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What changes

Refs #774, #1311 (todos 33 and 34 of the agent-command-capabilities plan; the plan lists both issues as references, so this PR does not close them). Seven commits on main f8a3b0f, which includes group F (#1500, c43dffd): 33 (d4ae899) and 34 (b3d994c), then the merge pass's round 1 fixes (76171cf, e837e73, 8137a8f, 97814a5, 533f518).

• New tab / New workspace with an agent (src/components/NewSessionDialog.tsx, src/components/AgentPicker.tsx, src/lib/agentLaunchMode.ts, src/lib/newSession.ts). This extends the existing launcher; it is not a second one.

  • Model and Effort appear only where the agent's CLI documents them. Today that is Claude Code and Codex. A model that is not one word, or a choice the picked agent's launch does not take, disables Start and says so under its field. Picking another agent drops the choices its launch does not take.
  • First message.
    • Codex takes the message as its own positional argument behind --. clap matches a subcommand only before the separator; verified on codex 0.163.0, where codex -- logout starts the TUI. So a message like logout or --version is never a command.
    • Claude Code's parser runs a subcommand named by the first operand even after -- (claude -- update ran the updater on 2.1.304). So Claude Code and every other agent start bare, and the text rides on the create request as first_message.
  • Skills are listed before any process exists, from new GET /api/agent/commands?agent=&cwd=. It is the pane commands route without a pane: the bridge's tables and a disk scan, with no agent started. Each skill is a chip that puts $name or /name at the message's caret.
  • Start sends exactly one create, behind a ref-held in-flight guard.
  • Launch arguments are checked on the bridge too (shared/launch-rules.ts, used by the dialog and server/agent-launch.ts). No argument may carry a control character, a tab or line break included. --model takes one word with an optional bracketed variant such as opus[1m]. The effort flags take only the levels each agent names. Codex's prompt after -- follows a first message's rules. The create routes answer 400 invalid_agent before anything is made. A Codex prompt with a tab or a line break goes as the first message instead of on its command line.
  • Switching agents clears the model: one agent's model names are not another's.
  • A composer button, New tab with an agent…, opens the dialog on the pane's workspace. It is desktop-only; on a phone it is the tab menu item. Existing new-tab shortcuts are unchanged.

• The bridge owns a first message (server/core/pending.ts FIRST_MESSAGE_OWNER). POST /api/workspace/create and POST /api/tab/create accept first_message and first_message_connection. The latter is the id of the page connection that sends the request, which each socket learns from its first snapshot (connection).

  • The bridge queues it as the pane's own pending message and shows it to every interact connection that attaches the pane (a reload or a lens change included) as a Next turn message with Discard and Send now.
  • It is typed on its own only through the page that sent it. When the agent is first ready, the bridge types it once through the connection the request names, while that connection has the pane attached. If that connection closes first, or the request names none, the message is held with first_message_unattended and goes only on someone's explicit Send now, or is discarded. Nothing typed is sent automatically after a disconnect.
  • It is bound at enqueue to the terminal, the agent kind and the agent process in front of the pane (when that is not the shell). A replacement of the same kind gets it held with pending_target_changed. It also goes through the queued path's own checks: a draft in Claude's box holds it with input_draft, and an ended pane discards it.
  • A pane holds one first message, so one pane's never fill the shared pending list for the others.
  • What the create routes answer for it: first_message: { id } when it was queued; { error: { code, message } } when the agent started but the message could not be queued (the queue's own code, for example invalid_submit_text or pending_limit, else first_message_not_queued); null only when no agent started. A bridge that predates the field answers without it.
  • When it was not queued, or the bridge ignored it, the dialog puts the text in the new tab's chat message box, stays open saying so, and offers Open, which shows that chat. The request carries first_message only when there is one, so a request without it is the body older bridges took.
  • A reconnect's receipt settles a first message's copy kept since the drop, which used to stay uncertain.
  • Pending first messages live in memory, as every queued message does: restarting the server drops them (stated in the changelog fragment).
  • While Claude Code's rewind dialog is open (herdr reports the agent idle and no input box shows), the first message is held with rewind_dialog_open and nothing is typed: on a Summarize row its Enter would summarize the conversation. It is not sent automatically when the dialog closes; it goes out once on Send now after that. The check is group F's claudeBoxReads, which every Claude send reads first, and server/pending-input.contract.test.ts covers it ("is not typed into Claude Code's open rewind dialog").
  • The page never types it.
  • For OpenCode it goes through the same dispatchPendingText, so skills in it are attached through OpenCode's autocomplete, as for any queued message.

• Access. agent/commands is added to MACHINE_PROXY_PATH. A device that may only watch is refused the route, because it is a directory listing and a file read.

• Docs (todo 34). docs/agent-commands.md covers:

  • each agent's command sources and the runtime-only commands not listed;
  • the three contracts;
  • the outcome states and their evidence;
  • the native catalog and observation sources and their gates;
  • the terminal group;
  • how to add a command form or a reader, and the full file list for adding an agent.

  docs/guide.md and docs/chat-skill-activity.md link to it.

• i18n (ko, ja, zh), the demo transport and fixtures, the changelog.d/new-session-skills.md fragment, DESIGN.md ("New tab with an agent": model, effort, first message, skills), and the scripts/new-session-skills-browser-qa.ts lane in ci-browser.sh.

• Design followed: the new-task composers of the Codex and Claude apps, where the model and effort are picked beside the first prompt before the agent starts. Skills are offered as tokens the agent itself types ($ for Codex, / elsewhere). No pixels are copied.

Fixes folded in from the integration reviews

• FG-IV2-1: the first message goes through group D's bounded, budgeted openCodeSkillsToType at the pane's version. A FIFO opencode.json no longer blocks the event loop on the send path or on GET /api/agent/commands?agent=opencode; the route answered in 4 ms with 41 rows in 2 ms. This PR's own synchronous cold scan is removed.
• FG-IV2-2: openCodeInstalledVersion(stateDir) honours the server's openCodeStateDir, and the route passes it.
• Route audit:
  • /api/agent/commands is in bridgePath.
  • The machine proxy refuses agent/commands to a read-only (watch) connection before anything reaches the other PC.
  • A watch device gets 403 read_only on the canonical route, here and through another PC.
  • Trailing-slash, double-slash and %2F spellings are no route (404) for anyone.
  • Codex's folder scan has a budget: a deep symlink fan-out takes about 80 ms instead of 2.7 s.

Known limitation (G-IV3-1)

A brand-new OpenCode 2 pane's first @skill goes as plain text. Before OpenCode has a session, nothing tells the bridge the pane's version, so the @ is sent as typed text: it gets no attach and no "not attached" note. Meanwhile the dialog offers @ chips based on the installed version (service.json). The changelog fragment states this. Follow-up: for a launch-bound first message, use the same installed version the chips came from.

Accepted limits

• The skill list shown before launch is the disk-scanned catalog. The native catalogs of group D (a running Codex daemon, gjc's broker, OpenCode v2's own list) need a pane, so they appear once the agent runs.
• Only Claude Code and Codex offer a model and an effort, because only their CLIs document both.
• The composer's new-tab button is desktop-only. A phone opens the dialog from the tab menu, which keeps composer-fit at 390 px.

Follow-up issues

These came out of the plan and are left for later: #1477 (native command invocation per command form, only with proofs), #1478 (Codex: bind a pane to its thread), #1479 (opt-in catalog companions for runtime-only commands; links #1448), #1480 (side-effect-certified probes for agent catalogs), #1481 (agent versions where stores record none), #1482 (translate server-written card labels), #1483 (rewind for more agents), #1484 (skill activity rows for Grok, Antigravity and Devin CLI), #1485 (gjc: correlate PTY-typed skill runs with SDK turn results).

How it was verified

At the head, 533f518 (merge pass round 1 fixes)

• bun run typecheck exit 0; bun run generate:types --check up to date.
• UNIT_TEST_WORKERS=2 bun run check fast exit 0: 5655 pass, 0 fail, 8 skip in 408 files.
• Contracts via bun run check run under env -i, with an isolated HOME and a PATH whose only muse and codex are stand-ins (claude and opencode are not on it): pending-input, api, device-access, route-envelope, submit and opencode-first-message, 313 pass, 0 fail.
• Browser lanes via bun run check run --build, same isolation: new-session-skills-browser-qa.ts 6/6 PASS (with the held-after-drop, older-bridge and model-switch steps), chat-browser-qa.ts 9/9, recent-folders-regression.ts 6/6 (the required check that failed at b3d994c), composer-fit-demo-regression.ts 26/26.
• Failing first: each round 1 test, run against b3d994c's code in a scratch worktree, fails there and passes at 533f518. The item-by-item mapping is in the PR comment answering the merge pass.
• Per commit: 76171cf UNIT_TEST_WORKERS=2 bun run check fast exit 0, 5644 pass, 0 fail.

Earlier, at b3d994c

The results below are at b3d994c (33 = d4ae899, 34 = b3d994c) on main f8a3b0f, unless a line names another commit.

• b3d994c: bun run typecheck exit 0; bun run generate:types --check says "generated types are up to date".
• b3d994c: UNIT_TEST_WORKERS=2 bun run check fast exit 0: 5639 pass, 0 fail, 8 skip in 407 files.
• b3d994c: contract tests via bun run check run under env -i. They ran with an isolated HOME and a PATH whose only muse and codex are stand-ins (claude and opencode are not on it).
  • Files: api.contract, submit.contract, pending-input.contract (with the rewind-dialog hold above), outcome.contract, opencode-first-message.contract, opencode.contract, opencode-prompt.contract, device-access.contract, machines.test and open-access.test.
  • Result: 398 pass, 0 fail across 10 files.
  • These include the route audit: the watch 403 here and through another PC, the 404 spellings, the read-only proxy refusal, and MACHINE_PROXY_PATH.
• b3d994c: browser lanes via bun run check run --build, same isolation:
  • new-session-skills-browser-qa.ts: 5/5 PASS.
  • chat-browser-qa.ts: 9/9 PASS.
  • composer-fit-demo-regression.ts: 26/26 PASS.
• b3d994c: bun test scripts/ci-browser.test.ts 4 pass. The lane count is 76 (main's 75 plus this PR's new-session-skills lane).
• Per commit: d4ae899 (33): bun run typecheck exit 0; UNIT_TEST_WORKERS=2 bun run check fast exit 0, 5639 pass, 0 fail, 8 skip in 407 files. b3d994c (34): the head results above.
• docs/agent-commands.md: every relative link and anchor resolved (39 links, 0 missing) in the reviewed tree. 34 is unchanged since then (range-diff identical).

Release

At b3d994c, bun scripts/release-guards.ts --base f8a3b0fb reports "Not a release (package.json's version is tagged, or the base already has it): nothing to check." This PR does not raise REMOTE_BUNDLE_VERSION (still 31).

It does add bundle inputs (server/, shared/, a new route and machine proxy path, the create routes' first_message, first_message_connection and their answer), so the release that ships it must raise REMOTE_BUNDLE_VERSION. Until remote PCs run that bundle, an older bridge answers 404 for /api/agent/commands, and the dialog says the PC's bridge predates the skill list.

Review

This PR adds HTTP contracts: GET /api/agent/commands, first_message and first_message_connection on workspace and tab create (with the first_message answer: { id }, { error } or null), the snapshot's connection, and a new machine proxy path. It touches observe permissions, because the route is refused to watch devices. It also changes queued input, because first messages are now bridge-owned. So it waits for a real CodeRabbit review.

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• New Features

  • New agent sessions support agent-specific models, effort levels, startup messages, and skill discovery.
  • Skills appear as selectable chips and insert agent-appropriate commands.
  • Desktop chat composers can open new agent sessions; mobile access remains in the tab menu.
  • Startup messages can be delivered automatically or held for sending or discarding.
  • Added agent-command discovery with availability and validation feedback.

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  • Expanded guidance for agent commands, skills, terminal actions, and command statuses.

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  • Improved handling of unavailable folders, unsupported options, reconnects, malformed inputs, and duplicate submissions.

The New tab flow adds agent-specific model, effort, skill, and first-message handling. Server and demo routes support command discovery and queued delivery. Connection ownership, access controls, localization, documentation, and browser and contract tests cover the flow.

Changes: Agent launch, skills, and first-message flow

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Launch options and command discovery src/lib/agentLaunchMode.ts, src/lib/newSession.ts, shared/launch-rules.ts, server/pane-routes.ts, server/skills/*, src/lib/api.ts, server/machine-api.ts, site/demo/fixtures.ts, docs/agent-commands.md	Launch capabilities validate model, effort, and prompt choices. Agent-command routes return catalog entries for an agent and optional working directory. Proxy and read-only access rules apply. Codex skill traversal uses a shared folder budget.
First-message creation and delivery shared/protocol.ts, server/workspace-routes.ts, server/core/pending.ts, server/core/terminals.ts, server/pending-input.ts, site/demo/transport.ts	Workspace and tab creation validate and queue first messages. Bridge-owned messages track connection, pane, agent, and readiness state. Delivery supports holds, retries, explicit send or discard, disconnect handling, and per-pane limits.
New-session UI and integration src/components/NewSessionDialog.tsx, src/components/NewSessionDialog.css, src/components/Composer.tsx, src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx, src/App.tsx, src/lib/i18n.*.ts	The dialog displays launch fields, prompt text, and skill chips. It clears incompatible values when the agent changes and blocks duplicate starts. Desktop composer and pane actions open the dialog.
Validation and browser coverage server/*test.ts, src/lib/*test.ts, scripts/new-session-skills-browser-qa.ts, scripts/ci-browser.sh, scripts/ci-browser.test.ts, docs/guide.md, changelog.d/*, DESIGN.md	Contract, unit, integration, and browser tests cover validation, delivery, reconnects, access control, OpenCode behavior, skill insertion, keyboard use, and responsive layouts. Supporting documentation describes command and launch behavior.

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If a launched agent exits before its first message is sent, the message stays queued and Send now gives a misleading error. Pane events also repeat extra reads until the message is discarded. This is a narrow edge case with a small fix, so the PR is mergeable once it is addressed or accepted.

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server/skills/codex.ts: 1

62-72: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Folder budget counts failed realpathSync calls and starves later roots.

The shared budget is decremented before realpathSync, so unreadable entries consume it. The budget is also shared across all roots of one discovery. A large early root, such as an ancestor .agents/skills with many symlink fan-outs, can exhaust 4096 folders. Later roots (~/.codex/skills, plugin cache) then return no skills with no note. The user sees an incomplete skill list without any signal. This is a bounded-DoS tradeoff and probably acceptable. Consider a per-root cap, so one root cannot hide the others.

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Review comment at @server/skills/codex.ts around lines 62 - 72:
Adjust scanSkills so failed realpathSync attempts do not consume budget.folders,
and enforce a per-root folder cap so one root cannot exhaust the shared
discovery budget before later roots are scanned. Preserve bounded traversal
while ensuring later roots can still contribute skills.

src/components/NewSessionDialog.tsx: 1

173-196: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Stale skills remain visible while a new request is pending, and pickAgent is the only reset.

The effect never clears skills when skillFolder changes. In New workspace, typing a new cwd leaves the previous folder's chips visible for the 300 ms debounce plus request time. A user can tap a chip from the old folder. The chip inserts only the token text, so the harm is limited to a misleading list. Calling setSkills(null) at the start of the effect fixes it. cancelled already guards out-of-order responses.

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Review comment at @src/components/NewSessionDialog.tsx around lines 173 - 196:
Update the skills-loading useEffect around fetchAgentCommands to call
setSkills(null) whenever the effect begins for an open session with a selected
agent, before starting the debounce timer. Preserve the existing cancelled guard
and response/error handling so stale results cannot repopulate the cleared
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Review comments at @server/workspace-routes.ts:
- Around line 146-152: Update the first_message handling in the workspace
creation route so queueFirstMessage failures return a structured error
containing a string code and message instead of null, while preserving the
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WorkspaceCreated.first_message documentation and type in shared/protocol.ts so
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Review comments at @server/skills/codex.ts:
- Around line 62-72: Adjust scanSkills so failed realpathSync attempts do not
consume budget.folders, and enforce a per-root folder cap so one root cannot
exhaust the shared discovery budget before later roots are scanned. Preserve
bounded traversal while ensuring later roots can still contribute skills.

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- Around line 173-196: Update the skills-loading useEffect around
fetchAgentCommands to call setSkills(null) whenever the effect begins for an
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• DESIGN.md
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• docs/agent-commands.md
• docs/chat-skill-activity.md
• docs/guide.md
• scripts/ci-browser.sh
• scripts/ci-browser.test.ts
• scripts/new-session-skills-browser-qa.ts
• server/api.contract.test.ts
• server/core/connections.ts
• server/core/pending.ts
• server/core/server-core.ts
• server/core/status.ts
• server/core/terminal-process.ts
• server/core/terminals.test.ts
• server/core/terminals.ts
• server/index.ts
• server/machine-api.ts
• server/machines.test.ts
• server/open-access.test.ts
• server/opencode-first-message.contract.test.ts
• server/opencode-service.ts
• server/pane-routes.test.ts
• server/pane-routes.ts
• server/pending-input.contract.test.ts
• server/skills/codex.test.ts
• server/skills/codex.ts
• server/workspace-routes.ts
• shared/protocol.ts
• site/demo/fixtures.ts
• site/demo/transport.ts
• src/App.tsx
• src/components/AgentPicker.tsx
• src/components/Composer.tsx
• src/components/NewSessionDialog.css
• src/components/NewSessionDialog.tsx
• src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx
• src/lib/agentLaunchMode.test.ts
• src/lib/agentLaunchMode.ts
• src/lib/api.ts
• src/lib/i18n.ja.ts
• src/lib/i18n.ko.ts
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Merge pass: blocked at b3d994c

The merge pass ran bun run check fast (5,639 pass), the pending-input, API, device-access and route-envelope contracts (223 pass), chat-browser-qa (9 PASS) and new-session-skills-browser-qa (5 PASS). Both gate reviewers block on the same rule, and a required check fails.

Required check: Integration and browser fails (run 39557081608): scripts/recent-folders-regression.ts:172 "Expected values to be strictly deep-equal", failed twice; it passes on main, and this PR reworks the dialog the recent folders feed.

HIGH (omo and Codex, traced): a first message is typed after its sender disconnected (server/core/pending.ts around 73-77, 311-335, 345, 371-378; server/core/terminals.ts around 363). AGENTS.md: "Nothing the user typed is sent automatically after a disconnect: it waits in a draft until the user sends or discards it." A owns the create; A's connection drops before the agent is ready; the message is owned by FIRST_MESSAGE_OWNER, never held or expired; days later B attaches the pane in any lens (Terminal included) and drainPending types it in the same step, before B's user can see or discard it. pending-input.contract.test.ts around 1032-1047 expects exactly that. Suggested: type a first message automatically only through the requester's own connection while it is attached; if that connection goes before delivery, hold it like any disconnected draft (shown to interact clients with Send now / Discard, never typed on its own).

HIGH (Codex, traced; omo found a replaced agent held, so please settle it with a test): a replacement agent of the same kind can receive the first message (around 344-346, 359-366). Enqueue drops the process/session identity currentIdentity already has; binding happens at the first eligible delivery and accepts any agent of the same kind, so a Claude that exits and is replaced by another Claude in the same terminal before delivery gets it, instead of pending_target_changed. Bind the identity at enqueue.

MEDIUM

• A first message can vanish with no warning (both; server/workspace-routes.ts around 143-152, NewSessionDialog.tsx around 279): a failed enqueue only logs and answers first_message: null (which the protocol reads as "no agent started"), every held first message counts against one shared limit of 32 with no expiry, and an older remote bridge ignores first_message; the dialog closes as a success either way. Keep the text (a draft or a warning) when it was not accepted.
• Codex's first message is checked only in the dialog (omo; agentLaunchMode.ts around 139, agent-launch.ts around 14-22): the queued path refuses control characters, this argv path does not (a pasted TAB or newline), and model/effort are validated client-side only. Validate on the server.
• A reconnect receipt leaves a delivered first message "uncertain" (Codex, reproduced with PendingMessageStore; server/core/pending.ts around 371-375, src/lib/pendingMessages.ts around 109-113).
• The "Start's in-flight guard" test (newSession.test.ts around 35-57) never touches the dialog.

LOW (omo): switching Claude to Codex keeps a Claude model; the model check refuses [1m]-style names; contract tests poll with Bun.sleep(25); the demo transport keeps its own copy of the first-message check; first messages are lost on a server restart.

Checked and fine: Claude never gets the message in argv; Codex's goes after --; unknown kinds refused; exactly once across connections, reloads and lens changes; watch-only neither sees nor sends it; readiness without fixed sleeps; GET /api/agent/commands starts nothing, bounded, FIFO-safe, refused to watch-only (also through the proxy); optional protocol fields; i18n and DESIGN.md. The merge pass re-reviews the next head.

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Merge pass round 1: fixes, at 533f518

Answers #1512 (comment) item by item. New commits on b3d994c: 76171cf, e837e73, 8137a8f, 97814a5, 533f518.

"Before" means the test file from 533f518 run against b3d994c's code in a detached scratch worktree (removed afterwards), under env -i with an isolated HOME and stand-in muse/codex. "After" means the gates at 533f518.

Item	Commit	Failing-first test	Before (b3d994c)	After (533f518)
Required check: recent-folders-regression.ts:172	e837e73 (the create request carries first_message only when there is one, which is the body older bridges took)	scripts/recent-folders-regression.ts (unchanged); src/lib/newSession.test.ts "leaves first_message out when there is none"	lane fails at :172, "Expected values to be strictly deep-equal"; unit fails (no createRequest)	lane 6/6 PASS; unit pass
HIGH: first message typed after its sender disconnected	e837e73 (typed on its own only through the page connection the request names, first_message_connection, while it has the pane attached; otherwise held with first_message_unattended for Send now or Discard)	server/pending-input.contract.test.ts "is held, never typed on its own, once the page that sent it disconnects before the agent is ready…" and "is held from the start when the request names no page connection, and Discard ends it"; the new-session-skills lane's reconnect step	both fail	pass; lane PASS (held, then sent once on Send now)
HIGH: same-kind replacement	e837e73 (bound at enqueue to the process in front of the pane when it is not the shell)	pending-input.contract "is bound to the agent process it was queued under: a replacement of the same kind in its terminal gets it held with pending_target_changed"	fails	passes
MEDIUM: first message vanishes (incl. CodeRabbit thread 4333831713)	e837e73 (first_message: { error } when the agent started but nothing was queued, apart from null = no agent started; one first message per pane, so one pane's never fill the shared list; the dialog keeps the text in the new tab's message box and stays open, also for an older bridge that answers without the field); 533f518 (Open shows that tab's chat, where the box is)	server/api.contract.test.ts "says when the agent started but its first message could not be queued…"; pending-input.contract "holds one first message per pane…"; server/pending-input.test.ts "holds one message in each pane…"; newSession.test "tells a queued message from one the bridge could not queue and from a bridge that ignored the field"; lane step "a bridge that ignores first_message…"	all fail (the lane step's dialog closes as a success)	all pass
MEDIUM: Codex first message, model and effort checked only in the dialog	76171cf (shared/launch-rules.ts, used by the dialog and server/agent-launch.ts: no control character in any argument, a one-word model, only the efforts each agent names; a Codex prompt with a tab or line break goes as the first message)	api.contract "refuses launch arguments the dialog never sends, before anything is made…"; shared/launch-rules.test.ts; newSession.test "sends Codex a prompt with a tab or a line break as the first message"	fail (400 not returned; no module)	pass
MEDIUM: reconnect receipt left "uncertain"	e837e73	src/lib/pendingMessages.test.ts "drops a first message delivered while its connection was down once the new connection's receipt says so"	fails	passes
MEDIUM: dead "Start's in-flight guard" test	e837e73 (drives the dialog's own createRequest and startNewSession)	newSession.test "Start's in-flight guard"	fails (neither exists)	passes
LOW: Claude to Codex keeps a Claude model	e837e73 (any agent switch clears the model); test 97814a5	lane step "Codex does not take Claude Code's model"	fails	PASS
LOW: [1m]-style models refused	76171cf	launch-rules.test "is one word, with an optional bracketed variant such as Claude Code's [1m]"	fails (no module)	passes
LOW: demo transport's own copy of the check	e837e73 (imports firstMessageFault from shared/launch-rules.ts)	covered by the new-session-skills lane, which runs on the demo	n/a	PASS
(own) core boundary in check fast	8137a8f (the contract case stubs PendingInputs.enqueue instead of reaching into server/core/composer.ts)	server/core/ownership.test.ts "is reached from outside only through server/core/index.ts"	failed at e837e73	passes

Declined LOWs

• Bun.sleep(25) polls: the first-message cases now subscribe to events. The polls left in pending-input.contract (Socket.wait, recorder start and screen redraw) and the OpenCode stand-in's start wait predate this PR and serve every case in those files, so they are a separate change.
• First messages lost on a server restart: every queued message lives only in memory. The changelog fragment states it. Persisting typed text across restarts is a separate change for all queued input.

Gates at 533f518

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• UNIT_TEST_WORKERS=2 bun run check fast exit 0: 5655 pass, 0 fail, 8 skip in 408 files.
• Contracts (pending-input, api, device-access, route-envelope, submit, opencode-first-message) via bun run check run under env -i, with an isolated HOME and only stand-in muse/codex on PATH: 313 pass, 0 fail.
• Lanes via bun run check run --build, same isolation: new-session-skills 6/6, chat-browser-qa 9/9, recent-folders 6/6, composer-fit 26/26.

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Merge pass: round 1 (533f518)

The merge pass ran bun run check fast (5,655 pass), the four contracts (227 pass), chat-browser-qa (9 PASS) and new-session-skills-browser-qa (6 PASS). omo passes round 1: the disconnect case is fixed (a first message is typed only through the page that sent it while it has the pane attached; on close it is held, and a later device sees Send now / Discard only), and so are the silent loss, the bridge-side argv checks and the reconnect receipt. Two items left before merge:

HIGH (Codex, reproduced with mocked RPCs through the delivery path; omo M2 traced the same gap): the first message can still reach a replacement session (server/core/pending.ts around 359-363 and 390). Enqueue records the process but session: null (and no native session id), so a session switch in the same process before the requester attaches (/resume in the terminal), or a same-kind replacement when no foreground process was known at enqueue (the shell still in front), is adopted by bindLaunched(), and the message is pasted with Enter into the other session. Bind the session identity at enqueue too, and when no agent process is known yet, bind to the agent the bridge itself launched for this create rather than any agent of that kind; add a test for the session switch and for the shell-in-front case.

MEDIUM (omo, new this round, reproduced the queue order): a waiting first message stalls the pane's queue. When its page is still connected but has left the pane (or closed during a retry), it stays queued first, and drainPending (around 322-341) returns without typing anything, so another device's own next-turn messages never go. Treat the page leaving the pane like its connection closing (hold the first message as a draft), so later messages are not stuck behind it.

MEDIUM (Codex, reproduced): other spellings pass the bridge's launch check (shared/launch-rules.ts around 64): Codex -m "two words", --model=two words, --config model_reasoning_effort=INVALID, Claude --effort=INVALID return no fault. Not a privilege change (a full-access client could already send any args), but the check should read the forms the CLIs accept.

LOW: the in-flight guard test exercises startNewSession, not the dialog (omo M3); the rest in omo's report.

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Merge pass round 2: fixes, at fc78a18

Answers #1512 (comment) item by item. New commits on 533f518: 5c6efd3, 0236511, e062a35, fc78a18 (docs).

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Item	Commit	Failing-first test	Before (533f518)	After (fc78a18)
HIGH: first message reaches a replacement session	e062a35. Enqueue binds the sessions herdr, OmO or Claude's PID record already name for the launched kind. A launch-bound first message also learns the parts not known yet (process, sessions) at every event of its pane, whoever has it attached. The first agent seen there is the launched one, and a part once learned is never replaced. An event during a running drain makes it run once more.	server/pending-input.contract.test.ts: "is bound to the agent session it was queued under: a /resume in the same process before its page attaches gets it held with pending_target_changed, never typed" (Claude's PID record switches session, same pid) and "queued while the shell was still in front, is bound to the agent the launch brought up: a same-kind replacement before its page attaches gets it held, never typed" (through the real POST /api/tab/create)	both fail: the message is typed into the other session or the replacement	both pass: held with pending_target_changed, nothing typed
MEDIUM: a waiting first message stalls the pane's queue	e062a35. The page leaving the pane (detach), losing the right to type (observe) or closing holds its first message with first_message_unattended and drains the pane. One in flight then settles held instead of being retried.	pending-input.contract "is held, so the pane's other messages are not stuck behind it, once the page that sent it leaves the pane while still connected": page A detaches, device B queues MARKER, MARKER goes at the turn's end, and A's message is held until B's Send now types it once	fails (stays queued first; MARKER never goes)	passes
MEDIUM: other spellings pass the launch check	5c6efd3. shared/launch-rules.ts reads --flag value, --flag=value, and a short flag's -f value, -fvalue and -f=value. Codex's -c/--config is read for model and model_reasoning_effort, with a quoted TOML string as its text. A flag's value is consumed, so a -- there does not end the options.	shared/launch-rules.test.ts "every spelling the CLIs accept for a model or an effort" (one table: Codex -m "two words", --model=two words, --config model_reasoning_effort=INVALID, Claude --effort=INVALID, …, and valid rows)	12 rows fail	all pass
LOW: the in-flight guard test does not render the dialog	not changed	—	—	—
CodeRabbit 4334588687 (demo Send now)	0236511. The demo reads readiness before it delivers.	scripts/demo-first-message.test.ts	fails	passes; thread resolved

LOW, not changed: unit tests here have no DOM (component tests render static markup only), so the dialog cannot be clicked there. The new-session-skills lane already double-clicks the real dialog's Start while the create is held, and asserts exactly one tab/create.

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• Contracts (pending-input, api, device-access, route-envelope) via bun run check run under env -i, isolated HOME, stand-in muse/codex: 230 pass, 0 fail.
• Lanes via bun run check run --build, same isolation: new-session-skills 6/6, chat-browser-qa 9/9.

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Merged as 7cd3648. omo-native-code-reviewer and Codex both PASS on round 2 (fc78a18): a first message is typed only through the page that sent it while attached, held otherwise; it is bound at enqueue to the launched agent session, so /resume or a same-kind replacement is refused; the launch check reads every flag spelling. The merge pass ran bun run check fast (5,670 pass), the pending-input, API, device-access and route-envelope contracts (230 pass), chat-browser-qa (9 PASS) and new-session-skills-browser-qa (6 PASS) on fc78a18, and pushed 44c22ea (the first-message demo test imports its own transport instance); required checks green. Follow-ups: #1518.