Split the newest reply once its turn ends, and make the UI harness reusable

The transcript's remaining lag was the newest assistant reply: transcriptUnits
kept the last row whole -- right while it streams (splitting a changing text
is a parse per delta), wrong forever after, so a session that ends on a long
reply drew it as one lazy-list item with every node alive. On a Pixel 9 Pro
XL that was 13.8ms of draw phase a frame, 79% of it the framework's own
per-node bookkeeping, against a 34,996px item.

An AssistantMsg now carries `settled`, folded from the status event that ends
its turn (status changes are transcript events with seqs, so replay settles
the same way), and cleared if a delta ever grows the message again. A settled
newest reply splits like every other. Folding it -- rather than reading the
screen's status -- routes the resplit through the held-events gate, so it can
only happen at the newest end while pinned, never under a reader. The
"session is working" predicate now lives once, in sessionWorking().

Measured on the emulator, same session and gestures, a 43KB reply as the
last row: draw phase 3.92ms -> 1.20ms per frame, framework share 3.07ms
(78%) -> 0.54ms (45%), worst single measure 82.5ms -> 9.1ms. The report's
"on screen" line went from one 60,674px AssistantMsg to five blocks of
95-846px. A live streamed turn settles and splits the moment it goes idle.

The harness half, asked for by Bryan: ui-sandbox.sh now derives its port and
root from the checkout name (two checkouts' sandboxes cannot reach each
other), keeps its token in ~/.config/ai-app/sandbox-token and salvages
enrolled device tokens across restarts (enrol the emulator once, ever), and
gained the driving verbs every UI session was re-inventing in /tmp: spawn,
send (text or @file), api. transcript-bench.sh is the standard
scroll-and-report measurement. AGENTS.md documents all of it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -297,6 +297,16 @@ fun parseSeqEvent(json: String): SeqEvent {
* compaction that finished without saying how much it recovered, or a clear nobody has run a turn
* since.
*/
/**
* Whether [state] is one the session is doing work in -- the states a turn is still open under.
*
* One predicate because two readers have to agree on the list: the session screen's working
* indicator, and the fold's decision that the newest reply is finished
* ([TranscriptItem.AssistantMsg.settled]). Two copies would drift the first time the server grows a
* state, and the drift would be a reply that never splits or one split mid-stream.
*/
fun sessionWorking(state: String): Boolean = state == "running" || state == "compacting"
fun contextAfter(current: Long?, event: SessionEvent): Long? =
when (event) {
// Falls back to what we had, so a turn the dialect reported no usage for is stale by a