Let sessions outlive the backend, and never resume one twice
Three `claude` processes ended up running against this checkout on 2026-08-29, and the account hit its session limit. One cause, several ways in. An agent imported the Claude Code session it was *itself* running in. That is an ordinary import, and importing runs `--resume` -- so a second CLI attached to a file the first was still writing. The whole 65 MB conversation, 154 embedded screenshots included, was re-appended to the transcript under a new prompt id; both copies then read each other's writes as work done elsewhere, and the adopted one was billed for re-reading all of it. Meanwhile `shutdown_all` asked each session to stop and the process exited immediately, so the SIGKILL timer died with the runtime, the stop was unreliable, and whatever survived was orphaned with nothing written down to find it by. The processes leaked either way. So leak them on purpose, and be able to pick them back up. A session's process now outlives the backend and is adopted again on the way up, which is worth having for its own sake: restarting the server no longer ends a turn somebody is waiting on. Its stdio lives in the session directory -- a fifo opened read-write so the process is its own last writer and never reads EOF, plus stdout/stderr logs read from a byte offset. `session::process` records the pid *and* the kernel's start time for it, because a pid alone is reused and adopting a stranger's would mean never resuming the real conversation. That makes the fix structural rather than a check: everything goes through `ClaudeDriver::launch`, which adopts if it can and starts if it cannot, and `--resume` is reachable only on the second path. `Driver` gains two ways out where it had one -- `detach` (coming back) and `stop` (the session is being deleted, so the process must not survive). Importing a session that is open is now refused outright. Claude Code keeps `~/.claude/sessions/<pid>.json` for every live session, so this is a measurement rather than a guess; it reports no/yes/unknown, because a machine that keeps no such record cannot answer and "could not check" is not "nobody is using it". `SessionStatus` gains `Unknown` for the same reason. Also here, found on the way: - A reconnecting phone was sent the entire backlog. Opening a session was bounded to a page but reconnecting was not, so a long disconnect delivered thousands of events one frame at a time. Past `CATCH_UP_LIMIT` the stream sends a `reset` frame and the newest window, and the client rebuilds from it as it does on open -- without the reset the window is spliced onto rows no longer adjacent to it. - A session's status was assumed idle at launch. Read from the transcript instead, so a restart stops claiming an exited session is waiting for you. - `llama-server`'s stdout was piped and never drained, so a chatty one blocked on a full pipe buffer mid-load. It goes to a log now. - A turn that exited or errored never emitted `Idle`, so the queue stayed "running" for good: every later message was held forever and, since a message is only recorded when taken, vanished with nothing on screen. - Two doc comments had drifted onto the wrong functions. Verified by killing the server mid-turn: the process survived, finished its turn unattended (12.8 KB of output nothing was reading), and the restarted server adopted it -- one process, all 700 lines in the transcript, no hole, and it still took a new message afterwards. Deleting a session stops its process; a 266-event backlog resets while a 16-event one streams. 46 tests, clippy and rustfmt clean, app compiles and lints. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
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@@ -198,6 +198,14 @@ data class Importable(
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val lines: Int,
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/** Whether [title] is a name somebody chose rather than the last thing said in the session. */
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val named: Boolean,
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/**
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* Whether a Claude Code is running this session right now.
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*
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* "unknown" is a third answer and not a synonym for "no": the machine may keep no record of
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* what is running, and a session that cannot be checked is not a session that is free. The
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* server refuses an import of a "yes"; the row says so before you press it.
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*/
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val inUse: String,
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)
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fun fetchImportable(settings: ServerSettings, setup: String): List<Importable> =
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@@ -209,6 +217,9 @@ fun fetchImportable(settings: ServerSettings, setup: String): List<Importable> =
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title = session.optString("title"),
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modified = session.optDouble("modified", 0.0),
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lines = session.optInt("lines", 0),
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// Absent means an older backend that cannot answer, which is exactly what
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// "unknown" says -- so the default is the honest one rather than "no".
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inUse = session.optString("inUse", "unknown"),
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named = session.optBoolean("named", false),
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)
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}
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