Open a row downwards, and hold the edge that was pressed

Reinstates the reverted downward-opening rows with the two defects that
made the first attempt worse than what it replaced.

The correction waited on the row's top edge and could wait up to half a
second for it to move. A top edge also moves when the reader scrolls, so a
correction still pending would wake on their drag, read the scroll distance
as the row's growth, and undo it -- the transcript jumping on every expand
and refusing to scroll back at all. It now waits on the row's *size*, which
nothing but a resize changes.

The second is why collapsing a group taller than the screen did nothing at
all. Such a group is the list's own anchor item, so as it shrinks it slides
down behind its anchored bottom edge and out of the viewport, and its size
reads as null -- which `withTimeoutOrNull` cannot tell from the null that
means the wait expired. The case most needing the correction was the one
silently skipped. The wait now answers a value that a timeout cannot, and
the distance is read off any row from the pressed one upwards, all of which
move by exactly the row's growth.

Verified on the emulator with ui-trace (~/.local/bin), which samples the
accessibility tree at 60Hz and reports node bounds in device pixels:
expanding and collapsing from a heading hold it to the pixel, collapsing
from the foot bar holds all four rows below it, a drag 120ms after a tap is
left alone, and scrolling back stays put for six seconds. ktfmt, lint and
85 tests clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

PLAN.md

@@ -624,6 +624,18 @@ dev-updater (Kotlin 2.4.x, CMP 1.11.x, JDK 21). Screens:
      output; a spinner while `ToolStart` has no matching `ToolEnd`).
    - Question cards inline: option buttons for AskUserQuestion, allow/deny for
      permissions, free-text where allowed.
+   - Expanding a row **opens downwards**: whichever end the reader pressed —
+     a group's heading or the bar at its foot — is the end that stays put,
+     and the row grows away from it. The transcript is laid out from the
+     bottom, so a row's bottom edge is anchored for free and the top one
+     has to be arranged. `toggleAnchored` waits on the row's *size*, which
+     a scroll cannot change — a version that waited on the top edge instead
+     mistook the reader's own drag for the row resizing and undid it — and
+     then reads how far things moved off any row from the pressed one
+     upwards, since a group taller than the screen disappears under the
+     bottom edge as it shrinks and cannot report its own move (2026-08-30,
+     asked for after groups opened upwards and sent their own heading off
+     the top of the screen).
    - Input bar: text, attach (camera/gallery/file), send — **always enabled**;
      mid-run sends become steering messages.
    - Top bar: model chip (tap to change), stop button while running, token

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SessionScreen.kt

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import androidx.activity.compose.rememberLauncherForActivityResult
 import androidx.activity.result.PickVisualMediaRequest
 import androidx.activity.result.contract.ActivityResultContracts
 import androidx.compose.foundation.Image
+import androidx.compose.foundation.gestures.scrollBy
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.height
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.width
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.LazyColumn
+import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.LazyListItemInfo
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.items
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.rememberLazyListState
 import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.CircleShape
@@ -61,8 +63,10 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference
 import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
 import kotlinx.coroutines.awaitCancellation
 import kotlinx.coroutines.delay
+import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.first
 import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
 import kotlinx.coroutines.withContext
+import kotlinx.coroutines.withTimeoutOrNull
 
 private const val RECONNECT_DELAY_MS = 1500L
 
@@ -79,6 +83,15 @@ private const val RECONNECT_DELAY_MS = 1500L
  */
 private const val HISTORY_LOOKAHEAD = 8
 
+/**
+ * How long to keep holding a row's top edge while the row settles to its new height.
+ *
+ * Long enough for the second and third layout passes a row can take to reach its final height, and
+ * short enough that it is over before the reader could have started scrolling for their own
+ * reasons. It always runs to the end: there is no way to ask whether more passes are coming.
+ */
+private const val ANCHOR_SETTLE_MS = 500L
+
 /**
  * What the transcript renders: the event stream folded into displayable rows (see [foldEvent]). The
  * stream is the only data source -- opening this screen replays from seq 0, and a reconnect resumes
@@ -669,6 +682,84 @@ fun SessionScreen(
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Changes a row's height while the end the reader pressed stays where it is.
+     *
+     * The transcript is laid out from the bottom, so every row's *bottom* edge is what the list
+     * holds still and all growth goes upward. That is right for the bar at the foot of an open
+     * group -- shut it from there and what follows it does not move, which is what the reader is
+     * looking at. It is exactly wrong for a heading: opening a group from the top sends the heading
+     * up off the screen and fills the space above it, so the calls appear on the far side of the
+     * control that produced them.
+     *
+     * So [RowEdge.Bottom] is the list's own behaviour and does nothing extra, and [RowEdge.Top]
+     * scrolls back by however much the row grew. It has to be measured rather than worked out: only
+     * the layout knows how tall an open group is, and it depends on the calls in it.
+     *
+     * What is measured is the row's *size*, and that is the whole reason this works. The obvious
+     * thing to measure is where its top edge went, and an earlier version did -- but a top edge
+     * also moves when the reader scrolls, so a correction still waiting for the layout would
+     * instead wake on the reader's own drag, read their scroll distance as the row's growth, and
+     * undo it. That was reported as the transcript jumping on every expand and refusing to scroll
+     * back at all. A size does not change when anybody scrolls, so the two cannot be confused.
+     *
+     * The row's bottom edge is held by the list, so scrolling by the growth is what puts the top
+     * edge back, and it is done for every step of that growth until [ANCHOR_SETTLE_MS] is up.
+     */
+    fun toggleAnchored(key: Any, edge: RowEdge, toggle: () -> Unit) {
+        fun rowOf() = listState.layoutInfo.visibleItemsInfo.firstOrNull { it.key == key }
+        val row = rowOf()
+        toggle()
+        // Not on screen when it was pressed, so there is no edge of it to hold.
+        if (edge == RowEdge.Bottom || row == null) return
+        // Read out now, as numbers: the layout hands back a reused object per slot, so holding
+        // one and reading it later describes whatever item took that slot since.
+        val rowIndex = row.index
+        val rowSize = row.size
+
+        // How far the row's top edge moved, read off any row that moved with it. The row and
+        // everything above it shift by exactly the row's growth, so they all give the same
+        // answer -- and several are recorded because which of them can answer varies. A row
+        // that shrinks slides down behind its own anchored bottom edge, and a group taller
+        // than the screen goes under the bottom of it entirely, leaving nothing of itself to
+        // measure.
+        fun edgeOf(item: LazyListItemInfo) =
+            if (item.index == rowIndex) item.offset + item.size else item.offset
+        val marks =
+            listState.layoutInfo.visibleItemsInfo
+                .filter { it.index >= rowIndex }
+                .associate { it.key to edgeOf(it) }
+
+        scope.launch {
+            // Waited on by *size*, which is the one thing a scroll cannot change. An earlier
+            // version waited on the top edge instead, so a correction still pending would wake
+            // on the reader's own drag, read their scroll distance as the row's growth and undo
+            // it -- reported as the transcript jumping on every expand and refusing to scroll
+            // back at all.
+            //
+            // The wait answers `true` rather than the size it saw, because the size it saw is
+            // sometimes `null` -- that is the row leaving the screen, which is a real answer and
+            // the one this has to handle. Returned straight out of `withTimeoutOrNull` it would
+            // be the same value that means "never happened", and the case needing the correction
+            // most was the case silently skipped.
+            val settled =
+                withTimeoutOrNull(ANCHOR_SETTLE_MS) {
+                    snapshotFlow { rowOf()?.size }.first { it != rowSize }
+                    true
+                }
+            if (settled == null) return@launch
+            // Never against a finger already on the screen: the reader is placing the list
+            // themselves, and that is also the only way a mark could have moved for a reason
+            // other than the row resizing.
+            if (listState.isScrollInProgress) return@launch
+            val moved =
+                listState.layoutInfo.visibleItemsInfo.firstNotNullOfOrNull { item ->
+                    marks[item.key]?.let { edgeOf(item) - it }
+                } ?: return@launch
+            listState.scrollBy(moved.toFloat())
+        }
+    }
+
     // A compaction reports nothing about its own progress -- measured against the CLI, which
     // says it has started, and then says nothing at all until it is done. So what this counts is
     // the one thing anybody here can measure: how long it has been going. A bar filling up would
@@ -1125,16 +1216,23 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                             ToolGroup(
                                 group = row,
                                 expanded = row.id in expandedGroups,
-                                onToggle = {
+                                onToggle = { edge ->
-                                    expandedGroups =
+                                    toggleAnchored(row.key, edge) {
-                                        if (row.id in expandedGroups) expandedGroups - row.id
+                                        expandedGroups =
-                                        else expandedGroups + row.id
+                                            if (row.id in expandedGroups) expandedGroups - row.id
+                                            else expandedGroups + row.id
+                                    }
                                 },
                                 isToolExpanded = { it in expandedTools },
+                                // Anchored on the group, not the call: opening one call makes
+                                // the whole group taller, and the heading the reader is under
+                                // is the group's.
                                 onToolToggle = { id ->
-                                    expandedTools =
+                                    toggleAnchored(row.key, RowEdge.Top) {
-                                        if (id in expandedTools) expandedTools - id
+                                        expandedTools =
-                                        else expandedTools + id
+                                            if (id in expandedTools) expandedTools - id
+                                            else expandedTools + id
+                                    }
                                 },
                                 onAnswer = { questionId, answers ->
                                     act {
@@ -1158,10 +1256,12 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                                         tool = item,
                                         expanded = item.id in expandedTools,
                                         onToggle = {
-                                            expandedTools =
+                                            toggleAnchored(row.key, RowEdge.Top) {
-                                                if (item.id in expandedTools)
+                                                expandedTools =
-                                                    expandedTools - item.id
+                                                    if (item.id in expandedTools)
-                                                else expandedTools + item.id
+                                                        expandedTools - item.id
+                                                    else expandedTools + item.id
+                                            }
                                         },
                                         onAnswer = { questionId, answers ->
                                             act {
@@ -1203,10 +1303,12 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                                         item = item,
                                         expanded = item.seq in expandedNotes,
                                         onToggle = {
-                                            expandedNotes =
+                                            toggleAnchored(row.key, RowEdge.Top) {
-                                                if (item.seq in expandedNotes)
+                                                expandedNotes =
-                                                    expandedNotes - item.seq
+                                                    if (item.seq in expandedNotes)
-                                                else expandedNotes + item.seq
+                                                        expandedNotes - item.seq
+                                                    else expandedNotes + item.seq
+                                            }
                                         },
                                     )
                             }

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/ToolRows.kt

@@ -99,6 +99,20 @@ fun groupToolRuns(items: List<TranscriptItem>): List<TranscriptRow> {
     return rows
 }
 
+/**
+ * Which end of a row a reader acted on, and therefore which end must not move.
+ *
+ * A row has two controls at opposite ends -- the heading that opens it and the bar that shuts it
+ * again -- and the reader's finger is on one of them. Whichever it is has to stay where it is while
+ * the row changes size, or the thing they just pressed slides out from under them. The list anchors
+ * every row's bottom edge by default (see the transcript's `reverseLayout`), so [Bottom] is what
+ * happens on its own and [Top] is what has to be arranged.
+ */
+enum class RowEdge {
+    Top,
+    Bottom,
+}
+
 /**
  * Several calls under one heading, closed until somebody asks.
  *
@@ -113,14 +127,15 @@ fun groupToolRuns(items: List<TranscriptItem>): List<TranscriptRow> {
 fun ToolGroup(
     group: TranscriptRow.Tools,
     expanded: Boolean,
-    onToggle: () -> Unit,
+    /** Told which end was pressed, because this row has a control at each -- see [RowEdge]. */
+    onToggle: (RowEdge) -> Unit,
     isToolExpanded: (String) -> Boolean,
     onToolToggle: (String) -> Unit,
     onAnswer: (questionId: String, answers: List<String>) -> Unit,
     image: @Composable (String) -> Unit,
 ) {
     if (!expanded) {
-        Card(Modifier.fillMaxWidth().clickable(onClick = onToggle)) {
+        Card(Modifier.fillMaxWidth().clickable { onToggle(RowEdge.Top) }) {
             Text(
                 "Called ${group.calls.size} tools",
                 style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleSmall,
@@ -133,7 +148,7 @@ fun ToolGroup(
         Text(
             "Called ${group.calls.size} tools",
             style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleSmall,
-            modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().clickable(onClick = onToggle).padding(12.dp),
+            modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().clickable { onToggle(RowEdge.Top) }.padding(12.dp),
         )
         group.calls.forEach { call ->
             ToolCard(
@@ -144,7 +159,9 @@ fun ToolGroup(
                 image = image,
             )
         }
-        CollapseBar(onToggle)
+        // Shutting it from here anchors the other end: the reader is at the bottom of a long
+        // group, and what they are looking at is what follows it.
+        CollapseBar { onToggle(RowEdge.Bottom) }
     }
 }