Merge branch 'main' of git.arirex.me:iris/ai-app

TODO.md

@@ -3,56 +3,26 @@
 Working list from Iris, 2026-09-03. Remove an entry when it lands; annotate
 one in place when it turns out to need a decision.
 
-## App — composer and input
-
-- [ ] Make the file-add button and the ones beside it "bubble" buttons with a
-      visible outline. The popups they open should be round.
-- [ ] Returning to the app must not open the keyboard if it was closed when
-      the app was left.
-- [ ] Tapping a slash-command suggestion should move the cursor to the end of
-      the inserted suggestion.
-
 ## App — transcript
 
-- [ ] Tapping an expanded agent message card should close it.
+- [ ] Tapping an expanded agent message card should close it. — a tap that
-- [ ] Tapping to deselect text should not toggle card expansion.
+      clears a selection now spends itself on that and nothing else
+      (`SessionScreen.expanding`); still to check on the emulator whether a tap
+      with *no* selection reaches an opened peer card at all.
 - [ ] Text inside code blocks does not highlight when selected (selection
-      itself works — only the highlight is missing).
+      itself works — only the highlight is missing). Waiting on the app-c7
-- [ ] Bash logs should apply colour and the other basic text escape sequences,
+      session, which is replacing the highlighter (`HIGHLIGHTER_PLAN.md`) and
-      and filter the rest.
+      owns `CodeFence.kt` until it pushes; it confirmed this item is ours.
-- [ ] An image should show a loading spinner in an area the size of the image.
 - [ ] Messages received from other agents are inconsistent — sometimes they
       appear, sometimes they don't.
 
-## App — navigation
-
-- [ ] Swiping right should open the session list, unless the gesture belongs to
-      a component (e.g. scrolling left inside a long text block).
-
-## App — AskUserQuestion card
-
-- [ ] Selection should highlight instantly instead of waiting; a Submit button
-      at the bottom sends, and becomes a spinner while sending.
-- [ ] Arrow buttons in the top right navigate between questions instead of
-      stacking them all in a row.
-- [ ] Submit stays greyed out until every question is answered.
-
-## Formatting
-
-- [ ] Show a timeout in the largest possible unit: 480000ms = 8m. Under a
-      minute show only the largest unit (2.5s, 30ms); at or over a minute show
-      all units (5d 12h 4m).
-- [ ] Use tilde notation when moving the working directory.
-
 ## Session settings
 
 - [ ] Autocompact belongs in session settings; empty disables it, which is the
-      default.
+      default. **Needs a decision before building** — nothing called autocompact
-- [ ] Changing the model on a stopped provider should be possible, stored, and
+      exists yet on either side. `PLAN.md` has it only as a planned pi-driver
-      applied the next time it starts.
+      feature (`set_auto_compaction`), and Claude Code runs its own. So this is
+      a new server feature, and the open questions are what the empty-or-not
+      value *is* (a token count? a percentage of the context window?) and which
+      drivers it applies to.
 
-## Usage
-
-- [ ] Add one minute to Claude's "time left".
-- [ ] The transcript header and the usage menu should share one usage value —
-      they have been seen disagreeing.

app/androidApp/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

@@ -37,12 +37,20 @@
         <profileable android:shell="true" tools:targetApi="q" />
         <!-- adjustResize (not the system's default pan): the layout handles
              the keyboard itself via imePadding(), so the window must resize
-             rather than slide the top bar off screen. -->
+             rather than slide the top bar off screen.
+
+             stateUnchanged: coming back to the app leaves the keyboard as it
+             was left. The default, stateUnspecified, lets the system decide,
+             and what it decides with a focused message field is to open the
+             keyboard, so switching away and back covered half the transcript
+             somebody had switched away to compare against. Unchanged rather
+             than hidden, because a keyboard that was up when the app was left
+             is one somebody was in the middle of typing into. -->
         <activity
             android:name=".MainActivity"
             android:exported="true"
             android:launchMode="singleTop"
-            android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
+            android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateUnchanged"
             android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Material.Light.NoActionBar">
             <intent-filter>
                 <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/Ansi.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,313 @@
+package com.example.aiapp
+
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.AnnotatedString
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.SpanStyle
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.buildAnnotatedString
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontStyle
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontWeight
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.style.TextDecoration
+
+/**
+ * The sixteen colours a terminal program names, and the two it assumes.
+ *
+ * Its own palette rather than the syntax one: a program that prints in red has chosen red, where a
+ * highlighter's colours are this app's reading of somebody else's code. They come out of the same
+ * Catppuccin values (see `ansiPalette` in `Theme.kt`) so nothing on screen is a colour from
+ * somewhere else, but the two are not one table and must not become one -- adding a syntax role to
+ * this list would silently move `ls`'s directory blue.
+ */
+data class AnsiPalette(
+    /** Indexes 0-7, then 8-15 bright, in the terminal's own order. */
+    val colours: List<Color>,
+    /** What uncoloured text is, needed only where a style has to state a colour. */
+    val foreground: Color,
+    /** What the text sits on, needed for reverse video. */
+    val background: Color,
+)
+
+/**
+ * What a tool printed, with its terminal styling applied and everything else taken out.
+ *
+ * Bash output arrives exactly as the program wrote it, escape sequences included, and drawn
+ * verbatim those are line noise in the middle of the thing being read: `ESC[0;32m` in front of
+ * every green word. Stripping them all would be the other half-answer -- colour is often the whole
+ * of what a diff, a test run or a linter is saying.
+ *
+ * So the sequences that decide how text *looks* become spans, and every other one is dropped.
+ * Dropped rather than shown, because the rest move a cursor around a grid this is not: a transcript
+ * is a scrolling document, and "go to column 40" has no meaning here that is better than nothing.
+ *
+ * A carriage return is honoured the way a terminal honours it: what was written since the last line
+ * break is thrown away and the line starts again. That is what makes a progress bar show its final
+ * state rather than every state it passed through, which was tens of lines run together.
+ *
+ * Not a composable, and the palette is a parameter: this can then be remembered against the text it
+ * parsed rather than re-run on every recomposition of the card holding it.
+ */
+fun ansiStyled(text: String, palette: AnsiPalette): AnnotatedString {
+    // The common case by a long way -- nothing to do, and nothing allocated to find that out.
+    if (text.indexOf(ESC) < 0 && text.indexOf('\r') < 0) return AnnotatedString(text)
+
+    val runs = mutableListOf<Run>()
+    var sgr = Sgr.PLAIN
+    var at = 0
+    val plain = StringBuilder()
+
+    fun flush() {
+        if (plain.isNotEmpty()) {
+            runs.add(Run(plain.toString(), sgr.span(palette)))
+            plain.clear()
+        }
+    }
+
+    while (at < text.length) {
+        val c = text[at]
+        when {
+            c == ESC -> {
+                flush()
+                at =
+                    skipEscape(text, at) { params, final ->
+                        if (final == 'm') sgr = sgr.apply(params, palette)
+                    }
+            }
+            // A bare carriage return rewrites the line; one before a newline is the other half of
+            // a Windows line ending and has nothing to rewrite.
+            c == '\r' && text.getOrNull(at + 1) != '\n' -> {
+                flush()
+                dropLine(runs)
+                at++
+            }
+            c == '\r' -> at++
+            // Everything printable, plus the two control characters that are layout rather than
+            // terminal commands. A stray bell or backspace goes for the same reason a cursor
+            // move does.
+            c >= ' ' || c == '\n' || c == '\t' -> {
+                plain.append(c)
+                at++
+            }
+            else -> at++
+        }
+    }
+    flush()
+
+    return buildAnnotatedString {
+        runs.forEach { run ->
+            if (run.style == null) {
+                append(run.text)
+            } else {
+                val pushed = pushStyle(run.style)
+                append(run.text)
+                pop(pushed)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/** One stretch of text that shares a style. */
+private class Run(val text: String, val style: SpanStyle?)
+
+/** Throws away everything written since the last line break, as a carriage return does. */
+private fun dropLine(runs: MutableList<Run>) {
+    while (runs.isNotEmpty()) {
+        val last = runs.removeAt(runs.size - 1)
+        val breakAt = last.text.lastIndexOf('\n')
+        if (breakAt >= 0) {
+            runs.add(Run(last.text.substring(0, breakAt + 1), last.style))
+            return
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+private const val ESC = '\u001B'
+
+private const val BELL = '\u0007'
+
+/**
+ * Steps over the escape sequence starting at [at], reporting a CSI's parameters and final byte.
+ *
+ * One reader for every kind, because the point is to *leave* them all behind: a sequence this did
+ * not recognise would otherwise have its body printed as ordinary text, which is worse than the
+ * escape it was meant to remove. Three shapes -- the CSI (`ESC [ … letter`), the string escapes
+ * (OSC, DCS, APC, PM) which run to a terminator, and the two-character ones.
+ */
+private inline fun skipEscape(text: String, at: Int, onCsi: (String, Char) -> Unit): Int {
+    val next = text.getOrNull(at + 1) ?: return at + 1
+    return when (next) {
+        '[' -> {
+            var end = at + 2
+            while (end < text.length && text[end] !in CSI_FINAL) end++
+            if (end >= text.length) {
+                // Cut off mid-sequence, which is what a stream that has not finished arriving
+                // looks like: drop the fragment rather than printing it, and the whole sequence
+                // arrives with the next delta.
+                text.length
+            } else {
+                onCsi(text.substring(at + 2, end), text[end])
+                end + 1
+            }
+        }
+        ']',
+        'P',
+        'X',
+        '^',
+        '_' -> {
+            // Runs to a string terminator: `ESC \`, or the bell that xterm allows after an OSC.
+            var end = at + 2
+            while (end < text.length) {
+                if (text[end] == BELL) return end + 1
+                if (text[end] == ESC && text.getOrNull(end + 1) == '\\') return end + 2
+                end++
+            }
+            text.length
+        }
+        else -> at + 2
+    }
+}
+
+/** The bytes that end a CSI sequence. */
+private val CSI_FINAL = '@'..'~'
+
+/** Everything an SGR sequence can turn on, as the terminal tracks it. */
+private data class Sgr(
+    val fg: Color?,
+    val bg: Color?,
+    val bold: Boolean,
+    val dim: Boolean,
+    val italic: Boolean,
+    val underline: Boolean,
+    val strike: Boolean,
+    val reverse: Boolean,
+) {
+    /** Null while nothing is set, so unstyled output costs no spans at all. */
+    fun span(palette: AnsiPalette): SpanStyle? {
+        if (this == PLAIN) return null
+        val front = if (reverse) bg ?: palette.background else fg
+        val back = if (reverse) fg ?: palette.foreground else bg
+        // Dim has to have a colour to dim, so where none was named it dims the ordinary one.
+        val stated = front ?: palette.foreground.takeIf { dim }
+        return SpanStyle(
+            color =
+                stated?.let { if (dim) it.copy(alpha = DIM_ALPHA) else it } ?: Color.Unspecified,
+            background = back ?: Color.Unspecified,
+            fontWeight = if (bold) FontWeight.Bold else null,
+            fontStyle = if (italic) FontStyle.Italic else null,
+            textDecoration =
+                when {
+                    underline && strike ->
+                        TextDecoration.combine(
+                            listOf(TextDecoration.Underline, TextDecoration.LineThrough)
+                        )
+                    underline -> TextDecoration.Underline
+                    strike -> TextDecoration.LineThrough
+                    else -> null
+                },
+        )
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This state with [params] applied -- one `ESC[…m`, which carries any number of them.
+     *
+     * A code this does not model is ignored rather than reset from: the program meant something by
+     * it, and starting again would also drop the codes beside it that are understood.
+     */
+    fun apply(params: String, palette: AnsiPalette): Sgr {
+        // `ESC[m` means `ESC[0m`, and an empty parameter inside a list is a zero too.
+        val codes = params.split(';').map { it.trim().toIntOrNull() ?: 0 }
+        var state = this
+        var at = 0
+        while (at < codes.size) {
+            val code = codes[at]
+            state =
+                when (code) {
+                    0 -> PLAIN
+                    1 -> state.copy(bold = true)
+                    2 -> state.copy(dim = true)
+                    3 -> state.copy(italic = true)
+                    4 -> state.copy(underline = true)
+                    7 -> state.copy(reverse = true)
+                    9 -> state.copy(strike = true)
+                    21,
+                    22 -> state.copy(bold = false, dim = false)
+                    23 -> state.copy(italic = false)
+                    24 -> state.copy(underline = false)
+                    27 -> state.copy(reverse = false)
+                    29 -> state.copy(strike = false)
+                    in 30..37 -> state.copy(fg = palette.colours[code - 30])
+                    in 90..97 -> state.copy(fg = palette.colours[code - 90 + 8])
+                    in 40..47 -> state.copy(bg = palette.colours[code - 40])
+                    in 100..107 -> state.copy(bg = palette.colours[code - 100 + 8])
+                    39 -> state.copy(fg = null)
+                    49 -> state.copy(bg = null)
+                    38,
+                    48 -> {
+                        val (colour, last) = extendedColour(codes, at, palette)
+                        at = last
+                        if (code == 38) state.copy(fg = colour) else state.copy(bg = colour)
+                    }
+                    else -> state
+                }
+            at++
+        }
+        return state
+    }
+
+    companion object {
+        val PLAIN =
+            Sgr(
+                fg = null,
+                bg = null,
+                bold = false,
+                dim = false,
+                italic = false,
+                underline = false,
+                strike = false,
+                reverse = false,
+            )
+    }
+}
+
+/** How much of its colour dim text keeps: enough to read, little enough to recede. */
+private const val DIM_ALPHA = 0.65f
+
+/**
+ * The colour named by a `38`/`48` at [at], and the index of that colour's last parameter.
+ *
+ * Two forms: `5;n` for the 256-colour table and `2;r;g;b` for a literal one. The first sixteen of
+ * that table are the palette's own, so a program asking for "colour 1" through either spelling gets
+ * the same red.
+ */
+private fun extendedColour(codes: List<Int>, at: Int, palette: AnsiPalette): Pair<Color?, Int> =
+    when (codes.getOrNull(at + 1)) {
+        5 -> {
+            val n = codes.getOrNull(at + 2)
+            if (n == null) null to at + 1 else indexedColour(n, palette) to at + 2
+        }
+        2 -> {
+            val r = codes.getOrNull(at + 2)
+            val g = codes.getOrNull(at + 3)
+            val b = codes.getOrNull(at + 4)
+            if (r == null || g == null || b == null) null to at + 1
+            else Color(r.coerceIn(0, 255), g.coerceIn(0, 255), b.coerceIn(0, 255)) to at + 4
+        }
+        else -> null to at + 1
+    }
+
+/** One of the 256 colours: the palette's sixteen, then a 6x6x6 cube, then a grey ramp. */
+private fun indexedColour(n: Int, palette: AnsiPalette): Color =
+    when {
+        n < 0 -> palette.foreground
+        n < 16 -> palette.colours[n]
+        n < 232 -> {
+            val i = n - 16
+            Color(CUBE[i / 36], CUBE[i / 6 % 6], CUBE[i % 6])
+        }
+        n < 256 -> {
+            val grey = 8 + (n - 232) * 10
+            Color(grey, grey, grey)
+        }
+        else -> palette.foreground
+    }
+
+/** The six levels of each channel in the 256-colour cube, as xterm defines them. */
+private val CUBE = intArrayOf(0, 95, 135, 175, 215, 255)

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/AppRoot.kt

@@ -198,6 +198,10 @@ fun AppRoot(
             // row key. Only reachable since a notification can move straight from one session to
             // another; every other way here passes through [Screen.Main], which disposes it anyway.
             key(here.summary.id) {
+                // The gesture goes on a box around the screen rather than inside it, so it is the
+                // outermost thing in the tree and everything within has already had its chance at
+                // the drag. See [swipeBack]. No imePadding here, for the reason above.
+                Box(Modifier.swipeBack(goToMain)) {
                     SessionScreen(
                         settings = current,
                         summary = here.summary,
@@ -206,8 +210,9 @@ fun AppRoot(
                         onShareTaken = { share = null },
                     )
                 }
+            }
         is Screen.Spawn ->
-            Box(Modifier.imePadding()) {
+            Box(Modifier.imePadding().swipeBack(goToMain)) {
                 SpawnScreen(
                     settings = current,
                     onSpawned = { spawned ->
@@ -218,7 +223,7 @@ fun AppRoot(
                 )
             }
         is Screen.Settings ->
-            Box(Modifier.imePadding()) {
+            Box(Modifier.imePadding().swipeBack(goToMain)) {
                 SettingsScreen(
                     existing = current,
                     onSaved = { saved ->

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/AskQuestion.kt

@@ -10,42 +10,174 @@ import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Spacer
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.height
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.width
 import androidx.compose.foundation.rememberScrollState
+import androidx.compose.material3.Button
 import androidx.compose.material3.ButtonDefaults
 import androidx.compose.material3.CardDefaults
+import androidx.compose.material3.CircularProgressIndicator
+import androidx.compose.material3.LocalContentColor
 import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
 import androidx.compose.material3.OutlinedButton
 import androidx.compose.material3.OutlinedCard
 import androidx.compose.material3.OutlinedTextField
 import androidx.compose.material3.Surface
 import androidx.compose.material3.Text
-import androidx.compose.material3.TextButton
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
 import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
+import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableIntStateOf
 import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
 import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
 import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
+import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontFamily
 import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
 
+/** One question's answer on its way back, so a card can hand over several at once. */
+data class QuestionAnswer(val questionId: String, val answers: List<String>)
+
 /**
- * Every question one tool call is waiting on.
+ * What the reader has settled on for one question, before any of it is sent.
+ *
+ * Held here rather than inferred from the transcript, which is what made picking an option feel
+ * broken: the mark used to appear only when the answer had crossed the tunnel, been recorded and
+ * come back as an event, so on a phone the card sat unchanged for most of a second after a tap and
+ * the natural response was to tap again.
+ *
+ * Picked options and typed words are one field each because they are alternatives rather than
+ * parts: answering in the reader's own words is the case no option covers, so typing puts the picks
+ * away and picking puts the words away, and there is never a draft that means two things.
+ */
+data class Draft(val picked: Set<String> = emptySet(), val other: String = "") {
+    val settled: Boolean
+        get() = picked.isNotEmpty() || other.isNotBlank()
+
+    /**
+     * What goes back, in the order the options were offered rather than the order they were tapped:
+     * the reader is answering a list, and it should read back as that list.
+     */
+    fun answers(options: List<QuestionOption>): List<String> =
+        if (other.isNotBlank()) listOf(other.trim())
+        else options.map { it.label }.filter { it in picked }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Every question one tool call is waiting on, one at a time.
  *
  * All of it comes from the question events themselves -- what each option means, what picking it
  * would produce, whether several may be picked at once. None of it is read out of the call's own
  * input, which is one provider's JSON: parsing that here would put that provider's schema in the
  * app, where no other provider can reach it and where it drifts the first time the schema moves.
+ *
+ * One question on screen with arrows to the others, rather than all of them stacked. A card asking
+ * three questions with four options and a description each is several screens tall, so the reader
+ * scrolls past the question they are answering to reach the button that sends it, and never sees
+ * the whole of any one of them. Paged, each question is a screen and the count says how many are
+ * left -- which is also what makes "not all of them are answered" something the reader can act on
+ * rather than something to go hunting for.
+ *
+ * Nothing is sent until Submit. Answering is one act even when it is several questions: the tool
+ * asked them together and is waiting on all of them, and sending each as it was tapped meant the
+ * reader could not change their mind about the first after reading the third.
  */
 @Composable
 fun AskUserQuestionBody(
     asks: List<TranscriptItem.QuestionCard>,
-    onAnswer: (questionId: String, answers: List<String>) -> Unit,
+    onAnswer: (List<QuestionAnswer>, onSettled: () -> Unit) -> Unit,
 ) {
+    // Seeded from what was already answered, so a card the reader comes back to shows their
+    // answers rather than an empty draft over them.
+    var drafts by
+        remember(asks.map { it.id }) {
+            mutableStateOf(
+                asks.associate { ask ->
+                    ask.id to
+                        Draft(
+                            picked =
+                                ask.answers
+                                    .filter { a -> ask.options.any { it.label == a } }
+                                    .toSet(),
+                            other =
+                                ask.answers
+                                    .firstOrNull { a -> ask.options.none { it.label == a } }
+                                    .orEmpty(),
+                        )
+                }
+            )
+        }
+    var at by remember(asks.map { it.id }) { mutableIntStateOf(0) }
+    var sending by remember(asks.map { it.id }) { mutableStateOf(false) }
+    if (asks.isEmpty()) return
+    val showing = asks[at.coerceIn(0, asks.size - 1)]
+    val outstanding = asks.filter { it.answers.isEmpty() }
+
     Column(Modifier.fillMaxWidth()) {
-        asks.forEach { ask ->
+        if (asks.size > 1) {
+            Row(
+                verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
+                modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
+            ) {
+                Text(
+                    "Question ${at + 1} of ${asks.size}",
+                    style = MaterialTheme.typography.labelSmall,
+                    color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
+                    modifier = Modifier.weight(1f),
+                )
+                // Disabled at the ends rather than absent, so the pair keeps its place and the
+                // reader can see that there is nothing further that way.
+                MarkButton("Previous question", { at-- }, enabled = at > 0) {
+                    Chevron(Pointing.Left, colour = LocalContentColor.current)
+                }
+                MarkButton("Next question", { at++ }, enabled = at < asks.size - 1) {
+                    Chevron(Pointing.Right, colour = LocalContentColor.current)
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        Spacer(Modifier.height(4.dp))
+        AskedQuestion(
+            showing,
+            draft = drafts[showing.id] ?: Draft(),
+            onDraft = { drafts = drafts + (showing.id to it) },
+        )
+        if (outstanding.isNotEmpty()) {
             Spacer(Modifier.height(12.dp))
-            AskedQuestion(ask) { answers -> onAnswer(ask.id, answers) }
+            // Greyed until every question has an answer, because the tool is waiting on all of
+            // them: a submit that sent two of three would leave the third one asked and the card
+            // looking dealt with.
+            val ready = outstanding.all { drafts[it.id]?.settled == true }
+            Button(
+                onClick = {
+                    sending = true
+                    onAnswer(
+                        outstanding.map { ask ->
+                            QuestionAnswer(ask.id, (drafts[ask.id] ?: Draft()).answers(ask.options))
+                        }
+                    ) {
+                        // Back to a button whatever happened. A refusal is reported by the screen
+                        // around this, and the draft is still here to send again -- a spinner
+                        // that never stops would be the only sign of a failure this card cannot
+                        // describe.
+                        sending = false
+                    }
+                },
+                enabled = ready && !sending,
+                modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
+            ) {
+                if (sending) {
+                    // In the button rather than beside it, so the row does not change height at
+                    // the moment it is pressed.
+                    CircularProgressIndicator(
+                        Modifier.height(18.dp).width(18.dp),
+                        strokeWidth = 2.dp,
+                        color = LocalContentColor.current,
+                    )
+                } else {
+                    Text(
+                        if (outstanding.size > 1) "Submit ${outstanding.size} answers" else "Submit"
+                    )
+                }
+            }
         }
     }
 }
@@ -56,9 +188,16 @@ fun AskUserQuestionBody(
  * The same body wherever a question appears -- on the call that asked it, or as a card of its own
  * when nothing did. A question is the same thing either way, and two renderings of it would be two
  * places for an answer to go missing.
+ *
+ * [draft] is what the reader has picked so far and [onDraft] is how they change it; nothing here
+ * sends anything. An answered question ignores both and draws what was answered.
  */
 @Composable
-fun AskedQuestion(ask: TranscriptItem.QuestionCard, onAnswer: (List<String>) -> Unit) {
+fun AskedQuestion(
+    ask: TranscriptItem.QuestionCard,
+    draft: Draft,
+    onDraft: (Draft) -> Unit,
+) {
     Column(Modifier.fillMaxWidth()) {
         ask.header?.let { header ->
             // Its own line rather than beside the question, because it is a label *for* the
@@ -77,16 +216,20 @@ fun AskedQuestion(ask: TranscriptItem.QuestionCard, onAnswer: (List<String>) ->
         // very little without the three it was chosen over. Marked in the same purple that says
         // "picked" while the question is still open, so it is one appearance learned once.
         val answered = ask.answers.isNotEmpty()
-        if (ask.multiSelect && !answered) {
+        // What is marked: what was answered once there is an answer, and what the finger has
-            MultipleChoice(ask.options, onAnswer)
+        // chosen until then.
-        } else if (ask.options.all { it.description == null && it.preview == null }) {
+        val marked = if (answered) ask.answers.toSet() else draft.picked
+        // Null once the question is answered: the options stay and stop being pressable.
+        val onPick: ((String) -> Unit)? =
+            if (answered) null else { label -> onDraft(pick(draft, label, ask.multiSelect)) }
+        if (ask.options.all { it.description == null && it.preview == null }) {
             // Nothing to read, so nothing to lay out: Allow and Deny are two words, and two words
             // do not need a card each.
-            AnswerOptions(ask.options, ask.answers, onAnswer.takeUnless { answered })
+            AnswerOptions(ask.options, marked.toList(), onPick)
         } else {
             ask.options.forEach { option ->
-                OptionCard(option, selected = option.label in ask.answers) {
+                OptionCard(option, selected = option.label in marked) {
-                    if (!answered) onAnswer(listOf(option.label))
+                    onPick?.invoke(option.label)
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -102,34 +245,23 @@ fun AskedQuestion(ask: TranscriptItem.QuestionCard, onAnswer: (List<String>) ->
                 modifier = Modifier.padding(top = 8.dp),
             )
         }
-        if (!answered) OtherAnswer(onAnswer)
+        if (!answered) {
+            OtherAnswer(draft.other) { onDraft(Draft(other = it)) }
+        }
     }
 }
 
 /**
- * Options that can be chosen together, with one button to send them.
+ * [label] added to, or taken out of, what [draft] has picked.
  *
- * The answer goes back as the list it is. What a provider makes of several answers is decided where
+ * A single-answer question replaces rather than accumulates, and either way picking puts any typed
- * that provider is spoken to -- Claude Code's answers map holds a string, so they are joined there
+ * words away -- see [Draft].
- * -- and nothing on this side has to know that.
  */
-@Composable
+private fun pick(draft: Draft, label: String, multiSelect: Boolean): Draft =
-private fun MultipleChoice(options: List<QuestionOption>, onAnswer: (List<String>) -> Unit) {
+    when {
-    var chosen by remember { mutableStateOf(setOf<String>()) }
+        !multiSelect -> Draft(picked = setOf(label))
-    options.forEach { option ->
+        label in draft.picked -> Draft(picked = draft.picked - label)
-        OptionCard(option, selected = option.label in chosen) {
+        else -> Draft(picked = draft.picked + label)
-            chosen = if (option.label in chosen) chosen - option.label else chosen + option.label
-        }
-    }
-    Spacer(Modifier.height(4.dp))
-    OutlinedButton(
-        // In the order they were offered rather than the order they were tapped: the reader is
-        // answering a list, and it should read back as that list.
-        onClick = { onAnswer(options.map { it.label }.filter { it in chosen }) },
-        enabled = chosen.isNotEmpty(),
-    ) {
-        Text(if (chosen.size <= 1) "Send answer" else "Send ${chosen.size} answers")
-    }
     }
 
 /**
@@ -208,20 +340,17 @@ private fun Preview(preview: String) {
  * cannot tell that it was ever open.
  */
 @Composable
-private fun OtherAnswer(onAnswer: (List<String>) -> Unit) {
+private fun OtherAnswer(text: String, onText: (String) -> Unit) {
-    var text by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
+    // No Send of its own: this is one more way to answer the question, and the card's Submit is
-    Row(Modifier.fillMaxWidth().padding(top = 8.dp)) {
+    // what sends it. A second send button beside the field made the shorter half of the card look
+    // like the one that finishes it.
     OutlinedTextField(
         value = text,
-            onValueChange = { text = it },
+        onValueChange = onText,
         label = { Text("Other") },
         singleLine = true,
-            modifier = Modifier.weight(1f),
+        modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().padding(top = 8.dp),
     )
-        TextButton(onClick = { onAnswer(listOf(text.trim())) }, enabled = text.isNotBlank()) {
-            Text("Send")
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 /**
@@ -235,10 +364,10 @@ private fun OtherAnswer(onAnswer: (List<String>) -> Unit) {
 @Composable
 fun AnswerOptions(
     options: List<QuestionOption>,
-    /** What was chosen, marked rather than restated; empty while the question is open. */
+    /** What is chosen: the answer once there is one, and what the finger has marked until then. */
     answers: List<String> = emptyList(),
     /** Null once the question is answered -- the buttons stay, and stop being buttons. */
-    onAnswer: ((List<String>) -> Unit)?,
+    onPick: ((String) -> Unit)?,
 ) {
     FlowRow(
         horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp),
@@ -248,11 +377,11 @@ fun AnswerOptions(
         options.forEach { option ->
             val taken = option.label in answers
             OutlinedButton(
-                onClick = { onAnswer?.invoke(listOf(option.label)) },
+                onClick = { onPick?.invoke(option.label) },
                 // Disabled rather than removed, so an answered question still shows what it
                 // offered. Material dims a disabled button's own border and label, which would
                 // take the mark with it -- both are stated here instead.
-                enabled = onAnswer != null,
+                enabled = onPick != null,
                 border =
                     BorderStroke(
                         if (taken) 2.dp else 1.dp,

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/Bubble.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package com.example.aiapp
+
+import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.RoundedCornerShape
+import androidx.compose.material3.ButtonDefaults
+import androidx.compose.material3.OutlinedButton
+import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Shape
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
+
+// The composer's row of settings and pickers, and the menus they open. One file because the
+// outline and the corner are one appearance: a control shaped like this opens a surface shaped
+// like this, and a reader learns the pair once.
+
+/**
+ * A bordered pill: a control that can be seen without being pressed.
+ *
+ * The composer's row -- attach, model, permission mode -- was text buttons, which draw nothing at
+ * all until they are touched. Three bare words sitting under the message field read as a caption
+ * about the field rather than as three things to press, and the only way to find out otherwise was
+ * to press one. The outline says "control" without the weight of a filled button, which is reserved
+ * here for the two that act on the session (send, and start/stop).
+ */
+@Composable
+fun BubbleButton(
+    onClick: () -> Unit,
+    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
+    enabled: Boolean = true,
+    content: @Composable () -> Unit,
+) {
+    OutlinedButton(
+        onClick = onClick,
+        enabled = enabled,
+        shape = BubbleShape,
+        // A text button's padding rather than a filled button's 24dp: these sit three across
+        // under the message field, and the wider padding is what decides whether the row fits.
+        contentPadding = ButtonDefaults.TextButtonContentPadding,
+        modifier = modifier,
+    ) {
+        content()
+    }
+}
+
+/** Fully round ends, so the control reads as a bubble rather than as a box. */
+val BubbleShape: Shape = RoundedCornerShape(percent = 50)
+
+/**
+ * The corner on a menu one of these opens.
+ *
+ * A radius rather than [BubbleShape]'s half-height: a menu is as tall as its options, and rounding
+ * ends that tall would bow its sides. This is the roundest corner that still leaves a straight edge
+ * beside a one-line option, which is the shortest menu here.
+ */
+val BubbleMenuShape: Shape = RoundedCornerShape(20.dp)

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/Chevron.kt

@@ -11,14 +11,25 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
 import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.StrokeCap
 import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
 
+/** Which way a [Chevron] points. */
+enum class Pointing {
+    Up,
+    Down,
+    Left,
+    Right,
+}
+
 /**
- * A chevron, pointing up or down.
+ * A chevron, pointing whichever of the four ways is asked for.
  *
  * Drawn rather than set in a font: a chevron from an icon font is one of the glyphs a system font
  * may simply not have, and the reader who gets an empty box instead is never the one who wrote it.
  *
- * One composable for both directions rather than two that differ by a minus sign -- the pair would
+ * One composable for all four directions rather than one per axis that differ by which coordinate
- * drift, and the drift would be a bug in exactly one direction.
+ * gets the minus sign -- the copies would drift, and the drift would be a bug in exactly one
+ * direction. The shape is written once in its own coordinates, where x runs across the opening and
+ * y runs from the open side to the tip, and [Pointing] is only a table of how those two map onto
+ * the box.
  *
  * It draws no label of its own, so every caller owes it a `contentDescription`: this is the whole
  * of what assistive technology has to go on, and it is also the answer to "what was that arrow for"
@@ -26,28 +37,36 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
  */
 @Composable
 fun Chevron(
-    pointingUp: Boolean,
+    pointing: Pointing,
     modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
     colour: Color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
 ) {
-    Canvas(modifier.width(20.dp).height(10.dp)) {
+    val sideways = pointing == Pointing.Left || pointing == Pointing.Right
+    Canvas(
+        modifier
+            .width(if (sideways) CHEVRON_DEPTH else CHEVRON_SPAN)
+            .height(if (sideways) CHEVRON_SPAN else CHEVRON_DEPTH)
+    ) {
         val inset = 2.dp.toPx()
-        val point = if (pointingUp) inset else size.height - inset
+        val wide = size.width - inset
-        val ends = if (pointingUp) size.height - inset else inset
+        val tall = size.height - inset
+        fun at(across: Float, along: Float) =
+            when (pointing) {
+                Pointing.Up -> Offset(lerp(inset, wide, across), lerp(tall, inset, along))
+                Pointing.Down -> Offset(lerp(inset, wide, across), lerp(inset, tall, along))
+                Pointing.Left -> Offset(lerp(wide, inset, along), lerp(inset, tall, across))
+                Pointing.Right -> Offset(lerp(inset, wide, along), lerp(inset, tall, across))
+            }
         val stroke = 2.dp.toPx()
-        drawLine(
+        drawLine(colour, at(0f, 0f), at(0.5f, 1f), strokeWidth = stroke, cap = StrokeCap.Round)
-            colour,
+        drawLine(colour, at(0.5f, 1f), at(1f, 0f), strokeWidth = stroke, cap = StrokeCap.Round)
-            Offset(inset, ends),
-            Offset(size.width / 2, point),
-            strokeWidth = stroke,
-            cap = StrokeCap.Round,
-        )
-        drawLine(
-            colour,
-            Offset(size.width / 2, point),
-            Offset(size.width - inset, ends),
-            strokeWidth = stroke,
-            cap = StrokeCap.Round,
-        )
     }
 }
+
+private fun lerp(from: Float, to: Float, fraction: Float) = from + (to - from) * fraction
+
+/** How far the chevron opens, across the direction it points. */
+private val CHEVRON_SPAN = 20.dp
+
+/** How far it reaches in the direction it points. */
+private val CHEVRON_DEPTH = 10.dp

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/Durations.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package com.example.aiapp
+
+/**
+ * A span of milliseconds, written the way somebody reads it.
+ *
+ * A tool's timeout arrives as `480000`, which nobody reads as eight minutes. The rule has two
+ * halves, because a short span and a long one are read for different things. Under a minute the
+ * question is "roughly how long", so only the largest unit is shown and a fraction of it carries
+ * the rest -- `2.5s`, `30ms`. At a minute or more the question is "how long exactly", so every unit
+ * that has something in it is written out -- `5d 12h 4m`. Units that are empty are left out rather
+ * than written as zero, since the labels say which is which and `5d 0h 4m` is only longer.
+ *
+ * Sub-second precision is dropped past a minute: nothing that takes days is measured in
+ * milliseconds, and carrying them would make the common case the widest one.
+ */
+fun formatMillis(ms: Long): String {
+    if (ms < 0) return "-" + formatMillis(-ms)
+    if (ms < 1000) return "${ms}ms"
+    if (ms < 60_000) {
+        val tenths = (ms + 50) / 100
+        val whole = tenths / 10
+        val rest = tenths % 10
+        return if (rest == 0L) "${whole}s" else "$whole.${rest}s"
+    }
+    val seconds = ms / 1000
+    val parts =
+        listOf(
+            "d" to seconds / 86_400,
+            "h" to seconds / 3600 % 24,
+            "m" to seconds / 60 % 60,
+            "s" to seconds % 60,
+        )
+    return parts.filter { it.second > 0 }.joinToString(" ") { "${it.second}${it.first}" }
+}
+
+/** [text] as a span when it is a whole number of milliseconds, and unchanged when it is not. */
+fun formatMillisText(text: String): String =
+    text.trim().toLongOrNull()?.let { formatMillis(it) } ?: text

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/Markdown.kt

@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ private class LiveParse(
         val parse = parseMarkdown(tailText)
         val all = pieces(parse)
         val open = (parse as? State.Success)?.let { openPiece(it, all) }
-        if (open == null || parse !is State.Success) {
+        if (open == null) {
             return LiveParse(
                 next,
                 frozen,

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/NerdIcons.kt

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 package com.example.aiapp
 
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.size
+import androidx.compose.material3.CircularProgressIndicator
 import androidx.compose.material3.IconButton
 import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
 import androidx.compose.material3.Text
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
 import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
 import androidx.compose.ui.semantics.contentDescription
@@ -180,13 +183,52 @@ fun GlyphButton(
     modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
     enabled: Boolean = true,
     colour: Color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.primary,
+) {
+    MarkButton(label, onClick, modifier, enabled) {
+        Glyph(glyph, colour = if (enabled) colour else MaterialTheme.colorScheme.outline)
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The same square, around a mark that is not a glyph.
+ *
+ * A [Chevron] is drawn rather than set in a font, and a pair of them used as buttons has to be the
+ * size, spacing and touch target every other icon button on this app's headers already is -- so
+ * this is [GlyphButton] with the mark left to the caller rather than a second set of measurements
+ * beside it. The caller still owes it a [label]: nothing here draws a word.
+ */
+@Composable
+fun MarkButton(
+    label: String,
+    onClick: () -> Unit,
+    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
+    enabled: Boolean = true,
+    mark: @Composable () -> Unit,
 ) {
     IconButton(
         onClick = onClick,
         enabled = enabled,
         modifier = modifier.size(GLYPH_BUTTON_SIZE).semantics { contentDescription = label },
     ) {
-        Glyph(glyph, colour = if (enabled) colour else MaterialTheme.colorScheme.outline)
+        mark()
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The square a glyph button occupies, with a spinner in it instead of a mark.
+ *
+ * For a button whose work is under way. It takes the button's whole box rather than the mark's, so
+ * swapping one for the other leaves everything in the row exactly where it was -- a control that
+ * changed the width of its header while it worked would move its neighbours at the moment somebody
+ * was pressing them.
+ */
+@Composable
+fun GlyphSpinner(label: String, modifier: Modifier = Modifier) {
+    Box(
+        contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+        modifier = modifier.size(GLYPH_BUTTON_SIZE).semantics { contentDescription = label },
+    ) {
+        CircularProgressIndicator(Modifier.size(GLYPH_EXTENT), strokeWidth = 2.dp)
     }
 }
 

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/PendingAttachments.kt

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.widthIn
 import androidx.compose.foundation.rememberScrollState
 import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.CircleShape
 import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.RoundedCornerShape
+import androidx.compose.material3.CircularProgressIndicator
 import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
 import androidx.compose.material3.Text
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
@@ -97,11 +98,18 @@ private fun PendingThumbnail(
             // The two are told apart for the same reason the transcript's images are: one of them
             // is worth waiting for and the other never resolves.
             null ->
+                if (failed) {
                     Text(
-                    if (failed) "!" else "…",
+                        "!",
                         style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyLarge,
                         color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
                     )
+                } else {
+                    // A spinner, as the transcript's images have: one appearance for "a picture
+                    // is on its way", learned once. An ellipsis had to be read as a spinner that
+                    // was not moving.
+                    CircularProgressIndicator(Modifier.size(20.dp), strokeWidth = 2.dp)
+                }
             else ->
                 Image(
                     bitmap = image,

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/ResetCountdown.kt

@@ -7,12 +7,22 @@ import java.time.OffsetDateTime
 // arithmetic is the same in both and only the sentence around it differs, so everything here
 // returns the span or the state on its own and leaves the wording to the caller.
 
-/** "1d 4h", "3h 12m", "12m" -- the span alone, with no leading or trailing words. */
+/**
-fun formatSpan(until: Duration): String =
+ * "1d 4h", "3h 12m", "12m" -- the span alone, with no leading or trailing words.
-    when {
+ *
-        until.toHours() >= 24 -> "${until.toDays()}d ${until.toHours() % 24}h"
+ * Rounded **up** to the whole minute, rather than truncated as it was. A window with 3h 12m 50s
-        until.toHours() > 0 -> "${until.toHours()}h ${until.toMinutes() % 60}m"
+ * left is nearer four minutes past the twelve than it is to twelve, and truncating also parks the
-        else -> "${until.toMinutes()}m"
+ * figure on a minute it has already spent -- so the reader watching the number decide whether to
+ * start something was consistently told less headroom than they had. One rule, so the session bar
+ * and the usage dialog cannot round a shared measurement two different ways.
+ */
+fun formatSpan(until: Duration): String {
+    val up = if (until.seconds % 60 == 0L && until.nano == 0) until else until.plusMinutes(1)
+    return when {
+        up.toHours() >= 24 -> "${up.toDays()}d ${up.toHours() % 24}h"
+        up.toHours() > 0 -> "${up.toHours()}h ${up.toMinutes() % 60}m"
+        else -> "${up.toMinutes()}m"
+    }
 }
 
 /**

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SessionImage.kt

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.height
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.size
+import androidx.compose.material3.CircularProgressIndicator
 import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
 import androidx.compose.material3.Text
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@ import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
 import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.draw.clip
 import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
 import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.FilterQuality
 import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.ImageBitmap
@@ -94,14 +97,19 @@ fun SessionImage(
     val heightPx = with(LocalDensity.current) { height.roundToPx() }
     Box(Modifier.fillMaxWidth().height(height), contentAlignment = Alignment.CenterStart) {
         when (val image = bitmap) {
+            // Two states, not one: an image still arriving and an image that will never arrive
+            // look nothing alike to a reader who can do something about the second. So one gets a
+            // spinner in the space the picture is about to fill, and the other gets words.
             null ->
+                if (failed) {
                     Text(
-                    // Two states, not one: an image still arriving and an image that will never
+                        "[image $ref unavailable]",
-                    // arrive look nothing alike to a reader who can do something about the second.
-                    if (failed) "[image $ref unavailable]" else "[loading image…]",
                         style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
                         color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
                     )
+                } else {
+                    LoadingImage(height)
+                }
             else ->
                 Image(
                     bitmap = image,
@@ -153,17 +161,51 @@ fun SessionImageViewer(
                 // coming. Stated in white because this box paints its own black behind them and a
                 // theme colour would be picked against a surface that is not there.
                 null ->
+                    if (failed) {
                         Text(
-                        if (failed) "Image $ref is unavailable" else "Loading image…",
+                            "Image $ref is unavailable",
                             color = Color.White,
                             style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyMedium,
                         )
+                    } else {
+                        // The whole dialog is the area this picture is about to fill, so the
+                        // spinner sits in the middle of it. White for the same reason the words
+                        // beside it are: this box paints its own black, and a theme colour would
+                        // be chosen against a surface that is not there.
+                        CircularProgressIndicator(color = Color.White)
+                    }
                 else -> ZoomableImage(image)
             }
         }
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * The room a picture is about to take, with a spinner in the middle of it.
+ *
+ * A square of the row's own height rather than the full width of the transcript: the height is what
+ * [SessionImage] reserves and the width is not known until the bytes arrive, so a full-width
+ * placeholder would promise a picture wider than most of them turn out to be. Square is the closest
+ * thing to "the size of it" that can be drawn before knowing.
+ *
+ * Tinted, so the reader can see that something is being kept for a picture. That is also what
+ * distinguishes it from the failure beside it, which is words on the ordinary surface.
+ */
+@Composable
+private fun LoadingImage(height: Dp) {
+    Box(
+        Modifier.size(height)
+            .clip(MaterialTheme.shapes.small)
+            .background(MaterialTheme.colorScheme.surfaceContainerHigh),
+        contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+    ) {
+        CircularProgressIndicator(Modifier.size(LOADING_SPINNER), strokeWidth = 2.dp)
+    }
+}
+
+/** Small enough to sit inside the thumbnail's square without filling it. */
+private val LOADING_SPINNER = 24.dp
+
 /**
  * Four lines of the body style the transcript is set in.
  *

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SessionScreen.kt

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.size
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.width
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.LazyListState
 import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.CircleShape
+import androidx.compose.foundation.text.selection.rememberSelectionState
 import androidx.compose.material3.AlertDialog
 import androidx.compose.material3.Button
 import androidx.compose.material3.Card
@@ -71,6 +72,8 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalContext
 import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalDensity
 import androidx.compose.ui.semantics.contentDescription
 import androidx.compose.ui.semantics.semantics
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.TextRange
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.input.TextFieldValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.style.TextOverflow
 import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
 import androidx.compose.ui.window.PopupProperties
@@ -267,13 +270,17 @@ fun SessionScreen(
     // leaving the screen -- or the system reclaiming the app -- does not throw away a half-typed
     // message. See `Drafts.kt` for why this one piece of state is the device's rather than the
     // server's.
-    var input by remember(summary.id) { mutableStateOf(loadDraft(context, summary.id)) }
+    var input by remember(summary.id) { mutableStateOf(atEnd(loadDraft(context, summary.id))) }
     // A model the reader has chosen and not yet confirmed. See [ModelSwitchWarning]: switching
     // makes the session re-read the whole conversation, which is worth asking about first.
     var pendingModel by remember { mutableStateOf<String?>(null) }
     // What was last taken from the command suggestions, so the list closes behind it; see
     // [CommandSuggestions] at its call site.
     var picked by remember { mutableStateOf<String?>(null) }
+    // The transcript's selection, held here rather than inside [TranscriptList] because the rows
+    // have to ask whether anything is selected before they treat a tap as their own -- see
+    // [expanding].
+    val selection = rememberSelectionState()
     var expandedTools by remember { mutableStateOf(setOf<String>()) }
     // Which runs of adjacent tool calls are open. Keyed by the first call's
     // id, so a group survives more calls arriving after it.
@@ -485,6 +492,30 @@ fun SessionScreen(
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * A press on the transcript that would open or close something, and the one thing every such
+     * press has to check first.
+     *
+     * The transcript is one [SelectionContainer], so a reader who has selected some text puts that
+     * selection away by tapping -- and the tap that does it lands on whatever card the text is
+     * drawn in. Left alone, that card takes it as a press of its own: the reader clears a selection
+     * and the tool call under their finger collapses, which is a second thing happening for a
+     * gesture that meant one. So a press with a selection outstanding spends itself clearing it and
+     * does nothing else, and the press after that -- with nothing selected -- opens or closes as
+     * usual.
+     *
+     * Every open and close on this screen goes through here rather than each writing the check,
+     * since which card the finger lands on is not something the reader chose and the rule cannot
+     * hold for only some of them.
+     */
+    fun expanding(toggle: () -> Unit) {
+        if (selection.selectedTexts.isNotEmpty()) {
+            selection.clear()
+            return
+        }
+        toggle()
+    }
+
     /**
      * Changes a row's height while the end the reader touched stays where it is.
      *
@@ -505,7 +536,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
      * comes from the row's own detector ([LastTouch]), written by the gesture that is about to run
      * [toggle].
      */
-    fun toggleAnchored(row: TranscriptRow, toggle: () -> Unit) {
+    fun toggleAnchored(row: TranscriptRow, toggle: () -> Unit) = expanding {
         if (lastTouch.key == row.key && lastTouch.high) topEdgeHeld.key = row.key
         toggle()
     }
@@ -1027,7 +1058,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
     }
 
     /** Opens or closes one memory note, wherever it is drawn; see [MemoryNote]. */
-    fun toggleMemory(text: String) {
+    fun toggleMemory(text: String) = expanding {
         openMemories = if (text in openMemories) openMemories - text else openMemories + text
     }
 
@@ -1043,7 +1074,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
      * the reader tapped keeps its place because the list keeps it, not because a measurement
      * corrected it afterwards.
      */
-    fun togglePeer(seq: Long) {
+    fun togglePeer(seq: Long) = expanding {
         expandedNotes = if (seq in expandedNotes) expandedNotes - seq else expandedNotes + seq
     }
 
@@ -1063,8 +1094,21 @@ fun SessionScreen(
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Sends every answer a question card handed over, and says when the last of them has settled.
+     *
+     * All of them in one go because a card asks its questions together and the tool is waiting on
+     * all of them; the completion is what turns the card's spinner back into a button, whether the
+     * server took them or refused.
+     */
+    fun answerAll(answers: List<QuestionAnswer>, onSettled: () -> Unit) {
+        act(onDone = onSettled) {
+            answers.forEach { answerQuestion(settings, summary.id, it.questionId, it.answers) }
+        }
+    }
+
     fun send() {
-        val text = input.trim()
+        val text = input.text.trim()
         val attachments = pendingAttachments
         if (text.isEmpty() && attachments.isEmpty()) return
         // A command is not a message: it is an instruction to the session about itself, and one
@@ -1072,7 +1116,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
         // turn ends and says so, which is where its waiting bubble comes from -- so nothing is
         // held here, and there is no local guess to correct when the answer arrives.
         if (text.startsWith("/") && attachments.isEmpty()) {
-            input = ""
+            input = atEnd("")
             saveDraft(context, summary.id, "")
             // The one command with a visible effect outside the transcript, applied when the
             // server has accepted it rather than when it was typed: the name is this app's own
@@ -1087,7 +1131,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
             }
             return
         }
-        input = ""
+        input = atEnd("")
         saveDraft(context, summary.id, "")
         pendingAttachments = emptyList()
         // Nothing is added here. The server says what is waiting -- it emits `messageQueued`
@@ -1132,14 +1176,15 @@ fun SessionScreen(
         onShareTaken()
         incoming.uris.forEach(::attach)
         incoming.text?.let { shared ->
-            input = if (input.isBlank()) shared else input + "\n" + shared
+            input = atEnd(if (input.text.isBlank()) shared else input.text + "\n" + shared)
-            saveDraft(context, summary.id, input)
+            saveDraft(context, summary.id, input.text)
         }
     }
 
-    // One poll for this machine's limits, read by the two things that show them: the bar under
+    // One poll for the machines' limits, read by everything on this screen that reports them:
-    // the header, and the colour of the button that opens the dialog.
+    // the bar under the header, the colour of the button that opens the dialog, and the dialog.
-    val usage = rememberSessionUsage(settings, summary.setup)
+    val usageFeed = rememberUsageFeed(settings)
+    val usage = usageFeed.forSetup(summary.setup)
     RecordFrames()
     var usageOpen by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
     var settingsOpen by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
@@ -1341,6 +1386,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                         units = units,
                         state = listState,
                         moreHistory = moreHistory,
+                        selection = selection,
                         modifier =
                             Modifier.fillMaxSize().drawWithContent { if (settled) drawContent() },
                         below = {
@@ -1476,16 +1522,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                                                             else expandedTools + id
                                                     }
                                                 },
-                                                onAnswer = { questionId, answers ->
+                                                onAnswer = ::answerAll,
-                                                    act {
-                                                        answerQuestion(
-                                                            settings,
-                                                            summary.id,
-                                                            questionId,
-                                                            answers,
-                                                        )
-                                                    }
-                                                },
                                                 image = { ref ->
                                                     SessionImage(
                                                         settings,
@@ -1535,16 +1572,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                                                                     else expandedTools + item.id
                                                             }
                                                         },
-                                                        onAnswer = { questionId, answers ->
+                                                        onAnswer = ::answerAll,
-                                                            act {
-                                                                answerQuestion(
-                                                                    settings,
-                                                                    summary.id,
-                                                                    questionId,
-                                                                    answers,
-                                                                )
-                                                            }
-                                                        },
                                                         image = { ref ->
                                                             SessionImage(
                                                                 settings,
@@ -1555,16 +1583,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                                                         },
                                                     )
                                                 is TranscriptItem.QuestionCard ->
-                                                    QuestionRow(item) { answers ->
+                                                    QuestionRow(item, ::answerAll)
-                                                        act {
-                                                            answerQuestion(
-                                                                settings,
-                                                                summary.id,
-                                                                item.id,
-                                                                answers,
-                                                            )
-                                                        }
-                                                    }
                                                 is TranscriptItem.ErrorMsg ->
                                                     Text(
                                                         item.message,
@@ -1658,7 +1677,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                                 .semantics { contentDescription = "Jump to latest" },
                     ) {
                         Chevron(
-                            pointingUp = false,
+                            Pointing.Down,
                             colour = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurface,
                             modifier = Modifier.padding(horizontal = 16.dp, vertical = 12.dp),
                         )
@@ -1720,9 +1739,13 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                 // has nothing left to offer, in front of the box they are about to send from.
                 // Held by what was picked rather than by a flag, so typing anything else brings
                 // the list back without needing a second thing to reset.
-                commands = if (input == picked) emptyList() else suggestedCommands(input),
+                commands = if (input.text == picked) emptyList() else suggestedCommands(input.text),
                 onPick = { command ->
-                    input = command.typed()
+                    // At the end of what was inserted, which is where the reader carries on
+                    // typing: a command with an argument is put in the box half-written, and a
+                    // cursor left at the front makes the next keystroke the first character of
+                    // "/rename" rather than of the name.
+                    input = atEnd(command.typed())
                     picked = command.typed()
                 },
             )
@@ -1747,7 +1770,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                     value = input,
                     onValueChange = {
                         input = it
-                        saveDraft(context, summary.id, it)
+                        saveDraft(context, summary.id, it.text)
                     },
                     modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
                     // No longer "(+image)": the images are on screen above this, and a placeholder
@@ -1764,13 +1787,14 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                     var attaching by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
                     Box {
                         // Just "+". The count it used to carry was standing in for showing them.
-                        TextButton(onClick = { attaching = true }) { Text("+") }
+                        BubbleButton(onClick = { attaching = true }) { Text("+") }
                         DropdownMenu(
                             expanded = attaching,
                             onDismissRequest = { attaching = false },
                             // See PickerButton: without this the menu opens a status bar's
                             // height away from the button in an edge-to-edge activity.
                             properties = PopupProperties(clippingEnabled = false),
+                            shape = BubbleMenuShape,
                         ) {
                             DropdownMenuItem(
                                 text = { Text("Photo") },
@@ -1883,7 +1907,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
                     // not hidden, for the reason the button beside it is always here.
                     Button(
                         onClick = { send() },
-                        enabled = input.isNotBlank() || pendingAttachments.isNotEmpty(),
+                        enabled = input.text.isNotBlank() || pendingAttachments.isNotEmpty(),
                         colors = actionButtonColors(if (running) queueColor else sendColor),
                     ) {
                         Glyph(
@@ -1902,7 +1926,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
     // open is the screen's business rather than any row's. See [SessionImageViewer].
     fullImage?.let { ref -> SessionImageViewer(settings, summary.id, ref) { fullImage = null } }
     if (usageOpen) {
-        UsageDialog(settings = settings, onDismiss = { usageOpen = false })
+        UsageDialog(feed = usageFeed, onDismiss = { usageOpen = false })
     }
     if (settingsOpen) {
         SessionSettingsDialog(
@@ -2097,10 +2121,18 @@ private data class QueuedMessage(
  * always going to re-read the conversation -- the switch adds nothing to that bill. And a session
  * reporting zero context is holding nothing, which is what `/clear` leaves behind.
  *
- * Where the figure is *unknown* rather than zero the fallback is what it always was: whether
+ * Where the figure is *unknown* rather than zero the fallback is whether anything has been said
- * anything has been said at all. Unknown is not nothing, and treating it as nothing would drop the
+ * **since the last clear**. Unknown is not nothing, and treating it as nothing would drop the
  * warning on exactly the sessions -- an import, a fresh reattach -- where nobody has measured yet
- * and the conversation may be enormous.
+ * and the conversation may be enormous. But a clear is the one case that makes the whole loaded
+ * transcript stop counting: it leaves the conversation on screen and takes it out of the session's
+ * context, and the server reports the context as unmeasured afterwards rather than as zero, since
+ * nobody has counted what is left. So the reading that used the whole list warned about dropping a
+ * cache that the clear had already dropped -- on the screen where a reader has just deliberately
+ * emptied the thing being warned about.
+ *
+ * With no clear anywhere in what is loaded this is the old reading exactly, which is the
+ * conservative answer for a clear that happened further back than the loaded window.
  */
 private fun worthWarningAbout(
     status: String,
@@ -2110,7 +2142,7 @@ private fun worthWarningAbout(
     when {
         status == "exited" -> false
         contextTokens != null -> contextTokens > 0
-        else -> items.isNotEmpty()
+        else -> items.asReversed().takeWhile { it !is TranscriptItem.ClearedNote }.isNotEmpty()
     }
 
 /**
@@ -2272,17 +2304,29 @@ private fun SessionStatusRow(
 @Composable
 private fun QuestionRow(
     question: TranscriptItem.QuestionCard,
-    onAnswer: (List<String>) -> Unit,
+    onAnswer: (List<QuestionAnswer>, onSettled: () -> Unit) -> Unit,
 ) {
     Card(Modifier.fillMaxWidth()) {
         Column(Modifier.padding(12.dp)) {
-            // The same body the questions on a tool call get: one question is the same
+            // The same body the questions on a tool call get, down to the submit button: one
-            // thing whether or not something else asked it.
+            // question is the same thing whether or not something asked it, and two renderings of
-            AskedQuestion(question, onAnswer)
+            // it would be two places for an answer to go missing.
+            AskUserQuestionBody(listOf(question), onAnswer)
         }
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * [text] in the message box, with the cursor after it.
+ *
+ * Everything that puts words in the box without the reader typing them goes through here: a
+ * restored draft, a share arriving from another app, a slash command taken from the suggestions.
+ * All three leave the reader mid-sentence, and all three used to leave the cursor at whatever
+ * offset it happened to hold -- which for a box that has never been focused is the very start, so
+ * picking `/rename` and typing put the name in front of the command.
+ */
+private fun atEnd(text: String) = TextFieldValue(text, TextRange(text.length))
+
 /**
  * How long after a menu closes a press on its own button still counts as the press that closed it.
  *
@@ -2314,7 +2358,7 @@ private fun PickerButton(current: String, options: List<String>, onPick: (String
     // as a new one.
     var closedAt by remember { mutableLongStateOf(0L) }
     Box {
-        TextButton(
+        BubbleButton(
             onClick = { if (SystemClock.uptimeMillis() - closedAt > ONE_TAP_MS) open = true }
         ) {
             // One line, truncated rather than wrapped: this sits in a row
@@ -2353,6 +2397,7 @@ private fun PickerButton(current: String, options: List<String>, onPick: (String
                 closedAt = SystemClock.uptimeMillis()
             },
             properties = PopupProperties(focusable = false, clippingEnabled = false),
+            shape = BubbleMenuShape,
         ) {
             options.forEach { option ->
                 DropdownMenuItem(

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SessionUsageBar.kt

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import androidx.compose.material3.Text
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
 import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
 import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
+import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableIntStateOf
 import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
 import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
 import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
@@ -55,28 +56,63 @@ sealed class SessionUsage {
 private const val REFRESH_MS = 60_000L
 
 /**
- * One machine's rate limits, polled.
+ * One poll of every machine's limits, and the handle to ask again.
  *
- * Hoisted out of [SessionUsageBar] because two things on a session's screen show this same answer
+ * A screen shows this answer in more than one place -- the bar under the session header, the colour
- * -- the bar, and the colour of the button that opens the usage dialog. Fetching it twice would
+ * of the button beside it, and the dialog that button opens -- and each of those used to fetch for
- * cost two round trips to say one thing, and the two copies would disagree for up to a minute at a
+ * itself. Two fetches say one thing twice and then disagree about it: the bar's copy can be a whole
- * time, which is the interface contradicting itself about a number somebody is deciding on.
+ * refresh interval old when the dialog opens with a fresh one, so the header read 42% while the
+ * screen over it read 47%, about a number somebody is deciding on. One feed per screen, and
+ * [refresh] moves both.
+ */
+class UsageFeed(
+    val snapshots: LoadState<List<UsageSnapshot>>,
+    /**
+     * A fetch is outstanding. Only ever true over an answer already shown; see [rememberUsageFeed].
+     */
+    val refreshing: Boolean,
+    /** Ask the backend again now. The dialog's refresh button; the poll does it on its own. */
+    val refresh: () -> Unit,
+) {
+    /** What [setup]'s own limits came back as. See [usageFor] for why the states are these. */
+    fun forSetup(setup: String): SessionUsage =
+        when (val state = snapshots) {
+            is LoadState.Loading -> SessionUsage.Waiting
+            is LoadState.Error -> SessionUsage.Unavailable(state.message)
+            is LoadState.Loaded -> usageFor(state.value, setup)
+        }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The one poll of the machines' rate limits, polled and refreshable.
+ *
+ * Hoisted out of [SessionUsageBar] because everything on a session's screen that reports on usage
+ * has to be reporting the same measurement; see [UsageFeed].
  */
 @Composable
-fun rememberSessionUsage(settings: ServerSettings, setup: String): SessionUsage {
+fun rememberUsageFeed(settings: ServerSettings): UsageFeed {
-    var usage by remember(setup) { mutableStateOf<SessionUsage>(SessionUsage.Waiting) }
+    var snapshots by remember { mutableStateOf<LoadState<List<UsageSnapshot>>>(LoadState.Loading) }
-    LaunchedEffect(setup) {
+    var refreshing by remember { mutableStateOf(true) }
+    // Bumped to ask again now. The poll below restarts from the new value, so a manual refresh
+    // also resets the countdown to the next one rather than leaving one due immediately after.
+    var asked by remember { mutableIntStateOf(0) }
+    LaunchedEffect(asked) {
         while (true) {
-            usage =
+            refreshing = true
+            // Replaces the answer only once the next one is in hand: dropping back to Loading
+            // would blank a bar somebody is reading for the length of a round trip, and what was
+            // on screen is still the last thing the machine actually said.
+            snapshots =
                 try {
-                    usageFor(withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { fetchUsage(settings) }, setup)
+                    LoadState.Loaded(withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { fetchUsage(settings) })
                 } catch (e: ApiException) {
-                    SessionUsage.Unavailable(e.message ?: "couldn't reach the backend")
+                    LoadState.failed(e)
                 }
+            refreshing = false
             delay(REFRESH_MS)
         }
     }
-    return usage
+    return remember(snapshots, refreshing) { UsageFeed(snapshots, refreshing) { asked++ } }
 }
 
 /**

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SwipeBack.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+package com.example.aiapp
+
+import androidx.compose.animation.core.Animatable
+import androidx.compose.foundation.gestures.Orientation
+import androidx.compose.foundation.gestures.draggable
+import androidx.compose.foundation.gestures.rememberDraggableState
+import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
+import androidx.compose.runtime.rememberCoroutineScope
+import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.graphicsLayer
+import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalDensity
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.Dp
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
+import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
+
+/**
+ * Dragging the screen to the right to step back to the one behind it.
+ *
+ * The platform's own back gesture is a swipe from the very edge, and only from there; on a phone
+ * held in one hand the way back from a session is either that narrow strip or the arrow at the top
+ * left, which is the far corner from the thumb. This is the same movement from anywhere on the
+ * screen.
+ *
+ * **It loses every argument.** The gesture is a plain horizontal [draggable] on the outside of the
+ * screen, so anything inside that wants horizontal drags has already taken them by the time this
+ * would see them: pointer events reach the innermost node first, and a drag a child has consumed
+ * never crosses this modifier's touch slop. That is what keeps a wide code fence, a table scrolled
+ * sideways or a text selection working -- they are the components the reader meant, and this is
+ * only what is left over. Vertical drags are not its orientation, so the transcript scrolls
+ * untouched.
+ *
+ * The screen follows the finger rather than jumping at the end, because a gesture with no feedback
+ * cannot be aborted: the reader has to be able to see it starting and change their mind. Released
+ * short of [SWIPE_BACK_TRAVEL] it slides back and nothing happens. Right rather than left, and only
+ * right, since there is nothing forward of these screens to go to.
+ */
+@Composable
+fun Modifier.swipeBack(onBack: () -> Unit): Modifier {
+    val offset = remember { Animatable(0f) }
+    val scope = rememberCoroutineScope()
+    val travel = with(LocalDensity.current) { SWIPE_BACK_TRAVEL.toPx() }
+    return draggable(
+            state =
+                rememberDraggableState { delta ->
+                    // Rightward only: a leftward drag stays at zero rather than lifting the
+                    // screen off its left edge, which would look like a gesture that does
+                    // something and does not.
+                    scope.launch { offset.snapTo((offset.value + delta).coerceAtLeast(0f)) }
+                },
+            orientation = Orientation.Horizontal,
+            onDragStopped = {
+                if (offset.value >= travel) {
+                    onBack()
+                    // Straight back rather than animated: the screen this was moving is being
+                    // replaced, and animating it home first would show the old one sliding back
+                    // into place after the new one had arrived.
+                    offset.snapTo(0f)
+                } else {
+                    offset.animateTo(0f)
+                }
+            },
+        )
+        // Read inside the block, so following the finger is a draw-phase change and costs no
+        // recomposition of the screen being dragged.
+        .graphicsLayer { translationX = offset.value }
+}
+
+/** How far the screen has to be pulled for letting go to mean "back" rather than "never mind". */
+private val SWIPE_BACK_TRAVEL: Dp = 96.dp

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/Theme.kt

@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ private object Mocha {
     val Sky = Color(0xFF89DCEB)
     val Blue = Color(0xFF89B4FA)
     val Lavender = Color(0xFFB4BEFE)
+    val Pink = Color(0xFFF5C2E7)
     val Text = Color(0xFFCDD6F4)
+    val Subtext1 = Color(0xFFBAC2DE)
     val Subtext0 = Color(0xFFA6ADC8)
     val Overlay0 = Color(0xFF6C7086)
     val Surface2 = Color(0xFF585B70)
@@ -216,6 +218,45 @@ fun catppuccinSyntax(): SyntaxPalette =
         mark = Mocha.Sky,
     )
 
+/**
+ * The sixteen terminal colours, for what a Bash tool call printed; see [AnsiPalette].
+ *
+ * Catppuccin publishes its own ANSI mapping and this is it, rather than the eight accents picked by
+ * eye: a program printing in "colour 4" means blue, and which blue is a decision the palette has
+ * already made for every other blue on the screen.
+ *
+ * Mocha's bright half is the same accents as its normal half -- only the two greys differ -- which
+ * is upstream's choice and not an omission here. A program that uses bright red to mean something
+ * other than red is relying on a distinction its own terminal may not draw either.
+ *
+ * The background is [rawSurface] because that is what a tool's output is drawn on, and reverse
+ * video needs to know what it is reversing against.
+ */
+fun ansiPalette(): AnsiPalette =
+    AnsiPalette(
+        colours =
+            listOf(
+                Mocha.Surface1,
+                Mocha.Red,
+                Mocha.Green,
+                Mocha.Yellow,
+                Mocha.Blue,
+                Mocha.Pink,
+                Mocha.Teal,
+                Mocha.Subtext1,
+                Mocha.Surface2,
+                Mocha.Red,
+                Mocha.Green,
+                Mocha.Yellow,
+                Mocha.Blue,
+                Mocha.Pink,
+                Mocha.Teal,
+                Mocha.Subtext0,
+            ),
+        foreground = Mocha.Text,
+        background = Mocha.Crust,
+    )
+
 /**
  * A link. Blue is what a link is on every Catppuccin surface, and the one colour to leave alone.
  */

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/ToolInput.kt

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ data class ToolInput(
     /** The tool's own one-line summary, when it wrote one. */
     val description: String?,
     /**
-     * How long the call may take, as the tool expressed it. Shown apart because it is a limit on
+     * How long the call may take, in the largest units it fits ([formatMillis]). Shown apart
-     * the call rather than part of what the call does.
+     * because it is a limit on the call rather than part of what the call does.
      */
     val timeout: String?,
     /** Everything else, as `name: value` lines. Never dropped. */
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ fun parseToolInput(tool: String, input: String): ToolInput {
     val description = DESCRIPTIONS.firstNotNullOfOrNull {
         json.optString(it).takeIf { v -> v.isNotBlank() }
     }
-    val timeout = json.optString("timeout").takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
+    val timeout = json.optString("timeout").takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }?.let { formatMillisText(it) }
     val rest =
         json
             .keys()

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/ToolRows.kt

@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
 import androidx.compose.material3.Text
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Immutable
+import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
+import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
 import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
+import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
 import androidx.compose.ui.draw.clip
@@ -174,7 +177,7 @@ fun ToolGroup(
     onToggle: () -> Unit,
     isToolExpanded: (String) -> Boolean,
     onToolToggle: (String) -> Unit,
-    onAnswer: (questionId: String, answers: List<String>) -> Unit,
+    onAnswer: (List<QuestionAnswer>, onSettled: () -> Unit) -> Unit,
     image: @Composable (String) -> Unit,
 ) {
     val heading = "Called ${group.calls.size} tools"
@@ -254,7 +257,7 @@ private fun CollapseBar(height: Dp, onToggle: () -> Unit) {
         horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.Center,
         verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
     ) {
-        Chevron(pointingUp = true, colour = colour)
+        Chevron(Pointing.Up, colour = colour)
     }
 }
 
@@ -306,7 +309,7 @@ fun ToolCard(
     tool: TranscriptItem.ToolRun,
     expanded: Boolean,
     onToggle: () -> Unit,
-    onAnswer: (questionId: String, answers: List<String>) -> Unit,
+    onAnswer: (List<QuestionAnswer>, onSettled: () -> Unit) -> Unit,
     image: @Composable (String) -> Unit = {},
     /** Square where this card faces another in a group; see [connectedShape]. */
     shape: Shape = CardDefaults.shape,
@@ -380,9 +383,17 @@ fun ToolCard(
                     // face it was written for: this is column-aligned far more often than it is
                     // prose -- a directory listing, a diff, a table of numbers -- and a
                     // proportional font silently destroys the alignment that carried the meaning.
+                    //
+                    // Its terminal styling applied and the rest of the escapes taken out, since
+                    // what a shell prints is written for a terminal: colour is often the whole of
+                    // what a diff or a test run is saying, and the sequences that carry it are
+                    // unreadable drawn verbatim. Remembered against the text, so a card that is
+                    // open through a scroll parses once. See [ansiStyled].
+                    val palette = remember { ansiPalette() }
+                    val styled = remember(tool.output, palette) { ansiStyled(tool.output, palette) }
                     RawBlock(Modifier.padding(top = 2.dp)) {
                         Text(
-                            tool.output,
+                            styled,
                             style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
                             fontFamily = FontFamily.Monospace,
                         )
@@ -398,9 +409,7 @@ fun ToolCard(
                 if (tool.tool == ASK_USER_QUESTION) {
                     AskUserQuestionBody(tool.asks, onAnswer)
                 } else {
-                    tool.asks.forEach { ask ->
+                    tool.asks.forEach { ask -> PermissionAsk(ask, onAnswer) }
-                        PermissionAsk(ask) { answers -> onAnswer(ask.id, answers) }
-                    }
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -414,7 +423,17 @@ fun ToolCard(
  * the ask can stand alone, and here it does not have to -- the card above is showing exactly that.
  */
 @Composable
-private fun PermissionAsk(ask: TranscriptItem.QuestionCard, onAnswer: (List<String>) -> Unit) {
+private fun PermissionAsk(
+    ask: TranscriptItem.QuestionCard,
+    onAnswer: (List<QuestionAnswer>, onSettled: () -> Unit) -> Unit,
+) {
+    // What was pressed, before the answer has been round-tripped. Two bare words with no submit
+    // step -- unlike a question card, where the answer is several choices and worth reviewing --
+    // so the press has to be its own acknowledgement or the row sits unchanged for a round trip
+    // and reads as having missed the tap. Cleared when the request settles: by then either the
+    // answer is in `ask.answers` and the mark stands on a measurement, or it failed and the
+    // buttons come back rather than leaving a decision marked that nothing recorded.
+    var pressed by remember(ask.id) { mutableStateOf<String?>(null) }
     Spacer(Modifier.height(8.dp))
     Text(
         ask.prompt.substringBefore('\n'),
@@ -425,7 +444,18 @@ private fun PermissionAsk(ask: TranscriptItem.QuestionCard, onAnswer: (List<Stri
     // [AskedQuestion], which is the same rule on the question card. A permission is where it
     // matters most: "Answered: Deny" alone does not say that Allow was the alternative, and
     // whether a tool was allowed or refused is the thing a reader comes back to this row for.
-    AnswerOptions(ask.options, ask.answers, onAnswer.takeIf { ask.answers.isEmpty() })
+    val settled = ask.answers.isNotEmpty()
+    AnswerOptions(
+        ask.options,
+        if (settled) ask.answers else listOfNotNull(pressed),
+        onPick =
+            if (settled || pressed != null) null
+            else
+                { label ->
+                    pressed = label
+                    onAnswer(listOf(QuestionAnswer(ask.id, listOf(label)))) { pressed = null }
+                },
+    )
 }
 
 /**

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/TranscriptList.kt

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.size
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.LazyColumn
 import androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.LazyListState
 import androidx.compose.foundation.text.selection.SelectionContainer
+import androidx.compose.foundation.text.selection.SelectionState
 import androidx.compose.material3.CircularProgressIndicator
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
 import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
@@ -44,17 +45,23 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
  * drawn without one silently unselectable, which is a state nothing on screen reports. Rows keep
  * their tap handlers: selection is a long press, and the container passes an ordinary click through
  * to the card under it.
+ *
+ * [selection] is the container's own state, held by the caller rather than made here, because the
+ * rows have to be able to ask whether anything is selected before they act on a tap -- a tap whose
+ * job is to put a selection away is not also a tap on the card under it. See the caller's
+ * `expanding`.
  */
 @Composable
 fun TranscriptList(
     units: List<TranscriptUnit>,
     state: LazyListState,
     moreHistory: Boolean,
+    selection: SelectionState,
     modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
     below: @Composable () -> Unit,
     unit: @Composable (TranscriptUnit) -> Unit,
 ) {
-    SelectionContainer {
+    SelectionContainer(selection) {
         LazyColumn(
             state = state,
             reverseLayout = true,

app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/UsageDialog.kt

@@ -15,20 +15,11 @@ import androidx.compose.material3.Surface
 import androidx.compose.material3.Text
 import androidx.compose.material3.TextButton
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
-import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
-import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
-import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
-import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
-import androidx.compose.runtime.rememberCoroutineScope
-import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
 import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
 import androidx.compose.ui.window.Dialog
 import java.time.OffsetDateTime
-import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
-import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
-import kotlinx.coroutines.withContext
 
 /**
  * Window bars for the account's rate limits, with reset times.
@@ -41,23 +32,7 @@ import kotlinx.coroutines.withContext
  * handles that itself.
  */
 @Composable
-fun UsageDialog(settings: ServerSettings, onDismiss: () -> Unit) {
+fun UsageDialog(feed: UsageFeed, onDismiss: () -> Unit) {
-    val scope = rememberCoroutineScope()
-    var state by remember { mutableStateOf<LoadState<List<UsageSnapshot>>>(LoadState.Loading) }
-
-    fun refresh() {
-        state = LoadState.Loading
-        scope.launch {
-            state =
-                try {
-                    withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { LoadState.Loaded(fetchUsage(settings)) }
-                } catch (e: ApiException) {
-                    LoadState.failed(e)
-                }
-        }
-    }
-    LaunchedEffect(Unit) { refresh() }
-
     // A plain Dialog rather than an AlertDialog, for the spacing alone. AlertDialog fixes the
     // gaps between its title, its content and its buttons at sizes meant for a sentence of prose
     // and a decision; this is a dense read-out, and those gaps left a band of empty dialog above
@@ -84,7 +59,14 @@ fun UsageDialog(settings: ServerSettings, onDismiss: () -> Unit) {
                         style = MaterialTheme.typography.headlineSmall,
                         modifier = Modifier.weight(1f),
                     )
-                    GlyphButton(REFRESH_GLYPH, "Refresh usage", { refresh() })
+                    // A spinner in the button's place while the answer is on its way, since the
+                    // numbers under it stay put during a refresh -- without it, pressing refresh
+                    // over an unchanged read-out looks like a button that does nothing.
+                    if (feed.refreshing) {
+                        GlyphSpinner("Refreshing usage")
+                    } else {
+                        GlyphButton(REFRESH_GLYPH, "Refresh usage", feed.refresh)
+                    }
                 }
                 Spacer(Modifier.height(8.dp))
                 // Scrolls rather than being trimmed: a machine can report any number of windows
@@ -92,7 +74,7 @@ fun UsageDialog(settings: ServerSettings, onDismiss: () -> Unit) {
                 // running out of room is silent. `fill = false` so a short read-out keeps a short
                 // dialog instead of stretching to the window.
                 Column(Modifier.weight(1f, fill = false).verticalScroll(rememberScrollState())) {
-                    UsageBody(state)
+                    UsageBody(feed.snapshots)
                 }
                 TextButton(onClick = onDismiss, modifier = Modifier.align(Alignment.End)) {
                     Text("Close")

server/src/routes.rs

@@ -1177,8 +1177,18 @@ async fn set_cwd(
             setup.name
         )));
     }
+    // Stored in the short form, so the one path that is kept is the one
+    // the phone will draw -- rather than storing `/home/bob/…` and
+    // abbreviating it again at each place it is shown, which is two
+    // representations of one directory and a second rule to keep in step.
+    // Only where the setup runs here; see `setups::shorten_home`.
+    let stored = if setup.ssh.is_none() {
+        crate::setups::shorten_home(&cwd)
+    } else {
+        cwd.clone()
+    };
     manager
-        .set_session_cwd(&id, PathBuf::from(&cwd))
+        .set_session_cwd(&id, PathBuf::from(&stored))
         .map_err(bad_request)?;
     Ok(StatusCode::NO_CONTENT)
 }

server/src/session/import.rs

@@ -441,7 +441,14 @@ pub async fn directory_exists(transport: &Transport, path: &str) -> bool {
     if path.is_empty() {
         return false;
     }
-    let launch = Launch::new("test", vec!["-d".to_string(), path.to_string()], None);
+    // Asked by *entering* it rather than by `test -d <path>`, because the
+    // question this is standing in for is "can a session start here" and
+    // because a path is only expanded where it is a working directory --
+    // `~/repos/ai-app` as an argument stays four literal characters on
+    // both transports (`ssh::quote_path`, `ssh::expand_home`), so the old
+    // form answered "no such directory" about every home-relative path
+    // somebody typed.
+    let launch = Launch::new("true", Vec::new(), Some(std::path::Path::new(path)));
     transport.capture(&launch).await.is_ok()
 }
 

server/src/session/mod.rs

@@ -1217,9 +1217,16 @@ impl SessionManager {
             // change, and as an error if it cannot. The config above is a
             // different question -- what to launch this session with next
             // time -- and it is answered by the request.
-            session.ask("change how much it asks", |driver| {
+            announce_or_ask(
-                driver.set_permission_mode(mode)
+                session,
-            });
+                &self.data_dir.join(id),
+                Event::Settings {
+                    model: None,
+                    permission_mode: Some(mode.to_string()),
+                },
+                "change how much it asks",
+                |driver| driver.set_permission_mode(mode),
+            );
         }
         Ok(())
     }
@@ -1323,7 +1330,16 @@ impl SessionManager {
         if let Some(session) = inner.live.get(id) {
             // See `set_session_permission_mode`: the driver reports what
             // it is set to, this only asks.
-            session.ask("change model", |driver| driver.set_model(model));
+            announce_or_ask(
+                session,
+                &self.data_dir.join(id),
+                Event::Settings {
+                    model: Some(model.to_string()),
+                    permission_mode: None,
+                },
+                "change model",
+                |driver| driver.set_model(model),
+            );
         }
         Ok(())
     }
@@ -1685,6 +1701,37 @@ impl SessionManager {
 /// to the one process, and every line it wrote was then translated once per
 /// reader -- three presses put three interleaved copies of one reply on
 /// screen.
+/// A setting change: asked of the driver, or announced as the session's own
+/// where there is no process for a driver to speak for.
+///
+/// The pair that [`LiveSession::ask`] cannot serve. Everything else it
+/// covers genuinely needs a process -- a message sent to a session that is
+/// not running has nowhere to go -- but a setting is held in the config as
+/// well, and a session with nothing running *is* what the config says: the
+/// value is applied the moment it next starts. So `ask`'s "this session has
+/// no process running, so it can't change model" was true of the driver and
+/// false of the session, and it left the phone showing the old model over a
+/// config that had already taken the new one, with no way to change it
+/// short of starting the session first.
+///
+/// `Exited` and nothing else, for the reason [`start_if_exited`] gives:
+/// `Unknown` means nobody could find out, and a session whose process may
+/// well be reading its fifo is one to ask rather than to answer for.
+fn announce_or_ask(
+    session: &LiveSession,
+    session_dir: &Path,
+    settled: Event,
+    what: &str,
+    request: impl FnOnce(&dyn Driver),
+) {
+    let status = corrected(*session.shared.status.lock().unwrap(), session_dir);
+    if status == SessionStatus::Exited {
+        let _ = session.sink.send(settled);
+    } else {
+        session.ask(what, request);
+    }
+}
+
 fn corrected(status: SessionStatus, session_dir: &Path) -> SessionStatus {
     if status == SessionStatus::Exited && adoptable(session_dir) {
         SessionStatus::Unknown
@@ -3613,6 +3660,74 @@ mod tests {
         std::fs::write(path, rewritten).expect("write transcript");
     }
 
+    /// A setting changed on a session with nothing running is recorded as
+    /// the session's own, rather than refused because there is no driver.
+    ///
+    /// The config already took it -- that is what a session starts with next
+    /// time -- so the refusal was about the driver while reading as though
+    /// it were about the session, and the phone went on showing the old
+    /// model over a stored new one. Asked of a session told it has exited,
+    /// since the rule is about the status rather than about which driver it
+    /// is; the same is true of the permission mode, which is why they go
+    /// through one function.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn a_stopped_session_takes_a_setting_for_the_next_time_it_starts() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().expect("tempdir");
+        let config_path = dir.path().join("config.ron");
+        let data_dir = dir.path().join("sessions");
+        seed_echo_only(&config_path);
+        let manager = SessionManager::new(
+            config_path.clone(),
+            data_dir.clone(),
+            data_dir.join("models"),
+        )
+        .expect("manager");
+        let info = manager.spawn_session(echo_spec()).expect("spawn");
+        let session = manager.session(&info.id).expect("live session");
+        let mut rx = session.subscribe();
+
+        let _ = session.sink.send(Event::Status {
+            state: SessionStatus::Exited,
+        });
+        collect_until(&mut rx, |event| {
+            matches!(
+                event,
+                Event::Status {
+                    state: SessionStatus::Exited
+                }
+            )
+        })
+        .await;
+
+        manager
+            .set_session_model(&info.id, "haiku")
+            .expect("store the model");
+        collect_until(
+            &mut rx,
+            |event| matches!(event, Event::Settings { model: Some(model), .. } if model == "haiku"),
+        )
+        .await;
+        assert_eq!(
+            manager.sessions()[0].model.as_deref(),
+            Some("haiku"),
+            "stored, so the next start uses it"
+        );
+
+        manager
+            .set_session_permission_mode(&info.id, "plan")
+            .expect("store the mode");
+        collect_until(&mut rx, |event| {
+            matches!(
+                event,
+                Event::Settings {
+                    permission_mode: Some(mode),
+                    ..
+                } if mode == "plan"
+            )
+        })
+        .await;
+    }
+
     /// Stopping and starting a session is about its *process*, and the two
     /// refusals are the whole of what keeps starting one from becoming a
     /// second one on the same conversation.

server/src/setups.rs

@@ -160,6 +160,32 @@ pub fn tidy(value: &str) -> Option<String> {
     })
 }
 
+/// The inverse of [`tidy`]'s expansion: an absolute path under this
+/// machine's home, written back as `~/…`.
+///
+/// So that a working directory reads on a phone the way it is written by
+/// hand. `/home/bob/repos/ai-app-2` is most of a line on that screen and
+/// almost all of it is the part nobody is reading.
+///
+/// Applied only to paths on **this** machine. `$HOME` here says nothing
+/// about the home directory of a machine reached over ssh, so a remote
+/// path is stored exactly as it was typed -- where a `~` somebody wrote
+/// stays a `~`, and the remote shell is what expands it
+/// (`ssh::quote_path`).
+pub fn shorten_home(path: &str) -> String {
+    let Some(home) = std::env::home_dir() else {
+        return path.to_string();
+    };
+    let home = home.to_string_lossy();
+    // The separator has to be part of the match, or `/home/bobby` would be
+    // read as a path inside `/home/bob`.
+    match path.strip_prefix(home.as_ref()) {
+        Some("") => "~".to_string(),
+        Some(rest) if rest.starts_with('/') => format!("~{rest}"),
+        _ => path.to_string(),
+    }
+}
+
 /// Runs a launch to completion and returns its stdout.
 impl Transport {
     pub async fn capture(&self, launch: &Launch) -> Result<String> {
@@ -182,3 +208,29 @@ impl Transport {
         Ok(String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stdout).into_owned())
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// The two halves of a home-relative path, which have to be inverses:
+    /// what is stored is what the phone draws, and what the phone sends
+    /// back is what a process is started in.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_home_path_shortens_and_expands_back() {
+        let Some(home) = std::env::home_dir() else {
+            return;
+        };
+        let full = home.join("repos/ai-app-2");
+        let full = full.to_string_lossy();
+        assert_eq!(shorten_home(&full), "~/repos/ai-app-2");
+        assert_eq!(shorten_home(&home.to_string_lossy()), "~");
+        assert_eq!(tidy("~/repos/ai-app-2").as_deref(), Some(full.as_ref()));
+
+        // Not a prefix match on the characters: a sibling directory whose
+        // name merely starts with the home directory's is not inside it.
+        let sibling = format!("{}-backup/notes", home.to_string_lossy());
+        assert_eq!(shorten_home(&sibling), sibling);
+        assert_eq!(shorten_home("/etc/hosts"), "/etc/hosts");
+    }
+}

server/src/ssh.rs

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 //! `~/.ssh/config`, agents, and jump hosts all keep working and there is
 //! only one place to configure connections (PLAN.md, rule 23).
 
-use std::path::Path;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::process::Command;
 
 use crate::config::SshConfig;
@@ -50,7 +50,15 @@ pub fn command(
         let mut command = Command::new(program);
         command.args(args);
         if let Some(cwd) = cwd {
-            command.current_dir(cwd);
+            // Expanded here for the same reason `quote_path` expands it on
+            // the far side: a working directory typed as `~/repos/ai-app`
+            // has to mean the same thing whichever machine runs it. There
+            // is no shell in this branch, so nothing else would --
+            // `current_dir` would be handed the literal one-character
+            // directory `~`, and the session would fail to start with an
+            // error naming a path nobody typed. Only the cwd, matching
+            // the remote side, where arguments stay literal.
+            command.current_dir(expand_home(cwd));
         }
         return command;
     };
@@ -101,6 +109,30 @@ fn remote_script(program: &str, args: &[String], cwd: Option<&Path>) -> String {
     script
 }
 
+/// A path with a leading `~` replaced by this machine's home directory.
+///
+/// The local half of the rule [`quote_path`] states for the remote one, and
+/// the two are deliberately the same shape: the tilde is expanded, `~user`
+/// is not (there is no portable expansion for another account's home), and
+/// nothing else in the path gains a meaning. A machine with no home
+/// directory at all leaves the path alone, which fails with the operating
+/// system's own message rather than with a guess.
+pub(crate) fn expand_home(path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
+    let Some(rest) = path.to_str().and_then(|p| {
+        if p == "~" {
+            Some("")
+        } else {
+            p.strip_prefix("~/")
+        }
+    }) else {
+        return path.to_path_buf();
+    };
+    match std::env::home_dir() {
+        Some(home) => home.join(rest),
+        None => path.to_path_buf(),
+    }
+}
+
 /// Quotes a path, expanding a leading `~` and nothing else.
 ///
 /// [`quote`] is right for every other word crossing to the remote side and
@@ -247,6 +279,31 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// The same character, on the transport with no shell to expand it.
+    ///
+    /// The local branch runs the program directly, so a working directory
+    /// of `~/repos/ai-app` would reach `current_dir` as the literal
+    /// one-character directory `~` -- a session that fails to start,
+    /// naming a path nobody typed. The two transports have to agree about
+    /// what a tilde means or a path is only portable by accident.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_local_cwd_expands_its_tilde_the_same_way() {
+        let Some(home) = std::env::home_dir() else {
+            return;
+        };
+        assert_eq!(
+            expand_home(Path::new("~/repos/ai-app")),
+            home.join("repos/ai-app")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(expand_home(Path::new("~")), home);
+        // Leading only, and its own segment only -- `quote_path`'s rule.
+        assert_eq!(expand_home(Path::new("/tmp/~/x")), Path::new("/tmp/~/x"));
+        assert_eq!(expand_home(Path::new("~user/x")), Path::new("~user/x"));
+
+        let local = command(None, "claude", &args(["-p"]), Some(Path::new("~/work")));
+        assert_eq!(local.get_current_dir(), Some(home.join("work").as_path()));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn shell_metacharacters_cross_as_data_not_syntax() {
         // Expanding $HOME must not open a door for anything else: the rest