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ELI5

After Claude or Codex quit, right-clicking their terminal tab still offered Resume in New Native Chat because the menu used the conversation Orca remembered. The menu now ignores remembered conversations. With #27742 removing the stale Windows live record after exit, the item disappears when the agent quits. An agent waiting at its prompt still qualifies, and the tab keeps its conversation title.

What Changed

The menu now selects conversations from the existing live agent status records. Tab titles continue to use live, retained, and sleeping records.

In a split tab, a running agent's conversation is selected even when the focused pane belongs to an agent that has exited. Native chat tabs and their Resume in New CLI action are unchanged.

Why

The menu and tab titles already share the pane-to-conversation lookup. A small optional filter keeps their existing session matching and focused-pane selection together, while letting this action ignore remembered conversations. It adds no stored state or separate process check.

This option is also suitable for the pane-header action in #27184 when that branch is rebased; that PR is outside this change.

Linked Issue

Internal request; no linked issue.

Visual Proof

Fresh live QA on Windows high spec, with real Claude and the existing login in place. Both PRs were applied together: #27520 06d746eb1219c2c54e4ef3d4f0b6399f21868d3d, #27742 50c5600c91d777dc445ac6720bd21de914b3ea65, combined QA commit 34ee6f3321cf18109b131a570d5d250f6f16d1e1. The baseline used the same current-main base, d4a55f583e880b6bbbbca11faa0a45d88646d3a6.

While Claude is running, including while waiting for input: after the harmless QA27742 reply, the sidebar row appears and the tab menu offers Resume in New Native Chat.

Before — same baseline, after /exit: native Claude had exited, but the sidebar still listed it and the tab menu still offered Resume in New Native Chat.

After — both PRs, after /exit: the sidebar row and menu item disappear. The displayed tab title stays QA27742 exact reply. Claude PID 53412 was first observed absent 1.047 s after the command; the sidebar row was first observed absent at 4.199 s (present at 3.143 s). These are sampling times, not an exact process-exit timestamp.

Conversation retained: Agent Session History still lists the same conversation after exit.

Rows 1, 2, 3 and 5 passed. Optional real Codex row 4 was skipped: the reviewed launcher wraps only Claude, so Codex required a separate wrapper/profile setup. Other platforms and shells were not exercised in this run. Windows were hidden and driven through Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP); no desktop input or focus changes. SHA-256 checks of the real Claude settings and .orca tree matched before activation and after teardown; no hooks were installed into the real home. Screenshots are unaltered and include existing startup notices.

Testing

• Manually exercised on Windows high spec with real Claude, combined with fix(terminal-pane): quitting Claude or Codex in cmd.exe or Git Bash removes it from the running list #27742
• Automated regression tests added

Review verification on 06d746e:

• Four targeted suites passed: 49 tests, covering the menu resolver, parity with Session History, and tab-title synchronization.
• Final-head GitHub CI finished with 14 passed and 15 skipped checks. Static analysis, typecheck, all five selected test shards, relay integration, and macOS/Windows package jobs passed. Skipped jobs were not exercised.
• Reviewed idle agents, exit cleanup, restored status, split panes, both Claude and Codex, every title-lookup caller, folder workspaces, and the existing local-host restriction.

AI Disclosure

Review

The architecture challenge and full review found no proven issue introduced by this diff. No source changes were made during review. Fresh combined Windows QA with #27742 passed the mandatory running, exit, history, baseline and PowerShell checks above. This completes the earlier incomplete UI experiment; it is not a merge-readiness approval.

Agent skill upstream boundary

• Not applicable; this change copies no skill-installer code or assets.

Notes

The existing restart limitation remains: if an agent exits while Orca is closed but its terminal survives, the restored status can linger until Orca observes the return to the shell. This PR consumes that shared status and does not change reconciliation.

SSH and remote-runtime CLI moves retain their existing restriction. Folder workspaces use the same selection rule. No mobile-facing, persisted-data, or wire contract changed.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• Explained the problem, user-facing change, mechanism, and alternatives
• Before/after visual proof attached
• Reviewed correctness, security, and performance
• Considered platforms, SSH/remote, and folder workspaces
• Selected CI checks completed; skipped checks and remote QA gaps are stated above

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The title-request collector now accepts an option to exclude retained and sleeping agent records. CLI tab-history lookup enables this option. Added tests cover restored agents, exited agents, title requests for retained or sleeping records, and split panes with running and exited agents.

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The Resume in New Native Chat menu item will now appear only for tabs with a running agent. Tab titles still use remembered conversations. No merge-blocking risk was found.

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[brennanb2025]

After Claude quits in a Windows cmd.exe pane, a stale live record kept Resume in New Native Chat in the tab menu. Fresh real-Claude QA of this PR together with #27742 now passes: the running row/action appear, /exit removes both within seconds, the displayed title stays unchanged, and Session History keeps the conversation. The same-base main build reproduces the stale row/action; the native PowerShell control also passes. Fresh screenshots replace the earlier incomplete experiment in the PR body.

Fresh live QA on Windows high spec, with real Claude and the existing login in place. Both PRs were applied together: #27520 06d746eb1219c2c54e4ef3d4f0b6399f21868d3d, #27742 50c5600c91d777dc445ac6720bd21de914b3ea65, combined QA commit 34ee6f3321cf18109b131a570d5d250f6f16d1e1. The baseline used the same current-main base, d4a55f583e880b6bbbbca11faa0a45d88646d3a6.

Optional real Codex was not tested; the reviewed launcher requires a separate wrapper/profile for it. Other platforms were not exercised. Real-home settings and .orca hashes stayed unchanged. All owned test apps exited; the QA controls and worktree were removed and verified gone. No source edits, pushes, PR merges, or merge-readiness approval. Earlier source-review/test/CI results in the body were not rerun by this QA lane.