# side-panel-not-restored-on-load — Reloading OpenWork always lands on just the chat

Before this fix, OpenWork remembered the right-hand side panel for every conversation — so anyone who once peeked at Extensions got that panel splashed over the app again on every launch. This proof drives the real desktop app: Alex opens the Extensions panel, the app reloads, and only the chat comes back.

1. Alex is working in a task in OpenWork. It is just the conversation: the composer at the bottom, the tool rail on the right edge, and no side panel taking up half the window.

2. Alex clicks the Extensions button on the rail, and the Extensions panel opens next to the chat — handy for a quick look at apps and plugins.

3. The app reloads, just like quitting and reopening OpenWork. The same task comes back — but the Extensions panel does not. It is just the chat again, and the app's saved layout no longer remembers any side panel at all.
