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Codeman maintainer 5b920cb43d feat(sessions): land auto-naming opt-in, in the prefix form, from the first user prompt only
Finishes #376. The contributed keystroke tracker sat on the raw byte stream
and named tabs wrong five ways (every prompt, every write path, a bare Esc
eating the next prompt's first character, pasted newlines as Enter, any CSI
clearing the draft) and replaced the whole name, which dropped the case from
the tab and reset the w<n> counter. This lands the feature with each of those
closed:

- First prompt means the first: applyAutoName() flips a placeholder to
  `auto` whether or not the string changed. nameSource is now the tri-state
  placeholder | auto | manual; the name setter is the only manual path.
- Only user-originated input counts: write()/writeViaMux() take
  SessionWriteOptions.fromUser, set by the browser WS path and POST /input
  only, so Ralph, respawn, cron, approvals and the trust-dialog keys can
  never name a tab. A startMode 'shell' CLI never feeds the tracker (a
  capability, not an id check); the send-key route feeds trackUserInput()
  because its line feed bypasses the session.
- Prefix form `w3-case: title`: parseSessionPrefix() already renders it as
  the title with the prefix in the tooltip and the next-session counter
  still matches it. Composed within MAX_SESSION_NAME_LENGTH.
- Tracker rules per key: bare Esc resolves at chunk end; mouse/focus
  reports, Tab, cursor keys, Shift+Tab are no-ops; Up/Down and Ctrl+P/N/R
  taint the draft so Enter submits nothing rather than a fragment;
  bracketed-paste newlines and Ctrl+J / Shift+Enter join with one space;
  the draft keeps its head past 8192 code points; an escape past 64 bytes
  is abandoned.
- Title: slash commands by shape (a path is a prompt), `!` escapes
  refused, first sentence only past 8 code points ("e.g." is not a title),
  72 code points on a word boundary.
- Synced `autoNameSessions` setting, default OFF (the prompt reaches
  mux-sessions.json, session:updated and /api/search), App Settings ->
  Appearance -> Tabs, read fresh per prompt after the eligibility check.

Tests: test/session-auto-name.test.ts (tracker, title, composition,
ownership, emit gating), the wiring test (once, prefix, setting off,
manual protected), test/routes/session-name-routes.test.ts (PUT /name
flips to manual and persists). Verified live on an isolated instance: API
and browser-typed prompts name the tab, a second prompt does not, shells
and renamed tabs are untouched, nameSource survives a restart.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 17:59:16 +02:00

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Auto-name sessions from the first prompt (#376, opt-in). With the new synced Auto-name Sessions setting on (App Settings → Appearance → Tabs, default off), a tab that still carries its generated name takes a title from the first real prompt you submit, keeping the case prefix: w3-myapp becomes w3-myapp: fix the login redirect. The strip shows the title with the prefix in the tooltip, and the next session in that case still counts up. It happens once per session, only for prompts you type or send through the input API (never a Ralph, respawn, cron or approval answer), never for shells, and a name you set yourself is never touched. Slash commands such as /clear do not become titles. The title is derived locally from the prompt's first sentence; no text leaves the machine. nameSource (placeholder / auto / manual) is a new additive field on session state.

Landed with the fixes the review of #376 asked for: first prompt only (not every prompt), a user-input gate so Ralph, respawn, cron and approval writes cannot name a tab, the prefix form so the case identity and w<n> counter survive, and a keystroke tracker that handles a bare Esc, bracketed pastes, wheel reports, Tab and history recall instead of mis-titling the tab.

Thanks

  • @shenlvkang-collab for #376, the auto-naming idea and the ownership plumbing (nameSource, the listener wiring, the restore path) it shipped with.