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An OmO pane lost its chat (terminal only, agent_status: unknown) when OmO's own record of its start lagged the kernel's start for that pid by more than 3 s. OmO writes processStartedAtMs as now minus its runtime's uptime, so a runtime that comes up late on a busy machine reports a later start (6958 ms measured in #2281). heldSessionIds in server/omo.ts compared the two with a symmetric 3 s tolerance and dropped the holder.

On one host, a reused pid's leftover record always starts before the live process. So a holder may now start up to 60 s after the kernel's start, but only when its bootAtMs names this host's boot (hostBootAt(), OmO's own formula: the wall clock minus uptime, in whole seconds). A record from another host sharing the store, from before a clock step, or without a boot keeps main's 3 s bound both ways, and so does every record when this host's boot cannot be read. The early side, the pid check and the cwd check are unchanged.

Closes #2281. Thanks to @Noobear for the report and the root-cause analysis.

Validation

• bun test server/omo.test.ts: 28 pass. The new case fails on main ([] instead of ["late-3500"]) and on a mutant without the boot gate (it accepts other-host). Accepted: +3.5 s and +6.96 s with this boot, and a record without a boot that is within 3 s. Refused: +120 s, an earlier reused-pid record, a wrong cwd, another host's boot, a late record without a boot, and a late record when the boot is unreadable.
• Real check in the isolated ovis-test herdr session (bridge on port: 0, mkdtemp root), using the repro script from the issue with a fixture that writes bootAtMs as OmO does and LAGS=3500,6958,120000: +3500 ms and +6958 ms give heldSessionIds [id], omo/idle in /api/session, and omo-transcript with 2 turns in /api/pane/conversation (on main: [], unknown, scrollback with 0 turns). +120000 ms stays refused.
• bun run check fast: green on the final head.

Reviews

• omo-native-code-reviewer: PASS on both rounds, no CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM.
• Codex Terra 6.1 fast xhigh, round 1: HIGH. With a store shared across hosts, or after a backward clock step, a foreign or stale holder for the same pid and cwd could pass the 60 s window. Fixed by the boot gate above.
• Codex round 2: BLOCK on a HIGH that it reasoned but did not reproduce. Two hosts that booted within 3 s of each other share one OmO session store, with the same pid and cwd and starts 3-60 s apart. Main already accepts that collision within ±3 s; this change widens only that window. The review policy treats a Codex HIGH as blocking only once it is reproduced, so it is listed as a known limit. The same round noted that os.uptime() sat outside a catch: hostBootAt now returns null on failure, which keeps the strict bound.

Known limits (LOW, not filed)

• Accepted as a known limit (Dori, for the merge pass): two hosts that booted within 3 s of each other share one OmO session store, with the same pid and cwd and a holder start 3-60 s later. Raised by Codex (round 2) and CodeRabbit, not reproduced. OmO's holder record carries no host or PID-namespace identity, and the suggested fallback (keep the strict bound without one) would undo this fix. Main already accepts the same collision within ±3 s. A real fix needs OmO to write a host identity into the record.
• Containers on one host share its boot. A pid clash between containers that share a store and cwd still gets the late window, and it also needs the local process to hold no session of its own.
• The boot match uses a 3 s tolerance (OmO uses 120 s). If the boot reading drifts by more than 3 s on one machine (a clock step, macOS sleep), the late window is lost and the old 3 s behaviour returns. Nothing is wrongly accepted.
• Pre-existing (Codex MEDIUM, not reproduced): where a process's start cannot be read (Windows), an argv-recognized OmO's holder ids still feed transcript selection without the start check. This PR leaves it unchanged.

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• Bug Fixes
  • OmO panes now retain their chat when the runtime starts late on a busy machine, instead of opening a terminal without the conversation. This helps preserve the active session when startup is delayed, so you can continue chatting in the pane without losing the conversation context.

The change estimates host boot time and uses it to match OmO holder records that start up to 60 seconds after the kernel process when their boot time matches the host. Tests cover matching and rejection cases. The changelog reports the late-start chat fallback fix.

Changes: OmO holder matching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Host boot-time estimate and parameter server/omo.ts	The code estimates host boot time from system uptime and adds an optional boot-time parameter to heldSessionIds.
Late-start matching and validation server/omo.ts, server/omo.test.ts, changelog.d/omo-holder-late-start.md	Holder records up to 60 seconds after process start are accepted only when their boot time matches the host within 3 seconds. Tests cover time bounds, boot-time mismatches, and cwd filtering. The changelog reports the fix.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• devswha/ovis#2237: Both changes use OmO holder records for process ownership. This change updates the holder start-time acceptance used by that PR’s verification.
• devswha/ovis#1980: Both changes depend on process start-time values when matching OmO holder records.

Suggested reviewers: haeminway1

Merge Risk: Low · up to fc5e9

In a shared OmO store, a rare holder collision could show the wrong chat. The change is mergeable with awareness of that limitation.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 inconclusive

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		Linked issue #2281 asks that a pane with no herdr agent label be treated as OmO when its foreground runs OmO and holds a session. The issue proposes doing this in the pane snapshot. The issue text als…	Provide evidence that the #2281 reported pane had a holder record that failed the 3 s start check. Examples are the record fields or a log line for that pid. Also confirm whether the maintainers accept the start-lag fix as the resolution of…

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: OmO pane keeps its chat when its runtime started late. It also cites #2281. The raw summary and objectives confirm the change widens holder start-time matching for lat…
Out of Scope Changes check		All changed code ties to the holder start-matching fix. server/omo.ts adds the boot gate, the 60 s late window only when the boot matches, and hostBootAt(), which returns null on failure. A changelog …
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
Description check		The description follows the template: it has a Change section that explains the problem, the boot-gated fix, and a closing reference to #2281, and a Validation section that lists the commands run, the…

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The title names the main change: OmO pane keeps its chat when its runtime started late. It also cites #2281. The raw summary and objectives confirm the change widens holder start-time matching for late records, so the title matches the changeset.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

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All changed code ties to the holder start-matching fix. server/omo.ts adds the boot gate, the 60 s late window only when the boot matches, and hostBootAt(), which returns null on failure. A changelog entry and a heldSessionIds test cover the same change. No unrelated file or behavior change appears in the reviewed diff. The PR does not implement the herdr follow-up, which the issue scopes out.

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Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Description check

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The description follows the template: it has a Change section that explains the problem, the boot-gated fix, and a closing reference to #2281, and a Validation section that lists the commands run, the results, and the known limits. It has no explicit skipped-checks list and does not link a maintainer-agreed issue for a feature. This is a bug fix, so the feature-link requirement does not apply. The description is detailed and mostly complete.

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Linked issue #2281 asks that a pane with no herdr agent label be treated as OmO when its foreground runs OmO and holds a session. The issue proposes doing this in the pane snapshot. The issue text also names herdr-side suppression of herdr:pi as a separate follow-up.

The diff changes only server/omo.ts. It adds hostBootAt() and a boot-gated late window in heldSessionIds(). A holder record may start up to 60 s after the kernel start only when bootAtMs matches this host boot within 3 s. The early bound, pid check and cwd check are unchanged. No pane snapshot code changes in this diff.

The PR root cause is holder start lag above 3 s. The linked issue text does not mention start lag or the 6958 ms measurement. The PR objectives state that this is a different outcome from the issue's proposed unlabeled-pane behavior. So the diff does not show that the issue's reported state comes from start lag. For a pane with no lag, the diff changes nothing. Whether the existing snapshot path already maps such a pane to omo is not established by the evidence read.

Resolution

Provide evidence that the #2281 reported pane had a holder record that failed the 3 s start check. Examples are the record fields or a log line for that pid. Also confirm whether the maintainers accept the start-lag fix as the resolution of #2281, or whether the unlabeled-pane snapshot rule from the issue is still required in this PR.

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- Around line 269-271: The expanded holder-start window can match a foreign
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Merging fc5e978 (closes #2281, reported by @Noobear, thank you!). An OmO pane kept losing its chat when OmO's runtime registered its session holder a few seconds after the pane's process started: heldSessionIds now accepts a holder up to 60 s late, but only when the holder's recorded boot time is this host's (otherwise main's ±3 s stands). Strict review by the merge pass: the real late cases (+3.5 s, +6.96 s) keep the chat and +120 s is refused; a reused PID on the same host is still rejected; tests inject the boot and start times. One MEDIUM and one LOW are filed as #2425: with one OmO store shared by two machines that booted within about 2 s (same PID and cwd) the other host's holder could be accepted (rare; a shared store is not a documented setup), and a boot-time reading that drifts about 10 s brings back the empty chat.