The badge alone left the row in NEEDS YOU, which is the thing the issue was
about. The fix is the alert that does not fire.
An idle prompt from a session that is watching its own background work now
opens ALREADY acknowledged. `hook-event-routes` passes `Session.watching` to
`notePrompt()`, which sets `acknowledgedAt` and records why in a new
`acknowledgedReason`. Nothing new suppresses anything: `acknowledge()` has
always meant "the alert this prompt armed is spent", and the prompt itself
stays pending, answerable and available as Read My Mind context. A wrong label
therefore costs a card that does not blink, never an alert that was never
created.
Every surface follows from that. The broadcast carries the reason, so a live
page declines to arm the tab alert and raises no desktop notification. The push
is skipped, since a false alarm is hardest to ignore on a phone. A reloading
page reads `acknowledgedAt` in `seedApprovals()`, which it already did. And
`classifySession()` now reads it too, which is a pre-existing bug fixed here:
acknowledging on one device cleared the alert everywhere except `codeman tui`.
It re-arms for free, because the next idle prompt supersedes the item and is
built fresh. Only `idle` is eligible, so a dialog that blocks the agent still
goes red whatever else it started.
The label is pane-derived and therefore prompt-injectable, so it is now read
from the last two rows of the screen only, with Claude's pattern anchored on
the `·` its footer joins items with, ANSI-stripped and length-capped at the
source. An agent that prints `· 1 monitor ·` into its own output finds no
match.
Verified on an isolated beta: a session that armed a monitor took its idle
prompt acknowledged with no alert on any surface, wore the badge, and showed
"quiet, watching 1 monitor" on its still-answerable card; the same session with
the monitor killed alerted normally on the next prompt. `test/watching-no-alert.test.ts`
pins both directions across all four surfaces.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An agent that arms a monitor, backgrounds a shell or hands a task to a
cloud session is told to end its turn. The pane then falls quiet, Claude
Code's idle_prompt notification arrives a minute later, and every surface
files the session under NEEDS YOU with nothing for a human to answer.
Claude states what it is still running on the last row of its screen
(`⏵⏵ bypass permissions on · 1 monitor · ← for agents`). That row is now
`capabilities.workDetect.watchingLine` in the CLI registry, guarded by
compileVersionRegex() like every other config regex, and the idle probe
reads it off the capture it already takes: `watchingLabel()` in
session-activity.ts searches the last five lines only, so a session that
PRINTS "1 monitor" is not mistaken for one running it.
The label lands on Session.watching and rides toLightDetailedState() out
to every surface. The phone overview, the desktop home rail and the rich
sidebar rows wear it as a `watching` badge in the accent colour, beside
the state pill and never in place of it: an agent can arm a monitor and
ask a question in the same breath, and only the pill says which.
Verified end to end against a throwaway session on an isolated beta
instance: the payload carried `watching: "1 monitor"` once the turn
ended, the badge rendered next to a yellow `waiting` pill, and both
cleared when the monitor died.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every working Claude session reported `status: "idle"` about two seconds
into its turn. Measured on live workers: two sessions mid-tool-call at 13
and 17 minutes both read `idle` while their panes showed
`✻ Actualizing… (13m 23s · ↓ 47.5k tokens)`.
Two things had drifted apart:
1. The working indicator changed. Claude animates the glyph through
`· ✢ ✳ ∗ ✻ ✽` and randomizes the gerund per turn, so neither
SPINNER_PATTERN (braille, no longer drawn) nor the keyword list
(Thinking/Writing/Reading/Running) matches a turn anymore.
2. A `❯` sighting is not the end of a turn. Claude redraws the composer
roughly once a second all the way through one, and that redraw armed
the "2s later, call it idle" timer.
Matching the new status line in the STREAM does not fix it either: tmux
ships partial repaints, so the complete line reached the PTY about once
every 20 seconds while the `❯` arrived every second.
So the decision moves off the stream:
- An unbroken run of repaints marks a turn as started. Sampled once a
second for 12s over six live sessions, the two working ones produced
output in 12/12 windows and the four idle ones in 0/12. Pure helpers in
session-activity.ts carry the thresholds.
- Idle now needs the pane to go quiet AND the screen to agree.
`_confirmIdle()` asks tmux what is rendered (new `capturePaneText()`,
one plain `capture-pane`, floored at 1.5s per session and only ever at
a transition) and re-checks every 5s while the screen still shows work.
A turn can sit silent for tens of seconds inside one tool call, so
silence alone proves nothing.
- The same screen check vetoes keystroke echo, which is a steady stream
of repaints too but is not work.
CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN matches the `… (elapsed)` shape rather than
the glyph, because the FINISHED line (`✻ Cooked for 2m 49s`) carries the
same glyph and would otherwise pin a session at working forever.
Claude mode only. An external CLI has no `❯`, so nothing would arm the
confirmation and such a session would latch busy.
respawn-patterns.hasWorkingPattern() had the same blind spot (its gerund
list cannot see "Actualizing"), so it takes the pattern as an extra
signal. That can only make respawn less eager, never more.
Idle now lands about 3 to 5 seconds after a turn ends instead of 2
seconds into one. Verified end to end against a live worker, sampled
against the CLI's own "esc to interrupt" footer as independent ground
truth: busy for all 25s of a turn, idle 3s after it ended.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
