feat(session): say when a session is watching its own background work

An agent that arms a monitor, backgrounds a shell or hands a task to a
cloud session is told to end its turn. The pane then falls quiet, Claude
Code's idle_prompt notification arrives a minute later, and every surface
files the session under NEEDS YOU with nothing for a human to answer.

Claude states what it is still running on the last row of its screen
(`⏵⏵ bypass permissions on · 1 monitor · ← for agents`). That row is now
`capabilities.workDetect.watchingLine` in the CLI registry, guarded by
compileVersionRegex() like every other config regex, and the idle probe
reads it off the capture it already takes: `watchingLabel()` in
session-activity.ts searches the last five lines only, so a session that
PRINTS "1 monitor" is not mistaken for one running it.

The label lands on Session.watching and rides toLightDetailedState() out
to every surface. The phone overview, the desktop home rail and the rich
sidebar rows wear it as a `watching` badge in the accent colour, beside
the state pill and never in place of it: an agent can arm a monitor and
ask a question in the same breath, and only the pill says which.

Verified end to end against a throwaway session on an isolated beta
instance: the payload carried `watching: "1 monitor"` once the turn
ended, the badge rendered next to a yellow `waiting` pill, and both
cleared when the monitor died.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Michael Grundberg
2026-09-21 18:00:30 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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@@ -16249,6 +16249,17 @@ html[data-tab-orientation='vertical'] .home-sessions {
color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--green) 45%, var(--text-muted));
}
/* Accent, deliberately none of the three above: a session that is watching something
it started (a monitor, a backgrounded shell, a cloud session) is not asking for
anything, so it must not borrow the red or the yellow that mean it is. This badge
sits BESIDE the state pill rather than replacing it, since an agent can arm a
monitor and ask a question in the same breath. */
.home-sessions-pill--watching {
background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 14%, transparent);
border-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 40%, transparent);
color: var(--accent);
}
/* Row accents: same language as the session tabs and the phone overview — red
means a question is pending, yellow means it wants input, green means work is
happening. Nothing else on this screen may reuse these colors. */
@@ -18311,6 +18322,16 @@ html[data-tab-orientation='vertical'][data-tab-rail-detail='rich']:not(.tab-rail
color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--green) 45%, var(--text-muted));
}
/* Accent, deliberately none of the three above: a watching session is waiting for
work it started itself, not for the user, and the red and yellow here are spoken
for by sessions that ARE waiting for the user. */
html[data-sidebar-detail="rich"] .session-sidebar .tab-pill--watching,
html[data-tab-orientation='vertical'][data-tab-rail-detail='rich']:not(.tab-rail-compact) .tab-rail .tab-pill--watching {
background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 14%, transparent);
border-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 40%, transparent);
color: var(--accent);
}
/* Three lines of content per row instead of two, so give them room to breathe
and stop the row actions crowding the pill.