fix(approvals): clear the red tab alert when a dialog is answered in the terminal

Confirming an AskUserQuestion left its tab flowing red for the rest of
the turn (owner report: ~8 minutes on a running session, with no dialog
anywhere on screen). Two separate bugs, both live-verified.

The re-capture erased the evidence the staleness check runs on. Claude
Code fires the Notification behind the dialog (measured 6-7s on v2.1.237,
documented up to ~30s), so the 600ms re-capture routinely lands on a
frame the user has ALREADY answered, parses nothing, and applyCapture
overwrote item.options with undefined. A MISSING options is how "we never
could read this dialog" is expressed, and those items stay answerable by
design, so a cleared field was indistinguishable from a never-parsed one
and the item became permanently unsweepable: it survived every
GET /api/approvals and every page reload, cleared only on `stop`, and
still accepted an answer, sending a bare `1` into a composer with no
dialog under it. applyCapture is now ADD-ONLY for options.

Nothing ran the staleness check while a page was open. It lived only in
GET /api/approvals, which seedApprovals() calls on init and reconnect, so
`stop` was the first thing that ever cleared an answered dialog. The
`working` signal now runs the pane-VERIFIED variant (resolveIfDialogGone
-> verifyStillAnswerable): the heuristic only decides when to look, the
screen decides the outcome, so the existing "working can flap" rule is
respected.

A frame that parses no options is now conclusive in two cases, and only
those, so an unreadable capture still keeps the alert: the item once
parsed options, or the frame shows Claude actively running a turn. A
modal dialog BLOCKS the turn, so the two cannot coexist - measured, a
live-dialog frame carries neither the elapsed-timer spinner nor the
"esc to interrupt" footer, which the dialog replaces with "Enter to
select". That second signal is reached by a delayed staleness pass (3s)
scheduled alongside the re-capture, which closes the late-hook case where
the prompt is answered before the hook lands: nothing ever parses, `stop`
may have gone by already, and the alert outlived reloads until the 12h
TTL. The pass is deliberately later than RECAPTURE_DELAY_MS, whose whole
reason for existing is that the hook can beat Ink to the screen.

Frontend: _onHookElicitationComplete cleared only the elicitation entry,
but an AskUserQuestion arrives as permission_prompt, so it was clearing
the wrong alert; it now clears both, matching the server's kind-agnostic
APPROVAL_RESOLVING_EVENTS.

Verified end to end on an isolated beta instance, not just in unit tests:
before, resolution could only come from the stop route (approval:resolved
always immediately preceding hook:stop); after, it arrives from the new
paths, and a simulated late hook resolves at +3.12s with no stop, no
working signal and no GET, while the pane is still working. Tests use
frames captured off a live pane and each new one was confirmed to fail
against the old behaviour.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/web/approval-inbox.ts

@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@
  * - Acknowledgement (`acknowledge()`, idle items only) is NOT resolution: the
  *   item stays pending, it just stops arming the tab alert on every client.
  *
- * @dependencies utils (stripAnsi)
+ * @dependencies utils (stripAnsi, CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN)
  * @consumedby web/routes/hook-event-routes (notePrompt/resolve), web/routes/approval-routes,
  *   web/session-listener-wiring (working/exit resolution), web/server (emit callbacks + stop)
  *
  * @module web/approval-inbox
  */
 
-import { stripAnsi } from '../utils/index.js';
+import { stripAnsi, CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN } from '../utils/index.js';
 
 // ─── Types ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ const ITEM_TTL_MS = 12 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
  * single delayed re-capture picks up the frame the immediate capture missed.
  */
 const RECAPTURE_DELAY_MS = 600;
+/**
+ * Delayed staleness pass for the late-hook case (see notePrompt). Comfortably
+ * clear of RECAPTURE_DELAY_MS so a dialog Ink has not painted yet is never
+ * mistaken for one that is gone.
+ */
+const STALE_CHECK_DELAY_MS = 3000;
 /** Context kept per item: enough for a dialog plus a few lines above it. */
 const MAX_CONTEXT_CHARS = 4000;
 const MAX_CONTEXT_LINES = 30;
@@ -195,7 +201,8 @@ export function parseDialogOptions(context: string | undefined): ApprovalOption[
 export class ApprovalInbox {
   /** Keyed by sessionId; the one-active-item-per-session invariant lives here. */
   private items = new Map<string, ApprovalItem>();
-  private recaptureTimers = new Map<string, ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>>();
+  /** Post-capture timers per item id (re-capture + the delayed staleness check). */
+  private itemTimers = new Map<string, ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>[]>();
   /** Capture callbacks kept for answer-time re-verification; dropped on remove. */
   private captures = new Map<string, () => string | null>();
   private seq = 0;
@@ -229,31 +236,55 @@ export class ApprovalInbox {
     if (args.capture) this.captures.set(args.sessionId, args.capture);
     this.onPending?.(item);
     if (args.capture && !this.stopped) {
-      const timer = setTimeout(() => {
+      // Pass 1 (600ms): enrich the card with the painted frame.
-        this.recaptureTimers.delete(item.id);
+      this.scheduleForItem(item, RECAPTURE_DELAY_MS, () => {
-        // Only update the item if it is still the live one for the session.
-        if (this.items.get(args.sessionId)?.id !== item.id) return;
         this.applyCapture(item, args.capture);
         this.onUpdated?.(item);
-      }, RECAPTURE_DELAY_MS);
+      });
-      this.recaptureTimers.set(item.id, timer);
+      // Pass 2: the late-hook staleness check. Claude Code fires the
+      // Notification behind the dialog, so a prompt answered before the hook
+      // lands creates an item for a dialog that is ALREADY gone: nothing ever
+      // parsed, so the "options vanished" test can never fire, `stop` may have
+      // gone by already, and the red alert then outlived reloads until the 12h
+      // TTL. This pass re-reads the pane and resolves when the frame proves no
+      // dialog is up. Deliberately LATER than the re-capture, whose whole
+      // reason for existing is that Ink may not have painted the dialog yet:
+      // resolving inside that window could clear the alert for a dialog that
+      // was about to appear.
+      this.scheduleForItem(item, STALE_CHECK_DELAY_MS, () => {
+        this.verifyStillAnswerable(item.id);
+      });
     }
     return item;
   }
 
   /**
    * Answer-time guard: re-capture the pane and check the dialog is still on
-   * screen before keystrokes are sent at it. Only conclusive when the ORIGINAL
+   * screen before keystrokes are sent at it. If the dialog is gone (answered in
-   * frame parsed options: if a fresh capture then parses none, the dialog is
+   * the terminal moments ago) the item resolves and the answer is refused,
-   * gone (answered in the terminal moments ago), so the item resolves and the
+   * because the digit would land in whatever now has focus.
-   * answer must be refused, because the digit would land in whatever now has
+   *
-   * focus. Unparseable-from-the-start items stay answerable (approve/deny
+   * A fresh frame that parses NO options is conclusive in two cases, and only
-   * only), same risk the terminal user already carries.
+   * those; anything else stays answerable, so an unreadable capture keeps the
+   * alert rather than losing a live dialog:
+   *
+   * 1. The item HAD parsed options. They cannot vanish while the dialog is up.
+   * 2. The frame shows Claude actively running a turn. A modal dialog BLOCKS
+   *    the turn, so a working line and a dialog cannot coexist — measured on
+   *    v2.1.237: a live-dialog frame carries neither the `… (13s` timer nor
+   *    even the `esc to interrupt` footer, which the dialog replaces with
+   *    `Enter to select · ↑/↓ to navigate · Esc to cancel`.
+   *
+   * Case 2 is what closes the late-hook hole. Claude Code fires the
+   * Notification behind the dialog, so a prompt answered before the hook lands
+   * produces an item whose FIRST capture already has no dialog in it — never
+   * parsed, so case 1 can never fire, and the red alert then outlived even
+   * `stop` (which had already fired) and survived reloads until the 12h TTL.
    */
   verifyStillAnswerable(id: string): boolean {
     const item = this.getById(id);
     if (!item) return false;
-    if (item.kind === 'idle' || !item.options) return true;
+    if (item.kind === 'idle') return true;
     const capture = this.captures.get(item.sessionId);
     if (!capture) return true;
     let raw: string | null = null;
@@ -266,14 +297,39 @@ export class ApprovalInbox {
     if (!context) return true;
     const options = parseDialogOptions(context);
     if (!options) {
-      this.remove(item, 'resolved_in_terminal');
+      if (item.options || CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN.test(context)) {
-      return false;
+        this.remove(item, 'resolved_in_terminal');
+        return false;
+      }
+      return true; // never parsed and the pane is not visibly working: unreadable, not gone
     }
     item.context = context;
     item.options = options;
     return true;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * "This session's pane started moving again": re-verify its pending DIALOG
+   * item against the screen and resolve it if the dialog is gone.
+   *
+   * The staleness check itself lived only in `GET /api/approvals`, which
+   * nothing calls while a page is open (`seedApprovals()` runs on init and
+   * reconnect), so a dialog answered in the terminal kept its red tab alert for
+   * the whole rest of the turn. The `working` signal is exactly the moment an
+   * answer lands, and routing it through `verifyStillAnswerable` is what makes
+   * it safe to act on for a permission/question item: `working` is heuristic
+   * and can flap, but it only decides WHEN to look — the pane decides the
+   * outcome, and an unreadable capture keeps the alert.
+   *
+   * Cheap by construction: a Map miss unless a dialog item is actually pending,
+   * and the item is gone after the first successful resolve.
+   */
+  resolveIfDialogGone(sessionId: string): void {
+    const item = this.getForSession(sessionId);
+    if (!item || item.kind === 'idle') return;
+    this.verifyStillAnswerable(item.id);
+  }
+
   /** Pending item for a session, TTL-checked. */
   getForSession(sessionId: string): ApprovalItem | undefined {
     const item = this.items.get(sessionId);
@@ -359,12 +415,27 @@ export class ApprovalInbox {
   /** Clear all timers (shutdown/tests). Items become inert; no events fire after this. */
   stop(): void {
     this.stopped = true;
-    for (const timer of this.recaptureTimers.values()) clearTimeout(timer);
+    for (const timers of this.itemTimers.values()) for (const timer of timers) clearTimeout(timer);
-    this.recaptureTimers.clear();
+    this.itemTimers.clear();
     this.items.clear();
     this.captures.clear();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Run `fn` after `delayMs` if the item is still the live one for its session,
+   * tracking the timer so `remove()`/`stop()` can cancel it.
+   */
+  private scheduleForItem(item: ApprovalItem, delayMs: number, fn: () => void): void {
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
+      const timers = this.itemTimers.get(item.id)?.filter((t) => t !== timer) ?? [];
+      if (timers.length > 0) this.itemTimers.set(item.id, timers);
+      else this.itemTimers.delete(item.id);
+      if (this.items.get(item.sessionId)?.id !== item.id) return;
+      fn();
+    }, delayMs);
+    this.itemTimers.set(item.id, [...(this.itemTimers.get(item.id) ?? []), timer]);
+  }
+
   private applyCapture(item: ApprovalItem, capture?: () => string | null): void {
     if (!capture) return;
     let raw: string | null = null;
@@ -377,17 +448,30 @@ export class ApprovalInbox {
     if (!context) return;
     item.context = context;
     // Idle prompts are not dialogs; never offer digit answers for them.
-    if (item.kind !== 'idle') item.options = parseDialogOptions(context);
+    if (item.kind === 'idle') return;
+    const options = parseDialogOptions(context);
+    // ⚠️ ADD-ONLY: a re-capture that parses NOTHING must never erase options a
+    // previous capture found. Claude Code delays the Notification hook behind
+    // the dialog (measured 6s here, up to ~30s), so the 600ms re-capture very
+    // often lands AFTER the user has already answered in the terminal, on a
+    // frame with no dialog in it. Clearing the field there was the whole bug:
+    // `verifyStillAnswerable` reads a MISSING `options` as "never parsed" and
+    // keeps such an item answerable by design, so a cleared field made the item
+    // permanently unsweepable — the red "needs you" alert then survived every
+    // `GET /api/approvals` and every page reload and only went away on `stop`
+    // (owner report 2026-08-20: a confirmed question left a tab flowing red for
+    // ~8 minutes while the turn ran on), and the stale card still accepted an
+    // answer, typing a bare `1` into a composer with no dialog under it.
+    // Keeping the parse means a later capture is CONCLUSIVE: options present +
+    // fresh frame without them == answered in the terminal.
+    if (options) item.options = options;
   }
 
   private remove(item: ApprovalItem, resolution: ApprovalResolution): void {
     this.items.delete(item.sessionId);
     this.captures.delete(item.sessionId);
-    const timer = this.recaptureTimers.get(item.id);
+    for (const timer of this.itemTimers.get(item.id) ?? []) clearTimeout(timer);
-    if (timer) {
+    this.itemTimers.delete(item.id);
-      clearTimeout(timer);
-      this.recaptureTimers.delete(item.id);
-    }
     if (!this.stopped) {
       this.onResolved?.({ id: item.id, sessionId: item.sessionId, kind: item.kind, resolution });
     }

src/web/public/settings-ui.js

@@ -41,8 +41,17 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
   _onHookElicitationComplete(data) {
     // Question answered in the terminal: clear the action alert without
     // waiting for `stop` (the turn may keep running for a long time).
+    // ⚠️ BOTH action kinds, matching the server's APPROVAL_RESOLVING_EVENTS,
+    // which resolves a session's pending item whatever its kind. An
+    // AskUserQuestion dialog arrives as `permission_prompt` (only MCP
+    // elicitation is `elicitation_dialog`), so clearing just the elicitation
+    // entry left the red alert armed on exactly the dialog these events are
+    // most often about. Normally the server's `approval:resolved` broadcast
+    // clears it too; this is the path that still works when the store holds no
+    // item for the session (restart, superseded).
     if (data.sessionId) {
       this.clearPendingHooks(data.sessionId, 'elicitation_dialog');
+      this.clearPendingHooks(data.sessionId, 'permission_prompt');
     }
   },
 

src/web/session-listener-wiring.ts

@@ -219,10 +219,18 @@ export function createSessionListeners(session: Session, deps: SessionListenerDe
       // An idle-prompt inbox item means "composer is waiting"; any working
       // transition means input arrived, so the item is moot. ONLY the idle
       // kind: `working` is heuristic and can flap mid-turn, so clearing a
-      // pending permission/question dialog on it would false-clear real
+      // pending permission/question dialog on the signal ALONE would
-      // approvals (those resolve via stop / elicitation hooks / answer-time
+      // false-clear real approvals.
-      // re-capture instead).
       approvalInbox.resolveForSession(session.id, 'resolved_in_terminal', ['idle']);
+      // A permission/question dialog gets the pane-VERIFIED variant instead:
+      // the signal only decides when to look, `verifyStillAnswerable` re-reads
+      // the screen and resolves only when the dialog is really gone. Without
+      // this, answering a dialog in the terminal left its red "needs you" alert
+      // armed for the rest of the turn, because the only other staleness check
+      // lives in `GET /api/approvals` and nothing calls that while a page is
+      // open. `stop` was the first thing to clear it, which on a long turn is
+      // minutes away.
+      approvalInbox.resolveIfDialogGone(session.id);
       deps.broadcast(SseEvent.SessionWorking, { id: session.id });
       // Full state ride-along: the home screens sort the running group on
       // lastSubmitAt, and without this the browser keeps the stamp it loaded

test/approval-inbox.test.ts

@@ -40,6 +40,39 @@ const ASK_USER_QUESTION_FRAME = [
   'Enter to select · ↑/↓ to navigate · Esc to cancel',
 ].join('\n');
 
+// Both frames captured off a live Claude Code v2.1.237 pane. They are the
+// discriminator behind the late-hook resolution: a modal dialog BLOCKS the
+// turn, so a working line and a dialog cannot coexist. Note the dialog frame
+// carries no `esc to interrupt` footer either — the dialog replaces it.
+const LIVE_DIALOG_FRAME = [
+  '● Bash(sleep 12; echo "slept 12s")',
+  '  ⎿  slept 12s',
+  '────────────────────────────────────────',
+  ' ☐ Proceed',
+  '',
+  'Proceed?',
+  '',
+  '❯ 1. Yes',
+  '     Go ahead and proceed.',
+  '  2. No',
+  '     Do not proceed.',
+  '  3. Type something.',
+  '────────────────────────────────────────',
+  '  4. Chat about this',
+  '',
+  'Enter to select · ↑/↓ to navigate · Esc to cancel',
+].join('\n');
+
+const WORKING_FRAME = [
+  '● Bash(sleep 25)',
+  '  ⎿  Tip: Use git worktrees to run multiple Claude sessions in parallel.',
+  '✢ Clauding… (13s · ↓ 1.4k tokens)',
+  '────────────────────────────────────────',
+  '❯',
+  '────────────────────────────────────────',
+  '  ⏵⏵ bypass permissions on (shift+tab to cycle) · esc to interrupt · ← for agents',
+].join('\n');
+
 function collect(inbox: ApprovalInbox) {
   const pending: ApprovalItem[] = [];
   const updated: ApprovalItem[] = [];
@@ -333,6 +366,186 @@ describe('ApprovalInbox', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  describe('answered-in-the-terminal staleness', () => {
+    // Claude Code delays the Notification hook behind the dialog (measured 6s
+    // on v2.1.237, documented up to ~30s), so the 600ms re-capture routinely
+    // lands on a frame the user has ALREADY answered. Erasing `options` there
+    // made the item permanently unsweepable, because a missing `options` is how
+    // "we never could read this dialog" is expressed, and such items stay
+    // answerable on purpose. The red tab alert then survived every
+    // `GET /api/approvals` and every reload, clearing only on `stop`.
+    it('a re-capture taken after the answer does not erase parsed options', () => {
+      const { updated } = collect(inbox);
+      let frame = ASK_USER_QUESTION_FRAME;
+      const item = inbox.notePrompt({
+        sessionId: 's1',
+        sessionName: 'w1',
+        kind: 'permission',
+        capture: () => frame,
+      });
+      expect(item.options).toHaveLength(5);
+
+      // Answered in the terminal before the re-capture fires.
+      frame = "● User answered Claude's questions:\n  ⎿  · Which color do you prefer? → Red\n\n✶ Cooking… (6s)";
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(600);
+
+      expect(updated).toHaveLength(1);
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)?.context).toContain('User answered');
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)?.options).toHaveLength(5);
+      // ...which keeps the staleness check conclusive instead of inconclusive.
+      expect(inbox.verifyStillAnswerable(item.id)).toBe(false);
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
+    it('resolveIfDialogGone resolves a dialog answered in the terminal', () => {
+      const { resolved } = collect(inbox);
+      let frame = PERMISSION_FRAME;
+      const item = inbox.notePrompt({ sessionId: 's1', sessionName: 'w1', kind: 'permission', capture: () => frame });
+      frame = 'the dialog is gone, claude is typing';
+
+      inbox.resolveIfDialogGone('s1');
+
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(resolved.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ id: item.id, resolution: 'resolved_in_terminal' });
+    });
+
+    it('resolveIfDialogGone keeps a dialog that is still on screen', () => {
+      const item = inbox.notePrompt({
+        sessionId: 's1',
+        sessionName: 'w1',
+        kind: 'permission',
+        capture: () => PERMISSION_FRAME,
+      });
+      inbox.resolveIfDialogGone('s1');
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)).toBeDefined();
+    });
+
+    it('resolveIfDialogGone never touches an idle item (that is the working signal job)', () => {
+      const item = inbox.notePrompt({
+        sessionId: 's1',
+        sessionName: 'w1',
+        kind: 'idle',
+        capture: () => 'composer is empty',
+      });
+      inbox.resolveIfDialogGone('s1');
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)).toBeDefined();
+    });
+
+    // The late-hook hole: Claude Code fires the Notification behind the dialog,
+    // so a prompt answered before the hook lands produces an item whose FIRST
+    // capture already has no dialog in it. Nothing ever parsed, so "options
+    // vanished" can never fire, and `stop` had already gone by too — the red
+    // alert then survived reloads until the 12h TTL.
+    it('resolves an item that never parsed options once the pane is visibly working', () => {
+      const { resolved } = collect(inbox);
+      const item = inbox.notePrompt({
+        sessionId: 's1',
+        sessionName: 'w1',
+        kind: 'permission',
+        capture: () => WORKING_FRAME,
+      });
+      expect(item.options).toBeUndefined();
+
+      expect(inbox.verifyStillAnswerable(item.id)).toBe(false);
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(resolved.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ id: item.id, resolution: 'resolved_in_terminal' });
+    });
+
+    it('keeps an unreadable dialog answerable when the pane is NOT visibly working', () => {
+      // The conservative rule this fix must not loosen: no options and no proof
+      // the turn is running means "we cannot read it", not "it is gone".
+      const item = inbox.notePrompt({
+        sessionId: 's1',
+        sessionName: 'w1',
+        kind: 'permission',
+        capture: () => 'some dialog shape we cannot parse',
+      });
+      expect(item.options).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(inbox.verifyStillAnswerable(item.id)).toBe(true);
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)).toBeDefined();
+    });
+
+    it('a real live-dialog frame carries no working line, so it is never false-resolved', () => {
+      const item = inbox.notePrompt({
+        sessionId: 's1',
+        sessionName: 'w1',
+        kind: 'permission',
+        capture: () => LIVE_DIALOG_FRAME,
+      });
+      expect(item.options).toHaveLength(4);
+      expect(inbox.verifyStillAnswerable(item.id)).toBe(true);
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)).toBeDefined();
+    });
+
+    it('resolveIfDialogGone clears a late-hook item on the next working signal', () => {
+      const item = inbox.notePrompt({
+        sessionId: 's1',
+        sessionName: 'w1',
+        kind: 'permission',
+        capture: () => WORKING_FRAME,
+      });
+      inbox.resolveIfDialogGone('s1');
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
+    it('the delayed staleness pass resolves a late-hook item with no working signal needed', () => {
+      const { resolved } = collect(inbox);
+      const item = inbox.notePrompt({
+        sessionId: 's1',
+        sessionName: 'w1',
+        kind: 'permission',
+        capture: () => WORKING_FRAME,
+      });
+      expect(item.options).toBeUndefined();
+
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(600); // re-capture: enrichment only, never resolves
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)).toBeDefined();
+
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(2400); // the delayed staleness pass
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(resolved.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ id: item.id, resolution: 'resolved_in_terminal' });
+    });
+
+    it('a dialog Ink paints late is NOT resolved by the delayed pass', () => {
+      // The paint race the re-capture exists for: the hook can beat Ink to the
+      // screen. Resolving inside that window would clear the alert for a dialog
+      // that was about to appear, so the frame is what decides, every time.
+      let frame = WORKING_FRAME;
+      const item = inbox.notePrompt({
+        sessionId: 's1',
+        sessionName: 'w1',
+        kind: 'permission',
+        capture: () => frame,
+      });
+      frame = LIVE_DIALOG_FRAME; // Ink finishes painting
+
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(600);
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)?.options).toHaveLength(4);
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(2400);
+      expect(inbox.getById(item.id)).toBeDefined();
+    });
+
+    it('resolving cancels both pending timers', () => {
+      const { updated } = collect(inbox);
+      const item = inbox.notePrompt({
+        sessionId: 's1',
+        sessionName: 'w1',
+        kind: 'permission',
+        capture: () => PERMISSION_FRAME,
+      });
+      inbox.dismiss(item.id);
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(5000);
+      expect(updated).toHaveLength(0);
+      expect(inbox.listPending()).toHaveLength(0);
+    });
+
+    it('resolveIfDialogGone is a no-op for a session with nothing pending', () => {
+      const { resolved } = collect(inbox);
+      expect(() => inbox.resolveIfDialogGone('nobody')).not.toThrow();
+      expect(resolved).toHaveLength(0);
+    });
+  });
+
   it('stop() clears items and silences events', () => {
     const { resolved } = collect(inbox);
     inbox.notePrompt({ sessionId: 's1', sessionName: 'w1', kind: 'permission' });