Let the driver say it started, so both screens agree

The session list reads the manager's status; the session screen replays the
transcript. Correcting a relaunched session's stale `exited` by writing the
manager's view directly left those two saying different things about one
session -- which showed up as a stop button that turned into a play button a
moment after the screen opened, and a status row that disagreed with the row
it was opened from.

So the correction goes through the event sink instead, from the driver that
started the process: `EchoDriver::new` and `LlamaDriver::attached` already
announce the state they start in, and `ClaudeDriver` was the one starting a
process silently. It says idle only when it started one -- adopting says
nothing, since a process that was already running may be mid-turn. Coming
from the driver also orders it against the exit `follow` reports for a
process that dies immediately, which a status written from the manager could
not be.

Verified against a stand-in CLI: stop, restart the backend, and the list and
the transcript's last status both say idle, with the relaunch recorded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

PLAN.md

@@ -332,10 +332,24 @@ Three decisions worth not undoing:
 That last rule found a real bug in the launch path, which is where the phone
 would have hit it: a relaunched session took its status from the transcript,
 so one whose process had died before a backend restart reported `Exited`
-while the launch it had just gone through was starting a new process. The
+while the launch it had just gone through was starting a new process —
-status now says `Idle` when a launch leaves a process running — `Exited`
+`Exited` there is not merely stale, it is the word that refuses every command
-there is not merely stale, it is the word that refuses every command and
+and invites somebody to start a second process against a live conversation.
-invites somebody to start a second process against a live conversation.
+
+**Who says so matters as much as what is said.** The first fix wrote `Idle`
+straight into the manager's view, and that produced a second bug on the
+phone: the session list reads the manager's status and the session screen
+replays the transcript, so a status written in one and not the other is two
+screens disagreeing about one session — visible as a stop button that turned
+into a play button a moment after the screen opened. So the rule is that
+**a driver announces the state it starts in, through the event sink**, which
+is what `EchoDriver::new` and `LlamaDriver::attached` already did;
+`ClaudeDriver` was the one that started a process silently. It says `Idle`
+only when it *started* one — adopting says nothing, because a process that
+was already running may be mid-turn and the transcript's last word is the
+better answer until its output says otherwise. Coming from the driver also
+orders it against the exit `follow` reports, which a status written from the
+manager could not be.
 
 On the phone this is one button in the composer, left of Send, whose mark and
 colour say what pressing it would do now: an orange pause while a turn is

server/src/session/claude.rs

@@ -233,6 +233,10 @@ impl ClaudeDriver {
         // to find. Nothing was ever recorded for one, so this answers "no"
         // without needing to know that, which is why the remote case is
         // not a branch here.
+        // Whether this launch *started* a process or picked up one that was
+        // already there. The two owe the session different things -- see the
+        // `Status` below.
+        let started_here;
         let record = match process::recorded(session_dir) {
             // Still running, and ours. Pick it up where it was left --
             // the one path that must not pass `--resume`.
@@ -243,6 +247,7 @@ impl ClaudeDriver {
                     provider.name,
                     record.pid
                 );
+                started_here = false;
                 record
             }
             // Recorded, and the machine will not say whether it is still
@@ -256,12 +261,39 @@ impl ClaudeDriver {
                     meta.id,
                     record.pid
                 );
+                started_here = false;
                 record
             }
             Some((_, process::Liveness::Dead)) | None => {
+                started_here = true;
                 Self::start(meta, provider, transport, session_dir)?
             }
         };
+
+        // A process this driver has just started has been asked for nothing,
+        // which is what idle means. Said here because nothing else will say
+        // it: the CLI writes not one line until it is given work, so a
+        // session whose transcript last recorded `Exited` -- one whose
+        // process died while this server was down, or one somebody stopped
+        // from the phone -- would keep that word. `Exited` refuses every
+        // command sent to the session, and it offers a phone the chance to
+        // start a second CLI against a conversation that already has one.
+        //
+        // From the driver rather than from the manager, and before `follow`
+        // is spawned, so it cannot overtake the exit `follow` reports for a
+        // process that dies immediately: both come from here, in this order.
+        // Adopting says nothing, because a process that was already running
+        // may be mid-turn, and the transcript's last word is the better
+        // answer until its output says otherwise.
+        //
+        // The llama driver has always done this (see `LlamaDriver::attached`,
+        // which reports `Running` while the model loads and `Idle` when it
+        // answers); this side was the one silent about it.
+        if started_here {
+            let _ = sink.send(Event::Status {
+                state: SessionStatus::Idle,
+            });
+        }
         // Where reading of its output had reached. A process just started
         // has said nothing, so its record says zero and this is the same
         // question with the same answer.

server/src/session/mod.rs

@@ -1114,6 +1114,14 @@ impl SessionManager {
     /// nobody could find out whether the process is alive, and starting one
     /// on that is precisely the second-CLI-on-one-conversation fault that
     /// `session::process` exists to prevent.
+    ///
+    /// What the session then *reports* is the driver's to say, not this
+    /// function's: the phone's list reads the manager's status and the
+    /// session screen replays the transcript, so a status written in one and
+    /// not the other is two screens disagreeing about one session -- which
+    /// is what a status set here without an event produced, visible as a
+    /// stop button that turned into a play button a moment after the screen
+    /// opened.
     pub fn start_session(&self, id: &str) -> Result<()> {
         let mut inner = self.inner.write().unwrap();
         let meta = inner
@@ -1140,7 +1148,7 @@ impl SessionManager {
         // permission mode changed while the session was stopped is what it
         // starts with.
         let (setup, provider) = resolve(&inner.config, &meta)?;
-        let session = match existing {
+        match existing {
             Some(session) => {
                 *session.driver.lock().unwrap() = make_driver(
                     &meta,
@@ -1151,7 +1159,6 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     session.transcript_path(),
                     &session.sink,
                 )?;
-                session
             }
             // Nothing is live for this one -- a session whose launch failed
             // when the server started, which has no pump either. That is the
@@ -1166,19 +1173,15 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     None,
                     self.notifications.clone(),
                 )?;
-                inner.live.insert(id.to_string(), Arc::clone(&session));
+                inner.live.insert(id.to_string(), session);
-                session
             }
-        };
+        }
-        // The recorded status is `Exited` and this has just made it untrue.
+        // Nothing is announced from here. A driver that starts a process
-        // Said here because nothing else will say it: a CLI that has been
+        // reports the session idle itself, in order with everything else it
-        // given no work writes nothing, so the session would sit at
+        // says about that process -- see `ClaudeDriver::launch`. Saying it
-        // `Exited` -- refusing every command, refusing every message, and
+        // here as well would be a second writer of the same fact, and the
-        // showing a phone an offer to start a second process against the
+        // one that cannot see whether the process it is describing is still
-        // conversation this one is already running.
+        // there.
-        let _ = session.sink.send(Event::Status {
-            state: SessionStatus::Idle,
-        });
         Ok(())
     }
 
@@ -1501,29 +1504,6 @@ fn launch(
         &sink,
     )?));
 
-    // The transcript's last word is what this session was doing when
-    // something was last watching it, and building the driver above may have
-    // just made it untrue: a session recorded as `Exited` with a process
-    // running again is one this launch has started. Carrying `Exited`
-    // forward is not merely stale -- it is the word that refuses every
-    // command sent to the session, and the word that invites somebody to
-    // start a *second* process against a conversation that already has one,
-    // which is the fault `session::process` exists to prevent. It reached a
-    // phone as a play button on a session that was already running.
-    //
-    // Idle is what is true: there is a process, and nothing has asked it for
-    // anything. Written rather than announced, because nobody watched a
-    // transition -- this is the state the session is being restored in, and
-    // an event would put a status change in the transcript that never
-    // happened. A record nobody could check stays as it was and is corrected
-    // by the driver's first poll, which reports `Unknown` for it.
-    {
-        let mut status = shared.status.lock().unwrap();
-        if *status == SessionStatus::Exited && process::live(&dir).is_some() {
-            *status = SessionStatus::Idle;
-        }
-    }
-
     let commands = Arc::new(Commands {
         driver: Arc::clone(&driver),
         sink: sink.clone(),
@@ -2492,9 +2472,19 @@ mod tests {
 
         manager.start_session(&info.id).expect("start again");
         collect_until(&mut rx, is_idle).await;
-        // Idle rather than exited, and said by the start rather than left
+        // Idle rather than exited, and *recorded* -- said by the driver that
-        // for a driver that has been given no work to say for itself.
+        // was just built, like every driver says what state it is starting
+        // in. The manager writing it directly is what made the phone's list
+        // and its session screen disagree: one reads this status and the
+        // other replays the transcript, so a status in only one of them is
+        // two screens describing one session differently.
         assert_eq!(manager.sessions()[0].status, SessionStatus::Idle);
+        assert_eq!(
+            Transcript::open(&data_dir.join(&info.id).join("transcript.jsonl"))
+                .expect("reopen transcript")
+                .last_status(),
+            Some(SessionStatus::Idle),
+        );
         // The same live session throughout: only the driver was replaced,
         // so nothing a phone is reading was interrupted.
         assert!(Arc::ptr_eq(