Root cause of every 'Session is busy' apply failure reported from live
testing: a just-launched CLI reports itself 'busy' for its own startup
(boot spinner, workspace-trust check) well before runCustomModelEntry's
apply call could reach it, and the apply route's isBusy() guard correctly
cannot tell that apart from a real turn in progress — it exists precisely
to refuse restarting a session mid-turn, and a fresh boot looks exactly
like one from the outside. Confirmed live: replaying the identical apply
call by hand against the same session, once it had settled, succeeded
immediately.
Fixed by waiting on the session's own readiness signal before applying:
GET /api/sessions/:id/wait?until=idle&timeout=20000, one GET already built
for exactly this ('Agent wait primitives', CLAUDE.md) rather than inventing
a client-side poll loop. A timeout there is a normal 200 per that
endpoint's own contract, never an error, so a session still busy after 20s
just reaches the apply call anyway and gets the route's own honest error —
now visible, since the previous commit made error toasts sticky and
stopped discarding the real error text.
Tests: new case in custom-model-run-menu-ui.test.ts pins the ordering (the
wait call happens, and strictly before the apply call) and its exact query
string.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RqZeHrRS6DYcGcGX2p9EwG
