[thebhef]

Observation: opening a project from the command palette (owner report,
Windows, 2026-09-21; plans/ungroomed-user-feedback.md item 11) leaves
the mouse pointer invisible — hidden by WebView2 while the palette
input is typed in, and still hidden once the native Open dialog is up.
No app code hides the cursor (git grep for cursor: none / host cursor
calls finds nothing).

Hypothesis: the hidden-pointer state carries into the native dialog
because the dialog opens before the palette has actually left the DOM.
PaletteModal's Enter/click pick handler called onPick directly, and
the command palette's onPick raises handleOpenProject's native
Open dialog synchronously in the same handler that also closes the
palette (setOpenPalette(null)) — so the dialog request goes out
before React (and the webview) has processed the palette's removal
and returned focus.

Fix: PaletteModal now closes first (onClose) and defers the pick
itself by one tick (setTimeout(…, 0)), for both the Enter path and
mouse-click picks, so any native dialog a command raises opens only
after the modal is gone. This is the ordering fix described in the
report; it is unverified on the owner's machine until they try it.

Tests: PaletteModal.dom.test.tsx now runs under fake timers and adds a
case asserting onClose fires before the deferred pick, and that the
pick still runs exactly once.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 noreply@anthropic.com