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Background agents that tell the truth, and a "needs input" dot that actually clears

0.2.0-beta.64 · September 20, 2026

The strip above the transcript names what other chats are doing in the same words as the live status line, sorts the ones that need you first, and can collapse. Answering a follow-up no longer leaves a stale amber dot. Parking a session keeps a real wait, and restoring it no longer resurrects a finished tool as still running. One Escape closes only the top overlay; a menu no longer fights its own trigger.

Fixed

  • Answering a follow-up question left the amber needs input dot on — the same run resumed in place, so nothing re-derived the flag.
  • Switching away from a session that was waiting on an approval or a question cleared the dot; switching away from one that was not waiting could not clear a stale one. Both are now derived from the transcript.
  • The background-agents strip rendered truncated session ids over "Waiting…" for chats it could not name, and its header said "running" even when every agent needed you.
  • Files-changed counted in-flight and failed writes. Only finished, successful edits count, and Stop is hidden once the run has actually ended.
  • Switching chats mid-flight dropped the in-flight spawn_agent card: the lanes kept running, the host card did not. Live tool previews are parked and restored with the session.
  • A chat save with no owning workspace was dropped silently, so the transcript vanished from the sidebar on the next load.
  • Clicking an open menu's trigger closed it on mousedown and reopened it on click.
  • Opening a modal focused the first control, then jumped to the intended one.
  • Arrow keys in a menu treated stray buttons (search-clear, header actions) as menu items.
  • Two Browser panes shared one address-bar id, so labels and datalists collided.

New

  • The background-agents strip uses the shared live-status line, sorts by urgency, persists collapse, and says Open / Stop instead of Focus. Parallel-lane runs stay in the Agents rail, not this strip.
  • Menus, dialogs, and hover cards keep a single focus target on open, restore it on close, and let one Escape dismiss only the topmost surface.
Older release Revise a plan in place, without phantom agents or a Reload menu

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