fix(web): show creator identity on recent projects

[lefarcen]

Why

While reviewing a team-shared project in Recent projects, the signed-in creator was rendered as the generic localized label “Me”. That label also generated a misleading “M” avatar instead of showing the account identity already stored by the local Vela session.

This fixes the user-facing attribution without adding a user-profile request: the daemon reuses the locally persisted Vela login name and avatar URL and includes them in the existing workspace-context projection.

What users will see

Self-owned projects in Recent projects show the signed-in account name and profile image. If either value is unavailable, the existing localized “Me” label and initial fallback remain in place. The avatar image uses normal browser HTTP caching and a failed image load falls back to the initial.

Surface area

• UI — new page / dialog / panel / menu item / setting / empty state in apps/web or apps/desktop (including Electron menu bar)
• Keyboard shortcut — new or changed
• CLI / env var — new od subcommand or flag, new tools-dev / tools-pack flag, or new OD_* env var
• API / contract — new /api/* endpoint, new SSE event, or changed shape in packages/contracts
• Extension point — new entry under skills/, design-systems/, design-templates/, or craft/, or change to the skills protocol
• i18n keys — added new translation keys (see TRANSLATIONS.md for the locale workflow)
• New top-level dependency — adding any new entry to the root package.json (dependencies or devDependencies); workspace-package package.json files are out of scope. Include a paragraph on what we get vs. what bytes we ship (see CONTRIBUTING.md → Code style)
• Default behavior change — changes what existing users experience without opting in (default model, default setting, file/SQLite schema, auto-network on startup, auto-install)
• None — internal refactor, docs, tests, or translation update only

Screenshots

The reported entry point is the creator byline directly below each Recent projects card. No new UI is introduced; this PR replaces the generic “Me”/“M” values there with the existing account identity.

Bug fix verification

• Test paths: apps/web/tests/components/RecentProjectsStrip.test.tsx and apps/daemon/tests/vela-workspace-context.test.ts
• The web regression assertion fails against the old behavior (Created by Me) and passes with this branch (Created by Elian Zhang plus the profile image).
• The daemon test verifies that the existing workspace-context response is enriched from the local signed-in session rather than a new profile request.

Validation

• pnpm install --frozen-lockfile (including workspace postinstall builds)
• pnpm guard
• pnpm --filter @open-design/web typecheck
• pnpm --filter @open-design/daemon typecheck
• pnpm exec vitest run -c vitest.config.ts tests/components/RecentProjectsStrip.test.tsx --maxWorkers=2 (33 passed)
• pnpm exec vitest run -c vitest.config.ts tests/vela-workspace-context.test.ts (40 passed)

Note: an accidental full-web invocation surfaced one unrelated existing FileViewer test failure before it was interrupted; the correctly filtered RecentProjectsStrip suite is green.

[lefarcen]

🧪 This PR has changes that need a manual QA pass before merge — please hold off self-merging for now; we'll loop QA in once it's merge-ready (and design/product have signed off, where applicable).

[PerishCode]

@lefarcen This cleanly carries the signed-in Vela identity through the shared workspace-context contract and uses it for self-owned Recent projects cards while preserving the localized name/initial fallback and broken-image fallback. I reviewed all six changed files, including the daemon projection paths, React memoization dependencies, avatar rendering/CSS, and the focused daemon/web regression coverage. The implementation stays within the existing API boundary and does not introduce a new profile request. Nice focused fix—thank you for covering both sides of the contract and the user-visible fallback behavior.

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[github-actions]

Visual regression review

Head: d713755 · Base: 698a17a

8 changed · 41 unchanged · 0 new without baseline · 0 failed

Changed cases

Case	Main	PR	Diff
visual-home 4,484 px (0.35%)
visual-home-context-picker 1,072 px (0.08%)
visual-home-plugin-use-staged 2,806 px (0.22%)
visual-home-staged-attachment 2,904 px (0.22%)
visual-topbar-byok-switcher 3,664 px (0.28%)
visual-topbar-execution-switcher 3,971 px (0.31%)
visual-topbar-local-cli-model-list 4,715 px (0.36%)
visual-topbar-open-design-model-picker 11,175 px (0.86%)

Unchanged cases

Case	Main	PR	Diff
visual-avatar-local-agent-list 0 px (0.00%)
visual-avatar-local-agent-list-panel 0 px (0.00%)
visual-avatar-menu 83 px (0.01%)
visual-avatar-menu-panel 14 px (0.04%)
visual-avatar-open-design-model-picker 40 px (0.00%)
visual-critical-settings 0 px (0.00%)
visual-critical-workspace 127 px (0.01%)
visual-critical-workspace-preview 62 px (0.00%)
visual-design-system-detail 0 px (0.00%)
visual-design-systems 0 px (0.00%)
visual-home-catalog 0 px (0.00%)
visual-home-context-picker-popover 337 px (0.11%)
visual-home-plugin-filter 0 px (0.00%)
visual-home-plugin-use-with-query 0 px (0.00%)
visual-integrations 0 px (0.00%)
visual-integrations-mcp 0 px (0.00%)
visual-integrations-use-everywhere 0 px (0.00%)
visual-new-project-modal 0 px (0.00%)
visual-onboarding-cloud 0 px (0.00%)
visual-plugin-details 0 px (0.00%)

Visual diff is advisory only and does not block merging.

[ivy-ting]

@lefarcen

Thanks for the contribution. I completed QA validation for this PR at d7137555d72cda1fb7643ea1effb44168693e9a1.

QA Acceptance Record

Scope:

• Show the signed-in creator identity on self-owned Recent projects cards.
• Preserve localized-name, initial-avatar, and broken-image fallbacks.

Verified:

• RecentProjectsStrip tests passed (33/33).
• Vela workspace-context tests passed (40/40).
• Web and daemon type checks passed.
• The live Vela-backed context returned the signed-in displayName and avatarUrl.
• The Electron Recent projects UI displayed the identity and correctly fell back to an initial when the image failed.
• Current-head CI and visual regression checks are green.

Conclusion:

• Accepted.