBehavior";
 import { EnterBehaviorContext } from "./EnterBehaviorContextDefinition";
+import { STORAGE_KEYS, getStorageItem, setStorageItem } from "../utils/storage";
 
 export function EnterBehaviorProvider({
   children,
@@ -12,21 +13,16 @@ export function EnterBehaviorProvider({
 
   useEffect(() => {
     // Initialize enter behavior on client side
-    const saved = localStorage.getItem("enterBehavior") as EnterBehavior;
-
-    if (saved && (saved === "send" || saved === "newline")) {
-      setEnterBehavior(saved);
-    } else {
-      // Default to "send" (traditional behavior)
-      setEnterBehavior("send");
-    }
+    const saved = getStorageItem(STORAGE_KEYS.ENTER_BEHAVIOR, "send");
+
+    setEnterBehavior(saved);
     setIsInitialized(true);
   }, []);
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!isInitialized) return;
 
-    localStorage.setItem("enterBehavior", enterBehavior);
+    setStorageItem(STORAGE_KEYS.ENTER_BEHAVIOR, enterBehavior);
   }, [enterBehavior, isInitialized]);
 
   const toggleEnterBehavior = useCallback(() => {

frontend/src/hooks/useTheme.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { useState, useEffect } from "react";
+import { STORAGE_KEYS, getStorageItem, setStorageItem } from "../utils/storage";
 
 export type Theme = "light" | "dark";
 
@@ -8,16 +9,13 @@ export function useTheme() {
 
   useEffect(() => {
     // Initialize theme on client side
-    const saved = localStorage.getItem("theme") as Theme;
+    const prefersDark = window.matchMedia(
+      "(prefers-color-scheme: dark)",
+    ).matches;
+    const defaultTheme = prefersDark ? "dark" : "light";
+    const saved = getStorageItem(STORAGE_KEYS.THEME, defaultTheme);
 
-    if (saved && (saved === "light" || saved === "dark")) {
-      setTheme(saved);
-    } else {
-      const prefersDark = window.matchMedia(
-        "(prefers-color-scheme: dark)",
-      ).matches;
-      setTheme(prefersDark ? "dark" : "light");
-    }
+    setTheme(saved);
     setIsInitialized(true);
   }, []);
 
@@ -32,7 +30,7 @@ export function useTheme() {
       root.classList.remove("dark");
     }
 
-    localStorage.setItem("theme", theme);
+    setStorageItem(STORAGE_KEYS.THEME, theme);
   }, [theme, isInitialized]);
 
   const toggleTheme = () => {

frontend/src/types.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import type {
   SDKAssistantMessage,
   SDKSystemMessage,
   SDKResultMessage,
+  PermissionMode as SDKPermissionMode,
 } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-code";
 
 // Chat message for user/assistant interactions (not part of SDKMessage)
@@ -55,6 +56,21 @@ export type ToolResultMessage = {
   timestamp: number;
 };
 
+// Plan approval dialog state
+export interface PlanApprovalDialog {
+  isOpen: boolean;
+  plan: string;
+  toolUseId: string;
+}
+
+// Plan message type for UI display
+export interface PlanMessage {
+  type: "plan";
+  plan: string;
+  toolUseId: string;
+  timestamp: number;
+}
+
 // TimestampedSDKMessage types for conversation history API
 // These extend Claude SDK types with timestamp information
 type WithTimestamp<T> = T & { timestamp: string };
@@ -74,7 +90,8 @@ export type AllMessage =
   | ChatMessage
   | SystemMessage
   | ToolMessage
-  | ToolResultMessage;
+  | ToolResultMessage
+  | PlanMessage;
 
 // Type guard functions
 export function isChatMessage(message: AllMessage): message is ChatMessage {
@@ -99,6 +116,53 @@ export function isToolResultMessage(
   return message.type === "tool_result";
 }
 
+export function isPlanMessage(message: AllMessage): message is PlanMessage {
+  return message.type === "plan";
+}
+
+// Permission mode types (UI-focused subset of SDK PermissionMode)
+export type PermissionMode = "default" | "plan" | "acceptEdits";
+
+// SDK type integration utilities
+export function toSDKPermissionMode(uiMode: PermissionMode): SDKPermissionMode {
+  return uiMode as SDKPermissionMode;
+}
+
+export function fromSDKPermissionMode(
+  sdkMode: SDKPermissionMode,
+): PermissionMode {
+  // Filter out bypassPermissions for UI
+  return sdkMode === "bypassPermissions" ? "default" : sdkMode;
+}
+
+// Chat state extensions for permission mode
+export interface ChatStatePermissions {
+  permissionMode: PermissionMode;
+  planApprovalDialog: PlanApprovalDialog | null;
+  setPermissionMode: (mode: PermissionMode) => void;
+  showPlanApprovalDialog: (plan: string, toolUseId: string) => void;
+  closePlanApprovalDialog: () => void;
+  approvePlan: () => void;
+  rejectPlan: () => void;
+}
+
+// Permission mode preference type
+export interface PermissionModePreference {
+  mode: PermissionMode;
+  timestamp: number;
+}
+
+// Plan approval error types (simplified, realistic)
+export interface PlanApprovalError {
+  type: "user_rejected" | "network_error";
+  message: string;
+  canRetry: boolean;
+}
+
+export type PlanApprovalResult =
+  | { success: true; sessionId: string }
+  | { success: false; error: PlanApprovalError };
+
 // Re-export shared types
 export type {
   StreamResponse,

frontend/src/utils/storage.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+export const STORAGE_KEYS = {
+  THEME: "claude-code-webui-theme",
+  ENTER_BEHAVIOR: "claude-code-webui-enter-behavior",
+  PERMISSION_MODE: "claude-code-webui-permission-mode",
+} as const;
+
+// Type-safe storage utilities
+export function getStorageItem<T>(key: string, defaultValue: T): T {
+  try {
+    const item = localStorage.getItem(key);
+    return item ? JSON.parse(item) : defaultValue;
+  } catch {
+    return defaultValue;
+  }
+}
+
+export function setStorageItem<T>(key: string, value: T): void {
+  try {
+    localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(value));
+  } catch {
+    // Silently fail if localStorage is not available
+  }
+}

shared/types.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ export interface ChatRequest {
   requestId: string;
   allowedTools?: string[];
   workingDirectory?: string;
+  permissionMode?: "default" | "plan" | "acceptEdits";
 }
 
 export interface AbortRequest {
@@ -50,4 +51,3 @@ export interface ConversationHistory {
     messageCount: number;
   };
 }
-