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iris 47d6b84265 Report what a session last did and what it cost, not what this page holds
Three readings that were each a part presented as the whole.

**"just now", everywhere, after a restart.** A relaunched session took its
last-activity from the clock, so every session the backend brought back
claimed to have been active that instant. On the phone that is every row
reading "just now" and the list -- which sorts by it -- coming back in an
order that means nothing, with the conversation somebody was in the middle
of buried among sessions untouched for days. It comes from the transcript
now, in the pass `Transcript::open` already makes, which is the same
correction `last_status` got and for the same reason: a server that has just
started has been told nothing, and the file is the only thing it knows. The
test backdates a transcript by a day, so it cannot pass by the test being
fast; it fails on the old code with the clock's answer in the message.

**The token total was the newest page's.** The phone added up the
`UsageDelta`s it had received, and it opens a session on the newest page of
the transcript -- so a long conversation reported its last few turns as the
total, and a page with no turn in it reported nothing at all, since zero is
drawn as blank. That is the reading Bryan saw: no tokens, on sessions that
had certainly spent some.

The count belongs to the server, which is the only side that sees every
turn. `UsageDelta` now carries the running total beside the delta, filled in
by the pump rather than by each driver -- a driver knows what its own turn
cost and nothing else does, so a new one cannot get this wrong by leaving it
out -- and the session row reports it for a screen that has not opened the
stream yet. The phone takes the largest total it has seen instead of
accumulating, which also means paging older history cannot move it, and
leaves the seeded figure alone for transcripts recorded before the field
existed. Seeded by summing deltas at startup for exactly that reason.

**The header said the model twice and the machine backwards.** A session's
subtitle now reads `machine · provider`, in that order and with no "on"
joining them, matching the list and the usage dialog -- the "on" made it a
phrase, which works in one order and stops working the moment the same pair
is shown somewhere else. The model is gone from it: the footer's picker
already shows what the session is set to, and two places showing it meant
two things to keep in step, which disagreed for a moment on every switch
since one follows the request and the other the session's own answer.

Checked on the emulator against a twelve-turn session whose visible page
held the last six: the header reads "this machine · echo", the status row
reads "idle", and the total reads 42 tok, which is what `GET
/sessions/{id}` says rather than what the page adds up to.
2026-08-29 23:52:58 -04:00
iris e37e90a579 Let the server say what is waiting, instead of the phone remembering
A message sent into a running turn was drawn as a pending bubble from
screen state, so leaving the session or restarting the app showed nothing
waiting while the queue was full. Nothing waiting is what "there is
nothing" looks like -- the reader had no way to tell it from a queue that
had already drained, and Bryan hit exactly that: a message he sent
arrived, and his phone stopped showing it after a restart.

The server now records the waiting. `MessageQueued { id, text }` goes into
the transcript when a driver takes a message it cannot deliver yet, and
is resolved by the `UserMessage` carrying the same id -- the same shape
`CommandQueued` and `CommandSent` already had, so this is one more
instance of a mechanism rather than a second one beside it.

The message itself still lands where the session read it, which is what
the last change was about; only the *waiting* is recorded early. The two
are different facts and now have different events.

Paired by id rather than by text. The old code removed the bubble whose
text matched, so sending the same thing twice cleared the wrong one and
left a message on screen that had already been read.

Both drivers that can queue do it: the echo driver too, because the phone
now draws pending bubbles from the stream and a rig that skipped the
event would exercise a state the real app never sees.

Checked on the emulator: two messages sent into a `/slow` turn, then the
app force-stopped and relaunched -- both still drawn as waiting, in the
pending style, and both resolved into ordinary bubbles when the turn
ended and the session read them.

Still outstanding, and worth knowing: an entry outlives a *server*
restart in the transcript but not in the driver's memory, so a backend
restarted mid-queue would leave the bubble drawn with nothing coming to
resolve it. Before this change that message vanished from the transcript
entirely, so the failure is now visible rather than silent -- but it is
not yet right.
2026-08-29 22:29:12 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 6680fbb987 Clear from the phone, and put the numbers where they are read
Four changes to the session screen, three of them Bryan's and one that
fell out of them.

**/clear is offered like any other session command.** It joins
SESSION_COMMANDS, so it suggests itself while being typed and goes out
through the command endpoint that /compact already uses -- no new path,
and the boundary pump holds it mid-turn exactly as it holds a compaction.

**A clear draws a divider, not a deletion.** `Event::Cleared` becomes a
ClearedNote row saying that everything above stays here and is no longer
sent. That sentence is the row's whole job: the reader can see the
conversation is still on screen, so without it the divider reads as
something having been thrown away, which is the one thing it is not. It
carries no counts, because nothing was measured -- a compaction's
numbers are real and there is no equivalent here to report.

Compaction and clear now share `TranscriptDivider`. They are the same
kind of mark to somebody scrolling back -- "the session no longer has
what is above this" -- and the difference belongs in the words rather
than in how they are drawn, so the styling is written once and cannot
drift.

**The five-hour usage bar sits under the session header.** It reports
the paid service's own metering for the machine this session runs on,
fetched from that machine, refreshed every minute off the backend's
cache. It is never derived from the transcript's token counts: those are
a different quantity measured differently, and a quota-shaped bar built
out of them would be a guess wearing a measurement's clothes. Not
knowing has its own appearance and its own words -- "unknown" and why --
because a bar resting at zero because a machine is unreachable reads as
plenty of headroom, which is the opposite of the truth. The window is
selected by the API's own `kind` ("session"), added to UsageWindow in
this change, rather than by matching the label a person reads.

**The token total moved from the header to the bottom right of the
transcript**, pinned above the input rather than scrolling with it. In
the header it was one item in a run of dot-separated facts about the
session and read as another of them, rather than as the running total it
is.

SessionSummary now carries the setup id, which it deliberately did not.
The stated reason was that nothing here addressed a setup and holding
both id and name invited showing the wrong one; the usage bar addresses
one, so the reason lapsed rather than being overruled, and the comment
now carries the rule that replaces it: never display it. The server has
always sent the field, so nothing changed on the wire.

ktfmt, compileDebugKotlin and lintDebug all clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 20:11:26 -04:00
iris 749b2db287 Make a command a thing the app knows, and hold it until it can run
Typing "/" now suggests what this app understands -- `/compact` and
`/rename <name>` -- with a line each about what they do, and anything
else beginning with a slash is passed to whatever runs the session,
because a dialect's own vocabulary grows without this list.

None of them are messages, and that is the substance of the change. A
line written into a running turn is read by the *model*, so a command
sent mid-turn either does nothing or arrives as text somebody has to
puzzle over. They now wait for the turn to end. The waiting is done once
for every provider, in the pump that already watches every event for the
boundary, rather than in each driver where a new provider could get it
wrong by leaving it out.

Waiting is a state, so it is on screen: the command sits at the reader's
end of the conversation in blue, with a spinner and "waiting for this
turn to end", and becomes an ordinary blue row when it goes. Blue
because these are about the session rather than about the task -- the
same blue a compaction already used, which is now one colour with one
name rather than two.

Renaming from the settings screen sends exactly this, so it waits and
draws the same way. The name itself is not held: it is this server's own
datum, so the list and the header change at once and only telling the
session waits.

Echo grew the same split, which is where the bug in it showed: its
commands are its messages, so running one announced a `MessageTaken` as
well, and the same line drew twice -- once blue, once purple. A command
owes no announcement; the manager has already recorded that it was sent.

Watched rather than reasoned about: `/compact` during a 25 second turn
held with its bubble up, went out when the turn ended, and the
compaction that followed reported what it recovered.
2026-08-29 17:10:21 -04:00
iris bebaae7a94 Carry a question in the event model, not in one provider's JSON
A question is now fully described by the event that reports it: the tag
it was asked under, each option's label, what it means, and the sample of
what picking it would produce, plus whether several may be picked at
once. The app renders from that alone.

It had been reading Claude Code's tool input to find the parts the event
dropped -- that dialect's schema, written out a second time in Kotlin,
where no other provider could reach it and where it would drift the
first time the schema moved. Echo could not describe an option at all,
and llama never will.

Answers travel as a list for the same reason. A question that takes one
answer sends a list of one rather than being a different shape, and the
one place that flattens it is where the CLI is spoken to: its answers
map holds a string, so several choices are joined there. That join was
in the phone.

Also here because it is the same rule: the permission ask reuses the
question body rather than owning a second one, so Allow/Deny renders and
resolves through exactly the code an AskUserQuestion does.

Verified against both, since a refactor that only satisfies the case it
was written for has been tried on the half that cannot fail: a two
question `/ask` answered from the phone, one option and then two, and a
real sonnet session's `rm -f` permission asked, allowed, and run.
2026-08-29 16:46:43 -04:00
iris 3eccf7e443 Show the model and mode the session has, not the ones it was asked for
Picking either from the phone wrote the choice straight into the
session's state and then sent the request. Asking and having are
different things, and the difference is not rare: `auto` is a permission
mode the CLI accepts on the command line, silently resolves to
`default`, and refuses outright over the control channel -- "auto mode
unavailable for this model" -- so a session spawned in auto was in
default and one switched to auto stayed where it was, with the phone
reporting auto in both cases.

So the drivers report what they are set to and the manager follows that.
Measured, because the confirmations are not uniform: a model change
answers success with no value, so what was asked is remembered until the
answer arrives; a mode change echoes the mode it became, and that answer
wins over the request; and `init` names both -- resolving `haiku` to
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 -- which also covers a session adopted from a
terminal that set them outside this app. A driver that cannot change
either already says so with an error, and now that error is the whole
story rather than a note beside a display that changed anyway.

The config keeps the requested value, deliberately: that answers a
different question, which is what to launch this session with next time.

Two things fall out. Control request ids are random rather than the
clock, because two in the same second shared an id and something now
looks them up. And the phone shortens a resolved name for the button --
`haiku-4-5` -- since the full one is what the CLI reports and roughly
twice the room that row has once Stop is in it.
2026-08-29 15:36:53 -04:00
iris 404066fa7d Say when a session is working, and what it was told
Three things a phone could not see, all of them the same shape: the
session was doing something and nothing on screen said so.

A turn nobody here started never reported itself. `Running` was sent
where a message was *sent*, so a session picked up mid-turn, one
compacting on its own, or one another agent wrote to sat there reading
as idle until it finished. The driver now says it from what it observes
-- output that could only come from a turn in flight -- which is the
same set of events that already announced a steer, with the ends
swapped.

An imported session had it worse: nothing but replayed lines ever
reaches it, and a status was not among them, so it was permanently
whatever it was when it was adopted. Its file does not record a turn
ending, but it does record why each assistant message stopped, and
`tool_use` versus anything else answers it. A record that says nothing
leaves the status alone rather than voting for idle.

Messages from other agents were dropped outright: the CLI marks them
meta, and this replayed everything except meta. They are now a row of
their own, closed by default like a tool call, named for the session
that sent it -- not the reader's own bubble, because they did not say
it, and a session working on something this phone never asked for is
exactly what one of these explains.

Measured against a real session file rather than guessed: the peer
record carries the sender's name and the message body in `origin`,
beside a copy wrapped for the model to read.
2026-08-29 15:27:46 -04:00
iris 5396da76c7 Show a compaction happening, and what it recovered
The Compacting status had been declared, rendered in four places, and
never once emitted: no driver produced it, and the app had no control to
ask for a compaction in the first place. Pressing nothing for two
minutes and then quietly having less context was the whole experience.

The CLI turns out to announce all of it, which was worth measuring
rather than guessing at. Driven through /compact against 2.1.237 it
emits a `status: "compacting"` line at the start, a `status: null`
carrying `compact_result` at the end -- `"failed"` with a sentence
saying why, when it does -- and then a `compact_boundary` with the token
counts. The same records appear in the CLI's own transcript file with
camelCase keys, which is the obvious place to read the shape off and
gets every field name wrong.

So none of it is inferred here. The driver writes the line and says
nothing; the translator reports what the CLI reports. A failed
compaction surfaces the CLI's own sentence, which is specific enough to
act on.

The counts are the part worth keeping afterwards, so they land in the
transcript rather than only in a status that vanishes: a session that
went from 128,402 tokens to 9,617 has just been given its context back.
They are optional throughout, because a compaction whose size nobody
reported has to be able to say so -- a zero would read as "recovered
nothing".

Also here, all found on the way:

- `rename_all` renames variants; fields need `rename_all_fields`. Every
  field in Event was a single word until `pre_tokens`, which went out as
  snake_case, was not found by the app, and rendered as the "no counts
  reported" case -- a state it is allowed to be in, so nothing looked
  wrong. There is now a test on the wire names.
- The unparseable-line warning sliced bytes, not chars, on output that
  is full of em dashes. A panic there kills the task reading the
  session's stdout, and the session goes deaf with nothing on screen.
  The other three truncations in the tree already did this correctly.
- Echo compacts too, with invented numbers and a real shape, so this
  screen can be looked at without spending two minutes of somebody's
  account to reach the state.
2026-08-29 14:42:08 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 42131c75d6 Send a steer into the running turn, and put an image under its call
**The queue was holding messages the CLI would have taken.** Two claims
in this file contradicted each other: the module header said a mid-turn
message is injected at the next tool boundary -- "the behavior this app
exists for" -- and `Queue`'s own doc said a line written mid-turn simply
becomes the next turn. The code followed the second, parking every
message until `Status::Idle`, which is the end of the whole turn.

Measured rather than argued, twice. Writing a line straight into a live
session's stdin fifo mid-turn produced one `result` for the whole thing,
so it was consumed inside that turn, not as a new one. The header was
right and the queue was built on the wrong claim.

The cost was exactly what Bryan reported: he steered after the second
tool call and it sat unread until every remaining call had finished.
Measured before and after on the same three-step turn -- steer sent at
+13s, recorded at +24.7s before this change and at +14.1s after, which
is the next tool boundary.

So the line goes out immediately. What stays behind is the
*announcement*: the CLI says nothing on stdout about having read a
message, so `MessageTaken` now waits for the next assistant text or tool
call, which is proof another model call happened and the steer was in
it. That keeps a held message drawn below the working indicator until
the session has actually taken it -- the thing that mattered when this
was last changed -- without delaying the message to get it. Idle counts
too, and is the case that must not be missed: a message written after a
turn's last model call has no later output to prove anything.

`closed` is untouched, and `Queue::close` still reports held messages by
name rather than dropping them.

**An image now names the call that produced it.** `Event::Image` gains
`about`, the `tool_use_id` from the tool result it came out of, so a
screenshot is drawn inside that call's card instead of floating beside
it -- pairing them by position is what a page boundary breaks. `None`
for a person's own attachment, which belongs to no call. The import path
threads it through as well, so replayed history reads the same as live.
Images show whether the card is open or closed: a call whose result *is*
a picture says less closed than the one line it replaced.

Verified on the emulator against a real haiku turn: the checkerboard sits
inside `Read /tmp/tiny.png`, and the steer sits between that call and the
next, where it was taken. 53 tests, clippy, rustfmt, lint and ktfmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 14:17:22 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 8fe13634cb Take ktfmt's formatting on the files just added
Four files went in unformatted: I ran the formatter mid-change and then
kept editing. ktfmtCheck is part of finishing, not part of starting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 06:28:24 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 c5dbd1535d Ask for permission on the call it is about, and read the input
A bash permission request arrived as a second card repeating the tool
call's input verbatim, so the same command appeared twice and the reader
had to work out it was one event. `Event::Question` now carries `about`:
the `tool_use_id` the CLI's `can_use_tool` request already names. That
makes the pairing a measured fact rather than a match on input text --
and it stays `Option`, because AskUserQuestion is not permission for
anything and an echo session's question is about no tool at all. Those
still draw as their own card, which is what every question did before.

The card also reads the input instead of dumping it. Every tool's input
is JSON, and showing it raw makes the reader parse `{"command":"…",
"timeout":5000}` to find the line they care about. A small table says
which field is the subject of which tool -- Bash's `command`, Read's
`file_path` -- and the rest is still listed, since dropping a field
would claim the tool had no other input when it might. The subject is
syntax-highlighted with dev.snipme:highlights, for the reason the
markdown renderer is a library: lexical rules are somebody else's
specification. Its theme is Catppuccin, mapped in Theme.kt beside the
rest of the palette rather than taken from the library's defaults.

The input shows whether or not the card is expanded. A row that says
only "Bash" says nothing anyone can act on, least of all when it is
asking to run something.

Verified on the emulator against a real haiku session: one card, the
description, `grep -rn "needle" /tmp | head -3` highlighted, `timeout:
5000` pulled out, and "Allow Bash?" with its buttons inside the card --
then Allow, which resolved in place and ran.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 06:24:05 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 0c13090d70 Take ktfmt's defaults for the Kotlin half
The server half went to rustfmt's defaults earlier today; this is the same
move for the app, and the same reasoning. Kotlin ships no formatter with
the Gradle build, so the question was which to adopt: ktfmt is Kotlin-org
owned now (it moved from facebook/ktfmt), is a formatter rather than a
configurable linter, and has essentially nothing to tune -- which is what
rule 27 is asking for. ktlint's .editorconfig surface is the thing that
rule warns against, and detekt is static analysis, whose job Android Lint
already does here.

One setting, and it is a choice between the tool's own two styles rather
than a tuning: kotlinLangStyle() is the 4-space one, which is what this
code already was. The 2-space default would have reindented every file to
say nothing.

  ./gradlew :androidApp:ktfmtFormat   to apply
  ./gradlew :androidApp:ktfmtCheck    to verify

Formatting only. The one thing worth checking by hand was the generated
PEM constant, since a leading newline there costs Android's
CertificateFactory its preamble sniff and fails at runtime nowhere near
the cause: ktfmt moved `.trimMargin()` onto its own line and left the
template alone, and the regenerated constant still starts at the opening
quotes.

Verified after: ktfmtCheck, compileDebugKotlin and lintDebug all pass, and
the APK builds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
2026-08-28 04:03:14 -04:00
irisandClaude Fable 5 213bc72b64 Phase 1 app: session list, session screen, spawn, QR enrollment over pinned TLS
Compose app mirroring local-updater's stack (single :androidApp module,
pinned CA, HttpURLConnection transport) plus what this app needs on top:
a bearer token sealed with an Android Keystore AES-GCM key, an
aiapp://enroll intent filter so scanning the server's terminal QR with
the stock camera enrolls the phone with no QR library, an SSE client
that resumes by transcript cursor, and a transcript renderer folding the
common event model into user bubbles, streaming text, collapsible tool
cards, and answerable question cards.

Verified on the tdep emulator against the real server: enrollment deep
link, list, spawn, streamed echo turn, question answer round trip, tool
card expansion, adjustResize keyboard behavior. Build is warning-clean
(compose.* accessors replaced with direct dependencies).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
2026-08-24 21:07:02 -04:00