The vertical rail lists exactly the sessions both home screens list, so it now
answers their question the same way instead of showing the raw tab order.
Order: new per-device `tabRailSort` (App Settings -> Appearance -> Tabs ->
Vertical Rail Order, default "By activity"). It runs `CodemanSessionOrder` over
rows classified by `_mobileOverviewState`, i.e. literally the home screens'
comparator, `lastSubmitAt`-anchored running group included.
It is applied as the flex `order` property, never by reordering the DOM.
`#sessionTabs` stays in `sessionOrder`, which is what keeps the Alt+N badge
honest (it names a shortcut, not a row position, so it deliberately does NOT
run 1,2,3 down a sorted rail), and keeps drag-and-drop, the arrow-key walk, the
sidebar filter and `_scrollActiveTabIntoView()` all reading the list they
always read. A session changing state then moves one inline style instead of
forcing the full rebuild that would restart every card's animation on every SSE
tick. The incremental render path re-applies it, since a state flip adds no tab
and never reaches the full rebuild, and an empty string is what clears it when
sorting stops. Web tabs are pinned past the cards by a CSS `order: 9999`, since
`renderWebviewTabs()` emits the same markup for every layout and the flex
default of 0 would interleave them. Drag is switched off while sorting (the
drop rewrites `sessionOrder` correctly and the sort puts the card straight
back, so the affordance would be a lie); 'manual' is the way back.
Cards: detailed rail rows become bordered cards on `--bg-card`, with the stamps
line on its own full-width row and the pill at its right end. The state dot
goes 6px to 9px, keeps its orbiting ring while working and gains the green
halo; idle mutes toward `--text-muted` as the home rail does. Needs/error/
waiting reuse `home-sessions-blink-red`/`-yellow` rather than a second copy.
These card rules are RAIL-SCOPED and deliberately absent from the comma-grouped
selectors that carry both vertical surfaces: the rail is an occasional,
resizable list you scan, while the sidebar is a permanently-docked nav column
where 20 stacked cards read as a wall. Every state-dot rule also excludes
`.tab-alert-action`/`.tab-alert-idle` by hand, because those alert rules are
only (0,3,0) and these are (0,5,1)+.
Lines: the lineage bracket already drew in the rail, but its track sat 6px from
the left edge, so half of its 11px outer glow was clipped by the window frame
and it read as a thread pinned to the frame. It now runs at 10px, mid-channel
in the gutter the rail already reserves.
Tests: test/tab-rail-order.test.ts (17) drives the real `isTabRailSorted()` and
`_tabRailSortOrder()` out of app.js, covering the row model (a WORKING row
ranked by `lastSubmitAt`, which would otherwise rank every running turn as
freshly started and fail no rendering test), the Alt+N badge, and the opt-out.
Verified in Chromium across sorted/manual/simple/header-strip/sidebar with the
setting flipped at runtime: no page errors, and the header strip and sidebar
render byte-identically to before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
