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Adds a new block view type for editing Excalidraw diagrams inside Wave Terminal.

What's included

  • New excalidraw view registered in BlockRegistry, with model and React component
  • wsh excalidraw command:
    • wsh excalidraw [FILE] - open a blank canvas or an .excalidraw file (creates it if missing)
    • wsh excalidraw -m FILE - open magnified
    • wsh excalidraw push BLOCKID - pipe Excalidraw JSON from stdin to replace the scene in a block
    • wsh excalidraw mermaid [BLOCKID] FILE - convert a Mermaid diagram to Excalidraw and open it in a new or existing block
  • Excalidraw fonts are self-hosted (downloaded by postinstall, bundled by vite), no runtime CDN dependency
  • Docs added to wsh-reference

Testing

Verified manually: open/create files, push from stdin, Mermaid conversion, magnified mode.

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Adds Excalidraw as a block with file loading, scene editing, Mermaid updates, autosave, and cleanup. Adds RPC and event contracts for block-scoped scene pushes. Adds CLI commands for opening blocks and pushing JSON or Mermaid data. Updates build configuration, font asset packaging, documentation, and AI prompt guidance.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3fc2a

The new Excalidraw editor and commands can lose or overwrite diagram updates in specific timing races, and stale Mermaid errors can appear after a newer scene is applied. The PR is not merge-ready until these synchronization issues are fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 37.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 15 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description check ✅ Passed The description accurately summarizes the new Excalidraw block view, CLI commands, Mermaid conversion, self-hosted fonts, documentation, and manual testing.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the primary change: adding an Excalidraw diagram editor widget.
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Inline comments:
In `@cmd/wsh/cmd/wshcmd-excalidraw.go`:
- Around line 133-140: Update the file-reading fallback in the command’s Mermaid
input handling so block-ID mode is used only when os.ReadFile reports a
nonexistent path. Return other read errors directly, while preserving the
existing stdin read and blockId assignment for the nonexistent-path case.
- Around line 22-27: Update excalidrawCmd to set Args to cobra.MaximumNArgs(1),
rejecting invocations with more than one file argument while preserving the
existing excalidrawRun and preRunSetupRpcClient behavior.

In `@docs/docs/wsh-reference.mdx`:
- Around line 198-226: Expand the excalidraw reference to document the push and
mermaid subcommands alongside the existing wsh excalidraw syntax. Include syntax
and examples for push <blockid> [file] and mermaid [blockid] [file], describe
their stdin behavior, and state that push replaces the target block’s scene.

In `@frontend/app/view/excalidraw/excalidraw-model.ts`:
- Around line 201-207: Update performSave to serialize FileWriteCommand calls
through a single promise chain, capturing the scene snapshot and its revision
before enqueueing each write. After completion, update lastSavedVersion and
clear isDirtyAtom only when the completed revision is still the latest; do not
acknowledge the current mutable pendingElements for an older snapshot.
- Around line 140-151: Update both remote scene replacement paths around
updateScene and pendingPushScene so the received scene snapshot is stored and a
durable file save is queued after applying it. Ensure persistence does not
depend on synchronous onChange behavior, and do not rely on lastSavedVersion
alone as acknowledgement of the remote replacement.
- Around line 130-133: Update the scene-loading flow around updateScene to call
addFiles with sceneData.files first, including the pendingPushScene flush path,
then invoke updateScene so image elements have their file payloads available.

In `@pkg/tsgen/tsgenevent.go`:
- Line 44: Update the wps.Event_ExcalidrawPushScene entry in the event payload
type mapping to use reflect.TypeOf(wshrpc.CommandExcalidrawPushData{}) instead
of nil, so getWaveEventDataTSType generates the actual payload type.

Apply the same fix in `@frontend/types/waveevent.d.ts` around lines 57 - 58: The
generated frontend declaration exposes the same incorrect null payload.
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Actionable comments posted: 3

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Inline comments:
In `@cmd/wsh/cmd/wshcmd-excalidraw.go`:
- Around line 120-123: Move the getTabIdFromEnv lookup and empty-value error
from the shared Excalidraw command path into the block-creation branch guarded
by blockId == "". Keep existing-block pushes handled by excalidrawPushRun using
only the provided blockId and scene data.
- Around line 163-175: Update the flow around CreateBlockCommand and
ExcalidrawPushCommand to eliminate the fixed 500ms sleep and guarantee scene
delivery for slow frontends. Add a readiness acknowledgement before publishing,
or subscribe first and read the persisted scene history afterward, ensuring the
created Excalidraw block receives SceneData even when the initial non-persistent
event would otherwise be missed.

In `@frontend/app/view/excalidraw/excalidraw-model.ts`:
- Around line 177-186: Update handleChange so changes to
appState.viewBackgroundColor are detected alongside element changes before the
early return. Compare the current background color with the last persisted
background-color value, and continue updating pendingElements, pendingAppState,
pendingFiles, and scheduling debouncedSave when either value changed; preserve
the existing no-op behavior when both are unchanged.
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Inline comments:
In `@frontend/app/view/excalidraw/excalidraw-model.ts`:
- Around line 154-166: Update the native Excalidraw scene handling in
applyRemoteScene to retain sceneData.files when constructing sceneUpdate, so the
existing addFiles path receives pushed image file payloads; preserve the current
fallback behavior for scenes without files and add a regression test covering an
image element with a matching files entry.
- Around line 249-253: Update the save completion logic around lastSavedVersion,
lastSavedBackground, and isDirtyAtom so it compares the complete pending
snapshot or a captured save revision, not only getSceneVersion; a
background-only change must remain dirty when it differs from the completed
write. Add a regression test covering two background changes while the first
write is pending, including failure of the later write.
- Around line 112-129: Update the initialization logic around
EventReadHistoryCommand to replay persisted pushscene events for file-backed
blocks as well; do not rely on the file path check to skip history. Add ordering
or freshness state so a replayed older event cannot overwrite newer scene
content loaded from the file, and only suppress replay when the command is known
to durably persist the scene before success.
- Around line 133-171: Update handlePushSceneEvent to assign a monotonically
increasing push revision before any asynchronous Mermaid conversion, and capture
that revision for the current event. After parseMermaidToExcalidraw completes,
discard the result when its revision is no longer current so an older conversion
cannot overwrite a newer push; preserve the existing handling for current
Mermaid and JSON scenes.
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In `@frontend/app/view/excalidraw/excalidraw-model.ts`:
- Around line 143-145: Update the matching wavepushid branch in the scene replay
logic to assign pushId to lastAppliedPushId before returning, ensuring
subsequent local saves retain the replay marker.
- Around line 127-151: Update replayPersistedPush to capture the current pushSeq
before its initial awaited history read, then check pushSeq immediately before
handlePushSceneEvent(event) and return if it changed. Preserve the existing
file-backed scene validation and only replay the persisted event when no newer
live push arrived during either await.
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- Around line 167-172: Update the catch block in parseMermaidToExcalidraw to
ignore errors when seq !== this.pushSeq, so stale Mermaid conversions cannot
overwrite the newer scene’s state; retain current error reporting for the latest
push and add a regression test covering this ordering.
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