fix(tmux): gate the pane-exit read, and mute the dot on the rich rail too

Four changes the maintainer asked for on Ark0N/Codeman#446 before merging.

The pane-exit watcher stays always-on, but a tick now costs nothing when there
is nothing to observe. `hasObservablePaneSession()` skips the tmux exec while
every session on the manager is one of the shapes `Session.paneExitApplies`
already forces to UNKNOWN: a remote SSH session (its local pane holds the ssh
client), a docker case (a `docker exec` into the container's own tmux), and a
record rebuilt from the socket (no provenance at all). The timer is untouched.
Skipping retracts nothing, for the same reason a failed read does not: the map
still holds the last real reading, and every path that puts a new command in a
pane calls `clearPaneExit()` itself. The two copies of that rule are pinned
against each other in `test/session-pane-exit.test.ts`, because drift between
them is silent in both directions.

`DEFAULT_PANE_EXIT_INTERVAL_MS` was already a constant beside the stats and
remote-reconnect intervals; its comment now says why the watcher owns its own
cadence and why the number is what it is.

The never-default-an-absent-status rule is written where `PaneExit` is declared.
It names `status ?? 0` as the thing never to write, and says that an agent the
OOM killer took would otherwise read as a user typing `/exit` — which is what
absent-stays-absent keeps a later clean-exit sweep away from. Nothing fails when
somebody adds that `??`, which is why the sentence is there rather than a test.

Checking the dot's specificity found a second fight, and it was losing. On the
tab strip the alert rules win as intended: a session that exits with a
permission dialog pending still renders red, and yellow for an idle alert. On
the rich vertical tab rail they did not — that rail's own `tab-state-*` dot
rules are (0,9,1) against the strip's mute at (0,5,0), so an exited session
there kept a full green dot AND the working halo beside a badge reading
"exited". The rail twin matches that specificity exactly and therefore must stay
below those rules in source order; it clears the halo as well, which the strip's
rule never had to think about.

`test/session-pane-exit-ui.test.ts` now resolves the real stylesheet in jsdom
rather than matching selector text: postcss collects every rule that paints
`.tab-status`, a real engine decides, and the tests read back the answer. Two
mutations were run against it to prove it has teeth — dropping the hand-written
alert exclusions fails three cases, and moving the rail twin above the state
rules fails one.

Refs Ark0N/Codeman#446.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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### An exited agent in a live pane (`paneExit`)
**Codeman creates every pane with `remain-on-exit on`, so a session whose agent exited still looks alive.** `/exit` ends the CLI, tmux keeps the pane and the tmux session, and the `tmux attach-session` process Codeman records as `Session.pid` runs on, so no PTY exit handler fires and the record keeps its pid and `status: 'idle'` (Ark0N/Codeman#446). `SessionState.paneExit` (`{status?, signal?, at}`) is the fact tmux already knows, published through `toState()` so it rides `session:updated` and lands in `state.json` on the same persist — there is no SSE event for it. One batched `tmux list-panes -a` per tick fills it, from `TmuxManager.startPaneExitWatcher()`, which has its OWN always-on interval: the stats collector cannot carry it, because the browser arms and disarms that one with the Monitor panel (`panels-ui.js`) and boot skips it entirely when no session was recovered. ⚠️ **The field is TRI-STATE and its third state is absence**, meaning UNKNOWN, which renders as nothing and must NEVER read as alive; it covers a running pane, a session the read did not list, a failed probe, and every session shape a dead local pane does not describe. `Session.paneExitApplies` is the single place that scoping lives, and it fails closed for four shapes: a direct-PTY session (no pane), a remote SSH session (the local pane is the ssh client, whose death is a transport drop OR an exit — the whole of #355), a docker case (the local pane is a `docker exec` into the container's own tmux), and a session rebuilt from the socket (`MuxSession.discovered`: its synthetic `restored-<fragment>` id matches no `state.json` entry, so a remote session rediscovered after `mux-sessions.json` was lost would arrive looking local). ⚠️ **Never set `status: 'error'`** for an exited pane — that value is the PTY-exit breaker's and the browser answers it with a "restart it?" confirm — and **never null the `pid`**, which is what makes `selectSession()` re-attach and launch a fresh CLI. Local panes keep `remain-on-exit on`; flipping them to `failed` ends the tmux session, nulls the pid and reintroduces the auto-revive #355 removed. ⚠️ **An absent `#{pane_dead_status}` is not 0**: measured on tmux 3.2a a SIGKILLed pane reports neither a status nor a signal (`#{pane_dead_signal}` did not exist before tmux 3.4), so folding it into 0 would turn an unexplained death into a clean exit. A session answers only when the read listed EXACTLY ONE pane for it, since Codeman never splits a pane and a session the user split by hand has none that speaks for the agent. The three synchronous `isPaneDead()` callers (the `/wait` route, the TUI, the attach path) keep their own probes — this watcher is never fresh enough for them. Tests: `test/session-pane-exit.test.ts`, `test/tmux-manager.test.ts`.
**Codeman creates every pane with `remain-on-exit on`, so a session whose agent exited still looks alive.** `/exit` ends the CLI, tmux keeps the pane and the tmux session, and the `tmux attach-session` process Codeman records as `Session.pid` runs on, so no PTY exit handler fires and the record keeps its pid and `status: 'idle'` (Ark0N/Codeman#446). `SessionState.paneExit` (`{status?, signal?, at}`) is the fact tmux already knows, published through `toState()` so it rides `session:updated` and lands in `state.json` on the same persist — there is no SSE event for it. One batched `tmux list-panes -a` per tick fills it, from `TmuxManager.startPaneExitWatcher()`, which has its OWN always-on interval: the stats collector cannot carry it, because the browser arms and disarms that one with the Monitor panel (`panels-ui.js`) and boot skips it entirely when no session was recovered. ⚠️ **The field is TRI-STATE and its third state is absence**, meaning UNKNOWN, which renders as nothing and must NEVER read as alive; it covers a running pane, a session the read did not list, a failed probe, and every session shape a dead local pane does not describe. `Session.paneExitApplies` is the single place that scoping lives, and it fails closed for four shapes: a direct-PTY session (no pane), a remote SSH session (the local pane is the ssh client, whose death is a transport drop OR an exit — the whole of #355), a docker case (the local pane is a `docker exec` into the container's own tmux), and a session rebuilt from the socket (`MuxSession.discovered`: its synthetic `restored-<fragment>` id matches no `state.json` entry, so a remote session rediscovered after `mux-sessions.json` was lost would arrive looking local). ⚠️ **Never set `status: 'error'`** for an exited pane — that value is the PTY-exit breaker's and the browser answers it with a "restart it?" confirm — and **never null the `pid`**, which is what makes `selectSession()` re-attach and launch a fresh CLI. Local panes keep `remain-on-exit on`; flipping them to `failed` ends the tmux session, nulls the pid and reintroduces the auto-revive #355 removed. ⚠️ **An absent `#{pane_dead_status}` is not 0**: measured on tmux 3.2a a SIGKILLed pane reports neither a status nor a signal (`#{pane_dead_signal}` did not exist before tmux 3.4), so folding it into 0 would turn an unexplained death into a clean exit. A session answers only when the read listed EXACTLY ONE pane for it, since Codeman never splits a pane and a session the user split by hand has none that speaks for the agent. The three synchronous `isPaneDead()` callers (the `/wait` route, the TUI, the attach path) keep their own probes — this watcher is never fresh enough for them. ⚠️ **The always-on timer gates the READ, never the tick.** `hasObservablePaneSession()` (`tmux-manager.ts`) skips the tmux exec while every session on the manager is one of the shapes `paneExitApplies` forces to UNKNOWN, so an instance running only remote or Docker work keeps ticking and costs nothing; the two predicates are two copies of one rule, and `test/session-pane-exit.test.ts` pins them against each other because drift is silent in both directions. Skipping retracts nothing, for the same reason a failed read does not. ⚠️ **The muted status dot is a specificity fight, and it is fought twice.** The tab renders `status` as before, and `tab-agent-exited` only quiets the dot, so the rule excludes `.tab-alert-action`/`.tab-alert-idle` BY HAND: a session blocked on a human outranks "the agent exited", and red must survive the exit. The rich tab rail then needs a SECOND rule, because its own `tab-state-*` dot rules are (0,9,1) against the strip's (0,5,0) — measured, an exited session on a detailed rail kept a full green dot and the working halo beside a badge reading "exited". Its twin matches that specificity exactly and therefore must stay BELOW those rules in source order. `test/session-pane-exit-ui.test.ts` resolves the real stylesheet in jsdom rather than matching selector text, so both the ordering and the hand-written exclusions fail there. Tests: `test/session-pane-exit.test.ts`, `test/tmux-manager.test.ts`, `test/session-pane-exit-ui.test.ts`.
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