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.
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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.
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Four files went in unformatted: I ran the formatter mid-change and then
kept editing. ktfmtCheck is part of finishing, not part of starting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
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.
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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.
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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.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
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.
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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.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
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.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VETa8afmpWaYezLCqJhDB8
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.
**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.
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.
**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.
**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.
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.
**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.
**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.
**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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The four Kotlin files that were the link rather than this product now come
from the submodule: the pinned TrustManager, the enrollment store and its
Keystore sealing, the QR capture activity, and the local-network permission
check. `:link` is a subproject resolved by path, so the app half is
version-locked to the same commit the Rust half already was.
What stays here is the two facts that are actually about this app, and
both are load-bearing in a way that would fail quietly if got wrong: the
`aiapp` URI scheme, and the Keystore alias `aiapp-token-key` that every
enrolled phone's token is already sealed under. A wrong alias would leave
those phones reading as not enrolled with nothing on screen to explain it,
so the value is carried over exactly and the reason is written beside it.
Call sites are unchanged. `ServerSettings` stays available unqualified as
a typealias and `applyPinnedTls()` stays an extension, so the diff is the
three files that bind the product-specific values plus two imports --
rather than every screen that happens to use a setting.
Also clears a warning the build had been printing: `setup?.id.orEmpty()`
where the compiler already knows `setup` is non-null, because `chosen`
came from that setup's own provider list.
Verified by running the build, not only by reading it: ktfmt, Kotlin
compile and Android Lint are all clean with no warnings, and the APK still
builds -- which exercises the pinned-CA generator, since that is the step
that reads the CA off this machine.
Still unpushed, per the hold until the rebuild bug is proven fixed. Note
the submodule: a checkout of this commit needs `git submodule update
--init` before `app/` or `server/` will build.
The driver worked and the models could be downloaded, but the spawn screen
had no idea llama.cpp existed: the model field and every extra setting were
gated behind `isClaude`, so a llama provider offered nothing, `model`
arrived null, and the driver refused with "a llama.cpp session needs a
model". The feature was reachable only by curl, which is not what was asked
for.
A llama provider now gets the models this backend has downloaded, as a
picker rather than free text -- there is nothing sensible to type, and a
name that is not on disk is a session that cannot start. Context size and
temperature are there too, blank meaning llama.cpp's own default rather
than a zero. Spawn stays disabled until a model is chosen, because without
one the button could only fail.
**Two bugs that only appeared by pressing the button**, both mine, both
from changing the server without re-driving the app:
- The app sent the setup's *label* where the server had started resolving
by *id*. The failure was almost self-diagnosing -- `no setup named "this
machine" -- configured: this machine` -- and that message now says "no
setup with id" and lists ids, since listing labels was what made it read
as a contradiction.
- The session header showed `on local`, the id, because the app read
`setup` where the server had begun sending both `setup` (id) and
`setupName` (label). The app now carries only the label: nothing in it
addresses a setup, and holding both is what let it show the wrong one.
Verified by doing it: rediscovered the local machine from the phone so
`local-llama` appeared, spawned a session on Qwen3-0.6B-Q8_0 with a 4096
context, sent "Reply with exactly one word: ready", and it replied "ready"
with 125 tokens counted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
Two findings from dev-updater's session reading this codebase, both checked
against the code here before acting on them, and both real.
**A denied local-network permission was invisible.** The manifest requests
ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK and MainActivity asks for it, but nothing ever checked
whether it was granted -- and on Android 17 a denial is indistinguishable
from an unreachable server at the socket, because the OS simply drops the
traffic. So every screen would have shown "is ai-server running, and is
this device able to reach that address (WireGuard up)?", blaming two things
that were both fine.
Stated once at the root as a standing condition rather than appended to
each failure it might have caused: it is not a property of any one request,
and repeating it per error is how a message ends up saying the same thing
twice, which this app has already done once today.
**The Keystore read path was creating keys.** `unseal` called the
get-or-create key function, so a sealed token whose key had been lost -- a
device reset, or the app's data restored onto a device the key cannot
travel to -- generated a fresh key, then failed to decrypt with it, leaving
a key nothing had ever sealed with. The behaviour was already right by
accident (it fails soft to "not enrolled"), but the read side now asks for
the key without making one, which is what it meant all along.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
The other half of making setups editable: add, rename, rediscover and
remove, with a Test that tries a machine before anything is saved.
The screen cannot name a program, which is the point rather than an
omission -- providers are what the server found when it asked, so this app
has no way to introduce something to run. The dialog says so, because
"what it can run is discovered, not typed" is the answer to the question a
person will otherwise ask when they look for a command field.
Two things running it changed. The card showed "this machine / this
machine", because the seeded setup is *called* that and my fallback line
for a local setup said the same -- the line now says something the name
cannot also be. And the header row absorbed a fifth action without
complaint, which is the earlier title-and-actions split paying off exactly
as its comment predicted.
**Host key verification is the failure that would have made this look
broken.** Every machine fails it the first time, because its key is not in
known_hosts yet, and ssh's own words -- "Host key verification failed." --
are written for somebody at a terminal on the backend, which is exactly who
is not reading a phone. It now says what to do: ssh to it once from the
backend and try again. Permission denied gets the same treatment.
Deliberately *not* fixed by relaxing StrictHostKeyChecking. Accepting a new
key is a decision somebody should make with the key in front of them, not
something this app does quietly on their behalf while adding a machine.
Verified on the emulator against a running server: the seeded setup renders
with what was discovered on it, the add dialog explains itself, and Test
against an untrusted machine produces the full explanation rather than
ssh's four words.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
Providers and hosts were two independent lists, and a session named one of
each. They were never independent: a provider only exists on a machine
where that program is installed, so the spawn screen offered the whole
cross-product, including "the Claude CLI on the box that hasn't got it".
The picker could not know, because nothing in the model said.
Now a setup is a machine -- optional ssh, plus the providers it has -- and
spawning is two choices in order: pick a setup, then one of its providers.
The impossible pairs stop being expressible rather than being validated
against. Provider names are unique within a setup and only within one, so
two machines can each have a `claude-cli`, which was previously either a
name collision or two entries called things like "claude" and "claude on
the vm".
It also settles the "Run on" problem properly. That control was offered for
every provider but honoured only by the Claude driver -- an echo session
sent to a host ran locally and said otherwise. There is no such control
now: the machine is chosen first, and echo is a provider of the setup with
no ssh, where it belongs, since it runs in-process and has no transport to
cross.
The built-in echo provider is gone as a concept. It used to be conjured at
read time and never written to the file, which meant a provider nobody
could see or edit; it is now seeded into the config on first run alongside
claude-cli. What the file says is what there is, and deleting it is a
choice rather than a state to be repaired.
A config in the old shape is refused with instructions rather than loaded.
`Config` defaults unknown fields away, so `providers:` and `hosts:` would
otherwise have vanished into an empty config that was then seeded over --
a migration nobody would notice until their setups were gone.
Verified against a running server and on the emulator: a fresh install
seeds "this machine" with echo and claude-cli and the file reads cleanly;
a two-setup config lists both with their own providers; spawning on a
setup works and the session row names it; asking for a provider a setup
lacks says which it offers, and an unknown setup says which exist. On the
phone, selecting "dev vm" narrows the provider chips to that machine's one
and shows its address.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
The point of the llama.cpp work was that models are managed from the app,
not by editing the backend's filesystem, so this is the screen for it:
search HuggingFace, expand a repository to see its GGUFs with sizes,
download one and watch it, cancel it, delete what is no longer wanted.
Everything shown is the server's state rather than the screen's. A
download started here keeps going when the screen closes, is visible from
any enrolled device, and its outcome outlives it -- demonstrated by
accident while testing, when a 538 MB download finished during an app
rebuild and was still there, complete, after reinstalling.
Polled rather than streamed, at 1.5s. A download belongs to the machine
rather than to any session, so it has no event stream of its own; this is
the one screen in the app that asks repeatedly instead of being told.
Three things the screenshots decided rather than the diff:
- **The list header no longer squeezes its title.** Adding a fourth action
to the row wrapped "AI Sessions" onto three lines. Title and actions now
have a row each, so a fifth costs nothing and the title is never what
gives.
- **A repository's files render inside its own card**, not as a section
after the list -- drawn after every card they read as belonging to
whichever was last.
- **A file already downloading says so** and is disabled, rather than
offering a Download button whose effect nobody can see.
The progress bar is determinate only when the server reported a size, and
says "total size unknown" otherwise rather than inventing a position.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
The last four lint warnings were all this one thing, and they were right:
1.11.1 with 1.12.0 out. Nothing else here is behind -- material3 1.9.0 and
activity-compose 1.13.0 are both current, checked against Maven Central and
Google Maven today, which is also why the header comment's date moves.
Android Lint now reports no issues at all, from 11 errors and 8 warnings
this morning.
Verified by running it rather than by the build succeeding, since a Compose
minor can change how things draw: the session list, the usage screen and a
session transcript with a message sent through it all render as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
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
`./gradlew :androidApp:lintDebug` had apparently never been run. It
reported 11 errors, 8 warnings and 3 hints, and one of the errors was a
crash: UsageScreen formats its reset countdown with java.time --
OffsetDateTime and Duration, both API 26 -- while minSdk is 24 and core
library desugaring was off. On 24 and 25 that is a NoClassDefFoundError,
and the `catch (_: Exception)` around the code does not stop an Error, so
the usage screen would have died rather than degraded.
Core library desugaring is now on, with desugar_jdk_libs 2.1.5. Verified
by looking in the built APK rather than trusting the flag: it now carries
Lj$/time/Duration and Lj$/time/OffsetDateTime, the backported classes the
call sites are rewritten against.
The rest: the two KTX suggestions taken (SharedPreferences.edit's block
form, which cannot forget its apply(), and String.toUri), the three
autoboxing hints taken (mutableIntStateOf/mutableLongStateOf), and
androidx.core:core-ktx declared at 1.19.0 rather than inherited through
activity-compose, since this code now calls its extensions directly.
Two are suppressed with their reasons, both scoped to the one element.
DiscouragedApi on the scanner's screenOrientation, which is not a pin but
the removal of the library's landscape lock. MissingApplicationIcon,
because there is no icon yet and that is a decision to make later, not an
oversight -- an app with no icon is obvious to anyone who opens a
launcher, so the warning tells nobody here anything.
0 errors now. The 4 warnings left are one thing: Compose Multiplatform
1.12.0 is out and this is on 1.11.1. That is an upgrade to decide on, not
a defect, so it is left for its own change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
SpawnScreen kept its own `loading` flag and `error` string, the third
mechanism in this app for a state two screens already share. That was not
just untidy: on a failed fetch it set the error, left `providers` and
`hosts` at the empty lists they started as, and rendered the form anyway --
so "couldn't reach the server" arrived as a Provider row with no providers
in it, which is what a server offering nothing would also look like. The
error sat below both empty pickers.
It now holds `LoadState<SpawnOptions>` like the others: loading shows the
spinner, a failure reports and stops, and the form exists only where there
is something to fill it with.
The spawn action keeps its own error, renamed `spawnError` so the two can't
be confused again. They are different in kind and the distinction is the
one the session list just learned: a fetch that never answered leaves no
form worth showing, while a spawn the server refused leaves a filled-in
form the user still wants, so that one stays beside the button that
produced it.
Verified on the emulator: the form loading with both providers, the Claude
fields appearing when claude-cli is selected (which also exercises the
snake_case kind the phone now compares against), and the failure state with
the server stopped -- reporting alone, with Cancel still working.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
`kind: r#claude-cli` was the config file paying for a serde default. RON is
modelled on Rust, a hyphen is not an identifier in either, and this file is
edited by hand -- so the escape existed only to write a name nobody would
have typed that way. Snake case, and it reads `kind: claude_cli`.
The same string is the one the phone compares against to decide whether to
offer models, a working directory and permission modes, so SpawnScreen.kt
moves with it. That is a wire-format change: Dev Updater delivers the
server before the APK, so between the two an installed build sees a kind it
does not recognise and drops the Claude-specific fields from the spawn
form until the APK lands. It recovers on its own, and nothing else reads
the value.
The provider *name* is left as "claude-cli". It is a label a person picks
and may edit, and sessions reference providers by it -- renaming the
default would orphan them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
Deleting a session the server no longer has replaced the whole list with an
error. The server answered -- it said "no session <id>" -- so what it told
us is about one row, and every other row was still exactly as fetched. The
list going away said otherwise.
The line between the two scopes is whether the server answered. Answered
and refused is about one item and belongs on that item; never answered
leaves every row stale against a server that has stopped talking, and that
is the list's own state to report. Both cases exist here and had been
sharing one slot, which is why the message had to hedge about which it was.
So failures acting on one session live in a map keyed by its id and render
inside its card. The path out is the next successful load, which clears the
map: an entry would otherwise outlive the session it names and reappear
against whatever the phone fetched next.
The shape is dev-updater's `cardStates`, which solved this first; the rule
above is theirs too, and it moves their "gave up waiting" case the other
way, to list-level, which is a good sign it is a rule rather than a
description of what either of us already had.
Verified on the emulator by producing the real failure -- delete a session
out from under the app with curl, then delete its stale row from the phone.
The refusal appears on that card, the other card is untouched, the list
stays, and Refresh clears it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
On screen it read: "Couldn't reach the server: Couldn't reach the server at
https://10.0.2.2:8443 (ConnectException ...)". Api.kt writes a whole
sentence -- the address, the exception, and what to check -- because that
message has to be actionable on a device with no logcat; the list then
prefixed it with a shortened version of the same claim. The usage screen,
showing the identical failures, prints the message alone and reads
correctly, so this was one caller disagreeing with the other about what a
failure looks like.
The prefix was also a guess the caller could not make. `LoadState.Error`
here also carries a failed *delete*, which the server may well have
answered -- reaching it fine and refusing -- and the prefix said it had
not been reached at all.
Found by looking at it with the server stopped, which is the only way this
was ever going to show up: it compiles, and the happy path looks perfect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
`ListState` and `UsageState` were the same three cases -- Loading, Loaded,
Error -- differing only in what Loaded carried, which is the shape rule 17
asks to parameterize rather than copy. They are now one `LoadState<T>`,
covariant so a single `LoadState.Loading` serves both.
Worth keeping as a type rather than a value beside a nullable error: it is
what stops "we couldn't find out" from sharing a representation with
"there is nothing", so a failed fetch cannot render as an empty list.
`LoadState.failed(e)` also collects the `e.message ?: "Unknown error"` both
screens were spelling out, so there is one answer to what an ApiException
looks like on screen instead of one per caller.
No behaviour change. Verified on the emulator against a real ai-server, not
just compiled: the list empty, the list with two sessions, usage with three
real windows, and both screens' error state with the server stopped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
Dev Updater's unit is a project -- a directory in a checkout -- that
produces components, so this declaration belongs at the repository root
where it can say where each half lives. `cwd` is how a component says
that, and it is what the old file was working around: sitting in `app/`,
it reached the backend with `../server/Cargo.toml` and `../server/service`,
which described the layout backwards.
So the file says what this repository produces: the backend, built and
serviced in `server/`, and then the APK, built in `app/`. The order is
unchanged and still the point -- a failing APK build leaves the phone the
APK it already had rather than half of a matched pair.
The service script gains dev-updater's note about lingering. A user
service stops at logout unless `loginctl enable-linger` is set, which for
this one matters more than for a build server: the phone reaches ai-server
whether or not anyone is logged in at the desk.
**This changes the project path, so the phone's existing entry (at
~/repos/ai-app/app) has to be removed and the checkout root added
instead**, and its components accepted once.
Verified against dev-updater's current parser rather than by reading its
schema: the declaration loads, `cargo build --release` resolves into
server/, app/build-apk.sh into app/, the service script to an absolute
path, and APK discovery from the root still finds the built APK.
`./server/service status` prints not-installed and exits 0.
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The same move, for the same reason: this file is written and read by hand,
and JSON has no comments to say why a host is configured the way it is.
Both house rules come across with it, in config.rs's `format` module and
nowhere else -- a file is the *body* of the config, so no outer parentheses
and nothing indented for them, and `Some` is implicit, which is what makes
`skip_serializing_if` on every optional field load-bearing rather than
tidiness.
The switch is outright: there is no reader for the old format. That is
invisible everywhere except here, because this file holds the enrolled
token hashes -- starting empty leaves the phone unable to talk to the
server and looks, from the phone, like the config having been lost. So a
config.json left beside the new file is named in the log and left alone,
rather than read or deleted.
One wart, documented at DriverKind: the kebab-case spelling is the string
the phone compares against, so it stays, and the file pays for it with
`kind: r#claude-cli` -- a hyphen is not a RON identifier. Renaming the
variant would change what an already-installed build is talking to.
Verified: cargo test, cargo clippy --all-targets, and a real start against
a scratch state directory -- a hand-typed config with comments and a bare
`port: 2222` loads, and what the server writes back sits at column 0 with
no Some(...) in it.
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ai-server is now something Dev Updater can install, start and stop from
the phone: the project declares a Server component naming ./server/service,
and that script is where knowing about systemd and OpenRC lives.
Detection asks rather than looks -- `systemctl --user show-environment`
answering, or `rc-service --user` existing -- because a machine can carry
both binaries and an OpenRC below 0.60 has rc-service without --user.
Neither present is an error with a message, not a guess at a fallback.
Two things the script will not do. It never prompts: Dev Updater runs it
with stdin closed, so a sudo prompt would hang rather than fail, and
anything needing root exits telling you to run it yourself once. And on
OpenRC it refuses when XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is unset rather than proceeding --
user services store their state there, and the failure otherwise reads as
a broken service instead of a missing variable.
The server is declared before the app so it is built and delivered first;
a failed APK build then leaves the phone with the APK it already had
rather than half of a matched pair.
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Counts Gradle tasks: --dry-run gives the total, the build gives one
'> Task :x' line each as it goes. Gradle offers no direct route -- an
init script using taskGraph.afterTask is rejected by the configuration
cache, and whenReady never fires on a cache hit.
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Same file, same keys, new format -- see dev-updater's own commit for why
it moved. The one thing to know when editing this: it is the *body* of the
config, so there are no outer parentheses and nothing is indented for
them.
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The library's capture activity asks for the camera itself, and opens the
camera without waiting for the answer. The first scan on a fresh install
therefore comes up as a live preview with "Sorry, the Android camera
encountered a problem. You may need to restart the device." over it, and
works on the second try. Nothing is wrong with the camera, so nothing
should say there is.
Asking before launching it means the activity always starts with the
permission already held. A denial now says what to do instead of leaving
a dialog blaming the device.
The scan options move to one function while there are two callers -- the
button when the permission is already held, and the permission result
when it has just been granted.
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The library's CaptureActivity has three defaults that put work on the
person holding the phone, so the scan now goes through our own subclass
instead:
- It decodes only the framing rectangle, inset 10% from every edge. A code
filling the viewfinder still decodes -- measured against the library's
own decoder rather than assumed -- but only by spending its quiet zone
on the crop, and anything further out is never looked at. The whole
preview is decoded now, so framing is not something to get right.
- It draws a red laser line and scatters dots wherever the detector finds
a candidate pattern. That is the library's house style, and it looks
like a fault. The preview is plain now.
- Its manifest entry pins the activity to landscape. The code being
scanned is usually on a monitor in front of someone holding the phone
upright, so ours follows the sensor.
Verified on the emulator: the scanner opens on a bare preview with no
laser, no dots and no status line.
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ai-server prints the QR as block characters, which take the terminal's
foreground colour. On a dark-themed terminal that comes out as a
photographic negative, and ZXing looks only for a dark code on a light
ground, so the in-app scanner silently never matched it -- while the
phone's own camera app, which tries both, did.
Fixing it in the scanner rather than by having the server force its
colours means however the code gets displayed stops mattering: a light
terminal, a dark one, a screenshot someone inverted, a printout.
MIXED_SCAN alternates normal and inverted frames, so the cost is half the
frame rate at each polarity. Checked against the library's own
MixedDecoder off-device: the plain decoder reads the normal image and
returns nothing for the inverted one, and the mixed decoder reads both
within two frames.
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