Fix: Harvest titles for untitled sessions from the sessions pane

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Fixes #1109.

An operator sitting on the sessions list in abctl observe watched a session that started after launch stay a bare UUID indefinitely. Every other cell in the row — cost, tokens, event count — refreshes on the 2s poll, so the row looked live while the TITLE column stayed empty. Restarting abctl showed the title, because the startup harvest picked it up.

Cause

The re-harvest in refreshTickMsg was gated on the picker panes only, so paneSessions — a distinct pane — never re-harvested; m.sessionsData is loaded once while the model is built and nothing re-read it. The interval's comment justified this with "Once a session view is up the titles on screen are already loaded" — true of a session's own events pane, and false of the list a session is picked from, which gains a row whenever a session appears.

Change

Sessions pane. Harvest when a row has no title and its session has been quiet for untitledSettleDelay (5s). New traffic means the transcript is being appended to, so keying off UpdatedAt names it seconds after the title becomes readable. The settle delay is what keeps it affordable: the title tiers read the last prompt, which is exactly the part still being written, so harvesting on the event itself would read a half-written turn and repeat every tick. An incremental harvest over an unchanged tree measures ~0.002s against ~0.74s for a full scan, and rows that already have a title trigger nothing.

Exponential backoff. A session with no transcript under the agent's config dir — a different agent, a pruned tree, a CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR that moved — stays unnamed no matter how often the tree is walked, and its row keeps the settle gate satisfied forever. untitledBackoff doubles from 5s to a 3m cap per consecutive fruitless harvest, resetting the moment one names something. Progress is judged from the screen inward (harvestNamedSomething iterates m.sessions, not the result map): an incremental harvest returns the whole merged map, ~180 historical sessions on a laptop, so asking "is this id unnamed here?" of the result answers yes on every call and pins the backoff at zero.

Picker panes: once per visit, on arrival, no interval. The reason to walk a transcript tree from the namespaces/pods picker is that the system is otherwise idle waiting for someone to choose a pod — the scan is opportunistic work taken while nothing else wants the machine, not work the pane depends on. Idle-time work belongs at the moment you arrive, so pacing it on a clock set by some earlier harvest gets the timing backwards. reharvestInterval is deleted: once the per-visit cap existed the interval could only suppress the visit's single scan, and entering the picker within 3 minutes of any other harvest skipped it with nothing left to retry.

The budget spans the visit, not the pane. enter on a namespace goes to panePods and esc comes back; keying on the exact pane made each hop a fresh visit and re-walked the tree per keystroke.

The backoff is per-list, but its penalty is not carried onto a new row. untitledMisses is one model-wide counter, while the thing it describes — "asking about this row is fruitless" — is per-row. One unnameable session drove it to the 3m cap, and a genuinely new unnamed session appearing afterwards inherited that wait for its first title, though nothing had ever been asked about it: #1109's symptom with a longer fuse, and the ordinary case rather than a corner. Neither arrival path reset it — sessionsLoadedMsg replaces the slice and returns, the stream stub only bumps UpdatedAt. Now an unnamed row the last scoring did not see resets the counter, tracked in untitledCounted — unnamed ids only, rebuilt on every harvest rather than only the scoreable ones. That split matters: the scoring guard decides whether there is evidence to score, while the set records what was on screen when it was last asked. Keeping the set inside the guard let it outlive the list it described, so a session that left and returned with no non-empty scoring in between read as "already counted" and inherited the full 3m cap — the defect the reset exists to remove, reachable through the ordinary paths (Init harvests before its fetch returns, backing out clears the list, the picker harvests on arrival). backToPodsPane clears the set as well, so the previous pod's ids cannot price a shared id like the default bucket on the next one. The gate is what enforces this, not the scoring. The reset above lives in the harvestedMsg handler, which runs when a harvest finishes; the backoff gate on the refreshTickMsg path decides whether one starts, and it read untitledMisses raw — so the reset could never help the row that caused it, only the next one. An unnameable row at the cap still made a brand-new settled session wait 3m for its first title. The gate now prices a row the backoff was never earned against at untitledBackoff(0), which is the 5s settle floor: the arrival forgives the accumulated penalty without skipping the settle delay that makes the poll affordable. untitledFresh answers that from untitledCounted, and the scoring's walk moved into countUntitled so the gate's question and the scoring's bookkeeping cannot drift apart. Measured on the real Update loop: misses=11, 3m0s, and a settled brand-new row not firing a scan; misses=11 and a firing gate after, with the unnameable row still held off at 10s.

Kept global rather than keyed per session id — the more literal reading of the defect, and the larger change. The harvest is one tree walk for all sessions, so per-row deadlines would still share a single scan and the first row due would set the cadence for everyone anyway. What the defect costs is a stale penalty on a fresh row; an arrival reset ends that without inventing a per-row schedule.

A pod clock that runs ahead no longer strands a title. untitledSettled compares the laptop's clock against UpdatedAt, stamped inside the pod. Nothing keeps them in step: a port-forward between them, no node clock synchronisation in Kubernetes, and a laptop that slept. Pod ahead of client gives a negative delta that can never reach untitledSettleDelay, so the row's title never arrives — no error, no log, a permanently blank cell, and 5s of skew is enough. A future UpdatedAt is now treated as settled: harvesting early costs one tree walk the backoff then widens, against a title that otherwise never comes. Clamped rather than corrected because there is nothing to correct against — both timestamps on SessionSummary are server-stamped, so the response carries no client-anchored instant. The pane's AGE column already tolerates the same skew (relTime renders a negative delta as "just now"); the asymmetry is the point, a wrong AGE is visibly wrong for one tick while a wrong settle answer is invisible and permanent.

Scoreability. A harvest arriving with len(m.sessions) == 0 is not scored either way. That is the ordinary path, not a corner: Init harvests before the session fetch batched alongside it returns, backing out to the picker sets m.sessions = nil, and the picker harvests on arrival — so the normal route into a session list used to inflate untitledMisses several steps before the first row was drawn. Unscoreable holds the counter rather than resetting it: a harvest nobody could judge is no reason to believe the tree started producing titles.

Details worth a reviewer's eye

• The harvest is batched into the existing returns, not returned early. Short-circuiting would skip the session fetch at the bottom of that branch, trading titles for the 2s refresh of every other cell. tea.Batch ignores nil commands, so the normal case costs nothing.
• pickerShowing is a bool, not the previous paneID. paneNamespaces is iota 0, so a previous-pane field zero-values to it — and a picker model starts there, meaning the arrival edge never fired on the first visit. False is the honest zero (no tick has seen the picker yet), so both constructors are correct without the paneNone sentinel that previousPane and pipelineReturnPane each need a comment to explain.
• backToPodsPane resets untitledMisses. It clears ~20 fields describing the pod being left; this one was missed, so a widened backoff priced the next pod's first harvest — at the cap, 3 minutes instead of 5s. Verified empirically before fixing.
• Retired comments are removed, not annotated, with dead claims kept as quotations so the next reader can tell which reasoning is dead. This file has a documented history of comment paragraphs accumulating without the contradicted ones being removed (see sessions_pane.go's note on thresholds of 78/80/82/98/104).

Init spends the first visit's budget. Init harvests unconditionally, and in picker mode that is the arrival scan — so without recording it, the first tick walked the tree a second time ~2s into startup. Both pickerHarvested and pickerShowing are set there; either alone leaves the double scan in place.

Tests

Twenty tests over the sessions gate, the backoff curve (including the shift-overflow range), the per-visit cap, both picker hops, arrival from a constructor-shaped model, Init's own scan plus the two ticks after it, the back-out reset, blank/unknown/control-character rows, blank titles in headers, the scoreability guard, the arrival reset and its boundaries (the same row still backs off, a returning id counts as new with and without an intervening non-empty scoring, a row that loses its title is not "already counted", a pod switch onto a shared id), and clock skew in both directions.

The arrival-reset tests drive the real harvestedMsg handler rather than setting untitledMisses by hand, so a fix placed anywhere else would not pass them. Three further tests drive refreshTickMsg through Update and assert on whether a harvest started, which is the behaviour an operator actually sees: asserting the counter is what let the gate defect sit behind passing tests for three review rounds, so the counter test now carries a comment saying so and pointing at the gate test.

Every guard is mutation-checked — 32+ mutations across the branch, all caught. Two review rounds found defects whose existing tests passed while they were live. The larger lesson is that the arrival-reset tests asserted untitledMisses and never asked whether a harvest ran, so the headline fix did not work for three rounds while every test for it was green; reverting the gate to the raw counter now fails TestRefreshTick_FreshRowHarvestsDespiteAnotherRowsBackoff. Also: TestBackToPodsPane_ResetsTheBackoff asserted the counter but not the set it is priced by, and the returning-session test only passed because it happened to score a non-empty list while the session was away. Both are tightened, and the mutations now fail them. Some found gaps rather than confirming coverage: the sanitizeLabel call in titleIsBlank was unguarded until a raw-input case was added, and each half of the Init fix had to be dropped separately to show both are load-bearing.

Two existing backoff tests changed expectations rather than behaviour: each counted from a cold model whose first harvest is now a first meeting with that row, so both warm the set before measuring the widening they were written for. A row nobody has asked about is not evidence that asking is fruitless.

gofmt clean, go vet clean, full abctl suite passes (exit 0, 6 packages).

Deliberately not in this PR

• lastHarvest is shared between the two paths. A picker scan on arrival stamps it, and the sessions pane reads it through untitledBackoff, so picking a pod can delay that pane's first settle-triggered harvest by up to 5s. Arguably right — the tree was just walked — but it is a real coupling between two triggers that are otherwise unrelated.
• A sessions harvest in flight can swallow the picker's arrival scan via the shared !m.harvesting gate. An earlier version of this note claimed there was "nothing to retry it", which was wrong: pickerHarvested is only set on the branch that actually harvests, so a tick that loses the race leaves the budget unspent and the next tick scans. The cost is one 2s tick of delay, not a lost scan.
• No watchdog on harvesting. harvestCmd always returns a message, so the flag is held for exactly one scan; a future path that drops it would latch harvesting forever. Documented at the sole clearing site rather than guarded.
• The skew clamp is scoped to untitledSettled only. sessions_pane.go:263 compares the same two clocks to render AGE, and a pod running ahead still shows "just now" there for every row. That is the pre-existing behaviour and it degrades visibly rather than silently, so it is left alone — but the pane is now knowingly inconsistent about skew, and a general fix would mean measuring the offset once per connection rather than clamping at each reader.
• The backoff remains one counter for the whole list. The arrival reset removes the symptom the review named; it does not make the cadence per-session. A list holding one unnameable row and one nameable-but-slow row still paces both by whichever last moved the counter.
• res.Partial discarded (main.go:260) — a truncated transcript yields a confidently-wrong title with nothing marking the row. Pre-existing.
• Bug fix: A corrupt or locked session-metadata.json silently disables all session titles #1110 (a corrupt or locked session-metadata.json silently disabling all titles) — a separate failure with the same symptom, no code touched here.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com

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• Improvements
  • Namespace and pod pickers now refresh once when you enter the picker, rather than repeatedly during a visit.
  • Sessions with no title are checked again over time, with longer intervals after repeated checks find no title. Checking resumes sooner when a new pod is selected or a title is found.
• Bug Fixes
  • Whitespace-only session titles now display as the session ID instead of as blank space followed by the ID.
  • Sessions with future update times are no longer left waiting indefinitely for a title check.

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A new session’s title can wait up to three minutes because an older session’s failed harvests set the retry delay. Fix the gate before merging.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue [#1109] requires titles for sessions that appear after abctl observe starts. The sessions pane now checks visible untitled sessions after untitledSettleDelay and starts a harvest. The handle…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The picker arrival changes address the secondary trigger concern in [#1109]. The shared blank-title predicate, session-list backoff, future-clock handling, and related tests support the linked title-r…
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Record picker departure before returning to the picker.

The paneSessions escape handler calls backToPodsPane, but that function leaves pickerShowing and pickerHarvested unchanged. If the operator returns before a refresh tick observes paneSessions, the next picker tick sees both flags as already spent and skips the harvest.

Record the departure in backToPodsPane, and add a round-trip test without an intermediate refresh tick.

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-	// pickerHarvested and pickerShowing are deliberately NOT reset here. They are edge-derived: the
-	// next refresh tick recomputes "is the picker showing", finds it disagrees with the recorded
-	// pickerShowing, and clears the budget on that inequality. Resetting them here would make this
-	// a second writer of state that already has exactly one.
+	// paneSessions can be entered and left between refresh ticks. Record the end
+	// of the previous picker visit before returning to the picker.
+	m.pickerShowing = false
+	m.pickerHarvested = false

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	// pickerHarvested and pickerShowing are deliberately NOT reset here. They are edge-derived: the
	// next refresh tick recomputes "is the picker showing", finds it disagrees with the recorded
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	// a second writer of state that already has exactly one.
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Focused fix, and the hard part of it is right. Verified against rossoctl/cortex@main rather than a local tree: sessionTitle does route through sanitizeLabel, sessionTitleCell does use a raw == "" fast path (so titleIsBlank and the cell agree by construction, as the comment says), relTime does render a negative delta as "just now", backToPodsPane does clear m.sessions just above the new resets, sanitizeLabel is idempotent (U+FFFD matches none of its cases), and the untitledBackoff shift guard holds — 5s << 24 is ~970 days, well inside int64.

The harvestNamedSomething-iterates-m.sessions-not-the-result-map reasoning is the non-obvious part and it is correct; scoring from the merged map really would pin the backoff at zero on the first historical session.

Tests are strong: 22 added, no skips, and the three TestRefreshTick_* cases drive the real Update loop and assert whether a harvest started rather than inspecting a counter — which is the right lesson to have drawn.

No blocking issues. Two suggestions and one nit inline; none of them need to hold the merge.

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suggestion — this runs on every non-picker pane, not just paneSessions.

The only early return above is the picker branch, so paneEvents (where an operator watching a live session actually sits), paneDetail, panePipeline and panePluginDetail all reach here and compute a wait that the m.pane == paneSessions check on the next line throws away.

That makes the doc comment at session_metadata.go:248 wrong in both halves — "COSTS ONE MAP LOOKUP PER UNNAMED ROW PER TICK, and only while the sessions pane is open". It is not only the sessions pane, and it is not one map lookup: sessionHasTitle → sessionTitle → sanitizeLabel allocates a strings.Builder, then titleIsBlank sanitises again, so it is two allocations per row per 2s tick — and titled rows pay both before the continue, so the steady state is the case that allocates most. untitledSettled is protected by && short-circuiting on the pane check; these two lines are not.

Folding them into the guard costs nothing and makes the comment true:

if m.pane == paneSessions && m.harvest != nil && !m.harvesting {
    wait := untitledBackoff(m.untitledMisses)
    if m.untitledFresh() {
        wait = untitledBackoff(0)
    }
    if now.Sub(m.lastHarvest) >= wait && m.untitledSettled(now) {
        m.harvesting = true
        m.lastHarvest = now
        harvestNow = harvestCmd(m.harvest)
    }
}

Correctness-neutral, so not a blocker — raising it because the untitledSettled comment is scrupulous about this exact cost ("IT IS NOT FREE, THOUGH") and its neighbour then understates it.

[pdettori]

suggestion — this edge is sampled at refreshInterval, so a picker visit that begins and ends between two ticks is invisible to it.

panePods --enter--> paneSessions --esc--> backToPodsPane --> panePods completing inside one 2s window leaves pickerShowing still true, so no edge fires and pickerHarvested stays true from the previous visit. With reharvestInterval deleted there is no fallback, so that visit never scans — however long the operator then sits in the picker. That is precisely the "someone sits here for minutes" case the retired 3m interval was covering, so it is a narrow regression rather than a pre-existing gap.

TestPicker_HarvestsAtMostOncePerVisit steps around it by construction — the revisit leg is:

m.pane = paneSessions
m.Update(refreshTickMsg(time.Now()))   // the tick that flips pickerShowing to false
m.pane = paneNamespaces

The real fast round-trip is the one that does not get that intervening tick.

backToPodsPane already discards ~20 fields describing the pod being left, and this PR adds untitledMisses and untitledCounted to them; clearing pickerHarvested there would close this. The comment declines that to keep a single writer, which is a fair instinct — but the single writer is a sampler, and this is the transition it structurally cannot observe. Either fix it, or list it with the other known gaps under "Deliberately not in this PR" so the next reader knows it was considered.

[pdettori]

nit — several comments in this PR narrate its own review history rather than the code.

This one ("an earlier version of this comment claimed..."), plus app.go's "measured at misses=9, which is the very defect the fresh-row reset exists to remove", "asserting the counter is what let the gate defect sit behind passing tests for three review rounds", and untitledBackoff's "arrived at by way of the fix for it".

A reader a year from now has no memory of those rounds and cannot act on the reference — the reasoning earns its place, the archaeology ages into confusion. Worth noting that keeping retired claims as quotations is a different thing and reads well here: it tells the next person which argument is dead, which is exactly the failure sessions_pane.go's 78/80/82/98/104 note documents.

Purely cosmetic, and flagged only because this file holds its comments to an unusually high standard — these are the lines most likely to read oddly later.