[WIP] Duck.ai navigation sidebar on the New Tab Page (POC)#2774
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Adds a left rail to the desktop NTP with Duck.ai entry points: New Chat, New Voice Chat, New Image, a recent Chats list, and a Settings & More footer. The rail is a thin presentation layer over the existing omnibar Duck.ai plumbing — actions route through the omnibar service (viewAllAiChats, submitChat with voice/image modes, openAiChat) and the recent-chats list reuses AiChatsProvider/AiChatsList, so native opens Duck.ai exactly as it does from the NTP search box today. No new messaging is introduced beyond a duckAISettings target on the existing `open` notification. Rendering is gated by a new `duckAiSidebar` initialSetup setting (mirroring customizerDrawer) so native controls availability behind a feature flag.
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git -C submodules/content-scope-scripts checkout origin/pr-releases/tom/duck-ai-ntp-sidebarPin to exact commitnpm (Android / Extension): Swift Package Manager (Apple): .package(url: "https://github.com/duckduckgo/content-scope-scripts.git", revision: "fe126edf8d8e4a5ef7eded2a92f0936df9f63295")git submodule (Windows): git -C submodules/content-scope-scripts fetch origin pr-releases/tom/duck-ai-ntp-sidebar
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Asana Task/Github Issue: https://app.asana.com/1/137249556945/project/42792087274227/task/1215798721094053?focus=true
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POC: a left navigation rail on the desktop New Tab Page with Duck.ai entry points — New Chat, New Voice Chat, New Image, a recent Chats list, and a Settings & More footer (Pro badge is a static stub for now).
The rail is a thin presentation layer over the existing omnibar Duck.ai plumbing:
omnibar_viewAllAIChats, New Voice Chat / New Image →omnibar_submitChat(voice-mode/image-generation), recent chat →omnibar_openAiChat(reusesAiChatsProvider/AiChatsList), Settings & More →openwith a newduckAISettingstarget.duckAISettingstarget.Rendering is gated by a new
duckAiSidebarinitialSetupsetting (mirrorscustomizerDrawer), so native controls availability behind a feature flag. Paired macOS change adds thenewTabPageDuckAISidebarflag +HtmlNewTabPageSubfeature.duckAISidebar.Opening as draft/WIP to get a buildable branch for linking into the apple-browsers macOS PR.
Testing Steps
npm run build -w special-pagesthen servebuild/integration/pages/new-tab— the rail shows by default (mock setsduckAiSidebar: enabled); pass?duckAiSidebar=disabledto hide it. Recent chats populate; clicking New Chat / Voice / Image / a recent chat / Settings dispatches the expectedomnibar_*/openmessages.newTabPageDuckAISidebarflag (internal-only); open a new tab and verify the rail + that actions open Duck.ai as the NTP omnibar does.Checklist