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Closes #2019.

Change

A tab herdr still names by its number ("Tab 2") shows a few words of the first message its agent was given: about 24 columns, where a wide character counts as two, cut at a word's end with …. The tab's hover stays the pane's title. Tabs of the same agent can be told apart without opening each one.

• An Ovis display label, never written to herdr. Labels are kept in the shared preferences as tab_labels, keyed <paneStorageId>|<terminal_id>. herdr reuses pane ids after a restart but never a terminal id, so a new pane never shows an old pane's words. On the server they live in their own tab-labels.json, like muted-panes.json, so an older release that rewrites preferences.json erases nothing. herdr's tab label, its TUI and the workspace name are untouched.
• Reading never writes. A label read from a transcript shows on that page only. A user's action shares it with every browser: the New tab dialog's Start, or a message delivered from Chat to an agent's pane. Opening, reading or watching a page never sends PUT /api/preferences. A watching device shows the labels and learns none.
• Privacy. Only the short label is stored (at most 64 UTF-16 units), never the message. A label leaves once a browser saw its pane and then saw it gone; that drop goes out with the next change someone makes. Turning the shared setting off deletes every stored label, and none is loaded or kept while it stays off. The setting's description says what is kept.
• The labels file never blocks other preferences. A tab-labels.json that can't be read or written is logged, and the labels are left out of that save. Labels never count against the 64 KB size of a settings, pins or mutes save.
• Never covers a given name. Only herdr's own numbered name counts as the default. A name from Rename tab (feat(tabs): rename the current tab from a shortcut and the palette #1981), the New tab dialog's Name or a script is kept, even one that is just an agent's name.
• Where the words come from. The first line that names something is used: a slash command, a path or a code fence is skipped. Sources, for every agent whose first prompt Ovis knows:
  • the New tab dialog's first message;
  • a conversation page read from its beginning (cursor === null), for every transcript-backed agent;
  • a Chat send to a pane with no transcript, once it is delivered (not one held, queued or answering a question; never a shell pane).
• Settings → Appearance → Name tabs from the first message: shared, on by default.
• The palette footer names a tab the way the strip does.

Design follows the Codex app, which titles a thread from its first prompt, rather than asking the model for a title (a model call and a wait). DESIGN.md has the entry.

Contract

GET/PUT /api/preferences:

• The document gains tab_labels: { "<paneStorageId>|<terminal_id>": label }. It is absent while none is kept, so an old document reads exactly as before. There are at most 64 labels (the oldest leave first), and each is one line of at most 64 units.
• A PUT adds labels with tab_labels (a key already held keeps its label) and drops keys with tab_labels_removed. The server merges both per key, so two browsers saving at once lose neither's labels.
• While autoTabNames is false the server keeps none.
• A browser that gets an answer without the labels it sent treats the server as one that keeps none and sends no more, until its event stream reopens. Old clients ignore the fields.

Validation

• bun run check fast: ok at 2c5e318 (unit tests 10055 pass, 0 fail).
• CI's pane-mute-demo-regression and background-agent-detail-demo-regression were reproduced locally and pass now (exit 0).
• Failing-first: each new test fails without its change, either on the earlier commit or under a mutation. They cover:
  • a pane id reused after a restart;
  • the purge when the setting is turned off;
  • concurrent saves;
  • a stale roster;
  • an answer landing after the pane closed;
  • reading never writing;
  • a removal alone sending nothing;
  • only agent panes learning from a send;
  • an unreadable or unwritable labels file, and the setting turned off over one;
  • labels left out for size;
  • a failed delete while the setting is off.
• Browser QA on an isolated herdr test session (ovis-test-feat2019, fresh state dir, port 0, built dist/), with two browser contexts, all PASS with no page errors:
  • A (Chat) showed "Fix the login redirect…"; the hover stayed the pane title.
  • Reading the transcript shared nothing: B still showed "Tab 1", and no tab-labels.json existed.
  • After a Chat send in A, B showed the label without a reload.
  • The file held only the short label under <pane>|<terminal>; herdr's tab label stayed "1" and the workspace name was unchanged.
  • A rename to "auth work" and to "codex" was kept; a rename back to "1" brought the label back.
  • Turning the setting off showed "Tab 1" in both browsers and emptied the file.
  • Screenshots at desktop 1280 and phone 390, Codex dark and light.
• Codex Terra reviews (gpt-6.1-terra, xhigh; never Astra) over every round. Each finding was fixed, except one accepted edge, explained in the PR comments: old labels can return after a restart only if every delete of the file fails while the setting is off, through the save that turns it back on.
• Skipped: check full (CI runs Integration and browser).

This changes the /api/preferences HTTP contract, so it waits for a real review.

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Findings

An unreadable tab-labels.json blocks every preferences save.
A failed label write can still leave the labels in memory.
Guard auto-labeling to agent-backed panes.
Use own-property checks for tab-label keys.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @server/preferences.ts:
- Around line 116-118: Update the `labelsUnsettled` check in `set()` so it reads
and merges held labels only when `change.tab_labels` is present and non-empty.
Preserve the existing behavior for label updates while allowing unrelated
preference changes to proceed without reading an unreadable labels file.
- Line 151: Track whether the labels write in this preferences update succeeded,
and use that per-call success flag in the catch block before copying labels into
this.current; do not use labelsUnsettled for this decision, since it may reflect
an earlier save.

Review comments at @shared/preferences.ts:
- Line 84: Update tab-label membership checks in the merge, learning, and
synchronization flows to use own-property checks, so inherited prototype names
are not treated as existing keys; in the visible `added`/`merged` loop, use
`Object.hasOwn` to decide whether to add each key.

Review comments at @src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx:
- Around line 903-906: Update showSentAndName to call learnFromSend only when
autoTabNamesRef.current is enabled and agentRef.current is non-null; preserve
the existing showSentCommand call for all panes.

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• DESIGN.md
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• server/preferences.ts
• shared/preferences.ts
• site/demo/transport.ts
• src/components/ChatView.tsx
• src/components/CommandPalette.tsx
• src/components/NewSessionDialog.tsx
• src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx
• src/components/SettingsDialog.tsx
• src/components/TabStrip.tsx
• src/lib/i18n/settings.ja.ts
• src/lib/i18n/settings.ko.ts
• src/lib/i18n/settings.zh.ts
• src/lib/preferencesSync.test.ts
• src/lib/preferencesSync.ts
• src/lib/settings.legacy-fixture.ts
• src/lib/settings.ts
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Summary

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• New Features
  • Numbered tabs can now display a shortened preview of their first message, with the full message available on hover.
  • Automatic tab naming is on by default and can be turned off in Appearance settings.
  • Automatically generated names are shared across server browsers.
• Bug Fixes
  • User-assigned tab names and herdr’s own tab names remain unchanged.

The change adds a default-on setting that can show a shortened first-message label for eligible tabs. It learns and synchronizes labels per pane, preserves custom and workspace names, and shows the full first line in the tab’s hover title.

Changes: Automatic tab labels

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Label settings and extraction shared/preferences.ts, src/lib/settings.ts, src/lib/settings.legacy-fixture.ts, src/lib/tabLabels.ts, src/lib/tabLabels.test.ts, src/components/SettingsDialog.tsx, src/lib/i18n/settings.*.ts	Adds the shared autoTabNames setting, label validation and merging, and first-line extraction and truncation. The Appearance page exposes the setting, which defaults to enabled.
First-message capture src/components/ChatView.tsx, src/components/NewSessionDialog.tsx, src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx	Learns labels from successful session launches, conversation reads, and eligible Chat sends when automatic naming is enabled.
Label synchronization and persistence src/lib/preferencesSync.ts, src/lib/preferencesSync.test.ts, server/preferences.ts, server/preferences.test.ts, site/demo/transport.ts	Synchronizes pane labels through preferences and stores them separately in tab-labels.json. Tests cover validation, accumulation, and persistence behavior.
Automatic label display src/lib/tabName.ts, src/lib/tabName.test.ts, src/components/TabStrip.tsx, src/components/CommandPalette.tsx, DESIGN.md, changelog.d/tab-name-first-prompt.md	Displays automatic labels for eligible tabs in the tab strip and command palette. Custom names and pending renames take precedence. Documentation describes the feature.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: jpcarranza94, haeminway1

Merge Risk: Low · previous review e8559

Unusual label-file failures can disrupt preference saves or show labels that will not survive a restart. Some panes can also receive the wrong label. These are bounded issues to fix or explicitly accept before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 70.83% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: numbered tabs get a label taken from the first message. It follows the conventional-commit style and fits the changeset, which adds this behavior across the server, sh…
Linked Issues check		Issue #2019 coding requirements are covered. autoTabLabel uses the first learned line only while herdr supplies a default numbered or empty label. It preserves explicit labels, including agent or sc…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within #2019. Preference validation and separate storage support shared tab labels. Synchronization, demo transport, settings, translations, changelog, design documentation, palette d…
Description check		The description is complete and follows the required template. It explains the change, references issue #2019, documents validation results, lists skipped checks, and includes HTTP contract details an…

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The title names the main change: numbered tabs get a label taken from the first message. It follows the conventional-commit style and fits the changeset, which adds this behavior across the server, shared preferences, and UI. The issue number is included in the title, which is acceptable.

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Issue #2019 coding requirements are covered. autoTabLabel uses the first learned line only while herdr supplies a default numbered or empty label. It preserves explicit labels, including agent or script names. shortTabLabel provides the bounded tab text and the full line for hover. learnFromConversation, learnFromSend, and learnTabLabel cover the required first-message sources and learn once. autoTabNames is shared and enabled by default. The tab-label preference contract, separate persistence, synchronization, settings UI, palette footer, and focused tests are included. The implementation does not write herdr tab labels or workspace names.

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The changes stay within #2019. Preference validation and separate storage support shared tab labels. Synchronization, demo transport, settings, translations, changelog, design documentation, palette display, and tests support the feature. No unrelated product behavior is identified in the reviewed changes.

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[devswha]

Strict review by the merge pass at e8559d9. Changes requested: one reproduced HIGH. Touched tests 177/177, conventions 58/58 and typecheck pass; watch-device gating, old-client compatibility, the add-only cross-device merge, i18n and DESIGN.md hold up.

HIGH, reproduced: src/lib/tabLabels.ts:95 with shared/preferences.ts:81: a label is written once per pane id and never removed when the tab closes. herdr reuses pane ids after a restart (server/completion.ts:36), so a new tab shows the old session's first prompt and can never learn its own. Key the label to something that does not survive the pane (e.g. pane id plus the agent session or a creation stamp), or drop it when the pane goes away, with a test that reuses a pane id.

MEDIUM:

1. src/components/TabStrip.tsx:473: the tab's hover now shows the prompt instead of the agent's or herdr's pane title; keep the title in the hover.
2. Privacy: up to 120 characters of the first line are stored in plain text in tab-labels.json and synced to every paired device, watch-only included, and turning the setting off leaves them. Default-on is fine with a note in Settings and a purge when the setting is turned off (and for closed tabs, per the HIGH).

LOW: shared/preferences.ts:68 doesn't check the key format, so hostile long keys can fill the 64 KB document (later label saves get 413; settings still save); slash commands, paths and code-fence lines become labels (tabLabels.ts:49); comments say agent-named tabs get labels but only number-named tabs do (ChatView.tsx:1517, TabStrip.tsx:129, shared/preferences.ts:33); the demo error text omits tab_labels (site/demo/transport.ts:371).

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @server/preferences.ts:
- Around line 116-118: Update the `labelsUnsettled` check in `set()` so it reads
and merges held labels only when `change.tab_labels` is present and non-empty.
Preserve the existing behavior for label updates while allowing unrelated
preference changes to proceed without reading an unreadable labels file.
- Line 151: Track whether the labels write in this preferences update succeeded,
and use that per-call success flag in the catch block before copying labels into
this.current; do not use labelsUnsettled for this decision, since it may reflect
an earlier save.

Review comments at @shared/preferences.ts:
- Line 84: Update tab-label membership checks in the merge, learning, and
synchronization flows to use own-property checks, so inherited prototype names
are not treated as existing keys; in the visible `added`/`merged` loop, use
`Object.hasOwn` to decide whether to add each key.

Review comments at @src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx:
- Around line 903-906: Update showSentAndName to call learnFromSend only when
autoTabNamesRef.current is enabled and agentRef.current is non-null; preserve
the existing showSentCommand call for all panes.

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[devswha]

Merge-pass round done at afa32b5 (one push).

• HIGH (pane id reuse): labels are keyed <paneStorageId>|<terminal_id>; herdr never reuses a terminal id, so a reused pane id never shows an old label. A label leaves once a browser saw its pane and then saw it gone, so a stale roster deletes nothing. Tested: pane id reuse after a restart, a stale roster, and an answer that lands after the pane closed.
• MEDIUM hover: the tab's hover stays the pane title (TabStrip.tsx back to the original title).
• MEDIUM privacy: only the short label is stored (at most 64 units), never the message. The server deletes every label when autoTabNames turns off and keeps none while it is off (server/preferences.test.ts "purges every stored tab label…", which failed on e8559d9). A watching device learns nothing. The setting's description says what is kept, in en/ko/ja/zh.
• LOWs: label keys are validated by format, so free-text keys are refused; slash commands, paths and code fences are skipped; comments and DESIGN.md now say number-named tabs only; the demo error text names the new fields.
• Sync is now per-key additions and removals that the server merges (tab_labels, tab_labels_removed), after Terra found that whole-map saves lost concurrent labels. Terra's re-checks: all findings fixed (details in the PR body).
• bun run check fast ok; browser QA on the isolated test session all PASS. Screenshots refreshed in ~/.dori/reports/feat-2019/.

Also fixed: my first commit had dropped three lines of the DESIGN.md "Tab strip" bullet ("Pane actions are not tab actions…"); they are restored, and the diff against main removes no line.

[devswha]

Delta review by the merge pass at afa32b5: the HIGH is fixed (labels keyed pane|terminal_id; my restart repro shows no old label), as are the hover (pane title again), words-only labels, purge on disable (clears tab-labels.json; watch devices refused at the dispatch.ts:356 gate), the key regex (shared/preferences.ts:49), the 64 KB cap (worst case 29.5 KB) and the four LOWs. 188 tests, conventions and typecheck pass.

Before merge, please:

1. MEDIUM, reproduced by mutation: src/lib/tabLabels.test.ts:91-97: "learns nothing while the setting is off" passes only because of test order; seen, gone and pending are never reset between tests, so with the learning gate removed the file still passes (the test alone fails). Reset that state per test.
2. The two open CodeRabbit Minors: an unreadable tab-labels.json blocks every preferences save (server/preferences.ts), and the immediate-send path can label a non-agent pane from a shell command (PaneTerminal.tsx:906).

LOW, for the merge note: labels are dropped only by a browser that saw the pane close, so without one a label stays until 64 newer ones or the setting is off (Settings and DESIGN.md say "until the tab closes"); a connected PC with an empty roster drops every label that page saw, with no grace period (no real path to an empty connected roster found); moving a tab to another workspace drops its label.

[devswha]

Delta review by the merge pass at 22d1315: the test leak is fixed (rerun-each 3, --randomize over 4 seeds, each test alone), a change's labels are dropped without touching the file, only agent panes learn from a send, and the earlier fixes hold. Tests 165/0, neighbours 174/0, typecheck clean. But one HIGH, so it waits for one more small push:

HIGH, reproduced: server/preferences.ts:120,137,150: after {autoTabNames:false} is saved while tab-labels.json is unreadable (e.g. a directory in its place), every later save that does not carry autoTabNames throws EISDIR as a 500, because nextTabLabels empties the labels and readLabels() at :150 throws. The client sends only changed settings (src/lib/preferencesSync.ts:63-75), so settings, pins and mutes stop saving until a restart or the file is readable again. Clear the in-memory labels on a failed read and keep :150 from throwing; add a test for off-then-another-save with an unreadable file.

MEDIUM (part of the HIGH): turning the setting off with an unreadable file keeps the labels on disk and logs it, which is fine, but memory and the response also keep tab_labels while autoTabNames is false.

LOW: src/lib/tabLabels.ts:168 is a test-only export.

[devswha]

HIGH fixed at 0bcb511 (one push).

• tab-labels.json can no longer fail a save. A label read or write that fails is logged, and the labels are left out of that save and out of memory. It never throws: only the mutes and preferences.json can still refuse a save, as before.
• Failing-first test, your exact sequence: server/preferences.test.ts "after the setting is turned off over an unreadable labels file, every later save of a setting, pin or mute goes through". It runs twice, once with the file unreadable from startup and once with it readable at startup and broken later. Each time it turns the setting off, then saves a pin, a mute and a setting, then restarts. On 22d1315 the later save throws EISDIR.
• Terra 6.1 follow-ups (no Astra), each with a test that fails without its fix:
  • Labels no longer count against the 64 KB check of a settings, pins or mutes save. Labels that don't fit are left out of the document, and their file is untouched.
  • While the setting is off, no label is loaded, so a delete that failed can't come back after a restart. The delete runs again with each save until it is done, including the save that turns the setting back on.
  • A label failure followed by a failed mute write leaves no stale labels in memory.
• Accepted and not coded (corrected): a delete that fails when the setting is turned off is retried by every save while the setting stays off. The old short labels can come back after a restart only if every one of those deletes fails, the last one being the save that turns the setting back on: after that save nothing retries, and a restart with the setting on loads the file. That takes every write of the same file failing, and the labels are the user's own few words on their own server.
• bun run check fast: ok (10054 pass, 0 fail).
• An earlier run had 3 timeouts in scripts/typecheck.test.ts (5 s Go compiler waits at load average 50). That file is unrelated to this change and passes on its own (8/8).

[devswha]

Delta review by the merge pass at 0bcb511: no HIGH. The EISDIR HIGH no longer reproduces over HTTP; unreadable-mid-run, EACCES on read and write, ENOSPC on rename, off→on→label add and mute/pin while failing all answered 200 with settings, pins and mutes saved. Tests 1425/0 with --rerun-each 3, typecheck clean.

One line before merge, please:

• MEDIUM, reproduced: server/preferences.ts:158,161,188: when the labels don't fit, they leave memory but labelsUnsettled stays false, so a later off never deletes tab-labels.json (60 labels came back after on plus a restart, with no failed write) and the next label add overwrites the held labels. It needs a document of about 60 KB. Set labelsUnsettled = true there, with a test.

LOW: the accepted double-failure edge is fine, but its labels come back on the next label add in the same run, not only after a restart; please correct the PR comment.

[devswha]

CI at 18bf7a5: Integration and browser failed in two existing browser checks, each twice (so not a flake), and both point at this PR's preferences changes:

1. scripts/pane-mute-demo-regression.ts:355: "GET of a pre-feature document carries the empty list" expects { revision: 3, settings: {}, pins: [], muted_panes: [] }; GET of a document from before this feature now answers something else (an added field such as tab_labels, presumably). Either keep the old shape when there are no labels, or update the check if the new field is intended (the contract must stay readable by older clients).
2. scripts/background-agent-detail-demo-regression.ts:359: "only reads went out": a non-GET request went out during a read-only flow; most likely a POST /api/preferences from label learning or the drop-when-gone bookkeeping. A page that only looks must not write shared preferences.

Logs: run 41219433000, job Browser regression (other scripts).

[devswha]

CI failure fixed at 2c5e318 (one push). Both scripts were reproduced and now pass locally with the feature on (its default).

• Cause: opening a pane in Chat read its transcript from the beginning, learned a label, and sent PUT /api/preferences from a read-only path. That broke background-agent-detail-demo-regression:359 ("only reads went out") and moved the document under pane-mute-demo-regression:355 (revision 4 with tab_labels). The preferences response shape itself is unchanged: tab_labels is only added, and is absent while none is kept.
• Fix:
  • A label read from a transcript is that page's alone, shown but never sent.
  • Only a user's action shares it: the New tab dialog's Start, or a message delivered from Chat to an agent's pane, which also shares the label already read for that pane.
  • A watching device learns nothing.
  • A label dropped because its pane was seen gone goes out with the next change someone makes, never on its own.
• Tests:
  • src/lib/tabLabels.test.ts: "keeps a label read from a transcript this page's own, and shares it with the user's first send" (fails when a read is allowed to share).
  • src/lib/preferencesSync.test.ts: a removal alone sends nothing (fails on 18bf7a5).
• Runs:
  • bun scripts/pane-mute-demo-regression.ts: exit 0.
  • bun scripts/background-agent-detail-demo-regression.ts: exit 0.
  • bun run check fast: ok (10055 pass, 0 fail).
  • Browser QA on the test session: reading the transcript in browser A wrote nothing (B still showed "Tab 1" and no tab-labels.json existed); after A's Chat send, B showed the label without a reload. Every other scenario passed, as before.

[devswha]

Delta review by the merge pass at 2c5e318: the GET shape is back to exactly the old document plus tab_labels when there are labels (checked against the server and the pane-mute script); reading and watching send no preferences write; gone-pane drops are delayed and never touch another device's labels; sharing happens only on Start or a delivered send; scripts, 82 tests and typecheck pass. But one HIGH:

HIGH, reproduced: src/lib/tabLabels.ts:123-126 and :155-181: turning the setting off clears pending but not the new page-only labels (localLabels). A label read from a transcript survives off, shows again after on, and the next delivered Chat send to that pane shares it with the server (:206-215). Turning the setting off must drop the page-only labels too.
MEDIUM: no test turns the setting off and on with a page-only label (src/lib/tabLabels.test.ts:105-123); add one that fails today.

LOW: a page that switches to watching keeps showing its own labels but sends nothing; page-only and shared labels are capped separately, so the tabs can show more than the cap.

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HIGH fixed at 0019784 (one push). Turning Auto tab names off now deletes this page's own labels (the ones read from a transcript) and any label still waiting for its pane. Every open page gets the shared setting through the preferences sync and runs setTabLabelLearning (App), so this happens in every tab. The server already deletes the shared labels.

Failing-first test: src/lib/tabLabels.test.ts "turning the setting off deletes this page's own labels, so none comes back when it is on again, nor with a send". It reads a label, leaves one pending, turns the setting off and on, then sends. Nothing is shown and nothing is shared. It fails with the fix removed. bun run check fast: ok (10056 pass, 0 fail).

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Merging 0019784 (closes #2019; the owner picked it for 0.4.22 and saw the screenshots): a numbered tab whose label is only the agent's default name gets a short label from its first message; labels are shared through /api/preferences (tab_labels), keyed to the pane and its terminal, dropped when the pane is gone and purged when Settings > Auto tab names is turned off. They never replace a manual rename, an agent or herdr title, or herdr's own label. Strict review by the merge pass found a HIGH (labels keyed by pane id alone, so a reused pane id after a herdr restart showed the old prompt), privacy and hover MEDIUMs and LOWs; lane feat-2019 fixed them in afa32b5, and 22d1315 fixed the delta's test-order leak and both CodeRabbit Minors (an unreadable labels file no longer blocks settings saves; only agent panes learn from a send); 0bcb511 made an unreadable labels file unable to fail any save (the delta's EISDIR HIGH) and 18bf7a5 marks labels left out for their size as unread, so turning the setting off still deletes them; 2c5e318 stopped any preferences write while a page only reads or watches (the GET of an older document keeps its old shape), and 0019784 clears page-only labels when the setting is turned off; delta re-checked clean (83 tests, both affected browser scripts). LOW noted: a tab that was offline for both the off and the on keeps its page-only labels and can share them on its next send (the transcript would teach the same label again); page-only and shared labels are capped separately, so the tabs can show more than the cap; labels are dropped only by a browser that saw the pane close, so without one a label stays until 64 newer ones or the setting is off; a connected PC reporting an empty roster drops the labels that page saw, with no grace period; moving a tab to another workspace drops its label; with an unreadable labels file, turning the setting off keeps the old labels (logged).