Windows parity: Canvas context menu needs live destructive, New Child, import/export and promotion actions (implementation gap)

Current reconciliation - 2026-11-09

The 2026-10-13 narrowed scope below remains authoritative: Edit Details/Edit Edge and Delete Edge confirmation are not required macOS parity features. Later PR #958 delivers context-bound card retype/promotion and local ZIP Export Loop/Import Loops Here plumbing; these actions are no longer universally absent. Remote/busy/stale-context refusals remain explicit, and this is not a claim that all background Export All/Import commands or every menu state are implemented.

Still open / Partial: the complete macOS menu item/order/enablement matrix, background/remote transfer scope where missing, and actual live destructive confirm/cancel, New Child, promotion and transfer outcomes with persistence and paired popup appearance. PR #962 earns one normal Wire create, not every canvas action. Historical stub/default integration and source contracts do not close the whole menu issue.

The original report, acceptance criteria and historical evidence below are preserved; the dated scope/progress above supersedes obsolete missing-feature claims.

Is your feature request related to a problem?
Parity row Canvas context menu (Graph overview and project canvas) in investigation/ui-parity-matrix.md is Partial.

macOS: Folder actions on background; complete node/edge actions.

Windows today: The menus exist; live evidence covers measurement and one edge action.

Gap: Destructive confirmations, New Child, import/export, custody creation and promotion from the live menu are unverified.

Describe the solution you'd like
A Dev Box check invoking every canvas context-menu action on fixtures and verifying each outcome.

Describe alternatives you've considered
N/A

Additional context
This is a testing gap: Windows implements it; only live/runtime evidence is missing. Parity status and the beta25 Dev Box review are recorded in #719.

Still open: Partial. Run: GraphCode-DevBox-Return-testing-gaps (attempt 2, installed beta26, 100%, injected input).

Observed live:

Delete Loop: No left everything unchanged; Yes removed only the target.
Stop on a sketch changed only its target.
New Child Node created a child with a handoff edge.
Save as Template opened its dialog.
Promote to… opened its submenu and form.
Background menu: Worktrees…, Project Settings…, Show in Explorer and Create Edge.

Not executed:

the export-to-path and import round trip;
submitting a promotion, which needs the backend budget (see Windows parity: Sketch promotion needs live keyboard/UIA/launch evidence (testing gap) #735).

Narrowed to macOS scope (2026-10-13). macOS is the ground truth, so requirements macOS does not have are no longer parity requirements. This was checked against macOS source by the parity extras audit; citations are in the audit and the ledger.

Dropped: Edit Details…, Edit Edge… and the Delete Edge confirmation (Windows extras; macOS deletes an edge immediately).

Remaining requirement:

Add Export Loop…, Import Loops Here… and Change to Goal…/Timed… to loop menus, and Export All Loops… / Import Loops… to the canvas background menu. Show the edge menu's disabled Kind · Condition… header, and delete an edge without a confirmation, as macOS does. Then invoke every action live: Delete Loop… confirm and cancel, New Child, promotion, export and import.

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Windows parity: Canvas context menu needs live destructive, New Child, import/export and promotion actions (implementation gap) #734

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coneilen commented on Oct 13, 2026

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