TUI session picker hides older root sessions when recent child sessions fill list

[jackmazac]

Description

The TUI session picker can hide older resumable root sessions in projects with many recent child/subagent sessions.

The TUI bootstrap query currently requests sessions with a 30-day start filter and does not pass roots: true. The dialog then filters roots client-side, so recent child sessions can consume the server-side result window before root filtering happens. The server session list API already supports roots=true, so the TUI can ask for root sessions directly.

Expected behavior: /sessions should list historical root sessions that can be resumed, even when recent child sessions exist.

Plugins

N/A

OpenCode version

Observed on current dev source.

Steps to reproduce

1. Use a project with historical root sessions and many newer child/subagent sessions.
2. Open the OpenCode TUI and open /sessions.
3. Notice older root sessions are missing even though they exist in the session database and the session list API supports root filtering.

Screenshot and/or share link

N/A

Operating System

macOS 15.6

Terminal

Terminal.app / Cursor integrated terminal

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This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

• /sessions TUI only shows recent sessions, ignores historical ones #16270: Describes the exact same root cause — TUI bootstrap does not pass roots: true, causing child sessions to fill the server-side result window before client-side root filtering happens. Includes the same proposed fix (roots: true in the sdk.client.session.list() call).
• TUI /sessions picker only shows recent sessions #13877: Same symptom — TUI /sessions picker only shows recent sessions, older root sessions are missing.
• TUI /sessions only show sessions from last 30 days, while CLI session list shows all my sessions (thank god) #16733: Same symptom — TUI /sessions only shows sessions from last 30 days due to child session dilution.

Please review those issues and consider closing this one as a duplicate if the root cause matches.

[codeg-old]

I opened #26432 for this.

It avoids the earlier broad-bootstrap side effect by leaving the shared sync.data.session list unchanged and querying root sessions only inside the session switch dialog. It also avoids the 30-day bootstrap window for the default dialog list, preserves the existing scope/path filter, and includes a focused unit test for the query shape.

Verified locally on the current dev base with:

• bun test test/cli/tui/dialog-session-list.test.ts test/server/session-list.test.ts test/server/httpapi-sdk.test.ts --timeout 30000
• bun run typecheck
• bun run build

Authorship disclosure: prepared with AI assistance.

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