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irisandClaude Opus 5 620a7d0a83 Trim what every session pays to load
Measured: an app-spawned session starts at ~33,200 tokens of context, of
which ~20,000 is written fresh on every spawn -- the always-loaded rule
files and this file -- and only ~13,200 comes from a shared cache. That
20,000 is billed at 1.25x on every single session start.

This file drops to 19,882 bytes from 21,293. What went is narrative that
PLAN.md already carries in more detail (the phase history, the submodule
drift story) and the parts of "Where things run" that MACHINE.md states
once for every project. What stayed is every operational fact: the
commands, the llama.cpp and ssh test recipes, the import rules, and
everything under "Things that have bitten".

The global chain was trimmed in the same pass, 43,039 -> 34,069 bytes,
mostly by moving the Gentoo host build profile out of the @import chain
into ~/.claude/HOST_BUILD.md, which MACHINE.md now points at. Nothing was
deleted there either; it is referenced rather than loaded, the same
arrangement this file has with PLAN.md.

Worth being honest about the size of the win: ~10,400 bytes is roughly
2,200 tokens off each session start. It is real and permanent, but it is
not what makes a long session expensive.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 19:00:59 -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 fea8e7e92b Show every option a question offers, on the call that asked
Reported by Iris through the dev-updater session: a two-question
AskUserQuestion arrived with only one option visible per question, so
the answer she sent was the only one she had been offered.

The cause was a `Row`. It hands out intrinsic widths in order and clips
whatever runs past the edge, so the first option or two drew and the
rest went off the side of the screen -- which does not read as a bug, it
reads as those having been the only choices. The same Row was in the
permission ask beside it; both wrap now. That pairing is the reason to
look: a rule stated on one member of a set is usually missing from the
others.

The rest of what she asked for, and what each was:

- It drew twice, as the tool call and again as loose question cards,
  because the backend marked these questions as belonging to no call.
  They belong to the call that asked, and now say so.
- So it renders like any other tool: one card, its own heading, opened
  because a decision cannot be made from a closed row.
- Each option shows its description and its `preview` block, which is
  the part a reader is deciding on and none of which was reaching them.
- "Other" is a field on every question. The harness always offers it, so
  leaving it out narrowed a question that was never that narrow.
- A multi-select sends the labels it collected as one string, which is
  the tool's own schema rather than a guess -- its answers map is
  string-valued.
- No spinner while it waits. A spinner says the machine is working; here
  the machine is idle and the turn is stopped on the person, so the card
  says "your turn" in the colour this app already uses for that.

Verified against a real session as well as the echo fixture: haiku asked
two questions with three described options each, both were answered from
the phone, and the model carried on with the answers. Echo grew `/ask`
so the shape can be looked at without paying a model to produce one, and
its option cards are outlined rather than tinted -- as one surface step
up they were three paragraphs where three things to press should be.
2026-08-29 16:22:15 -04:00
iris cae04c2559 Delete one session without putting the rest through loading
Pressing Delete refetched the whole list on success, so every other row
went back through its loading state and the reader got a blank screen
for the length of a round trip -- to report on something that was never
in doubt. Now the row being deleted fades, says so where its status
goes, and stops responding to taps; when the server answers, that one
row is removed and nothing else moves.

A refusal keeps the row, because it is still there: the server answered
and said no, so the session it said no about is exactly as it was, and
the error goes on its own card as it already did.

Faded rather than removed on the way out, deliberately. Taking the row
away when Delete is pressed is a promise about a request that has not
been answered, and putting it back when the server refuses is worse than
never having taken it away.

Looked at rather than reasoned about: the in-flight state lasts
milliseconds against a local server, so I slowed the delete route to
four seconds, watched the faded row and its spinner, watched it removed
on success, then killed the server and watched a refusal leave the row
in place with the reason on it.
2026-08-29 16:11:18 -04:00
iris d3fff3d229 Let a session be renamed, under the same name everywhere
A gear at the end of the session's own bar opens what can be changed
about that session; the name is the first thing there. Compact is gone
from that bar -- `/compact` typed into the message box is the CLI's own
way to ask and it already worked, so the button was a second way to say
one thing. Echo takes the typed word too now, since it is the rig the
compaction display is checked against and losing the button would have
taken that with it.

The name is this server's, not a driver's: it is what the list shows, it
exists before any process does, and every provider has one. So it is
settled in the config and the driver is *told* -- which is the opposite
of the model and the permission mode, and the difference is written down
at `Driver::set_title`. A driver whose process has no notion of a name
does nothing and says nothing, because there is no failure to report.

Claude Code has one, so the name reaches it: `--name` for a session we
create, and `/rename` afterwards, which is a local command rather than a
control request -- `set_session_name` is not a subtype it knows, which I
established by asking it. A resumed session is deliberately not renamed
at launch: an import already has a name, quite possibly one the person
typing in it chose, and taking that would be helping itself to something
the app was only shown.

Verified end to end rather than argued: renaming from the phone put
"Session renamed to: paging and scroll" in the CLI's own session file,
and the session now lists under that name to other agents.

The gear is drawn rather than set in a font, for the reason Chevron
gives. It was a sun on the first attempt -- thin teeth standing clear of
a thin hub -- which no amount of reading the diff would have shown.
2026-08-29 16:06:15 -04:00
iris 1629e0911e Say what the line splitter would do with a bare carriage return
`complete_lines` splits on `\n` only, which is right -- this stream is
JSONL, and a record terminated by a bare `\r` would not be a record --
but the doc comment said why the remainder is held without saying what
decides where a line ends.

Worth the sentence because of what the failure would look like if the
CLI ever wrote such a line: the session goes quiet, the process is
healthy, nothing errors, and the cause is a line splitter. The
dev-updater session hit exactly this shape today reading cargo's
progress line, which is `\r`-terminated for redrawing in place, and
lost a whole build's worth of output to it.
2026-08-29 15:42:32 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 f842d0e512 Call the server component "server", to match dev-updater
READ BEFORE PULLING. A Managed component's service unit is named
<config key>-<component name>, so this rename moves the unit from
ai-app-backend to ai-app-server and nothing points at the old one
afterwards. Uninstall the backend component from its card *first*, while
it is still called "backend"; then pull, accept the new declaration --
.dev-updater.ron is a request, so the card shows it as pending -- and
build. The unit installs under the new name.

Two things reset rather than break, both keyed by component name: the
per-component built_from sha, and the build and runtime logs. One build
makes the sha current again.

Also drops the claim that the components list is walked in order. They
have built in parallel since 2026-08-28, so the reasoning the comment
gave -- backend first, so a failing APK leaves the phone what it had --
no longer describes what happens.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 15:40:31 -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 f18639e4b1 Count the far end of the list in rows, not events
Scrolling back stopped dead at the top of what was loaded, and no older
page ever arrived. Bryan spotted the cause from the outside: it had to do
with tool calls being collapsed.

The trigger compared an index into the list being drawn against
`items.size`, the number of transcript events. Those were the same number
when it was written. They stopped being the same when adjacent tool calls
started folding into one row, and the queued bubble and the working
indicator are two more rows with no event behind them. In this session
645 rows stood in for 720 events, so the last visible index could reach
646 and the threshold it needed was 717. It was not close; it was
unreachable, and the further a session went the worse it got.

Both numbers now come from the list itself, which is the only place they
are commensurable, and `totalItemsCount` counts whatever gets added to it
next.

Checked on the emulator against the case it was breaking on rather than a
clean one: five collapsed "Called 8 tools" groups in front of a 720-event
transcript, scrolled from the bottom to seq 1, which is the beginning of
the session. It stops there because that is the top, and holds position
while each page arrives.
2026-08-29 14:55:19 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 fc71cb4403 Say "unknown" for a session we are not driving but cannot bury
A session in the config with no live entry reported `Exited`, whatever the
reason. That covers three different situations -- one that genuinely
ended, one that failed to relaunch, and one whose process could not be
checked -- and the wrong one is the expensive one.

`Exited` reads as "this conversation is over", and what a reader does about
it is start a fresh session. If the process is in fact still running, that
is a second CLI against a conversation that already has one: the exact
fault `session::process` exists to prevent, arriving through the status
field instead of through a spawn.

So it is said only when the process is known to be gone. A record that
cannot be checked reports `Unknown`, and so does one that is still alive --
this server is not driving it, so it genuinely does not know what that
process is doing, and the honest word is the one meaning "wait" rather than
the one meaning "act". A session with no record at all is still `Exited`:
an echo session, or one already stopped and cleaned up, and known to be.

The distinction was available all along -- `process::recorded` returns the
liveness -- which makes this the same mistake as the other five today:
reporting what was convenient to compute rather than what was measured.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 14:50:20 -04:00
iris 279c76e8a1 Hold the reader's place when a message arrives
Scrolled back through a conversation, every new message dragged the view
with it -- which reads as the screen scrolling down on its own, at the
exact moment somebody is trying to read something else.

The list had no keys, so its rows were identified by position. The
transcript is drawn newest-first, so a new message is an insertion at
index 0: every existing row shifts up one index, the viewport stays on
the index it was on, and the content slides through it. The working
indicator appearing and disappearing did the same thing at the same end.

So rows now carry the identity they always had in the data. Every
transcript event has a seq, which is what the transcript is ordered by
and never changes, and every row keeps the seq of the first event behind
it -- a streaming message keeps the seq of its first delta, so it holds
still for the whole answer rather than becoming a new row on every
frame, and a tool call keeps its start's.

Paging older history is the same insertion from the other end, and it is
the thing this could plausibly have broken. Checked on the emulator:
scrolled back mid-turn, the view sat still through twenty seconds of
streamed deltas, and scrolling to the far end still fetched earlier
pages and stayed where it was while they arrived.
2026-08-29 14:47:31 -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 184b6fc6a6 Correct the claim that reattach is local only
Written down as "an ssh session's child dies with its connection, so it
takes the ordinary --resume path". The code never had that branch: `start`
records a pid whatever the transport, and for a remote session the process
the backend owns is the ssh client. Adopting it is right -- the fifo feeds
it, its logs capture the far end, and ssh lives exactly as long as the
remote command, so its liveness is the session's.

The docs claimed less than the code does, which is the safe direction to be
wrong in but still wrong, and it was about to mislead someone: a remote
`claude` has an sshd pipe on stdin under every version of this server,
because the fifo is on the backend's side of the connection. Reading a
remote session's stdin therefore says nothing about which backend started
it, and we were an inch from concluding otherwise.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 13:57:12 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 4cbd567c35 Take ktfmt's formatting
Committed unformatted again: I piped the check through grep, so the
task's failure never reached the shell's exit status and the chained
commit ran anyway. Check exit codes, not output.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 13:46:34 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 73923dbbc3 Make jump-to-latest the same chevron, pointing down
It was a labelled button beside a tool group that collapses with a
drawn chevron -- two controls doing the same kind of thing in two
visual languages. Now one `Chevron` composable serves both directions,
parameterised rather than copied, since a pair that differs by a minus
sign drifts and the drift is a bug in exactly one direction.

The comment it replaces argued against an arrow here, on the grounds
that the list is laid out upside down. That reasoning was about the
code: nobody reading the screen knows the list is reversed, and on
screen the newest message is at the bottom, which is where this goes.

It draws no text, so the name lives in its content description -- the
whole of what a screen reader has, and the answer to "what was that
arrow for" later.

Verified on the emulator: scrolled up, the chevron appears bottom
centre matching the group's; tapped, it returns to the newest message
and takes itself away.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 13:46:13 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 011ed0d0e1 Hold an image's place, open it full screen, and fold a run of calls
Five changes to how a transcript reads.

**Images no longer move the page.** The row was as tall as whatever had
loaded, so it grew when the bytes arrived and pushed everything below it
-- and in a bottom-anchored list, an image loading above the viewport
moved the text under the reader's eyes. The height is now decided before
the fetch and never changes: four lines of the body style, measured from
the type so it stays four lines when the reader has scaled their fonts.
Nothing to see when loading finishes, which is the point.

**A small image is enlarged with nearest neighbour**, a large one shrunk
smoothly -- decided per image from its actual size rather than set once,
since blowing a 16px sprite up with interpolation turns it into a blur
of exactly the thing being looked at.

**Tapping one opens it full screen**, fitted so the whole image is
visible first, with two-finger zoom to 8x and pan once zoomed. A dialog
rather than a screen, so back returns to the transcript.

**A tool call is one line closed**: the tool's name and what the call is
for. The command is not on it, because a wrapped command turns one row
into four. Open, it shows the command, the rest of the input and the
output, with the timeout at the top right -- a limit on the call rather
than part of what it does, worth seeing beside the command it constrains.
A call waiting on permission is shown open regardless, since the command
is the thing being decided.

**Adjacent calls fold into "Called n tools"**, closed by default, and it
closes again from either end -- a long group's heading scrolls away while
its last call is still on screen, and the reader who wants it shut is
looking at the bottom. The calls keep their full width; what says they
belong together is the surface behind them, one cue rather than two
half-cues. Grouping happens at display time, not in the fold: the
transcript's own order is what paging and the stream depend on.

Echo gains `/tools [n]` so a run of calls can be produced without paying
for one.

Verified on the emulator: four calls folded and expanded, one opened
inside the group showing `timeout 5000` top right, a 16px checkerboard
enlarged with hard pixel edges beside a shrunk screenshot at the same
height, the screen byte-identical between one second and six after
opening, full screen fitted, and back returning to the same scroll
position. Pinch itself is the one thing not verified here -- `adb input`
cannot inject a two-finger gesture.

53 tests, clippy, rustfmt, Android lint and ktfmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 13:43:46 -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 d580461bd5 Show what was remembered as a note, not as markup
Claude Code marks a sentence taken from its stored memory by wrapping it
in `<cc-memory filenames="...">`. Markdown has nothing to say about that,
so it arrived as literal angle brackets mid-sentence and read as the
model having emitted broken HTML. It is the opposite: a claim about
where something came from, and "I was told this before" and "I worked
this out just now" are different things the reader could not otherwise
tell apart.

Each one becomes a card naming the files it came from, with the prose
either side of it left as prose. Named rather than merely tinted, since
a colour can say "this one is different" but not what kind of different.

A tag still arriving is left alone: streaming means the closing half may
be seconds away, and a half-written marker is not a marker yet.

Verified on the emulator with two notes in one message, one of them
citing two files, and prose before, between and after.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 06:27:00 -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 206319045d Show usage per machine, and say why a machine has none
The server now reports limits per machine, so the screen has to as well:
one card per machine that offers a paid service, named by the machine
first, because these are one account's numbers and which account is decided
by which box ran the session.

It also has to say which of four things happened, and the reason for
splitting them shows up here rather than in the data. A machine nobody has
logged in on is working exactly as somebody set it up, so it reads as a
plain statement in ordinary text -- marking it would be the interface
nagging about a decision already made, and would dilute the marks that do
mean something. Only "couldn't reach it" and "the endpoint refused" are
coloured as faults, and they say different things because they need
different things done. The old screen drew all three in the error colour.

No machine offering a paid service is not an error either: it says so
instead of drawing nothing.

The app also stopped parsing: `available` no longer exists and
`getBoolean` on a missing key throws, so this had to land with the server
change rather than after it. An older backend sending no `state` is read as
"failed" rather than "ok", since an empty card drawn as healthy is the
worse failure.

Looked at running, against five machines: local reporting notLoggedIn with
the backend's HOME emptied, loopback-over-ssh returning real windows beside
it, an unreachable host showing ssh's own message in red, and a machine
with no Claude provider correctly absent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 06:18:46 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 6166b1f626 State the deny-unknown-fields rule where it governs all the bodies
It had landed appended to `SshRequest`'s doc comment, so a rule about
every request body in the module read as something about how to describe
a machine. Moved to the module doc beside the route table, where the set
it governs is what a reader is already looking at, and worded so a new
request body knows it is expected to carry the attribute too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 06:14:32 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 446fb92ba3 Refuse a request field the server does not know
A misspelled field was accepted and dropped. Sending `permission_mode`
instead of `permissionMode` produced a 200 and a session running in the
default permission mode -- so the caller's setting was gone, and nothing
anywhere said so. That is the expensive shape: indistinguishable from
success at the place you are looking. It cost an hour here, chasing a
"startup race" that was a key serde had silently discarded; with the name
spelled the way the API asks, a bypassPermissions session runs a `sleep`
loop with no prompt at all.

So every request body refuses unknown fields, not just the one that bit.
Axum's message names the offending field and lists what was expected,
which is the whole of what the caller needs.

Query strings are deliberately left permissive: a stale link carrying an
extra parameter is not a mistake worth failing a request over.

53 tests, clippy and rustfmt clean; verified against the running server
that the misspelling is now a 422 naming the field and the correct
spelling still spawns.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 06:13:18 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 d8570f4d5a Ask each machine about its own limits, not this one about all of them
`ClaudeUsage` read `~/.claude/.credentials.json` on the machine running the
backend and asked the API about that account, once, globally. But a session
runs wherever its setup says, so the numbers on the usage screen belonged
to the backend's account rather than to the account that spent the tokens.

That is not a rounding error in the layout this project is aiming at.
`ai-server` belongs on the host; the host has no `claude` CLI at all and
the VM is a remote. So the screen would have reported "is Claude Code
logged in on this machine?" while every session ran fine on a machine whose
limits nobody could see. It looked correct only because backend and CLI
happen to be the same box today.

Usage is now per machine, asked through the same `Transport` the sessions
use -- `ssh host sh -c 'cat $HOME/...'` for a remote, unchanged for the
local one. `$HOME` is left for the far shell to expand, since a path built
here is this machine's home directory and over ssh that is somebody else's.
Machines with no Claude provider are not asked and get no row: they have no
Claude limits, and a row about them would be a fact about nothing.

The snapshot gains the states it could not say. `available` plus an `error`
string made three different situations look identical, and the one that
suffered was the harmless one: a machine nobody has logged in on is a
decision somebody made, with nothing to fix, and it read as broken.
`notLoggedIn`, `unreachable` and `failed` are now distinct, and which one a
failed read is gets decided in `why_no_credentials` rather than at the call
site.

Supporting changes: `ssh::command` builds a `std::process::Command` that
tokio converts from, so a blocking caller can use the one place that knows
what a correct ssh invocation is; `Transport::capture_blocking` is that
caller's door. The cache is keyed by machine and service rather than by
position, since the set is no longer fixed at startup -- a positional cache
would hand one machine's numbers to another the moment a setup was added.
A cached snapshot still picks up a rename immediately, because the name has
nothing to do with the poll interval.

Verified against a real ssh setup (loopback, per AGENTS.md) with five
machines, all four states seen: local `ok`, loopback-over-ssh `ok`,
unreachable host `unreachable` carrying ssh's own message, a claude-less
machine correctly absent, and -- with the backend's HOME emptied -- local
`notLoggedIn` while the ssh machine still reported real windows, which is
the production shape.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 06:12:17 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 9f403cddab Render markdown, and stop wiping messages still waiting to be read
Two things, both about the transcript telling the truth about itself.

Markdown is rendered rather than shown as its source. The parsing is
mikepenz/multiplatform-markdown-renderer, not something written here:
markdown is somebody else's specification, and a hand-written subset of
one disagrees with it at the edges, which is where the bug reports come
from. `Markdown.kt` is only the mapping onto this app's palette, so code,
links and rules take the Catppuccin values the rest of the app uses
rather than the renderer's defaults.

The queued-message list was cleared wholesale whenever a turn ended. But
the backend holds a queue of its own and takes one message per turn, so a
turn ending is precisely the moment the *rest* are still waiting -- the
bubbles vanished while the messages were on their way, which reads as
everything after the first having been dropped. Now a held message
leaves the list exactly two ways: the session reads it, which arrives as
a UserMessage, or its send failed and there is nothing to wait for.

Measured first, because the report was that the backend dropped them:
three messages sent behind one long turn were all delivered in order
(ONE, TWO, THREE) against current main, so the loss was in the display.

Verified on the emulator: headings, emphasis, inline code, nested lists,
a quote bar, a fenced block, a rule and a link all render, and the three
queued messages sit through their turn.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 06:10:22 -04:00
iris 90a57ca7e9 Revert "Default a new session to bypassPermissions"
This reverts commit d81c9a7d65.
2026-08-29 05:58:17 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 d81c9a7d65 Default a new session to bypassPermissions
Auto already allows most of what a session does, so the prompts it did
raise were mostly the interruption without the choice -- and on a phone
each one is a round trip to a question card. Measured rather than
assumed: a haiku session spawned this way ran a bare `echo` and a
`sleep` loop with no prompt at all.

The stricter modes stay one tap away in the same picker, which is where
a session that warrants one picks it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 05:57:59 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 19e3525131 Say what continuing a session will cost, not just how big it is
The import list reported a file size, which predicts the wrong thing. Most
of a large transcript is history from before a compaction, and the model is
not given it again: of the 133 MB session behind the 2026-08-29 incident,
99% of the bytes sat before its last compaction summary.

So each row now carries the tokens the model was actually holding at the
last turn -- the input side of the most recent assistant message's usage,
prompt plus both cache figures, which the CLI records itself rather than
anything inferred from the file. The two disagree in exactly the way that
makes the size misleading. Measured on this machine: `ai-app` is an 80 MB
file with 150k of context, while `ai-app-backup` is 3 MB with 481k. The
smaller file is the more expensive one to continue.

Absent rather than zero when no turn has recorded usage, since a session
with no turns has no figure rather than a figure of none.

The row is three lines instead of one run of separators:

  path      cut at the head, keeping the tail, and the only thing here that
            is cut -- one long value with no natural break, where the lines
            below it are short enough to wrap
  stats     named, context, lines, size
  warning   only when there is one, in the warning colour

The warning gets its own line and its own colour because it differs in kind
from the stats rather than in degree: those describe the session, it says
whether taking it is safe at all. Colour makes it findable, the words make
it actionable -- "open somewhere else" and "we could not check" are not
distinguishable by shade.

Titles no longer ellipse either; they wrap.

Looked at on the emulator rather than reasoned about, including the states
that are not the default: a long path truncating, a row with no warning,
and a row with no context figure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 05:54:05 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 c1a468432d Read a session's transcript once at launch, not twice
Reading the last status back from the transcript -- added so a restart
stops claiming an exited session is idle -- walked the whole file a second
time, after `Transcript::open` had just walked it for the sequence number.
Both answers are wanted at the same moment by the same caller, so the cost
was paid per session at exactly the point a restart is trying to be quick.

`Transcript::open` now finds both in its one pass and reports the status it
saw. The free function goes; a transcript knowing what it last recorded is
where that belongs anyway.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 05:39:54 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 3a74bd9c35 Make the process record survive a crash mid-write
Reviewing the reattach code found the fault it exists to prevent, sitting
in its own save point.

`process::write` used `fs::write`, which truncates before it fills. A crash
inside that window leaves no readable record -- and a missing record reads
as "nothing is running", which is the single answer that makes the next
launch start a *second* CLI against a conversation that already has one.
The window is not rare: the record is rewritten on every read that makes
progress, so many times a second while a turn is producing output.

Written to a neighbouring file and renamed over the real name now. The
rename is atomic, so a reader sees the whole old record or the whole new
one. That also makes the fixed-size padding pointless -- a rename replaces
the file rather than overwriting part of it -- so it goes.

Two more from the same pass:

- A failed read of the stdout log was logged and nothing else. The session
  then went deaf with nothing on screen: no more output, no error, a status
  that stayed wherever it was. It now says so, closes the queue rather than
  stranding messages in it, and reports `Unknown` -- not `Exited`, because
  the process may well still be running; what failed is this server's
  ability to hear it.
- Sizing the stderr log by reading it. `read_from` with a large offset
  answers "how long is it" by allocating the whole file first, which on a
  chatty process is a large pointless read on every reattach. `size_of`
  asks the filesystem.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 05:37:42 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 aff2cb90e2 Stop reporting the app being switched away from as a failure
Backgrounding the app left "Lost the event stream
(SocketTimeoutException: null)" waiting at the top on return. Android
stops the activity, the socket dies with it, and the reconnect loop --
which kept running on a phone nobody was looking at -- recorded the
failure. Switching apps is a choice somebody made, not a fault to report.

Worse, it could not clear. `streamError` was reset when an event arrived,
so a session that reconnected and then sat idle displayed a connection
error it had already recovered from, indefinitely. That is the expensive
half: a stale failure is indistinguishable from a live one.

So the stream now runs only while the screen is at least STARTED, which
makes the drop a deliberate close rather than an error (EventStream
already distinguishes them), and resuming reconnects from the same
cursor. What takes a failure off the screen is `onOpen` -- the measured
moment the server accepted the connection -- rather than the first event
to follow it.

The message that does get shown leads with what will happen next rather
than with the exception's class name, which named nothing the reader
could act on.

lifecycle-runtime-compose is declared rather than inherited from
activity-compose, for the reason core-ktx already is: this code calls
repeatOnLifecycle and LocalLifecycleOwner directly now, and a transitive
could change under it. 2.11.0, the current stable.

Verified on the emulator against an idle session, which is the case the
old code could never clear: backgrounded 35s, returned, no banner -- and
a message sent afterwards arrived live, so the reconnect genuinely
reattached rather than merely staying quiet. Build, lint and ktfmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 05:36:04 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 d7c692a4ec Show a replayed session's images instead of dropping them
An imported session showed no screenshots. `text_of` kept only `text`
blocks, so every image in the replayed tail was silently discarded -- while
the *live* translator has always saved them into the session's `files/` and
referenced them. Two readings of the same records, and the one used for
history was the lesser.

`save_image` moves out of `Translator` to a free function both paths call,
since the naming scheme for that directory should exist once. `events_from`
now takes the session directory to write into, which means the conversion
has to happen where that directory exists -- so `Seed` carries the raw
JSONL and `launch` turns it into events, rather than `routes` doing it
before the session is created.

Costs nothing in tokens, which is the point worth recording: this writes
into ai-app's own session directory and the phone fetches a reference only
when it draws one. Nothing here is ever written to the CLI's stdin -- it
reads its own session file, and the only things this app sends it are typed
messages, control requests and `/compact`.

Verified against the 133 MB session behind the 2026-08-29 incident: 45
images in the replayed tail, written as real PNGs and served over the files
route, with the transcript itself staying at 756 KB of references.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 05:01:48 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 d96bc041a7 Say how big a session is before it is imported
The import list reported a line count, which is the wrong axis: these
transcripts embed screenshots as base64, so one line can be a megabyte.
On this machine a 69 MB session has 3,427 lines while a 44 MB one has
6,792 — the number on the row said nothing about what continuing the
session would cost, and size is the only thing there that predicts it.
The session behind the 2026-08-29 incident was 65 MB across 13,000 lines,
a line count that looks unremarkable.

Shown beside the line count rather than instead of it, since a short file
of long lines is exactly the expensive case. Not warned about and not
marked: importing a large session is a choice somebody is entitled to
make, and flagging it would be the interface nagging about a decision
already taken.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
2026-08-29 04:54:11 -04:00
irisandClaude Opus 5 362d436d4f 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
2026-08-29 04:47:43 -04:00
iris 9791afcfd6 Hold a queued message below the indicator until the turn takes it
The backend records a message the moment it is sent, so one sent into a
running turn landed in the transcript at the time *we* spoke -- above the
working indicator, in among things the session had already read. It had
not read it. Showing it there says otherwise.

Messages sent while a turn is in flight are now held below the indicator,
drawn quieter, and take their place in the conversation when the turn
ends. That is an approximation and worth naming: the CLI injects a queued
message at a tool boundary, and tells nobody when it does, so the end of
the turn is the first moment anything here can honestly say the message
was taken. It errs toward "not yet read", which is the direction that
cannot mislead.

Also in this change, from the same pass over the screen: the app draws
above the gesture strip rather than under it, and the three status colours
that were literals in two other files -- an amber, a green and a red off
Material's defaults -- are now Catppuccin members in Theme.kt beside the
rest of the scheme.

The ordering is verified by construction rather than photographed: the
list is bottom-anchored, so the first item emitted is the lowest on
screen, and the queued block is emitted before the indicator. Staging a
real long-running turn to photograph cost four model turns and never
produced one, because the model kept declining to sleep -- which is its
own finding, and the reason the next change is a test command in the echo
driver.
2026-08-28 23:49:55 -04:00
iris f402a1f6c8 Hold the bottom while typing, and put the status where the answer goes
**Typing moved the newest message out of sight.** The list re-pinned on a
new item and nothing else, but the two things that shrink it while
somebody writes a reply are the field growing from one line to four and
the keyboard opening under it -- neither of which is a new item. So the
message being replied to drifted upward, and the view only came back when
the reply was finally sent, which is the one moment it did not matter.

It now watches the viewport as well as the item count, and only acts while
already pinned.

**The status has moved out of the corner.** As a label up there it said
something about the session; at the end of the transcript it says
something about a place -- this is where the next thing appears -- and
that is where the reader is already looking, because it is where the last
message is.

`exited` is still said, in the same place. Removing the corner label
without it would have left a session whose process is gone looking exactly
like one waiting for input, on a screen whose whole purpose is typing at
it.

Verified on the phone-sized case rather than reasoned about: three lines
of text with the keyboard open keeps the newest message directly above the
field, and sending shows "working" immediately under the sent message.
2026-08-28 23:32:35 -04:00
iris e03b757dec Stop losing tool calls at the seam between transcript pages
A tool's start and end are two events folded into one row, and the fold
only ever *updated* an existing row -- so an end whose start was not in
the same fold changed nothing and vanished. Not a broken row: no row at
all, which is indistinguishable from a tool that never ran, and is what
Iris saw as gaps where she remembered work happening.

Paging made it routine. Each page was folded on its own and prepended, so
every seam split whatever spanned it: 30 tool ends in the first page of
this conversation, one of them already orphaned before a single scroll.

Two changes, because the two halves fail differently.

Pages are re-folded from the events they came from rather than folded
apart and stitched together. That needs the events kept beside the rows,
since folding is one-way. One pass over everything loaded, paid only when
somebody scrolls back, which is the moment they asked for it.

And an end with no start now creates a row instead of disappearing. Its
name is unknown from an end alone, so it says "tool" until the earlier
page arrives and replaces it -- a row that admits what it does not know
beats silence, because silence is a claim that nothing happened.

Verified across a real seam: scrolling back through the 80-event boundary
of an 864-event import is continuous, with no gaps where tool calls were.
2026-08-28 23:25:13 -04:00
iris 2fe34176c0 Give the transcript a way back, and stop losing an import's name
**Every imported session was called "claude-cli session".** The app has
nothing to say about the title -- the server names it after the session it
is continuing -- so it sent `""`. That is `Some`, which satisfied the
`or_else` meant to catch "no title given", so the imported name was
computed and then thrown away in favour of the `<provider> session`
fallback.

Normalised at the boundary instead: blank means absent, because that is
what it means to the person who left it blank. Both the client's value and
the imported one go through the same trim, so neither can be a string of
spaces standing in for a name.

**And a jump-to-latest button**, shown only while the newest message is
off-screen. Reading back through a conversation is a place to be rather
than a state to be rescued from, so it waits to be wanted and leaves once
there is nowhere to jump to.

It says where it goes instead of drawing an arrow. The list is laid out
from the bottom, so "down" in the data is up on the screen, and an arrow
would be asking the reader to hold that in their head to press a button.

Verified on screen: an import now arrives titled "ai-app" rather than
"claude-cli session", and the button appears on scrolling back, returns to
the newest message, and disappears on arrival.
2026-08-28 23:19:07 -04:00
iris dcb158ee44 Fetch the transcript instead of replaying it one event at a time
**The five seconds of loading top-down.** Opening a session subscribed to
the event stream from sequence zero, so the backlog arrived as one SSE
frame per event -- 864 of them for an imported conversation, rendered as
they landed. That is not a slow list; it is a conversation being replayed
at network speed, and it looks like loading from the top because it is.

The newest page now comes as one request, and the stream starts from where
that page ended, carrying live events only -- which is what a stream is
good at. Scrolling back fetches the page before it, so history costs
something only when somebody actually reads it. 80 events instead of 864,
and the first frame is already the end of the conversation.

I had called this fixed after anchoring the list at the bottom, on the
strength of an emulator on the same machine as the server. That test could
not have shown the problem: the whole backlog arrived in one frame's worth
of time over loopback. Iris's phone, over a tunnel, took five seconds.

**Send disappearing while running.** It was never conditional -- the row
simply ran out of width. A Row hands out intrinsic widths in order and
clips the overflow, so when Stop appeared the pickers I had added pushed
Send off the screen: the app's central control, gone at exactly the moment
the app is most in use. The settings now share what is left after the
actions have taken what they need.

While a turn is in flight the button says **Queue**, because that is what
sending then does -- the message is injected at the next tool boundary
rather than starting a turn of its own. The backend has always done this;
the button was describing something else.

**And the model picker no longer dismisses the keyboard**, which it did by
taking focus. Changing the model mid-sentence is an aside, not a departure
from what you were typing.

Verified on the 864-event import: at the newest message within a second,
history paging back continuously past the first page, and Stop beside
Queue while running.
2026-08-28 23:12:34 -04:00
iris ba25a5cacf Open the transcript at the bottom instead of travelling there
The list was built oldest-first and then scrolled to the end, so opening a
session started at the top and raced downward through everything in it. On
an imported conversation that is nine hundred items measured before a word
is readable, and it was visible every single time.

Laying the list out from the bottom removes the journey rather than hiding
it. The newest message is index 0, so the first frame is already the right
one, and older items are composed only when somebody scrolls back to them
-- which is also what makes a long history cheap rather than something to
load up front.

Following the tail gets simpler as a result. There is no longer a moment
where new content pushes the anchor away, so "am I pinned" is read
straight from the scroll position instead of being remembered across
scrolls, and a new message is one step back to index 0 rather than a jump
across the transcript.

Checked on the 863-event import of this very conversation: a screenshot
one second after opening is already at the newest message, and scrolling
back reaches older ones in the order they happened.
2026-08-28 23:02:56 -04:00
iris 3f8805a610 Say which kind of delete this is, and stop offering what is already open
**Deleting was one word for two different acts.** An imported session's
real transcript belongs to Claude Code and outlives anything this app
does, so removing it here undoes a view. A session started here has no
copy anywhere, and removing it ends the conversation. The dialog warned
"this can't be undone" of both, which makes the warning worthless on the
one where it is true -- and frightening on the one where it is not, since
what it actually deletes is a cache of a conversation still sitting on
the machine.

Sessions now report whether they were imported, and the dialog says which
act this is. No new mechanism: the soft delete already existed, it was
just indistinguishable from the hard one.

**And a session already open here is no longer offered for import.**
Importing one twice would leave two `--resume` processes appending to the
same transcript, each seeing the other's writes as work done elsewhere and
replaying them -- both sessions then showing a conversation neither is
having. The route refuses it as well, so the rule holds for anything not
going through the app.

Left out of the list rather than shown and disabled. The usual argument
says absence is ambiguous, and it is wrong here: an imported session has
not disappeared, it has moved to the session list, which is where it now
belongs. Absence means "already somewhere you can reach it". Deleting the
app's copy puts it straight back -- verified: 68 offered, 67 after
importing one, 68 again after the soft delete, which is also the clearest
demonstration that a soft delete keeps the conversation.
2026-08-28 22:53:42 -04:00
iris d2915c12fa Record how the import sync tells its own writes apart
The reasoning belongs where somebody would look before changing the poll:
status is the obvious discriminator and is wrong, and the failure it
produces reads as the model repeating itself rather than as a bug.
2026-08-28 22:45:01 -04:00
iris a9ea84c96c Stop choosing a model, and keep an imported session up to date
**Why the model became fable.** `spawn_session` fell back to the
provider's first listed model when none was given. That list is a shortcut
for the spawn screen, written in whatever order somebody typed it, and its
first entry is `fable` -- so every session spawned without a model, which
is every import, silently became a fable session. It looked like a default
and was an artefact of list order. Absent now means absent: no `--model`
flag, and the CLI uses whatever the person configured for themselves.

**Model and permission mode are now visible and changeable** from the
session, as buttons that read as their current value rather than labels
beside one. The mode was spawn-only; the CLI turns out to accept
`control_request{subtype:set_permission_mode}` and echo the mode back,
probed against 2.1.237 the same way the rest of the protocol record was.
Both default to `auto` -- on a phone every ask is a round trip to a
question card, which is how "allow Bash?" became the most-answered
question in the app.

The mode is reported by the API so the picker shows what the session is
actually set to, and it is kept in the live session beside the model for
the reason the model already was: `meta` is the shape a session was
*launched* with, so reporting from it shows the value a change replaced.

**And an imported session keeps itself level with its source file**, so
work done at a terminal arrives without a button. `--resume` appends to
the same transcript rather than forking -- measured, not assumed -- so the
only hard question is which new lines came from here.

Answered by counting the events this session has recorded. Status is the
obvious signal and is wrong, which cost a round trip to find: a turn that
starts and finishes between two polls reads as idle at both, so its output
is replayed on top of itself. It showed up on screen as `donedone`, and
only because the reply was one word -- with a longer answer it would have
looked like the model repeating itself.

Verified against both halves: text appended to the source file the way a
terminal writes it appears within one interval, and a message sent through
the app appears exactly once, before and after a turn.
2026-08-28 22:44:41 -04:00
iris c3e7f07a5d Pin the transcript to its tail, and stop asking about every command
**The scroll.** The transcript scrolled on new items and nothing else,
which missed the two cases that matter most. An imported session's history
arrived and left the view wherever it landed; the keyboard opening shrank
the viewport and slid the newest messages under the IME, so typing meant
typing into a view showing the middle of something.

The view is now pinned to the tail, and it is the reader's scroll that
decides: settling anywhere above the bottom releases the pin, settling
back at the bottom re-arms it. The pin is written only when a scroll
*ends*, so it survives the moment when new content has just pushed the
bottom away but the reader never moved -- deriving it continuously from
"is the bottom visible" would release it on every append, which is the
race that makes naive follow-the-tail implementations let go at random.
New items and viewport resizes both re-scroll; the jump is instant rather
than animated, because an imported session appends hundreds of items at
once and animating through them is a light show.

**The input field gets a row of its own**, above the buttons. Sharing one
row put the full width behind three controls, so the thing being typed
into was the narrowest thing on the row.

**Permissions default to auto, and importing can choose.** The spawn
screen defaulted to "manual" and imports passed no mode at all, so the
CLI asked about everything -- and on a phone every ask is a round trip to
a question card, which is how "allow Bash?" became the most-answered
question in the app. Both paths now default to auto, with the other modes
one tap away for a session that warrants caution.

Looked at running, all three: an imported session opens at its bottom,
the tail stays visible while typing with the keyboard open, and the mode
picker shows auto selected.
2026-08-28 22:24:37 -04:00
iris 233689ced6 Name a session in the import list, and let one be deleted
Three things about finding a session in a list of seventy, and one about
getting rid of it.

**A name beats anything inferred.** `/rename` appends a `custom-title`
record, so if somebody has said what a session is, that is the row. Eleven
of the seventy here turned out to be named already and none of it showed.

**Otherwise the last thing said, not the first.** The question this list
answers is "which one was I just in", and a session's opening line is the
least distinctive thing about it -- several of these begin with the same
slash command.

Finding that last message took three tries, and the two wrong ones are
worth recording because they failed in opposite directions. Grepping the
user record type caught tool results, which are *also* user records -- so
a session that ended mid-tool showed a tail of empty records and a row
saying nothing was said, when plenty had been. Narrowing to a string
`content` fixed those two and broke twenty others, because a message
carrying an attachment stores its text in a list. Excluding `tool_use_id`
keeps both shapes of a real message and drops the one that is not: seven
rows still have nothing to show, and those are sessions that really are
empty.

**Sorted by when it was last used**, and the time is on the row. Naming
was tried as the first sort key and is a worse list -- it buries what
somebody was just doing under everything they ever named. A name is for
recognising a row, not for ordering it, so it stays as the title and as a
word beside it.

**And a session can be deleted**, which is asked before it is done. The
transcript *is* the session, so this ends any chance of resuming that
conversation, and the dialog says exactly that rather than "are you
sure?". Deletion resolves the id against what the machine reported, like
importing, so no path crosses the wire in either direction.

Looked at on the emulator, including the dialog -- which is where the
delete button turned out to be missing entirely after a patch that
compiled fine, and where the row layout got its second look.
2026-08-28 22:08:43 -04:00
iris 6bbc829a3e Import a Claude Code session the machine already has
Claude Code keeps every session as JSONL under `~/.claude/projects/`, and
the CLI continues one with `--resume <id>`. `claude.rs` already resumes
whenever it finds a resume token in the session directory, for crash
recovery -- so importing is that same path with the token written before
the driver starts, and there is deliberately no second way to begin a
session. The seed goes through `launch` with the ordinary spawn, so the
driver never learns which kind it got.

Two things the machine answers and the phone does not.

**Which sessions exist.** One command per setup rather than one per file,
for the reason discovery already gives: over ssh each would be its own
connection. Titles come from the first few user records rather than the
first, because a session opens with records the CLI injected -- slash
commands, caveats around local command output -- which are stored as
ordinary user records without the meta flag, so titling by "first user
record" produced a list where most rows read `<command-name>/clear`.

**Which file an id names.** The phone sends an id and never a path; the
server looks it up again among the sessions it enumerated. An enrolled
token must not be able to turn a spawn into "read me this file", which is
the same rule that keeps a provider's command out of `POST /setups`.

Only the tail is replayed. The imported conversation is for reading --
continuing it is the CLI's job, and it reads the whole file itself -- so
this is a display budget, and it has to be one: the session this was
written in is 39 MB, and all of it would otherwise cross a tunnel to a
phone.

A recorded working directory can outlive itself, which this found
immediately: every session from before the checkouts moved to `~/repos`
still records `~/host/repos/...`. Resuming into one fails at `cd` before
the CLI starts -- a confusing way to meet a feature whose promise is
"carry on where you left off" -- so the directory is checked, and a
missing one is dropped with a log line naming it rather than being passed
on to fail.

Verified against this very session: 905 events replayed from the tail
(351 tool calls, 350 results, 185 assistant messages, 19 mine), the resume
token pointing at its id, and the stale directory reported and dropped.
The list was read on the emulator, where the top row is that session under
its opening sentence.
2026-08-28 21:45:14 -04:00
iris 2a1bc84c1e Expand a leading ~, and say what the failing command said
Three things, two of which are the same failure seen from opposite ends.

**A working directory of `~/repos/ai-app` never worked.** Everything
crossing to the remote side is single-quoted, which is right for paths,
model names and prompts alike -- unquoted they would be shell syntax
rather than data. It is wrong for exactly one character: `~` means "expand
me", and quoting is what stops expansion. So the remote shell was handed
the literal four-character directory `~` and correctly said it did not
exist, which reads as the path being wrong rather than the quoting.

Paths now go through `quote_path`, which emits `"$HOME"` for a leading
`~/` and single-quotes the rest. The variable expands, the expansion is
not re-split or globbed because it is double-quoted, and nothing after it
gains a meaning -- there is a test that pushes a quote-and-semicolon
injection through the tilde branch and gets back one absurd path rather
than three commands. `$HOME` is set by every shell this can land in, so
this does not depend on the remote side being POSIX; verified by running
the generated script under both sh and fish, which is what the dev VM
actually uses.

**The phone could not have told you any of that.** The exit report kept
the last line of stderr, and a shell's error message ends with a blank
line -- so the last line was empty, the report was a bare exit status, and
the seven lines of fish complaining sat in the server's log where nobody
holding a phone is looking. It now keeps the last 50 lines in a ring and
reports them with blank lines trimmed from both ends. The tests use the
real fish `cd` failure as their fixture.

**The status bar was unreadable.** `isAppearanceLightStatusBars` was
hardcoded to `true` -- dark icons -- which was right against the default
light surface and wrong the moment the app wore Mocha. It now asks the
scheme's own background for its luminance, so changing the palette cannot
reintroduce it.

**And the address field takes `user@host:port`.** One field rather than
two, because that is how an address is written everywhere else and a port
that is nearly always 22 does not deserve its own box on a phone keyboard.
Absent means absent rather than 22: the backend already decides that
default, and writing it here would be a second answer in a second place.
A colon only means "port" when it can -- brackets for IPv6 as ssh writes
them, otherwise exactly one colon followed by digits.

Looked at on the emulator: the status bar, and the form, whose label I
then shortened because it wrapped onto a second line and made that field
taller than the two beside it.
2026-08-28 21:05:17 -04:00
iris 31135e3f22 Wear Catppuccin Mocha, and move Usage to where the provider is
Two changes to the app, plus the one they turned up.

**The theme.** Catppuccin Mocha, copied from dev-updater rather than
shared: wg-app-link is the *link* -- the tunnel, the pinned CA, enrollment
-- and a palette is not that. The two apps looking alike is a preference
rather than a contract, and the moment one wants a different accent a
shared version becomes a thing to fight. dev-updater's ActionTone and its
ANSI table did not come across; nothing here draws a log or a destructive
button yet, and copying a vocabulary with no speakers is how a file starts
lying about what the app does.

**Usage is no longer a global button.** It belongs to the provider, and
the session view is the only place a provider is currently named, so that
is where the control sits -- beside the line that names it, rather than
collected with the app-wide controls where its scope had to be guessed. It
carries the session back with it, so Back returns to that session rather
than dumping the reader on the list.

Its real home is that provider's own settings, which do not exist yet.

**And the bit that only running it could find.** I first subtitled the
usage screen with the session's provider, which on an echo session put
"echo" directly above a card reading "claude" -- Claude's account-wide
numbers labelled as echo's, a claim about echo that nothing measured. The
subtitle is gone; each card names the service that answered, which is the
true scope, and the reason is written where the subtitle was so it does
not get re-added.

Looked at on the emulator rather than read: the palette, the session
header, the usage screen, and Back landing on the session it came from.
ktfmt, compile and Lint clean.
2026-08-28 20:26:12 -04:00