Accept messages while any agent starts, and bound each startup step

config/path-literal-baseline.txt

@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@ config/scripts/check-layout-writer-ratchets.mjs src/renderer/src/runtime/remote-
 config/scripts/pr-layout-oracle-route.mjs src/main/runtime/old-session-tabs-stream/
 config/scripts/pr-layout-oracle-route.mjs src/renderer/src/runtime/remote-workspace-frozen/
 config/scripts/run-ssh-staged-upload-reliability.mjs src/main/ssh/ssh-relay-install-namespace.test.ts
-config/scripts/vitest-sqlite-runtime-files.mjs src/main/ipc/pty/ipc/spawn-commit-ssh-lease-cardinality.test.ts
-config/scripts/vitest-sqlite-runtime-files.mjs src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-signed-out-child.test.ts
-config/scripts/vitest-sqlite-runtime-files.mjs src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-startup-permission-mode.test.ts
-config/scripts/vitest-sqlite-runtime-files.mjs src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-startup-picks.test.ts
 config/tsconfig.node.json src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-composer-primary-action.ts
 config/tsconfig.node.json src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-resolution-receipt.ts
 config/tsconfig.node.json src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-question-projection.ts

config/reliability-gates.jsonc

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "schemaVersion": 1,
-  "updatedAt": "2026-09-11",
+  "updatedAt": "2026-10-13",
   "policy": {
     "maturityLevels": ["experimental", "soak", "blocking", "accepted-gap", "deprecated"],
     "blockingPromotion": {
@@ -1544,14 +1544,14 @@
       "invariant": "One structured-send operation id causes at most one provider dispatch. Each user Send on phone or desktop is a new action with a fresh id and one request; neither automatically resends an ambiguous action. The host retains the original action's outcome, and a later phone Send remains possible with equal text, after remount, or when phone storage fails. Repeated transmission of the same operation remains protected by host deduplication.",
       "oracle": "Inject adapter/RPC acknowledgement loss, caller replacement, logical-client close after response, auth recovery with a written request, missing host submissions, legacy pending rows, stale fences, expiry, mobile remount, and phone storage refusal. Assert at most one dispatch for repeated transmission of one operation. For a later phone Send, assert a fresh id and second delivery while the original host entry remains unknown; equal images use current uploaded paths and delivery fields follow current host capabilities.",
       "commands": [
-        "ORCA_BACKGROUND_LAUNCH=1 pnpm test src/shared/agent-session-operation-ledger.test.ts src/shared/structured-agent-session-send-evidence.test.ts src/main/runtime/agent-session-operation-admission.test.ts src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-refusal-retry.test.ts src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-mailbox-pointer-delivery.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-mailbox-pointer-host.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-pointer-operation-id.test.ts src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-message-sender.test.ts src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session.test.tsx src/renderer/src/lib/launch-structured-agent-session.test.ts",
+        "ORCA_BACKGROUND_LAUNCH=1 pnpm test src/shared/agent-session-operation-ledger.test.ts src/shared/structured-agent-session-send-evidence.test.ts src/main/runtime/agent-session-operation-admission.test.ts src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send-idempotency.test.ts src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-mailbox-pointer-delivery.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-mailbox-pointer-host.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-pointer-operation-id.test.ts src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-message-sender.test.ts src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session.test.tsx src/renderer/src/lib/launch-structured-agent-session.test.ts",
         "ORCA_BACKGROUND_LAUNCH=1 pnpm --dir mobile test ../mobile/src/session/mobile-structured-send-new-action.test.ts ../mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-agent-session-send.test.tsx ../mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-agent-session-queued.test.tsx ../mobile/src/session/mobile-structured-send-delivery.test.ts ../mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-agent-session-background-tasks.test.tsx ../mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-agent-session-newer-approval-send.test.tsx ../mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-agent-session-read-failure.test.tsx ../mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-agent-session.test.tsx ../mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-agent-session-prompt-cancel.test.tsx ../mobile/src/session/mobile-native-chat-image-attachment.test.ts ../mobile/src/session/use-mobile-native-chat-image-attachments.test.ts ../mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-native-chat-send-bridge.test.ts ../mobile/src/mobile-web-shell/page-storage-keys.test.ts ../mobile/src/mobile-web-shell/bridge/page-async-storage.test.ts ../mobile/src/mobile-web-shell/use-page-host-snapshot.test.tsx ../mobile/src/mobile-web-shell/bridge-host-init.test.ts ../mobile/src/transport/mobile-relay-rpc-session.test.ts ../mobile/src/transport/rpc-client-delivery-ambiguity.test.ts ../mobile/src/transport/stable-logical-rpc-client.test.ts --maxWorkers=2"
       ],
       "testFiles": [
         "src/shared/agent-session-operation-ledger.test.ts",
         "src/shared/structured-agent-session-send-evidence.test.ts",
         "src/main/runtime/agent-session-operation-admission.test.ts",
-        "src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-refusal-retry.test.ts",
+        "src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send-idempotency.test.ts",
         "src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send.test.ts",
         "src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-mailbox-pointer-delivery.test.ts",
         "src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-mailbox-pointer-host.test.ts",
@@ -1648,13 +1648,13 @@
           "summary": "Nineteen focused mobile files passed 241 tests for fresh Send identity, remount, attachment paths, storage refusal, mixed host capabilities, queued cards, and written-request ambiguity."
         },
         {
-          "date": "2026-10-06",
+          "date": "2026-10-13",
           "runner": "local",
           "platform": "macos",
-          "command": "ORCA_BACKGROUND_LAUNCH=1 pnpm test src/shared/agent-session-operation-ledger.test.ts src/shared/structured-agent-session-send-evidence.test.ts src/main/runtime/agent-session-operation-admission.test.ts src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-refusal-retry.test.ts src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-mailbox-pointer-delivery.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-mailbox-pointer-host.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-pointer-operation-id.test.ts src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-message-sender.test.ts src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session.test.tsx src/renderer/src/lib/launch-structured-agent-session.test.ts",
+          "command": "ORCA_BACKGROUND_LAUNCH=1 pnpm test src/shared/agent-session-operation-ledger.test.ts src/shared/structured-agent-session-send-evidence.test.ts src/main/runtime/agent-session-operation-admission.test.ts src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send-idempotency.test.ts src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-mailbox-pointer-delivery.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-mailbox-pointer-host.test.ts src/main/runtime/orchestration/structured-pointer-operation-id.test.ts src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-message-sender.test.ts src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session.test.tsx src/renderer/src/lib/launch-structured-agent-session.test.ts",
           "result": "passed",
-          "durationSeconds": 14,
-          "summary": "Eleven focused host, shared, renderer, and orchestration files passed 173 tests after the desktop outbox gave way to the in-memory sender, which makes one request per send and never resends."
+          "durationSeconds": 6.47,
+          "summary": "Eleven focused host, shared, renderer and orchestration files passed 196 tests, including unknown send outcomes, reused message IDs and host replay without duplicate dispatch. The send-idempotency suite pins only that an unknown outcome is never resent; the removed refusal-retry matrix has no replacement here."
         }
       ],
       "runtimeBudget": {

config/scripts/vitest-node-runtime-files.mjs

@@ -89,10 +89,9 @@ export const NODE_RUNTIME_INCLUDE = [
   'src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-status-feed.test.ts',
   'src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-status-feed-conversation-name.test.ts',
   'src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-status-first-input-identity.test.ts',
+  'src/main/native-chat/structured-chat-naming.test.ts',
   'src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-outgrown-child.test.ts',
   'src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-permission-mode.test.ts',
-  'src/main/native-chat/structured-chat-naming-command-first.test.ts',
-  'src/main/native-chat/structured-chat-naming-status-hook.test.ts',
   'src/main/runtime/agent-session-conversation-name-store.test.ts',
   'src/main/runtime/structured-session-mail-redrive-wiring.test.ts',
   'src/main/runtime/rpc/ws-transport.test.ts',

config/scripts/vitest-runtime-boundary.test.ts

@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ it('routes native-chat journal and record-store SQLite contracts through Node',
     expect.arrayContaining([
       'src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-status-feed.test.ts',
       'src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-status-first-input-identity.test.ts',
-      'src/main/native-chat/structured-chat-naming-command-first.test.ts',
-      'src/main/native-chat/structured-chat-naming-status-hook.test.ts',
+      'src/main/native-chat/structured-chat-naming.test.ts',
       'src/main/runtime/agent-session-conversation-name-store.test.ts',
       'src/main/runtime/structured-session-mail-redrive-wiring.test.ts'
     ])

config/scripts/vitest-sqlite-database-runtime-files.mjs

@@ -188,7 +188,6 @@ export const SQLITE_DATABASE_RUNTIME_INCLUDE = [
   'src/main/runtime/structured-agent-session-codex-held-sends.test.ts',
   'src/main/runtime/structured-agent-session-codex-stopped-send-order.test.ts',
   'src/main/runtime/structured-agent-session-codex-turn-end-settlement.test.ts',
-  'src/main/runtime/structured-agent-session-failure-logging.test.ts',
   'src/main/runtime/structured-agent-session-held-signal.test.ts',
   'src/main/runtime/structured-agent-session-host-refusal.test.ts',
   'src/main/runtime/structured-agent-session-install-failure.test.ts',