List a session's background tasks above its subagents

The count beside the status said how much work was going and never what,
so "3 bg tasks" was a number with no way to find out what it was about.

Drivers now report the tasks themselves rather than a size:
`Driver::background_tasks` returns `Vec<BackgroundTask>` -- id, the
provider's own description, and a kind -- served by
`GET /sessions/{id}/background`. It is runtime state, never persisted,
and `null` is "nobody has said", which is what a session with no process
answers and what the panel says in words rather than drawing as an empty
list. `description` is optional because Codex names a background terminal
by a process id, and a number drawn as a name is worse than admitting
there is none.

Claude's `background_tasks_changed` entries turn out to be objects
carrying `task_id`, `task_type` and `description`, so each is read rather
than counted -- and an `ambient` one is now dropped from the list and the
count alike, on the CLI's own instruction: a live-update watcher is not
activity, and counting one left a session reading `waiting` with nothing
to wait for.

The phone draws them in the right-hand panel above the subagents,
collapsed to "2 bg tasks running" and pushing the subagents down when
opened. Both lists are items of one lazy column, so neither can run off
the panel, and the section is refetched whenever the live count moves --
a card for work that has finished is exactly the stale measurement the
count exists not to be.

Verified against the real Claude CLI (2.1.261): a backgrounded `sleep 120`
came back as `{"id":"br16327wr","description":"Sleep for 120 seconds",
"kind":"command"}`, and on the emulator against the echo rig the section
appeared, expanded, and dropped a card as its task finished.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -195,6 +195,12 @@ fun SessionScreen(
onFiles: (FilesTarget) -> Unit,
/** What another app shared in while this session is the one open; see [ShareRequest]. */
share: ShareRequest? = null,
/**
* The live background-task count, passed out so the session's panel can list those tasks
* against the same number this screen draws beside the status. This screen holds the only
* subscription to the session's events, and the panel opening its own would be a second copy.
*/
onBackgroundTasks: (Int) -> Unit = {},
/** Said once [share] has been attached here, so it is not attached again. */
onShareTaken: () -> Unit = {},
/**
@@ -525,6 +531,7 @@ fun SessionScreen(
}
if (event is SessionEvent.BackgroundTasks && !isSubagent) {
backgroundTasks = event.count
onBackgroundTasks(event.count)
}
if (!isSubagent) loginOpen = authenticationPromptAfter(loginOpen, event)
// In order, always: one late event recorded ahead of the backlog would fold a