Merge pull request #473 from irisitymichaelgrundberg/feat/session-watching-badge

feat(approvals): let a session watching its own background work keep quiet (#468)

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@@ -103,6 +103,30 @@ locked phone and the agent continues.
With the inbox off, the buttons are stripped from the notification payload entirely rather
than being shown and failing.
## When a session is watching its own work
An agent that starts a monitor, puts a shell in the background or hands a task to a cloud
session is told by its CLI to end the turn and wait to be notified. The pane then goes
quiet, and the CLI's idle notification arrives about a minute later — for a session that
wants nothing from you.
Codeman reads what the CLI prints about its own background work and treats that prompt
differently. It raises no tab alert, no desktop notification and no push, the session stays
out of NEEDS YOU on every surface, and the row wears a blue **watching** badge instead. Hover
it, or read it on a phone through your screen reader, and it says what is running: "1
monitor", "2 shells", "1 background terminal".
The prompt itself is not thrown away. It sits in the Approvals drawer as an ordinary card,
still answerable, with a line reading "quiet, watching 1 monitor" where a card you had
already looked at would say nothing. The next time that session goes quiet for an ordinary
reason, it alerts you exactly as before.
Two limits are worth knowing. A permission prompt or a question dialog still goes red
whatever else the agent started, because that one blocks it outright. A question asked in
plain prose is not a dialog, so an agent that starts a monitor and then writes "which branch
should I target?" is quiet along with the rest — check a watching session yourself if it has
been quiet longer than the work it is waiting for should take.
## The phone overview
On phones, tapping the "C" logo gives a session overview with **NEEDS YOU** first, then