`TuiSessionRow` declared `lastSubmitAt`/`inputTokens`/`outputTokens`,
`stateSince()` ordered the WORKING group by the first of them and
`renderRowLines()` painted the other two, but nothing ever filled any of
them in: the unified list carries none, and the `session:updated` payload
that does was discarded (an event only schedules a refetch).
So a running turn was dated by its SESSION's creation instead. Measured
against the live server before the fix: w65 (created 21h ago, turn started
one minute earlier) outranked w67 (created 15 minutes ago, turn started
five minutes earlier), the reverse of the rule docs/tui.md states, and the
elapsed column read `21h` for a turn a minute old. The token column was
unreachable code for the same reason.
`fetchLiveSessionMetrics()` reads the three fields from `GET /api/sessions`
and `applyLiveMetrics()` folds them onto the rows. That route answers from
the server's cached LIGHT state (no terminal buffers): 10-20ms measured,
against the ~550ms the unified list in the same `Promise.all` already
costs, so it is cheap enough to ride every refresh. It is best-effort like
the approvals and tmux reads beside it, because losing the anchor is
better than losing the list.
A ZERO is treated as unknown rather than merged: `stateSince()` reads
`lastSubmitAt ?? createdAt` and 0 is not nullish, so a merged 0 would date
every never-submitted session to the epoch.
The snapshot path gets the same merge, or `codeman tui --list` would number
the WORKING group differently from the dashboard that `codeman tui <n>`
indexes into.
Verified live: working rows now show 28m/8m (turn age, tokens 280.5k/65.2k)
where they showed 21h/34m and no tokens. The e2e assertion fails on master's
wiring with `[*] 10m` against a session that pressed Enter one minute ago.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Everything the dashboard needs from outside the process, behind one typed
surface, so the app loop stays a loop. It is a client of the running server and
nothing else: rows come from the unified list, blocked states from the
approvals inbox, and answering goes through the endpoint that re-captures the
pane and refuses with a 409 when the dialog has already been answered in tmux.
That refusal is a typed result rather than an exception, because a human
beating you to a prompt is normal operation.
Discovery mirrors the daemon probe (`CODEMAN_API_URL`, else loopback on
`CODEMAN_PORT`, self-signed TLS accepted) and credentials come from where
`codeman attach` already reads them. An explicit port outranks the ambient
`CODEMAN_API_URL`, which every managed session exports: a caller that named a
port must not be redirected at whatever server owns its shell.
Input is single-line and `\r`-terminated at this layer, so no caller can strand
text on an unsubmitted composer, and each send is tagged for the server's
exactly-once path. The event stream defaults to a `?sessions=` filter that
matches nothing, which drops the terminal firehose while lifecycle, hook and
approval events still arrive. A silent-but-open stream is caught by a watchdog
rather than a socket error, since that failure mode reports nothing at all.
With no server answering, sessions are listed from tmux on the instance socket
(argv, never a shell string) and decorated from a read-only peek at state.json,
which keeps the "the server died, get me to my sessions" path alive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer