## What
While a per-file policy run is in flight, the editor now blocks every
way the file can leave the app, and shows why:
- **Viewer** — a blocking overlay with live progress ("Enforcing
policy…"). Dismissible: collapses to a corner badge (top right, tinted
with the policy's accent) so the file stays readable while the run
finishes.
- **Workbench bar** — Print / Download / Save As / Share are disabled
with an explanatory tooltip and progress bar. The Ctrl+P shortcut and
the form-fill bar's "Download PDF" button are covered too.
- **File lists** — the file sidebar, file-editor thumbnails, and files
page show a spinning shield badge on the affected file, and thumbnail
hover actions (download / upload to server) are blocked with the same
tooltip.
Once a run settles, everything unblocks — including FAILED and CANCELLED
runs. A failed check surfaces through the run's activity feed; it never
locks the user out of their file.
## Why
Upload-triggered policies exist so the enforced output is what leaves
the app. Before this, a file could be printed, downloaded, or shared
while its policy run was still processing.
## Also in here
- **One shared `PolicyBadges` component** — the sidebar, thumbnails, and
files page each had their own copy of the badge markup/CSS and had
drifted (different sizes, tints, missing spinner and glow on the files
page, hardcoded English tooltips). All badge surfaces now render the
same component: accent-tinted shield, spinner while enforcing, one-off
glow when recent, i18n'd tooltips.
- **Cascade fix:** outputs imported from reconciled
(server-rediscovered) runs are now tagged `derivedFromTool`, stopping an
auto-run → import → auto-run loop that produced ever-growing
`_sanitized_sanitized…` filename chains on fresh devices.
- **Core stub for `policyRunStore`** so the core build compiles —
`WorkbenchBar` and `ViewerShareButton` resolve `usePolicyRuns` via
`@app/*`.
## Testing
- `task frontend:check` green: proprietary typecheck, ESLint + dpdm,
Prettier, 915+ editor + 81 portal unit tests.
- `typecheck:core` / `saas` / `desktop` variants all pass.
- Enforcement flow exercised manually against a live backend with an
upload-triggered policy (overlay + progress during the run, dismiss to
corner badge, unblock on completion).
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Co-authored-by: James Brunton <jbrunton96@gmail.com>
Stirling PDF - The Open-Source PDF Platform
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