move the pin toggle to the pane leading slot

The pin/unpin toggle is a mode control, not navigation — grouping it
with back/forward/jump implied they work alike. Pull it out of
ReaderActionBar into a standalone ReaderPinButton placed before the
title (ClidePaneChrome.leading), leaving the right-hand navigator to
back/forward/jump-to-pin/edit. Applies to all three readers. (T-198)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -40,10 +40,11 @@ heading, and (b) bumping `pubspec.yaml` `version:` in the same commit.
   `.clideignore` pair — the single ignore knob clide owns. (T-52)
 - `files.walk` command — a recursive, ignore-pruned, capped flat file listing
   of the workspace, backing quick-open and search. (T-51, T-52)
-- Sidebar readers (markdown, decision, and ticket) gain a chrome action bar: a
-  pin/unpin toggle on the left, then a navigator (back, forward, jump-to-pin) and
-  an edit pencil on the right (no pencil for tickets — they're not files). The
-  ticket reader joins the shared retained nav and drops its per-click tab churn.
+- Sidebar readers (markdown, decision, and ticket) gain chrome: a pin/unpin
+  toggle in the leading slot before the title (a mode control, kept separate
+  from navigation), and a right-hand navigator — back, forward, jump-to-pin —
+  plus an edit pencil (no pencil for tickets — they're not files). The ticket
+  reader joins the shared retained nav and drops its per-click tab churn.
   (T-189, T-190, T-191, T-198, T-199)
 
 ### Fixed

lib/builtin/decisions/src/decision_detail_view.dart

@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ class _DecisionDetailViewState extends State<DecisionDetailView> {
     return ClidePaneChrome(
       title: id,
       subtitle: title,
+      leading: ReaderPinButton(
+        pinned: _nav?.hasPinned ?? false,
+        onTap: _decision != null ? _onPin : null,
+      ),
       trailing: [
         ReaderActionBar(
           canGoBack: _nav?.canGoBack ?? false,
@@ -117,7 +121,6 @@ class _DecisionDetailViewState extends State<DecisionDetailView> {
           hasPinned: _nav?.hasPinned ?? false,
           onBack: (_nav?.canGoBack ?? false) ? _onBack : null,
           onForward: (_nav?.canGoForward ?? false) ? _onForward : null,
-          onPin: _decision != null ? _onPin : null,
           onJumpToPin: (_nav?.hasPinned ?? false) ? _onJumpToPin : null,
           onEdit: filePath != null ? _onEdit : null,
         ),

lib/builtin/markdown/src/markdown_viewer.dart

@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ class _MarkdownViewerState extends State<MarkdownViewer> {
     return ClidePaneChrome(
       title: _path ?? 'viewer',
       subtitle: '${_content!.split('\n').length} lines',
+      leading: ReaderPinButton(
+        pinned: _nav?.hasPinned ?? false,
+        onTap: _path != null ? _onPin : null,
+      ),
       trailing: [
         ReaderActionBar(
           canGoBack: _nav?.canGoBack ?? false,
@@ -110,7 +114,6 @@ class _MarkdownViewerState extends State<MarkdownViewer> {
           hasPinned: _nav?.hasPinned ?? false,
           onBack: (_nav?.canGoBack ?? false) ? _onBack : null,
           onForward: (_nav?.canGoForward ?? false) ? _onForward : null,
-          onPin: _path != null ? _onPin : null,
           onJumpToPin: (_nav?.hasPinned ?? false) ? _onJumpToPin : null,
           onEdit: _path != null ? _onEdit : null,
         ),

lib/builtin/shared/reader_chrome.dart

@@ -14,13 +14,12 @@ import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
 // Action bar widget
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-/// A row of reader-chrome action buttons. Layout (T-196 UX): a pin/unpin
-/// **toggle on the left**, then the **navigator** on the right — back,
-/// forward, jump-to-pin (only while pinned) — and the edit pencil last.
-/// The left toggles pinned state; the right navigates.
-///
-/// Designed to plug into [ClidePaneChrome.trailing]. All callbacks are
-/// optional — pass null to hide/disable the corresponding button.
+/// The reader's **navigator** — back, forward, jump-to-pin (only while
+/// pinned), and the edit pencil. Plugs into [ClidePaneChrome.trailing].
+/// The pin/unpin toggle is deliberately NOT here: it's a mode control,
+/// not navigation, so it lives in the pane's leading slot as a
+/// standalone [ReaderPinButton] (T-198). All callbacks are optional —
+/// pass null to hide/disable the corresponding button.
 class ReaderActionBar extends StatelessWidget {
   const ReaderActionBar({
     super.key,
@@ -29,7 +28,6 @@ class ReaderActionBar extends StatelessWidget {
     required this.hasPinned,
     required this.onBack,
     required this.onForward,
-    required this.onPin,
     required this.onJumpToPin,
     required this.onEdit,
   });
@@ -40,10 +38,6 @@ class ReaderActionBar extends StatelessWidget {
   final VoidCallback? onBack;
   final VoidCallback? onForward;
 
-  /// Called when the pin toggle is tapped — pins the current entry when
-  /// nothing is pinned, else clears the pin.
-  final VoidCallback? onPin;
-
   /// Called when the jump-to-pin button (in the navigator) is tapped.
   final VoidCallback? onJumpToPin;
 
@@ -56,17 +50,6 @@ class ReaderActionBar extends StatelessWidget {
     return Row(
       mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
       children: [
-        // Left — toggle the pinned state.
-        _ActionButton(
-          painter: PhosphorIcons.pushPin,
-          tooltip: hasPinned ? 'Unpin' : 'Pin',
-          enabled: onPin != null,
-          active: hasPinned,
-          onTap: onPin,
-          tokens: tokens,
-        ),
-        const SizedBox(width: 8),
-        // Right — the navigator.
         _ActionButton(
           painter: PhosphorIcons.caretLeft,
           tooltip: 'Back',
@@ -107,6 +90,29 @@ class ReaderActionBar extends StatelessWidget {
   }
 }
 
+/// The pin/unpin toggle — a single button that sits in the pane's
+/// leading slot (before the title), separate from the navigator so the
+/// two kinds of control don't read as one group (T-198). [pinned]
+/// drives the accent + the Pin/Unpin label; [onTap] toggles.
+class ReaderPinButton extends StatelessWidget {
+  const ReaderPinButton({super.key, required this.pinned, required this.onTap});
+
+  final bool pinned;
+  final VoidCallback? onTap;
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    return _ActionButton(
+      painter: PhosphorIcons.pushPin,
+      tooltip: pinned ? 'Unpin' : 'Pin',
+      enabled: onTap != null,
+      active: pinned,
+      onTap: onTap,
+      tokens: ClideTheme.of(context).surface,
+    );
+  }
+}
+
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Private button widget
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

lib/builtin/tickets/src/ticket_detail_view.dart

@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ class _TicketDetailViewState extends State<TicketDetailView> {
         return ClidePaneChrome(
           title: d.id,
           subtitle: d.title,
+          leading: ReaderPinButton(
+            pinned: _nav?.hasPinned ?? false,
+            onTap: _onPin,
+          ),
           trailing: [
             ReaderActionBar(
               canGoBack: _nav?.canGoBack ?? false,
@@ -80,7 +84,6 @@ class _TicketDetailViewState extends State<TicketDetailView> {
               hasPinned: _nav?.hasPinned ?? false,
               onBack: (_nav?.canGoBack ?? false) ? _onBack : null,
               onForward: (_nav?.canGoForward ?? false) ? _onForward : null,
-              onPin: _onPin,
               onJumpToPin: (_nav?.hasPinned ?? false) ? _onJumpToPin : null,
               onEdit: null, // tickets are pql records, not files
             ),