promote: OpenCode provider class + retrieval slot/messaging fixes (dev→main)

.gitignore

@@ -73,3 +73,4 @@ vnc/plugins/smime/smime.zip
 
 # macOS
 .DS_Store
+electron-ai-local-index-result.png

app/(main)/[locale]/page.tsx

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ import { findDraftIdentityId, resolveReplyFrom, type ReplyFromResolution } from
 import { buildReplyRecipients, isSelfSent } from "@/lib/reply-recipients";
 import { useProMultiAccountIdentities } from "@/hooks/use-pro-multi-account-identities";
 import { Search, Filter, ChevronDown, X, Paperclip, Star, Mail, MailOpen, RotateCcw, PenSquare, PenLine, CheckSquare, Square, AlertTriangle } from "lucide-react";
+import { AiAskButton } from "@/components/ai/ai-ask-button";
 import { ResizeHandle } from "@/components/layout/resize-handle";
 import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
 import { useConfig } from "@/hooks/use-config";
@@ -1070,13 +1071,31 @@ export default function Home() {
     // buildStatePollingRequest covers Mailbox/Email/Calendar/CalendarEvent/
     // SieveScript only). So backfill a bounded recent window once per session,
     // after push is wired. Fire-and-forget; a no-op outside Electron.
-    const catchUpTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+    //
-      void (async () => {
+    // RETRIED, not one-shot. The first attempt races the login flow's own
+    // POST /api/auth/stalwart-context (stores/auth-store.ts's
+    // syncStalwartAuthContext) - if the index route is hit before that cookie
+    // is minted it 401s, and a single silent attempt would leave the index
+    // empty until the next app restart with nothing telling anyone why (this
+    // exact silence hid the packaged app's missing-SESSION_SECRET bug against
+    // a real mailbox). requestIndex() already distinguishes the permanent
+    // cases (404/503 -> unavailable) from the retryable ones, so retrying is
+    // cheap and self-limiting.
+    const catchUpRetryDelaysMs = [4000, 20000, 60000];
+    let catchUpCancelled = false;
+    let catchUpTimer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined;
+
+    const runCatchUp = async (attempt: number) => {
+      if (catchUpCancelled) return;
       try {
         const { catchUpIndex } = await import('@/lib/mail-index-client');
-          await catchUpIndex(
+        const result = await catchUpIndex(
           useAccountStore.getState().getActiveAccount()?.cookieSlot,
         );
+        if (!result.ok && !result.unavailable && attempt + 1 < catchUpRetryDelaysMs.length) {
+          catchUpTimer = setTimeout(() => void runCatchUp(attempt + 1), catchUpRetryDelaysMs[attempt + 1]);
+          return;
+        }
       } catch {
         /* the index is optional */
       }
@@ -1086,21 +1105,24 @@ export default function Home() {
       // drains the backlog. One cycle is bounded, so a first sync of a large
       // mailbox needs several - `chainSync` runs them with a hard cap.
       //
-        // Sequenced AFTER the index rather than in parallel: both write the same
+      // Sequenced AFTER the index (including its retries) rather than in
-        // SQLite file, and although `busy_timeout` makes concurrent writers safe,
+      // parallel: both write the same SQLite file, and although `busy_timeout`
-        // there is no reason to spend the contention during first paint.
+      // makes concurrent writers safe, there is no reason to spend the
+      // contention during first paint.
+      if (catchUpCancelled) return;
       try {
         const { chainSync } = await import('@/lib/offline-replica-client');
         await chainSync({ slot: useAccountStore.getState().getActiveAccount()?.cookieSlot });
       } catch {
         /* the replica is optional */
       }
-      })();
+    };
     // Deliberately after the initial mailbox fetch settles: the catch-up is a
     // background nicety and must not compete with first paint.
-    }, 4000);
+    catchUpTimer = setTimeout(() => void runCatchUp(0), catchUpRetryDelaysMs[0]);
 
     return () => {
+      catchUpCancelled = true;
       clearTimeout(catchUpTimer);
       cleanups.forEach((fn) => fn());
     };
@@ -3164,6 +3186,7 @@ export default function Home() {
                       </span>
                     )}
                   </button>
+                  <AiAskButton />
                 </div>
               </div>
 

app/(main)/admin/_tabs/ai-policy.tsx

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ type EntitlementResponse = AiEntitlementState & { recentUsage: MeteringEntry[] }
 const CLASS_INFO: Record<AiClass, { name: string; desc: string }> = {
   local: { name: 'Local', desc: "Ollama on the user's own machine. Free, unmetered, never reaches this server." },
   server: { name: 'Server', desc: 'VNC-hosted. Entitlement-enforced, seat + usage tracked below.' },
+  opencode: { name: 'OpenCode', desc: 'A locally-running OpenCode agent server. Holds its own provider credentials; nothing metered here.' },
   public: { name: 'Public (BYOK)', desc: "User's own API key, direct from their browser to the provider." },
 };
 
@@ -199,8 +200,8 @@ export function AiPolicyTab() {
           <h2 className="text-sm font-medium text-foreground">Provider classes</h2>
           <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground mt-0.5">Which of the three AI classes users can reach at all.</p>
         </div>
-        <div className="grid grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-3 gap-3 p-4">
+        <div className="grid grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-4 gap-3 p-4">
-          {(['local', 'server', 'public'] as AiClass[]).map((cls) => {
+          {(['local', 'server', 'opencode', 'public'] as AiClass[]).map((cls) => {
             const enabled = config.classesEnabled[cls] !== false;
             const disabledByInfra = cls === 'server' && !serverInfraAvailable;
             return (

app/api/ai/opencode/chat/route.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from 'next/server';
+import { getStalwartCredentials } from '@/lib/stalwart/credentials';
+import { configManager } from '@/lib/admin/config-manager';
+import { findOpencodeServer, parseModelRef, opencodePrompt } from '@/lib/ai/opencode';
+import { logger } from '@/lib/logger';
+
+export const runtime = 'nodejs';
+
+const MAX_BODY_BYTES = 200 * 1024;
+
+interface ChatMessage {
+  role: 'system' | 'user' | 'assistant';
+  content: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * POST /api/ai/opencode/chat — one-shot chat against a locally-running
+ * `opencode serve`.
+ *
+ * Deliberately NOT entitlement-metered, unlike /api/ai/server/chat: this runs
+ * on the user's own machine against provider credentials opencode itself
+ * holds, so there is no centrally-borne cost for this app to bill — the same
+ * reasoning that leaves `local` unmetered (lib/ai/entitlement.ts's header).
+ */
+export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
+  const auth = await getStalwartCredentials(request);
+  if (!auth) {
+    return NextResponse.json({ error: 'not authenticated' }, { status: 401 });
+  }
+
+  await configManager.ensureLoaded();
+  if (configManager.getAiConsoleConfig().classesEnabled.opencode === false) {
+    return NextResponse.json({ error: 'the OpenCode class is disabled by admin policy' }, { status: 403 });
+  }
+
+  const rawBody = await request.text();
+  if (rawBody.length > MAX_BODY_BYTES) {
+    return NextResponse.json({ error: 'request too large' }, { status: 413 });
+  }
+
+  let body: { model?: unknown; messages?: unknown };
+  try {
+    body = JSON.parse(rawBody);
+  } catch {
+    return NextResponse.json({ error: 'invalid JSON body' }, { status: 400 });
+  }
+
+  const model = typeof body.model === 'string' ? body.model : '';
+  const messages = Array.isArray(body.messages) ? (body.messages as ChatMessage[]) : null;
+  if (!model || !messages || messages.length === 0) {
+    return NextResponse.json({ error: 'model and messages are required' }, { status: 400 });
+  }
+
+  const found = await findOpencodeServer();
+  if (!found) {
+    return NextResponse.json(
+      { error: 'No local OpenCode server found. Start one with: opencode serve --port 4096' },
+      { status: 503 },
+    );
+  }
+  if (!found.models.some((m) => m.ref === model)) {
+    // The picker is populated from this same list, so a mismatch means the
+    // saved model was removed/renamed in opencode since it was chosen -
+    // clearer to say so than to forward it and surface opencode's own error.
+    return NextResponse.json(
+      { error: `OpenCode no longer offers the model "${model}" \u2014 pick another in Settings.` },
+      { status: 400 },
+    );
+  }
+  const parsed = parseModelRef(model);
+  if (!parsed) {
+    return NextResponse.json({ error: `Malformed model reference "${model}"` }, { status: 400 });
+  }
+
+  // Flatten our chat-messages shape onto opencode's (system field + text
+  // parts). Every non-system message is already just the built prompt.
+  const system = messages.filter((m) => m.role === 'system').map((m) => m.content).join('\n\n') || undefined;
+  const userText = messages.filter((m) => m.role !== 'system').map((m) => m.content).join('\n\n');
+  if (!userText.trim()) {
+    return NextResponse.json({ error: 'no user content to send' }, { status: 400 });
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const result = await opencodePrompt(found.baseUrl, parsed, system, userText);
+    if (!result.ok) {
+      logger.error('opencode prompt failed', { error: result.error });
+      return NextResponse.json({ error: result.error }, { status: 502 });
+    }
+    return NextResponse.json({ answer: result.answer });
+  } catch (cause) {
+    logger.error('opencode chat failed', { error: cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause) });
+    return NextResponse.json({ error: 'OpenCode server unreachable' }, { status: 502 });
+  }
+}

app/api/ai/opencode/models/route.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from 'next/server';
+import { getStalwartCredentials } from '@/lib/stalwart/credentials';
+import { configManager } from '@/lib/admin/config-manager';
+import { findOpencodeServer } from '@/lib/ai/opencode';
+
+export const runtime = 'nodejs';
+
+/**
+ * GET /api/ai/opencode/models — models a locally-running `opencode serve`
+ * exposes. Proxied rather than fetched directly by the renderer: the desktop
+ * shell's origin is a random localhost port that changes every launch, so a
+ * direct call would need opencode's CORS allowlist updated each time.
+ *
+ * Listing is not a billable action, so a valid session is enough — no seat
+ * check (matching /api/ai/server/models).
+ */
+export async function GET(request: NextRequest) {
+  const auth = await getStalwartCredentials(request);
+  if (!auth) {
+    return NextResponse.json({ error: 'not authenticated' }, { status: 401 });
+  }
+
+  await configManager.ensureLoaded();
+  if (configManager.getAiConsoleConfig().classesEnabled.opencode === false) {
+    return NextResponse.json({ error: 'the OpenCode class is disabled by admin policy' }, { status: 403 });
+  }
+
+  const found = await findOpencodeServer();
+  if (!found) {
+    // 503 not 500: "nothing is listening" is a normal state (opencode simply
+    // isn't running), and the client turns it into setup guidance rather than
+    // an error banner.
+    return NextResponse.json(
+      { error: 'No local OpenCode server found. Start one with: opencode serve --port 4096' },
+      { status: 503 },
+    );
+  }
+
+  return NextResponse.json(
+    { models: found.models.map((m) => ({ ref: m.ref, label: m.label })) },
+    { headers: { 'Cache-Control': 'no-store' } },
+  );
+}

app/api/ai/policy/route.ts

@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ export async function GET() {
     if (classAllowed('local')) classes.push('local');
     if (classAllowed('public')) classes.push('public');
     if (process.env.AI_SERVER_BASE_URL && classAllowed('server')) classes.push('server');
+    // `opencode` is offered whenever the admin hasn't disabled it — unlike
+    // `server` there is no env var to gate on, because availability is "is a
+    // local `opencode serve` listening right now", which changes minute to
+    // minute and is answered by /api/ai/opencode/models (503 when absent).
+    // Advertising the class and letting that probe report the truth beats
+    // hiding it based on a stale check at policy-fetch time.
+    if (classAllowed('opencode')) classes.push('opencode');
 
     const aiPolicy: AiPolicy = {
       enabled: policy.features.aiAssistantEnabled,

components/ai/ai-ask-button.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,264 @@
+'use client';
+
+// The AI Assistant's entry point in the MAIN mail view — a Sparkles button in
+// the search toolbar that opens a compact Ask dialog. Until this existed, the
+// only way to ask the assistant anything was the "Try it" box buried in
+// Settings → AI Assistant, which is a configuration screen, not a workflow.
+//
+// Deliberately reuses the exact same wire client (lib/ai/local-client's
+// askMail) and the exact same persisted provider settings as the Settings
+// pane — this is a second door to the same room, not a second room. When no
+// provider is configured yet, the dialog deep-links to the Settings pane
+// (where local-discovery offers the one-click Connect) instead of duplicating
+// that setup flow here.
+
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
+import { useRouter } from 'next/navigation';
+import { AlertTriangle, Loader2, Settings2, Sparkles, X } from 'lucide-react';
+import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
+import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
+import { apiFetch } from '@/lib/browser-navigation';
+import { useAccountStore } from '@/stores/account-store';
+import { DEFAULT_AI_POLICY, type AiPolicy } from '@/lib/ai/types';
+import { supportsLocalLlm } from '@/lib/platform-capabilities';
+import { getAiApiKey } from '@/lib/ai/key-store';
+import { loadAiSettings, type AiLocalSettings } from '@/lib/ai/local-settings';
+import { askMail, type AskResult } from '@/lib/ai/local-client';
+
+function useAiPolicy(): { policy: AiPolicy; loaded: boolean } {
+  const [policy, setPolicy] = useState<AiPolicy>(DEFAULT_AI_POLICY);
+  const [loaded, setLoaded] = useState(false);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    let cancelled = false;
+    (async () => {
+      try {
+        const res = await apiFetch('/api/ai/policy');
+        if (res.ok && !cancelled) setPolicy(await res.json());
+      } catch {
+        /* stays at DEFAULT (disabled) — the button simply doesn't render */
+      } finally {
+        if (!cancelled) setLoaded(true);
+      }
+    })();
+    return () => {
+      cancelled = true;
+    };
+  }, []);
+  return { policy, loaded };
+}
+
+/** Mirrors the Settings pane's canAsk gating: is any provider actually ready? */
+function providerConfigured(settings: AiLocalSettings, policy: AiPolicy): boolean {
+  const classes = policy.entitlement.classes;
+  switch (settings.provider) {
+    case 'local':
+      return supportsLocalLlm() && classes.includes('local') && !!settings.localModel;
+    case 'server':
+      return classes.includes('server') && !!settings.serverModel;
+    case 'opencode':
+      return classes.includes('opencode') && !!settings.opencodeModel;
+    case 'public': {
+      const active = settings.publicProfiles.find((p) => p.id === settings.activeProfileId) ?? null;
+      return classes.includes('public') && !!active && settings.publicConsentAccepted;
+    }
+    default:
+      return false;
+  }
+}
+
+export function AiAskButton() {
+  const router = useRouter();
+  const { policy, loaded } = useAiPolicy();
+  // Retrieval must read the SAME account slot the indexer wrote under.
+  const activeSlot = useAccountStore((s) => s.accounts.find((a) => a.id === s.activeAccountId)?.cookieSlot);
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+  // Re-read on every open: the user may have just configured a provider in
+  // Settings and come straight back here — a mount-time snapshot would still
+  // say "not configured".
+  const [settings, setSettings] = useState<AiLocalSettings>(() => loadAiSettings());
+
+  const [question, setQuestion] = useState('');
+  const [asking, setAsking] = useState(false);
+  const [askResult, setAskResult] = useState<AskResult | null>(null);
+  const [askError, setAskError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const textareaRef = useRef<HTMLTextAreaElement>(null);
+
+  const openDialog = useCallback(() => {
+    setSettings(loadAiSettings());
+    setAskResult(null);
+    setAskError(null);
+    setOpen(true);
+  }, []);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!open) return;
+    textareaRef.current?.focus();
+    const onKey = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
+      if (e.key === 'Escape') setOpen(false);
+    };
+    window.addEventListener('keydown', onKey);
+    return () => window.removeEventListener('keydown', onKey);
+  }, [open]);
+
+  const configured = providerConfigured(settings, policy);
+  const canAsk = configured && question.trim().length > 0 && !asking;
+
+  const runAsk = useCallback(async () => {
+    if (!canAsk) return;
+    setAsking(true);
+    setAskError(null);
+    setAskResult(null);
+    try {
+      const activeProfile = settings.publicProfiles.find((p) => p.id === settings.activeProfileId) ?? null;
+      const key = activeProfile ? getAiApiKey(activeProfile.id) : null;
+      const result = await askMail(question.trim(), {
+        provider: settings.provider as 'local' | 'server' | 'public' | 'opencode',
+        localBaseUrl: settings.localBaseUrl,
+        localModel: settings.localModel,
+        serverModel: settings.serverModel,
+        opencodeModel: settings.opencodeModel,
+        slot: activeSlot,
+        publicProfile: activeProfile && key ? { baseUrl: activeProfile.baseUrl, model: activeProfile.model, apiKey: key } : null,
+      });
+      setAskResult(result);
+    } catch (err) {
+      setAskError(err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err));
+    } finally {
+      setAsking(false);
+    }
+  }, [canAsk, question, settings, activeSlot]);
+
+  const goToSettings = useCallback(() => {
+    // The Settings page's one-shot deep-link channel (see readPersistedTab in
+    // app/(main)/[locale]/settings/page.tsx) — lands directly on the AI pane,
+    // where local-discovery's Connect banner does the actual setup.
+    try {
+      sessionStorage.setItem('settings-deep-link-tab', 'ai_assistant');
+    } catch {
+      /* private mode — the settings page just opens on its default tab */
+    }
+    setOpen(false);
+    router.push('/settings');
+  }, [router]);
+
+  // Hidden entirely when the admin gate is off or no provider class is
+  // allowed — same visibility rule as the Settings pane itself.
+  if (!loaded || !policy.enabled || policy.entitlement.classes.length === 0) return null;
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      <button
+        type="button"
+        onClick={openDialog}
+        className="flex-shrink-0 p-2 rounded-md transition-colors text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground hover:bg-muted"
+        title="AI Assistant"
+        aria-label="AI Assistant"
+        data-tour="ai-assistant"
+      >
+        <Sparkles className="w-4 h-4" />
+      </button>
+
+      {open && (
+        <div
+          className="fixed inset-0 z-50 flex items-start justify-center bg-black/50 p-4 pt-[10vh]"
+          onMouseDown={(e) => {
+            if (e.target === e.currentTarget) setOpen(false);
+          }}
+          role="dialog"
+          aria-modal="true"
+          aria-label="AI Assistant"
+        >
+          <div className="w-full max-w-xl rounded-xl border border-border bg-popover text-popover-foreground shadow-2xl">
+            <div className="flex items-center justify-between border-b border-border px-4 py-3">
+              <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
+                <Sparkles className="w-4 h-4 text-primary" />
+                <h2 className="text-sm font-semibold">AI Assistant</h2>
+              </div>
+              <button
+                type="button"
+                onClick={() => setOpen(false)}
+                className="p-1 rounded-md text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground hover:bg-muted transition-colors"
+                aria-label="Close"
+              >
+                <X className="w-4 h-4" />
+              </button>
+            </div>
+
+            <div className="flex flex-col gap-3 p-4">
+              {!configured ? (
+                <>
+                  <p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+                    No AI provider is set up yet. Pick one in Settings — if Ollama is running on this machine, a
+                    one-click Connect is waiting there.
+                  </p>
+                  <div>
+                    <Button size="sm" onClick={goToSettings}>
+                      <Settings2 className="w-3.5 h-3.5 me-1.5" />
+                      Open AI settings
+                    </Button>
+                  </div>
+                </>
+              ) : (
+                <>
+                  <textarea
+                    ref={textareaRef}
+                    value={question}
+                    onChange={(e) => setQuestion(e.target.value)}
+                    onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                      if ((e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey) && e.key === 'Enter') void runAsk();
+                    }}
+                    rows={3}
+                    placeholder="Ask a question about your mail…"
+                    className="w-full px-3 py-2 text-sm rounded-md bg-muted border border-border text-foreground focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-ring transition-colors duration-150 resize-y"
+                  />
+                  <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
+                    <Button size="sm" onClick={() => void runAsk()} disabled={!canAsk}>
+                      {asking && <Loader2 className="w-3.5 h-3.5 me-1.5 animate-spin" />}
+                      Ask
+                    </Button>
+                    <span className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">⌘⏎ to send</span>
+                  </div>
+
+                  {askError && (
+                    <div className="flex items-start gap-2 rounded-lg border border-destructive/40 bg-destructive/5 p-3">
+                      <AlertTriangle className="w-4 h-4 mt-0.5 text-destructive shrink-0" />
+                      <p className="text-sm text-destructive">{askError}</p>
+                    </div>
+                  )}
+
+                  {askResult && (
+                    <div className={cn('flex flex-col gap-2 rounded-lg border border-border p-4', 'max-h-[45vh] overflow-y-auto')}>
+                      {askResult.retrievalState === 'no-index' && (
+                        <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground italic">
+                          No local mail index available in this session — answered without your mail.
+                        </p>
+                      )}
+                      {askResult.retrievalState === 'no-match' && (
+                        <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground italic">
+                          Your mail index is available, but nothing in it matched this question — answered
+                          without your mail. It matches on keywords, so content questions work better than
+                          recency ones.
+                        </p>
+                      )}
+                      <p className="text-sm text-foreground whitespace-pre-wrap">{askResult.answer}</p>
+                      {askResult.sources.length > 0 && (
+                        <div className="flex flex-col gap-0.5 border-t border-border pt-2 mt-1">
+                          <span className="text-xs font-medium text-muted-foreground">Sources</span>
+                          {askResult.sources.map((s, i) => (
+                            <span key={s.id} className="text-xs text-muted-foreground truncate">
+                              [{i + 1}] {s.subject}
+                            </span>
+                          ))}
+                        </div>
+                      )}
+                    </div>
+                  )}
+                </>
+              )}
+            </div>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </>
+  );
+}

components/settings/ai-assistant-settings.tsx

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { RefreshCw, CheckCircle, AlertTriangle, Loader2, Plus, Trash2, Sparkles,
 import { SettingsSection, SettingItem, ToggleSwitch, RadioGroup, Select } from './settings-section';
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 import { apiFetch } from '@/lib/browser-navigation';
+import { useAccountStore } from '@/stores/account-store';
 import { DEFAULT_AI_POLICY, type AiPolicy } from '@/lib/ai/types';
 import { supportsLocalLlm, localLlmNeedsCorsSetup } from '@/lib/platform-capabilities';
 import { getAiApiKey, setAiApiKey, clearAiApiKey } from '@/lib/ai/key-store';
@@ -21,6 +22,8 @@ import {
   askMail,
   listLocalModels,
   listServerModels,
+  listOpencodeModels,
+  type OpencodeModelOption,
   testLocalConnection,
   type AskResult,
 } from '@/lib/ai/local-client';
@@ -40,6 +43,9 @@ export function AiAssistantSettings() {
   const [policy, setPolicy] = useState<AiPolicy>(DEFAULT_AI_POLICY);
   const [policyLoading, setPolicyLoading] = useState(true);
   const [settings, setSettings] = useState<AiLocalSettings>(() => loadAiSettings());
+  // The index is written under the ACTIVE account's cookie slot, so retrieval
+  // must read the same one — see fetchLocalLeg in lib/ai/local-client.ts.
+  const activeSlot = useAccountStore((s) => s.accounts.find((a) => a.id === s.activeAccountId)?.cookieSlot);
 
   useEffect(() => {
     let cancelled = false;
@@ -67,6 +73,7 @@ export function AiAssistantSettings() {
   const canUseLocal = supportsLocalLlm() && policy.entitlement.classes.includes('local');
   const canUseServer = policy.entitlement.classes.includes('server');
   const canUsePublic = policy.entitlement.classes.includes('public');
+  const canUseOpencode = policy.entitlement.classes.includes('opencode');
 
   // ── Local provider ──
   const [localModels, setLocalModels] = useState<string[]>([]);
@@ -140,6 +147,28 @@ export function AiAssistantSettings() {
     setDiscovery(null);
   }, []);
 
+  // ── OpenCode provider — a locally-running `opencode serve`. No key to
+  // manage (opencode holds provider auth itself) and a real model list, which
+  // is why this is its own class rather than another BYOK profile. ──
+  const [opencodeModels, setOpencodeModels] = useState<OpencodeModelOption[]>([]);
+  const [refreshingOpencode, setRefreshingOpencode] = useState(false);
+  const [opencodeError, setOpencodeError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+
+  const refreshOpencodeModels = useCallback(async () => {
+    setRefreshingOpencode(true);
+    setOpencodeError(null);
+    try {
+      const models = await listOpencodeModels();
+      setOpencodeModels(models);
+      if (!settings.opencodeModel && models[0]) update('opencodeModel', models[0].ref);
+    } catch (err) {
+      setOpencodeModels([]);
+      setOpencodeError(err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err));
+    } finally {
+      setRefreshingOpencode(false);
+    }
+  }, [settings.opencodeModel, update]);
+
   // ── Server provider ──
   const [serverModels, setServerModels] = useState<string[]>([]);
   const [refreshingServer, setRefreshingServer] = useState(false);
@@ -212,6 +241,8 @@ export function AiAssistantSettings() {
       ? canUseLocal && !!settings.localModel
       : settings.provider === 'server'
         ? canUseServer && !!settings.serverModel
+        : settings.provider === 'opencode'
+          ? canUseOpencode && !!settings.opencodeModel
           : settings.provider === 'public'
             ? canUsePublic && !!activeProfile && settings.publicConsentAccepted
             : false);
@@ -224,10 +255,12 @@ export function AiAssistantSettings() {
     try {
       const key = activeProfile ? getAiApiKey(activeProfile.id) : null;
       const result = await askMail(question.trim(), {
-        provider: settings.provider as 'local' | 'server' | 'public',
+        provider: settings.provider as 'local' | 'server' | 'public' | 'opencode',
         localBaseUrl: settings.localBaseUrl,
         localModel: settings.localModel,
         serverModel: settings.serverModel,
+        opencodeModel: settings.opencodeModel,
+        slot: activeSlot,
         publicProfile: activeProfile && key ? { baseUrl: activeProfile.baseUrl, model: activeProfile.model, apiKey: key } : null,
       });
       setAskResult(result);
@@ -239,15 +272,16 @@ export function AiAssistantSettings() {
     } finally {
       setAsking(false);
     }
-  }, [question, settings, activeProfile]);
+  }, [question, settings, activeProfile, activeSlot]);
 
   const providerOptions = useMemo(
     () => [
       ...(canUseLocal ? [{ value: 'local', label: 'Local (Ollama)' }] : []),
       ...(canUseServer ? [{ value: 'server', label: 'Server (VNC-hosted)' }] : []),
+      ...(canUseOpencode ? [{ value: 'opencode', label: 'OpenCode (local agent)' }] : []),
       ...(canUsePublic ? [{ value: 'public', label: 'Public (your API keys)' }] : []),
     ],
-    [canUseLocal, canUseServer, canUsePublic],
+    [canUseLocal, canUseServer, canUsePublic, canUseOpencode],
   );
 
   if (policyLoading) {
@@ -295,7 +329,7 @@ export function AiAssistantSettings() {
           {providerOptions.length > 0 ? (
             <RadioGroup
               value={settings.provider ?? ''}
-              onChange={(v) => update('provider', v as 'local' | 'server' | 'public')}
+              onChange={(v) => update('provider', v as 'local' | 'server' | 'public' | 'opencode')}
               options={providerOptions}
             />
           ) : (
@@ -360,6 +394,38 @@ export function AiAssistantSettings() {
         </SettingsSection>
       )}
 
+      {settings.provider === 'opencode' && canUseOpencode && (
+        <SettingsSection
+          title="OpenCode (local agent)"
+          description="Uses a locally-running OpenCode server on this machine. OpenCode holds its own provider credentials, so there is no API key to enter here — and it reports the exact models it can reach, so there is nothing to type by hand."
+        >
+          <SettingItem label="Model" description={opencodeModels.length === 0 ? 'Refresh to list the models OpenCode can reach.' : undefined}>
+            <div className="flex items-center gap-2 flex-wrap">
+              {opencodeModels.length > 0 ? (
+                <Select
+                  value={settings.opencodeModel ?? ''}
+                  onChange={(v) => update('opencodeModel', v)}
+                  options={opencodeModels.map((m) => ({ value: m.ref, label: m.label }))}
+                />
+              ) : (
+                <span className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">{settings.opencodeModel || 'None selected'}</span>
+              )}
+              <Button variant="outline" size="sm" onClick={refreshOpencodeModels} disabled={refreshingOpencode}>
+                <RefreshCw className={`w-3.5 h-3.5 me-1.5 ${refreshingOpencode ? 'animate-spin' : ''}`} />
+                Refresh
+              </Button>
+            </div>
+          </SettingItem>
+          {opencodeError && (
+            <SettingItem label="Status">
+              <span className="flex items-start gap-1.5 text-sm text-destructive">
+                <AlertTriangle className="w-3.5 h-3.5 shrink-0 mt-0.5" /> {opencodeError}
+              </span>
+            </SettingItem>
+          )}
+        </SettingsSection>
+      )}
+
       {settings.provider === 'server' && canUseServer && (
         <SettingsSection
           title="Server (VNC-hosted)"
@@ -516,9 +582,18 @@ export function AiAssistantSettings() {
 
             {askResult && (
               <div className="flex flex-col gap-2 rounded-lg border border-border p-4">
-                {askResult.unaugmented && (
+                {askResult.retrievalState === 'no-index' && (
                   <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground italic">
-                    No local mail index available in this session — answered without retrieval context.
+                    No local mail index available in this session — answered without your mail. The index is
+                    desktop-only; build it under Settings → About &amp; Data.
+                  </p>
+                )}
+                {askResult.retrievalState === 'no-match' && (
+                  <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground italic">
+                    Your mail index is available, but nothing in it matched this question — answered without
+                    your mail. It matches on keywords, so questions about <em>content</em> (&ldquo;what did
+                    Anna say about the invoice?&rdquo;) work better than ones about recency
+                    (&ldquo;the last mail&rdquo;).
                   </p>
                 )}
                 <p className="text-sm text-foreground whitespace-pre-wrap">{askResult.answer}</p>

deploy/k8s/overlays/dev/image-tag/kustomization.yaml

@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ kind: Component
 images:
   - name: vncmail-plus
     newName: registry.gitlab.vnc.biz/gitlab-instance-b9b5cf2f/vncmail-plus
-    newTag: sha-2a8778c9
+    newTag: sha-1f199fdc

e2e/electron-ai-local-index.spec.ts

@@ -68,7 +68,13 @@ test.describe('Electron desktop shell - local LLM answers from the real encrypte
         VNCMAIL_TEST_FIXED_PORT: String(FIXED_PORT),
         DEV_MOCK_JMAP: 'true',
         JMAP_SERVER_URL: `${ORIGIN}/api/dev-jmap`,
-        SESSION_SECRET: 'electron-ai-local-index-verify-32-chars-min',
+        // Deliberately NO SESSION_SECRET: the desktop shell must supply its
+        // own per-install secret (electron/main.ts's ensureSessionSecretFile)
+        // or the auth-context cookie can never be minted and every index
+        // route 401s. Up to 1.7.8 the packaged app shipped exactly that way,
+        // and every test masked it by injecting a secret here — this test
+        // now proves the shell stands on its own.
+        SESSION_SECRET: '',
         // Deliberately UNSET: isolates grounding to the local FTS leg (see
         // module header) — the server embeddings leg 404s cleanly instead
         // of silently also being able to answer the question.
@@ -93,41 +99,37 @@ test.describe('Electron desktop shell - local LLM answers from the real encrypte
     await devLoginContainer.getByRole('button').click();
     await appWindow.waitForURL((url) => !url.pathname.includes('login'), { timeout: 20000 });
 
-    // ── 2. Build the real encrypted local index: delta-sync the mock
+    // ── 2. Wait for the AUTOMATIC boot catch-up to build the encrypted
-    // account's mail into the replica store, then write it into SQLite/FTS5.
+    // index — NO manual /api/offline/sync or /api/offline/reindex calls.
-    // Chains /api/offline/sync while unfinishedWork is true, capped so a
+    // This is the load-bearing change from this spec's first version: the
-    // real bug can't hang the test forever. ──
+    // real user experience is "log in, index appears on its own", and the
-    const syncOutcome = await appWindow.evaluate(async () => {
+    // first version's manual calls proved only that the plumbing COULD
-      let unfinished = true;
+    // work, not that anything actually drives it. page.tsx schedules the
-      let calls = 0;
+    // first attempt ~4s after the authenticated mail page mounts (with
-      const statuses: number[] = [];
+    // retries at 20s/60s for the login race), so poll generously. ──
-      while (unfinished && calls < 10) {
+    await expect
-        const res = await fetch('/api/offline/sync', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: '{}' });
+      .poll(
-        statuses.push(res.status);
+        async () =>
-        if (!res.ok) break;
+          appWindow.evaluate(async () => {
-        const body = await res.json();
-        unfinished = body.unfinishedWork === true;
-        calls++;
-      }
-      const reindexRes = await fetch('/api/offline/reindex', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify({ catchUp: true }) });
-      return { syncStatuses: statuses, syncCalls: calls, reindexStatus: reindexRes.status, reindexBody: await reindexRes.json().catch(() => null) };
-    });
-    console.log('[ai-local-index] sync+reindex outcome:', JSON.stringify(syncOutcome));
-    expect(syncOutcome.syncStatuses.every((s) => s === 200)).toBe(true);
-    expect(syncOutcome.reindexStatus).toBe(200);
-
-    // ── 3. Prove the local index itself is real and queryable BEFORE
-    // touching the LLM at all — isolates "is the SQLite/FTS5 index working"
-    // from "did the model use it correctly". ──
-    const directSearch = await appWindow.evaluate(async () => {
             const res = await fetch(`/api/offline/search?q=${encodeURIComponent('Villa sul Lago check-in')}&limit=6`);
-      return { status: res.status, body: await res.json().catch(() => null) };
+            if (!res.ok) return `http-${res.status}`;
-    });
+            const body = await res.json().catch(() => null);
-    console.log('[ai-local-index] direct /api/offline/search result:', JSON.stringify(directSearch.body));
+            const hits = (body?.hits ?? []) as Array<{ title?: string }>;
-    expect(directSearch.status, 'the encrypted local index must be reachable (200), not 404 (feature disabled) or 503 (no key channel)').toBe(200);
+            return hits.some((h) => /villa sul lago/i.test(h.title ?? '')) ? 'hit' : 'indexed-but-empty';
-    expect(directSearch.body?.ok).toBe(true);
+          }),
-    const hitTitles = (directSearch.body?.hits ?? []).map((h: { title?: string }) => h.title ?? '');
+        {
-    expect(hitTitles.some((t: string) => /villa sul lago/i.test(t)), `expected a "Villa sul Lago" hit in the real index, got: ${JSON.stringify(hitTitles)}`).toBe(true);
+          timeout: 90000,
+          intervals: [2000],
+          message:
+            'the boot catch-up (page.tsx) must build the index automatically after login — http-401 here means the auth-context cookie was never minted (the missing-SESSION_SECRET class of bug), http-404 means the key channel/store dir never activated',
+        },
+      )
+      .toBe('hit');
+
+    // ── 3. The new toolbar entry point must be present in the main mail
+    // view — the AI Assistant is a feature of the app, not of the Settings
+    // page. ──
+    await expect(appWindow.getByRole('button', { name: 'AI Assistant' })).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10000 });
 
     // ── 4. Navigate to the real AI Assistant settings UI and use the
     // local-discovery "Connect" banner — the exact flow a real user takes,

electron/main.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 import { app, BrowserWindow, ipcMain, Notification } from "electron";
 import { autoUpdater } from "electron-updater";
 import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
+import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
 import { createServer } from "node:net";
 import { get as httpGet } from "node:http";
 import path from "node:path";
@@ -115,6 +116,50 @@ function getDesktopDefaults(): Record<string, string> {
   };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Per-install session secret for the standalone server.
+ *
+ * The server's cookie crypto (lib/auth/crypto.ts) refuses to mint the
+ * `jmap_stalwart_ctx` auth-context cookie without a >=32-char SESSION_SECRET,
+ * and every server-side-identity feature hangs off that cookie: the encrypted
+ * local search index and offline replica (their routes 401 without it),
+ * S/MIME enrolment, and the AI `server` class. A web deployment gets the
+ * secret from an operator (env var or the setup wizard); the desktop shell
+ * has NO operator, and up to 1.7.8 the packaged app simply shipped without
+ * one — so every login's stalwart-context POST failed with 500, the index
+ * stayed permanently empty, and the AI assistant answered "No local mail
+ * index available in this session" against real accounts. Caught live on a
+ * real mailbox, not by tests: every test run had injected its own
+ * SESSION_SECRET into the child env, masking exactly this.
+ *
+ * Generated once per install (64 hex chars, comfortably over the minimum),
+ * persisted 0600 under userData next to the rest of the per-user state, and
+ * handed to the server as SESSION_SECRET_FILE rather than SESSION_SECRET so
+ * the value itself stays out of the child's environment block. A
+ * deployment-provided SESSION_SECRET env var still wins — getSessionSecret()
+ * resolves the env var before the file.
+ */
+function ensureSessionSecretFile(): string | null {
+  const secretPath = path.join(app.getPath("userData"), "session-secret");
+  try {
+    const existing = fs.readFileSync(secretPath, "utf8").trim();
+    if (existing.length >= 32) return secretPath;
+  } catch {
+    /* first run — generate below */
+  }
+  try {
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(secretPath), { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(secretPath, randomBytes(32).toString("hex"), { mode: 0o600 });
+    return secretPath;
+  } catch (cause) {
+    // Loud, because the downstream symptom is otherwise "index/AI features
+    // return 401" with no hint of why — but never fatal: reading mail does
+    // not depend on this cookie.
+    console.error("[electron] could not persist a session secret:", cause);
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Locates the standalone server's entrypoint. Packaged builds ship it as an
  * extraResource (see electron-builder.config.js) because .next/standalone
@@ -210,12 +255,19 @@ async function startStandaloneServer(): Promise<string> {
   // readable by any process running as the same OS user, which would defeat
   // using the OS keychain at all. The fd NUMBER below is not a secret; only
   // what travels over it is.
+  const sessionSecretFile = ensureSessionSecretFile();
+
   serverProcess = spawn(process.execPath, [serverEntry], {
     env: {
       // First, so any real deployment env (a future per-install override,
       // or this same binary run somewhere JMAP_SERVER_URL is already set)
       // wins over these desktop-shell defaults - see getDesktopDefaults().
       ...getDesktopDefaults(),
+      // Also before ...process.env: an operator-provided SESSION_SECRET or
+      // SESSION_SECRET_FILE must win over the per-install default (and a
+      // SESSION_SECRET env var outranks any file in getSessionSecret()'s
+      // resolution order regardless).
+      ...(sessionSecretFile ? { SESSION_SECRET_FILE: sessionSecretFile } : {}),
       ...process.env,
       ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE: "1",
       PORT: String(port),

lib/ai/__tests__/opencode.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { findOpencodeServer, parseModelRef, opencodeBaseUrls, opencodePrompt } from '../opencode';
+
+/**
+ * The single most important behaviour under test is the SPA-catch-all trap:
+ * `opencode serve` answers 200 with the web UI's index.html for ANY unknown
+ * path, so a probe that trusts `res.ok` "verifies" endpoints that do not
+ * exist. That is not hypothetical — it is exactly how this integration was
+ * first built wrong (against an assumed OpenAI-compatible `/v1/models` that
+ * only ever returned HTML).
+ */
+
+const HTML_CATCHALL = {
+  ok: true,
+  headers: new Headers({ 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8' }),
+  json: async () => {
+    throw new Error('not json');
+  },
+};
+
+function jsonResponse(body: unknown) {
+  return {
+    ok: true,
+    headers: new Headers({ 'content-type': 'application/json' }),
+    json: async () => body,
+  };
+}
+
+describe('parseModelRef', () => {
+  it('splits providerID/modelID, keeping slashes inside the model id', () => {
+    expect(parseModelRef('opencode/deepseek-v4-flash-free')).toEqual({
+      providerID: 'opencode',
+      modelID: 'deepseek-v4-flash-free',
+    });
+    // Real provider ids do contain slashes (e.g. openrouter's
+    // "anthropic/claude-..."), so only the FIRST slash separates.
+    expect(parseModelRef('openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5')).toEqual({
+      providerID: 'openrouter',
+      modelID: 'anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5',
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('rejects malformed refs rather than guessing', () => {
+    expect(parseModelRef('noslash')).toBeNull();
+    expect(parseModelRef('/leading')).toBeNull();
+    expect(parseModelRef('trailing/')).toBeNull();
+    expect(parseModelRef('')).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('opencodeBaseUrls', () => {
+  const original = process.env.OPENCODE_BASE_URL;
+  afterEach(() => {
+    if (original === undefined) delete process.env.OPENCODE_BASE_URL;
+    else process.env.OPENCODE_BASE_URL = original;
+  });
+
+  it('refuses a non-loopback override — this class must never reach off-machine', () => {
+    process.env.OPENCODE_BASE_URL = 'https://evil.example.com';
+    const urls = opencodeBaseUrls();
+    expect(urls.some((u) => u.includes('evil.example.com'))).toBe(false);
+    expect(urls[0]).toMatch(/127\.0\.0\.1|localhost/);
+  });
+
+  it('honours a loopback override, trying it first', () => {
+    process.env.OPENCODE_BASE_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:9999/';
+    expect(opencodeBaseUrls()[0]).toBe('http://127.0.0.1:9999');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('findOpencodeServer', () => {
+  const originalFetch = global.fetch;
+  afterEach(() => {
+    global.fetch = originalFetch;
+    vi.restoreAllMocks();
+  });
+
+  it('does NOT accept the web UI catch-all as a working API (200 + HTML)', async () => {
+    global.fetch = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(HTML_CATCHALL) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+    expect(await findOpencodeServer()).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('parses the real /api/model shape into providerID/modelID refs', async () => {
+    global.fetch = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(
+      jsonResponse({
+        data: [
+          { id: 'deepseek-v4-flash-free', providerID: 'opencode', name: 'DeepSeek V4 Flash Free' },
+          { id: 'deepseek-chat', providerID: 'deepseek' },
+          { id: '', providerID: 'broken' },
+        ],
+      }),
+    ) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+
+    const found = await findOpencodeServer();
+    expect(found?.models.map((m) => m.ref)).toEqual([
+      'opencode/deepseek-v4-flash-free',
+      'deepseek/deepseek-chat',
+    ]);
+    expect(found?.models[0].label).toBe('DeepSeek V4 Flash Free (opencode)');
+  });
+
+  it('returns null when the server answers JSON with no models', async () => {
+    global.fetch = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(jsonResponse({ data: [] })) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+    expect(await findOpencodeServer()).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('opencodePrompt', () => {
+  const originalFetch = global.fetch;
+  afterEach(() => {
+    global.fetch = originalFetch;
+    vi.restoreAllMocks();
+  });
+
+  it('returns only the text parts — never the model\'s private reasoning', async () => {
+    global.fetch = vi.fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(jsonResponse({ id: 'ses_abc' }))
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(
+        jsonResponse({
+          parts: [
+            { type: 'step-start' },
+            { type: 'reasoning', text: 'SECRET chain of thought that must not be shown' },
+            { type: 'text', text: 'The visible answer.' },
+            { type: 'step-finish' },
+          ],
+        }),
+      ) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+
+    const result = await opencodePrompt('http://127.0.0.1:4096', { providerID: 'opencode', modelID: 'm' }, 'sys', 'q');
+    expect(result).toEqual({ ok: true, answer: 'The visible answer.' });
+    if (result.ok) expect(result.answer).not.toContain('SECRET');
+  });
+
+  it('fails cleanly when no session can be created', async () => {
+    global.fetch = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(HTML_CATCHALL) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+    const result = await opencodePrompt('http://127.0.0.1:4096', { providerID: 'p', modelID: 'm' }, undefined, 'q');
+    expect(result.ok).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('fails cleanly when the reply carries no text part', async () => {
+    global.fetch = vi.fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(jsonResponse({ id: 'ses_abc' }))
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(jsonResponse({ parts: [{ type: 'step-start' }, { type: 'reasoning', text: 'only thinking' }] })) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+    const result = await opencodePrompt('http://127.0.0.1:4096', { providerID: 'p', modelID: 'm' }, undefined, 'q');
+    expect(result).toEqual({ ok: false, error: 'OpenCode returned no message content' });
+  });
+});

lib/ai/local-client.ts

@@ -150,6 +150,49 @@ export async function chatPublic(
   return content;
 }
 
+// ── OpenCode: a locally-running `opencode serve` (github.com/sst/opencode),
+// the same agent runtime Paperclip drives as an adapter. Reached through THIS
+// app's own backend (app/api/ai/opencode/*) rather than directly, for the same
+// reason the `server` class is: the renderer's origin is a random localhost
+// port that changes every desktop launch, so a direct fetch would need
+// opencode's CORS allowlist updated on every start. Same-origin sidesteps it.
+//
+// It is NOT OpenAI-compatible (its `/v1/*` paths only answer 200 because a
+// web-UI catch-all serves index.html for anything unknown) - the server-side
+// helper lib/ai/opencode.ts speaks its real session API and documents that
+// trap. The reason to have it as its own class rather than "just another BYOK profile": opencode
+// owns provider auth itself, so there is no API key for this app to hold, and
+// its /api/model endpoint gives a REAL model list to pick from instead of
+// asking the user to type an exact provider-specific model id from memory.
+
+export interface OpencodeModelOption {
+  /** "providerID/modelID" — what gets stored and sent back on ask. */
+  ref: string;
+  /** Human-readable, e.g. "DeepSeek V4 Flash Free (opencode)". */
+  label: string;
+}
+
+export async function listOpencodeModels(): Promise<OpencodeModelOption[]> {
+  const res = await fetch('/api/ai/opencode/models');
+  const body = await res.json().catch(() => ({}));
+  // 503 carries real setup guidance ("start opencode serve ..."), so surface
+  // the server's own message rather than a bare status code.
+  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(body?.error || `OpenCode returned ${res.status}`);
+  return (body?.models ?? []) as OpencodeModelOption[];
+}
+
+export async function chatOpencode(model: string, messages: ChatMessage[]): Promise<string> {
+  const res = await fetch('/api/ai/opencode/chat', {
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+    body: JSON.stringify({ model, messages }),
+  });
+  const body = await res.json().catch(() => ({}));
+  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(body?.error || `OpenCode returned ${res.status}`);
+  if (!body?.answer) throw new Error('OpenCode returned no message content');
+  return body.answer as string;
+}
+
 // ── Retrieval: two legs run in parallel and get Reciprocal-Rank-Fused
 // (docs/AI-ASSISTANT-CONCEPT.md §7 steps 2-3), exactly like the doc
 // describes — this is real, not a single degraded leg wearing SourceRef's
@@ -179,6 +222,18 @@ export interface AskResult {
   sources: AskSource[];
   /** True when the question was answered without any retrieved context. */
   unaugmented: boolean;
+  /**
+   * WHY the answer was unaugmented — the two cases need different words and
+   * different user action, and conflating them is actively misleading:
+   *  - 'no-index': the local index isn't available at all (not the desktop
+   *    app, no keyring, not signed in, or never built). Told to build it.
+   *  - 'no-match': the index IS there and answered; this query just matched
+   *    nothing. Told to rephrase. Recency questions ("the last mail", "all
+   *    mail in July") land here by design: the index ranks by keyword
+   *    relevance and has no notion of "latest" or a date range.
+   *  - 'augmented': context was found and used.
+   */
+  retrievalState: 'augmented' | 'no-match' | 'no-index';
   /** True the moment this call consumed a previously-unassigned licensed
    *  seat on the `server` class (lib/ai/entitlement.ts). Always false for
    *  `local`/`public`, which aren't entitlement-gated. */
@@ -213,11 +268,25 @@ interface RetrievedContext {
   hits: Array<{ id: string; title: string }>;
 }
 
-async function fetchLocalLeg(question: string): Promise<{ scored: Scored<SourceRef>[]; text: Map<string, { title: string; snippet: string }> }> {
+/** Set by the most recent retrieveContext() call so askMail can report WHY an
-  const empty = { scored: [] as Scored<SourceRef>[], text: new Map<string, { title: string; snippet: string }>() };
+ *  answer was unaugmented. Module-scoped rather than threaded through the
+ *  return type because retrieveContext returns null precisely in the case we
+ *  need to describe, and a null can't carry a reason. Single-threaded UI, one
+ *  question at a time - no interleaving to worry about. */
+let lastLocalIndexReachable = false;
+
+async function fetchLocalLeg(question: string, slot?: number): Promise<{ scored: Scored<SourceRef>[]; text: Map<string, { title: string; snippet: string }>; indexReachable: boolean }> {
+  const empty = { scored: [] as Scored<SourceRef>[], text: new Map<string, { title: string; snippet: string }>(), indexReachable: false };
   try {
-    const res = await fetch(`/api/offline/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(question)}&limit=6`);
+    // `slot` is load-bearing, not optional decoration: the INDEXER writes under
-    if (!res.ok) return empty; // 404/503 — no local index this session, not an error
+    // the active account's cookie slot (lib/mail-index-client.ts's catchUpIndex
+    // passes it), so a search that omits it resolves to whatever account the
+    // multi-slot resolver finds FIRST and can read a different - usually empty -
+    // account's index. Single-account installs never noticed; a real
+    // multi-account/shared-mailbox setup reads the wrong store every time.
+    const slotQuery = typeof slot === 'number' ? `&slot=${slot}` : '';
+    const res = await fetch(`/api/offline/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(question)}&limit=6${slotQuery}`);
+    if (!res.ok) return empty; // 404/503/401 — no usable index this session, not an error
     const body = (await res.json()) as OfflineSearchResponse;
     if (!body.ok) return empty;
     const text = new Map(body.hits.map((h) => [h.id, { title: h.title, snippet: h.snippet ?? '' }]));
@@ -225,7 +294,11 @@ async function fetchLocalLeg(question: string): Promise<{ scored: Scored<SourceR
       ref: { product: 'mail' as const, accountId: h.jmapAccountId, collectionId: '', itemId: h.id, chunkIx: 0 },
       score: 1 / (i + 1), // rank position is all reciprocalRankFusion reads
     }));
-    return { scored, text };
+    // Reachable even with zero hits: a 200 means the index answered. That
+    // distinction is the whole point - "the index isn't there" and "the index
+    // is there and this query matched nothing" are different facts the user
+    // deserves to be told apart (see AskResult.retrievalState).
+    return { scored, text, indexReachable: true };
   } catch {
     return empty;
   }
@@ -250,8 +323,9 @@ async function fetchServerLeg(question: string): Promise<{ scored: Scored<Source
   }
 }
 
-async function retrieveContext(question: string): Promise<RetrievedContext | null> {
+async function retrieveContext(question: string, slot?: number): Promise<RetrievedContext | null> {
-  const [local, server] = await Promise.all([fetchLocalLeg(question), fetchServerLeg(question)]);
+  const [local, server] = await Promise.all([fetchLocalLeg(question, slot), fetchServerLeg(question)]);
+  lastLocalIndexReachable = local.indexReachable;
   const fused = reciprocalRankFusion([local.scored, server.scored], 6);
   if (fused.length === 0) return null;
 
@@ -293,11 +367,15 @@ export interface ResolvedPublicProfile {
 }
 
 export interface AskConfig {
-  provider: 'local' | 'server' | 'public';
+  provider: 'local' | 'server' | 'public' | 'opencode';
   localBaseUrl: string;
   localModel: string | null;
   serverModel: string | null;
   publicProfile: ResolvedPublicProfile | null;
+  opencodeModel?: string | null;
+  /** Cookie slot of the account whose local index should be searched. Omitting
+   *  it reads whichever account the resolver finds first — see fetchLocalLeg. */
+  slot?: number;
 }
 
 export async function askMail(question: string, config: AskConfig): Promise<AskResult> {
@@ -310,8 +388,11 @@ export async function askMail(question: string, config: AskConfig): Promise<AskR
   if (config.provider === 'public' && !config.publicProfile) {
     throw new Error('No provider profile selected');
   }
+  if (config.provider === 'opencode' && !config.opencodeModel) {
+    throw new Error('No OpenCode model selected');
+  }
 
-  const retrieved = await retrieveContext(question);
+  const retrieved = await retrieveContext(question, config.slot);
   const messages = retrieved
     ? buildPrompt(question, retrieved.contextBlock)
     : [{ role: 'user' as const, content: question }];
@@ -325,6 +406,8 @@ export async function askMail(question: string, config: AskConfig): Promise<AskR
     const result = await chatServer(config.serverModel as string, messages);
     answer = result.answer;
     seatJustAssigned = result.seatJustAssigned;
+  } else if (config.provider === 'opencode') {
+    answer = await chatOpencode(config.opencodeModel as string, messages);
   } else {
     answer = await chatLocal(config.localBaseUrl, config.localModel as string, messages);
   }
@@ -333,6 +416,7 @@ export async function askMail(question: string, config: AskConfig): Promise<AskR
     answer,
     sources: (retrieved?.hits ?? []).map((h) => ({ id: h.id, subject: h.title })),
     unaugmented: !retrieved,
+    retrievalState: retrieved ? 'augmented' : lastLocalIndexReachable ? 'no-match' : 'no-index',
     seatJustAssigned,
   };
 }

lib/ai/local-settings.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 // (docs/AI-ASSISTANT-CONCEPT.md §12's P0/P5), and migrating it into the
 // shared store belongs with whichever phase makes these settings real
 // product config rather than a local-AI test harness.
-export type AiProvider = 'local' | 'server' | 'public';
+export type AiProvider = 'local' | 'server' | 'public' | 'opencode';
 
 /**
  * A named public-provider configuration (BYOK). Decision 2026-08-05: several
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ export interface AiLocalSettings {
   localBaseUrl: string;
   localModel: string | null;
   serverModel: string | null;
+  opencodeModel: string | null;
   publicProfiles: AiProviderProfile[];
   /** Which saved profile answers the next question. Not a permanent default —
    *  the "Try it" UI lets this be changed per question. */
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ export const DEFAULT_AI_SETTINGS: AiLocalSettings = {
   localBaseUrl: 'http://127.0.0.1:11434',
   localModel: null,
   serverModel: null,
+  opencodeModel: null,
   publicProfiles: [],
   activeProfileId: null,
   publicConsentAccepted: false,

lib/ai/opencode.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+// Shared server-side helpers for the OpenCode AI class.
+//
+// OpenCode (github.com/sst/opencode) runs as a local headless server
+// (`opencode serve`) — the same runtime Paperclip drives as an agent adapter.
+// Here it is used only as a one-shot chat backend for the mail assistant, so
+// its HTTP surface is enough and no subprocess needs spawning from this app.
+//
+// IT IS NOT OpenAI-COMPATIBLE, despite `/v1/models` and `/v1/chat/completions`
+// both answering 200: opencode serves a web UI from the same port with a
+// catch-all route, so ANY unknown path returns the SPA's index.html with a 200.
+// Checking `res.ok` alone therefore "verifies" endpoints that do not exist —
+// verified the hard way, by believing exactly that before reading a body.
+// Every probe here validates the parsed SHAPE, never the status code alone.
+//
+// The real API (from the server's own /doc OpenAPI spec):
+//   GET  /api/model                  -> { data: [{ id, providerID, name, ... }] }
+//   POST /session                    -> { id: "ses_..." }
+//   POST /session/{id}/message       -> { info, parts: [{ type: 'text', text }, ...] }
+//
+// Address resolution is deliberately narrow: loopback only. This class exists
+// to reach a runtime on the user's OWN machine — pointing it at a remote host
+// would silently turn "local, no keys, nothing leaves the device" into the
+// opposite, so a non-loopback OPENCODE_BASE_URL is refused rather than honoured.
+
+const DEFAULT_BASE_URLS = ['http://127.0.0.1:4096', 'http://localhost:4096'];
+const PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 2500;
+const PROMPT_TIMEOUT_MS = 120_000;
+
+function isLoopback(raw: string): boolean {
+  try {
+    const url = new URL(raw);
+    return url.hostname === '127.0.0.1' || url.hostname === 'localhost' || url.hostname === '::1';
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+/** Candidate addresses, honouring an explicit OPENCODE_BASE_URL when it is
+ *  loopback. `opencode serve` defaults to a RANDOM port (`--port 0`), so the
+ *  conventional 4096 only finds a server deliberately started there; the env
+ *  var is how someone on another port points us at it. */
+export function opencodeBaseUrls(): string[] {
+  const configured = process.env.OPENCODE_BASE_URL?.trim();
+  if (configured) {
+    if (!isLoopback(configured)) {
+      console.error('[opencode] ignoring non-loopback OPENCODE_BASE_URL:', configured);
+      return DEFAULT_BASE_URLS;
+    }
+    return [configured.replace(/\/+$/, ''), ...DEFAULT_BASE_URLS];
+  }
+  return DEFAULT_BASE_URLS;
+}
+
+interface OpencodeModelListResponse {
+  data?: Array<{ id?: string; providerID?: string; name?: string }>;
+}
+
+export interface OpencodeModel {
+  /** "providerID/modelID" — the reference shown in the picker and stored in
+   *  settings, matching how opencode itself names models on the CLI. */
+  ref: string;
+  providerID: string;
+  modelID: string;
+  label: string;
+}
+
+/** Splits the stored "providerID/modelID" reference back into the pair the
+ *  message API wants. Returns null for anything malformed rather than
+ *  guessing, so a corrupted setting surfaces as a clear error. */
+export function parseModelRef(ref: string): { providerID: string; modelID: string } | null {
+  const slash = ref.indexOf('/');
+  if (slash <= 0 || slash === ref.length - 1) return null;
+  return { providerID: ref.slice(0, slash), modelID: ref.slice(slash + 1) };
+}
+
+async function fetchJson(url: string, init: RequestInit, timeoutMs: number): Promise<unknown | null> {
+  const controller = new AbortController();
+  const timer = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), timeoutMs);
+  try {
+    const res = await fetch(url, { ...init, signal: controller.signal });
+    if (!res.ok) return null;
+    // The SPA catch-all returns HTML with a 200 for unknown paths — see the
+    // module header. Content-type is what actually distinguishes a real API
+    // response from the web UI.
+    const contentType = res.headers.get('content-type') ?? '';
+    if (!contentType.includes('application/json')) return null;
+    return await res.json();
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  } finally {
+    clearTimeout(timer);
+  }
+}
+
+/** First reachable candidate that answers /api/model with a real model list. */
+export async function findOpencodeServer(): Promise<{ baseUrl: string; models: OpencodeModel[] } | null> {
+  for (const baseUrl of opencodeBaseUrls()) {
+    const body = (await fetchJson(`${baseUrl}/api/model`, {}, PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS)) as OpencodeModelListResponse | null;
+    if (!body || !Array.isArray(body.data)) continue;
+    const models: OpencodeModel[] = body.data
+      .filter((m): m is { id: string; providerID: string; name?: string } =>
+        typeof m?.id === 'string' && !!m.id && typeof m?.providerID === 'string' && !!m.providerID)
+      .map((m) => ({
+        ref: `${m.providerID}/${m.id}`,
+        providerID: m.providerID,
+        modelID: m.id,
+        label: m.name ? `${m.name} (${m.providerID})` : `${m.providerID}/${m.id}`,
+      }));
+    if (models.length > 0) return { baseUrl, models };
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+interface OpencodeMessageResponse {
+  parts?: Array<{ type?: string; text?: string }>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * One prompt, one answer. Creates a throwaway session per question — this is
+ * a stateless "ask about my mail" box, not a running conversation, and a fresh
+ * session keeps one question's context from leaking into the next.
+ *
+ * `system` is passed as opencode's own system field rather than as a message
+ * part, so the retrieved-mail prompt keeps the same shape it has for every
+ * other provider class (see buildPrompt in lib/ai/local-client.ts).
+ */
+export async function opencodePrompt(
+  baseUrl: string,
+  model: { providerID: string; modelID: string },
+  system: string | undefined,
+  userText: string,
+): Promise<{ ok: true; answer: string } | { ok: false; error: string }> {
+  const session = (await fetchJson(
+    `${baseUrl}/session`,
+    { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: '{}' },
+    PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS,
+  )) as { id?: string } | null;
+  if (!session?.id) return { ok: false, error: 'OpenCode would not start a session' };
+
+  const body = (await fetchJson(
+    `${baseUrl}/session/${encodeURIComponent(session.id)}/message`,
+    {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      body: JSON.stringify({
+        model,
+        ...(system ? { system } : {}),
+        parts: [{ type: 'text', text: userText }],
+      }),
+    },
+    PROMPT_TIMEOUT_MS,
+  )) as OpencodeMessageResponse | null;
+
+  if (!body) return { ok: false, error: 'OpenCode returned no usable response' };
+  // A reply carries several parts (step-start / reasoning / text / step-finish).
+  // Only the `text` parts are the answer; `reasoning` is the model's private
+  // chain of thought and must not be shown as the reply.
+  const answer = (body.parts ?? [])
+    .filter((p) => p.type === 'text' && typeof p.text === 'string' && p.text.trim())
+    .map((p) => (p.text as string).trim())
+    .join('\n\n');
+  if (!answer) return { ok: false, error: 'OpenCode returned no message content' };
+  return { ok: true, answer };
+}

lib/ai/types.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 //     lib/ai/entitlement.ts — since it's the one class with a real,
 //     centrally-borne cost.
 
-export type AiClass = 'local' | 'server' | 'public';
+export type AiClass = 'local' | 'server' | 'public' | 'opencode';
 
 export interface AiEntitlement {
   licensed: boolean;

next.config.ts

@@ -61,8 +61,15 @@ const nextConfig: NextConfig = {
   // Sibling repos checked out under ./repos/ are unrelated source trees that
   // Turbopack's NFT can otherwise rope into the trace when dynamic fs calls
   // confuse it. Keeps the build from ballooning memory tracing dead code.
+  //
+  // dist-electron-builds/ is the OUTPUT of electron-builder — a previous
+  // packaged .app sitting there contains its own data/ tree, and tracing
+  // once tried to copy pieces of the old app into the new standalone output
+  // ("Failed to copy traced files ... dist-electron-builds/..." warnings,
+  // observed 2026-08-06). Same reasoning for ./data/, a dev-run server's
+  // local state dir.
   outputFileTracingExcludes: {
-    "*": ["./repos/**/*"],
+    "*": ["./repos/**/*", "./dist-electron-builds/**/*", "./data/**/*"],
   },
   turbopack: {
     root: import.meta.dirname,