test(maestro): cover signal shutdown drain

Serialize replay reads with event appends, acquire the live receiver under that lock, and drain the event pump during shutdown. Recovery now removes its FIFO when opening the log fails.

Cargo.toml

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ repository = "https://git.naps.pt/naps62/maestro"
 publish = false
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
+agent-client-protocol = "2.1"
 axum = { version = "0.7", features = ["ws"] }
 chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["clock", "serde"] }
 clap = { version = "4.5", features = ["derive", "env"] }
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ crossterm = { version = "0.28", features = ["event-stream"] }
 dirs = "5"
 futures-util = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["sink", "std"] }
 libc = "0.2"
+maestro-acp = { path = "crates/maestro-acp" }
 maestro-config = { path = "crates/maestro-config" }
 # `default-features = false` so each consumer opts into `haiku-autoname`
 # through its own feature of the same name (#131); a workspace entry that
@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ tempfile = "3"
 thiserror = "1"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread", "sync", "time", "net", "io-util", "fs", "signal", "process"] }
 tokio-tungstenite = "0.21"
+tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["compat"] }
 toml = "0.8"
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }

crates/maestro-acp/Cargo.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+[package]
+name = "maestro-acp"
+version.workspace = true
+edition.workspace = true
+license.workspace = true
+repository.workspace = true
+publish.workspace = true
+description = "ACP client role: one claude-code-acp child per structured session"
+
+[dependencies]
+agent-client-protocol.workspace = true
+libc.workspace = true
+serde_json.workspace = true
+thiserror.workspace = true
+tokio.workspace = true
+tokio-util.workspace = true
+tracing.workspace = true
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+tempfile.workspace = true

crates/maestro-acp/src/lib.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,566 @@
+//! ACP client role for the daemon (#134): one `claude-code-acp` child per
+//! structured session.
+//!
+//! The daemon is the client; the adapter is the agent. [`spawn`] starts the
+//! adapter as a child process with stdio pipes, in the session's `cwd` with
+//! the session's env, runs the `initialize` + `session/new` handshake, and
+//! hands back an [`AcpSession`] that owns the connection for the life of the
+//! session.
+//!
+//! **The handshake declares almost nothing.** `initialize` reports
+//! `fs.readTextFile`, `fs.writeTextFile` and `terminal` as `false`, so the
+//! adapter uses Claude Code's own Read / Write / Bash instead of asking the
+//! daemon to act on its behalf — exactly what already happens in the
+//! terminal view. `session/request_permission` is the one client method that
+//! gets a real implementation, in #139; here it is a stub that declines.
+//!
+//! Every `session/update` notification the adapter sends lands on an
+//! unbounded channel the session owns ([`AcpSession::take_updates`]). Nothing
+//! is dropped while nobody reads: #135 takes the receiver and persists each
+//! notification to the per-session event log before broadcasting it.
+//!
+//! A respawn after a daemon restart sets [`SpawnConfig::load_session`] and
+//! the handshake runs `session/load` with the stored id instead of
+//! `session/new`. The history the agent streams back while that request is
+//! in flight is *not* delivered: the daemon's event log already holds it,
+//! and replaying it would double every line.
+//!
+//! The child is a child of the daemon, full stop. It shares the daemon's
+//! process group, is marked to receive `SIGTERM` when the daemon dies
+//! (`PR_SET_PDEATHSIG` on Linux), and [`AcpSession::terminate`] is what both
+//! `DELETE /api/sessions/:id` and daemon shutdown call: `session/cancel`, a
+//! short wait, then `SIGTERM`, then `SIGKILL` as the last resort.
+
+#![deny(missing_debug_implementations)]
+
+use std::collections::{HashMap, VecDeque};
+use std::ffi::OsString;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+use std::process::{ExitStatus, Stdio};
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
+use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
+use std::time::Duration;
+
+use agent_client_protocol::schema::v1::{
+    CancelNotification, ClientCapabilities, FileSystemCapabilities, Implementation,
+    InitializeRequest, LoadSessionRequest, NewSessionRequest, RequestPermissionOutcome,
+    RequestPermissionRequest, RequestPermissionResponse, SessionId, SessionNotification,
+};
+use agent_client_protocol::schema::ProtocolVersion;
+use agent_client_protocol::{ByteStreams, Client};
+use tokio::io::AsyncBufReadExt;
+use tokio::sync::{mpsc, oneshot, watch};
+use tokio_util::compat::{TokioAsyncReadCompatExt, TokioAsyncWriteCompatExt};
+
+pub use agent_client_protocol::schema::v1 as schema;
+
+/// The adapter binary, resolved on `PATH`.
+pub const ADAPTER_BIN: &str = "claude-code-acp";
+
+/// How to install the adapter when it is missing. Named in the error so an
+/// operator staring at a failed session knows what to run.
+pub const INSTALL_COMMAND: &str =
+    "npm install -g --prefix ~/.local @zed-industries/claude-code-acp";
+
+/// How long `initialize` + `session/new` may take before the spawn is
+/// declared failed. The real adapter boots a node process and the Claude
+/// Code SDK behind it; a slow machine takes seconds, never a minute.
+pub const HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60);
+
+/// How long [`AcpSession::terminate`] waits after `session/cancel` before
+/// sending `SIGTERM`. Cancel is a courtesy that lets the adapter finish the
+/// turn it is on; the signal is what actually ends it.
+pub const CANCEL_GRACE: Duration = Duration::from_millis(500);
+
+/// How long [`AcpSession::terminate`] waits after `SIGTERM` before `SIGKILL`.
+pub const TERM_GRACE: Duration = Duration::from_secs(2);
+
+/// Bytes of the child's stderr kept for the failure message.
+const STDERR_TAIL_BYTES: usize = 4096;
+
+/// What [`spawn`] needs to start one adapter.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct SpawnConfig {
+    /// Working directory of the child and `cwd` of `session/new`.
+    pub cwd: PathBuf,
+    /// Environment laid over the daemon's own for the child. A `PATH` in
+    /// here is also what the adapter is resolved against, since that is the
+    /// `PATH` the child would see.
+    pub env: HashMap<String, String>,
+    /// Upper bound on the handshake; [`HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT`] by default.
+    pub handshake_timeout: Duration,
+    /// An existing ACP session id to resume with `session/load` (#135)
+    /// instead of opening a fresh one. The adapter must advertise
+    /// `loadSession`; the handshake fails otherwise.
+    pub load_session: Option<String>,
+}
+
+impl SpawnConfig {
+    pub fn new(cwd: impl Into<PathBuf>, env: HashMap<String, String>) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            cwd: cwd.into(),
+            env,
+            handshake_timeout: HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT,
+            load_session: None,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Resume `session_id` with `session/load` instead of `session/new`.
+    pub fn load_session(mut self, session_id: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
+        self.load_session = Some(session_id.into());
+        self
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+pub enum AcpError {
+    /// The adapter is not on `PATH`. The message names the install command
+    /// so the failed session is actionable rather than silently dead.
+    #[error("{ADAPTER_BIN} not found on PATH; install it with: {INSTALL_COMMAND}")]
+    AdapterMissing,
+    #[error("failed to start {ADAPTER_BIN}: {0}")]
+    Spawn(#[source] std::io::Error),
+    /// The adapter answered the handshake with an error.
+    #[error("ACP handshake failed: {0}")]
+    Handshake(String),
+    /// The adapter went away before the handshake finished. Carries the
+    /// tail of its stderr, which is where a missing Claude login shows up.
+    #[error("{ADAPTER_BIN} exited during the ACP handshake ({status}){stderr}")]
+    ExitedEarly { status: String, stderr: String },
+    #[error("ACP handshake timed out after {0:?}")]
+    HandshakeTimeout(Duration),
+}
+
+/// Resolve [`ADAPTER_BIN`] against the `PATH` the child would run with: the
+/// session env's `PATH` when it sets one, the daemon's own otherwise.
+pub fn resolve_adapter(env: &HashMap<String, String>) -> Option<PathBuf> {
+    let path: OsString = match env.get("PATH") {
+        Some(p) => OsString::from(p),
+        None => std::env::var_os("PATH")?,
+    };
+    std::env::split_paths(&path)
+        .filter(|dir| !dir.as_os_str().is_empty())
+        .map(|dir| dir.join(ADAPTER_BIN))
+        .find(|candidate| is_executable(candidate))
+}
+
+fn is_executable(path: &Path) -> bool {
+    use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+    std::fs::metadata(path)
+        .map(|m| m.is_file() && m.permissions().mode() & 0o111 != 0)
+        .unwrap_or(false)
+}
+
+enum Command {
+    Cancel,
+    Close,
+}
+
+enum ChildCommand {
+    Signal(libc::c_int),
+}
+
+/// Why the handshake did not produce a session id.
+enum ReadyError {
+    /// The adapter answered with an error.
+    Handshake(String),
+    /// The transport closed under the request: the child is gone.
+    Closed,
+}
+
+fn ready_error(e: agent_client_protocol::Error) -> ReadyError {
+    if agent_client_protocol::is_incoming_transport_closed(&e) {
+        ReadyError::Closed
+    } else {
+        ReadyError::Handshake(e.to_string())
+    }
+}
+
+/// A live ACP connection to one adapter child. Dropping it sends `SIGTERM`
+/// if the child is still running; [`AcpSession::terminate`] is the polite
+/// version.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct AcpSession {
+    session_id: String,
+    pid: u32,
+    commands: mpsc::UnboundedSender<Command>,
+    child_commands: mpsc::UnboundedSender<ChildCommand>,
+    updates: Mutex<Option<mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<SessionNotification>>>,
+    exit: watch::Receiver<Option<ExitStatus>>,
+}
+
+impl AcpSession {
+    /// The id `session/new` returned. What a respawn passes to
+    /// `session/load` (#135).
+    pub fn session_id(&self) -> &str {
+        &self.session_id
+    }
+
+    /// The adapter's pid.
+    pub fn pid(&self) -> u32 {
+        self.pid
+    }
+
+    /// Whether the child has been reaped.
+    pub fn has_exited(&self) -> bool {
+        self.exit.borrow().is_some()
+    }
+
+    /// Wait for the child to exit.
+    pub async fn wait(&self) -> Option<ExitStatus> {
+        wait_exit(&self.exit).await
+    }
+
+    /// The stream of raw `session/update` notifications, handed out once.
+    /// Notifications that arrived before the take are still queued on it.
+    pub fn take_updates(&self) -> Option<mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<SessionNotification>> {
+        self.updates.lock().expect("updates mutex").take()
+    }
+
+    /// Send `session/cancel`. Fire-and-forget: a closed connection means the
+    /// child is already gone, which is the outcome cancel was after.
+    pub fn cancel(&self) {
+        let _ = self.commands.send(Command::Cancel);
+    }
+
+    /// End the child: `session/cancel`, wait `cancel_grace`, `SIGTERM`, wait
+    /// `term_grace`, `SIGKILL`. Returns once the child has been reaped.
+    pub async fn terminate(&self, cancel_grace: Duration, term_grace: Duration) {
+        self.cancel();
+        if tokio::time::timeout(cancel_grace, self.wait())
+            .await
+            .is_ok()
+        {
+            return;
+        }
+        self.signal(libc::SIGTERM);
+        if tokio::time::timeout(term_grace, self.wait()).await.is_ok() {
+            return;
+        }
+        tracing::warn!(
+            pid = self.pid,
+            "{ADAPTER_BIN} ignored SIGTERM; sending SIGKILL"
+        );
+        self.signal(libc::SIGKILL);
+        let _ = self.commands.send(Command::Close);
+        self.wait().await;
+    }
+
+    fn signal(&self, sig: libc::c_int) {
+        let _ = self.child_commands.send(ChildCommand::Signal(sig));
+    }
+}
+
+impl Drop for AcpSession {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        self.signal(libc::SIGTERM);
+        let _ = self.commands.send(Command::Close);
+    }
+}
+
+/// Start the adapter for one session and run the handshake.
+///
+/// Fails without a running child: on any error the process is already
+/// signalled, so a failed session never leaves a stray adapter behind.
+pub async fn spawn(config: SpawnConfig) -> Result<AcpSession, AcpError> {
+    let adapter = resolve_adapter(&config.env).ok_or(AcpError::AdapterMissing)?;
+
+    let mut cmd = tokio::process::Command::new(&adapter);
+    cmd.current_dir(&config.cwd)
+        .envs(&config.env)
+        // Claude Code refuses to start when it thinks it is nested inside
+        // another Claude Code session; a daemon launched from one would
+        // otherwise never get a structured session up.
+        .env_remove("CLAUDECODE")
+        .stdin(Stdio::piped())
+        .stdout(Stdio::piped())
+        .stderr(Stdio::piped())
+        // If the daemon is dropped without a graceful shutdown the runtime
+        // still tears the task holding this `Child` down, and that kills it.
+        .kill_on_drop(true);
+    #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+    {
+        // Same process group as the daemon (no setpgid), and SIGTERM when the
+        // daemon dies however it dies: an agent that outlives its daemon is
+        // exactly the orphan #134 rules out.
+        // SAFETY: prctl is async-signal-safe and touches no shared state.
+        unsafe {
+            cmd.pre_exec(|| {
+                libc::prctl(libc::PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, libc::SIGTERM);
+                Ok(())
+            });
+        }
+    }
+    let mut child = cmd.spawn().map_err(AcpError::Spawn)?;
+    let pid = child.id().expect("child pid is known before wait");
+    let stdin = child.stdin.take().expect("piped stdin");
+    let stdout = child.stdout.take().expect("piped stdout");
+    let stderr = child.stderr.take().expect("piped stderr");
+
+    let stderr_tail = Arc::new(Mutex::new(VecDeque::<u8>::new()));
+    tokio::spawn(drain_stderr(stderr, pid, stderr_tail.clone()));
+
+    let (exit_tx, exit_rx) = watch::channel(None);
+    let (child_commands_tx, child_commands_rx) = mpsc::unbounded_channel();
+    tokio::spawn(supervise_child(child, pid, child_commands_rx, exit_tx));
+
+    let (updates_tx, updates_rx) = mpsc::unbounded_channel();
+    let (commands_tx, commands_rx) = mpsc::unbounded_channel();
+    let (ready_tx, ready_rx) = oneshot::channel();
+    let transport = ByteStreams::new(stdin.compat_write(), stdout.compat());
+    tokio::spawn(run_connection(
+        transport,
+        config.cwd.clone(),
+        config.load_session.clone(),
+        updates_tx,
+        commands_rx,
+        ready_tx,
+    ));
+
+    let outcome = tokio::time::timeout(config.handshake_timeout, ready_rx).await;
+    let failure = match outcome {
+        Ok(Ok(Ok(session_id))) => {
+            return Ok(AcpSession {
+                session_id,
+                pid,
+                commands: commands_tx,
+                child_commands: child_commands_tx,
+                updates: Mutex::new(Some(updates_rx)),
+                exit: exit_rx,
+            });
+        }
+        Ok(Ok(Err(ReadyError::Handshake(message)))) => AcpError::Handshake(message),
+        Ok(Ok(Err(ReadyError::Closed))) | Ok(Err(_)) => {
+            // The connection ended before the handshake did: the child went
+            // away. Reap it so the status is real, then report.
+            let status = wait_exit(&exit_rx).await;
+            let stderr = {
+                let mut tail = stderr_tail.lock().expect("stderr tail");
+                tail.make_contiguous();
+                String::from_utf8_lossy(tail.as_slices().0)
+                    .trim()
+                    .to_string()
+            };
+            AcpError::ExitedEarly {
+                status: status.map_or_else(|| "unknown status".into(), |s| s.to_string()),
+                stderr: if stderr.is_empty() {
+                    String::new()
+                } else {
+                    format!(": {stderr}")
+                },
+            }
+        }
+        Err(_) => AcpError::HandshakeTimeout(config.handshake_timeout),
+    };
+    // No half-started adapter survives a failed spawn.
+    let _ = commands_tx.send(Command::Close);
+    let _ = child_commands_tx.send(ChildCommand::Signal(libc::SIGTERM));
+    if tokio::time::timeout(TERM_GRACE, wait_exit(&exit_rx))
+        .await
+        .is_err()
+    {
+        let _ = child_commands_tx.send(ChildCommand::Signal(libc::SIGKILL));
+        wait_exit(&exit_rx).await;
+    }
+    Err(failure)
+}
+
+async fn wait_exit(exit: &watch::Receiver<Option<ExitStatus>>) -> Option<ExitStatus> {
+    let mut exit = exit.clone();
+    let status = exit.wait_for(|s| s.is_some()).await.ok()?;
+    *status
+}
+
+async fn supervise_child(
+    mut child: tokio::process::Child,
+    pid: u32,
+    mut commands: mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<ChildCommand>,
+    exit_tx: watch::Sender<Option<ExitStatus>>,
+) {
+    loop {
+        tokio::select! {
+            status = child.wait() => {
+                let status = status.ok();
+                tracing::debug!(pid, ?status, "{ADAPTER_BIN} exited");
+                let _ = exit_tx.send(status);
+                return;
+            }
+            command = commands.recv() => match command {
+                Some(ChildCommand::Signal(sig)) => {
+                    // This task alone owns `child`. It cannot reap the child
+                    // between receiving this command and sending the signal,
+                    // so its PID cannot be reused in that window.
+                    unsafe { libc::kill(pid as libc::pid_t, sig) };
+                }
+                None => {
+                    // The session vanished without a command receiver. This
+                    // task still owns the unreaped child, so this cannot hit
+                    // a reused PID.
+                    unsafe { libc::kill(pid as libc::pid_t, libc::SIGTERM) };
+                    let status = child.wait().await.ok();
+                    tracing::debug!(pid, ?status, "{ADAPTER_BIN} exited");
+                    let _ = exit_tx.send(status);
+                    return;
+                }
+            },
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The capabilities the daemon declares: none of the filesystem or terminal
+/// surface, so the adapter falls back to Claude Code's own tools.
+fn client_capabilities() -> ClientCapabilities {
+    ClientCapabilities::new()
+        .fs(FileSystemCapabilities::new()
+            .read_text_file(false)
+            .write_text_file(false))
+        .terminal(false)
+}
+
+async fn run_connection<T>(
+    transport: T,
+    cwd: PathBuf,
+    load_session: Option<String>,
+    updates_tx: mpsc::UnboundedSender<SessionNotification>,
+    mut commands_rx: mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<Command>,
+    ready_tx: oneshot::Sender<Result<String, ReadyError>>,
+) where
+    T: agent_client_protocol::ConnectTo<Client> + 'static,
+{
+    // Set while `session/load` is in flight. Notification handlers run in
+    // the dispatch loop, in arrival order, so everything the agent streams
+    // before its load response sees the flag up and is dropped: that is the
+    // history the event log already holds (#135).
+    let replaying = Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false));
+    let replaying_seen = replaying.clone();
+    let result = Client
+        .builder()
+        .name("maestro")
+        .on_receive_notification(
+            async move |notification: SessionNotification, _cx| {
+                if replaying_seen.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {
+                    tracing::trace!("dropping replayed notification during session/load");
+                    return Ok(());
+                }
+                // A dropped receiver only means nobody wants updates any more.
+                let _ = updates_tx.send(notification);
+                Ok(())
+            },
+            agent_client_protocol::on_receive_notification!(),
+        )
+        .on_receive_request(
+            async move |request: RequestPermissionRequest, responder, _cx| {
+                // Stub until #139: decline rather than grant something the
+                // operator never saw.
+                tracing::warn!(
+                    session = %request.session_id,
+                    "session/request_permission declined: not implemented yet (#139)"
+                );
+                responder.respond(RequestPermissionResponse::new(
+                    RequestPermissionOutcome::Cancelled,
+                ))
+            },
+            agent_client_protocol::on_receive_request!(),
+        )
+        .connect_with(transport, async move |cx| {
+            let init = InitializeRequest::new(ProtocolVersion::V1)
+                .client_capabilities(client_capabilities())
+                .client_info(Implementation::new("maestro", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")));
+            let initialized = match cx.send_request(init).block_task().await {
+                Ok(r) => r,
+                Err(e) => {
+                    let _ = ready_tx.send(Err(ready_error(e)));
+                    return Ok(());
+                }
+            };
+            let session_id = match load_session {
+                Some(existing) => {
+                    if !initialized.agent_capabilities.load_session {
+                        let _ = ready_tx.send(Err(ReadyError::Handshake(format!(
+                            "{ADAPTER_BIN} does not advertise loadSession; cannot resume session {existing}"
+                        ))));
+                        return Ok(());
+                    }
+                    replaying.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst);
+                    let (loaded_tx, loaded_rx) = oneshot::channel();
+                    let replaying_done = replaying.clone();
+                    if let Err(e) = cx
+                        .send_request(LoadSessionRequest::new(existing.clone(), cwd))
+                        .on_receiving_result(move |result| {
+                            replaying_done.store(false, Ordering::SeqCst);
+                            async move {
+                                let _ = loaded_tx.send(result);
+                                Ok(())
+                            }
+                        })
+                    {
+                        let _ = ready_tx.send(Err(ready_error(e)));
+                        return Ok(());
+                    }
+                    match loaded_rx.await {
+                        Ok(Ok(_)) => {}
+                        Ok(Err(e)) => {
+                            let _ = ready_tx.send(Err(ready_error(e)));
+                            return Ok(());
+                        }
+                        Err(_) => {
+                            let _ = ready_tx.send(Err(ReadyError::Handshake(
+                                "session/load response was not delivered".into(),
+                            )));
+                            return Ok(());
+                        }
+                    }
+                    existing
+                }
+                None => match cx
+                    .send_request(NewSessionRequest::new(cwd))
+                    .block_task()
+                    .await
+                {
+                    Ok(created) => created.session_id.0.to_string(),
+                    Err(e) => {
+                        let _ = ready_tx.send(Err(ready_error(e)));
+                        return Ok(());
+                    }
+                },
+            };
+            let _ = ready_tx.send(Ok(session_id.clone()));
+
+            loop {
+                tokio::select! {
+                    cmd = commands_rx.recv() => match cmd {
+                        Some(Command::Cancel) => {
+                            let _ = cx.send_notification(CancelNotification::new(
+                                SessionId::new(session_id.as_str()),
+                            ));
+                        }
+                        Some(Command::Close) | None => break,
+                    },
+                    _ = cx.incoming_closed() => break,
+                }
+            }
+            Ok(())
+        })
+        .await;
+    if let Err(e) = result {
+        tracing::debug!(error = %e, "ACP connection ended with an error");
+    }
+}
+
+async fn drain_stderr(
+    stderr: tokio::process::ChildStderr,
+    pid: u32,
+    tail: Arc<Mutex<VecDeque<u8>>>,
+) {
+    let mut lines = tokio::io::BufReader::new(stderr).lines();
+    while let Ok(Some(line)) = lines.next_line().await {
+        tracing::debug!(pid, "{ADAPTER_BIN}: {line}");
+        let mut tail = tail.lock().expect("stderr tail");
+        tail.extend(line.as_bytes());
+        tail.push_back(b'\n');
+        while tail.len() > STDERR_TAIL_BYTES {
+            tail.pop_front();
+        }
+        tail.make_contiguous();
+    }
+}

crates/maestro-acp/tests/fake_acp_agent.py

@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""A deterministic stand-in for `claude-code-acp` (#134).
+
+Speaks just enough JSON-RPC over stdio for the daemon's handshake:
+answers `initialize` and `session/new`, logs every method it receives, and
+exits on SIGTERM. Tests point `PATH` at a directory holding this file under
+the adapter's name, so the real adapter (which needs Claude auth and is
+slow) never runs in the deterministic suite.
+
+Environment knobs, all optional:
+
+  FAKE_ACP_LOG            append one line per event to this file:
+                            start pid=<pid> cwd=<cwd>
+                            env <NAME>=<value>       (for FAKE_ACP_ECHO_ENV)
+                            caps <json of clientCapabilities>
+                            recv <method>
+                            signal SIGTERM
+  FAKE_ACP_ECHO_ENV       name of one env var to log at start
+  FAKE_ACP_INIT_FAIL=1    answer `initialize` with a JSON-RPC error
+  FAKE_ACP_EXIT_AFTER_NEW=1  exit 0 right after answering `session/new`
+  FAKE_ACP_EXIT_ON_CANCEL=1  exit 0 on `session/cancel` (default: keep running
+                             so the SIGTERM path is exercised)
+  FAKE_ACP_IGNORE_EOF=1      keep running after stdin closes, until signalled
+  FAKE_ACP_EMIT_ON_CANCEL=1  emit a final notification before handling cancel
+  FAKE_ACP_NO_LOAD=1      advertise `loadSession: false`
+  FAKE_ACP_LOAD_REPLAY=n  on `session/load`, replay n `agent_message_chunk`
+                            notifications ("replayed <i>") before answering,
+                            the way a real agent streams history back
+  FAKE_ACP_LOAD_FAIL=1    answer `session/load` with a JSON-RPC error
+
+Signals: SIGUSR1 emits one `agent_message_chunk` notification ("tick <n>",
+counting from 1) and logs `emit tick <n>`, so a test can make the agent
+speak on demand (#135).
+"""
+import json
+import os
+import signal
+import sys
+
+LOG = os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_LOG")
+
+
+def log(line):
+    if not LOG:
+        return
+    with open(LOG, "a") as f:
+        f.write(line + "\n")
+        f.flush()
+
+
+def send(obj):
+    sys.stdout.write(json.dumps(obj) + "\n")
+    sys.stdout.flush()
+
+
+def on_sigterm(_signum, _frame):
+    log("signal SIGTERM")
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+
+signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, on_sigterm)
+
+session_id = f"fake-{os.getpid()}"
+ticks = 0
+
+
+def chunk(text):
+    return {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "session/update", "params": {
+        "sessionId": session_id,
+        "update": {"sessionUpdate": "agent_message_chunk",
+                   "content": {"type": "text", "text": text}},
+    }}
+
+
+def on_sigusr1(_signum, _frame):
+    global ticks
+    ticks += 1
+    send(chunk(f"tick {ticks}"))
+    log(f"emit tick {ticks}")
+
+
+signal.signal(signal.SIGUSR1, on_sigusr1)
+
+log(f"start pid={os.getpid()} cwd={os.getcwd()}")
+echo = os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_ECHO_ENV")
+if echo:
+    log(f"env {echo}={os.environ.get(echo, '')}")
+
+for raw in sys.stdin:
+    raw = raw.strip()
+    if not raw:
+        continue
+    msg = json.loads(raw)
+    method = msg.get("method")
+    if method is None:
+        # A response to something we sent; nothing to do.
+        continue
+    log(f"recv {method}")
+    rid = msg.get("id")
+    params = msg.get("params") or {}
+
+    if method == "initialize":
+        log("caps " + json.dumps(params.get("clientCapabilities", {}), sort_keys=True))
+        if os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_INIT_FAIL") == "1":
+            send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid,
+                  "error": {"code": -32000, "message": "fake init failure"}})
+            continue
+        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "result": {
+            "protocolVersion": params.get("protocolVersion", 1),
+            "agentCapabilities": {
+                "loadSession": os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_NO_LOAD") != "1"},
+            "agentInfo": {"name": "fake-acp-agent", "version": "0.0.0"},
+            "authMethods": [],
+        }})
+    elif method == "session/new":
+        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "result": {"sessionId": session_id}})
+        send(chunk("hello from fake"))
+        if os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_EXIT_AFTER_NEW") == "1":
+            sys.exit(0)
+    elif method == "session/load":
+        session_id = params.get("sessionId")
+        log(f"recv session/load sessionId={session_id}")
+        if os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_LOAD_FAIL") == "1":
+            send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid,
+                  "error": {"code": -32000, "message": "fake load failure"}})
+            continue
+        for i in range(int(os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_LOAD_REPLAY", "0"))):
+            send(chunk(f"replayed {i + 1}"))
+        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "result": {}})
+        send(chunk("hello after load"))
+    elif method == "session/cancel":
+        if os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_EMIT_ON_CANCEL") == "1":
+            send(chunk("final on cancel"))
+        if os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_EXIT_ON_CANCEL") == "1":
+            sys.exit(0)
+    elif rid is not None:
+        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid,
+              "error": {"code": -32601, "message": f"method not found: {method}"}})
+
+if os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_IGNORE_EOF") == "1":
+    while True:
+        signal.pause()

crates/maestro-acp/tests/spawn.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,394 @@
+//! `maestro-acp` against the fake adapter in `tests/fake_acp_agent.py`, plus
+//! one ignored test against the real `claude-code-acp`.
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
+
+use maestro_acp::schema::{ContentBlock, SessionUpdate};
+use maestro_acp::{AcpError, SpawnConfig, ADAPTER_BIN, INSTALL_COMMAND};
+use tempfile::TempDir;
+
+fn fake_agent() -> PathBuf {
+    Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("tests/fake_acp_agent.py")
+}
+
+/// A temp `bin/` holding the fake agent under the adapter's name, plus a
+/// log file the agent appends to. `PATH` for the spawn is just that dir.
+struct Fake {
+    dir: TempDir,
+}
+
+impl Fake {
+    fn new() -> Self {
+        let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+        let bin = dir.path().join("bin");
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&bin).unwrap();
+        std::fs::copy(fake_agent(), bin.join(ADAPTER_BIN)).unwrap();
+        Self { dir }
+    }
+
+    fn log_path(&self) -> PathBuf {
+        self.dir.path().join("agent.log")
+    }
+
+    fn log(&self) -> String {
+        std::fs::read_to_string(self.log_path()).unwrap_or_default()
+    }
+
+    /// The fake's `bin/` first, so it shadows any real adapter, then the
+    /// process `PATH` so the script's `python3` still resolves.
+    fn env(&self) -> HashMap<String, String> {
+        let path = format!(
+            "{}:{}",
+            self.dir.path().join("bin").display(),
+            std::env::var("PATH").unwrap_or_default()
+        );
+        HashMap::from([
+            ("PATH".to_string(), path),
+            (
+                "FAKE_ACP_LOG".to_string(),
+                self.log_path().to_string_lossy().into_owned(),
+            ),
+        ])
+    }
+
+    fn config(&self, cwd: &Path) -> SpawnConfig {
+        let mut config = SpawnConfig::new(cwd, self.env());
+        config.handshake_timeout = Duration::from_secs(10);
+        config
+    }
+
+    async fn wait_for_log(&self, needle: &str) {
+        let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(5);
+        while Instant::now() < deadline {
+            if self.log().contains(needle) {
+                return;
+            }
+            tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20)).await;
+        }
+        panic!("log never contained {needle:?}:\n{}", self.log());
+    }
+
+    fn pid(&self) -> u32 {
+        self.log()
+            .lines()
+            .find_map(|line| line.strip_prefix("start pid="))
+            .and_then(|rest| rest.split(' ').next())
+            .and_then(|pid| pid.parse().ok())
+            .expect("pid in log")
+    }
+
+    async fn wait_for_exit(&self) {
+        let pid = self.pid();
+        let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(5);
+        while pid_alive(pid) && Instant::now() < deadline {
+            tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20)).await;
+        }
+        assert!(!pid_alive(pid), "child {pid} still alive");
+    }
+}
+
+fn pid_alive(pid: u32) -> bool {
+    Path::new(&format!("/proc/{pid}")).exists()
+        && std::fs::read_to_string(format!("/proc/{pid}/stat"))
+            .map(|s| !s.contains(") Z "))
+            .unwrap_or(false)
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn spawn_runs_adapter_in_cwd_with_env_and_restrictive_caps() {
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut config = fake.config(cwd.path());
+    config
+        .env
+        .insert("FAKE_ACP_ECHO_ENV".into(), "MAESTRO_SESSION_ID".into());
+    config
+        .env
+        .insert("MAESTRO_SESSION_ID".into(), "sess-123".into());
+
+    let session = maestro_acp::spawn(config).await.expect("spawn");
+    assert!(session.session_id().starts_with("fake-"));
+    assert!(pid_alive(session.pid()));
+
+    let log = fake.log();
+    let cwd_canon = cwd.path().canonicalize().unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        log.contains(&format!("cwd={}", cwd_canon.display())),
+        "child cwd missing from log:\n{log}"
+    );
+    assert!(log.contains("env MAESTRO_SESSION_ID=sess-123"), "{log}");
+    assert!(log.contains("recv initialize"), "{log}");
+    assert!(log.contains("recv session/new"), "{log}");
+    let caps = log
+        .lines()
+        .find_map(|l| l.strip_prefix("caps "))
+        .expect("caps line");
+    let caps: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(caps).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(caps["fs"]["readTextFile"], false);
+    assert_eq!(caps["fs"]["writeTextFile"], false);
+    assert_eq!(caps["terminal"], false);
+
+    session
+        .terminate(Duration::from_millis(100), Duration::from_secs(2))
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn missing_adapter_names_the_install_command() {
+    let empty = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let env = HashMap::from([(
+        "PATH".to_string(),
+        empty.path().to_string_lossy().into_owned(),
+    )]);
+    let err = maestro_acp::spawn(SpawnConfig::new(cwd.path(), env))
+        .await
+        .expect_err("no adapter on PATH");
+    assert!(matches!(err, AcpError::AdapterMissing));
+    let msg = err.to_string();
+    assert!(msg.contains(ADAPTER_BIN), "{msg}");
+    assert!(msg.contains(INSTALL_COMMAND), "{msg}");
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn session_updates_reach_the_taken_receiver() {
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let session = maestro_acp::spawn(fake.config(cwd.path()))
+        .await
+        .expect("spawn");
+
+    let mut updates = session.take_updates().expect("first take");
+    assert!(session.take_updates().is_none(), "handed out once");
+    let first = tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), updates.recv())
+        .await
+        .expect("update within 5s")
+        .expect("channel open");
+    assert_eq!(first.session_id.0.as_ref(), session.session_id());
+    match first.update {
+        SessionUpdate::AgentMessageChunk(chunk) => match chunk.content {
+            ContentBlock::Text(t) => assert_eq!(t.text, "hello from fake"),
+            other => panic!("unexpected content {other:?}"),
+        },
+        other => panic!("unexpected update {other:?}"),
+    }
+
+    session
+        .terminate(Duration::from_millis(100), Duration::from_secs(2))
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn terminate_sends_cancel_then_sigterm() {
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let session = maestro_acp::spawn(fake.config(cwd.path()))
+        .await
+        .expect("spawn");
+    let pid = session.pid();
+
+    session
+        .terminate(Duration::from_millis(200), Duration::from_secs(2))
+        .await;
+    assert!(session.has_exited());
+    fake.wait_for_log("signal SIGTERM").await;
+
+    let log = fake.log();
+    let cancel = log.find("recv session/cancel").expect("cancel logged");
+    let term = log.find("signal SIGTERM").expect("SIGTERM logged");
+    assert!(cancel < term, "cancel must precede SIGTERM:\n{log}");
+    assert!(!pid_alive(pid), "child {pid} still alive");
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn terminate_is_satisfied_by_an_exit_on_cancel() {
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut config = fake.config(cwd.path());
+    config
+        .env
+        .insert("FAKE_ACP_EXIT_ON_CANCEL".into(), "1".into());
+    let session = maestro_acp::spawn(config).await.expect("spawn");
+
+    session
+        .terminate(Duration::from_secs(2), Duration::from_secs(2))
+        .await;
+    assert!(session.has_exited());
+    let log = fake.log();
+    assert!(log.contains("recv session/cancel"), "{log}");
+    assert!(!log.contains("signal SIGTERM"), "cancel was enough:\n{log}");
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn handshake_error_fails_the_spawn_and_reaps_the_child() {
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut config = fake.config(cwd.path());
+    config.env.insert("FAKE_ACP_INIT_FAIL".into(), "1".into());
+
+    let err = maestro_acp::spawn(config).await.expect_err("init fails");
+    assert!(matches!(err, AcpError::Handshake(_)), "{err}");
+    assert!(err.to_string().contains("fake init failure"), "{err}");
+    // Closing the connection gives the fake EOF on stdin; the SIGTERM that
+    // follows may find it already gone. Either way it must not survive.
+    let pid: u32 = fake
+        .log()
+        .lines()
+        .find_map(|l| l.strip_prefix("start pid="))
+        .and_then(|rest| rest.split(' ').next())
+        .and_then(|p| p.parse().ok())
+        .expect("pid in log");
+    let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(5);
+    while pid_alive(pid) && Instant::now() < deadline {
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20)).await;
+    }
+    assert!(!pid_alive(pid), "child {pid} outlived the failed spawn");
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn early_exit_is_observed_after_a_successful_handshake() {
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut config = fake.config(cwd.path());
+    config
+        .env
+        .insert("FAKE_ACP_EXIT_AFTER_NEW".into(), "1".into());
+    let session = maestro_acp::spawn(config).await.expect("spawn");
+
+    let status = tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), session.wait())
+        .await
+        .expect("exit within 5s")
+        .expect("status");
+    assert!(status.success(), "{status}");
+    assert!(session.has_exited());
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn child_exit_before_handshake_reports_exited_early() {
+    // A "adapter" that dies before answering anything.
+    let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let bin = dir.path().join("bin");
+    std::fs::create_dir_all(&bin).unwrap();
+    let script = bin.join(ADAPTER_BIN);
+    std::fs::write(&script, "#!/bin/sh\necho 'not logged in' >&2\nexit 3\n").unwrap();
+    {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+        std::fs::set_permissions(&script, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o755)).unwrap();
+    }
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let env = HashMap::from([("PATH".to_string(), bin.to_string_lossy().into_owned())]);
+    let mut config = SpawnConfig::new(cwd.path(), env);
+    config.handshake_timeout = Duration::from_secs(10);
+
+    let err = maestro_acp::spawn(config).await.expect_err("child died");
+    match &err {
+        AcpError::ExitedEarly { status, stderr } => {
+            assert!(status.contains('3'), "{status}");
+            assert!(stderr.contains("not logged in"), "{stderr}");
+        }
+        other => panic!("unexpected {other:?}"),
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn drop_terminates_and_reaps_the_child() {
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut config = fake.config(cwd.path());
+    config.env.insert("FAKE_ACP_IGNORE_EOF".into(), "1".into());
+    let session = maestro_acp::spawn(config).await.expect("spawn");
+
+    drop(session);
+
+    fake.wait_for_log("signal SIGTERM").await;
+    fake.wait_for_exit().await;
+}
+
+fn chunk_text(n: &maestro_acp::schema::SessionNotification) -> String {
+    match &n.update {
+        SessionUpdate::AgentMessageChunk(chunk) => match &chunk.content {
+            ContentBlock::Text(t) => t.text.clone(),
+            other => panic!("unexpected content {other:?}"),
+        },
+        other => panic!("unexpected update {other:?}"),
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn load_session_resumes_the_stored_id_and_drops_the_replay() {
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut config = fake.config(cwd.path()).load_session("fake-old");
+    config.env.insert("FAKE_ACP_LOAD_REPLAY".into(), "3".into());
+
+    let session = maestro_acp::spawn(config).await.expect("spawn");
+    assert_eq!(session.session_id(), "fake-old");
+    let log = fake.log();
+    assert!(
+        log.contains("recv session/load sessionId=fake-old"),
+        "{log}"
+    );
+    assert!(!log.contains("recv session/new"), "{log}");
+
+    // The three replayed chunks never reach the receiver: the event log
+    // already holds them. The first notification after the response does.
+    let mut updates = session.take_updates().expect("updates");
+    let first = tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), updates.recv())
+        .await
+        .expect("update within 5s")
+        .expect("channel open");
+    assert_eq!(chunk_text(&first), "hello after load");
+    // Nothing queued behind it either.
+    tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(100)).await;
+    assert!(updates.try_recv().is_err(), "replay leaked through");
+
+    session
+        .terminate(Duration::from_millis(100), Duration::from_secs(2))
+        .await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn load_session_requires_the_load_capability() {
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut config = fake.config(cwd.path()).load_session("fake-old");
+    config.env.insert("FAKE_ACP_NO_LOAD".into(), "1".into());
+
+    let err = maestro_acp::spawn(config)
+        .await
+        .expect_err("no loadSession");
+    assert!(matches!(err, AcpError::Handshake(_)), "{err}");
+    assert!(err.to_string().contains("loadSession"), "{err}");
+    assert!(!fake.log().contains("recv session/load"), "{}", fake.log());
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn load_session_error_fails_the_spawn() {
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut config = fake.config(cwd.path()).load_session("fake-old");
+    config.env.insert("FAKE_ACP_LOAD_FAIL".into(), "1".into());
+
+    let err = maestro_acp::spawn(config).await.expect_err("load fails");
+    assert!(matches!(err, AcpError::Handshake(_)), "{err}");
+    assert!(err.to_string().contains("fake load failure"), "{err}");
+}
+
+/// End to end against the installed `claude-code-acp`. Needs Claude auth,
+/// takes seconds, so it is opt-in: `cargo test -p maestro-acp -- --ignored`.
+#[tokio::test]
+#[ignore]
+async fn real_adapter_handshake() {
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let session = maestro_acp::spawn(SpawnConfig::new(cwd.path(), HashMap::new()))
+        .await
+        .expect("real claude-code-acp handshake");
+    assert!(!session.session_id().is_empty());
+    assert!(pid_alive(session.pid()));
+    session
+        .terminate(maestro_acp::CANCEL_GRACE, maestro_acp::TERM_GRACE)
+        .await;
+    assert!(session.has_exited());
+}

crates/maestro-cli/src/dispatch.rs

@@ -96,20 +96,32 @@ pub async fn dispatch(
 }
 
 /// `maestro hooks install` (#106): write the shipped hook script under the
-/// user's data dir and register it in their Claude Code settings. Idempotent
-/// and foreign-hook-preserving — the guarantees live in [`maestro_hooks`].
+/// user's data dir and register it in every agent's hook file. Idempotent and
+/// foreign-hook-preserving — the guarantees live in [`maestro_hooks`]. One
+/// agent failing is reported and does not stop the others.
 #[allow(clippy::result_large_err)]
 fn run_hooks_install() -> Result<(), CliError> {
     let home = dirs::home_dir().ok_or(CliError::NoHome)?;
-    let changed = maestro_hooks::install_for_home(&home)?;
-    if changed {
-        println!(
-            "installed claude-code activity hook: {} → {}",
-            maestro_hooks::script_path(&home).display(),
-            maestro_hooks::settings_path(&home).display()
-        );
-    } else {
-        println!("claude-code activity hook already up to date");
+    let script = maestro_hooks::script_path(&home);
+    for (target, result) in maestro_hooks::install_for_home(&home) {
+        let agent = target.label();
+        let settings = target.settings_path(&home);
+        match result {
+            Ok(true) => {
+                println!(
+                    "installed {agent} activity hook: {} → {}",
+                    script.display(),
+                    settings.display()
+                );
+                if target == maestro_hooks::Target::Codex {
+                    // Codex will not run a hook it has not been told to
+                    // trust, and that approval is the operator's to give.
+                    println!("  codex will ask you to trust this hook the next time it starts");
+                }
+            }
+            Ok(false) => println!("{agent} activity hook already up to date"),
+            Err(e) => eprintln!("{agent} activity hook not installed: {e}"),
+        }
     }
     Ok(())
 }

crates/maestro-cli/src/sessions.rs

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ pub async fn run_spawn(client: &DaemonClient, args: SpawnArgs) -> Result<Session
     };
 
     let body = CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: Default::default(),
         cwd: args.cwd.clone(),
         command: args.command.clone(),
         env,
@@ -236,6 +237,7 @@ mod tests {
 
     fn session(cwd: &str, command: &str, id: u128) -> Session {
         Session {
+            view: Default::default(),
             id: Uuid::from_u128(id),
             cwd: PathBuf::from(cwd),
             command: command.into(),
@@ -252,6 +254,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            acp_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 

crates/maestro-cli/tests/against_mock_daemon.rs

@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ async fn spawn_round_trips_through_the_daemon() {
     let created = mock
         .client()
         .create_session(&maestro_protocol::CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: "/home/mock".into(),
             command: "bash".into(),
             env: Default::default(),

crates/maestro-config/src/lib.rs

@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ pub const FILE_NAME: &str = "config.toml";
 /// Last-resort daemon HTTP base, matching the daemon's own default `bind_addr`.
 pub const DEFAULT_DAEMON_URL: &str = "http://127.0.0.1:7070";
 
+/// Leader key both clients use when `[tui].leader` is unset (#159). Canonical
+/// key form, the spelling `InputKey::parse` and the web's `canonicalizeKey`
+/// both produce.
+pub const DEFAULT_LEADER: &str = "ctrl-a";
+
 #[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
 pub enum ConfigError {
     #[error("io: {0}")]
@@ -152,6 +157,15 @@ pub struct TuiSection {
     pub keymap_insert: BTreeMap<String, String>,
 }
 
+impl TuiSection {
+    /// The configured leader, or [`DEFAULT_LEADER`]. Named `[tui].leader` for
+    /// history, but read by every client: the daemon serves it on
+    /// `GET /api/info` so the web follows the same knob (#159).
+    pub fn leader(&self) -> &str {
+        self.leader.as_deref().unwrap_or(DEFAULT_LEADER)
+    }
+}
+
 /// Palette presets supported by the TUI's `[tui].theme` setting.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum TuiTheme {

crates/maestro-daemon/Cargo.toml

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ dirs.workspace = true
 futures-util.workspace = true
 include_dir = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 libc.workspace = true
+maestro-acp.workspace = true
 mime_guess = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 maestro-config.workspace = true
 maestro-hooks = { workspace = true, default-features = false }
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ tracing-subscriber.workspace = true
 uuid.workspace = true
 
 [dev-dependencies]
+libc.workspace = true
 reqwest.workspace = true
 tokio-tungstenite.workspace = true
 urlencoding = "2"

crates/maestro-daemon/src/attach.rs

@@ -26,11 +26,17 @@ pub(crate) async fn serve(
 ) -> Result<(), axum::Error> {
     let (mut sink, mut stream) = socket.split();
 
+    // This client's claim on the shared window size. Registered up front and
+    // released on every exit below, so a socket that dies mid-session stops
+    // constraining the size for the clients still attached.
+    let viewport = manager.attach_viewport();
+
     // NAP-229: send buffered scrollback up-front so the client sees the last
     // screenful immediately instead of a blank terminal. The replay lock the
     // bridge held during snapshot+subscribe guarantees no byte appears both
     // here and on the live receiver, and none is dropped at the seam.
     if !replay.is_empty() && sink.send(Message::Binary(replay)).await.is_err() {
+        manager.release_viewport(id, viewport).await;
         return Ok(());
     }
 
@@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn serve(
                     if let Ok(ctrl) = serde_json::from_str::<ClientControl>(&text) {
                         match ctrl {
                             ClientControl::Resize { cols, rows } => {
-                                let _ = manager.resize(id, cols, rows).await;
+                                let _ = manager.set_viewport(id, viewport, cols, rows).await;
                             }
                             ClientControl::Ping => {
                                 let pong = serde_json::to_string(&ClientControl::Pong)
@@ -88,6 +94,8 @@ pub(crate) async fn serve(
         }
     }
 
+    manager.release_viewport(id, viewport).await;
+
     if session_ended {
         let _ = sink.send(Message::Close(None)).await;
     }

crates/maestro-daemon/src/cli.rs

@@ -51,17 +51,23 @@ async fn run(config_override: Option<PathBuf>) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
     // First-start hook auto-install (#106). Best-effort, before serving: a
     // session spawned right away should already carry the hook.
     if config.hooks_auto_install {
-        match crate::hooks::auto_install(&config.home_dir) {
-            crate::hooks::AutoInstallOutcome::Installed => {
-                tracing::info!("installed claude-code activity hook (#106)");
+        for (target, outcome) in crate::hooks::auto_install(&config.home_dir) {
+            let agent = target.label();
+            match outcome {
+                crate::hooks::AutoInstallOutcome::Installed => {
+                    tracing::info!(agent, "installed activity hook (#106)");
+                }
+                crate::hooks::AutoInstallOutcome::Upgraded => {
+                    tracing::info!(agent, "updated activity hook to this build (#106)");
+                }
+                crate::hooks::AutoInstallOutcome::Failed => {
+                    tracing::warn!(
+                        agent,
+                        "hooks auto-install failed; run `maestro hooks install` manually"
+                    );
+                }
+                _ => {}
             }
-            crate::hooks::AutoInstallOutcome::Upgraded => {
-                tracing::info!("updated claude-code activity hook to this build (#106)");
-            }
-            crate::hooks::AutoInstallOutcome::Failed => {
-                tracing::warn!("hooks auto-install failed; run `maestro hooks install` manually");
-            }
-            _ => {}
         }
     }
     // No worktree dir to pre-create: without an override the worktrees live
@@ -100,20 +106,34 @@ async fn run(config_override: Option<PathBuf>) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
     projects.start_background_refresh();
 
     let router = local_api::router(local_api::state_for(
-        manager,
+        manager.clone(),
         config.hostname.clone(),
         config.home_dir.clone(),
         config.spawn_presets.clone(),
         projects,
+        config.leader.clone(),
     ));
 
     let listener = TcpListener::bind(config.bind_addr).await?;
     let bound = listener.local_addr()?;
     tracing::info!(addr = %bound, "API listening");
 
-    let shutdown = async {
-        let _ = tokio::signal::ctrl_c().await;
-        tracing::info!("ctrl-c received — shutting down");
+    // Ctrl-C at a terminal or SIGTERM from systemd: either one is a
+    // shutdown, and both must reach the adapter children below (#134). The
+    // unit's `KillMode=process` signals only the daemon, so nothing else
+    // would end them.
+    let shutdown_manager = manager.clone();
+    let shutdown = async move {
+        let mut sigterm = tokio::signal::unix::signal(tokio::signal::unix::SignalKind::terminate())
+            .expect("install SIGTERM handler");
+        tokio::select! {
+            _ = tokio::signal::ctrl_c() => tracing::info!("ctrl-c received — shutting down"),
+            _ = sigterm.recv() => tracing::info!("SIGTERM received — shutting down"),
+        }
+        // Axum waits for upgraded WebSockets to drain. Structured children
+        // must be settled before that wait, while the signal path still owns
+        // the shutdown order (#179).
+        shutdown_manager.shutdown().await;
     };
 
     axum::serve(listener, router)

crates/maestro-daemon/src/config.rs

@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ pub struct DaemonConfig {
     /// start when none is present (#106): `[hooks].auto_install`, default
     /// `true`.
     pub hooks_auto_install: bool,
+    /// Canonical leader key advertised to clients in `GET /api/info` (#159):
+    /// `[tui].leader`, default [`maestro_config::DEFAULT_LEADER`]. The daemon
+    /// never binds it itself; it serves it so the web client and the TUI read
+    /// one knob.
+    pub leader: String,
 }
 
 impl DaemonConfig {
@@ -197,6 +202,7 @@ pub fn load_config(path: &Path, env: EnvOverrides) -> Result<DaemonConfig, Confi
         project_roots,
         project_scan_depth,
         hooks_auto_install: file.hooks.auto_install(),
+        leader: file.tui.leader().to_string(),
     })
 }
 
@@ -233,6 +239,29 @@ pub fn system_hostname() -> String {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    /// #159: the leader the operator set for the TUI is what the daemon
+    /// advertises, so rebinding it once moves both clients' chord.
+    #[test]
+    fn leader_defaults_to_ctrl_a_and_follows_the_tui_section() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let path = dir.path().join("config.toml");
+
+        std::fs::write(&path, "").unwrap();
+        let cfg = load_config(&path, EnvOverrides::default()).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(cfg.leader, "ctrl-a");
+
+        std::fs::write(
+            &path,
+            r#"
+[tui]
+leader = "ctrl-b"
+"#,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let cfg = load_config(&path, EnvOverrides::default()).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(cfg.leader, "ctrl-b");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn hooks_auto_install_defaults_true_and_is_opt_out() {
         let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();

crates/maestro-daemon/src/hooks.rs

@@ -1,37 +1,53 @@
 //! First-start hook auto-install (#106).
 //!
-//! The daemon runs [`auto_install`] once at startup: unless the user's
-//! `~/.claude/settings.json` already carries exactly what this build ships
-//! (and `[hooks].auto_install` hasn't opted out — checked by the caller), the
-//! same installer `maestro hooks install` uses writes it. That covers
-//! upgrades as well as first starts: an install from a maestro that had fewer
-//! events — #131 added `UserPromptSubmit` to a hook #106 had already put in
-//! everyone's settings — is rewritten rather than left half-wired. Best-effort:
-//! a failure is warned about and never blocks startup. The same global hook
-//! serves every Claude Code session on the machine, so nothing here targets
-//! repositories or worktrees.
+//! The daemon runs [`auto_install`] once at startup: for every agent maestro
+//! knows how to hook ([`maestro_hooks::Target`]), unless that agent's hook
+//! file already carries exactly what this build ships (and `[hooks]
+//! .auto_install` hasn't opted out — checked by the caller), the same
+//! installer `maestro hooks install` uses writes it. That covers upgrades as
+//! well as first starts: an install from a maestro that had fewer events —
+//! #131 added `UserPromptSubmit` to a hook #106 had already put in everyone's
+//! settings — is rewritten rather than left half-wired. Best-effort: a
+//! failure is warned about and never blocks startup, and one target failing
+//! does not stop the others. The same global hook serves every session on the
+//! machine, so nothing here targets repositories or worktrees.
 
 use std::path::Path;
 
-/// Install the Claude Code activity hook for `home_dir` unless the current
-/// one is already there or the home dir is unresolvable (`""`). Returns what
-/// happened; an older install being brought up to date is
-/// [`AutoInstallOutcome::Upgraded`], so the log can say so.
-pub fn auto_install(home_dir: &str) -> AutoInstallOutcome {
+use maestro_hooks::Target;
+
+/// Install the activity hook for every [`Target`] under `home_dir`, skipping
+/// any whose install is already current. Returns what happened per target —
+/// an older install being brought up to date is
+/// [`AutoInstallOutcome::Upgraded`], so the log can say so. An unresolvable
+/// home dir (`""`) reports every target as [`AutoInstallOutcome::Skipped`].
+pub fn auto_install(home_dir: &str) -> Vec<(Target, AutoInstallOutcome)> {
+    Target::ALL
+        .iter()
+        .map(|&target| (target, auto_install_target(target, home_dir)))
+        .collect()
+}
+
+fn auto_install_target(target: Target, home_dir: &str) -> AutoInstallOutcome {
     if home_dir.is_empty() {
         return AutoInstallOutcome::Skipped;
     }
-    let settings = maestro_hooks::settings_path(Path::new(home_dir));
-    let script = maestro_hooks::script_path(Path::new(home_dir));
-    if maestro_hooks::is_current(&settings, &script) {
+    let home = Path::new(home_dir);
+    let settings = target.settings_path(home);
+    let script = maestro_hooks::script_path(home);
+    if maestro_hooks::is_current(target, &settings, &script) {
         return AutoInstallOutcome::AlreadyPresent;
     }
     let stale = maestro_hooks::is_installed(&settings);
-    match maestro_hooks::install_for_home(Path::new(home_dir)) {
+    match maestro_hooks::install_target(target, home) {
         Ok(_) if stale => AutoInstallOutcome::Upgraded,
         Ok(_) => AutoInstallOutcome::Installed,
         Err(e) => {
-            tracing::warn!(error = %e, "hooks auto-install failed (non-fatal)");
+            tracing::warn!(
+                target = target.label(),
+                error = %e,
+                "hooks auto-install failed (non-fatal)"
+            );
             AutoInstallOutcome::Failed
         }
     }
@@ -52,15 +68,50 @@ pub enum AutoInstallOutcome {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    /// The outcome recorded for one target.
+    fn outcome(outcomes: &[(Target, AutoInstallOutcome)], target: Target) -> AutoInstallOutcome {
+        outcomes
+            .iter()
+            .find(|(t, _)| *t == target)
+            .map(|(_, o)| *o)
+            .expect("every target is reported")
+    }
+
     /// Everything happens under a temp `$HOME`; the developer's own
-    /// `~/.claude/settings.json` is never read or written.
+    /// `~/.claude/settings.json` and `~/.codex/hooks.json` are never read or
+    /// written.
     #[test]
     fn installs_when_settings_carry_no_maestro_hook() {
         let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
-        let outcome = auto_install(dir.path().to_str().unwrap());
-        assert_eq!(outcome, AutoInstallOutcome::Installed);
-        let settings = dir.path().join(".claude/settings.json");
-        assert!(maestro_hooks::is_installed(&settings));
+        let outcomes = auto_install(dir.path().to_str().unwrap());
+        for target in Target::ALL {
+            assert_eq!(
+                outcome(&outcomes, target),
+                AutoInstallOutcome::Installed,
+                "{}",
+                target.label()
+            );
+            assert!(maestro_hooks::is_installed(
+                &target.settings_path(dir.path())
+            ));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Every agent maestro knows about is hooked, not just Claude Code: a
+    /// codex session reports activity and its first prompt the same way.
+    #[test]
+    fn codex_gets_its_own_hook_file() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        auto_install(dir.path().to_str().unwrap());
+        let hooks = dir.path().join(".codex/hooks.json");
+        let root: serde_json::Value =
+            serde_json::from_str(&std::fs::read_to_string(&hooks).unwrap()).unwrap();
+        let events = root["hooks"].as_object().unwrap();
+        assert!(events.contains_key("PermissionRequest"));
+        assert!(
+            !events.contains_key("Notification"),
+            "codex has no Notification"
+        );
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -69,14 +120,22 @@ mod tests {
         let home = dir.path().to_str().unwrap();
         auto_install(home);
         // A current install is left exactly as it is.
-        let settings = dir.path().join(".claude/settings.json");
-        let before = std::fs::read_to_string(&settings).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(auto_install(home), AutoInstallOutcome::AlreadyPresent);
-        assert_eq!(
-            before,
-            std::fs::read_to_string(&settings).unwrap(),
-            "already-installed settings must not be rewritten"
-        );
+        let before: Vec<String> = Target::ALL
+            .iter()
+            .map(|t| std::fs::read_to_string(t.settings_path(dir.path())).unwrap())
+            .collect();
+        let outcomes = auto_install(home);
+        for (i, target) in Target::ALL.iter().enumerate() {
+            assert_eq!(
+                outcome(&outcomes, *target),
+                AutoInstallOutcome::AlreadyPresent
+            );
+            assert_eq!(
+                before[i],
+                std::fs::read_to_string(target.settings_path(dir.path())).unwrap(),
+                "already-installed settings must not be rewritten"
+            );
+        }
     }
 
     /// An install from an older maestro — present, but missing an event this
@@ -87,7 +146,7 @@ mod tests {
         let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
         let home = dir.path().to_str().unwrap();
         auto_install(home);
-        let settings = dir.path().join(".claude/settings.json");
+        let settings = Target::ClaudeCode.settings_path(dir.path());
         let script = maestro_hooks::script_path(dir.path());
 
         let mut root: serde_json::Value =
@@ -96,12 +155,23 @@ mod tests {
         std::fs::write(&settings, serde_json::to_string_pretty(&root).unwrap()).unwrap();
         std::fs::write(&script, "#!/bin/sh\nexit 0\n").unwrap();
 
-        assert_eq!(auto_install(home), AutoInstallOutcome::Upgraded);
-        assert!(maestro_hooks::is_current(&settings, &script));
+        let outcomes = auto_install(home);
+        assert_eq!(
+            outcome(&outcomes, Target::ClaudeCode),
+            AutoInstallOutcome::Upgraded
+        );
+        assert!(maestro_hooks::is_current(
+            Target::ClaudeCode,
+            &settings,
+            &script
+        ));
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn unresolvable_home_is_skipped() {
-        assert_eq!(auto_install(""), AutoInstallOutcome::Skipped);
+        let outcomes = auto_install("");
+        for target in Target::ALL {
+            assert_eq!(outcome(&outcomes, target), AutoInstallOutcome::Skipped);
+        }
     }
 }

crates/maestro-daemon/src/lib.rs

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ pub mod spawn_history;
 #[cfg(feature = "web")]
 pub mod static_bundle;
 pub mod tmux;
+pub mod viewport;
 pub mod worktree;
 pub mod worktree_probe;
 

crates/maestro-daemon/src/local_api.rs

@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ pub struct LocalApiState {
     pub presets: Arc<Vec<SpawnPreset>>,
     /// Project discovery (#54) backing `GET /api/projects`.
     pub projects: Arc<crate::projects::ProjectScanner>,
+    /// Configured leader key (`[tui].leader`) advertised in `GET /api/info`
+    /// (#159), so the web client binds the chord the operator configured
+    /// rather than its own default.
+    pub leader: Arc<String>,
 }
 
 pub fn router(state: LocalApiState) -> Router {
@@ -219,6 +223,7 @@ async fn daemon_info(State(s): State<LocalApiState>) -> Json<DaemonInfo> {
         presets: (*s.presets).clone(),
         build: crate::release::build_info(),
         instance: crate::release::instance_id().to_string(),
+        leader: (*s.leader).clone(),
     })
 }
 
@@ -374,6 +379,7 @@ pub fn state_for(
     home_dir: impl Into<String>,
     presets: Vec<SpawnPreset>,
     projects: Arc<crate::projects::ProjectScanner>,
+    leader: impl Into<String>,
 ) -> LocalApiState {
     LocalApiState {
         manager,
@@ -381,6 +387,7 @@ pub fn state_for(
         home_dir: Arc::new(home_dir.into()),
         presets: Arc::new(presets),
         projects,
+        leader: Arc::new(leader.into()),
     }
 }
 

crates/maestro-daemon/src/session.rs

@@ -7,22 +7,25 @@
 
 use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
 use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, AtomicU64, Ordering};
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::Duration;
 
 use chrono::Utc;
+use maestro_acp::{AcpSession, SpawnConfig};
 use maestro_protocol::{
     ActivityState, CatalogEvent, CreateSessionRequest, ErrorInfo, NameSource, Session,
-    SessionStatus, WorktreeSpec, NAME_KEY, NAME_SOURCE_KEY,
+    SessionStatus, SessionView, WorktreeSpec, NAME_KEY, NAME_SOURCE_KEY,
 };
-use tokio::sync::{broadcast, Mutex};
+use tokio::sync::{broadcast, watch, Mutex};
 use uuid::Uuid;
 
 use crate::panes::Panes;
 use crate::pty::{pipe_pane_command, PtyBridge};
-use crate::sidecar::{SidecarError, SidecarStore};
+use crate::sidecar::{EventCursor, EventLog, LoggedEvent, SidecarError, SidecarStore};
 use crate::spawn_history::{RecentDir, SpawnHistory, SpawnHistoryRecord};
 use crate::tmux::TmuxError;
+use crate::viewport::{ViewportId, Viewports};
 use crate::worktree::{WorktreeError, WorktreeManager};
 
 /// Capacity of the session-events broadcast channel. A subscriber that falls
@@ -85,6 +88,24 @@ pub struct SessionRecord {
     /// glow, this holds through focus loss until the session does new work.
     /// Daemon-local; never rides the wire.
     pub awaiting_suppressed: bool,
+    /// The `claude-code-acp` child behind a [`SessionView::Structured`]
+    /// session (#134): its connection, pid and the raw notification stream.
+    /// `None` for terminal sessions and for a structured session whose
+    /// adapter never came up. Shared so a kill or shutdown can terminate it
+    /// outside the sessions lock. Daemon-local; never rides the wire.
+    pub acp: Option<Arc<AcpSession>>,
+    /// Open log plus its post-append live sender. Their shared lock is the
+    /// replay/live seam used by the structured WebSocket in #138.
+    acp_events: Option<Arc<Mutex<AcpEventStream>>>,
+    /// Completion signal for the task draining ACP notifications into the
+    /// event log. Shutdown waits for it before returning.
+    acp_event_pump: Option<watch::Receiver<bool>>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct AcpEventStream {
+    log: EventLog,
+    live: broadcast::Sender<LoggedEvent>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
@@ -166,6 +187,17 @@ struct Inner {
     report_ttl: Duration,
     sessions: Mutex<HashMap<Uuid, SessionRecord>>,
     events: broadcast::Sender<CatalogEvent>,
+    /// Sizes reported by the clients attached to each session, and what tmux
+    /// was last told. See [`crate::viewport`] for why the window is not simply
+    /// set to whatever arrived most recently.
+    viewports: Mutex<Viewports>,
+    /// Hands out [`ViewportId`]s. Monotonic for the daemon's lifetime, so a
+    /// client that reconnects never collides with the registration its
+    /// previous socket has not finished releasing.
+    next_viewport: AtomicU64,
+    /// Once daemon shutdown starts, it owns structured-session finalization.
+    /// Background passes must not classify those deliberate exits as natural.
+    shutting_down: AtomicBool,
 }
 
 impl SessionManager {
@@ -206,6 +238,9 @@ impl SessionManager {
                 report_ttl: crate::activity::REPORT_TTL,
                 sessions: Mutex::new(HashMap::new()),
                 events,
+                viewports: Mutex::new(Viewports::new()),
+                next_viewport: AtomicU64::new(0),
+                shutting_down: AtomicBool::new(false),
             }),
         }
     }
@@ -275,6 +310,82 @@ impl SessionManager {
         sessions.values().map(|r| r.session.clone()).collect()
     }
 
+    /// Read replay and acquire its live continuation under the same lock.
+    /// Events are therefore present exactly once across the returned seam.
+    pub async fn subscribe_acp_events_with_replay(
+        &self,
+        id: Uuid,
+        cursor: EventCursor,
+        limit: usize,
+    ) -> Result<Option<(Vec<LoggedEvent>, broadcast::Receiver<LoggedEvent>)>, SessionError> {
+        let stream = {
+            let sessions = self.inner.sessions.lock().await;
+            let Some(record) = sessions.get(&id) else {
+                return Ok(None);
+            };
+            let Some(stream) = &record.acp_events else {
+                return Ok(None);
+            };
+            stream.clone()
+        };
+        let stream = stream.lock().await;
+        let live = stream.live.subscribe();
+        let replay = self.inner.sidecar.read_events(id, cursor, limit)?;
+        Ok(Some((replay, live)))
+    }
+
+    /// Read a cursor-bounded slice of the durable structured-session log.
+    pub fn read_acp_events(
+        &self,
+        id: Uuid,
+        cursor: EventCursor,
+        limit: usize,
+    ) -> Result<Vec<LoggedEvent>, SessionError> {
+        self.inner
+            .sidecar
+            .read_events(id, cursor, limit)
+            .map_err(SessionError::Sidecar)
+    }
+
+    /// End every adapter child before the daemon exits (#134): each gets
+    /// `session/cancel`, then SIGTERM, concurrently. The sessions stay in
+    /// the map, marked Dead and written through to their sidecars, so what
+    /// is on disk after the restart is truthful. tmux sessions are left
+    /// alone — surviving a restart is what they are for.
+    pub async fn shutdown(&self) {
+        if self.inner.shutting_down.swap(true, Ordering::AcqRel) {
+            return;
+        }
+        let children: Vec<(Uuid, Arc<AcpSession>, Option<watch::Receiver<bool>>)> = {
+            let sessions = self.inner.sessions.lock().await;
+            sessions
+                .iter()
+                .filter_map(|(id, r)| {
+                    (r.session.status == SessionStatus::Running)
+                        .then_some(())
+                        .and_then(|()| r.acp.clone())
+                        .map(|acp| (*id, acp, r.acp_event_pump.clone()))
+                })
+                .collect()
+        };
+        if children.is_empty() {
+            return;
+        }
+        tracing::info!(count = children.len(), "shutdown: ending adapter children");
+        let terminations = children
+            .iter()
+            .map(|(_, acp, _)| acp.terminate(maestro_acp::CANCEL_GRACE, maestro_acp::TERM_GRACE));
+        futures_util::future::join_all(terminations).await;
+        let drains = children
+            .iter()
+            .filter_map(|(_, _, done)| done.clone())
+            .map(wait_for_event_pump);
+        futures_util::future::join_all(drains).await;
+        for (id, _, _) in children {
+            mark_session_dead_after_shutdown(&self.inner, id).await;
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Subscribe to a session's PTY broadcast. `None` if the session is
     /// unknown to this daemon.
     pub async fn subscribe_pty(&self, id: Uuid) -> Option<broadcast::Receiver<Vec<u8>>> {
@@ -305,7 +416,7 @@ impl SessionManager {
             // replayed from it renders as garbage until something forces a
             // repaint. A dead session has no pane left to capture, so it
             // keeps the byte tail.
-            let alive = rec.session.status == SessionStatus::Running;
+            let alive = rec.session.status == SessionStatus::Running && rec.acp.is_none();
             // The capture shells out to tmux while the replay lock is held,
             // which parks the reader for the length of one tmux round-trip.
             // That only happens on attach, and the alternative is a seam in
@@ -415,20 +526,66 @@ impl SessionManager {
         {
             session_env.insert("MAESTRO_URL".into(), url);
         }
-        let spawned = {
-            let tmux = self.inner.tmux.clone();
-            let cwd = effective_cwd.clone();
-            let command = req.command.clone();
-            let sink = pipe_pane_command(&fifo_path);
-            let env = session_env.clone();
-            tmux_blocking(move || tmux.new_session_piped(id, &cwd, &command, &env, &sink)).await
+        // A structured session (#134) gets no tmux pane: the agent is a
+        // child of the daemon, driven over ACP. An adapter that cannot come
+        // up still yields a session — Dead, with the reason on it — so the
+        // operator sees what to fix instead of a silently missing session.
+        let (acp, acp_failure) = match req.view {
+            SessionView::Structured => {
+                match maestro_acp::spawn(SpawnConfig::new(
+                    &effective_cwd,
+                    session_env
+                        .iter()
+                        .map(|(k, v)| (k.clone(), v.clone()))
+                        .collect(),
+                ))
+                .await
+                {
+                    Ok(acp) => (Some(Arc::new(acp)), None),
+                    Err(e) => {
+                        tracing::warn!(%id, error = %e, "structured session: adapter failed to start");
+                        (None, Some(e.to_string()))
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            SessionView::Terminal => {
+                let spawned = {
+                    let tmux = self.inner.tmux.clone();
+                    let cwd = effective_cwd.clone();
+                    let command = req.command.clone();
+                    let sink = pipe_pane_command(&fifo_path);
+                    let env = session_env.clone();
+                    tmux_blocking(move || tmux.new_session_piped(id, &cwd, &command, &env, &sink))
+                        .await
+                };
+                if let Err(e) = spawned {
+                    // `bridge` drops at the end of this block, closing the
+                    // FIFO reader.
+                    let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&fifo_path);
+                    self.rollback_worktree(&worktree_base_repo, &worktree_path);
+                    return Err(SessionError::Tmux(e));
+                }
+                (None, None)
+            }
+        };
+
+        let acp_events = if let Some(acp) = &acp {
+            match self.inner.sidecar.open_events(id) {
+                Ok(log) => {
+                    let (tx, _) = broadcast::channel(EVENTS_CAPACITY);
+                    Some(Arc::new(Mutex::new(AcpEventStream { log, live: tx })))
+                }
+                Err(e) => {
+                    acp.terminate(maestro_acp::CANCEL_GRACE, maestro_acp::TERM_GRACE)
+                        .await;
+                    let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&fifo_path);
+                    self.rollback_worktree(&worktree_base_repo, &worktree_path);
+                    return Err(SessionError::Sidecar(e));
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            None
         };
-        if let Err(e) = spawned {
-            // `bridge` drops at the end of this block, closing the FIFO reader.
-            let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&fifo_path);
-            self.rollback_worktree(&worktree_base_repo, &worktree_path);
-            return Err(SessionError::Tmux(e));
-        }
 
         // Capture spawn-history inputs before `req` is partially moved into
         // `session`. `history_cwd` is the *chosen* working dir (the request
@@ -451,13 +608,21 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     base_repo: base_repo.clone(),
                 },
             ),
-            status: SessionStatus::Running,
+            status: if acp_failure.is_some() {
+                SessionStatus::Dead
+            } else {
+                SessionStatus::Running
+            },
             created_at: Utc::now(),
             // A freshly-spawned session is producing its initial output; the
             // activity watcher refines `foreground`/`activity` on its next tick.
             foreground: None,
-            activity: ActivityState::Active,
-            activity_detail: None,
+            activity: if acp_failure.is_some() {
+                ActivityState::Error
+            } else {
+                ActivityState::Active
+            },
+            activity_detail: acp_failure,
             last_activity_at: Utc::now(),
             activity_since: chrono::Utc::now(),
 
@@ -466,18 +631,33 @@ impl SessionManager {
             // fresh tree has nothing in the way anyway.
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            acp_session_id: acp.as_ref().map(|a| a.session_id().to_string()),
+            view: req.view,
         };
 
         if let Err(e) = self.inner.sidecar.write(&session) {
-            // tmux already spawned the session; kill it so no ghost survives a
+            // The process already started; end it so no ghost survives a
             // failed sidecar write, then unwind the FIFO + worktree.
-            let tmux = self.inner.tmux.clone();
-            let _ = tmux_blocking(move || tmux.kill_session(id)).await;
+            match &acp {
+                Some(acp) => {
+                    acp.terminate(maestro_acp::CANCEL_GRACE, maestro_acp::TERM_GRACE)
+                        .await
+                }
+                None => {
+                    let tmux = self.inner.tmux.clone();
+                    let _ = tmux_blocking(move || tmux.kill_session(id)).await;
+                }
+            }
             let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&fifo_path);
+            let _ = self.inner.sidecar.delete(id);
             self.rollback_worktree(&worktree_base_repo, &worktree_path);
             return Err(SessionError::Sidecar(e));
         }
 
+        let event_pump = acp
+            .as_ref()
+            .zip(acp_events.as_ref())
+            .map(|(acp, events)| (acp.clone(), events.clone()));
         {
             let mut sessions = self.inner.sessions.lock().await;
             sessions.insert(
@@ -494,9 +674,18 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     naming: false,
                     focused_since: None,
                     awaiting_suppressed: false,
+                    acp,
+                    acp_events,
+                    acp_event_pump: None,
                 },
             );
         }
+        if let Some((acp, events)) = event_pump {
+            let done = start_acp_event_pump(&self.inner, id, &acp, events);
+            if let Some(record) = self.inner.sessions.lock().await.get_mut(&id) {
+                record.acp_event_pump = Some(done);
+            }
+        }
         let _ = self.inner.events.send(CatalogEvent::SessionAdded {
             session: session.clone(),
         });
@@ -563,7 +752,9 @@ impl SessionManager {
                         .worktree_base_repo
                         .clone()
                         .zip(record.worktree_path.clone()),
-                    record.session.status == SessionStatus::Running,
+                    // A structured session has no pane to kill; its child is
+                    // ended through the ACP handle in `cleanup_record`.
+                    record.session.status == SessionStatus::Running && record.acp.is_none(),
                 ),
             }
         };
@@ -671,6 +862,10 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     current_cwd: None,
                     blocked_work: None,
                     last_focused_at: None,
+                    acp_session_id: None,
+                    // Unknown on adoption without a sidecar; matches every
+                    // other field's forward-compat default.
+                    view: maestro_protocol::SessionView::Terminal,
                 },
             };
             let fifo_path = self.inner.fifo_dir.join(format!("{id}.fifo"));
@@ -702,6 +897,11 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     naming: false,
                     focused_since: None,
                     awaiting_suppressed: false,
+                    // A structured session's adapter died with the previous
+                    // daemon; only tmux-backed sessions can be adopted.
+                    acp: None,
+                    acp_events: None,
+                    acp_event_pump: None,
                 },
             );
             let _ = self
@@ -710,6 +910,138 @@ impl SessionManager {
                 .send(CatalogEvent::SessionAdded { session });
             adopted += 1;
         }
+
+        // Structured sessions have no tmux process to discover. Their
+        // sidecars are the recovery inventory: when an ACP id exists, start a
+        // fresh adapter process and load that conversation into it.
+        for mut session in self
+            .inner
+            .sidecar
+            .load_all()?
+            .into_iter()
+            .filter(|session| session.view == SessionView::Structured)
+        {
+            if self.inner.sessions.lock().await.contains_key(&session.id) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            let id = session.id;
+            let mut session_env = sanitize_env(&session.env)?;
+            let fifo_path = self.inner.fifo_dir.join(format!("{id}.fifo"));
+            let bridge =
+                PtyBridge::start_with_replay(fifo_path.clone(), self.inner.replay_bytes).await?;
+            session_env.insert("MAESTRO_SESSION_ID".into(), id.to_string());
+            if let Some(url) = self
+                .inner
+                .daemon_url
+                .lock()
+                .expect("daemon_url mutex")
+                .clone()
+            {
+                session_env.insert("MAESTRO_URL".into(), url);
+            }
+
+            let (acp, failure) = match session.acp_session_id.clone() {
+                Some(acp_session_id) => {
+                    let config = SpawnConfig::new(
+                        &session.cwd,
+                        session_env
+                            .iter()
+                            .map(|(key, value)| (key.clone(), value.clone()))
+                            .collect(),
+                    )
+                    .load_session(acp_session_id);
+                    match maestro_acp::spawn(config).await {
+                        Ok(acp) => (Some(Arc::new(acp)), None),
+                        Err(error) => {
+                            tracing::warn!(%id, %error, "structured session: adapter failed to resume");
+                            (None, Some(error.to_string()))
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                None => (
+                    None,
+                    Some("structured session has no stored ACP session id".into()),
+                ),
+            };
+            session.status = if failure.is_some() {
+                SessionStatus::Dead
+            } else {
+                SessionStatus::Running
+            };
+            session.activity = if failure.is_some() {
+                ActivityState::Error
+            } else {
+                ActivityState::Active
+            };
+            session.activity_detail = failure;
+
+            let acp_events = if let Some(acp) = &acp {
+                match self.inner.sidecar.open_events(id) {
+                    Ok(log) => {
+                        let (tx, _) = broadcast::channel(EVENTS_CAPACITY);
+                        Some(Arc::new(Mutex::new(AcpEventStream { log, live: tx })))
+                    }
+                    Err(error) => {
+                        acp.terminate(maestro_acp::CANCEL_GRACE, maestro_acp::TERM_GRACE)
+                            .await;
+                        let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&fifo_path);
+                        return Err(SessionError::Sidecar(error));
+                    }
+                }
+            } else {
+                None
+            };
+            if let Err(error) = self.inner.sidecar.write(&session) {
+                if let Some(acp) = &acp {
+                    acp.terminate(maestro_acp::CANCEL_GRACE, maestro_acp::TERM_GRACE)
+                        .await;
+                }
+                let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&fifo_path);
+                return Err(SessionError::Sidecar(error));
+            }
+            let event_pump = acp
+                .as_ref()
+                .zip(acp_events.as_ref())
+                .map(|(acp, events)| (acp.clone(), events.clone()));
+
+            self.inner.sessions.lock().await.insert(
+                id,
+                SessionRecord {
+                    session: session.clone(),
+                    fifo_path,
+                    worktree_path: session
+                        .worktree
+                        .as_ref()
+                        .map(|worktree| worktree.path.clone()),
+                    worktree_base_repo: session
+                        .worktree
+                        .as_ref()
+                        .map(|worktree| worktree.base_repo.clone()),
+                    bridge,
+                    reported_activity: None,
+                    settled: false,
+                    #[cfg(feature = "haiku-autoname")]
+                    naming: false,
+                    focused_since: None,
+                    awaiting_suppressed: false,
+                    acp,
+                    acp_events,
+                    acp_event_pump: None,
+                },
+            );
+            if let Some((acp, events)) = event_pump {
+                let done = start_acp_event_pump(&self.inner, id, &acp, events);
+                if let Some(record) = self.inner.sessions.lock().await.get_mut(&id) {
+                    record.acp_event_pump = Some(done);
+                }
+            }
+            let _ = self
+                .inner
+                .events
+                .send(CatalogEvent::SessionAdded { session });
+            adopted += 1;
+        }
         Ok(adopted)
     }
 
@@ -770,6 +1102,52 @@ impl SessionManager {
             .map_err(SessionError::Tmux)
     }
 
+    /// Register a client that is about to start reporting its display size,
+    /// and hand back the handle it reports under.
+    ///
+    /// Cheap and infallible: the session it will report against is not
+    /// consulted until the first [`Self::set_viewport`].
+    pub fn attach_viewport(&self) -> ViewportId {
+        self.inner.next_viewport.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed)
+    }
+
+    /// A client reported the size it can display.
+    ///
+    /// The shared tmux window is resized only when the size arbitrated across
+    /// every attached client actually changes — see [`crate::viewport`]. Two
+    /// clients of different sizes used to resize the window past each other on
+    /// every report, which leaves a full-screen agent repainting into rows it
+    /// never clears and looking, to the operator, like a pane that has stopped
+    /// accepting input.
+    pub async fn set_viewport(
+        &self,
+        id: Uuid,
+        viewport: ViewportId,
+        cols: u16,
+        rows: u16,
+    ) -> Result<(), SessionError> {
+        let target = self
+            .inner
+            .viewports
+            .lock()
+            .await
+            .set(id, viewport, cols, rows);
+        match target {
+            Some((cols, rows)) => self.resize(id, cols, rows).await,
+            None => Ok(()),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Drop a detached client's claim on the window size, resizing to what the
+    /// clients still attached can display. Errors are the caller's to ignore:
+    /// a socket closing because its session died has nothing left to resize.
+    pub async fn release_viewport(&self, id: Uuid, viewport: ViewportId) {
+        let target = self.inner.viewports.lock().await.release(id, viewport);
+        if let Some((cols, rows)) = target {
+            let _ = self.resize(id, cols, rows).await;
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Rename a session (#125): set `metadata.name`, or clear it when the
     /// requested name is blank so the session falls back to its command.
     ///
@@ -989,6 +1367,55 @@ fn sanitize_env(
     Ok(out)
 }
 
+fn start_acp_event_pump(
+    inner: &Arc<Inner>,
+    id: Uuid,
+    acp: &Arc<AcpSession>,
+    events: Arc<Mutex<AcpEventStream>>,
+) -> watch::Receiver<bool> {
+    let (done_tx, done_rx) = watch::channel(false);
+    let Some(mut updates) = acp.take_updates() else {
+        tracing::error!(%id, "structured session notification stream was already taken");
+        let _ = done_tx.send(true);
+        return done_rx;
+    };
+    let weak_inner = Arc::downgrade(inner);
+    let weak_acp = Arc::downgrade(acp);
+    tokio::spawn(async move {
+        while let Some(notification) = updates.recv().await {
+            let append_error = {
+                let mut events = events.lock().await;
+                match events.log.append(&notification) {
+                    Ok(seq) => {
+                        let _ = events.live.send(LoggedEvent { seq, notification });
+                        None
+                    }
+                    Err(error) => Some(error),
+                }
+            };
+            if let Some(error) = append_error {
+                tracing::error!(%id, %error, "structured event log append failed");
+                if let Some(acp) = weak_acp.upgrade() {
+                    acp.terminate(maestro_acp::CANCEL_GRACE, maestro_acp::TERM_GRACE)
+                        .await;
+                }
+                if let Some(inner) = weak_inner.upgrade() {
+                    mark_session_dead(&inner, id).await;
+                }
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        let _ = done_tx.send(true);
+    });
+    done_rx
+}
+
+async fn wait_for_event_pump(mut done: watch::Receiver<bool>) {
+    if !*done.borrow() {
+        let _ = done.wait_for(|finished| *finished).await;
+    }
+}
+
 async fn tmux_blocking<T, F>(f: F) -> T
 where
     F: FnOnce() -> T + Send + 'static,
@@ -1019,27 +1446,45 @@ async fn probe_worktree(
 /// One pass of the liveness watcher: diff the in-memory session set against
 /// the tmux-reported one, and reap anything we still track but tmux has lost.
 async fn run_liveness_pass(inner: &Arc<Inner>) {
+    if inner.shutting_down.load(Ordering::Acquire) {
+        return;
+    }
     // Snapshot the in-memory ids first; if we own no sessions there is
     // nothing to reap and no reason to spawn a tmux subprocess (this also
     // avoids racing with the very first `new-session` that would otherwise
     // be competing to start the tmux server).
     // Only sessions we still believe are running can transition; a session
     // already marked Dead must not re-emit an update on every 2s tick.
-    let known: Vec<Uuid> = {
+    // A structured session (#134) is not in tmux at all: its liveness is its
+    // adapter child, checked through the ACP handle instead.
+    let (tmux_backed, acp_backed): (Vec<Uuid>, Vec<(Uuid, Arc<AcpSession>)>) = {
         let sessions = inner.sessions.lock().await;
         if sessions.is_empty() {
             return;
         }
-        sessions
+        let running = sessions
             .iter()
-            .filter(|(_, r)| r.session.status == SessionStatus::Running)
-            .map(|(id, _)| *id)
-            .collect()
+            .filter(|(_, r)| r.session.status == SessionStatus::Running);
+        let mut tmux_backed = Vec::new();
+        let mut acp_backed = Vec::new();
+        for (id, record) in running {
+            match &record.acp {
+                Some(acp) => acp_backed.push((*id, acp.clone())),
+                None => tmux_backed.push(*id),
+            }
+        }
+        (tmux_backed, acp_backed)
     };
-    if known.is_empty() {
-        return;
+
+    for (id, acp) in acp_backed {
+        if acp.has_exited() {
+            mark_session_dead(inner, id).await;
+        }
     }
 
+    if tmux_backed.is_empty() {
+        return;
+    }
     let live_ids = {
         let tmux = inner.tmux.clone();
         match tmux_blocking(move || tmux.list_sessions()).await {
@@ -1052,7 +1497,7 @@ async fn run_liveness_pass(inner: &Arc<Inner>) {
     };
     let live: HashSet<Uuid> = live_ids.into_iter().collect();
 
-    for id in known {
+    for id in tmux_backed {
         if !live.contains(&id) {
             mark_session_dead(inner, id).await;
         }
@@ -1063,6 +1508,9 @@ async fn run_liveness_pass(inner: &Arc<Inner>) {
 /// `SessionUpdated` only when `activity` or `foreground` actually changes — so a
 /// steady state produces no diffs. Runs on the existing liveness tick.
 async fn run_activity_pass(inner: &Arc<Inner>) {
+    if inner.shutting_down.load(Ordering::Acquire) {
+        return;
+    }
     let ids: Vec<Uuid> = {
         let sessions = inner.sessions.lock().await;
         if sessions.is_empty() {
@@ -1105,6 +1553,9 @@ async fn run_activity_pass(inner: &Arc<Inner>) {
 
         let updated = {
             let mut sessions = inner.sessions.lock().await;
+            if inner.shutting_down.load(Ordering::Acquire) {
+                return;
+            }
             let Some(rec) = sessions.get_mut(&id) else {
                 continue;
             };
@@ -1179,6 +1630,9 @@ async fn run_activity_pass(inner: &Arc<Inner>) {
 /// error must not read as "nothing blocks". Like the activity pass, this only
 /// emits `SessionUpdated` when the value actually changed.
 async fn run_blocked_work_pass(inner: &Arc<Inner>) {
+    if inner.shutting_down.load(Ordering::Acquire) {
+        return;
+    }
     let targets: Vec<(Uuid, (PathBuf, PathBuf))> = {
         let sessions = inner.sessions.lock().await;
         sessions
@@ -1206,6 +1660,9 @@ async fn run_blocked_work_pass(inner: &Arc<Inner>) {
         };
         let updated = {
             let mut sessions = inner.sessions.lock().await;
+            if inner.shutting_down.load(Ordering::Acquire) {
+                return;
+            }
             let Some(rec) = sessions.get_mut(&id) else {
                 continue;
             };
@@ -1222,7 +1679,7 @@ async fn run_blocked_work_pass(inner: &Arc<Inner>) {
     }
 }
 
-/// Mark a session whose tmux session has disappeared as [`SessionStatus::Dead`]
+/// Mark a session whose backing process has disappeared as [`SessionStatus::Dead`]
 /// and settle its worktree per the natural-exit rule (#82).
 ///
 /// The record, its [`PtyBridge`] and its sidecar all survive, so a client can
@@ -1234,9 +1691,27 @@ async fn run_blocked_work_pass(inner: &Arc<Inner>) {
 /// alone and stays attached to the dead record for a later forced dismissal
 /// (#81), which leaves it on disk too.
 ///
-/// Dead sessions do not survive a daemon restart: [`SessionManager::recover`]
-/// adopts only what tmux still holds.
+/// Terminal sessions that die naturally do not survive a daemon restart:
+/// [`SessionManager::recover`] adopts only what tmux still holds. Structured
+/// sessions stopped for daemon shutdown retain their sidecars for ACP recovery.
 async fn mark_session_dead(inner: &Arc<Inner>, id: Uuid) {
+    if inner.shutting_down.load(Ordering::Acquire) {
+        return;
+    }
+    mark_session_dead_with_worktree_settlement(inner, id, true).await;
+}
+
+/// A daemon restart terminates ACP children, but it is not a natural adapter
+/// exit: the sidecar is the recovery inventory, including its worktree.
+async fn mark_session_dead_after_shutdown(inner: &Arc<Inner>, id: Uuid) {
+    mark_session_dead_with_worktree_settlement(inner, id, false).await;
+}
+
+async fn mark_session_dead_with_worktree_settlement(
+    inner: &Arc<Inner>,
+    id: Uuid,
+    settle_worktree: bool,
+) {
     let flipped = {
         let mut sessions = inner.sessions.lock().await;
         match sessions.get_mut(&id) {
@@ -1258,19 +1733,21 @@ async fn mark_session_dead(inner: &Arc<Inner>, id: Uuid) {
     let Some((mut session, worktree)) = flipped else {
         return;
     };
-    tracing::info!(%id, "session vanished from tmux — marking dead");
+    tracing::info!(%id, "session process gone — marking dead");
 
-    if let Some(wt) = &worktree {
-        if settle_worktree_on_exit(inner, id, wt).await {
-            // The tree is settled (removed); a stale "in the way" would
-            // describe something the session no longer holds.
-            session.blocked_work = None;
-            let mut sessions = inner.sessions.lock().await;
-            if let Some(record) = sessions.get_mut(&id) {
-                record.session.worktree = None;
-                record.session.blocked_work = None;
-                record.worktree_path = None;
-                record.worktree_base_repo = None;
+    if settle_worktree {
+        if let Some(wt) = &worktree {
+            if settle_worktree_on_exit(inner, id, wt).await {
+                // The tree is settled (removed); a stale "in the way" would
+                // describe something the session no longer holds.
+                session.blocked_work = None;
+                let mut sessions = inner.sessions.lock().await;
+                if let Some(record) = sessions.get_mut(&id) {
+                    record.session.worktree = None;
+                    record.session.blocked_work = None;
+                    record.worktree_path = None;
+                    record.worktree_base_repo = None;
+                }
             }
         }
     }
@@ -1360,6 +1837,14 @@ async fn cleanup_record(
         let tmux = inner.tmux.clone();
         let _ = tmux_blocking(move || tmux.kill_session(id)).await;
     }
+    if let Some(acp) = &record.acp {
+        // `session/cancel`, a short wait, then SIGTERM (#134).
+        acp.terminate(maestro_acp::CANCEL_GRACE, maestro_acp::TERM_GRACE)
+            .await;
+    }
+    if let Some(done) = record.acp_event_pump.clone() {
+        wait_for_event_pump(done).await;
+    }
     let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&record.fifo_path);
     if let Err(e) = inner.sidecar.delete(id) {
         tracing::warn!(error = ?e, %id, "cleanup: failed to delete sidecar");

crates/maestro-daemon/src/sidecar.rs

@@ -5,9 +5,22 @@
 //! original `cwd`, command, env, metadata, etc. Files are deleted on
 //! `KillSession`. Sessions whose sidecar is missing at recovery time are still
 //! advertised but with empty metadata (handled by the caller, not here).
+//!
+//! A structured session (#135) also owns `<id>.events.jsonl` next to its
+//! sidecar: every `session/update` notification its adapter sent, one JSON
+//! object per line, appended before it is broadcast. The log is the source of
+//! truth for the transcript; `seq` is the line's 1-based position, so a
+//! client that holds seq `n` asks for [`EventCursor::Since`]`(n)`. A line
+//! that does not parse — including the partial line a hard kill leaves at
+//! the end — keeps its seq and is skipped on read. `delete` removes the log
+//! with the sidecar; `load_all` never reads one as a sidecar.
 
+use std::collections::VecDeque;
+use std::fs::{File, OpenOptions};
+use std::io::{BufRead, BufReader, Read, Seek, SeekFrom, Write};
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 
+use maestro_acp::schema::SessionNotification;
 use maestro_protocol::Session;
 use uuid::Uuid;
 
@@ -38,6 +51,98 @@ impl SidecarStore {
         self.dir.join(format!("{id}.json"))
     }
 
+    /// Where the per-session event log lives (#135).
+    pub fn events_path_for(&self, id: Uuid) -> PathBuf {
+        self.dir.join(format!("{id}.events.jsonl"))
+    }
+
+    /// Open the event log for `id` for appending, creating it (and the
+    /// directory) when missing. One handle per live session: the caller
+    /// keeps it for the session's lifetime rather than reopening per
+    /// notification.
+    ///
+    /// A log whose last line has no newline — what a hard kill mid-write
+    /// leaves behind — is terminated first, so the next append starts a
+    /// fresh line instead of gluing onto the fragment. The fragment keeps
+    /// the seq of its line and reads as malformed.
+    pub fn open_events(&self, id: Uuid) -> Result<EventLog, SidecarError> {
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&self.dir)?;
+        let mut file = OpenOptions::new()
+            .create(true)
+            .read(true)
+            .append(true)
+            .open(self.events_path_for(id))?;
+        let mut lines = 0u64;
+        let mut last = None;
+        let mut reader = BufReader::new(&mut file);
+        let mut buf = [0u8; 64 * 1024];
+        loop {
+            let n = reader.read(&mut buf)?;
+            if n == 0 {
+                break;
+            }
+            lines += buf[..n].iter().filter(|&&b| b == b'\n').count() as u64;
+            last = Some(buf[n - 1]);
+        }
+        if last.is_some_and(|b| b != b'\n') {
+            file.write_all(b"\n")?;
+            lines += 1;
+        }
+        file.seek(SeekFrom::End(0))?;
+        Ok(EventLog {
+            file,
+            last_seq: lines,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Read events from the log for `id`, at most `limit`, in ascending seq
+    /// order. A missing log is an empty log. Lines that fail to parse are
+    /// skipped but still consume a seq, so cursors stay stable.
+    pub fn read_events(
+        &self,
+        id: Uuid,
+        cursor: EventCursor,
+        limit: usize,
+    ) -> Result<Vec<LoggedEvent>, SidecarError> {
+        let file = match File::open(self.events_path_for(id)) {
+            Ok(f) => f,
+            Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => return Ok(Vec::new()),
+            Err(e) => return Err(e.into()),
+        };
+        if limit == 0 {
+            return Ok(Vec::new());
+        }
+        let mut out: VecDeque<LoggedEvent> = VecDeque::new();
+        let mut seq = 0u64;
+        for line in BufReader::new(file).split(b'\n') {
+            let line = line?;
+            seq += 1;
+            let keep = match cursor {
+                EventCursor::Since(since) => seq > since,
+                EventCursor::Before(Some(before)) => seq < before,
+                EventCursor::Before(None) => true,
+            };
+            if !keep {
+                if matches!(cursor, EventCursor::Before(Some(_))) {
+                    break;
+                }
+                continue;
+            }
+            let Ok(notification) = serde_json::from_slice::<SessionNotification>(&line) else {
+                continue;
+            };
+            out.push_back(LoggedEvent { seq, notification });
+            match cursor {
+                EventCursor::Since(_) if out.len() >= limit => break,
+                EventCursor::Before(_) if out.len() > limit => {
+                    out.pop_front();
+                }
+                _ => {}
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(out.into())
+    }
+
     /// Atomically write `session` to `<dir>/<id>.json`. Creates the directory
     /// if it does not exist.
     pub fn write(&self, session: &Session) -> Result<(), SidecarError> {
@@ -59,13 +164,11 @@ impl SidecarStore {
         }
     }
 
-    /// Delete the sidecar for `id`. No-op if it does not exist.
+    /// Delete the sidecar and the event log for `id`. No-op for whichever
+    /// does not exist.
     pub fn delete(&self, id: Uuid) -> Result<(), SidecarError> {
-        match std::fs::remove_file(self.path_for(id)) {
-            Ok(()) => Ok(()),
-            Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => Ok(()),
-            Err(e) => Err(e.into()),
-        }
+        remove_if_present(&self.events_path_for(id))?;
+        remove_if_present(&self.path_for(id))
     }
 
     /// Read every sidecar JSON in the directory. Files that fail to parse are
@@ -81,6 +184,8 @@ impl SidecarStore {
         for entry in entries {
             let entry = entry?;
             let path = entry.path();
+            // `.events.jsonl` logs (#135) sit in the same directory and are
+            // never sidecars.
             if path.extension().and_then(|s| s.to_str()) != Some("json") {
                 continue;
             }
@@ -95,3 +200,61 @@ impl SidecarStore {
         Ok(out)
     }
 }
+
+fn remove_if_present(path: &Path) -> Result<(), SidecarError> {
+    match std::fs::remove_file(path) {
+        Ok(()) => Ok(()),
+        Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => Ok(()),
+        Err(e) => Err(e.into()),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Which slice of a session's event log to read.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum EventCursor {
+    /// Forward: events with `seq` strictly greater than the cursor, the
+    /// first `limit` of them. `Since(0)` is the whole log from the start.
+    /// What a client catching up after a reconnect asks for.
+    Since(u64),
+    /// Backward: events with `seq` strictly less than the cursor, the last
+    /// `limit` of them, still returned in ascending order. `None` means the
+    /// tail of the log, for a first paint. The next page passes the smallest
+    /// seq it received.
+    Before(Option<u64>),
+}
+
+/// One line of a session's event log.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub struct LoggedEvent {
+    /// 1-based line position in the log; the cursor for [`EventCursor`].
+    pub seq: u64,
+    pub notification: SessionNotification,
+}
+
+/// An open, append-only handle on one session's event log. Obtained from
+/// [`SidecarStore::open_events`]; held for the session's lifetime.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct EventLog {
+    file: File,
+    last_seq: u64,
+}
+
+impl EventLog {
+    /// The seq of the last line, `0` for an empty log.
+    pub fn last_seq(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.last_seq
+    }
+
+    /// Append one notification as a line and return its seq. The line is
+    /// handed to the kernel in a single write before this returns, so a
+    /// caller that broadcasts afterwards never announces an event the log
+    /// would not replay — short of the machine losing power.
+    pub fn append(&mut self, notification: &SessionNotification) -> Result<u64, SidecarError> {
+        let mut line = serde_json::to_vec(notification)?;
+        line.push(b'\n');
+        self.file.write_all(&line)?;
+        self.file.flush()?;
+        self.last_seq += 1;
+        Ok(self.last_seq)
+    }
+}

crates/maestro-daemon/src/viewport.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+//! What size the shared tmux window should be, given every client watching it.
+//!
+//! A tmux window has one size, but a session can have several clients attached
+//! at once — two browser panes, a browser and the TUI. Each reports the size
+//! *it* can display, and applying whichever arrived last makes the window
+//! flip-flop. Every flip forces a full-screen application (Claude Code, vim) to
+//! repaint at a new height, and the rows it drew at the old height are never
+//! cleared: the operator ends up looking at a stale input box, types into a
+//! box that is not where the screen says it is, and concludes the pane is
+//! stuck.
+//!
+//! So the window is sized to the smallest attached client on each axis — the
+//! same rule tmux uses for its own multiple clients, and the only size every
+//! client can render without truncation. The size last handed to tmux is
+//! remembered, so a report that changes nothing costs no `tmux` fork at all.
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
+use uuid::Uuid;
+
+/// One attached client within a session. Allocated by
+/// [`crate::session::SessionManager`] and opaque to everything else.
+pub type ViewportId = u64;
+
+/// Per-session client sizes, and what tmux was last told.
+#[derive(Debug, Default)]
+pub struct Viewports {
+    clients: HashMap<Uuid, HashMap<ViewportId, (u16, u16)>>,
+    applied: HashMap<Uuid, (u16, u16)>,
+}
+
+impl Viewports {
+    pub fn new() -> Self {
+        Self::default()
+    }
+
+    /// Record what `viewport` can display. Returns the size tmux must be set
+    /// to, or `None` when the window already has it.
+    pub fn set(
+        &mut self,
+        session: Uuid,
+        viewport: ViewportId,
+        cols: u16,
+        rows: u16,
+    ) -> Option<(u16, u16)> {
+        self.clients
+            .entry(session)
+            .or_default()
+            .insert(viewport, (cols, rows));
+        self.settle(session)
+    }
+
+    /// Drop a client that has detached. Returns the size tmux must be set to
+    /// now that it no longer constrains the window.
+    ///
+    /// The last client leaving settles nothing: the window keeps the size it
+    /// has rather than snapping to some remembered default no one is watching.
+    pub fn release(&mut self, session: Uuid, viewport: ViewportId) -> Option<(u16, u16)> {
+        let clients = self.clients.get_mut(&session)?;
+        clients.remove(&viewport);
+        if clients.is_empty() {
+            self.clients.remove(&session);
+            self.applied.remove(&session);
+            return None;
+        }
+        self.settle(session)
+    }
+
+    /// The smallest size every attached client can render, but only when it
+    /// differs from what tmux was last told.
+    ///
+    /// A zero on either axis is a client that cannot display anything yet — a
+    /// pane still laying out, a hidden tab — and must not drag the shared
+    /// window down with it, so it is held but left out of the arbitration.
+    fn settle(&mut self, session: Uuid) -> Option<(u16, u16)> {
+        let clients = self.clients.get(&session)?;
+        let mut cols = u16::MAX;
+        let mut rows = u16::MAX;
+        for &(c, r) in clients.values() {
+            if c == 0 || r == 0 {
+                continue;
+            }
+            cols = cols.min(c);
+            rows = rows.min(r);
+        }
+        if cols == u16::MAX || rows == u16::MAX {
+            return None;
+        }
+        let target = (cols, rows);
+        if self.applied.get(&session) == Some(&target) {
+            return None;
+        }
+        self.applied.insert(session, target);
+        Some(target)
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_first_report_settles_the_window() {
+        let mut v = Viewports::new();
+        let s = Uuid::new_v4();
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 1, 80, 24), Some((80, 24)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_report_that_changes_nothing_costs_no_resize() {
+        let mut v = Viewports::new();
+        let s = Uuid::new_v4();
+        v.set(s, 1, 80, 24);
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 1, 80, 24), None);
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 1, 80, 24), None);
+    }
+
+    /// The bug this module exists for: two clients of different sizes used to
+    /// resize the window past each other on every report.
+    #[test]
+    fn two_clients_settle_on_the_smaller_instead_of_fighting() {
+        let mut v = Viewports::new();
+        let s = Uuid::new_v4();
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 1, 53, 46), Some((53, 46)));
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 2, 53, 20), Some((53, 20)));
+        // Whatever order they re-report in, the answer stays the smaller one.
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 1, 53, 46), None);
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 2, 53, 20), None);
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 1, 53, 46), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn each_axis_is_arbitrated_on_its_own() {
+        let mut v = Viewports::new();
+        let s = Uuid::new_v4();
+        v.set(s, 1, 200, 20);
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 2, 53, 46), Some((53, 20)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_zero_sized_client_does_not_shrink_the_window() {
+        let mut v = Viewports::new();
+        let s = Uuid::new_v4();
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 1, 80, 24), Some((80, 24)));
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 2, 0, 0), None);
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 2, 0, 30), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn releasing_the_small_client_gives_the_window_back() {
+        let mut v = Viewports::new();
+        let s = Uuid::new_v4();
+        v.set(s, 1, 80, 46);
+        v.set(s, 2, 80, 20);
+        assert_eq!(v.release(s, 2), Some((80, 46)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn releasing_the_last_client_settles_nothing() {
+        let mut v = Viewports::new();
+        let s = Uuid::new_v4();
+        v.set(s, 1, 80, 24);
+        assert_eq!(v.release(s, 1), None);
+        // ...and the session is forgotten, so a fresh attach settles again.
+        assert_eq!(v.set(s, 2, 80, 24), Some((80, 24)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn releasing_an_unknown_viewport_is_harmless() {
+        let mut v = Viewports::new();
+        let s = Uuid::new_v4();
+        assert_eq!(v.release(s, 7), None);
+        v.set(s, 1, 80, 24);
+        assert_eq!(v.release(s, 7), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn sessions_do_not_arbitrate_against_each_other() {
+        let mut v = Viewports::new();
+        let a = Uuid::new_v4();
+        let b = Uuid::new_v4();
+        assert_eq!(v.set(a, 1, 80, 24), Some((80, 24)));
+        assert_eq!(v.set(b, 2, 53, 20), Some((53, 20)));
+        assert_eq!(v.set(a, 1, 80, 24), None);
+    }
+}

crates/maestro-daemon/src/worktree.rs

@@ -111,16 +111,33 @@ impl WorktreeManager {
         // Clear registrations whose directory is gone first, so a
         // previously-leaked entry doesn't push this branch to a suffix.
         prune(base_repo)?;
-        // Anything occupying the target — a tree we left behind, one the
-        // operator made, an unrelated directory — is sidestepped with a
-        // numeric suffix on the directory; the branch stays whatever was
-        // requested (#77). The daemon never adopts what it finds.
-        let mut path = self.target_path(base_repo, branch);
-        let mut n = 1;
-        while path.symlink_metadata().is_ok() {
-            n += 1;
-            path = self.target_path_suffixed(base_repo, branch, n);
-        }
+        let (branch, path) = if create_branch {
+            // Worktrees are commonly abandoned without deleting their branch,
+            // so a random handle can collide with one of its own past runs.
+            // Unlike the `add_existing` arm below, the suffix goes on the
+            // branch name itself — the path is derived from it anyway.
+            let mut candidate = branch.to_string();
+            let mut path = self.target_path(base_repo, &candidate);
+            let mut n = 1;
+            while path.symlink_metadata().is_ok() || branch_exists(base_repo, &candidate) {
+                n += 1;
+                candidate = format!("{branch}-{n}");
+                path = self.target_path(base_repo, &candidate);
+            }
+            (candidate, path)
+        } else {
+            // Existing branch: the name must stay exact, so only the
+            // directory — anything occupying it, ours or the operator's — is
+            // sidestepped with a numeric suffix (#77). The daemon never
+            // adopts what it finds.
+            let mut path = self.target_path(base_repo, branch);
+            let mut n = 1;
+            while path.symlink_metadata().is_ok() {
+                n += 1;
+                path = self.target_path_suffixed(base_repo, branch, n);
+            }
+            (branch.to_string(), path)
+        };
         // The parent (`<repo>/worktrees` or the override root) may not exist
         // yet; the target itself must not.
         if let Some(parent) = path.parent() {
@@ -129,10 +146,10 @@ impl WorktreeManager {
         let mut cmd = Command::new("git");
         cmd.arg("-C").arg(base_repo).args(["worktree", "add"]);
         if create_branch {
-            cmd.arg("-b").arg(branch).arg(&path);
+            cmd.arg("-b").arg(&branch).arg(&path);
         } else {
             // Existing branch: `worktree add <path> <branch>` with no `-b`.
-            cmd.arg(&path).arg(branch);
+            cmd.arg(&path).arg(&branch);
         }
         let out = cmd.output()?;
         check(out)?;
@@ -266,6 +283,17 @@ fn branch_relpath(branch: &str) -> Option<PathBuf> {
     Some(candidate.to_path_buf())
 }
 
+/// Whether `refs/heads/<branch>` already exists in `base_repo`.
+fn branch_exists(base_repo: &Path, branch: &str) -> bool {
+    Command::new("git")
+        .arg("-C")
+        .arg(base_repo)
+        .args(["show-ref", "--verify", "--quiet"])
+        .arg(format!("refs/heads/{branch}"))
+        .status()
+        .is_ok_and(|s| s.success())
+}
+
 /// `git -C <base_repo> worktree prune` — drops registrations whose directory
 /// no longer exists.
 fn prune(base_repo: &Path) -> Result<(), WorktreeError> {

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/acp.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,562 @@
+//! Structured sessions (#134): a `claude-code-acp` child per session instead
+//! of a tmux pane. Runs against the fake adapter in
+//! `crates/maestro-acp/tests/fake_acp_agent.py`; nothing here needs Claude.
+
+mod common;
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
+
+use common::{init_bare_repo, init_repo, push_all_to_origin, wait_for_async, DaemonFixture};
+use maestro_acp::schema::{ContentBlock, SessionUpdate};
+use maestro_acp::{ADAPTER_BIN, INSTALL_COMMAND};
+use maestro_daemon::sidecar::{EventCursor, SidecarStore};
+use maestro_daemon::worktree::WorktreeManager;
+use maestro_daemon::SessionManager;
+use maestro_protocol::{
+    ActivityState, CreateSessionRequest, SessionStatus, SessionView, WorktreeSpec,
+};
+use tempfile::TempDir;
+
+fn fake_agent() -> PathBuf {
+    Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../maestro-acp/tests/fake_acp_agent.py")
+}
+
+/// The fake adapter installed as `claude-code-acp` in a temp `bin/`, with
+/// the log file it appends to. `env()` is what a spawn request carries.
+struct Fake {
+    dir: TempDir,
+}
+
+impl Fake {
+    fn new() -> Self {
+        let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+        let bin = dir.path().join("bin");
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&bin).unwrap();
+        std::fs::copy(fake_agent(), bin.join(ADAPTER_BIN)).unwrap();
+        Self { dir }
+    }
+
+    fn log_path(&self) -> PathBuf {
+        self.dir.path().join("agent.log")
+    }
+
+    fn log(&self) -> String {
+        std::fs::read_to_string(self.log_path()).unwrap_or_default()
+    }
+
+    /// Fake `bin/` first so it shadows any real adapter, then the process
+    /// `PATH` so the script's `python3` still resolves.
+    fn env(&self) -> HashMap<String, String> {
+        let path = format!(
+            "{}:{}",
+            self.dir.path().join("bin").display(),
+            std::env::var("PATH").unwrap_or_default()
+        );
+        HashMap::from([
+            ("PATH".to_string(), path),
+            (
+                "FAKE_ACP_LOG".to_string(),
+                self.log_path().to_string_lossy().into_owned(),
+            ),
+        ])
+    }
+
+    /// The pid the fake logged at start, once it has.
+    fn pid(&self) -> u32 {
+        self.log()
+            .lines()
+            .filter_map(|line| {
+                line.strip_prefix("start pid=")?
+                    .split(' ')
+                    .next()?
+                    .parse()
+                    .ok()
+            })
+            .next_back()
+            .expect("pid in log")
+    }
+}
+
+fn event_text(event: &maestro_daemon::sidecar::LoggedEvent) -> &str {
+    match &event.notification.update {
+        SessionUpdate::AgentMessageChunk(chunk) => match &chunk.content {
+            ContentBlock::Text(text) => &text.text,
+            other => panic!("unexpected content {other:?}"),
+        },
+        other => panic!("unexpected update {other:?}"),
+    }
+}
+
+fn structured(cwd: &Path, env: HashMap<String, String>) -> CreateSessionRequest {
+    CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: SessionView::Structured,
+        cwd: cwd.to_path_buf(),
+        command: "claude".into(),
+        env,
+        metadata: HashMap::new(),
+        worktree: None,
+    }
+}
+
+fn pid_alive(pid: u32) -> bool {
+    std::fs::read_to_string(format!("/proc/{pid}/stat"))
+        .map(|s| !s.contains(") Z "))
+        .unwrap_or(false)
+}
+
+async fn wait_for_exit(pid: u32) {
+    let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(5);
+    while pid_alive(pid) && Instant::now() < deadline {
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20)).await;
+    }
+    assert!(!pid_alive(pid), "pid {pid} still alive");
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn structured_spawn_starts_the_adapter_in_cwd_with_session_env() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut env = fake.env();
+    env.insert("FAKE_ACP_ECHO_ENV".into(), "MAESTRO_SESSION_ID".into());
+
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(structured(cwd.path(), env))
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+
+    assert_eq!(session.view, SessionView::Structured);
+    assert_eq!(session.status, SessionStatus::Running);
+    let acp_id = session.acp_session_id.clone().expect("acp session id");
+    assert!(acp_id.starts_with("fake-"), "{acp_id}");
+
+    // The child ran in the session cwd with the session's env — including
+    // the identity the daemon injects, so the agent knows which session it
+    // is (#103).
+    let log = fake.log();
+    let cwd_canon = cwd.path().canonicalize().unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        log.contains(&format!("cwd={}", cwd_canon.display())),
+        "{log}"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        log.contains(&format!("env MAESTRO_SESSION_ID={}", session.id)),
+        "{log}"
+    );
+
+    // No tmux pane was created for it: the agent is the daemon's child.
+    let panes = fx.tmux.tmux.list_sessions().expect("list");
+    assert!(
+        !panes.contains(&session.id),
+        "structured session got a tmux pane"
+    );
+
+    // The sidecar carries the id a respawn will pass to session/load (#135).
+    let sidecar: maestro_protocol::Session = serde_json::from_slice(
+        &std::fs::read(fx.sidecar_dir().join(format!("{}.json", session.id))).unwrap(),
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(sidecar.acp_session_id.as_deref(), Some(acp_id.as_str()));
+
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(5), || async {
+        fx.manager
+            .read_acp_events(session.id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10)
+            .is_ok_and(|events| !events.is_empty())
+    })
+    .await;
+
+    // Live delivery happens only after the notification is durable.
+    let (replay, mut updates) = fx
+        .manager
+        .subscribe_acp_events_with_replay(session.id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10)
+        .await
+        .expect("replay read")
+        .expect("event subscription");
+    assert_eq!(replay.len(), 1);
+    assert!(updates.try_recv().is_err(), "replay duplicated onto live");
+    unsafe {
+        libc::kill(fake.pid() as libc::pid_t, libc::SIGUSR1);
+    }
+    let live = tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), updates.recv())
+        .await
+        .expect("an update within 5s")
+        .expect("broadcast open");
+    assert_eq!(event_text(&live), "tick 1");
+    let stored = fx
+        .manager
+        .read_acp_events(session.id, EventCursor::Since(live.seq - 1), 1)
+        .expect("read event logged before broadcast");
+    assert_eq!(stored, vec![live]);
+
+    fx.manager.kill(session.id, false).await.expect("kill");
+    assert!(!fx
+        .sidecar_dir()
+        .join(format!("{}.events.jsonl", session.id))
+        .exists());
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn recovery_loads_the_acp_session_without_duplicating_history() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut env = fake.env();
+    env.insert("FAKE_ACP_LOAD_REPLAY".into(), "2".into());
+
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(structured(cwd.path(), env))
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+    let acp_id = session.acp_session_id.clone().expect("acp id");
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(5), || async {
+        fx.manager
+            .read_acp_events(session.id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10)
+            .is_ok_and(|events| events.len() == 1)
+    })
+    .await;
+    unsafe {
+        libc::kill(fake.pid() as libc::pid_t, libc::SIGUSR1);
+    }
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(5), || async {
+        fx.manager
+            .read_acp_events(session.id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10)
+            .is_ok_and(|events| events.len() == 2)
+    })
+    .await;
+
+    let old_pid = fake.pid();
+    fx.manager.shutdown().await;
+    wait_for_exit(old_pid).await;
+
+    let revived = SessionManager::new(
+        Arc::new(fx.tmux.tmux.clone()),
+        SidecarStore::new(fx.sidecar_dir()),
+        WorktreeManager::new(None),
+        fx.fifo_dir(),
+    );
+    assert_eq!(revived.recover().await.expect("recover"), 1);
+    assert_eq!(
+        revived.status(session.id).await,
+        Some(SessionStatus::Running)
+    );
+    let log = fake.log();
+    assert!(
+        log.contains(&format!("recv session/load sessionId={acp_id}")),
+        "{log}"
+    );
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(5), || async {
+        revived
+            .read_acp_events(session.id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10)
+            .is_ok_and(|events| events.len() == 3)
+    })
+    .await;
+
+    let (replay, mut live) = revived
+        .subscribe_acp_events_with_replay(session.id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10)
+        .await
+        .expect("replay read")
+        .expect("recovered event subscription");
+    assert_eq!(replay.len(), 3);
+    assert!(live.try_recv().is_err(), "replay duplicated onto live");
+    let new_pid = fake.pid();
+    assert_ne!(new_pid, old_pid);
+    unsafe {
+        libc::kill(new_pid as libc::pid_t, libc::SIGUSR1);
+    }
+    let event = tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), live.recv())
+        .await
+        .expect("live event after recovery")
+        .expect("broadcast open");
+    assert_eq!(event.seq, 4);
+    assert_eq!(event_text(&event), "tick 1");
+
+    let stored = revived
+        .read_acp_events(session.id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10)
+        .expect("recovered log");
+    assert_eq!(stored.len(), 4, "session/load replay must not be appended");
+    assert_eq!(
+        stored.iter().map(event_text).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+        ["hello from fake", "tick 1", "hello after load", "tick 1"]
+    );
+
+    revived.kill(session.id, false).await.expect("kill");
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn shutdown_preserves_a_pristine_structured_worktree_for_recovery() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let repo = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    init_repo(repo.path());
+    let origin = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    init_bare_repo(origin.path());
+
+    let branch = "feature/restart";
+    let worktree = repo
+        .path()
+        .join("worktrees")
+        .join("feature")
+        .join("restart");
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: SessionView::Structured,
+            cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "claude".into(),
+            env: fake.env(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: Some(WorktreeSpec {
+                base_repo: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
+                branch: branch.into(),
+                create_branch: true,
+            }),
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+    assert_eq!(session.cwd, worktree);
+    push_all_to_origin(repo.path(), origin.path());
+
+    fx.manager.shutdown().await;
+
+    assert!(
+        worktree.is_dir(),
+        "shutdown must not settle a pristine worktree"
+    );
+    let sidecar: maestro_protocol::Session = serde_json::from_slice(
+        &std::fs::read(fx.sidecar_dir().join(format!("{}.json", session.id))).unwrap(),
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        sidecar.worktree.as_ref().map(|wt| &wt.path),
+        Some(&worktree)
+    );
+
+    let revived = SessionManager::new(
+        Arc::new(fx.tmux.tmux.clone()),
+        SidecarStore::new(fx.sidecar_dir()),
+        WorktreeManager::new(None),
+        fx.fifo_dir(),
+    );
+    assert_eq!(revived.recover().await.expect("recover"), 1);
+    assert_eq!(
+        revived.status(session.id).await,
+        Some(SessionStatus::Running)
+    );
+    assert!(fake.log().contains("recv session/load"), "{}", fake.log());
+    assert!(worktree.is_dir(), "recovery must retain the worktree");
+
+    revived.kill(session.id, false).await.expect("dismiss");
+    assert!(
+        !worktree.exists(),
+        "operator dismissal still cleans a pristine tree"
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn failed_recovery_cleans_its_fifo() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(structured(cwd.path(), fake.env()))
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+    let old_pid = fake.pid();
+    fx.manager.shutdown().await;
+    wait_for_exit(old_pid).await;
+
+    let events_path = fx
+        .sidecar_dir()
+        .join(format!("{}.events.jsonl", session.id));
+    std::fs::remove_file(&events_path).unwrap();
+    std::fs::create_dir(&events_path).unwrap();
+    let revived = SessionManager::new(
+        Arc::new(fx.tmux.tmux.clone()),
+        SidecarStore::new(fx.sidecar_dir()),
+        WorktreeManager::new(None),
+        fx.fifo_dir(),
+    );
+
+    assert!(revived.recover().await.is_err());
+    assert!(!fx.fifo_dir().join(format!("{}.fifo", session.id)).exists());
+    let failed_pid = fake.pid();
+    assert_ne!(failed_pid, old_pid);
+    wait_for_exit(failed_pid).await;
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn missing_adapter_yields_a_failed_session_naming_the_install_command() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let empty = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let env = HashMap::from([(
+        "PATH".to_string(),
+        empty.path().to_string_lossy().into_owned(),
+    )]);
+
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(structured(cwd.path(), env))
+        .await
+        .expect("a failed session, not an error");
+
+    assert_eq!(session.status, SessionStatus::Dead);
+    assert_eq!(session.activity, ActivityState::Error);
+    let detail = session.activity_detail.clone().expect("actionable detail");
+    assert!(detail.contains(ADAPTER_BIN), "{detail}");
+    assert!(detail.contains(INSTALL_COMMAND), "{detail}");
+    assert_eq!(session.acp_session_id, None);
+
+    // It is a real session: listed, on disk, and dismissable like any other
+    // dead one.
+    assert!(fx.manager.has(session.id).await);
+    assert!(fx
+        .sidecar_dir()
+        .join(format!("{}.json", session.id))
+        .exists());
+    fx.manager.kill(session.id, false).await.expect("dismiss");
+    assert!(!fx.manager.has(session.id).await);
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn kill_sends_cancel_then_sigterm_and_removes_the_sidecar() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut events = fx.manager.events();
+
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(structured(cwd.path(), fake.env()))
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+    let pid = fake.pid();
+    assert!(pid_alive(pid));
+
+    fx.manager.kill(session.id, false).await.expect("kill");
+
+    wait_for_exit(pid).await;
+    let log = fake.log();
+    let cancel = log.find("recv session/cancel").expect("cancel logged");
+    let term = log.find("signal SIGTERM").expect("SIGTERM logged");
+    assert!(cancel < term, "cancel must precede SIGTERM:\n{log}");
+    assert!(!fx.manager.has(session.id).await);
+    assert!(!fx
+        .sidecar_dir()
+        .join(format!("{}.json", session.id))
+        .exists());
+
+    let mut removed = false;
+    while let Ok(ev) = events.try_recv() {
+        if matches!(ev, maestro_protocol::CatalogEvent::SessionRemoved { id } if id == session.id) {
+            removed = true;
+        }
+    }
+    assert!(removed, "SessionRemoved never broadcast");
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn shutdown_reaps_every_adapter_child() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let a = Fake::new();
+    let b = Fake::new();
+
+    let sa = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(structured(cwd.path(), a.env()))
+        .await
+        .expect("create a");
+    let sb = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(structured(cwd.path(), b.env()))
+        .await
+        .expect("create b");
+    let (pa, pb) = (a.pid(), b.pid());
+    assert!(pid_alive(pa) && pid_alive(pb));
+
+    fx.manager.shutdown().await;
+
+    wait_for_exit(pa).await;
+    wait_for_exit(pb).await;
+    assert!(a.log().contains("signal SIGTERM"), "{}", a.log());
+    assert!(b.log().contains("signal SIGTERM"), "{}", b.log());
+    // Still listed, now Dead: the sidecar is truthful for whoever reads it
+    // after the restart (#135).
+    assert_eq!(fx.manager.status(sa.id).await, Some(SessionStatus::Dead));
+    assert_eq!(fx.manager.status(sb.id).await, Some(SessionStatus::Dead));
+    let sidecar: maestro_protocol::Session = serde_json::from_slice(
+        &std::fs::read(fx.sidecar_dir().join(format!("{}.json", sa.id))).unwrap(),
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(sidecar.status, SessionStatus::Dead);
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn shutdown_drains_final_notifications_to_the_log() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut env = fake.env();
+    env.insert("FAKE_ACP_EMIT_ON_CANCEL".into(), "1".into());
+
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(structured(cwd.path(), env))
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(5), || async {
+        fx.manager
+            .read_acp_events(session.id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10)
+            .is_ok_and(|events| events.len() == 1)
+    })
+    .await;
+
+    fx.manager.shutdown().await;
+
+    let stored = fx
+        .manager
+        .read_acp_events(session.id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10)
+        .expect("event log after shutdown");
+    assert_eq!(
+        stored.iter().map(event_text).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+        ["hello from fake", "final on cancel"]
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn adapter_exit_marks_the_session_dead_and_keeps_it_listed() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(structured(cwd.path(), fake.env()))
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+    fx.manager.start_liveness_watcher(Duration::from_millis(50));
+
+    // The agent dies out from under the daemon: the liveness pass, not tmux,
+    // is what notices for a structured session.
+    let pid = fake.pid();
+    unsafe {
+        libc::kill(pid as libc::pid_t, libc::SIGTERM);
+    }
+    wait_for_exit(pid).await;
+
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(3), || async {
+        fx.manager.status(session.id).await == Some(SessionStatus::Dead)
+    })
+    .await;
+    assert!(fx.manager.has(session.id).await);
+
+    fx.manager.kill(session.id, false).await.expect("dismiss");
+    assert!(!fx.manager.has(session.id).await);
+}

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/activity_report.rs

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ async fn fixture(ttl: Duration) -> Fixture {
 async fn spawn_sleeping(manager: &SessionManager) -> Uuid {
     manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: "/tmp".into(),
             command: "sleep 60".into(),
             env: Default::default(),

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/attach.rs

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ async fn spawn_daemon_ws() -> Harness {
         "/home/test",
         Vec::new(),
         std::sync::Arc::new(maestro_daemon::projects::ProjectScanner::disabled()),
+        maestro_config::DEFAULT_LEADER,
     ));
     let listener = TcpListener::bind(SocketAddr::from((Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST, 0)))
         .await
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ async fn create_bash_session(h: &Harness) -> Uuid {
     let s = h
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd_path,
             command: "bash --noprofile --norc".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/autoname.rs

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ async fn spawn(manager: &SessionManager, name: Option<&str>) -> Uuid {
     };
     manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: "/tmp".into(),
             command: "sleep 60".into(),
             env: Default::default(),

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/blocked_work_cost.rs

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ use tempfile::TempDir;
 
 fn request(cwd: &std::path::Path, repo: &std::path::Path, branch: &str) -> CreateSessionRequest {
     CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: Default::default(),
         cwd: cwd.to_path_buf(),
         command: "sleep 30".into(),
         env: HashMap::new(),

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/branches.rs

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ async fn spawn() -> Harness {
         "/home/test",
         presets,
         Arc::new(maestro_daemon::projects::ProjectScanner::disabled()),
+        maestro_config::DEFAULT_LEADER,
     ));
     let listener = TcpListener::bind(SocketAddr::from((Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST, 0)))
         .await

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/local_api.rs

@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ async fn spawn(hostname: &str) -> Harness {
 async fn spawn_with(
     hostname: &str,
     projects: std::sync::Arc<maestro_daemon::projects::ProjectScanner>,
+) -> Harness {
+    spawn_with_leader(hostname, projects, maestro_config::DEFAULT_LEADER).await
+}
+
+async fn spawn_with_leader(
+    hostname: &str,
+    projects: std::sync::Arc<maestro_daemon::projects::ProjectScanner>,
+    leader: &str,
 ) -> Harness {
     let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
     let manager = fx.manager.clone();
@@ -48,6 +56,7 @@ async fn spawn_with(
         "/home/test",
         presets,
         projects,
+        leader,
     ));
     let listener = TcpListener::bind(SocketAddr::from((Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST, 0)))
         .await
@@ -91,6 +100,38 @@ async fn info_returns_daemon_identity() {
     assert!(resp["version"].is_string());
 }
 
+/// #159: the web client reads its leader off `/api/info` instead of a
+/// hardcoded constant, so the payload has to carry the configured one — not
+/// the default dressed up as one.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn info_advertises_the_configured_leader() {
+    let h = spawn_with_leader(
+        "naps-laptop",
+        std::sync::Arc::new(maestro_daemon::projects::ProjectScanner::disabled()),
+        "ctrl-b",
+    )
+    .await;
+    let resp: serde_json::Value = reqwest::get(url(h.addr, "/api/info"))
+        .await
+        .unwrap()
+        .json()
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(resp["leader"], "ctrl-b");
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn info_reports_the_default_leader_when_unconfigured() {
+    let h = spawn("naps-laptop").await;
+    let resp: serde_json::Value = reqwest::get(url(h.addr, "/api/info"))
+        .await
+        .unwrap()
+        .json()
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(resp["leader"], "ctrl-a");
+}
+
 #[tokio::test]
 async fn info_reports_build_and_instance() {
     // The status indicator needs a release to name and a process to compare
@@ -133,6 +174,7 @@ async fn list_sessions_starts_empty_and_reflects_creates() {
     assert!(empty.is_empty());
 
     let req = CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: Default::default(),
         cwd: "/tmp".into(),
         command: "sleep 60".into(),
         env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -349,6 +391,7 @@ async fn patch_session_renames_it() {
     let session = h
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: "/tmp".into(),
             command: "sleep 60".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -391,6 +434,7 @@ async fn post_focus_stamps_last_focused_at() {
     let session = h
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: "/tmp".into(),
             command: "sleep 60".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -424,6 +468,7 @@ async fn delete_owned_session_kills_it() {
     let session = h
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: "/tmp".into(),
             command: "sleep 60".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -445,6 +490,7 @@ async fn delete_owned_session_kills_it() {
 async fn spawn_via_manager(h: &Harness) -> Uuid {
     h.manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: "/tmp".into(),
             command: "sleep 60".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -554,6 +600,7 @@ async fn delete_a_session_whose_worktree_holds_unsaved_work_returns_409_with_the
     let session = h
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 60".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -606,6 +653,7 @@ async fn delete_with_force_ends_the_session_and_keeps_the_worktree() {
     let session = h
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 60".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -639,6 +687,7 @@ async fn attach_ws_streams_pty_bytes() {
     let session = h
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: "/tmp".into(),
             command: "bash --noprofile --norc".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -707,6 +756,7 @@ async fn events_ws_sends_a_snapshot_then_streams_deltas() {
     let created = h
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -751,6 +801,7 @@ async fn every_events_subscriber_gets_its_own_snapshot() {
 
     h.manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/rename.rs

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ async fn spawn_named(manager: &SessionManager, name: Option<&str>) -> Uuid {
     };
     manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: "/tmp".into(),
             command: "sleep 60".into(),
             env: Default::default(),

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/session_decisions.rs

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ impl Fx {
 
     fn request(&self, command: &str) -> CreateSessionRequest {
         CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: self.tmp.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: command.into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -555,3 +556,63 @@ async fn spawn_overrides_client_supplied_maestro_variables() {
         Some(&"http://127.0.0.1:7070".to_string())
     );
 }
+
+/// Two clients attached to one session used to resize the shared window past
+/// each other on every report they made. Every flip repaints a full-screen
+/// agent at a new height and orphans the rows it drew at the old one, which
+/// reads to the operator as a pane that has stopped taking input.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn clients_of_different_sizes_do_not_resize_the_window_past_each_other() {
+    let fx = Fx::new();
+    let s = fx.manager.create(fx.request("bash")).await.expect("create");
+    let web = fx.manager.attach_viewport();
+    let tui = fx.manager.attach_viewport();
+
+    fx.manager.set_viewport(s.id, web, 53, 46).await.unwrap();
+    fx.manager.set_viewport(s.id, tui, 53, 20).await.unwrap();
+    // Both keep reporting, as a browser's ResizeObserver and the TUI's own
+    // redraw loop do. Neither report changes the arbitrated size.
+    for _ in 0..5 {
+        fx.manager.set_viewport(s.id, web, 53, 46).await.unwrap();
+        fx.manager.set_viewport(s.id, tui, 53, 20).await.unwrap();
+    }
+
+    let resizes: Vec<_> = fx
+        .fake
+        .calls()
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter_map(|c| match c {
+            Call::ResizeWindow { cols, rows, .. } => Some((cols, rows)),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect();
+    assert_eq!(
+        resizes,
+        vec![(53, 46), (53, 20)],
+        "the window was resized more than the arbitrated size actually changed"
+    );
+}
+
+/// The smaller client leaving hands the window back to the one still attached.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn releasing_a_client_resizes_to_what_is_left() {
+    let fx = Fx::new();
+    let s = fx.manager.create(fx.request("bash")).await.expect("create");
+    let web = fx.manager.attach_viewport();
+    let tui = fx.manager.attach_viewport();
+    fx.manager.set_viewport(s.id, web, 80, 46).await.unwrap();
+    fx.manager.set_viewport(s.id, tui, 80, 20).await.unwrap();
+
+    fx.manager.release_viewport(s.id, tui).await;
+
+    let resizes: Vec<_> = fx
+        .fake
+        .calls()
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter_map(|c| match c {
+            Call::ResizeWindow { cols, rows, .. } => Some((cols, rows)),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .collect();
+    assert_eq!(resizes, vec![(80, 46), (80, 20), (80, 46)]);
+}

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/session_manager.rs

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ async fn create_then_kill_round_trip() {
     let session = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ async fn create_appends_to_spawn_history() {
     let session = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -92,6 +94,7 @@ async fn create_without_history_logs_nothing() {
     let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
     fx.manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -114,6 +117,7 @@ async fn recover_adopts_existing_tmux_sessions() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -153,6 +157,7 @@ async fn create_captures_initial_output_in_replay_buffer() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             // The shell prints the marker before doing anything else and
             // then sleeps so the session stays alive. Before NAP-253 this
@@ -200,6 +205,7 @@ async fn attach_replay_is_the_current_screen_not_the_byte_tail() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             // Print a line, then switch to the alternate screen the way a
             // full-screen program does on startup. Only the second marker is
@@ -258,6 +264,7 @@ async fn attach_replay_carries_the_panes_mouse_modes() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             // Alternate screen, then button-event tracking (?1002) with SGR
             // coordinates (?1006) — what tmux and agent TUIs actually request.
@@ -311,6 +318,7 @@ async fn recover_re_pipes_pane_so_output_reaches_subscribers() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "bash --noprofile --norc".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -373,6 +381,7 @@ async fn pty_broadcast_delivers_bytes_to_subscribers() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "bash --noprofile --norc".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -423,6 +432,7 @@ async fn liveness_watcher_marks_dead_sessions_and_keeps_them_until_dismissed() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -488,6 +498,7 @@ async fn watcher_refreshes_the_blocked_work_indicator() {
 
     fx.manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -580,6 +591,7 @@ async fn kill_removes_worktree_even_when_spec_says_keep() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -617,6 +629,7 @@ async fn killing_refuses_a_worktree_with_unsaved_work_and_keeps_the_session() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -680,6 +693,7 @@ async fn killing_refuses_until_the_branch_is_pushed() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -729,6 +743,7 @@ async fn force_killing_a_guarded_worktree_leaves_it_on_disk() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -774,6 +789,7 @@ async fn force_on_a_clear_worktree_removes_it_as_usual() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -814,6 +830,7 @@ async fn killing_an_ignored_only_worktree_succeeds() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -855,6 +872,7 @@ async fn natural_exit_of_a_guarded_worktree_leaves_it_on_disk() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -916,6 +934,7 @@ async fn natural_exit_of_a_pristine_worktree_removes_it() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -976,6 +995,7 @@ async fn liveness_watcher_leaves_running_sessions_alone() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -1010,6 +1030,7 @@ async fn worktree_base_repo_records_the_main_checkout_not_the_request() {
     let first = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -1027,6 +1048,7 @@ async fn worktree_base_repo_records_the_main_checkout_not_the_request() {
     let second = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: inner_worktree.clone(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -1065,6 +1087,7 @@ async fn spawned_sessions_export_maestro_session_id_and_url() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -1103,6 +1126,7 @@ async fn a_freshly_created_session_has_never_been_focused() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -1128,6 +1152,7 @@ async fn set_focused_true_stamps_last_focused_at() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -1176,6 +1201,7 @@ async fn attaching_stamps_last_focused_at() {
     let s = fx
         .manager
         .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sleep 30".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/sidecar.rs

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use std::path::PathBuf;
 
 use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
 use maestro_daemon::sidecar::SidecarStore;
-use maestro_protocol::{Session, SessionStatus};
+use maestro_protocol::{Session, SessionStatus, SessionView};
 use serde_json::Value;
 use tempfile::TempDir;
 use uuid::Uuid;
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ fn sample(id: Uuid) -> Session {
         current_cwd: Some(PathBuf::from("/tmp/work/crates")),
         blocked_work: None,
         last_focused_at: None,
+        acp_session_id: None,
+        view: SessionView::Terminal,
     }
 }
 
@@ -103,6 +105,37 @@ fn load_all_returns_empty_when_directory_missing() {
     assert!(store.load_all().unwrap().is_empty());
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn sidecar_missing_view_key_reads_as_terminal() {
+    // A pre-#133 sidecar on disk has no `view` field at all.
+    let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let store = SidecarStore::new(dir.path());
+    let id = Uuid::new_v4();
+
+    let mut value = serde_json::to_value(sample(id)).unwrap();
+    value.as_object_mut().unwrap().remove("view");
+    std::fs::write(store.path_for(id), serde_json::to_vec(&value).unwrap()).unwrap();
+
+    let loaded = store.read(id).expect("read").expect("present");
+    assert_eq!(loaded.view, SessionView::Terminal);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn sidecar_structured_view_round_trips() {
+    let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let store = SidecarStore::new(dir.path());
+    let id = Uuid::new_v4();
+    let mut s = sample(id);
+    s.view = SessionView::Structured;
+
+    store.write(&s).expect("write");
+    let loaded = store.read(id).expect("read");
+    assert_eq!(
+        loaded.as_ref().map(|s| s.view),
+        Some(SessionView::Structured)
+    );
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn write_creates_parent_directory() {
     let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
@@ -113,3 +146,189 @@ fn write_creates_parent_directory() {
     assert!(nested.exists());
     assert!(store.path_for(s.id).exists());
 }
+
+// ---- per-session event log (#135) ----
+
+use maestro_acp::schema::{ContentBlock, SessionNotification, SessionUpdate, TextContent};
+use maestro_daemon::sidecar::EventCursor;
+
+fn note(text: &str) -> SessionNotification {
+    SessionNotification::new(
+        "acp-1",
+        SessionUpdate::AgentMessageChunk(maestro_acp::schema::ContentChunk::new(
+            ContentBlock::Text(TextContent::new(text)),
+        )),
+    )
+}
+
+fn text_of(n: &SessionNotification) -> &str {
+    match &n.update {
+        SessionUpdate::AgentMessageChunk(chunk) => match &chunk.content {
+            ContentBlock::Text(t) => &t.text,
+            other => panic!("unexpected content {other:?}"),
+        },
+        other => panic!("unexpected update {other:?}"),
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn append_assigns_line_position_as_seq_and_reads_back() {
+    let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let store = SidecarStore::new(dir.path());
+    let id = Uuid::new_v4();
+
+    let mut log = store.open_events(id).expect("open");
+    assert_eq!(log.last_seq(), 0);
+    assert_eq!(log.append(&note("a")).unwrap(), 1);
+    assert_eq!(log.append(&note("b")).unwrap(), 2);
+    assert_eq!(log.append(&note("c")).unwrap(), 3);
+    assert_eq!(log.last_seq(), 3);
+
+    let path = store.events_path_for(id);
+    assert!(path.ends_with(format!("{id}.events.jsonl")), "{path:?}");
+    let raw = std::fs::read_to_string(&path).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(raw.lines().count(), 3, "one object per line:\n{raw}");
+    for line in raw.lines() {
+        let v: Value = serde_json::from_str(line).expect("each line is one JSON object");
+        assert_eq!(v["sessionId"], "acp-1");
+    }
+
+    let all = store.read_events(id, EventCursor::Since(0), 100).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(all.iter().map(|e| e.seq).collect::<Vec<_>>(), vec![1, 2, 3]);
+    assert_eq!(
+        all.iter()
+            .map(|e| text_of(&e.notification))
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+        vec!["a", "b", "c"]
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn since_reads_forward_and_before_reads_backward_with_limit() {
+    let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let store = SidecarStore::new(dir.path());
+    let id = Uuid::new_v4();
+    let mut log = store.open_events(id).unwrap();
+    for i in 1..=6 {
+        log.append(&note(&format!("n{i}"))).unwrap();
+    }
+
+    // `since` is exclusive: what a client that already holds seq 2 needs.
+    let fwd = store.read_events(id, EventCursor::Since(2), 3).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(fwd.iter().map(|e| e.seq).collect::<Vec<_>>(), vec![3, 4, 5]);
+    // Past the end: nothing, not an error.
+    assert!(store
+        .read_events(id, EventCursor::Since(6), 3)
+        .unwrap()
+        .is_empty());
+
+    // `before` is exclusive and pages backward: the `limit` events closest
+    // to the cursor, still in ascending seq order.
+    let back = store
+        .read_events(id, EventCursor::Before(Some(5)), 2)
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(back.iter().map(|e| e.seq).collect::<Vec<_>>(), vec![3, 4]);
+    // No cursor: the tail of the log, for a first paint.
+    let tail = store.read_events(id, EventCursor::Before(None), 2).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(tail.iter().map(|e| e.seq).collect::<Vec<_>>(), vec![5, 6]);
+    // Paging past the start runs out cleanly.
+    let start = store
+        .read_events(id, EventCursor::Before(Some(2)), 10)
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(start.iter().map(|e| e.seq).collect::<Vec<_>>(), vec![1]);
+    assert!(store
+        .read_events(id, EventCursor::Before(Some(1)), 10)
+        .unwrap()
+        .is_empty());
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn missing_log_reads_as_empty() {
+    let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let store = SidecarStore::new(dir.path());
+    let id = Uuid::new_v4();
+    assert!(store
+        .read_events(id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10)
+        .unwrap()
+        .is_empty());
+    assert!(store
+        .read_events(id, EventCursor::Before(None), 10)
+        .unwrap()
+        .is_empty());
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn malformed_lines_are_skipped_but_keep_their_seq() {
+    let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let store = SidecarStore::new(dir.path());
+    let id = Uuid::new_v4();
+    let mut log = store.open_events(id).unwrap();
+    log.append(&note("first")).unwrap();
+    drop(log);
+
+    // Garbage in the middle and a line that is JSON but not a notification.
+    let path = store.events_path_for(id);
+    let mut raw = std::fs::read_to_string(&path).unwrap();
+    raw.push_str("{not json\n");
+    raw.push_str("{\"unrelated\": true}\n");
+    std::fs::write(&path, raw).unwrap();
+    let mut log = store.open_events(id).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(log.last_seq(), 3);
+    assert_eq!(log.append(&note("fourth")).unwrap(), 4);
+
+    let all = store.read_events(id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(all.iter().map(|e| e.seq).collect::<Vec<_>>(), vec![1, 4]);
+    assert_eq!(text_of(&all[1].notification), "fourth");
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn truncated_last_line_still_opens_and_the_next_append_starts_a_fresh_line() {
+    // A hard kill mid-write leaves a partial line with no newline.
+    let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let store = SidecarStore::new(dir.path());
+    let id = Uuid::new_v4();
+    let mut log = store.open_events(id).unwrap();
+    log.append(&note("whole")).unwrap();
+    drop(log);
+
+    let path = store.events_path_for(id);
+    let mut raw = std::fs::read(&path).unwrap();
+    raw.extend_from_slice(br#"{"sessionId":"acp-1","update":{"sessionUpd"#);
+    std::fs::write(&path, &raw).unwrap();
+
+    // Reads: the partial line is skipped, nothing else is lost.
+    let all = store.read_events(id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(all.iter().map(|e| e.seq).collect::<Vec<_>>(), vec![1]);
+
+    // Reopening terminates the partial line so the next append does not
+    // glue onto it; the partial keeps a seq of its own.
+    let mut log = store.open_events(id).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(log.last_seq(), 2);
+    assert_eq!(log.append(&note("after")).unwrap(), 3);
+    let all = store.read_events(id, EventCursor::Since(0), 10).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(all.iter().map(|e| e.seq).collect::<Vec<_>>(), vec![1, 3]);
+    assert_eq!(text_of(&all[1].notification), "after");
+    let raw = std::fs::read_to_string(&path).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(raw.lines().count(), 3, "{raw}");
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn delete_removes_the_event_log_and_load_all_ignores_it() {
+    let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let store = SidecarStore::new(dir.path());
+    let id = Uuid::new_v4();
+    store.write(&sample(id)).unwrap();
+    let mut log = store.open_events(id).unwrap();
+    log.append(&note("x")).unwrap();
+    drop(log);
+    assert!(store.events_path_for(id).exists());
+
+    let loaded = store.load_all().unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(loaded.len(), 1, "the .jsonl must not be read as a sidecar");
+
+    store.delete(id).unwrap();
+    assert!(!store.path_for(id).exists());
+    assert!(!store.events_path_for(id).exists());
+    // Idempotent with the log already gone.
+    store.delete(id).unwrap();
+}

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/web_ui.rs

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ async fn spawn() -> Harness {
         "/home/test",
         maestro_config::SpawnSection::default().resolve().unwrap(),
         std::sync::Arc::new(maestro_daemon::projects::ProjectScanner::disabled()),
+        maestro_config::DEFAULT_LEADER,
     ));
     let listener = TcpListener::bind(SocketAddr::from((Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST, 0)))
         .await

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/worktree.rs

@@ -405,8 +405,10 @@ fn run_git(dir: &std::path::Path, args: &[&str]) {
     );
 }
 
+/// 49ab7e9: a new-branch add onto a name that already exists suffixes the
+/// branch (and so the directory) instead of failing, per docs/WORKTREES.md.
 #[test]
-fn add_fails_when_branch_already_exists() {
+fn add_new_suffixes_when_branch_already_exists() {
     let repo_dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
     let repo = repo_dir.path().to_path_buf();
     init_repo(&repo);
@@ -423,9 +425,9 @@ fn add_fails_when_branch_already_exists() {
     let wt_root = TempDir::new().unwrap();
     let mgr = WorktreeManager::new(Some(wt_root.path().to_path_buf()));
 
-    let err = mgr.add_new(&repo, "feat/dup").unwrap_err();
-    let msg = format!("{err}");
-    assert!(msg.contains("git exited"), "{msg}");
+    let path = mgr.add_new(&repo, "feat/dup").unwrap();
+    assert!(path.ends_with("feat/dup-2"), "{}", path.display());
+    assert!(path.is_dir());
 }
 
 /// The project picker lists linked worktrees as pickable rows, so `base_repo`

crates/maestro-e2e/Cargo.toml

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 [dependencies]
 chrono.workspace = true
 futures-util.workspace = true
+libc.workspace = true
 maestro-protocol = { workspace = true, features = ["client"] }
 maestro-testing.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true

crates/maestro-e2e/src/daemon.rs

@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@ impl Daemon {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Send the daemon the same SIGTERM systemd uses, without waiting for its
+    /// graceful HTTP shutdown to finish.
+    pub fn send_sigterm(&self) {
+        let child = self.child.as_ref().expect("daemon is running");
+        let result = unsafe { libc::kill(child.id() as libc::pid_t, libc::SIGTERM) };
+        assert_eq!(result, 0, "send SIGTERM to daemon");
+    }
+
     /// Re-spawn the daemon on the same port + state. The previous tmux
     /// server (under `TMUX_TMPDIR`) is left running so `recover()` can adopt
     /// its sessions.

crates/maestro-e2e/tests/e2e.rs

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 use futures_util::{SinkExt, StreamExt};
 use maestro_e2e::util::wait_for_async;
 use maestro_e2e::{Daemon, TestClient};
-use maestro_protocol::{CreateSessionRequest, WorktreeSpec};
+use maestro_protocol::{CreateSessionRequest, SessionStatus, SessionView, WorktreeSpec};
 use tempfile::TempDir;
 use tokio_tungstenite::tungstenite::Message as WsMessage;
 
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ async fn bring_up() -> (Daemon, TestClient) {
 
 fn create_req(cwd: &std::path::Path, command: &str) -> CreateSessionRequest {
     CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: Default::default(),
         cwd: cwd.to_path_buf(),
         command: command.into(),
         env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -35,6 +36,61 @@ fn create_req(cwd: &std::path::Path, command: &str) -> CreateSessionRequest {
     }
 }
 
+struct FakeAcp {
+    _dir: TempDir,
+    env: HashMap<String, String>,
+}
+
+fn fake_acp(log: &std::path::Path) -> FakeAcp {
+    let dir = tempfile::tempdir().expect("fake adapter dir");
+    let adapter = dir.path().join("claude-code-acp");
+    std::fs::copy(
+        concat!(
+            env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"),
+            "/../maestro-acp/tests/fake_acp_agent.py"
+        ),
+        &adapter,
+    )
+    .expect("copy fake adapter");
+    let mut permissions = std::fs::metadata(&adapter)
+        .expect("adapter metadata")
+        .permissions();
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+        permissions.set_mode(0o755);
+    }
+    std::fs::set_permissions(&adapter, permissions).expect("make fake adapter executable");
+    let env = HashMap::from([
+        (
+            "PATH".into(),
+            format!(
+                "{}:{}",
+                dir.path().display(),
+                std::env::var("PATH").unwrap_or_default()
+            ),
+        ),
+        ("FAKE_ACP_LOG".into(), log.to_string_lossy().into_owned()),
+    ]);
+    FakeAcp { _dir: dir, env }
+}
+
+fn fake_acp_pid(log: &std::path::Path) -> Option<u32> {
+    std::fs::read_to_string(log).ok()?.lines().find_map(|line| {
+        line.strip_prefix("start pid=")?
+            .split(' ')
+            .next()?
+            .parse()
+            .ok()
+    })
+}
+
+fn pid_alive(pid: u32) -> bool {
+    std::fs::read_to_string(format!("/proc/{pid}/stat"))
+        .map(|stat| !stat.contains(") Z "))
+        .unwrap_or(false)
+}
+
 /// A worktree spec built through its wire shape. The daemon and clients ship
 /// together (#87 dropped `cleanup_on_kill` from the struct), so the JSON
 /// object carries only the fields the lifecycle actually honours.
@@ -49,6 +105,7 @@ fn worktree_spec(base_repo: &std::path::Path, branch: &str, create_branch: bool)
 /// Spawn request carrying a worktree spec against `base`.
 fn worktree_req(base: &std::path::Path, branch: &str, create_branch: bool) -> CreateSessionRequest {
     CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: Default::default(),
         cwd: base.to_path_buf(),
         command: "sleep 30".into(),
         env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -143,6 +200,7 @@ async fn kill_removes_clean_worktree() {
     init_repo(base.path());
 
     let req = CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: Default::default(),
         cwd: base.path().to_path_buf(),
         command: "sleep 30".into(),
         env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -196,6 +254,7 @@ async fn kill_refuses_worktree_with_uncommitted_changes() {
         .join("unsaved");
 
     let req = CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: Default::default(),
         cwd: base.path().to_path_buf(),
         command: "sleep 30".into(),
         env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -254,6 +313,7 @@ async fn spawn_on_existing_branch_checks_it_out() {
     run_git(&["branch", "feature/existing"], base.path());
 
     let req = CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: Default::default(),
         cwd: base.path().to_path_buf(),
         command: "sleep 30".into(),
         env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -323,8 +383,11 @@ async fn spawn_new_branch_creates_worktree_and_runs_in_it() {
     client.kill_session(s.id).await.expect("kill");
 }
 
-/// #66: a second spawn onto a branch that already has a worktree is rejected
-/// with a structured worktree error; the first worktree stays intact.
+/// #66: a second spawn onto an *existing* branch that already has a worktree
+/// is rejected with a structured worktree error; the first worktree stays
+/// intact. (A second `create_branch: true` spawn is a different case: 49ab7e9
+/// suffixes the new branch name instead, see
+/// `colliding_branch_name_gets_suffixed_too`.)
 #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread")]
 async fn second_spawn_on_same_branch_is_rejected() {
     let (_daemon, client) = bring_up().await;
@@ -337,7 +400,7 @@ async fn second_spawn_on_same_branch_is_rejected() {
         .await
         .expect("first spawn");
     let dup = client
-        .spawn_session(&worktree_req(base.path(), "feature/dup", true))
+        .spawn_session(&worktree_req(base.path(), "feature/dup", false))
         .await;
     match dup {
         Err(maestro_e2e::ClientError::Api(maestro_protocol::ClientError::Api { info, .. })) => {
@@ -497,6 +560,57 @@ async fn occupied_path_gets_suffixed_directory_and_both_worktrees_work() {
     );
 }
 
+/// A random handle can reuse the name of a branch left behind by an earlier,
+/// already-removed worktree — `git worktree add -b` refuses outright in that
+/// case, even though the directory is free. The daemon suffixes the branch
+/// itself (not just the directory) and both land on `-2`.
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread")]
+async fn colliding_branch_name_gets_suffixed_too() {
+    let (_daemon, client) = bring_up().await;
+
+    let base = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    init_repo(base.path());
+
+    // No worktree directory in the way, but the branch already exists.
+    run_git(&["branch", "handle"], base.path());
+
+    let s = client
+        .spawn_session(&worktree_req(base.path(), "handle", true))
+        .await
+        .expect("spawn onto a taken branch name");
+
+    let suffixed = base.path().join("worktrees").join("handle-2");
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.cwd, suffixed,
+        "the directory must follow the suffixed branch name"
+    );
+    assert!(suffixed.is_dir());
+
+    let registrations = git_worktree_list(base.path());
+    assert!(
+        registrations.iter().any(|l| l.contains("handle-2")),
+        "the -2 branch's worktree must be registered: {registrations:?}"
+    );
+
+    let branches = String::from_utf8(
+        std::process::Command::new("git")
+            .arg("-C")
+            .arg(base.path())
+            .args(["branch", "--list"])
+            .output()
+            .unwrap()
+            .stdout,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        branches.contains("handle-2"),
+        "the branch itself must be named handle-2: {branches}"
+    );
+
+    let _origin = throwaway_origin(base.path());
+    client.kill_session(s.id).await.expect("kill");
+}
+
 /// #77/#88: the target path holds a plain directory the daemon never made and
 /// git has never heard of. The daemon neither adopts it nor errors — it builds
 /// beside it and leaves every byte of it alone.
@@ -703,6 +817,7 @@ async fn natural_exit_settles_dirty_and_pristine_worktrees_differently() {
 
     let _dirty = client
         .spawn_session(&CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: dirty_repo.path().to_path_buf(),
             command: "sh -c 'echo unsaved > scratch.txt'".into(),
             env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -751,6 +866,7 @@ async fn natural_exit_settles_dirty_and_pristine_worktrees_differently() {
 
 fn create_req_cmd(cwd: &std::path::Path, command: &str, branch: &str) -> CreateSessionRequest {
     CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: Default::default(),
         cwd: cwd.to_path_buf(),
         command: command.into(),
         env: HashMap::new(),
@@ -934,6 +1050,66 @@ async fn daemon_restart_recovers_session() {
     client.kill_session(s.id).await.expect("kill");
 }
 
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread")]
+async fn sigterm_stops_structured_child_before_events_ws_drains() {
+    let (mut daemon, client) = bring_up().await;
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let log = cwd.path().join("fake-acp.log");
+    let fake = fake_acp(&log);
+    let session = client
+        .spawn_session(&CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: SessionView::Structured,
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "claude".into(),
+            env: fake.env.clone(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("spawn structured session");
+    let ws_url = daemon.client().events_url().expect("events URL");
+    let (_events_ws, _) = tokio_tungstenite::connect_async(ws_url)
+        .await
+        .expect("events WS handshake");
+    wait_for_async("fake ACP starts", Duration::from_secs(5), || {
+        let log = log.clone();
+        async move { fake_acp_pid(&log).is_some() }
+    })
+    .await;
+    let pid = fake_acp_pid(&log).expect("fake ACP pid");
+
+    daemon.send_sigterm();
+
+    wait_for_async(
+        "fake ACP exits after SIGTERM",
+        Duration::from_secs(5),
+        || async { !pid_alive(pid) },
+    )
+    .await;
+    let sidecar_path = daemon
+        .state_dir()
+        .join("sessions")
+        .join(format!("{}.json", session.id));
+    wait_for_async(
+        "dead structured session sidecar",
+        Duration::from_secs(5),
+        || {
+            let sidecar_path = sidecar_path.clone();
+            async move {
+                std::fs::read(&sidecar_path)
+                    .ok()
+                    .and_then(|json| {
+                        serde_json::from_slice::<maestro_protocol::Session>(&json).ok()
+                    })
+                    .is_some_and(|saved| saved.status == SessionStatus::Dead)
+            }
+        },
+    )
+    .await;
+
+    daemon.stop();
+}
+
 #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread")]
 async fn concurrent_spawns_each_get_unique_ids() {
     let (_daemon, client) = bring_up().await;

crates/maestro-hooks/src/lib.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-//! Claude Code activity hook (#106).
+//! Agent activity hook (#106).
 //!
 //! Two halves, both shared by the `maestro hooks install` CLI subcommand and
 //! the daemon's first-start auto-install:
@@ -6,28 +6,40 @@
 //! * [`HOOK_SCRIPT`] — the hook itself, written to disk at install time. It
 //!   posts an [`ActivityState`](maestro-protocol) to
 //!   `$MAESTRO_URL/api/sessions/$MAESTRO_SESSION_ID/activity` (#105). The same
-//!   global hook runs in every Claude Code session on the machine, so it exits
+//!   global hook runs in every agent session on the machine, so it exits
 //!   0 and silently when either #103 env var is unset, and it never lets a
 //!   daemon failure escape (short curl timeout, status ignored).
-//! * [`install`] — idempotent registration of that script in
-//!   `~/.claude/settings.json`. Only entries maestro itself wrote (identified
-//!   by [`HOOK_MARKER`]) are touched; every other hook and every other field
-//!   in the file is preserved verbatim.
+//! * [`install`] — idempotent registration of that script in one [`Target`]'s
+//!   hook file. Only entries maestro itself wrote (identified by
+//!   [`HOOK_MARKER`]) are touched; every other hook and every other field in
+//!   the file is preserved verbatim.
+//!
+//! One script serves every [`Target`]: Claude Code and Codex read the same
+//! `{"hooks": {Event: [{"hooks": [{"type": "command", "command": …}]}]}}`
+//! shape and hand the hook the same JSON on stdin. Only the file's location
+//! and the event set differ.
 
 use std::path::Path;
 
 /// Marker substring every maestro-installed hook command carries. The
 /// installer rewrites or removes exactly these entries — nothing else in the
 /// user's settings file.
+///
+/// It still says `claude` although the script now serves every [`Target`]:
+/// the marker is how an install from an older maestro is recognised, and
+/// renaming it would orphan every entry already on disk.
 pub const HOOK_MARKER: &str = "maestro-claude-hook";
 
-/// File name of the installed script (carries [`HOOK_MARKER`]).
+/// File name of the installed script (carries [`HOOK_MARKER`]). One script
+/// for every [`Target`] — see the note on [`HOOK_MARKER`] for the name.
 pub const SCRIPT_FILE_NAME: &str = "maestro-claude-hook.sh";
 
-/// Hook events installed only with the `haiku-autoname` feature (#131).
-/// `UserPromptSubmit` carries the prompt the user just submitted; the script
-/// forwards the whole payload to `/api/sessions/:id/prompt`, which names a
-/// still-provisionally-named session after its first one.
+/// Hook events installed only with the `haiku-autoname` feature (#131), for
+/// every [`Target`] — Claude Code and Codex both spell the event
+/// `UserPromptSubmit` and both put the submitted text in the payload's
+/// `prompt`. The script forwards the whole payload to
+/// `/api/sessions/:id/prompt`, which names a still-provisionally-named
+/// session after its first one.
 #[cfg(feature = "haiku-autoname")]
 pub const PROMPT_EVENTS: [(&str, &str); 1] = [("UserPromptSubmit", "Prompt")];
 
@@ -43,7 +55,7 @@ pub const PROMPT_EVENTS: [(&str, &str); 0] = [];
 /// Claude Code's own name for "the turn ended on an API error"; there is no
 /// failure signal in `Stop` or `SessionEnd` payloads, so those never report
 /// `Error`.
-pub const HOOK_EVENTS: [(&str, &str); 5] = [
+pub const CLAUDE_EVENTS: [(&str, &str); 5] = [
     // Tool starting: the agent is demonstrably producing work, even if the
     // tool itself runs for minutes.
     ("PreToolUse", "Active"),
@@ -58,17 +70,86 @@ pub const HOOK_EVENTS: [(&str, &str); 5] = [
     ("StopFailure", "Error"),
 ];
 
+/// Codex hook event → `ActivityState` spelling posted to the daemon.
+///
+/// Codex's event set is close to Claude Code's but not identical: a pending
+/// approval arrives as `PermissionRequest` rather than `Notification`, and
+/// there is no `StopFailure`, so a codex session never reports `Error`.
+pub const CODEX_EVENTS: [(&str, &str); 4] = [
+    ("PreToolUse", "Active"),
+    ("PostToolUse", "Active"),
+    // Codex is blocked on the operator approving a tool call.
+    ("PermissionRequest", "AwaitingInput"),
+    ("Stop", "AwaitingInput"),
+];
+
+/// An agent whose hook file maestro writes into.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum Target {
+    /// `~/.claude/settings.json`.
+    ClaudeCode,
+    /// `~/.codex/hooks.json`. Codex asks the operator to trust a hook it has
+    /// not seen before, so an install here does nothing until they approve it
+    /// once inside codex — maestro never writes that approval itself.
+    Codex,
+}
+
+impl Target {
+    /// Every target an install covers. Both files are written whether or not
+    /// the agent is on the machine: an unused hook file costs nothing, and
+    /// the alternative is a session spawned after the daemon started missing
+    /// the hook because its agent arrived later.
+    pub const ALL: [Target; 2] = [Target::ClaudeCode, Target::Codex];
+
+    /// How the target is named in logs and CLI output.
+    pub fn label(self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            Target::ClaudeCode => "claude-code",
+            Target::Codex => "codex",
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The file this target's hook entries are registered in, under `home`.
+    pub fn settings_path(self, home: &Path) -> std::path::PathBuf {
+        match self {
+            Target::ClaudeCode => home.join(".claude/settings.json"),
+            Target::Codex => home.join(".codex/hooks.json"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The activity events this target emits.
+    pub fn activity_events(self) -> &'static [(&'static str, &'static str)] {
+        match self {
+            Target::ClaudeCode => &CLAUDE_EVENTS,
+            Target::Codex => &CODEX_EVENTS,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Every event installed for this target: its activity events plus, with
+    /// `haiku-autoname` on, the prompt event both agents spell the same way.
+    pub fn events(self) -> impl Iterator<Item = (&'static str, &'static str)> {
+        self.activity_events()
+            .iter()
+            .chain(PROMPT_EVENTS.iter())
+            .copied()
+    }
+}
+
 /// The shipped hook script. POSIX sh so any `/bin/sh` works.
 pub const HOOK_SCRIPT: &str = r#"#!/bin/sh
-# Installed by maestro (#106): report Claude Code activity to its daemon.
-# Exits silently unless running inside a session maestro spawned (#103 env).
+# Installed by maestro (#106): report agent activity to its daemon.
+# One script for every agent maestro installs hooks into; the state to post
+# is chosen by the caller, so the two event sets differ only in what is
+# registered where. Exits silently unless running inside a session maestro
+# spawned (#103 env).
 # Event -> ActivityState mapping:
-#   PreToolUse    -> Active         (tool started; agent is working)
-#   PostToolUse   -> Active         (tool finished)
-#   Notification  -> AwaitingInput  (permission / idle notice)
-#   Stop          -> AwaitingInput  (turn ended; waiting on the user)
-#   StopFailure   -> Error          (turn ended on an API error)
-#   Prompt        -> the payload is forwarded to the prompt route (#131)
+#   PreToolUse         -> Active         (tool started; agent is working)
+#   PostToolUse        -> Active         (tool finished)
+#   Notification       -> AwaitingInput  (claude code: permission / idle)
+#   PermissionRequest  -> AwaitingInput  (codex: waiting on an approval)
+#   Stop               -> AwaitingInput  (turn ended; waiting on the user)
+#   StopFailure        -> Error          (claude code: turn ended on an error)
+#   Prompt             -> the payload is forwarded to the prompt route (#131)
 state="$1"
 [ -n "$MAESTRO_SESSION_ID" ] || exit 0
 [ -n "$MAESTRO_URL" ] || exit 0
@@ -115,34 +196,29 @@ pub fn script_path(home: &Path) -> std::path::PathBuf {
     home.join(".local/share/maestro").join(SCRIPT_FILE_NAME)
 }
 
-/// The user-level Claude Code settings file for a given home directory.
-pub fn settings_path(home: &Path) -> std::path::PathBuf {
-    home.join(".claude/settings.json")
-}
-
-/// Whether `settings_path` already carries a maestro hook (#106). Presence
-/// only: an install from an older release answers `true` even when it is
-/// missing events this build ships — see [`is_current`].
+/// Whether the file at `settings_path` already carries a maestro hook
+/// (#106). Presence only: an install from an older release answers `true`
+/// even when it is missing events this build ships — see [`is_current`].
 pub fn is_installed(settings_path: &Path) -> bool {
     settings_json(settings_path)
         .map(|root| find_maestro_commands(&root).next().is_some())
         .unwrap_or(false)
 }
 
-/// Whether what is on disk is what this build ships: the script at
-/// `script_path` byte-for-byte, and exactly one settings entry per event in
-/// [`HOOK_EVENTS`] and [`PROMPT_EVENTS`], pointing at that script.
+/// Whether what is on disk is what this build ships for `target`: the script
+/// at `script_path` byte-for-byte, and exactly one settings entry per one of
+/// the target's [`Target::events`], pointing at that script.
 ///
-/// This is the upgrade question. A maestro that gains an event — #131 added
-/// `UserPromptSubmit` long after #106 had installed itself — leaves every
-/// existing user with a present but incomplete install, which
-/// [`is_installed`] cannot tell apart from a current one.
-pub fn is_current(settings_path: &Path, script_path: &Path) -> bool {
+/// This is the upgrade question, asked per [`Target`]. A maestro that gains
+/// an event — #131 added `UserPromptSubmit` long after #106 had installed
+/// itself — leaves every existing user with a present but incomplete
+/// install, which [`is_installed`] cannot tell apart from a current one.
+pub fn is_current(target: Target, settings_path: &Path, script_path: &Path) -> bool {
     if std::fs::read_to_string(script_path).ok().as_deref() != Some(HOOK_SCRIPT) {
         return false;
     }
     settings_json(settings_path)
-        .map(|root| maestro_entries(&root) == expected_entries(script_path))
+        .map(|root| maestro_entries(&root) == expected_entries(target, script_path))
         .unwrap_or(false)
 }
 
@@ -173,14 +249,13 @@ fn maestro_entries(root: &serde_json::Value) -> Vec<(String, String)> {
     found
 }
 
-/// What [`install`] writes for `script_path`, in the same shape.
-fn expected_entries(script_path: &Path) -> Vec<(String, String)> {
-    let mut want: Vec<(String, String)> = HOOK_EVENTS
-        .iter()
-        .chain(PROMPT_EVENTS.iter())
+/// What [`install`] writes for `target` and `script_path`, in the same shape.
+fn expected_entries(target: Target, script_path: &Path) -> Vec<(String, String)> {
+    let mut want: Vec<(String, String)> = target
+        .events()
         .map(|(event, state)| {
             (
-                (*event).to_string(),
+                event.to_string(),
                 format!("{} {state}", script_path.display()),
             )
         })
@@ -207,28 +282,40 @@ pub fn write_script(path: &Path) -> Result<(), HooksError> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
-/// Install the full hook setup for `home`: write the script under
-/// `.local/share/maestro/` and register it in `.claude/settings.json`.
+/// Install the full hook setup for one target under `home`: write the script
+/// under `.local/share/maestro/` and register it in the target's hook file.
 /// Idempotent; returns whether anything changed on disk.
-pub fn install_for_home(home: &Path) -> Result<bool, HooksError> {
+pub fn install_target(target: Target, home: &Path) -> Result<bool, HooksError> {
     let script = script_path(home);
-    let settings = settings_path(home);
+    let settings = target.settings_path(home);
     // A script left over from an older release counts as a change even when
     // the settings entries pointing at it are already right.
-    let changed = !is_current(&settings, &script);
+    let changed = !is_current(target, &settings, &script);
     write_script(&script)?;
-    install(&settings, &script)?;
+    install(target, &settings, &script)?;
     Ok(changed)
 }
 
-/// Register the hook command for every event in [`HOOK_EVENTS`] in the
-/// settings file at `settings_path`. Idempotent: existing maestro entries are
-/// updated in place wherever they sit, stale ones removed, duplicates folded;
-/// every non-maestro entry and every unrelated top-level field survives.
+/// Install for every [`Target::ALL`], reporting each one separately. One
+/// target failing — an unwritable file, unparseable JSON — never stops the
+/// others: an agent whose hook could not be written is one agent without
+/// activity reporting, not a failed install.
+pub fn install_for_home(home: &Path) -> Vec<(Target, Result<bool, HooksError>)> {
+    Target::ALL
+        .iter()
+        .map(|&target| (target, install_target(target, home)))
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// Register the hook command for every one of `target`'s [`Target::events`]
+/// in the settings file at `settings_path`. Idempotent: existing maestro
+/// entries are updated in place wherever they sit, stale ones removed,
+/// duplicates folded; every non-maestro entry and every unrelated top-level
+/// field survives.
 ///
 /// Never inspects or writes anywhere but `settings_path` — callers pass the
 /// user's real home or a temp one in tests, never a repository.
-pub fn install(settings_path: &Path, script_path: &Path) -> Result<(), HooksError> {
+pub fn install(target: Target, settings_path: &Path, script_path: &Path) -> Result<(), HooksError> {
     let mut root = settings_json(settings_path)?;
 
     // Strip every maestro entry wherever it currently sits, so an older
@@ -236,7 +323,7 @@ pub fn install(settings_path: &Path, script_path: &Path) -> Result<(), HooksErro
     strip_maestro_entries(&mut root);
 
     let hooks = ensure_object(&mut root, "hooks");
-    for (event, state) in HOOK_EVENTS.iter().chain(PROMPT_EVENTS.iter()).copied() {
+    for (event, state) in target.events() {
         let groups = ensure_array(hooks, event);
         let mut group = serde_json::Map::new();
         group.insert(

crates/maestro-hooks/src/tests.rs

@@ -1,15 +1,24 @@
 //! Tests for the shipped hook script (run as a real `/bin/sh` subprocess)
 //! and the settings-file installer. Everything happens under a temp `$HOME`;
-//! the developer's own `~/.claude/settings.json` is never touched.
+//! the developer's own `~/.claude/settings.json` and `~/.codex/hooks.json`
+//! are never touched.
 
 use std::io::{Read, Write};
 use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
 
 use super::*;
 
-/// How many commands one install writes: every activity event, plus the
-/// prompt event when `haiku-autoname` is on (#131).
-const INSTALLED_EVENTS: usize = HOOK_EVENTS.len() + PROMPT_EVENTS.len();
+/// How many commands one install writes for a target: its activity events,
+/// plus the prompt event when `haiku-autoname` is on (#131).
+fn installed_events(target: Target) -> usize {
+    target.events().count()
+}
+
+/// The Claude Code hook file under a temp home. Most installer tests only
+/// need one target, and this is the one they were written against.
+fn settings_path(home: &Path) -> std::path::PathBuf {
+    Target::ClaudeCode.settings_path(home)
+}
 
 fn sh(script: &str, args: &[&str], envs: &[(&str, &str)], payload: &[u8]) -> std::process::Output {
     let mut cmd = Command::new("/bin/sh");
@@ -70,7 +79,7 @@ fn owned_envs<'a>(envs: &'a [(&'static str, String)]) -> Vec<(&'static str, &'a
 /// exit 0, no output, stdin drained.
 #[test]
 fn script_exits_silently_without_maestro_env() {
-    for (event, _) in HOOK_EVENTS {
+    for (event, _) in CLAUDE_EVENTS {
         let out = sh(HOOK_SCRIPT, &[event], &[], br#"{"session_id":"x"}"#);
         assert!(out.status.success(), "{event:?}: {:?}", out.stderr);
         assert!(out.stdout.is_empty(), "{event:?}: {:?}", out.stdout);
@@ -103,7 +112,7 @@ fn script_posts_mapped_state_to_the_activity_endpoint() {
 /// Every event maps to the state the contract specifies.
 #[test]
 fn event_state_mapping_matches_the_contract() {
-    let map: std::collections::HashMap<&str, &str> = HOOK_EVENTS.into_iter().collect();
+    let map: std::collections::HashMap<&str, &str> = CLAUDE_EVENTS.into_iter().collect();
     assert_eq!(map["PreToolUse"], "Active");
     assert_eq!(map["PostToolUse"], "Active");
     assert_eq!(map["Notification"], "AwaitingInput");
@@ -203,10 +212,10 @@ fn fresh_install_registers_every_event() {
     let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
     let home = dir.path();
     write_script(&script_path(home)).unwrap();
-    install(&settings_path(home), &script_path(home)).unwrap();
+    install(Target::ClaudeCode, &settings_path(home), &script_path(home)).unwrap();
 
     let cmds = installed_commands(&settings_path(home));
-    assert_eq!(cmds.len(), INSTALLED_EVENTS);
+    assert_eq!(cmds.len(), installed_events(Target::ClaudeCode));
     let joined = cmds.join("\n");
     assert_eq!(joined.matches("Active").count(), 2);
     assert!(joined.contains("Error"));
@@ -221,15 +230,15 @@ fn fresh_install_registers_every_event() {
 fn install_is_idempotent() {
     let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
     let home = dir.path();
-    install(&settings_path(home), &script_path(home)).unwrap();
+    install(Target::ClaudeCode, &settings_path(home), &script_path(home)).unwrap();
     let once = std::fs::read_to_string(settings_path(home)).unwrap();
 
-    install(&settings_path(home), &script_path(home)).unwrap();
+    install(Target::ClaudeCode, &settings_path(home), &script_path(home)).unwrap();
     let twice = std::fs::read_to_string(settings_path(home)).unwrap();
     assert_eq!(once, twice);
     assert_eq!(
         installed_commands(&settings_path(home)).len(),
-        INSTALLED_EVENTS
+        installed_events(Target::ClaudeCode)
     );
 }
 
@@ -257,12 +266,12 @@ fn install_updates_an_older_maestro_hook_in_place() {
         .path()
         .join(".local/share/maestro")
         .join(SCRIPT_FILE_NAME);
-    install(&settings, &new_script).unwrap();
+    install(Target::ClaudeCode, &settings, &new_script).unwrap();
 
     let cmds = installed_commands(&settings);
     assert_eq!(
         cmds.len(),
-        INSTALLED_EVENTS,
+        installed_events(Target::ClaudeCode),
         "old entry replaced, not kept: {cmds:?}"
     );
     assert!(!cmds.iter().any(|c| c == old_script));
@@ -298,7 +307,7 @@ fn install_preserves_foreign_hooks_and_removes_stale_maestro_ones() {
         .path()
         .join(".local/share/maestro")
         .join(SCRIPT_FILE_NAME);
-    install(&settings, &new_script).unwrap();
+    install(Target::ClaudeCode, &settings, &new_script).unwrap();
 
     let root: serde_json::Value =
         serde_json::from_str(&std::fs::read_to_string(&settings).unwrap()).unwrap();
@@ -311,7 +320,7 @@ fn install_preserves_foreign_hooks_and_removes_stale_maestro_ones() {
     let cmds = installed_commands(&settings);
     assert_eq!(
         cmds.iter().filter(|c| c.contains(HOOK_MARKER)).count(),
-        INSTALLED_EVENTS,
+        installed_events(Target::ClaudeCode),
         "{cmds:?}"
     );
 }
@@ -321,9 +330,15 @@ fn install_preserves_foreign_hooks_and_removes_stale_maestro_ones() {
 fn is_installed_tracks_reality() {
     let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
     let home = dir.path();
-    assert!(!is_installed(&settings_path(home)));
-    install_for_home(home).unwrap();
-    assert!(is_installed(&settings_path(home)));
+    for target in Target::ALL {
+        assert!(!is_installed(&target.settings_path(home)));
+    }
+    for (_, result) in install_for_home(home) {
+        result.unwrap();
+    }
+    for target in Target::ALL {
+        assert!(is_installed(&target.settings_path(home)));
+    }
 }
 
 /// The full home-level install leaves the script executable.
@@ -331,7 +346,9 @@ fn is_installed_tracks_reality() {
 fn install_for_home_writes_an_executable_script() {
     let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
     let home = dir.path();
-    install_for_home(home).unwrap();
+    for (_, result) in install_for_home(home) {
+        result.unwrap();
+    }
     #[cfg(unix)]
     {
         use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
@@ -350,7 +367,7 @@ fn install_for_home_writes_an_executable_script() {
 fn install_registers_the_prompt_event() {
     let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
     let home = dir.path();
-    install(&settings_path(home), &script_path(home)).unwrap();
+    install(Target::ClaudeCode, &settings_path(home), &script_path(home)).unwrap();
 
     let root: serde_json::Value =
         serde_json::from_str(&std::fs::read_to_string(settings_path(home)).unwrap()).unwrap();
@@ -367,7 +384,7 @@ fn install_registers_the_prompt_event() {
 fn install_registers_no_prompt_event_without_the_feature() {
     let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
     let home = dir.path();
-    install(&settings_path(home), &script_path(home)).unwrap();
+    install(Target::ClaudeCode, &settings_path(home), &script_path(home)).unwrap();
 
     let root: serde_json::Value =
         serde_json::from_str(&std::fs::read_to_string(settings_path(home)).unwrap()).unwrap();
@@ -436,8 +453,12 @@ fn the_script_posts_a_prompt_payload_unchanged() {
 fn is_current_rejects_an_install_missing_an_event() {
     let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
     let home = dir.path();
-    install_for_home(home).unwrap();
-    assert!(is_current(&settings_path(home), &script_path(home)));
+    install_target(Target::ClaudeCode, home).unwrap();
+    assert!(is_current(
+        Target::ClaudeCode,
+        &settings_path(home),
+        &script_path(home)
+    ));
 
     // Drop one event, as an older install would have left the file.
     let mut root: serde_json::Value =
@@ -450,7 +471,11 @@ fn is_current_rejects_an_install_missing_an_event() {
     .unwrap();
 
     assert!(is_installed(&settings_path(home)));
-    assert!(!is_current(&settings_path(home), &script_path(home)));
+    assert!(!is_current(
+        Target::ClaudeCode,
+        &settings_path(home),
+        &script_path(home)
+    ));
 }
 
 /// A settings file that is complete but points at a script from an older
@@ -459,9 +484,13 @@ fn is_current_rejects_an_install_missing_an_event() {
 fn is_current_rejects_a_stale_script() {
     let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
     let home = dir.path();
-    install_for_home(home).unwrap();
+    install_target(Target::ClaudeCode, home).unwrap();
     std::fs::write(script_path(home), "#!/bin/sh\nexit 0\n").unwrap();
-    assert!(!is_current(&settings_path(home), &script_path(home)));
+    assert!(!is_current(
+        Target::ClaudeCode,
+        &settings_path(home),
+        &script_path(home)
+    ));
 }
 
 /// Nothing installed at all is not current.
@@ -469,18 +498,93 @@ fn is_current_rejects_a_stale_script() {
 fn is_current_rejects_a_missing_install() {
     let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
     let home = dir.path();
-    assert!(!is_current(&settings_path(home), &script_path(home)));
+    assert!(!is_current(
+        Target::ClaudeCode,
+        &settings_path(home),
+        &script_path(home)
+    ));
 }
 
-/// `install_for_home` reports a stale script as a change, even when the
+/// `install_target` reports a stale script as a change, even when the
 /// settings entries pointing at it already read correctly.
 #[test]
-fn install_for_home_reports_a_stale_script_as_a_change() {
+fn install_target_reports_a_stale_script_as_a_change() {
     let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
     let home = dir.path();
-    assert!(install_for_home(home).unwrap());
-    assert!(!install_for_home(home).unwrap());
+    assert!(install_target(Target::ClaudeCode, home).unwrap());
+    assert!(!install_target(Target::ClaudeCode, home).unwrap());
 
     std::fs::write(script_path(home), "#!/bin/sh\nexit 0\n").unwrap();
-    assert!(install_for_home(home).unwrap());
+    assert!(install_target(Target::ClaudeCode, home).unwrap());
+}
+
+/// Codex is hooked in its own file, with its own event set: the two agents
+/// share the script but not the events, so neither file carries the other's
+/// spellings (#131 follow-up — a codex session was never named because
+/// nothing installed its `UserPromptSubmit` hook).
+#[test]
+fn each_target_gets_its_own_file_and_events() {
+    let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+    let home = dir.path();
+    for (_, result) in install_for_home(home) {
+        result.unwrap();
+    }
+
+    let claude = events_in(&Target::ClaudeCode.settings_path(home));
+    let codex = events_in(&Target::Codex.settings_path(home));
+    assert_eq!(
+        Target::Codex.settings_path(home),
+        home.join(".codex/hooks.json")
+    );
+
+    // Claude Code's failure signal has no codex equivalent, and codex's
+    // approval notice is spelled differently.
+    assert!(claude.contains(&"StopFailure".to_string()));
+    assert!(claude.contains(&"Notification".to_string()));
+    assert!(!codex.contains(&"StopFailure".to_string()));
+    assert!(!codex.contains(&"Notification".to_string()));
+    assert!(codex.contains(&"PermissionRequest".to_string()));
+
+    // Both report work and both report a finished turn.
+    for event in ["PreToolUse", "PostToolUse", "Stop"] {
+        assert!(claude.contains(&event.to_string()), "claude {event}");
+        assert!(codex.contains(&event.to_string()), "codex {event}");
+    }
+
+    assert_eq!(
+        installed_commands(&Target::Codex.settings_path(home)).len(),
+        installed_events(Target::Codex)
+    );
+}
+
+/// #131: a codex session names itself the same way a Claude Code one does —
+/// same event spelling, same script, same `Prompt` argument.
+#[cfg(feature = "haiku-autoname")]
+#[test]
+fn codex_reports_its_first_prompt_too() {
+    let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+    let home = dir.path();
+    install_target(Target::Codex, home).unwrap();
+
+    let root: serde_json::Value =
+        serde_json::from_str(&std::fs::read_to_string(Target::Codex.settings_path(home)).unwrap())
+            .unwrap();
+    let cmd = root["hooks"]["UserPromptSubmit"][0]["hooks"][0]["command"]
+        .as_str()
+        .unwrap()
+        .to_string();
+    assert!(cmd.ends_with(" Prompt"), "{cmd}");
+    assert!(cmd.contains(SCRIPT_FILE_NAME));
+}
+
+/// Every event name a settings file registers a maestro hook under.
+fn events_in(settings: &Path) -> Vec<String> {
+    serde_json::from_str::<serde_json::Value>(&std::fs::read_to_string(settings).unwrap())
+        .unwrap()
+        .get("hooks")
+        .and_then(|h| h.as_object())
+        .into_iter()
+        .flatten()
+        .map(|(event, _)| event.clone())
+        .collect()
 }

crates/maestro-protocol/src/display.rs

@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ mod tests {
 
     fn session(cwd: &str) -> Session {
         Session {
+            view: Default::default(),
             id: Uuid::from_u128(1),
             cwd: PathBuf::from(cwd),
             command: "bash".into(),
@@ -284,6 +285,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            acp_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 

crates/maestro-protocol/src/lib.rs

@@ -116,6 +116,33 @@ pub struct Session {
     /// sorts a never-focused session after every session that has one.
     #[serde(default)]
     pub last_focused_at: Option<DateTime<Utc>>,
+    /// Whether this session's process is a plain terminal (PTY bytes through
+    /// tmux) or a structured agent driven over ACP rows (#133). Fixed at
+    /// spawn time and never changes for the life of the session. Defaults to
+    /// `Terminal` on the wire so every existing client and payload from a
+    /// daemon that predates the field keeps working untouched.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub view: SessionView,
+    /// The ACP session id the `claude-code-acp` adapter handed back from
+    /// `session/new` (#134). Only a [`SessionView::Structured`] session has
+    /// one, and only once its handshake succeeded; a later respawn passes it
+    /// to `session/load` so the conversation continues (#135). Distinct from
+    /// the hook-reported Claude Code conversation id (#161): that one is what
+    /// `claude --resume` takes, this one is what the ACP adapter takes, and
+    /// the two are minted by different processes with different lifetimes.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub acp_session_id: Option<String>,
+}
+
+/// A session's process shape (#133): a plain terminal, or a structured agent
+/// driven over ACP rows. Chosen at spawn and immutable for the session's
+/// life. `Terminal` is the default — every sidecar and `CreateSessionRequest`
+/// written before this field existed meant a terminal session.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize, Default)]
+pub enum SessionView {
+    #[default]
+    Terminal,
+    Structured,
 }
 
 /// Default for [`Session::last_activity_at`] when an older payload omits it.
@@ -352,6 +379,11 @@ pub struct CreateSessionRequest {
     pub metadata: HashMap<String, Value>,
     #[serde(default)]
     pub worktree: Option<WorktreeSpec>,
+    /// The process shape to spawn (#133). Defaulted so every existing client
+    /// and `curl` against the API keeps requesting a `Terminal` session
+    /// untouched.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub view: SessionView,
 }
 
 /// Result of `GET /api/dirs`: the immediate subdirectories of one directory.
@@ -554,6 +586,12 @@ pub struct DaemonInfo {
     /// network blip, even when the build did not change.
     #[serde(default)]
     pub instance: String,
+    /// Canonical leader key the operator configured (`[tui].leader`, default
+    /// `ctrl-a`), served so the web client binds the same chord the TUI does
+    /// instead of its own hardcoded constant (#159). Empty from a daemon too
+    /// old to serve it, which clients read as "use your default".
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub leader: String,
 }
 
 /// Payload of `GET /api/names?count=N` (#53) — a batch of fresh
@@ -856,6 +894,8 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: Some(PathBuf::from("/home/naps62/projects/maestro/crates")),
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            view: SessionView::Terminal,
+            acp_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 
@@ -1067,6 +1107,7 @@ mod tests {
                 branch: "feat/foo".into(),
                 create_branch: true,
             }),
+            view: SessionView::Terminal,
         };
         assert_eq!(req, round_trip(&req));
     }
@@ -1081,6 +1122,49 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(req.worktree.is_none());
         assert!(req.env.is_empty());
         assert!(req.metadata.is_empty());
+        assert_eq!(req.view, SessionView::Terminal);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn session_view_defaults_to_terminal_on_legacy_payload() {
+        // A pre-#133 daemon or client omits `view`; it must deserialize to
+        // `Terminal` rather than failing, and `Structured` round-trips.
+        let json = serde_json::json!({
+            "id": Uuid::from_u128(1),
+            "cwd": "/tmp",
+            "command": "bash",
+            "status": "Running",
+            "created_at": "2026-05-24T12:00:00Z"
+        });
+        let s: Session = serde_json::from_value(json).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(s.view, SessionView::Terminal);
+
+        let mut structured = sample_session();
+        structured.view = SessionView::Structured;
+        assert_eq!(structured, round_trip(&structured));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn acp_session_id_defaults_to_none_and_round_trips() {
+        // A payload from before #134 carries no `acp_session_id`; it must
+        // read as `None`, stay off the wire while unset, and round-trip
+        // once the adapter has handed one back.
+        let json = serde_json::json!({
+            "id": Uuid::from_u128(1),
+            "cwd": "/tmp",
+            "command": "bash",
+            "status": "Running",
+            "created_at": "2026-05-24T12:00:00Z"
+        });
+        let s: Session = serde_json::from_value(json).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(s.acp_session_id, None);
+        let serialized = serde_json::to_value(&s).unwrap();
+        assert!(serialized.get("acp_session_id").is_none());
+
+        let mut structured = sample_session();
+        structured.view = SessionView::Structured;
+        structured.acp_session_id = Some("sess_01HZX".into());
+        assert_eq!(structured, round_trip(&structured));
     }
 
     /// A client that predates the new/existing discriminator sends no

crates/maestro-testing/src/lib.rs

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ use uuid::Uuid;
 /// Build a plausible `Session` for a test to hand to [`MockDaemon::add_session`].
 pub fn session(id: Uuid, cwd: &str, command: &str) -> Session {
     Session {
+        view: Default::default(),
         id,
         cwd: cwd.into(),
         command: command.into(),
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ pub fn session(id: Uuid, cwd: &str, command: &str) -> Session {
         current_cwd: None,
         blocked_work: None,
         last_focused_at: None,
+        acp_session_id: None,
     }
 }
 

crates/maestro-tui/src/action.rs

@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ pub enum Action {
     /// Open the `ctrl-k` command bar (`docs/COMMAND-BAR.md`) — a query line
     /// over the sessions, ranked by the shared matcher.
     OpenCommandBar,
+    /// Escape hatch (#156): leader then `ctrl-k` sends the literal `0x0B`
+    /// byte to the focused pane instead of opening the command bar, giving
+    /// readline's kill-to-end-of-line back.
+    SendLiteralCtrlK,
+    /// Escape hatch (#158): the leader pressed twice sends one literal
+    /// leader byte to the focused pane and drops the pending chord, the way
+    /// tmux resolves a doubled prefix key.
+    SendLiteralLeader,
     ToggleSidebar,
     ShowHelp,
     Quit,
@@ -98,6 +106,8 @@ impl Action {
             Action::KillHighlighted => "Kill selected session".into(),
             Action::RenameHighlighted => "Rename selected session".into(),
             Action::OpenCommandBar => "Go to a session".into(),
+            Action::SendLiteralCtrlK => "Send literal Ctrl-K to session".into(),
+            Action::SendLiteralLeader => "Send literal leader key to session".into(),
             Action::ToggleSidebar => "Show or hide sidebar".into(),
             Action::ShowHelp => "Show help".into(),
             Action::Quit => "Quit Maestro".into(),
@@ -125,6 +135,8 @@ impl Action {
             "KillHighlighted" => return Ok(Action::KillHighlighted),
             "RenameHighlighted" => return Ok(Action::RenameHighlighted),
             "OpenCommandBar" => return Ok(Action::OpenCommandBar),
+            "SendLiteralCtrlK" => return Ok(Action::SendLiteralCtrlK),
+            "SendLiteralLeader" => return Ok(Action::SendLiteralLeader),
             "ToggleSidebar" => return Ok(Action::ToggleSidebar),
             "ShowHelp" => return Ok(Action::ShowHelp),
             "Quit" => return Ok(Action::Quit),
@@ -256,11 +268,26 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(Action::OpenCommandBar.help_label(), "Go to a session");
     }
 
+    /// The escape hatch (#156) is an ordinary action like any other.
+    #[test]
+    fn send_literal_ctrl_k_round_trips() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            Action::parse("SendLiteralCtrlK").unwrap(),
+            Action::SendLiteralCtrlK
+        );
+        assert_eq!(Action::SendLiteralCtrlK.to_string(), "SendLiteralCtrlK");
+        assert_eq!(
+            Action::SendLiteralCtrlK.help_label(),
+            "Send literal Ctrl-K to session"
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn display_round_trips() {
         for a in [
             Action::EnterInsert,
             Action::OpenCommandBar,
+            Action::SendLiteralCtrlK,
             Action::RenameHighlighted,
             Action::Quit,
             Action::OpenSpawnModal,

crates/maestro-tui/src/app.rs

@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ impl App {
                     return Ok(true);
                 }
             }
+            self.chord.take_replay();
             return Ok(false);
         }
 
@@ -325,32 +326,46 @@ impl App {
             return Ok(false);
         }
 
-        let known = self.cfg.keymap.known_bindings(self.state.mode);
-        match self.chord.feed(&key, &known) {
-            ChordResult::Pending => Ok(false),
-            ChordResult::Resolved(canon) => {
-                let act = self.cfg.keymap.resolve(self.state.mode, &canon);
-                if matches!(act, Some(Action::Quit)) {
-                    return Ok(true);
+        // A key bumped out of an abandoned chord (#156) is replayed as its
+        // own keystroke, against the mode dispatch may have just changed.
+        let mut current_key = key;
+        let mut result = self.chord.feed(
+            &current_key,
+            &self.cfg.keymap.known_bindings(self.state.mode),
+        );
+        loop {
+            let canon = match result {
+                ChordResult::Pending => return Ok(false),
+                ChordResult::Resolved(canon) => canon,
+            };
+            let act = self.cfg.keymap.resolve(self.state.mode, &canon);
+            if matches!(act, Some(Action::Quit)) {
+                return Ok(true);
+            }
+            let pty_owns_keys =
+                self.state.mode == Mode::Insert && matches!(self.state.focus, Focus::Pane);
+            match act {
+                // `Noop` suppresses a binding, and a key with no binding in
+                // Insert mode is the session's — so a key bound to `Noop`
+                // reaches the pty too. That is the escape hatch for taking
+                // a default binding back.
+                Some(Action::Noop) | None if pty_owns_keys => {
+                    let effects = self.forward_to_session(&current_key).into_iter().collect();
+                    self.perform(effects).await;
                 }
-                let pty_owns_keys =
-                    self.state.mode == Mode::Insert && matches!(self.state.focus, Focus::Pane);
-                match act {
-                    // `Noop` suppresses a binding, and a key with no binding in
-                    // Insert mode is the session's — so a key bound to `Noop`
-                    // reaches the pty too. That is the escape hatch for taking
-                    // a default binding back.
-                    Some(Action::Noop) | None if pty_owns_keys => {
-                        let effects = self.forward_to_session(&key).into_iter().collect();
-                        self.perform(effects).await;
-                    }
-                    Some(act) => {
-                        let effects = self.dispatch(act);
-                        self.perform(effects).await;
-                    }
-                    None => {}
+                Some(act) => {
+                    let effects = self.dispatch(act);
+                    self.perform(effects).await;
                 }
-                Ok(false)
+                None => {}
+            }
+            match self.chord.take_replay() {
+                Some(replay_key) => {
+                    let known = self.cfg.keymap.known_bindings(self.state.mode);
+                    result = self.chord.feed(&replay_key, &known);
+                    current_key = replay_key;
+                }
+                None => return Ok(false),
             }
         }
     }
@@ -546,6 +561,16 @@ impl App {
                 self.state.show_overlay(OverlayKind::Help);
             }
             Action::OpenCommandBar => effects.extend(self.open_command_bar()),
+            // Escape hatch (#156): the literal byte, not the bar.
+            Action::SendLiteralCtrlK => {
+                effects.extend(self.forward_to_session(&InputKey::ctrl_char('k')));
+            }
+            // Escape hatch (#158): the leader's own byte, built from the
+            // configured leader rather than a hardcoded key.
+            Action::SendLiteralLeader => {
+                let leader = self.cfg.leader.clone();
+                effects.extend(self.forward_to_session(&leader));
+            }
             Action::OpenSpawnModal => {
                 self.open_spawn_modal();
                 effects.push(Effect::LoadDraft);
@@ -1857,6 +1882,7 @@ mod tests {
             sessions: ids
                 .iter()
                 .map(|id| Session {
+                    view: Default::default(),
                     id: *id,
                     command: "bash".into(),
                     cwd: std::path::PathBuf::from("/"),
@@ -1873,6 +1899,7 @@ mod tests {
                     current_cwd: None,
                     blocked_work: None,
                     last_focused_at: None,
+                    acp_session_id: None,
                 })
                 .collect(),
         });
@@ -2038,6 +2065,7 @@ mod tests {
         let mut app = make_app();
         app.catalog.apply_event(CatalogEvent::Snapshot {
             sessions: vec![Session {
+                view: Default::default(),
                 id: sid,
                 command: "bash".into(),
                 cwd: std::path::PathBuf::from("/"),
@@ -2054,6 +2082,7 @@ mod tests {
                 current_cwd: None,
                 blocked_work: None,
                 last_focused_at: None,
+                acp_session_id: None,
             }],
         });
         app.dispatch(Action::SidebarNext);
@@ -2065,6 +2094,7 @@ mod tests {
         use chrono::Utc;
         use maestro_protocol::{Session, SessionStatus};
         Session {
+            view: Default::default(),
             id: sid,
             command: "bash".into(),
             cwd: cwd.into(),
@@ -2081,6 +2111,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            acp_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 
@@ -2752,6 +2783,7 @@ mod tests {
         );
         app.dispatch(Action::OpenSpawnModal);
         let req = CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: std::path::PathBuf::from("/srv/work"),
             command: "bash".into(),
             env: Default::default(),
@@ -2912,6 +2944,55 @@ mod tests {
         CtEvent::Key(crossterm::event::KeyEvent::new(code, mods))
     }
 
+    fn ctrl_key_event(c: char) -> CtEvent {
+        key_event(
+            crossterm::event::KeyCode::Char(c),
+            crossterm::event::KeyModifiers::CONTROL,
+        )
+    }
+
+    /// Drive a sequence of key events through an app in Insert mode with a
+    /// session attached, and report the app afterwards plus every chunk of
+    /// bytes that reached that session, in order.
+    async fn drive_insert_sequence(
+        section: &TuiSection,
+        events: &[CtEvent],
+    ) -> (App, Vec<Vec<u8>>) {
+        use crate::session_task::{SessionHandle, SessionState};
+        use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, AtomicU8};
+        use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
+        use tokio::sync::mpsc;
+
+        let sid = Uuid::from_u128(41);
+        let mut app = App::new(
+            TuiConfig::load(section).unwrap(),
+            CatalogStore::default(),
+            DaemonClient::new("http://127.0.0.1:7070"),
+            DaemonLink::default(),
+        );
+        let (tx, mut rx) = mpsc::channel(8);
+        app.emulators.insert(
+            sid,
+            SessionHandle {
+                tx,
+                screen: Arc::new(Mutex::new(vt100::Parser::new(24, 80, 0))),
+                state: Arc::new(AtomicU8::new(SessionState::Live as u8)),
+                revision: Arc::new(AtomicU64::new(0)),
+            },
+        );
+        app.state.attach_to_focused(sid);
+        app.state.mode = Mode::Insert;
+        app.state.focus = Focus::Pane;
+        for ev in events {
+            app.handle_event(ev.clone()).await.unwrap();
+        }
+        let mut sent = Vec::new();
+        while let Ok(SessionInput::Bytes(bytes)) = rx.try_recv() {
+            sent.push(bytes);
+        }
+        (app, sent)
+    }
+
     /// Escape belongs to the session: full-screen apps (vim, Claude Code) read
     /// it constantly, so no Insert-mode default may swallow it. The leader is
     /// the way back to the sidebar.
@@ -2930,19 +3011,120 @@ mod tests {
 
     /// `Noop` suppresses a binding, and in Insert mode a key with no binding is
     /// the session's — so binding a key to `Noop` hands it to the pty.
+    ///
+    /// Uses `ctrl-x`, not the leader: the leader is also a chord prefix
+    /// (#156), so a single fed keystroke on it resolves as `Pending`, not
+    /// `Resolved` — a different mechanism, covered separately below.
     #[tokio::test]
     async fn a_noop_insert_binding_forwards_the_key_to_the_session() {
         let mut section = TuiSection::default();
-        section.keymap_insert.insert("ctrl-a".into(), "Noop".into());
+        section.keymap_insert.insert("ctrl-x".into(), "Noop".into());
         let sent = bytes_sent_for(
             &section,
             key_event(
-                crossterm::event::KeyCode::Char('a'),
+                crossterm::event::KeyCode::Char('x'),
                 crossterm::event::KeyModifiers::CONTROL,
             ),
         )
         .await;
-        assert_eq!(sent, Some(vec![0x01]));
+        assert_eq!(sent, Some(vec![0x18]));
+    }
+
+    /// Leader then `ctrl-k` sends the literal byte and never opens the bar
+    /// (#156) — the default leader, `ctrl-a`.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn leader_then_ctrl_k_sends_the_literal_byte_and_does_not_open_the_bar() {
+        let (app, sent) = drive_insert_sequence(
+            &TuiSection::default(),
+            &[ctrl_key_event('a'), ctrl_key_event('k')],
+        )
+        .await;
+        assert_eq!(sent, vec![vec![0x0b]]);
+        assert_eq!(app.state.overlay(), None);
+        assert_eq!(app.state.mode, Mode::Insert, "still in Insert, not left");
+    }
+
+    /// The escape hatch is built from the configured leader, not a hardcoded
+    /// `ctrl-a` — rebinding `[tui].leader` rebinds it too (#156).
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn a_rebound_leader_still_reaches_the_literal_ctrl_k_escape() {
+        let section = TuiSection {
+            leader: Some("ctrl-b".into()),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let (app, sent) =
+            drive_insert_sequence(&section, &[ctrl_key_event('b'), ctrl_key_event('k')]).await;
+        assert_eq!(sent, vec![vec![0x0b]]);
+        assert_eq!(app.state.overlay(), None);
+    }
+
+    /// Leader alone, followed by an ordinary key, still leaves Insert mode —
+    /// the escape hatch chord doesn't cost the leader its existing meaning
+    /// (#156).
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn leader_alone_still_leaves_insert_when_followed_by_another_key() {
+        let (app, sent) = drive_insert_sequence(
+            &TuiSection::default(),
+            &[
+                ctrl_key_event('a'),
+                key_event(
+                    crossterm::event::KeyCode::Char('j'),
+                    crossterm::event::KeyModifiers::NONE,
+                ),
+            ],
+        )
+        .await;
+        assert!(
+            sent.is_empty(),
+            "no bytes for the leader chord itself: {sent:?}"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(app.state.mode, Mode::Normal, "leader still leaves Insert");
+    }
+
+    /// Leader pressed twice sends one literal leader byte, tmux-style, and
+    /// clears the pending chord rather than leaving Insert (#158) — the
+    /// default leader, `ctrl-a`.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn leader_twice_sends_the_literal_leader_byte_and_stays_in_insert() {
+        let (app, sent) = drive_insert_sequence(
+            &TuiSection::default(),
+            &[ctrl_key_event('a'), ctrl_key_event('a')],
+        )
+        .await;
+        assert_eq!(sent, vec![vec![0x01]]);
+        assert_eq!(app.state.mode, Mode::Insert, "still in Insert, not left");
+    }
+
+    /// The escape hatch is built from the configured leader, not a hardcoded
+    /// `ctrl-a` — rebinding `[tui].leader` rebinds it too (#158).
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn a_rebound_leader_still_reaches_the_literal_leader_escape() {
+        let section = TuiSection {
+            leader: Some("ctrl-b".into()),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let (app, sent) =
+            drive_insert_sequence(&section, &[ctrl_key_event('b'), ctrl_key_event('b')]).await;
+        assert_eq!(sent, vec![vec![0x02]]);
+        assert_eq!(app.state.mode, Mode::Insert);
+    }
+
+    /// After the literal-leader escape fires, the chord is gone — a further
+    /// leader press starts a fresh chord rather than resolving as a
+    /// three-deep sequence (#158).
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn leader_twice_then_ctrl_k_is_a_fresh_chord() {
+        let (_app, sent) = drive_insert_sequence(
+            &TuiSection::default(),
+            &[
+                ctrl_key_event('a'),
+                ctrl_key_event('a'),
+                ctrl_key_event('a'),
+                ctrl_key_event('k'),
+            ],
+        )
+        .await;
+        assert_eq!(sent, vec![vec![0x01], vec![0x0b]]);
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -3020,6 +3202,7 @@ mod tests {
         use chrono::Utc;
         use maestro_protocol::{CatalogEvent, Session, SessionStatus};
         let make = |n: u128, name: &str, focused: Option<chrono::DateTime<Utc>>| Session {
+            view: Default::default(),
             id: Uuid::from_u128(n),
             command: "bash".into(),
             cwd: std::path::PathBuf::from("/"),
@@ -3039,6 +3222,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: focused,
+            acp_session_id: None,
         };
         let older = Utc::now() - chrono::Duration::seconds(60);
         app.catalog.apply_event(CatalogEvent::Snapshot {
@@ -3300,6 +3484,7 @@ mod tests {
         let sid = Uuid::from_u128(7);
         app.catalog.apply_event(CatalogEvent::Snapshot {
             sessions: vec![Session {
+                view: Default::default(),
                 id: sid,
                 command: "bash".into(),
                 cwd: std::path::PathBuf::from("/"),
@@ -3317,6 +3502,7 @@ mod tests {
                 current_cwd: None,
                 blocked_work: None,
                 last_focused_at: None,
+                acp_session_id: None,
             }],
         });
         app.dispatch(Action::KillHighlighted);
@@ -3336,6 +3522,7 @@ mod tests {
         };
         app.catalog.apply_event(CatalogEvent::Snapshot {
             sessions: vec![Session {
+                view: Default::default(),
                 id: sid,
                 command: "bash".into(),
                 cwd: std::path::PathBuf::from("/"),
@@ -3352,6 +3539,7 @@ mod tests {
                 current_cwd: None,
                 blocked_work: None,
                 last_focused_at: None,
+                acp_session_id: None,
             }],
         });
     }

crates/maestro-tui/src/catalog.rs

@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ mod tests {
 
     fn session(id: u128, command: &str) -> Session {
         Session {
+            view: Default::default(),
             id: Uuid::from_u128(id),
             command: command.into(),
             cwd: std::path::PathBuf::from("/tmp"),
@@ -223,6 +224,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            acp_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 

crates/maestro-tui/src/command_bar.rs

@@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ mod tests {
 
     fn session(n: u128, command: &str) -> Session {
         Session {
+            view: Default::default(),
             id: Uuid::from_u128(n),
             cwd: PathBuf::from("/home/me/dev/api"),
             command: command.to_string(),
@@ -809,6 +810,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            acp_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 

crates/maestro-tui/src/config.rs

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ impl TuiConfig {
             TuiTheme::Nord => Palette::NORD,
             TuiTheme::Dracula => Palette::DRACULA,
         };
-        let leader_str = section.leader.as_deref().unwrap_or("ctrl-a");
+        let leader_str = section.leader();
         let leader = InputKey::parse(leader_str)
             .map_err(|_| TuiConfigError::BadLeader(leader_str.to_string()))?;
         let chord_timeout = Duration::from_millis(section.chord_timeout_ms.unwrap_or(1000));
@@ -146,6 +146,25 @@ impl TuiConfig {
         keymap
             .set(Mode::Insert, &leader.canonical(), "LeaveInsert")
             .expect("leader canonical form is valid by construction");
+        // Leader, ctrl-k → the literal-Ctrl-K escape hatch (#156), built from
+        // the same leader spec so rebinding leader rebinds this chord too.
+        keymap
+            .set(
+                Mode::Insert,
+                &format!("{} ctrl-k", leader.canonical()),
+                "SendLiteralCtrlK",
+            )
+            .expect("leader canonical form is valid by construction");
+        // Leader, leader → the literal-leader escape hatch (#158), tmux-style:
+        // pressing it twice sends the leader byte itself. Built from the same
+        // leader spec, so rebinding leader rebinds this chord too.
+        keymap
+            .set(
+                Mode::Insert,
+                &format!("{} {}", leader.canonical(), leader.canonical()),
+                "SendLiteralLeader",
+            )
+            .expect("leader canonical form is valid by construction");
 
         for (input, action) in &section.keymap_normal {
             keymap.set(Mode::Normal, input, action).map_err(|source| {
@@ -278,6 +297,60 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(cfg.keymap.resolve(Mode::Insert, "ctrl-a"), None);
     }
 
+    /// The literal-Ctrl-K escape hatch (#156) is chorded off the default
+    /// leader, `ctrl-a ctrl-k` — not the command bar.
+    #[test]
+    fn default_leader_escapes_a_literal_ctrl_k() {
+        let cfg = TuiConfig::load(&TuiSection::default()).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            cfg.keymap.resolve(Mode::Insert, "ctrl-a ctrl-k"),
+            Some(Action::SendLiteralCtrlK),
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// Rebinding the leader must rebind the literal-Ctrl-K chord with it, not
+    /// just the Insert escape — proving the chord is built from the
+    /// configured leader rather than a hardcoded `ctrl-a`.
+    #[test]
+    fn rebinding_leader_moves_the_literal_ctrl_k_chord() {
+        let mut section = TuiSection::default();
+        section.leader = Some("ctrl-b".into());
+        let cfg = TuiConfig::load(&section).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            cfg.keymap.resolve(Mode::Insert, "ctrl-b ctrl-k"),
+            Some(Action::SendLiteralCtrlK),
+        );
+        // The old leader's chord is gone along with its Insert escape.
+        assert_eq!(cfg.keymap.resolve(Mode::Insert, "ctrl-a ctrl-k"), None);
+    }
+
+    /// The literal-leader escape hatch (#158) is chorded off the leader
+    /// doubled: `ctrl-a ctrl-a` — tmux's doubled-prefix resolution.
+    #[test]
+    fn default_leader_escapes_a_literal_leader() {
+        let cfg = TuiConfig::load(&TuiSection::default()).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            cfg.keymap.resolve(Mode::Insert, "ctrl-a ctrl-a"),
+            Some(Action::SendLiteralLeader),
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// Rebinding the leader must rebind the literal-leader chord with it,
+    /// not just the Insert escape and the Ctrl-K chord — proving it too is
+    /// built from the configured leader rather than a hardcoded `ctrl-a`.
+    #[test]
+    fn rebinding_leader_moves_the_literal_leader_chord() {
+        let mut section = TuiSection::default();
+        section.leader = Some("ctrl-b".into());
+        let cfg = TuiConfig::load(&section).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            cfg.keymap.resolve(Mode::Insert, "ctrl-b ctrl-b"),
+            Some(Action::SendLiteralLeader),
+        );
+        // The old leader's chord is gone along with the rest of its bindings.
+        assert_eq!(cfg.keymap.resolve(Mode::Insert, "ctrl-a ctrl-a"), None);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn user_normal_override_replaces_default() {
         let mut section = TuiSection::default();

crates/maestro-tui/src/daemon_link.rs

@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ mod tests {
                 dirty: false,
             },
             instance: instance.into(),
+            leader: maestro_config::DEFAULT_LEADER.into(),
         }
     }
 

crates/maestro-tui/src/draft.rs

@@ -694,6 +694,7 @@ impl DraftPane {
         }
         let worktree = self.build_worktree()?;
         Ok(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd,
             command: command.to_string(),
             env: Default::default(),

crates/maestro-tui/src/fast_forward.rs

@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ impl FastForwardDefaults {
             return None;
         }
         Some(CreateSessionRequest {
+            view: Default::default(),
             cwd: project.path.clone(),
             command: command.to_string(),
             env: Default::default(),

crates/maestro-tui/src/input.rs

@@ -387,6 +387,9 @@ pub struct ChordState {
     held: Vec<String>,
     last_press: Option<Instant>,
     timeout: Duration,
+    /// A key bumped out of an abandoned chord (see [`Self::feed`]), waiting
+    /// to be replayed as a fresh keystroke by the caller.
+    replay: Option<InputKey>,
 }
 
 impl ChordState {
@@ -395,6 +398,7 @@ impl ChordState {
             held: Vec::new(),
             last_press: None,
             timeout,
+            replay: None,
         }
     }
 
@@ -404,6 +408,13 @@ impl ChordState {
     ///   binding; wait for the next key.
     /// * `Resolved(s)` — `s` is the canonical chord (or single key) to look
     ///   up in the keymap. The held buffer is cleared.
+    ///
+    /// A held prefix that is itself directly bound (e.g. a leader key bound
+    /// alone as well as chorded, like `ctrl-a` and `ctrl-a ctrl-k`) resolves
+    /// to that binding the moment the next key fails to extend it, rather
+    /// than swallowing the held key and losing its meaning — the new key
+    /// never belonged to the chord and is handed back via [`Self::take_replay`]
+    /// so the caller can process it as its own keystroke.
     pub fn feed(&mut self, key: &InputKey, known_bindings: &HashSet<String>) -> ChordResult {
         if let Some(t) = self.last_press {
             if t.elapsed() > self.timeout {
@@ -428,11 +439,31 @@ impl ChordState {
 
         if is_prefix {
             self.held.push(key_s);
-            ChordResult::Pending
-        } else {
-            self.held.clear();
-            ChordResult::Resolved(candidate)
+            return ChordResult::Pending;
         }
+
+        if known_bindings.contains(&candidate) {
+            self.held.clear();
+            return ChordResult::Resolved(candidate);
+        }
+
+        if !self.held.is_empty() {
+            let held_str = self.held.join(" ");
+            self.held.clear();
+            if known_bindings.contains(&held_str) {
+                self.replay = Some(key.clone());
+                return ChordResult::Resolved(held_str);
+            }
+        }
+
+        ChordResult::Resolved(candidate)
+    }
+
+    /// Take the key bumped out of an abandoned chord by the last [`Self::feed`]
+    /// call, if any. The caller feeds it through again as a brand new
+    /// keystroke.
+    pub fn take_replay(&mut self) -> Option<InputKey> {
+        self.replay.take()
     }
 }
 
@@ -733,6 +764,41 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(r, ChordResult::Resolved("g x".into()));
     }
 
+    /// A key bound both alone and as a chord prefix (the leader: `ctrl-a` and
+    /// `ctrl-a ctrl-k`) must still fire its own binding when the next key
+    /// doesn't complete the chord — the held key's meaning isn't lost, and
+    /// the new key comes back via `take_replay` for the caller to process on
+    /// its own (#156).
+    #[test]
+    fn a_bound_prefix_resolves_itself_and_replays_the_breaking_key() {
+        let mut chord = ChordState::new(Duration::from_secs(10));
+        let known: HashSet<String> = ["ctrl-a".into(), "ctrl-a ctrl-k".into()]
+            .into_iter()
+            .collect();
+
+        let r = chord.feed(&InputKey::ctrl_char('a'), &known);
+        assert_eq!(r, ChordResult::Pending);
+
+        let r = chord.feed(&InputKey::char('j'), &known);
+        assert_eq!(r, ChordResult::Resolved("ctrl-a".into()));
+        assert_eq!(chord.take_replay(), Some(InputKey::char('j')));
+    }
+
+    /// The full chord still resolves normally when the next key completes
+    /// it — no replay, no early fire of the shorter binding.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_completed_chord_off_a_bound_prefix_has_no_replay() {
+        let mut chord = ChordState::new(Duration::from_secs(10));
+        let known: HashSet<String> = ["ctrl-a".into(), "ctrl-a ctrl-k".into()]
+            .into_iter()
+            .collect();
+
+        chord.feed(&InputKey::ctrl_char('a'), &known);
+        let r = chord.feed(&InputKey::ctrl_char('k'), &known);
+        assert_eq!(r, ChordResult::Resolved("ctrl-a ctrl-k".into()));
+        assert_eq!(chord.take_replay(), None);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn chord_state_lone_key_resolves_immediately() {
         let mut chord = ChordState::new(Duration::from_secs(10));

crates/maestro-tui/src/sidebar.rs

@@ -484,6 +484,7 @@ mod tests {
         let mut metadata = HashMap::new();
         metadata.insert("name".into(), serde_json::Value::String(name.into()));
         Session {
+            view: Default::default(),
             id: Uuid::from_u128(id),
             command: "bash".into(),
             cwd: std::path::PathBuf::from("/tmp"),
@@ -500,6 +501,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            acp_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 
@@ -1250,6 +1252,7 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn falls_back_to_command_when_name_metadata_is_absent() {
         let s = Session {
+            view: Default::default(),
             id: Uuid::from_u128(1),
             command: "vim".into(),
             cwd: std::path::PathBuf::from("/tmp"),
@@ -1266,6 +1269,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            acp_session_id: None,
         };
         let sb = Sidebar {
             sessions: vec![s],

docs/COMMAND-BAR.md

@@ -45,8 +45,21 @@ mirroring the TUI's. `ctrl-a` is select-all in a browser; the web
 `preventDefault`s it, since selecting all of a terminal pane does nothing
 useful.
 
-Only Ctrl-K gets an escape hatch. No other control character is intercepted, so
-none of them needs one.
+One knob drives both clients: the daemon serves `[tui].leader` as `leader` on
+`GET /api/info`, and the web binds that instead of its own constant (#159). A
+daemon too old to send the field, or an unreachable `/api/info`, leaves the web
+on `ctrl-a`. The section is named `[tui]` for history — it is the leader for
+every client, not the TUI's alone.
+
+The leader itself needs the same kind of way back: holding it consumes every
+press, on both clients, even before anything is bound behind it. Pressing it
+twice — `ctrl-a ctrl-a` by default — sends one literal leader byte to the
+focused pane and clears the pending chord, the way tmux resolves a doubled
+prefix key. This chord is also built from the configured leader, so a
+rebound leader carries its own escape hatch with it.
+
+Only Ctrl-K and the leader itself get an escape hatch. No other control
+character is intercepted, so none of them needs one.
 
 ### Focus round-trip
 
@@ -145,12 +158,12 @@ searchable — the query line keeps working, now over those actions.
   ambiguous.
 - Escape, or backspace at an empty query, returns to the result list **with the
   previous query intact**. Drilling in and backing out is free.
-- Each action raises the flow it already has: kill goes through the existing
-  confirm-and-blockers dialog (`docs/WORKTREES.md`), rename through the
-  existing prompt pre-filled with the session's own name
-  (`docs/SIDEBAR.md`), spawn similar through the spawn form seeded from the
-  session's directory and command. The bar picks the action; it never
-  reimplements one.
+- Each action raises the flow it already has: kill through the confirmation
+  both clients ask for (`docs/SIDEBAR.md`) and the blockers dialog behind it
+  (`docs/WORKTREES.md`), rename through the existing prompt pre-filled with the
+  session's own name (`docs/SIDEBAR.md`), spawn similar through the spawn form
+  seeded from the session's directory and command. The bar picks the action; it
+  never reimplements one.
 
 No actions beyond those three, and no action across more than one session.
 

docs/INSTALL.md

@@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ cover every v1 action — only override what you want to change:
 ```toml
 [tui]
 theme = "dark"              # see the theme list below
-leader = "ctrl-a"            # one byte that escapes Insert mode
+leader = "ctrl-a"            # one byte that escapes Insert mode; the web reads
+                             # the same setting off /api/info
 chord_timeout_ms = 1000      # how long to hold a partial chord like `ctrl-w`
 
 [tui.keymap.normal]
@@ -187,6 +188,31 @@ An unknown name is rejected as an `[tui].theme` configuration error.
 The full action vocabulary is the `Action` enum in
 `crates/maestro-tui/src/action.rs`.
 
+## Structured sessions: `claude-code-acp`
+
+A session spawned with `view: Structured` (#134) runs Claude Code as a child
+of the daemon over the Agent Client Protocol instead of in a tmux pane. The
+daemon resolves the adapter binary, `claude-code-acp`, on its `PATH` at spawn
+time. Install it once per host:
+
+```sh
+npm install -g --prefix ~/.local @zed-industries/claude-code-acp
+```
+
+That puts `claude-code-acp` in `~/.local/bin`, which must be on the daemon's
+`PATH` (a systemd user unit does not read your shell profile; set
+`Environment=PATH=…` in the unit or install somewhere already on it). The
+adapter needs a logged-in Claude Code (`claude /login`).
+
+When the adapter is missing the spawn still creates the session, marked dead
+with the install command above as its activity detail, so the sidebar says
+what to run. The adapter is a child of the daemon: it ends with a `DELETE
+/api/sessions/:id` (`session/cancel`, then `SIGTERM`) and with the daemon
+itself. A daemon restart ends an in-flight structured turn, but preserves its
+worktree, session record, and event-log transcript. The replacement daemon
+starts a new adapter, resumes it with `session/load`, and replays the
+transcript. Terminal sessions keep surviving restarts through tmux.
+
 ## The browser UI
 
 The daemon serves the SPA off its own listener. Open

docs/PREVIEW.md

@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ Web client (`--preview` and friends in `web/src/styles.css`):
 | The previewed pane's titlebar | Tinted in the preview hue, at full strength, in place of the focused pane's accent tint. |
 | The canvas | A `preview` chip, top right, and a dashed inset ring. |
 | A throwaway tab | Dashed border, italic label. |
-| The sidebar row being previewed | Filled with the preview hue, over whatever open/focused state the row already had. |
+| The sidebar row being previewed | Filled with the preview hue, over whatever open state the row already had — but the row of the session already showing in the pane keeps its accent fill, since previewing it changes nothing on screen. |
+| The sidebar row of the session the operator picked | Keeps its accent fill for the whole preview. A preview never moves the accent; only opening another session does. |
 | A hovered sidebar row, and the keyboard cursor on a session | A lighter wash of the same hue, because both are what previews a row. |
 
 Rows say it with fill, not with an edge — see the tier ladder in

docs/SIDEBAR.md

@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ furthest down wins the paint.
 | Under the pointer or the keyboard walk | preview hue, light | selection surface, while the sidebar holds the keyboard |
 | Open in some pane, not the focused one | 6% accent wash (`.is-open`) | — (the `●` glyph carries it) |
 | Showing in the pane | `--accent-fill` | `pane_row_bg()` — partway from the card surface to the selection surface |
-| Previewing (`docs/PREVIEW.md`) | `--preview-tint` | — (no preview colour role yet) |
+| Previewing (`docs/PREVIEW.md`), unless that row is the one showing in the pane | `--preview-tint` | — (no preview colour role yet) |
 
 The web ladder is written as one ordered run of equal-specificity rules in
 `styles.css`, every qualifier inside `:where()`, so the order they appear in
@@ -250,6 +250,10 @@ Two rulings specific to a reported `Error` (#114):
   process changes do not clear it — only the agent itself may withdraw what
   the agent itself reported. Re-reporting `Error` extends the TTL rather than
   stacking reports.
+- **Only Claude Code reports `Error`.** Codex has no counterpart to
+  `StopFailure` in its hook event set, so a codex turn that ends on an API
+  error reports `AwaitingInput` and its card carries no error mark. A card
+  without the mark means "nothing reported a failure", not "nothing failed".
 
 If a client receives an `ActivityState` variant it does not know, it must not
 fail rendering: treat it as `Idle` (neutral/dim, line-2 rules apply as usual)
@@ -303,9 +307,10 @@ lands on the first row it was hiding. A highlight parked on a skipped row —
 reachable by clicking a folder header — still steps to its neighbour rather
 than jumping to the end of the list.
 
-The web client needs a chord to reach the list at all (`Ctrl+Shift+H`, and the
-same chord back): an attached terminal owns every plain keystroke. The TUI uses
-`ctrl-w h`.
+The web client needs a chord to reach the list at all (leader-`h` — `Ctrl+A h`
+by default — and the same chord back): an attached terminal owns every plain
+keystroke, and Escape is left to reach the pane's shell/app instead. The TUI
+uses `ctrl-w h`.
 
 Everything else is the same key on both clients:
 
@@ -316,7 +321,7 @@ Everything else is the same key on both clients:
 | `Tab`   | hand the keyboard to the pane               |
 | `c`     | collapse or expand the highlighted folder   |
 | `r`     | rename the highlighted session              |
-| `x`     | kill the highlighted session                |
+| `x`     | kill the highlighted session (confirms)     |
 | `n`     | open the spawn form                         |
 | `N`     | spawn with every default resolved           |
 | `?`     | show the shortcut overlay                   |
@@ -324,3 +329,18 @@ Everything else is the same key on both clients:
 The TUI binds these through its keymap, so a user can rebind any of them; the
 web client's are fixed. A binding added to one client belongs in this table and
 in both help overlays.
+
+## Killing a session
+
+**Every kill confirms first, in both clients** (#160). A kill is destructive
+and unattended agents live in these sessions, so neither client sends
+`DELETE /api/sessions/:id` off a single press. The TUI raises
+`OverlayKind::KillConfirm` (`[y]`/`[n]`); the web raises the same dialog its
+`✕` button and the command bar's action page both use. Cancel holds the focus
+in the web's dialog, so nothing kills on a stray Enter.
+
+The confirmation names what the card last saw in the way, when anything was —
+the daemon will refuse an unforced kill over such a worktree, and saying so
+before the attempt is cheaper than a refusal. What comes back from that refusal
+is a second, separate prompt offering `force=true`; `docs/WORKTREES.md` owns
+what a forced kill leaves behind.

docs/WORKTREES.md

@@ -35,10 +35,18 @@ The branch name is used verbatim as a relative path, so `feature/login` becomes
 back to a short hash of the branch.
 
 If that path exists, the daemon appends `-2`, then `-3`, and so on until it finds
-a free one. The suffix names the **directory only**. The branch is whatever was
-requested; a second worktree of the same branch is not what happens here, because
-git refuses to check the same branch out twice and the branch picker already
-marks branches that are checked out elsewhere.
+a free one.
+
+For a *new* branch (`create_branch: true`), the suffix goes on the branch name
+itself, and the directory follows since it is derived from the branch — a
+random handle can otherwise reuse the name of a branch some earlier, already
+removed worktree left behind, and `git worktree add -b` refuses outright even
+though the directory is free.
+
+For an *existing* branch (`create_branch: false`) the name must stay exact, so
+only the directory is suffixed — a second worktree of the same branch is not
+what happens here, because git refuses to check the same branch out twice and
+the branch picker already marks branches that are checked out elsewhere.
 
 ### The `worktree_root` override
 

web/src/attach.ts

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ import { Terminal } from "@xterm/xterm";
 import "@xterm/xterm/css/xterm.css";
 
 import { attachWsUrl } from "./routes.js";
-import { FOCUS_SIDEBAR_EVENT } from "./catalog.js";
-import { CommandSet, defineCommands } from "./commands.js";
 import { escapeHtml } from "./html.js";
 import { INITIAL_RECONNECT_MS, MAX_RECONNECT_MS } from "./reconnect.js";
 import { applyModsToChar, cursorSeq, tildeSeq } from "./keys.js";
@@ -14,15 +12,6 @@ import { splitCommand, toolIconSvg } from "./toolIcon.js";
 import type { ClientControl, Uuid } from "./types.js";
 import { WebglPolicy } from "./webglRenderer.js";
 
-// The pane's half of the command registry (#148): plain Escape hands the
-// keyboard back to the session list, the pair to the list's Tab.
-const paneKeys = new CommandSet(
-  defineCommands({
-    "pane.focusList": () => document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent(FOCUS_SIDEBAR_EVENT)),
-  }),
-  { preventDefault: false },
-);
-
 /** One budget for the whole page — see webglRenderer.ts for why contexts are
  *  rationed rather than handed to every connection. */
 const webglPolicy = new WebglPolicy();
@@ -221,15 +210,6 @@ export function createAttachConnection(
     }
   }
 
-  // Plain Escape hands the keyboard back to the session list instead of the
-  // shell/app. `false` tells xterm to skip its own handling of this event —
-  // which is also why the set doesn't `preventDefault`: swallowing here is
-  // xterm's return value, not the browser's.
-  term.attachCustomKeyEventHandler((e) => {
-    if (e.type !== "keydown") return true;
-    return !paneKeys.handle(e);
-  });
-
   // Touch scrolling: xterm's built-in touch handling is jittery (drags crawl a
   // line at a time and stall), so map finger drags ourselves. Two routes:
   //   • normal buffer  → term.scrollLines walks the scrollback.
@@ -470,6 +450,12 @@ export function createAttachConnection(
   const resizeDisp = term.onResize(({ cols, rows }) => {
     sendControl({ type: "Resize", cols, rows });
   });
+  // xterm has no built-in copy-on-select; mirror the selection to the
+  // clipboard ourselves (best-effort — insecure contexts lack the API).
+  const selectionDisp = term.onSelectionChange(() => {
+    const text = term.getSelection();
+    if (text) void navigator.clipboard?.writeText(text).catch(() => {});
+  });
 
   window.addEventListener("resize", onResize);
   const visual = window.visualViewport ?? null;
@@ -525,6 +511,7 @@ export function createAttachConnection(
       visual?.removeEventListener("resize", onResize);
       dataDisp.dispose();
       resizeDisp.dispose();
+      selectionDisp.dispose();
       releaseWebgl();
       try {
         ws.close();

web/src/barActions.test.ts

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ async function flush(): Promise<void> {
 }
 
 describe("kill from the action page", () => {
-  it("goes through the daemon, without a first confirmation", async () => {
+  it("goes through the same confirmation the sidebar raises (#160)", async () => {
     const calls: string[] = [];
     window.fetch = ((url: string, init?: RequestInit) => {
       calls.push(`${init?.method ?? "GET"} ${url}`);
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ describe("kill from the action page", () => {
     mount(s);
     raise(KILL_SESSION_EVENT, s);
     await flush();
+    expect(document.querySelector(".kill-dialog")?.getAttribute("aria-label")).toBe(
+      "Kill amber-falcon",
+    );
+    expect(calls.filter((c) => c.startsWith("DELETE"))).toHaveLength(0);
+    document.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".kill-dialog-kill")?.click();
+    await flush();
     expect(calls).toContain(`DELETE /api/sessions/${s.id}`);
     expect(document.querySelector(".kill-dialog")).toBeNull();
   });
@@ -101,6 +107,8 @@ describe("kill from the action page", () => {
     mount(s);
     raise(KILL_SESSION_EVENT, s);
     await flush();
+    document.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".kill-dialog-kill")?.click();
+    await flush();
     const dialog = document.querySelector(".kill-dialog");
     expect(dialog?.getAttribute("aria-label")).toBe("Kill amber-falcon");
     expect(dialog?.textContent).toContain("1 untracked file");

web/src/catalog.test.ts

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ describe("blocked-work indicator (#83)", () => {
     expect(rowFor(el, unprobed.id)?.querySelector(".leaf-blocked")).toBeNull();
   });
 
-  it("kills straight away, without a first confirmation", async () => {
+  it("confirms before an unguarded kill (#160)", async () => {
     const calls: string[] = [];
     window.fetch = ((url: string, init?: RequestInit) => {
       calls.push(`${init?.method ?? "GET"} ${url}`);
@@ -108,10 +108,45 @@ describe("blocked-work indicator (#83)", () => {
     const el = renderSidebar(storeWith([plain])).el;
     rowFor(el, plain.id)?.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".leaf-kill")?.click();
     await flush();
+    const dialog = document.querySelector(".kill-dialog");
+    expect(dialog?.getAttribute("aria-label")).toBe("Kill claude");
+    expect(calls.filter((c) => c.startsWith("DELETE"))).toHaveLength(0);
+    dialog?.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".kill-dialog-kill")?.click();
+    await flush();
     expect(calls).toContain(`DELETE /api/sessions/${plain.id}`);
     expect(document.querySelector(".kill-dialog")).toBeNull();
   });
 
+  it("kills nothing when the confirmation is cancelled (#160)", async () => {
+    const calls: string[] = [];
+    window.fetch = ((url: string, init?: RequestInit) => {
+      calls.push(`${init?.method ?? "GET"} ${url}`);
+      return Promise.resolve(new Response(null, { status: 204 }));
+    }) as typeof fetch;
+    const plain = session({ id: "aaaaaaaa-0000-0000-0000-000000000007" });
+    const el = renderSidebar(storeWith([plain])).el;
+    rowFor(el, plain.id)?.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".leaf-kill")?.click();
+    await flush();
+    document.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".kill-dialog-cancel")?.click();
+    await flush();
+    expect(document.querySelector(".kill-dialog")).toBeNull();
+    expect(calls.filter((c) => c.startsWith("DELETE"))).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it("names the blockers in the confirmation, before the daemon refuses (#160)", async () => {
+    window.fetch = (() => Promise.reject(new Error("never called"))) as typeof fetch;
+    const blocked = session({
+      id: "aaaaaaaa-0000-0000-0000-000000000008",
+      blocked_work: { untracked_files: 1 },
+    });
+    const el = renderSidebar(storeWith([blocked])).el;
+    rowFor(el, blocked.id)?.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".leaf-kill")?.click();
+    await flush();
+    const dialog = document.querySelector(".kill-dialog");
+    expect(dialog?.textContent).toContain("1 untracked file");
+    expect(dialog?.textContent).toContain("refused unless it is forced");
+  });
+
   it("offers the override when the daemon refuses a guarded kill", async () => {
     const calls: string[] = [];
     window.fetch = ((url: string, init?: RequestInit) => {
@@ -138,6 +173,8 @@ describe("blocked-work indicator (#83)", () => {
     const el = renderSidebar(storeWith([blocked])).el;
     rowFor(el, blocked.id)?.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".leaf-kill")?.click();
     await flush();
+    document.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".kill-dialog-kill")?.click();
+    await flush();
     const dialog = document.querySelector(".kill-dialog");
     expect(dialog?.textContent).toContain("1 untracked file");
     dialog?.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".kill-dialog-force")?.click();
@@ -166,6 +203,8 @@ describe("blocked-work indicator (#83)", () => {
     const el = renderSidebar(storeWith([blocked])).el;
     rowFor(el, blocked.id)?.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".leaf-kill")?.click();
     await flush();
+    document.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".kill-dialog-kill")?.click();
+    await flush();
     document.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".kill-dialog-cancel")?.click();
     expect(document.querySelector(".kill-dialog")).toBeNull();
     expect(calls.filter((c) => c.includes("force=true"))).toHaveLength(0);

web/src/catalog.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { escapeHtml } from "./html.js";
 import { ApiRequestError, getDaemonInfo, killSession, renameSession } from "./api.js";
-import { openForceKillDialog } from "./killDialog.js";
+import { openForceKillDialog, openKillConfirmDialog } from "./killDialog.js";
 import { openContextMenu } from "./contextMenu.js";
 import { toggleHelp } from "./help.js";
 import { CommandSet, defineCommands } from "./commands.js";
@@ -39,15 +39,20 @@ export function requestOpenSpawn(): void {
   document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent(OPEN_SPAWN_EVENT));
 }
 
+/** Ask the shell to open the command bar with an empty query. Dispatched by
+ *  the sidebar's search field, which is the touch entry point to the bar
+ *  (#157, docs/COMMAND-BAR.md "Touch entry"): there is no `ctrl-k` on a phone.
+ *  Handled in main.ts, which owns the session snapshot the bar needs. */
+export const OPEN_COMMAND_BAR_EVENT = "catalog-open-command-bar";
+export function requestOpenCommandBar(): void {
+  document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent(OPEN_COMMAND_BAR_EVENT));
+}
+
 /** Ask the shell to hand the keyboard back to the focused pane's terminal —
  *  what Tab in the sidebar list does. Handled in main.ts, which owns the
  *  connection pool. */
 export const FOCUS_PANE_EVENT = "catalog-focus-pane";
 
-/** Ask the shell to hand the keyboard back to the session list — what Escape
- *  does when the pane's terminal is focused. Handled in main.ts. */
-export const FOCUS_SIDEBAR_EVENT = "catalog-focus-sidebar";
-
 /** Ask the shell to open the spawn modal seeded from an existing session
  *  ("Spawn similar"). Detail is the session being cloned. */
 export const SPAWN_SIMILAR_EVENT = "catalog-spawn-similar";
@@ -221,7 +226,7 @@ function renderNode(node: TreeNode, depth: number): HTMLElement {
   killBtn.addEventListener("click", (ev) => {
     ev.preventDefault();
     ev.stopPropagation();
-    void requestKill(cur, sessionName(cur));
+    requestKill(cur, sessionName(cur));
   });
   row.addEventListener("click", () => {
     document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent(SESSION_SELECT_EVENT, { detail: cur.id }));
@@ -239,7 +244,7 @@ function renderNode(node: TreeNode, depth: number): HTMLElement {
       {
         label: "Kill session",
         danger: true,
-        onSelect: () => void requestKill(cur, sessionName(cur)),
+        onSelect: () => requestKill(cur, sessionName(cur)),
       },
     ]);
   });
@@ -284,26 +289,33 @@ function treeSignature(node: TreeNode): string {
 }
 
 /**
- * Kill on the first click (#81): the daemon is the one that decides whether a
- * session may go, and it refuses over a worktree holding unsaved work. Only
- * that refusal is worth a prompt, and it needs one `confirm()` cannot give —
- * a forced kill. Anything else surfaces as an alert.
+ * Kill behind a confirmation (#160): a kill is destructive and unattended
+ * agents live in these sessions, so the web asks first, the way the TUI always
+ * has. The daemon decides the rest — it refuses a kill over a worktree holding
+ * unsaved work, and that refusal needs a prompt the confirmation cannot give,
+ * a forced kill. Anything else surfaces in the dialog that asked.
  */
-async function requestKill(s: Session, name: string): Promise<void> {
-  try {
-    await killSession(s.id);
-  } catch (e) {
-    if (e instanceof ApiRequestError && e.code === "kill_guarded") {
-      openForceKillDialog({
-        name,
-        blockers: e.unsavedWork ?? sessionBlockers(s),
-        reason: e.detail,
-        onForce: () => killSession(s.id, true),
-      });
-      return;
-    }
-    alert(`Failed to kill: ${(e as Error).message}`);
-  }
+function requestKill(s: Session, name: string): void {
+  openKillConfirmDialog({
+    name,
+    blockers: sessionBlockers(s),
+    onKill: async () => {
+      try {
+        await killSession(s.id);
+      } catch (e) {
+        if (e instanceof ApiRequestError && e.code === "kill_guarded") {
+          openForceKillDialog({
+            name,
+            blockers: e.unsavedWork ?? sessionBlockers(s),
+            reason: e.detail,
+            onForce: () => killSession(s.id, true),
+          });
+          return;
+        }
+        throw e;
+      }
+    },
+  });
 }
 
 /**
@@ -361,16 +373,12 @@ function beginRename(row: HTMLElement, s: Session): void {
   input.select();
 }
 
-function renderEmpty(filtering: boolean, onSpawn: () => void): HTMLElement {
+// The tree has one empty state: no sessions at all. The old "No matches" one
+// belonged to the inline substring filter, which the command bar replaced
+// (#157) — the bar's own no-results state took over with it.
+function renderEmpty(onSpawn: () => void): HTMLElement {
   const el = document.createElement("div");
   el.className = "empty";
-  if (filtering) {
-    el.innerHTML = `
-      <div class="empty-glyph" aria-hidden="true">⌕</div>
-      <div class="empty-title">No matches</div>
-      <p class="empty-hint">No sessions match your search. Clear it to see everything.</p>`;
-    return el;
-  }
   el.innerHTML = `
     <div class="empty-glyph" aria-hidden="true">+</div>
     <div class="empty-title">No sessions yet</div>
@@ -441,12 +449,16 @@ export function renderSidebar(store: CatalogStore, opts: SidebarOptions = {}): S
   // renders with absolute paths until it lands.
   let homeDir: string | undefined;
 
+  // The field never holds a query: it is the touch entry point to the command
+  // bar (#157), so it is `readonly` — a tap opens the bar instead of raising an
+  // on-screen keyboard over a field nothing is typed into.
   const searchHeader = document.createElement("header");
   searchHeader.className = "sidebar-search";
   searchHeader.innerHTML = `
     <input
       type="search"
       class="search"
+      readonly
       placeholder="Search sessions…"
       aria-label="Search sessions"
       autocomplete="off"
@@ -555,11 +567,23 @@ export function renderSidebar(store: CatalogStore, opts: SidebarOptions = {}): S
   handle.addEventListener("pointerup", endDrag);
   handle.addEventListener("pointercancel", endDrag);
 
+  // Touch entry (#157): the field is a button that looks like a field. It
+  // never holds a query — focusing or tapping it hands the keyboard straight
+  // to the bar's own input, which is also why it blurs first: leaving the
+  // focus here would make the bar impossible to close without reopening it.
   const search = searchHeader.querySelector(".search") as HTMLInputElement;
-  let filter = "";
-  search.addEventListener("input", () => {
-    filter = search.value;
-    refresh();
+  const openBar = () => {
+    search.value = "";
+    search.blur();
+    requestOpenCommandBar();
+  };
+  search.addEventListener("focus", openBar);
+  // A tap can land without a focus event (iOS Safari on a blurred field), so
+  // the pointer path opens the bar too; the blur above keeps the two from
+  // stacking two overlays.
+  search.addEventListener("pointerdown", (e) => {
+    e.preventDefault();
+    openBar();
   });
 
   let highlights: SidebarHighlights = { open: new Set(), focused: null };
@@ -698,7 +722,7 @@ export function renderSidebar(store: CatalogStore, opts: SidebarOptions = {}): S
       },
       "list.kill": () => {
         const hit = highlightedSession();
-        if (hit) void requestKill(hit.session, sessionName(hit.session));
+        if (hit) requestKill(hit.session, sessionName(hit.session));
       },
       "list.focusPane": () => document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent(FOCUS_PANE_EVENT)),
     }),
@@ -716,8 +740,8 @@ export function renderSidebar(store: CatalogStore, opts: SidebarOptions = {}): S
     if (renamingId !== null) return;
     const state = store.snapshot();
     const sessions = [...state.sessions.values()];
-    const tree = buildTree(sessions, homeDir, filter);
-    const signature = sessions.length === 0 ? `EMPTY:${filter.trim()}` : treeSignature(tree);
+    const tree = buildTree(sessions, homeDir);
+    const signature = sessions.length === 0 ? "EMPTY" : treeSignature(tree);
     if (signature === renderedSignature) {
       for (const row of treeHost.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>(".tree-leaf")) {
         const s = row.dataset.sessionId ? state.sessions.get(row.dataset.sessionId) : undefined;
@@ -728,9 +752,7 @@ export function renderSidebar(store: CatalogStore, opts: SidebarOptions = {}): S
     renderedSignature = signature;
     treeHost.replaceChildren();
     if (sessions.length === 0) {
-      treeHost.appendChild(
-        renderEmpty(filter.trim().length > 0, () => requestOpenSpawn()),
-      );
+      treeHost.appendChild(renderEmpty(() => requestOpenSpawn()));
       return;
     }
     if (tree.kind === "folder") {
@@ -763,7 +785,7 @@ export function renderSidebar(store: CatalogStore, opts: SidebarOptions = {}): S
   // than by row.
   const killHandler = (ev: Event) => {
     const s = (ev as CustomEvent<Session>).detail;
-    void requestKill(s, sessionName(s));
+    requestKill(s, sessionName(s));
   };
   const renameHandler = (ev: Event) => {
     const s = (ev as CustomEvent<Session>).detail;

web/src/commands.test.ts

@@ -4,14 +4,17 @@ import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import {
   COMMAND_SPECS,
   CommandSet,
+  commandSpecs,
   DEFAULT_LEADER,
   canonicalizeKey,
+  controlByte,
   defineCommands,
   isBarTypingTarget,
   isTerminalTextarea,
   isTypingTarget,
   keyCaps,
   publishedCommands,
+  type Command,
 } from "./commands.js";
 
 function key(k: string, init: KeyboardEventInit = {}): KeyboardEvent {
@@ -130,31 +133,28 @@ describe("CommandSet", () => {
     expect(run).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
   });
 
-  it("keeps plain keys deaf inside a form field, and chorded ones live", () => {
+  it("keeps plain keys deaf inside a form field, and leader chords live from the pane", () => {
     const plain = vi.fn();
     const chorded = vi.fn();
     const set = new CommandSet(
-      defineCommands({ "spawn.open": plain, "focus.toggle": chorded }),
+      defineCommands({ "spawn.open": plain, "focus.toggle": chorded }, DEFAULT_LEADER),
+      { leader: DEFAULT_LEADER },
     );
     const input = el("<input>");
     expect(pressOn(set, input, "n")).toBe(false);
     expect(plain).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expect(pressOn(set, input, "H", { ctrlKey: true, shiftKey: true })).toBe(true);
+    // focus.toggle hangs off the leader (#166): a plain, unmodified Escape is
+    // left for the pane's shell/app instead.
+    const terminal = el('<textarea class="xterm-helper-textarea"></textarea>');
+    pressOn(set, terminal, "a", { ctrlKey: true });
+    expect(pressOn(set, terminal, "h")).toBe(true);
     expect(chorded).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
   });
 
-  it("keeps pane commands live inside the terminal's textarea", () => {
-    const run = vi.fn();
-    const set = new CommandSet(defineCommands({ "pane.focusList": run }), {
-      preventDefault: false,
-    });
+  it("leaves a plain Escape for the pane instead of binding it", () => {
+    const set = new CommandSet(defineCommands({ "spawn.open": vi.fn() }));
     const textarea = el('<textarea class="xterm-helper-textarea"></textarea>');
-    const e = key("Escape");
-    Object.defineProperty(e, "target", { value: textarea });
-    expect(set.handle(e)).toBe(true);
-    expect(run).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-    // xterm is told to swallow by the return value, not by the browser default.
-    expect(e.defaultPrevented).toBe(false);
+    expect(pressOn(set, textarea, "Escape")).toBe(false);
   });
 });
 
@@ -163,6 +163,38 @@ describe("the leader", () => {
     expect(DEFAULT_LEADER).toBe("ctrl-a");
   });
 
+  // #159: the leader is the operator's, served on `/api/info`. Every chord
+  // behind it is built from it, so a rebound leader carries its escape hatches
+  // with it instead of leaving them on a stale ctrl-a.
+  it("builds the chords behind it from the configured leader", () => {
+    const byId = new Map(commandSpecs("ctrl-b").map((s) => [s.id, s]));
+    expect(byId.get("pane.literalCtrlK")?.keys).toEqual(["ctrl-b ctrl-k"]);
+    expect(byId.get("pane.literalLeader")?.keys).toEqual(["ctrl-b ctrl-b"]);
+    expect(byId.get("focus.toggle")?.keys).toEqual(["ctrl-b h"]);
+    // Commands that do not hang off the leader are untouched.
+    expect(byId.get("bar.open")?.keys).toEqual(["ctrl-k"]);
+  });
+
+  it("dispatches a configured leader's chord and not the default's", () => {
+    const literalCtrlK = vi.fn();
+    const set = new CommandSet(defineCommands({ "pane.literalCtrlK": literalCtrlK }, "ctrl-b"), {
+      leader: "ctrl-b",
+    });
+    set.handle(key("b", { ctrlKey: true }));
+    expect(set.handle(key("k", { ctrlKey: true }))).toBe(true);
+    expect(literalCtrlK).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    // The old leader is an ordinary key again: it holds nothing, and the chord
+    // that used to follow it runs nothing.
+    set.handle(key("a", { ctrlKey: true }));
+    set.handle(key("k", { ctrlKey: true }));
+    expect(literalCtrlK).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it("sends the configured leader's own byte for the doubled chord", () => {
+    expect(controlByte("ctrl-b")).toBe("\x02");
+  });
+
   it("holds the leader as a partial chord instead of selecting the page", () => {
     const set = new CommandSet(defineCommands({ "spawn.open": vi.fn() }), {
       leader: DEFAULT_LEADER,
@@ -307,3 +339,62 @@ describe("ctrl-k over a focused pane (#152)", () => {
     expect(spec?.keys).toEqual([`${DEFAULT_LEADER} ctrl-k`]);
   });
 });
+
+describe("leader pressed twice (#158)", () => {
+  it("sends one literal leader byte and clears the pending chord", () => {
+    const literal = vi.fn();
+    const run = vi.fn();
+    const set = new CommandSet(
+      defineCommands({ "pane.literalLeader": literal, "spawn.open": run }),
+      { leader: DEFAULT_LEADER },
+    );
+    const target = el('<textarea class="xterm-helper-textarea"></textarea>');
+    expect(pressOn(set, target, "a", { ctrlKey: true })).toBe(true);
+    expect(pressOn(set, target, "a", { ctrlKey: true })).toBe(true);
+    expect(literal).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    // The chord is cleared, not still held: the next key is ordinary again.
+    expect(set.handle(key("n"))).toBe(true);
+    expect(run).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it("binds the escape hatch behind the default leader", () => {
+    const spec = COMMAND_SPECS.find((s) => s.id === "pane.literalLeader");
+    expect(spec?.keys).toEqual([`${DEFAULT_LEADER} ${DEFAULT_LEADER}`]);
+  });
+
+  // Not just the default: the chord is resolved from whatever leader this
+  // set was constructed with, so a rebound leader carries the escape hatch
+  // with it — the same proof #156 wrote for the TUI. The web has no config
+  // for this yet (#159), but the mechanism must not be hardcoded to ctrl-a.
+  it("follows a rebound leader, not just the default", () => {
+    const literal = vi.fn();
+    const rebound: Command = {
+      id: "pane.literalLeader",
+      label: "Send a literal leader key to the pane",
+      group: "Pane",
+      scope: "global",
+      keys: ["ctrl-b ctrl-b"],
+      run: literal,
+    };
+    const set = new CommandSet([rebound], { leader: "ctrl-b" });
+    const target = el('<textarea class="xterm-helper-textarea"></textarea>');
+    expect(pressOn(set, target, "b", { ctrlKey: true })).toBe(true);
+    expect(pressOn(set, target, "b", { ctrlKey: true })).toBe(true);
+    expect(literal).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    // The old leader no longer does anything special.
+    expect(pressOn(set, target, "a", { ctrlKey: true })).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("controlByte", () => {
+  it("computes the raw control byte from a plain ctrl chord", () => {
+    expect(controlByte("ctrl-a")).toBe("\x01");
+    expect(controlByte("ctrl-k")).toBe("\x0b");
+  });
+
+  it("rejects anything that isn't a single plain ctrl chord", () => {
+    expect(() => controlByte("ctrl-shift-a")).toThrow();
+    expect(() => controlByte("a")).toThrow();
+    expect(() => controlByte("ctrl-a ctrl-a")).toThrow();
+  });
+});

web/src/commands.ts

@@ -32,13 +32,26 @@ export interface Command extends CommandSpec {
   run: () => void;
 }
 
-/** Default leader, mirroring the TUI's `[tui].leader`. `ctrl-a` is select-all
- *  in a browser, so a set that owns the leader `preventDefault`s it. */
+/** Leader used when the daemon does not name one — an older daemon, or an
+ *  unreachable `/api/info`. Mirrors the TUI's `[tui].leader` default. `ctrl-a`
+ *  is select-all in a browser, so a set that owns the leader
+ *  `preventDefault`s it. */
 export const DEFAULT_LEADER = "ctrl-a";
 
-/** Every command the web client has. The single list this issue exists to
- *  create: labels, chords and grouping live here and nowhere else. */
-export const COMMAND_SPECS: readonly CommandSpec[] = [
+/** Every command the web client has, for one leader. The single list: labels,
+ *  chords and grouping live here and nowhere else. Chords behind the leader are
+ *  built from it (#159), so the configured leader — served on `/api/info` as
+ *  `leader` — is what the overlay renders and the sets dispatch. */
+export function commandSpecs(leader: string = DEFAULT_LEADER): readonly CommandSpec[] {
+  return SPECS.map(({ leaderKeys, ...spec }) =>
+    leaderKeys ? { ...spec, keys: leaderKeys(leader) } : spec,
+  );
+}
+
+/** A spec whose chords are fixed, or a spec that builds them from the leader. */
+type SpecSource = CommandSpec & { leaderKeys?: (leader: string) => string[] };
+
+const SPECS: readonly SpecSource[] = [
   {
     id: "spawn.open",
     label: "Open the spawn form",
@@ -65,13 +78,23 @@ export const COMMAND_SPECS: readonly CommandSpec[] = [
     label: "Send a literal Ctrl-K to the pane",
     group: "Pane",
     keys: [`${DEFAULT_LEADER} ctrl-k`],
+    leaderKeys: (leader) => [`${leader} ctrl-k`],
+    scope: "global",
+  },
+  {
+    id: "pane.literalLeader",
+    label: "Send a literal leader key to the pane",
+    group: "Pane",
+    keys: [`${DEFAULT_LEADER} ${DEFAULT_LEADER}`],
+    leaderKeys: (leader) => [`${leader} ${leader}`],
     scope: "global",
   },
   {
     id: "focus.toggle",
     label: "Move the keyboard between the session list and the pane",
     group: "Session list",
-    keys: ["ctrl-shift-h"],
+    keys: [`${DEFAULT_LEADER} h`],
+    leaderKeys: (leader) => [`${leader} h`],
     scope: "global",
   },
   {
@@ -123,13 +146,6 @@ export const COMMAND_SPECS: readonly CommandSpec[] = [
     keys: ["tab"],
     scope: "list",
   },
-  {
-    id: "pane.focusList",
-    label: "Hand the keyboard back to the session list, from the pane",
-    group: "Session list",
-    keys: ["esc"],
-    scope: "pane",
-  },
   {
     id: "help.toggle",
     label: "Show or hide this help",
@@ -153,13 +169,20 @@ export const COMMAND_SPECS: readonly CommandSpec[] = [
   },
 ];
 
-const SPEC_BY_ID = new Map(COMMAND_SPECS.map((s) => [s.id, s]));
+/** The command list under the default leader. Iteration order everywhere else
+ *  (the help overlay, the bar) comes from here. */
+export const COMMAND_SPECS: readonly CommandSpec[] = commandSpecs();
 
 /** Attach handlers to specs, by id. Throws on an unknown id, so a typo is a
- *  test failure rather than a key that silently does nothing. */
-export function defineCommands(handlers: Record<string, () => void>): Command[] {
+ *  test failure rather than a key that silently does nothing. `leader` picks
+ *  the chords behind the leader; omit it for a set that has none. */
+export function defineCommands(
+  handlers: Record<string, () => void>,
+  leader: string = DEFAULT_LEADER,
+): Command[] {
+  const byId = new Map(commandSpecs(leader).map((s) => [s.id, s]));
   return Object.entries(handlers).map(([id, run]) => {
-    const spec = SPEC_BY_ID.get(id);
+    const spec = byId.get(id);
     if (!spec) throw new Error(`unknown command id: ${id}`);
     return { ...spec, run };
   });
@@ -227,6 +250,15 @@ export function canonicalizeKey(e: KeyboardEvent): string | null {
   return out + e.key.toLowerCase();
 }
 
+/** The raw control byte for a canonical `ctrl-<letter>` chord — `ctrl-a` is
+ *  `0x01` — mirroring the TUI's `encode_key`. Built from the chord string
+ *  itself so a different leader sends its own byte, not a hardcoded one. */
+export function controlByte(chord: string): string {
+  const m = /^ctrl-([a-z])$/.exec(chord);
+  if (!m) throw new Error(`not a plain ctrl chord: ${chord}`);
+  return String.fromCharCode(m[1].charCodeAt(0) - 96);
+}
+
 const MOD_PREFIX = /^(ctrl|alt|meta|shift)-/;
 
 /** True when a chord carries a modifier or more than one key. Plain single-key

web/src/fastForward.test.ts

@@ -34,12 +34,14 @@ describe("resolveFastForward (#67)", () => {
     const res = resolveFastForward(projects, presets, "amber-falcon");
     expect(res.project?.path).toBe("/repos/fresh");
     expect(res.command).toBe("aider");
-    expect(res.name).toBe("amber-falcon");
+    expect(res.handle).toBe("amber-falcon");
 
     const req = buildFastForwardRequest(res)!;
     expect(req.cwd).toBe("/repos/fresh");
     expect(req.command).toBe("aider");
-    expect(req.metadata).toEqual({ name: "amber-falcon" });
+    // No name (#131): the daemon names the session after its first prompt,
+    // and a name here would collide with the branch handle.
+    expect(req.metadata).toBeUndefined();
     expect(req.worktree).toEqual({
       base_repo: "/repos/fresh",
       branch: "amber-falcon",
@@ -88,9 +90,9 @@ describe("resolveFastForward (#67)", () => {
     expect(buildFastForwardRequest(res)).toBeNull();
   });
 
-  it("downgrades to a draft when the generated name is missing", () => {
+  it("downgrades to a draft when the generated handle is missing", () => {
     const res = resolveFastForward([project({ last_command: "claude" })], presets);
-    expect(res.name).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(res.handle).toBeUndefined();
     expect(buildFastForwardRequest(res)).toBeNull();
   });
 
@@ -108,6 +110,17 @@ describe("resolveFastForward (#67)", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it("seeds the handle as the branch and leaves the name field empty (#131)", () => {
+    const res = resolveFastForward(
+      [project({ path: "/repos/p", base_repo: "/repos/p", last_command: "aider" })],
+      presets,
+      "amber-falcon",
+    );
+    const seed = fastForwardSeed(res);
+    expect(seed.name).toBe("");
+    expect(seed.worktreeBranch).toBe("amber-falcon");
+  });
+
   it("leaves the worktree default alone when not even a project resolved", () => {
     // Not `false`: the form defaults the toggle on and a false would stick,
     // so the fallback draft would disagree with a normally-opened draft and

web/src/fastForward.ts

@@ -10,19 +10,21 @@ import { sortProjects } from "./projectList.js";
 export interface FastForwardResolution {
   project?: Project;
   command?: string;
-  name?: string;
+  /** A generated handle for the worktree branch (#131). Not a session name:
+   *  the fast path names no session. */
+  handle?: string;
 }
 
 /** The defaults: the currently focused session's project when it's still a
  *  known project, else the most recent one (fresh-first, same ordering the
  *  picker shows) — so `N` lands where the operator currently is, matching
  *  what plain `n` seeds from `spawnSimilarProjectSeed`. Its last command
- *  falls back to the first non-custom preset, and the name is freshly
- *  generated when the daemon supplied one. */
+ *  falls back to the first non-custom preset, and the branch handle is
+ *  freshly generated when the daemon supplied one. */
 export function resolveFastForward(
   projects: Project[],
   presets: SpawnPreset[],
-  name?: string,
+  handle?: string,
   focusedCwd?: string,
 ): FastForwardResolution {
   const project =
@@ -30,41 +32,45 @@ export function resolveFastForward(
   const lastCommand = project?.last_command?.trim();
   const command =
     lastCommand || presets.find((p) => p.command !== "")?.command || undefined;
-  return { project, command, name: name || undefined };
+  return { project, command, handle: handle || undefined };
 }
 
 /** The immediate spawn request — worktree on, new branch named after the
- *  generated session name — or `null` when any default is missing. */
+ *  generated handle — or `null` when any default is missing.
+ *
+ *  The request carries no name (#131): the daemon assigns a provisional one
+ *  and replaces it once the session sees its first prompt. A name here would
+ *  also collide with the branch handle's own session. */
 export function buildFastForwardRequest(
   res: FastForwardResolution,
 ): CreateSessionRequest | null {
-  const { project, command, name } = res;
-  if (!project || !command?.trim() || !name) return null;
+  const { project, command, handle } = res;
+  if (!project || !command?.trim() || !handle) return null;
   return {
     cwd: project.path,
     command,
-    metadata: { name },
     worktree: {
       base_repo: project.base_repo ?? project.path,
-      branch: name,
+      branch: handle,
       create_branch: true,
     },
   };
 }
 
 /** Seed for the fallback spawn form: whatever did resolve goes into the
- *  form; the rest stays with its own defaults. */
+ *  form; the rest stays with its own defaults. The name field stays empty
+ *  (#131) — the handle seeds the branch, not the session name. */
 export function fastForwardSeed(res: FastForwardResolution) {
   return {
     cwd: res.project?.path ?? "",
     command: res.command ?? "",
-    name: res.name ?? "",
+    name: "",
     // Left undefined rather than false when nothing resolved: the form
     // defaults the toggle on, and `false` would stick, so the fallback form
     // would disagree with both a normally-opened form and the TUI's fast path
     // (#67 review).
     worktreeEnabled: res.project ? true : undefined,
     worktreeBranch:
-      res.project && res.name ? res.name : undefined,
+      res.project && res.handle ? res.handle : undefined,
   };
 }

web/src/help.test.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // @vitest-environment happy-dom
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 
-import { keyCaps, publishedCommands } from "./commands.js";
+import { defineCommands, keyCaps, publishCommands, publishedCommands } from "./commands.js";
 import { closeHelp, groupedCommands, installHelpKeybind, isHelpOpen, openHelp } from "./help.js";
 
 beforeEach(() => {
@@ -44,6 +44,33 @@ describe("help overlay", () => {
       .toEqual(publishedCommands().map((c) => c.id));
   });
 
+  // #159: the leader comes from the daemon, so the overlay must render the
+  // configured chord — a hardcoded `Ctrl A` is the visible half of the bug.
+  it("renders the configured leader's chord, not a hardcoded Ctrl A", () => {
+    const bound = defineCommands(
+      { "pane.literalCtrlK": () => {}, "pane.literalLeader": () => {} },
+      "ctrl-b",
+    );
+    publishCommands(bound);
+    try {
+      openHelp();
+      const keysOf = (id: string) =>
+        [
+          ...(document.querySelector(`.help-row[data-command-id="${id}"]`) as HTMLElement)
+            .querySelectorAll("kbd"),
+        ]
+          .map((k) => k.textContent)
+          .join(" ");
+      expect(keysOf("pane.literalCtrlK")).toBe("Ctrl B then Ctrl K");
+      expect(keysOf("pane.literalLeader")).toBe("Ctrl B then Ctrl B");
+    } finally {
+      // Leave the registry as the rest of the suite expects it.
+      publishCommands(
+        defineCommands({ "pane.literalCtrlK": () => {}, "pane.literalLeader": () => {} }),
+      );
+    }
+  });
+
   it("opens on ? and closes on a second ?", () => {
     press("?", { shiftKey: true });
     expect(isHelpOpen()).toBe(true);

web/src/killDialog.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+// @vitest-environment happy-dom
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import {
+  closeForceKillDialog,
+  openForceKillDialog,
+  openKillConfirmDialog,
+} from "./killDialog.js";
+
+describe("kill dialogs", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    closeForceKillDialog();
+    document.body.innerHTML = "";
+  });
+
+  it("focuses the kill button, so Enter confirms", () => {
+    const el = openKillConfirmDialog({
+      name: "alpha",
+      blockers: null,
+      onKill: () => Promise.resolve(),
+    });
+    expect(document.activeElement).toBe(el.querySelector(".kill-dialog-kill"));
+  });
+
+  it("focuses the force button too", () => {
+    const el = openForceKillDialog({
+      name: "alpha",
+      blockers: null,
+      reason: "worktree is dirty.",
+      onForce: () => Promise.resolve(),
+    });
+    expect(document.activeElement).toBe(el.querySelector(".kill-dialog-force"));
+  });
+});

web/src/killDialog.ts

@@ -1,14 +1,44 @@
 /**
- * Forced-kill prompt (#81).
+ * The two kill prompts (#81, #160).
  *
- * The daemon refuses to kill a session whose worktree still holds uncommitted
- * or unpushed work. `confirm()` can only ask the same question twice, so the
- * refusal gets its own dialog: it names what is in the way and offers the
- * override the daemon's `force=true` already implements. A kill the daemon
- * accepts never reaches here — there is nothing to warn about.
+ * A kill is destructive and unattended agents live in these sessions, so both
+ * clients ask before one goes through — the TUI's `KillConfirm`, and
+ * `openKillConfirmDialog` here (#160). Where the session's worktree still
+ * holds uncommitted or unpushed work, the confirmation says so up front, the
+ * same way the TUI's does.
+ *
+ * The daemon decides the rest: it refuses a kill over such a worktree, and
+ * that refusal needs an answer the confirmation cannot give — a forced kill.
+ * `openForceKillDialog` is that second prompt. A kill the daemon accepts never
+ * reaches it.
  */
 import { formatInTheWay, type InTheWay } from "./types.js";
 
+/** What both prompts need: a target to name and a button that acts on it. */
+interface KillDialogSpec {
+  /** Session name, as the sidebar shows it. */
+  name: string;
+  /** Sentence under the title. */
+  body: string;
+  /** Label on the acting button. */
+  confirmLabel: string;
+  /** Extra class on the acting button, so tests and styles can find it. */
+  confirmClass: string;
+  /** Run it. A rejection is rendered in the dialog, which stays open so the
+   *  press can be retried. */
+  onConfirm: () => Promise<void>;
+}
+
+export interface KillConfirmPrompt {
+  name: string;
+  /** What the card last saw in the way, when anything was. Shown before the
+   *  attempt, so "this will be refused" is not a surprise. */
+  blockers: InTheWay | null;
+  /** Run the plain kill. Opening a further dialog from here is allowed: the
+   *  confirmation only closes itself if it is still the one on screen. */
+  onKill: () => Promise<void>;
+}
+
 export interface ForceKillPrompt {
   /** Session name, as the sidebar shows it. */
   name: string;
@@ -30,9 +60,9 @@ export function closeForceKillDialog(): void {
   open = null;
 }
 
-/** Mount the prompt. Opening while one is up replaces it, so a second refusal
- *  can never stack two dialogs. */
-export function openForceKillDialog(p: ForceKillPrompt): HTMLElement {
+/** Mount one of the prompts. Opening while one is up replaces it, so the
+ *  confirmation and a refusal that follows it can never stack. */
+function mount(p: KillDialogSpec): HTMLElement {
   closeForceKillDialog();
 
   const el = document.createElement("div");
@@ -50,9 +80,7 @@ export function openForceKillDialog(p: ForceKillPrompt): HTMLElement {
 
   const body = document.createElement("p");
   body.className = "kill-dialog-body";
-  body.textContent = p.blockers
-    ? `Its worktree still has ${formatInTheWay(p.blockers)}. Forcing the kill removes the session and leaves the worktree on disk.`
-    : `${p.reason} Forcing the kill removes the session and leaves the worktree on disk.`;
+  body.textContent = p.body;
 
   const error = document.createElement("p");
   error.className = "kill-dialog-error";
@@ -65,22 +93,27 @@ export function openForceKillDialog(p: ForceKillPrompt): HTMLElement {
   cancel.className = "btn btn-ghost kill-dialog-cancel";
   cancel.textContent = "Cancel";
   cancel.addEventListener("click", closeForceKillDialog);
-  const force = document.createElement("button");
-  force.type = "button";
-  force.className = "btn btn-danger kill-dialog-force";
-  force.textContent = "Force kill";
-  force.addEventListener("click", () => {
-    force.disabled = true;
+  const confirm = document.createElement("button");
+  confirm.type = "button";
+  confirm.className = `btn btn-danger ${p.confirmClass}`;
+  confirm.textContent = p.confirmLabel;
+  confirm.addEventListener("click", () => {
+    confirm.disabled = true;
     void p
-      .onForce()
-      .then(closeForceKillDialog)
+      .onConfirm()
+      .then(() => {
+        // A handler that opened the refusal prompt has already replaced this
+        // dialog; closing here would take that one down with it.
+        if (open?.el === el) closeForceKillDialog();
+      })
       .catch((e: unknown) => {
-        force.disabled = false;
+        if (open?.el !== el) return;
+        confirm.disabled = false;
         error.hidden = false;
         error.textContent = `Failed to kill: ${(e as Error).message}`;
       });
   });
-  actions.append(cancel, force);
+  actions.append(cancel, confirm);
 
   panel.append(title, body, error, actions);
 
@@ -99,6 +132,34 @@ export function openForceKillDialog(p: ForceKillPrompt): HTMLElement {
   };
   window.addEventListener("keydown", onKeydown, true);
   open = { el, onKeydown };
-  cancel.focus();
+  // The acting button takes the focus in both prompts: the operator already
+  // asked for the kill, so Enter confirms it. Escape and the scrim cancel.
+  confirm.focus();
   return el;
 }
+
+/** Ask before a kill the daemon has not seen yet (#160). */
+export function openKillConfirmDialog(p: KillConfirmPrompt): HTMLElement {
+  return mount({
+    name: p.name,
+    body: p.blockers
+      ? `Its worktree still has ${formatInTheWay(p.blockers)}. The kill will be refused unless it is forced.`
+      : "The session and everything running in it go away. Its worktree stays on disk.",
+    confirmLabel: "Kill",
+    confirmClass: "kill-dialog-kill",
+    onConfirm: p.onKill,
+  });
+}
+
+/** Offer the override after the daemon refuses a guarded kill (#81). */
+export function openForceKillDialog(p: ForceKillPrompt): HTMLElement {
+  return mount({
+    name: p.name,
+    body: p.blockers
+      ? `Its worktree still has ${formatInTheWay(p.blockers)}. Forcing the kill removes the session and leaves the worktree on disk.`
+      : `${p.reason} Forcing the kill removes the session and leaves the worktree on disk.`,
+    confirmLabel: "Force kill",
+    confirmClass: "kill-dialog-force",
+    onConfirm: p.onForce,
+  });
+}

web/src/layout.test.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 
 import {
   emptyLayout,
+  equalizeRatios,
   leaves,
   locateSession,
   openSessions,
@@ -44,6 +45,23 @@ describe("splitLeaf", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("equalizeRatios", () => {
+  it("resets nested splits to equal width, not just the newest one", () => {
+    const tab = tabWithOneLeaf("s1");
+    const first = leaves(tab.root)[0].id;
+    splitLeaf(tab, first, "s2", "row", true); // A|B, 0.5/0.5
+    const second = leaves(tab.root)[1].id;
+    splitLeaf(tab, second, "s3", "row", true); // A(0.5) | (B|C, 0.5/0.5) -> B,C at 0.25 each
+
+    equalizeRatios(tab.root);
+
+    const root = tab.root as Extract<typeof tab.root, { kind: "split" }>;
+    expect(root.ratio).toBeCloseTo(1 / 3);
+    const inner = root.b as Extract<typeof root.b, { kind: "split" }>;
+    expect(inner.ratio).toBeCloseTo(1 / 2);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("removeLeaf", () => {
   it("collapses the parent split into the surviving sibling", () => {
     const tab = tabWithOneLeaf("s1");

web/src/layout.ts

@@ -118,6 +118,17 @@ export function removeLeaf(tab: Tab, leafId: string): void {
   tab.root = tab.root ? rec(tab.root) : null;
 }
 
+/** Reset every split ratio under `node` so all leaves get equal width,
+ *  regardless of split direction or nesting order. Returns the leaf count. */
+export function equalizeRatios(node: Node | null): number {
+  if (!node) return 0;
+  if (node.kind === "leaf") return 1;
+  const na = equalizeRatios(node.a);
+  const nb = equalizeRatios(node.b);
+  node.ratio = na / (na + nb);
+  return na + nb;
+}
+
 export function addTab(layout: Layout): Tab {
   const tab: Tab = {
     id: freshId("t"),

web/src/main.ts

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { ConnectionPool } from "./connections.js";
 import { installDrawer, installDrawerSwipe, requestToggleDrawer } from "./drawer.js";
 import { installHudKeybind } from "./debug.js";
 import { installHelpKeybind, isHelpOpen } from "./help.js";
-import { CommandSet, DEFAULT_LEADER, defineCommands, isBarTypingTarget } from "./commands.js";
+import { CommandSet, DEFAULT_LEADER, controlByte, defineCommands, isBarTypingTarget } from "./commands.js";
 import { isCommandBarOpen, openCommandBar, SPAWN_DIRECTORY_EVENT } from "./commandBar.js";
 import { DaemonLink } from "./daemonLink.js";
 import { CatalogStore } from "./events.js";
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ import { loadLayout, saveLayout } from "./persistence.js";
 import { createPreviewSchedule } from "./previewSchedule.js";
 import {
   FOCUS_PANE_EVENT,
-  FOCUS_SIDEBAR_EVENT,
+  OPEN_COMMAND_BAR_EVENT,
   OPEN_SPAWN_EVENT,
   SESSION_SELECT_EVENT,
   SPAWN_SIMILAR_EVENT,
@@ -86,9 +86,15 @@ const store = new CatalogStore();
 // Absolute paths are a fine fallback until it lands.
 let homeDir: string | undefined;
 void getDaemonInfo()
-  .then((info) => (homeDir = info.home_dir))
+  .then((info) => {
+    homeDir = info.home_dir;
+    // The leader is the operator's, not this module's (#159): a daemon that
+    // names one rebinds the chords hanging off it, and the `?` overlay and the
+    // command bar re-render from the rebuilt set.
+    if (info.leader) useLeader(info.leader);
+  })
   .catch(() => {
-    /* absolute paths are a fine fallback */
+    /* absolute paths and the default leader are fine fallbacks */
   });
 
 // The daemon's identity and liveness: names the release in the sidebar's status
@@ -349,14 +355,14 @@ async function spawnPresets(): Promise<SpawnPreset[]> {
 }
 
 async function requestFastForward(): Promise<void> {
-  const [discovered, name] = await Promise.all([
+  const [discovered, handle] = await Promise.all([
     fetchProjects().catch(() => [] as Project[]),
     fetchNames(1)
       .then((batch) => batch.names[0])
       .catch(() => undefined),
   ]);
   const presets = await spawnPresets();
-  const resolved = resolveFastForward(discovered, presets, name, focusedProjectCwd());
+  const resolved = resolveFastForward(discovered, presets, handle, focusedProjectCwd());
   const req = buildFastForwardRequest(resolved);
   if (req) {
     try {
@@ -383,7 +389,7 @@ async function requestFastForward(): Promise<void> {
 // one outside any repo spawns without a worktree, since there is no repo to cut
 // a branch from. Anything still unresolved opens the pre-filled form.
 async function requestSpawnInDirectory(path: string): Promise<void> {
-  const [discovered, name] = await Promise.all([
+  const [discovered, handle] = await Promise.all([
     fetchProjects().catch(() => [] as Project[]),
     fetchNames(1)
       .then((batch) => batch.names[0])
@@ -392,7 +398,7 @@ async function requestSpawnInDirectory(path: string): Promise<void> {
   const presets = await spawnPresets();
   const known = discovered.find((p) => p.path === path);
   const project: Project = known ?? { path, name: path.split("/").filter(Boolean).pop() ?? path };
-  const resolved = resolveFastForward([project], presets, name, path);
+  const resolved = resolveFastForward([project], presets, handle, path);
   const req = buildFastForwardRequest(resolved);
   if (req) {
     const inRepo =
@@ -433,46 +439,74 @@ const spawnKeys = new CommandSet(
   }),
 );
 
-// Ctrl+Shift+H moves the keyboard between the session list and the pane, the
-// web counterpart of the TUI's `ctrl-w h`. It has to be a chord: an attached
-// terminal owns every plain keystroke, so nothing unmodified could ever get
-// the focus back out of it.
+// Leader-h moves the keyboard between the session list and the pane, the web
+// counterpart of the TUI's `ctrl-w h`. It has to be a chord behind the
+// leader: an attached terminal owns every plain keystroke, and Ctrl+Shift+H
+// is already claimed by the browser (history), so nothing unmodified — or
+// modified with a common browser chord — could get the focus back out of it.
 //
-// This set also owns the leader (`ctrl-a`, the TUI's default): it holds the
-// key as a partial chord and takes select-all off it, so the escape hatch
-// docs/COMMAND-BAR.md describes has somewhere to land (#149).
-const focusKeys = new CommandSet(
-  defineCommands({
-    "focus.toggle": () => {
-      if (sidebar.hasListFocus()) {
-        pool.focusTerminal();
-      } else {
-        drawer.open(); // no-op on desktop; on mobile the list is off-canvas
-        sidebar.focusList();
-      }
-    },
-    // The escape hatch: binding ctrl-k takes readline's kill-to-end-of-line
-    // away from every pane, and leader ctrl-k gives it back as the literal
-    // 0x0B byte (docs/COMMAND-BAR.md). It resolves in this set, ahead of the
-    // bar's, so the chord never opens the bar.
-    "pane.literalCtrlK": () => pool.sendToFocused("\x0b"),
-  }),
-  { leader: DEFAULT_LEADER },
-);
+// This set also owns the leader (`[tui].leader`, `ctrl-a` by default, served
+// on `/api/info`): it holds the key as a partial chord and takes select-all off
+// it, so the escape hatch docs/COMMAND-BAR.md describes has somewhere to land
+// (#149).
+let currentLeader = DEFAULT_LEADER;
+
+function buildFocusKeys(leader: string): CommandSet {
+  return new CommandSet(
+    defineCommands(
+      {
+        "focus.toggle": () => {
+          if (sidebar.hasListFocus()) {
+            pool.focusTerminal();
+          } else {
+            drawer.open(); // no-op on desktop; on mobile the list is off-canvas
+            sidebar.focusList();
+          }
+        },
+        // The escape hatch: binding ctrl-k takes readline's
+        // kill-to-end-of-line away from every pane, and leader ctrl-k gives it
+        // back as the literal 0x0B byte (docs/COMMAND-BAR.md). It resolves in
+        // this set, ahead of the bar's, so the chord never opens the bar.
+        "pane.literalCtrlK": () => pool.sendToFocused("\x0b"),
+        // The leader itself, pressed twice, tmux-style: sends one literal
+        // leader byte and clears the pending chord instead of resolving as a
+        // dead chord (docs/COMMAND-BAR.md, #158). Built from the leader, not a
+        // hardcoded byte, so a rebound leader sends its own.
+        "pane.literalLeader": () => pool.sendToFocused(controlByte(leader)),
+      },
+      leader,
+    ),
+    { leader },
+  );
+}
+
+let focusKeys = buildFocusKeys(DEFAULT_LEADER);
+
+/** Rebind the leader-owning set to the daemon's leader. Re-registering the
+ *  same command ids replaces them, so the help overlay and the command bar —
+ *  both of which render the published registry when they open — show the
+ *  configured chord rather than the default. */
+function useLeader(leader: string): void {
+  if (leader === currentLeader) return;
+  currentLeader = leader;
+  focusKeys = buildFocusKeys(leader);
+}
 
 // Ctrl+K opens the command bar (docs/COMMAND-BAR.md). It is a registry command
 // like any other, so the `?` overlay lists it without a second list.
-const barKeys = new CommandSet(
-  defineCommands({
-    "bar.open": () => {
-      // Opening while a session is previewed discards the preview first, like
-      // any other real change (docs/PREVIEW.md): the bar is not previewed into.
-      schedulePreview.cancel();
-      mv?.previewSession(null);
-      openCommandBar({ sessions: [...store.snapshot().sessions.values()], homeDir });
-    },
-  }),
-);
+const openBar = () => {
+  // Opening while a session is previewed discards the preview first, like
+  // any other real change (docs/PREVIEW.md): the bar is not previewed into.
+  schedulePreview.cancel();
+  mv?.previewSession(null);
+  openCommandBar({ sessions: [...store.snapshot().sessions.values()], homeDir });
+};
+
+const barKeys = new CommandSet(defineCommands({ "bar.open": () => openBar() }));
+
+// The sidebar's search field is the touch entry point (#157): no `ctrl-k` on a
+// phone, so the field the operator already reaches for opens the same bar.
+document.addEventListener(OPEN_COMMAND_BAR_EVENT, () => openBar());
 
 // Capture phase: an attached xterm swallows every keystroke it is given, so the
 // bar's binding has to be seen ahead of the terminal (docs/COMMAND-BAR.md).
@@ -494,8 +528,8 @@ window.addEventListener(
 );
 
 
-// Tab in the session list hands the keyboard to the pane; Escape in the pane
-// hands it back — the pair the TUI gets from `tab` and `esc`.
+// Tab in the session list hands the keyboard to the pane; leader-h (focus.toggle,
+// above) hands it back the other way.
 document.addEventListener(FOCUS_PANE_EVENT, () => {
   // Handing the keyboard to a previewed pane is choosing it: the preview stops
   // being provisional rather than snapping back the moment the list blurs.
@@ -503,10 +537,6 @@ document.addEventListener(FOCUS_PANE_EVENT, () => {
   if (previewed) focusSession(previewed);
   pool.focusTerminal();
 });
-document.addEventListener(FOCUS_SIDEBAR_EVENT, () => {
-  drawer.open(); // no-op on desktop; on mobile the list is off-canvas
-  sidebar.focusList();
-});
 
 /** Open/focus a session and reflect it in the shell chrome. Shared by the
  *  hash router and the sidebar's click-driven path (#133), which can't rely

web/src/multiview.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
   activeTab,
   addTab,
   closeTab,
+  equalizeRatios,
   findLeaf,
   freshId,
   type Dir,
@@ -215,6 +216,20 @@ export function createMultiView(opts: MultiViewOptions): MultiView {
     return fl?.sessionId ?? null;
   }
 
+  /** The session the operator actually picked — what `focusedLeafSession()`
+   *  would return with the preview undone. A preview moves the active tab and
+   *  its focus, but it is a view: the accent stays on the row the operator
+   *  chose until they choose another (docs/PREVIEW.md). */
+  function realFocusedSession(): string | null {
+    const p = preview;
+    if (!p) return focusedLeafSession();
+    const tab = layout.tabs.find((t) => t.id === p.prevActiveTabId) ?? activeTab(layout);
+    const leafId =
+      p.prevFocus && p.prevFocus.tabId === tab.id ? p.prevFocus.leafId : tab.focusedLeafId;
+    const fl = leafId ? findLeaf(tab.root, leafId) : null;
+    return fl?.sessionId ?? null;
+  }
+
   /** Update focus styling + pool focus + sidebar highlights without rebuilding
    *  the DOM (cheap path for click-to-focus). */
   function syncFocus(): void {
@@ -233,7 +248,7 @@ export function createMultiView(opts: MultiViewOptions): MultiView {
     if (!preview) pool.setFocus(focusedLeafSession());
     sidebar.setHighlights({
       open: realOpenSessions(),
-      focused: focusedLeafSession(),
+      focused: realFocusedSession(),
     });
     // The row the preview came from wears the same colour, so the sidebar and
     // the pane read as one thing rather than two unrelated highlights.
@@ -443,6 +458,7 @@ export function createMultiView(opts: MultiViewOptions): MultiView {
     dropPreview();
     const tab = activeTab(layout);
     tab.focusedLeafId = splitLeaf(tab, leafId, null, dir, true);
+    equalizeRatios(tab.root);
     render();
   }
 
@@ -528,6 +544,7 @@ export function createMultiView(opts: MultiViewOptions): MultiView {
       target.sessionId = sessionId;
     } else {
       tab.focusedLeafId = splitLeaf(tab, target.id, sessionId, "row", true);
+      equalizeRatios(tab.root);
     }
     render();
     opts.onOpenSessionsChange?.();
@@ -608,7 +625,7 @@ export function createMultiView(opts: MultiViewOptions): MultiView {
       { focus: !preview && !quietRender },
     );
     if (!preview) pool.setFocus(focused.sessionId ?? null);
-    sidebar.setHighlights({ open: realOpenSessions(), focused: focused.sessionId ?? null });
+    sidebar.setHighlights({ open: realOpenSessions(), focused: realFocusedSession() });
     sidebar.setPreview(preview?.sessionId ?? null);
   }
 
@@ -801,6 +818,7 @@ export function createMultiView(opts: MultiViewOptions): MultiView {
     if (source.kind === "pane" && self) removeLeaf(tab, self);
     else if (loc) removeLeaf(loc.tab, loc.leaf.id);
     tab.focusedLeafId = splitLeaf(tab, targetLeafId, sessionId, dir, after);
+    equalizeRatios(tab.root);
     render();
   }
 
@@ -817,7 +835,7 @@ export function createMultiView(opts: MultiViewOptions): MultiView {
     openSessions: realOpenSessions,
     beginSessionDrag,
     render,
-    focusedSessionId: focusedLeafSession,
+    focusedSessionId: realFocusedSession,
     previewSession,
     previewedSessionId: () => preview?.sessionId ?? null,
   };

web/src/preview.test.ts

@@ -47,12 +47,20 @@ function fakePool(): Spy {
 
 /** Last value the controller pushed to `SidebarHandle.setPreview`. */
 const previewRow: { id: string | null } = { id: null };
+/** Last highlights the controller pushed to `SidebarHandle.setHighlights`. */
+const rowHighlights: { open: Set<string>; focused: string | null } = {
+  open: new Set(),
+  focused: null,
+};
 
 function fakeSidebar(): SidebarHandle {
   return {
     el: document.createElement("aside"),
     setActive() {},
-    setHighlights() {},
+    setHighlights(h) {
+      rowHighlights.open = h.open;
+      rowHighlights.focused = h.focused;
+    },
     setPreview(id: string | null) {
       previewRow.id = id;
     },
@@ -95,6 +103,8 @@ describe("sidebar preview", () => {
     stubFetch();
     document.body.replaceChildren();
     previewRow.id = null;
+    rowHighlights.open = new Set();
+    rowHighlights.focused = null;
   });
 
   afterEach(() => {
@@ -134,6 +144,28 @@ describe("sidebar preview", () => {
     expect(mv.el.querySelectorAll(".mv-pane.is-preview")).toHaveLength(0);
   });
 
+  it("leaves the accent on the session the pane actually holds", () => {
+    const layout = twoTabs();
+    const spy = fakePool();
+    const mv = makeMv(layout, spy.pool);
+    expect(rowHighlights.focused).toBe("s2");
+
+    // Walking past other rows never moves the accent off what the operator
+    // picked: only a real open does (docs/PREVIEW.md).
+    mv.previewSession("s1");
+    expect(rowHighlights.focused).toBe("s2");
+    expect(mv.focusedSessionId()).toBe("s2");
+
+    mv.previewSession("s9");
+    expect(rowHighlights.focused).toBe("s2");
+
+    mv.previewSession(null);
+    expect(rowHighlights.focused).toBe("s2");
+
+    mv.openSession("s1");
+    expect(rowHighlights.focused).toBe("s1");
+  });
+
   it("shows a session no pane holds in a throwaway tab that leaves no trace", () => {
     const layout = twoTabs();
     const before = serializeLayout(layout);

web/src/sidebarNav.test.ts

@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ describe("sidebar keyboard navigation", () => {
     field!.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent("keydown", { key: "Escape", bubbles: true }));
   });
 
-  it("x kills the highlighted session", async () => {
+  it("x kills the highlighted session, once confirmed (#160)", async () => {
     const { el } = twoFolders();
     const killed: string[] = [];
     window.fetch = ((input: RequestInfo | URL, init?: RequestInit) => {
@@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ describe("sidebar keyboard navigation", () => {
 
     press(tree(el), "j");
     press(tree(el), "x");
+    expect(killed.some((r) => r.startsWith("DELETE"))).toBe(false);
+    document.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".kill-dialog-kill")?.click();
     await Promise.resolve();
     expect(killed.some((r) => r.startsWith("DELETE") && r.includes(A))).toBe(true);
   });

web/src/sidebarSearch.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+// @vitest-environment happy-dom
+//
+// The sidebar's search field is the touch entry point to the command bar
+// (#157, docs/COMMAND-BAR.md "Touch entry"): tapping or focusing it asks the
+// shell to open the bar with an empty query, instead of filtering the tree.
+import { beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { OPEN_COMMAND_BAR_EVENT, renderSidebar } from "./catalog.js";
+import { sessionBarCandidates } from "./commandBar.js";
+import { matchAndRank } from "./matcher.js";
+import type { CatalogListener, CatalogStore } from "./events.js";
+import type { Session } from "./types.js";
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  Object.defineProperty(window, "localStorage", {
+    value: { getItem: () => null, setItem: () => {} },
+  });
+  window.fetch = () => Promise.reject(new Error("offline"));
+});
+
+function session(id: string, cwd: string): Session {
+  return {
+    id,
+    name: id,
+    cwd,
+    command: "claude",
+    env: {},
+    metadata: {},
+    status: "Running",
+    created_at: "2026-08-24T10:00:00Z",
+  } as Session;
+}
+
+function storeWith(sessions: Session[]): CatalogStore {
+  const state = { sessions: new Map(sessions.map((s) => [s.id, s])) };
+  return {
+    snapshot: () => state,
+    subscribe: (fn: CatalogListener) => {
+      fn(state);
+      return () => {};
+    },
+  } as unknown as CatalogStore;
+}
+
+function mount(sessions: Session[] = [session("alpha", "/home/n/alpha")]) {
+  const handle = renderSidebar(storeWith(sessions));
+  document.body.appendChild(handle.el);
+  const search = handle.el.querySelector<HTMLInputElement>(".search")!;
+  const opens: number[] = [];
+  const listener = () => opens.push(1);
+  document.addEventListener(OPEN_COMMAND_BAR_EVENT, listener);
+  return {
+    handle,
+    search,
+    opens,
+    dispose: () => {
+      document.removeEventListener(OPEN_COMMAND_BAR_EVENT, listener);
+      handle.dispose();
+      handle.el.remove();
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+describe("sidebar search field opens the command bar (#157)", () => {
+  it("asks the shell to open the bar when the field is focused", () => {
+    const t = mount();
+    t.search.dispatchEvent(new FocusEvent("focus"));
+    expect(t.opens).toHaveLength(1);
+    t.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("opens on a tap, where a focus event may never arrive", () => {
+    const t = mount();
+    t.search.dispatchEvent(new Event("pointerdown", { bubbles: true }));
+    expect(t.opens).toHaveLength(1);
+    t.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("does not trap the keyboard in the field: it gives focus up on open", () => {
+    const t = mount();
+    t.search.focus();
+    expect(document.activeElement).not.toBe(t.search);
+    t.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("opens the bar with an empty query — the field never holds one", () => {
+    const t = mount();
+    t.search.focus();
+    expect(t.search.value).toBe("");
+    t.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("is readonly: no on-screen keyboard over a field nothing is typed into", () => {
+    const t = mount();
+    expect(t.search.readOnly).toBe(true);
+    t.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("no longer filters the tree in place", () => {
+    const t = mount([session("alpha", "/home/n/alpha"), session("beta", "/home/n/beta")]);
+    t.search.value = "alpha";
+    t.search.dispatchEvent(new Event("input"));
+    expect(t.handle.el.querySelectorAll(".tree-leaf")).toHaveLength(2);
+    t.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("has no 'No matches' state left: an empty catalog is empty, not filtered", () => {
+    const t = mount([]);
+    expect(t.handle.el.querySelector(".empty-title")?.textContent).toBe("No sessions yet");
+    t.dispose();
+  });
+});
+
+// The inline filter matched a session on its name and its directory, case- and
+// whitespace-insensitively. That behaviour did not go away with the field — it
+// moved into the bar, which ranks the same two fields (docs/COMMAND-BAR.md).
+describe("what the retired inline filter did, the bar now does", () => {
+  it("matches a session on both its name and its directory", () => {
+    const sessions = [session("alpha", "/home/n/alpha"), session("beta", "/home/n/beta")];
+    const candidates = sessionBarCandidates(sessions, "/home/n");
+
+    const byName = matchAndRank("alpha", candidates).map((r) => r.candidate.session.id);
+    expect(byName).toEqual(["alpha"]);
+
+    const byDir = matchAndRank("beta", candidates).map((r) => r.candidate.session.id);
+    expect(byDir).toEqual(["beta"]);
+  });
+
+  it("ignores case and surrounding whitespace, and shows nothing on no match", () => {
+    const candidates = sessionBarCandidates([session("alpha", "/home/n/Alpha")], "/home/n");
+
+    expect(matchAndRank("  ALPHA  ", candidates)).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(matchAndRank("zzz", candidates)).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+});

web/src/styles.css

@@ -1202,8 +1202,10 @@ textarea {
 }
 
 /* 5. The row the content pane is previewing right now. Last, so previewing a
-   session that is already open still reads as provisional. */
-.tree-leaf:where(.is-previewing) {
+   session that is already open still reads as provisional — except the session
+   already mounted in the pane (tier 4). Previewing that one changes nothing on
+   screen, so its accent stays put instead of blinking out under the pointer. */
+.tree-leaf:where(.is-previewing):where(:not(.is-active)) {
   background: var(--preview-tint);
 }
 
@@ -1558,7 +1560,10 @@ input.leaf-rename:focus {
 }
 
 /* Phone: the bottom-sheet treatment the spawn modal already uses. */
-@media (max-width: 600px) {
+/* Bottom sheet at phone width, the same treatment (and the same 599px break)
+   the spawn modal uses: the bar is reached by thumb here, through the sidebar's
+   search field (#157), so it rides the bottom of the screen. */
+@media (max-width: 599px) {
   .cmdbar-overlay {
     grid-template-rows: 1fr auto;
     padding: 0;
@@ -1567,9 +1572,21 @@ input.leaf-rename:focus {
   .cmdbar-panel {
     grid-row: 2;
     width: 100%;
-    max-height: 70vh;
+    max-height: 70dvh;
     border-radius: var(--r-3) var(--r-3) 0 0;
     border-bottom: 0;
+    padding-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom, 0px);
+  }
+
+  /* Thumb-sized rows and a field that clears the on-screen keyboard's
+     zoom-on-focus threshold (16px). */
+  .cmdbar-input {
+    font-size: var(--fs-17);
+    min-height: 44px;
+  }
+
+  .cmdbar-row {
+    min-height: 44px;
   }
 }
 

web/src/tree.test.ts

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ describe("buildTree", () => {
     const root = buildTree(
       [session("a", "/home/n/work"), session("b", "/home/n/work")],
       "/home/n",
-      "",
     ) as TreeFolder;
 
     expect(names(root)).toEqual(["~/work"]);
@@ -35,7 +34,7 @@ describe("buildTree", () => {
   });
 
   it("collapses a linear chain into one folder", () => {
-    const root = buildTree([session("a", "/home/n/git/naps62/maestro")], "/home/n", "") as TreeFolder;
+    const root = buildTree([session("a", "/home/n/git/naps62/maestro")], "/home/n") as TreeFolder;
     expect(names(root)).toEqual(["~/git/naps62/maestro"]);
   });
 
@@ -43,7 +42,6 @@ describe("buildTree", () => {
     const root = buildTree(
       [session("a", "/home/n/subvisual/bullish"), session("b", "/home/n/tea/maestro")],
       "/home/n",
-      "",
     ) as TreeFolder;
 
     expect(names(root).sort()).toEqual(["~/subvisual/bullish", "~/tea/maestro"]);
@@ -53,7 +51,6 @@ describe("buildTree", () => {
     const root = buildTree(
       [session("a", "/home/n/git/one"), session("b", "/home/n/git/two")],
       "/home/n",
-      "",
     ) as TreeFolder;
 
     expect(names(root)).toEqual(["~/git"]);
@@ -65,30 +62,11 @@ describe("buildTree", () => {
     const root = buildTree(
       [session("loose", ""), session("nested", "/home/n/work")],
       "/home/n",
-      "",
     ) as TreeFolder;
 
     expect(root.children[0].kind).toBe("folder");
     expect(root.children[1].kind).toBe("leaf");
   });
-
-  it("filters on both session name and directory", () => {
-    const sessions = [session("a", "/home/n/alpha", "claude"), session("b", "/home/n/beta", "bash")];
-
-    const byDir = buildTree(sessions, "/home/n", "alpha") as TreeFolder;
-    expect(names(byDir)).toEqual(["~/alpha"]);
-
-    const byCommand = buildTree(sessions, "/home/n", "claude") as TreeFolder;
-    expect(names(byCommand)).toEqual(["~/alpha"]);
-
-    const noMatch = buildTree(sessions, "/home/n", "zzz") as TreeFolder;
-    expect(noMatch.children).toEqual([]);
-  });
-
-  it("ignores case and surrounding whitespace in the filter", () => {
-    const root = buildTree([session("a", "/home/n/Alpha")], "/home/n", "  ALPHA  ") as TreeFolder;
-    expect(root.children).toHaveLength(1);
-  });
 });
 
 describe("mergeLinear", () => {
@@ -127,7 +105,6 @@ describe("worktree sessions group under their repository (#99)", () => {
         ),
       ],
       "/home/n",
-      "",
     ) as TreeFolder;
 
     expect(topFolders(root)).toEqual(["~/tea/agent-skills"]);
@@ -147,7 +124,6 @@ describe("worktree sessions group under their repository (#99)", () => {
         ),
       ],
       "/home/n",
-      "",
     ) as TreeFolder;
 
     expect(topFolders(root)).toEqual(["~/tea/agent-skills"]);
@@ -157,7 +133,7 @@ describe("worktree sessions group under their repository (#99)", () => {
   });
 
   it("leaves a session without a worktree where it is", () => {
-    const root = buildTree([session("a", "/home/n/tea/arr")], "/home/n", "") as TreeFolder;
+    const root = buildTree([session("a", "/home/n/tea/arr")], "/home/n") as TreeFolder;
     expect(topFolders(root)).toEqual(["~/tea/arr"]);
   });
 });

web/src/tree.ts

@@ -25,19 +25,14 @@ export function compareNodes(a: TreeNode, b: TreeNode): number {
   return an.localeCompare(bn);
 }
 
-export function buildTree(sessions: Session[], home: string | undefined, filter: string): TreeNode {
+export function buildTree(sessions: Session[], home: string | undefined): TreeNode {
   const root: TreeFolder = { kind: "folder", name: "", path: "", children: [] };
-  const lc = filter.trim().toLowerCase();
 
   for (const s of sessions) {
     // Grouped by repository, so a worktree session lands under its repo
     // rather than in a folder of its own (#99).
     const cwd = sessionTreePath(s);
     const dir = cwd ? abbreviateCwd(cwd, home) : "";
-    if (lc) {
-      const haystack = `${sessionName(s)} ${dir}`.toLowerCase();
-      if (!haystack.includes(lc)) continue;
-    }
     const parts = dir ? dir.split("/").filter(Boolean) : [];
     let cursor = root;
     for (const part of parts) {

web/src/types.ts

@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ export interface Session {
    * how the command bar's empty query sorts a never-focused session after every
    * session that has one (`docs/COMMAND-BAR.md`). */
   last_focused_at?: IsoTimestamp | null;
+  /** The ACP session id the `claude-code-acp` adapter returned from
+   * `session/new` (#134). Only a `Structured` session whose handshake
+   * succeeded has one; a respawn passes it to `session/load` (#135). */
+  acp_session_id?: string | null;
 }
 
 /** A session's daemon-created worktree (`SessionWorktree` on the wire). */
@@ -98,6 +102,10 @@ export interface DaemonInfo {
    * value across a reconnect means the daemon restarted. Absent on older
    * daemons, which the restart flow treats as "cannot tell". */
   instance?: string;
+  /** Canonical leader key the operator configured (`[tui].leader`, default
+   * `ctrl-a`), so the web binds the same chord the TUI does (#159). Absent or
+   * empty on an older daemon; the client then keeps its own default. */
+  leader?: string;
 }
 
 /** Build provenance of the running daemon: what the status indicator names in