Dismiss a failed agent's red dot by reading it (#8831)

* fix(sidebar): clear the failed status once the error is read

Reading an errored agent already cleared its error attention, but the
state bucket also mapped lifecycle status "error" to failed. Lifecycle
only leaves "error" when the next turn starts, so the red dot and the
Failed group stuck until the agent was prompted again. The failed bucket
now follows unread error attention, the same way the green dot follows
unread finished attention; lifecycle status stays "error".

Because failed now depends on attention, a failure must replace unread
finished attention, otherwise a reload that fails on an unread agent
would show green.

* fix(sidebar): keep failed subagents red and let read failures be marked unread

The failed bucket now follows unread error attention, which broke three
places that relied on lifecycle "error" alone:

- Subagent track rows and provider-subagent tabs have no read state of
  their own, so failed children lost their red mark. They now map the
  child's lifecycle directly.
- A read errored workspace became "done" and offered Mark as unread, but
  the daemon only accepted idle or closed agents. Marking it unread now
  restores error attention.
- A reload that failed again while the lifecycle was already "error"
  raised no new attention. A failed reload now raises error attention
  directly instead of relying on a lifecycle transition.

packages/app/src/panels/provider-subagent-panel.tsx

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import {
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import type { PendingPermission } from "@/types/shared";
 import type { StreamItem } from "@/types/stream";
-import { deriveSidebarStateBucket } from "@/utils/sidebar-agent-state";
+import { deriveSubagentStatusBucket } from "@/subagents";
 import { TIMELINE_FETCH_PAGE_SIZE } from "@/timeline/timeline-fetch-policy";
 import type { TurnPresentation } from "@/timeline/turn-liveness";
 import { buildWorkspaceTabPersistenceKey } from "@/workspace-tabs/model";
@@ -107,10 +107,7 @@ function useProviderSubagentDescriptor(
     titleState: descriptor ? "ready" : "loading",
     icon: useProviderIcon(provider, context.serverId),
     statusBucket: descriptor
-      ? deriveSidebarStateBucket({
-          status: providerSubagentLifecycleStatus(descriptor.status),
-          requiresAttention: descriptor.status === "failed",
-        })
+      ? deriveSubagentStatusBucket(providerSubagentLifecycleStatus(descriptor.status))
       : null,
   };
 }

packages/app/src/subagents/index.ts

@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ export {
   type UseArchiveFinishedSubagentsInput,
 } from "./use-archive-finished";
 export { useSubagentSheetTab } from "./sheet-tab";
+export { deriveSubagentStatusBucket } from "./track-presentation";

packages/app/src/subagents/track-presentation.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import type { TFunction } from "i18next";
 import type { ComposerTrackPillSegment } from "@/composer/tracks";
 import type { SidebarStateBucket } from "@/utils/sidebar-agent-state";
-import { deriveSidebarStateBucket, STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER } from "@/utils/sidebar-agent-state";
+import type { AgentLifecycleStatus } from "@getpaseo/protocol/agent-lifecycle";
+import { STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER } from "@/utils/sidebar-agent-state";
 import type { SubagentRow } from "./select";
 import { isFinishedSubagent } from "./archive-finished";
 import { providerSubagentLifecycleStatus } from "./provider-store";
@@ -14,6 +15,16 @@ function presentationStatus(row: SubagentRow) {
   return providerSubagentLifecycleStatus(row.status);
 }
 
+/**
+ * A child's mark reports what it is doing, not whether anyone read it: the track is where a
+ * failed child stays visible after the parent's own attention is cleared.
+ */
+export function deriveSubagentStatusBucket(status: AgentLifecycleStatus): SidebarStateBucket {
+  if (status === "error") return "failed";
+  if (status === "running") return "running";
+  return "done";
+}
+
 export interface SubagentRowPresentationData {
   key: string;
   kind: "agent";
@@ -38,10 +49,7 @@ export function buildSubagentRowPresentationData(row: SubagentRow): SubagentRowP
     label: label ?? "",
     subtitle: subtitle ?? "",
     titleState: label ? "ready" : "loading",
-    statusBucket: deriveSidebarStateBucket({
-      status,
-      requiresAttention: false,
-    }),
+    statusBucket: deriveSubagentStatusBucket(status),
   };
 }
 

packages/app/src/utils/workspace-agent-activity.test.ts

@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ describe("workspace agent activity index", () => {
             workspaceId: "workspace-error",
             status: "error",
             turn: { phase: "idle", cancellationRequestId: null },
+            requiresAttention: true,
+            attentionReason: "error",
             updatedAt: "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
           }),
         ],