The Claude reader concatenated every assistant row between two human prompts
into one card, fusing up to 74 distinct model messages into a single card, and
it never read the attachment rows that hold a prompt typed while the agent was
working. Measured over 57 real transcripts on 2026-09-01, the viewer shows
1,806 messages instead of 356 and 353 user cards instead of 178, with the
assistant text sequence unchanged row for row and the response without
?context=full byte-identical on all 57 files.
One assistant row IS one whole model message: in that corpus no assistant row
carries more than one content block and no message id carries more than one
text block, so there was nothing to reassemble. Each row becomes its own
message carrying an additive {kind, label, turn}, and the frontend renders a
same-role run inside one turn as badge-less continuation segments — which is
what keeps a p90 of 11 messages per turn from reading as card spam. A numeric
turn gates that rendering, so Codex, the external-CLI pane parser and an older
server keep one badge per card.
A prompt typed while Claude is working is recorded ONLY as an
attachment/queued_command row. Taking it when origin.kind is 'human' and
commandMode is 'prompt' recovers 162 user cards from 163 such rows — one is a
verbatim repeat inside an unanswered user run and is collapsed by the existing
dedup guard — and restores the turn boundary whose absence let the assistant
runs fuse. The CLI's own queue entries are cleanly separable: of 322
queued_command rows, 159 are commandMode 'task-notification' and not one of
them carries an origin key.
This narrows #169 rather than reverting it: sidechain exclusion, the
restored-<uuid8> rebind, replayed-snapshot dedup and synthetic-row filtering
are all unchanged and still asserted.
