Right panel defaults to chat-widget: recipe config ignored

[joelteply]

Bug

The right panel always renders chat-widget regardless of what the recipe declares. Factory recipe specifies factory-stats-widget but the panel shows the default assistant.

Root Cause

ContentTypeRegistry.getRightPanelConfig() line 139 has a hardcoded fallback:

// Default: help panel
return { widget: 'chat-widget', room: 'help', compact: true };

Every code path that fails to resolve the recipe config falls through to this. Suspected race condition: the factory tab opens (via URL restore on page load) before initializeRecipeLayouts() completes, so recipeService.isLoaded() returns false, the recipe lookup is skipped, and the fallback fires.

What's been tried

• Generator fixed to detect new layout format (layout.widgets with position: 'right') → hasRightPanel: true ✓
• Recipe switched to old format (main + right.widgets) matching diagnostics pattern ✓
• Both formats produce correct config when tested offline with Node ✓
• Right panel renders (visible in screenshots) but creates chat-widget not factory-stats-widget

Fix needed

1. Trace the actual RIGHT_PANEL_CONFIGURE event payload in browser console when factory tab opens
2. Confirm whether recipeService.isLoaded() is false at that point
3. If race condition: re-emit the right panel config after recipes load, or defer tab rendering until recipes are ready
4. Remove the chat-widget hardcoded fallback — if no right panel config exists, show nothing (not a random chat widget)

Blocks

• Right panel: recipe-scoped tools for all major recipes #662 (right panel for all major recipes)
• Factory stats widget is built and ready (FactoryStatsWidget.ts) — just needs the routing to work
• Layout philosophy documented in docs/architecture/LAYOUT-PHILOSOPHY.md

Files

• src/widgets/main/shared/ContentTypeRegistry.ts line 139 — the hardcoded fallback
• src/system/recipes/browser/RecipeLayoutService.ts — recipe layout resolution
• src/widgets/right-panel/RightPanelWidget.ts — event listener that creates widgets
• src/widgets/main/MainWidget.ts line 341 — where the event is emitted
• src/system/recipes/factory.json — recipe with correct right panel config