[kellylford]

A full visual probe of main (all 80 screens, all six Windows variants, in the test VM) after #375. It found the visual changes since v0.2.0 that no VM probe had reviewed, chiefly #374, which was made on a PC without Hyper-V, and baselines that earlier PRs had only refreshed in light-100 and hc-aquatic-100. Two independent reviews went through every changed and new picture, and this PR fixes the defects they found and brings the whole baseline up to date.

Fixed

• New Session with Codex at 175%: Codex chats can use automatic approval review (#358) #374's longer About permissions note left First message one line tall (51 pixels), because the dialog was already as tall as the screen allows. First message now keeps four lines. The dialog grows into spare screen height before it's shown (at 100%: 620 to 635 tall, First message 57 to 72). Past that, the note gives up height, keeping at least three lines, and scrolls. At 175% the note is 171 and First message 141, with Start and Cancel in view. The other New Session screens are unchanged. Test: test_new_codex_session_keeps_four_lines_of_first_message_on_a_short_screen, which fails on main (First message 8 pixels) and passes here.
• A double space in Codex's permissions note: with no saved rule files, "in effect: 0." was followed by two spaces. Test in test_codex_rule_guard.py.

Both are in unreleased work (#374), so there's no release-notes entry.

What the pictures showed (no problems in any manifest; 0 FAIL after the fix)

• Changed in light-100 and never reviewed, all intended:
  • Codex chats can use automatic approval review (#358) #374: About permissions and About continuing text, Change Permission Mode 300 to 394 tall with automatic review, Chat Permissions' reviewer and boundary text, and an "Approval reviewer" row in Properties.
  • Codex chats: approvals that need extra permissions or network access are asked, not refused (#284) #295: "Deny and Stop Turn" in the Codex files request.
  • Codex chats keep Git approvals, and Chat Permissions shows what Codex already allows (#307) #343: the newest real message selected rather than a queued row.
  • Run owned Codex chats with folder permissions, approvals and usage #255: "Message: Claude", the "Provider" row in Properties, and "a supported desktop app".
  • GitHub Copilot CLI chats can be read beside Claude chats through an opt-in Settings preview (#352) #355: Copilot in the Session List Columns' Provider row.
  • Agent conversations: two chats pass replies to each other, with you approving or a turn limit (#248) #347, What AI Knows About You (Ctrl+Shift+K) can show Codex's local instructions, memories, skills, prompts and settings as well as Claude's (#305) #371, Codex chats can use automatic approval review (#358) #374: new lines in the shortcuts.
  • The VM's newer wxPython: version lines in Report a Bug.
• Lagging variants (dark-100, hc-desert-100, light-150, light-175): the same changes already in light-100, such as the Provider and Kind words in session rows, the In the window where we can view the whole message with the WX Web view, the labels are bold text, rather than headings. Is it possible to make them headings? #341 heading and Agent conversations: kinds of conversation, a third agent, and the files that changed go with a reply (#248) #350's kinds of conversation.
• New baselines: codex-auto-review and codex-review-history in all six variants, and 34 other surfaces in the four variants they lacked.

Contrast was measured from the pixels: light text 18.4:1 to 21:1, selected rows 4.53:1; Aquatic 16.3:1, selected rows 7.89:1; Desert 10.4:1 to 15.7:1, selected rows 7.0:1. High Contrast follows the system colours throughout. After this PR the full run compares as 464 unchanged and 0 new; the only differences are the 16 New Session pictures, which this PR replaces from the run after the fix.

Full suite in the VM: 2880 passed, 7 skipped. One unrelated test (test_refused_new_codex_chat_while_a_desktop_chat_is_open_copies_the_first_message) failed once and passed on rerun.

testing/visual/descriptions.md is rewritten for every changed surface, with the stale "local 200% capture" and "Pending #226" notes replaced.

Cites #155, #368, #374.

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