Surfaced messages, round 2: 21 designs

Round 2 designs for how conduit shows the mid-turn agent messages Jev decides a developer should see. Each design shows the same long turn four ways: Live and Settled on desktop, then Live and Settled on a 390px phone. The phone screens have a fixed height, so the cost in vertical space is honest. Decision bead: conduit-test-ahu8.8. With the feature off, every design falls back to today's view.

Requirements (all necessary)

CollapsibleSurfaced messages can be folded away.
Short threadsA long turn with many messages must not become a long thread.
One activity blockSurfaced messages must not split a turn's activity into several blocks, because that adds scrolling when reviewing a session.
Easy to readDevelopers can read the messages easily.
MobileReadable on a phone, and messages must not make the other content hard to read.
Dev navigationFast to find a specific message, especially the ones needing a reply.

Carried over from round 1: B4's digest (now collapsible), B6's rail (made cheap on scroll), M2's margin notes (made mobile-safe), M3's strip pins, M4's latest-update slot with left/right paging (plus numbered pins you can tap or swipe), M6's confidence-weighted prominence (without splitting blocks, and with a "Final only" level), and M7's composer: live activity state, "Reply to steer the agent…", stop, and "↓ live". Every Live mockup uses that composer.

Message types, from real session logs

Mined from 500 mid-turn messages across the 20 largest conduit sessions (6,131 mid-turn messages over 534 turns). 58% were worth surfacing. Long turns (20+ mid-turn messages) surface a median of 22 messages, p90 56, and about 150 in the worst turn found. That is the scale every design has to survive.

TypeSurface when the message…UrgencyShareExample from the logs
? Askasks the user for a choice, fact, approval or action1 · needs a reply4.8%"Want me to file that follow-up in Beads?"
✕ Blockedreports a failed gate, missing access or stop condition that prevents the next step2 · attention7.0%"Commit was blocked by the pre-commit hook (HEAD unchanged, files still staged)."
! Risknames an unresolved plausible harm, regression or hazard2 · attention8.8%"If that switch was ask→auto, a restart quietly turns on auto-approval."
± Scopesays the agreed deliverables must grow or shrink2 · attention1.4%"This story spans contracts → daemon → transport → stores…"
↻ Replanchanges method or order because of new evidence3 · consequential1.4%"That changes the design, and I want to make sure it doesn't cost you live streaming."
↶ Correctionretracts or materially revises an earlier claim3 · consequential3.4%"I owe you a correction: my "third derail" call was wrong."
◆ Decisioncommits to a consequential choice or trade-off on the user's behalf3 · consequential6.0%"Managed-policy keys render disabled with a "Locked by managed policy" label."
● Findingestablishes a new fact or root cause4 · informative15.2%"No ON DELETE CASCADE anywhere, and sessions.parent_id self-references sessions(id)."
✓ Milestonereports a completed deliverable or full gate4 · informative10.2%"All gates green: 523/523 unit test files, 6832 passed."
Check, Activitybounded check results; narration such as "Let me read the file"5 · stays in the log41.8%"Codex is still running. I'll pick this up when it reports back."

Density levels (the M6 control, extended): Final only (today's view) · Key (urgency 1–2) · Balanced (1–3, the default) · All (1–4). Jev's probability can also set visual weight inside a level.

The scenario (identical in every design)

User: "Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path." One long turn. Live: 38m 12s in, running pnpm acceptance:visual, 30 surfaced so far. Settled: 44m 30s, 34 surfaced (Ask 1, Blocked 2, Risk 2, Scope 1, Replan 1, Correction 2, Decision 6, Finding 12, Milestone 7). By level, settled shows Key 6, Balanced 15, All 34. The Ask is still unanswered at the end. The mockups write out the 14 messages below in full and stand in for the other 20 with honest counts.

  1. 01:42 Finding p .93 session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
  2. 03:10 Scope p .88 That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
  3. 06:55 Decision p .84 I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
  4. 09:20 Blocked p .95 pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
  5. 09:48 Replan p .79 Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
  6. 14:30 Correction p .81 Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
  7. 19:05 Risk p .90 The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
  8. 22:40 Decision p .72 I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
  9. 27:15 Milestone p .86 Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
  10. 31:02 Ask p .97 The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
  11. 33:40 Finding p .64 The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
  12. 36:55 Milestone p .83 Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
  13. 40:20 Decision p .77 Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.
  14. 43:50 Milestone p .88 Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.

Final reply (Settled only): "Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?"

Best practice

Conventional patterns from mature chat and agent UIs, recombined from round 1. Low risk and familiar.

Best practice

B1 · Collapsible digest

A typed, capped "Updates" digest forms the top of the activity card: one line per message, tap to read in full, and it folds to a single line of type counts with the Ask and Blocked rows pinned.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
?1✕2!2±1↻1↶2◆4●11✓6
#1● Finding00:48The sidebar store already imports subscribeSessionDetail. Only its switch handler still goes through session_switched.
#2● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
#3± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
#4● Finding04:25ws-rpc.ts has typed handlers for detail and history, but none for the summaries the sidebar lists.
#5◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
#6✓ Milestone08:02CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH is wired in runtime.ts, off by default, with unit tests for both paths.
#7✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
#8↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
#9● Finding11:15feat/ni8-transport rebases cleanly apart from one conflict in contracts/session.ts.
#10✓ Milestone12:40Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
#11↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
#12● Finding15:55MessageList replays history from the event store, so it needs no ordering guarantee from the new stream.
#13◆ Decision17:20Moving the unread counter into its own store rather than patching sidebar.svelte.ts, so tests can drive it without a socket.
#14! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
#15● Finding20:30The daemon caps each tab at 256 streams, so past that the extra subscriptions would fail without an error.
#16◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
#17✕ Blocked24:10subscribeSessionSummaries needs a projector the event store doesn't have yet. Adding one before I go on.
#18● Finding25:30Summaries can be projected from the existing session_status rows, so no migration is needed.
#19◆ Decision26:05Keeping per-session subscriptions as the fallback when a daemon predates subscribeSessionSummaries.
#20✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
#21↶ Correction28:20Correction: the first run was 522/523 files, because session-list-triage.test.ts had been skipped. It passes now, so 523/523 stands.
#22● Finding29:40phone-sidebar is the only visual baseline that changed. The other 41 match exactly.
#23✓ Milestone30:10pnpm check and pnpm lint are clean across the branch.
#24? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.needs reply
#25● Finding32:15iOS restores the page from the back-forward cache, so the deep-link handler runs before the socket reconnects.
#26● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
#27! Risk34:50Waiting for history before opening the deep link adds about 180ms on a cold start. Acceptable, but visible.
#28✓ Milestone35:30The deep link now waits for historyReady. The empty flash is gone in the replay test.
#29● Finding36:10sidebar.page.ts still selects rows by the legacy data-switch-id. Updating the page object.
#30✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
›Working38m 12s — Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
?1✕2!2±1↻1↶2◆6●12✓7
#1● Finding00:48The sidebar store already imports subscribeSessionDetail. Only its switch handler still goes through session_switched.
#2● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
#3± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
#4● Finding04:25ws-rpc.ts has typed handlers for detail and history, but none for the summaries the sidebar lists.
#5◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
#6✓ Milestone08:02CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH is wired in runtime.ts, off by default, with unit tests for both paths.
#7✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
#8↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
#9● Finding11:15feat/ni8-transport rebases cleanly apart from one conflict in contracts/session.ts.
#10✓ Milestone12:40Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
#11↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
#12● Finding15:55MessageList replays history from the event store, so it needs no ordering guarantee from the new stream.
#13◆ Decision17:20Moving the unread counter into its own store rather than patching sidebar.svelte.ts, so tests can drive it without a socket.
#14! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
#15● Finding20:30The daemon caps each tab at 256 streams, so past that the extra subscriptions would fail without an error.
#16◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
#17✕ Blocked24:10subscribeSessionSummaries needs a projector the event store doesn't have yet. Adding one before I go on.
#18● Finding25:30Summaries can be projected from the existing session_status rows, so no migration is needed.
#19◆ Decision26:05Keeping per-session subscriptions as the fallback when a daemon predates subscribeSessionSummaries.
#20✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
#21↶ Correction28:20Correction: the first run was 522/523 files, because session-list-triage.test.ts had been skipped. It passes now, so 523/523 stands.
#22● Finding29:40phone-sidebar is the only visual baseline that changed. The other 41 match exactly.
#23✓ Milestone30:10pnpm check and pnpm lint are clean across the branch.
#24? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.needs reply
#25● Finding32:15iOS restores the page from the back-forward cache, so the deep-link handler runs before the socket reconnects.
#26● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
#27! Risk34:50Waiting for history before opening the deep link adds about 180ms on a cold start. Acceptable, but visible.
#28✓ Milestone35:30The deep link now waits for historyReady. The empty flash is gone in the replay test.
#29● Finding36:10sidebar.page.ts still selects rows by the legacy data-switch-id. Updating the page object.
#30✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
#31● Finding39:05pnpm acceptance:visual finished: 41 of 42 baselines match, and phone-sidebar is the one.
#32◆ Decision40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.
#33◆ Decision42:10The flag check stays in runtime.ts, not the store, so removing it next release is a one-file change.
#34✓ Milestone43:50Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched1.2s
Let me read the sidebar store.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.8s
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts4s
Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual6m 10s
+ 165 more tool steps and 39 narration lines

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Phone · Livedigest open · cap 4
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
?1✕2!2±1↻1↶2◆4●11✓6
#1● Finding00:48The sidebar store already imports subscribeSessionDetail. Only its switch handler still goes through session_switched.
#2● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
#3± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
#4● Finding04:25ws-rpc.ts has typed handlers for detail and history, but none for the summaries the sidebar lists.
#5◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
#6✓ Milestone08:02CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH is wired in runtime.ts, off by default, with unit tests for both paths.
#7✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
#8↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
#9● Finding11:15feat/ni8-transport rebases cleanly apart from one conflict in contracts/session.ts.
#10✓ Milestone12:40Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
#11↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
#12● Finding15:55MessageList replays history from the event store, so it needs no ordering guarantee from the new stream.
#13◆ Decision17:20Moving the unread counter into its own store rather than patching sidebar.svelte.ts, so tests can drive it without a socket.
#14! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
#15● Finding20:30The daemon caps each tab at 256 streams, so past that the extra subscriptions would fail without an error.
#16◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
#17✕ Blocked24:10subscribeSessionSummaries needs a projector the event store doesn't have yet. Adding one before I go on.
#18● Finding25:30Summaries can be projected from the existing session_status rows, so no migration is needed.
#19◆ Decision26:05Keeping per-session subscriptions as the fallback when a daemon predates subscribeSessionSummaries.
#20✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
#21↶ Correction28:20Correction: the first run was 522/523 files, because session-list-triage.test.ts had been skipped. It passes now, so 523/523 stands.
#22● Finding29:40phone-sidebar is the only visual baseline that changed. The other 41 match exactly.
#23✓ Milestone30:10pnpm check and pnpm lint are clean across the branch.
#24? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.needs reply
#25● Finding32:15iOS restores the page from the back-forward cache, so the deep-link handler runs before the socket reconnects.
#26● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
#27! Risk34:50Waiting for history before opening the deep link adds about 180ms on a cold start. Acceptable, but visible.
#28✓ Milestone35:30The deep link now waits for historyReady. The empty flash is gone in the replay test.
#29● Finding36:10sidebar.page.ts still selects rows by the legacy data-switch-id. Updating the page object.
#30✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
›Working38m 12s — Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Working 38m 12s· Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · Settleddigest folded
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
?1✕2!2±1↻1↶2◆6●12✓7
#1● Finding00:48The sidebar store already imports subscribeSessionDetail. Only its switch handler still goes through session_switched.
#2● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
#3± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
#4● Finding04:25ws-rpc.ts has typed handlers for detail and history, but none for the summaries the sidebar lists.
#5◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
#6✓ Milestone08:02CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH is wired in runtime.ts, off by default, with unit tests for both paths.
#7✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
#8↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
#9● Finding11:15feat/ni8-transport rebases cleanly apart from one conflict in contracts/session.ts.
#10✓ Milestone12:40Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
#11↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
#12● Finding15:55MessageList replays history from the event store, so it needs no ordering guarantee from the new stream.
#13◆ Decision17:20Moving the unread counter into its own store rather than patching sidebar.svelte.ts, so tests can drive it without a socket.
#14! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
#15● Finding20:30The daemon caps each tab at 256 streams, so past that the extra subscriptions would fail without an error.
#16◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
#17✕ Blocked24:10subscribeSessionSummaries needs a projector the event store doesn't have yet. Adding one before I go on.
#18● Finding25:30Summaries can be projected from the existing session_status rows, so no migration is needed.
#19◆ Decision26:05Keeping per-session subscriptions as the fallback when a daemon predates subscribeSessionSummaries.
#20✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
#21↶ Correction28:20Correction: the first run was 522/523 files, because session-list-triage.test.ts had been skipped. It passes now, so 523/523 stands.
#22● Finding29:40phone-sidebar is the only visual baseline that changed. The other 41 match exactly.
#23✓ Milestone30:10pnpm check and pnpm lint are clean across the branch.
#24? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.needs reply
#25● Finding32:15iOS restores the page from the back-forward cache, so the deep-link handler runs before the socket reconnects.
#26● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
#27! Risk34:50Waiting for history before opening the deep link adds about 180ms on a cold start. Acceptable, but visible.
#28✓ Milestone35:30The deep link now waits for historyReady. The empty flash is gone in the replay test.
#29● Finding36:10sidebar.page.ts still selects rows by the legacy data-switch-id. Updating the page object.
#30✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
#31● Finding39:05pnpm acceptance:visual finished: 41 of 42 baselines match, and phone-sidebar is the one.
#32◆ Decision40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.
#33◆ Decision42:10The flag check stays in runtime.ts, not the store, so removing it next release is a one-file change.
#34✓ Milestone43:50Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched1.2s
Let me read the sidebar store.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.8s
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts4s
Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual6m 10s
+ 165 more tool steps and 39 narration lines

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
Round-1 B4, the digest above the log, now foldable and capped so it cannot grow with the turn. It keeps the typed labels, now nine of them, and adds M6's four-stop level as a switch in the digest header.
Placement
The digest is the top section of the activity block's own card. The activity head and strip sit under it in the same card, so the turn still has exactly one block. The final reply follows the card, and the composer is unchanged.
Live
Rows append at the bottom of the digest, right above the Working head, and the newest row gets a brief green tint. At Balanced it shows the latest 8 rows, plus pinned Ask and Blocked rows, and an "▴ 4 earlier" row. The header reads "13 of 30" and the type counts tick up.
Settled
Same digest: Balanced shows 15 of 34, as the last 8 rows plus the pinned rows. The final reply sits directly under the card, never folded.
Collapsible
The header caret folds the digest to one line: Updates, count, per-type counts (?1 ✕2 !2 ±1 ↻1 ↶2 ◆6 ●12 ✓7). The Ask and both Blocked rows stay pinned under that line. The latest turn opens and older turns fold. On the phone the latest turn also folds once the turn settles, because the final reply repeats the Ask.
Short-session-threads
Desktop, open: a header plus up to 11 rows (8 recent, pins, "earlier") ≈ 12 lines. Folded: 4 lines. Phone: rows are 2 lines each with a cap of 4 plus the pins, so about 15 lines open. Folded is 2 header lines plus 3 pinned rows ≈ 9 lines. Everything sits inside the single activity card.
Easy-to-read
13px text. Labelled chips sit in a fixed column, so the type reads before the text, and times and #n line up. Tap a row to unclamp its full text in place. The Ask row always shows 2 lines.
Mobile-friendly
Rows become two lines (number, label and time, then about 46 characters of text) instead of squeezing roughly 20 characters beside the chip. The cap drops to 4, and the counts wrap under the header. Settled phones fold the digest so the reply and composer own the bottom of the screen.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Every row carries its #n. j/k move and Enter expands. a jumps to the open Ask, and unfolds it, from anywhere in the digest. f folds. #7 is a pinned Blocked, so it is one glance away. An arbitrary Finding like #12 means switching to All, then "earlier", then scanning by number. There is no jump-to-number.
Needs-reply
The Ask row is tinted, has an accent bar and a "needs reply" pill, is pinned when folded and always shows 2 lines. Blocked rows carry a red bar and are pinned too. Settled, the Ask is also the last question in the final reply.
Density
A four-stop switch in the digest header, mirrored by a session-wide default. Final: rows and pins hide, and the header line reads "34 hidden · Final only". Key: 6. Balanced (default): 13 live, 15 settled. All: 30 live, 34 settled.
At-150
Balanced is about 65 rows. The digest still shows 8 rows plus pins and "59 earlier", and the counts stay one line. Expanding "earlier" produces a long list: that is the honest cost of a list.
Build-cost
S. Needs type, time and a stable number on each surfaced message, plus an "answered" flag for Asks. Everything else is list rendering and a per-turn fold state.
Trade-off
It is still a list, so the full history scales with the count. The cap hides the older history behind a tap, and pinned Blocked rows stay pinned after the agent has moved past them.
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Best practice

B2 · Latest-update slot

One fixed-height slot inside the activity card shows a single update with a big, unmistakable type label, paged with ◀ 24 / 34 ▶ or a swipe, a row of type dots as the index, and settled turns that open on the unanswered Ask.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
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Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched1.2s
Let me read the sidebar store.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.8s
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts4s
Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual6m 10s
+ 165 more tool steps and 39 narration lines

All ▾
Final only · 34 updates hidden

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Phone · Liveswipe the text
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
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Phone · Settledopens on the Ask
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched1.2s
Let me read the sidebar store.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.8s
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts4s
Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual6m 10s
+ 165 more tool steps and 39 narration lines

All ▾
Final only · 34 updates hidden

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
Round-1 M4, the favourite: one slot of the latest update, paged left and right. The type label is much louder now, as a tinted glyph tile plus an uppercase name and a colour bar on the text. A row of type-coloured dots doubles as an index, and settled turns open on the unanswered Ask. No timeline: navigation is by index, not by time.
Placement
Inside the single activity card, under the head and strip. When settled, the step log still expands from the head, and the slot stays below it in the same card. The final reply follows, and the composer is unchanged.
Live
The slot follows the newest update (#30, tagged Latest with a green blink) and slides the next one in as it arrives. After you page back it stops following, and ▶ shows how far you are from the end. A pink "? #24 waiting" chip stays in the footer whenever the slot shows something other than the Ask.
Settled
The slot opens on #24, the unanswered Ask, tagged "Waiting on you", rather than on the last update (#34). ◀ ▶ page through all 34.
Collapsible
The ▾ caret folds the slot to a one-line peek: glyph, label, first line of text and the pager. On the phone the peek drops the label word to fit, keeping the glyph tile. It opens by default on the latest turn and older turns show the peek.
Short-session-threads
Fixed height whatever the count: desktop is a head row, 4 text lines and the dots ≈ 7 lines. Phone is ≈ 10 (5 text lines plus a 32px arrow row). Folded is 1 line. It is always part of the one activity card.
Easy-to-read
13.5px text (13px on the phone) with the full message visible: 4 lines at 590px and 5 on the phone hold the longest message here, and anything longer scrolls inside the slot. The type reads first, big and in colour, with its glyph.
Mobile-friendly
The arrows move under the text as 40×32px targets flanking the dots, and you can swipe the text itself. The position and level menu go to a footer row. The slot costs about 230px, and the final reply and composer stay untouched below it.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
←/→ page, Home/End jump to the ends and a jumps to the Ask. Tapping a dot opens that message, so the 7th dot is #7. The Ask dot is taller and pink. Scanning is weak: you read one message at a time with no time context.
Needs-reply
Settled turns open on the Ask. Live, the "? #24 waiting" chip is always one tap away, and the Ask's dot stands out in the row. Blocked gets only its colour and label, with no extra prominence.
Density
A level menu in the slot footer: Final collapses the slot to "30 updates hidden · Show". Key pages 6, Balanced 13 or 15, and All (the default here) 30 or 34. Out-of-level dots dim to slivers, so positions stay stable. All is the default because paging costs no height.
At-150
Height is unchanged. The dots shrink to 2px ticks, which still work as tap targets but are imprecise. Paging through 150 is slow, so Key or Balanced and the Ask chip carry the navigation.
Build-cost
S to M. Needs a typed list, the "answered" flag, swipe and keyboard handling, and per-turn "following latest" state.
Trade-off
You see one message at a time, so reviewing all 34 takes 34 steps and you cannot skim a turn's story at a glance.
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Best practice

B3 · Numbered pins and slot

The activity strip carries numbered, type-coloured pins at the moments they were said. Tap or drag along it and the slot hanging below shows that message, while dense stretches merge into counted groups that a loupe spreads apart under your thumb.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced · Balanced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
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00:0038:12 · now

drag the strip to scrub · type 7 ↵
Final only · 30 pins hidden
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced · All
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched1.2s
Let me read the sidebar store.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.8s
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts4s
Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual6m 10s
+ 165 more tool steps and 39 narration lines
00:0044:30

drag the strip to scrub · type 7 ↵
Final only · 34 pins hidden

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Phone · LiveAll · loupe open
9:415G ▮▮▮
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Working 38m 12s· Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · SettledBalanced
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched1.2s
Let me read the sidebar store.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.8s
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts4s
Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual6m 10s
+ 165 more tool steps and 39 narration lines
00:0044:30

Final only · 34 pins hidden

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
The user's own proposal: round-1 M3's numbered strip pins drive M4's slot. The strip is the navigator: there are no dots and no separate pager row. The slot hangs from the selected pin by a caret, so time, number and text stay visibly linked.
Placement
Inside the single activity card. A pin lane sits over a thicker strip with a time axis under it, then the slot. Settled, the step log expands from the head as usual. The final reply follows the card.
Live
A new pin drops in at the growing right end of the strip, and the slot follows the newest (#30, Latest) until you pick another pin. The phone mockup opens at All with the loupe up over the dense last few minutes.
Settled
The slot opens on the Ask pin #24, tagged "Waiting on you". The desktop mockup is shown at All (34 pins) to expose the clustering. The phone is at Balanced (15).
Collapsible
▾ folds the slot to a one-line peek, while the pin lane and strip stay (they are the activity strip), so a folded turn costs two lines more than today's. Tap any pin to reopen. Older turns open folded.
Short-session-threads
Desktop: head, pins, strip and axis (3 lines), then a slot of at least 3 text lines plus its head and foot ≈ 9 lines. Phone ≈ 12. Folded: 4. All of it is the one activity card.
Easy-to-read
The same big type label as a slot at 13.5px, with the full text shown and never clamped. The pin number and the slot's #24 · 31:02 match, and pins sit where the message was said, so you can tell the start from the end at a glance.
Mobile-friendly
This is the density fix. Pins grow to 24px with 12px numbers, and any pins within 28px merge into a stacked group pill named for its most urgent member plus a count (e.g. 7 +4: Blocked #7 and four neighbours), coloured by that type. Pills are then nudged apart so none overlap. The Ask never merges. Tap a group and a loupe opens, zoomed to fit exactly that group. Press and drag anywhere on the strip and a ×6 loupe follows your thumb. Either way the pins spread out so each is numbered. The slot updates as you drag, and releasing keeps the pick. The pager and level controls move into a footer row.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Tap a pin, or drag to scrub. ←/→ step, a jumps to the Ask, and typing 7 then Enter (or waiting) jumps to #7, switching to All if #7 is below the level. Esc closes the loupe. The pins' positions tell you when things happened, which the other slot designs can't.
Needs-reply
The Ask pin has a halo and never joins a group, so it always shows its own number. A "? #24" chip in the footer jumps to it, and settled turns open on it. A Blocked always leads its group, so its number and red colour stay visible.
Density
A segmented Final / Key / Balanced / All in the slot footer filters the pins too, so fewer pins means fewer groups. Final hides the pins and slot and leaves the plain strip plus a "Show" line. Key: 6. Balanced: 13 or 15. All: 30 or 34.
At-150
On desktop the lane becomes a row of group pills, about 20 groups of 5 to 10 like "41 +7",, and the loupe does most of the work. Numbers stay stable, and number-jump and a still work. Height does not change.
Build-cost
M. Needs a timestamp on each message relative to the turn, plus clustering by pixel distance, a loupe, pointer capture and a keyboard model. It shares its slot with B2's.
Trade-off
Pins are small targets and the loupe is a gesture people have to discover. Like B2, it reads one message at a time, and the pin lane adds a permanent line to every turn.
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Best practice

B4 · Composer dock

While the turn runs, surfaced messages live in a pageable dock fused to the composer, right above where you would reply, so the transcript stays a single activity line. On settle the dock empties into one collapsed "34 updates" row on the turn.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
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›Working38m 12s — Running pnpm acceptance:visual

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Final only · 30 updates hidden
Working 38m 12s· Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched1.2s
Let me read the sidebar store.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.8s
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts4s
Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual6m 10s
+ 165 more tool steps and 39 narration lines
▸34 updates? 1 open · #24✕2!2±1↻1↶2◆6●12✓7
Needs you1
#24? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
Attention5
#3± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
#7✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
#14! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
#17✕ Blocked24:10subscribeSessionSummaries needs a projector the event store doesn't have yet. Adding one before I go on.
#27! Risk34:50Waiting for history before opening the deep link adds about 180ms on a cold start. Acceptable, but visible.
Consequential9
#5◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
#8↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
#11↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
#13◆ Decision17:20Moving the unread counter into its own store rather than patching sidebar.svelte.ts, so tests can drive it without a socket.
#16◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
#19◆ Decision26:05Keeping per-session subscriptions as the fallback when a daemon predates subscribeSessionSummaries.
#21↶ Correction28:20Correction: the first run was 522/523 files, because session-list-triage.test.ts had been skipped. It passes now, so 523/523 stands.
#32◆ Decision40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.
#33◆ Decision42:10The flag check stays in runtime.ts, not the store, so removing it next release is a one-file change.
Informative19
#1● Finding00:48The sidebar store already imports subscribeSessionDetail. Only its switch handler still goes through session_switched.
#2● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
#4● Finding04:25ws-rpc.ts has typed handlers for detail and history, but none for the summaries the sidebar lists.
#6✓ Milestone08:02CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH is wired in runtime.ts, off by default, with unit tests for both paths.
#9● Finding11:15feat/ni8-transport rebases cleanly apart from one conflict in contracts/session.ts.
#10✓ Milestone12:40Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
#12● Finding15:55MessageList replays history from the event store, so it needs no ordering guarantee from the new stream.
#15● Finding20:30The daemon caps each tab at 256 streams, so past that the extra subscriptions would fail without an error.
#18● Finding25:30Summaries can be projected from the existing session_status rows, so no migration is needed.
#20✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
#22● Finding29:40phone-sidebar is the only visual baseline that changed. The other 41 match exactly.
#23✓ Milestone30:10pnpm check and pnpm lint are clean across the branch.
#25● Finding32:15iOS restores the page from the back-forward cache, so the deep-link handler runs before the socket reconnects.
#26● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
#28✓ Milestone35:30The deep link now waits for historyReady. The empty flash is gone in the replay test.
#29● Finding36:10sidebar.page.ts still selects rows by the legacy data-switch-id. Updating the page object.
#30✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
#31● Finding39:05pnpm acceptance:visual finished: 41 of 42 baselines match, and phone-sidebar is the one.
#34✓ Milestone43:50Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Phone · Livedock over composer
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working38m 12s — Running pnpm acceptance:visual

All ▾
Final only · 30 updates hidden
Working 38m 12s· Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · Settledrow collapsed
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched1.2s
Let me read the sidebar store.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.8s
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts4s
Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual6m 10s
+ 165 more tool steps and 39 narration lines
▸34 updates? 1 open · #24✕2!2±1↻1↶2◆6●12✓7
Needs you1
#24? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
Attention5
#3± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
#7✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
#14! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
#17✕ Blocked24:10subscribeSessionSummaries needs a projector the event store doesn't have yet. Adding one before I go on.
#27! Risk34:50Waiting for history before opening the deep link adds about 180ms on a cold start. Acceptable, but visible.
Consequential9
#5◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
#8↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
#11↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
#13◆ Decision17:20Moving the unread counter into its own store rather than patching sidebar.svelte.ts, so tests can drive it without a socket.
#16◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
#19◆ Decision26:05Keeping per-session subscriptions as the fallback when a daemon predates subscribeSessionSummaries.
#21↶ Correction28:20Correction: the first run was 522/523 files, because session-list-triage.test.ts had been skipped. It passes now, so 523/523 stands.
#32◆ Decision40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.
#33◆ Decision42:10The flag check stays in runtime.ts, not the store, so removing it next release is a one-file change.
Informative19
#1● Finding00:48The sidebar store already imports subscribeSessionDetail. Only its switch handler still goes through session_switched.
#2● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
#4● Finding04:25ws-rpc.ts has typed handlers for detail and history, but none for the summaries the sidebar lists.
#6✓ Milestone08:02CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH is wired in runtime.ts, off by default, with unit tests for both paths.
#9● Finding11:15feat/ni8-transport rebases cleanly apart from one conflict in contracts/session.ts.
#10✓ Milestone12:40Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
#12● Finding15:55MessageList replays history from the event store, so it needs no ordering guarantee from the new stream.
#15● Finding20:30The daemon caps each tab at 256 streams, so past that the extra subscriptions would fail without an error.
#18● Finding25:30Summaries can be projected from the existing session_status rows, so no migration is needed.
#20✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
#22● Finding29:40phone-sidebar is the only visual baseline that changed. The other 41 match exactly.
#23✓ Milestone30:10pnpm check and pnpm lint are clean across the branch.
#25● Finding32:15iOS restores the page from the back-forward cache, so the deep-link handler runs before the socket reconnects.
#26● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
#28✓ Milestone35:30The deep link now waits for historyReady. The empty flash is gone in the replay test.
#29● Finding36:10sidebar.page.ts still selects rows by the legacy data-switch-id. Updating the page object.
#30✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
#31● Finding39:05pnpm acceptance:visual finished: 41 of 42 baselines match, and phone-sidebar is the one.
#34✓ Milestone43:50Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
Round-1 M7's composer (live state, steer, stop, ↓ live) plus M4's pager. Live surfaced messages leave the transcript entirely and sit in a dock fused to the top of the composer. On settle, the dock empties into one "34 updates" row on the turn.
Placement
Live: prompt → a single activity line, then the dock card sitting directly on .composer.live, with no seam. Settled: the dock is gone, and a collapsed "34 updates" row sits inside the activity card, below the strip, before the final reply.
Live
The dock shows the newest update (#30, Latest) as a big type label and 3 lines of text. ‹ › page, and "≡ All 30" opens a sheet of every update, newest first, with labelled 2-line rows. Tap a row and it loads into the dock. "? #24 waiting on you" sits right above the reply box. The transcript itself is one line.
Settled
The composer goes idle and the dock empties. The turn gains a row: "▸ 34 updates · ? 1 open · #24" plus counts. Expanded, it groups by urgency: Needs you, Attention, Consequential (open at Balanced), then Informative (folded). Tap any row for its full text.
Collapsible
Live: ▾ folds the dock to a one-line peek over the composer. Settled: the updates row is collapsed by default and each group is foldable. Older turns look the same as the latest.
Short-session-threads
Live: 0 extra lines in the thread. Settled: +1 line on desktop and +2 on the phone, where the counts wrap. The dock costs about 5 lines at the screen bottom, not in the scrolling thread. There is one activity card per turn.
Easy-to-read
13px text with a big type label. The text clamps at 3 lines, and tapping it shows the rest. The sheet and grouped rows use labelled chips in a fixed column.
Mobile-friendly
The dock lives in the phone's bottom dock above the composer, so the whole body is left for the transcript and the live activity. The pager grows to 30×28px targets and you can swipe the text. The "Latest" tag drops and the fold control moves into the bar, so the top row fits. The list opens as a bottom sheet over the thread. Cost: about 150px of the screen while the turn runs, which you can fold to about 36px.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Live: ←/→ on the focused dock, l opens the list, a jumps to the Ask and Esc closes. #7 is in the list sheet, one tap then a scroll. Settled: expand the row and #7 is second in Attention. There are no time positions.
Needs-reply
Strongest placement: the Ask is shown directly on top of the input you would answer it in, and the pink chip stays until it is answered. Settled, the row carries "? 1 open · #24" in pink, and Needs you is always the first group.
Density
The level menu in the dock bar (default All, since the dock holds one message) sets what the dock advances to and what the sheet lists. It is session-wide, so it also decides which settled groups start open: Key opens the first two, Balanced three, All four. Final hides the dock and leaves "30 updates hidden · Show" over the composer.
At-150
The dock is unchanged. The sheet scrolls through 150 rows, and the settled row stays one line. Informative, about 90 rows, stays folded until you ask for it.
Build-cost
M. Needs composer integration, a session-level density setting, a settle transition from dock to row, and grouping.
Trade-off
While live, the messages sit far from the activity they describe, and on a phone the dock takes screen from the thread for the whole run. After settle, reading anything takes an expand.
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Best practice

B5 · Prominence in one block

One highlights zone inside the activity block, where Jev's confidence sets how loud each message is (full card, one-line chip, or left in the log), and one session-wide level decides which types get in at all.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Typed session listconduit
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Log · 146 steps · 35 notes · running
Searchedsession_switched01:04
Let me read the sidebar store.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts01:20
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts15:02
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit26:31
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visualrunning
… 141 more steps and 32 notes
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Typed session listconduit
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Log · 170 steps · 41 notes
Searchedsession_switched01:04
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts01:20
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts15:02
Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
Ranpnpm test:unit26:31
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual38:47
… 165 more steps and 40 notes

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Phone · LiveBalanced · 13 of 30
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Log · 146 steps · 35 notes
Ranpnpm test:unit26:31
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visualrunning
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Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · SettledBalanced · 15 of 34
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs
Log · 170 steps · 41 notes · 44m 30s
Ranpnpm test:unit26:31
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual38:47
… 209 more

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
Round-1 M6 (prominence from Jev's p) and B4 (a digest above the log). M6 put each message inline between activity lines, which split the turn into many blocks. Here every surfaced message lives in one highlights zone inside the single activity block. New: the four-stop level with Final only, and a height budget, so high p can't grow the zone without limit.
Placement
Inside the activity block, between the head and strip and the step log. The final reply sits below the block and the composer below that. The level control sits in the session header on desktop and in an app-bar menu on the phone.
Live
The zone fills as Jev classifies. Full cards: p ≥ .8, at most 3, ranked by urgency then p, and shown in time order. Chips: everything else at p ≥ .6, one line each, newest last. Chips are brighter at p ≥ .8 and grey from .6 to .8. At All, the newest arrival (✓ 36:55) flashes amber twice. The tool line stays in the head and the composer.
Settled
The same zone, now with 40:20 and 41:30 at Balanced. The final reply is below it and never collapses.
Collapsible
The zone is a disclosure. Collapsed, it's one line with the level, "15 of 34" and per-type glyph counts, and the open Ask as a pink "?1 open" pill. By default it's open on the latest turn and collapsed on older turns (not drawn). The log is a separate disclosure, closed by default. Final only removes the zone entirely.
Short-session-threads
The budget is 3 cards plus 6 chips on desktop, and 2 plus 3 on the phone. Settled Balanced is about 20 lines on desktop (3 cards at 3 to 4 lines, 6 chips, the summary, "↑ 6 earlier" and the log line) and about 15 on the phone. Collapsed, it's 1 line. There's always one activity block.
Easy-to-read
Full cards print the whole message at 13px. Chips show a full type label and the time, and one tap expands the text in place. Brightness follows p, so the eye lands on confident messages first. p is never printed as a number.
Mobile-friendly
The budget drops to 2 cards and 3 chips. Chips hide their timestamp until tapped, which gives the text about 30 characters. The level moves into the app bar, so it costs no row. The zone sits directly above the log line and the composer, and the reply and composer keep their full width. Even so, live Balanced takes about 40% of the screen.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Open Ask and Blocked messages win the card budget at every level except Final only, so they come first in the zone. To reach message #7 (↻ 09:48), stay on Balanced, tap "↑ 6 earlier" and scan by time. The zone has no numbers, jump keys or search, so this is the weakest axis.
Needs-reply
The Ask gets a full card with a "waiting for you" tag, and survives collapse as the pink pill. At Final only in Live, a "? Ask waiting" tag appears in the composer status (try it), so a question can't be hidden entirely. Settled, the final reply carries the question.
Density
One control for the whole session: switch it in any frame and all four follow. Settled: Final only 0 (today's view). Key 6 (Ask, Blocked, Risk, Scope): 3 cards and 3 chips. Balanced 15: 3 cards and 12 chips, 6 of them shown. All 34: 3 cards, 26 chips, and 5 Findings below p .6 left in the log behind a toggle. Live: Key 6, Balanced 13, All 30.
At-150
The budget holds: 3 cards, 6 chips, "↑ 130 earlier" opening a list that scrolls inside the zone (about 10 rows tall), and the below-.6 count. The zone never passes about 22 lines, but reading message 90 means scrolling a long flat list.
Build-cost
M. Needs p on every message (Jev already returns it), the type-to-level map, a per-session preference, and the budget sort. No layout outside the activity block.
Trade-off
Two rules decide what you see: the level filters by type, and p sets the loudness. That's harder to predict than one rule. Because of the budget, prominence isn't purely p: at All, the p .93 Finding at 01:42 is a chip because three urgent messages took the cards. Users may also read p as "how true" rather than "how worth showing".
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Best practice

B6 · Tabbed activity panel

The activity block opens into one fixed-height panel with three tabs, Updates, Needs you and Log, so surfaced messages and the step log share a single block, and its collapsed head shows the latest update.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
? Ask31:02open for 7m

The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.

Resolved · 2
✕ Blocked09:20ViewSession not merged → ↻ 09:48 rebased, ✓ 13:40 check clean
✕ Blocked24:103 stale snapshots → ✓ 27:15 523/523 files pass
15 searches · 55 reads · 32 edits · 44 runs · 35 notes
Searchedsession_switched01:04
Let me read the sidebar store.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts01:20
Readsrc/lib/server/ws-rpc.ts08:55
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts15:02
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit26:31
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visualrunning
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Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
? Ask31:02unanswered · turn ended

The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.

Resolved · 2
✕ Blocked09:20ViewSession not merged → ↻ 09:48 rebased, ✓ 13:40 check clean
✕ Blocked24:103 stale snapshots → ✓ 27:15 523/523 files pass
18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs · 41 notes
Searchedsession_switched01:04
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts01:20
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts15:02
Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
Ranpnpm test:unit26:31
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual38:47
Rangit push -u origin feat/typed-session-list43:41
… 204 more steps and notes

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Phone · Livepanel open · Updates
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
? Ask31:02open 7m

The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.

Resolved · 2
✕ Blocked09:20→ ↻ 09:48 rebased
✕ Blocked24:10→ ✓ 27:15 tests pass
146 steps · 35 notes
Editedhistory-logic.ts15:02
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit26:31
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual…
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Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · Settledpanel shut · tap to open
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
? Ask31:02unanswered

The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.

Resolved · 2
✕ Blocked09:20→ ↻ 09:48 rebased
✕ Blocked24:10→ ✓ 27:15 tests pass
170 steps · 41 notes · $6.80
Ranpnpm test:unit26:31
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual38:47
… 209 more

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
Round-1 B4's digest, which becomes a tab that folds with the panel, and M6's levels, which become filter presets. The head borrows M4's "latest update" as a single line. New: one panel with three tabs, so the updates and the step log share one block instead of stacking.
Placement
The activity block is the container: the head (with the latest update), the strip, then the tab panel. The final reply sits below the block and the composer at the bottom.
Live
The head reads "Working 38m 12s" plus the newest update (✓ 36:55) where the tool meta used to be, since the tool line already sits in the composer status. The pink "? 1 needs you" pill stays at the right. The Updates tab lists 13 at Balanced, newest at the bottom, and the list opens scrolled there.
Settled
The head shows ✓ 43:50 "Branch pushed" and the bill. Tabs read Updates 15 · Needs you 1 · Log 211 (170 steps plus 41 notes). The tool counts move to the top of the Log tab.
Collapsible
Clicking the head folds the whole panel to the head line, which keeps the latest update and the "? 1" pill. By default the panel is open on the latest turn and shut on older turns. The phone defaults to shut once settled, so the final reply leads.
Short-session-threads
The panel is a fixed size: the list is capped at 280px (about 6 two-line rows), so expanded it's about 19 lines on desktop and 18 on the phone, whether the turn has 13 updates or 150. Shut, it's 1 line plus the strip (2 lines on the phone). The log is a tab, not a second block.
Easy-to-read
Rows are 13px with a 2-line clamp, a labelled type chip, the time and the message's position (#26). One tap expands the full text in place. Tab labels carry live counts.
Mobile-friendly
Tabs stretch to full width. The filter row scrolls sideways. Rows stack the label over the text, so the text gets the full 340px. The head wraps the latest update onto a second line. The keyboard hint hides. The cost is a scroll inside the transcript's scroll, which is awkward on touch.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
The Needs you tab holds every open Ask and Blocked, plus the resolved ones and what resolved them. Keys: j/k walk the Updates list, ↵ opens a row, 1 2 3 switch tabs (click a row first). Type chips cut the list, e.g. to ! Risk only. Message #7: press All, then j seven times, or filter to ↻. On the phone it's a tab tap plus a chip tap.
Needs-reply
The head pill is visible while shut and one tap opens Needs you. The tab count is pink, and the row carries an "open" tag. "Reply in composer" flashes the composer. Settled, the Ask reads "unanswered · turn ended".
Density
Key · Balanced · All presets at the start of the Updates filter row, plus a toggle per type for finer cuts. The Updates count follows: settled Key 6 · Balanced 15 · All 34, live 6 · 13 · 30. Final only is a per-user setting (not drawn) that keeps every panel shut and returns the head to the tool meta.
At-150
The panel doesn't grow, and the list just scrolls. Filters and Needs you do the finding. The head stays one line. Scrolling 150 rows through a 280px window is slow, but nothing else on the page moves.
Build-cost
M. Tab and filter state per turn, keyboard handling, and a "resolved by" link for Needs you. Jev doesn't return that link today, so it needs a pairing pass (Blocked → the next Replan or Milestone that clears it).
Trade-off
The updates hide behind a tab and an inner scroll: reading them is a detour, and nested scrolling on the phone is fiddly. The head's latest-update line pushes the tool counts into the Log tab, and some people read those counts at a glance.
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Best practice

B7 · Compressed rail

Round 1's timeline rail made cheap: surfaced messages are the only things on the rail, the steps between them shrink to "· 14 steps ·" toggles, and only the latest five stay open, so height tracks updates rather than steps.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Phone · Liverail open · latest 4
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · Settledrail shut · tap a bead
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
Round-1 B6's rail, which the user liked but which cost too much scrolling. Steps no longer sit on the rail: they compress into "· N steps ·" toggles, so height tracks updates. On top of that, a latest-window keeps height from tracking updates beyond the last five. Collapsed, it's the head plus a row of beads, a miniature of the rail.
Placement
Inside the activity block, under the head and strip. The final reply sits below the block and the composer at the bottom.
Live
The newest nodes sit at the bottom of the rail, which ends in an amber, pinging "now" node carrying the running command, and a dashed tail. Messages at other levels fold into the gap before it, e.g. "· 36 steps · ● 3 Findings · ✓ 2 Milestones ·". Open a gap to read them.
Settled
The rail ends at a grey end node, "Worked 44m 30s · 211 steps · 34 updates", with the final reply below.
Collapsible
Clicking the head swaps the rail for the bead row. By default the rail is open on the latest turn, and shut on older turns and on the phone once settled. Every gap is a closed toggle, and node text clamps to 2 lines.
Short-session-threads
Expanded on desktop: the header, "↑ N earlier", 5 nodes at about 3 lines each and the gaps, about 23 lines. On the phone, 4 nodes, about 20 lines. Collapsed: 2 lines plus the strip. It stays one block, but open it's the tallest of B5 to B7.
Easy-to-read
Each node has a labelled type chip, a time and 13px text, with the glyph repeated in the rail dot. One tap shows the full text. Folded messages inside a gap read as one-line rows that expand the same way.
Mobile-friendly
The window drops to 4 nodes. Beads cap at 12, with the open Ask always kept and "+N" for the rest. The level control goes full width, and the header summary hides. The rail gutter costs 30px of the 340px column.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
The beads are a map: tap one to open the rail at that node, which flashes. "↑ N earlier" extends the window up by up to 20 at a time. Message #7 (↻ 09:48) at Balanced is the 4th bead (the Findings before it are folded). At All it's the 7th, but at 30 or more the beads truncate. There are no keys or search.
Needs-reply
The open Ask is pinned into the window even when it's older than the last five, with a ringed dot, a pink wash and "waiting for you". Its bead is ringed in the collapsed row. Blocked gets no pin, since both Blocked messages here were resolved: that's a gap in this design.
Density
A 4-stop control in the rail header (Final · Key · Balanced · All), shared across the session: switch it in one frame and all four follow. Final only leaves no nodes, just "· 211 steps ·". Lower levels fold messages into gap counts instead of dropping them. Settled Key 6, Balanced 15, All 34; live 6, 13, 30.
At-150
The window still shows 5 nodes, and the earlier toggle reads like "↑ 145 earlier updates · 1,400 steps", loading 20 at a time. Beads cap at 24 on desktop (+126), so the bead map stops being a map. Weak.
Build-cost
M. Needs step timestamps aligned to message times to size the gaps (the log has them), plus windowing and per-gap disclosure state.
Trade-off
The rail spends a gutter, and each update costs about 3 lines, so expanded it's taller than a digest. The beads don't scale past about 25, and gap labels that carry folded counts take a moment to parse.
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In between

Familiar foundations with one novel idea each.

In between

M1 · Gutter notes

Round-1 margin notes, fixed for the phone. On desktop, notes sit in a gutter beside the turn: each one is a tick on a time track, and the few that matter most open as cards. On the phone, the same ticks run down the activity block's left edge, and tapping the edge opens a bottom sheet you swipe through.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
⌄Working38m 12s — Running pnpm acceptance:visual
⌕SearchedopenSessionFromPush0.3s
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.4s
✎Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts3s
·Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
$Ranpnpm lint41s
$Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
·Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
$Runningpnpm acceptance:visual 4m 10s
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
›Worked· 4 reads · 2 edits · 3 runsearlier turn · 3 notes, folded
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs
⌕Searchedsession_switched01:10
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts01:31
·Let me read the sidebar store.
✎Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts15:02
$Ranpnpm test:unit26:40
$Ranpnpm acceptance:visual38:44
… 165 more tool steps · 41 narration lines

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

44m 30s · $6.80
Phone · Live30 surfaced · tap the edge
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
⌄Working38m 12s — Running pnpm acceptance:visual
$Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
$Runningpnpm acceptance:visual 4m
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · Settled34 surfaced · tap the edge
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

44m 30s · $6.80
Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
Round-1 M2's margin notes. Round 1 anchored every note to a step row, so 30 notes needed an expanded log and fell apart at 390px. Here a note is placed by time, not by step. Every note is a tick, and only the notes that earn it get a card: open Asks, the newest note while live, and whatever you last clicked. The phone keeps the ticks and moves reading into a sheet.
Placement
Desktop: a 248px gutter to the right of the turn, running the height of the activity block and reply, with its own time track (top is the start of the turn, bottom is now or the end). Phone: a 34px rail inside the activity block's left edge, plus peek rows at the bottom of the block for the open Ask and, while live, the newest note. Neither touches the final reply or the composer.
Live
New notes land as ticks at the foot of the track, and the newest one gets a card that slides in beside the log. On the phone, the newest note gets a one-line peek and its tick pings twice. The open Ask keeps a card on desktop and a two-line peek on the phone until it's answered.
Settled
The newest-note card goes away, so a settled turn keeps only what's waiting on you: the open Ask card (desktop) or peek (phone), plus ticks for the rest. The sheet and the ticks work the same as live.
Collapsible
Desktop: ⟩ folds the gutter to a 40px track with ticks only, and the transcript column widens. Final (the density control) hides the gutter and leaves a single count line. The latest turn opens unfolded, older turns open folded (see the earlier-turn stub). Phone: the rail stays, because it's 34px of existing block height. Peeks go away at Final, and "Hide" in the peek footer does the same.
Short-session-threads
Desktop settled: the thread is as tall as today's (activity line, reply, bill, about 9 lines). The gutter sits beside it and grows past it only when an expanded card needs the room. Phone settled: the activity block is about 6 lines (head, strip, a 3-line Ask peek, footer), against today's 2. There's one block per turn, with the rail inside it.
Easy-to-read
The phone sheet sets text at 14px on a 358px measure, with a 15px type label, the number, the time and p. Desktop cards are 12px on about a 30-character measure, clamped at 4 lines. Click one to read the full text in place. That narrow measure is the weak spot on desktop.
Mobile-friendly
No notes float over the transcript. Tapping the rail anywhere opens the sheet at the nearest tick, so you don't need to hit the tick exactly. Dragging along the rail scrubs the sheet. When the sheet opens, the body scrolls so the activity block sits just above it, and the rail stays visible, with the current tick ringed as you swipe. The sheet covers the composer only while it's open, and Reply closes it and targets the composer.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Desktop: click any tick, or focus the gutter and press j/k to step, a to jump to the open Ask, ↵ to expand, esc to clear. Phone: tap the edge, then tap a numbered chip in the sheet's index (for example ✕7) or swipe left and right. From any note, "?22 ›" jumps to the open Ask. To reach #7, tap its chip.
Needs-reply
Ask and Blocked ticks are raised as badges showing their glyph and number (?22, ✕7, ✕17). An open Ask always has a card or peek labelled NEEDS REPLY, and its sheet has a Reply button that loads the composer.
Density
Four buttons: at the top of the gutter on desktop, and in the sheet on the phone. Final hides everything but the count. Key shows 6 ticks, Bal 15 (the default, 13 while live), All 34. Ticks, cards, peeks and the sheet index all follow the level.
At-150
Ticks come about 1.7px apart and blur into a type-coloured density bar, so they're a map, not a control. Badges stay legible because only Ask and Blocked get them, and collisions get nudged apart. Cards never exceed 3. The sheet index scrolls sideways, and the level is the real filter: Key cuts 150 notes to about 25.
Build-cost
M. It needs each message's timestamp and an open/answered flag, a small collision layout for the cards, the sheet, and the body-lift-on-open behaviour. It doesn't need step anchoring, which round 1 did.
Trade-off
The desktop gutter costs 262px of width, which is fine in a wide window but squeezes the transcript on a laptop half-screen (folding helps). The phone rail takes 34px from every activity row. Individual ticks can't be told apart at 150, so on the phone the sheet is where you actually navigate.
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In between

M2 · Scrub strip

The activity strip becomes a timeline you can scrub. Numbered pins mark each surfaced note along it, and dragging the thumb snaps from pin to pin while a card above it reads out the note. Once the turn settles, the block shrinks back to the strip.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
$Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
·Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
$Runningpnpm acceptance:visual 4m 10s
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
Hover the strip to preview a note; click or drag to pin it.
⌕Searchedsession_switched01:10
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts01:31
✎Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts15:02
$Ranpnpm test:unit26:40
$Ranpnpm acceptance:visual38:44
… 165 more tool steps · 41 narration lines

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

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Phone · Live30 surfaced · drag the strip
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
$Runningpnpm acceptance:visual 4m
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Phone · Settled34 surfaced · tap the strip
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
Tap or drag the strip to read a note.
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts
$Ranpnpm acceptance:visual
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Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

44m 30s · $6.80
Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
The existing activity strip, which already encodes time. Unlike B3's discrete pins that feed a fixed slot, here the strip is one continuous slider. The thumb moves freely while you drag, the card follows under your finger, and on release it snaps to the nearest pin.
Placement
Inside the activity block, replacing the plain strip: a row of pins, then the strip with a thumb, then an axis (start time, open-Ask chip, density, now/end). While live, a card lane sits above the pins. Once settled, the card is an overlay dropped just below the axis.
Live
The thumb follows the newest note in the level, and the card shows it. New pins drop in at the right edge. Scrubbing stops the following, and "now ⇥" (in the card, or the amber end label) resumes it. "–" folds the card lane away and keeps the pins.
Settled
The block shrinks to its head, the pins, the strip and the axis, which is about 4 lines. On desktop, hovering the strip previews the card, and a click or drag pins it (✕ or Esc dismisses). On the phone, a tap or drag opens it. The head expands the step log as it does today.
Collapsible
Live: "–" drops the 138px card lane, leaving pins and strip. Settled: the card is closed by default. Final (the density control) removes pins and cards altogether, leaving today's strip and a count.
Short-session-threads
Settled costs about 2 more lines than today, for the pins and the axis. Live costs the card lane on top of that (138px desktop, 158px phone) until you fold it. There's one block per turn, and nothing is inserted between steps.
Easy-to-read
You read one note at a time, at 12px on desktop and 12.5px on the phone, clamped to 5 lines. That's fine for a single note, but reading a sequence means stepping or dragging through it, and nothing shows two notes at once to compare. Pin numbers are 10.5px on desktop, too small to read at a glance.
Mobile-friendly
The whole scrub area (pins plus strip, about 50px tall) is the hit target, and you drag horizontally, which doesn't fight vertical scroll (touch-action: none on the strip only). Card arrows are 30px wide. The weak point: 13 pins across 320px collapse several into dots, so you can't hit them precisely without dragging.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
The "? 1 open" chip jumps straight to the Ask. Focus the strip and press ←/→ to step, Home/End for first and last, a for the Ask, Esc to return to live or dismiss. Getting to #7 Blocked means aiming at its pin or stepping 3 times.
Needs-reply
The Ask pin has a slow pulsing ring and an axis chip until it's answered. The card has a NEEDS REPLY pill. There's no reply action on the card itself, though.
Density
A four-way segment on the axis (Final, Key, Bal, All) controls which pins exist and what the thumb snaps to. Bal is the default: 13 pins live, 15 settled.
At-150
Poorly. About 70 Balanced pins on a 530px strip means most render as dots, and the snap step shrinks to a few pixels, so dragging turns into guessing. Key (about 25) stays usable. Keyboard stepping still works, but the strip stops being a map you can read.
Build-cost
S–M. It needs a timestamp per message, the pin layout (two rows plus dot fallback, urgency-first), a slider with pointer capture, and card positioning. No new surfaces.
Trade-off
It's the most compact design settled and a good "what happened when" map, but it's a one-at-a-time reader and gets worse as turns get longer, which is exactly the case it's meant to help.
Collapsible●●●●○Short threads●●●●○Easy to read●●●○○Mobile●●●○○Dev nav●●●○○Needs-reply●●●○○At 150●●○○○
In between

M3 · Notification stack

Notes pile up on the activity block like iOS notifications: the newest unread one on top, with the edges of the next two peeking out. The open Ask stays pinned above the pile. Tap the pile to fan it out into a list, and swipe a card away to mark it read.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
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$Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
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$Runningpnpm acceptance:visual 4m 10s
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Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs
⌕Searchedsession_switched01:10
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts01:31
✎Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts15:02
$Ranpnpm test:unit26:40
$Ranpnpm acceptance:visual38:44
… 165 more tool steps · 41 narration lines

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

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Message conduit…opus-5↑
Phone · Live30 surfaced · 3 unread
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‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
⌄Working38m 12s — Running pnpm acceptance:visual
$Runningpnpm acceptance:visual 4m
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
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Phone · Settled34 surfaced · 5 unread
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

44m 30s · $6.80
Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
The iOS notification stack: a pile you take in at a glance, that you can fan out and swipe away. Unread state is kept per turn, so what's new since you last looked is the headline, not the full history.
Placement
Inside the activity block, below the strip and the step log, so there's still one block per turn. From top to bottom: the pinned open Ask, the pile (the top card plus two coloured edges), and a meta row (count, unread, density, fan, fold).
Live
A new note lands on top of the pile with a small rise, the old top slides into the first edge, and the unread badge ticks up. You can triage live without scrolling the log: swipe the top card away and the next unread one rises.
Settled
The same pile, still holding what you didn't read (5 unread in Balanced, including the Ask). The final reply follows the block, fully visible. Swiping everything read leaves the pile showing the newest note, greyed as read.
Collapsible
There are three states: the pile (default), fanned out (grouped list), and folded ("–"), which is one line: "13 notes · 3 unread · ? needs reply". Final (the density control) removes it altogether.
Short-session-threads
The pile is a fixed cost of about 8 lines (Ask row, top card, edges, meta) however many notes there are, so it's short, though longer than a bare strip. Fanning out adds rows, capped at 8 per group with "Show N more".
Easy-to-read
One card at a time at 12px (12.5px on phone), with 3 lines visible, which reads like a notification, not a log. Unread cards are brighter with a blue dot, and read ones sink to grey. The fanned list clamps to 2 lines, and a tap opens the full text.
Mobile-friendly
It's the native idiom: tap to fan, swipe horizontally to clear (vertical movement still scrolls; touch-action pan-y), and 26px controls. Fanning scrolls the body so the list starts at the top of the screen. There are no overlays and no sheets.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
The Ask is pinned and one tap from anywhere. Anything older, like #7 Blocked, means fanning out and scanning "Earlier", which is newest first, so #7 comes near the end. There's no time map and no way to jump by type other than Key. That's the weak spot.
Needs-reply
The open Ask stays pinned above the pile with a NEEDS REPLY pill, and swiping it snaps back with "Reply to clear". It counts as unread until answered. Blocked items are ordinary cards: one of the two cleared without you.
Density
A segment in the meta row (Final, Key, Bal, All) changes both what the pile holds and the counts. Bal is the default: 13 live, 15 settled.
At-150
The pile stays the same size; only the count grows. The fanned list gets long (about 70 at Bal), and the 8-per-group cap and "Show more" keep it paged, but finding one specific old note becomes scanning.
Build-cost
M. It needs per-turn read state (persisted per client), the swipe gesture with a keyboard equivalent (r marks read, ↵ opens), the pile rendering and the fan transition.
Trade-off
It's great at "what's new since I looked" and at quick triage on the phone. It's weak at "show me what happened at 09:20", because the pile has no sense of time and unread becomes one more state to keep in sync across devices.
Collapsible●●●●○Short threads●●●○○Easy to read●●●●○Mobile●●●●○Dev nav●●○○○Needs-reply●●●●○At 150●●●○○
In between

M4 · Needs-you tray

Only the notes that need you get space: the open Ask and the Decision that departs from your prompt sit in a tray above the composer, each with one-tap replies. Everything informative folds into a single digest line on the turn.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
⌄Working38m 12s — Running pnpm acceptance:visual
$Ranpnpm test:unit1m 48s
·Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
$Runningpnpm acceptance:visual 4m 10s
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs
⌕Searchedsession_switched01:10
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts01:31
✎Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts15:02
$Ranpnpm test:unit26:40
$Ranpnpm acceptance:visual38:44
… 165 more tool steps · 41 narration lines

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

44m 30s · $6.80
Message conduit…opus-5↑
Phone · Live30 surfaced · 2 need you
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
⌄Working38m 12s — Running pnpm acceptance:visual
$Runningpnpm acceptance:visual 4m
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
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Phone · Settled34 surfaced · 2 waiting
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

44m 30s · $6.80
Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
Splitting notes into "act" and "know". Most surfaced notes are informative, and only a couple ask anything of you, so those two get quick-reply chips next to the composer, where your answer goes anyway. The rest are compressed to counts.
Placement
Live: the tray sits directly above the composer (inside the dock on the phone), and the digest is one line at the foot of the activity block. Settled: the tray moves onto the turn, after the final reply and bill, so it scrolls away with that turn instead of haunting the composer.
Live
When an Ask or a prompt-departing Decision arrives, it enters the tray, and the count badge updates. Tapping a chip sends a steer message straight away ("sent as a steer") while the agent keeps working. The digest count ticks up quietly.
Settled
Unanswered items stay as "Waiting on you" on the turn, and answered ones collapse to "✓ You replied …, undo". The digest line lists the settled counts. The idle composer is ready below.
Collapsible
The digest is closed by default, a single line. The tray folds ("–") to one line: the count plus the Ask headline. Final (the density control) hides the digest and folds the tray, but never hides it, because it holds open questions. See the deviation note.
Short-session-threads
Settled: 1 digest line inside the block, plus the tray (about 6 lines with the Ask open, 2 folded) after the reply. Informative notes cost 1 line total at any count. Live: the tray takes space above the composer, not in the thread.
Easy-to-read
Tray items have a one-line headline (for example "Recapture phone-sidebar, or keep the old paint order?") and open to the verbatim note at 12px (12.5px phone). Digest rows are one line with the type label, and tapping one wraps it to full text. There's nothing to decode, but the informative notes are only a tap away rather than visible.
Mobile-friendly
Quick-reply chips are 30px tall and sit in the thumb zone above the composer. The cost is real: with the Ask open, the live tray takes about 190px of a 760px screen. Folding it gives most of that back. Digest rows wrap to two lines on the phone.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Zero taps to see the open Ask, one tap to answer it. Earlier Blocked notes (#7, #17) are summed up on a "cleared by the agent" line, and Key (the density level) in the digest lists them among 6 rows. Past notes aren't placed in time, though; the digest is a list.
Needs-reply
The strongest of the four. There's a dedicated surface with a pink count, quick replies, "Reply…" that points the composer at the item, a clear answered state with undo, and settled persistence until answered.
Density
The segment inside the open digest (Final, Key, Bal, All) filters digest rows and the summary counts. At Bal, Findings and Milestones show as "+N at All". The tray ignores the level (see Collapsible).
At-150
It holds up well: the tray still holds only what needs you (1–3 items), and the digest is still one line. The open digest scrolls inside a 260px box on desktop. On the phone at All it gets long, so use Key.
Build-cost
M–L. Quick replies need the agent to supply options with the Ask (or a model pass to derive them). The flag that a Decision "departs from your prompt" needs Jev to compare it against the user's request. The tray and digest UI themselves are simple.
Trade-off
It optimises for acting over knowing: informative notes are nearly invisible, so a developer who wanted to follow the agent's reasoning live has to open the digest. Deciding which Decisions are "risky" is a classifier that can be wrong in both directions.
Collapsible●●●●○Short threads●●●●○Easy to read●●●●○Mobile●●●○○Dev nav●●●●○Needs-reply●●●●●At 150●●●●○
In between

M5 · Session outline

A sticky outline of every turn with typed, headlined entries: click one to jump to it and flash it in a compact digest on its turn. On the phone, the outline is an edge drawer behind a floating count pill.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
T1
Add subscribeSessionDetail to the typed transport contracts.
›Worked· 6 reads · 4 edits · 3 runs6m 40s · $0.92
Updates3◆1 ●1 ✓1
◆ Decision02:10Putting the SessionDetail schema in contracts/, not the daemon, so the frontend can import it without pulling in server code.·
● Finding03:55ws-rpc.ts has no detail stream yet; every session view polls get_session instead.·
✓ Milestone06:20Schema test green, pnpm check clean.·
+2 at

Added subscribeSessionDetail to ws-rpc.ts with a schema test. Nothing consumes it yet.

T2
Why does the sidebar unread badge lag a second behind?
›Worked· 9 searches · 12 reads4m 05s · $0.61
Updates2●2
● Finding01:30The unread badge polls every 1000ms in sidebar.svelte.ts; nothing pushes it.·
● Finding03:05That poll rides session_switched, so it goes away with the legacy path.·
+2 at

It polls once a second through session_switched. Moving the session list onto the typed stream fixes it, which is the next change.

T3
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Updates6/3013/3030?1 ✕2 !2 ±1 ↻1 ↶2 ◆4 ●11 ✓6
● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.#1
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.#2
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.#3
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.#4
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.#5
◆ Decision12:05Using a local ViewSession fixture in the store tests instead of importing it from the rebased branch, so the tests don't depend on merge order.·
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.#6
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.#7
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.#8
✕ Blocked24:10pnpm test:unit hangs in session-list-triage.test.ts: the fake stream never closes, so vitest waits for the 60s timeout.·
↶ Correction25:50Correction: the hang wasn't the fake stream. afterEach never disposed the store's scope, so the subscription outlived the test.·
✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.#9
! Risk29:30subscribeSessionSummaries resends every summary on reconnect. With 293 sessions that's about 180KB per tab each time the socket drops.·
◆ Decision30:20Keeping the badge debounce at 250ms. At 50ms the sidebar repainted on every streamed token.·
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.#10
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.#11
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.#12
+13 more · ● Finding 9 · ✓ Milestone 4
+24 lower-urgency updates at
+17 lower-urgency updates at
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
T13T22T330
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
T1
Add subscribeSessionDetail to the typed transport contracts.
›Worked· 6 reads · 4 edits · 3 runs6m 40s · $0.92
Updates3◆1 ●1 ✓1
◆ Decision02:10Putting the SessionDetail schema in contracts/, not the daemon, so the frontend can import it without pulling in server code.·
● Finding03:55ws-rpc.ts has no detail stream yet; every session view polls get_session instead.·
✓ Milestone06:20Schema test green, pnpm check clean.·
+2 at

Added subscribeSessionDetail to ws-rpc.ts with a schema test. Nothing consumes it yet.

T2
Why does the sidebar unread badge lag a second behind?
›Worked· 9 searches · 12 reads4m 05s · $0.61
Updates2●2
● Finding01:30The unread badge polls every 1000ms in sidebar.svelte.ts; nothing pushes it.·
● Finding03:05That poll rides session_switched, so it goes away with the legacy path.·
+2 at

It polls once a second through session_switched. Moving the session list onto the typed stream fixes it, which is the next change.

T3
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Updates6/3415/3434?1 ✕2 !2 ±1 ↻1 ↶2 ◆6 ●12 ✓7
● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.#1
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.#2
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.#3
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.#4
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.#5
◆ Decision12:05Using a local ViewSession fixture in the store tests instead of importing it from the rebased branch, so the tests don't depend on merge order.·
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.#6
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.#7
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.#8
✕ Blocked24:10pnpm test:unit hangs in session-list-triage.test.ts: the fake stream never closes, so vitest waits for the 60s timeout.·
↶ Correction25:50Correction: the hang wasn't the fake stream. afterEach never disposed the store's scope, so the subscription outlived the test.·
✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.#9
! Risk29:30subscribeSessionSummaries resends every summary on reconnect. With 293 sessions that's about 180KB per tab each time the socket drops.·
◆ Decision30:20Keeping the badge debounce at 250ms. At 50ms the sidebar repainted on every streamed token.·
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.#10
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.#11
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.#12
◆ Decision40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.#13
◆ Decision41:30Not squashing the feat/ni8-transport commits into this branch, so that branch can still merge first on its own.·
✓ Milestone43:50Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.#14
+14 more · ● Finding 10 · ✓ Milestone 4
+28 lower-urgency updates at
+19 lower-urgency updates at

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

T13T22T334
Phone · Live30 surfaced · drawer closed
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
T1
Add subscribeSessionDetail to the typed transport contracts.
›Worked· 6 reads · 4 edits · 3 runs6m 40s · $0.92
Updates3◆1 ●1 ✓1
◆ Decision02:10Putting the SessionDetail schema in contracts/, not the daemon, so the frontend can import it without pulling in server code.·
● Finding03:55ws-rpc.ts has no detail stream yet; every session view polls get_session instead.·
✓ Milestone06:20Schema test green, pnpm check clean.·
+2 at

Added subscribeSessionDetail to ws-rpc.ts with a schema test. Nothing consumes it yet.

T2
Why does the sidebar unread badge lag a second behind?
›Worked· 9 searches · 12 reads4m 05s · $0.61
Updates2●2
● Finding01:30The unread badge polls every 1000ms in sidebar.svelte.ts; nothing pushes it.·
● Finding03:05That poll rides session_switched, so it goes away with the legacy path.·
+2 at

It polls once a second through session_switched. Moving the session list onto the typed stream fixes it, which is the next change.

T3
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Updates6/3013/3030?1 ✕2 !2 ±1 ↻1 ↶2 ◆4 ●11 ✓6
● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.#1
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.#2
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.#3
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.#4
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.#5
◆ Decision12:05Using a local ViewSession fixture in the store tests instead of importing it from the rebased branch, so the tests don't depend on merge order.·
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.#6
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.#7
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.#8
✕ Blocked24:10pnpm test:unit hangs in session-list-triage.test.ts: the fake stream never closes, so vitest waits for the 60s timeout.·
↶ Correction25:50Correction: the hang wasn't the fake stream. afterEach never disposed the store's scope, so the subscription outlived the test.·
✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.#9
! Risk29:30subscribeSessionSummaries resends every summary on reconnect. With 293 sessions that's about 180KB per tab each time the socket drops.·
◆ Decision30:20Keeping the badge debounce at 250ms. At 50ms the sidebar repainted on every streamed token.·
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.#10
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.#11
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.#12
+13 more · ● Finding 9 · ✓ Milestone 4
+24 lower-urgency updates at
+17 lower-urgency updates at
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · Settled34 surfaced · tap ≡ or swipe ‹ edge
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
T1
Add subscribeSessionDetail to the typed transport contracts.
›Worked· 6 reads · 4 edits · 3 runs6m 40s · $0.92
Updates3◆1 ●1 ✓1
◆ Decision02:10Putting the SessionDetail schema in contracts/, not the daemon, so the frontend can import it without pulling in server code.·
● Finding03:55ws-rpc.ts has no detail stream yet; every session view polls get_session instead.·
✓ Milestone06:20Schema test green, pnpm check clean.·
+2 at

Added subscribeSessionDetail to ws-rpc.ts with a schema test. Nothing consumes it yet.

T2
Why does the sidebar unread badge lag a second behind?
›Worked· 9 searches · 12 reads4m 05s · $0.61
Updates2●2
● Finding01:30The unread badge polls every 1000ms in sidebar.svelte.ts; nothing pushes it.·
● Finding03:05That poll rides session_switched, so it goes away with the legacy path.·
+2 at

It polls once a second through session_switched. Moving the session list onto the typed stream fixes it, which is the next change.

T3
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Updates6/3415/3434?1 ✕2 !2 ±1 ↻1 ↶2 ◆6 ●12 ✓7
● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.#1
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.#2
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.#3
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.#4
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.#5
◆ Decision12:05Using a local ViewSession fixture in the store tests instead of importing it from the rebased branch, so the tests don't depend on merge order.·
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.#6
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.#7
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.#8
✕ Blocked24:10pnpm test:unit hangs in session-list-triage.test.ts: the fake stream never closes, so vitest waits for the 60s timeout.·
↶ Correction25:50Correction: the hang wasn't the fake stream. afterEach never disposed the store's scope, so the subscription outlived the test.·
✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.#9
! Risk29:30subscribeSessionSummaries resends every summary on reconnect. With 293 sessions that's about 180KB per tab each time the socket drops.·
◆ Decision30:20Keeping the badge debounce at 250ms. At 50ms the sidebar repainted on every streamed token.·
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.#10
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.#11
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.#12
◆ Decision40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.#13
◆ Decision41:30Not squashing the feat/ni8-transport commits into this branch, so that branch can still merge first on its own.·
✓ Milestone43:50Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.#14
+14 more · ● Finding 10 · ✓ Milestone 4
+28 lower-urgency updates at
+19 lower-urgency updates at

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
Round-1 B4 (a digest, now one collapsible line inside the activity block) plus a new cross-turn layer. Round 1 had no way to move between turns; M5 adds a document-style outline of the whole session. Each outline entry has a short headline, which Jev writes along with the type. Full text stays in the digest.
Placement
Desktop: a sticky 196px outline column on the right of the transcript, with "Needs you" pinned above the turn list. On the turn, a compact digest sits inside the single activity block, under the strip. The final reply stays below the block, untouched. Phone: no column. A floating ? 1 · ≡ 30 pill sits above the composer, and the outline is a right-edge drawer.
Live
The T3 outline entry has a pulse and grows as messages arrive. The digest keeps its newest row in view. The composer carries the live status as usual.
Settled
Counts move to 34 (Balanced 15). The final reply sits below the block. The open Ask stays pinned in "Needs you" and in the pill until someone answers it.
Collapsible
The digest is a <details>. Collapsed, it is one line (Updates 13/30 plus type counts) and a pinned Ask row while an Ask is open. It opens on the latest turn on desktop, and is collapsed on the phone and on older turns. The desktop outline folds to a 40px rail (⇥ or o). Each turn's section in the outline also folds.
Short-session-threads
Collapsed, a settled turn is the activity head, the strip, a digest line and the Ask pin: about 4 lines on desktop and 5 on the phone. Open, the digest is capped at 232px and scrolls. Every message stays inside the one activity block, and navigation lives in the outline, off the thread.
Easy-to-read
Outline headlines are 12px (12.5px on the phone), with a type label on every entry. Digest rows are 13px on one line, and one tap opens the full text in place. But reading the full text means jumping, because the headline is only a summary.
Mobile-friendly
The phone gets only the pill (above the composer, with the body padded so nothing hides under it) and a drawer that takes 88% of the width. The drawer opens from the right edge, so it does not fight the iOS back swipe on the left. The digest stays collapsed, so the reply and composer keep their space.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Find #7: the outline shows it as "! Risk · 19:05 · 293 streams per tab…". One click scrolls to it, opens it and flashes it, even from another turn or under Final only. Keys: a jumps to the open Ask, j/k move through entries, ⏎ jumps, o folds. On the phone: tap ? 1 for the Ask (one tap), or ≡ and then an entry (two taps).
Needs-reply
The Ask gets a pinned "Needs you" block at the top of the outline, the pink ? 1 pill segment on the phone, and a pinned row on the turn when the digest is collapsed. Blocked and other urgency-2 entries get a red left rule in the outline. All of this stays through Settled and on older turns until the Ask is answered.
Density
A four-button control at the top of the outline (Final · Key 6 · Bal 13/15 · All 30/34) filters both the outline and the digest. Final only removes the digest from the turn, leaving the activity block and the reply. The outline keeps only "Needs you". A jump still reveals its target row.
At-150
The digest scrolls inside its 232px cap, so the thread does not grow. The outline section for that turn gets long: about 85 entries at Balanced, going by the taxonomy shares. It scrolls on its own, with Needs you pinned above it, and older turns fold to one line. Key cuts it to about 55.
Build-cost
M. Needs a ≤6-word headline per surfaced message (a Jev field, falling back to the first clause), a session-level outline store across turns, scroll-and-flash anchoring for virtualised messages, and a drawer on the phone.
Trade-off
The outline takes 196px of desktop width for good, and it is one more surface to learn. Headlines add a second piece of generated text that can mislead. On the phone, finding anything other than the Ask takes two taps and a context switch. Nested scrolling (outline, digest, transcript) is fiddly. Rows without a # in the mockup stand in for unwritten messages.
Collapsible●●●●○Short threads●●●●●Easy to read●●●○○Mobile●●●●○Dev nav●●●●●Needs-reply●●●●○At 150●●●○○
In between

M6 · Head counters

Zero added height: the activity head carries typed counters, and tapping one opens that type's messages in a popover (desktop) or sheet (phone). While Live, the counter flashes and the newest message briefly takes over the head meta.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
typed-session-listUpdates in the activity head
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual— ✓ Milestone Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
⌕Searchedsession_switched · 18 matches0.4s
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.2s
✎Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts +12 −301.1s
· Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
$Runningpnpm acceptance:visual1m 48s
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced · ◆ open
typed-session-listUpdates in the activity head
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Log170 tool steps · 41 notes · 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs
⌕Searchedsession_switched · 18 matches0.4s
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.2s
✎Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts +12 −301.1s
· Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
$Ranpnpm test:unit1m 12s
$Ranpnpm acceptance:visual4m 40s

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Phone · Livenewest message ticks through the composer
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Why does the sidebar unread badge lag a second behind?
›Worked●24m

It polls once a second through session_switched. Moving the session list onto the typed stream fixes it, which is the next change.

Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
38m 12s
⌕Searchedsession_switched · 18 matches0.4s
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.2s
$Ranpnpm test:unit1m 12s
$Ranpnpm acceptance:visual4m 40s
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual✓ Milestone Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar…↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · Settledsheet open on ? Ask
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Why does the sidebar unread badge lag a second behind?
›Worked●24m

It polls once a second through session_switched. Moving the session list onto the typed stream fixes it, which is the next change.

Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m
⌕Searchedsession_switched · 18 matches0.4s
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.2s
$Ranpnpm test:unit1m 12s
$Ranpnpm acceptance:visual4m 40s

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
Round-1 M6's levels without its split blocks, and round-1 M4's "latest update", reduced to a moment in the head. Nothing is added to the thread. The activity head grows typed counters, and everything else opens on demand.
Placement
In the activity head, between the verb and the bill: ?1 ✕2 !2 ±1 ↻1 ↶2 ◆6 ●12 ✓7, most urgent first. Tapping a counter opens a popover under the head on desktop, or a bottom sheet over the composer on the phone. The final reply and the composer stay where they are. On the phone, the live ticker moves into the composer status line, because the head has no room for meta text.
Live
When a message arrives, its counter flashes and its number pops. For about 5 seconds the head meta shows the new message, with its type chip, in place of "Running pnpm acceptance:visual", then goes back. On the phone, the composer's status line does this instead. The ? counter is filled pink and has a slow ring.
Settled
The counters stay in the head. The tool counts move into the expanded log header, and they come back to the head at Off. Settled desktop opens with ◆ Decision showing: 6 in time order, with p and #, and a "+N more" row for the unwritten ones.
Collapsible
Messages are folded by default and only open on request, in a popover or sheet that closes with ✕, Esc, an outside click or a tap on the scrim. The Off level removes the counters entirely. Nothing needs collapsing on older turns, because they carry the same zero-height counters.
Short-session-threads
Zero added height. A settled turn is the same 2 lines as today (head plus strip) on both desktop and phone, plus the reply. There is one activity block. The popover and sheet are overlays, not blocks.
Easy-to-read
In the popover and sheet, messages show in full at 12.5px (13px on the phone), with #, time and p in a side column. Each panel has a type chip header, and tabs let you move between types and "All". The honest cost: you have to tap to read anything, and the head shows glyphs and counts, not words. Labels appear on hover or focus, and on the open counter.
Mobile-friendly
The phone head drops "Working" and the meta text to fit all 9 counters (the row scrolls sideways if it has to). The ticker moves into the composer status line, so the head never reflows. The sheet covers at most 66% of the screen and has type tabs you can tap. The reply and composer are never pushed down.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Find #7 (a Risk): tap !2 and it is the first of the two, so two taps. If you don't know its type, the All tab lists everything in time order. Keys: ? opens the Ask, ←/→ move between types, Esc closes. There is no cross-turn index: older turns carry their own counters.
Needs-reply
The ? counter is the only filled counter in the head. It shows its "Ask" label, and while Live it has a pulse ring. Its panel has a "Reply to #10" action that points the composer at the question. Blocked uses a red outline counter. The open Ask stays filled on the settled turn and on older turns until someone answers it.
Density
A session-level control, in the session bar on desktop and as the ≣ All chip in the phone app bar (tap to cycle). Off hides the counters, which is today's view. Key shows ? ✕ ! ±. Balanced adds ↻ ↶ ◆. All adds ● ✓. Counters cost no height, so the default is All. The ticker only fires for messages inside the current level.
At-150
The counters go to two digits (●40 ✓25) and the head still fits. Each panel scrolls, but ●40 is a long list to read in a popover. "All" at 150 needs search, which this design does not have.
Build-cost
S–M. Needs per-type counts on the turn (already derivable), a popover/sheet primitive with tabs, and a head ticker driven by the newest in-level message. Nothing new in the transcript.
Trade-off
Nothing is readable at a glance. Every message is a tap away, and a busy head of glyph chips is easy to tune out, which risks hiding exactly what the classifier surfaced. The live ticker helps in the moment but vanishes after 5 seconds. Rows marked "—" in the mockup stand in for unwritten messages.
Collapsible●●●●○Short threads●●●●●Easy to read●●●○○Mobile●●●●○Dev nav●●●○○Needs-reply●●●●○At 150●●●○○
In between

M7 · Ranked digest and dial

One digest inside the activity block, sorted by urgency and confidence rather than by time, so the open Ask is always on top. A four-stop dial runs from Final only to All, and each message's ink weight shows how sure Jev is.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
?1 ✕2 !2 ±1 ↻1 ↶2 ◆4 ●11 ✓6
? AskThe phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.#10 31:02p .97
✕ Blockedpnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.#4 09:20p .95
! RiskThe unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.#7 19:05p .90
± ScopeThat makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.#2 03:10p .88
✕ Blockedpnpm test:unit hangs in session-list-triage.test.ts: the fake stream never closes, so vitest waits for the 60s timeout.— 24:10p .87
ink = Jev p · ≥.90 .80 .70 <.70
Step log · 146 steps · 34 notes so far
⌕Searchedsession_switched · 18 matches0.4s
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.2s
✎Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts +12 −301.1s
· Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
$Runningpnpm acceptance:visual1m 48s
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
?1 ✕2 !2 ±1 ↻1 ↶2 ◆6 ●12 ✓7
? AskThe phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.#10 31:02p .97
✕ Blockedpnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.#4 09:20p .95
! RiskThe unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.#7 19:05p .90
± ScopeThat makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.#2 03:10p .88
✕ Blockedpnpm test:unit hangs in session-list-triage.test.ts: the fake stream never closes, so vitest waits for the 60s timeout.— 24:10p .87
ink = Jev p · ≥.90 .80 .70 <.70
Step log · 170 steps · 41 notes
⌕Searchedsession_switched · 18 matches0.4s
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.2s
✎Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts +12 −301.1s
· Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
$Ranpnpm test:unit1m 12s
$Ranpnpm acceptance:visual4m 40s

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Phone · Livetop 3 by rank
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
?1 ✕2 !2 ±1 ↻1 ↶2 ◆4 ●11 ✓6
? AskThe phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.#10 31:02p .97
✕ Blockedpnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.#4 09:20p .95
! RiskThe unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.#7 19:05p .90
ink = Jev p · ≥.90 .80 .70 <.70
Step log · 146 steps · 34 notes so far
⌕Searchedsession_switched · 18 matches0.4s
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.2s
✎Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts +12 −301.1s
· Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
$Runningpnpm acceptance:visual1m 48s
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · Settledtop 3 by rank
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
?1 ✕2 !2 ±1 ↻1 ↶2 ◆6 ●12 ✓7
? AskThe phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.#10 31:02p .97
✕ Blockedpnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.#4 09:20p .95
! RiskThe unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.#7 19:05p .90
ink = Jev p · ≥.90 .80 .70 <.70
Step log · 170 steps · 41 notes
⌕Searchedsession_switched · 18 matches0.4s
≡Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts0.2s
✎Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts +12 −301.1s
· Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
$Ranpnpm test:unit1m 12s
$Ranpnpm acceptance:visual4m 40s

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
Round-1 B4's digest and round-1 M6's confidence-weighted prominence, merged into one list. Messages are no longer split into separate blocks by p: every message stays in one digest, and p only sets how much ink it gets. The digest is ranked, not chronological, and the four-stop dial adds Final only.
Placement
Inside the single activity block, between the strip and the step log: head, strip, digest, log. The final reply sits below the block, and the composer is unchanged.
Live
The ranked list re-sorts as messages arrive. A new Blocked or Risk slots in above the Decisions, so the top rows are always the most urgent. Counts: Final 0 · Key 6 · Balanced 13 · All 30. The Ask stays pinned at #1.
Settled
Counts: Final 0 · Key 6 · Balanced 15 · All 34. The open Ask still ranks first. The two new messages (#13 Decision .77, and a stand-in Decision .62) land in the middle and bottom of the consequential tier.
Collapsible
Three ways to fold. ▾ Updates folds the digest to one line of type counts (?1 ✕2 !2 …). The dial's Final only hides every message. And the list is capped at the top 5 (3 on the phone) until you choose "Show N more". It opens on the latest turn and is folded on older ones.
Short-session-threads
Settled at the default (Balanced, top 5): about 14 lines on desktop (head, strip, dial row, 5 two-line rows, footer, log line) and about 17 on the phone (3 rows). Folded, it is 4 lines. All of it is inside one activity block.
Easy-to-read
Full-width rows at 13px (12.5px on the phone), clamped to 2 lines, with one tap to read the full text. The type chip sits in a fixed column, so labels line up. Ink weight follows p: bold when p ≥ .90, normal for .80 to .90, grey for .70 to .80, dim below .70. That makes the list quick to scan, but it also makes the low-p rows harder to read, by design.
Mobile-friendly
On the phone the dial gets its own full-width row with larger stops. Rows stack chip and meta above the text, and the cap drops to 3. The block stays short enough that the live head, the top rows and the composer all fit at the bottom of the screen.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
The open Ask is always row 1 in rank order, and it stays pinned even in time order, so finding it takes zero taps. Blocked and Risk come next. Finding #7 by number means switching to Time and showing more, so 2 taps and a scan. There are no keyboard shortcuts beyond tab and arrow keys on the dial. Navigation stays within the turn.
Needs-reply
Rank can't push the Ask down: it is urgency tier 1 with p .97. It has a pink rule and fill, and it is never cut by the cap, even in time order. Blocked, Risk and Scope take the next slots. Folded, the ? count leads the summary line.
Density
The dial is in the digest header and sets a session-wide level. Final only leaves one dim line ("34 updates hidden · ? 1 open") and the final reply. Key 6, Balanced 15 (the default) and All 34 filter the same ranked list, and the header count follows the dial. The stops are cumulative, so the ones below the selected level are tinted.
At-150
The digest height stays the same, because the top 5 are still the 5 most urgent, whatever the volume. "Show more" at All 150 is a long list, though at least it is ordered by importance. The dial is the real brake: Key at 150 is about 55.
Build-cost
S. Needs the urgency tier and p on each message (already produced by Jev), a sort, a per-session density setting, and a cap. Nothing beyond a typed list on the turn.
Trade-off
A ranked list loses the story. You see what matters but not how it unfolded, so a Correction at rank 8 appears without the claim it corrects. The Time toggle fixes that, at the cost of one more control. Ink weight turns the reader's trust in Jev's p into typography, so a wrongly low p makes an important message harder to read. Rows marked "—" in the mockup stand in for unwritten messages.
Collapsible●●●●○Short threads●●●●○Easy to read●●●●○Mobile●●●●○Dev nav●●●○○Needs-reply●●●●●At 150●●●●○

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Off the wall

W1 · Stories

Every surfaced update becomes a story behind a type-segmented ring on the activity icon: tap to play them full-screen, tap a segment to jump, and the ring greys as you catch up.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual37:58
… 146 tool steps · 38 narration lines so far
Working 38m 12sRunning pnpm acceptance:visual↓ liveReply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual36:40
… 170 tool steps · 41 narration lines

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Phone · Livestory open on the Ask
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual37:58
… 146 tool steps · 38 narration lines so far
Working 38m 12sRunning pnpm acceptance:visual↓ liveReply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · Settledring: 2 unseen + Ask
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual36:40
… 170 tool steps · 41 narration lines

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
M4's one-message-at-a-time slot, pushed to the extreme: each update becomes a full-screen story. M3's pins return as tappable progress segments coloured by type. Unlike M4, nothing is inline in the transcript. The only thing attached to the turn is a ring on the activity icon.
Placement
A 40px ring at the left of the single activity block's head, plus one sub-line under the strip. Stories open as a lightbox over the transcript on desktop and full-screen on the phone. Nothing sits between the activity block and the final reply.
Live
The ring has one segment per update in the current level (Balanced: 13), coloured by type. Seen segments go grey, and the newest unseen one blinks slowly. The centre shows the unseen count (8 before the reel opens, and 7 here with #13 open). "▶ 7 unseen of 13" opens the reel at the first unseen update, and "? Ask waiting · 31:02" opens it at the Ask. Autoplay runs at reading speed (0.3 s a word, 4–14 s per story), and holding the story pauses it. The desktop mockup opens on update #13, the first unseen one.
Settled
Everything you watched live is grey. The two Balanced updates that landed after 38:12 (#31, #32) are coloured, and the unanswered Ask stays pink, with a badge, until you reply. Tapping the ring plays only what you haven't seen.
Collapsible
Always folded. The collapsed form is the ring plus one line ("▶ 2 unseen of 15 · ? Ask waiting"). You dismiss the reel with ✕, Esc or a click on the backdrop. Older turns keep their ring, grey once you've seen everything, so they cost nothing.
Short-session-threads
A settled turn is the activity head, strip and one sub-line: 3 lines on desktop and 4 on the phone, plus the reply. There is one activity block, and the reel is an overlay, so it never adds transcript height at any count.
Easy-to-read
One message at a time: 16px text (17px on the phone), a 30px type glyph with a 16px bold label, the time, p and position. The card is tinted with the type colour. Stand-in copy is marked with a dashed tag. The cost is that you only ever see one update, so comparing two means paging.
Mobile-friendly
On the phone the reel is full-screen, so the reply and composer underneath are untouched. The tap zones cover the middle of the screen, and the level switch and type jumps sit above an Ask-aware reply bar at thumb height. Closed, the turn is just the ring row.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Tap a progress segment to jump to it. The segments are type-coloured, so you can see the pink Ask segment coming. Type chips (? Ask 1, ✕ Blocked 2…) jump to the next update of that type. Keys: ←/→ to page, space to pause, ? for the Ask, Esc to close. To find "#7" you count segments or use a type jump. There is no list and no search.
Needs-reply
The ring has a pink ? badge that opens the Ask directly, and the Ask segment never greys while it's unanswered. On the Ask story, the reply bar reads "Answer: recapture, or keep the old paint order?", so you answer from inside the story. Blocked gets only its ring colour and the ✕ jump chip, which is weaker.
Density
The level switch in the story footer (Off · Key 6 · Balanced 15 · All 34) sets which updates become stories and which get ring segments. Off hides the ring and closes the reel: that is Final only. The default is Balanced.
At-150
Past 40 updates the ring switches to one arc per type, sized by count. The progress bar is still one segment per story, so at 150 the segments are about 2px wide and you can't tap them reliably. Playing 150 stories on All is roughly 20 minutes of autoplay, so Key (about 25) is the only sensible level.
Build-cost
M. It needs per-user seen state per message (persisted), a modal viewer with timers and hold/tap handling, and an SVG ring. The transcript layout doesn't change.
Trade-off
Stories are serial: one message at a time, no overview, and autoplay is the wrong default for technical text you want to reread. Whether anyone reads the updates depends on them opening the ring. Steal: the seen/unseen ring whose Ask segment never greys, and replying from inside the message you're reading.
Collapsible●●●●●Short threads●●●●●Easy to read●●●●○Mobile●●●●○Dev nav●●●○○Needs-reply●●●●○At 150●●○○○
Off the wall

W2 · Heartbeat monitor

The activity strip becomes an EKG trace: one spike per update, height is Jev's p, colour is type. Drag the threshold line to set density, and scrub the trace to read any spike in the readout.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual37:58
… 146 tool steps · 38 narration lines so far
Surfacing
Readout

Working 38m 12sRunning pnpm acceptance:visual↓ liveReply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual36:40
… 170 tool steps · 41 narration lines
Surfacing
Readout

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Phone · Liveline at p ≥ .80
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual37:58
… 146 tool steps · 38 narration lines so far
Surfacing
Readout

Working 38m 12sRunning pnpm acceptance:visual↓ liveReply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · Settledreadout on the Ask
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual36:40
… 170 tool steps · 41 narration lines
Surfacing
Readout

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
M3's strip pins and M6's confidence weighting, merged into one mark: the duration strip becomes a trace, and each spike's height is Jev's p. M4's slot survives as the readout under it.
Placement
Inside the single activity block, the 4px strip grows into a 96px monitor (84px on the phone), with the readout under it, still inside the block, above the final reply.
Live
The trace draws left to right and ends in a beating dot at now, 38:12. Each new update adds a spike at the right edge. If the spike clears the line, the readout follows it, unless you've picked another spike. The mockup shows #30, the deep-link Milestone.
Settled
The trace spans 44m 30s, and the readout opens on the open Ask (#26), not the last spike.
Collapsible
The readout is a <details>. Closed, the block is the head, the monitor and one peek line ("Readout · ? Ask 31:02 · The phone sidebar…"). The monitor itself stays, because it's the strip. The latest turn opens with the readout open; older turns open closed (about 9 lines).
Short-session-threads
Settled by default: head 1 line, monitor about 6, detent row 1, readout 4–5, so about 13 lines on desktop and about 17 on the phone. It's the same at 150, because the readout shows one message. There is one activity block.
Easy-to-read
The readout text is 13.5px, with a 24px type glyph, a 14px bold label, the time, p and position. The trace itself is a map, not text: only Ask, Blocked, Risk and Scope spikes carry glyphs, and the rest are colour and height, so you read one update at a time.
Mobile-friendly
The monitor stays full width. The threshold is a 42px handle on the right that you drag vertically, and scrubbing is horizontal on the trace, so the two gestures don't collide. The readout stacks the type above the text, and ◀ ▶ are 34px. The final reply and composer are untouched.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Drag across the trace to scrub; it snaps to the nearest spike above the line. ◀ ▶ or ←/→ step, ? jumps to the open Ask, and ↑/↓ move the line. Finding an update by time is fast. Finding #7 by number is slow, because spikes aren't numbered (the readout shows "7 of 34" once you land on it).
Needs-reply
Ask and Blocked spikes never flatten below the line, and their glyph sits on the tip. The open Ask has a pinging pink ring, and the monitor header shows "? 1 open · 31:02", one click from the readout.
Density
The threshold line is the density control. Drag it, or tap a detent (Final only · .90 · .80 · .70 · All), each with its count. Final only flatlines the trace. This is a p cut, not the type levels: at .80 the Risk at 20:30 (p .76) drops out while a Finding at .93 stays. The default is .80.
At-150
Spikes land about 4px apart on desktop and 2px on the phone, so they merge into an envelope. The line thins them out (at .90, about 20 are left). Scrubbing still snaps, but on a phone you can't pick one spike by eye, so ◀ ▶ does the work.
Build-cost
M. Jev already provides p. It needs an SVG trace re-rendered when the line moves, and pointer handling for the two gestures.
Trade-off
Height = p mixes confidence with importance: a confident Finding outranks an unsure Risk, and the line hides updates by certainty, not urgency. The trace looks striking but isn't text, so everything readable is one message at a time. Steal: the draggable threshold with live counts as the density control, and spike height on the existing strip as a zero-height overview.
Collapsible●●●●○Short threads●●●●○Easy to read●●●○○Mobile●●●○○Dev nav●●●○○Needs-reply●●●●○At 150●●●○○
Off the wall

W3 · Semantic zoom

Each turn zooms through Final only → Key → Balanced → All → Log. Pinch, ctrl-scroll or +/− changes how the one activity block renders, with a gauge and a tick minimap showing where you are.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced · zoom Key
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
? Ask 31:02 · p .97needs reply
The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
± Scope 03:10 · p .88
That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
✕ Blocked 09:20 · p .95
pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
✕ Blocked 16:10 · p .86 stand-in
pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on.
! Risk 19:05 · p .90
The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
! Risk 20:30 · p .76 stand-in
If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff.
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
◆ Decision08:05Moving the active session id into the router and deleting the store's copy, so there's one source of truth. stand-in
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✕ Blocked16:10pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on. stand-in
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
! Risk20:30If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff. stand-in
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
↶ Correction24:05Correction: jittered backoff already exists in runtime.ts, so the reconnect storm needs no new code. stand-in
◆ Decision26:10Sending summaries as one snapshot followed by deltas, rather than 293 separate snapshots. stand-in
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
00–10m · 10 updates
● Finding00:48rg session_switched finds 11 hits across 6 files, 4 of them tests. stand-in
● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
● Finding02:25subscribeSessionDetail already exists in ws-rpc.ts. It just isn't wired to the sidebar store. stand-in
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
✓ Milestone04:40Contracts updated: SessionSummary now carries unreadCount. Typecheck clean. stand-in
● Finding05:30The sidebar store keeps its own copy of the active session id, separate from the router's. stand-in
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
◆ Decision08:05Moving the active session id into the router and deleting the store's copy, so there's one source of truth. stand-in
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
10–20m · 6 updates
● Finding11:30feat/ni8-transport rebases cleanly onto main. Only the imports in ws-rpc.ts conflict. stand-in
✓ Milestone12:50Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check passes. stand-in
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✕ Blocked16:10pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on. stand-in
● Finding17:45The triage test was the only one pinned to the legacy event. The rest go through the store. stand-in
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
20–30m · 8 updates
! Risk20:30If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff. stand-in
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
↶ Correction24:05Correction: jittered backoff already exists in runtime.ts, so the reconnect storm needs no new code. stand-in
● Finding25:20A session summary is about 180 bytes, so 293 sessions is roughly 53KB on connect. stand-in
◆ Decision26:10Sending summaries as one snapshot followed by deltas, rather than 293 separate snapshots. stand-in
✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
✓ Milestone28:30Unread badges are live on the typed stream and match the legacy counts on the 3 sessions I checked. stand-in
● Finding29:40The SessionItem stories still pass switched as a prop. Updating them to the new shape. stand-in
30–40m · 6 updates
● Finding30:20pnpm acceptance:visual spends 6 of its 9 minutes on phone viewports. stand-in
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
● Finding34:30On iOS the deep link reaches history-logic.ts:178 before the store hydrates. Fixing by awaiting the first snapshot. stand-in
✓ Milestone35:20Storybook visual suite green: 212 stories, 0 diffs. stand-in
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
⋯ 131 earlier lines · 00:00–29:40
● Finding30:20pnpm acceptance:visual spends 6 of its 9 minutes on phone viewports. stand-in
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual30:31
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts32:05
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
● Finding34:30On iOS the deep link reaches history-logic.ts:178 before the store hydrates. Fixing by awaiting the first snapshot. stand-in
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts34:02
✓ Milestone35:20Storybook visual suite green: 212 stories, 0 diffs. stand-in
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visualrunning
live · newest line
Working 38m 12sRunning pnpm acceptance:visual↓ liveReply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced · zoomed to Balanced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
? Ask 31:02 · p .97needs reply
The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
± Scope 03:10 · p .88
That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
✕ Blocked 09:20 · p .95
pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
✕ Blocked 16:10 · p .86 stand-in
pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on.
! Risk 19:05 · p .90
The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
! Risk 20:30 · p .76 stand-in
If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff.
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
◆ Decision08:05Moving the active session id into the router and deleting the store's copy, so there's one source of truth. stand-in
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✕ Blocked16:10pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on. stand-in
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
! Risk20:30If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff. stand-in
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
↶ Correction24:05Correction: jittered backoff already exists in runtime.ts, so the reconnect storm needs no new code. stand-in
◆ Decision26:10Sending summaries as one snapshot followed by deltas, rather than 293 separate snapshots. stand-in
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
◆ Decision40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.
◆ Decision41:30Keeping the flag-guarded code in one legacy/ module, so next release's removal is a single directory delete. stand-in
00–10m · 10 updates
● Finding00:48rg session_switched finds 11 hits across 6 files, 4 of them tests. stand-in
● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
● Finding02:25subscribeSessionDetail already exists in ws-rpc.ts. It just isn't wired to the sidebar store. stand-in
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
✓ Milestone04:40Contracts updated: SessionSummary now carries unreadCount. Typecheck clean. stand-in
● Finding05:30The sidebar store keeps its own copy of the active session id, separate from the router's. stand-in
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
◆ Decision08:05Moving the active session id into the router and deleting the store's copy, so there's one source of truth. stand-in
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
10–20m · 6 updates
● Finding11:30feat/ni8-transport rebases cleanly onto main. Only the imports in ws-rpc.ts conflict. stand-in
✓ Milestone12:50Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check passes. stand-in
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✕ Blocked16:10pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on. stand-in
● Finding17:45The triage test was the only one pinned to the legacy event. The rest go through the store. stand-in
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
20–30m · 8 updates
! Risk20:30If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff. stand-in
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
↶ Correction24:05Correction: jittered backoff already exists in runtime.ts, so the reconnect storm needs no new code. stand-in
● Finding25:20A session summary is about 180 bytes, so 293 sessions is roughly 53KB on connect. stand-in
◆ Decision26:10Sending summaries as one snapshot followed by deltas, rather than 293 separate snapshots. stand-in
✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
✓ Milestone28:30Unread badges are live on the typed stream and match the legacy counts on the 3 sessions I checked. stand-in
● Finding29:40The SessionItem stories still pass switched as a prop. Updating them to the new shape. stand-in
30–40m · 6 updates
● Finding30:20pnpm acceptance:visual spends 6 of its 9 minutes on phone viewports. stand-in
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
● Finding34:30On iOS the deep link reaches history-logic.ts:178 before the store hydrates. Fixing by awaiting the first snapshot. stand-in
✓ Milestone35:20Storybook visual suite green: 212 stories, 0 diffs. stand-in
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
40–50m · 4 updates
◆ Decision40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.
◆ Decision41:30Keeping the flag-guarded code in one legacy/ module, so next release's removal is a single directory delete. stand-in
● Finding42:10No imports of session_switched remain outside the flag-guarded module. stand-in
✓ Milestone43:50Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.
⋯ 142 earlier lines · 00:00–29:40
● Finding30:20pnpm acceptance:visual spends 6 of its 9 minutes on phone viewports. stand-in
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual30:31
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts32:05
Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts34:02
● Finding34:30On iOS the deep link reaches history-logic.ts:178 before the store hydrates. Fixing by awaiting the first snapshot. stand-in
✓ Milestone35:20Storybook visual suite green: 212 stories, 0 diffs. stand-in
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
⋯ 54 later lines · 37:00–44:30

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Phone · Livezoom Key
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
? Ask 31:02 · p .97needs reply
The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
± Scope 03:10 · p .88
That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
✕ Blocked 09:20 · p .95
pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
✕ Blocked 16:10 · p .86 stand-in
pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on.
! Risk 19:05 · p .90
The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
! Risk 20:30 · p .76 stand-in
If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff.
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
◆ Decision08:05Moving the active session id into the router and deleting the store's copy, so there's one source of truth. stand-in
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✕ Blocked16:10pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on. stand-in
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
! Risk20:30If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff. stand-in
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
↶ Correction24:05Correction: jittered backoff already exists in runtime.ts, so the reconnect storm needs no new code. stand-in
◆ Decision26:10Sending summaries as one snapshot followed by deltas, rather than 293 separate snapshots. stand-in
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
00–10m · 10 updates
● Finding00:48rg session_switched finds 11 hits across 6 files, 4 of them tests. stand-in
● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
● Finding02:25subscribeSessionDetail already exists in ws-rpc.ts. It just isn't wired to the sidebar store. stand-in
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
✓ Milestone04:40Contracts updated: SessionSummary now carries unreadCount. Typecheck clean. stand-in
● Finding05:30The sidebar store keeps its own copy of the active session id, separate from the router's. stand-in
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
◆ Decision08:05Moving the active session id into the router and deleting the store's copy, so there's one source of truth. stand-in
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
10–20m · 6 updates
● Finding11:30feat/ni8-transport rebases cleanly onto main. Only the imports in ws-rpc.ts conflict. stand-in
✓ Milestone12:50Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check passes. stand-in
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✕ Blocked16:10pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on. stand-in
● Finding17:45The triage test was the only one pinned to the legacy event. The rest go through the store. stand-in
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
20–30m · 8 updates
! Risk20:30If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff. stand-in
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
↶ Correction24:05Correction: jittered backoff already exists in runtime.ts, so the reconnect storm needs no new code. stand-in
● Finding25:20A session summary is about 180 bytes, so 293 sessions is roughly 53KB on connect. stand-in
◆ Decision26:10Sending summaries as one snapshot followed by deltas, rather than 293 separate snapshots. stand-in
✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
✓ Milestone28:30Unread badges are live on the typed stream and match the legacy counts on the 3 sessions I checked. stand-in
● Finding29:40The SessionItem stories still pass switched as a prop. Updating them to the new shape. stand-in
30–40m · 6 updates
● Finding30:20pnpm acceptance:visual spends 6 of its 9 minutes on phone viewports. stand-in
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
● Finding34:30On iOS the deep link reaches history-logic.ts:178 before the store hydrates. Fixing by awaiting the first snapshot. stand-in
✓ Milestone35:20Storybook visual suite green: 212 stories, 0 diffs. stand-in
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
⋯ 131 earlier lines · 00:00–29:40
● Finding30:20pnpm acceptance:visual spends 6 of its 9 minutes on phone viewports. stand-in
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual30:31
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts32:05
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
● Finding34:30On iOS the deep link reaches history-logic.ts:178 before the store hydrates. Fixing by awaiting the first snapshot. stand-in
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts34:02
✓ Milestone35:20Storybook visual suite green: 212 stories, 0 diffs. stand-in
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visualrunning
live · newest line
Working 38m 12sRunning pnpm acceptance:visual↓ liveReply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · Settledzoom Key
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
? Ask 31:02 · p .97needs reply
The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
± Scope 03:10 · p .88
That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
✕ Blocked 09:20 · p .95
pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
✕ Blocked 16:10 · p .86 stand-in
pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on.
! Risk 19:05 · p .90
The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
! Risk 20:30 · p .76 stand-in
If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff.
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
◆ Decision08:05Moving the active session id into the router and deleting the store's copy, so there's one source of truth. stand-in
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✕ Blocked16:10pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on. stand-in
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
! Risk20:30If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff. stand-in
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
↶ Correction24:05Correction: jittered backoff already exists in runtime.ts, so the reconnect storm needs no new code. stand-in
◆ Decision26:10Sending summaries as one snapshot followed by deltas, rather than 293 separate snapshots. stand-in
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
◆ Decision40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.
◆ Decision41:30Keeping the flag-guarded code in one legacy/ module, so next release's removal is a single directory delete. stand-in
00–10m · 10 updates
● Finding00:48rg session_switched finds 11 hits across 6 files, 4 of them tests. stand-in
● Finding01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
● Finding02:25subscribeSessionDetail already exists in ws-rpc.ts. It just isn't wired to the sidebar store. stand-in
± Scope03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
✓ Milestone04:40Contracts updated: SessionSummary now carries unreadCount. Typecheck clean. stand-in
● Finding05:30The sidebar store keeps its own copy of the active session id, separate from the router's. stand-in
◆ Decision06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
◆ Decision08:05Moving the active session id into the router and deleting the store's copy, so there's one source of truth. stand-in
✕ Blocked09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
↻ Replan09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
10–20m · 6 updates
● Finding11:30feat/ni8-transport rebases cleanly onto main. Only the imports in ws-rpc.ts conflict. stand-in
✓ Milestone12:50Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check passes. stand-in
↶ Correction14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✕ Blocked16:10pnpm test:unit fails: session-list-triage.test.ts mocks session_switched directly. Rewriting the mock before I go on. stand-in
● Finding17:45The triage test was the only one pinned to the legacy event. The rest go through the store. stand-in
! Risk19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
20–30m · 8 updates
! Risk20:30If the daemon restarts, every open tab resubscribes at once. That's a reconnect storm without jittered backoff. stand-in
◆ Decision22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
↶ Correction24:05Correction: jittered backoff already exists in runtime.ts, so the reconnect storm needs no new code. stand-in
● Finding25:20A session summary is about 180 bytes, so 293 sessions is roughly 53KB on connect. stand-in
◆ Decision26:10Sending summaries as one snapshot followed by deltas, rather than 293 separate snapshots. stand-in
✓ Milestone27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
✓ Milestone28:30Unread badges are live on the typed stream and match the legacy counts on the 3 sessions I checked. stand-in
● Finding29:40The SessionItem stories still pass switched as a prop. Updating them to the new shape. stand-in
30–40m · 6 updates
● Finding30:20pnpm acceptance:visual spends 6 of its 9 minutes on phone viewports. stand-in
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
● Finding34:30On iOS the deep link reaches history-logic.ts:178 before the store hydrates. Fixing by awaiting the first snapshot. stand-in
✓ Milestone35:20Storybook visual suite green: 212 stories, 0 diffs. stand-in
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
40–50m · 4 updates
◆ Decision40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.
◆ Decision41:30Keeping the flag-guarded code in one legacy/ module, so next release's removal is a single directory delete. stand-in
● Finding42:10No imports of session_switched remain outside the flag-guarded module. stand-in
✓ Milestone43:50Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.
⋯ 142 earlier lines · 00:00–29:40
● Finding30:20pnpm acceptance:visual spends 6 of its 9 minutes on phone viewports. stand-in
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual30:31
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
? Ask31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
Readsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts32:05
Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
● Finding33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts34:02
● Finding34:30On iOS the deep link reaches history-logic.ts:178 before the store hydrates. Fixing by awaiting the first snapshot. stand-in
✓ Milestone35:20Storybook visual suite green: 212 stories, 0 diffs. stand-in
✓ Milestone36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
⋯ 54 later lines · 37:00–44:30

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
M6's density dial, made per turn and physical. B4's digest and B7's log come back as zoom levels of the same block, not as separate blocks. The zoom is semantic: each level renders differently, and text never shrinks.
Placement
Everything is inside the single activity block: the zoom gauge and a ? 1 pill in the head, the strip as a tick minimap, and the current level's content under it. The final reply sits below, untouched.
Live
Opens at Key: six cards with full text, the Ask spanning the full width at the top. New updates fade in if they qualify for the current level. The minimap gets a tick either way, and the "+7 at Balanced" hint counts up.
Settled
The latest turn stays at the zoom you left it (shown here zoomed in one step to Balanced: 15 one-line rows). Older turns drop to Final only.
Collapsible
Zooming out is collapsing. Final only hides every surfaced message and leaves the head, the minimap and the ? 1 pill. Every row and card also expands and folds on its own. Defaults: the latest turn opens at Key, older turns at Final only.
Short-session-threads
Settled at Key: head, minimap and six cards in two columns, about 14 lines on desktop. The phone is one column with a 2-line clamp, about 22 lines. Balanced is about 18 lines. All and Log sit in a 330px window with its own scroll. Final only is 2 lines. There is one activity block: zooming changes its height, never the number of blocks.
Easy-to-read
Text never shrinks when you zoom. Key shows full text at 13px in cards. Balanced shows one-line rows at 13px (Key types in bold), and All shows one-line rows at 12.5px grouped by 10 minutes. Any row or card opens in place with one tap. Type chips always pair glyph and label.
Mobile-friendly
Pinch a turn to zoom, or use the 30px − and + in the gauge pill. The minimap moves to its own full-width row. Cards stack in one column with a 2-line clamp, and Balanced rows put the text under the chip. The other content stays readable because older turns sit at Final only and deep levels are height-capped.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Tap a minimap tick and the turn zooms to the shallowest level that contains that update, then opens and flashes it. Ctrl-scroll (trackpad pinch) or +/− zooms the focused turn, and the gauge stops jump straight to a level. ? 1 goes to the Ask from any level. #7 is the 7th tick; ticks aren't labelled, but hover shows "#7 · 06:55 ◆ Decision".
Needs-reply
The Ask card leads Key at full width, with a pink border and a "needs reply" tag. Blocked cards follow it. At every level, including Final only, the head keeps a pink ? 1 pill, and the Ask tick carries a dot on the minimap.
Density
Zoom is the density control: five stops per turn (Final only · Key · Balanced · All · Log) on the gauge in the head. Click a stop, press +/−, pinch or ctrl-scroll. A session default sets where new turns open.
At-150
Key (about 25) and Balanced (about 60) stay usable. All is 150 rows in its capped window, grouped by 10 minutes, so it scrolls but doesn't grow the thread. The minimap still shows all 150 ticks, but they're about 3px apart, so tick-jumping gets imprecise on the phone.
Build-cost
M. Four renderers over the same typed list, plus a log merge, a gesture layer (pinch, ctrl-wheel, keys) and per-turn zoom state.
Trade-off
Pinch is hard to discover and competes with browser zoom (ctrl-scroll does too on desktop), so the gauge has to carry the idea on its own. Zooming in still grows the thread, which is exactly the requirement you give up when you zoom. Steal: a per-turn density stop instead of one global setting, and minimap ticks that zoom to the level where that update lives.
Collapsible●●●●●Short threads●●●●○Easy to read●●●●○Mobile●●●○○Dev nav●●●●○Needs-reply●●●●○At 150●●●○○
Off the wall

W4 · Radio tuner

The strip becomes a tuning dial: stations on urgency rows over time, a red needle, and an amber LCD that reads the tuned update in full. Band switch for density, presets for the Ask, scan and knob for stepping.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced · band ALL, on air
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual37:58
… 146 tool steps · 38 narration lines so far
ATTNCONSQINFO
Final only · 30 surfaced updates tuned out. Pick a band to listen in.
Working 38m 12sRunning pnpm acceptance:visual↓ liveReply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced · band BAL, P1 on the Ask
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual36:40
… 170 tool steps · 41 narration lines
ATTNCONSQINFO
Final only · 34 surfaced updates tuned out. Pick a band to listen in.

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Phone · Liveon air
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual37:58
… 146 tool steps · 38 narration lines so far
ATTNCONSQINFO
Final only · 30 surfaced updates tuned out. Pick a band to listen in.
Working 38m 12sRunning pnpm acceptance:visual↓ liveReply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · SettledP1 · Ask
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
›Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
Searchedsession_switched00:31
Readsrc/lib/frontend/stores/sidebar.svelte.ts00:52
Let me read the sidebar store.
Editedsrc/lib/frontend/utils/history-logic.ts14:12
Now running the unit tests.
Ranpnpm test:unit27:02
Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
Ranpnpm acceptance:visual36:40
… 170 tool steps · 41 narration lines
ATTNCONSQINFO
Final only · 34 surfaced updates tuned out. Pick a band to listen in.

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
The strip, turned into a tuning dial: time runs left to right and urgency sets the row. M-series density becomes a band switch. The readout is one-message-at-a-time, like a car radio's display.
Placement
Everything is inside the single activity block, under its head. The tuner replaces the strip: three station rows with a red needle, an amber LCD showing the tuned update, and a control row. The step log stays in the head's fold. The final reply sits below.
Live
Band ALL, and the needle follows the newest station (#30 ✓ Milestone at 36:55). The LCD reads ● ON AIR. A dashed NOW mark sits at 38:12. New stations light up on their rows, and the needle jumps to them unless you've tuned away. In that case the LCD shows "back to live ⇥".
Settled
Band BAL (15 stations), with the needle parked on P1: the open ? Ask at 31:02. The LCD shows the question in full with a "needs reply" tag. The final reply is below, always visible.
Collapsible
Three levels: ▾ folds the tuner to 9px tick rows and a one-line LCD; the band OFF shows Final only (one line and the band switch); the head's chevron opens the step log. Defaults: the latest turn is unfolded, and older turns open folded on band OFF.
Short-session-threads
The height is fixed whatever the count: about 11 lines on desktop and 14 on the phone for 30, 34 or 150 updates, and 4 lines when folded. Only one update is ever expanded, in the LCD. There is one activity block.
Easy-to-read
The LCD shows full text at 13.5px, warm white on dark amber, with code highlighted. The top line gives channel, glyph and type, time and signal (p as ▮ bars). Rows group by urgency (ATTN / CONSQ / INFO), so it's clear what matters without reading every label.
Mobile-friendly
The needle drags with a thumb across the dial (pan-y, so vertical scroll still works). There are 26px rows, a 38px knob and 12px labels. ◀ ▶ and P1 give tap-only paths. Labels that would collide hide automatically, leaving the tick, and the tuned one always shows its label.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
←/→ on the focused tuner or knob steps through stations in the band. Drag the needle, turn the knob (16px per station) or tap a tick. SCAN auto-advances every 3s. FINE widens a 12-minute window around the needle so dense stretches separate. #7 is the ◆ at 06:55 on the CONSQ row. Its label hides when the row is crowded, so tap near it or step until the LCD reads CH 7. FINE makes the labels reappear.
Needs-reply
The Ask station pings on the ATTN row, which is always the top row. The pink P1 preset jumps to it. In the LCD it gets a "needs reply" tag. ATTN rows stay lit in every band except OFF.
Density
The band switch: OFF (Final only) · KEY 6 · BAL 15 · ALL 34. Out-of-band stations dim to ghost ticks, so you can still see how busy the turn was. The session default sets the band new turns open on.
At-150
Readable, but crowded: 150 ticks over about 800px leaves about 5px each, so most labels hide and the needle does the work. FINE (a 12-minute window) and the KEY band keep it navigable. On the phone, ticks are about 2px apart, and you really need FINE and ◀ ▶.
Build-cost
M. Custom dial layout with label collision, needle drag, knob, scan timer, windowing and live follow. No list rendering, and a small DOM.
Trade-off
Only one update is readable at a time, so skimming all 15 means stepping 15 times, and the skeuomorphism costs polish and theming. Steal: rows on the timeline by urgency tier (ATTN / CONSQ / INFO), and a preset that always parks on the open Ask.
Collapsible●●●●○Short threads●●●●●Easy to read●●●●○Mobile●●●○○Dev nav●●●●○Needs-reply●●●●○At 150●●●○○
Off the wall

W5 · tmux panes

The turn is a terminal split: a tail -f updates pane beside the step log, a vim status line, and keys to jump to #7 or the open Ask.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual30 surfaced
0 tail -f updatesj/k · / find · ? asks · 7G · z zoom · +−
1● FINDING00:48The sidebar store reads session_switched through sessionEvents.on, not a direct socket listener.
2● FINDING01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
3● FINDING02:25subscribeSessionDetail already exists in runtime.ts; nothing calls it yet.
4± SCOPE03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
5✓ MILESTONE04:40Typed SessionDetail stream wired into the transport runtime. Typecheck clean.
6● FINDING05:30MessageList history replays from the event store, so it can drop the legacy event without losing data.
7◆ DECISION06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
8◆ DECISION08:05Naming the flag CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH to match the existing CONDUIT_* env flags.
9✕ BLOCKED09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.[resolved #13]
10↻ REPLAN09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
11✕ BLOCKED11:15The rebase stopped on a conflict in ws-rpc.ts. pnpm check can't run until I resolve it by hand.[resolved #13]
12● FINDING12:40ViewSession on feat/ni8-transport already carries unreadCount, so the badge needs no extra query.
13✓ MILESTONE13:20Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
14↶ CORRECTION14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
15● FINDING16:10The unread counter's tests mock session_switched in 14 places.
16↶ CORRECTION17:45Scratch that count: 9 of the 14 mocks share one fixture, so it's 6 edits, not 14.
17● FINDING18:30The daemon caps each client at 256 streams (MAX_CLIENT_STREAMS).
18! RISK19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
19! RISK20:50Batching adds latency: if summaries flush every 250ms, a badge can lag a new message by a quarter second.
20◆ DECISION22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
21● FINDING24:05subscribeSessionSummaries can reuse the projector the session list already reads.
22◆ DECISION25:30Flushing summaries every 250ms, to match the sidebar's existing render throttle.
23✓ MILESTONE26:10Unread badges migrated. 41 sidebar tests rewritten against the typed stream.
24✓ MILESTONE27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
25● FINDING29:40The SessionItem Storybook stories still import the legacy event type.
26? ASK31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.awaiting you
27● FINDING33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
28● FINDING34:50iOS push opens /p/<slug>/s/<id>, which router.ts handles, not the service worker.
29✓ MILESTONE35:30Storybook stories updated. pnpm test:unit is green again.
30✓ MILESTONE36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
following · 38:12
1 log · 187 lines so far
00:06Let me find every reader of the legacy event.
+-- 2 steps
00:12Searchedsession_switched
+-- 5 steps
00:31Let me read the sidebar store.
+-- 2 steps
00:40Readsidebar.svelte.ts
+-- 6 steps
01:05Readruntime.ts
+-- 4 steps
01:30SearchedsessionEvents.on
+-- 2 steps
02:10Readhistory-logic.ts
+-- 4 steps
02:50Readpush.ts
+-- 5 steps
04:02Editedruntime.ts
+-- 3 steps
04:30Ranpnpm check
+-- 5 steps
05:10ReadMessageList.svelte
+-- 2 steps
06:20Editedconfig.ts
+-- 6 steps
07:40Editedsidebar.svelte.ts
+-- 4 steps
09:02Ranpnpm check
+-- 3 steps
09:35Rangit fetch origin feat/ni8-transport
+-- 4 steps
10:40Rangit rebase feat/ni8-transport
+-- 4 steps
12:10Editedws-rpc.ts
+-- 3 steps
13:05Ranpnpm check
+-- 5 steps
14:05Readhistory-logic.ts
+-- 2 steps
15:40Searchedsession_switched test/unit
+-- 6 steps
17:20Editedsidebar.test.ts
+-- 4 steps
18:10Readipc-limits.ts
+-- 3 steps
19:40Editedunread.svelte.ts
+-- 4 steps
21:30Readsession-summary.ts
+-- 5 steps
23:15Editedruntime.ts
+-- 3 steps
24:40Editedunread.svelte.ts
+-- 5 steps
25:45Now running the unit tests.
+-- 2 steps
25:50Ranpnpm test:unit
+-- 6 steps
26:55Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
+-- 4 steps
27:05Ranpnpm lint
+-- 3 steps
28:30Editedhistory-logic.ts
+-- 4 steps
29:20ReadSessionItem.stories.ts
+-- 5 steps
30:10Ranpnpm acceptance:visual
+-- 3 steps
32:20Editedhistory-logic.ts
+-- 5 steps
34:10Readrouter.ts
+-- 2 steps
35:10EditedSessionItem.stories.ts
+-- 6 steps
36:05Ranpnpm test:unit
+-- 4 steps
36:30Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
+-- 3 steps
37:20Ranpnpm acceptance:visual
running · 38:12
typed-list30 updates · ✓ Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.30
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
0 tail -f updatesj/k · / find · ? asks · 7G · z zoom · +−
1● FINDING00:48The sidebar store reads session_switched through sessionEvents.on, not a direct socket listener.
2● FINDING01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
3● FINDING02:25subscribeSessionDetail already exists in runtime.ts; nothing calls it yet.
4± SCOPE03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
5✓ MILESTONE04:40Typed SessionDetail stream wired into the transport runtime. Typecheck clean.
6● FINDING05:30MessageList history replays from the event store, so it can drop the legacy event without losing data.
7◆ DECISION06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
8◆ DECISION08:05Naming the flag CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH to match the existing CONDUIT_* env flags.
9✕ BLOCKED09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.[resolved #13]
10↻ REPLAN09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
11✕ BLOCKED11:15The rebase stopped on a conflict in ws-rpc.ts. pnpm check can't run until I resolve it by hand.[resolved #13]
12● FINDING12:40ViewSession on feat/ni8-transport already carries unreadCount, so the badge needs no extra query.
13✓ MILESTONE13:20Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
14↶ CORRECTION14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
15● FINDING16:10The unread counter's tests mock session_switched in 14 places.
16↶ CORRECTION17:45Scratch that count: 9 of the 14 mocks share one fixture, so it's 6 edits, not 14.
17● FINDING18:30The daemon caps each client at 256 streams (MAX_CLIENT_STREAMS).
18! RISK19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
19! RISK20:50Batching adds latency: if summaries flush every 250ms, a badge can lag a new message by a quarter second.
20◆ DECISION22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
21● FINDING24:05subscribeSessionSummaries can reuse the projector the session list already reads.
22◆ DECISION25:30Flushing summaries every 250ms, to match the sidebar's existing render throttle.
23✓ MILESTONE26:10Unread badges migrated. 41 sidebar tests rewritten against the typed stream.
24✓ MILESTONE27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
25● FINDING29:40The SessionItem Storybook stories still import the legacy event type.
26? ASK31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.awaiting you
27● FINDING33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
28● FINDING34:50iOS push opens /p/<slug>/s/<id>, which router.ts handles, not the service worker.
29✓ MILESTONE35:30Storybook stories updated. pnpm test:unit is green again.
30✓ MILESTONE36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
31● FINDING38:40phone-sidebar is the only baseline that paints the badge; the other 41 visual scenarios are unaffected.
32◆ DECISION40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.
33◆ DECISION41:30Reading CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH once at boot rather than live, so a rollback is a daemon restart, not a code change.
34✓ MILESTONE43:50Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.
(END) turn settled at 44:30
1 log · 211 lines
00:06Let me find every reader of the legacy event.
+-- 2 steps
00:12Searchedsession_switched
+-- 5 steps
00:31Let me read the sidebar store.
+-- 2 steps
00:40Readsidebar.svelte.ts
+-- 6 steps
01:05Readruntime.ts
+-- 4 steps
01:30SearchedsessionEvents.on
+-- 2 steps
02:10Readhistory-logic.ts
+-- 4 steps
02:50Readpush.ts
+-- 5 steps
04:02Editedruntime.ts
+-- 3 steps
04:30Ranpnpm check
+-- 5 steps
05:10ReadMessageList.svelte
+-- 2 steps
06:20Editedconfig.ts
+-- 6 steps
07:40Editedsidebar.svelte.ts
+-- 4 steps
09:02Ranpnpm check
+-- 3 steps
09:35Rangit fetch origin feat/ni8-transport
+-- 4 steps
10:40Rangit rebase feat/ni8-transport
+-- 4 steps
12:10Editedws-rpc.ts
+-- 3 steps
13:05Ranpnpm check
+-- 5 steps
14:05Readhistory-logic.ts
+-- 2 steps
15:40Searchedsession_switched test/unit
+-- 6 steps
17:20Editedsidebar.test.ts
+-- 4 steps
18:10Readipc-limits.ts
+-- 3 steps
19:40Editedunread.svelte.ts
+-- 4 steps
21:30Readsession-summary.ts
+-- 5 steps
23:15Editedruntime.ts
+-- 3 steps
24:40Editedunread.svelte.ts
+-- 5 steps
25:45Now running the unit tests.
+-- 2 steps
25:50Ranpnpm test:unit
+-- 6 steps
26:55Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
+-- 4 steps
27:05Ranpnpm lint
+-- 3 steps
28:30Editedhistory-logic.ts
+-- 4 steps
29:20ReadSessionItem.stories.ts
+-- 5 steps
30:10Ranpnpm acceptance:visual
+-- 3 steps
32:20Editedhistory-logic.ts
+-- 5 steps
34:10Readrouter.ts
+-- 2 steps
35:10EditedSessionItem.stories.ts
+-- 6 steps
36:05Ranpnpm test:unit
+-- 4 steps
36:30Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
+-- 3 steps
37:20Ranpnpm acceptance:visual
+-- 4 steps
39:10Ranpnpm storybook:visual
+-- 5 steps
40:05Rangit commit -m "typed session list"
+-- 3 steps
41:10Readconfig.ts
+-- 5 steps
42:40Ranpnpm test:unit
+-- 2 steps
43:30Rangit push origin feat/typed-session-list
typed-list34 updates · ✓ Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.34

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Phone · LiveBalanced · 13 of 30
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
0 tail -f updates
1● FINDING00:48The sidebar store reads session_switched through sessionEvents.on, not a direct socket listener.
2● FINDING01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
3● FINDING02:25subscribeSessionDetail already exists in runtime.ts; nothing calls it yet.
4± SCOPE03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
5✓ MILESTONE04:40Typed SessionDetail stream wired into the transport runtime. Typecheck clean.
6● FINDING05:30MessageList history replays from the event store, so it can drop the legacy event without losing data.
7◆ DECISION06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
8◆ DECISION08:05Naming the flag CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH to match the existing CONDUIT_* env flags.
9✕ BLOCKED09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.[resolved #13]
10↻ REPLAN09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
11✕ BLOCKED11:15The rebase stopped on a conflict in ws-rpc.ts. pnpm check can't run until I resolve it by hand.[resolved #13]
12● FINDING12:40ViewSession on feat/ni8-transport already carries unreadCount, so the badge needs no extra query.
13✓ MILESTONE13:20Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
14↶ CORRECTION14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
15● FINDING16:10The unread counter's tests mock session_switched in 14 places.
16↶ CORRECTION17:45Scratch that count: 9 of the 14 mocks share one fixture, so it's 6 edits, not 14.
17● FINDING18:30The daemon caps each client at 256 streams (MAX_CLIENT_STREAMS).
18! RISK19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
19! RISK20:50Batching adds latency: if summaries flush every 250ms, a badge can lag a new message by a quarter second.
20◆ DECISION22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
21● FINDING24:05subscribeSessionSummaries can reuse the projector the session list already reads.
22◆ DECISION25:30Flushing summaries every 250ms, to match the sidebar's existing render throttle.
23✓ MILESTONE26:10Unread badges migrated. 41 sidebar tests rewritten against the typed stream.
24✓ MILESTONE27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
25● FINDING29:40The SessionItem Storybook stories still import the legacy event type.
26? ASK31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.awaiting you
27● FINDING33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
28● FINDING34:50iOS push opens /p/<slug>/s/<id>, which router.ts handles, not the service worker.
29✓ MILESTONE35:30Storybook stories updated. pnpm test:unit is green again.
30✓ MILESTONE36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
following · 38:12
1 log · 187 lines so far
00:06Let me find every reader of the legacy event.
+-- 2 steps
00:12Searchedsession_switched
+-- 5 steps
00:31Let me read the sidebar store.
+-- 2 steps
00:40Readsidebar.svelte.ts
+-- 6 steps
01:05Readruntime.ts
+-- 4 steps
01:30SearchedsessionEvents.on
+-- 2 steps
02:10Readhistory-logic.ts
+-- 4 steps
02:50Readpush.ts
+-- 5 steps
04:02Editedruntime.ts
+-- 3 steps
04:30Ranpnpm check
+-- 5 steps
05:10ReadMessageList.svelte
+-- 2 steps
06:20Editedconfig.ts
+-- 6 steps
07:40Editedsidebar.svelte.ts
+-- 4 steps
09:02Ranpnpm check
+-- 3 steps
09:35Rangit fetch origin feat/ni8-transport
+-- 4 steps
10:40Rangit rebase feat/ni8-transport
+-- 4 steps
12:10Editedws-rpc.ts
+-- 3 steps
13:05Ranpnpm check
+-- 5 steps
14:05Readhistory-logic.ts
+-- 2 steps
15:40Searchedsession_switched test/unit
+-- 6 steps
17:20Editedsidebar.test.ts
+-- 4 steps
18:10Readipc-limits.ts
+-- 3 steps
19:40Editedunread.svelte.ts
+-- 4 steps
21:30Readsession-summary.ts
+-- 5 steps
23:15Editedruntime.ts
+-- 3 steps
24:40Editedunread.svelte.ts
+-- 5 steps
25:45Now running the unit tests.
+-- 2 steps
25:50Ranpnpm test:unit
+-- 6 steps
26:55Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
+-- 4 steps
27:05Ranpnpm lint
+-- 3 steps
28:30Editedhistory-logic.ts
+-- 4 steps
29:20ReadSessionItem.stories.ts
+-- 5 steps
30:10Ranpnpm acceptance:visual
+-- 3 steps
32:20Editedhistory-logic.ts
+-- 5 steps
34:10Readrouter.ts
+-- 2 steps
35:10EditedSessionItem.stories.ts
+-- 6 steps
36:05Ranpnpm test:unit
+-- 4 steps
36:30Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
+-- 3 steps
37:20Ranpnpm acceptance:visual
running · 38:12
30 updates · ✓ Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.30
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · SettledBalanced · 15 of 34
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
0 tail -f updates
1● FINDING00:48The sidebar store reads session_switched through sessionEvents.on, not a direct socket listener.
2● FINDING01:42session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
3● FINDING02:25subscribeSessionDetail already exists in runtime.ts; nothing calls it yet.
4± SCOPE03:10That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
5✓ MILESTONE04:40Typed SessionDetail stream wired into the transport runtime. Typecheck clean.
6● FINDING05:30MessageList history replays from the event store, so it can drop the legacy event without losing data.
7◆ DECISION06:55I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.
8◆ DECISION08:05Naming the flag CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH to match the existing CONDUIT_* env flags.
9✕ BLOCKED09:20pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.[resolved #13]
10↻ REPLAN09:48Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.
11✕ BLOCKED11:15The rebase stopped on a conflict in ws-rpc.ts. pnpm check can't run until I resolve it by hand.[resolved #13]
12● FINDING12:40ViewSession on feat/ni8-transport already carries unreadCount, so the badge needs no extra query.
13✓ MILESTONE13:20Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
14↶ CORRECTION14:30Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
15● FINDING16:10The unread counter's tests mock session_switched in 14 places.
16↶ CORRECTION17:45Scratch that count: 9 of the 14 mocks share one fixture, so it's 6 edits, not 14.
17● FINDING18:30The daemon caps each client at 256 streams (MAX_CLIENT_STREAMS).
18! RISK19:05The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
19! RISK20:50Batching adds latency: if summaries flush every 250ms, a badge can lag a new message by a quarter second.
20◆ DECISION22:40I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.
21● FINDING24:05subscribeSessionSummaries can reuse the projector the session list already reads.
22◆ DECISION25:30Flushing summaries every 250ms, to match the sidebar's existing render throttle.
23✓ MILESTONE26:10Unread badges migrated. 41 sidebar tests rewritten against the typed stream.
24✓ MILESTONE27:15Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
25● FINDING29:40The SessionItem Storybook stories still import the legacy event type.
26? ASK31:02The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.awaiting you
27● FINDING33:40The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
28● FINDING34:50iOS push opens /p/<slug>/s/<id>, which router.ts handles, not the service worker.
29✓ MILESTONE35:30Storybook stories updated. pnpm test:unit is green again.
30✓ MILESTONE36:55Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
31● FINDING38:40phone-sidebar is the only baseline that paints the badge; the other 41 visual scenarios are unaffected.
32◆ DECISION40:20Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.
33◆ DECISION41:30Reading CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH once at boot rather than live, so a rollback is a daemon restart, not a code change.
34✓ MILESTONE43:50Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.
(END) turn settled at 44:30
1 log · 211 lines
00:06Let me find every reader of the legacy event.
+-- 2 steps
00:12Searchedsession_switched
+-- 5 steps
00:31Let me read the sidebar store.
+-- 2 steps
00:40Readsidebar.svelte.ts
+-- 6 steps
01:05Readruntime.ts
+-- 4 steps
01:30SearchedsessionEvents.on
+-- 2 steps
02:10Readhistory-logic.ts
+-- 4 steps
02:50Readpush.ts
+-- 5 steps
04:02Editedruntime.ts
+-- 3 steps
04:30Ranpnpm check
+-- 5 steps
05:10ReadMessageList.svelte
+-- 2 steps
06:20Editedconfig.ts
+-- 6 steps
07:40Editedsidebar.svelte.ts
+-- 4 steps
09:02Ranpnpm check
+-- 3 steps
09:35Rangit fetch origin feat/ni8-transport
+-- 4 steps
10:40Rangit rebase feat/ni8-transport
+-- 4 steps
12:10Editedws-rpc.ts
+-- 3 steps
13:05Ranpnpm check
+-- 5 steps
14:05Readhistory-logic.ts
+-- 2 steps
15:40Searchedsession_switched test/unit
+-- 6 steps
17:20Editedsidebar.test.ts
+-- 4 steps
18:10Readipc-limits.ts
+-- 3 steps
19:40Editedunread.svelte.ts
+-- 4 steps
21:30Readsession-summary.ts
+-- 5 steps
23:15Editedruntime.ts
+-- 3 steps
24:40Editedunread.svelte.ts
+-- 5 steps
25:45Now running the unit tests.
+-- 2 steps
25:50Ranpnpm test:unit
+-- 6 steps
26:55Typecheck clean, 897 tests pass. Lint next.
+-- 4 steps
27:05Ranpnpm lint
+-- 3 steps
28:30Editedhistory-logic.ts
+-- 4 steps
29:20ReadSessionItem.stories.ts
+-- 5 steps
30:10Ranpnpm acceptance:visual
+-- 3 steps
32:20Editedhistory-logic.ts
+-- 5 steps
34:10Readrouter.ts
+-- 2 steps
35:10EditedSessionItem.stories.ts
+-- 6 steps
36:05Ranpnpm test:unit
+-- 4 steps
36:30Waiting for the visual run to finish before the Storybook run, so they don't compete for CPU.
+-- 3 steps
37:20Ranpnpm acceptance:visual
+-- 4 steps
39:10Ranpnpm storybook:visual
+-- 5 steps
40:05Rangit commit -m "typed session list"
+-- 3 steps
41:10Readconfig.ts
+-- 5 steps
42:40Ranpnpm test:unit
+-- 2 steps
43:30Rangit push origin feat/typed-session-list
34 updates · ✓ Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.34

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
M4 (paging through updates, here a cursor you move with j/k), B7 (steps between updates compress, here into vim folds) and M7's composer. New: the updates stream and the step log are two panes of one window, and moving the cursor to an update scrolls the log to that moment.
Placement
Inside the single activity block, under its head and strip: a fixed-height tmux window with tail -f updates (left, two thirds) and log (right), and a status line along the bottom. Final reply below the block, composer below that.
Live
The updates pane follows the tail: the newest line fades in and a blinking cursor marks follow mode. Moving the cursor stops following; G resumes. The status line carries a pink ? 1 open the whole time.
Settled
The window stays attached on the latest turn. The cursor starts on the open Ask (#26) with the log pane synced to 31:02, not at the bottom. Resolved Blocked lines carry [resolved #13]. The pane ends in (END) turn settled at 44:30.
Collapsible
⏏ on the status line, q, or the activity chevron detaches the window. Only the status line stays: detached · 34 updates · last ✓ Branch pushed…, with ? 1 open still tappable. The latest turn is attached by default and older turns are detached.
Short-session-threads
The window is a fixed 300px on desktop (about 20 lines for the whole block, whatever the count) and 3 lines when detached. On the phone the pane is 316px live and 214px settled, and 3 lines detached. The log is a pane inside the same block, so there is still exactly one activity block.
Easy-to-read
Every update is shown in full, with no clamp, at 12.5px (12px+ on the phone). Each has a hanging line number and an uppercase type tag in its colour with its glyph (? ASK, ✕ BLOCKED). Lower-p updates are in secondary ink. The cost: on a 590px column the split leaves the updates pane about 45 characters wide. z zooms it to full width.
Mobile-friendly
The panes become two full-width tabs you swipe between (scroll-snap), and the status line becomes the tab switcher at thumb height. A Termux-style extra-keys row (? ask · ▲ · ▼ · / find · G end · ⏏) replaces the keyboard. The window has a fixed height, so the final reply and composer never move, and detaching gives the screen back.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Click the window to focus it (keys only work while it has focus, so it never fights the composer). 7G jumps to update #7, j/k step through, / searches (Enter jumps, n/N cycle), ? cycles Asks then Blocked, open ones first. gg/G jump to the ends, h/l switch panes, +/− change density. The phone gets the same actions from the key row.
Needs-reply
The open Ask carries an inverse awaiting you badge on its line, and the status line shows a pink ? 1 open that jumps to it, even while the window is detached. On settle the cursor starts on it. ? reaches it from anywhere.
Density
The final key bal all buttons on the status line (+/− on the keyboard). Final only detaches every window. Key, Balanced (default) and All hide lower tiers behind vim folds (+-- 3 below level · ● 2 ✓ 1) that stay in place and open on click, so the list never pretends to be short.
At-150
Nothing grows: the pane stays 300px and scrolls. Balanced at 150 is roughly 65 lines plus folds, and the status line reads #87 · 65/150. 87G, / and ? reach anything without scrolling. The log pane is already long (211 lines here), so it doesn't change.
Build-cost
M. The panes and the list are ordinary. The work is key handling scoped to focus, the time sync between update and step (step timestamps already exist), fold grouping, and the phone tab variant.
Trade-off
Nested scroll regions inside a scrolling transcript. The idiom is keyboard-first and pays off mainly for vim and tmux users, and on touch the key row is a crutch. Split panes are narrow on a desktop column. Steal: linked panes, where selecting an update scrolls the step log to that moment, plus 7G and ? as keyboard jumps for any digest.
Collapsible●●●●○Short threads●●●●○Easy to read●●●○○Mobile●●●○○Dev nav●●●●○Needs-reply●●●○○At 150●●●●○
Off the wall

W6 · Git graph

The turn as git log --graph: every surfaced update is a commit, Decisions fork to the path not taken, Corrections are fixup!s, and the Ask is an open review thread.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual30 surfaced
$ git log --graph typed-list
working treeuncommitted · 1 step since #3038:12
Running pnpm acceptance:visual
✓ Milestone#30ea42860HEAD→ feat/typed-session-listtag: deeplink-typed36:55 · p .83
Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
✓ Milestone#29e408b83tag: stories-typed35:30 · p .67
Storybook stories updated. pnpm test:unit is green again.
● Finding#2877eb69f34:50 · p .58
iOS push opens /p/<slug>/s/<id>, which router.ts handles, not the service worker.
● Finding#27104f2cf33:40 · p .64
The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
? Ask#26f04ba3631:02 · p .97
Review thread · openawaiting you
The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
● Finding#251a5823929:40 · p .56
The SessionItem Storybook stories still import the legacy event type.
✓ Milestone#241e563b3tag: sidebar-typed27:15 · p .86
Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
✓ Milestone#237a7d2edtag: badges-typed26:10 · p .72
Unread badges migrated. 41 sidebar tests rewritten against the typed stream.
◆ Decision#22f6eb64025:30 · p .69
Flushing summaries every 250ms, to match the sidebar's existing render throttle.
● Finding#21ec424a124:05 · p .59
subscribeSessionSummaries can reuse the projector the session list already reads.
◆ Decision#207c03dd322:40 · p .72
I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.

not takencap unread subscriptions per tab

! Risk#196c3695320:50 · p .71
Batching adds latency: if summaries flush every 250ms, a badge can lag a new message by a quarter second.
! Risk#18a643f4c19:05 · p .9
The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
● Finding#176575c3d18:30 · p .62
The daemon caps each client at 256 streams (MAX_CLIENT_STREAMS).
↶ Correction#16d15753517:45 · p .66
Scratch that count: 9 of the 14 mocks share one fixture, so it's 6 edits, not 14.
● Finding#1506816b016:10 · p .55
The unread counter's tests mock session_switched in 14 places.
↶ Correction#14efb3c7a14:30 · p .81
Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✓ Milestone#13f86ab43tag: rebased13:20 · p .7
Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
● Finding#12688a60f12:40 · p .6
ViewSession on feat/ni8-transport already carries unreadCount, so the badge needs no extra query.
✕ Blocked#115ab4d6511:15 · p .74
The rebase stopped on a conflict in ws-rpc.ts. pnpm check can't run until I resolve it by hand.
↻ Replan#10d21f47309:48 · p .79
Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.

abandonedstub ViewSession locally and redo it after the merge

✕ Blocked#92c3a08f09:20 · p .95
pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
◆ Decision#838529ec08:05 · p .68
Naming the flag CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH to match the existing CONDUIT_* env flags.
◆ Decision#76bd7da006:55 · p .84
I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.

not takendelete session_switched now, as the prompt asked

● Finding#6391011e05:30 · p .57
MessageList history replays from the event store, so it can drop the legacy event without losing data.
✓ Milestone#52aff7d7tag: detail-stream04:40 · p .66
Typed SessionDetail stream wired into the transport runtime. Typecheck clean.
± Scope#48adadad03:10 · p .88
That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
● Finding#3fa5a7a502:25 · p .61
subscribeSessionDetail already exists in runtime.ts; nothing calls it yet.
● Finding#2287c11701:42 · p .93
session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
● Finding#1088f84100:48 · p .58
The sidebar store reads session_switched through sessionEvents.on, not a direct socket listener.
(root)your prompt00:00
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
$ git log --graph typed-list
✓ Milestone#34f42c01bHEAD→ feat/typed-session-listorigin/feat/typed-session-list43:50 · p .88
Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.
◆ Decision#330e9c01841:30 · p .7
Reading CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH once at boot rather than live, so a rollback is a daemon restart, not a code change.
◆ Decision#329eb8e2340:20 · p .77
Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.

not takenrecapture phone-sidebar without asking

● Finding#31e8e780838:40 · p .6
phone-sidebar is the only baseline that paints the badge; the other 41 visual scenarios are unaffected.
✓ Milestone#30ea42860tag: deeplink-typed36:55 · p .83
Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
✓ Milestone#29e408b83tag: stories-typed35:30 · p .67
Storybook stories updated. pnpm test:unit is green again.
● Finding#2877eb69f34:50 · p .58
iOS push opens /p/<slug>/s/<id>, which router.ts handles, not the service worker.
● Finding#27104f2cf33:40 · p .64
The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
? Ask#26f04ba3631:02 · p .97
Review thread · openawaiting you
The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
● Finding#251a5823929:40 · p .56
The SessionItem Storybook stories still import the legacy event type.
✓ Milestone#241e563b3tag: sidebar-typed27:15 · p .86
Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
✓ Milestone#237a7d2edtag: badges-typed26:10 · p .72
Unread badges migrated. 41 sidebar tests rewritten against the typed stream.
◆ Decision#22f6eb64025:30 · p .69
Flushing summaries every 250ms, to match the sidebar's existing render throttle.
● Finding#21ec424a124:05 · p .59
subscribeSessionSummaries can reuse the projector the session list already reads.
◆ Decision#207c03dd322:40 · p .72
I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.

not takencap unread subscriptions per tab

! Risk#196c3695320:50 · p .71
Batching adds latency: if summaries flush every 250ms, a badge can lag a new message by a quarter second.
! Risk#18a643f4c19:05 · p .9
The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
● Finding#176575c3d18:30 · p .62
The daemon caps each client at 256 streams (MAX_CLIENT_STREAMS).
↶ Correction#16d15753517:45 · p .66
Scratch that count: 9 of the 14 mocks share one fixture, so it's 6 edits, not 14.
● Finding#1506816b016:10 · p .55
The unread counter's tests mock session_switched in 14 places.
↶ Correction#14efb3c7a14:30 · p .81
Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✓ Milestone#13f86ab43tag: rebased13:20 · p .7
Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
● Finding#12688a60f12:40 · p .6
ViewSession on feat/ni8-transport already carries unreadCount, so the badge needs no extra query.
✕ Blocked#115ab4d6511:15 · p .74
The rebase stopped on a conflict in ws-rpc.ts. pnpm check can't run until I resolve it by hand.
↻ Replan#10d21f47309:48 · p .79
Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.

abandonedstub ViewSession locally and redo it after the merge

✕ Blocked#92c3a08f09:20 · p .95
pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
◆ Decision#838529ec08:05 · p .68
Naming the flag CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH to match the existing CONDUIT_* env flags.
◆ Decision#76bd7da006:55 · p .84
I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.

not takendelete session_switched now, as the prompt asked

● Finding#6391011e05:30 · p .57
MessageList history replays from the event store, so it can drop the legacy event without losing data.
✓ Milestone#52aff7d7tag: detail-stream04:40 · p .66
Typed SessionDetail stream wired into the transport runtime. Typecheck clean.
± Scope#48adadad03:10 · p .88
That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
● Finding#3fa5a7a502:25 · p .61
subscribeSessionDetail already exists in runtime.ts; nothing calls it yet.
● Finding#2287c11701:42 · p .93
session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
● Finding#1088f84100:48 · p .58
The sidebar store reads session_switched through sessionEvents.on, not a direct socket listener.
(root)your prompt00:00
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Phone · LiveBalanced · 13 of 30
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual30 surfaced
$ git log --graph typed-list
working treeuncommitted · 1 step since #3038:12
Running pnpm acceptance:visual
✓ Milestone#30ea42860HEAD→ feat/typed-session-listtag: deeplink-typed36:55 · p .83
Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
✓ Milestone#29e408b83tag: stories-typed35:30 · p .67
Storybook stories updated. pnpm test:unit is green again.
● Finding#2877eb69f34:50 · p .58
iOS push opens /p/<slug>/s/<id>, which router.ts handles, not the service worker.
● Finding#27104f2cf33:40 · p .64
The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
? Ask#26f04ba3631:02 · p .97
Review thread · openawaiting you
The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
● Finding#251a5823929:40 · p .56
The SessionItem Storybook stories still import the legacy event type.
✓ Milestone#241e563b3tag: sidebar-typed27:15 · p .86
Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
✓ Milestone#237a7d2edtag: badges-typed26:10 · p .72
Unread badges migrated. 41 sidebar tests rewritten against the typed stream.
◆ Decision#22f6eb64025:30 · p .69
Flushing summaries every 250ms, to match the sidebar's existing render throttle.
● Finding#21ec424a124:05 · p .59
subscribeSessionSummaries can reuse the projector the session list already reads.
◆ Decision#207c03dd322:40 · p .72
I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.

not takencap unread subscriptions per tab

! Risk#196c3695320:50 · p .71
Batching adds latency: if summaries flush every 250ms, a badge can lag a new message by a quarter second.
! Risk#18a643f4c19:05 · p .9
The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
● Finding#176575c3d18:30 · p .62
The daemon caps each client at 256 streams (MAX_CLIENT_STREAMS).
↶ Correction#16d15753517:45 · p .66
Scratch that count: 9 of the 14 mocks share one fixture, so it's 6 edits, not 14.
● Finding#1506816b016:10 · p .55
The unread counter's tests mock session_switched in 14 places.
↶ Correction#14efb3c7a14:30 · p .81
Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✓ Milestone#13f86ab43tag: rebased13:20 · p .7
Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
● Finding#12688a60f12:40 · p .6
ViewSession on feat/ni8-transport already carries unreadCount, so the badge needs no extra query.
✕ Blocked#115ab4d6511:15 · p .74
The rebase stopped on a conflict in ws-rpc.ts. pnpm check can't run until I resolve it by hand.
↻ Replan#10d21f47309:48 · p .79
Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.

abandonedstub ViewSession locally and redo it after the merge

✕ Blocked#92c3a08f09:20 · p .95
pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
◆ Decision#838529ec08:05 · p .68
Naming the flag CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH to match the existing CONDUIT_* env flags.
◆ Decision#76bd7da006:55 · p .84
I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.

not takendelete session_switched now, as the prompt asked

● Finding#6391011e05:30 · p .57
MessageList history replays from the event store, so it can drop the legacy event without losing data.
✓ Milestone#52aff7d7tag: detail-stream04:40 · p .66
Typed SessionDetail stream wired into the transport runtime. Typecheck clean.
± Scope#48adadad03:10 · p .88
That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
● Finding#3fa5a7a502:25 · p .61
subscribeSessionDetail already exists in runtime.ts; nothing calls it yet.
● Finding#2287c11701:42 · p .93
session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
● Finding#1088f84100:48 · p .58
The sidebar store reads session_switched through sessionEvents.on, not a direct socket listener.
(root)your prompt00:00
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · SettledCollapsed · 34 commits
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
$ git log --graph typed-list
✓ Milestone#34f42c01bHEAD→ feat/typed-session-listorigin/feat/typed-session-list43:50 · p .88
Branch pushed. The legacy path is off by default and can be removed next release.
◆ Decision#330e9c01841:30 · p .7
Reading CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH once at boot rather than live, so a rollback is a daemon restart, not a code change.
◆ Decision#329eb8e2340:20 · p .77
Leaving phone-sidebar unrecaptured until you answer. Everything else is committed on feat/typed-session-list.

not takenrecapture phone-sidebar without asking

● Finding#31e8e780838:40 · p .6
phone-sidebar is the only baseline that paints the badge; the other 41 visual scenarios are unaffected.
✓ Milestone#30ea42860tag: deeplink-typed36:55 · p .83
Deep link migrated. pnpm acceptance:visual is green except phone-sidebar, which is waiting on your answer.
✓ Milestone#29e408b83tag: stories-typed35:30 · p .67
Storybook stories updated. pnpm test:unit is green again.
● Finding#2877eb69f34:50 · p .58
iOS push opens /p/<slug>/s/<id>, which router.ts handles, not the service worker.
● Finding#27104f2cf33:40 · p .64
The push deep link opens the session before its history loads. That's why it flashed empty on iOS before this change too.
? Ask#26f04ba3631:02 · p .97
Review thread · openawaiting you
The phone sidebar baseline shifts 2px because the unread badge now paints before the first frame. Recapture it, or keep the old paint order? I'll carry on with the deep link meanwhile.
● Finding#251a5823929:40 · p .56
The SessionItem Storybook stories still import the legacy event type.
✓ Milestone#241e563b3tag: sidebar-typed27:15 · p .86
Sidebar and MessageList are on the typed stream. 523/523 unit files pass, 6,832 tests green.
✓ Milestone#237a7d2edtag: badges-typed26:10 · p .72
Unread badges migrated. 41 sidebar tests rewritten against the typed stream.
◆ Decision#22f6eb64025:30 · p .69
Flushing summaries every 250ms, to match the sidebar's existing render throttle.
● Finding#21ec424a124:05 · p .59
subscribeSessionSummaries can reuse the projector the session list already reads.
◆ Decision#207c03dd322:40 · p .72
I'm batching unread subscriptions into one subscribeSessionSummaries stream instead of adding a cap, because a cap would silently drop badges.

not takencap unread subscriptions per tab

! Risk#196c3695320:50 · p .71
Batching adds latency: if summaries flush every 250ms, a badge can lag a new message by a quarter second.
! Risk#18a643f4c19:05 · p .9
The unread counter now subscribes per session. With 293 sessions that's 293 open streams per tab on reconnect, which could exhaust the daemon's socket budget.
● Finding#176575c3d18:30 · p .62
The daemon caps each client at 256 streams (MAX_CLIENT_STREAMS).
↶ Correction#16d15753517:45 · p .66
Scratch that count: 9 of the 14 mocks share one fixture, so it's 6 edits, not 14.
● Finding#1506816b016:10 · p .55
The unread counter's tests mock session_switched in 14 places.
↶ Correction#14efb3c7a14:30 · p .81
Correction: the deep link doesn't read session_switched directly. It goes through history-logic.ts:178, so there's one consumer fewer than I said at 01:42.
✓ Milestone#13f86ab43tag: rebased13:20 · p .7
Rebased onto feat/ni8-transport. pnpm check is clean again.
● Finding#12688a60f12:40 · p .6
ViewSession on feat/ni8-transport already carries unreadCount, so the badge needs no extra query.
✕ Blocked#115ab4d6511:15 · p .74
The rebase stopped on a conflict in ws-rpc.ts. pnpm check can't run until I resolve it by hand.
↻ Replan#10d21f47309:48 · p .79
Changing order: I'll rebase onto feat/ni8-transport locally and build on top, rather than stubbing the schema and redoing it later.

abandonedstub ViewSession locally and redo it after the merge

✕ Blocked#92c3a08f09:20 · p .95
pnpm check fails at ws-rpc.ts:1368: the ViewSession schema lives on feat/ni8-transport, which isn't merged. I can't finish the sidebar without it.
◆ Decision#838529ec08:05 · p .68
Naming the flag CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH to match the existing CONDUIT_* env flags.
◆ Decision#76bd7da006:55 · p .84
I'm keeping session_switched behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release instead of deleting it, so a bad rollout can be reverted without a deploy.

not takendelete session_switched now, as the prompt asked

● Finding#6391011e05:30 · p .57
MessageList history replays from the event store, so it can drop the legacy event without losing data.
✓ Milestone#52aff7d7tag: detail-stream04:40 · p .66
Typed SessionDetail stream wired into the transport runtime. Typecheck clean.
± Scope#48adadad03:10 · p .88
That makes this bigger than planned: the unread counter and the deep-link handler both have to move to subscribeSessionDetail too, or they break when the legacy path goes.
● Finding#3fa5a7a502:25 · p .61
subscribeSessionDetail already exists in runtime.ts; nothing calls it yet.
● Finding#2287c11701:42 · p .93
session_switched has three consumers, not one: MessageList history, the sidebar unread counter and the push deep link. The plan only lists the first.
● Finding#1088f84100:48 · p .58
The sidebar store reads session_switched through sessionEvents.on, not a direct socket listener.
(root)your prompt00:00
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
M1 (a chronological list inside the activity block, with the steps folded under each item) and B3 (typed chips). New: the digest is drawn as git log --graph, newest first, and the relationships between updates are drawn instead of implied: forks, fixups, resolutions.
Placement
Inside the single activity block, below its head and strip: a command bar, then a graph capped at 390px (330px on the phone) that scrolls on its own. The final reply and composer sit below the block, unchanged.
Live
The top row is the working tree: a dashed, rotating node reading Running pnpm acceptance:visual, with the uncommitted step as its diff. Below it, HEAD sits on the newest update (#30). Each new update lands under the working tree and HEAD moves up.
Settled
The working tree row disappears, HEAD also gets origin/feat/typed-session-list, and the graph opens scrolled to the open review thread (#26), not to the top. Milestones carry tags (tag: sidebar-typed) that work as section markers.
Collapsible
Click the activity head, or -1, to collapse to two lines: HEAD's oneline with 34 commits, and the open thread in pink. Each line jumps back into the graph. On the phone, settled opens collapsed so the reply is on screen.
Short-session-threads
The graph never grows past 390px (about 9 updates in view), and collapsed it is two lines. Below-level updates squash into one dotted row: 3 squashed · ● 2 ✓ 1 · show. There is one activity block. The log lives inside each commit's diff, not in a second block.
Easy-to-read
Every update is shown in full at 13px, with a typed chip, #n and time on a header line above it. Invented one-liners are in secondary ink. Node shape reinforces type: square for Blocked, solid pink with ? for the Ask. Hashes are gold and quiet. The cost is density: the header line doubles the height of each update compared with a plain list.
Mobile-friendly
The lane narrows to 28px and hashes and remotes are hidden. Every string is 12px or larger, and headers wrap instead of truncating. The command bar wraps to two rows. Thread answers are 32px-tall buttons. Settled opens collapsed (two lines) so the reply and composer own the screen.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
show # jumps to any update (type 7 and press Enter), expanding squashed rows as needed. fixup! #2, ↶ corrected by #14 and ✓ resolved by #13 are links. With the graph focused, j/k move, Enter or o opens a commit's diff (its tool steps with timestamps), and t jumps to the thread.
Needs-reply
The Ask is a GitHub-style review thread · open box with Recapture / Keep old order / Reply… right in the graph. A pink ? 1 open thread ref in the command bar jumps to it, and the collapsed form keeps it as its own pink line. Answering resolves the thread in place.
Density
The flags are the density control: -1 (Final only: collapsed), --key, --balanced (default) and --all. Below-level updates become squash rows with per-type counts, so the list never pretends to be short. HEAD, the working tree and the root are always pinned.
At-150
The cap holds, and at Balanced about 60 updates remain, broken up by squash rows. Tags on milestones give landmarks, and show # handles the rest. The weakness: with no search, long mid-turn stretches are reached only by scrolling or by number.
Build-cost
M. A single-lane graph is CSS (a border and a node), and forks are one SVG per alternative. The real cost is data: "not taken" alternatives and fixup or resolved links need the agent (or Jev) to emit those relations. Without them the design falls back to M1 with nodes.
Trade-off
The metaphor is borrowed, not native. Non-git users see hashes and refs as noise, and the relations it draws well need structured data the pipeline doesn't yet produce. The header line costs height. Steal: show a Decision together with the option not taken, and link updates to each other (fixup! #2, resolved by #13) instead of leaving the reader to connect them.
Collapsible●●●●○Short threads●●●●○Easy to read●●●○○Mobile●●●○○Dev nav●●●○○Needs-reply●●●●○At 150●●●○○
Off the wall

W7 · Binder tabs

The activity block is a ring binder: one surfaced update per fixed-height page, typed index tabs down its edge, and the open Ask's tab sticking out.

Desktop · Live38m 12s · 30 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual30 surfaced
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30 pages
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Desktop · Settled44m 30s · 34 surfaced
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
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34 pages

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Phone · LiveBalanced · 13 of 30
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Working 38m 12s— Running pnpm acceptance:visual
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30 pages
Working 38m 12s · Running pnpm acceptance:visual↓ live
Reply to steer the agent…opus-5
Phone · SettledBalanced · 15 of 34
9:415G ▮▮▮
‹Typed session list
Move the session list onto the typed streaming transport and delete the legacy session_switched path.
▾Worked· 18 searches · 64 reads · 37 edits · 51 runs44m 30s · $6.80
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34 pages

Done. The session list, unread badges and push deep links now run on the typed stream. session_switched survives behind CONDUIT_LEGACY_SWITCH=1 for one release. One open question: recapture phone-sidebar (a 2px shift), or keep the old paint order?

Message conduit…opus-5↑
Builds on
M4 (one update at a time with a pager) and B3 (typed colour and glyph). New: the index of pages is a row of physical tabs on the block's edge, so the shape of the turn (how many Decisions, where the Ask is) is visible without reading anything.
Placement
The single activity block becomes a ring binder: punched holes and a margin rule on the left, one fixed-height page per surfaced update, and index tabs sticking out of the right edge on desktop, or hanging off the bottom edge on the phone. Final reply and composer below.
Live
The binder opens on the newest page (#30, marked newest). New updates add a tab at the bottom of the index. Reading an older page doesn't get interrupted: the tab appears, and the page stays put. The open Ask tab sticks out further and glows pink.
Settled
The binder opens on the open Ask (p26) with its two answers on the page. The final reply is below the binder, always visible. The back of the binder is the step log (a ≡ log tab), with 211 lines scrolling inside the page.
Collapsible
Clicking the chevron or head shuts the binder to its head plus one row of coloured glyph nubs (one per in-level page) and ? open · p26. Each nub opens the binder at that page. final shuts it too. Older turns are shut by default.
Short-session-threads
The page is a fixed height (190px desktop, 212px phone), so the block is about 270px whether there are 3 updates or 150, and about 60px when shut. Exactly one activity block: the log is the binder's back page, not a second block.
Easy-to-read
One update per page at 14px (13.5px phone), with room for the whole sentence and nothing competing with it. The kicker shows the type in a boxed glyph and colour, the time and p, and Decision 3 of 6 · p20 for orientation. A dashed trail line gives the steps leading up to it (4 steps before this · last: Ran pnpm check). Stand-ins are marked and in secondary ink.
Mobile-friendly
Tabs move to the bottom edge, grouped by type (? 1 · ✕ 2 · ! 2 · ◆ 6…), each 30px tall and full-width in total. The Ask tab is 38px and glows. Swipe the page left and right to flip, and tap a group again to go back through older pages of that type. Every string is 12px+ and the fixed page height means the reply never moves.
Dev-Navigation-Ease-And-Speed
Type a page number into the footer (7 and Enter) to jump there directly. Tabs jump in one click, and hovering a tab on desktop peeks at its text. With the page focused, ←/→ flip, ? opens the Ask, and Home/End go to the first and last pages. Links on pages (✓ resolved on p13, ↶ corrects p2) cross-reference. Weakness: you read one page at a time, so there is no scanning several at once.
Needs-reply
The Ask tab protrudes further than the others and pulses pink at any density. The footer and shut state carry ? open · p26. The page itself has an awaiting you flag with Recapture / Keep old order buttons, and answering calms the tab.
Density
final key bal all in the footer. The level decides which pages get tabs and which pages ◀▶ flip through. Below-level pages stay reachable by number, so nothing is lost. Final only shuts the binder. When the tabs no longer fit (All, 34 pages), the index regroups by type automatically, with a count on each tab.
At-150
The block's height doesn't change. Tabs regroup by type (at most 9 plus the log), each group cycles newest to oldest, and the page number field reaches any of the 150. The open Ask still protrudes. The weakness: finding a particular Finding among 60 means tapping one group many times, with no search.
Build-cost
S–M. Pages, tabs and the pager are plain components with one bit of state. Swipe uses pointer events. Tab fitting and grouping is a single measurement. The binder chrome is two background gradients and a pseudo-element.
Trade-off
You see exactly one update at a time, so reading the whole story is 15 flips instead of one scroll, and skimming suffers most. The desktop tabs need 46px of right gutter. Steal: give the digest a fixed height, one message per page, with a typed index on the block's edge and a protruding tab for the open Ask, so the shape of the turn and the pending question are visible at a glance.
Collapsible●●●●○Short threads●●●●●Easy to read●●●●○Mobile●●●●○Dev nav●●●○○Needs-reply●●●●○At 150●●●●○