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An OmO pane that has not been sent a message yet opens its chat on "Conversation unavailable — show terminal output". That happens on every new OmO pane and after every /new, so a working pane looks broken until the first message.

OmO publishes its holder record (session-holders/<id>/<pid>.json) as soon as it starts or runs /new. It writes the session file (*.jsonl) only with the first message. In the session that found this, the holder appeared at 15:45:41 and the file at 15:46:12, when the first message was sent. During that gap no file names the held session, so /api/pane/conversation answered scrollback and the chat showed the terminal fallback.

#351 already stops the chat from showing the conversation from before /new. It left this state as the fresh-OmO fallback and asked which state the chat should show. This PR proposes an answer: an empty OmO chat.

  • server/omo.ts: when the one session a pane's OmO process holds has no file in the store yet, omoSessionForPane reports it as pending. It builds on fix(chat): omo에서 /new 후 이전 대화가 남아 보이는 문제 수정 #351's heldRuntime. The check reads the store's file names directly, so the bounded candidate list cannot mistake an existing file for a missing one. omoTranscriptForPane keeps its signature.
  • server/conversation.ts: for such a pane, paneConversation returns an empty omo-transcript (turns: [], cursor: null, history_id: "unwritten:<session id>") instead of throwing ConversationUnavailable. The chat then shows its existing "No conversation yet — say something below" state. The first message writes the file, the history_id changes, and the chat loads that conversation. Image and tool-output lookups still treat the pane as having no transcript.
  • CHANGELOG.md: entry under [Unreleased] → ### Fixed.

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macOS (Apple silicon), herdr 0.9.3, Bun 1.4.2, omo-ai with the senpi engine.

  • Real OmO, no message sent: ran OmO in an owned, temporary workspace and queried both servers before any message.

    • Release v0.3.43: {"source":"scrollback","turns":[]}
    • This branch: {"source":"omo-transcript","turns":[],"metadata":{"model":null,"reasoning_effort":null},"cursor":null,"history_id":"unwritten:01a0fe94-…"}
    • An existing OmO pane whose session was already written read the same on this branch.
  • Screenshots: same pane, English UI, sidebar cropped out.

    Before (v0.3.43) After
    before after
  • Contract tests in server/omo.contract.test.ts:

    • tells a held session omo has not written yet from an older one: a fresh pane, a pane whose launch --session-id names an older session (as after /new), a file whose name only contains the held id, and the pane resolving to its file once it is written.
    • serves a held omo session as an empty conversation until its file is written: over HTTP (createServer), the empty omo-transcript with history_id: "unwritten:<id>", 409 for a stale before cursor, then the written transcript with a new history_id.
    • Both pass. Each fails when its check is reverted (pending disabled, the old includes name match, the before 409 removed).
  • bun run generate:types --check, bun run typecheck, bun run build: pass.

  • bun run test:unit: 1057 passed, 4 skipped, 1 failed. The failure is server/pi.test.ts "accepts a session file inside the store", which also fails on upstream/main on macOS (/var vs /private/var tmpdir).

  • server/omo.contract.test.ts on macOS, run with TMPDIR=$(realpath $TMPDIR): 6 passed. Two tests fail the same way on upstream/main because they read /proc.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • OmO panes now show an empty chat while a conversation is starting, including immediately after starting a new conversation, instead of “Conversation unavailable.”
    • The conversation transcript appears once the first message is recorded.
    • Requests for older history made before the conversation is available are rejected as stale. Refresh the history after the conversation has started.

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OmO session lookup identifies held sessions without transcript files. For a pending session, conversation handling returns an empty OmO conversation with session-specific history metadata. Older-page requests return HistoryChanged.

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OmO pending conversation handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Detect pending OmO sessions
server/omo.ts, server/omo.contract.test.ts
The pane resolver reports a held session ID as pending when its session file is absent. Contract tests check pending resolution and the result after the session file is written.
Return an empty conversation for pending sessions
server/conversation.ts, server/omo.contract.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md
OmO transcript routes use a shared path resolver. For a pending session, paneConversation returns an empty conversation with session-specific history metadata and rejects older-page requests with HistoryChanged. Route tests check pending responses, stale cursors, and transcript data after the session file is written. The changelog describes the empty-chat case.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to da2cd

This change shows an empty OmO chat while a held session has not yet written its file. The earlier concerns about directory-read failures, filename matching and stale cursors no longer apply at the current head, and no concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2febe

The new response does not expose transcript contents or let a caller choose a session directly. It does expose the pending session identifier to callers who can already access the conversation endpoint. The first-write transition and the endpoint’s full deployment exposure have not been completely verified.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The independently reachable change is limited to pending-session metadata returned through the conversation endpoint. An authorized caller may choose a pane ID, but cannot supply a held session ID or transcript path through this route.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Unknown panes are rejected before session lookup. OmO lookup filters peers by cwd, and pending conversations cannot return older transcript pages.
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Review comments at @server/conversation.ts:
- Line 815: In the ConversationNotStarted handler around resolveTranscript,
reject requests with page.before by raising HistoryChanged before returning the
empty response. Preserve the page.from polling exception and its existing
empty-response behavior.

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- Around line 143-146: Extend the HTTP contract tests in the existing GET
/api/pane/conversation coverage in api.contract.test.ts with a
pending-to-written session sequence: assert that a held session without a .jsonl
file returns empty turns and history_id "unwritten:<id>", then write the file
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- Line 250: Update the readdirSync error handling in the directory-reading flow
so only ENOENT and ENOTDIR are treated as an absent directory; propagate all
other errors, including EACCES and ELOOP, instead of leaving names empty.
- Line 254: Update the held-session file check in the return expression to match
the session’s filename exactly or otherwise verify that the file belongs to the
held ID; do not suppress pending based solely on an unrelated .jsonl filename
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OmO writes its session file with the first message, at launch and again
after /new. Until then the pane holds a session (its session-holders
record) that no file names, so the chat answered scrollback and offered
"Conversation unavailable". A held session with no file is now an empty
omo conversation; its first message writes the file and the chat follows
it under a new history_id.
Match the held session's file by its name (<start time>_<id>.jsonl) or its header id, not any name containing the id; leave pending untold when the store cannot be listed; answer 409 history_changed for an older-page cursor while the session is not written; cover the pending-to-written sequence over HTTP.
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nahwan-kim force-pushed the fix/omo-unwritten-session branch from c7972a2 to 2febe01 Compare October 2, 2026 22:53
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CI on the fork for head 2febe01 (same workflows, workflow_dispatch), while the upstream runs wait for approval:

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