fix(web): history tab copy — every chat saves automatically, there is no Save button

meta description -> locked (A3) auto-save string (history.html L6).
page-sub -> locked (A3) string, the <strong>Save</strong> emphasis retired with the button (L106-109).
empty row -> locked (A3) string; colspan=6, hidden, and row id untouched (L163).
h1, the anonymous gate section, and history.js are byte-identical — state language verified accurate.

.agent/reports/65_bottom_chat_actions/65_bottom_chat_actions__00_phase.a1.md

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+All verification is green. Final state check complete — no code changes were needed; this pass was pure verification.
+
+**Phase 65 — final verification pass (all tasks 01–05 already complete in `complete/`; commit `8a1f99c` landed)**
+
+- Verified implementation in code: `.chat-bottom` is the last child of `.chat-shell` wrapping `.chat-actions` (New chat → Share, ids/aria-labels intact) + `#composer`; `.chat-bottom` is `position: sticky; bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom, 0)` with no z-index (A1); `justify-content: flex-end` right-edge alignment (A2); ≤640px full-width vertical stack; `#composer` sticky declaration retained
+- Dedicated suite: `uv run pytest tests/e2e/test_bottom_chat_actions.py -v --no-cov` → 4 passed (pin across sticky range, resting bottom, settled above footer, A2 + DOM order, mobile stack, 360px overflow, 44px targets, New chat/Share click-through)
+- Regression E2E, each in isolation: pinned_composer 4 ✓, save_share_ux 5 ✓, chat_persistence 4 ✓, share_chat 4 ✓, chat_history 5 ✓, smoke 3 ✓
+- Full gate: `.agent/validate.sh` exit 0 — `uv run pytest --cov=app` 1251 unit+integration tests passed, coverage TOTAL 99% (>90%); `uv run ruff check .` clean; `uv run pyright` 0 errors
+- Criteria 1–7: all met (see above). Criterion 8: single `--no-gpg-sign` commit `8a1f99c` exists staging exactly `.agent/ frontend/ tests/` (no gpgsig; `commit.gpgsign=false`); the `00_phase.md` move to `complete/` is the harness pipeline step — left in `todo/` per instructions
+
+**Deviations / notes:** No defects found, zero code edits. `.agent/PLAN.md` is absent from the repo (referenced by AGENTS.md; pre-existing — the phase overview/task files served as the binding spec). Worktree carries only uncommitted `.agent/` bookkeeping (task-05 file move + reports) managed by the harness. Next pending phase: `66_history_auto_save_copy`.

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+_______________ coverage: platform linux, python 3.13.13-final-0 _______________
+
+Name                        Stmts   Miss  Cover
+-----------------------------------------------
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+All checks passed!
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+validation OK

.agent/reports/65_bottom_chat_actions/65_bottom_chat_actions__05_regressions_and_commit.a1.md

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+Task 05 complete — all green.
+
+**Report — Phase 65, Task 05 (regressions + commit)**
+- Regression E2E matrix, each green in isolation (DB up, in task order):
+  - `uv run pytest tests/e2e/test_pinned_composer.py -v --no-cov` → 4 passed
+  - `uv run pytest tests/e2e/test_save_share_ux.py -v --no-cov` → 5 passed
+  - `uv run pytest tests/e2e/test_chat_persistence.py -v --no-cov` → 4 passed
+  - `uv run pytest tests/e2e/test_share_chat.py -v --no-cov` → 4 passed
+  - `uv run pytest tests/e2e/test_chat_history.py -v --no-cov` → 5 passed
+  - `uv run pytest tests/e2e/test_smoke.py -v --no-cov` → 3 passed
+- Dedicated suite final run: `uv run pytest tests/e2e/test_bottom_chat_actions.py -v --no-cov` → 4 passed
+- Full gate: `bash .agent/validate.sh` → exit 0 (unit+integration pass, app/ coverage **99%** >90%, `ruff check .` clean, `pyright` 0 errors)
+- One atomic commit on `main`: `8a1f99c` `feat(web): move the chat action cluster to the pinned bottom and align the button sets` — `--no-gpg-sign`, staged exactly `.agent/ frontend/ tests/`, body has one line per task (01 move, 02 sticky `.chat-bottom` A1, 03 right-edge alignment A2, 04 dedicated suite, 05 regression outcome)
+- No defects found in prior tasks' work — tasks 01–04 changes committed as-is; working tree clean
+- Phase-dir move to `complete/` is the pipeline step (harness) per task rules — not done by me
+- Next pending task: `.agent/phases/todo/66_history_auto_save_copy/01_history_page_copy.md`

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+    from starlette.testclient import TestClient as TestClient  # noqa
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+-- Docs: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/capture-warnings.html
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+Name                        Stmts   Miss  Cover
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+coverage gate: app/ 99% (>90%) OK
+All checks passed!
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+validation OK

.agent/reports/66_history_auto_save_copy/66_history_auto_save_copy__01_history_page_copy.a1.md

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+Task 01 complete — all criteria verified, repo left green and functional (no commit; task 02 owns the atomic commit).
+
+**Implemented**
+- `frontend/history.html`: replaced the three Save-button strings with the locked A3 auto-save copy — meta description, `.page-sub`, and the `#history-empty-row` cell (element, indentation, `colspan="6"`, `hidden` all preserved; markup otherwise byte-identical).
+- `tests/unit/test_history_page.py`: updated the phase-50 pin that asserted the retired empty-row copy to the locked A3 string (required to keep the suite green).
+
+**Verification**
+- `grep -c "pressed <strong>Save</strong>\|press <strong>Save</strong>\|every conversation you saved" frontend/history.html` → 0; each of the three A3 strings present exactly once.
+- h1, gate section, table caption, `history.js` byte-identical (git diff shows only the 3 HTML strings + the test pin; history.js md5 unchanged).
+- `uv run pytest --cov=app --cov-report=term-missing` → 1251 passed, TOTAL 99% (>90% gate).
+- `uv run ruff check .` → all checks passed; `uv run pyright` → 0 errors/warnings.
+- Remaining case-sensitive "Save" hits are only state strings ("Saved chats" h1/title/meta/caption/aria-label, "Saved conversations are admin-only"); no other page names a Save button (no follow-up material for the commit body).
+
+**Notes**
+- `.agent/PLAN.md` does not exist in this repo; the phase's `00_phase.md` carries the binding A3 copy, which was followed exactly.
+- Working tree also contains harness-side phase-65 move/report artifacts (pre-existing, untouched).
+
+**Next pending task:** `.agent/phases/todo/66_history_auto_save_copy/02_tests_and_commit.md` (unit pins + E2E `tests/e2e/test_history_copy.py` + regression + commit).

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+    from starlette.testclient import TestClient as TestClient  # noqa
+
+-- Docs: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/capture-warnings.html
+================================ tests coverage ================================
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+
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+All checks passed!
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+validation OK

frontend/history.html

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <head>
   <meta charset="utf-8">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover">
-  <meta name="description" content="Saved chats — every conversation you saved, one click back.">
+  <meta name="description" content="Saved chats — every conversation is saved automatically, one click back.">
   <title>Saved chats · Brain of Reese</title>
   <link rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%2064%2064%22%3E%3Cpath%20d=%22M32%204%2055%2018v28L32%2060%209%2046V18Z%22%20fill=%22%231a0f0f%22%20stroke=%22%23f43f5e%22%20stroke-width=%224%22%20stroke-linejoin=%22round%22/%3E%3Ccircle%20cx=%2232%22%20cy=%2232%22%20r=%226.5%22%20fill=%22%23f43f5e%22/%3E%3Cpath%20d=%22M32%2025.5V16M32%2048v-9.5M25.5%2032H16M48%2032h-9.5%22%20stroke=%22%23fca5a5%22%20stroke-width=%223%22%20stroke-linecap=%22round%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E">
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/styles.css">
@@ -104,8 +104,7 @@
       <div class="page-head">
         <h1>Saved chats</h1>
         <p class="page-sub">
-          Every conversation you pressed <strong>Save</strong> on —
+          Every conversation is saved automatically — newest activity first. Click a title to return to that chat.
-          newest activity first. Click a title to return to that chat.
         </p>
       </div>
       <!-- Phase 50 (owner permission 2026-08-29): anonymous sign-in
@@ -160,7 +159,7 @@
           </thead>
           <tbody id="history-tbody">
             <tr class="history-empty-row" id="history-empty-row" hidden>
-              <td colspan="6">No saved chats yet — finish a conversation and press <strong>Save</strong> in the chat.</td>
+              <td colspan="6">No saved chats yet — start a conversation and it will be saved automatically.</td>
             </tr>
           </tbody>
         </table>

tests/e2e/test_history_copy.py

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+"""Phase 66 E2E (Playwright): the History tab's auto-save copy.
+
+TODO.md L4 (owner 2026-09-01): "Update the history tab — the text
+still reads like there's a save button. There isn't anymore, every
+chat is saved."
+
+Run in isolation (DB must be up: ``podman compose up -d db``):
+
+    uv run pytest tests/e2e/test_history_copy.py -v --no-cov
+
+One phase, one file (AGENTS.md rule 4). What is asserted: the SIGNED-IN
+ADMIN sees the actual page (the anonymous gate hidden, the table
+rendered) reading the locked (A3) auto-save copy — and the rendered
+page text nowhere reads like a Save button exists (none has since the
+phase-55 owner-lock A2: every conversation auto-saves via ``app.js``
+``persistConversation``).
+
+Determinism: every assertion is settled-state (static HTML + the one
+0-row ``/api/chats`` fetch); Playwright ``expect`` retries ride out the
+table load.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from playwright.sync_api import Page, expect
+from sqlalchemy import text
+
+from app.db import SessionLocal
+from e2e.auth_helpers import login
+
+REPO = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]  # noqa: F841 — house pattern
+
+# --- the locked auto-save copy (owner-locked A3, phase 66 task 01) -----
+
+META = "Saved chats — every conversation is saved automatically, one click back."
+PAGE_SUB = (
+    "Every conversation is saved automatically — newest activity first. "
+    "Click a title to return to that chat."
+)
+EMPTY_ROW = "No saved chats yet — start a conversation and it will be saved automatically."
+
+#: Rendered copy that would still read like a Save button exists
+#: (retired, phase 55 A2). The scan runs alongside a pinned <h1> so it
+#: cannot pass by deleting the heading.
+SAVE_BUTTON_PATTERNS = (
+    re.compile(r"press(ed)?\s+save", re.IGNORECASE),
+    re.compile(r"save\s+button", re.IGNORECASE),
+)
+
+
+def _reset_db() -> None:
+    """The house reset (TRUNCATE chunks, documents, query_log,
+    steering_notes) EXTENDED with ``saved_chats`` — so the History tab
+    renders a genuinely empty table and the empty-row copy is pinned in
+    the real 0-row state, not only in the template. No KB re-import:
+    this suite reads static copy and never asks the brain a question."""
+    with SessionLocal() as db:
+        db.execute(
+            text("TRUNCATE chunks, documents, query_log, steering_notes, saved_chats")
+        )
+        db.commit()
+
+
+def test_history_tab_shows_auto_save_copy(
+    page: Page, app_url: str, db_ready: None
+) -> None:
+    _reset_db()
+    page.set_default_timeout(30_000)
+
+    login(page, app_url, next="/history.html")
+    expect(page).to_have_url(app_url + "/history.html", timeout=30_000)
+
+    # The anonymous gate is hidden (the login worked — history.js hides
+    # it for the admin) and the table region is rendered.
+    expect(page.locator("#history-gate")).to_be_hidden(timeout=15_000)
+    expect(page.locator("#history-table-wrap")).to_be_visible()
+
+    # The 0-row fetch reveals #history-empty-row (history.js) and its
+    # text is exactly the locked (A3) empty-row string.
+    empty_row = page.locator("#history-empty-row")
+    expect(empty_row).to_be_visible(timeout=15_000)
+    raw = empty_row.text_content()
+    assert raw is not None and raw.strip() == EMPTY_ROW
+
+    # The .page-sub reads the locked (A3) page-sub string
+    # (whitespace-normalized — the template wraps the line).
+    page_sub = page.locator(".page-sub")
+    expect(page_sub).to_have_count(1)
+    assert re.sub(r"\s+", " ", page_sub.inner_text()).strip() == PAGE_SUB
+
+    # The meta description is the locked (A3) meta string.
+    meta = page.locator('meta[name="description"]')
+    expect(meta).to_have_count(1)
+    assert meta.get_attribute("content") == META
+
+    # The no-button contract: the WHOLE rendered page reads neither
+    # "press(ed) Save" nor "Save button" — while the <h1> still reads
+    # "Saved chats" (asserted present, so the scan cannot pass by
+    # deleting the heading).
+    h1 = page.locator("h1")
+    expect(h1).to_have_count(1)
+    expect(h1).to_have_text("Saved chats")
+    body_text = page.locator("body").inner_text()
+    for pattern in SAVE_BUTTON_PATTERNS:
+        assert not pattern.search(body_text), (
+            f"History tab copy still reads like a Save button exists: "
+            f"{pattern.pattern!r} in {body_text!r}"
+        )
+
+    # The control itself is gone from the app (phase 55 A2) — not just
+    # the copy: no #save-chat-btn anywhere on the page.
+    expect(page.locator("#save-chat-btn")).to_have_count(0)

tests/unit/test_history_copy.py

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+"""Unit: phase-66 text pins — the History tab describes the auto-save
+model, not the retired Save button.
+
+House pattern (``test_stale_ui_copy.py``): read ``frontend/history.html``
+as text and assert substrings — no browser. The browser-visible layer is
+gated by the dedicated story suite (``tests/e2e/test_history_copy.py``);
+these pins catch a silent regression in the template without it.
+
+Locked decision (owner-locked A3, 2026-09-01): every conversation saves
+itself automatically — there is NO Save button (retired phase 55, owner-
+locked A2, pinned by ``test_save_share_ux.py::test_anonymous_auto_save``),
+so no user-visible History-tab string may name one.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+FRONTEND = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2] / "frontend"
+
+# --- the locked auto-save copy (owner-locked A3) -----------------------
+
+META = "Saved chats — every conversation is saved automatically, one click back."
+PAGE_SUB = (
+    "Every conversation is saved automatically — newest activity first. "
+    "Click a title to return to that chat."
+)
+EMPTY_ROW = "No saved chats yet — start a conversation and it will be saved automatically."
+
+# --- the retired manual-save copy (must be nowhere) --------------------
+
+OLD_META = "every conversation you saved"
+OLD_PAGE_SUB = "you pressed <strong>Save</strong>"
+OLD_EMPTY_ROW = "press <strong>Save</strong> in the chat"
+
+# --- state-language survivors (must STAY — "saved" is a state, not a
+#     button; their absence would prove over-deletion) ------------------
+
+STATE_STRINGS = (
+    "<h1>Saved chats</h1>",
+    "Sign in to view your saved chats",
+    "Saved conversations are admin-only",
+)
+
+
+def _text() -> str:
+    return (FRONTEND / "history.html").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def _norm(text: str) -> str:
+    """Collapse whitespace runs — the templates wrap long lines, so the
+    locked copy is pinned against the normalized text."""
+    return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text).strip()
+
+
+def test_manual_save_copy_is_gone() -> None:
+    """history.html: the three retired manual-save strings are GONE —
+    the copy no longer tells the visitor to press a Save button."""
+    html = _text()
+    for frag in (OLD_META, OLD_PAGE_SUB, OLD_EMPTY_ROW):
+        assert frag not in html, f"retired manual-save copy still present: {frag!r}"
+
+
+def test_locked_auto_save_copy_present_exactly_once() -> None:
+    """The three locked (A3) auto-save strings, each exactly once in
+    history.html (a second copy could drift out of sync)."""
+    html = _norm(_text())
+    assert html.count(META) == 1, "the locked meta description"
+    assert html.count(PAGE_SUB) == 1, "the locked page-sub"
+    assert html.count(EMPTY_ROW) == 1, "the locked empty-row string"
+
+
+def test_state_language_survivors_are_untouched() -> None:
+    """Proof of NO over-deletion: the strings where "saved" is a state —
+    the <h1>, the anonymous gate title, and the gate sub — stay exactly
+    as phase 50 wrote them."""
+    html = _text()
+    for frag in STATE_STRINGS:
+        assert frag in html, f"state-language survivor deleted: {frag!r}"

tests/unit/test_history_page.py

@@ -216,9 +216,11 @@ def test_history_table_skeleton() -> None:
     assert "hidden" in row.group(0)
     assert 'id="history-empty-row"' in row.group(0)
     assert "<td colspan=\"6\">" in html
+    # Phase 66 (owner-locked A3, 2026-09-01): the auto-save copy —
+    # the Save button is retired (phase 55), every conversation
+    # saves itself; the old "press Save" line is gone.
     assert (
-        "No saved chats yet — finish a conversation and press"
+        "No saved chats yet — start a conversation and it will be saved automatically."
-        " <strong>Save</strong> in the chat."
     ) in html