Nothing sorts the sessions tab any more. The order is the server's
`sessions` list, which is the reader's arrangement: holding a row puts the
screen in selection mode -- the same gesture and the same bottom bar as the
import tab -- and each card grows a burger handle at its right edge that
drags the row to a new place, with a tick of haptic feedback for each one it
passes.
The two attempts this replaces, sorting by activity and then by when each
agent was turned on, were both looking for an order a session could not move
itself out of; no rule computed from what a session is doing can be one.
`POST /sessions/order` rewrites the config's order, so it is the same on
every device and survives a backend restart, and `SessionConfig::started`
goes with the sort that needed it.
Rearranging is independent of the selection: the handle moves the row it is
on, picked out or not. The click moved off the card and onto its contents so
that a press landing on the handle cannot also select the row it is about to
move. Selection's one action is Delete, which now takes the whole set.
Two traps in `Reorder.kt`, both measured on the emulator and written down in
`this-machine-android`: a crossing is decided from how far the finger has
travelled, because a lazy list animates an item into its new place and its
`offset` reports the old one for several frames; and the viewport is pinned
with `requestScrollToItem` around each move, because a lazy list keeps its
place by the key of the top item and would otherwise follow the row being
dragged.
Verified on the emulator against the sandbox: the order survives an app
restart and a backend read-back, a two-row drag moves exactly two rows, a
drag to the bottom edge scrolls the list and lands the row last, pressing the
handle without moving changes nothing, and deleting two selected sessions
leaves the rest in place.
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.
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A message sent into a loading session was recorded as *read* the moment it
arrived: the phone drew it as sent, nothing read it for the next minute, and
the turn then folded the conversation out of a transcript that by then held
that same message and appended it again -- so the model was sent it twice.
It queues now, exactly as a message sent into a running turn does: drawn as
waiting, takeable back, and opening the first turn when the model arrives.
The conversation is read before the message is announced, which is what makes
"everything before this message" true rather than a race against the pump.
`await_ready` is left for the one case that still needs it, a turn whose model
was changed under it, and the `idle` that used to close a load is now decided
beside that first turn rather than racing it.
Two silent endings found while reproducing it, both of which look on the phone
like a message that was sent and never answered: an `{"error": ...}` chunk
arriving mid-stream on an otherwise successful response (the GPU out of memory
mid-decode), and a stream that stops without its `[DONE]` (the model unloaded
under the session). Neither is an ordinary end; the turn fails for both, and
keeps whatever arrived before it.
Ran against a real llama session on this VM's Qwen3-0.6B: a message sent
during the load now queues and is answered when the model lands, and
unloading the model mid-reply now says so instead of going quietly idle.
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A message typed into a running llama session waited for the turn to end and
then opened one of its own, so a turn spending minutes on a chain of tool
calls read nothing sent during it -- which is the one moment steering is for.
It now goes into the request the loop is about to build, prefixed with the
same note every other driver's steer carries.
The boundary being ours rather than the CLI's has two consequences worth
keeping: a waiting message can be taken back right up to the moment it is
read, and an interrupted turn deliberately takes nothing, since a request
that is not going out must not record a message as read.
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The Models tab was about this backend's own disk, which is the wrong disk
for every session that runs anywhere else: llama.cpp reads the file where
it runs. So the models of a machine live under that machine's llama.cpp
provider now, beside the settings deciding how each is loaded, and the
download that produces one happens there.
A download is a detached `curl` on that machine, started by a script this
server writes and never spoken to again. Its state is a file beside the
partial, so nothing about it is held here: it survives the app closing,
this backend restarting and a second device watching, and the progress is
`wc -c` of the partial against the size HuggingFace published rather than
anything remembered. A run whose process is gone is reported failed, since
`kill -0` is asked at each listing, and there is no "finished" state -- a
download that finished is a model, in the list beside the ones still
going. Resuming is guarded by the published sha256, which is also checked
before the file takes its real name.
Two other things the same screens wanted:
A provider is drawn as a card rather than as a line of text, bordered
against the machine card it sits in -- the tint it had was one step along
the surface ladder and rendered as one flat block -- with room to tap and
no chevron.
Nothing in a raw block wraps any more; the block scrolls sideways
instead, one offset for all its lines, so a diff or a column-aligned test
run still reads as one.
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A llama.cpp session had its own `llama-server`: two sessions on one model
held two copies of it in memory, a model change bought a load only that
session benefited from, and the process was a session's to end. A machine's
models are now served by one `llama-server` in **router mode** -- no `-m`,
a preset file naming models and their flags, a child server per model asked
for, and each request routed by its `model` field. So one server per model
with that model's own settings is what a machine runs, while this backend
has one process, one port and one record per machine to keep track of.
The record is the mechanism every other driver already uses, so a restart
adopts it; a session records the same pid in its own directory as
`Detail::Shared`, and `process::signal` refuses to signal one of those --
which is what keeps stopping, deleting or cleaning up after one session
from unloading a model every other session is using. Nothing stops a router
on its own. That is deliberate (a loaded model is minutes of disk) and it is
why the machines tab now has a card per provider that opens its own screen:
how each model is loaded, how many stay in memory, Unload, and Stop.
How a model is *loaded* therefore belongs to the model on its machine rather
than to a session -- context size, GPU layers, threads, slots, speculative
decoding -- written into the preset as llama-server's own argument names.
Saving them re-reads that file, which unloads the model; that is the change
taking effect, and the dialog says so before you save. What stays a
session's is everything that rides on a request, including which tools it
offers: the router hosts one set for the machine and the choice is a filter
applied here, so it costs no reload (2,181 tokens of prompt with all seven,
698 with none).
Verified end to end against the scratch backend and the emulator: two
sessions sharing one loaded model with one child process, a second session
joining it with a 26ms prefill, a backend restart adopting the router and
answering with the prompt cache intact, the same over ssh to this VM, a
model's settings reaching the running server, Unload, and Stop leaving every
session `exited` with no error line.
A `thinking` param on the llama driver: "auto", "off", or a level, applied as a
chat-template argument on the next request -- `reasoning_effort`, or
`enable_thinking: false` for off -- so unlike the server flags it costs no
reload. It lands in the session settings dialog beside the other model
settings, which is what declaring it in `DriverKind::params` buys.
Which levels exist is the model's answer rather than a constant, because the
vocabularies disagree: the 27B here takes low, medium and xhigh and **raises**
on high and max, so a fixed list is a turn that fails on send. The driver asks
the loaded server (`thinking_options`) -- `chat_template_caps.
supports_reasoning_effort` for whether levels mean anything at all, which is
the gate that stops the control silently doing nothing on a template that
ignores the argument, then `/apply-template` per level, one cheap render each
at load time. Off is a separate argument and a separate question: honoured when
turning it off renders a different prompt, and both renders have to have
worked, since a template that refuses it also renders differently.
A level the loaded model cannot take is dropped from the request and said in
the transcript, naming what it does take. What is *not* said is anything about
a model nobody has asked yet: the answer is `Option<Vec<String>>`, where None
is "no server has been up" and an empty list is the model that genuinely takes
none.
Verified against the 27B on the GPU: "low" thought for 697ms and 79 characters,
"off" produced no thinking block at all, and "high" answered `this model does
not take "high" -- it takes off, low, medium, xhigh.` The picker wraps to two
rows in the settings dialog and shows the session's current value.
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`UsageDelta` gains `prefillMs`, llama-server's own `timings.prompt_ms`, so the
footer under a finished reply is "read 9.5s · 50.3 tok/s · 3:00 PM". Prefill is
the half of a turn that was invisible and is often the larger: measured on the
0.6B here, 1m 4s for the first turn after a model loads against 22ms for the
next, whose prompt the server still had cached.
The clock moves to the end of the line. Everything in front of it is a
provider's own measurement, so a session on another provider has fewer of them
or none, and a reader who has learned where the time is should not have to find
it again because the model changed. The costs grow leftwards into the space
instead, and a test asserts every shape of the line ends with the same thing.
Verified on the emulator against a real llama session: three replies reading
"read 1m 4s · 193 tok/s · 3:54 PM", "read 25ms · 308 tok/s · 3:54 PM" and
"read 22ms · 194 tok/s · 3:54 PM", with the clock in one column.
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A turn has two waits in front of the first token and they were one word.
`SessionStatus::Loading` was already the model coming off disk; this adds
`SessionStatus::Reading` for llama-server processing the prompt -- emitted when
the request goes out, cleared by the first thing the model says of any kind, so
it covers every generate in a tool loop rather than only the first.
Prefill is the expensive half on this machine: measured 9.5s for 6,068 tokens
and 22s for 14,068 on the 27B with the GPU to itself. Reported as `running`
that was indistinguishable from a model thinking, which is the thing the reader
is waiting for. The phone draws both with the working spinner and its own
words -- "loading model" and "reading prompt" -- and the session screen's
status row now spins for all three busy states instead of only `running`,
which is also how `loading` stops being a bare word with nothing moving.
Measured while checking the tok/s figure, and recorded in the rigs skill: the
27B holds 55.5 to 50.3 tok/s between 1.5k and 14k of context, so decode decays
gently, while the 0.6B on the CPU falls 30.1 to 11.5 over 6k. A shared GPU is a
different failure -- the model does not load at all.
Verified on the emulator against a real llama session: "loading model" while
the server started, then "reading prompt" with the spinner through prompt
processing, then the thinking card.
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A llama.cpp session's `reasoning_content` becomes `Event::Thinking` deltas
closed by an `Event::ThinkingDone` carrying the span the driver measured, and
the phone draws it as a card of its own: "Thinking" with the spinner a running
command has, then "Thought for 12.4s". Deliberately not a tool call, so a run
of calls cannot collapse the reasoning into "Called 6 tools"; the reasoning is
also kept out of the next prompt, which `conversation` already ignored.
`UsageDelta` gains `tokensPerSecond`, the provider's own figure or nothing --
llama.cpp reports `timings.predicted_per_second` and the coding CLIs report no
such thing -- and a finished reply carries a small line under it saying when it
was sent and, where there is one, how fast it came out: "3:00 PM · 149 tok/s".
The compact usage bar drops the provider's name for the window and puts its
length after the time left instead: "42% · 3h 20m left / 5h".
Three things that had to come with it: the transcript coalesces runs of
thinking deltas as it does reply deltas, so one block is one row of a page
rather than a page of its own; `joinPages` welds a block cut by a page boundary
(`healSplitThinking`), since the half with no ending spun for ever; and
`UsageDelta` now reaches the fold, which is what carries the rate to the reply.
Verified on the emulator against a real Qwen3-0.6B session and the echo rig's
new `/think [seconds]`: the spinner while it runs, "Thought for 1.4s" and
"2:54 PM · 149 tok/s" after, the reasoning on tapping the card, and the usage
bar reading "42% · 3h 19m left / 5h".
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Two things a session could not say, and one it was saying wrongly.
**Every provider setting is reachable.** `-np 1`, the MTP draft depth, the
tool set, the sampling parameters -- most were hardcoded to what measured
best on this machine, which is right as a default and wrong as a constant:
the next machine has a different GPU and a different core count, and
nobody running this app can edit the source. `DriverKind::params` now
declares what a provider takes -- key, label, shape, what blank means, and
whether a change waits for a restart -- and the phone renders whatever
arrives, on the spawn form and in the session settings dialog. Adding a
setting to a driver is one entry in that table and no app change.
`POST /sessions/{id}/params` takes the whole map, so an absent key is the
instruction to unset; the sampling half applies at once and the session is
told in words which of the rest are waiting for a restart.
`tools` is one of them, because it is the biggest lever on a tight
context: the seven built-in definitions are ~1,300 tokens of every prompt
(2,191 against 887 with none). `"none"` omits the flag rather than passing
it on, since `--tools none` is `unknown tool "none"` and a server that
exits.
**The context figure has a denominator.** `Event::ContextWindow` carries
it, read from `llama-server`'s `/props` once the model is up -- the
measurement rather than the request, since a session that named no context
size gets the model's own. Neither coding CLI states its window, so those
keep the bare figure: "2,042" and "2,042 / 8,192" are deliberately
different-looking, and a missing ceiling is never drawn as a proportion of
an assumed one.
**And the numerator was wrong**, by the length of the last reply: it was
the prompt alone, so a five-word answer reported 2,042 against a slot
holding 2,355. It is the turn's total now, which matches `llama-server`'s
own `n_tokens` to within a token.
Two defects the review found, both of which would have shipped: changing
settings on a *stopped* session reported "no process running, so it can't
take new settings", when a stopped session is exactly when you would set
them for the next start; and `GET /tools` answers **403** rather than an
empty list on a server started without `--tools`, so reading it as a
failure made the no-tools session one that never started.
Verified against real models: settings spawned and changed live, the
restart note, a session with two tools and one with none, and the counter
checked against the server's own slot occupancy each time.
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A llama session was a chat box: no tools, a fixed model, no permission
mode, and a model name drawn as the path the file sits at. It now runs the
agent loop itself, which is what the pieces below all hang off.
Tools are `llama-server`'s own (`--tools all`), which that server both
publishes and runs -- `GET /tools` for the definitions, `POST /tools` to
call one. Web search is Exa's MCP server, reached from this backend rather
than from the machine serving the model: that is what llama.cpp's own web
UI does, and it puts the search on the machine with a route out instead of
the one with the GPU. `llama-server`'s `--mcp-servers-json` can only spawn
local commands, so using it would have meant a Node bridge on every
machine that serves a model.
Driving the loop is what makes the permission gate ours. Two modes,
`manual` and `bypassPermissions`, which is what the mechanism has: the web
UI asks before every call and remembers the tools you say "always" to. The
allowances fold back out of the transcript's own answers, so they survive
a restart and a model change without being stored anywhere else.
Also here, because tools made each of them matter:
- **Loading is a state.** A 12 GB model takes twenty seconds to reach
memory and refuses everything until it has; the session used to report
`running` for that whole time, and a message sent meanwhile came back as
an error. It is `loading` now, and the message waits.
- **The model can be changed.** A `llama-server` holds one model, so this
stops it and starts another. The conversation survives because it was
never in the server.
- **Models are named, not pathed.** `general.name` read out of the file
itself -- over ssh too, in the round trip the spawn was already making.
Where two models share a name the file name breaks the tie.
- **`-np 1`, and the MTP draft head where the file has one.** Measured on
the 27B here: 41.5 tok/s plain, 61.4 with `--spec-type draft-mtp` at one
slot, and 28 with it at four -- speculating against a split KV cache is
worse than not speculating. The flag is conditional because asking for a
head that is not there makes `llama-server` exit.
- **A refusal says what to do.** Tool results are thousands of tokens, so
an overrun context is now ordinary; it was "http status: 400" and is now
the server's own "exceeds the available context size, try increasing it".
`GET /machines/{id}/models` is gone: the provider models route answers the
same question, and two answers to one question is how a picker comes to
offer a model the spawn screen does not.
Verified end to end against real models: a tool call asked and allowed, an
Exa search, a shell command, a 27B loaded while a message waited on it, a
model switch mid-session, a second message queued behind a running turn,
and the whole of it again on a session running over ssh.
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A resume token the CLI will not accept made the session unrecoverable
rather than merely failed: every later start passed the same `--resume`,
died the same way, and nothing ever forgot it, so the chat could not be
opened again from the phone.
The reader now recognises both refusals the CLI gives, forgets the token
and emits `Cleared`, which is what the Codex path already does for a
thread whose rollout has gone. The transcript is this server's and
survives; only the model's context restarts.
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A running session no longer moves: the ones with a process come first,
oldest start first, so starting one appends it to the bottom of that
group and nothing it goes on to do -- beginning a turn, finishing one,
asking a question -- can shift it. Sorting by activity with the
awaiting-answer ones floated to the top is what this replaces; the
status word and its colour already say which session wants something
without the row having to move to say it. Stopped sessions are a group
below, most recently active first.
The order is the server's: `SessionConfig::started` is written each time
a process is started for a session and reported as `started`, so it is
the same on every device and survives a backend restart -- which adopts
processes rather than starting them, and so could not work the times out
for itself. Applied on the phone, because presentation order is a
display decision.
`LiveSession::info` takes the session's config entry rather than a
parameter per field read from it, which is what `AutoResumeView` existed
to bundle; that goes.
Verified on the emulator against the sandbox: three echo sessions kept
their order while the newest-active one was messaged; a stopped and
restarted session moved below one started after it; a stopped session
dropped below every running one; and after a backend restart the
recorded times came back unchanged.
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A run of adjacent calls is drawn as one collapsed card, which hid the one
thing worth seeing without opening anything: the command the session is
running right now. It is a row of its own while it runs and folds back into
the run when it ends.
Grouping stays a display decision, so the pieces a running call cuts a run
into are keyed there. The first piece keeps the run's name -- that name is
what survives a page of history landing in front of it -- and later pieces
take their own first call's id behind it, since the call a run was named
after can itself be the one running.
The echo rig's /tools gap now runs between a call's start and its end rather
than between one call and the next, which is where a real session's time goes
and what makes the running state observable at all.
Checked with ktfmtFormat, compileDebugKotlin, testDebugUnitTest (new
ToolRowsTest) and lintDebug, cargo fmt/clippy/test, and on the emulator
against the sandbox: "Called 2 tools" with the live Bash card beneath it.
A message typed during a turn reaches the model at the next model call if
the turn has one left, and otherwise as the opening line of the next turn --
Claude's read out of the fifo after the turn ended, Codex's requeued when
turn/steer is refused. Read there it is indistinguishable from a reply, so
the model treats the answer it just gave as seen.
Both drivers now compose the text the CLI receives through
driver::message_body, which prefixes a note saying the message was written
without having seen the rest of that turn. The transcript still holds the
words that were typed; only the CLI's copy carries the note.
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App-server sends `thread/tokenUsage/updated` once per *model request*, and a
Codex turn makes as many as it made tool calls. The translator held the last
one until `turn/completed`, so a turn's cost was reported as its final
request alone -- measured against the real rollout, 28,878 tokens for a turn
that spent 51,399 -- and the gap grows with how much work the turn did. The
context figure also stood still for the whole turn, which is exactly when it
is moving most.
Reported as each arrives instead: `tokens` now adds up to what the turn
spent, and the context figure climbs during the turn (28,921 -> 33,190 ->
35,978 on a two-file read here, matching Codex's own `last_token_usage`
exactly at every step).
A session whose transcript will not parse is skipped with only a log line, so
from the phone it is indistinguishable from an idle unresponsive one. That is
why the outage needed a report from Bryan rather than showing itself. The
cause is fixed; the class is not, and it is the "design the unknown state
first" rule rather than a bug in one code path.
Also rustfmt on the parse path, which the fix landed unformatted.
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Removing `Event::TaskNote` hours after adding it made every transcript that
had recorded one unreadable. `Transcript::open` parses every line, so `launch`
failed for those sessions and `SessionManager::new` logged
"couldn't relaunch session <id>" and skipped them -- and a skipped session has
no pump and no driver. On the phone that is no status, no history and nothing
sendable, for every live session that had run a background task. One
unfamiliar word took down every conversation it appeared in.
A transcript is append-only and permanent, so the set of kinds one can hold
only ever grows: what this build writes is not what it may have to read. A
line can come from a newer server, or from an older one that wrote a kind
since dropped, and neither may be able to end the file.
`Indexed::parse_at` degrades a line it cannot make sense of to
`Event::Unreadable { kind }` instead of failing the whole read. It keeps the
line's seq -- the cursors, the page bisection and the next-seq counter are all
addressed by it, and dropping the line would hand out a seq the file already
contains -- and carries the word the line called itself, so the phone can say
what is missing rather than that something is. A line with no readable seq is
still an error: that one cannot be placed at all.
`Event::TaskNote` comes back retired rather than deleted: deserializable,
never constructed, dated, with the reason on it. The phone folds it to no row,
which is the point -- an unreadable line correctly draws a placeholder, and
one per background task is the wall the row was removed for in the first
place.
Found while diagnosing a report that live sessions had lost their status and
could not be sent to. 173 server tests pass, including the new one, which
fails on the old code within a second.
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A backgrounded command has no subagent, so there is no second transcript for
its report to live in and its own tool card is the only record of it anywhere
-- and until the task notification arrives that card is showing the launch
result, which says the command is running. It was left saying that for ever.
The report now updates the call's own row (`Event::ToolUpdate` against its
tool_use id), so the card ends up holding what became of the command instead
of a claim nothing was ever going to correct. That includes the endings that
carry no summary: those are exactly the ones that went wrong, and a stale
"running in background" reads worst on them, so they say the status word
rather than nothing. A task with a subagent behind it is untouched and its
report stays where it was, in that subagent's own transcript.
Echo grew `/background [seconds]` for the shape end to end: the Bash call, the
launch result, a turn that ends `waiting`, and the completion arriving later
to correct the card and start a second turn.
Verified on the emulator: the card reads `Background command "sleep 5 && echo
done" completed (exit code 0)` where it had said "Command running in background
with ID: ...". 172 server tests, ktfmt, clippy, rustfmt, Android lint and the
JVM unit tests clean.
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