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+# Preserved Fleet/session work review — issue #131
+
+Review date: 2026-09-06. Starting main:
+`1c933a39e452b3936afc605173f8c384a565c2c0`.
+Preserved branch tip: `103e70bb49aebd422107f0c0183af55768807ce4`
+(`fix/chat-scroll-follow-tail`). This is a behavior review of its thirteen commits;
+the branch is not an integration batch or a list of thirteen current defects.
+
+## Dispositions
+
+| Preserved commit | Current finding and disposition |
+| --- | --- |
+| `2084ad0` — follow tail | Already adopted and extended by #99. The current mounted `useChatSessionState.test.ts` covers delayed layout, manual detachment, and live-refresh reattachment. No second scroll implementation. |
+| `53cf0dc` — only tmux rows / remove host filter | Not carried forward. Fleet RFC revision 2 retains a bounded recent-session catalog, including history, and explicit host filtering remains useful. Hiding all non-live history would change the shipped catalog behavior. |
+| `5fa379b` — mapped pane transcripts | Keep verified terminal fallback. The public pane's provider-native ID is not proof of a unique app-session binding across providers. Do not infer a writable transcript from ID equality. Catalogued app-session rows continue to open their own host-qualified transcripts. |
+| `c5b2636` — clear terminal before navigation | Reproduced and corrected in #135. Remote row activation now clears terminal/transcript takeover through the app-shell controller, including selection of an already-active route. |
+| `b2e3fdc` — retain idle/uncatalogued transcripts | Do not synthesize missing catalog rows. The RFC explicitly limits omitted rows to the peer's direct UI. #135 additionally removes the fallback from a missing peer selection to the last local project/session. |
+| `e957f21` — extra remote row controls | Not carried forward. Keep sidebar rows as target selectors and use the existing verified transcript/terminal control surfaces. No current defect requires the additional mutation entry points in that historical UI proposal. |
+| `1d2fbf8` — transient GJC probes | Reproduced and corrected in #134. Both discovery classifiers exclude the exact `gjc skills` utility subcommand; native and Bun/Node interactive/resume forms remain supported. |
+| `06875a1` — unchanged heartbeat | Reproduced and corrected in #134 for host-state frames. Identical descriptors preserve catalog identity; label, state, capabilities, and protocol changes still propagate. Full snapshots retain their existing replacement/resync semantics. |
+| `b02502c` — catalog/watcher bounds | Session reads are already capped at 512, wire catalogs apply the RFC's priority/omission bounds, and #128 supplies bounded/fair indexing admission and recovery. Do not import a hard 100-project limit, blanket temporary-directory exclusion, or native-watcher rewrite limited to the current Codex year; those changes can omit legitimate data. Preserve the current historical-record coverage and recorded omitted-row policy. |
+| `031b2c4` — remote project names | The current browser reads `projects[].displayName` from the owning catalog. `remoteRouteSelection.test.ts` verifies that name on the selected peer. A duplicate `projectName` metadata field has no required consumer; it is not added. |
+| `da740ce` — OpenCode database watch | Recursive cache watching was reproduced. The direct-file-only historical approach also missed deletion/replacement events for an initially existing database. The correction keeps the parent directory, uses depth zero, and accepts only that root and its `opencode.db`. Real filesystem tests cover present/missing databases, change, removal, recreation, and excluded cache subtrees. |
+| `7c9cf15` — long-lived reads | Superseded by #77. The current `FleetRequestLedger` evicts completed reads and terminal streaming operations immediately while retaining mutation results. Existing mutation-ledger tests cover in-flight coalescing and sustained traffic; do not reintroduce a read-result retention/eviction scheme. |
+| `103e70b` — local-only API guards | Reproduced and corrected in #133 for ordinary file mentions, token usage, file links/editor, palette reads and Git actions, including stale callbacks/responses. The relay-file guard already exists through #111. The proposed extra identity route is unnecessary for this correction: the existing authoritative roster adopts the installation ID through `adoptLocalHostIdentity`. |
+
+All six review groups in #131 have a disposition. Retained fixes are separate
+changes based on main; the rejected UI/catalog proposals are not silently marked
+as implemented. The preserved branch remains available for historical recovery.
+
+## Verification evidence
+
+- #133: two mounted regressions failed on the baseline; corrected full
+  `npm run verify` passed 2,382 repository tests plus audit, type checks, Rust
+  checks/tests, lint, identity, and build. See [local API evidence](README.md).
+- #134: the probe and heartbeat regressions failed before correction; the
+  125-test provider group and 13-test catalog group pass, with type checks/lint.
+- #135: production sidebar/controller clicks reproduced retained terminal state;
+  the 15-test navigation/sidebar group passes, with type checks/lint. See
+  [navigation evidence](navigation.md).
+- OpenCode: recursive-cache and direct-file replacement failures were observed;
+  the corrected filesystem/watcher/indexing group passes 20 tests, with type
+  checks/lint. No synchronizer cursor, provider scope, or tmux authority changes.
+
+The browser evidence uses production components with synthetic data and no real
+peer connections. It does not claim release-grade CUA, SSH installation, physical
+phone validation, a new public release, or a running-service deployment. Every
+retained change still goes through the required latest-main Node 22/24 and
+canonical-bundle PR checks before squash merge.
diff --git a/server/modules/providers/services/sessions-watcher.service.ts b/server/modules/providers/services/sessions-watcher.service.ts
index 7d29e05..5d698d6 100644
--- a/server/modules/providers/services/sessions-watcher.service.ts
+++ b/server/modules/providers/services/sessions-watcher.service.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import os from 'node:os';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import { promises as fsPromises } from 'node:fs';
 
-import chokidar, { type FSWatcher } from 'chokidar';
+import chokidar, { type ChokidarOptions, type FSWatcher } from 'chokidar';
 
 import { projectsDb, sessionsDb } from '@/modules/database/index.js';
 import { generateDisplayName } from '@/modules/projects/index.js';
@@ -72,6 +72,18 @@ const WATCHER_IGNORED_PATTERNS = [
   '**/.DS_Store',
 ];
 
+export function sessionWatchOptions(provider: LLMProvider, rootPath: string): Pick<ChokidarOptions, 'ignored' | 'depth'> {
+  if (provider !== 'opencode') return { ignored: WATCHER_IGNORED_PATTERNS, depth: 6 };
+  const root = path.resolve(rootPath);
+  const database = path.join(root, 'opencode.db');
+  // Keep the parent directory to observe database creation/replacement, but
+  // never recurse into caches or watch unrelated files beside the database.
+  return { depth: 0, ignored: (candidate) => {
+    const absolute = path.resolve(candidate);
+    return absolute !== root && absolute !== database;
+  } };
+}
+
 const PROJECTS_UPDATE_DEBOUNCE_MS = 500;
 const PROJECTS_UPDATE_MAX_WAIT_MS = 2_000;
 const WATCHER_FALLBACK_RECONCILE_MS = 60_000;
@@ -613,11 +625,10 @@ export async function initializeSessionsWatcher(): Promise<void> {
       if (sessionWatchersClosing || indexingScheduler !== scheduler) return;
 
       const watcher = chokidar.watch(rootPath, {
-        ignored: WATCHER_IGNORED_PATTERNS,
+        ...sessionWatchOptions(provider, rootPath),
         persistent: true,
         ignoreInitial: true,
         followSymlinks: false,
-        depth: 6,
         usePolling: process.env.CHATMUX_SESSION_WATCH_POLLING === '1',
         interval: 6_000,
         binaryInterval: 6_000,
diff --git a/server/modules/providers/tests/opencode-watcher-scope.test.ts b/server/modules/providers/tests/opencode-watcher-scope.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9305012
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/modules/providers/tests/opencode-watcher-scope.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { once } from 'node:events';
+import { mkdtemp, mkdir, rm, unlink, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import os from 'node:os';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import test from 'node:test';
+
+import chokidar from 'chokidar';
+
+import { sessionWatchOptions } from '@/modules/providers/services/sessions-watcher.service.js';
+
+for (const initialDatabase of [true, false]) {
+  test(`OpenCode watches only its database and recovers replacement (initial database: ${initialDatabase})`, { timeout: 15_000 }, async (t) => {
+    const root = await mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'chatmux-watch-scope-'));
+    const database = path.join(root, 'opencode.db');
+    await mkdir(path.join(root, 'cache', 'nested'), { recursive: true });
+    await writeFile(path.join(root, 'cache', 'nested', 'cache.jsonl'), 'fixture');
+    if (initialDatabase) await writeFile(database, 'fixture');
+    const watcher = chokidar.watch(root, {
+      ignoreInitial: true, followSymlinks: false, ...sessionWatchOptions('opencode', root),
+    });
+    t.after(async () => { await watcher.close(); await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true }); });
+    await once(watcher, 'ready', { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5_000) });
+    assert.ok(!Object.keys(watcher.getWatched()).some((directory) => directory.includes(`${path.sep}cache`)));
+    const update = once(watcher, initialDatabase ? 'change' : 'add', { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5_000) });
+    await writeFile(database, 'updated fixture database');
+    assert.equal((await update)[0], database);
+    const removed = once(watcher, 'unlink', { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5_000) });
+    await unlink(database);
+    assert.equal((await removed)[0], database);
+    const recreated = once(watcher, 'add', { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5_000) });
+    await writeFile(database, 'replacement database');
+    assert.equal((await recreated)[0], database);
+    assert.ok(!Object.keys(watcher.getWatched()).some((directory) => directory.includes(`${path.sep}cache`)));
+  });
+}
+
+test('directory-based providers retain recursive watching and cache exclusions', () => {
+  for (const provider of ['claude', 'codex', 'cursor', 'omp', 'omo', 'gjc'] as const) {
+    const options = sessionWatchOptions(provider, '/fixture/root');
+    assert.equal(options.depth, 6);
+    assert.ok(Array.isArray(options.ignored));
+    assert.ok(options.ignored.includes('**/node_modules/**'));
+  }
+});