Replace the background-clarify toast (expired on alt-tab, easy to miss) with a
persistent, glowing amber "needs input" dot on the session's sidebar row,
driven off a new ClientSessionState.needsInput flag mirrored into a
$attentionSessionIds store. The flag is set on clarify.request and cleared the
moment the turn resumes (tool.complete) or ends.
Also: redesign the clarify tool UI (borderless choices, pseudo-radio dots,
right-aligned checkmark, arc border, tighter padding), make Button the single
source of icon-button styling (4px radius, new icon-titlebar variant, titlebar
buttons rendered polymorphically via asChild, Codicons throughout), put the
file-tree refresh action first, and .trim() pasted composer text.
Four related desktop session-management bugs:
- Pins lost until refresh: pinned sessions are joined against the
paginated in-memory session list, so a pinned chat that aged off the
most-recent page got evicted on the next refresh (every message.complete
triggers one) and the Pinned section went empty. mergeWorkingSessions ->
mergeSessionPage now also preserves pinned rows (matched by live id or
lineage root). Pin id checks in the chat header, command center, and
delete/archive are normalized to the durable sessionPinId so pins survive
auto-compression.
- Stuck on "Starting Hermes" after sleep: macOS sleep drops the renderer
WebSocket; nothing reconnected on wake so the composer stayed disabled.
The gateway boot hook now auto-reconnects with backoff on close/error and
on wake signals (powerMonitor resume/unlock-screen IPC, window online,
visibilitychange). connect() gains an open timeout so a hung reconnect
can't deadlock in 'connecting'. Composer placeholder distinguishes
"Reconnecting to Hermes" from a cold start.
- Loses chats from itself: the same hard-replace that dropped pins also
dropped loaded sessions; mergeSessionPage keeps them.
- Multiple copies/branches in search: /api/sessions/search deduped only by
raw session_id, so compression segments and branches surfaced as separate
hits. It now dedupes by lineage root and returns the live compression tip,
matching the session_search tool's behavior.
Creating several sessions in a row (Ctrl-N, type, send, repeat) and
waiting for one to finish made the other still-running chats disappear
from the sidebar.
Root cause: a new session's first user message isn't flushed to the
SessionDB until its turn is persisted, so the row's message_count stays
0 mid-response. `refreshSessions()` lists with min_messages=1 and then
hard-replaces $sessions. Because every message.complete triggers a
refresh, the moment one session finished, the others (still at
message_count 0) were filtered out of the server page and dropped from
the list.
Fix: merge instead of replace. `mergeWorkingSessions()` preserves any
session that is still in $workingSessionIds but absent from the server
page, so concurrent new chats stay visible until their own turn persists.
Optimistic deletes/archives already remove the row from the previous
list, so a removed session can't be resurrected by the merge.
Long-running sessions auto-compress: the gateway ends the original session
and surfaces the live continuation under a new id (list_sessions_rich projects
the root forward to its tip). Two symptoms fell out of the id rotation:
- A pinned session "vanished" — the pin is stored as the pre-compression root
id, but the sidebar only matched on the live id, so it was filtered out.
Pins now resolve on the durable lineage-root id (`_lineage_root_id`, already
surfaced by the projection): the sidebar indexes sessions by both ids, pin/
unpin and reorder operate on the durable id, and `sessionPinId()` is shared
with the Cmd+P toggle. Existing pins keep working with no migration.
- A freshly-continued session was missing from the list until you ungrouped +
"load 50 more" — the list paginated by original start time, so an old-but-
active conversation sat past the first page. The desktop now requests
`order=recent` (GET /api/sessions gains an `order` param backed by the
existing recency CTE), surfacing live continuations on the first page.
Brooklyn Nicholson