fix(app): keep rewind invalidation for find results after Next and Previous

The rewind marker of the result set was cleared in cancel(), which also
stops navigation work. Next and Previous call cancel() while keeping the
results, so after one step a remote rewind no longer invalidated them and
the selection could stay on a retired message. The marker now shares the
result set's lifetime and is cleared only when a new query discards it.

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
           filters: .github/ci-paths.yml
 
       - name: Validate CI contracts
-        run: node --test scripts/ci-workflow.test.mjs scripts/daemon-launch-contract.test.mjs scripts/sync-fdroid-changelogs.test.mjs scripts/upload-release-assets.test.mjs
+        run: node --test scripts/ci-workflow.test.mjs scripts/daemon-launch-contract.test.mjs scripts/changelog-utils.test.mjs scripts/sync-fdroid-changelogs.test.mjs scripts/sync-release-notes-from-changelog.test.mjs scripts/upload-release-assets.test.mjs
 
   quality:
     name: quality

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,169 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.16.0-beta.1 - 2026-11-10
+
+- **Background tasks:** Paseo now shows the background tasks an agent is running, such as shells and monitors, above the composer, with a Stop button for each. Works with Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode v2. ([#6220](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/6220), [#9162](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9162) by [@fxlelouarn](https://github.com/fxlelouarn))
+- **Faster diff loading:** Opening Changes shows the file tree right away while file contents load. Large diffs arrive in batches, so the rest of the app keeps responding while they load, and diffs take priority over the daemon's background worktree scans. ([#8907](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8907), [#9241](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9241), [#9243](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9243))
+- **Fewer reconnects on return:** Returning to the app keeps a working connection, including one in the middle of a large response, and reconnects once when it has to. On a host with several saved connections, Paseo stays on the one that works. ([#8651](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8651), [#9086](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9086), [#8855](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8855), [#9116](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9116))
+- **Keyboard shortcuts on mobile:** With a keyboard connected, iPad and Android now run the same shortcuts as desktop, including your custom bindings. Shortcut hints and Settings → Shortcuts appear when a keyboard is detected. Shortcuts also work in narrow desktop and browser windows. ([#8625](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8625) by [@jeroenfrenken](https://github.com/jeroenfrenken), [@lstroud](https://github.com/lstroud))
+- **Touch-sized tablet controls:** On iPad and other touch-screen devices, the wide layout now has touch-sized buttons, rows and bars. The composer toolbar folds its controls into the model menu when space runs out, and swiping right on the workspace reveals a collapsed sidebar as an overlay. ([#8748](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8748), [#8885](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8885), [#8891](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8891), [#8909](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8909), [#9151](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9151), [#9238](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9238), [#8739](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8739) by [@zeyugao](https://github.com/zeyugao))
+- **Plugin sidebar views:** A plugin can replace the sidebar's content with its own layout of workspaces, agents, projects and terminals across every connected host. Pick the view per device under Settings → Sidebar; Paseo's sidebar header and footer stay in place. ([#8906](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8906))
+- **Plugin composer controls:** Plugins can add their own controls to the composer, and read and set its prompt, attachments, provider, model, mode and thinking. They can also put the cursor in any agent's composer, add items to New workspace, and store their own metadata on agents and workspaces. ([#8744](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8744), [#9209](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9209), [#9207](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9207))
+- **Polish:** The chat stays still when a turn ends, and returning to a chat that has not changed shows it as it is with no refresh. Tool rows show their final title and icon from the first frame, the context window popover opens with usage already loaded, and sidebar hover cards open one at a time. ([#8944](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8944), [#9175](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9175), [#9242](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9242), [#9248](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9248), [#9212](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9212), [#9071](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9071))
+- **Rebuilt mobile chat timeline:** The chat timeline on iOS and Android was rebuilt. Expanding or collapsing a turn summary, todo card or tool-call group keeps the line you tapped in place, and on Android so do Show more, Show less and plan cards. ([#8717](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8717), [#9085](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9085))
+- **Undo workspace archive:** Archiving a workspace in the app now shows a "Workspace archived" toast for six seconds. Undo, or Cmd/Ctrl+Z, restores the workspace with its tabs and agents. On desktop, sidebar workspace rows also get an archive button on hover. ([#8904](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8904), [#9104](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9104))
+
+### Added
+
+- Added a Change base picker in Changes for worktree workspaces, so diffs, the commit list and Git actions can use another branch ([#8642](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8642), [#8934](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8934) by [@Myasuka](https://github.com/Myasuka))
+- Added links for issue and pull request references such as `#123` and `owner/repo#123` in agent replies, plans, the pull request panel and file previews, for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo and Codeberg ([#8636](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8636))
+- Added iPhone Duo layout support: workspace actions sit in the system vertical bar, and the sidebar and workspace split on either side of the fold ([#8741](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8741), [#8901](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8901) by [@zeyugao](https://github.com/zeyugao))
+- Added fx as a provider you can add from the provider catalog in Settings → Hosts → Providers ([#9160](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9160))
+- Added background agents: an agent or plugin can create a helper with `background: true` that opens no tab, sends no notification and stays out of the sidebar and default agent lists ([#8683](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8683))
+- Added syntax highlighting for Terraform and HCL files (`.tf`, `.tfvars`, `.hcl`) ([#9106](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9106))
+- Added `PASEO_WORKSPACE_ID` to each agent's environment so an agent can identify, rename or archive its own workspace ([#8939](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8939) by [@DTTerastar](https://github.com/DTTerastar))
+
+### Changed
+
+- Changed opening a workspace to restore the tab you left instead of jumping to the agent that needs attention ([#8935](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8935))
+- Changed question cards so picking an option no longer advances automatically; continue with Next or Submit ([#8525](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8525))
+- Changed the slash command menu to show loading and error states with Retry, and to stop selecting `/exit` by default ([#8905](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8905))
+- Changed the workspace header and tabs to switch to compact controls when Explorer or a split pane narrows the workspace ([#8740](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8740), [#9088](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9088) by [@zeyugao](https://github.com/zeyugao))
+- Changed sending a message to a Pi agent whose process has exited to fail immediately with an instruction to reload the agent ([#8718](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8718))
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed the working indicator disappearing when returning to a chat whose agent finished while you were away ([#9170](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9170))
+- Fixed chats with short collapsed turns opening with empty space until you scrolled ([#8358](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8358), [#9083](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9083))
+- Fixed Collapse turns hiding an earlier reply inside a later turn's summary line after an idle Claude, Codex or OpenCode agent was resumed ([#9098](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9098))
+- Fixed the missing space between a prompt and the reply or collapsed-turn summary line below it ([#9009](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9009))
+- Fixed Markdown tables showing as literal pipes when written directly below a paragraph with no blank line ([#8485](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8485) by [@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan), [@suk-6](https://github.com/suk-6), [@thsrite](https://github.com/thsrite))
+- Fixed linked badge images that share a line with text rendering as full-width blocks on web and desktop ([#8530](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8530))
+- Fixed View diagram opening fullscreen instead of returning to the inline Mermaid diagram after View source ([#8932](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8932) by [@luoph](https://github.com/luoph))
+- Fixed mouse-wheel scrolling running in the opposite direction in chats on Android ([#8693](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8693) by [@sjeon87](https://github.com/sjeon87))
+- Fixed unsent composer text and attachments being deleted when an agent tab was closed ([#9079](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9079))
+- Fixed pasting text with hyperlinks into the composer dropping the link URLs; links now paste as Markdown ([#8972](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8972))
+- Fixed the composer losing focus after clicking Send with a mouse ([#9015](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9015))
+- Fixed the composer resting 50pt above the bottom edge on iPhone ([#8823](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8823) by [@zeyugao](https://github.com/zeyugao))
+- Fixed Add host sending you to Settings from the sidebar and New workspace ([#8512](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8512))
+- Fixed a failed agent's red dot and Failed grouping staying in the sidebar after opening the agent or choosing Mark as read ([#8831](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8831))
+- Fixed a workspace's unread indicator staying on after it was cleared while the agent's runtime was closed ([#9087](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9087))
+- Fixed the context window popover closing by itself whenever the chat scrolled during a streaming reply ([#8742](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8742) by [@3ae3ae](https://github.com/3ae3ae))
+- Fixed the sidebar usage summary updating only when Usage was opened ([#7806](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/7806) by [@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan))
+- Fixed tooltips and menus above their trigger briefly covering it on Android when their content grew after opening ([#9247](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9247))
+- Fixed History showing "Could not load history" after reloading the web app on the History screen ([#9029](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9029))
+- Fixed section links in an HTML file preview replacing the preview with the Paseo app instead of scrolling within the file ([#8559](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8559) by [@3ae3ae](https://github.com/3ae3ae))
+- Fixed Files Refresh leaving a newly created file hidden when its folder was collapsed during the refresh ([#8582](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8582) by [@hadan8977](https://github.com/hadan8977))
+- Fixed the branch switcher showing "No branches found" while branches are still loading or after the request fails ([#8938](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8938))
+- Fixed commit history showing a doubled slash, no rename status and no diff for a file moved up a directory ([#8509](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8509) by [@hadan8977](https://github.com/hadan8977))
+- Fixed a merged pull request disappearing from its workspace when the checkout was behind the pull request's head
+- Fixed workspace Git watchers staying in fallback polling after a watcher setup timeout
+- Fixed abandoned connections staying open for up to 45 seconds after the web or desktop app reconnected ([#9067](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9067))
+- Fixed a connection routed through another host closing with "The receiving client cannot keep up with host output" while fetching a very large timeline ([#9109](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9109))
+- Fixed a connected host staying in error after it was updated to a supported version ([#8423](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8423) by [@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- Fixed handshake retries and a once-per-second `relay_e2ee_channel_error` warning continuing after a connection attempt to an unreachable host had timed out ([#9025](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9025), [#9038](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9038))
+- Fixed app diagnostics reporting `Last online: never` for a host that had connected and then disconnected ([#9054](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9054), [#9058](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9058))
+- Fixed shell commands started by a Codex turn continuing to run after the turn is stopped or interrupted ([#7525](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/7525) by [@thomasvan](https://github.com/thomasvan))
+- Fixed Claude turns that stop on an API error, such as a session limit or an invalid API key, being reported as completed instead of failed ([#8480](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8480) by [@RRD-dev](https://github.com/RRD-dev), [@luoph](https://github.com/luoph))
+- Fixed Claude processes staying in memory until the daemon restarted when an idle chat was reopened without sending a prompt ([#9019](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9019) by [@Brandon168](https://github.com/Brandon168))
+- Fixed Claude agents not resuming after a graceful daemon stop or restart when agent recovery is turned on ([#8686](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8686) by [@babo-jeonguk](https://github.com/babo-jeonguk))
+- Fixed the effort control missing in the composer for Claude models that come from Claude's `settings.json` ([#8699](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8699) by [@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan), [@yahao123](https://github.com/yahao123))
+- Fixed importing a Claude session failing with `Invalid string length` when its transcript is very large ([#8457](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8457) by [@qwist1233-cpu](https://github.com/qwist1233-cpu))
+- Fixed Claude turns that end at the maximum-turn limit losing their final token counts and cost ([#8519](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8519))
+- Fixed Codex "Apply file changes" approvals showing no file name or diff before you accept ([#8585](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8585) by [@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan))
+- Fixed the timeline showing only the first file's diff when Codex edits several files in one patch ([#8613](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8613) by [@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan))
+- Fixed Codex session discovery and startup intermittently failing with a SQLite initialization error when several Codex operations start at once ([#9008](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9008) by [@colonelpanic8](https://github.com/colonelpanic8), [@michaelmwu](https://github.com/michaelmwu))
+- Fixed OpenCode conversations that were mid-turn during a daemon restart showing idle and ignoring Stop ([#8698](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8698))
+- Fixed OpenCode being told you declined a tool call when you sent a message while its approval was pending ([#8477](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8477))
+- Fixed reopened Pi conversations missing the messages from before a context compaction ([#8523](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8523))
+- Fixed archived Pi chats failing to open with `spawn pi ENOENT` after their working folder was removed ([#8442](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8442) by [@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- Fixed reading an archived Pi chat leaving a Pi process running when idle runtime cleanup is disabled ([#8554](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8554) by [@rylwin](https://github.com/rylwin))
+- Fixed a prompt sent to an ACP agent whose process has exited staying in running forever instead of failing with an error ([#8406](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8406) by [@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- Fixed an ACP agent staying stuck on "waiting for permission" after it abandoned an approval request and ended its turn ([#8548](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8548) by [@3ae3ae](https://github.com/3ae3ae))
+- Fixed changing the mode of an ACP agent failing with `invalid_params` after the agent sends a config update ([#8912](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8912) by [@a-sh](https://github.com/a-sh))
+- Fixed Paseo showing and saving an unavailable model after selecting it on a running ACP agent ([#8957](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8957))
+- Fixed importing a session switching it from its own model to the provider's default model ([#8948](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8948))
+- Fixed a message from another agent cancelling the recipient's pending question or approval before you could answer it ([#8453](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8453) by [@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- Fixed an agent never being notified of completion after sending a prompt to a closed or archived agent on a connected host ([#8575](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8575))
+- Fixed creating a child agent failing with "Caller agent not found" after a daemon restart until the parent chat had been opened ([#8714](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8714))
+- Fixed an agent still showing as failed after it resumed from a provider error and completed its next turn ([#8083](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8083) by [@luoph](https://github.com/luoph))
+- Fixed a detached subagent still showing under its archived parent until refresh ([#8903](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8903) by [@luoph](https://github.com/luoph))
+- Fixed opening an agent failing with "Working directory does not exist" instead of showing its saved conversation ([#8737](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8737))
+- Fixed the daemon re-reading all archived agent and workspace history on every workspace update ([#8735](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8735))
+- Fixed the daemon repeatedly running Git commands in a workspace folder that was deleted while its file watcher was in fallback polling ([#8462](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8462) by [@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- Fixed workspace service connections staying open after the browser tab closes or reloads ([#8421](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8421) by [@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- Fixed the daemon web UI answering missing `/.well-known/*` requests with the app page instead of a 404 ([#8622](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8622) by [@HomicideZero](https://github.com/HomicideZero))
+- Fixed schedules accepting cron steps after a single number, such as `0/15 * * * *`, and running them hourly; they are now rejected ([#8607](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8607) by [@Mar-garet](https://github.com/Mar-garet))
+- Fixed cron schedules that set both day-of-month and day-of-week running only when both matched instead of when either matches ([#8611](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8611) by [@Mar-garet](https://github.com/Mar-garet))
+- Fixed `paseo logs --json` printing the plain-text transcript instead of JSON ([#8589](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8589) by [@hadan8977](https://github.com/hadan8977))
+- Fixed the `create_agent` tool not telling agents that creating an agent on another provider needs a mode ([#8483](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8483) by [@guerinnoah](https://github.com/guerinnoah))
+- Fixed terminals failing to open on Windows machines where Windows PowerShell cannot run `Get-CimInstance` ([#8818](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8818))
+- Fixed the terminal typing its version reply into the shell when a program queries the terminal version ([#8419](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8419) by [@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- Fixed a finger drag in the web terminal scrolling history about twice as far as the drag ([#8776](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8776) by [@sinomoe](https://github.com/sinomoe))
+- Fixed mouse scrolling in terminal programs such as Copilot CLI stopping after switching away from the terminal and back ([#9004](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9004) by [@imink](https://github.com/imink))
+- Fixed dropping several files onto a remote terminal pasting their paths with no space between them ([#8946](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8946) by [@sebastianarena](https://github.com/sebastianarena))
+- Fixed the `browser_fill` tool reporting success without updating React-controlled inputs and textareas ([#9022](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9022))
+- Fixed `browser_evaluate` failing on pages whose Content Security Policy omits `unsafe-eval` ([#8973](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8973) by [@amustapha](https://github.com/amustapha))
+- Fixed `browser_logs` omitting the HTTP status of each network request ([#8956](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8956) by [@amustapha](https://github.com/amustapha))
+
+### Plugins
+
+- Added plugin subscriptions, which stream live events from the daemon to a plugin's panels, and binary (`Uint8Array`) payloads for plugin RPCs and events ([#8527](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8527))
+- Changed Settings → Plugins to open a plugin's settings from a cog button, with a tab per settings screen ([#8675](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8675))
+- Added an upward chevron to plugin composer pills that open a menu or popover ([#8673](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8673))
+- Changed daemon startup to launch configured plugins concurrently instead of one after another ([#8427](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8427) by [@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- Fixed registry plugin installs failing with "npm artifact changed since review" when the host's npm uses a registry mirror ([#8756](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8756) by [@tlipoca9](https://github.com/tlipoca9))
+- Fixed the published `@getpaseo/*` npm packages declaring no license; they now declare Apache-2.0 ([#7816](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/7816) by [@mdlawson](https://github.com/mdlawson), [@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan))
+- Fixed forking from an earlier reply failing with "This checkpoint changed after it was created" after a plugin updated one of its timeline cards ([#8746](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8746) by [@monarchmaisuriya](https://github.com/monarchmaisuriya))
+- Fixed Collapse turns leaving a turn open, or folding to an earlier reply, when a plugin renders the final reply ([#8811](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8811) by [@geoqiao](https://github.com/geoqiao))
+- Fixed plugin screens showing "This plugin surface is unavailable" while the plugin catalog is still loading after an app reload ([#8123](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8123) by [@vs-tahir](https://github.com/vs-tahir))
+- Fixed the Workspaces list being pushed out of the mobile sidebar on short screens when plugins add many navigation items ([#8727](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8727) by [@jaredwang](https://github.com/jaredwang))
+- Fixed timeline plugins not receiving the sender, event and original text on agent-message tool calls ([#8492](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8492) by [@RRD-dev](https://github.com/RRD-dev), [@luoph](https://github.com/luoph))
+- Fixed plugin RPCs failing when their input or output schema uses a transform ([#8550](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8550))
+
+### Notes
+
+- Background tasks, the Change base picker, archive undo, background agents, plugin subscriptions and fx need both the host and the app on this version
+
+## 0.15.4 - 2026-11-10
+
+### Added
+
+- Added Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 with medium default effort ([#9233](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9233) by [@gengjiawen](https://github.com/gengjiawen), [@gudcks](https://github.com/gudcks))
+
+### Notes
+
+- Both models require Claude Code 2.1.321 or newer; Mythos 5.2 appears only when Claude Code advertises access
+
+## 0.15.3 - 2026-11-06
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed conversation text becoming blurred when opening or dismissing the keyboard on iOS 26+ ([#8918](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8918) by [@dgreensp](https://github.com/dgreensp))
+
+## 0.15.2 - 2026-11-05
+
+### Added
+
+- Added a first-run setup on Paseo Desktop and web that walks new users through theme, providers, projects, agent orchestration and the mobile app, with Settings → General → Show setup again to reopen it ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+- Added project suggestions from the folders where you ran Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Pi, shown in the setup Projects step ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+
+### Improved
+
+- Changed the theme picker to a grid of tiles with a preview of each theme ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+- Replaced the "Loading…" text in Providers settings with skeleton rows ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+- Changed controls to two sizes: default controls are 32px tall on desktop and 44px on phones, and compact controls are 28px ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+- Changed first launch to go from the loading screen straight into setup instead of showing the empty home first ([#8824](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8824))
+- Changed dialogs on desktop and web to fade in over about 160ms ([#8824](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8824))
+- Changed modal and sheet backgrounds to match the screen background ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+- Changed documentation links in Settings sections to a `Label ↗` link beside the section title ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+
+## 0.15.1 - 2026-11-05
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed the daemon failing to start when the terminal worker cannot read its own process identity, which left Paseo Desktop without a daemon on Windows machines where Windows PowerShell 5.1 cannot run `Get-CimInstance` ([#8810](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8810))
+
 ## 0.15.0 - 2026-11-03
 
 Daemon restarts now keep terminal programs running. Interrupted agents can resume in their existing conversations when you turn on agent recovery.

CHANGELOG.zh-CN.md

@@ -1,5 +1,169 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.16.0-beta.1 - 2026-11-10
+
+- **后台任务**：Paseo 现在会在 Composer 上方显示 Agent 正在运行的后台任务，例如 shell 和监视器，每项都带“停止”按钮。支持 Claude Code、Codex 和 OpenCode v2。 ([#6220](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/6220), [#9162](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9162)，贡献者：[@fxlelouarn](https://github.com/fxlelouarn))
+- **更快的 diff 加载**：打开“更改”时会立即显示文件树，文件内容随后加载。大型 diff 分批到达，加载期间应用的其他部分照常响应，并且 diff 优先于 daemon 的后台 worktree 扫描。 ([#8907](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8907), [#9241](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9241), [#9243](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9243))
+- **返回时更少重连**：返回应用时会保留仍可用的连接，包括正在传输大型响应的连接，只在必要时重连一次。主机保存了多个连接时，Paseo 会留在可用的那个连接上。 ([#8651](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8651), [#9086](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9086), [#8855](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8855), [#9116](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9116))
+- **移动端键盘快捷键**：连接键盘后，iPad 和 Android 现在可使用与桌面端相同的快捷键，包括你自定义的绑定。检测到键盘时会显示快捷键提示和“设置 → 快捷键”。在较窄的桌面端和浏览器窗口中快捷键同样可用。 ([#8625](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8625)，贡献者：[@jeroenfrenken](https://github.com/jeroenfrenken)、[@lstroud](https://github.com/lstroud))
+- **适合触控的平板控件**：在 iPad 和其他触屏设备上，宽屏布局现在使用适合触控尺寸的按钮、行和栏。Composer 工具栏在空间不足时会把控件收进模型菜单；在工作区上向右滑动，可将已折叠的侧边栏以浮层方式显示。 ([#8748](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8748), [#8885](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8885), [#8891](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8891), [#8909](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8909), [#9151](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9151), [#9238](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9238), [#8739](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8739)，贡献者：[@zeyugao](https://github.com/zeyugao))
+- **插件侧边栏视图**：插件可以用自己的布局替换侧边栏内容，展示所有已连接主机上的工作区、Agent、项目和终端。在“设置 → 侧边栏”中为每台设备选择视图；Paseo 的侧边栏页眉和页脚保持不变。 ([#8906](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8906))
+- **插件 Composer 控件**：插件可以向 Composer 添加自己的控件，并读取和设置其中的提示词、附件、Provider、模型、模式和思考强度。插件还可以把光标放到任意 Agent 的 Composer 中、向“新建工作区”添加条目，并在 Agent 和工作区上保存自己的元数据。 ([#8744](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8744), [#9209](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9209), [#9207](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9207))
+- **细节打磨**：一轮对话结束时聊天保持不动，返回没有变化的聊天时直接显示原样，无需刷新。工具行从第一帧起就显示最终标题和图标，上下文窗口浮层打开时用量已加载完成，侧边栏悬停卡片一次只打开一个。 ([#8944](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8944), [#9175](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9175), [#9242](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9242), [#9248](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9248), [#9212](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9212), [#9071](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9071))
+- **重建移动端聊天时间线**：iOS 和 Android 上的聊天时间线已重建。展开或折叠轮次摘要、待办卡片或工具调用组时，你点按的那一行保持原位；在 Android 上，“显示更多”“收起”和计划卡片也是如此。 ([#8717](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8717), [#9085](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9085))
+- **撤销工作区归档**：在应用中归档工作区时，现在会显示“Workspace 已归档”提示，持续六秒。点击“撤销”或按 Cmd/Ctrl+Z 可恢复该工作区及其标签页和 Agent。在桌面端，侧边栏的工作区行在悬停时还会显示归档按钮。 ([#8904](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8904), [#9104](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9104))
+
+### 新增
+
+- 在“更改”中为 worktree 工作区新增基准分支选择器（Change base），diff、提交列表和 Git 操作可改用其他分支 ([#8642](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8642), [#8934](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8934)，贡献者：[@Myasuka](https://github.com/Myasuka))
+- 新增 Issue 和 PR 引用链接：Agent 回复、计划、PR 面板和文件预览中的 `#123`、`owner/repo#123` 等引用会链接到 GitHub、GitLab、Gitea、Forgejo 或 Codeberg ([#8636](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8636))
+- 新增 iPhone Duo 布局支持：工作区操作位于系统竖向栏中，侧边栏和工作区分列折痕两侧 ([#8741](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8741), [#8901](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8901)，贡献者：[@zeyugao](https://github.com/zeyugao))
+- 新增 fx Provider，可在“设置 → Hosts → 提供方”的 Provider 目录中添加 ([#9160](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9160))
+- 新增后台 Agent：Agent 或插件可通过 `background: true` 创建辅助 Agent，它不打开标签页、不发送通知，也不出现在侧边栏和默认 Agent 列表中 ([#8683](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8683))
+- 新增 Terraform 和 HCL 文件（`.tf`、`.tfvars`、`.hcl`）的语法高亮 ([#9106](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9106))
+- 在每个 Agent 的环境中新增 `PASEO_WORKSPACE_ID`，Agent 可据此识别、重命名或归档自己的工作区 ([#8939](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8939)，贡献者：[@DTTerastar](https://github.com/DTTerastar))
+
+### 变更
+
+- 打开工作区时恢复你离开时的标签页，不再跳转到需要关注的 Agent ([#8935](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8935))
+- 问题卡片中选择选项后不再自动前进；请用“下一步”或“提交”继续 ([#8525](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8525))
+- 斜杠命令菜单现在显示加载和错误状态并提供“重试”，且不再默认选中 `/exit` ([#8905](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8905))
+- 文件浏览器（Explorer）或分屏使工作区变窄时，工作区页眉和标签页改用紧凑控件 ([#8740](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8740), [#9088](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9088)，贡献者：[@zeyugao](https://github.com/zeyugao))
+- 向进程已退出的 Pi Agent 发送消息时立即失败，并提示重新加载该 Agent ([#8718](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8718))
+
+### 修复
+
+- 修复 Agent 在你离开期间完成后，返回聊天时工作指示器消失的问题 ([#9170](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9170))
+- 修复包含较短折叠轮次的聊天打开时留有空白、需滚动后才填满的问题 ([#8358](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8358), [#9083](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9083))
+- 修复空闲的 Claude、Codex 或 OpenCode Agent 恢复后，“折叠轮次”把较早的回复藏进后一轮摘要行的问题 ([#9098](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9098))
+- 修复提示词与其下方的回复或折叠轮次摘要行之间缺少间距的问题 ([#9009](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9009))
+- 修复紧跟在段落之后、中间没有空行的 Markdown 表格显示为原始竖线的问题 ([#8485](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8485)，贡献者：[@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan)、[@suk-6](https://github.com/suk-6)、[@thsrite](https://github.com/thsrite))
+- 修复网页版和桌面端中与文字同行的带链接徽章图片被渲染成整行宽度的问题 ([#8530](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8530))
+- 修复“查看源码”后点击“查看图表”会打开全屏、而不是回到内联 Mermaid 图表的问题 ([#8932](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8932)，贡献者：[@luoph](https://github.com/luoph))
+- 修复 Android 上聊天中鼠标滚轮滚动方向相反的问题 ([#8693](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8693)，贡献者：[@sjeon87](https://github.com/sjeon87))
+- 修复关闭 Agent 标签页时未发送的 Composer 文本和附件被删除的问题 ([#9079](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9079))
+- 修复向 Composer 粘贴带超链接的文本时丢失链接地址的问题；链接现在以 Markdown 形式粘贴 ([#8972](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8972))
+- 修复用鼠标点击“发送”后 Composer 失去焦点的问题 ([#9015](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9015))
+- 修复 iPhone 上 Composer 停在距底部边缘 50pt 处的问题 ([#8823](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8823)，贡献者：[@zeyugao](https://github.com/zeyugao))
+- 修复从侧边栏和“新建工作区”点击“添加主机”会跳转到“设置”的问题 ([#8512](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8512))
+- 修复打开失败的 Agent 或选择 Mark as read 后，其红点和“失败”分组仍留在侧边栏的问题 ([#8831](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8831))
+- 修复在 Agent 运行时已关闭的情况下清除未读后，工作区的未读指示仍然亮着的问题 ([#9087](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9087))
+- 修复流式回复期间聊天一滚动上下文窗口浮层就自行关闭的问题 ([#8742](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8742)，贡献者：[@3ae3ae](https://github.com/3ae3ae))
+- 修复侧边栏用量摘要只在打开“使用情况”时才更新的问题 ([#7806](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/7806)，贡献者：[@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan))
+- 修复 Android 上位于触发元素上方的提示和菜单在打开后内容变多时短暂盖住触发元素的问题 ([#9247](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9247))
+- 修复在“历史”页面刷新网页版后显示“无法加载历史”的问题 ([#9029](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9029))
+- 修复 HTML 文件预览中的章节链接把预览替换成 Paseo 应用、而不是在文件内滚动的问题 ([#8559](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8559)，贡献者：[@3ae3ae](https://github.com/3ae3ae))
+- 修复“文件”刷新期间文件夹处于折叠状态时，新建的文件一直不显示的问题 ([#8582](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8582)，贡献者：[@hadan8977](https://github.com/hadan8977))
+- 修复分支仍在加载或请求失败时，分支切换器显示“没有找到分支。”的问题 ([#8938](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8938))
+- 修复文件被移到上一级目录时，提交历史显示双斜杠、没有重命名状态也没有 diff 的问题 ([#8509](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8509)，贡献者：[@hadan8977](https://github.com/hadan8977))
+- 修复检出落后于 PR 头部时，已合并的 PR 从其工作区中消失的问题
+- 修复工作区 Git 监视器在设置超时后一直停留在回退轮询的问题
+- 修复网页版或桌面端重连后，被放弃的连接最多保持打开 45 秒的问题 ([#9067](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9067))
+- 修复通过另一台主机路由的连接在获取超大时间线时以“The receiving client cannot keep up with host output”关闭的问题 ([#9109](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9109))
+- 修复已连接的主机在更新到受支持的版本后仍停留在错误状态的问题 ([#8423](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8423)，贡献者：[@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- 修复连接不可达主机的尝试超时后，握手重试和每秒一次的 `relay_e2ee_channel_error` 警告仍在继续的问题 ([#9025](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9025), [#9038](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9038))
+- 修复应用诊断对曾经连接后又断开的主机报告 `Last online: never` 的问题 ([#9054](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9054), [#9058](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9058))
+- 修复 Codex 轮次被停止或中断后，该轮次启动的 shell 命令仍继续运行的问题 ([#7525](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/7525)，贡献者：[@thomasvan](https://github.com/thomasvan))
+- 修复因 API 错误（例如会话限额或 API key 无效）而停止的 Claude 轮次被报告为已完成而非失败的问题 ([#8480](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8480)，贡献者：[@RRD-dev](https://github.com/RRD-dev)、[@luoph](https://github.com/luoph))
+- 修复重新打开空闲聊天但未发送提示词时，Claude 进程一直留在内存中直到 daemon 重启的问题 ([#9019](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9019)，贡献者：[@Brandon168](https://github.com/Brandon168))
+- 修复开启 Agent 恢复后，daemon 正常停止或重启时 Claude Agent 不恢复的问题 ([#8686](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8686)，贡献者：[@babo-jeonguk](https://github.com/babo-jeonguk))
+- 修复来自 Claude `settings.json` 的 Claude 模型在 Composer 中缺少推理强度控件的问题 ([#8699](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8699)，贡献者：[@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan)、[@yahao123](https://github.com/yahao123))
+- 修复对话记录非常大时导入 Claude 会话因 `Invalid string length` 失败的问题 ([#8457](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8457)，贡献者：[@qwist1233-cpu](https://github.com/qwist1233-cpu))
+- 修复在最大轮次限制处结束的 Claude 轮次丢失最终 token 数和费用的问题 ([#8519](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8519))
+- 修复 Codex 的“Apply file changes”审批在你接受之前不显示文件名和 diff 的问题 ([#8585](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8585)，贡献者：[@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan))
+- 修复 Codex 在一个补丁中编辑多个文件时，时间线只显示第一个文件的 diff 的问题 ([#8613](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8613)，贡献者：[@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan))
+- 修复多个 Codex 操作同时启动时，Codex 会话发现和启动偶发 SQLite 初始化错误的问题 ([#9008](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9008)，贡献者：[@colonelpanic8](https://github.com/colonelpanic8)、[@michaelmwu](https://github.com/michaelmwu))
+- 修复 daemon 重启时正处于轮次中的 OpenCode 对话显示为空闲并忽略“停止”的问题 ([#8698](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8698))
+- 修复审批待处理期间你发送消息时，OpenCode 被告知你拒绝了工具调用的问题 ([#8477](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8477))
+- 修复重新打开的 Pi 对话缺少上下文压缩之前的消息的问题 ([#8523](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8523))
+- 修复工作文件夹被移除后，已归档的 Pi 聊天因 `spawn pi ENOENT` 无法打开的问题 ([#8442](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8442)，贡献者：[@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- 修复关闭空闲运行时清理的情况下，读取已归档的 Pi 聊天会遗留一个 Pi 进程的问题 ([#8554](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8554)，贡献者：[@rylwin](https://github.com/rylwin))
+- 修复向进程已退出的 ACP Agent 发送提示词后一直停留在运行中、而不是报错失败的问题 ([#8406](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8406)，贡献者：[@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- 修复 ACP Agent 放弃审批请求并结束轮次后一直卡在“waiting for permission”的问题 ([#8548](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8548)，贡献者：[@3ae3ae](https://github.com/3ae3ae))
+- 修复 ACP Agent 发送配置更新后，更改其模式因 `invalid_params` 失败的问题 ([#8912](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8912)，贡献者：[@a-sh](https://github.com/a-sh))
+- 修复在运行中的 ACP Agent 上选择不可用的模型后，Paseo 仍显示并保存该模型的问题 ([#8957](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8957))
+- 修复导入会话时把它从自身的模型切换为 Provider 默认模型的问题 ([#8948](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8948))
+- 修复来自其他 Agent 的消息在你作答之前取消接收方待处理的提问或审批的问题 ([#8453](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8453)，贡献者：[@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- 修复向已连接主机上已关闭或已归档的 Agent 发送提示词后，发送方 Agent 一直收不到完成通知的问题 ([#8575](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8575))
+- 修复 daemon 重启后，在打开父聊天之前创建子 Agent 因“Caller agent not found”失败的问题 ([#8714](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8714))
+- 修复 Agent 从 Provider 错误中恢复并完成下一轮次后仍显示为失败的问题 ([#8083](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8083)，贡献者：[@luoph](https://github.com/luoph))
+- 修复已分离的子 Agent 在刷新之前仍显示在其已归档的父 Agent 之下的问题 ([#8903](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8903)，贡献者：[@luoph](https://github.com/luoph))
+- 修复打开 Agent 时因“Working directory does not exist”失败、而不是显示其已保存对话的问题 ([#8737](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8737))
+- 修复 daemon 在每次工作区更新时重新读取全部已归档 Agent 和工作区历史的问题 ([#8735](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8735))
+- 修复工作区文件夹在其文件监视器处于回退轮询期间被删除后，daemon 仍反复在其中运行 Git 命令的问题 ([#8462](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8462)，贡献者：[@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- 修复浏览器标签页关闭或刷新后，工作区服务连接仍保持打开的问题 ([#8421](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8421)，贡献者：[@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- 修复 daemon 网页界面对不存在的 `/.well-known/*` 请求返回应用页面而非 404 的问题 ([#8622](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8622)，贡献者：[@HomicideZero](https://github.com/HomicideZero))
+- 修复定时任务接受单个数字后的 cron 步长（例如 `0/15 * * * *`）并按每小时运行的问题；现在会拒绝这类表达式 ([#8607](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8607)，贡献者：[@Mar-garet](https://github.com/Mar-garet))
+- 修复同时设置了日期和星期的 cron 定时任务只在两者都匹配时运行、而不是任一匹配即运行的问题 ([#8611](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8611)，贡献者：[@Mar-garet](https://github.com/Mar-garet))
+- 修复 `paseo logs --json` 输出纯文本对话记录而非 JSON 的问题 ([#8589](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8589)，贡献者：[@hadan8977](https://github.com/hadan8977))
+- 修复 `create_agent` 工具没有告知 Agent 在其他 Provider 上创建 Agent 需要指定模式的问题 ([#8483](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8483)，贡献者：[@guerinnoah](https://github.com/guerinnoah))
+- 修复在 Windows PowerShell 无法运行 `Get-CimInstance` 的 Windows 机器上终端无法打开的问题 ([#8818](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8818))
+- 修复程序查询终端版本时，终端把版本应答输入到 shell 中的问题 ([#8419](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8419)，贡献者：[@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- 修复在网页版终端中用手指拖动时，历史滚动距离约为拖动距离两倍的问题 ([#8776](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8776)，贡献者：[@sinomoe](https://github.com/sinomoe))
+- 修复切换离开终端再返回后，Copilot CLI 等终端程序中的鼠标滚动失效的问题 ([#9004](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9004)，贡献者：[@imink](https://github.com/imink))
+- 修复向远程终端拖入多个文件时，粘贴的路径之间没有空格的问题 ([#8946](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8946)，贡献者：[@sebastianarena](https://github.com/sebastianarena))
+- 修复 `browser_fill` 工具在未更新 React 受控输入框和文本域的情况下报告成功的问题 ([#9022](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9022))
+- 修复 `browser_evaluate` 在内容安全策略未包含 `unsafe-eval` 的页面上失败的问题 ([#8973](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8973)，贡献者：[@amustapha](https://github.com/amustapha))
+- 修复 `browser_logs` 缺少每个网络请求的 HTTP 状态的问题 ([#8956](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8956)，贡献者：[@amustapha](https://github.com/amustapha))
+
+### 插件
+
+- 新增插件订阅，可将 daemon 的实时事件流式推送到插件面板；插件 RPC 和事件支持二进制（`Uint8Array`）负载 ([#8527](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8527))
+- “设置 → 插件”改为通过齿轮按钮打开插件设置，每个设置页面对应一个标签页 ([#8675](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8675))
+- 为会打开菜单或浮层的插件 Composer 胶囊按钮新增向上的箭头 ([#8673](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8673))
+- daemon 启动时改为并发启动已配置的插件，不再逐个启动 ([#8427](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8427)，贡献者：[@DAnaeto](https://github.com/DAnaeto))
+- 修复主机的 npm 使用镜像源时，从插件库安装插件因“npm artifact changed since review”失败的问题 ([#8756](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8756)，贡献者：[@tlipoca9](https://github.com/tlipoca9))
+- 修复已发布的 `@getpaseo/*` npm 包未声明许可证的问题；现在声明为 Apache-2.0 ([#7816](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/7816)，贡献者：[@mdlawson](https://github.com/mdlawson)、[@ragokan](https://github.com/ragokan))
+- 修复插件更新了自己的某张时间线卡片后，从较早的回复分叉因“This checkpoint changed after it was created”失败的问题 ([#8746](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8746)，贡献者：[@monarchmaisuriya](https://github.com/monarchmaisuriya))
+- 修复由插件渲染最终回复时，“折叠轮次”让轮次保持展开或折叠到较早回复的问题 ([#8811](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8811)，贡献者：[@geoqiao](https://github.com/geoqiao))
+- 修复应用刷新后插件目录仍在加载时，插件页面显示“This plugin surface is unavailable”的问题 ([#8123](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8123)，贡献者：[@vs-tahir](https://github.com/vs-tahir))
+- 修复插件添加了许多导航项时，矮屏上的工作区列表被挤出移动端侧边栏的问题 ([#8727](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8727)，贡献者：[@jaredwang](https://github.com/jaredwang))
+- 修复时间线插件在 Agent 消息工具调用上收不到发送方、事件和原始文本的问题 ([#8492](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8492)，贡献者：[@RRD-dev](https://github.com/RRD-dev)、[@luoph](https://github.com/luoph))
+- 修复输入或输出 schema 使用 transform 时插件 RPC 失败的问题 ([#8550](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8550))
+
+### 说明
+
+- 后台任务、基准分支选择器、归档撤销、后台 Agent、插件订阅和 fx 需要主机和应用都更新到此版本
+
+## 0.15.4 - 2026-11-10
+
+### 新增
+
+- 新增 Claude Fable 5.2 和 Mythos 5.2，默认推理强度为 medium ([#9233](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/9233)，贡献者：[@gengjiawen](https://github.com/gengjiawen)、[@gudcks](https://github.com/gudcks))
+
+### 说明
+
+- 两个模型均需 Claude Code 2.1.321 或更高版本；仅在 Claude Code 提供访问权限时显示 Mythos 5.2
+
+## 0.15.3 - 2026-11-06
+
+### 修复
+
+- 修复了 iOS 26 及更高版本中打开或收起键盘时聊天内容变模糊的问题 ([#8918](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8918)，贡献者：[@dgreensp](https://github.com/dgreensp))
+
+## 0.15.2 - 2026-11-05
+
+### 新增
+
+- 在 Paseo 桌面版和网页版新增首次运行引导，依次带新用户设置主题、提供商、项目、Agent 编排和移动端应用，并可通过“设置 → 通用 → Show setup again”重新打开 ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+- 在引导的“项目”步骤中，根据你运行过 Claude Code、Codex、OpenCode 或 Pi 的文件夹推荐项目 ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+
+### 改进
+
+- 将主题选择器改为带各主题预览的图块网格 ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+- 将“提供商”设置中的“Loading…”文字替换为骨架占位行 ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+- 将控件统一为两种尺寸：默认控件在桌面端高 32px、在手机上高 44px，紧凑控件高 28px ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+- 将首次启动改为从加载界面直接进入引导，不再先显示空白的主页 ([#8824](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8824))
+- 将桌面端和网页版的对话框改为约 160 毫秒的淡入 ([#8824](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8824))
+- 将弹窗和面板的背景改为与屏幕背景一致 ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+- 将“设置”各分区的文档链接改为分区标题旁的 `Label ↗` 链接 ([#8363](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8363))
+
+## 0.15.1 - 2026-11-05
+
+### 修复
+
+- 修复终端工作进程无法读取自身进程标识时 daemon 无法启动的问题；此前在 Windows PowerShell 5.1 无法运行 `Get-CimInstance` 的 Windows 机器上，Paseo 桌面版因此没有可用的 daemon ([#8810](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8810))
+
 ## 0.15.0 - 2026-11-03
 
 daemon 重启后，终端中的程序继续运行。开启 Agent 恢复后，被中断的 Agent 会在原有会话中恢复工作。

CLAUDE.md

@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ At the start of non-trivial work, list `docs/` and skim anything relevant to the
 | [docs/permissions.md](docs/permissions.md)                           | Semantic daemon permissions, principals, credentials, pairing invitations, and Hub authority                                   |
 | [docs/terminal-performance.md](docs/terminal-performance.md)         | Terminal latency pipeline, coalescing/backpressure invariants, benchmark + perf spec usage                                     |
 | [docs/terminal-rendering.md](docs/terminal-rendering.md)             | Native terminal view: xterm owns the grid, cluster placement, emoji widths, mixed-direction limits, render regression          |
+| [docs/timeline-sync.md](docs/timeline-sync.md)                       | Owned agent history, rewind retirements, live stream vs authoritative fetch, paged catch-up, client replica                    |
 | [docs/agent-stream-performance.md](docs/agent-stream-performance.md) | Assistant text pipeline — coalescing window, paced reveal, why arrival lumps are smoothed at render                            |
+| [docs/agent-stream-disclosure.md](docs/agent-stream-disclosure.md)   | Expand/collapse in the chat timeline — hold contract, native anchor sequence, frame spacing, render-window cost                |
 | [docs/markdown-renderer.md](docs/markdown-renderer.md)               | Shared Markdown engine, native selection, links, images and library constraints                                                |
 | [docs/native-text-selection.md](docs/native-text-selection.md)       | Native diagram grouping, selection boundaries and leading inline image limitations                                             |
 | [docs/file-observation.md](docs/file-observation.md)                 | Recursive watcher ownership, Linux constraints, teardown invariants, and Parcel comparison                                     |

docs/agent-lifecycle.md

@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ An unarchived agent may be `closed` without being deleted or archived. Closing r
 processes and subscriptions while retaining its Paseo identity, persistence handle, timeline,
 workspace, labels, title, usage, attention, timestamps, and parent relationship. Opening or prompting
 the agent runs through `ensureAgentLoaded()`, which resumes the durable provider session under the
-same Paseo agent ID. Provider history is not appended again when the canonical timeline is already
-primed.
+same Paseo agent ID. Resume does not read provider history when the agent already has a timeline;
+see [owned history](timeline-sync.md#owned-history).
 
 Reload releases the old runtime before resuming its durable session: an idle provider process can
 still own an exclusive writer. A close failure retains that runtime for cleanup and blocks the
@@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ the marker. Closing a tab sets that client's label to `false`. Any `true` client
 open. Detach clears the parent and every open-tab label. The surviving child therefore becomes a
 normal root agent immediately, and closing its still-open tab archives it.
 
+Agent-scoped workspace creation records the caller's workspace as `parentWorkspaceId`.
+This is informational ancestry for future workspace grouping. It does not change placement,
+visibility, status, or archive behavior. Archiving a parent workspace preserves its children's
+records and parentage. Unscoped creation and existing workspaces have no parent; ancestry is
+never inferred from directories, projects, or Git branches.
+
 Runtime ownership is resolved from explicit workspace ID and caller context, never from `cwd`. Workspace creation is a separate operation with `local | worktree` isolation; agent creation reuses that workspace unless a new workspace is explicitly requested.
 
 Setup belongs to the workspace, including combined workspace-plus-agent creation and the supported agent `worktree` request. Run setup through the workspace workflow before launching configured terminals or scripts. Setup output is read in the Setup panel from per-command snapshots; never produce setup chat timeline rows or concatenate command logs. Legacy agent `git`/`worktreeName` inputs and hidden MCP worktree placement are rejected with workspace-creation guidance. Existing wire schemas retain an empty combined-log string for parsing compatibility.
@@ -233,7 +239,8 @@ lifecycle is separate from public workspace visibility and is not a public creat
 Archive is a **soft delete**: the agent record stays on disk with `archivedAt` set, the runtime is closed, and the agent disappears from active lists. Archive is **global** — it lives on the server and propagates to every connected client.
 
 Archive sets `archivedAt`, invokes the provider's native archive hook, and cascades to managed
-children.
+children. The timeline and the provider children stay, so an archived chat reads them without its
+provider; deleting the agent removes them.
 
 `create_agent_request` can opt an agent into `autoArchive`. In that mode the daemon archives the agent after the first terminal turn event (`turn_completed`, `turn_failed`, or `turn_canceled`). When the agent owns an isolated workspace, auto-archive archives that workspace too; the managed worktree is removed when its final workspace reference is gone.
 
@@ -253,6 +260,27 @@ archived workspace. History navigation must not infer workspace lifecycle from `
 or mutate either lifecycle. The workspace route asks the daemon for authoritative recovery state;
 only the route's explicit Unarchive or Restore action changes the archived workspace.
 
+Workspace archive is undoable from the archived toast, or with Cmd/Ctrl+Z, while the toast is up.
+The daemon runs one archive lane per workspace, shared by every connection
+(`packages/server/src/server/workspace-archive-operations.ts`):
+
+| A request arrives while  | Result                                                    |
+| ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------- |
+| an archive runs: archive | joins the running archive                                 |
+| an archive runs: undo    | aborts the archive, waits for it to settle, then restores |
+| an undo runs: archive    | waits for the undo, then archives                         |
+| an undo runs: undo       | joins the running undo                                    |
+
+A request takes its place in the lane before its first `await`. Arrival order decides, so an undo
+sent right behind its archive still cancels it.
+
+An aborted archive stops at its next checkpoint and reports `canceled`; the undo unarchives only
+the agents that archive itself archived. Deleting the worktree directory is the point of no
+return: an undo after it recreates the worktree through workspace recovery. The client shows or
+hides the row by the latest local intent, so a late remove or upsert from a superseded request
+does not flip it back. Tabs and layout are purged only once the undo window closes with the
+archive committed.
+
 History navigation opens the selected agent without changing either archive state. Workspace
 **Restore** recovers only the workspace; the selected archived agent stays open with its callout.
 The agent's **Unarchive** runs the provider's native unarchive hook before interactive resume and
@@ -305,17 +333,29 @@ Workspace status is an aggregate activity signal computed **per `workspaceId`**.
 
 Running provider-native subagents contribute `running` to the workspace owned by their parent agent. Their completed, failed, and canceled states stay in the parent's subagents track.
 
-A finished workspace can be marked unread after it has been reviewed. The daemon restores
-`finished` attention on its newest eligible workspace-root agent without sending a new completion
-notification. Opening the workspace clears that attention through the normal focus flow.
+Only the parent's current runtime makes a provider child running. A child's stored status is the last report about it, and that report can come from provider history or from a runtime an earlier daemon ran, so a stored `running` child does not make the workspace running or keep the parent's runtime alive. It counts again once the live session reports it running. Closing a runtime cancels the children that runtime reported running; children it never reported keep their stored status.
 
-Attention is set by the agent finishing or failing and cleared by the client's
-`workspace.clear_attention`, which fires when the user reads the chat. Loading an agent's runtime is
+A finished or failed workspace can be marked unread after it has been reviewed. The daemon restores
+attention on its newest eligible workspace-root agent, `error` for an agent whose lifecycle is
+`error` and `finished` otherwise, without sending a new notification. Opening a workspace restores
+its selected tab; attention on another agent remains unread until that agent is focused or the
+workspace is explicitly marked read.
+
+Attention is set by the agent finishing or failing and acknowledged by deliberate focus or
+interaction with its chat, including repeat clicks in an already focused pane. A completion
+arriving while focused stays unread until the next interaction; leaving does not acknowledge it. Loading an agent's runtime is
 neither, so resuming carries the stored attention and the stored last-activity time through
 untouched. Forging either makes a background resume look like the user read a workspace and like the
 agent worked in it just now, which rewrites the sidebar timestamp permanently — persisted
 `updatedAt` is what workspace `statusEnteredAt` is re-derived from on the next daemon start.
 
+The `failed` bucket follows unread `error` attention, not lifecycle status. An agent stays `error`
+until its next turn starts, so reading the chat dismisses the red dot the same way it dismisses the
+green one. For the same reason every new failure raises `error` attention, including a failed reload
+that leaves the lifecycle at `error`, and replaces unread `finished` attention; otherwise the failed
+agent would show the green dot or none. Subagents track marks are the exception: they follow the
+child's lifecycle, because the track is where a failed child stays visible.
+
 ## The subagents track
 
 The track is a pill at the foot of an agent's pane (`packages/app/src/subagents/track.tsx`): a count you can read at a glance, and a panel behind it — a popover on wide screens, a sheet on compact ones — holding the rows. It floats over the transcript rather than sitting in a band above the composer, so the timeline scrolls underneath it; `packages/app/src/panels/agent-tracks.tsx` owns that placement, and the pill frame is shared with the task list in `packages/app/src/composer/tracks.tsx`.

docs/agent-stream-disclosure.md

@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+# Agent stream disclosures
+
+Expanding or collapsing something in the chat timeline (a turn's summary line, a tool-call group,
+a tool call's inline details, a todo card, a long user message's show more, a plan card) keeps the
+tapped trigger at the same screen y in the first painted frame. No animation.
+
+## The contract
+
+A disclosure component knows nothing about the list. It wraps its state change:
+
+```tsx
+const hold = useDisclosureHold();
+const handleToggle = () => hold(() => setExpanded((value) => !value));
+```
+
+`view.tsx` wraps every timeline row in `DisclosureRow`, which routes `hold` to the strategy's
+`holdRow(rowId, apply, triggerEdge)` (`packages/app/src/agent-stream/disclosure.tsx`). Outside a
+timeline row, `apply` runs as is. The strategy owns when `apply` runs and how the row keeps its place.
+A toggle that calls `setState` directly skips the hold: on Android the expanded content paints
+over the next row for a frame before the list learns the new size.
+
+`triggerEdge` names the edge of the row the trigger sits on, and the strategy keeps that edge in
+place. Header triggers sit on the top edge, the default. A long user message's show more sits under
+the text it opens, so `MessagePreview` passes `{ triggerEdge: "bottom" }`: the text grows and shrinks
+above the trigger, and the rows below stay put.
+
+Following output:
+
+- A hold detaches the bottom anchor controller (`holdForDisclosure`), except a bottom-edge hold on
+  native while following: there the end pin already keeps the row's bottom in place.
+- When the hold ends, the controller re-sticks only if the list sits at its end and no user scroll
+  owns the viewport (`releaseDisclosure({ isAtEnd })`). Expanding at the bottom therefore leaves
+  the list detached with the scroll-to-bottom pill showing; collapsing back to the end resumes
+  following.
+- Scroll events during the hold never re-stick: the correction is a programmatic scroll that
+  would otherwise read as "back at the bottom".
+
+The trigger can only stay put when the list has scroll room for the change. When the loaded
+content fits the viewport, or a collapse at the end would need an offset past the end, the list
+ends at its end and the trigger moves by the difference.
+
+## Web
+
+`holdRow` pins the row's trigger edge in the reading anchor and runs `apply`; the next reading
+reconcile restores that edge after layout, before paint (`strategy-web.tsx`). The pin records the
+scroll offset it was taken at, because the browser clamps `scrollTop` when a collapse shrinks the
+content past the offset, before the reconcile reads it. Restoring from the clamped offset would
+apply the shrink twice.
+
+## Native
+
+On compact layouts, tool calls and tool-call groups open a sheet instead of expanding, so they do
+not hold. Summary lines, todo cards, plan cards and show more expand inline.
+
+The timeline is a LegendList in forward order: one `data` array of history rows followed by the
+live head, oldest first (`strategy-native.tsx`). LegendList keeps a row in place across a size
+change in the commit that makes it, so a hold needs no anchor neighbour, native child index or
+render window stretch. The inverted FlatList it replaced needed all three, and three commits per
+toggle; its applied commit took up to 3.5 s of JS on a long turn.
+
+### Who owns the offset
+
+One owner keeps the scroll offset at any moment:
+
+| State                  | Owner                                                                                                             |
+| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Before rows are placed | LegendList's initial scroll to the end. It keeps the rows hidden until they are measured.                         |
+| Following the end      | The end pin (`native-end-pin.tsx`), also for a bottom-edge hold.                                                  |
+| Disclosure hold        | LegendList's `maintainVisibleContentPosition` on the hold's anchor row, or the end pin for the last row's bottom. |
+| User scroll            | The finger. The controller detaches at drag start.                                                                |
+| Detached               | LegendList's `maintainVisibleContentPosition` on the first visible row.                                           |
+| Keyboard motion        | Nobody. The keyboard translates the list with the composer and leaves the offset alone.                           |
+
+The end pin is a zero-height view at the bottom of the content and the content's first native
+child, with React Native's `maintainVisibleContentPosition` set to `{ minIndexForVisible: 0 }`. The
+native correction runs on the UI thread around each mount, so a row that grows or lands at the end
+scrolls in the frame it lays out. The controller scrolls only for a viewport resize (the composer
+growing or shrinking) and an explicit jump, both through the native `scrollToEnd`.
+
+Do not use LegendList's `maintainScrollAtEnd` instead. It scrolls from JS after the mount to the end
+its JS sizes predict: growth paints below the viewport for a frame, and the scroll lands short of
+the native end, which the controller reads as the user scrolling away.
+
+The keyboard never changes the list's size, padding or offset. `KeyboardTranslateView` moves the list
+and the composer together on the UI thread, and the composer viewport clips the top of the list
+while the keyboard is open. Do not add a keyboard-sized inset to keep that content reachable: it can
+only commit after the motion, and while detached or holding nothing corrects for it, so every row
+jumps by the keyboard height after the keyboard settles.
+
+### The hold
+
+`holdRow(rowId, apply, triggerEdge)` runs in the toggle's event:
+
+1. Pick the anchor and detach the controller (`holdForDisclosure`). LegendList restores row
+   tops only, so a top-edge hold anchors the toggled row and a bottom-edge hold anchors the row
+   below it, whose top is the toggled row's bottom (`disclosureAnchor`). The pin goes away
+   and LegendList's `maintainVisibleContentPosition` takes over, restoring only the anchor row
+   (`shouldRestorePosition`). A bottom-edge hold while following skips this step: the end pin
+   keeps the content end, and the row's bottom with it, in the frame the new height mounts.
+
+   A bottom-edge hold on the last row, such as a prompt the agent has not answered yet, has no
+   row below it: its bottom is the content end (the running indicator is the list footer, not a
+   row). The hold mounts the end pin while detached, and `apply` runs a frame later. The pin
+   anchors only once it is mounted, and a pin that mounts in the same commit as the new height
+   anchors nothing. The pin's commit mounts before that frame's JS callbacks run, so `apply`'s
+   commit mounts with the pin already in place. The pin keeps the distance from the end, and each
+   content size change clamps it to the scroll room left, so the hold re-sticks if the list was
+   at its end when tapped or a collapse used up the room. The release tracks that distance
+   instead of reading the offset: the new content size reaches JS before the pin's scroll does.
+   A reply landing below the row ends the pin in the commit that mounts the reply, so the reply
+   grows below the row and the trigger stays where it was. A reply that lands before `apply` runs
+   moves the hold to the reply's row.
+
+   Upstream LegendList anchors only rows from the first fully visible one down to the last fully
+   visible one, and a size change with no data change keeps the first row in view whatever
+   `shouldRestorePosition` says. A row cut off at the top would then let the row below it hold
+   instead, and a bottom-edge anchor just under the viewport would not hold at all. The LegendList
+   patch counts the rows cut off at the top, and the row just past the bottom, as in view and
+   applies `shouldRestorePosition` to size changes too. It also drops LegendList's Android clamp
+   prediction: the scroll view clamps after the adjustment
+   ([scroll view corrections](#scroll-view-corrections)), so the prediction moved a collapse near
+   the end to the end.
+
+2. Run `apply`.
+3. Call the row's `useSyncLayout` trigger. The toggle changes the row from its own state, so
+   LegendList's container does not re-render and would learn the new height from `onLayout` a task
+   later, after the change painted. The trigger puts the measurement and the corrected positions
+   in the toggle's own commit.
+
+The hold ends two frames after the last item size change, since the list measures the toggled row
+and any rows it inserted over several frames (`native-disclosure-hold.ts`). The controller then
+re-sticks only if the list is within 1 px of its end, the same distance web resumes from.
+
+### User scroll
+
+The controller detaches at `onScrollBeginDrag`, so lines that stream in during a drag grow below
+the rows under the finger. The detach reaches native a JS round trip after the drag begins, so for
+those frames the pin is still mounted. The scroll view subclasses skip the pin's correction while
+the user drags (see [scroll view corrections](#scroll-view-corrections)). They skip only the pin's:
+in the detached state LegendList uses the same native correction, and a history page that lands
+mid-drag needs it. They key on the drag, not the touch, so a tap or long press while following
+keeps following.
+
+Following resumes only for a gesture that ends within 1 px of the end, either when the finger lifts
+or when momentum stops. A release past the end counts: iOS bounces back to the end, and lines that
+land during the bounce must keep scrolling in. A release anywhere short of the end stays detached
+with the scroll-to-bottom pill, so the rows the user let go of never move.
+
+### Draw distance
+
+`drawDistance` is 2000 px on each side of the viewport. A fling over rows that were never measured
+blanks the viewport until LegendList renders and measures them. Twelve flings over a chat with a
+15,000 px turn expanded, Android emulator, dev build:
+
+| List                          | Blank viewport             | Janky frames | p50 / p90 / p99  |
+| ----------------------------- | -------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------- |
+| Inverted FlatList             | 1.3 to 1.7 s over 5 flings | 10.8%        | 27 / 48 / 109 ms |
+| LegendList, drawDistance 500  | 1.0 to 1.5 s per fling     |              |                  |
+| LegendList, drawDistance 2000 | none                       | 1.7%         | 24 / 32 / 48 ms  |
+
+With every turn collapsed, flinging from a cold open into history did not blank at any value from
+500 to 2000, and jank followed host load (19 to 40 on 16 cores) rather than draw distance. Measure
+1000 and 1500 on the expanded chat, on a host under load 10, before lowering it.
+
+### LegendList patch
+
+`patches/@legendapp+list+3.7.1.patch` carries twelve changes for the timeline. Its header lists
+them by purpose, and
+[legend-list #593](https://github.com/LegendApp/legend-list/issues/593) reports each upstream.
+Drop a hunk when the installed LegendList ships its fix.
+
+### Scroll view corrections
+
+`modules/paseo-scroll` replaces React Native's scroll view on both platforms with a subclass:
+Android's `PaseoScrollView` and iOS's `PaseoScrollViewComponentView`.
+`VisibleContentPositionClampTest` covers Android; iOS has no native test harness.
+
+**Content clamp.** A mount that shrinks the content while `maintainVisibleContentPosition` is set
+applies the shrink twice on both platforms: the scroll view clamps its offset to the new end during
+the mount, and React Native then adds the anchor's movement to the clamped offset
+([RN #58578](https://github.com/react/react-native/issues/58578), fix in
+[PR #58695](https://github.com/react/react-native/pull/58695)). A turn that folds while the list
+follows its end lands above the end. Android defers the clamp to the pre-draw pass, and iOS restores
+the pre-mount offset for the adjustment and clamps after it.
+
+**Removed anchor (iOS).** A hold removes the end pin in the same mount that opens the tapped
+disclosure, and React Native 0.86 on iOS moves the offset by the removed view's frame. The iOS
+subclass keeps the offset. Android keeps a removed view's last frame, so it keeps the offset already.
+React Native 0.88 skips the adjustment for a removed anchor
+([PR #57294](https://github.com/react/react-native/pull/57294)).
+
+**End pin during a drag.** Both subclasses recognize the pin by its native ID, `paseo-end-pin`,
+and skip its correction while the user drags ([user scroll](#user-scroll)). This one has no React
+Native counterpart; it stays while the timeline uses the pin.
+
+Remove the content clamp and removed-anchor overrides once the installed React Native includes
+their fixes.

docs/agent-stream-performance.md

@@ -34,10 +34,11 @@ So arrival sets a _target_ and the reveal rate is derived from the backlog inste
 - **First sight of a text is revealed whole.** Only growth is paced. This is what makes history hydration, timeline replay, a virtualized row remounting on scroll, and an already-finished message all render complete on first paint without a special case for each.
 - **Leaving `phase: "streaming"` snaps the reveal.** A completed turn must never be left holding characters. `layoutStream` sets the phase, so anything outside the live head with an active turn is already complete.
 - **The reducer queue commits on a frame, with a timer as the ceiling.** A frame callback never fires in a hidden tab, so a timer races it and wins when nothing is painting — the store has to keep advancing either way.
-- **A history row re-renders only when its item or layout item identity changes.** The inverted
-  FlatList hands every mounted cell a new `index` and `ref` whenever a row is prepended, so without a
-  memo boundary each coalesced tick re-rendered every mounted row (about 50 on a phone, 100–250 ms of
-  JS per tick). `layoutStream` keeps a layout item's identity when nothing about it changed,
+- **A turn boundary commits the queue before turn liveness changes.** The final reply arrives a few milliseconds before `turn_completed`, so it is still queued when the turn ends. `applyStreamEvent` in `viewed-timeline-sync.ts` flushes the agent's queue first; otherwise the chat paints a finished turn with no reply, drops the footer, and jumps twice.
+- **A history row re-renders only when its item or layout item identity changes.** Every
+  coalesced tick hands the list a new layout. Without a memo boundary each tick re-rendered every
+  mounted row (measured on the inverted FlatList native used before LegendList: about 50 rows on a
+  phone, 100–250 ms of JS per tick). `layoutStream` keeps a layout item's identity when nothing about it changed,
   `useRevisedHistoryRows` hands a fresh item identity to rows whose tool-call group, expanded state,
   or breakpoint changed, and `StreamRow` memoizes on both. Every viewport runs its history
   through that hook; the web viewport once skipped it and history hosts of a live tool group went

docs/android.md

@@ -174,18 +174,18 @@ REACT_NATIVE_PACKAGER_HOSTNAME=localhost \
 
 This is the Android counterpart of the iOS local-simulator flow in [development.md](development.md): on iOS the simulator shares the Mac's loopback so `localhost:<port>` works directly; on Android you need `10.0.2.2` or `adb reverse`.
 
-## Inverted timeline input
+## Scroll view corrections
 
-Android focus and selection visibility requests must not reposition inverted timelines. The
-`modules/paseo-scroll` package keeps React Native's scroll manager interface and returns zero for
-child-reveal scroll calculations when the view's transform matrix inverts the vertical axis. React
-Native's Android list uses `scale: -1`, which decomposes into a 180-degree rotation with positive
-`scaleY`; checking the scale property alone misses it. Dragging and explicit scroll
-commands still work; non-inverted scroll views keep Android's default behavior.
+`modules/paseo-scroll` replaces React Native's vertical scroll view with `PaseoScrollView`, which
+keeps React Native's scroll manager interface and corrects `maintainVisibleContentPosition` for the
+chat timeline. [agent-stream-disclosure.md](agent-stream-disclosure.md#scroll-view-corrections)
+lists the corrections and the React Native issues they work around. Its instrumentation test,
+`VisibleContentPositionClampTest`, mounts through React Native's own mounting manager:
 
-Mouse wheel axes also bypass the inversion transform. The same module reverses the vertical
-wheel axis for inverted scroll views before delegating to Android, preserving native scroll
-bounds and React Native's scroll events and disabled-scroll behavior.
+```bash
+cd packages/app/android
+./gradlew :paseo-scroll:connectedDebugAndroidTest --no-daemon --max-workers=2 -Dorg.gradle.parallel=false
+```
 
 Register this package before React Native's core package through its Expo config plugin. Normal
 Android builds use the prebuilt `react-android` library, so patching Java under `node_modules` does

docs/architecture.md

@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ workspace for a directory clears it. The store lives in memory and resets on dae
 | `server/directory-sync/`        | Daemon-global latest-state sequences for projects, workspaces, and agents      |
 | `server/workspace-labels/`      | Host-local label catalog, assignment mutations, and explicit subscriptions     |
 | `server/agent/agent-manager.ts` | Agent lifecycle state machine, timeline tracking, subscriber management        |
+| `server/agent/timeline/`        | Owned agent history, provider children, rewind retirements, behind a backend   |
 | `server/agent/agent-storage.ts` | File-backed JSON persistence at `$PASEO_HOME/agents/`                          |
 | `server/agent/tools/`           | Transport-neutral catalog for workspaces, agents, permissions, and automation  |
 | `server/agent/mcp-server.ts`    | Thin MCP adapter that registers the Paseo tool catalog with the MCP SDK        |
@@ -276,7 +277,7 @@ its teardown; reconnect creates new server IDs for surviving client handles. See
 
 **Top-level WS envelopes** are `hello`, `recording_state`, `ping`/`pong`, and `session` (which wraps the rich union of session messages).
 
-Client liveness checks use the top-level JSON `ping`/`pong` envelope, not a session RPC or RFC6455 control ping. Current clients ping every 10 seconds, beginning one interval after connecting. The first ping claims an application-ownership lease for that physical socket, all later inbound activity renews it, and the daemon forcibly terminates the socket if the lease expires. A legacy or raw socket that never sends an application ping never enters this lease and is not closed for omitting one. Session RPC timeouts are operation failures, not proof that the socket is dead. A subscription bootstrap timeout closes its source to clear any unknown server-owned registration; the failed handle is released before other surviving handles reconnect.
+Client liveness checks use the top-level JSON `ping`/`pong` envelope, not a session RPC or RFC6455 control ping. Current clients ping every 10 seconds, beginning one interval after connecting; a window with no validated inbound frame is a miss, and two misses in a row tear the socket down. When the app returns to the foreground the client runs a fresh cycle of two 5-second windows back to back, then reconnects without backoff, because a socket that died while the OS had JS suspended stays `OPEN` and accepts sends: only inbound frames prove it. Misses and probes from before the suspension do not count toward that cycle, and a window whose timer fires long after its deadline spanned another suspension, so it is discarded and the cycle starts over. Any complete frame inside a window keeps the connection, so a slow multi-frame transfer survives; a single frame that takes longer than the two windows to arrive after foreground does not, and the fix for that is smaller daemon-to-client frames, not a longer window. The first ping claims an application-ownership lease for that physical socket, all later inbound activity renews it, and the daemon forcibly terminates the socket if the lease expires. A legacy or raw socket that never sends an application ping never enters this lease and is not closed for omitting one. Session RPC timeouts are operation failures, not proof that the socket is dead. A subscription bootstrap timeout closes its source to clear any unknown server-owned registration; the failed handle is released before other surviving handles reconnect.
 
 Every physical send path enforces an 8 MiB outbound high-water mark, including JSON broadcasts, binary terminal frames, and the encrypted relay adapter's asynchronous queue. This sits above the terminal stream's 4 MiB soft backpressure threshold, leaving room for snapshot catch-up before the hard cutoff. JSON is serialized once per broadcast after sockets already at the limit are removed, then its exact byte length is checked for every remaining socket. A frame that would cross the limit is not sent; that physical socket is forcibly terminated without disturbing other sockets attached to the same logical session. Multiple tabs and simultaneous direct and relay paths may legitimately share a client id.
 

docs/data-model.md

@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ checkout root. They intentionally differ for an exact subproject inside a worktr
 restore, branch auto-name, and descriptor flows consume those persisted facts rather than
 rediscovering ownership from a directory that may already be gone. Reconciliation may refresh
 mutable placement facts, but never changes `projectId`, `cwd`, `displayName`, or `baseBranch`.
+An explicit base selection is stored in the checkout's Git-directory Paseo metadata and
+mirrored to `baseBranch` in every workspace record sharing that checkout. The record keeps
+recovery possible after the checkout metadata is deleted. A newly opened workspace inherits
+the checkout's selected base; separate worktrees keep separate bases.
 Workspace archive runs lifecycle teardown from the exact `cwd` but removes only the backing
 `worktreeRoot` after its last active reference disappears. Worktree recovery recreates that backing
 checkout from `mainRepoRoot`, then restores the relative path from `worktreeRoot` to `cwd`.
@@ -92,6 +96,7 @@ Each agent is stored as a separate JSON file, grouped by project directory.
 | `lastUserMessageAt`  | `string?` (ISO 8601)                     | Last user message timestamp                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
 | `title`              | `string?`                                | User-visible title                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
 | `labels`             | `Record<string, string>`                 | Key-value labels (default `{}`). Paseo uses `paseo.parent-agent-id` for parentage and client-scoped `paseo.open-agent-tab.*` labels while managed subagent tabs are open — see [agent-lifecycle.md](./agent-lifecycle.md)                                                                                                                                                           |
+| `metadata`           | `Record<string, JsonValue>`              | Plugin-owned data (default `{}`). Paseo stores and forwards it and never reads a key. Set at creation or through `agent.metadata.update.request`; `null` in a patch removes a key                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
 | `lastStatus`         | `AgentStatus`                            | One of: `"initializing"`, `"idle"`, `"running"`, `"error"`, `"closed"`. `closed` means the record is resumable but has no live provider runtime; archive remains represented separately by `archivedAt`.                                                                                                                                                                            |
 | `lastModeId`         | `string?`                                | Last active mode ID                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | `config`             | `SerializableConfig?`                    | Agent session configuration (see below)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
@@ -175,6 +180,14 @@ Terminal activity contributes to the workspace status bucket **per `workspaceId`
 
 ---
 
+## Runtime-only Agent Timelines
+
+Agent timelines are not written to `$PASEO_HOME`. `AgentTimeline` owns each agent's history behind
+a backend, and the only backend is in memory, so a daemon restart loses it and the next resume
+imports provider history. See [owned history](timeline-sync.md#owned-history).
+
+---
+
 ## 2. Daemon Configuration
 
 **Path:** `$PASEO_HOME/config.json`
@@ -335,6 +348,14 @@ the number of Git processes that have started but not exited. Every Git command
 including initial workspace reads, filesystem-triggered refreshes, background checks, and explicit
 requests.
 
+Commands wait in one of three lanes, drained in order: `high` (worktree creation and archive),
+`normal` (everything a caller waits for, including diffs and explicit refreshes), and `background`
+(workspace reconciliation, refreshes triggered by watchers, polls and fetches, and the fetches
+themselves). Daemon-initiated fan-out must run in the background lane: one rescan over ~90 worktrees
+queues over 1,000 commands, and in the normal lane every command a cold diff runs waited behind
+them. Set the lane on the runner with `createRunGitCommand(provenance, { priority })`, or around a
+whole operation with `runWithGitCommandPriority`.
+
 Environment variables override `config.json`:
 
 | Environment variable                 | Setting                  |
@@ -470,7 +491,7 @@ Array of workspace records. A workspace is a specific working directory within a
 | `title`                        | `string \| null`                                             | User-set name override layered over `displayName`. Null means "use `displayName`".                                                                                                            |
 | `branch`                       | `string \| null`                                             | The current Git branch for git-backed workspaces. Separate from `displayName`/`title`; a background branch refresh never rewrites the name.                                                   |
 | `worktreeRoot`                 | `string \| null`                                             | Backing checkout/worktree root. May differ from `cwd` for exact subprojects and remains persisted after the worktree is deleted so restore can reproduce the placement.                       |
-| `baseBranch`                   | `string \| null`                                             | Comparison base retained across archive and restore. Branch-off creation stores the resolved ref; legacy and PR-checkout records hold a bare name. Null means no recorded base.               |
+| `baseBranch`                   | `string \| null`                                             | Current base retained across archive and restore. Explicit selections and branch-off creation store exact refs; older records may store branch names. Null means no recorded base.            |
 | `isPaseoOwnedWorktree`         | `boolean`                                                    | Whether Paseo owns and may remove/recreate the backing `worktreeRoot`                                                                                                                         |
 | `mainRepoRoot`                 | `string \| null`                                             | Main repository root for worktree checkouts, independent of both exact `cwd` and backing `worktreeRoot`                                                                                       |
 | `createdAt`                    | `string` (ISO 8601)                                          |                                                                                                                                                                                               |
@@ -478,6 +499,7 @@ Array of workspace records. A workspace is a specific working directory within a
 | `archivedAt`                   | `string \| null` (ISO 8601)                                  | Soft-delete; required nullable                                                                                                                                                                |
 | `autoArchivedChangeRequestUrl` | `string \| null`                                             | Change request whose merged state triggered auto-archive. Restore replaces it with the current merged change request, when present, so repeated snapshots cannot archive the workspace again. |
 | `labels`                       | `string[]?`                                                  | Normalized display names assigned from this host's shared label catalog. Missing means unlabelled.                                                                                            |
+| `metadata`                     | `Record<string, JsonValue>`                                  | Plugin-owned data (default `{}`). Paseo stores and forwards it and never reads a key. Set at creation or through `workspace.metadata.update.request`.                                         |
 | `pinnedAt`                     | `string \| null` (ISO 8601)                                  | Pinned-to-top-of-sidebar timestamp; null means "not pinned"                                                                                                                                   |
 | `untrustedSource`              | `{ kind: "change_request", forge, number, headRepository }?` | Provenance captured when a cross-repository change request creates the workspace. Missing means repository automation is allowed; explicit setup removes the field.                           |
 

docs/design.md

@@ -68,9 +68,15 @@ the sidebar. Apply it as `backgroundColor`; setting `opacity` on the control als
 
 `destructive` is filled with `destructive`. It only appears inside a confirm. The button on the page is `outline`; the destructive button is the confirm button inside the dialog.
 
-Controls come in two sizes, defined once in `control-geometry.ts`. The default is the right size almost everywhere — pages, dialogs, forms, settings rows, the setup flow — so don't pass a size. It is 32px tall where a pointer drives it and 44px in the compact layout, so every phone control is a full touch target; the breakpoint, not the caller, makes that choice. `sm` is 28px with `fontSize.sm` labels and is for tight chrome only: toolbars, nested settings rows, dense inline row actions. A `size="sm"` on an ordinary page or dialog is wrong, and so is choosing a size from `useIsCompactFormFactor()`.
+Controls come in two sizes, defined once in `control-geometry.ts`. The default is the right size almost everywhere — pages, dialogs, forms, settings rows, the setup flow — so don't pass a size. It is 32px tall where a pointer drives it and 44px where controls are touch-sized, so every touch control meets the iOS HIG's 44pt hit region. `sm` is 28px pointer and 32px touch, with `fontSize.sm` labels, and is for tight chrome only: toolbars, nested settings rows, dense inline row actions. A `size="sm"` on an ordinary page or dialog is wrong, and so is choosing a size from `useIsCompactFormFactor()`.
 
-Buttons are pills (`borderRadius.full`) with medium-weight labels; an icon-only button is a circle. `<Switch>` follows the same two sizes: a 34×20 track by default and in `sm`, 44×26 in the compact layout, and it reserves its size's control height so a row holding one lines up with a row holding a button. Buttons, text fields, dropdown triggers, and `<SegmentedControl>` (`packages/app/src/components/ui/segmented-control.tsx`) share the size contract — the same size name means the same height and label size on every control kind, so controls in one row line up. Segments run tighter than a button, because the gap between segments already reads as padding. The selected segment is a `surface3` fill with `foreground` text, not an inverted one — inverting it inside thin chrome puts a white slab in the toolbar. A settings row sizes the controls in its trailing slot itself, default in a card and `sm` when nested (`packages/app/src/components/ui/control-size.tsx`), so don't pass a size to a button, dropdown or field placed in a row. Code that computes with a control's height outside a stylesheet uses `controlHeightForLayout`. Never shrink a control's font or padding locally to fit a context — if the context needs a smaller control, the size tier is missing or the wrong one is in use.
+Dense toolbar rows, such as the composer's, are the exception to the 44pt control. Touch-sized the row is 44pt tall and each control is a 36pt circle (`TOOLBAR_DISC_SIZE`): send and stop fill it, and every other control's pressed highlight fills it, so every highlight is the same fully rounded shape. Labelled pickers are 36pt pills. A control lays out at its full highlight (`toolbarSlot`, `toolbarContentSlot`) with no gap between controls (`TOOLBAR_CONTROL_GAP`), so neighbouring highlights touch and never overlap. Toolbar glyphs match the header icons: 20pt, the app's 1.5px stroke, resting at `foreground` (`toolbarGlyphsFor`). The context ring is 18pt with a 2px stroke (`TOOLBAR_RINGS`): a circle fills its box where an outline glyph does not, and a thin circle reads lighter than a glyph at the same stroke. A disc's solid glyph, such as the stop square, stays at the `md` size (`TOOLBAR_DISC_GLYPH_SIZES`). Pointer-sized toolbars keep 28px controls, a 4px gap, and a 16pt muted glyph that brightens on hover.
+
+In the composer, the first glyph's ink starts on the text column's edge, and the trailing control is always a disc, so the row does not shift as it changes between voice mode, send and stop. The disc nests into the corner, as far from the right edge as from the bottom, and touch-sized the composer's corner radius is concentric with it (`packages/app/src/composer/input/toolbar-rails.ts`). Touch-sized the disc keeps a 6pt clearance from its neighbour, because it is always painted and a pressed neighbour would merge with it. The attach button sits 2pt closer to the picker than its highlight would put it: the plus is all thin arms, so the full gap reads wide. That offset is set by eye.
+
+One gate, `resolveControlSizing`, picks touch or pointer sizing: touch when the layout is compact or the device has a touch screen. An iPad with the sidebar docked is wide and touch-sized; a desktop is pointer-sized; a phone is both compact and touch. The touch-screen fact is read once at startup (`hasTouchScreen` in `hooks/use-fine-pointer.ts`), so attaching a mouse or keyboard to a tablet never shrinks its controls. Stylesheets take sizes from `bySizing({ touch, pointer })`, which resolves to a breakpoint value, so a caller never sees which sizing it got. Rows, icon buttons and icon slots take theirs from `styles/density.ts`, which uses the same gate. An `{ xs, md }` literal for a hit target or glyph is wrong: on an iPad it yields the pointer size.
+
+Buttons are pills (`borderRadius.full`) with medium-weight labels; an icon-only button is a circle. `<Switch>` follows the same two sizes: a 34×20 track by default and in `sm`, 44×26 where controls are touch-sized, and it reserves its size's control height so a row holding one lines up with a row holding a button. Buttons, text fields, dropdown triggers, and `<SegmentedControl>` (`packages/app/src/components/ui/segmented-control.tsx`) share the size contract — the same size name means the same height and label size on every control kind, so controls in one row line up. Segments run tighter than a button, because the gap between segments already reads as padding. The selected segment is a `surface3` fill with `foreground` text, not an inverted one — inverting it inside thin chrome puts a white slab in the toolbar. A settings row sizes the controls in its trailing slot itself, default in a card and `sm` when nested (`packages/app/src/components/ui/control-size.tsx`), so don't pass a size to a button, dropdown or field placed in a row. Code that computes with a control's height outside a stylesheet uses `controlHeightForLayout`. Never shrink a control's font or padding locally to fit a context — if the context needs a smaller control, the size tier is missing or the wrong one is in use.
 
 A `<Pressable>` wrapping a `<Text>` is a sixth variant. It is wrong. `<Button>` accepts `style`, `textStyle`, `leftIcon`, `disabled`, `size`, and `variant`.
 
@@ -138,7 +144,7 @@ Things align to their glyphs, not to their boxes. A row's leading icon, its titl
 
 Pick the rails from the content, then hold them. A settings card establishes a leading rail at the icon's left edge and a trailing rail at the last glyph's right edge; every row in that card uses the same two. A row whose icon is absent still starts its title on the leading rail. Indentation is a new rail, not an arbitrary offset.
 
-The pressable is bigger than the glyph, and that is fine. Hit areas grow outward from the aligned content — they never move it. A button that looks two pixels off because its padding is asymmetric is misaligned even though its box is correct.
+The pressable is bigger than the glyph, and that is fine. Hit areas grow outward from the aligned content — they never move it. A button that looks two pixels off because its padding is asymmetric is misaligned even though its box is correct. The composer toolbar is the worked example: its outermost ink, the attach `+` on the left and the trailing glyph or send/stop disc on the right, sits on the text column's edges, and touch-sized the end highlights overhang into the composer padding by each end control's ink inset (`composerToolbarOverhang`).
 
 Optical alignment beats arithmetic when a glyph disagrees with its bounding box. Icons with visual weight on one side, chevrons, and single-character labels usually need a small nudge to look centered. Trust the eye, then leave a comment saying the offset is optical.
 
@@ -150,7 +156,7 @@ One row off the rail makes the whole card look unconsidered.
 
 Compact-first. The small case is designed; the large case adds chrome around it.
 
-Use `md: 600` for both the compact/wide layout boundary and responsive density, in logical points on native and CSS pixels on web. Do not add a separate density breakpoint. Measured content constraints remain independent: composer controls use `COMPACT_CONTENT_WIDTH` (500), so a narrow pane can keep compact controls inside a wide window.
+Use `md: 600` for the compact/wide layout boundary, in logical points on native and CSS pixels on web. Do not add a separate density breakpoint; touch sizing comes from the control sizing gate in [Buttons](#4-buttons). Measured content constraints remain independent: composer controls use `COMPACT_CONTENT_WIDTH` (500), so a narrow pane can keep compact controls inside a wide window.
 
 The settings shell (`packages/app/src/screens/settings-screen.tsx`) and the projects screen (`packages/app/src/screens/projects-screen.tsx`) share the canonical list+detail navigation pattern:
 
@@ -167,6 +173,8 @@ Electron window controls are top-corner obstructions, not a compact-layout condi
 
 Windows and Linux controls are fixed window chrome, outside scrolling header content. A tab rail that reaches them ends at their obstruction and shows the shared overflow fade. On macOS, the Explorer toggle occupies a fixed top-right window slot so opening and closing Explorer does not move the pointer target.
 
+Each window edge has one safe-area owner. `WindowLayoutProvider` publishes the bottom inset that every surface reads through `useSafeAreaInsets()`: on iOS 27.1 and later it is UIKit's bottom-bar clearance, which refines the rectangular home-indicator inset to the screen's corners, and elsewhere the system inset. Surfaces apply that value once and never stack their own spacing under it; `WindowLayoutSurface` owns the horizontal insets the same way.
+
 A new list+detail feature copies the settings shell. A new workspace-shaped feature copies the workspace shell. Inventing a third shape happens in design review, not in a PR.
 
 ---

docs/development.md

@@ -594,7 +594,16 @@ rerun passes only by landing elsewhere.
 To confirm, fetch the URL from several runners and compare `content-length`, the `cf-ray` colo
 suffix, and the number of `attestations` entries (#7730 has the probe). To fix, remove or
 replace that version in the lockfile. If the dependent’s range cannot be changed, pin a clean
-version in root `overrides` and regenerate the lockfile. Report the URL to npm so they purge it.
+version in root `overrides`. Report the URL to npm so they purge it.
+
+A lockfile regeneration is itself how new bad versions enter: the pkijs fix re-resolved the
+electron-builder tree and pulled in `semver` 5.7.3 and 6.3.2, published two days earlier, and
+5.7.3 then failed the same way. After editing `overrides`, run `npm install --package-lock-only`
+and check that the changed `resolved` lines in `package-lock.json` are only the ones you meant.
+
+A per-parent override such as `"tiny-async-pool": { "semver": "5.7.2" }` applies to that
+parent's whole subtree, so it can also downgrade a grandchild that needs a different major. Key
+the child by range (`{ "semver@^5": "5.7.2" }`) so only matching edges are replaced.
 
 ## ACP provider catalog versions
 

docs/expo-router.md

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ When app-wide routes such as `/new`, `/settings`, or `/sessions` navigate back
 into a host workspace, use `navigateToWorkspace()`. Do not make the caller
 branch on its current route.
 
-Pass only `serverId` and `workspaceId` for normal attention-aware navigation.
+Pass only `serverId` and `workspaceId` to restore the workspace’s selected tab.
 When the action names a specific tab, pass it as `target`; that explicit choice
 is authoritative. Callers should not choose between separate route and tab
 navigation APIs.

docs/file-observation.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Closing an observation must remain safe after its root is renamed or removed. Wo
 
 `unsubscribe()` is an awaited barrier. Once it resolves, no scan, reconciliation, queued event, native handle, or callback may remain. `updateIgnore()` is the equivalent barrier for excluded paths: events queued below a newly excluded root cannot be delivered after it resolves. Treat path disappearance while scanning, attaching, or receiving a watcher error as rename/archive churn. Surface permission and resource errors so WorkspaceGit can enter bounded polling.
 
-Linux topology repair is trailing-debounced and scoped to the renamed path. A file rename needs one classification stat; a new or moved directory scans only its subtree. Full-tree scans are reserved for startup and ignore-set replacement. The initial Linux scan conservatively emits existing files discovered before their directory watcher was installed; WorkspaceGit batches these into one refresh. Benchmark this startup cost with pre-populated trees.
+Linux topology repair is trailing-debounced and scoped to the renamed path. A file rename needs one classification stat; a new or moved directory scans only its subtree. Full-tree scans are reserved for startup and ignore-set replacement. A subscription reports changes after `subscribe()` resolves, not the files that already existed. macOS FSEvents can still replay writes made moments before the stream started. Consumers read their initial state after `subscribe()` resolves; WorkspaceGit re-reads its checkout once observation setup completes, because its first refresh runs in parallel with setup. The Linux startup scan therefore emits nothing; only a scoped reconciliation of new topology reports files found before their directory's watcher was installed. Startup creates made every cold diff compute and discard a first revision. Benchmark startup cost with pre-populated trees.
 
 Windows and macOS use one native recursive watcher plus an ignored-pruned, directory-indexed inventory. Native events deliver immediately. Named events trigger serialized shallow scans of their parent directories; known directory events also reconcile that subtree. This recovers concrete create and delete paths omitted by coalescing without walking the whole root for each edit. Classification is admission-controlled to 32 concurrent `fs.stat` calls, since `fs.stat` runs on the libuv threadpool the whole daemon shares. Startup and exclusion changes use an awaited full inventory barrier. Activity arms a full safety audit 30 seconds after it settles, with a 30-second minimum interval and a five-minute starvation bound; pathless native events also trigger an immediate shallow root scan. Observation fails into polling rather than retaining more than 250,000 file and directory entries per root. A repository that large is also expensive to poll, so degraded polling doubles its gap from 5 seconds to a 60-second ceiling while the workspace snapshot comes back unchanged, and resets to 5 seconds on the first change. Explicit reads still force a refresh; the ceiling only bounds how long an edit made outside Paseo stays undiscovered.
 

docs/floating-panels.md

@@ -157,8 +157,7 @@ and the stream keeps its existing flick-to-dismiss gesture.
 The dock's private viewport and capacity model are extracted from chat. The
 app-wide `@/keyboard/shift` module owns shared motion for the dock, portals, streams,
 terminal, explorer, and dialogs. Import only its public entry point: the provider,
-shift hooks, shift style, translate view, keyboard anchor, settled stream inset, and explorer padding
-policy. Its contexts and reconciliation stay private. Keep `KeyboardShiftProvider`
+shift hooks, shift style, translate view, and keyboard anchor. Its contexts and reconciliation stay private. Keep `KeyboardShiftProvider`
 at its root mount point outside the portal host when changing dock hosts.
 
 `KeyboardTranslateView` owns visual keyboard motion inside `@/keyboard/shift`. Android uses the
@@ -171,15 +170,19 @@ animation. Keep this platform choice inside the keyboard module's private platfo
 `KeyboardTranslateView`. The panel root clips it at the header edge, so rows
 slide under the header on open and out from under it on close. Do not swap the
 dock to keyboard padding at rest. Changing its height creates either a blank
-band or a paused transition when the inverted list updates its viewport.
+band or a paused transition when the stream list updates its viewport.
+
+The docked composer rests at the larger of the safe-area bottom and 16pt. With
+the keyboard open it keeps 16pt above the keyboard through the translate view's
+`keyboardGap`, which rises further than the keyboard's safe-area overlap. Do not
+grow the composer's bottom padding with the keyboard instead.
 
 Do not animate a layout prop through the keyboard transition. On Android
 Fabric, each animated layout update clones the shadow tree and runs Yoga over
 the dock subtree. This measured about 10 ms per frame on the emulator and the
 mounted layouts arrived in bursts every 2–4 frames. A transform does not dirty
-layout. Preserve the translated dock's history scroll range with a far-end
-content inset on the inverted stream list. Update that inset only when keyboard
-motion settles; never drive it per frame.
+layout. The stream list gets no keyboard inset either; see
+[who owns the offset](agent-stream-disclosure.md#who-owns-the-offset).
 
 The translated dock's height is not the composer's available height. Bound the
 composer against the stationary space below the header inside
@@ -443,6 +446,13 @@ Before you write a new one, ask:
    positioning (`bottom: windowHeight - anchor.y + gap`) and skip the
    `contentSize` round-trip entirely. **But only if the height is genuinely
    bounded**. Verify before you commit.
+6. **Can the content change size after the panel paints, and does the panel
+   sit above its anchor?** Hold it by its bottom edge with `holdSurfaceEdge`
+   and `surfaceFrameStyles` from `components/ui/anchor.ts`. Native delivers
+   `onLayout` after the frame that shows the new size, so a panel placed by
+   `top` paints over its anchor until the next placement lands, about 150 ms
+   on Android. Web hides this because React commits the resize and the
+   re-placement in one task.
 
 Then copy the closest canonical file and trim.
 

docs/hover.md

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Heuristic: if your hover state is going to be `useState`'d and read by anything
 
 Sometimes the revealed content can't live inside the trigger — a hover card portals into a different layer, a tooltip floats above other content, a popover renders into a `Portal`. There's a real visual gap the user has to cross with the cursor.
 
-For a card whose content the user can point at or press, use `HoverCard` (`packages/app/src/components/ui/hover-card.tsx`). It is built on `useHoverSafeZone` (`packages/app/src/hooks/use-hover-safe-zone.ts`), which computes a rectangular "bridge" across the gap between the trigger and the content, whether the card sits beside, above, or below the trigger. While the pointer is inside trigger, content, or the bridge, the card stays open. A short grace timer absorbs jitter at the edges. `Tooltip` takes no pointer events and closes as soon as the pointer leaves the trigger. If the trigger has no focusable child, give `HoverCardTrigger` `focusable` and an accessible label so keyboard users can open the same content.
+For a card whose content the user can point at or press, use `HoverCard` (`packages/app/src/components/ui/hover-card.tsx`). It is built on `useHoverSafeZone` (`packages/app/src/hooks/use-hover-safe-zone.ts`), which computes a rectangular "bridge" across the gap between the trigger and the content, whether the card sits beside, above, or below the trigger. While the pointer is inside trigger, content, or the bridge, the card stays open. A short grace timer absorbs jitter at the edges. Only one card per overlay layer is open: pointing at another trigger replaces the open card at once, so a sweep down a list never shows two cards or leaves one behind. `Tooltip` takes no pointer events and closes as soon as the pointer leaves the trigger. If the trigger has no focusable child, give `HoverCardTrigger` `focusable` and an accessible label so keyboard users can open the same content.
 
 Don't roll your own. The math is annoying, the edge cases (pointer leaves window, drag in progress, content unmounts) are subtle, and we already paid for the hook.
 

docs/keyboard-shortcuts.md

@@ -84,3 +84,10 @@ its DOM-derived scope.
 Escape interrupts an agent only in the message input or an unclaimed surface.
 A focused terminal excludes that binding. The source leaves terminal Escape alone;
 terminal Escape/Ctrl forwarding is a separate feature.
+
+## Keys shared with text editing
+
+A binding on a key the platform already uses for editing, such as Cmd/Ctrl+Z for
+workspace archive undo, declares `editable: false` and registers its handler with
+`isActive` true only while it has work. An inactive handler leaves the key
+unhandled, so the pipeline skips `preventDefault` and the platform's own undo runs.

docs/markdown-renderer.md

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ Native code blocks use the library's copy control and compiled grammars. Web cod
 
 The package patch also keeps overflowing native horizontal blocks in control of their drags: Android claims parent interception at touch-down and releases it for vertical drags so the chat list can scroll; iOS keeps its scroll recognizer active for outward drags at the leading edge. This prevents compact sidebar pans from taking block scrolling without changing sidebar swipes on prose or non-overflowing blocks. Native changes require a client rebuild.
 
+On iOS a newly mounted Markdown view paints empty for a frame or more after it is laid out at its measured height: the library parses even a view's first content on a background queue and applies it in a later main-queue turn. Expanding a turn in chat therefore shows its rows in place with the text arriving a frame later (165 ms when the mount keeps the main thread busy). Android paints the text in the first frame. Rendering a view's first content synchronously fixes the frame but costs frame time when a fling mounts history rows, so the app keeps the library's behavior until [enriched-markdown #1131](https://github.com/software-mansion/enriched-markdown/issues/1131) is resolved.
+
 Android measurements use a size-only, 512-entry LRU across view unmounts, matching the library’s existing iOS cache. Scrolling back through history can reuse layout sizes without parsing those rows again. Content, layout props and width identify each entry; font-scale changes and native layout invalidation discard affected sizes. The cache retains no views or spans.
 
 The library determines how incomplete Markdown appears during streaming. Completed text uses the same component and engine as history. Find and scroll-to-message address source message ids; selection-copy understands semantic HTML and the web code component's copy metadata.

docs/menus.md

@@ -226,7 +226,8 @@ its own.
   inactive. An async action can navigate before its menu closes; a hidden panel must not leave a
   portal backdrop blocking the destination. On web the chat suspends one commit after it goes
   inactive, and that inactive commit is where the surface unmounts.
-- Anchoring, flipping, and edge clamping live in `components/ui/anchor.ts`, shared with the hover
-  card, and are unit-tested. Fix positioning bugs there, not at a call site.
+- Anchoring, flipping, edge clamping, and capping a surface's width to the display live in
+  `components/ui/anchor.ts`, shared with the hover card, and are unit-tested. Clamping moves a
+  surface but cannot shrink it, so the width cap is what keeps a wide menu on a narrow screen. Fix positioning bugs there, not at a call site.
 - Everything else about floating surfaces on Android — Portal/Modal escape, lifecycle gates,
   status-bar offset, the open flash — is in [floating-panels.md](floating-panels.md).

docs/mobile-panels.md

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Compact layouts have three mutually exclusive destinations:
 They are one interaction, not two independent drawers. The implementation lives in
 `packages/app/src/mobile-panels/`.
 
+Wide layouts reuse `agent-list` for the navigation overlay. When the left dock is collapsed or
+yields its width, a touch swipe reveals the same sidebar over the workspace at the resolved sidebar
+width. The workspace does not move, and the saved dock preference does not change.
+
 ## Ownership
 
 React/Zustand owns the durable intent:
@@ -23,6 +27,12 @@ interface MobilePanelSelection {
 Every semantic target change increments `revision`. Repeating the current target is idempotent.
 Compact panel selection is not persisted; a cold start begins at `agent`.
 
+Only an overlay sidebar holds `agent-list`, and only a compact layout holds `file-explorer`. App
+chrome publishes the layout (compact or wide, and the left sidebar presentation `overlay`, `dock`, or
+`hidden`) to `panel-store`, which drops any target the layout does not present. A stale
+`agent-list` would reopen the overlay on the next collapse; a stale `file-explorer` after widening
+would block the navigation swipe, which begins only from `agent`.
+
 The UI worklet owns transient motion:
 
 - one normalized position (`-1` left, `0` center, `1` right)
@@ -32,8 +42,10 @@ The UI worklet owns transient motion:
 
 React publishes the active panel only when the canonical target and the UI-thread position agree at
 the final anchor. Retained content never observes gesture previews, progress, or an unsettled target.
-The gesture hosts stay mounted. The Gesture Handler web patch keeps initially disabled hosts
-from capturing paragraph pointers; that capture confines browser selection to its starting paragraph.
+The gesture hosts stay mounted. A pointer capture on a paragraph confines browser selection to that
+paragraph, so the Gesture Handler web patch keeps it off: initially disabled hosts register no
+pointer listeners, and an enabled host captures only a pointer its handler still tracks after
+pointer-down. The touch-only navigation pans fail a mouse at pointer-down and never capture it.
 Native worklets own overlay opacity and pointer events while
 React owns settled panel activity and accessibility. Keep hidden native overlays laid out: collapsing
 their scroll ranges makes Android spring retained offsets back to zero during touch cancellation or
@@ -43,8 +55,11 @@ appearance keys; see [Unistyles appearance boundaries](unistyles.md#runtime-them
 
 ## Why one position
 
-Both transforms and both backdrop opacities are derived from the same normalized position. Window
-width is only a projection input. Rotation changes the projection, not the panel state.
+Both transforms and both backdrop opacities are derived from the same normalized position. Panel
+width is only a projection input: the window width on the right, and on the left the width
+`MobilePanelsProvider` resolves (the full window on compact layouts, the saved sidebar width
+clamped to the viewport on wide ones). The dock, the overlay, and their gestures read that one
+value. Rotation changes the projection, not the panel state.
 
 This makes these invalid states unrepresentable:
 
@@ -62,7 +77,9 @@ A gesture captures the current revision when it becomes active. Per-frame update
 while that revision still owns the gesture.
 
 When a React command arrives during a drag, its newer revision clears gesture ownership and starts
-motion toward the new target. The older gesture's remaining updates and finish callback are ignored.
+motion toward its target, even an unchanged one: docking mid-swipe keeps `agent` and still returns
+the dragged position to its anchor. The older gesture's remaining updates and finish callback are
+ignored.
 Canceled gestures return to the latest canonical target. A successful gesture starts its finishing
 motion immediately; the matching React command adopts that motion instead of restarting it. Position
 settlement and command acceptance may arrive in either order. Activity changes after both agree on
@@ -80,6 +97,12 @@ definition, no longer eligible to begin.
 
 - Callers request semantic targets through `panel-store`; they never write shared values.
 - Gesture behavior comes from the four explicit hooks in `mobile-panels/gestures.ts`.
+- Navigation gestures accept touch pointers only. Mouse and pen fail at touch-down, so dragging a
+  mouse to select text on a hybrid laptop never moves a panel. Browsers without a touch screen
+  (`hooks/pointer-capabilities`) never enable them.
+- Phone web opens a drawer only from the 32px edge it slides in from, so interior swipes stay with
+  terminals, code blocks, and diff scrollers. Native drawers and the wide overlay open from anywhere.
+  Horizontal-scroll ownership and the open-gesture blocker still take precedence.
 - A focused interactive surface may block panel-opening gestures through
   `useBlockMobilePanelOpenGestures`. Register only while the conflicting interaction is active and
   unregister when the surface is hidden or unfocused. The blocker never disables gestures that close
@@ -87,11 +110,17 @@ definition, no longer eligible to begin.
 - Keep `SidebarModelProvider` outside `MobileGestureWrapper`. The provider shares sidebar derivation
   across consumers, while Gesture Handler requires the wrapper's direct child to be a native `View`
   so its injected `collapsable={false}` reaches Android/Fabric.
-- Mobile sidebars render through `MobilePanelOverlay`; do not duplicate overlay lifecycle or motion
-  styles in sidebar components.
-- The desktop left sidebar is retained too. App chrome owns separate mounted and visible decisions:
-  closing it or yielding its width marks it inactive and applies `display: none` without conditionally
-  removing the sidebar tree.
+- Sidebars render through `MobilePanelOverlay`; do not duplicate overlay lifecycle or motion styles
+  in sidebar components. The wide left sidebar keeps the same content and gesture hosts when switching
+  between dock and overlay. App chrome owns mounting and presentation; settled panel activity owns
+  overlay work. A hidden dock is inactive with `display: none`; the sidebar tree stays mounted. Keep
+  the native overlay laid out while hidden, as on compact layouts. Give the switching host no
+  Reanimated layout props: a width keyed on the presentation reaches Android after React commits the
+  switch, and a lost update left the workspace at the dock width. The dock sizes to its content and
+  the overlay host fills the window.
+- The overlay's backdrop covers the whole window; safe-area padding applies to the sidebar and
+  workspace content only. It closes by swiping back, tapping the backdrop, or picking a destination:
+  every sidebar destination closes the overlay before it navigates.
 - Animated panel nodes use React Native static styles plus inline theme values. Do not attach
   Unistyles-generated styles to those nodes; Unistyles and Reanimated patching the same Fabric node
   has caused native crashes.

docs/mobile-testing.md

@@ -452,18 +452,9 @@ Regular `View` components can safely use Unistyles dynamic styles — the confli
 
 ## Native Chat Stream Layout
 
-The native agent stream uses an inverted `FlatList`, so chat layout has three coordinate systems:
-
-- chronological stream order
-- strategy-ordered array order
-- native inverted cell visual order
-
 Do not compute stream neighbors, history/live-head seams, turn footer ownership, assistant block spacing, or tool sequence endings inside React render loops. Those policies live in `packages/app/src/agent-stream/layout.ts` and are unit-tested without React Native rendering.
 
-Platform-specific stream edges belong on `StreamStrategy`:
-
-- forward web uses the last history item as the history/live-head boundary and renders content before a footer
-- native inverted uses the first history item as the history/live-head boundary and compensates for inverted cell child order
+Platform-specific stream edges belong on `StreamStrategy`. Web and native both render in chronological order, so both use the last history item as the history/live-head boundary and render content before a footer.
 
 If a chat footer looks duplicated or appears above the assistant message on mobile, start with `packages/app/src/agent-stream/layout.test.ts`. Do not add a React Native renderer test for this class of bug; make the pure layout invariant fail first.
 

docs/native-text-selection.md

@@ -2,15 +2,6 @@
 
 Keep completed assistant prose in one native text view so selection crosses paragraphs, headings and lists. The shared [Markdown renderer](markdown-renderer.md) owns that view.
 
-## Android inverted chat
-
-Keep selection visibility handling in `modules/paseo-scroll`. Android's visibility
-rectangles ignore list inversion. React Native decomposes Android's `scale: -1`
-into rotation with positive `scaleY`, so test the composed matrix when deciding
-whether those requests should move the viewport. Native tests must apply the
-list's transform through React Native's view manager; assigning `scaleY` directly
-misses that decomposition.
-
 ## Diagrams in lists and quotes
 
 Selection stops at a Mermaid diagram. Native extracts Mermaid fences into separate views because the library exposes no native block renderer override. A diagram inside a list or quote therefore appears outside that container, and its following prose starts a separate Markdown fragment.

docs/plugins.md

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ appear in the plugin catalog. Editing one in development requires a daemon resta
 Directory, Git, and npm installs cannot use a built-in ID.
 
 A provider registration with `requiresConfiguration: true` participates only while its ID exists
-under `agents.providers`. Hoplite uses this for catalog opt-in. Add writes `{ "enabled": true }`
+under `agents.providers`. Hoplite and fx use this for catalog opt-in. Add writes `{ "enabled": true }`
 without `extends`, so it selects the bundled adapter. Remove deletes the config entry; setting
 `enabled: false` keeps the entry. The bundled JavaScript still loads at startup, but an absent
 provider does not enter executable resolution or catalog discovery.
@@ -474,6 +474,10 @@ path shape: a plugin can place a worktree several directories below the default
 Emit from the operation owner, not a client subscription. Provider history replay must not trigger
 live hooks. Notifications must not be awaited inside agent mutations: a handler can send a prompt
 or answer a permission through its own daemon session. Awaiting it there deadlocks that command.
+The same holds for a hook that runs inside an agent's lifecycle lane: an `agent.open.before` or
+`agent.create.before` hook that awaits a write to the agent being opened (`setMetadata`, `setLabels`,
+an option, model, thinking or mode change) waits on the open, which waits on the hook. The hooks
+reference tells plugin authors to start such a write without awaiting it.
 
 ## Contribute a provider
 
@@ -578,6 +582,13 @@ Register a usage source from `index.server.ts` with `server.registerUsageSource(
 
 When the host’s **Check usage** switch is off, the daemon rejects usage requests before discovery, without reading logins or calling vendors. Otherwise, the daemon calls discovery for `usage.list_reports`; the client gates this RPC on `server_info.features.usageSources`. The old `provider.usage.list` RPC maps discovered reports for older clients.
 
+## Replace sidebar content
+
+The sidebar view slot is global across hosts, while header and footer contributions retain their
+host selection. The slot owns selection loading, fallback and the error boundary; the plugin owns
+its layout. This keeps plugin failures from removing navigation or recovery controls. The
+[sidebar view guide](../public-docs/plugins/sidebar-views.md) owns the author API.
+
 ## Contribute sidebar items
 
 Sidebar header and footer items are plugin components, not descriptors. The
@@ -662,6 +673,154 @@ Mounted surfaces and command invocations have shorter API lifetimes.
 Keep the client entry synchronous: return its cleanup function immediately and start asynchronous
 work inside it. See the maintained [composer pill example](../plugin-examples/local-plugin/client/main.tsx).
 
+## Contribute composer items
+
+`addComposerItem` mounts a plugin component in the agent, draft and New workspace composers. The
+public contract is the [composer items reference](../public-docs/plugins/reference.md#composer-items).
+
+A plugin reads one `ComposerModel` (`packages/app/src/composer/model.ts`): state, subscribe and
+commands. `toPluginComposer` (`packages/app/src/plugins/composer-items/`) turns its state into the
+`PluginComposer` an item reads, and the host never learns which kind of composer it got. Two
+implementations provide it:
+
+- A running agent's `agentComposer(serverId, agentId)` (`composer/agent-composer/`). It exists
+  without a mounted tab: the prompt and attachments are the agent's draft in the draft store, the
+  settings are the session store's agent, and `model` and `thinking` resolve through the provider
+  catalog with `resolveAgentModelSelection`, the picker's own function, so a read equals what the
+  picker shows. The model loads the catalog itself and resolves with no models until it lands, as the picker does,
+  so a read never differs from what the picker shows. While anything watches the model it holds a
+  `QueryObserver` on the agent's catalog: that is what lets reconnect repair, which refetches only
+  active queries, refresh a catalog nobody has a picker open for, and retry one that failed.
+  `PluginComposersSource.subscribe(selector, listener)` is what holds it for `useComposers`, so
+  the subscription must go through the model's own `subscribe`. Watching again after the catalog
+  was invalidated or failed refetches it, and a read with no watcher starts one deduplicated
+  refresh and shows the cached catalog until it lands. The model keeps one pair of store
+  subscriptions however many components watch it. It is shared for as long as its agent is in the
+  session and not archived, so a command a plugin saved keeps reaching the composer a later tab
+  mounts; it is dropped when the agent is gone or archived and nothing watches it or has one
+  mounted, checked on session changes and when the last holder lets go. The mounted
+  `AgentControls` plugs its input in with `attachInput` so `insertText` lands at the cursor.
+  Without a live input the model writes the stored prompt with `replaceDraftText`, which also asks
+  a mounted input to show it. A workspace the user left stays mounted, display none. Web
+  drops the input ref there; native keeps the input, with a stale cursor and selection.
+  `ComposerInput.isLive()` is how the model tells: it needs the ref and a retained panel that is
+  showing (`useRetainedPanelActive`). Closing a root agent's tab archives
+  it, so a running agent with no mounted composer at all only exists as a subagent whose tab was
+  closed. The daemon does not check `setModel` and `setThinking` against a catalog; the provider
+  decides and its refusal rejects the call.
+- A draft or New workspace screen's `composerModelFromHalves`, an adapter over the two contexts
+  in `composer/session.tsx`: `Composer` provides `ComposerInput` (prompt, attachments),
+  `DraftAgentControls` provides `ComposerAgent` (settings), and the adapter enforces the lock.
+
+`focus` differs per implementation on purpose. A running agent's model reveals the agent with
+`navigateToAgent` when `ComposerInput.isRevealed()` is false, and holds one pending request until an
+input that is revealed attaches. `isRevealed` is stricter than `isLive`: a compact overlay panel and
+an unfocused pane leave the input live but unable to take the keyboard, so the agent is revealed
+first, which also moves pane focus. `Composer` makes `revealed` part of `ComposerInput`, so a change
+re-runs `attachInput`, which is what tells the pending request the input is on screen. The draft
+half has nothing to navigate to and does not pull the user back to a draft they left, so it rejects
+when not revealed. Sheets, menus, pickers and modals the composer opens over itself do not count
+against `revealed`: `takeInputFocus` closes them through the `OverlayDismissalScope` in
+`components/ui/overlay-dismissal.tsx`, and places the cursor only after the commit that removes
+them. A web modal hands focus back to the button that opened it in that commit, so placing the
+cursor earlier loses it. The overlay primitives register while open: every controlled bottom
+sheet through `useIsolatedBottomSheetVisibility`, `AdaptiveModalSheet`'s desktop dialog, `MenuRoot`,
+`Combobox`, and `Modal` through its `onRequestClose`. Their close must close; a surface built on none
+of them must call `useDismissibleOverlay`. Overlapping requests share each overlay's close, and the
+latest request places the cursor while the earlier ones settle with it. A native input reports
+focus synchronously and refuses it while not editable, such as during dictation, so the native
+branch checks `isFocused()` instead of trusting the call. The agent panel opens the scope around its whole chat
+because the tracks above the composer render outside `Composer`, and the composer's own scope
+joins it. `toPluginComposer` clears the Command Center's focus restore, which would
+otherwise take the cursor back when the Command Center closes. Native `focus` opens the keyboard, so
+the app's web-only `focusInput` stays separate and plugins go through `takeInputFocus`.
+
+`ComposerAgent` stays for the built-in controls. Add a capability to the `ComposerModel`, both
+implementations and `toPluginComposer`; never branch on `context` in the host.
+
+`useComposers` and `composers()` reach an agent's model by reference (`plugins/composer-items/source.ts`):
+`PluginInstallationProvider` provides the plugin's source to every surface, and
+`createPluginCapabilities` puts `composers` on every command context. `{ focused: true }` is the
+agent Command Center registration hands to agent items, published through `plugins/focused-agent.ts`
+(null outside a workspace route). The source reads that module, not the navigation or layout
+stores, so the plugin runtime does not import them. The remembered workspace selection is
+navigation restore state and is not the focused agent. The query-cache subscriptions react to
+`updated` events only: a `useQuery` in another component's render announces `added`, and a
+subscriber that updates then triggers React's "update a component while rendering a different one"
+warning.
+
+Plugin `Toggle`, `Select` and `Action`, the thinking select and provider option controls all
+render through `ComposerControl` (`packages/app/src/composer/agent-controls/composer-control.tsx`),
+a toolbar icon or a row in the overflow sheet. Model and mode stay specialized but share its trigger,
+density and overflow. Plugin items count in the density presence in `layout.ts`, so a composer
+condenses to make room for them. A custom component renders wherever its item is placed, and an
+item that renders nothing still counts for density; there is no registration for either.
+
+A command runs against the owner's current state, not the render that built the callback. The
+draft's form (`openAgentForm`) and options (`openDraftOptions`) are plain stores for that reason,
+and `draftComposerAgent` rejects a provider the host does not offer. It passes a model id to the form
+as the picker does, with no catalog check; for a running agent the provider decides. `ComposerControl` owns the pending state and the error toast for callbacks that
+return a promise.
+
+The overflow sheet's content portals to the app root, away from the composer. Pass
+`useComposerSheetBridge()` as the sheet's `contextBridge`, or `useComposer()` returns nothing and
+the sheet draws no plugin rows.
+
+## Contribute New workspace items
+
+`addNewWorkspaceItem` mounts a plugin component on the New workspace screen. The public contract
+is the [New workspace items reference](../public-docs/plugins/reference.md#new-workspace-items).
+
+The screen's choices that a plugin may change live in one plain store,
+`createNewWorkspaceSetup` (`packages/app/src/screens/new-workspace/setup-model.ts`): the base
+picker selection, the manual isolation, the branch name and the workspace metadata. The pickers and
+the plugin commands write to it, so a command sees what an earlier command left. Project and host
+stay in the screen's hooks (`useNewWorkspaceHostSelector` reconciles them against each other), and
+they are read-only to plugins; a command that switched them would unmount the item that called it.
+
+The store is built in the render that creates the screen, with what the screen derives from its
+hooks (the lock, the project, whether the project can make worktrees, whether the host supports
+metadata), so a command is valid from a child's first effect, which runs before the screen's own
+effects. `syncInputs` refreshes those inputs in a layout effect on every commit, and commands read
+them when they run, never from the render that built them. The pickers and the commands pick
+through the same `chooseBase` and `chooseIsolation`, so a plugin command has the effects of a
+pick; the screen injects those effects when it builds the store (syncing the picker's PR attachment,
+remembering the isolation), so a command from a mount effect does the same as a click. Closing the
+picker stays in the picker's own handler. Add a capability by extending the store;
+do not read screen state from a plugin component.
+
+The item host (`PluginNewWorkspaceItems`) keys the items by `(serverId, project id)`, so a change of
+project or host remounts them. That is what keeps an item's own state and a `Combobox`'s cached
+results from outliving their project: the `Combobox` cannot tell that an author's inline `search`
+now means another project, because its identity changes every render. The store clears `branch`
+and `metadata` on the same change in `syncInputs`, and a remounted item's mount effect sets them
+again.
+
+An item's commands come from `setup.commandsFor({ serverId, projectId })`, bound to the target the
+item was mounted for. Once `syncInputs` reports another target they reject with a "moved" error, so
+a lookup that finishes after a project switch cannot write into the new project's choices. The
+reset only clears what was already written; this check covers what is written later. Rejecting, not
+ignoring, matches the lock: a command's promise resolves only when the change took effect.
+
+Known limit: an item that issues a command from `useLayoutEffect` on mount after a project or host
+switch runs before the screen's `syncInputs` layout effect, so its commands (bound to the new
+target) still see the previous target and reject as moved. This applies to a project switch as well as a host switch, since items
+remount per `(serverId, project id)`. Passive effects are not affected.
+
+`ensureWorkspace` sends the store's `branch` as `source.branchName` whenever the worktree cuts a
+new branch (`startsNewBranch`, which mirrors the daemon: anything but a checkout, including no base
+at all on a detached HEAD), and its `metadata` on `workspace.create` when it is not empty. The
+server uses `branchName ?? worktreeSlug` as the new branch. `baseRef.name` is the exact ref
+creation uses; `branchNameFromRef` is for labels only.
+
+Items render through `ComposerControl` with `surface="field"`: a `FieldTrigger` (a badge on
+desktop, a full-width field when compact) and the same pending state, error toast and list as the
+composer's controls. `ComposerControlLockProvider` carries the screen's lock to them. Plugin
+`Combobox` is a `select` item with `remoteSearch`: the app `Combobox` does not filter locally, and
+`PluginCombobox` (`plugins/react-native/composer-controls.tsx`) runs `search` through
+`useFetchQuery` with `dataShape: "list"`, which keeps the previous results while a newer query runs.
+`plugins/item-host.tsx` is the host shared by composer and New workspace items.
+
 ## Contribute timeline items
 
 Timeline transformers and renderers are client contributions. The daemon's canonical rows and

docs/providers.md

@@ -53,12 +53,18 @@ or without a control.
   first prompt only Fast can change. Codex fixes its approval policy and sandbox when the thread
   starts, so it applies only `service_tier` and `plan_mode` live. A session with no
   `applyOptions` rejects every patch; the daemon enforces this. The provider returns the options
-  it ended up with when they differ from the request. The daemon
-  stores the patch and that result in one step after the call resolves, onto the agent's options
-  as they are at that moment, so the last write wins. Throwing rejects the whole patch and
-  none of it is stored. Emit nothing from inside the call. If the provider's own state moved
-  before it refused, it reports the moved values once as `options_changed` after the call has
-  ended, because the stored options must match what runs.
+  it ended up with when they differ from the request. The daemon stores the patch and that
+  result in one step after the call resolves. Throwing rejects the whole patch and none of it is
+  stored. Emit nothing from inside the call. If the provider's own state moved before it refused,
+  it reports the moved values once as `options_changed` after the call has ended, because the
+  stored options must match what runs.
+- **One change at a time per agent.** `AgentManager` runs every option, model, thinking and mode
+  change inside the agent's lifecycle lane, the same queue that opens, reopens, closes and
+  archives it. `applyOptions`, `setModel`, `setThinkingOption` and `setMode` are never in flight
+  together on one session, and none of them overlaps an open or reopen. Providers do no
+  sequencing of their own: no queues, no "apply over the options as they are now" handling. A
+  change that arrives while another runs waits for it and then reads the agent's stored options
+  as that one left them.
 - **Old data converts in the agent manager.** Codex used to take `fast_mode`; it takes
   `service_tier` now. `AgentManager` runs `convertLegacyOptions` (`option-controls.ts`) on an
   agent's own options when it creates, resumes, imports, reloads or applies to it, and on draft
@@ -174,7 +180,7 @@ Submitted user-message wire items carry the same Paseo ID in `messageId` and `cl
 
 Provider adapters must terminalize every transient timeline row before emitting the turn's terminal event. Codex may omit the completed `contextCompaction` item when a turn ends during compaction, so its adapter closes any pending root compaction before forwarding `turn_completed`, `turn_failed`, or `turn_canceled`. A terminal turn must never leave the client showing an operation as still loading.
 
-Draft metadata lookups should avoid creating provider sessions when the upstream provider has top-level APIs for that metadata. Prefer `AgentClient.fetchCatalog`, `listCommands`, or `listControls` over creating a scratch `AgentSession`; scratch sessions can show up as empty native sessions in provider import/history UIs. `fetchCatalog` is the single discovery API for models and modes — provider implementations may use one process, separate upstream calls, or static data internally, but callers outside the provider do not get separate runtime model/mode probes. Draft command listing and scratch-session control listing require an explicit draft model. Do not resolve a default model through catalog discovery. A client-level `listControls` implementation may return controls from an incomplete, model-less draft and owns which features are valid in that state.
+Draft metadata lookups should avoid creating provider sessions when the upstream provider has top-level APIs for that metadata. Prefer `AgentClient.fetchCatalog`, `listCommands`, or `listControls` over creating a scratch `AgentSession`; scratch sessions can show up as empty native sessions in provider import/history UIs. `fetchCatalog` is the single discovery API for models and modes — provider implementations may use one process, separate upstream calls, or static data internally, but callers outside the provider do not get separate runtime model/mode probes. Draft command listing and scratch-session control listing require an explicit draft model. Do not resolve a default model through catalog discovery. A client-level `listControls` implementation may return controls from an incomplete, model-less draft and owns which features are valid in that state. It returns `{ controls, options }`: the options a session opened from the draft would run with, so a value the provider resolves natively (an ACP select nobody set) shows in the draft the same way it would on the agent.
 
 Provider session import has its own contract. The picker calls `listImportableSessions` and receives rows only: provider handle, cwd, title, prompt previews, and last activity. Import calls `importSession({ providerHandleId, cwd })` for the selected row and must not call listing again. The provider returns the resumed session, storage config, persistence handle, and hydrated timeline for that one native session; `AgentManager.importProviderSession` seeds the daemon timeline and publishes the Paseo agent only after it is ready.
 

docs/release.md

@@ -281,23 +281,26 @@ Drafts do not appear in GitHub's releases feed. Updater clients continue to see
 
 The `rollout_hours` input on `desktop-release.yml` is **only read on `workflow_dispatch`** — tag-push runs always default to 36. To get any other rollout duration on a fresh release, use the post-publish flip below.
 
-### Instant-admit release (rollout_hours=0 from publish)
+### Instant-admit release (rollout_hours=0)
 
-For a fresh release that should admit everyone immediately (low-risk change, doc-only, hotfix, or just a release you want out fast), cut the release normally and queue the rollout flip immediately after:
+`npm run release:patch` and `npm run release:minor` tag-push, and tag-push runs always stamp 36 hours. To admit everyone immediately (hotfix, doc-only change, a release you want out fast), cut the release normally, wait for it to publish, then flip the manifests:
 
 ```bash
-# 1. Cut and publish (default 36h ramp from tag push).
+# 1. Cut and publish (36h ramp from tag push).
 npm run release:patch
 
-# 2. Immediately queue the flip — runs as soon as finalize-rollout completes.
+# 2. Wait for Desktop Release to publish the GitHub Release.
+gh run watch <desktop-release-run-id> --exit-status
+
+# 3. Flip the published manifests to instant admit.
 gh workflow run desktop-rollout.yml \
   -f tag=v0.1.64 \
   -f rollout_hours=0
 ```
 
-**Why this is gap-free:** `desktop-release.yml`'s `finalize-rollout` job and `desktop-rollout.yml` share the concurrency group `desktop-rollout-<tag>`. Dispatching `desktop-rollout.yml` while the tag-push pipeline is still running queues it safely behind `finalize-rollout`. The first public manifests already carry `rolloutHours=36`, then `desktop-rollout.yml` flips them to `rolloutHours=0` shortly afterward. The renderer polls every 30 minutes, so active stable users pick up the new manifest on their next check.
+Dispatch only after `finalize-rollout` has published the release. Until then the release is a draft, and a draft has no tag: `desktop-rollout.yml` looks the release up by tag and fails with `release not found`. The concurrency group `desktop-rollout-<tag>` that the two workflows share orders them only once both are queued; it does not hold an early dispatch until the draft is published.
 
-Run the dispatch right after `release:patch` or `release:minor` returns. Don't wait for the tag-push CI to finish.
+The first public manifests carry `rolloutHours=36` for the minutes between publish and the flip. The renderer polls every 30 minutes, so active stable users pick up the new manifest on their next check.
 
 ### Adjusting an already-published release
 
@@ -591,7 +594,7 @@ Release notes depend on the changelog heading format. The heading **must** be st
 
 No prefix (`v`), no extra text. `Release Notes Sync` matches the `## X.Y.Z` (or `## X.Y.Z-beta.N`) line for the pushed tag to extract the version. A malformed heading breaks the release-notes sync for that tag.
 
-`CHANGELOG.md` on `main` is also what the app's **What's new** sheet fetches and renders, so the file is a shipped product surface, not just a release input. `##` starts a release and `###` starts a section; the app reads section titles from the document, so renaming or adding one needs no app change. Everything under a section is rendered as Markdown: prose, lists, links, inline code, fenced code, block quotes, tables, and images. Raw HTML does not render — the shared Markdown parser runs with `html: false`, so a `<video>`, `<iframe>` or `<embed>` tag reaches the reader as visible markup. Keep media out of the changelog, or link to it. A GitHub callout renders as a block quote with its `[!NOTE]` marker still in the text. A release entry is what a user reads on a phone the moment they are offered the update — write it for them.
+`CHANGELOG.md` on `main` is also what the app's **What's new** sheet fetches and renders, so the file is a shipped product surface, not just a release input. `##` starts a release and `###` starts a section; the app reads section titles from the document, so renaming or adding one needs no app change. Content between the release heading and the first `###` is the release's [highlights](#changelog-highlights). The What's new sheet, the website changelog and the GitHub release body show the highlights and keep the sections collapsed behind one control: Show all changes in the app and on the website, and an All changes `<details>` block that `Release Notes Sync` writes into the release body, so the file itself never needs HTML. A release with nothing before its first `###` shows its sections. Older entries that open with summary paragraphs are treated as highlights. The app, the website and the release scripts each parse the file with their own code, and installed apps keep the parser they shipped with, so those two heading rules are fixed: new kinds of content go inside the highlights or a section as Markdown, never behind a new heading level or marker. `scripts/test-support/changelog-structure.json` holds the cases all three parsers are tested against; change a structure rule there first. Everything under a section is rendered as Markdown: prose, lists, links, inline code, fenced code, block quotes, tables, and images. Raw HTML does not render — the shared Markdown parser runs with `html: false`, so a `<video>`, `<iframe>` or `<embed>` tag reaches the reader as visible markup. Keep media out of the changelog, or link to it. A GitHub callout renders as a block quote with its `[!NOTE]` marker still in the text. A release entry is what a user reads on a phone the moment they are offered the update — write it for them.
 
 ## Changelog policy
 
@@ -610,7 +613,7 @@ Older prerelease bodies on GitHub keep the notes they were synced with; `Release
 
 - The release agent writes the Chinese entry in the changelog commit, after the English entry is approved. Every beta that rewrites the English entry rewrites the Chinese one too, and promotion renames both. `packages/website/e2e/i18n.spec.ts` fails CI on the release commit when any entry has no current translation.
 - A translated entry uses the English heading unchanged: `## X.Y.Z - YYYY-MM-DD`. The website uses it only while the version and date both match the English entry. Otherwise it shows that release whole in English under a notice. Delete Chinese entries whose English entry was renamed.
-- Keep the English sections, bullets and links one to one. Section titles: Added 新增, Improved 改进, Changed 变更, Fixed 修复, Security 安全, Breaking 破坏性变更, Plugins 插件, Notes 说明. Wording follows [website-i18n.md](website-i18n.md#chinese-style).
+- Keep the English highlights, sections, bullets and links one to one. Section titles: Added 新增, Improved 改进, Changed 变更, Fixed 修复, Security 安全, Breaking 破坏性变更, Plugins 插件, Notes 说明. Wording follows [website-i18n.md](website-i18n.md#chinese-style).
 
 ## Changelog ownership
 
@@ -653,7 +656,7 @@ claims a general improvement, rewrite it with the concrete change.
 
 ## Changelog conciseness
 
-Every bullet must be scannable at a glance. The changelog is not release documentation — it's a list.
+Every section bullet must be scannable at a glance. The changelog is not release documentation — it's a list. [Highlights](#changelog-highlights) get more room; every other bullet follows these limits.
 
 - **One sentence per bullet, max.** If a bullet contains two sentences, the second one is doing work that belongs in product docs, not the changelog. Cut it.
 - **No trailing periods.** Bullets are list items, not prose. Drop the period at the end of every bullet, including the period inside any bolded lead-in. `**Configurable terminal scrollback**` not `**Configurable terminal scrollback.**`.
@@ -663,6 +666,57 @@ Every bullet must be scannable at a glance. The changelog is not release documen
 - **Stop after identifying the change.** Do not explain LAN/WAN topology, TLS handshakes, IPC, or other architecture in a changelog bullet. Put necessary background in product docs.
 - **Attribution follows the split.** When you split a dense bullet, move each PR/author to the bullet it belongs to. Never duplicate the same PR across multiple bullets.
 
+## Changelog highlights
+
+Every release entry leads with highlights: the changes a user would name first when asked what is
+new. They are a list above the first `###` section, biggest first. The sections below are the
+full record; a reader who stops after the highlights should have missed nothing they would ask
+about.
+
+```markdown
+## 0.16.0 - 2026-11-20
+
+- **Undo workspace archive:** Archiving a workspace in the app now shows a "Workspace archived" toast for six seconds. Undo, or Cmd/Ctrl+Z, restores the workspace with its tabs and agents. ([#8904](https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/8904))
+
+### Added
+```
+
+- **The lead-in names what is new in four words at most.** Bold it, colon inside the bold. A reader
+  who sees only the bold words should know what this release added or changed. A category lead-in
+  such as `**Polish:**` gathers several related changes.
+- **The lead-in is not a place or something Paseo already had.** A device, screen or area names
+  where the change landed. A feature name that was true of the last release hides the news: Paseo
+  already had keyboard shortcuts, so the lead-in says they now work on mobile.
+- **The first sentence says the plain thing.** Write what a user would tell a friend: Paseo now
+  shows the background tasks an agent is running. Leave out the conditions and mechanics that make
+  it true.
+- **Describe the new behavior, not the old one.** Say what is faster or better now, and do not
+  dwell on how slow or broken it was before. A number is welcome as a short aside after the new
+  behavior is stated: seconds, a percentage, a multiple.
+- **Do not list what a sentence already covers.** After "the same shortcuts as desktop", naming
+  five of them adds nothing. Keep a list only when it sets the scope, such as the providers a
+  feature works with.
+- **The description runs one to three sentences.** Sentences end with periods, and the attribution
+  follows the last one. [Changelog wording](#changelog-wording) applies in full.
+- **A highlight replaces the section bullets it covers.** A PR appears once in an entry, so its
+  attribution moves to the highlight.
+- **A highlight is something a user would name.** Everything else stays a section bullet. A patch
+  release still has one: the change it ships for.
+- **Fixes are routine and stay in `### Fixed`.** Do not add a summary of fixes. A fix, or a group
+  of related fixes, becomes a highlight only when it passes the same test as a feature, and then
+  it is written as what works now: `**Fewer reconnects on return:**`.
+
+| Avoid                                                                                      | Write                                                                                                            |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `**iPad and touch screens:**`                                                              | `**Touch-sized tablet controls:**`                                                                               |
+| `**Hardware keyboard shortcuts:**`                                                         | `**Keyboard shortcuts on mobile:**`                                                                              |
+| When an agent ends its turn while shells it started are still running, a pill lists them   | Paseo now shows the background tasks an agent is running                                                         |
+| A diff no longer waits 4 to 40 seconds behind worktree scans                               | Opening Changes shows the file tree right away, and diffs load about 6 times sooner on hosts with many worktrees |
+| The same shortcuts as desktop: command center, file picker, new workspace, workspace jumps | The same shortcuts as desktop, including your custom bindings                                                    |
+
+Before showing a draft, read only the bold lead-ins top to bottom. Each one must answer "what is
+new?" without its description.
+
 ## Changelog attribution
 
 Every changelog bullet must credit contributors and link to the PR(s) that delivered the change. This is not one-PR-per-line — a single bullet describes a user-facing change and may reference multiple PRs.
@@ -694,7 +748,7 @@ Rules:
 
 ## Changelog ordering
 
-Entries within each section (Added, Improved, Fixed) are ordered by user impact:
+Highlights come first, ordered by user impact. Entries within each section (Added, Improved, Fixed) follow the same order:
 
 1. **User-facing features and changes first** — things users will notice, want to try, or that change their workflow.
 2. **Quality-of-life improvements** — polish, performance, smoother interactions.

docs/terminal-worker.md

@@ -15,17 +15,20 @@ supervisor (paseo.pid) ──► daemon worker ──► launcher ──► term
 - The worker exits on its own when it has no controller and no terminals, on `shutdown`, on SIGTERM (killing its terminals), and when its record disappears (a deleted `$PASEO_HOME`: nobody can ever reach it again).
 - Its stderr goes to `$PASEO_HOME/terminal-worker.log`. No pipe to the daemon survives the daemon.
 
-The worker retains a fixed 10,000 history rows plus the screen in its existing xterm. Replay uses `@xterm/addon-serialize` 0.14 against headless xterm 6; no second cell grid or lifetime byte log is retained. The serializer boundary owns cursor position, visibility and explicit program-selected presentation; the addon alone does not preserve all three. An unset program style leaves each client’s configured cursor defaults intact. Standard modes come from the serializer; the existing input-mode tracker retains protocol modes such as Kitty and Win32 input. Commit that tracker with parsed output so replay bytes and metadata describe the same cut.
+The worker retains a fixed 10,000 history rows plus the screen in its existing xterm. Replay uses `@xterm/addon-serialize` 0.14 against headless xterm 6; no second cell grid or lifetime byte log is retained. The serializer boundary owns cursor position, visibility and explicit program-selected presentation; the addon alone does not preserve all three. An unset program style leaves each client’s configured cursor defaults intact. It also restores SGR mouse encoding: the addon preserves mouse tracking but omits its encoding, so switching away and back otherwise sends legacy wheel reports that Copilot CLI cannot use. These missing modes require xterm's internal services because its public modes API omits them. Standard modes come from the serializer; the existing input-mode tracker retains protocol modes such as Kitty and Win32 input. Commit that tracker with parsed output so replay bytes and metadata describe the same cut.
 
 Which triggers keep terminals and which close them is owned by the stop reason (`keepTerminals`) that flows from the request through the supervisor to `stop()`. The kill side always ends in the reaper (`terminal-worker-reaper.ts`), the only path that signals terminal processes outside a connected daemon.
 
 ## Record, socket and secret
 
-The worker writes `$PASEO_HOME/terminal-worker/<pid>.json` (owner-only) with its identity (birth time + command line carrying `--paseo-terminal-worker <recordId>`), protocol version, socket path, a random secret, the copy it runs from, and each terminal program's pid and birth time.
+The worker writes `$PASEO_HOME/terminal-worker/<pid>.json` (owner-only) with its pid, protocol version, socket path, random secret, runtime copy and terminal programs. One daemon holds the home's pid lock. Its records and sockets belong to that home.
 
-- The first frame on the socket must be `hello` with the secret; anything else closes the connection. Anyone who connects can type into every shell, so the record is `0600`, the unix socket `0600` in a `0700` directory.
-- Unix socket paths have a byte budget (103 on macOS, 107 on Linux). Dev homes under worktrees blow it, so `terminal-worker-socket-path.ts` tries `$PASEO_HOME/terminal-worker/sock/`, then `$TMPDIR/paseo-<uid>/`, then `/tmp/paseo-<uid>/`, and accepts an existing directory only if it is a real `0700` directory owned by you. It never chmods a shared root.
-- Cleanup signals a process only when its birth time matches the record. Birth times come from `ps -o lstart` with `LC_ALL=C` (it follows `LC_TIME` otherwise) and from `Win32_Process.CreationDate`. A missing birth time is "unknown", never matched by command text: a shell that ran `exec` keeps its pid and birth time but not its argv.
+- The first frame must be `hello` with the secret; anything else closes the connection. Anyone authenticated can type into every shell, so the record and Unix socket are `0600` inside a `0700` directory.
+- New socket names include the record id. A stale record whose pid belongs to a newer worker cannot reach that newer worker. Existing records keep their recorded paths. Legacy paths use only the home and pid, so force-killing through one also requires successful authentication. A legacy socket that cannot authenticate stays unconfirmed.
+- A missing pid or refused socket retires the record without signaling the worker. An accepting socket identifies the live worker. Cleanup asks it to shut down, then probes again before force-killing it after the grace period (`taskkill /T` on Windows). An inconclusive probe counts toward the worker limit and is retried on the next start or stop without signaling it.
+- Workers never query their own birth time or command line. Readers accept legacy identity fields but ignore them. Daemons through 0.15.1 report new records unreadable and cannot adopt them.
+- Windows terminal programs have no recorded birth time and terminal lifecycle operations never launch PowerShell. Linux and macOS retain program birth-time checks through `ps` with `LC_ALL=C`; Linux also walks sessions to find surviving jobs.
+- Unix socket paths have a byte budget (103 on macOS, 107 on Linux). Long dev homes use an owner-only fallback under `$TMPDIR/paseo-<uid>/` or `/tmp/paseo-<uid>/`. An existing directory must be a real `0700` directory owned by you; a shared root is never chmodded.
 - A kill cleanup that cannot confirm every process gone writes `closing-<recordId>.json` beside the worker record. The worker rewrites its own record whenever a terminal starts or exits, so the kill intent has to live in a file it never writes. A closing record is never adopted; the next stop or start retries it.
 - An unreadable record of either kind makes `daemon status` and a kill restart fail with its path: a kill cleanup that met it could not check what it names, and leaves nothing else behind. A read that fails with `EPERM`, `EBUSY` or `EACCES` is retried for 250ms first: on Windows, opening a record while the worker renames its new copy over it fails that way for a moment.
 
@@ -40,7 +43,7 @@ The worker writes `$PASEO_HOME/terminal-worker/<pid>.json` (owner-only) with its
 | two or more older                  | shuts it down; its terminals close (logged)                                                                                                                 |
 | newer, or a version it cannot read | leaves it running, undriven; `list_terminals` and `create_terminal` answer `rpc_error` `terminal_worker_incompatible`, and `paseo daemon status` prints why |
 
-Never more than two workers run. A new worker launches only when none is current, none is incompatible and fewer than two run. The count comes from the records, so an unreachable or unidentified worker counts, and so does one a cleanup could not confirm gone. When two run, the daemon starts with no current worker, and the first terminal created after one of them exits launches it.
+Never more than two workers run. A new worker launches only when none is current, none is incompatible and fewer than two run. The count comes from the records, so an unreachable worker counts, as does one whose socket probe is inconclusive, and one a cleanup could not confirm gone. When two run, the daemon starts with no current worker, and the first terminal created after one of them exits launches it.
 
 **The frozen envelope never changes across versions:** the frame format (4-byte length + `v8.serialize`), `hello`/`helloAck`, the `listTerminals` info fields and `shutdown`. That is what lets any daemon close any worker: a kill stop sends `shutdown` to a newer worker it cannot otherwise drive. Protocol 5 hard cuts unreleased protocols 1 through 4, including the acknowledgement-based replay contract: those workers are obsolete and close. For future versions, keep a previous-version adapter so the draining worker can still be driven, and drop the adapter for the version before that.
 

docs/timeline-sync.md

@@ -5,15 +5,9 @@ Agent chat delivery has two paths:
 1. **Live stream** — `agent_stream` WebSocket messages for immediacy. These may be delta-shaped lifecycle updates.
 2. **Authoritative history** — `fetch_agent_timeline_request` for correctness. This always returns full projected timeline items, never lifecycle deltas.
 
-The daemon retains projected items in memory. Each source event advances the stream sequence,
-then replaces the previous tool state or merges into the current text item. Intermediate payloads
-are never retained for history or catch-up. Provider history is the durable transcript authority
-and rebuilds the projection when an agent resumes.
-
-Pagination bounds each read, not total resident history. Active and idle agents retain their
-projected transcript; archive releases it and later history reads rebuild it from the provider.
-Streaming overhead must remain proportional to the retained transcript. Cumulative text snapshots
-must be released after their deltas have been consumed.
+Pagination bounds each read, not total resident history. Streaming overhead must remain
+proportional to the retained transcript. Cumulative text snapshots must be released after their
+deltas have been consumed.
 
 The invariants are:
 
@@ -32,6 +26,44 @@ bounded item is used for runtime timeline rows and live stream events. Provider
 applies the same rule so reopening an agent cannot restore an oversized payload. Fetches apply it
 again to assistant and reasoning rows the projection merges from many chunks.
 
+## Owned history
+
+The daemon owns each agent's history in `AgentTimeline`
+(`packages/server/src/server/agent/timeline/`): one ordered history per agent, with each provider
+child's descriptor and history in a child scope of the same agent. Each source event advances the
+stream sequence, then replaces the previous tool state or merges into the current text item.
+Intermediate payloads are never retained for history or catch-up.
+
+History is append-only: rewind, import, reload and archive never delete or rewrite a row. Only
+deleting the agent, or a provider removing one of its own children, deletes history.
+
+- **Rewind** retires a range of rows. They leave the conversation and stay stored, in the same
+  epoch. See [Rewind retires rows](#rewind-retires-rows).
+- **Provider history** is imported only into an agent that has no history. After that, resume
+  does not read it. Reload agent and Unarchive append only the rows the provider has after the
+  owned conversation, as ordinary live rows. Any other difference, including an answer Paseo saw only part of or a prompt sent with
+  attachments, changes nothing and is reported as diverged. A provider child Paseo already holds,
+  listed or retired, is never imported again.
+- **Archive and reload** keep the history and the provider children. An archived chat reads them
+  without its provider. Deleting the agent deletes its history and every child's, retired ones
+  included.
+
+`epoch` is the stored history's identity, minted once when the history is created.
+
+`AgentTimeline` serializes every operation of one agent, child scopes included, and keeps its
+state in an `AgentTimelineBackend`: the sequence, the rows and retirements, prompt identities, the
+open rewind, and the children. The backend contract suite is `agent-timeline.test.ts`, run over
+`TIMELINE_CONTRACT_BACKENDS` in `timeline/testing.ts`. The only backend keeps everything in
+memory, so a daemon restart loses the owned history: the next resume imports provider history into
+a new epoch, and clients take the destructive reset below. Rewinds retired before the restart come
+back if the provider history still holds them. Retained history costs memory for every loaded,
+closed or archived agent until the daemon exits or the agent is deleted.
+
+An open rewind is stored with the history. Resuming an agent whose history holds one settles it
+before the agent takes prompts: a recorded provider cut is committed, and an unknown outcome is
+judged from the resumed provider history. When that history proves nothing, the rewind stays open
+and the agent refuses prompts with the unknown-outcome error.
+
 ## Presence is not delivery
 
 Client heartbeat reports presence:
@@ -69,8 +101,8 @@ Source coverage still includes interleaved tool updates.
 
 Canonical IDs define runs. With missing IDs, human prompts, heartbeats and typed received
 agent messages each start a fallback turn. This deterministic fallback is shared by paging
-and presentation; it cannot recover historical batching or steering. Older history remains
-user-driven by scrolling upward.
+and presentation; it cannot recover historical batching or steering. An underfilled viewport
+loads older history until it fills or history is exhausted. Further history is user-driven.
 
 A failed catch-up or subscription reconcile retries on its own, doubling from 1s to a 30s ceiling.
 A fixed 1s retry turned a persistent daemon-side refusal — a Codex thread that already has an active
@@ -95,21 +127,54 @@ Provider message IDs are not guaranteed for every displayed item. Paseo-generate
 Actions that address a point in chat history, such as Fork, use the daemon timeline `epoch` plus the projected item's `seqEnd`. The app carries that position on the rendered assistant item for both live and fetched history. When adjacent projected chunks merge, the merged item retains the newer chunk's position.
 
 The daemon validates the epoch and locates the projected item at the selected position. A fork
-includes projected items through that checkpoint. If an item spans the checkpoint and changed
-afterward, the daemon refuses that fork with an actionable error: discarded historical payloads
-cannot be reconstructed from sequence metadata. Forking the current context remains available.
+includes projected items through that checkpoint. If an item the fork copies spans the checkpoint
+and changed afterward, the daemon refuses that fork with an actionable error: discarded historical
+payloads cannot be reconstructed from sequence metadata. Plugin cards are not copied, so a card
+updated after the checkpoint does not block it. Forking the current context remains available.
 
 ## Resume behavior
 
-Opening, reconnecting, and returning from app background establish the current timeline through
-bounded catch-up. Switching between continuously subscribed open chats needs no fetch.
-Focus alone does not mutate timeline state; the response is compared with the local
-authoritative range first.
+Opening, reconnecting, and returning from app background establish whether the chat is current.
+Switching between continuously subscribed open chats needs no fetch. Focus alone does not mutate
+timeline state; the response is compared with the local authoritative range first.
 
-Cached history remains readable during recovery. The chat shows Reconnecting to host while the host is
-offline, then Updating messages until authoritative catch-up completes. Socket connectivity alone cannot
-certify that the displayed conversation is current. The timeline owner publishes freshness; the
-view renders it without a toast timer or a separate resume workflow.
+A chat with a cached cursor asks the daemon first. The `agent.timeline.set_subscription.request`
+that attaches the chat carries its `{ epoch, seq }`, and the response answers `current` or `behind`
+per chat. The daemon attaches before it compares, so an entry committed in between arrives live or
+counts as behind. `current` means the agent is loaded, the epoch matches, and the cursor is at the
+head; it completes catch-up with no fetch. The response carries the agent row for each `current`
+chat, because the timeline fetch is also what refreshes that row and the replica cache stores only
+part of it. `behind`, or no entry, runs the bounded catch-up. The subscribe handler never loads an
+agent, so an agent the daemon has not loaded answers `behind` and resumes in that fetch. Hosts without `features.timelineFreshnessCheck` get no cursors and always fetch.
+
+Cached history remains readable during recovery. The chat shows Reconnecting to host while the host
+is offline and until a reconnected chat's check answers, so an unchanged chat never shows a second
+toast. Returning from background on a socket that stayed connected shows nothing until the check
+answers: the chat stayed subscribed, so a slow answer is no reason to doubt it, and a socket that
+died without closing fails the foreground liveness probe and becomes a reconnect. Updating messages
+appears for a chat that is behind, until the fetch completes, and for an opened chat whose check is
+still unanswered `FRESHNESS_CHECK_QUIET_MS` after it was sent. That delay measures the daemon, so it
+starts at the request: on a cold start the cache read alone can take longer. Socket connectivity
+alone cannot certify that the displayed conversation is current. The timeline owner publishes freshness; the view renders it without a toast timer or a
+separate resume workflow.
+
+The turn footer in a chat follows its messages, not the agent status. Turn activity comes from the
+agent directory and messages from the chat's own catch-up, and either can land first. So the
+timeline owner keeps an unsettled turn per chat: the turn its messages were captured during. It is
+set when a check or catch-up becomes owed while the turn is open, or when cached messages are
+painted that were saved while one was, and it is saved with those messages in the replica. It
+carries the turn's start time. While it is set and the agent reads idle, the chat keeps showing that
+running turn, with its loader and elapsed timer unchanged, and there is no separate catching-up
+footer. The commit that brings the chat current clears it, in the same store write as the rows, so
+the final messages and the completed footer land together. A `current` answer is that commit with no
+rows. A check in flight keeps the hold, and `behind` keeps it until the fetched rows land. A failed
+catch-up clears it too, and the footer takes the true status. Losing the connection is not a failed
+catch-up: none can run or fail until the host returns, so the running footer stays beside
+"Reconnecting to host" and the check on reconnect resolves it. Releasing it offline would put a
+completed footer under messages known to be behind. Surfaces outside the timeline (the sidebar,
+tabs, the composer's stop and send controls) read the true status and never see this state. Live
+delivery needs no hold because `applyStreamEvent` commits queued rows before it applies turn
+liveness.
 
 The draft-create handoff has the same lifetime: the viewed-timeline owner releases it when the sync
 stops owing that chat a catch-up, not when the first authoritative page lands. Releasing it at the
@@ -126,7 +191,7 @@ or retry backoff. This cannot keep a mobile socket alive after the operating sys
   bookkeeping without replacing timeline arrays, preserving an upward-scrolled viewport.
 - When the page overlaps or is adjacent to the local end cursor, only projected items newer than
   that cursor are applied. Already-covered rows are not replayed.
-- A true middle gap, epoch change, or rewind atomically replaces stale canonical history with the
+- A true middle gap or epoch change atomically replaces stale canonical history with the
   latest tail. The replacement reconciles positioned live rows beyond its coverage and unresolved
   local submissions; it never retains two discontiguous canonical ranges.
 
@@ -139,6 +204,24 @@ history replay. The pending approval UI can hide that tool from presentation, bu
 must retain its position. Creating a new history card on rejection places it after the prompt that
 rejected it; changing steer-event ordering would also put new assistant output before that prompt.
 
+## Rewind retires rows
+
+A conversation rewind commits a retirement `{ seq, retireFromSeq }`: active rows anchored in
+`[retireFromSeq, seq)` leave the conversation, and `seq` is the retirement's own position in the
+sequence. The provider children spawned by retired tool calls, and their descendants, are retired
+in the same commit. They leave the listing, keep their history, and drop late provider events.
+
+Clients learn of a retirement live through `agent.timeline.rewind`, and on pages through
+`retirements`, which lists the retirements whose `seq` lies inside the page's span. The client
+drops the rows it holds in that range; rows without a timeline position are unechoed local sends
+and stay. Retired ranges and the retirement's `seq` count as covered, so forward cursors advance
+through them. Tail, before and prompt-jump pages are served from active rows, so one served before
+a retirement the client already applied is stale and is refetched (`viewed-timeline-sync.ts`).
+
+Clients without `timeline_rewind_operations` cannot drop retired rows. For them the session derives
+a wire epoch that changes with each retirement, so they take the destructive replacement they
+always took on rewind. The shim is tagged `COMPAT(timelineRewindOperations)`.
+
 ## Provider child history
 
 Child transcripts use the same projected-page reconciliation as the main conversation. The client
@@ -303,7 +386,7 @@ the draft-create handoff is the one boundary that also permits the legacy canoni
 arrived first. Generic reducers and consumers do not reimplement message identity matching.
 
 Ordinary bootstrap, same-epoch reset, and catch-up replacement preserve unmatched locally submitted
-rows because a provider may never echo them. A known epoch change or rewind replaces history and
+rows because a provider may never echo them. A known epoch change replaces history and
 drops acknowledged local rows omitted by the new canonical epoch; every transaction not yet
 acknowledged by the provider, and no other local row, crosses that destructive boundary. A cold
 reset without an existing epoch is destructive because the client has no continuity anchor.
@@ -319,6 +402,7 @@ canonical assistant prefix, it stays in the head lane. No row may be returned in
 
 ## Relevant code
 
+- Server owned history: `packages/server/src/server/agent/timeline/`
 - Server live stream forwarding: `packages/server/src/server/session.ts`
 - App sync planning: `packages/app/src/timeline/timeline-sync-plan.ts`
 - App viewed-agent synchronization: `packages/app/src/timeline/viewed-timeline-sync.ts`

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150011.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fixed
+- Fixed the daemon failing to start when the terminal worker cannot read its own process identity, which left Paseo Desktop without a daemon on Windows machines where Windows PowerShell 5.1 cannot run Get-CimInstance
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150012.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fixed
+- Fixed the daemon failing to start when the terminal worker cannot read its own process identity, which left Paseo Desktop without a daemon on Windows machines where Windows PowerShell 5.1 cannot run Get-CimInstance
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150013.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fixed
+- Fixed the daemon failing to start when the terminal worker cannot read its own process identity, which left Paseo Desktop without a daemon on Windows machines where Windows PowerShell 5.1 cannot run Get-CimInstance
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150014.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fixed
+- Fixed the daemon failing to start when the terminal worker cannot read its own process identity, which left Paseo Desktop without a daemon on Windows machines where Windows PowerShell 5.1 cannot run Get-CimInstance
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150021.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Added
+- Added a first-run setup on Paseo Desktop and web that walks new users through theme, providers, projects, agent orchestration and the mobile app, with Settings → General → Show setup again to reopen it
+- Added project suggestions from the folders where you ran Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Pi, shown in the setup Projects step
+
+Improved
+- Changed the theme picker to a grid of tiles with a preview of each theme
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150022.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Added
+- Added a first-run setup on Paseo Desktop and web that walks new users through theme, providers, projects, agent orchestration and the mobile app, with Settings → General → Show setup again to reopen it
+- Added project suggestions from the folders where you ran Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Pi, shown in the setup Projects step
+
+Improved
+- Changed the theme picker to a grid of tiles with a preview of each theme
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150023.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Added
+- Added a first-run setup on Paseo Desktop and web that walks new users through theme, providers, projects, agent orchestration and the mobile app, with Settings → General → Show setup again to reopen it
+- Added project suggestions from the folders where you ran Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Pi, shown in the setup Projects step
+
+Improved
+- Changed the theme picker to a grid of tiles with a preview of each theme
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150024.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Added
+- Added a first-run setup on Paseo Desktop and web that walks new users through theme, providers, projects, agent orchestration and the mobile app, with Settings → General → Show setup again to reopen it
+- Added project suggestions from the folders where you ran Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Pi, shown in the setup Projects step
+
+Improved
+- Changed the theme picker to a grid of tiles with a preview of each theme
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150031.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fixed
+- Fixed conversation text becoming blurred when opening or dismissing the keyboard on iOS 26+
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150032.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fixed
+- Fixed conversation text becoming blurred when opening or dismissing the keyboard on iOS 26+
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150033.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fixed
+- Fixed conversation text becoming blurred when opening or dismissing the keyboard on iOS 26+
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150034.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fixed
+- Fixed conversation text becoming blurred when opening or dismissing the keyboard on iOS 26+
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150041.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Added
+- Added Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 with medium default effort
+
+Notes
+- Both models require Claude Code 2.1.321 or newer; Mythos 5.2 appears only when Claude Code advertises access
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150042.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Added
+- Added Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 with medium default effort
+
+Notes
+- Both models require Claude Code 2.1.321 or newer; Mythos 5.2 appears only when Claude Code advertises access
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150043.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Added
+- Added Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 with medium default effort
+
+Notes
+- Both models require Claude Code 2.1.321 or newer; Mythos 5.2 appears only when Claude Code advertises access
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/changelogs/150044.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Added
+- Added Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 with medium default effort
+
+Notes
+- Both models require Claude Code 2.1.321 or newer; Mythos 5.2 appears only when Claude Code advertises access
+
+Full notes: https://paseo.sh/changelog

nix/npm-deps.hash

@@ -1 +1 @@
-sha256-p97CaALgkY+x9XVvS4/ILqmbwYSX0fSbVUgQl35BjiU=
+sha256-21qteVXVoL7S/wF0aGxHNEkTX8in6UF6+wWEZi8N3HA=

package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "paseo",
-  "version": "0.15.0",
+  "version": "0.15.4",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "paseo",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "hasInstallScript": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "workspaces": [
@@ -8142,6 +8142,26 @@
         "@jridgewell/sourcemap-codec": "^1.4.14"
       }
     },
+    "node_modules/@legendapp/list": {
+      "version": "3.7.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@legendapp/list/-/list-3.7.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-zgIy84yG2JP93+kib61rZBTcYGZ6fULrkCQz/MF7WrjVJeJQa/rR4z+rXfM5oveirO5mYkro4IDGytARIjJe9w==",
+      "license": "MIT",
+      "dependencies": {
+        "use-sync-external-store": "^1.5.0"
+      },
+      "peerDependencies": {
+        "react": "*"
+      },
+      "peerDependenciesMeta": {
+        "react-dom": {
+          "optional": true
+        },
+        "react-native": {
+          "optional": true
+        }
+      }
+    },
     "node_modules/@lezer/common": {
       "version": "1.5.1",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@lezer/common/-/common-1.5.1.tgz",
@@ -15068,9 +15088,9 @@
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     "node_modules/app-builder-lib/node_modules/@electron/get/node_modules/semver": {
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-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/semver/-/semver-6.3.2.tgz",
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/semver/-/semver-6.3.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-BR7VvDCVHO+q2xBEWskxS6DJE1qRnb7DxzUrogb71CWoSficBxYsiAGd+Kl0mmq/MprG9yArRkyrQxTO6XjMzA==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "ISC",
       "bin": {
@@ -35080,9 +35100,9 @@
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     },
     "node_modules/tiny-async-pool/node_modules/semver": {
-      "version": "5.7.3",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/semver/-/semver-5.7.3.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-kM18BPOqTi0+TB68703/GJRpAML5Me+IDQsR1J26YB3EFKKNEyHIVZuWDX7+WKQB3tHwDwgk24BfhdpWUbytvQ==",
+      "version": "5.7.2",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/semver/-/semver-5.7.2.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-cBznnQ9KjJqU67B52RMC65CMarK2600WFnbkcaiwWq3xy/5haFJlshgnpjovMVJ+Hff49d8GEn0b87C5pDQ10g==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "ISC",
       "bin": {
@@ -37448,7 +37468,7 @@
     },
     "packages/app": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/app",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "dependencies": {
         "@codemirror/commands": "6.10.4",
         "@codemirror/language": "6.12.4",
@@ -37466,6 +37486,7 @@
         "@getpaseo/protocol": "*",
         "@gorhom/bottom-sheet": "^5.2.14",
         "@gorhom/portal": "^1.0.14",
+        "@legendapp/list": "^3.7.1",
         "@marijn/find-cluster-break": "^1.0.2",
         "@mattermost/react-native-paste-input": "2.0.1",
         "@react-native-async-storage/async-storage": "2.2.0",
@@ -39616,13 +39637,13 @@
     },
     "packages/cli": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/cli",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@clack/prompts": "^1.0.0",
-        "@getpaseo/client": "0.15.0",
-        "@getpaseo/protocol": "0.15.0",
-        "@getpaseo/server": "0.15.0",
+        "@getpaseo/client": "0.15.4",
+        "@getpaseo/protocol": "0.15.4",
+        "@getpaseo/server": "0.15.4",
         "chalk": "^5.3.0",
         "commander": "^12.0.0",
         "mime-types": "^2.1.35",
@@ -39869,11 +39890,11 @@
     },
     "packages/client": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/client",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
-        "@getpaseo/protocol": "0.15.0",
-        "@getpaseo/relay": "0.15.0",
+        "@getpaseo/protocol": "0.15.4",
+        "@getpaseo/relay": "0.15.4",
         "ws": "^8.20.0",
         "zod": "^4.4.3"
       },
@@ -39885,7 +39906,7 @@
     },
     "packages/desktop": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/desktop",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@getpaseo/cli": "*",
@@ -40128,7 +40149,7 @@
     },
     "packages/expo-two-way-audio": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/expo-two-way-audio",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "license": "MIT",
       "devDependencies": {
         "@types/jest": "^29.5.14",
@@ -40174,7 +40195,7 @@
     },
     "packages/highlight": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/highlight",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@codemirror/language": "6.12.4",
@@ -40204,7 +40225,7 @@
     },
     "packages/plugin": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/plugin",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@agentclientprotocol/sdk": "^1.4.0",
@@ -40212,8 +40233,8 @@
         "use-sync-external-store": "^1.6.0"
       },
       "devDependencies": {
-        "@getpaseo/client": "0.15.0",
-        "@getpaseo/protocol": "0.15.0",
+        "@getpaseo/client": "0.15.4",
+        "@getpaseo/protocol": "0.15.4",
         "@types/node": "^20.9.0",
         "@types/react": "~19.2.0",
         "react": "19.2.3",
@@ -40223,8 +40244,8 @@
         "zod": "^4.4.3"
       },
       "peerDependencies": {
-        "@getpaseo/client": "0.15.0",
-        "@getpaseo/protocol": "0.15.0",
+        "@getpaseo/client": "0.15.4",
+        "@getpaseo/protocol": "0.15.4",
         "react": ">=19.1.0 <20",
         "react-native": ">=0.81.5",
         "zod": "^4.4.3"
@@ -40246,7 +40267,7 @@
     },
     "packages/protocol": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/protocol",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "semver": "^7.8.5",
@@ -40274,7 +40295,7 @@
     },
     "packages/relay": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/relay",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@noble/ciphers": "^2.4.0",
@@ -40496,17 +40517,17 @@
     },
     "packages/server": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/server",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@agentclientprotocol/sdk": "^0.17.1",
         "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk": "0.3.246",
         "@anthropic-ai/sdk": "^0.104.2",
-        "@getpaseo/client": "0.15.0",
-        "@getpaseo/highlight": "0.15.0",
-        "@getpaseo/plugin": "0.15.0",
-        "@getpaseo/protocol": "0.15.0",
-        "@getpaseo/relay": "0.15.0",
+        "@getpaseo/client": "0.15.4",
+        "@getpaseo/highlight": "0.15.4",
+        "@getpaseo/plugin": "0.15.4",
+        "@getpaseo/protocol": "0.15.4",
+        "@getpaseo/relay": "0.15.4",
         "@isaacs/ttlcache": "^2.1.4",
         "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "1.29.0",
         "@opencode-ai/sdk": "1.14.46",
@@ -41453,7 +41474,7 @@
     },
     "packages/website": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/website",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "dependencies": {
         "@cloudflare/vite-plugin": "^1.29.1",
         "@cloudflare/workers-types": "^4.20260317.1",
@@ -43063,7 +43084,7 @@
     },
     "plugins": {
       "name": "@getpaseo/builtin-plugins",
-      "version": "0.15.0",
+      "version": "0.15.4",
       "dependencies": {
         "@getpaseo/plugin": "*",
         "zod": "^4.4.3"

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "paseo",
-  "version": "0.15.0",
+  "version": "0.15.4",
   "private": true,
   "description": "Paseo: voice-controlled development environment for local AI coding agents",
   "keywords": [
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@
   "overrides": {
     "@codemirror/language": "6.12.4",
     "@codemirror/view": "6.43.6",
+    "@electron/get@^3.0.0": {
+      "semver@^6": "6.3.1"
+    },
     "expo": "~57.0.30",
     "expo-router": "~57.0.28",
     "lightningcss": "1.30.1",
@@ -158,6 +161,9 @@
     "react-native": "0.86.3",
     "react-native-gesture-handler": "~2.32.0",
     "react-native-reanimated": "4.5.5",
-    "react-native-worklets": "0.10.4"
+    "react-native-worklets": "0.10.4",
+    "tiny-async-pool": {
+      "semver@^5": "5.7.2"
+    }
   }
 }

packages/app/e2e/browser/acp-provider-catalog.spec.ts

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const ACP_PROVIDER = {
 
 interface ProviderCatalogDaemonClient {
   getLastServerInfoMessage(): {
-    features?: { hopliteProvider?: boolean; plugins?: boolean };
+    features?: { fxProvider?: boolean; hopliteProvider?: boolean; plugins?: boolean };
   } | null;
   connect(): Promise<void>;
   close(): Promise<void>;
@@ -58,6 +58,31 @@ test.describe("ACP provider catalog", () => {
   });
 });
 
+test("adds fx from the catalog with only a config entry", async ({ page }, testInfo) => {
+  const client = await connectDaemonClient<ProviderCatalogDaemonClient>({
+    clientIdPrefix: "fx-catalog-e2e",
+  });
+  try {
+    expect(client.getLastServerInfoMessage()?.features?.fxProvider).toBe(true);
+    await client.patchDaemonConfig({ removeProviders: ["fx"] });
+    await gotoAppShell(page);
+    await openSettings(page);
+    await openSettingsHost(page, getServerId());
+    await openSettingsHostSection(page, getServerId(), "providers");
+    await openAddProviderArea(page);
+
+    await findAcpCatalogProvider(page, "fx");
+    await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath("fx-catalog.png") });
+    await installAcpCatalogProvider(page, "fx");
+    await expectProviderInstalledInSettings(page, "fx");
+    await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath("fx-installed.png") });
+    expect((await client.getDaemonConfig()).config.providers?.fx).toEqual({ enabled: true });
+  } finally {
+    await client.patchDaemonConfig({ removeProviders: ["fx"] }).catch(() => undefined);
+    await client.close().catch(() => undefined);
+  }
+});
+
 for (const theme of ["light", "dark"] as const) {
   test(`adds Hoplite from the catalog in ${theme} theme`, async ({ page }, testInfo) => {
     const client = await connectDaemonClient<ProviderCatalogDaemonClient>({

packages/app/e2e/browser/agent-message-rewind.spec.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ import {
 import { expectNearBottom, scrollChatAwayFromBottom } from "../support/helpers/agent-bottom-anchor";
 import { holdRewindCompletion } from "../support/helpers/agent-timeline-gate";
 import { openAgentRoute, seedMockAgentWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/mock-agent";
+import { userScrollsTimelineToHistoryStart } from "../support/helpers/timeline-pagination";
+import {
+  closeWorkspaceAgentTab,
+  fetchAgentArchivedAt,
+  primeAdditionalPage,
+  resetSeededPageState,
+} from "../support/helpers/archive-tab";
 
 async function completeSubmittedTurn(
   page: Page,
@@ -46,26 +53,102 @@ async function expectTurnCompletesNormally(
   await expectAgentIdle(page);
 }
 
+async function openAgentOnAnotherClient(
+  page: Page,
+  agent: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof seedMockAgentWorkspace>>,
+): Promise<void> {
+  await primeAdditionalPage(page);
+  await resetSeededPageState(page);
+  await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+  await expectComposerVisible(page);
+}
+
+/** The prompts the chat shows, in order, each exactly once. */
+async function expectPrompts(page: Page, prompts: string[]): Promise<void> {
+  const messages = page.getByTestId("user-message");
+  await expect(messages).toHaveCount(prompts.length);
+  await expect(messages).toContainText(prompts);
+}
+
+async function reloadAgentFromTabMenu(page: Page, agentId: string): Promise<void> {
+  const tabId = `workspace-tab-agent_${agentId}`;
+  await page.getByTestId(tabId).filter({ visible: true }).first().click({ button: "right" });
+  await page.getByTestId(`workspace-tab-context-agent_${agentId}-reload-agent`).click();
+}
+
+async function archiveAgentByClosingTab(
+  page: Page,
+  agent: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof seedMockAgentWorkspace>>,
+): Promise<void> {
+  await closeWorkspaceAgentTab(page, agent.agentId);
+  await expect.poll(() => fetchAgentArchivedAt(agent.client, agent.agentId)).not.toBeNull();
+}
+
+async function unarchiveAgent(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Unarchive", exact: true }).click();
+  await expect(page.getByText("This agent is archived", { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0, {
+    timeout: 30_000,
+  });
+}
+
+async function expectToast(page: Page, message: string): Promise<void> {
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("app-toast-message")).toHaveText(message, { timeout: 30_000 });
+}
+
+// The mock provider's resumed session holds no history, so it never matches what Paseo shows.
+const UNSYNCED_RELOAD =
+  "Reloaded agent, but the provider's history doesn't match this chat, so it wasn't synced";
+
+/** The prompts of the whole conversation, after scrolling up through its older pages. */
+async function expectConversationPrompts(page: Page, prompts: string[]): Promise<void> {
+  const messages = page.getByTestId("user-message");
+  await expect
+    .poll(async () => {
+      await userScrollsTimelineToHistoryStart(page);
+      return await messages.count();
+    })
+    .toBe(prompts.length);
+  await expect(messages).toContainText(prompts);
+}
+
+// A row React remounts loses this attribute; one that stays mounted keeps it.
+async function markMounted(row: Locator): Promise<void> {
+  await row.evaluate((element) => element.setAttribute("data-e2e-mounted", "before-rewind"));
+}
+
+async function expectStillMounted(row: Locator): Promise<void> {
+  await expect(row).toHaveAttribute("data-e2e-mounted", "before-rewind");
+}
+
 test.describe("Agent message rewind", () => {
-  test("rewinds a submitted prompt without replaying history and preserves a human draft", async ({
+  test("rewinds a prompt in place on every open client and keeps a human draft", async ({
     page,
   }) => {
-    test.setTimeout(90_000);
+    test.setTimeout(150_000);
     const retainedPrompt = "Keep this completed turn after rewind.";
     const rewoundPrompt = "Remove this completed turn after rewind.";
+    const nextPrompt = "Continue after the rewind.";
     const preservedDraft = "Keep this human draft after rewind.";
     const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
       repoPrefix: "message-rewind-roundtrip-",
       title: "Message rewind roundtrip",
       model: "ten-second-stream",
     });
+    const otherClient = await page.context().newPage();
 
     try {
       const rewindCompletion = await holdRewindCompletion(page, agent.agentId);
       await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
       await expectComposerVisible(page);
-      await completeSubmittedTurn(page, agent, retainedPrompt);
+      const retainedMessage = await completeSubmittedTurn(page, agent, retainedPrompt);
       const userMessage = await completeSubmittedTurn(page, agent, rewoundPrompt);
+
+      await test.step("a second client opens the same chat", async () => {
+        await openAgentOnAnotherClient(otherClient, agent);
+        await expectPrompts(otherClient, [retainedPrompt, rewoundPrompt]);
+      });
+
+      await markMounted(retainedMessage);
       await scrollChatAwayFromBottom(page, {
         deltaY: -900,
         minDistanceFromBottom: 300,
@@ -73,18 +156,91 @@ test.describe("Agent message rewind", () => {
       await fillComposerDraft(page, preservedDraft);
       rewindCompletion.clearTimelineStreamCount();
 
-      const rewind = rewindConversation(page, userMessage, rewoundPrompt);
-      await rewindCompletion.waitForDelayedResponse();
-      await expect(page.getByTestId("rewind-menu-conversation")).toBeDisabled();
-      expect(rewindCompletion.timelineStreamCount()).toBe(0);
-      rewindCompletion.release();
-      await rewind;
+      await test.step("the rewind stays pending until the daemon answers", async () => {
+        const rewind = rewindConversation(page, userMessage, rewoundPrompt);
+        await rewindCompletion.waitForDelayedResponse();
+        await expect(page.getByTestId("rewind-menu-conversation")).toBeDisabled();
+        expect(rewindCompletion.timelineStreamCount()).toBe(0);
+        rewindCompletion.release();
+        await rewind;
+      });
 
-      await expect(page.getByTestId("user-message").filter({ hasText: rewoundPrompt })).toHaveCount(
-        0,
-      );
-      await expectComposerDraft(page, preservedDraft);
-      await expectNearBottom(page);
+      await test.step("the rewound turn leaves without reloading the chat", async () => {
+        await expectPrompts(page, [retainedPrompt]);
+        await expectStillMounted(retainedMessage);
+        expect(rewindCompletion.timelineFetchCount()).toBe(0);
+        await expectComposerDraft(page, preservedDraft);
+        await expectNearBottom(page);
+        await expectPrompts(otherClient, [retainedPrompt]);
+      });
+
+      await test.step("the next prompt appears once on both clients", async () => {
+        await completeSubmittedTurn(otherClient, agent, nextPrompt);
+        await expectPrompts(otherClient, [retainedPrompt, nextPrompt]);
+        await expectPrompts(page, [retainedPrompt, nextPrompt]);
+      });
+
+      await test.step("a reconnecting client loads the rewound conversation", async () => {
+        await otherClient.reload();
+        await expectPrompts(otherClient, [retainedPrompt, nextPrompt]);
+      });
+    } finally {
+      await otherClient.close();
+      await agent.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("keeps the rewound conversation through Reload agent, archive and unarchive", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    test.setTimeout(150_000);
+    const keptPrompt = "Keep this turn through reload and archive.";
+    const rewoundPrompt = "Rewind this turn before reloading.";
+    const nextPrompt = "Continue after the rewind, then reload.";
+    const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+      repoPrefix: "message-rewind-reload-archive-",
+      title: "Message rewind reload archive",
+      model: "ten-second-stream",
+    });
+
+    try {
+      await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+      await expectComposerVisible(page);
+      await completeSubmittedTurn(page, agent, keptPrompt);
+      const rewound = await completeSubmittedTurn(page, agent, rewoundPrompt);
+      await rewindConversation(page, rewound, rewoundPrompt);
+      await expectPrompts(page, [keptPrompt]);
+      await completeSubmittedTurn(page, agent, nextPrompt);
+      await expectPrompts(page, [keptPrompt, nextPrompt]);
+
+      await test.step("Reload agent keeps the chat and says the provider's history was not synced", async () => {
+        await reloadAgentFromTabMenu(page, agent.agentId);
+        await expectToast(page, UNSYNCED_RELOAD);
+        await expectPrompts(page, [keptPrompt, nextPrompt]);
+        await expectComposerVisible(page);
+      });
+
+      await test.step("the archived chat shows the rewound conversation", async () => {
+        await archiveAgentByClosingTab(page, agent);
+        await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+        await expect(page.getByText("This agent is archived", { exact: true })).toBeVisible({
+          timeout: 30_000,
+        });
+        await expectConversationPrompts(page, [keptPrompt, nextPrompt]);
+      });
+
+      await test.step("unarchiving keeps the rewound conversation", async () => {
+        await unarchiveAgent(page);
+        await expectToast(page, UNSYNCED_RELOAD);
+        await expectComposerVisible(page);
+        await expectConversationPrompts(page, [keptPrompt, nextPrompt]);
+      });
+
+      await test.step("a reconnecting client loads the same conversation", async () => {
+        await page.reload();
+        await expectComposerVisible(page);
+        await expectConversationPrompts(page, [keptPrompt, nextPrompt]);
+      });
     } finally {
       await agent.cleanup();
     }

packages/app/e2e/browser/agent-message-submission.spec.ts

@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ async function beginTimelineRowStabilityCheck(
       lastTop: initialRow.getBoundingClientRect().top,
       largestDownwardShift: 0,
       sawMissing: false,
+      sawHidden: false,
     };
     const windowState = window as unknown as Record<string, unknown>;
     windowState.__messageSubmissionTimelineRowStability = state;
@@ -245,6 +246,9 @@ async function beginTimelineRowStabilityCheck(
         requestAnimationFrame(checkFrame);
         return;
       }
+      if (!initialRow.checkVisibility({ opacityProperty: true, visibilityProperty: true })) {
+        state.sawHidden = true;
+      }
       const top = initialRow.getBoundingClientRect().top;
       state.largestDownwardShift = Math.max(state.largestDownwardShift, top - state.lastTop);
       state.lastTop = top;
@@ -257,14 +261,24 @@ async function beginTimelineRowStabilityCheck(
     const result = await page.evaluate(() => {
       const windowState = window as unknown as Record<string, unknown>;
       const state = windowState.__messageSubmissionTimelineRowStability as
-        | { active: boolean; largestDownwardShift: number; sawMissing: boolean }
+        | {
+            active: boolean;
+            largestDownwardShift: number;
+            sawMissing: boolean;
+            sawHidden: boolean;
+          }
         | undefined;
       if (!state) throw new Error("Timeline-row stability check was not started");
       state.active = false;
       delete windowState.__messageSubmissionTimelineRowStability;
-      return { largestDownwardShift: state.largestDownwardShift, sawMissing: state.sawMissing };
+      return {
+        largestDownwardShift: state.largestDownwardShift,
+        sawMissing: state.sawMissing,
+        sawHidden: state.sawHidden,
+      };
     });
     expect(result.sawMissing).toBe(false);
+    expect(result.sawHidden).toBe(false);
     expect(result.largestDownwardShift).toBeLessThanOrEqual(2);
   };
 }
@@ -1178,7 +1192,13 @@ test.describe("Agent message submission", () => {
     test.setTimeout(120_000);
     const toasts = await recordPanelToasts(page);
     const pending = await beginDraftCreateSubmission(page, draftCreateScenario);
+    // The created agent takes over the draft's timeline: the same row stays mounted and painted.
+    const finishTimelineRowStabilityCheck = await beginTimelineRowStabilityCheck(
+      page,
+      pending.userMessage,
+    );
     await completeDraftCreateSubmission(page, draftCreateScenario, pending);
+    await finishTimelineRowStabilityCheck();
     // A chat this client just created is current by construction; it is never out of date.
     await toasts.expectNeverShown("agent-updating-toast");
   });

packages/app/e2e/browser/agent-timeline-resume.spec.ts

@@ -11,12 +11,21 @@ import {
   seedLongMockAgentTimeline,
 } from "../support/helpers/timeline-pagination";
 import {
+  answerFreshnessCheck,
   commitTimelineTurnsWhileDisconnected,
   disconnectViewedTimeline,
-  expectOneResumeCheckWithoutTail,
+  expectResumeAnsweredWithoutFetch,
   expectResumeOverflowFallsBackToOneTail,
+  hideTabAndReturn,
   rememberTimelineRequestCounts,
+  releaseHeldCatchUp,
+  restoreUnchangedViewedTimeline,
+  restoreViewedTimelineHoldingCatchUp,
   restoreViewedTimelineWithHeldResponse,
+  reopenWithFreshnessCheckUnanswered,
+  waitForResumeAnswer,
+  reopenAppWatchingForUpdatingToast,
+  watchForUpdatingToast,
 } from "../support/helpers/timeline-resume";
 
 test.describe("Agent timeline resume", () => {
@@ -42,7 +51,9 @@ test.describe("Agent timeline resume", () => {
     }
   });
 
-  test("an unchanged resume leaves a scrolled-up timeline untouched", async ({ page }) => {
+  test("returning to an unchanged chat shows no update and leaves it untouched", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
     test.setTimeout(120_000);
     const gate = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page);
     const agent = await seedLongMockAgentTimeline({ turns: 30 });
@@ -51,13 +62,86 @@ test.describe("Agent timeline resume", () => {
       await expectTimelinePromptVisible(page, agent.newestPrompt);
       await scrollTimelinePromptIntoView(page, agent.initialTailAnchorPrompt);
       const presentation = await rememberTimelinePresentation(page, agent.initialTailAnchorPrompt);
+
+      await test.step("back from the background", async () => {
+        const requests = rememberTimelineRequestCounts(gate);
+        const expectNoUpdatingToast = await watchForUpdatingToast(page);
+
+        await hideTabAndReturn(page);
+        await waitForResumeAnswer(gate, requests);
+
+        await expectNoUpdatingToast();
+        await expectTimelinePresentationUnchanged(page, presentation);
+        expectResumeAnsweredWithoutFetch(gate, requests);
+      });
+
+      await test.step("back from a dropped connection", async () => {
+        const requests = rememberTimelineRequestCounts(gate);
+        const expectNoUpdatingToast = await watchForUpdatingToast(page);
+
+        await disconnectViewedTimeline(page, gate);
+        await restoreUnchangedViewedTimeline(page, gate);
+
+        await expectNoUpdatingToast();
+        await expectTimelinePresentationUnchanged(page, presentation);
+        expectResumeAnsweredWithoutFetch(gate, requests);
+      });
+
+      await test.step("back from reopening the app", async () => {
+        const requests = rememberTimelineRequestCounts(gate);
+
+        const expectNoUpdatingToast = await reopenAppWatchingForUpdatingToast(page);
+        await waitForResumeAnswer(gate, requests);
+        await expectTimelinePromptVisible(page, agent.newestPrompt);
+
+        await expectNoUpdatingToast();
+        expectResumeAnsweredWithoutFetch(gate, requests);
+      });
+    } finally {
+      gate.restore();
+      await agent.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("opening cached history reports an unanswered check until the daemon answers", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    test.setTimeout(120_000);
+    const gate = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page);
+    const agent = await seedLongMockAgentTimeline({ turns: 3 });
+    try {
+      await openAgentTimeline(page, agent);
+      await expectTimelinePromptVisible(page, agent.newestPrompt);
       const requests = rememberTimelineRequestCounts(gate);
 
+      await reopenWithFreshnessCheckUnanswered(page, gate, agent);
+      await answerFreshnessCheck(page, gate);
+
+      expectResumeAnsweredWithoutFetch(gate, requests);
+    } finally {
+      gate.restore();
+      await agent.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("returning to a changed chat reports the update and shows the new messages", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    test.setTimeout(120_000);
+    const gate = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page);
+    const agent = await seedLongMockAgentTimeline({ turns: 3 });
+    try {
+      await openAgentTimeline(page, agent);
+      await expectTimelinePromptVisible(page, agent.newestPrompt);
+      const presentation = await rememberTimelinePresentation(page, agent.newestPrompt);
+
       await disconnectViewedTimeline(page, gate);
-      await restoreViewedTimelineWithHeldResponse(page, gate);
+      const background = await commitTimelineTurnsWhileDisconnected(agent, 1);
+      await restoreViewedTimelineHoldingCatchUp(page, gate);
 
       await expectTimelinePresentationUnchanged(page, presentation);
-      expectOneResumeCheckWithoutTail(gate, requests);
+      await releaseHeldCatchUp(page, gate);
+      await expectTimelinePromptVisible(page, background.newestPrompt);
     } finally {
       gate.restore();
       await agent.cleanup();

packages/app/e2e/browser/agent-timeline-sync-retry.spec.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   seedLongMockAgentTimeline,
 } from "../support/helpers/timeline-pagination";
 import {
+  commitTimelineTurnsWhileDisconnected,
   disconnectViewedTimeline,
   restoreViewedTimelineWithHeldResponse,
 } from "../support/helpers/timeline-resume";
@@ -18,11 +19,14 @@ test.describe("Agent timeline sync retry", () => {
     const gate = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page);
     const agent = await seedLongMockAgentTimeline({ turns: 2 });
     try {
+      gate.holdNextClientRequest("clear_agent_attention");
       await openAgentTimeline(page, agent);
       await expectTimelinePromptVisible(page, agent.newestPrompt);
+      await gate.waitForHeldClientRequest();
 
       gate.failTimelineResponses(agent.agentId);
       await disconnectViewedTimeline(page, gate);
+      await commitTimelineTurnsWhileDisconnected(agent, 1);
       await restoreViewedTimelineWithHeldResponse(page, gate);
 
       const callout = page.getByTestId("agent-timeline-sync-error");

packages/app/e2e/browser/agent-turn-end.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,525 @@
+import type { Page } from "@playwright/test";
+import { expect, test as baseTest } from "../support/fixtures";
+import { expectAgentIdle } from "../support/helpers/agent-stream";
+import { submitMessage } from "../support/helpers/composer";
+import { installDaemonWebSocketGate } from "../support/helpers/daemon-websocket-gate";
+import {
+  openAgentRoute,
+  seedMockAgentWorkspace,
+  type MockAgentWorkspace,
+} from "../support/helpers/mock-agent";
+
+// A turn ends with its final reply, `turn_completed`, and the idle status snapshot arriving
+// within a few milliseconds of each other. These tests hold all three, let the running
+// turn paint, then release them together and sample every painted frame.
+
+interface Box {
+  top: number;
+  height: number;
+}
+
+interface TurnEndFrame {
+  at: number;
+  running: boolean;
+  replyLength: number;
+  footer: Box | null;
+  footerText: string;
+  elapsed: string | null;
+  userRow: Box | null;
+  replyVisible: boolean;
+}
+
+declare global {
+  interface Window {
+    __turnEndFrames?: { active: boolean; frames: TurnEndFrame[] };
+  }
+}
+
+const test = baseTest.extend<{ agent: MockAgentWorkspace }>({
+  agent: async ({ page: _page }, provide) => {
+    const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+      repoPrefix: "turn-end-",
+      title: "Turn end",
+      initialPrompt: "emit 4 tool agent stream updates",
+    });
+    await agent.client.waitForFinish(agent.agentId, 15_000);
+    await provide(agent);
+    await agent.cleanup();
+  },
+});
+
+async function recordTurnEndFrames(
+  page: Page,
+  input: { prompt: string; reply: string | null },
+): Promise<void> {
+  await page.evaluate(({ prompt, reply }) => {
+    const state = { active: true, frames: [] as TurnEndFrame[] };
+    const isVisible = (element: Element | null | undefined) => Boolean(element?.checkVisibility());
+    const boxOf = (element: Element | null | undefined): Box | null => {
+      if (!element || !isVisible(element)) return null;
+      const rect = element.getBoundingClientRect();
+      return rect.height > 0 ? { top: rect.top, height: rect.height } : null;
+    };
+    const sample = () => {
+      const viewport = Array.from(
+        document.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="agent-chat-scroll"]'),
+      ).find((candidate) => isVisible(candidate));
+      const footer = Array.from(viewport?.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="turn-footer"]') ?? [])
+        .map((element) => ({ element, box: boxOf(element) }))
+        .filter((row): row is { element: Element; box: Box } => row.box !== null)
+        .sort((left, right) => left.box.top - right.box.top)
+        .at(-1);
+      const elapsed =
+        viewport?.querySelector('[data-testid="turn-working-elapsed"]')?.textContent ?? null;
+      const userRow = Array.from(
+        viewport?.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="user-message"]') ?? [],
+      ).find((candidate) => candidate.textContent?.includes(prompt));
+      const replyRow =
+        reply === null
+          ? undefined
+          : Array.from(viewport?.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="assistant-message"]') ?? []).find(
+              (candidate) => candidate.textContent?.includes(reply),
+            );
+      const assistantRows = Array.from(
+        viewport?.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="assistant-message"]') ?? [],
+      );
+      state.frames.push({
+        at: performance.now(),
+        running: Boolean(viewport?.querySelector('[data-testid="turn-working-indicator"]')),
+        replyLength: assistantRows.reduce((sum, row) => sum + (row.textContent?.length ?? 0), 0),
+        footer: footer?.box ?? null,
+        footerText: (footer?.element.textContent ?? "").replace(elapsed ?? "", ""),
+        elapsed,
+        userRow: boxOf(userRow),
+        replyVisible: boxOf(replyRow) !== null,
+      });
+      if (state.active) requestAnimationFrame(() => setTimeout(sample, 0));
+    };
+    window.__turnEndFrames = state;
+    requestAnimationFrame(() => setTimeout(sample, 0));
+  }, input);
+}
+
+async function recordPaintsFor(page: Page, durationMs: number): Promise<void> {
+  const until = await page.evaluate((duration) => performance.now() + duration, durationMs);
+  await expect
+    .poll(() => page.evaluate(() => window.__turnEndFrames?.frames.at(-1)?.at ?? 0))
+    .toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(until);
+}
+
+async function stopRecording(page: Page): Promise<TurnEndFrame[]> {
+  return page.evaluate(() => {
+    const state = window.__turnEndFrames;
+    if (!state) throw new Error("Turn end frames were not recorded");
+    state.active = false;
+    return state.frames;
+  });
+}
+
+async function recordTurnEnd(
+  page: Page,
+  agent: MockAgentWorkspace,
+  input: { prompt: string; reply: string | null },
+): Promise<TurnEndFrame[]> {
+  const gate = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page);
+  await openAgentRoute(page, { workspaceId: agent.workspaceId, agentId: agent.agentId });
+  await expectAgentIdle(page);
+
+  if (input.reply === null) {
+    gate.setAgentStreamItemSuppressed("assistant_message", true);
+  } else {
+    gate.holdNextAgentStreamItem("assistant_message");
+  }
+  gate.holdNextAgentStreamEvent("turn_completed");
+  // The daemon sends more than one idle snapshot; hold the first and drop the rest until release.
+  gate.holdNextAgentUpdate(agent.agentId, "idle");
+  gate.setServerMessageSuppressed("agent_update", true);
+  await recordTurnEndFrames(page, input);
+  await submitMessage(page, input.prompt);
+  await Promise.all([
+    input.reply === null ? Promise.resolve() : gate.waitForHeldAgentStreamItem("assistant_message"),
+    gate.waitForHeldAgentStreamEvent("turn_completed"),
+    gate.waitForHeldAgentUpdate(agent.agentId, "idle"),
+  ]);
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("turn-working-indicator")).toBeVisible();
+  await recordPaintsFor(page, 200);
+
+  if (input.reply !== null) gate.releaseHeldAgentStreamItem("assistant_message");
+  gate.releaseHeldAgentStreamEvent("turn_completed");
+  gate.releaseHeldAgentUpdate(agent.agentId, "idle");
+  gate.setServerMessageSuppressed("agent_update", false);
+  await expectAgentIdle(page);
+  await recordPaintsFor(page, 300);
+  return stopRecording(page);
+}
+
+function describeFrames(frames: TurnEndFrame[]): string {
+  return frames
+    .map(
+      (frame, index) =>
+        `${index}: ${frame.running ? "running " : "complete"} footer=${
+          frame.footer ? `${frame.footer.top.toFixed(1)}+${frame.footer.height.toFixed(1)}` : "none"
+        } timer=${frame.elapsed ?? "none"} prompt=${frame.userRow?.top.toFixed(1) ?? "none"} reply=${frame.replyVisible}`,
+    )
+    .join("\n");
+}
+
+function expectSteadyTurnEnd(frames: TurnEndFrame[], input: { reply: string | null }): void {
+  const firstRunning = frames.findIndex((frame) => frame.running && frame.footer !== null);
+  const firstComplete = frames.findIndex((frame, index) => index > firstRunning && !frame.running);
+  const record = `frames:\n${describeFrames(frames)}`;
+  expect(firstRunning, record).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+  expect(firstComplete, record).toBeGreaterThan(firstRunning);
+
+  const transition = frames.slice(firstRunning);
+  const runningHeight = transition[0].footer?.height;
+  expect(
+    transition.map((frame) => frame.footer?.height ?? null),
+    `the footer must stay painted at one height\n${record}`,
+  ).toEqual(transition.map(() => runningHeight));
+  if (input.reply !== null) {
+    expect(
+      frames.slice(firstComplete).every((frame) => frame.replyVisible),
+      `a completed turn must show its reply in the same frame\n${record}`,
+    ).toBe(true);
+  }
+  // Tool rows land while the turn runs; only the turn end itself must be one step.
+  const ending = frames.slice(firstComplete - 1);
+  const promptMoves = ending
+    .slice(1)
+    .filter((frame, index) => frame.userRow?.top !== ending[index].userRow?.top);
+  expect(
+    promptMoves.length,
+    `the prompt must move at most once as the turn ends\n${record}`,
+  ).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+}
+
+interface ReturnedTurn {
+  frames: TurnEndFrame[];
+  reconnectedAt: number;
+  finalReplyLength: number;
+}
+
+// The agent finishes while the socket is down, then the catch-up is held so the idle status
+// reaches the chat first. Painted frames are sampled from the running footer until everything
+// has settled.
+async function returnAfterTurnFinished(input: {
+  page: Page;
+  agent: MockAgentWorkspace;
+  prompt: string;
+  leaveWhile: (gate: DaemonWebSocketGate) => Promise<void>;
+}): Promise<ReturnedTurn> {
+  const { page, agent, prompt, leaveWhile } = input;
+  const gate = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page);
+  await openAgentRoute(page, { workspaceId: agent.workspaceId, agentId: agent.agentId });
+  await expect(page.getByRole("textbox", { name: "Message agent..." })).toBeVisible();
+
+  await recordTurnEndFrames(page, { prompt, reply: "" });
+  await leaveWhile(gate);
+  gate.holdTimelineResponses(agent.agentId);
+  const reconnectedAt = await page.evaluate(() => performance.now());
+  gate.restore();
+  await gate.waitForHeldTimelineResponse();
+  await expectAgentIdle(page);
+
+  await recordPaintsFor(page, 2_000);
+  gate.releaseHeldTimelineResponses();
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("turn-working-indicator")).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("turn-footer").last()).toBeVisible();
+  await recordPaintsFor(page, 500);
+  const frames = await stopRecording(page);
+  return { frames, reconnectedAt, finalReplyLength: frames.at(-1)?.replyLength ?? 0 };
+}
+
+type DaemonWebSocketGate = Awaited<ReturnType<typeof installDaemonWebSocketGate>>;
+
+async function leaveWithOnlyThePromptOnScreen(
+  page: Page,
+  agent: MockAgentWorkspace,
+  gate: DaemonWebSocketGate,
+  prompt: string,
+): Promise<void> {
+  gate.setAgentStreamItemSuppressed("assistant_message", true);
+  gate.holdNextAgentStreamEvent("turn_completed");
+  gate.holdNextAgentUpdate(agent.agentId, "idle");
+  gate.setServerMessageSuppressed("agent_update", true);
+  await submitMessage(page, prompt);
+  await Promise.all([
+    gate.waitForHeldAgentStreamEvent("turn_completed"),
+    gate.waitForHeldAgentUpdate(agent.agentId, "idle"),
+  ]);
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("turn-working-indicator")).toBeVisible();
+  await gate.drop();
+  await agent.client.waitForFinish(agent.agentId, 15_000);
+  gate.setAgentStreamItemSuppressed("assistant_message", false);
+  gate.setServerMessageSuppressed("agent_update", false);
+}
+
+async function leaveWithAPartialReplyOnScreen(
+  page: Page,
+  agent: MockAgentWorkspace,
+  gate: DaemonWebSocketGate,
+  prompt: string,
+): Promise<void> {
+  await agent.client.sendAgentMessage(agent.agentId, prompt);
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("turn-working-indicator")).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("assistant-message").first()).toBeVisible();
+  await gate.drop();
+  await agent.client.waitForFinish(agent.agentId, 30_000);
+}
+
+function elapsedSeconds(frame: TurnEndFrame): number {
+  const units: Record<string, number> = { h: 3600, m: 60, s: 1 };
+  return [...(frame.elapsed ?? "").matchAll(/(\d+)([hms])/g)].reduce(
+    (total, [, value, unit]) => total + Number(value) * units[unit],
+    0,
+  );
+}
+
+function expectFooterUnchangedUntilMessagesLand(
+  { frames, reconnectedAt }: ReturnedTurn,
+  record: string,
+): void {
+  const held = frames.slice(
+    frames.findIndex((frame) => frame.at >= reconnectedAt),
+    frames.findIndex((frame) => frame.at >= reconnectedAt && !frame.running),
+  );
+  expect(
+    held.length,
+    `the running footer must hold until the messages land\n${record}`,
+  ).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  expect(
+    new Set(held.map((frame) => `${frame.footer?.top}+${frame.footer?.height}`)).size,
+    `the held footer must not move or resize\n${record}`,
+  ).toBe(1);
+  expect(
+    new Set(held.map((frame) => frame.footerText)).size,
+    `the held footer's content must not change\n${record}`,
+  ).toBe(1);
+  expect(
+    held.filter((frame) => frame.elapsed === null).map((frame) => frame.at),
+    `the timer must stay on screen\n${record}`,
+  ).toEqual([]);
+  const seconds = held.map(elapsedSeconds);
+  expect(seconds, `the timer must keep counting up\n${record}`).toEqual(
+    seconds.toSorted((left, right) => left - right),
+  );
+}
+
+function expectReturnLandsWhole(returned: ReturnedTurn): void {
+  const { frames, finalReplyLength } = returned;
+  const record = `frames:\n${describeFrames(frames)}`;
+  const firstRunning = frames.findIndex((frame) => frame.running && frame.footer !== null);
+  expect(firstRunning, record).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+  const fromRunning = frames.slice(firstRunning);
+
+  expect(
+    fromRunning.filter((frame) => frame.footer === null).map((frame) => frame.at),
+    `the footer must never disappear\n${record}`,
+  ).toEqual([]);
+
+  const completed = fromRunning.filter((frame) => !frame.running);
+  expect(completed.length, record).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  // The first Markdown on a page paints an empty row until the web parser loads. Only text that
+  // is present and short of the final reply is stale.
+  expect(
+    completed
+      .filter((frame) => frame.replyLength > 0 && frame.replyLength !== finalReplyLength)
+      .map((frame) => frame.at),
+    `a completed footer must never sit under stale messages\n${record}`,
+  ).toEqual([]);
+
+  expectFooterUnchangedUntilMessagesLand(returned, record);
+}
+
+async function withFirstTurnAgent(
+  model: string,
+  run: (agent: MockAgentWorkspace) => Promise<void>,
+): Promise<void> {
+  const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+    repoPrefix: "turn-return-",
+    title: "Turn return",
+    model,
+  });
+  try {
+    await run(agent);
+  } finally {
+    await agent.cleanup();
+  }
+}
+
+test.describe("Returning to a turn that finished while away", () => {
+  test("keeps the running footer until the messages land when only the prompt was on screen", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    await withFirstTurnAgent("e2e-fast-stream", async (agent) => {
+      const prompt = "emit 1 coalesced agent stream updates";
+      const returned = await returnAfterTurnFinished({
+        page,
+        agent,
+        prompt,
+        leaveWhile: (gate) => leaveWithOnlyThePromptOnScreen(page, agent, gate, prompt),
+      });
+      expectReturnLandsWhole(returned);
+    });
+  });
+
+  test("keeps the running footer until the messages land under a partial reply", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    await withFirstTurnAgent("ten-second-stream", async (agent) => {
+      const prompt = "Return partial prompt";
+      const returned = await returnAfterTurnFinished({
+        page,
+        agent,
+        prompt,
+        leaveWhile: (gate) => leaveWithAPartialReplyOnScreen(page, agent, gate, prompt),
+      });
+      expectReturnLandsWhole(returned);
+    });
+  });
+});
+
+test.describe("Turn end", () => {
+  test("ends a plain reply without moving or dropping its footer", async ({ page, agent }) => {
+    const input = { prompt: "emit 1 coalesced agent stream updates", reply: "stress-update-0" };
+    expectSteadyTurnEnd(await recordTurnEnd(page, agent, input), input);
+  });
+
+  test("ends a tool turn with its reply and completed footer together", async ({ page, agent }) => {
+    const input = { prompt: "emit 3 tool agent stream updates", reply: "Completed 3 commands" };
+    expectSteadyTurnEnd(await recordTurnEnd(page, agent, input), input);
+  });
+
+  test("keeps the footer height when a turn ends on a tool call", async ({ page, agent }) => {
+    const input = { prompt: "emit 2 tool agent stream updates", reply: null };
+    expectSteadyTurnEnd(await recordTurnEnd(page, agent, input), input);
+  });
+});
+
+async function expectTimingInsideFooter(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  const label = page.getByRole("button", { name: /^Worked for/ }).last();
+  const paintedLines = await label.getByTestId("turn-footer-timing-label").evaluate((element) => {
+    const labelBounds = element.parentElement!.getBoundingClientRect();
+    const rowBounds = element.closest('[data-testid="turn-footer"]')!.getBoundingClientRect();
+    const walker = document.createTreeWalker(element, NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT);
+    const lines: boolean[] = [];
+    while (walker.nextNode()) {
+      const range = document.createRange();
+      range.selectNodeContents(walker.currentNode);
+      for (const rect of range.getClientRects()) {
+        lines.push(
+          rect.left >= Math.max(rowBounds.left, labelBounds.left) - 0.5 &&
+            rect.right <= Math.min(rowBounds.right, labelBounds.right) + 0.5 &&
+            rect.top >= Math.max(rowBounds.top, labelBounds.top) - 0.5 &&
+            rect.bottom <= Math.min(rowBounds.bottom, labelBounds.bottom) + 0.5,
+        );
+      }
+    }
+    return lines;
+  });
+  expect(paintedLines.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  expect(paintedLines.every(Boolean)).toBe(true);
+}
+
+async function expectFooterWithinWidth(page: Page, width: number): Promise<void> {
+  const footer = page.getByTestId("turn-footer").last();
+  await footer.evaluate((element, availableWidth) => {
+    element.style.width = `${availableWidth}px`;
+  }, width);
+  const label = page.getByRole("button", { name: /^Worked for/ }).last();
+  await expect(label).toBeVisible();
+  await expectTimingInsideFooter(page);
+  const controls = footer.getByRole("button", { name: /Copy turn|Fork chat/ });
+  const before = await controls.evaluateAll((elements) =>
+    elements.map((element) => {
+      const rect = element.getBoundingClientRect();
+      return { x: rect.x, y: rect.y };
+    }),
+  );
+  const footerBefore = await footer.boundingBox();
+  const labelBefore = await label.boundingBox();
+  await label.hover({ position: { x: labelBefore!.width - 2, y: labelBefore!.height - 2 } });
+  await expect(label.getByTestId("turn-footer-timing-label")).toContainText(/\d:\d\d/);
+  expect(await label.boundingBox()).toMatchObject({
+    x: labelBefore!.x,
+    width: labelBefore!.width,
+    height: labelBefore!.height,
+  });
+  expect(
+    await controls.evaluateAll((elements) =>
+      elements.map((element) => {
+        const rect = element.getBoundingClientRect();
+        return { x: rect.x, y: rect.y };
+      }),
+    ),
+  ).toEqual(before);
+  expect(await footer.boundingBox()).toMatchObject({
+    x: footerBefore!.x,
+    y: footerBefore!.y,
+    width: footerBefore!.width,
+  });
+  await expectTimingInsideFooter(page);
+  await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+  await expect(label.getByTestId("turn-footer-timing-label")).toContainText("Worked for");
+}
+
+test("footer timing fits the chat column and swapping labels keeps controls in place", async ({
+  page,
+  agent,
+}) => {
+  await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+  await expectFooterWithinWidth(page, 140);
+  await expectFooterWithinWidth(page, 150);
+  await expectFooterWithinWidth(page, 300);
+  await expectFooterWithinWidth(page, 880);
+});
+
+async function visibleFooterLeftEdges(page: Page): Promise<number[]> {
+  return page.evaluate(() => {
+    const viewport = Array.from(
+      document.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="agent-chat-scroll"]'),
+    ).find((candidate) => candidate.checkVisibility());
+    return Array.from(viewport?.querySelectorAll('[data-testid="turn-footer"]') ?? [])
+      .filter((footer) => footer.checkVisibility())
+      .map((footer) => Math.round(footer.getBoundingClientRect().left));
+  });
+}
+
+async function expectFootersInOneColumn(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await expect
+    .poll(async () => {
+      const edges = await visibleFooterLeftEdges(page);
+      return edges.length >= 2 && new Set(edges).size === 1 ? "one column" : edges;
+    })
+    .toBe("one column");
+}
+
+test("keeps the latest turn's footer in the chat column while it runs and after it ends", async ({
+  page,
+  agent,
+}) => {
+  // Wider than the chat's max width, so the column is centered with space on both sides.
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1000 });
+  const gate = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page);
+  await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+  await expectAgentIdle(page);
+
+  gate.holdNextAgentStreamEvent("turn_completed");
+  gate.holdNextAgentUpdate(agent.agentId, "idle");
+  gate.setServerMessageSuppressed("agent_update", true);
+  await submitMessage(page, "emit 1 coalesced agent stream updates");
+  await Promise.all([
+    gate.waitForHeldAgentStreamEvent("turn_completed"),
+    gate.waitForHeldAgentUpdate(agent.agentId, "idle"),
+  ]);
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("turn-working-indicator")).toBeVisible();
+  await expectFootersInOneColumn(page);
+
+  gate.releaseHeldAgentStreamEvent("turn_completed");
+  gate.releaseHeldAgentUpdate(agent.agentId, "idle");
+  gate.setServerMessageSuppressed("agent_update", false);
+  await expectAgentIdle(page);
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("turn-working-indicator")).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expectFootersInOneColumn(page);
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/appearance-font-family.spec.ts

@@ -13,25 +13,30 @@ async function setFontFamily(page: Page, name: string, family: string) {
   await input.press("Tab");
 }
 
-for (const name of ["Code font family", "Interface font family"]) {
-  test(`keeps settings usable after an unfinished quote in ${name}`, async ({ page }, testInfo) => {
-    await openAppearance(page);
-    await setFontFamily(page, name, "'Fira Code', monospace");
-    await expect(page.getByRole("textbox", { name })).toHaveValue("'Fira Code', monospace");
+test("keeps settings usable while editing code and interface font families", async ({
+  page,
+}, testInfo) => {
+  await openAppearance(page);
 
-    await setFontFamily(page, name, "'foo");
-    await expect(page.getByRole("textbox", { name })).toHaveValue("'Fira Code', monospace");
-    await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "Appearance", exact: true })).toBeInViewport();
-    await expect(page.getByText("Theme", { exact: true }).first()).toHaveCSS("font-size", "12px");
+  for (const name of ["Code font family", "Interface font family"]) {
+    await test.step(`reject an unfinished quote in ${name} and restore the default`, async () => {
+      await setFontFamily(page, name, "'Fira Code', monospace");
+      await expect(page.getByRole("textbox", { name })).toHaveValue("'Fira Code', monospace");
 
-    await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath("rejected-font.png") });
-    await page.reload();
-    await expect(page.getByRole("textbox", { name })).toHaveValue("'Fira Code', monospace");
-    await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "Appearance", exact: true })).toBeInViewport();
-    await setFontFamily(page, name, "");
-    await expect(page.getByRole("textbox", { name })).toHaveValue("");
-  });
-}
+      await setFontFamily(page, name, "'foo");
+      await expect(page.getByRole("textbox", { name })).toHaveValue("'Fira Code', monospace");
+      await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "Appearance", exact: true })).toBeInViewport();
+      await expect(page.getByText("Theme", { exact: true }).first()).toHaveCSS("font-size", "12px");
+
+      await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`rejected-${name}.png`) });
+      await page.reload();
+      await expect(page.getByRole("textbox", { name })).toHaveValue("'Fira Code', monospace");
+      await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "Appearance", exact: true })).toBeInViewport();
+      await setFontFamily(page, name, "");
+      await expect(page.getByRole("textbox", { name })).toHaveValue("");
+    });
+  }
+});
 
 test("opens settings with defaults when a malformed font was already saved", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.addInitScript(() => {

packages/app/e2e/browser/archive-tab.spec.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { connectSeedClient } from "../support/helpers/seed-client";
 import { createTempGitRepo } from "../support/helpers/workspace";
 import { buildHostWorkspaceRoute } from "@/utils/host-routes";
 import {
+  closeActiveAgentWithShortcut,
   archiveAgentFromDaemon,
   archiveAgentFromSessions,
   clickSessionRow,
@@ -20,8 +21,12 @@ import {
   openWorkspaceWithAgents,
   primeAdditionalPage,
   resetSeededPageState,
+  unarchiveAgentFromConversation,
   reloadWorkspace,
 } from "../support/helpers/archive-tab";
+import { openAgentRoute, seedMockAgentWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/mock-agent";
+import { expectComposerDraft, fillComposerDraft, submitMessage } from "../support/helpers/composer";
+import { awaitAssistantMessage, expectAgentIdle } from "../support/helpers/agent-stream";
 import { expectAgentTabActive } from "../support/helpers/launcher";
 
 test.describe("Archive tab reconciliation", () => {
@@ -51,6 +56,34 @@ test.describe("Archive tab reconciliation", () => {
     await tempRepo?.cleanup();
   });
 
+  test("restoring a closed agent retains its unsent composer draft after reload", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+      repoPrefix: "archived-composer-",
+      title: "Restore unsent draft",
+    });
+    try {
+      await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+      await submitMessage(page, "A completed conversation before closing");
+      await awaitAssistantMessage(page);
+      await expectAgentIdle(page);
+      await fillComposerDraft(page, "Keep this unsent message after closing");
+      await expectComposerDraft(page, "Keep this unsent message after closing");
+      await closeActiveAgentWithShortcut(page, agent.agentId);
+      await expect.poll(() => fetchAgentArchivedAt(agent.client, agent.agentId)).not.toBeNull();
+      await page.reload();
+      await openSessions(page);
+      await expectSessionRowArchived(page, "Restore unsent draft");
+      await clickSessionRow(page, "Restore unsent draft");
+      await expectArchivedAgentFocused(page, agent.agentId);
+      await unarchiveAgentFromConversation(page);
+      await expectComposerDraft(page, "Keep this unsent message after closing");
+    } finally {
+      await agent.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+
   test("non-UI archive prunes the archived tab across open pages and reload", async ({ page }) => {
     const archived = await createIdleAgent(client, {
       cwd: tempRepo.path,

packages/app/e2e/browser/assistant-selection-copy.spec.ts

@@ -723,3 +723,46 @@ test("copying a selection across an assistant image keeps its Markdown source an
     await agent.cleanup();
   }
 });
+
+test.describe("on a touch-capable desktop browser", () => {
+  // A touch screen registers the navigation pan's pointer listeners over the whole workspace.
+  // The pan accepts touch only, and a mouse drag must still extend the browser's selection.
+  test.use({ hasTouch: true });
+
+  test("a mouse drag selects across assistant paragraphs", async ({ page }) => {
+    const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+      repoPrefix: "assistant-selection-drag-",
+      title: "Assistant selection drag",
+      initialPrompt: "Render three paragraphs.",
+      featureValues: {
+        mockAssistantResponse: "First paragraph.\n\nSecond paragraph.\n\nThird paragraph.",
+      },
+    });
+
+    try {
+      await agent.client.waitForAgentUpsert(
+        agent.agentId,
+        (snapshot) => snapshot.status === "idle",
+        30_000,
+      );
+      await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+      const blocks = assistantMessageBlocks(page);
+      const first = await blocks.getByText("First paragraph.").boundingBox();
+      const third = await blocks.getByText("Third paragraph.").boundingBox();
+      if (!first || !third) {
+        throw new Error("Expected rendered paragraphs");
+      }
+
+      await page.mouse.move(first.x + 1, first.y + first.height / 2);
+      await page.mouse.down();
+      await page.mouse.move(third.x + third.width - 1, third.y + third.height / 2, { steps: 20 });
+      await page.mouse.up();
+
+      const selected = await page.evaluate(() => window.getSelection()?.toString() ?? "");
+      expect(selected).toContain("First paragraph.");
+      expect(selected).toContain("Third paragraph.");
+    } finally {
+      await agent.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/background-reconnect.spec.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
   type IsolatedHostDaemon,
 } from "../support/helpers/isolated-host-daemon";
 import { seedSavedSettingsHosts } from "../support/helpers/settings";
+import { setTabVisibility } from "../support/helpers/workspace-ui";
 
 const test = base.extend<{ reconnectHost: IsolatedHostDaemon }>({
   reconnectHost: async ({ e2eWorker }, provide) => {
@@ -37,17 +38,6 @@ async function refocusConnectedTab(page: Page): Promise<void> {
   await expect(page.getByText("Online", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
 }
 
-async function setTabVisibility(page: Page, visibility: DocumentVisibilityState): Promise<void> {
-  await page.evaluate((state) => {
-    Object.defineProperty(document, "visibilityState", { configurable: true, get: () => state });
-    Object.defineProperty(document, "hidden", {
-      configurable: true,
-      get: () => state === "hidden",
-    });
-    document.dispatchEvent(new Event("visibilitychange"));
-  }, visibility);
-}
-
 async function openHostOverview(page: Page, daemon: IsolatedHostDaemon): Promise<void> {
   await page.goto("/");
   await seedSavedSettingsHosts(page, [

packages/app/e2e/browser/branch-switcher.spec.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
+import { writeFile, unlink } from "node:fs/promises";
+import path from "node:path";
 import { expect, test, type Page } from "../support/fixtures";
+import { daemonWsRoutePattern } from "../support/helpers/daemon-port";
 import { gotoAppShell } from "../support/helpers/app";
 import {
   expectNoBranchSwitcherInWorkspaceHeader,
@@ -14,6 +17,95 @@ import {
   waitForSidebarHydration,
 } from "../support/helpers/workspace-ui";
 
+// Hold the real daemon response until the test has observed the pending UI.
+async function holdBranchSuggestions(page: Page) {
+  let requestCount = 0;
+  let release!: () => void;
+  let gate = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+    release = resolve;
+  });
+  await page.routeWebSocket(daemonWsRoutePattern(), (browser) => {
+    const server = browser.connectToServer();
+    browser.onMessage((message) => {
+      if (typeof message === "string") {
+        const envelope = JSON.parse(message);
+        if (envelope.type === "session" && envelope.message?.type === "branch_suggestions_request")
+          requestCount++;
+      }
+      server.send(message);
+    });
+    server.onMessage(async (message) => {
+      if (typeof message === "string") {
+        const envelope = JSON.parse(message);
+        if (
+          envelope.type === "session" &&
+          envelope.message?.type === "branch_suggestions_response"
+        ) {
+          await gate;
+        }
+      }
+      browser.send(message);
+    });
+  });
+  return {
+    release: () => release(),
+    holdNextResponse: () => {
+      gate = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+        release = resolve;
+      });
+    },
+    requestCount: () => requestCount,
+  };
+}
+
+async function expectInitialBranchLoading(page: Page, release: () => void): Promise<void> {
+  await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Current branch: main. Press to switch branch." }).click();
+  const picker = page.getByTestId("combobox-desktop-container");
+  await expect(picker.getByText("Loading...", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(picker.getByText("No branches found.", { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+  release();
+  await expect(picker.getByText("dev", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  await page.keyboard.press("Escape");
+  await expect(picker).not.toBeVisible();
+}
+
+async function expectFailedRefreshRecovery(
+  page: Page,
+  repoPath: string,
+  responses: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof holdBranchSuggestions>>,
+) {
+  // Expire the actual query freshness window before reopening the cached picker.
+  const started = Date.now();
+  await expect.poll(() => Date.now() - started, { timeout: 20_000 }).toBeGreaterThan(15_000);
+  const picker = page.getByTestId("combobox-desktop-container");
+  const packedRefs = path.join(repoPath, ".git", "packed-refs");
+  await writeFile(packedRefs, "invalid packed refs\n");
+  try {
+    await page
+      .getByRole("button", { name: "Current branch: dev. Press to switch branch." })
+      .click();
+    await expect(picker.getByRole("alert")).toHaveText(
+      "Could not load branches. Reopen the picker to try again.",
+    );
+  } finally {
+    await unlink(packedRefs);
+  }
+  await expect(picker.getByText("No branches found.", { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+  responses.holdNextResponse();
+  const beforeRetry = responses.requestCount();
+  await page.keyboard.press("Escape");
+  await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Current branch: dev. Press to switch branch." }).click();
+  await expect(picker.getByRole("alert")).toHaveText("Loading...");
+  await expect.poll(responses.requestCount).toBe(beforeRetry + 1);
+  await expect(picker).toBeVisible();
+  responses.release();
+  await expect(picker.getByRole("alert")).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expect(picker.getByText("main", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  await page.keyboard.press("Escape");
+  await expectWorkspaceBranch(page, "dev");
+  expect(responses.requestCount()).toBe(beforeRetry + 1);
+}
+
 async function renameWorkspaceViaSidebar(
   page: Page,
   input: { workspaceId: string; title: string },
@@ -59,6 +151,7 @@ test.describe("Branch switcher", () => {
     try {
       expect(workspace.workspaceName).toBe("main");
 
+      const releaseBranches = await holdBranchSuggestions(page);
       await gotoAppShell(page);
       await waitForSidebarHydration(page);
       await switchWorkspaceViaSidebar({ page, serverId, workspaceId: workspace.workspaceId });
@@ -82,8 +175,10 @@ test.describe("Branch switcher", () => {
       // and switching it checks out the real branch on disk.
       await openChangesPanel(page);
       await expectWorkspaceBranch(page, "main");
+      await expectInitialBranchLoading(page, releaseBranches.release);
       await switchBranchFromChangesPanel(page, { from: "main", to: "dev" });
       await expectWorkspaceBranch(page, "dev");
+      await expectFailedRefreshRecovery(page, workspace.repoPath, releaseBranches);
 
       // The custom title is unaffected by the branch switch.
       await expect(headerTitle).toHaveText(customTitle, { timeout: 30_000 });

packages/app/e2e/browser/changes-pane.spec.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ import { daemonWsRoutePattern } from "../support/helpers/daemon-port";
 import { getServerId } from "../support/helpers/server-id";
 import { connectSeedClient } from "../support/helpers/seed-client";
 import { createTempGitRepo } from "../support/helpers/workspace";
-import { openChangesPanel, waitForWorkspaceTabsVisible } from "../support/helpers/workspace-tabs";
+import {
+  openChangesPanel,
+  openChangesTreePanel,
+  waitForWorkspaceTabsVisible,
+} from "../support/helpers/workspace-tabs";
 
 interface DirtyWorkspace {
   id: string;
@@ -262,6 +266,150 @@ test.afterEach(async () => {
   }
 });
 
+test("Changes without a comparison base explains how to view pending changes", async ({ page }) => {
+  const workspace = await createWorkspaceWithManyTinyDiffs(2, "dev");
+  await openWorkspaceChangesTree(page, workspace);
+  await expect(
+    page.getByText("Comparison base is unavailable. Select Uncommitted to view pending changes."),
+  ).toBeVisible();
+  await selectChangesComparison(page, "Uncommitted");
+  await expect(changesTree(page).getByText("file-0000.ts", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+});
+async function openWorkspaceChangesTree(page: Page, workspace: DirtyWorkspace): Promise<void> {
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1400, height: 900 });
+  await page.goto(buildHostWorkspaceRoute(getServerId(), workspace.id));
+  await waitForWorkspaceTabsVisible(page);
+  await openChangesTreePanel(page);
+}
+
+test("streamed Changes shows the tree before completion and applies a one-file refresh", async ({
+  page,
+}, testInfo) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  const workspace = await createLargeStreamedWorkspace();
+  await addOversizedSibling(workspace);
+  const stream = await holdDiffCompletion(page);
+  await openWorkspaceChangesSurface(page, workspace, 90_000);
+  await expectAnnouncedTreeAndLoader(page);
+  await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath("tree-loading.png") });
+  stream.finish();
+  await expect.poll(() => stream.completed, { timeout: 60_000 }).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  await expect(page.getByRole("progressbar", { name: "Loading..." })).toHaveCount(0);
+  const connections = stream.connections;
+  const panel = page.getByTestId("working-diff-panel").filter({ visible: true });
+  await expect(panel.getByTestId("diff-file-0")).toHaveAccessibleName("src/file-0000.ts, +90, -1");
+  await addOneLineToFirstFile(workspace);
+  await expect.poll(() => stream.changedBodies.at(-1), { timeout: 30_000 }).toBe(1);
+  await expect(panel.getByTestId("diff-file-0")).toHaveAccessibleName("src/file-0000.ts, +91, -1");
+  await expect(page.getByRole("progressbar", { name: "Loading..." })).toHaveCount(0);
+  expect(stream.connections).toBe(connections);
+  await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath("refreshed.png") });
+});
+
+test("reopening compact Changes keeps the painted diff while it resubscribes", async ({ page }) => {
+  const workspace = await createWorkspaceWithMountedTabDiff();
+  const stream = await holdDiffCompletion(page);
+  const explorer = await openCompactChanges(page, workspace);
+  stream.finish();
+  const firstFile = explorer.getByTestId("diff-file-0");
+  await expect(firstFile).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
+  const painted = await firstFile.getAttribute("aria-label");
+
+  await explorer.getByTestId("workspace-tab-files").click();
+  stream.hold();
+  await explorer.getByTestId("workspace-tab-changes_tree").click();
+  await expect.poll(() => stream.held, { timeout: 30_000 }).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  await expect(page.getByRole("progressbar", { name: "Loading..." })).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expect(firstFile).toHaveAccessibleName(painted ?? "");
+  stream.finish();
+});
+
+async function createLargeStreamedWorkspace(): Promise<DirtyWorkspace> {
+  const workspace = await createWorkspaceWithManyTinyDiffs(252);
+  await Promise.all(
+    Array.from({ length: 252 }, (_, file) =>
+      writeFile(
+        path.join(workspace.repoPath, `src/file-${String(file).padStart(4, "0")}.ts`),
+        Array.from(
+          { length: 90 },
+          (_unused, line) =>
+            `export const fn${line} = (param: string) => ({ key: param, value: ${file} });`,
+        ).join("\n") + "\n",
+      ),
+    ),
+  );
+  return workspace;
+}
+async function addOversizedSibling(workspace: DirtyWorkspace): Promise<void> {
+  await writeFile(path.join(workspace.repoPath, "zz-too-large.txt"), "x".repeat(1024 * 1024 + 1));
+}
+async function addOneLineToFirstFile(workspace: DirtyWorkspace): Promise<void> {
+  const file = path.join(workspace.repoPath, "src/file-0000.ts");
+  await writeFile(file, (await readFile(file, "utf8")) + "export const refreshed = true;\n");
+}
+async function holdDiffCompletion(page: Page) {
+  const { decodeDiffFrame, DiffOpcode } = await import("@getpaseo/protocol/binary-frames/index");
+  let holding = true;
+  let connections = 0;
+  let completed = 0;
+  const completions: Array<() => void> = [];
+  const changedBodies: number[] = [];
+  const bodyCounts = new Map<number, number>();
+  await page.routeWebSocket(daemonWsRoutePattern(), (browserSocket) => {
+    connections++;
+    const serverSocket = browserSocket.connectToServer();
+    browserSocket.onMessage((message) => serverSocket.send(message));
+    serverSocket.onMessage((message) => {
+      if (
+        typeof message !== "string" &&
+        message[0] >= DiffOpcode.Begin &&
+        message[0] <= DiffOpcode.End
+      ) {
+        const frame = decodeDiffFrame(message);
+        if (frame.opcode === DiffOpcode.Begin) bodyCounts.set(frame.slot, 0);
+        else if (frame.opcode === DiffOpcode.Bodies)
+          bodyCounts.set(frame.slot, (bodyCounts.get(frame.slot) ?? 0) + frame.files.length);
+        else {
+          completed++;
+          changedBodies.push(bodyCounts.get(frame.slot) ?? 0);
+        }
+      }
+      if (holding && typeof message !== "string" && message[0] === DiffOpcode.End) {
+        completions.push(() => browserSocket.send(message));
+        return;
+      }
+      browserSocket.send(message);
+    });
+  });
+  return {
+    changedBodies,
+    get connections() {
+      return connections;
+    },
+    get completed() {
+      return completed;
+    },
+    get held() {
+      return completions.length;
+    },
+    hold: () => {
+      holding = true;
+    },
+    finish: () => {
+      holding = false;
+      completions.splice(0).forEach((send) => send());
+    },
+  };
+}
+async function expectWorkingDiffLoaded(page: Page, timeout: number): Promise<void> {
+  const panel = page.getByTestId("working-diff-panel").filter({ visible: true });
+  await expect(panel.getByTestId("diff-file-0")).toBeAttached({ timeout });
+}
+async function expectAnnouncedTreeAndLoader(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await expect(changesTree(page).first()).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByRole("progressbar", { name: "Loading..." }).first()).toBeVisible();
+}
+
 test("Changes opens All changes for a clean checkout", async ({ page }) => {
   const workspace = await createWorkspaceWithCommittedDiff();
 
@@ -323,6 +471,119 @@ test("All changes combines committed and pending edits and preserves an unfinish
   });
 });
 
+test("Changes selects exact local and remote bases and retains the selection after reload", async ({
+  page,
+}, testInfo) => {
+  const workspace = await createWorktreeWithCommittedDiff();
+  execFileSync("git", ["branch", "release"], { cwd: workspace.repoPath });
+  execFileSync("git", ["update-ref", "refs/remotes/upstream/release", "main"], {
+    cwd: workspace.repoPath,
+  });
+  const head = execFileSync("git", ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], { cwd: workspace.repoPath }).toString();
+  await openWorkspaceChangesSurface(page, workspace);
+  const tree = page.getByTestId("changes-tree-panel").filter({ visible: true });
+  const picker = tree.getByTestId("workspace-base-branch-trigger");
+  await expect(picker).toBeVisible();
+  await picker.click();
+  await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "release", exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath("base-picker.png") });
+  await page.getByRole("button", { name: "release", exact: true }).click();
+  await expect(picker).toContainText("release");
+  await expect(tree.getByText("No changes to display", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  await picker.click();
+  await page.getByRole("button", { name: "upstream/release", exact: true }).click();
+  await expect(picker).toContainText("upstream/release");
+  await expect(tree.getByText("committed-only.ts", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath("base-selected.png") });
+  await page.reload();
+  await waitForWorkspaceTabsVisible(page);
+  await expect(picker).toContainText("upstream/release");
+  expect(execFileSync("git", ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], { cwd: workspace.repoPath }).toString()).toBe(
+    head,
+  );
+});
+
+test("Changes lets a compact workspace change its base in a sheet", async ({ page }, testInfo) => {
+  const workspace = await createWorktreeWithCommittedDiff();
+  execFileSync("git", ["branch", "release"], { cwd: workspace.repoPath });
+  await openCompactChanges(page, workspace);
+  const picker = page.getByRole("button", { name: "Change base" }).filter({ visible: true });
+  await picker.click();
+  await expect(page.getByText("Change base", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  const release = page.getByRole("button", { name: "release", exact: true });
+  await expect(release).toBeVisible();
+  await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath("compact-base-picker.png") });
+  await release.click();
+  await expect(picker).toContainText("release");
+  await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath("compact-base-selected.png") });
+});
+
+test("Changes shows a failed base selection and lets the user retry", async ({ page }) => {
+  const workspace = await createWorktreeWithCommittedDiff();
+  execFileSync("git", ["branch", "release"], { cwd: workspace.repoPath });
+  await openWorkspaceChangesSurface(page, workspace);
+  const picker = page
+    .getByTestId("workspace-base-branch-trigger")
+    .filter({ visible: true })
+    .first();
+  await picker.click();
+  const option = page.getByRole("button", { name: "release", exact: true });
+  await expect(option).toBeVisible();
+  execFileSync("git", ["branch", "-D", "release"], { cwd: workspace.repoPath });
+  await option.click();
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("workspace-base-branch-error")).toContainText(
+    "Base branch not found",
+  );
+  await expect(picker).toContainText("main");
+  execFileSync("git", ["branch", "release"], { cwd: workspace.repoPath });
+  await option.click();
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("workspace-base-branch-error")).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expect(picker).toContainText("release");
+});
+
+test("Changes shows the base as text on a host without the base-branch capability", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  let baseRequests = 0;
+  await page.routeWebSocket(daemonWsRoutePattern(), (browser) => {
+    const server = browser.connectToServer();
+    browser.onMessage((frame) => {
+      if (typeof frame === "string") {
+        const envelope = JSON.parse(frame) as { message?: { type?: string } };
+        if (envelope.message?.type === "workspace.base_branch.set.request") baseRequests += 1;
+      }
+      server.send(frame);
+    });
+    server.onMessage((frame) => {
+      if (typeof frame === "string") {
+        const envelope = JSON.parse(frame) as {
+          message?: { payload?: { status?: string; features?: Record<string, unknown> } };
+        };
+        const payload = envelope.message?.payload;
+        if (payload?.status === "server_info" && payload.features) {
+          delete payload.features.workspaceBaseBranch;
+          browser.send(JSON.stringify(envelope));
+          return;
+        }
+      }
+      browser.send(frame);
+    });
+  });
+  const workspace = await createWorktreeWithCommittedDiff();
+  await openWorkspaceChangesSurface(page, workspace);
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("workspace-base-branch-trigger")).toHaveCount(0);
+  expect(baseRequests).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test("Changes shows no base on a checkout that is not a Paseo worktree", async ({ page }) => {
+  const workspace = await createWorkspaceWithCommittedDiff();
+  await openWorkspaceChangesSurface(page, workspace);
+  const header = page.getByTestId("changes-repository-header").filter({ visible: true });
+  await expect(header).toContainText("feature");
+  await expect(header).not.toContainText("main");
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("workspace-base-branch-trigger")).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
 test("Changes keeps a manual comparison when checkout dirtiness changes", async ({ page }) => {
   const workspace = await createWorkspaceWithMountedTabDiff();
   await openWorkspaceChanges(page, workspace);
@@ -386,6 +647,35 @@ test("an empty Changes comparison links to the populated comparison", async ({ p
   await expect(panel.getByTestId("diff-file-0")).toHaveAccessibleName("committed-only.ts, +1, -0");
 });
 
+test("legacy diff hosts keep All, Committed and Uncommitted comparisons", async ({ page }) => {
+  await useLegacyDiffHost(page);
+  const workspace = await createWorkspaceWithScrollableComparisons();
+  await openWorkspaceChangesSurface(page, workspace);
+  await expect(changesTree(page).getByText("committed", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(changesTree(page).getByText("uncommitted", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  await selectChangesComparison(page, "Committed");
+  await expectWorkingComparisonFiles(page, "committed");
+  await selectChangesComparison(page, "Uncommitted");
+  await expectWorkingComparisonFiles(page, "uncommitted");
+});
+async function useLegacyDiffHost(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await page.routeWebSocket(daemonWsRoutePattern(), (browserSocket) => {
+    const serverSocket = browserSocket.connectToServer();
+    browserSocket.onMessage((message) => serverSocket.send(message));
+    serverSocket.onMessage((message) => {
+      if (typeof message === "string") {
+        const envelope = JSON.parse(message);
+        if (envelope.message?.payload?.status === "server_info") {
+          delete envelope.message.payload.features.diffSubscription;
+          browserSocket.send(JSON.stringify(envelope));
+          return;
+        }
+      }
+      browserSocket.send(message);
+    });
+  });
+}
+
 test("Changes comparison controls the working diff and tree selection focuses its file", async ({
   page,
 }) => {
@@ -928,11 +1218,11 @@ test("compact Changes keeps its actions compact and menu-only", async ({ page })
     throw new Error("Compact Changes toolbar geometry could not be measured");
   }
   expect(actionsBox.width).toBe(48);
-  expect(actionsBox.height).toBe(28);
-  expect(optionsBox.width).toBe(32);
-  expect(optionsBox.height).toBe(32);
-  expect(glyphBox.width).toBe(18);
-  expect(glyphBox.height).toBe(18);
+  expect(actionsBox.height).toBe(32);
+  expect(optionsBox.width).toBe(44);
+  expect(optionsBox.height).toBe(44);
+  expect(glyphBox.width).toBe(20);
+  expect(glyphBox.height).toBe(20);
 
   await expect(actions).not.toContainText("Commit");
   await expect(actions.locator("svg")).toHaveCount(2);
@@ -1198,11 +1488,13 @@ test("canvas diff uses the overlay scrollbar and its thumb controls vertical scr
 test("canvas headers keep a many-file diff bounded while scrolling end to end", async ({
   page,
 }) => {
-  test.setTimeout(180_000);
+  test.setTimeout(300_000);
   const workspace = await createWorkspaceWithManyTinyDiffs(2_000);
   await useUnwrappedDiffLines(page);
   await openWorkspaceChangesSurface(page, workspace, 90_000);
 
+  // Measure document bounds after delivery, independently of the cold Git read.
+  await expectWorkingDiffLoaded(page, 240_000);
   const root = page.getByTestId("git-diff-canvas-root");
   const scroller = page.getByTestId("git-diff-scroll");
   await expect(root.locator('[data-testid^="git-diff-sticky-header-"]')).toHaveCount(2);
@@ -1657,6 +1949,28 @@ async function expectRenderedAddedLine(page: Page, contents: string): Promise<vo
   }).toPass({ timeout: 15_000 });
 }
 
+async function createWorktreeWithCommittedDiff(): Promise<DirtyWorkspace> {
+  const repo = await createTempGitRepo("changes-base-worktree-", {
+    files: [{ path: "tracked.ts", content: "export const tracked = 1;\n" }],
+  });
+  const client = await connectSeedClient();
+  cleanupTasks.push({
+    run: async () => {
+      await client.close();
+      await repo.cleanup();
+    },
+  });
+  const created = await client.createWorkspace({
+    source: { kind: "worktree", cwd: repo.path, worktreeSlug: "base-picker", baseBranch: "main" },
+  });
+  if (!created.workspace) throw new Error(created.error ?? "Failed to create worktree");
+  const cwd = created.workspace.workspaceDirectory;
+  await writeFile(path.join(cwd, "committed-only.ts"), "export const committed = true;\n");
+  execFileSync("git", ["add", "committed-only.ts"], { cwd });
+  execFileSync("git", ["commit", "-m", "Add committed-only file"], { cwd });
+  return { id: created.workspace.id, repoPath: cwd };
+}
+
 async function createWorkspaceWithCommittedDiff(): Promise<DirtyWorkspace> {
   const repo = await createTempGitRepo("changes-committed-", {
     files: [{ path: "tracked.ts", content: "export const tracked = 1;\n" }],
@@ -1759,12 +2073,16 @@ async function createWorkspaceWithTwoSelectionDiffs(): Promise<DirtyWorkspace> {
   return { id: created.workspace.id, repoPath: repo.path };
 }
 
-async function createWorkspaceWithManyTinyDiffs(fileCount: number): Promise<DirtyWorkspace> {
+async function createWorkspaceWithManyTinyDiffs(
+  fileCount: number,
+  branch = "main",
+): Promise<DirtyWorkspace> {
   const files = Array.from({ length: fileCount }, (_, index) => ({
     path: `src/file-${String(index).padStart(4, "0")}.ts`,
     content: "export const value = 0;\n",
   }));
   const repo = await createTempGitRepo("changes-canvas-many-files-", { files });
+  if (branch !== "main") execFileSync("git", ["branch", "-m", branch], { cwd: repo.path });
   await Promise.all(
     files.map((file, index) =>
       writeFile(path.join(repo.path, file.path), `export const value = ${index + 1};\n`),

packages/app/e2e/browser/command-center-file-search.spec.ts

@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ import {
   holdDirectorySuggestionResponses,
   expectOneLineTruncatedFileResult,
   expectStableCommandCenterLayout,
+  expectLayoutObservationToCatchPanelShift,
   failDirectorySuggestionRequests,
   startCommandCenterLayoutObservation,
+  shiftOutsideCommandCenter,
 } from "../support/helpers/command-center-file-search";
 import {
   scrollCommandCenterAwayFromSelection,
@@ -84,7 +86,9 @@ test("workspace file search stays geometrically stable through delayed loading a
     await expect(panel.getByTestId("command-center-file-search-loading")).toBeVisible();
     await expect(panel.getByText("Searching files...", { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
     await expect(panel.getByTestId("command-center-file-search-loading")).toBeHidden();
+    await shiftOutsideCommandCenter(page);
     await expectStableCommandCenterLayout(page);
+    await expectLayoutObservationToCatchPanelShift(page);
 
     await row.click();
     await expectFileTabOpen(page, FILE_PATH);

packages/app/e2e/browser/compact-workspace-header.spec.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { Page, TestInfo } from "@playwright/test";
 import { test, expect } from "../support/fixtures";
+import { pauseWorkspaceTerminalWorker } from "../support/helpers/workspace-setup";
 import { seedWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/seed-client";
 import { openAgentRoute } from "../support/helpers/mock-agent";
 import { getServerId } from "../support/helpers/server-id";
@@ -190,3 +191,49 @@ test("compact header menu runs, shows, and stops workspace scripts", async ({ pa
     await workspace.cleanup();
   }
 });
+
+async function restartScriptAcrossHeaderRemoval(page: Page, terminalId: string) {
+  await openRunningScriptPage(page, "lint");
+  const resumeWorker = await pauseWorkspaceTerminalWorker(terminalId);
+  try {
+    await menuRow(page, "Restart").click();
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 844 });
+    await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: /Switch tabs/ })).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(page.getByTestId("workspace-scripts-button")).toBeVisible();
+  } finally {
+    resumeWorker();
+  }
+}
+
+async function expectScriptTerminalReplaced(
+  workspace: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof openWorkspaceWithScripts>>,
+  previousId: string,
+) {
+  await expect
+    .poll(
+      async () => {
+        const after = await workspace.client.listTerminals(undefined, undefined, {
+          workspaceId: workspace.workspaceId,
+        });
+        return after.terminals.filter((terminal) => terminal.id !== previousId).length;
+      },
+      { timeout: 15_000 },
+    )
+    .toBe(1);
+}
+
+test("pending script restart survives removal of the compact header", async ({ page }) => {
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
+  const workspace = await openWorkspaceWithScripts(page);
+  try {
+    await runScriptFromScriptsPage(page, "lint");
+    const before = await workspace.client.listTerminals(undefined, undefined, {
+      workspaceId: workspace.workspaceId,
+    });
+    expect(before.terminals).toHaveLength(1);
+    await restartScriptAcrossHeaderRemoval(page, before.terminals[0]!.id);
+    await expectScriptTerminalReplaced(workspace, before.terminals[0]!.id);
+  } finally {
+    await workspace.cleanup();
+  }
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/compact-workspace-sheet.spec.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import {
   openSheetAsTab,
   expectDeclinedDiscardPrompt,
   expectSheetAtSnap,
+  promptMentioning,
   replaceSheetFileText,
   selectTabFromSwitcher,
   sheet,
@@ -28,17 +29,6 @@ import {
 
 const FILE_LINK = "linked.ts:3";
 
-function promptMentioning(target: string): string {
-  return [
-    "Generate a title and a git branch name for a coding agent from the user prompt and attachments.",
-    "Return JSON only with fields 'title' and 'branch'.",
-    "",
-    "<user-prompt>",
-    `Open \`${target}\` now`,
-    "</user-prompt>",
-  ].join("\n");
-}
-
 test("compact opens files and subagents in a sheet, leaving the tabs for agents", async ({
   page,
 }) => {

packages/app/e2e/browser/composer-autocomplete.spec.ts

@@ -105,7 +105,21 @@ interface PopoverFrameRecorderWindow extends Window {
   __stopComposerAutocompleteFrameRecorder?: () => void;
 }
 
-async function installListCommandsStub(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+interface ListCommandsReply {
+  commands: readonly { name: string; description: string; argumentHint: string }[];
+  error: string | null;
+}
+
+const TEST_COMMANDS_REPLY: ListCommandsReply = { commands: TEST_COMMANDS, error: null };
+
+/**
+ * Rewrites every `list_commands_response` with `reply()`. A reply that returns a promise holds
+ * the response until it settles, standing in for a slow host.
+ */
+async function installListCommandsStub(
+  page: Page,
+  reply: () => ListCommandsReply | Promise<ListCommandsReply> = () => TEST_COMMANDS_REPLY,
+): Promise<void> {
   await page.routeWebSocket(daemonWsRoutePattern(), (ws) => {
     const server = ws.connectToServer();
 
@@ -130,14 +144,20 @@ async function installListCommandsStub(page: Page): Promise<void> {
             };
           };
         };
+        const payload = parsed.message?.payload;
         if (
           parsed.type === "session" &&
           parsed.message?.type === "list_commands_response" &&
-          parsed.message.payload
+          payload
         ) {
-          parsed.message.payload.commands = TEST_COMMANDS;
-          parsed.message.payload.error = null;
-          ws.send(JSON.stringify(parsed));
+          const send = (result: ListCommandsReply) => {
+            payload.commands = result.commands;
+            payload.error = result.error;
+            ws.send(JSON.stringify(parsed));
+          };
+          const result = reply();
+          if (result instanceof Promise) void result.then(send);
+          else send(result);
           return;
         }
       } catch {
@@ -149,6 +169,17 @@ async function installListCommandsStub(page: Page): Promise<void> {
   });
 }
 
+function createHeldReply(): {
+  reply: () => Promise<ListCommandsReply>;
+  release: () => void;
+} {
+  let release = () => {};
+  const held = new Promise<ListCommandsReply>((resolve) => {
+    release = () => resolve(TEST_COMMANDS_REPLY);
+  });
+  return { reply: () => held, release };
+}
+
 async function openAppWideNewWorkspace(page: Page): Promise<void> {
   await page.getByTestId("sidebar-global-new-workspace").first().click();
   await page.waitForURL((url) => url.pathname === "/new", { timeout: 30_000 });
@@ -545,16 +576,17 @@ test.describe("Composer autocomplete", () => {
       const input = composerLocator(page);
       await expect(input).toBeEditable({ timeout: 30_000 });
 
-      await input.fill("/he");
+      // `/hea` lists two commands and `/he` enough to reach the height cap, so the list grows.
+      await input.fill("/hea");
       const popover = page.getByTestId("composer-autocomplete-popover");
-      await expect(popover.getByText("/help", { exact: true }).first()).toBeVisible({
+      await expect(popover.getByText("/heapdump", { exact: true }).first()).toBeVisible({
         timeout: 30_000,
       });
       const beforeDelete = await visiblePopoverBox(page);
 
       await input.press("Backspace");
-      await expect(input).toHaveValue("/h");
-      await expect(popover.getByText("/history", { exact: true }).first()).toBeVisible({
+      await expect(input).toHaveValue("/he");
+      await expect(popover.getByText("/hello", { exact: true }).first()).toBeVisible({
         timeout: 30_000,
       });
       const afterDelete = await visiblePopoverBox(page);
@@ -733,6 +765,116 @@ test.describe("Composer autocomplete", () => {
     }
   });
 
+  test("forgets an arrow-key choice once the search changes", async ({ page }) => {
+    await installListCommandsStub(page);
+    const session = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+      repoPrefix: "autocomplete-stale-choice-",
+      title: "Autocomplete stale choice",
+    });
+
+    try {
+      await openAgentRoute(page, session);
+      await expectWorkspaceTabVisible(page, session.agentId);
+      const input = composerLocator(page);
+      await expect(input).toBeEditable({ timeout: 30_000 });
+      await input.fill("/");
+      const popover = page.getByTestId("composer-autocomplete-popover");
+      await expect(popover.getByText("/tdd", { exact: true }).first()).toBeVisible({
+        timeout: 30_000,
+      });
+
+      // Down wraps from the default bottom row to the top: /clear, then /exit.
+      await input.press("ArrowDown");
+      await input.press("ArrowDown");
+      await input.press("h");
+      await expect(popover.getByText("/help", { exact: true }).first()).toBeVisible();
+      await input.press("Backspace");
+      await expect(input).toHaveValue("/");
+      await input.press("Enter");
+
+      await expect(input).toHaveValue("/tdd ");
+      await expectWorkspaceTabVisible(page, session.agentId);
+    } finally {
+      await session.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("shows loading inside the popover until a slow host answers", async ({ page }) => {
+    const host = createHeldReply();
+    await installListCommandsStub(page, host.reply);
+    const agent = await openReadyMockAgent(page);
+
+    try {
+      const input = composerLocator(page);
+      await expect(input).toBeEditable({ timeout: 30_000 });
+      await input.fill("/");
+
+      const popover = page.getByTestId("composer-autocomplete-popover");
+      await expect(popover.getByTestId("composer-autocomplete-loading")).toBeVisible({
+        timeout: 30_000,
+      });
+      const loading = await visiblePopoverBox(page);
+
+      host.release();
+      await expect(popover.getByText("/help", { exact: true }).first()).toBeVisible({
+        timeout: 30_000,
+      });
+      await expect(popover.getByTestId("composer-autocomplete-loading")).toHaveCount(0);
+      const results = await visiblePopoverBox(page);
+
+      expect(Math.abs(results.bottom - loading.bottom)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(4);
+    } finally {
+      await agent.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("shows why commands failed, keeps Enter from choosing a hidden command, and retries", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    let reply: () => ListCommandsReply | Promise<ListCommandsReply> = () => ({
+      commands: [],
+      error: "Timed out waiting for the agent session",
+    });
+    await installListCommandsStub(page, () => reply());
+    const session = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+      repoPrefix: "autocomplete-failing-host-",
+      title: "Autocomplete failing host",
+    });
+
+    try {
+      await openAgentRoute(page, session);
+      await expectWorkspaceTabVisible(page, session.agentId);
+      const input = composerLocator(page);
+      await expect(input).toBeEditable({ timeout: 30_000 });
+      await input.fill("/");
+
+      const popover = page.getByTestId("composer-autocomplete-popover");
+      const errorRow = popover.getByTestId("composer-autocomplete-error");
+      await expect(errorRow).toContainText("Timed out waiting for the agent session", {
+        timeout: 30_000,
+      });
+
+      await input.press("Enter");
+      await page.waitForTimeout(500);
+      await expectWorkspaceTabVisible(page, session.agentId);
+
+      await input.fill("/");
+      await expect(errorRow).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
+
+      const host = createHeldReply();
+      reply = host.reply;
+      await errorRow.getByRole("button", { name: "Retry" }).click();
+      await expect(popover.getByTestId("composer-autocomplete-loading")).toBeVisible();
+
+      host.release();
+      await expect(popover.getByText("/help", { exact: true }).first()).toBeVisible({
+        timeout: 30_000,
+      });
+    } finally {
+      await session.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+
   test.describe("compact sidebar layering", () => {
     test.use({ viewport: { width: 390, height: 844 }, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true });
 

packages/app/e2e/browser/composer-bottom-spacing.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+import type { Locator } from "@playwright/test";
+import { expect, test } from "../support/fixtures";
+import { gotoAppShell } from "../support/helpers/app";
+import { openAgentRoute, seedMockAgentWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/mock-agent";
+import { openNewWorkspaceComposer } from "../support/helpers/new-workspace";
+import { seedWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/seed-client";
+import { waitForSidebarHydration } from "../support/helpers/workspace-ui";
+
+async function box(locator: Locator) {
+  await expect(locator).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
+  const rect = await locator.boundingBox();
+  expect(rect).not.toBeNull();
+  return { top: rect!.y, bottom: rect!.y + rect!.height };
+}
+
+test.describe("Composer bottom spacing", () => {
+  test("the chat composer rests one content spacing above the window edge", async ({ page }) => {
+    const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+      repoPrefix: "composer-bottom-spacing-",
+      title: "Bottom spacing",
+    });
+    try {
+      await openAgentRoute(page, { workspaceId: agent.workspaceId, agentId: agent.agentId });
+      const surface = await box(
+        page.getByTestId("message-input-root").filter({ visible: true }).first(),
+      );
+      const viewportHeight = await page.evaluate(() => window.innerHeight);
+      expect(viewportHeight - surface.bottom).toBe(16);
+    } finally {
+      await agent.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("the wide new workspace form keeps one content spacing above Import session", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    const workspace = await seedWorkspace({ repoPrefix: "composer-bottom-spacing-form-" });
+    try {
+      await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1440, height: 900 });
+      await gotoAppShell(page);
+      await waitForSidebarHydration(page);
+      await openNewWorkspaceComposer(page, {
+        projectKey: workspace.projectKey,
+        projectDisplayName: workspace.projectDisplayName,
+      });
+      const composer = await box(page.locator('[data-testid="message-input-root"]:visible'));
+      const importButton = await box(page.getByTestId("new-workspace-import-session"));
+      expect(importButton.top - composer.bottom).toBe(16);
+    } finally {
+      await workspace.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/composer-control-density.spec.ts

@@ -1,13 +1,30 @@
 import { test, expect } from "../support/fixtures";
 import { openWorkspaceWithAgents } from "../support/helpers/archive-tab";
 import {
+  composerLocator,
+  expectComposerVisible,
+  fillComposerDraft,
+} from "../support/helpers/composer";
+import {
+  expectComposerToolbarOnTextRails,
+  expectTrailingActionSwap,
   expectNoCollapsedComposerToolbarFrame,
+  expectNoFrameTruncatesModelBesideThinking,
+  readSettledModelTriggerLabels,
+  readTrailingActionFrames,
   recordComposerToolbarFrames,
+  recordModelTriggerFramesFromLoad,
+  recordTrailingActionFrames,
+  sweepModelTriggerLabels,
 } from "../support/helpers/composer-control-density";
 import { clickNewChat, gotoWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/launcher";
+import { openAgentRoute, seedMockAgentWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/mock-agent";
 import { seedWorkspace, type SeededWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/seed-client";
 
 const SETTLE_MS = 1_000;
+const TRAILING_ACTION_SETTLE_MS = 500;
+const VOICE_MODE = "Enable Voice mode";
+const SEND = "Send message";
 
 async function seedSettledMockAgent(workspace: SeededWorkspace, title: string) {
   const agent = await workspace.client.createAgent({
@@ -30,6 +47,52 @@ function visibleAgentTab(page: import("@playwright/test").Page, agentId: string)
   return page.getByTestId(`workspace-tab-agent_${agentId}`).filter({ visible: true }).first();
 }
 
+test.describe("Composer trailing action", () => {
+  test.describe.configure({ timeout: 120_000 });
+
+  for (const viewport of [
+    { name: "wide", width: 1280, height: 800 },
+    { name: "compact", width: 390, height: 844 },
+  ]) {
+    test(`swaps in place between voice mode and Send at ${viewport.name} width`, async ({
+      page,
+    }) => {
+      await page.setViewportSize({ width: viewport.width, height: viewport.height });
+      const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+        repoPrefix: "composer-trailing-action-",
+        title: "Trailing action",
+      });
+      try {
+        await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+        await expectComposerVisible(page);
+        await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: VOICE_MODE, exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+        const composer = composerLocator(page);
+        await composer.focus();
+
+        await recordTrailingActionFrames(page);
+        await composer.press("x");
+        await expect(composer).toHaveValue("x");
+        await page.waitForTimeout(TRAILING_ACTION_SETTLE_MS);
+        expectTrailingActionSwap(await readTrailingActionFrames(page), {
+          from: VOICE_MODE,
+          to: SEND,
+        });
+
+        await recordTrailingActionFrames(page);
+        await composer.press("Backspace");
+        await expect(composer).toHaveValue("");
+        await page.waitForTimeout(TRAILING_ACTION_SETTLE_MS);
+        expectTrailingActionSwap(await readTrailingActionFrames(page), {
+          from: SEND,
+          to: VOICE_MODE,
+        });
+      } finally {
+        await agent.cleanup();
+      }
+    });
+  }
+});
+
 test.describe("Composer control density across tab switches", () => {
   test.describe.configure({ timeout: 180_000 });
 
@@ -92,3 +155,159 @@ test.describe("Composer control density across tab switches", () => {
     }
   });
 });
+
+test.describe("Composer controls folding on a touch device", () => {
+  test.use({ viewport: { width: 1194, height: 834 }, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true });
+  test.describe.configure({ timeout: 180_000 });
+
+  test("an open menu stays closed after the controls fold and unfold", async ({ page }) => {
+    const session = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+      repoPrefix: "composer-density-fold-",
+      title: "Folding chat",
+      model: "ten-second-stream",
+    });
+    try {
+      await openAgentRoute(page, session);
+      const thinking = page.getByTestId("agent-thinking-selector").filter({ visible: true });
+      const thinkingMenu = page.getByTestId("combobox-desktop-container");
+
+      await thinking.click();
+      await expect(thinkingMenu).toBeVisible();
+
+      // Still a wide layout, but too narrow for separate controls: they fold into the model control.
+      await page.setViewportSize({ width: 640, height: 834 });
+      await expect(thinking).toHaveCount(0);
+
+      await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1194, height: 834 });
+      await expect(thinking).toBeVisible();
+      await expect(thinkingMenu).toHaveCount(0);
+    } finally {
+      await session.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+test.describe("Folded model control on a phone", () => {
+  // Wide enough for "Ten second stream" and "Low" side by side; narrower, they no longer fit.
+  test.use({ viewport: { width: 480, height: 844 }, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true });
+  test.describe.configure({ timeout: 180_000 });
+
+  test("hides the thinking label before the model label truncates", async ({ page }) => {
+    const session = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+      repoPrefix: "composer-density-labels-",
+      title: "Label priority chat",
+      model: "ten-second-stream",
+    });
+    try {
+      await recordModelTriggerFramesFromLoad(page);
+      await openAgentRoute(page, session);
+      await expect(
+        page.getByTestId("combined-model-selector-thinking-label").filter({ visible: true }),
+      ).toHaveText("Low");
+      await readSettledModelTriggerLabels(page);
+      // From the first frame on, the control never guesses: it paints both labels only once it
+      // has measured that they fit.
+      await expectNoFrameTruncatesModelBesideThinking(page);
+
+      const sweep = await sweepModelTriggerLabels(page, {
+        from: 480,
+        to: 280,
+        step: 4,
+        height: 844,
+      });
+
+      expect(sweep.widest).toMatchObject({
+        modelText: "Ten second stream",
+        thinkingShown: true,
+        modelTruncated: false,
+      });
+      expect(sweep.thinkingHidden).toMatchObject({
+        modelText: "Ten second stream",
+        modelTruncated: false,
+      });
+      expect(sweep.modelTruncated.width).toBeLessThan(sweep.thinkingHidden.width);
+      // A clean tail: the label ends on a whole word and the ellipsis, never on a space.
+      expect(sweep.modelTruncated).toMatchObject({
+        modelText: "Ten second…",
+        thinkingShown: false,
+      });
+    } finally {
+      await session.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+test.describe("Composer toolbar rails on touch", () => {
+  test.use({ isMobile: true, hasTouch: true });
+  test.describe.configure({ timeout: 180_000 });
+
+  for (const viewport of [
+    { device: "phone", width: 390, height: 844 },
+    { device: "tablet", width: 1024, height: 1366 },
+  ]) {
+    test(`the toolbar starts on the text rail and ends in a disc nested in the corner on a ${viewport.device}`, async ({
+      page,
+    }) => {
+      await page.setViewportSize({ width: viewport.width, height: viewport.height });
+      const idle = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+        repoPrefix: "composer-rails-idle-",
+        title: "Rails idle chat",
+      });
+      let running: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof seedMockAgentWorkspace>> | null = null;
+      try {
+        await openAgentRoute(page, idle);
+        await expect(page.getByTestId("message-input-root").filter({ visible: true })).toBeVisible({
+          timeout: 30_000,
+        });
+        await test.step("empty composer: attach on the left, voice mode on the right", async () => {
+          await expectComposerToolbarOnTextRails(page);
+        });
+        await test.step("draft: the send disc on the right", async () => {
+          await fillComposerDraft(page, "Refactor the composer toolbar");
+          await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: /send/i }).first()).toBeVisible();
+          await expectComposerToolbarOnTextRails(page);
+        });
+
+        running = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+          repoPrefix: "composer-rails-running-",
+          title: "Rails running chat",
+          model: "one-minute-stream",
+          initialPrompt: "stream for a while",
+        });
+        await openAgentRoute(page, running);
+        await test.step("running agent: the stop disc on the right", async () => {
+          await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: /stop agent/i }).first()).toBeVisible({
+            timeout: 30_000,
+          });
+          await expectComposerToolbarOnTextRails(page);
+        });
+      } finally {
+        await idle.cleanup();
+        await running?.cleanup();
+      }
+    });
+  }
+});
+
+test.describe("Composer trailing disc on a new chat", () => {
+  test.use({ isMobile: true, hasTouch: true, viewport: { width: 1024, height: 1366 } });
+
+  test("an empty draft holds a disabled send disc until there is something to send", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    const workspace = await seedWorkspace({ repoPrefix: "composer-placeholder-send-" });
+    try {
+      await gotoWorkspace(page, workspace.workspaceId);
+      await clickNewChat(page);
+      const send = page
+        .getByTestId("message-input-root")
+        .filter({ visible: true })
+        .getByRole("button", { name: "Send message", exact: true });
+      await expect(send).toBeDisabled({ timeout: 30_000 });
+      await fillComposerDraft(page, "Refactor the composer toolbar");
+      await expect(send).toBeEnabled();
+    } finally {
+      await workspace.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/composer-diff-stat.spec.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
-import type { Locator } from "@playwright/test";
+import type { CDPSession, Locator } from "@playwright/test";
 import { writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { expect, test, type Page } from "../support/fixtures";
+import { seedSubagent } from "../support/helpers/subagents";
+import { submitMessage } from "../support/helpers/composer";
 import { openAgentRoute, seedMockAgentWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/mock-agent";
 import { gateNextAgentMessage } from "../support/helpers/agent-message-gate";
 import {
@@ -78,7 +80,8 @@ test("composer diff stat reveals Changes, then opens the diff in the configured
   const workspace = await seedChangedAgent("composer-diff-stat-side-");
 
   try {
-    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1400, height: 900 });
+    // Keep both workspace rails visible alongside app navigation and Explorer.
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1900, height: 900 });
     await openAgentRoute(page, {
       workspaceId: workspace.workspaceId,
       agentId: workspace.agentId,
@@ -859,3 +862,91 @@ async function expectReviewEditorBody(page: Page, body: string) {
     body,
   );
 }
+
+async function swipeComposerTracks(page: Page, client: CDPSession, direction: "left" | "right") {
+  const track = page.getByTestId("composer-track-scroll");
+  const box = await track.boundingBox();
+  if (!box) throw new Error("Composer tracks are not visible");
+  const start = direction === "left" ? box.x + box.width - 5 : box.x + 5;
+  const end = direction === "left" ? box.x + 5 : box.x + box.width - 5;
+  await swipeTouch(client, start, end, box.y + box.height / 2);
+}
+
+async function swipeTouch(client: CDPSession, start: number, end: number, y: number) {
+  await client.send("Input.dispatchTouchEvent", {
+    type: "touchStart",
+    touchPoints: [{ x: start, y }],
+  });
+  for (let step = 1; step <= 8; step++) {
+    await client.send("Input.dispatchTouchEvent", {
+      type: "touchMove",
+      touchPoints: [{ x: start + ((end - start) * step) / 8, y }],
+    });
+  }
+  await client.send("Input.dispatchTouchEvent", { type: "touchEnd", touchPoints: [] });
+}
+
+async function trackScrollOffset(track: Locator): Promise<number> {
+  return track.evaluate((node) => node.scrollLeft);
+}
+
+test.describe("touch composer tracks", () => {
+  test.use({ hasTouch: true, isMobile: true });
+  test("compact composer scrolls its task, subagent and changes tracks without squeezing them", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    const workspace = await seedChangedAgent("composer-tracks-overflow-");
+    const touch = await page.context().newCDPSession(page);
+    try {
+      await seedSubagent(
+        { client: workspace.client, repoPath: workspace.cwd, workspaceId: workspace.workspaceId },
+        { parentId: workspace.agentId, title: "Track child" },
+      );
+      await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1000, height: 844 });
+      await openAgentRoute(page, {
+        workspaceId: workspace.workspaceId,
+        agentId: workspace.agentId,
+      });
+      await submitMessage(page, "emit 1 agent stream updates");
+      const tasks = page.getByTestId("agent-task-list-header");
+      const subagents = page.getByTestId("subagents-track-header");
+      const changes = page.getByTestId("composer-diff-stat-pill");
+      await expect(tasks).toBeVisible();
+      await expect(subagents).toBeVisible();
+      await expect(changes).toBeVisible();
+      const wideWidths = await Promise.all(
+        [tasks, subagents, changes].map(async (pill) => (await pill.boundingBox())!.width),
+      );
+      await page.setViewportSize({ width: 200, height: 844 });
+      const narrowWidths = await Promise.all(
+        [tasks, subagents, changes].map(async (pill) => (await pill.boundingBox())!.width),
+      );
+      for (const [index, width] of wideWidths.entries())
+        expect(narrowWidths[index]).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(width - 1);
+      const track = page.getByTestId("composer-track-scroll");
+      expect(await track.evaluate((node) => node.scrollWidth)).toBeGreaterThan(
+        await track.evaluate((node) => node.clientWidth),
+      );
+      await swipeComposerTracks(page, touch, "left");
+      await expect.poll(() => trackScrollOffset(track)).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      await swipeComposerTracks(page, touch, "right");
+      await expect.poll(() => trackScrollOffset(track)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+      await swipeComposerTracks(page, touch, "left");
+      await expect.poll(() => trackScrollOffset(track)).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("sidebar-sessions")).not.toBeInViewport();
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("workspace-explorer-sidebar")).not.toBeInViewport();
+      await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Open menu" }).click();
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("sidebar-sessions")).toBeInViewport({ ratio: 1 });
+      await page.getByTestId("sidebar-close").click();
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("sidebar-sessions")).not.toBeInViewport();
+      await expect(changes).toBeInViewport();
+      await changes.click();
+      await expect(
+        page.getByTestId("changes-header").filter({ visible: true }).first(),
+      ).toBeVisible();
+    } finally {
+      await touch.detach();
+      await workspace.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/composer-focus.spec.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 import { expect, test, type Page } from "../support/fixtures";
 import {
+  pasteRichTextIntoComposer,
+  fillComposerDraft,
+  copyLatestTurnIntoComposer,
+  selectComposerDraftRange,
+  undoComposerEdit,
+  redoComposerEdit,
   blurComposerInput,
   roundTripComposerTabBeforePaint,
   composerLocator,
@@ -13,6 +19,7 @@ import {
   expectWorkspaceHeaderVisible,
   resizeComposerViewport,
   submitMessage,
+  submitMessageWithButton,
   typeIntoFocusedComposer,
 } from "../support/helpers/composer";
 import { openAgentRoute, seedMockAgentWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/mock-agent";
@@ -25,9 +32,10 @@ import {
   expectMobileAgentSidebarVisible,
   expectMobileExplorerHidden,
   expectMobileExplorerVisible,
-  swipeOpenMobileAgentSidebar,
+  openMobileAgentSidebarWithKeyboard,
   swipeOpenMobileExplorer,
 } from "../support/helpers/sidebar";
+import { installDaemonWebSocketGate } from "../support/helpers/daemon-websocket-gate";
 import { readScrollMetrics } from "../support/helpers/agent-bottom-anchor";
 import {
   expectTimelinePromptPositionPreserved,
@@ -55,7 +63,9 @@ test("clicking chat text or background focuses the feed for keyboard paging", as
     await expect
       .poll(async () => (await readScrollMetrics(page)).offsetY)
       .toBeLessThan(beforePaging.offsetY - beforePaging.viewportHeight / 2);
-    await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath("chat-keyboard-paging.png") });
+    await page.screenshot({
+      path: testInfo.outputPath("chat-keyboard-paging.png"),
+    });
     await page.keyboard.press("PageDown");
     await expect
       .poll(async () => (await readScrollMetrics(page)).distanceFromBottom)
@@ -124,20 +134,86 @@ test("focusing the feed preserves assistant text selection and code copy control
 });
 
 test("submitting a message leaves the composer ready for the next message", async ({ page }) => {
+  const copiedTable =
+    "| Resource | Status |\n| --- | --- |\n| [Unicode](https://example.com/日本語) | ~~closed~~ |\n| [Space](<https://example.com/a b>) | **open** |\n| [ASCII](https://example.com/1) | closed |";
   const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
     repoPrefix: "composer-focus-",
     title: "Composer focus",
+    featureValues: { mockAssistantResponse: copiedTable },
   });
 
+  const connection = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page);
   try {
     await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
     await expectComposerVisible(page);
 
+    await submitMessageWithButton(page, "Pointer submission");
+    await expectComposerDraft(page, "");
+    await expectComposerFocused(page);
+    await typeIntoFocusedComposer(page, "Ready after Send");
+    await expectComposerDraft(page, "Ready after Send");
+    await agent.client.waitForFinish(agent.agentId, 15_000);
+    await expectComposerFocused(page);
+
     await submitMessage(page, "First message");
     await expectComposerFocused(page);
 
-    await typeIntoFocusedComposer(page, "Second message");
-    await expectComposerDraft(page, "Second message");
+    await typeIntoFocusedComposer(page, "Investigate: replace this. Thanks");
+    await selectComposerDraftRange(page, 13, 25);
+    await pasteRichTextIntoComposer({
+      page,
+      html: '<a href="https://example.com/issues/39150">this FR</a>',
+      text: "this FR",
+    });
+    await expectComposerDraft(
+      page,
+      "Investigate: [this FR](https://example.com/issues/39150). Thanks",
+    );
+    await undoComposerEdit(page);
+    await expectComposerDraft(page, "Investigate: replace this. Thanks");
+    await redoComposerEdit(page);
+    await expectComposerDraft(
+      page,
+      "Investigate: [this FR](https://example.com/issues/39150). Thanks",
+    );
+    await typeIntoFocusedComposer(page, " next");
+    await expectComposerDraft(
+      page,
+      "Investigate: [this FR](https://example.com/issues/39150) next. Thanks",
+    );
+    await agent.client.waitForFinish(agent.agentId, 15_000);
+    await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "Copy turn", exact: true }).last()).toBeVisible();
+    await connection.drop();
+    await connection.waitForBlockedConnection();
+    await pasteRichTextIntoComposer({
+      page,
+      html: '<a href="https://example.com/offline">offline link</a>',
+      text: "offline link",
+    });
+    await expectComposerDraft(
+      page,
+      "Investigate: [this FR](https://example.com/issues/39150) next[offline link](https://example.com/offline). Thanks",
+    );
+    await fillComposerDraft(page, "");
+    await pasteRichTextIntoComposer({
+      page,
+      html: '<table><thead><tr><th>Resource</th><th>Status</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://example.com/issue">Issue</a></td><td>closed</td></tr></tbody></table>',
+      text: "Resource\tStatus\nIssue\tclosed",
+    });
+    await expectComposerDraft(
+      page,
+      "| Resource | Status |\n| --- | --- |\n| [Issue](https://example.com/issue) | closed |",
+    );
+    await fillComposerDraft(page, "");
+    await pasteRichTextIntoComposer({
+      page,
+      html: '<a href="https://example.com/">Issue</a><table></table>',
+      text: "Issue",
+    });
+    await expectComposerDraft(page, "[Issue](https://example.com/)");
+    await copyLatestTurnIntoComposer(page);
+    await expectComposerDraft(page, copiedTable);
+    await expectComposerFocused(page);
   } finally {
     await agent.cleanup();
   }
@@ -168,7 +244,11 @@ async function waitForAnimationFrames(page: Page, count: number): Promise<void>
 test.describe("touch screen wide enough for the desktop layout", () => {
   // A tablet or an unfolded foldable gets the desktop layout, but focusing the
   // composer there raises the on-screen keyboard over the conversation.
-  test.use({ viewport: { width: 1024, height: 768 }, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true });
+  test.use({
+    viewport: { width: 1024, height: 768 },
+    isMobile: true,
+    hasTouch: true,
+  });
 
   test("remounting an inline composer does not restore focus on touch", async ({ page }) => {
     const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
@@ -192,7 +272,9 @@ test.describe("touch screen wide enough for the desktop layout", () => {
   test("returning to an inactive inline composer does not restore focus on touch", async ({
     page,
   }) => {
-    const workspace = await seedWorkspace({ repoPrefix: "composer-touch-retained-" });
+    const workspace = await seedWorkspace({
+      repoPrefix: "composer-touch-retained-",
+    });
     try {
       const first = await createMockIdleAgent(workspace.client, {
         cwd: workspace.repoPath,
@@ -240,6 +322,9 @@ test.describe("touch screen wide enough for the desktop layout", () => {
       // Autofocus makes its first attempt on the next animation frame.
       await waitForAnimationFrames(page, 4);
       await expectComposerNotFocused(page);
+      await submitMessageWithButton(page, "Touch submission");
+      await expectComposerDraft(page, "");
+      await expectComposerNotFocused(page);
     } finally {
       await agent.cleanup();
     }
@@ -249,7 +334,7 @@ test.describe("touch screen wide enough for the desktop layout", () => {
 const COMPACT_PANELS = [
   {
     name: "agent list",
-    open: swipeOpenMobileAgentSidebar,
+    open: openMobileAgentSidebarWithKeyboard,
     expectOpen: expectMobileAgentSidebarVisible,
     close: closeMobileAgentSidebar,
     expectClosed: expectMobileAgentSidebarHidden,

packages/app/e2e/browser/composer-whitespace.spec.ts

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ import {
   closeMobileAgentSidebar,
   expectMobileAgentSidebarHidden,
   expectMobileAgentSidebarVisible,
-  swipeOpenMobileAgentSidebar,
+  openMobileAgentSidebarWithKeyboard,
 } from "../support/helpers/sidebar";
 
 async function composerHeight(page: Page): Promise<number> {
@@ -541,8 +541,8 @@ test("the compact sidebar over a fullscreen editor leaves the exit action alone"
     await writeCompactDraft(page, draft);
     await enterComposerFullscreen(page);
     await expectWorkspaceHeaderHidden(page);
-    // Fullscreen hides the header's menu button; the edge swipe still opens the list over it.
-    await swipeOpenMobileAgentSidebar(page);
+    // Fullscreen hides the header's menu button; the keyboard shortcut opens the list over it.
+    await openMobileAgentSidebarWithKeyboard(page);
     await expectMobileAgentSidebarVisible(page);
     // The list covers the pane, so the editor's exit action is not armed.
     await page.keyboard.press("Escape");

packages/app/e2e/browser/context-window-meter.spec.ts

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import {
   openAgent,
   pressContextWindowMeter,
   qaScreenshot,
+  recordContextWindowFrames,
   refreshUsageCard,
   reloadAgent,
   scriptAgentUsage,
@@ -299,9 +300,10 @@ for (const theme of ["light", "dark"] as const) {
       const slowSource = gate();
       usage.answerNext({ stream: [slowSource.promise, onWorkLogin(claude!)] });
       const closedEarly = await hoverContextWindowMeter(page);
-      await expect(closedEarly.getByText("Loading usage...", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+      await expect(usageCard(closedEarly, "claude:work").getByText(LOGIN_EXPIRED)).toBeVisible();
       await leaveContextWindowMeter(page);
 
+      await usage.resumeAgent(agent);
       const resumed = gate();
       const finished = gate();
       usage.answerNext({
@@ -385,6 +387,58 @@ for (const theme of ["light", "dark"] as const) {
   });
 }
 
+test("an open with loaded usage paints it in its first frame and never moves", async ({
+  page,
+  agent,
+}) => {
+  const [claude] = claudeAndCodexReports();
+  const usage = await scriptAgentUsage(page);
+  await page.setViewportSize(DESKTOP);
+  await openAgent(page, agent);
+  usage.answerNext([onWorkLogin(claude!)]);
+  const loaded = await hoverContextWindowMeter(page);
+  await expect(usageCard(loaded, "claude:work")).toBeVisible();
+  await leaveContextWindowMeter(page);
+
+  // The reopen's own request stays unanswered until the card has been on screen a while.
+  const refetch = gate();
+  usage.answerNext({ stream: [refetch.promise, onWorkLogin(claude!)] });
+  const recording = await recordContextWindowFrames(page);
+  const reopened = await hoverContextWindowMeter(page);
+  await page.waitForTimeout(300);
+  refetch.open();
+  await page.waitForTimeout(300);
+  await expect(usageCard(reopened, "claude:work")).toBeVisible();
+  const frames = (await recording.stop()).filter((frame) => frame.mounted);
+  await leaveContextWindowMeter(page);
+
+  expect(frames.filter((frame) => frame.loading)).toEqual([]);
+  expect(frames.filter((frame) => frame.usageCards !== 1)).toEqual([]);
+  expect(new Set(frames.map((frame) => frame.bottom)).size).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test("usage arriving after the card opens never moves its bottom edge", async ({ page, agent }) => {
+  const [claude] = claudeAndCodexReports();
+  const usage = await scriptAgentUsage(page);
+  await page.setViewportSize(DESKTOP);
+  await openAgent(page, agent);
+
+  const arrival = gate();
+  usage.answerNext({ stream: [arrival.promise, onWorkLogin(claude!)] });
+  const recording = await recordContextWindowFrames(page);
+  const card = await hoverContextWindowMeter(page);
+  await expect(card.getByText("Loading usage...", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  arrival.open();
+  await expect(usageCard(card, "claude:work")).toBeVisible();
+  await page.waitForTimeout(300);
+  const frames = (await recording.stop()).filter((frame) => frame.mounted);
+  await leaveContextWindowMeter(page);
+
+  expect(frames.some((frame) => frame.loading)).toBe(true);
+  expect(frames.at(-1)?.usageCards).toBe(1);
+  expect(new Set(frames.map((frame) => frame.bottom)).size).toBe(1);
+});
+
 test("context details support keyboard entry and dismiss when the viewport moves", async ({
   page,
   agent,

packages/app/e2e/browser/direct-terminal-shortcut-pane-placement.spec.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import { installLocalDesktopHost } from "../support/helpers/local-desktop-host";
+import type { Locator, Page } from "@playwright/test";
 import { expect, test } from "../support/fixtures";
 import { runWorkspaceActionFromCommandCenter } from "../support/helpers/command-center-workspace-actions";
 import {
@@ -9,6 +11,7 @@ import { seedWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/seed-client";
 import { waitForWorkspaceTabsVisible } from "../support/helpers/workspace-tabs";
 
 test.describe("Direct terminal shortcut pane placement", () => {
+  test.use({ viewport: { width: 1600, height: 900 } });
   test("opens a terminal in the focused pane", async ({ page }) => {
     const workspace = await seedWorkspace({ repoPrefix: "direct-terminal-shortcut-pane-" });
 
@@ -47,3 +50,91 @@ test.describe("Direct terminal shortcut pane placement", () => {
     }
   });
 });
+
+async function prepareNarrowSplit(page: Page, workspaceId: string) {
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 900 });
+  await gotoWorkspace(page, workspaceId);
+  await waitForWorkspaceTabsVisible(page);
+  await clickNewChat(page);
+  await runWorkspaceActionFromCommandCenter(page, "Split pane right");
+  const draftPane = page
+    .locator('[data-testid^="workspace-pane-"]')
+    .filter({ has: page.getByTestId("message-input-root") });
+  const emptyPane = page
+    .locator('[data-testid^="workspace-pane-"]')
+    .filter({ has: page.getByTestId("workspace-new-tab-panel") });
+  const draftPaneId = await draftPane.getAttribute("data-testid");
+  const emptyPaneId = await emptyPane.getAttribute("data-testid");
+  expect(draftPaneId).not.toBeNull();
+  expect(emptyPaneId).not.toBeNull();
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 760, height: 900 });
+  return {
+    originalPane: page.getByTestId(draftPaneId!),
+    otherPane: page.getByTestId(emptyPaneId!),
+  };
+}
+
+async function expectPanesKeepTabRails(page: Page, panes: Locator[]) {
+  for (const pane of panes) {
+    await expect(pane.getByTestId("workspace-tabs-row")).toBeVisible();
+  }
+  await expect(
+    page.getByTestId("workspace-tab-switcher-trigger").filter({ visible: true }),
+  ).toHaveCount(0);
+}
+
+async function launchTerminalFromPaneRail(page: Page, pane: Locator) {
+  await pane.getByTestId("workspace-new-tab-button").click();
+  await page.getByTestId("workspace-new-tab-menu-terminal").filter({ visible: true }).click();
+  await expect(pane.getByTestId("terminal-surface")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
+}
+
+async function maximizeAndRestorePane(pane: Locator) {
+  await pane.getByTestId("workspace-maximize-pane").click();
+  await pane.getByTestId("workspace-restore-pane").click();
+}
+
+test("narrow split panes keep their tab rails and launches stay in the owning pane", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  const workspace = await seedWorkspace({ repoPrefix: "narrow-split-launch-" });
+  try {
+    const { originalPane, otherPane } = await prepareNarrowSplit(page, workspace.workspaceId);
+    await expectPanesKeepTabRails(page, [originalPane, otherPane]);
+    await launchTerminalFromPaneRail(page, originalPane);
+    await expect(otherPane.getByTestId("workspace-new-tab-panel")).toBeVisible();
+    await maximizeAndRestorePane(originalPane);
+    await expect(otherPane).toBeVisible();
+    await expectPanesKeepTabRails(page, [originalPane, otherPane]);
+  } finally {
+    await workspace.cleanup();
+  }
+});
+
+async function expectPaneHasWindowDragSurface(pane: Locator) {
+  await expect
+    .poll(() =>
+      pane.evaluate((element) =>
+        Array.from(element.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>("div")).some(
+          (node) => node.style.getPropertyValue("-webkit-app-region") === "drag",
+        ),
+      ),
+    )
+    .toBe(true);
+}
+
+test("narrow desktop split panes retain window dragging with both sidebars closed", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  const workspace = await seedWorkspace({ repoPrefix: "narrow-split-window-drag-" });
+  try {
+    await installLocalDesktopHost(page, workspace.repoPath);
+    const { originalPane, otherPane } = await prepareNarrowSplit(page, workspace.workspaceId);
+    await runWorkspaceActionFromCommandCenter(page, "Toggle left sidebar");
+    await expectPanesKeepTabRails(page, [originalPane, otherPane]);
+    await expectPaneHasWindowDragSurface(originalPane);
+    await expectPaneHasWindowDragSurface(otherPane);
+  } finally {
+    await workspace.cleanup();
+  }
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/empty-pane-keyboard.spec.ts

@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ test.describe("New tab keyboard launcher", () => {
       await expectLauncherSelection(launcher, "Diff");
       await page.keyboard.press("Enter");
 
-      await expect(
-        page.getByTestId("workspace-tab-working_diff").filter({ visible: true }),
-      ).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("working-diff-panel").filter({ visible: true })).toBeVisible({
+        timeout: 30_000,
+      });
     } finally {
       await workspace.cleanup();
     }

packages/app/e2e/browser/explorer-pane-placement.spec.ts

@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ function collectConsoleErrors(page: Page): string[] {
   return errors;
 }
 
+// These drag and tab-menu journeys need full rails beside the docked Explorer.
+test.use({ viewport: { width: 1900, height: 900 } });
+
 test.describe("explorer pane tab placement", () => {
   test("agents open in the main pane and New-tab splits keep the app usable", async ({
     page,

packages/app/e2e/browser/explorer-resize-performance.spec.ts

@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ async function previewExplorerResize(page: Page, distance: number) {
   return { ...measurement, width: after };
 }
 
+async function expectCleanChangesLoaded(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await expect(
+    page.getByTestId("changes-tree-panel").getByText("No changes to display", { exact: true }),
+  ).toBeVisible();
+}
+
 async function expectExplorerWidthSurvivesReload(page: Page, width: number): Promise<void> {
   await page.reload();
   const explorer = page.getByTestId("workspace-explorer-sidebar");
@@ -100,6 +106,7 @@ test("Explorer drag previews without rerendering panes or rewriting the shared s
   await runWorkspaceActionFromCommandCenter(page, "Split pane right");
   await page.getByTestId("workspace-explorer-toggle").first().click();
   await expect(page.getByTestId("workspace-explorer-sidebar")).toBeVisible();
+  await expectCleanChangesLoaded(page);
   // Verify that direct pane renders are being counted before resetting them.
   expect(
     await page.evaluate(() =>

packages/app/e2e/browser/explorer-sidebar.spec.ts

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
   ensureExplorerSidebar,
   openFilesPanel,
   waitForWorkspaceTabsVisible,
+  dragTabIntoExplorer,
 } from "../support/helpers/workspace-tabs";
 
 function explorerSidebar(page: Parameters<typeof ensureExplorerSidebar>[0]) {
@@ -194,26 +195,6 @@ test("Explorer keeps Files and Changes close actions in the context menu", async
   }
 });
 
-async function dragTabIntoExplorer(
-  page: Parameters<typeof ensureExplorerSidebar>[0],
-  tabId: string,
-) {
-  const source = page.getByTestId("workspace-pane-main").getByTestId(`workspace-tab-${tabId}`);
-  const destination = explorerSidebar(page).getByTestId("workspace-tab-files");
-  const sourceBox = await source.boundingBox();
-  const destinationBox = await destination.boundingBox();
-  if (!sourceBox || !destinationBox)
-    throw new Error("Tab drag requires visible source and destination");
-  const start = { x: sourceBox.x + 12, y: sourceBox.y + sourceBox.height / 2 };
-  await page.mouse.move(start.x, start.y);
-  await page.mouse.down();
-  await page.mouse.move(start.x + 12, start.y + 4);
-  await page.mouse.move(destinationBox.x + 12, destinationBox.y + destinationBox.height / 2, {
-    steps: 20,
-  });
-  await page.mouse.up();
-}
-
 test("moves agents into Explorer and keeps the shared Agent launcher available", async ({
   page,
 }, testInfo) => {

packages/app/e2e/browser/file-editing.spec.ts

@@ -435,7 +435,8 @@ test.describe("CodeMirror workspace file editing", () => {
     });
 
     try {
-      await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 900 });
+      // Keep both tab rails available alongside the docked Explorer.
+      await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1900, height: 900 });
       await openAgentRoute(page, session);
 
       await openWorkspaceFile(page, "target.ts");

packages/app/e2e/browser/host-confirmation.spec.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import {
   expectHostInHostPicker,
   hostConfirmation,
   openPairingLink,
-  saveLinkedHostBeforeLoad,
+  reopenPairingLinkWithSavedHosts,
   type LinkedHost,
 } from "../support/helpers/host-confirmation";
 
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ const linkedHost: LinkedHost = {
   daemonPublicKeyB64: "bGlua0NvbmZpcm1hdGlvbktleQ",
 };
 
-test("a pairing link for a new host asks before saving it", async ({ page }) => {
+test("a pairing link asks before saving a host and reconnects without asking again", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
   const link = buildPairingLink(linkedHost);
 
   await test.step("Cancel saves nothing and stays on the page", async () => {
@@ -39,13 +41,10 @@ test("a pairing link for a new host asks before saving it", async ({ page }) =>
     await openSettings(page);
     await expectHostInHostPicker(page, linkedHost.serverId, "listed");
   });
-});
 
-test("a pairing link for a saved host connects without asking", async ({ page }) => {
-  await saveLinkedHostBeforeLoad(page, linkedHost);
-
-  await openPairingLink(page, buildPairingLink(linkedHost));
-
-  await expectAppRoute(page, "/open-project", { timeout: 30_000 });
-  await expect(hostConfirmation(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+  await test.step("reopening the saved host link connects without asking", async () => {
+    await reopenPairingLinkWithSavedHosts(page, link);
+    await expectAppRoute(page, "/open-project", { timeout: 30_000 });
+    await expect(hostConfirmation(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+  });
 });

packages/app/e2e/browser/mermaid-fullscreen.spec.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import { test } from "../support/fixtures";
 import {
   closeDiagramFullscreen,
+  expectInlineDiagramFitsViewport,
+  toggleDiagramSourceAndVerifyControls,
   closeDiagramFullscreenFromOutside,
   expectCompletedDiagram,
   expectFullscreenDiagram,
@@ -21,6 +23,36 @@ const MERMAID_DIAGRAM = [
   "```",
 ].join("\n");
 
+test("bounds a tall inline diagram", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  const diagram = [
+    "```mermaid",
+    "flowchart TD",
+    ...Array.from({ length: 30 }, (_, i) => `N${i} --> N${i + 1}`),
+    "```",
+  ].join("\n");
+  const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+    repoPrefix: "mermaid-tall-",
+    title: "Tall Mermaid",
+    featureValues: {
+      mockStreamingAssistantResponse: diagram,
+      mockStreamingAssistantIntervalMs: 10,
+    },
+  });
+  try {
+    await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+    await requestDiagram(agent);
+    await waitForDiagramTurnToComplete(agent);
+    await expectCompletedDiagram(page, ["N0", "N30"]);
+    await expectInlineDiagramFitsViewport(page);
+    await openDiagramFullscreen(page);
+    await expectFullscreenDiagram(page, ["N0", "N30"]);
+    await closeDiagramFullscreen(page);
+  } finally {
+    await agent.cleanup();
+  }
+});
+
 test("opens a Mermaid diagram fullscreen and closes it again", async ({ page }) => {
   test.setTimeout(120_000);
 
@@ -40,6 +72,10 @@ test("opens a Mermaid diagram fullscreen and closes it again", async ({ page })
       await expectCompletedDiagram(page, ["Start", "Ship"]);
     });
 
+    await test.step("Source toggles preserve the diagram and exclude hidden controls", async () => {
+      await toggleDiagramSourceAndVerifyControls(page);
+    });
+
     await test.step("The toolbar opens the diagram fullscreen", async () => {
       await openDiagramFullscreen(page);
       await expectFullscreenDiagram(page, ["Start", "Review", "Ship"]);

packages/app/e2e/browser/new-workspace-live-pin.spec.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import type { Page } from "@playwright/test";
 import { expect, test } from "../support/fixtures";
 import { gotoAppShell } from "../support/helpers/app";
+import { expectComposerModel } from "../support/helpers/agent-profiles";
 import {
   delayBrowserAgentCreatedStatus,
   openNewWorkspaceComposer,
@@ -69,6 +70,8 @@ test.describe("New workspace live pin", () => {
       await gotoAppShell(page);
       await waitForSidebarHydration(page);
       await openNewWorkspaceComposer(page, seeded);
+      // The composer appears before its provider catalog has hydrated.
+      await expectComposerModel(page, "Ten second stream");
       await submitNewWorkspacePrompt(page, "Pin me while I start");
 
       await creation.waitForCreateRequest();

packages/app/e2e/browser/onboarding.spec.ts

@@ -12,11 +12,15 @@ import {
   openAppAsNewUser,
   openRelayPairingFromSetup,
   closeRelayPairing,
+  emptyHome,
+  loadingScreen,
   openTailscaleDocsFromSetup,
   paseoToolsSwitch,
   pickTheme,
   projectSuggestion,
   projectSuggestionRow,
+  readFirstLaunch,
+  recordFirstLaunch,
   setupModal,
   setupPrimaryButton,
   showSetupAgainFromSettings,
@@ -99,6 +103,139 @@ test("a new user is walked through setup once", async ({ page }, testInfo) => {
   }
 });
 
+test("a new user goes from the loading screen straight into setup", async ({ page }) => {
+  const host = await startSetupHost("first-launch");
+
+  try {
+    await recordFirstLaunch(page);
+    await openAppAsNewUser(page, host);
+    await expectSetupStep(page, "Welcome to Paseo");
+
+    const launch = await readFirstLaunch(page);
+    expect(launch.appBeforeSetup).toBe(false);
+    expect(launch.setupOpacityOnArrival).toBeLessThan(1);
+    await expect(setupModal(page)).toHaveCSS("opacity", "1");
+  } finally {
+    await host.close();
+  }
+});
+
+test("with reduced motion, setup appears without fading in", async ({ page }) => {
+  const host = await startSetupHost("reduced-motion");
+
+  try {
+    await page.emulateMedia({ reducedMotion: "reduce" });
+    await recordFirstLaunch(page);
+    await openAppAsNewUser(page, host);
+    await expectSetupStep(page, "Welcome to Paseo");
+
+    expect((await readFirstLaunch(page)).setupOpacityOnArrival).toBe(1);
+  } finally {
+    await host.close();
+  }
+});
+
+test("changing the theme keeps the setup window in place on every step", async ({ page }) => {
+  const host = await startSetupHost("theme-change");
+
+  try {
+    await openAppAsNewUser(page, host);
+    await expectSetupStep(page, "Welcome to Paseo");
+    const setupWindow = await setupModal(page).elementHandle();
+
+    for (const title of [
+      "Welcome to Paseo",
+      "Your agents",
+      "Add your projects",
+      "Let agents use Paseo",
+      "Take your agents with you",
+    ]) {
+      if (title !== "Welcome to Paseo") await continueSetup(page);
+      await expectSetupStep(page, title);
+      const heading = setupModal(page).getByRole("heading", { name: title });
+      const headingNode = await heading.elementHandle();
+      const lightColor = await heading.evaluate((node) => getComputedStyle(node).color);
+      await page.emulateMedia({ colorScheme: "dark" });
+      await expect(heading).not.toHaveCSS("color", lightColor);
+      await page.emulateMedia({ colorScheme: "light" });
+      await expect(heading).toHaveCSS("color", lightColor);
+      expect(await setupWindow?.evaluate((node) => node.isConnected), title).toBe(true);
+      expect(await headingNode?.evaluate((node) => node.isConnected), title).toBe(true);
+    }
+
+    await goToSetupStep(page, "Appearance");
+    await pickTheme(page, "Midnight");
+    await pickTheme(page, "Light");
+    expect(await setupWindow?.evaluate((node) => node.isConnected)).toBe(true);
+  } finally {
+    await host.close();
+  }
+});
+
+test("the loading screen stays up while the setup host loads its workspaces", async ({ page }) => {
+  const host = await startSetupHost("slow-workspaces");
+  const gate = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page, { port: host.port });
+
+  try {
+    await recordFirstLaunch(page);
+    gate.holdNextClientRequest("fetch_workspaces_request");
+    await openAppAsNewUser(page, host);
+    await gate.waitForHeldClientRequest();
+    await expect(loadingScreen(page)).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(emptyHome(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+
+    gate.releaseHeldClientRequest();
+    await expectSetupStep(page, "Welcome to Paseo");
+    expect((await readFirstLaunch(page)).appBeforeSetup).toBe(false);
+  } finally {
+    await host.close();
+  }
+});
+
+test("a setup host that never loads its workspaces still lands on the home", async ({ page }) => {
+  const host = await startSetupHost("stuck-workspaces");
+  const gate = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page, { port: host.port });
+
+  try {
+    gate.holdNextClientRequest("fetch_workspaces_request");
+    await openAppAsNewUser(page, host);
+    await gate.waitForHeldClientRequest();
+    await expect(emptyHome(page)).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+    await expect(setupModal(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+
+    // Setup still opens once the host answers.
+    gate.releaseHeldClientRequest();
+    await expectSetupStep(page, "Welcome to Paseo");
+  } finally {
+    await host.close();
+  }
+});
+
+test("a setup host that drops while loading still lands on the home", async ({ page }) => {
+  const host = await startSetupHost("dropped-workspaces");
+  const gate = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page, { port: host.port });
+
+  try {
+    gate.holdNextClientRequest("fetch_workspaces_request");
+    await openAppAsNewUser(page, host);
+    await gate.waitForHeldClientRequest();
+    await gate.drop();
+    await expect(emptyHome(page)).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+    await expect(setupModal(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+  } finally {
+    await host.close();
+  }
+});
+
+test("an unreachable setup host lands on the home without setup", async ({ page }) => {
+  const host = await startSetupHost("unreachable");
+  await host.close();
+
+  await openAppAsNewUser(page, host);
+  await expect(emptyHome(page)).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+  await expect(setupModal(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
 test("setup suggests the repos the user already ran agents in", async ({ page }, testInfo) => {
   const repo = await createTempGitRepo("onboarding-history-");
   const repoName = path.basename(repo.path);

packages/app/e2e/browser/plugin-composer-items.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+import { test } from "../support/fixtures";
+import {
+  expectToolbarNeverCondensedOrClipped,
+  recordToolbarFramesFromLoad,
+  withComposerControlsExample,
+  withPickerComposerItem,
+  withToggleAndWatcherComposerItems,
+} from "../support/helpers/plugin-composer-items";
+
+test("a narrow composer's overflow sheet shows a plugin item's row", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withComposerControlsExample(page, async (composer) => {
+    await composer.narrowTheWindow();
+    await composer.openAgentFeatures();
+    await composer.expectFeatureRow("Needs review");
+    await composer.expectFeatureRow("Insert checklist");
+  });
+});
+
+test("a toolbar with room keeps a plugin toggle inline at full density", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withToggleAndWatcherComposerItems(page, async (composer) => {
+    // Wider than what renders, too narrow for two 125-wide "Plugin item" estimates.
+    await composer.setWindowWidth(1000);
+    await composer.expectToolbarWidthBetween(470, 620);
+    await composer.expectToggleInlineAtFullDensity();
+  });
+});
+
+test("a toolbar without room moves a plugin toggle to the overflow sheet and back", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withToggleAndWatcherComposerItems(page, async (composer) => {
+    await composer.setWindowWidth(1000);
+    await composer.expectToggleInlineAtFullDensity();
+    // Too narrow for full labels, wide enough that the controls have not folded away.
+    await composer.setWindowWidth(880);
+    await composer.expectToolbarWidthBetween(300, 395);
+    await composer.expectToggleInOverflow();
+    await composer.closeOverflowSheet();
+    await composer.setWindowWidth(1000);
+    await composer.expectToggleInlineAtFullDensity();
+  });
+});
+
+test("an open plugin picker closes when its trigger moves to the overflow", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPickerComposerItem(page, async (composer) => {
+    await composer.setWindowWidth(1000);
+    await composer.openInlinePicker();
+    await composer.setWindowWidth(880);
+    await composer.expectToolbarWidthBetween(300, 395);
+    await composer.expectPickerClosed();
+  });
+});
+
+test("the toolbar settles on one density without flipping as the window widens", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withToggleAndWatcherComposerItems(page, async (composer) => {
+    await composer.setWindowWidth(880);
+    await composer.expectToolbarWidthBetween(300, 395);
+    await composer.startRecordingDensity();
+    for (let width = 880; width <= 1000; width += 8) await composer.setWindowWidth(width);
+    await composer.expectAtMostOneDensityChange();
+  });
+});
+
+test("a toolbar with room never paints condensed or clipped while the plugin loads", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1000, height: 800 });
+  await recordToolbarFramesFromLoad(page);
+  await withToggleAndWatcherComposerItems(page, async (composer) => {
+    await composer.expectToggleInlineAtFullDensity();
+    await expectToolbarNeverCondensedOrClipped(page);
+  });
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/plugin-composers-by-reference.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+import { test } from "../support/fixtures";
+import {
+  CHECKLIST,
+  withComposerToolsExample,
+  withPluginFocusingAComposer,
+  withPluginFocusingASubagent,
+  withPluginFocusingAnAgentWithContextUsage,
+  withPluginHoldingNewWorkspaceComposer,
+  withPluginWritingToAnotherWorkspace,
+} from "../support/helpers/plugin-composers-by-reference";
+
+test("a panel in the Explorer inserts at the cursor of the focused agent's composer", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withComposerToolsExample(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openComposerToolsInExplorer();
+    await author.typeInComposer("start end", 5);
+    await author.insertChecklistFromPanel();
+    await author.expectComposerText(`start${CHECKLIST} end`);
+  });
+});
+
+test("a Command Center item changes an agent's metadata through its composer", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withComposerToolsExample(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openComposerToolsInExplorer();
+    await author.expectPanelShowsReview(false);
+    await author.markForReviewFromCommandCenter();
+    await author.expectPanelShowsReview(true);
+  });
+});
+
+test("the panel follows which agent is focused", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withComposerToolsExample(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openComposerToolsInExplorer();
+    await author.expectPanelFocusedAgent(true);
+    await author.focusANewAgentTab();
+    await author.expectPanelFocusedAgent(false);
+    await author.focusTheAgentTab();
+    await author.expectPanelFocusedAgent(true);
+  });
+});
+
+test("an Action in the compact controls sheet closes the sheet and focuses the composer", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withComposerToolsExample(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.useCompactLayout();
+    await author.insertChecklistFromControlsSheet();
+    await author.expectComposerReadyToType(CHECKLIST);
+  });
+});
+
+test("a plugin writes to an agent's composer while its workspace is not on screen", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginWritingToAnotherWorkspace(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openTargetAgent();
+    await author.goToAnotherWorkspace();
+    await author.insertFromCommandCenter();
+    await author.returnToTargetWorkspace();
+    await author.expectComposerText("A note from a plugin");
+  });
+});
+
+test("a pill that inserts text and focuses leaves the cursor in the composer, ready to type", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginFocusingAComposer(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openTargetAgent();
+    await author.moveFocusOutOfComposer();
+    await author.pressPill();
+    await author.expectComposerFocused();
+    await author.typeAtCursor(" world");
+    await author.expectComposerText("HELLO world");
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus reaches an agent in another tab of the workspace", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginFocusingAComposer(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openTargetAgent();
+    await author.openOtherAgent();
+    await author.focusFromCommandCenter();
+    await author.expectOnTargetAgent();
+    await author.expectComposerFocused();
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus reaches an agent in another workspace, with the selection asked for", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginFocusingAComposer(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openTargetAgent();
+    await author.fillComposer("typed before");
+    await author.goToAnotherWorkspace();
+    await author.selectPromptFromCommandCenter();
+    await author.expectOnTargetAgent();
+    await author.expectComposerFocused();
+    await author.typeAtCursor("replaced");
+    await author.expectComposerText("replaced");
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus closes the compact Explorer panel covering the composer", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginFocusingAComposer(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.useCompactLayout();
+    await author.openTargetAgent();
+    await author.coverComposerWithExplorerPanel();
+    await author.pressPanelFocusButton();
+    await author.expectExplorerPanelClosed();
+    await author.expectComposerFocused();
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus rejects on a New workspace composer the user has left", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginHoldingNewWorkspaceComposer(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openNewWorkspace();
+    await author.expectHeldComposerFocusResult("focused");
+    await author.openSettings();
+    await author.expectHeldComposerFocusResult("The composer is not on screen.");
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus closes a picker the composer opened over itself", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginHoldingNewWorkspaceComposer(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openNewWorkspace();
+    await author.openThinkingPicker();
+    await author.expectHeldComposerFocusResult("focused");
+    await author.expectHeldComposerReadyToType();
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus closes an image preview the composer opened over itself", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginHoldingNewWorkspaceComposer(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openNewWorkspace();
+    await author.previewAttachedImage();
+    await author.expectHeldComposerFocusResult("focused");
+    await author.expectHeldComposerReadyToType();
+  });
+});
+
+test("overlapping focus calls end at the later selection while a preview closes", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginHoldingNewWorkspaceComposer(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openNewWorkspace();
+    await author.typeInHeldComposer("HELLO");
+    await author.previewAttachedImage();
+    await author.expectOverlappingFocusesKeepTheLatestSelection();
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus closes the context usage sheet on a phone", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginFocusingAnAgentWithContextUsage(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openContextUsageOnPhone();
+    await author.focusAgent();
+    await author.expectReadyToType();
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus closes a page the composer's Subagents track opened over it", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginFocusingASubagent(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openParentAgent();
+    await author.openSubagentPageInParentComposer();
+    await author.focusParent();
+    await author.expectParentReadyToType();
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus reaches a New workspace composer opened from a compact Explorer", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginHoldingNewWorkspaceComposer(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.leaveCompactExplorerForNewWorkspace();
+    await author.expectHeldComposerFocusResult("focused");
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus opens a compact subagent as a tab with its composer", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginFocusingASubagent(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.openParentAgent();
+    await author.openExplorer();
+    await author.focusSubagent();
+    await author.expectSubagentTabReadyToType();
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus closes a file sheet still opening over an Explorer composer", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginFocusingASubagent(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.keepParentInExplorerOnCompactScreen();
+    await author.focusParent();
+    await author.expectParentReadyToType();
+    await author.focusParentAsAFileSheetOpens();
+    await author.expectParentReadyToType();
+  });
+});
+
+test("focus reaches an agent kept in the Explorer on a compact screen", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await withPluginFocusingASubagent(page, async (author) => {
+    await author.keepParentInExplorerOnCompactScreen();
+    await author.focusParent();
+    await author.expectParentReadyToType();
+    await author.coverExplorerComposerWithFileSheet();
+    await author.focusParent();
+    await author.expectParentReadyToType();
+  });
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/plugin-new-workspace-items.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+import { expect, test } from "../support/fixtures";
+import { withNewWorkspaceIssuesExample } from "../support/helpers/plugin-new-workspace-items";
+
+for (const layout of [
+  { name: "desktop", compact: false },
+  { name: "compact", compact: true },
+]) {
+  test(`a plugin's New workspace item sets the branch and metadata on ${layout.name}`, async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    test.setTimeout(180_000);
+    await withNewWorkspaceIssuesExample(page, { compact: layout.compact }, async (screen) => {
+      await screen.chooseWorktree();
+      await screen.chooseIssue("PAS-102 Crash on resume");
+      const created = await screen.createWorkspace();
+      expect(created.branch).toBe("pas-102-crash-on-resume");
+      expect(created.metadata).toEqual({ "new-workspace-issues.issue": "PAS-102" });
+    });
+  });
+}
+
+test("a branch chosen while Local applies once the user switches to a new worktree", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(180_000);
+  await withNewWorkspaceIssuesExample(page, { compact: false }, async (screen) => {
+    await screen.chooseIssue("PAS-101 Slow sidebar");
+    await screen.chooseWorktree();
+    const created = await screen.createWorkspace({ prompt: "" });
+    expect(created.branch).toBe("pas-101-slow-sidebar");
+    expect(created.metadata).toEqual({ "new-workspace-issues.issue": "PAS-101" });
+  });
+});
+
+test("a plugin's branch applies when the project has no default base to branch off", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(180_000);
+  await withNewWorkspaceIssuesExample(
+    page,
+    { compact: false, detachedHead: true },
+    async (screen) => {
+      await screen.chooseWorktree();
+      await screen.chooseIssue("PAS-101 Slow sidebar");
+      const created = await screen.createWorkspace();
+      expect(created.branch).toBe("pas-101-slow-sidebar");
+    },
+  );
+});
+
+test("a branch and metadata chosen for one project are not sent for another", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(180_000);
+  await withNewWorkspaceIssuesExample(
+    page,
+    { compact: false, otherProject: true },
+    async (screen) => {
+      await screen.chooseWorktree();
+      await screen.chooseIssue("PAS-101 Slow sidebar");
+      await screen.switchToOtherProject();
+      const created = await screen.createWorkspace();
+      expect(created.branch).not.toBe("pas-101-slow-sidebar");
+      expect(created.metadata ?? {}).toEqual({});
+    },
+  );
+});
+
+test("an item's Issue list does not keep the previous project's results after a project switch", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(180_000);
+  await withNewWorkspaceIssuesExample(
+    page,
+    { compact: false, otherProject: true, searchesByProject: true },
+    async (screen) => {
+      await screen.openIssueList();
+      await screen.expectIssueListText(`Issue of ${screen.firstProjectName}`, true);
+      await screen.closeIssueList();
+      await screen.switchToOtherProject();
+      await screen.openIssueList();
+      await screen.expectIssueListText(`Issue of ${screen.firstProjectName}`, false);
+    },
+  );
+});
+
+test("an isolation set from a mount effect is remembered like a pick", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(180_000);
+  await withNewWorkspaceIssuesExample(
+    page,
+    { compact: false, setsOnMount: true },
+    async (screen) => {
+      await screen.expectIsolation("worktree");
+      await screen.reopenWithoutPlugin();
+      await screen.expectIsolation("worktree");
+    },
+  );
+});
+
+test("an item can set the branch and metadata from its mount effect", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(180_000);
+  await withNewWorkspaceIssuesExample(
+    page,
+    { compact: false, setsOnMount: true },
+    async (screen) => {
+      await screen.expectIsolation("worktree");
+      const created = await screen.createWorkspace();
+      expect(created.branch).toBe("set-on-mount");
+      expect(created.metadata).toEqual({ "new-workspace-issues.issue": "ON-MOUNT" });
+    },
+  );
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/plugin-sidebar-items.spec.ts

@@ -317,7 +317,10 @@ test.describe("Plugin sidebar items", () => {
       const compactSync = footerItem(page, SHOWCASE_PLUGIN_ID, "sync");
       await expect(compactSync).toBeInViewport();
       await expectFooterRow(page, compactSync);
-      await expect(headerRow(page, SHOWCASE_PLUGIN_ID, "deploys")).toBeInViewport();
+      // The compact nav block is capped at half the sidebar and scrolls past it.
+      const compactDeploys = headerRow(page, SHOWCASE_PLUGIN_ID, "deploys");
+      await compactDeploys.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
+      await expect(compactDeploys).toBeInViewport();
       await qaScreenshot(page, "phase2-compact-sidebar");
       await qaScreenshot(page, "phase5-compact-footer", sidebarFooter(page));
       await compactSync.click();

packages/app/e2e/browser/plugin-timeline.spec.ts

@@ -24,11 +24,12 @@ for (const width of [1100, 390]) {
       await expectWholeCompletedCard(page);
       // Local state is checked during growth; the viewport remounts on the history handoff.
       const recovery = trackPluginChatRecovery(page);
-      gate.holdTimelineResponses(agent.agentId);
+      // A chat with a cached cursor answers current and never fetches, so hold the subscribe itself.
+      gate.holdNextClientRequest("agent.timeline.set_subscription.request");
       await page.reload({ waitUntil: "domcontentloaded" });
-      await gate.waitForHeldTimelineResponse();
+      await gate.waitForHeldClientRequest();
       await recovery.expectCatalogWithoutRetransmission();
-      gate.releaseHeldTimelineResponses();
+      gate.releaseHeldClientRequest();
       await expectWholeCompletedCard(page);
       await recovery.expectRecoveredWithoutRetransmission();
       recovery.reset();

packages/app/e2e/browser/provider-task-list.real.spec.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-import { mkdtempSync, realpathSync } from "node:fs";
+import { mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, realpathSync } from "node:fs";
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
-import { expect, test } from "../support/fixtures";
+import type { Locator } from "@playwright/test";
+import { expect, test, type Page } from "../support/fixtures";
 import {
   cleanupRewindFlow,
   launchAgent,
@@ -14,7 +15,11 @@ import {
   expectTaskListEntries,
   openCompletedTaskList,
 } from "../support/helpers/task-list";
-import { submitMessage } from "../support/helpers/composer";
+import { submitMessage, submitMessageWithButton } from "../support/helpers/composer";
+import { waitForSettledPosition } from "../support/helpers/sheet-layout";
+import { seedWorkspace, type SeededWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/seed-client";
+import { getServerId } from "../support/helpers/server-id";
+import { gotoAppShell } from "../support/helpers/app";
 
 interface TaskScenario {
   provider: RewindFlowProvider;
@@ -114,3 +119,425 @@ test.describe("real provider composer task lists", () => {
     }
   });
 });
+
+async function openBackgroundInventory(
+  page: Page,
+  options: { compact: boolean; count: number; timeout: number },
+): Promise<Locator> {
+  const pill = page.getByRole("button", {
+    name: options.count === 1 ? "1 background task" : `${options.count} background tasks`,
+  });
+  await expect(pill).toBeVisible({ timeout: options.timeout });
+  await pill.click();
+  const panel = page.getByTestId(
+    options.compact ? "background-work-panel-content" : "background-work-panel",
+  );
+  if (options.compact) await waitForSettledPosition(panel);
+  return panel;
+}
+
+async function openBackgroundWork(page: Page, compact: boolean): Promise<void> {
+  const panel = await openBackgroundInventory(page, { compact, count: 1, timeout: 30_000 });
+  await expect(panel).toContainText(/sleep 120/);
+}
+
+async function expectBackgroundItems(
+  panel: Locator,
+  selected: string,
+  sibling: string,
+): Promise<void> {
+  await expect(panel).toContainText(selected);
+  await expect(panel).toContainText(sibling);
+}
+
+async function stopBackgroundItem(panel: Locator, selected: string): Promise<void> {
+  const escaped = selected.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, "\\$&");
+  await panel.getByRole("button", { name: new RegExp(`Stop .*${escaped}`) }).click();
+}
+
+async function expectStoppedItemAndSibling(
+  panel: Locator,
+  selected: string,
+  sibling: string,
+): Promise<void> {
+  await expect(panel).not.toContainText(selected, { timeout: 40_000 });
+  await expect(panel).toContainText(sibling);
+}
+
+async function closeBackgroundWork(page: Page, compact: boolean): Promise<void> {
+  const panel = page.getByTestId(
+    compact ? "background-work-panel-content" : "background-work-panel",
+  );
+  if (compact) {
+    await page
+      .getByRole("button", { name: "Bottom sheet backdrop" })
+      .click({ position: { x: 12, y: 12 } });
+  } else {
+    await page.keyboard.press("Escape");
+  }
+  await expect(panel).toBeHidden();
+}
+
+async function expectBackgroundAgentRunning(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("workspace-status-indicator-running").first()).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "Stop agent", exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+}
+
+async function expectAssistantReply(page: Page, text: string): Promise<void> {
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("assistant-message").filter({ hasText: text }).last()).toBeVisible({
+    timeout: 120_000,
+  });
+}
+
+async function expectBackgroundPill(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "1 background task" })).toBeVisible();
+}
+
+async function expectBackgroundWorkOnAnotherClient(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  const another = await page.context().newPage();
+  try {
+    await another.goto(page.url());
+    await openBackgroundWork(another, false);
+  } finally {
+    await another.close();
+  }
+}
+
+async function startBackgroundWorkWithoutOpeningPane(workspace: SeededWorkspace): Promise<void> {
+  const agent = await workspace.client.createAgent({
+    provider: "claude",
+    model: "haiku",
+    modeId: "bypassPermissions",
+    cwd: workspace.workspaceDirectory,
+    workspaceId: workspace.workspaceId,
+    title: "Background work before opening",
+  });
+  await workspace.client.sendAgentMessage(
+    agent.id,
+    "Use Bash with run_in_background to run exactly sleep 120. Do not wait for it. Reply SPAWNED immediately.",
+  );
+  const result = await workspace.client.waitForFinish(agent.id, 120_000);
+  expect(result.status).toBe("idle");
+}
+
+async function expectWorkspaceRunning(page: Page, workspaceId: string): Promise<void> {
+  const row = page.getByTestId(`sidebar-workspace-row-${getServerId()}:${workspaceId}`);
+  await expect(row.getByTestId("workspace-status-indicator-running")).toBeVisible({
+    timeout: 30_000,
+  });
+}
+
+test("Claude keeps background work visible while accepting another turn", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(300_000);
+  const cwd = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), "paseo-background-work-")));
+  let handle: AgentHandle | undefined;
+  try {
+    handle = await launchAgent({ page, provider: "claude", cwd, mode: "full-access" });
+    await sendMessage(
+      handle,
+      "Use Bash with run_in_background to run exactly sleep 120. Do not wait for it. Reply SPAWNED immediately.",
+    );
+    await expectBackgroundAgentRunning(page);
+    await openBackgroundWork(page, false);
+    await page.screenshot({
+      path: path.resolve("../../.artifacts/phase1-claude-background.png"),
+      animations: "disabled",
+    });
+    await closeBackgroundWork(page, false);
+    await sendMessage(handle, "Reply exactly HELLO without stopping the background command.");
+    await expectBackgroundPill(page);
+    await expectBackgroundWorkOnAnotherClient(page);
+  } finally {
+    await cleanupRewindFlow({ handle, cwd });
+  }
+});
+
+test("Claude background work remains readable in dark mode", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(300_000);
+  await page.addInitScript(() => {
+    localStorage.setItem("@paseo:app-settings", JSON.stringify({ theme: "pureBlack" }));
+  });
+  const cwd = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), "paseo-background-dark-")));
+  let handle: AgentHandle | undefined;
+  try {
+    handle = await launchAgent({ page, provider: "claude", cwd, mode: "full-access" });
+    await sendMessage(
+      handle,
+      "Use Bash with run_in_background to run exactly sleep 120. Do not wait for it. Reply SPAWNED immediately.",
+    );
+    await openBackgroundWork(page, false);
+    await page.screenshot({
+      path: path.resolve("../../.artifacts/review-background-dark.png"),
+      animations: "disabled",
+    });
+  } finally {
+    await cleanupRewindFlow({ handle, cwd });
+  }
+});
+
+test("Claude background work opens in a compact sheet", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(300_000);
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
+  const cwd = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), "paseo-background-compact-")));
+  let handle: AgentHandle | undefined;
+  try {
+    handle = await launchAgent({ page, provider: "claude", cwd, mode: "full-access" });
+    await submitMessageWithButton(
+      page,
+      "Use Bash with run_in_background to run exactly sleep 120. Do not wait for it. Reply SPAWNED immediately.",
+    );
+    await expectAssistantReply(page, "SPAWNED");
+    await openBackgroundWork(page, true);
+    await page.screenshot({
+      path: path.resolve("../../.artifacts/phase1-claude-compact.png"),
+      animations: "disabled",
+    });
+    await closeBackgroundWork(page, true);
+    await submitMessageWithButton(
+      page,
+      "Reply exactly HELLO without stopping the background command.",
+    );
+    await expectAssistantReply(page, "HELLO");
+    await expectBackgroundPill(page);
+  } finally {
+    await cleanupRewindFlow({ handle, cwd });
+  }
+});
+
+test("background work updates the sidebar before the agent is opened", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(300_000);
+  const workspace = await seedWorkspace({ repoPrefix: "background-unopened-" });
+  try {
+    await gotoAppShell(page);
+    await expect(
+      page.getByTestId(`sidebar-workspace-row-${getServerId()}:${workspace.workspaceId}`),
+    ).toBeVisible();
+    await startBackgroundWorkWithoutOpeningPane(workspace);
+    await expectWorkspaceRunning(page, workspace.workspaceId);
+  } finally {
+    await workspace.cleanup();
+  }
+});
+
+test("Codex keeps a live command visible after its turn", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(300_000);
+  const cwd = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), "paseo-codex-background-")));
+  let handle: AgentHandle | undefined;
+  try {
+    handle = await launchAgent({
+      page,
+      provider: "codex",
+      cwd,
+      mode: "full-access",
+      providerConfig: { model: "gpt-6-astra" },
+    });
+    await sendMessage(
+      handle,
+      "Use exec_command to run sleep 120 with yield_time_ms 1000. Do not wait for or stop it. Reply SPAWNED immediately.",
+    );
+    await expectBackgroundAgentRunning(page);
+    await openBackgroundWork(page, false);
+    await page.screenshot({
+      path: path.resolve("../../.artifacts/phase2-codex-background.png"),
+      animations: "disabled",
+    });
+    await closeBackgroundWork(page, false);
+    await sendMessage(handle, "Reply exactly HELLO without stopping the background command.");
+    await expectBackgroundPill(page);
+    await expectBackgroundWorkOnAnotherClient(page);
+  } finally {
+    await cleanupRewindFlow({ handle, cwd });
+  }
+});
+
+test("OpenCode keeps a live command visible after its turn", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(300_000);
+  const cwd = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), "paseo-opencode-background-")));
+  let handle: AgentHandle | undefined;
+  try {
+    handle = await launchAgent({
+      page,
+      provider: "opencode",
+      cwd,
+      mode: "full-access",
+      providerConfig: { model: "openrouter/google/gemini-3.6-flash" },
+    });
+    await sendMessage(
+      handle,
+      "Use the shell tool with background true to run sleep 120. Do not wait or stop it. Reply SPAWNED immediately.",
+    );
+    await expectBackgroundAgentRunning(page);
+    await openBackgroundWork(page, false);
+    await page.screenshot({
+      path: path.resolve("../../.artifacts/phase2-opencode-background.png"),
+      animations: "disabled",
+    });
+    await closeBackgroundWork(page, false);
+    await sendMessage(handle, "Reply exactly HELLO without stopping the background command.");
+    await expectBackgroundPill(page);
+    await expectBackgroundWorkOnAnotherClient(page);
+  } finally {
+    await cleanupRewindFlow({ handle, cwd });
+  }
+});
+
+for (const scenario of [
+  {
+    provider: "claude" as const,
+    prompt:
+      "Use Bash with run_in_background to start sleep 180 and sleep 181 as two separate background commands. Do not wait for them. Reply SPAWNED immediately.",
+    providerConfig: { model: "haiku" },
+  },
+  {
+    provider: "codex" as const,
+    prompt:
+      "Use exec_command twice to start sleep 180 and sleep 181 separately with yield_time_ms 1000. Do not wait for or stop either process. Reply SPAWNED immediately.",
+    providerConfig: { model: "gpt-6-astra" },
+  },
+  {
+    provider: "opencode" as const,
+    prompt:
+      "Use the shell tool twice with background true: start sleep 180, then start sleep 181. Do not wait for or stop either. Reply SPAWNED immediately.",
+    providerConfig: { model: "openrouter/google/gemini-3.6-flash" },
+  },
+]) {
+  test(`${scenario.provider} stops selected background work after the turn`, async ({ page }) => {
+    test.setTimeout(300_000);
+    mkdirSync(path.resolve("../../.artifacts"), { recursive: true });
+    const cwd = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(path.resolve("../../.artifacts/phase3-qa-workspace-")));
+    let handle: AgentHandle | undefined;
+    try {
+      handle = await launchAgent({
+        page,
+        provider: scenario.provider,
+        cwd,
+        mode: "full-access",
+        providerConfig: scenario.providerConfig,
+      });
+      await sendMessage(handle, scenario.prompt);
+      const panel = await openBackgroundInventory(page, {
+        compact: false,
+        count: 2,
+        timeout: 60_000,
+      });
+      await expectBackgroundItems(panel, "sleep 180", "sleep 181");
+      await stopBackgroundItem(panel, "sleep 180");
+      await expectStoppedItemAndSibling(panel, "sleep 180", "sleep 181");
+      await page.screenshot({
+        path: path.resolve(`../../.artifacts/phase3-${scenario.provider}-stop.png`),
+        animations: "disabled",
+      });
+      await page.keyboard.press("Escape");
+      await sendMessage(handle, "Reply exactly HELLO without stopping the background command.");
+      await expectBackgroundPill(page);
+    } finally {
+      await cleanupRewindFlow({ handle, cwd });
+    }
+  });
+}
+
+test("Claude stops a selected monitor in the compact sheet", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(300_000);
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
+  mkdirSync(path.resolve("../../.artifacts"), { recursive: true });
+  const cwd = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(path.resolve("../../.artifacts/phase3-monitor-workspace-")));
+  let handle: AgentHandle | undefined;
+  try {
+    handle = await launchAgent({
+      page,
+      provider: "claude",
+      cwd,
+      mode: "full-access",
+      providerConfig: { model: "opus" },
+    });
+    await submitMessageWithButton(
+      page,
+      'Use exactly two separate Monitor tool calls, each with command `sleep 150`, timeout_ms 150000, persistent false, descriptions "probe monitor one" and "probe monitor two". Launch both independently, do not wait, then reply SPAWNED. Do not use any other tools.',
+    );
+    await expectAssistantReply(page, "SPAWNED");
+    const panel = await openBackgroundInventory(page, { compact: true, count: 2, timeout: 30_000 });
+    await expectBackgroundItems(panel, "probe monitor one", "probe monitor two");
+    await expect(panel.getByText("sleep 150", { exact: true })).toHaveCount(2);
+    await page.screenshot({
+      path: path.resolve("../../.artifacts/refinement-monitor-compact.png"),
+      animations: "disabled",
+    });
+    await stopBackgroundItem(panel, "probe monitor one");
+    await expectStoppedItemAndSibling(panel, "probe monitor one", "probe monitor two");
+    await page.screenshot({
+      path: path.resolve("../../.artifacts/phase3-claude-monitor-compact.png"),
+      animations: "disabled",
+    });
+    await closeBackgroundWork(page, true);
+    await submitMessageWithButton(
+      page,
+      "Reply exactly HELLO without stopping the background monitor.",
+    );
+    await expectAssistantReply(page, "HELLO");
+    await expectBackgroundPill(page);
+    await handle.client.sendAgentMessage(
+      handle.agentId,
+      "Use Bash to run sleep 20 in the foreground, then reply WAITED.",
+    );
+    await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "Stop agent", exact: true })).toBeVisible({
+      timeout: 30_000,
+    });
+    await handle.client.sendAgentMessage(
+      handle.agentId,
+      "Reply exactly INTERRUPTED without stopping the background monitor.",
+      { activeTurnBehavior: "interrupt" },
+    );
+    expect((await handle.client.waitForFinish(handle.agentId, 120_000)).status).toBe("idle");
+    await expectBackgroundPill(page);
+    await expect
+      .poll(async () => handle!.client.listAgentBackgroundWork(handle!.agentId))
+      .toEqual(
+        expect.arrayContaining([
+          expect.objectContaining({ description: "probe monitor two", kind: "monitor" }),
+        ]),
+      );
+  } finally {
+    await cleanupRewindFlow({ handle, cwd });
+  }
+});
+
+test("Claude shows monitor description and command in the wide track", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(300_000);
+  const cwd = realpathSync(
+    mkdtempSync(path.resolve("../../.artifacts/refinement-wide-workspace-")),
+  );
+  let handle: AgentHandle | undefined;
+  try {
+    handle = await launchAgent({
+      page,
+      provider: "claude",
+      cwd,
+      mode: "full-access",
+      providerConfig: { model: "opus" },
+    });
+    await sendMessage(
+      handle,
+      'Use Monitor with command `sleep 150`, timeout_ms 150000, persistent false, description "Watch the build". Do not wait; reply SPAWNED. Do not use other tools.',
+    );
+    await expectBackgroundAgentRunning(page);
+    const workspaceRow = page.getByTestId(
+      `sidebar-workspace-row-${getServerId()}:${handle.workspaceId}`,
+    );
+    await workspaceRow.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
+    await expect(workspaceRow.getByTestId("workspace-status-indicator-running")).toBeVisible();
+    const panel = await openBackgroundInventory(page, {
+      compact: false,
+      count: 1,
+      timeout: 30_000,
+    });
+    await expect(panel).toContainText("Watch the build");
+    await expect(panel).toContainText("sleep 150");
+    await expect(panel.getByRole("button", { name: "Stop Watch the build" })).toBeVisible();
+    await page.screenshot({
+      path: path.resolve("../../.artifacts/refinement-monitor-wide.png"),
+      animations: "disabled",
+    });
+  } finally {
+    await cleanupRewindFlow({ handle, cwd });
+  }
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/rewind-menu.ui-contract.spec.ts

@@ -215,14 +215,14 @@ test.describe("Rewind sheet", () => {
       await expect(page.getByTestId("rewind-menu-content")).toHaveCount(0);
       await expect(userMessage(page, secondPrompt)).toHaveCount(0);
       await expect(page.getByText("Cycle 1", { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
-      await expectUserMessageCount(page, 1);
+      await expectUserMessageCount(page, 0);
       await expectComposerDraft(page, firstPrompt);
 
       await submitMessage(page, replacementPrompt);
       await expectUserMessageVisible(page, replacementPrompt);
       await expect(userMessage(page, secondPrompt)).toHaveCount(0);
       await expect(page.getByText("Cycle 1", { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
-      await expectUserMessageCount(page, 2);
+      await expectUserMessageCount(page, 1);
 
       await fillComposerDraft(page, "");
       await composerLocator(page).evaluate((element) => element.blur());
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ test.describe("Rewind sheet", () => {
       await selectRewindOption(page, "Rewind files");
       await expect(page.getByTestId("rewind-menu-content")).toHaveCount(0);
       await expectComposerDraft(page, "");
-      await expectUserMessageCount(page, 2);
+      await expectUserMessageCount(page, 1);
 
       const preservedDraft = "Keep this human draft after rewind.";
       await fillComposerDraft(page, preservedDraft);
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ test.describe("Rewind sheet", () => {
       await selectRewindOption(page, "Rewind files");
       await expect(page.getByTestId("rewind-menu-content")).toHaveCount(0);
       await expectComposerDraft(page, preservedDraft);
-      await expectUserMessageCount(page, 2);
+      await expectUserMessageCount(page, 1);
 
       await fillComposerDraft(page, "");
       await composerLocator(page).evaluate((element) => element.blur());
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ test.describe("Rewind sheet", () => {
       await selectRewindOption(page, "Rewind conversation and files");
       await expect(page.getByTestId("rewind-menu-content")).toHaveCount(0);
       await expectComposerDraft(page, replacementPrompt);
-      await expectUserMessageCount(page, 1);
+      await expectUserMessageCount(page, 0);
     } finally {
       await session.cleanup();
     }

packages/app/e2e/browser/schedules-edit-model-hydration.spec.ts

@@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ test.describe("Schedules", () => {
     cleanupTasks.length = 0;
   });
 
-  test("edit form hydrates the scheduled model selection", async ({ page }) => {
+  test("hydrates schedule editing and opens a pristine creation form afterward", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
     const workspace = await seedWorkspace({ repoPrefix: "schedule-model-hydration-" });
     cleanupTasks.push(() => workspace.cleanup());
     const scheduleName = `Hydrate model ${Date.now()}`;
@@ -93,29 +95,45 @@ test.describe("Schedules", () => {
 
     await row.click();
     const formSheet = page.getByTestId("schedule-form-sheet");
-    await expect(formSheet).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10_000 });
-    await expectStableHeight(formSheet);
     const hostTrigger = page.getByTestId("schedule-host-trigger");
     const projectTrigger = page.getByTestId("schedule-project-trigger");
     const modelTrigger = page.getByTestId("schedule-model-trigger");
     const thinkingTrigger = page.getByTestId("schedule-thinking-trigger");
     const modeTrigger = page.getByTestId("schedule-mode-trigger");
-    await expect(hostTrigger).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
-    await expect(hostTrigger).toBeDisabled();
-    await expectSettled(hostTrigger);
-    await expect(projectTrigger).toContainText(workspace.projectDisplayName, { timeout: 30_000 });
-    await expectSettled(projectTrigger);
-    await expect(modelTrigger).toContainText("Ten second stream", { timeout: 30_000 });
-    await expectSettled(modelTrigger);
-    await expect(thinkingTrigger).toContainText("Low");
-    await expectSettled(thinkingTrigger);
-    await expect(modeTrigger).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
-    await expectSettled(modeTrigger);
-    await expect(page.getByTestId("cadence-mode")).toHaveCount(0);
-    await expect(page.getByTestId("cadence-interval-value")).toHaveCount(0);
-    await expect(page.getByTestId("schedule-cadence-preset-trigger")).toContainText("Daily 9:00");
-    await expect(page.getByText(/Times are in/)).toHaveCount(0);
-    await expect(formSheet.getByText("Cron", { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+    await test.step("edit form hydrates the saved model and controls", async () => {
+      await expect(formSheet).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10_000 });
+      await expectStableHeight(formSheet);
+      await expect(hostTrigger).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
+      await expect(hostTrigger).toBeDisabled();
+      await expectSettled(hostTrigger);
+      await expect(projectTrigger).toContainText(workspace.projectDisplayName, { timeout: 30_000 });
+      await expectSettled(projectTrigger);
+      await expect(modelTrigger).toContainText("Ten second stream", { timeout: 30_000 });
+      await expectSettled(modelTrigger);
+      await expect(thinkingTrigger).toContainText("Low");
+      await expectSettled(thinkingTrigger);
+      await expect(modeTrigger).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
+      await expectSettled(modeTrigger);
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("cadence-mode")).toHaveCount(0);
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("cadence-interval-value")).toHaveCount(0);
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("schedule-cadence-preset-trigger")).toContainText("Daily 9:00");
+      await expect(page.getByText(/Times are in/)).toHaveCount(0);
+      await expect(formSheet.getByText("Cron", { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+    });
+
+    await test.step("closing edit leaves the new schedule form pristine", async () => {
+      await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Cancel" }).click();
+      await expect(formSheet).toHaveCount(0, { timeout: 30_000 });
+
+      await page.getByTestId("schedules-new").click();
+      await expect(formSheet).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10_000 });
+      await expect(projectTrigger).toContainText(/select project/i);
+      await expectSettled(projectTrigger);
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("schedule-model-trigger")).toHaveCount(0);
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("schedule-thinking-trigger")).toHaveCount(0);
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("schedule-mode-trigger")).toHaveCount(0);
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("cadence-interval-value")).toHaveCount(0);
+    });
   });
 
   test("edit form hydrates a non-default host schedule after reload", async ({ page }) => {
@@ -165,32 +183,4 @@ test.describe("Schedules", () => {
     await expect(page.getByTestId("cadence-mode")).toHaveCount(0);
     await expect(page.getByTestId("schedule-cadence-preset-trigger")).toContainText("Daily 9:00");
   });
-
-  test("create opens pristine after closing an edit form", async ({ page }) => {
-    const workspace = await seedWorkspace({ repoPrefix: "schedule-pristine-create-" });
-    cleanupTasks.push(() => workspace.cleanup());
-    const scheduleName = `Pristine create ${Date.now()}`;
-    const scheduleId = await seedMockSchedule(workspace, scheduleName);
-    cleanupTasks.push(() => deleteSeededSchedule(workspace, scheduleId));
-
-    await page.goto(buildSchedulesRoute());
-    const row = page.getByTestId(`schedule-row-${scheduleId}`);
-    await expect(row).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
-    await row.click();
-    const formSheet = page.getByTestId("schedule-form-sheet");
-    await expect(formSheet).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10_000 });
-    await expectStableHeight(formSheet);
-    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Cancel" }).click();
-    await expect(formSheet).toHaveCount(0, { timeout: 30_000 });
-
-    await page.getByTestId("schedules-new").click();
-    await expect(formSheet).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10_000 });
-    const projectTrigger = page.getByTestId("schedule-project-trigger");
-    await expect(projectTrigger).toContainText(/select project/i);
-    await expectSettled(projectTrigger);
-    await expect(page.getByTestId("schedule-model-trigger")).toHaveCount(0);
-    await expect(page.getByTestId("schedule-thinking-trigger")).toHaveCount(0);
-    await expect(page.getByTestId("schedule-mode-trigger")).toHaveCount(0);
-    await expect(page.getByTestId("cadence-interval-value")).toHaveCount(0);
-  });
 });

packages/app/e2e/browser/sessions-search.spec.ts

@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ async function verifyChronologicalFiltering(page: Page): Promise<void> {
   });
 }
 
+async function verifyHistorySurvivesReload(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await test.step("reloads History without visiting a workspace to reconnect", async () => {
+    await expectVisibleTitles(page, [TITLES.unbilled, TITLES.billing, TITLES.terminal]);
+    await page.reload();
+    await expectVisibleTitles(page, [TITLES.unbilled, TITLES.billing, TITLES.terminal]);
+    await expect(page.getByTestId("sessions-host-errors")).toBeHidden();
+  });
+}
+
 async function verifyRecencyBeforeMatchStrength(page: Page): Promise<void> {
   await test.step("keeps newer partial matches before older stronger matches", async () => {
     await search(page, `${NONCE} bill`);
@@ -151,6 +160,8 @@ test.describe("History search", () => {
 
       await verifyChronologicalFiltering(page);
 
+      await verifyHistorySurvivesReload(page);
+
       await verifyRecencyBeforeMatchStrength(page);
 
       await verifyExactAndTypoHighlights(page);

packages/app/e2e/browser/settings-navigation.spec.ts

@@ -95,66 +95,63 @@ test.describe("Settings sidebar scroll position", () => {
     await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, offset);
   });
 
-  test("scrolls the sidebar and detail pane independently", async ({ page }) => {
-    await gotoAppShell(page);
-    await openSettings(page);
-    const sidebarOffset = await scrollSettingsSidebarToEnd(page);
-    await openSettingsHostSection(page, getServerId(), "providers");
-    await expect(page.getByTestId("host-page-providers-card")).toBeVisible();
-    const detailOffset = await scrollSettingsDetailDown(page);
-    await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, sidebarOffset);
-
-    await scrollSettingsSidebarUp(page, 60);
-    await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, sidebarOffset - 60);
-    await expectSettingsDetailScrollOffset(page, detailOffset);
-  });
-
-  test("keeps the sidebar position after rapid consecutive selections", async ({ page }) => {
-    await gotoAppShell(page);
-    await openSettings(page);
-
-    const scrollTop = await scrollSettingsSidebarToEnd(page);
-
-    await selectSettingsHostSectionsRapidly(page);
-    await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, scrollTop);
-
-    await expectSettingsSidebarScrollSettled(page, scrollTop);
-  });
-
-  test("keeps the sidebar position when switching between app and host sections", async ({
+  test("keeps sidebar and detail scrolling independent through section changes", async ({
     page,
   }) => {
     await gotoAppShell(page);
     await openSettings(page);
 
-    const hostScrollTop = await scrollSettingsSidebarToEnd(page);
-    await expect(page.getByTestId("settings-host-section-providers")).toBeInViewport();
+    await test.step("scrolls the sidebar and detail pane independently", async () => {
+      const sidebarOffset = await scrollSettingsSidebarToEnd(page);
+      await openSettingsHostSection(page, getServerId(), "providers");
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("host-page-providers-card")).toBeVisible();
+      const detailOffset = await scrollSettingsDetailDown(page);
+      await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, sidebarOffset);
 
-    for (const section of [
-      "providers",
-      "terminals",
-      "providers",
-      "terminals",
-      "providers",
-    ] as const) {
-      await openSettingsHostSection(page, getServerId(), section);
-      await expect(page.getByTestId("page-title")).toHaveText(
-        section === "providers" ? "Providers" : "Terminals",
-      );
-      await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, hostScrollTop);
-    }
+      await scrollSettingsSidebarUp(page, 60);
+      await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, sidebarOffset - 60);
+      await expectSettingsDetailScrollOffset(page, detailOffset);
+    });
 
-    const sidebar = page.getByTestId("settings-sidebar");
-    const appScrollTop = await revealSettingsSidebarSection(page, "diagnostics");
-    await expect(sidebar.getByRole("button", { name: "About", exact: true })).toBeInViewport();
+    await test.step("keeps the sidebar position after rapid consecutive selections", async () => {
+      const scrollTop = await scrollSettingsSidebarToEnd(page);
 
-    await openSettingsSection(page, "about");
-    await expectAboutContent(page);
-    await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, appScrollTop);
+      await selectSettingsHostSectionsRapidly(page);
+      await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, scrollTop);
 
-    await openSettingsSection(page, "diagnostics");
-    await expectDiagnosticsContent(page);
-    await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, appScrollTop);
+      await expectSettingsSidebarScrollSettled(page, scrollTop);
+    });
+
+    await test.step("keeps the sidebar position when switching between app and host sections", async () => {
+      const hostScrollTop = await scrollSettingsSidebarToEnd(page);
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("settings-host-section-providers")).toBeInViewport();
+
+      for (const section of [
+        "providers",
+        "terminals",
+        "providers",
+        "terminals",
+        "providers",
+      ] as const) {
+        await openSettingsHostSection(page, getServerId(), section);
+        await expect(page.getByTestId("page-title")).toHaveText(
+          section === "providers" ? "Providers" : "Terminals",
+        );
+        await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, hostScrollTop);
+      }
+
+      const sidebar = page.getByTestId("settings-sidebar");
+      const appScrollTop = await revealSettingsSidebarSection(page, "diagnostics");
+      await expect(sidebar.getByRole("button", { name: "About", exact: true })).toBeInViewport();
+
+      await openSettingsSection(page, "about");
+      await expectAboutContent(page);
+      await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, appScrollTop);
+
+      await openSettingsSection(page, "diagnostics");
+      await expectDiagnosticsContent(page);
+      await expectSettingsSidebarScrollOffset(page, appScrollTop);
+    });
   });
 });
 

packages/app/e2e/browser/sidebar-footer-overflow.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+import { expect, test } from "../support/fixtures";
+import { addProjectFlow } from "../support/helpers/add-project-flow";
+import { gotoAppShell } from "../support/helpers/app";
+import {
+  chooseFooterOverflowAction,
+  expectFooterLine,
+  expectFooterMenusInsideViewport,
+  expectFooterNeverClipped,
+  expectFooterOverflowActions,
+  footerOverflowMenu,
+  openFooterOverflow,
+  seedDockedSidebarWidth,
+  watchFooterClipping,
+} from "../support/helpers/sidebar-footer-overflow";
+import { addOfflineHostsAndReload } from "../support/helpers/hosts";
+import { openCompactSidebar } from "../support/helpers/usage-sidebar-item";
+
+const TOUCH_CONTROL = 44;
+const MIN_SIDEBAR_WIDTH = 200;
+const ALL_INLINE = [
+  "sidebar-add-project",
+  "sidebar-usage-icon",
+  "sidebar-hosts-trigger",
+  "sidebar-help",
+  "sidebar-settings",
+];
+// Five 44pt buttons and the row's padding need 236pt; 200pt holds three and the caret.
+const NARROW_TOUCH_LINE = [
+  "sidebar-add-project",
+  "sidebar-hosts-trigger",
+  "sidebar-footer-overflow",
+  "sidebar-settings",
+];
+
+test.describe("Sidebar footer on a touch screen", () => {
+  test.use({ viewport: { width: 1280, height: 800 }, hasTouch: true });
+
+  test("a narrow docked sidebar moves the actions it can't fit behind a caret", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    await seedDockedSidebarWidth(page, MIN_SIDEBAR_WIDTH);
+    await watchFooterClipping(page);
+    await gotoAppShell(page);
+    await expectFooterLine(page, { testIDs: NARROW_TOUCH_LINE, controlSize: TOUCH_CONTROL });
+    await expectFooterNeverClipped(page);
+
+    await test.step("Help opens as a page of the overflow menu", async () => {
+      await openFooterOverflow(page);
+      await expectFooterOverflowActions(page, ["Usage", "Help and support"]);
+      await chooseFooterOverflowAction(page, "Help and support");
+      await expect(page.getByRole("menuitem", { name: "What's new" })).toBeVisible();
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("sidebar-help-menu")).toHaveCount(0);
+      await page.keyboard.press("Escape");
+      await expect(footerOverflowMenu(page)).toBeHidden();
+    });
+
+    await test.step("Usage opens from the overflow menu", async () => {
+      await openFooterOverflow(page);
+      await chooseFooterOverflowAction(page, "Usage");
+      await expect(footerOverflowMenu(page)).toBeHidden();
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("usage-modal")).toBeVisible();
+      await page.keyboard.press("Escape");
+      await expect(page.getByTestId("usage-modal")).toBeHidden();
+    });
+
+    await test.step("Add project and Settings shortcuts still work", async () => {
+      await page.keyboard.press("Control+o");
+      await expect(addProjectFlow(page)).toBeVisible();
+      await page.keyboard.press("Escape");
+      await expect(addProjectFlow(page)).toBeHidden();
+      await page.keyboard.press("Control+,");
+      await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/settings\/general$/);
+    });
+  });
+
+  test("the default sidebar width keeps all five actions inline", async ({ page }) => {
+    await gotoAppShell(page);
+    await expectFooterLine(page, { testIDs: ALL_INLINE, controlSize: TOUCH_CONTROL });
+  });
+});
+
+test.describe("Sidebar footer in a compact overlay narrower than the footer", () => {
+  test.use({ viewport: { width: 220, height: 800 }, hasTouch: true });
+
+  test("the overflow menu reaches the hidden actions", async ({ page }) => {
+    await watchFooterClipping(page);
+    await gotoAppShell(page);
+    await openCompactSidebar(page);
+    await expectFooterLine(page, { testIDs: NARROW_TOUCH_LINE, controlSize: TOUCH_CONTROL });
+    await expectFooterNeverClipped(page);
+    await openFooterOverflow(page);
+    await expectFooterOverflowActions(page, ["Usage", "Help and support"]);
+    await expectFooterMenusInsideViewport(page);
+  });
+});
+
+test.describe("Sidebar footer on a short, narrow phone", () => {
+  // 164pt for buttons holds Settings, Add project and the caret, so Hosts moves behind it.
+  test.use({ viewport: { width: 180, height: 360 }, hasTouch: true });
+
+  test("the overflow Hosts page scrolls to its last host and Add host", async ({ page }) => {
+    await gotoAppShell(page);
+    await addOfflineHostsAndReload(
+      page,
+      Array.from({ length: 10 }, (_, index) => ({
+        serverId: `overflow-host-${index}`,
+        label: `Overflow host ${index}`,
+      })),
+    );
+    await openCompactSidebar(page);
+    await expectFooterLine(page, {
+      testIDs: ["sidebar-add-project", "sidebar-footer-overflow", "sidebar-settings"],
+      controlSize: TOUCH_CONTROL,
+    });
+    await openFooterOverflow(page);
+    await expectFooterOverflowActions(page, ["Usage", "Hosts", "Help and support"]);
+    await expectFooterMenusInsideViewport(page);
+    await chooseFooterOverflowAction(page, "Hosts");
+    await expectFooterMenusInsideViewport(page);
+    const addHost = page.getByRole("menuitem", { name: "Add host" });
+    await addHost.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
+    await expect(page.getByRole("menuitem", { name: "Overflow host 9" })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(addHost).toBeInViewport();
+    await addHost.click();
+    await expect(page.getByText("Add connection", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  });
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/sidebar-help.spec.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
 import { expect, test, type Page } from "../support/fixtures";
 import { gotoAppShell, openSettings } from "../support/helpers/app";
 import { openSettingsSection } from "../support/helpers/settings";
-import { openWhatsNew, release, serveChangelog } from "../support/helpers/changelog";
+import {
+  allChangesToggle,
+  hideAllChanges,
+  openWhatsNew,
+  release,
+  serveChangelog,
+  showAllChanges,
+} from "../support/helpers/changelog";
 
 const DISCORD_DESTINATION =
   /^https:\/\/(?:discord\.gg\/jz8T2uahpH|discord\.com\/invite\/jz8T2uahpH)(?:[/?#]|$)/;
@@ -73,26 +80,30 @@ test("opens troubleshooting and support destinations", async ({ page }) => {
 });
 
 test("renders the changelog in the app and links the website", async ({ page }) => {
-  // A callout, a section name the app has never seen, and a fenced sample whose
-  // contents look like a release heading.
+  // Highlights, a section name the app has never seen, a callout, and a fenced
+  // sample whose contents look like a release heading.
   await serveChangelog(page, [
     "# Changelog",
     "",
     "## 9.1.0 - 2026-03-04",
     "",
-    "Headline release note.",
-    "",
-    "> [!WARNING]",
-    "> Read this before upgrading.",
+    "- **Background tasks:** Paseo now shows the tasks an agent is running.",
     "",
     "### Sparkles",
     "",
     "- Added a brand new thing",
     "",
+    "> [!WARNING]",
+    "> Read this before upgrading.",
+    "",
     "```md",
     "## 0.0.0 - 1999-01-01",
     "```",
     "",
+    "### Fixed",
+    "",
+    "- Fixed a crash",
+    "",
     "## 9.0.0 - 2026-02-01",
     "",
     "### Fixed",
@@ -104,14 +115,32 @@ test("renders the changelog in the app and links the website", async ({ page })
 
   const sheet = await openWhatsNew(page);
   const latest = release(sheet, "9.1.0");
+  const older = release(sheet, "9.0.0");
 
-  await expect(latest.getByText("March 4, 2026", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(latest.getByText("Headline release note.")).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(latest.getByText("Read this before upgrading.")).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(latest.getByText("Sparkles", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(latest.getByText("Added a brand new thing")).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(release(sheet, "9.0.0")).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(release(sheet, "0.0.0")).toHaveCount(0);
+  await test.step("leads a release with its highlights and tucks the rest away", async () => {
+    await expect(latest.getByText("March 4, 2026", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(latest.getByText("Paseo now shows the tasks an agent is running.")).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(latest.getByText("Added a brand new thing")).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(latest.getByText("Fixed a crash")).toHaveCount(0);
+  });
+
+  await test.step("shows every section on request and tucks them away again", async () => {
+    await showAllChanges(latest);
+    await expect(latest.getByText("Sparkles", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(latest.getByText("Added a brand new thing")).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(latest.getByText("Read this before upgrading.")).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(latest.getByText("Fixed a crash")).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(release(sheet, "0.0.0")).toHaveCount(0);
+
+    await hideAllChanges(latest);
+    await expect(latest.getByText("Added a brand new thing")).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(latest.getByText("Paseo now shows the tasks an agent is running.")).toBeVisible();
+  });
+
+  await test.step("shows a release without highlights whole", async () => {
+    await expect(older.getByText("Fixed an older thing")).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(allChangesToggle(older)).toHaveCount(0);
+  });
 
   await expectExternalPage(page, "changelog-open-website", CHANGELOG_DESTINATION);
   await closeSheet(page, "changelog-sheet");

packages/app/e2e/browser/sidebar-nav-settings.spec.ts

@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ test("fixed footer line keeps its five icons, Help and Settings at the end", asy
   await setFooterItemVisible(page, "usage", true);
   await leaveSettings(page);
   await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
+  await openCompactSidebar(page);
   await expectCompactSidebarOpen(page);
   await expectFooterSeparator(page, true);
   await expectFooterIconRow(page);

packages/app/e2e/browser/sidebar-views.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import { test } from "../support/fixtures";
+import { withSidebarViews } from "../support/helpers/sidebar-views";
+
+test("sidebar views replace the content, preserve chrome, and recover to the default", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(150_000);
+  await withSidebarViews(page, async (views) => {
+    await views.expectDefault();
+    await views.chooseWorkspaces();
+    await views.exerciseExamples();
+    await views.exerciseTerminals();
+    await views.restoreDefault();
+    await views.recoverFromFailure();
+    await views.chooseWorkspaces();
+    await views.disableChosenView();
+  });
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/sidebar-workspace-mark-unread.spec.ts

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 import type { Page } from "@playwright/test";
 import { test as base, expect } from "../support/fixtures";
-import { gotoAppShell } from "../support/helpers/app";
 import {
   openAgentRoute,
   seedMockAgentWorkspace,
   type MockAgentWorkspace,
 } from "../support/helpers/mock-agent";
 import { expectOpenTabCount } from "../support/helpers/sheet";
+import { installDaemonWebSocketGate } from "../support/helpers/daemon-websocket-gate";
+import { expectReconnectingToastGone } from "../support/helpers/workspace-ui";
 import { getServerId } from "../support/helpers/server-id";
 import { closeMobileAgentSidebar, openMobileAgentSidebar } from "../support/helpers/sidebar";
 
@@ -101,11 +102,13 @@ async function leaveMarkedWorkspaceAndReopen(page: Page, { subject, other }: Fin
 }
 
 async function completeTurnAndLeave(page: Page, { subject, other }: FinishedWorkspaces) {
-  await test.step("ordinary completion still clears on departure", async () => {
+  await test.step("ordinary completion stays unread on departure and clears on return", async () => {
     await subject.client.sendAgentMessage(subject.agentId, "Finish another turn.");
     await subject.client.waitForFinish(subject.agentId, 20_000);
     await expectStatus(page, subject.workspaceId, "attention");
     await openWorkspace(page, other.workspaceId);
+    await expectStatus(page, subject.workspaceId, "attention");
+    await openWorkspace(page, subject.workspaceId);
     await expectStatus(page, subject.workspaceId, "done");
   });
 }
@@ -141,13 +144,15 @@ async function leaveMarkedWorkspaceAndReopenOnCompact(
 }
 
 async function completeTurnAndLeaveOnCompact(page: Page, { subject, other }: FinishedWorkspaces) {
-  await test.step("ordinary completion still clears on departure", async () => {
+  await test.step("ordinary completion stays unread on departure and clears on return", async () => {
     await closeMobileAgentSidebar(page);
     await subject.client.sendAgentMessage(subject.agentId, "Finish another turn.");
     await subject.client.waitForFinish(subject.agentId, 20_000);
     await openMobileAgentSidebar(page);
     await expectStatus(page, subject.workspaceId, "attention");
     await openWorkspaceOnCompact(page, other.workspaceId);
+    await expectStatus(page, subject.workspaceId, "attention");
+    await openWorkspaceOnCompact(page, subject.workspaceId);
     await expectStatus(page, subject.workspaceId, "done");
   });
 }
@@ -194,11 +199,12 @@ async function markUnreadThenResumeChat(page: Page, workspaceId: string) {
   });
 }
 
-test("manual unread survives departure and clears on reopening without changing normal completions", async ({
+test("manual unread survives departure and clears on reopening and ordinary completion survives departure", async ({
   page,
   workspaces,
 }) => {
-  await gotoAppShell(page);
+  await openAgentRoute(page, workspaces.subject);
+  await expect(page.getByText("Finish this turn.", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
   await openWorkspace(page, workspaces.other.workspaceId);
   await markBackgroundWorkspaceAndReopen(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId);
   await leaveMarkedWorkspaceAndRead(page, workspaces);
@@ -207,16 +213,19 @@ test("manual unread survives departure and clears on reopening without changing
   await markBackgroundWorkspaceAndRead(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId);
 });
 
-test("clicking a multi-agent workspace reveals and clears its marked agent", async ({
+test("clicking a multi-agent workspace preserves its selected agent and leaves the other unread", async ({
   page,
   workspaces,
 }) => {
   await openAgentRoute(page, workspaces.subject);
+  await expect(page.getByText("Finish this turn.", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
   await expectSelectedAgent(page, workspaces.subject.agentId);
   await openWorkspace(page, workspaces.other.workspaceId);
-  const newest = await addFinishedAgent(workspaces.subject);
-  await markBackgroundWorkspaceAndReopen(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId);
-  await expectSelectedAgent(page, newest.id);
+  await addFinishedAgent(workspaces.subject);
+  await markAsUnread(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId);
+  await openWorkspace(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId);
+  await expectSelectedAgent(page, workspaces.subject.agentId);
+  await expectStatus(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId, "attention");
 });
 
 test("manual unread survives leaving the current workspace on compact layout", async ({
@@ -230,7 +239,7 @@ test("manual unread survives leaving the current workspace on compact layout", a
   await completeTurnAndLeaveOnCompact(page, workspaces);
 });
 
-async function reopenMarkedWorkspaceAfterBackgroundTurn(page: Page, workspace: MockAgentWorkspace) {
+async function reopenWorkspaceAfterBackgroundTurn(page: Page, workspace: MockAgentWorkspace) {
   const route = page.url();
   // End this app session before the turn, so its cached transcript cannot contain the new prompt.
   await page.goto("about:blank");
@@ -265,9 +274,68 @@ test("reopening a marked unread workspace restores only its agent tab and curren
   await test.step("mark the current workspace unread, then close and reopen the app", async () => {
     await openMobileAgentSidebar(page);
     await markAsUnread(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId);
-    await reopenMarkedWorkspaceAfterBackgroundTurn(page, workspaces.subject);
+    await reopenWorkspaceAfterBackgroundTurn(page, workspaces.subject);
   });
   await test.step("restore the main tab without Explorer entries and load its latest history", async () => {
     await expectRestoredCompactChat(page);
   });
 });
+
+test("clicking the already focused timeline acknowledges a new completion", async ({
+  page,
+  workspaces,
+}) => {
+  await openAgentRoute(page, workspaces.subject);
+  await expect(page.getByText("Finish this turn.", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  await workspaces.subject.client.sendAgentMessage(
+    workspaces.subject.agentId,
+    "Finish another turn.",
+  );
+  await workspaces.subject.client.waitForFinish(workspaces.subject.agentId, 20_000);
+  await expectStatus(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId, "attention");
+  await page.getByText("Finish another turn.", { exact: true }).click();
+  await expectStatus(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId, "done");
+});
+
+async function reconnectWithoutInteracting(
+  page: Page,
+  gate: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof installDaemonWebSocketGate>>,
+) {
+  await gate.drop();
+  await gate.waitForBlockedConnection();
+  gate.restore();
+  await expectReconnectingToastGone(page);
+  await expect(page.getByRole("alert").filter({ hasText: "Updating messages" })).toHaveCount(0);
+}
+
+test("reconnecting a focused chat preserves its unread completion until another click", async ({
+  page,
+  workspaces,
+}) => {
+  const gate = await installDaemonWebSocketGate(page);
+  await openAgentRoute(page, workspaces.subject);
+  await expect(page.getByText("Finish this turn.", { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+  await workspaces.subject.client.sendAgentMessage(
+    workspaces.subject.agentId,
+    "Unread across reconnect.",
+  );
+  await workspaces.subject.client.waitForFinish(workspaces.subject.agentId, 20_000);
+  await expectStatus(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId, "attention");
+  await reconnectWithoutInteracting(page, gate);
+  await expectStatus(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId, "attention");
+  await page.getByText("Unread across reconnect.", { exact: true }).click();
+  await expectStatus(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId, "done");
+});
+
+test("a cached read chat acknowledges a completion that arrived while the app was closed", async ({
+  page,
+  workspaces,
+}) => {
+  await openCompactWorkspace(page, workspaces.subject);
+  await expectStatus(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId, "done");
+  await closeMobileAgentSidebar(page);
+  await reopenWorkspaceAfterBackgroundTurn(page, workspaces.subject);
+  await expectRestoredCompactChat(page);
+  await openMobileAgentSidebar(page);
+  await expectStatus(page, workspaces.subject.workspaceId, "done");
+});

packages/app/e2e/browser/sidebar-workspace.spec.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   closeMobileAgentSidebar,
   expectMobileAgentSidebarHidden,
   expectMobileAgentSidebarVisible,
+  expectOnlyWorkspaceHoverCardFor,
   expectWorkspaceHoverCardClosed,
   expectWorkspaceHoverCardOpen,
   expectWorkspaceHoverCardStaysOpen,
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ import {
   openMobileAgentSidebar,
   pinWorkspaceFromSidebar,
   scrollWorkspaceList,
+  sweepPointerAcrossWorkspaceRows,
 } from "../support/helpers/sidebar";
 import { seedWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/seed-client";
 import { expectWorkspaceHeader } from "../support/helpers/workspace-ui";
@@ -80,6 +82,22 @@ async function openWorkspaceHoverCard(page: import("@playwright/test").Page, wor
   return hoverCard;
 }
 
+async function sortWorkspacesBySidebarOrder<T extends { workspaceId: string }>(
+  page: Page,
+  workspaces: T[],
+): Promise<T[]> {
+  const positioned = await Promise.all(
+    workspaces.map(async (workspace) => {
+      const bounds = await page
+        .getByTestId(getWorkspaceRowTestId(workspace.workspaceId))
+        .boundingBox();
+      if (!bounds) throw new Error(`Could not measure the row of ${workspace.workspaceId}`);
+      return { workspace, y: bounds.y };
+    }),
+  );
+  return positioned.sort((left, right) => left.y - right.y).map(({ workspace }) => workspace);
+}
+
 interface PaseoOwnedWorktree {
   projectName: string;
   workspaceId: string;
@@ -430,6 +448,38 @@ test.describe("Sidebar workspace list", () => {
     }
   });
 
+  test("scanning up the workspace rows leaves only the resting row's hover card open", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    const workspaces = await Promise.all(
+      [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].map((index) =>
+        seedWorkspace({
+          repoPrefix: `sidebar-hover-scan-${index}-`,
+          title: `Hover scan ${index}`,
+        }),
+      ),
+    );
+
+    try {
+      await gotoAppShell(page);
+      for (const workspace of workspaces) {
+        await waitForSidebarWorkspace(page, workspace.workspaceId);
+      }
+      const rowsTopToBottom = await sortWorkspacesBySidebarOrder(page, workspaces);
+      const top = rowsTopToBottom[0]!;
+
+      for (let scan = 0; scan < 3; scan += 1) {
+        await sweepPointerAcrossWorkspaceRows(
+          page,
+          rowsTopToBottom.map((workspace) => workspace.workspaceId).toReversed(),
+        );
+        await expectOnlyWorkspaceHoverCardFor(page, top.workspaceName);
+      }
+    } finally {
+      await Promise.all(workspaces.map((workspace) => workspace.cleanup()));
+    }
+  });
+
   test("workspace hover card follows keyboard focus on a row", async ({ page }) => {
     const workspace = await seedWorkspace({ repoPrefix: "sidebar-hover-keyboard-" });
 
@@ -652,6 +702,9 @@ test.describe("Half-screen desktop layout", () => {
           .locator('[data-testid^="workspace-pane-"]')
           .getByTestId("workspace-tabs-row")
           .filter({ visible: true }),
+      ).toHaveCount(0);
+      await expect(
+        page.getByTestId("workspace-tab-switcher-trigger").filter({ visible: true }),
       ).toHaveCount(1);
 
       await explorerToggle.click();

packages/app/e2e/browser/subagent-origin-pane.spec.ts

@@ -38,8 +38,12 @@ async function openParentInRightPane(page: Page, parentId: string, workspaceId:
   await expect(left).toBeVisible();
   await expect(right).toBeVisible();
   await expect(right).not.toHaveAttribute("data-testid", "workspace-pane-main");
+  // A later split can replace the parent pane's rail with compact chrome.
+  // Keep the pane identity instead of finding it again through that rail.
+  const rightPaneId = await right.getAttribute("data-testid");
+  expect(rightPaneId).not.toBeNull();
   await left.locator('[data-testid^="workspace-tab-draft_"]').click();
-  return { left, right };
+  return { left, right: page.getByTestId(rightPaneId!) };
 }
 
 test.beforeEach(async ({ page }) => {

packages/app/e2e/browser/terminal-find.spec.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { getServerId } from "../support/helpers/server-id";
 import { runWorkspaceActionFromCommandCenter } from "../support/helpers/command-center-workspace-actions";
 import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
 import { readFile, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
@@ -413,6 +414,8 @@ test("searches retained output without sending Find input to the shell", async (
 test("keeps terminal Find owned by retained tabs and the focused split pane", async ({
   page,
 }, testInfo) => {
+  // This journey selects tabs from the full rails in both split panes.
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 900 });
   const first = await harness.createTerminal({
     name: "First search",
     command: "bash",
@@ -487,3 +490,142 @@ test("keeps the shared Find controls usable in a compact dark browser", async ({
   await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Close Find" }).click();
   await expect(input(page)).toBeFocused();
 });
+
+// A phone browser installs xterm's document-level touch gesture listener too.
+// Keep this journey touch-enabled so it catches duplicate scroll handling.
+test.describe("terminal history with a finger", () => {
+  test.use({ isMobile: true, hasTouch: true, viewport: { width: 390, height: 844 } });
+
+  test("scrolls history once per finger drag", async ({ page }) => {
+    await openPhoneTerminalHistory(page);
+    await expectSingleFingerScroll(page, 24);
+    await expectSingleFingerScroll(page, 1);
+    await expectMouseWheelScrollsHistory(page);
+  });
+
+  for (const mode of ["alternate", "mouse"] as const) {
+    test(`preserves finger navigation in ${mode} input mode`, async ({ page }) => {
+      await openPhoneInputCapture(page, mode);
+      await expectFingerNavigationInput(page, mode);
+    });
+  }
+});
+
+async function expectFingerNavigationInput(page: Page, mode: "alternate" | "mouse") {
+  await dragTerminalWithFinger(page, 24, async () => {
+    const prefix = mode === "alternate" ? "TOUCH_BYTES:1b4f41" : "TOUCH_BYTES:1b5b3c3634";
+    await expect.poll(() => getTerminalBufferText(page)).toContain(prefix);
+  });
+}
+
+async function openPhoneTerminalHistory(page: Page) {
+  await harness.createTerminal({
+    name: "Finger scroll history",
+    command: "bash",
+    args: [
+      "--noprofile",
+      "--norc",
+      "-c",
+      "for i in $(seq 1 150); do echo HISTORY_$i; done; exec sleep 300",
+    ],
+  });
+  await openPhoneTerminal(page);
+  await expect.poll(() => getTerminalBufferText(page)).toContain("HISTORY_150");
+}
+
+async function openPhoneInputCapture(page: Page, mode: "alternate" | "mouse") {
+  const escapes = mode === "alternate" ? "\x1b[?1049h\x1b[?1h" : "\x1b[?1000h\x1b[?1006h";
+  await harness.createTerminal({
+    name: "Touch application input",
+    command: process.execPath,
+    args: [
+      "-e",
+      `
+      process.stdin.setRawMode(true);
+      process.stdin.once("data", () => {
+        process.stdin.on("data", chunk => {
+          process.stdout.write("\\r\\nTOUCH_BYTES:" + chunk.toString("hex") + ":END\\r\\n");
+        });
+        process.stdout.write(${JSON.stringify(escapes)} + "TOUCH_INPUT_READY\\r\\n");
+      });
+      process.stdout.write("TOUCH_START_READY\\r\\n");
+    `,
+    ],
+  });
+  await openPhoneTerminal(page);
+  await expect.poll(() => getTerminalBufferText(page)).toContain("TOUCH_START_READY");
+  await input(page).press("x");
+  await expect.poll(() => getTerminalBufferText(page)).toContain("TOUCH_INPUT_READY");
+  await expect
+    .poll(() => page.evaluate(() => window.__paseoTerminal!.buffer.active.type))
+    .toBe(mode === "alternate" ? "alternate" : "normal");
+  await expect
+    .poll(() => page.evaluate(() => window.__paseoTerminal!.modes.mouseTrackingMode))
+    .toBe(mode === "mouse" ? "vt200" : "none");
+}
+
+async function openPhoneTerminal(page: Page) {
+  await page.goto("/");
+  await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Open menu", exact: true }).click();
+  await page.getByTestId(`sidebar-workspace-row-${getServerId()}:${harness.workspaceId}`).click();
+  await expect(page.getByRole("textbox", { name: "Terminal input" })).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("terminal-surface").filter({ visible: true })).toBeVisible();
+}
+
+async function expectMouseWheelScrollsHistory(page: Page) {
+  const beforeWheel = (await viewport(page))!;
+  await page.mouse.move(200, 300);
+  await page.mouse.wheel(0, -120);
+  await expect.poll(() => viewport(page)).toBeLessThan(beforeWheel);
+}
+
+async function expectSingleFingerScroll(page: Page, moves: number) {
+  await dragTerminalWithFinger(page, moves, async ({ lineHeight, before }) => {
+    await expect.poll(async () => before - (await viewport(page))!).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    const moved = before - (await viewport(page))!;
+    await test.info().attach("finger-scroll", {
+      body: JSON.stringify({ moves, distancePx: 120, lineHeight, rowsMoved: moved }),
+      contentType: "application/json",
+    });
+    expect(moved, "one gesture must not scroll twice its physical distance").toBeLessThanOrEqual(
+      Math.ceil(120 / lineHeight),
+    );
+  });
+}
+
+async function dragTerminalWithFinger(
+  page: Page,
+  moves: number,
+  inspect: (state: { lineHeight: number; before: number }) => Promise<void>,
+) {
+  await test.step(`Drag history with ${moves} touch moves`, async () => {
+    const screen = page
+      .getByTestId("terminal-surface")
+      .filter({ visible: true })
+      .locator(".xterm-screen");
+    const box = await screen.boundingBox();
+    if (!box) throw new Error("Terminal screen is not visible");
+    const rows = await page.evaluate(() => window.__paseoTerminal!.rows);
+    const lineHeight = box.height / rows;
+    const before = (await viewport(page))!;
+    const session = await page.context().newCDPSession(page);
+    try {
+      const start = { x: box.x + box.width / 2, y: box.y + box.height / 3 };
+      await session.send("Input.dispatchTouchEvent", {
+        type: "touchStart",
+        touchPoints: [{ ...start, id: 1 }],
+      });
+      for (let step = 1; step <= moves; step++) {
+        await session.send("Input.dispatchTouchEvent", {
+          type: "touchMove",
+          touchPoints: [{ x: start.x, y: start.y + (120 * step) / moves, id: 1 }],
+        });
+      }
+      // Check before lifting the finger to exclude inertial scrolling.
+      await inspect({ lineHeight, before });
+    } finally {
+      await session.send("Input.dispatchTouchEvent", { type: "touchEnd", touchPoints: [] });
+      await session.detach();
+    }
+  });
+}

packages/app/e2e/browser/terminal-protocol-query.spec.ts

@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ process.stdin.on("data", (chunk) => {
   for (;;) {
     const paste = /\x1b\[200~([^]*?)\x1b\[201~/.exec(buffer);
     if (!paste) break;
+    const pasted = JSON.stringify(paste[1]).replace(
+      /\s/g,
+      (space) => "\\u" + space.charCodeAt(0).toString(16).padStart(4, "0"),
+    );
+    process.stdout.write("PASTED:" + pasted + "\r\n");
     for (const [, path] of paste[1].matchAll(/'([^']*)'/g)) {
       const digest = crypto.createHash("sha256").update(fs.readFileSync(path)).digest("hex");
       const location = /[\\/]uploads[\\/]upload_/.test(path) ? "upload" : "local";
@@ -202,6 +207,21 @@ test.describe("Terminal protocol queries", () => {
     await expect.poll(() => terminalOutput(terminalId), { timeout: 10_000 }).toContain(text);
   }
 
+  // Every bracketed paste body the receiver consumed, in order and joined: what a
+  // shell would read as one command line.
+  async function pastedText(terminalId: string): Promise<string> {
+    const output = await terminalOutput(terminalId);
+    return [...output.matchAll(/PASTED:("(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*")/g)]
+      .map(([, json]) => JSON.parse(json) as string)
+      .join("");
+  }
+
+  // Exactly one ASCII space after each quoted path and nothing else between them,
+  // so the paths stay separate shell words.
+  async function expectSeparatePastedPaths(terminalId: string): Promise<void> {
+    await expect.poll(() => pastedText(terminalId)).toMatch(/^'[^']+' '[^']+' $/);
+  }
+
   test("pastes images from two panes into their own terminals as uploaded host files", async ({
     page,
   }) => {
@@ -238,6 +258,23 @@ test.describe("Terminal protocol queries", () => {
 
       await expectTerminalOutput(terminal.id, fileRead(pngBytes(3), "upload"));
       await expectTerminalOutput(terminal.id, fileRead(Buffer.from("remote notes"), "upload"));
+      await expectSeparatePastedPaths(terminal.id);
+    } finally {
+      await harness.killTerminal(terminal.id);
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("keeps the paths of two consecutive drops to another machine apart", async ({ page }) => {
+    const terminal = await openFileReceiver(page, "file-drop-remote-twice");
+    const first = { name: "first.png", type: "image/png", bytes: pngBytes(10) };
+    const second = { name: "second.txt", type: "text/plain", bytes: Buffer.from("second drop") };
+    try {
+      await dropFiles(page, [first]);
+      await expectTerminalOutput(terminal.id, fileRead(first.bytes, "upload"));
+      await dropFiles(page, [second]);
+      await expectTerminalOutput(terminal.id, fileRead(second.bytes, "upload"));
+
+      await expectSeparatePastedPaths(terminal.id);
     } finally {
       await harness.killTerminal(terminal.id);
     }

packages/app/e2e/browser/turn-collapse.spec.ts

@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@ import type { DaemonClient } from "@getpaseo/client/internal/daemon-client";
 import path from "node:path";
 import {
   holdOlderHistoryPages,
+  scrollTimelineRowIntoView,
   userScrollsTimelineToHistoryStart,
 } from "../support/helpers/timeline-pagination";
 import { getActiveTabTestId } from "../support/helpers/launcher";
 import type { Page, Locator } from "@playwright/test";
 import { test, expect } from "../support/fixtures";
 import { expectComposerVisible } from "../support/helpers/composer";
+import { withDirectoryPlugin } from "../support/helpers/plugin-timeline";
 import { openAgentRoute, seedMockAgentWorkspace } from "../support/helpers/mock-agent";
 
 test.use({
@@ -49,15 +51,36 @@ async function seedAnsweredAgent(title: string) {
 }
 
 /** Chat rows between the latest turn's summary line and its reply, in document order. */
-async function rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page: Page): Promise<number> {
-  return page.evaluate(() => {
+async function rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(
+  page: Page,
+  replyTestId = "assistant-message",
+): Promise<number> {
+  return page.evaluate((testId) => {
     const rows = [...document.querySelectorAll("[data-message-id]")];
     const summaryRow = rows.findLastIndex((row) => row.querySelector("[data-testid=turn-summary]"));
-    const replyRow = rows.findLastIndex((row) =>
-      row.querySelector("[data-testid=assistant-message]"),
-    );
+    const replyRow = rows.findLastIndex((row) => row.querySelector(`[data-testid="${testId}"]`));
     return replyRow - summaryRow - 1;
-  });
+  }, replyTestId);
+}
+
+/** The latest turn's summary line is a chat row of its own, sitting apart from its prompt. */
+async function expectSummaryLineSitsApartFromPrompt(page: Page) {
+  const summaryRow = () =>
+    page.evaluate(() => {
+      const latest = (testId: string) =>
+        [...document.querySelectorAll(`[data-testid="${testId}"]`)].at(-1)!;
+      const summary = latest("turn-summary");
+      const row = summary.closest("[data-message-id]")!;
+      return {
+        sharesRowWithPrompt: row.querySelector("[data-testid=user-message]") !== null,
+        gapBelowPrompt: Math.round(
+          summary.getBoundingClientRect().top -
+            latest("user-message").getBoundingClientRect().bottom,
+        ),
+      };
+    });
+  await expect.poll(summaryRow).toMatchObject({ sharesRowWithPrompt: false });
+  expect((await summaryRow()).gapBelowPrompt).toBeGreaterThan(0);
 }
 
 async function groupedToolsInsideLatestTurn(page: Page): Promise<string[]> {
@@ -125,6 +148,67 @@ async function expandAndCollapseLongPrompt(page: Page) {
 }
 
 test.describe("Turn collapse", () => {
+  test("folds work before a plugin-rendered reply and reopens it", async ({ page }, info) => {
+    test.setTimeout(120_000);
+    await useChatDisplay(page, "collapseTurns");
+    const agent = await seedMockAgentWorkspace({
+      repoPrefix: "plugin-reply-fold-",
+      title: "Plugin reply folding",
+      model: "ten-second-stream",
+      initialPrompt: "Make the fix and run the burst script.",
+    });
+    try {
+      await agent.client.waitForFinish(agent.agentId, 30_000);
+      await withDirectoryPlugin({
+        pluginId: "reply-fold-e2e",
+        source: `import React from "react";
+import { Text } from "react-native";
+import { z } from "zod";
+
+export default function contribute(client) {
+  client.addTimelineTransformer({
+    id: "reply", query: { itemType: "assistant_message" },
+    transform({ item, phase }) {
+      if (phase === "streaming") return undefined;
+      return { items: [{ type: "plugin", kind: "reply", version: 1, data: { text: item.text } }] };
+    },
+  });
+  client.addTimelineRenderer({
+    kind: "reply", version: 1, schema: z.object({ text: z.string() }),
+    Component: ({ item }) => <Text testID="plugin-reply">{item.data.text}</Text>,
+  });
+  return () => {};
+}`,
+        run: async () => {
+          await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 1000 });
+          await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+          await expectComposerVisible(page);
+          for (const width of [1280, 390]) {
+            await page.setViewportSize({ width, height: 1000 });
+            const summary = page.getByTestId("turn-summary").last().getByRole("button");
+            const reply = page.getByTestId("plugin-reply").last();
+            await expect(summary).toBeVisible();
+            await expect(reply).toContainText("(end of synthetic stream)");
+            await expect.poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page, "plugin-reply")).toBe(0);
+            await page.screenshot({ path: info.outputPath(`plugin-reply-folded-${width}.png`) });
+            await summary.click();
+            await expect
+              .poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page, "plugin-reply"))
+              .toBeGreaterThan(0);
+            await expect(reply).toContainText("(end of synthetic stream)");
+            await summary.click();
+            await expect.poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page, "plugin-reply")).toBe(0);
+          }
+          await page.reload();
+          await expect(page.getByTestId("turn-summary").last()).toBeVisible();
+          await expect.poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page, "plugin-reply")).toBe(0);
+        },
+      });
+    } finally {
+      await agent.cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+
   test("folds each answered turn behind a summary line that opens it", async ({ page }) => {
     test.setTimeout(120_000);
     await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 1000 });
@@ -144,6 +228,7 @@ test.describe("Turn collapse", () => {
         /\(end of synthetic stream\)$/,
       );
       await expect.poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page)).toBe(0);
+      await expectSummaryLineSitsApartFromPrompt(page);
 
       await summary.click();
       await expect.poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page)).toBeGreaterThan(0);
@@ -343,7 +428,6 @@ test("opening a turn keeps the received message above it clipped on every frame"
       .getByTestId("user-message")
       .filter({ has: page.getByRole("button", { name: "Sent by Reviewer", exact: true }) });
     await expect(bubble.getByRole("button", { name: "Show more", exact: true })).toBeVisible();
-    await bubble.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
 
     await watchReceivedMessagePreview(page, "Sent by Reviewer");
     await page
@@ -407,34 +491,87 @@ async function seedWholeTurnHistory() {
   return agent;
 }
 
-test("loads complete long turns and preserves expansion while revealing older history", async ({
-  page,
-}) => {
+async function expectInitialFillIsConcealed(page: Page) {
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("agent-initial-fill")).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("agent-chat-scroll")).toHaveCSS("opacity", "0");
+}
+
+async function expectFilledChatAtBottom(page: Page) {
+  await expect(page.getByTestId("agent-initial-fill")).toBeHidden();
+  const chat = page.getByTestId("agent-chat-scroll");
+  await expect(chat).toHaveCSS("opacity", "1");
+  await expect
+    .poll(() =>
+      chat.evaluate((element) => ({
+        hasOverflow: element.scrollHeight > element.clientHeight,
+        atBottom: Math.abs(element.scrollHeight - element.clientHeight - element.scrollTop) <= 2,
+      })),
+    )
+    .toEqual({ hasOverflow: true, atBottom: true });
+}
+
+test("fills collapsed history before revealing a fresh chat", async ({ page }) => {
   test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 1000 });
   await useChatDisplay(page, "collapseTurns");
   const agent = await seedWholeTurnHistory();
   try {
     const history = await holdOlderHistoryPages(page, agent);
     await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+    await history.expectRequestedPages(1);
+    await expectInitialFillIsConcealed(page);
+    history.releasePage(1);
+    await history.expectRequestedPages(2);
+    await expectInitialFillIsConcealed(page);
+    history.releasePage(2);
+    await expectFilledChatAtBottom(page);
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 8000 });
+    await history.expectRequestedPages(3);
+    await expect(page.getByTestId("agent-chat-scroll")).toHaveCSS("opacity", "1");
+    await expect(page.getByTestId("agent-initial-fill")).toBeHidden();
+    history.releasePage(3);
+    await history.expectSettledWithRequestedPages(3);
+    history.expectNoRepeatedEntries();
+  } finally {
+    await agent.cleanup();
+  }
+});
+
+test("loads complete long turns and preserves expansion while revealing older history", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 1000 });
+  await useChatDisplay(page, "collapseTurns");
+  const agent = await seedWholeTurnHistory();
+  try {
+    const history = await holdOlderHistoryPages(page, agent);
+    await openAgentRoute(page, agent);
+    await history.expectRequestedPages(1);
+    history.releasePage(1);
+    await history.expectRequestedPages(2);
+    history.releasePage(2);
+    await expectFilledChatAtBottom(page);
     await expectComposerVisible(page);
     const latest = page
       .getByTestId("turn-summary")
       .getByRole("button", { name: "Ran 120 commands", exact: true });
     await expect(latest).toBeVisible();
-    await expect.poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page)).toBe(0);
-    await latest.click();
-    await expect.poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page)).toBe(120);
-    await userScrollsTimelineToHistoryStart(page);
-    await history.expectRequestedPages(1);
-    history.releasePage(1);
     await expect(
       page
         .getByTestId("turn-summary")
         .getByRole("button", { name: "Ran 60 commands", exact: true }),
     ).toBeVisible();
+    await expect.poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page)).toBe(0);
+    await latest.click();
+    await expect.poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page)).toBe(120);
+    await userScrollsTimelineToHistoryStart(page);
+    await history.expectRequestedPages(3);
+    history.releasePage(3);
+    await page.getByTestId("scroll-to-bottom-button").click();
     await expect.poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page)).toBe(120);
     history.expectNoRepeatedEntries();
-    await latest.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
+    await scrollTimelineRowIntoView(page, latest);
     await latest.click();
     await expect.poll(() => rowsBetweenLatestSummaryAndReply(page)).toBe(0);
   } finally {
@@ -529,6 +666,7 @@ async function expectThinkingPresentation(page: Page, autoExpandReasoning: boole
       .last();
     await expect(group).toContainText(/read 1 file/i);
     await expect(group.getByRole("button").first()).not.toContainText(/thought/i);
+    await scrollTimelineRowIntoView(page, group);
     await group.getByRole("button").first().click();
     // Expand thinking is off: the group opens its rows, but the thought row stays closed
     // until the reader opens it.

packages/app/e2e/browser/usage-sidebar-item.spec.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
   openProjectViaDaemon,
 } from "../support/helpers/new-workspace";
 import { getServerId } from "../support/helpers/server-id";
-import { openSettingsHostSection } from "../support/helpers/settings";
+import { openCompactSettings, openSettingsHostSection } from "../support/helpers/settings";
 import {
   expectFooterItemSetting,
   expectFooterSeparator,
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ import {
 import { seedSidebarFooterPreferences } from "../support/helpers/sidebar-nav-settings";
 import { waitForSettledPosition } from "../support/helpers/sheet-layout";
 import { createTempGitRepo } from "../support/helpers/workspace";
+import { buildOpenProjectRoute } from "@/utils/host-routes";
 
 const WIDE = { width: 1440, height: 900 };
 const COMPACT = { width: 390, height: 844 };
@@ -70,7 +71,112 @@ async function footerClip(page: Page) {
   return (await page.locator('[data-testid="sidebar-footer"]:visible').boundingBox())!;
 }
 
+async function setPageVisibility(page: Page, visibility: DocumentVisibilityState): Promise<void> {
+  await page.evaluate((state) => {
+    Object.defineProperty(document, "visibilityState", { configurable: true, get: () => state });
+    Object.defineProperty(document, "hidden", {
+      configurable: true,
+      get: () => state === "hidden",
+    });
+    document.dispatchEvent(new Event("visibilitychange"));
+  }, visibility);
+}
+
 test.describe("Usage item", () => {
+  test("visible summary refreshes every five minutes without opening Usage", async ({ page }) => {
+    let usedPct = 31;
+    const usage = await installUsageReportsFixture(page, {
+      lists: [
+        () => [
+          {
+            ...claudeAndCodexReports()[0]!,
+            report: {
+              status: "available",
+              windows: [
+                { id: "five_hour", label: "Session", shortLabel: "5h", summary: true, usedPct },
+              ],
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+      ],
+    });
+    await page.clock.install();
+    await page.setViewportSize(WIDE);
+    await seedSidebarFooterPreferences(page, [{ key: "usage", visible: true }]);
+    await gotoAppShell(page);
+    await expectPinnedUsage(page, ["31% 5h"]);
+    const startingUrl = page.url();
+    await qaScreenshot(page, "usage-auto-refresh-initial", { kind: "footer" });
+    const requestsBeforeRefresh = usage.listRequests();
+
+    usedPct = 42;
+    await page.clock.fastForward(5 * 60_000);
+    await qaScreenshot(page, "usage-auto-refresh-after-interval", { kind: "footer" });
+    await expectPinnedUsage(page, ["42% 5h"]);
+    await expect(usageModal(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(startingUrl);
+    expect(usage.listRequests()).toEqual([
+      ...requestsBeforeRefresh,
+      { forceRefresh: false, reportIds: undefined, agentId: undefined },
+    ]);
+
+    await setPageVisibility(page, "hidden");
+    const requestsBeforeBackgrounding = usage.listRequests();
+    usedPct = 47;
+    await page.clock.fastForward(5 * 60_000);
+    expect(usage.listRequests()).toEqual(requestsBeforeBackgrounding);
+    await expectPinnedUsage(page, ["42% 5h"]);
+    await setPageVisibility(page, "visible");
+    await page.clock.fastForward(5 * 60_000);
+    await expectPinnedUsage(page, ["47% 5h"]);
+    expect(usage.listRequests()).toEqual([
+      ...requestsBeforeBackgrounding,
+      { forceRefresh: false, reportIds: undefined, agentId: undefined },
+    ]);
+
+    await page.setViewportSize(COMPACT);
+    await expect(usageItem(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    const requestsBeforeHiding = usage.listRequests();
+    await page.clock.fastForward(5 * 60_000);
+    expect(usage.listRequests()).toEqual(requestsBeforeHiding);
+
+    await openCompactSidebar(page);
+    await expectPinnedUsage(page, ["47% 5h"]);
+    await expect(page.getByTestId("agent-list-backdrop")).toBeVisible();
+    usedPct = 53;
+    await page.clock.fastForward(5 * 60_000);
+    await expectPinnedUsage(page, ["53% 5h"]);
+    await expect(usageModal(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+
+    await page.setViewportSize(WIDE);
+    await openSidebarNavSettings(page);
+    await setFooterItemVisible(page, "usage", false);
+    await leaveSettings(page);
+    await expectNoUsageItem(page);
+    const requestsBeforeDisabling = usage.listRequests();
+    await page.clock.fastForward(5 * 60_000);
+    expect(usage.listRequests()).toEqual(requestsBeforeDisabling);
+  });
+
+  test("Usage settings do not poll reports while the sidebar is inactive", async ({ page }) => {
+    const usage = await installUsageReportsFixture(page, {
+      lists: [() => claudeAndCodexReports()],
+    });
+    await page.clock.install();
+    await page.setViewportSize(COMPACT);
+    await seedSidebarFooterPreferences(page, [{ key: "usage", visible: true }]);
+    await gotoAppShell(page);
+    await openCompactSettings(page, buildOpenProjectRoute());
+    await openSettingsHostSection(page, getServerId(), "usage");
+    await expect(page.getByTestId("usage-card").getByText("31% used")).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(usageItem(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    const requestsBeforeWaiting = usage.listRequests();
+
+    await page.clock.fastForward(5 * 60_000);
+    expect(usage.listRequests()).toEqual(requestsBeforeWaiting);
+    await expect(page.getByTestId("usage-card").getByText("31% used")).toBeVisible();
+  });
+
   test("both compact footer entry points open Usage as a sheet", async ({ page }) => {
     await page.setViewportSize(COMPACT);
     await installUsageReportsFixture(page, { lists: [() => claudeAndCodexReports()] });

packages/app/e2e/browser/viewed-agent-timelines.spec.ts

@@ -357,6 +357,8 @@ test.describe("Viewed agent timelines", () => {
   });
 
   test("two visible split chats both stay current", async ({ page }) => {
+    // Keep both split panes wide enough for the tab-rail interactions below.
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 900 });
     const scenario = await seedViewedTimelineScenario();
     try {
       await enableMoveTabShortcut(page);