feat(maestro): add POST /api/sessions/:id/resume

A dormant session comes back under the same uuid and sidecar, so its
name, created_at, env and worktree ownership survive; only the tmux
session and the PTY bridge are new. The command is the matching preset's
resume_command with {agent_session} filled in, falling back to the
command the session was spawned with.

Refused with 409 for a session that is already running or whose cwd is
gone. Attaching to a session with no bridge now answers 409
not_attachable instead of 404 unknown_session, so a client can tell a
resumable session from one that does not exist.

CLAUDE.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ maestro daemon            tmux wrapper + session API + SPA on 127.0.0.1:7070
   ├── DELETE   /api/sessions/:id    kill
   ├── POST     /api/sessions/:id/input  type text into a session
   ├── POST     /api/sessions/:id/prompt an agent reports its first prompt (#131)
+  ├── POST     /api/sessions/:id/resume respawn a dormant session, same id (#166)
   ├── GET      /api/info            hostname, version, home dir, spawn presets
   ├── GET      /api/dirs            directory listing (spawn autocomplete)
   ├── GET      /api/recent-dirs     spawn history

crates/maestro-cli/src/sessions.rs

@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ fn print_session_table(out: &mut impl Write, sessions: &[Session], info: &Daemon
         let status = match s.status {
             SessionStatus::Running => "running",
             SessionStatus::Dead => "dead",
+            SessionStatus::Dormant => "dormant",
         };
         let activity = match s.activity {
             ActivityState::Active => "active",
@@ -252,6 +253,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            agent_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 

crates/maestro-cli/tests/against_mock_daemon.rs

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ async fn info_carries_version_and_presets() {
             id: "claude".into(),
             label: "Claude".into(),
             command: "claude".into(),
+            resume_command: None,
         }],
         ..Default::default()
     });

crates/maestro-config/src/lib.rs

@@ -313,16 +313,19 @@ pub fn builtin_presets() -> Vec<SpawnPreset> {
             id: "claude".into(),
             label: "Claude".into(),
             command: "claude".into(),
+            resume_command: Some("claude --resume {agent_session}".into()),
         },
         SpawnPreset {
             id: "opencode".into(),
             label: "opencode".into(),
             command: "opencode".into(),
+            resume_command: None,
         },
         SpawnPreset {
             id: "zsh".into(),
             label: "Shell".into(),
             command: "zsh".into(),
+            resume_command: None,
         },
     ]
 }
@@ -334,6 +337,7 @@ pub fn custom_preset() -> SpawnPreset {
         id: CUSTOM_PRESET_ID.into(),
         label: "Custom…".into(),
         command: String::new(),
+        resume_command: None,
     }
 }
 
@@ -507,6 +511,18 @@ auto_install = false
         assert!(custom.command.is_empty());
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn builtin_claude_preset_resumes_by_agent_session() {
+        let claude = builtin_presets()
+            .into_iter()
+            .find(|preset| preset.id == "claude")
+            .expect("Claude preset");
+        assert_eq!(
+            claude.resume_command.as_deref(),
+            Some("claude --resume {agent_session}")
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn spawn_presets_override_replaces_builtins() {
         // Present list replaces the built-ins entirely; custom still appended.
@@ -515,6 +531,7 @@ auto_install = false
                 id: "fish".into(),
                 label: "fish".into(),
                 command: "fish".into(),
+                resume_command: None,
             }]),
             ..Default::default()
         };
@@ -551,6 +568,7 @@ auto_install = false
                 id: "  ".into(),
                 label: "x".into(),
                 command: "x".into(),
+                resume_command: None,
             }]),
             ..Default::default()
         };
@@ -561,6 +579,7 @@ auto_install = false
                 id: "x".into(),
                 label: "x".into(),
                 command: "".into(),
+                resume_command: None,
             }]),
             ..Default::default()
         };
@@ -578,11 +597,13 @@ auto_install = false
                     id: "a".into(),
                     label: "a".into(),
                     command: "a".into(),
+                    resume_command: None,
                 },
                 SpawnPreset {
                     id: "a".into(),
                     label: "a2".into(),
                     command: "a2".into(),
+                    resume_command: None,
                 },
             ]),
             ..Default::default()
@@ -597,6 +618,7 @@ auto_install = false
                 id: "custom".into(),
                 label: "Custom".into(),
                 command: "whatever".into(),
+                resume_command: None,
             }]),
             ..Default::default()
         };
@@ -632,6 +654,27 @@ presets = [
         assert_eq!(ids, ["claude", "zsh", "custom"]);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn spawn_preset_parses_resume_command_from_issue_example() {
+        let cfg = toml::from_str::<MaestroConfigFile>(
+            r#"
+[spawn]
+presets = [
+  { id = "claude", command = "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions", resume_command = "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions --resume {agent_session}" }
+]
+"#,
+        )
+        .expect("issue #165 example parses");
+
+        let preset = &cfg.spawn.presets.expect("configured presets")[0];
+        assert_eq!(preset.id, "claude");
+        assert_eq!(preset.command, "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions");
+        assert_eq!(
+            preset.resume_command.as_deref(),
+            Some("claude --dangerously-skip-permissions --resume {agent_session}")
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn spawn_project_scan_fields_default_to_none() {
         // Absent [spawn].project_* → None; the daemon applies its own defaults.

crates/maestro-daemon/src/boot_id.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+//! Tells a daemon restart from a host reboot (#164).
+//!
+//! `/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id` is fixed for the life of the kernel and
+//! changes on every boot. [`SessionManager::recover`] compares it against the
+//! value it stored on the previous run: a difference means every session from
+//! before is provably dead, so the tmux probe can be skipped and those
+//! sessions registered dormant directly instead of relying on tmux reporting
+//! an empty list.
+
+use std::path::Path;
+
+/// Where the daemon reads the running kernel's boot id. Behind a trait so
+/// tests can simulate a changed (or unreadable) boot id without rebooting the
+/// machine.
+pub trait BootIdSource: std::fmt::Debug + Send + Sync + 'static {
+    /// Current boot id, or `None` if it can't be determined (non-Linux,
+    /// restricted `/proc`, missing or empty file).
+    fn current(&self) -> Option<String>;
+}
+
+/// Production source: `/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id`.
+#[derive(Debug, Default)]
+pub struct ProcBootId;
+
+impl BootIdSource for ProcBootId {
+    fn current(&self) -> Option<String> {
+        read_boot_id(Path::new("/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"))
+    }
+}
+
+fn read_boot_id(path: &Path) -> Option<String> {
+    let contents = std::fs::read_to_string(path).ok()?;
+    let trimmed = contents.trim();
+    (!trimmed.is_empty()).then(|| trimmed.to_string())
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn reads_trimmed_contents() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let path = dir.path().join("boot_id");
+        std::fs::write(&path, "abc-123\n").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(read_boot_id(&path).as_deref(), Some("abc-123"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn missing_file_returns_none() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(read_boot_id(&dir.path().join("missing")), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn empty_file_returns_none() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let path = dir.path().join("boot_id");
+        std::fs::write(&path, "\n").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(read_boot_id(&path), None);
+    }
+}

crates/maestro-daemon/src/cli.rs

@@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ async fn run(config_override: Option<PathBuf>) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
     .with_spawn_history(crate::spawn_history::SpawnHistory::new(
         config.spawn_history_path(),
         config.spawn_history_days,
-    ));
+    ))
+    .with_boot_id(
+        config.boot_id_path(),
+        std::sync::Arc::new(crate::boot_id::ProcBootId),
+    );
     // Spawned sessions learn where to report back (#103). Derived from the
     // configured bind address; set before any spawn can happen.
     manager.set_daemon_url(format!("http://{}", config.bind_addr));

crates/maestro-daemon/src/config.rs

@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ impl DaemonConfig {
     pub fn spawn_history_path(&self) -> PathBuf {
         self.state_dir.join("spawn-history.jsonl")
     }
+
+    /// Where recovery records the kernel boot id it saw last (#164):
+    /// `<state_dir>/boot_id`.
+    pub fn boot_id_path(&self) -> PathBuf {
+        self.state_dir.join("boot_id")
+    }
 }
 
 /// Env-var overrides applied by [`load_config`]. Tests pass explicit

crates/maestro-daemon/src/lib.rs

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ pub mod attach;
 /// Naming a session after its first prompt (#131).
 #[cfg(feature = "haiku-autoname")]
 pub mod autoname;
+pub mod boot_id;
 pub mod branches;
 pub mod cli;
 pub mod config;
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ pub mod proc;
 pub mod projects;
 pub mod pty;
 pub mod release;
+pub mod resume;
 pub mod session;
 pub mod sidecar;
 pub mod spawn_history;

crates/maestro-daemon/src/local_api.rs

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ pub fn router(state: LocalApiState) -> Router {
         .route(routes::patterns::SESSION_ACTIVITY, post(report_activity))
         .route(routes::patterns::SESSION_INPUT, post(send_input))
         .route(routes::patterns::SESSION_FOCUS, post(set_focus))
+        .route(routes::patterns::SESSION_RESUME, post(resume_session))
         .route(
             routes::patterns::SESSION,
             delete(kill_session).patch(rename_session),
@@ -170,6 +171,9 @@ fn session_error_status(code: &str) -> StatusCode {
         // The session outlived its pane: nothing to type into, and nothing
         // the daemon can do about it.
         "not_running" => StatusCode::CONFLICT,
+        // Resume refusals (#166): the session exists and the request was
+        // well-formed, it just cannot be brought back in this state.
+        "already_running" | "cwd_missing" => StatusCode::CONFLICT,
         _ => StatusCode::BAD_GATEWAY,
     }
 }
@@ -307,7 +311,11 @@ async fn report_activity(
     Path(id): Path<Uuid>,
     Json(body): Json<ReportActivityRequest>,
 ) -> Response {
-    match s.manager.report_activity(id, body.state, body.detail).await {
+    match s
+        .manager
+        .report_activity(id, body.state, body.detail, body.session_id)
+        .await
+    {
         Ok(()) => StatusCode::NO_CONTENT.into_response(),
         Err(e) => {
             let info = e.to_error_info();
@@ -364,6 +372,27 @@ async fn set_focus(
     }
 }
 
+/// `POST /api/sessions/:id/resume` (#166): respawn a session that has no pane
+/// under its own id and sidecar, so its name, `created_at`, env and worktree
+/// ownership survive. Answers with the updated session, which also goes out as
+/// `SessionUpdated` to every events subscriber.
+///
+/// Refused with `409` when the session is already running or its `cwd` is
+/// gone; `404` when there is no such session.
+async fn resume_session(State(s): State<LocalApiState>, Path(id): Path<Uuid>) -> Response {
+    match s.manager.resume(id, &s.presets).await {
+        Ok(session) => (StatusCode::OK, Json(session)).into_response(),
+        Err(e) => {
+            let info = e.to_error_info();
+            error_response(
+                session_error_status(&info.code),
+                info.code.as_str(),
+                info.message.as_str(),
+            )
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 fn error_response(status: StatusCode, code: &str, message: &str) -> Response {
     (status, Json(ApiError::new(code, message))).into_response()
 }
@@ -406,6 +435,16 @@ async fn attach_ws(
     ws: axum::extract::WebSocketUpgrade,
 ) -> Result<Response, Response> {
     let Some((replay, rx)) = s.manager.subscribe_pty_with_replay(id).await else {
+        // #166: a session the daemon knows but has no bridge for — a dormant
+        // one — is not missing, it is not running. Reporting it as unknown
+        // left the client unable to tell "gone" from "resumable".
+        if s.manager.has(id).await {
+            return Err(error_response(
+                StatusCode::CONFLICT,
+                "not_attachable",
+                "session has no live pane; resume it first",
+            ));
+        }
         return Err(error_response(
             StatusCode::NOT_FOUND,
             "unknown_session",

crates/maestro-daemon/src/resume.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+//! Choosing the command a resumed session comes back on (#166).
+//!
+//! A session records the command it was spawned with. Bringing it back means
+//! running that preset's `resume_command` (#165) instead, so an agent picks up
+//! its old conversation rather than starting a fresh one. Everything else
+//! about the session — id, sidecar, name, `created_at`, env, worktree — is
+//! untouched, so only the command is decided here.
+
+use maestro_protocol::{Session, SpawnPreset};
+
+/// The command to respawn `session` with.
+///
+/// The preset is matched on the command the session was spawned with, which is
+/// what the sidecar holds. A session with no matching preset, a preset with no
+/// `resume_command`, or a `resume_command` needing an agent session id the
+/// session never reported all fall back to the original command: respawning
+/// what the operator asked for is always honest, where a half-filled resume
+/// template is not.
+pub fn resume_command(session: &Session, presets: &[SpawnPreset]) -> String {
+    presets
+        .iter()
+        .find(|p| p.command == session.command)
+        .and_then(|p| p.resume_command_for(session.agent_session_id.as_deref()))
+        .unwrap_or_else(|| session.command.clone())
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use std::collections::HashMap;
+
+    fn presets() -> Vec<SpawnPreset> {
+        vec![
+            SpawnPreset {
+                id: "claude".into(),
+                label: "Claude".into(),
+                command: "claude".into(),
+                resume_command: Some("claude --resume {agent_session}".into()),
+            },
+            SpawnPreset {
+                id: "zsh".into(),
+                label: "Shell".into(),
+                command: "zsh".into(),
+                resume_command: None,
+            },
+        ]
+    }
+
+    fn session(command: &str, agent_session_id: Option<&str>) -> Session {
+        Session {
+            id: uuid::Uuid::new_v4(),
+            cwd: "/tmp".into(),
+            command: command.into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+            status: maestro_protocol::SessionStatus::Dormant,
+            created_at: chrono::Utc::now(),
+            foreground: None,
+            activity: maestro_protocol::ActivityState::Idle,
+            activity_detail: None,
+            last_activity_at: chrono::Utc::now(),
+            activity_since: chrono::Utc::now(),
+            current_cwd: None,
+            blocked_work: None,
+            last_focused_at: None,
+            agent_session_id: agent_session_id.map(str::to_string),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn uses_the_matching_presets_resume_command() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            resume_command(&session("claude", Some("conv-7")), &presets()),
+            "claude --resume conv-7"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn falls_back_when_the_agent_session_id_is_unknown() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            resume_command(&session("claude", None), &presets()),
+            "claude"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn falls_back_for_a_preset_without_a_resume_command() {
+        assert_eq!(resume_command(&session("zsh", None), &presets()), "zsh");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn falls_back_when_no_preset_matches() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            resume_command(&session("bash --noprofile", Some("conv-7")), &presets()),
+            "bash --noprofile"
+        );
+    }
+}

crates/maestro-daemon/src/session.rs

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ use maestro_protocol::{
 use tokio::sync::{broadcast, Mutex};
 use uuid::Uuid;
 
+use crate::boot_id::BootIdSource;
 use crate::panes::Panes;
 use crate::pty::{pipe_pane_command, PtyBridge};
 use crate::sidecar::{SidecarError, SidecarStore};
@@ -62,7 +63,10 @@ pub struct SessionRecord {
     /// `base_repo` from the original `WorktreeSpec`. Needed because `git
     /// worktree remove` is invoked from the base repo.
     pub worktree_base_repo: Option<PathBuf>,
-    pub bridge: PtyBridge,
+    /// The PTY bridge feeding this session's attach stream. `None` for a
+    /// `Dormant` session (#162): there is no pane behind it, so there is
+    /// nothing to pipe and nothing to attach to.
+    pub bridge: Option<PtyBridge>,
     /// Agent-reported activity (#105) still within its TTL. While in force it
     /// outranks the activity pass's own inference; when it lapses, inference
     /// resumes and [`Session::activity_detail`] is cleared with it. This
@@ -108,6 +112,15 @@ pub enum SessionError {
     /// a stray keystroke on an attach socket, which is dropped.
     #[error("session is no longer running: {0}")]
     NotRunning(Uuid),
+    /// A resume (#166) was asked for a session that is already running. There
+    /// is nothing to bring back, and respawning would strand the pane that is
+    /// already there.
+    #[error("session is already running: {0}")]
+    AlreadyRunning(Uuid),
+    /// A resume (#166) was asked for a session whose working directory is
+    /// gone. Nothing can be resumed in a directory that no longer exists.
+    #[error("session working directory no longer exists: {0}")]
+    CwdMissing(PathBuf),
     /// The kill was refused (#79): the session's worktree holds unsaved work.
     /// Nothing happened — the session keeps running and the tree is untouched,
     /// so it stays the operator's handle on their own unfinished work.
@@ -126,6 +139,8 @@ impl SessionError {
             SessionError::InvalidEnv(_) => "invalid_env",
             SessionError::NotRunning(_) => "not_running",
             SessionError::KillGuarded(_) => "kill_guarded",
+            SessionError::AlreadyRunning(_) => "already_running",
+            SessionError::CwdMissing(_) => "cwd_missing",
         };
         let unsaved_work = match self {
             SessionError::KillGuarded(b) => Some(*b),
@@ -176,6 +191,25 @@ struct Inner {
     /// client that reconnects never collides with the registration its
     /// previous socket has not finished releasing.
     next_viewport: AtomicU64,
+    /// Boot-id tracking for `recover` (#164). `None` — the default — means
+    /// reboot detection is unwired, which behaves exactly like a boot id
+    /// that could never be read: always fall back to probing tmux.
+    boot_id: Option<BootIdConfig>,
+}
+
+/// Where recovery persists the boot id it last saw, and how it reads the
+/// current one. See [`crate::boot_id`].
+struct BootIdConfig {
+    path: PathBuf,
+    source: Arc<dyn BootIdSource>,
+}
+
+impl std::fmt::Debug for BootIdConfig {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        f.debug_struct("BootIdConfig")
+            .field("path", &self.path)
+            .finish_non_exhaustive()
+    }
 }
 
 impl SessionManager {
@@ -218,6 +252,7 @@ impl SessionManager {
                 events,
                 viewports: Mutex::new(Viewports::new()),
                 next_viewport: AtomicU64::new(0),
+                boot_id: None,
             }),
         }
     }
@@ -247,6 +282,21 @@ impl SessionManager {
         self
     }
 
+    /// Wire boot-id tracking for `recover` (#164). Builder, called once right
+    /// after construction like the other `with_*` methods. Without it,
+    /// `recover` always falls back to probing tmux — the same as a boot id
+    /// that could never be read.
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// If the handle has already been cloned.
+    pub fn with_boot_id(mut self, path: PathBuf, source: Arc<dyn BootIdSource>) -> Self {
+        let inner = Arc::get_mut(&mut self.inner)
+            .expect("with_boot_id must be called before the SessionManager is cloned");
+        inner.boot_id = Some(BootIdConfig { path, source });
+        self
+    }
+
     /// Set the daemon's own HTTP base URL (#103), exported to every session
     /// spawned afterwards as `MAESTRO_URL`. Unlike the `with_*` builders this
     /// is a plain setter: the daemon runner learns its bound address after
@@ -291,7 +341,10 @@ impl SessionManager {
     /// unknown to this daemon.
     pub async fn subscribe_pty(&self, id: Uuid) -> Option<broadcast::Receiver<Vec<u8>>> {
         let sessions = self.inner.sessions.lock().await;
-        sessions.get(&id).map(|r| r.bridge.subscribe())
+        sessions
+            .get(&id)
+            .and_then(|r| r.bridge.as_ref())
+            .map(|b| b.subscribe())
     }
 
     /// Subscribe to a session's PTY broadcast and return the replay buffer
@@ -310,19 +363,26 @@ impl SessionManager {
         let (result, updated) = {
             let mut sessions = self.inner.sessions.lock().await;
             let rec = sessions.get_mut(&id)?;
-            rec.session.last_focused_at = Some(Utc::now());
-            let updated = rec.session.clone();
+            let SessionRecord {
+                session, bridge, ..
+            } = &mut *rec;
+            // #162: a dormant session has no bridge and no pane — nothing was
+            // ever piped for it, so there is no stream to hand back and the
+            // attach reads as unknown. Checked before anything is stamped.
+            let bridge = bridge.as_ref()?;
+            session.last_focused_at = Some(Utc::now());
+            let updated = session.clone();
             // For a live session, tmux's own screen beats the byte tail: the
             // tail starts mid-stream, so a full-screen program (an agent TUI)
             // 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 = session.status == SessionStatus::Running;
             // 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
             // the stream.
-            let result = rec.bridge.subscribe_with_snapshot(|| {
+            let result = bridge.subscribe_with_snapshot(|| {
                 if !alive {
                     return None;
                 }
@@ -478,6 +538,7 @@ impl SessionManager {
             // fresh tree has nothing in the way anyway.
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            agent_session_id: None,
         };
 
         if let Err(e) = self.inner.sidecar.write(&session) {
@@ -499,7 +560,7 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     fifo_path,
                     worktree_path,
                     worktree_base_repo,
-                    bridge,
+                    bridge: Some(bridge),
                     reported_activity: None,
                     settled: false,
                     #[cfg(feature = "haiku-autoname")]
@@ -536,6 +597,112 @@ impl SessionManager {
         Ok(session)
     }
 
+    /// Bring a session that has no pane back to life (#166).
+    ///
+    /// The session comes back under the **same** uuid and the same sidecar, so
+    /// `metadata.name`, `created_at`, `env` and worktree ownership all survive
+    /// — only the tmux session and the PTY bridge are new. That is the whole
+    /// point: spawning a fresh session at the same path instead produces a
+    /// stranger with no worktree to clean up on kill.
+    ///
+    /// The command is [`crate::resume::resume_command`]: the matching preset's
+    /// `resume_command` (#165) with the session's own agent conversation id
+    /// substituted in, falling back to the command the session was spawned
+    /// with. `Session::command` keeps the original either way, so a second
+    /// resume still resolves the same preset.
+    ///
+    /// Refused for a session that is already running, and for one whose `cwd`
+    /// has disappeared — neither is something a respawn could fix.
+    pub async fn resume(
+        &self,
+        id: Uuid,
+        presets: &[maestro_protocol::SpawnPreset],
+    ) -> Result<Session, SessionError> {
+        let mut session = {
+            let sessions = self.inner.sessions.lock().await;
+            let rec = sessions.get(&id).ok_or(SessionError::NotFound(id))?;
+            if rec.session.status == SessionStatus::Running {
+                return Err(SessionError::AlreadyRunning(id));
+            }
+            rec.session.clone()
+        };
+        if !session.cwd.exists() {
+            return Err(SessionError::CwdMissing(session.cwd.clone()));
+        }
+        let command = crate::resume::resume_command(&session, presets);
+
+        // Same fifo path as the original spawn: it is derived from the id, and
+        // `mkfifo` tolerates the stale node the previous run left behind.
+        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?;
+        let mut session_env = sanitize_env(&session.env)?;
+        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 spawned = {
+            let tmux = self.inner.tmux.clone();
+            let cwd = session.cwd.clone();
+            let command = command.clone();
+            let sink = pipe_pane_command(&fifo_path);
+            tmux_blocking(move || tmux.new_session_piped(id, &cwd, &command, &session_env, &sink))
+                .await
+        };
+        if let Err(e) = spawned {
+            // `bridge` drops here, closing the FIFO reader. Nothing else was
+            // touched, so the session stays exactly as dormant as it was.
+            return Err(SessionError::Tmux(e));
+        }
+
+        session.status = SessionStatus::Running;
+        // A resumed session is producing its initial output again; the
+        // watcher refines this on its next tick, exactly as after a spawn.
+        session.foreground = None;
+        session.activity = ActivityState::Active;
+        session.activity_detail = None;
+        session.last_activity_at = Utc::now();
+        session.activity_since = Utc::now();
+        session.current_cwd = None;
+        session.last_focused_at = None;
+
+        if let Err(e) = self.inner.sidecar.write(&session) {
+            // tmux already spawned; kill it rather than leave a pane the
+            // sidecar does not describe.
+            let tmux = self.inner.tmux.clone();
+            let _ = tmux_blocking(move || tmux.kill_session(id)).await;
+            return Err(SessionError::Sidecar(e));
+        }
+
+        {
+            let mut sessions = self.inner.sessions.lock().await;
+            let Some(rec) = sessions.get_mut(&id) else {
+                // Killed while we were spawning. Undo the pane instead of
+                // leaving one behind with no record of it.
+                let tmux = self.inner.tmux.clone();
+                let _ = tmux_blocking(move || tmux.kill_session(id)).await;
+                return Err(SessionError::NotFound(id));
+            };
+            rec.session = session.clone();
+            rec.fifo_path = fifo_path;
+            rec.bridge = Some(bridge);
+            rec.reported_activity = None;
+            rec.settled = false;
+            rec.focused_since = None;
+            rec.awaiting_suppressed = false;
+        }
+        let _ = self.inner.events.send(CatalogEvent::SessionUpdated {
+            session: session.clone(),
+        });
+        Ok(session)
+    }
+
     /// Best-effort removal of a worktree created earlier in `create` when a
     /// later step fails. No-op when the request had no worktree.
     fn rollback_worktree(&self, base: &Option<PathBuf>, path: &Option<PathBuf>) {
@@ -651,9 +818,21 @@ impl SessionManager {
     /// and start a `PtyBridge`. Sessions whose sidecar references a `cwd`
     /// that no longer exists are still adopted — the spec does not require
     /// us to repair them.
+    ///
+    /// #164: when the kernel's boot id has changed since the last run, the
+    /// tmux probe below is skipped entirely — a reboot kills the tmux server,
+    /// so every previous session is already dead and there is nothing tmux
+    /// could truthfully adopt. [`Self::register_dormant`] then registers all
+    /// of them directly.
     pub async fn recover(&self) -> Result<usize, SessionError> {
         tokio::fs::create_dir_all(&self.inner.fifo_dir).await?;
-        let live = {
+        let rebooted = self.check_boot_id().await;
+        let live = if rebooted {
+            // #164: every session from the previous boot is provably dead —
+            // no tmux server survives a reboot — so there is nothing to gain
+            // from asking it and no session it could honestly report back.
+            Vec::new()
+        } else {
             let tmux = self.inner.tmux.clone();
             tmux_blocking(move || tmux.list_sessions()).await?
         };
@@ -683,6 +862,7 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     current_cwd: None,
                     blocked_work: None,
                     last_focused_at: None,
+                    agent_session_id: None,
                 },
             };
             let fifo_path = self.inner.fifo_dir.join(format!("{id}.fifo"));
@@ -707,7 +887,7 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     // directory blocks that branch forever (#54 review).
                     worktree_path: session.worktree.as_ref().map(|w| w.path.clone()),
                     worktree_base_repo: session.worktree.as_ref().map(|w| w.base_repo.clone()),
-                    bridge,
+                    bridge: Some(bridge),
                     reported_activity: None,
                     settled: false,
                     #[cfg(feature = "haiku-autoname")]
@@ -722,16 +902,144 @@ impl SessionManager {
                 .send(CatalogEvent::SessionAdded { session });
             adopted += 1;
         }
+        self.register_dormant(rebooted).await;
         Ok(adopted)
     }
 
-    /// Forward keystrokes to a session's pane. A dead session is read-only —
-    /// its pane is gone, so this is a no-op rather than a tmux failure the
-    /// client would have to interpret.
+    /// Compare the running kernel's boot id against the one recovery stored
+    /// last time (#164), then persist the current one for next time. Returns
+    /// `true` only when both are known and differ — a host reboot.
+    ///
+    /// A missing stored value (first run) or an unreadable current one
+    /// (non-Linux, restricted `/proc`, unwired in this build) both read as
+    /// "no reboot", which is today's behaviour: fall back to probing tmux.
+    async fn check_boot_id(&self) -> bool {
+        let Some(cfg) = &self.inner.boot_id else {
+            return false;
+        };
+        let Some(current) = cfg.source.current() else {
+            return false;
+        };
+        let stored = tokio::fs::read_to_string(&cfg.path)
+            .await
+            .ok()
+            .map(|s| s.trim().to_string())
+            .filter(|s| !s.is_empty());
+        let rebooted = stored.is_some_and(|s| s != current);
+        if let Some(parent) = cfg.path.parent() {
+            let _ = tokio::fs::create_dir_all(parent).await;
+        }
+        if let Err(e) = tokio::fs::write(&cfg.path, &current).await {
+            tracing::warn!(error = ?e, path = %cfg.path.display(), "recover: failed to persist boot id");
+        }
+        rebooted
+    }
+
+    /// Second recovery pass (#162): register every sidecar tmux had nothing to
+    /// adopt as a [`SessionStatus::Dormant`] session.
+    ///
+    /// A host reboot kills the tmux server, so the first pass runs over an
+    /// empty list and every session would otherwise disappear from the API
+    /// while its sidecar sat untouched on disk. A dormant record keeps the id,
+    /// name, cwd, command, worktree and `created_at` — everything the sidecar
+    /// holds — so the operator still has a record of what was running. It has
+    /// no tmux session and no [`PtyBridge`] behind it: it cannot be attached
+    /// to, cannot be typed into, and is skipped by both watcher passes. The
+    /// only thing left to do with one is dismiss it, which removes the sidecar
+    /// so the next recovery does not bring it back.
+    ///
+    /// Activity is not carried over: whatever the session was doing, it is not
+    /// doing it now. The rest of the sidecar is left as written.
+    ///
+    /// #163: a sidecar whose `cwd` no longer exists is pruned instead —
+    /// nothing can be resumed in a directory that is gone, so the honest move
+    /// is to delete the sidecar rather than register a record no operator can
+    /// act on. A sidecar whose `cwd` still exists is kept regardless of age.
+    ///
+    /// `rebooted` (#164) only changes what gets logged: a detected reboot
+    /// names the count even when it is zero, so the operator sees that
+    /// recovery told a reboot from a restart instead of a log that stays
+    /// silent either way.
+    async fn register_dormant(&self, rebooted: bool) {
+        let stored = match self.inner.sidecar.load_all() {
+            Ok(stored) => stored,
+            Err(e) => {
+                tracing::warn!(error = ?e, "recover: reading sidecars for dormant sessions failed");
+                return;
+            }
+        };
+        let mut registered = Vec::new();
+        let mut pruned = 0usize;
+        {
+            let mut sessions = self.inner.sessions.lock().await;
+            for mut session in stored {
+                if sessions.contains_key(&session.id) {
+                    // Adopted live by the first pass; its sidecar is on disk too.
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if !session.cwd.exists() {
+                    if let Err(e) = self.inner.sidecar.delete(session.id) {
+                        tracing::warn!(error = ?e, id = %session.id, "recover: failed to prune sidecar with missing cwd");
+                    }
+                    pruned += 1;
+                    continue;
+                }
+                let id = session.id;
+                session.status = SessionStatus::Dormant;
+                session.foreground = None;
+                session.activity = ActivityState::Idle;
+                session.activity_detail = None;
+                sessions.insert(
+                    id,
+                    SessionRecord {
+                        session: session.clone(),
+                        fifo_path: self.inner.fifo_dir.join(format!("{id}.fifo")),
+                        // Still known, so a dismissal cleans the worktree up —
+                        // the same reason recovery restores it for a live
+                        // session (#54 review).
+                        worktree_path: session.worktree.as_ref().map(|w| w.path.clone()),
+                        worktree_base_repo: session.worktree.as_ref().map(|w| w.base_repo.clone()),
+                        bridge: None,
+                        reported_activity: None,
+                        settled: false,
+                        #[cfg(feature = "haiku-autoname")]
+                        naming: false,
+                        focused_since: None,
+                        awaiting_suppressed: false,
+                    },
+                );
+                registered.push(session);
+            }
+        }
+        if rebooted {
+            tracing::info!(
+                dormant = registered.len(),
+                "host rebooted, sessions dormant"
+            );
+        } else if !registered.is_empty() {
+            tracing::info!(
+                dormant = registered.len(),
+                "registered sessions with no live tmux as dormant"
+            );
+        }
+        if pruned > 0 {
+            tracing::info!(pruned, "pruned sidecars whose cwd no longer exists");
+        }
+        for session in registered {
+            let _ = self
+                .inner
+                .events
+                .send(CatalogEvent::SessionAdded { session });
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Forward keystrokes to a session's pane. A dead or dormant session is
+    /// read-only — its pane is gone, so this is a no-op rather than a tmux
+    /// failure the client would have to interpret.
     pub async fn send_keys(&self, id: Uuid, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<(), SessionError> {
         match self.status(id).await {
             None => return Err(SessionError::NotFound(id)),
-            Some(SessionStatus::Dead) => return Ok(()),
+            Some(SessionStatus::Dead | SessionStatus::Dormant) => return Ok(()),
             Some(SessionStatus::Running) => {}
         }
         let tmux = self.inner.tmux.clone();
@@ -744,13 +1052,15 @@ impl SessionManager {
     /// Type `text` into a session's pane, with an Enter after it when
     /// `submit` is set.
     ///
-    /// Unlike [`Self::send_keys`], a dead session is an error: the caller
-    /// asked for text to land somewhere, and a silent success would let a
-    /// script believe an agent had been told something it never heard.
+    /// Unlike [`Self::send_keys`], a dead or dormant session is an error: the
+    /// caller asked for text to land somewhere, and a silent success would let
+    /// a script believe an agent had been told something it never heard.
     pub async fn send_input(&self, id: Uuid, text: &str, submit: bool) -> Result<(), SessionError> {
         match self.status(id).await {
             None => return Err(SessionError::NotFound(id)),
-            Some(SessionStatus::Dead) => return Err(SessionError::NotRunning(id)),
+            Some(SessionStatus::Dead | SessionStatus::Dormant) => {
+                return Err(SessionError::NotRunning(id))
+            }
             Some(SessionStatus::Running) => {}
         }
         let tmux = self.inner.tmux.clone();
@@ -768,12 +1078,12 @@ impl SessionManager {
         Ok(())
     }
 
-    /// Resize a session's window. No-op for a dead session, as with
+    /// Resize a session's window. No-op for a dead or dormant session, as with
     /// [`Self::send_keys`].
     pub async fn resize(&self, id: Uuid, cols: u16, rows: u16) -> Result<(), SessionError> {
         match self.status(id).await {
             None => return Err(SessionError::NotFound(id)),
-            Some(SessionStatus::Dead) => return Ok(()),
+            Some(SessionStatus::Dead | SessionStatus::Dormant) => return Ok(()),
             Some(SessionStatus::Running) => {}
         }
         let tmux = self.inner.tmux.clone();
@@ -881,11 +1191,18 @@ impl SessionManager {
     /// A report that changes the effective state restarts `activity_since`
     /// (#104's clock); re-reporting an unchanged state only extends the TTL
     /// and stays silent on the event stream at steady state.
+    ///
+    /// `agent_session_id` (#161) is the agent's own conversation id, parsed
+    /// by the caller from the hook payload's `session_id` field. It is
+    /// written once — the first report that carries one wins — and the
+    /// sidecar is only rewritten on that transition, never on every report,
+    /// since an agent's session id never changes mid-session.
     pub async fn report_activity(
         &self,
         id: Uuid,
         state: ActivityState,
         detail: Option<String>,
+        agent_session_id: Option<String>,
     ) -> Result<(), SessionError> {
         let updated = {
             let mut sessions = self.inner.sessions.lock().await;
@@ -901,7 +1218,16 @@ impl SessionManager {
                 state,
                 self.inner.report_ttl,
             ));
-            changed.then(|| rec.session.clone())
+            let newly_identified =
+                rec.session.agent_session_id.is_none() && agent_session_id.is_some();
+            if newly_identified {
+                rec.session.agent_session_id = agent_session_id;
+                self.inner
+                    .sidecar
+                    .write(&rec.session)
+                    .map_err(SessionError::Sidecar)?;
+            }
+            (changed || newly_identified).then(|| rec.session.clone())
         };
         if let Some(session) = updated {
             let _ = self
@@ -1174,7 +1500,11 @@ async fn run_activity_pass(inner: &Arc<Inner>) {
                     rec.session.activity_detail = None;
                 }
             }
-            let idle = rec.bridge.idle_for();
+            // Only `Running` sessions reach this pass, and every one of them
+            // has a bridge; a dormant session has neither pane nor bridge.
+            let Some(idle) = rec.bridge.as_ref().map(|b| b.idle_for()) else {
+                continue;
+            };
             // #105: while a report is in force it supplies the state and
             // nothing here may overwrite it; only an unreported session is
             // decided by inference.
@@ -1292,8 +1622,10 @@ 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.
+/// A dead session does not come back as dead across a daemon restart: its
+/// sidecar survives, so [`SessionManager::recover`]'s second pass registers it
+/// as [`SessionStatus::Dormant`] (#162) — accurate either way, since neither
+/// has a pane behind it.
 async fn mark_session_dead(inner: &Arc<Inner>, id: Uuid) {
     let flipped = {
         let mut sessions = inner.sessions.lock().await;
@@ -1302,7 +1634,9 @@ async fn mark_session_dead(inner: &Arc<Inner>, id: Uuid) {
                 record.session.status = SessionStatus::Dead;
                 // Release anyone attached; the scrollback survives for a later
                 // attach.
-                record.bridge.seal();
+                if let Some(bridge) = record.bridge.as_mut() {
+                    bridge.seal();
+                }
                 let session = record.session.clone();
                 let worktree = record
                     .worktree_base_repo

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/activity_report.rs

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ use uuid::Uuid;
 
 struct Fixture {
     manager: SessionManager,
+    sidecar: SidecarStore,
     _tmux: TmuxFixture,
     _state_dir: TempDir,
 }
@@ -25,15 +26,17 @@ struct Fixture {
 async fn fixture(ttl: Duration) -> Fixture {
     let tmux = TmuxFixture::new();
     let state_dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let sidecar = SidecarStore::new(state_dir.path().join("sessions"));
     let manager = SessionManager::new(
         Arc::new(tmux.tmux.clone()),
-        SidecarStore::new(state_dir.path().join("sessions")),
+        sidecar.clone(),
         WorktreeManager::new(None),
         state_dir.path().join("fifos"),
     )
     .with_activity_report_ttl(ttl);
     Fixture {
         manager,
+        sidecar,
         _tmux: tmux,
         _state_dir: state_dir,
     }
@@ -67,7 +70,7 @@ async fn report_on_unknown_session_is_not_found() {
     let fx = fixture(Duration::from_secs(300)).await;
     let err = fx
         .manager
-        .report_activity(Uuid::new_v4(), ActivityState::Idle, None)
+        .report_activity(Uuid::new_v4(), ActivityState::Idle, None, None)
         .await
         .unwrap_err();
     assert!(matches!(err, maestro_daemon::SessionError::NotFound(_)));
@@ -83,6 +86,7 @@ async fn report_sets_error_state_and_detail() {
             id,
             ActivityState::Error,
             Some("cargo build failed: link error".into()),
+            None,
         )
         .await
         .unwrap();
@@ -101,7 +105,7 @@ async fn replacing_a_report_replaces_both_state_and_detail() {
     let id = spawn_sleeping(&fx.manager).await;
 
     fx.manager
-        .report_activity(id, ActivityState::Error, Some("first failure".into()))
+        .report_activity(id, ActivityState::Error, Some("first failure".into()), None)
         .await
         .unwrap();
     fx.manager
@@ -109,6 +113,7 @@ async fn replacing_a_report_replaces_both_state_and_detail() {
             id,
             ActivityState::AwaitingInput,
             Some("needs approval".into()),
+            None,
         )
         .await
         .unwrap();
@@ -125,7 +130,7 @@ async fn detail_is_capped_server_side() {
 
     let long = "x".repeat(10_000);
     fx.manager
-        .report_activity(id, ActivityState::Error, Some(long))
+        .report_activity(id, ActivityState::Error, Some(long), None)
         .await
         .unwrap();
 
@@ -144,7 +149,12 @@ async fn reported_state_survives_watcher_ticks_until_the_ttl_then_inference_resu
     fx.manager.start_liveness_watcher(Duration::from_millis(50));
 
     fx.manager
-        .report_activity(id, ActivityState::Error, Some("agent died mid-run".into()))
+        .report_activity(
+            id,
+            ActivityState::Error,
+            Some("agent died mid-run".into()),
+            None,
+        )
         .await
         .unwrap();
 
@@ -162,3 +172,73 @@ async fn reported_state_survives_watcher_ticks_until_the_ttl_then_inference_resu
     })
     .await;
 }
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn a_reported_session_id_is_recorded_on_the_session() {
+    let fx = fixture(Duration::from_secs(300)).await;
+    let id = spawn_sleeping(&fx.manager).await;
+
+    fx.manager
+        .report_activity(id, ActivityState::Active, None, Some("conv-abc123".into()))
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+
+    let s = observed(&fx.manager, id).await;
+    assert_eq!(s.agent_session_id.as_deref(), Some("conv-abc123"));
+}
+
+/// #161: a session id does not change mid-session, so once set it is never
+/// overwritten by a later report — even one that names a different id.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn a_reported_session_id_is_written_once_and_never_replaced() {
+    let fx = fixture(Duration::from_secs(300)).await;
+    let id = spawn_sleeping(&fx.manager).await;
+
+    fx.manager
+        .report_activity(id, ActivityState::Active, None, Some("conv-first".into()))
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    fx.manager
+        .report_activity(id, ActivityState::Active, None, Some("conv-second".into()))
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+
+    let s = observed(&fx.manager, id).await;
+    assert_eq!(s.agent_session_id.as_deref(), Some("conv-first"));
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn a_reported_session_id_survives_recovery_from_the_sidecar() {
+    let fx = fixture(Duration::from_secs(300)).await;
+    let id = spawn_sleeping(&fx.manager).await;
+
+    fx.manager
+        .report_activity(id, ActivityState::Active, None, Some("conv-abc123".into()))
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+
+    let stored = fx
+        .sidecar
+        .read(id)
+        .expect("sidecar read")
+        .expect("sidecar present");
+    assert_eq!(stored.agent_session_id.as_deref(), Some("conv-abc123"));
+
+    // The sidecar holding the id is only half the claim: a restarted daemon
+    // has to carry it back onto the recovered session, which is what a resume
+    // reads. Build a parallel manager over the same tmux server and state
+    // dirs and recover through it.
+    let revived = SessionManager::new(
+        Arc::new(fx._tmux.tmux.clone()),
+        fx.sidecar.clone(),
+        WorktreeManager::new(None),
+        fx._state_dir.path().join("fifos"),
+    );
+    revived.recover().await.expect("recover");
+    let recovered = observed(&revived, id).await;
+    assert_eq!(
+        recovered.agent_session_id.as_deref(),
+        Some("conv-abc123"),
+        "the recovered session must carry the agent session id, not just the sidecar"
+    );
+}

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/attach.rs

@@ -94,6 +94,74 @@ async fn rejects_unknown_session() {
     assert!(format!("{err}").contains("404"));
 }
 
+/// #166: a session the daemon knows but has no bridge for is not unknown, it
+/// is not running. `404 unknown_session` made "gone" and "resumable" look the
+/// same to a client that could have offered a resume.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn dormant_session_is_not_attachable_rather_than_unknown() {
+    let h = spawn_daemon_ws().await;
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let session = h
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+
+    // The host reboot: tmux is gone, the sidecar is not, and a fresh manager
+    // registers the session dormant.
+    h._fx.tmux.tmux.kill_server().unwrap();
+    let dormant = SessionManager::new(
+        std::sync::Arc::new(h._fx.tmux.tmux.clone()),
+        maestro_daemon::sidecar::SidecarStore::new(h._fx.sidecar_dir()),
+        maestro_daemon::worktree::WorktreeManager::new(None),
+        h._fx.fifo_dir(),
+    );
+    dormant.recover().await.unwrap();
+    let dormant_addr = serve_manager(dormant).await;
+
+    let err = connect_attach(dormant_addr, session.id).await.unwrap_err();
+    let tokio_tungstenite::tungstenite::Error::Http(resp) = err else {
+        panic!("want an HTTP rejection, got {err}");
+    };
+    assert_eq!(resp.status().as_u16(), 409);
+    let body: maestro_protocol::ApiError =
+        serde_json::from_slice(resp.body().as_deref().expect("error body")).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(body.error.code, "not_attachable");
+
+    // A session that really is unknown still reads as unknown.
+    let err = connect_attach(dormant_addr, Uuid::new_v4())
+        .await
+        .unwrap_err();
+    assert!(format!("{err}").contains("404"));
+}
+
+/// Serve `manager` on its own listener, for tests that need a second daemon
+/// over the same tmux/sidecar state.
+async fn serve_manager(manager: SessionManager) -> SocketAddr {
+    let router = local_api::router(local_api::state_for(
+        manager,
+        "test-host",
+        "/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
+        .unwrap();
+    let addr = listener.local_addr().unwrap();
+    tokio::spawn(async move {
+        let _ = axum::serve(listener, router).await;
+    });
+    addr
+}
+
 #[tokio::test]
 async fn pty_round_trip_through_real_tmux() {
     let h = spawn_daemon_ws().await;

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/local_api.rs

@@ -526,6 +526,33 @@ async fn post_activity_reports_error_with_detail() {
     assert_eq!(s.activity_detail.as_deref(), Some("cargo build failed"));
 }
 
+/// #161: a reported `session_id` lands on the session as `agent_session_id`.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn post_activity_records_the_reported_session_id() {
+    let h = spawn("naps-laptop").await;
+    let id = spawn_via_manager(&h).await;
+
+    let resp = reqwest::Client::new()
+        .post(url(h.addr, &format!("/api/sessions/{id}/activity")))
+        .json(&serde_json::json!({
+            "state": "Active",
+            "session_id": "conv-abc123"
+        }))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(resp.status(), reqwest::StatusCode::NO_CONTENT);
+
+    let sessions: Vec<Session> = reqwest::get(url(h.addr, "/api/sessions"))
+        .await
+        .unwrap()
+        .json()
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    let s = sessions.iter().find(|s| s.id == id).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(s.agent_session_id.as_deref(), Some("conv-abc123"));
+}
+
 #[tokio::test]
 async fn post_activity_to_unknown_session_returns_404() {
     let h = spawn("naps-laptop").await;

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/resume.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,359 @@
+//! End-to-end tests for `POST /api/sessions/:id/resume` (#166) and the
+//! manager call behind it, against real tmux.
+//!
+//! The point of resume is that the session comes back under the *same* uuid
+//! and sidecar — name, `created_at`, env and worktree ownership intact — with
+//! only the tmux session and the PTY bridge new.
+
+mod common;
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::net::{Ipv4Addr, SocketAddr};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::time::Duration;
+
+use common::{wait_for_async, DaemonFixture};
+use maestro_daemon::{local_api, SessionError, SessionManager};
+use maestro_protocol::{CreateSessionRequest, Session, SessionStatus, SpawnPreset};
+use tempfile::TempDir;
+use tokio::net::TcpListener;
+use tokio::sync::oneshot;
+use uuid::Uuid;
+
+/// A fresh manager over the same tmux server, sidecars and fifos — what the
+/// daemon builds after a restart.
+fn revive(fx: &DaemonFixture) -> SessionManager {
+    SessionManager::new(
+        Arc::new(fx.tmux.tmux.clone()),
+        maestro_daemon::sidecar::SidecarStore::new(fx.sidecar_dir()),
+        maestro_daemon::worktree::WorktreeManager::new(None),
+        fx.fifo_dir(),
+    )
+}
+
+/// Create a session, then simulate the host reboot that leaves it dormant:
+/// the tmux server dies, the sidecar stays, a new manager recovers.
+async fn dormant_session(
+    fx: &DaemonFixture,
+    cwd: &TempDir,
+    command: &str,
+    name: &str,
+) -> (SessionManager, Session) {
+    let mut metadata = HashMap::new();
+    metadata.insert(
+        maestro_protocol::NAME_KEY.to_string(),
+        serde_json::Value::String(name.into()),
+    );
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: command.into(),
+            env: HashMap::from([("MAESTRO_TEST_ENV".to_string(), "kept".to_string())]),
+            metadata,
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+    fx.tmux.tmux.kill_server().expect("kill tmux server");
+    let revived = revive(fx);
+    revived.recover().await.expect("recover");
+    (revived, session)
+}
+
+fn marker_preset(command: &str, marker_dir: &TempDir) -> Vec<SpawnPreset> {
+    vec![SpawnPreset {
+        id: "agent".into(),
+        label: "Agent".into(),
+        command: command.into(),
+        resume_command: Some(format!(
+            "sh -c 'touch {}/resumed-{{agent_session}}; sleep 30'",
+            marker_dir.path().display()
+        )),
+    }]
+}
+
+/// The keystone: a dormant session comes back running under its own id, with
+/// its name, `created_at`, env and sidecar untouched.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn resume_brings_a_dormant_session_back_under_the_same_id() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let (manager, original) = dormant_session(&fx, &cwd, "sleep 30", "long-runner").await;
+    assert_eq!(
+        manager.status(original.id).await,
+        Some(SessionStatus::Dormant)
+    );
+
+    let resumed = manager.resume(original.id, &[]).await.expect("resume");
+
+    assert_eq!(resumed.id, original.id, "same uuid");
+    assert_eq!(resumed.status, SessionStatus::Running);
+    assert_eq!(resumed.created_at, original.created_at);
+    assert_eq!(resumed.cwd, original.cwd);
+    assert_eq!(resumed.command, original.command);
+    assert_eq!(resumed.env, original.env);
+    assert_eq!(
+        resumed
+            .metadata
+            .get(maestro_protocol::NAME_KEY)
+            .and_then(|v| v.as_str()),
+        Some("long-runner")
+    );
+
+    // tmux really holds it again, and the sidecar is the same file, updated.
+    let live = fx.tmux.tmux.list_sessions().expect("list");
+    assert_eq!(live, vec![original.id]);
+    let stored = maestro_daemon::sidecar::SidecarStore::new(fx.sidecar_dir())
+        .read(original.id)
+        .expect("read sidecar")
+        .expect("sidecar still there");
+    assert_eq!(stored.status, SessionStatus::Running);
+    assert_eq!(stored.created_at, original.created_at);
+
+    // And it is attachable again, which a dormant session never was.
+    assert!(manager
+        .subscribe_pty_with_replay(original.id)
+        .await
+        .is_some());
+}
+
+/// The worktree the session owns stays the session's, so killing the resumed
+/// session still cleans the tree up.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn resume_keeps_worktree_ownership() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let repo = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    common::init_repo(repo.path());
+
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: Some(maestro_protocol::WorktreeSpec {
+                base_repo: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
+                branch: "feature".into(),
+                create_branch: true,
+            }),
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+    let worktree = session.worktree.clone().expect("worktree");
+
+    fx.tmux.tmux.kill_server().expect("kill tmux server");
+    let manager = revive(&fx);
+    manager.recover().await.expect("recover");
+    let resumed = manager.resume(session.id, &[]).await.expect("resume");
+
+    assert_eq!(resumed.worktree, Some(worktree.clone()));
+    assert_eq!(
+        resumed.cwd, worktree.path,
+        "resumed inside its own worktree"
+    );
+}
+
+/// The command comes from the preset's `resume_command`, with the session's
+/// own agent conversation id (#161) substituted in.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn resume_runs_the_presets_resume_command() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let markers = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let presets = marker_preset("sleep 30", &markers);
+
+    let (manager, session) = dormant_session(&fx, &cwd, "sleep 30", "agentic").await;
+    // The agent reported its conversation id before the reboot, so it is on
+    // the sidecar and the resume template can be filled in.
+    fx.manager
+        .report_activity(
+            session.id,
+            maestro_protocol::ActivityState::Idle,
+            None,
+            Some("conv-42".into()),
+        )
+        .await
+        .ok();
+    // Re-read the sidecar the report updated.
+    let manager = {
+        drop(manager);
+        let m = revive(&fx);
+        m.recover().await.expect("recover");
+        m
+    };
+
+    manager.resume(session.id, &presets).await.expect("resume");
+
+    let marker = markers.path().join("resumed-conv-42");
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(5), || {
+        let marker = marker.clone();
+        async move { marker.exists() }
+    })
+    .await;
+}
+
+/// A session that is already running has nothing to bring back, and
+/// respawning would strand the pane that is already there.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn resume_refuses_a_running_session() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+
+    let err = fx
+        .manager
+        .resume(session.id, &[])
+        .await
+        .expect_err("already running");
+    assert!(matches!(err, SessionError::AlreadyRunning(id) if id == session.id));
+    assert_eq!(err.to_error_info().code, "already_running");
+}
+
+/// Nothing can be resumed in a directory that no longer exists.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn resume_refuses_when_the_cwd_is_gone() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let (manager, session) = dormant_session(&fx, &cwd, "sleep 30", "homeless").await;
+
+    std::fs::remove_dir_all(cwd.path()).unwrap();
+
+    let err = manager
+        .resume(session.id, &[])
+        .await
+        .expect_err("cwd is gone");
+    assert_eq!(err.to_error_info().code, "cwd_missing");
+    assert_eq!(
+        manager.status(session.id).await,
+        Some(SessionStatus::Dormant),
+        "a refused resume leaves the session exactly as it was"
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn resume_of_an_unknown_session_is_not_found() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let err = fx
+        .manager
+        .resume(Uuid::new_v4(), &[])
+        .await
+        .expect_err("unknown");
+    assert_eq!(err.to_error_info().code, "not_found");
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// HTTP surface
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+struct Harness {
+    addr: SocketAddr,
+    _shutdown: oneshot::Sender<()>,
+}
+
+async fn serve(manager: SessionManager, presets: Vec<SpawnPreset>) -> Harness {
+    let router = local_api::router(local_api::state_for(
+        manager,
+        "test-host",
+        "/home/test",
+        presets,
+        Arc::new(maestro_daemon::projects::ProjectScanner::disabled()),
+        maestro_config::DEFAULT_LEADER,
+    ));
+    let listener = TcpListener::bind(SocketAddr::from((Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST, 0)))
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    let addr = listener.local_addr().unwrap();
+    let (tx, rx) = oneshot::channel::<()>();
+    tokio::spawn(async move {
+        let _ = axum::serve(listener, router)
+            .with_graceful_shutdown(async move {
+                let _ = rx.await;
+            })
+            .await;
+    });
+    Harness {
+        addr,
+        _shutdown: tx,
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn post_resume_returns_the_revived_session() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let (manager, session) = dormant_session(&fx, &cwd, "sleep 30", "web-resumed").await;
+    let h = serve(manager, Vec::new()).await;
+
+    let resp = reqwest::Client::new()
+        .post(format!(
+            "http://{}{}",
+            h.addr,
+            maestro_protocol::routes::session_resume(session.id)
+        ))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(resp.status(), reqwest::StatusCode::OK);
+    let body: Session = resp.json().await.unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(body.id, session.id);
+    assert_eq!(body.status, SessionStatus::Running);
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn post_resume_on_a_running_session_is_a_conflict() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let session = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+    let h = serve(fx.manager.clone(), Vec::new()).await;
+
+    let resp = reqwest::Client::new()
+        .post(format!(
+            "http://{}{}",
+            h.addr,
+            maestro_protocol::routes::session_resume(session.id)
+        ))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(resp.status(), reqwest::StatusCode::CONFLICT);
+    let err: maestro_protocol::ApiError = resp.json().await.unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(err.error.code, "already_running");
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn post_resume_on_an_unknown_session_is_404() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let h = serve(fx.manager.clone(), Vec::new()).await;
+    let resp = reqwest::Client::new()
+        .post(format!(
+            "http://{}{}",
+            h.addr,
+            maestro_protocol::routes::session_resume(Uuid::new_v4())
+        ))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(resp.status(), reqwest::StatusCode::NOT_FOUND);
+}

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/session_manager.rs

@@ -140,6 +140,356 @@ async fn recover_adopts_existing_tmux_sessions() {
     assert_eq!(snap[0].command, "sleep 30");
 }
 
+/// #162: a host reboot kills the tmux server, so recovery finds nothing to
+/// adopt while every sidecar is still on disk. Those sessions come back as
+/// `Dormant` — a record of what was running — rather than vanishing from the
+/// API and leaving the operator with nothing.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn recover_registers_orphaned_sidecars_as_dormant() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let mut metadata = HashMap::new();
+    metadata.insert(
+        maestro_protocol::NAME_KEY.to_string(),
+        serde_json::Value::String("after-reboot".into()),
+    );
+
+    let s = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata,
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+
+    // The reboot: the tmux server is gone, the sidecar is untouched.
+    fx.tmux.tmux.kill_server().expect("kill tmux server");
+
+    let revived = revive(&fx);
+    let adopted = revived.recover().await.expect("recover");
+    assert_eq!(adopted, 0, "no live tmux session left to adopt");
+
+    let snap = revived.snapshot().await;
+    assert_eq!(snap.len(), 1, "the sidecar's session is still listed");
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].id, s.id);
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].status, SessionStatus::Dormant);
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].command, "sleep 30");
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].cwd, s.cwd);
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].created_at, s.created_at);
+    assert_eq!(
+        snap[0]
+            .metadata
+            .get(maestro_protocol::NAME_KEY)
+            .and_then(|v| v.as_str()),
+        Some("after-reboot"),
+    );
+}
+
+/// #162: a session tmux still holds is adopted `Running` by the first pass and
+/// must not be re-registered as dormant by the second — the sidecar is on disk
+/// for both.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn recover_does_not_mark_adopted_sessions_dormant() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+
+    let live = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create live");
+    let orphan = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 31".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create orphan");
+    // Only the second session loses its pane.
+    fx.tmux.tmux.kill_session(orphan.id).expect("kill session");
+
+    let revived = revive(&fx);
+    assert_eq!(revived.recover().await.expect("recover"), 1);
+
+    let mut snap = revived.snapshot().await;
+    snap.sort_by_key(|s| s.command.clone());
+    assert_eq!(snap.len(), 2);
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].id, live.id);
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].status, SessionStatus::Running);
+    assert_eq!(snap[1].id, orphan.id);
+    assert_eq!(snap[1].status, SessionStatus::Dormant);
+}
+
+/// #163: a sidecar whose `cwd` no longer exists is pruned instead of
+/// registered dormant — the worktree it pointed at is gone, so there is
+/// nothing left to resume.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn recover_deletes_sidecar_when_cwd_gone() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let cwd_path = cwd.path().to_path_buf();
+
+    let s = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd_path.clone(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+
+    fx.tmux.tmux.kill_server().expect("kill tmux server");
+    drop(cwd);
+    std::fs::remove_dir_all(&cwd_path).ok();
+    assert!(!cwd_path.exists());
+
+    let revived = revive(&fx);
+    let adopted = revived.recover().await.expect("recover");
+    assert_eq!(adopted, 0);
+
+    assert!(!revived.has(s.id).await);
+    assert!(!fx.sidecar_dir().join(format!("{}.json", s.id)).exists());
+}
+
+/// #163: a sidecar whose `cwd` still exists is left alone regardless of age
+/// — it is registered dormant like any other orphan.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn recover_keeps_dormant_sidecar_when_cwd_exists() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+
+    let s = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+    fx.tmux.tmux.kill_server().expect("kill tmux server");
+
+    let revived = revive(&fx);
+    revived.recover().await.expect("recover");
+
+    assert!(revived.has(s.id).await);
+    assert!(fx.sidecar_dir().join(format!("{}.json", s.id)).exists());
+    let snap = revived.snapshot().await;
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].status, SessionStatus::Dormant);
+}
+
+/// #164: a fake [`maestro_daemon::boot_id::BootIdSource`] lets tests simulate
+/// a changed (or unreadable) boot id without rebooting the machine.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct FakeBootId(Option<String>);
+
+impl maestro_daemon::boot_id::BootIdSource for FakeBootId {
+    fn current(&self) -> Option<String> {
+        self.0.clone()
+    }
+}
+
+fn revive_with_boot_id(
+    fx: &DaemonFixture,
+    boot_id_path: PathBuf,
+    current: Option<&str>,
+) -> maestro_daemon::SessionManager {
+    maestro_daemon::SessionManager::new(
+        Arc::new(fx.tmux.tmux.clone()),
+        maestro_daemon::sidecar::SidecarStore::new(fx.sidecar_dir()),
+        maestro_daemon::worktree::WorktreeManager::new(None),
+        fx.fifo_dir(),
+    )
+    .with_boot_id(
+        boot_id_path,
+        Arc::new(FakeBootId(current.map(String::from))),
+    )
+}
+
+/// #164: a changed boot id means every session from the previous boot is
+/// already dead, so recovery must not trust tmux to say so — it skips the
+/// probe outright. Proven by leaving the tmux session alive: if the probe
+/// ran, it would come back `Running`, not `Dormant`.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn recover_skips_tmux_probe_when_boot_id_changed() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let s = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+
+    let boot_id_path = fx.state_dir.path().join("boot_id");
+    std::fs::write(&boot_id_path, "previous-boot").unwrap();
+
+    // tmux session is still alive — a probe would find it if one ran.
+    let revived = revive_with_boot_id(&fx, boot_id_path.clone(), Some("current-boot"));
+    let adopted = revived.recover().await.expect("recover");
+    assert_eq!(adopted, 0, "reboot detected: nothing adopted live");
+
+    let snap = revived.snapshot().await;
+    assert_eq!(snap.len(), 1);
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].id, s.id);
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].status, SessionStatus::Dormant);
+
+    // The current boot id is now the stored one, for the next comparison.
+    assert_eq!(
+        std::fs::read_to_string(&boot_id_path).unwrap().trim(),
+        "current-boot"
+    );
+}
+
+/// #164: an unchanged boot id is a plain restart — recovery probes tmux as
+/// before and adopts the still-live session `Running`.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn recover_probes_tmux_when_boot_id_unchanged() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let s = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+
+    let boot_id_path = fx.state_dir.path().join("boot_id");
+    std::fs::write(&boot_id_path, "same-boot").unwrap();
+
+    let revived = revive_with_boot_id(&fx, boot_id_path, Some("same-boot"));
+    let adopted = revived.recover().await.expect("recover");
+    assert_eq!(adopted, 1);
+    let snap = revived.snapshot().await;
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].id, s.id);
+    assert_eq!(snap[0].status, SessionStatus::Running);
+}
+
+/// #164: no stored boot id (first run ever, or an older build that never
+/// wrote one) means there is nothing to compare against — falls back to
+/// today's probe-based recovery rather than assuming a reboot.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn recover_falls_back_to_probe_when_no_stored_boot_id() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    fx.manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+
+    let boot_id_path = fx.state_dir.path().join("boot_id");
+    assert!(!boot_id_path.exists());
+
+    let revived = revive_with_boot_id(&fx, boot_id_path.clone(), Some("current-boot"));
+    let adopted = revived.recover().await.expect("recover");
+    assert_eq!(adopted, 1, "no stored boot id; falls back to probing tmux");
+    assert_eq!(
+        std::fs::read_to_string(&boot_id_path).unwrap().trim(),
+        "current-boot"
+    );
+}
+
+/// #164: an unreadable current boot id (non-Linux, restricted `/proc`) falls
+/// back to today's behaviour rather than failing startup or assuming a
+/// reboot.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn recover_falls_back_to_probe_when_boot_id_unreadable() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    fx.manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+
+    let boot_id_path = fx.state_dir.path().join("boot_id");
+    std::fs::write(&boot_id_path, "stored-boot").unwrap();
+
+    let revived = revive_with_boot_id(&fx, boot_id_path, None);
+    let adopted = revived.recover().await.expect("recover");
+    assert_eq!(adopted, 1, "boot id unreadable; falls back to probing tmux");
+}
+
+/// #162: dismissing a dormant session is the one thing that can be done to it
+/// — no tmux call to fail, and the sidecar goes with it so the next recovery
+/// does not resurrect it.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn dormant_session_can_be_dismissed() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+
+    let s = fx
+        .manager
+        .create(CreateSessionRequest {
+            cwd: cwd.path().to_path_buf(),
+            command: "sleep 30".into(),
+            env: HashMap::new(),
+            metadata: HashMap::new(),
+            worktree: None,
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("create");
+    fx.tmux.tmux.kill_server().expect("kill tmux server");
+
+    let revived = revive(&fx);
+    revived.recover().await.expect("recover");
+    revived.kill(s.id, false).await.expect("dismiss");
+
+    assert!(!revived.has(s.id).await);
+    assert!(!fx.sidecar_dir().join(format!("{}.json", s.id)).exists());
+}
+
+/// A second `SessionManager` over the same dirs and the same tmux server —
+/// what a daemon restart looks like from inside a test.
+fn revive(fx: &DaemonFixture) -> maestro_daemon::SessionManager {
+    maestro_daemon::SessionManager::new(
+        Arc::new(fx.tmux.tmux.clone()),
+        maestro_daemon::sidecar::SidecarStore::new(fx.sidecar_dir()),
+        maestro_daemon::worktree::WorktreeManager::new(None),
+        fx.fifo_dir(),
+    )
+}
+
 /// Regression for NAP-253: the very first bytes a freshly-spawned command
 /// writes must reach the replay buffer. Before the fix, `pipe-pane` was a
 /// separate tmux invocation that ran after `new-session` + an async FIFO

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/sidecar.rs

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ fn sample(id: Uuid) -> Session {
         current_cwd: Some(PathBuf::from("/tmp/work/crates")),
         blocked_work: None,
         last_focused_at: None,
+        agent_session_id: Some("conv-abc123".into()),
     }
 }
 

crates/maestro-hooks/src/lib.rs

@@ -84,15 +84,23 @@ if [ "$state" = "Prompt" ]; then
         >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
     exit 0
 fi
-body="{\"state\":\"$state\"}"
+fields="\"state\":\"$state\""
 # StopFailure payloads carry the outcome in "error". Only a plain enum
 # spelling is reported as the detail — anything else (quotes, backslashes,
 # prose) would risk breaking the JSON body, and the spelling already names
 # the failure.
 detail=$(printf '%s' "$payload" | sed -n 's/.*"error"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"\([a-z_]*\)".*/\1/p')
 if [ -n "$detail" ]; then
-    body="{\"state\":\"$state\",\"detail\":\"$detail\"}"
+    fields="$fields,\"detail\":\"$detail\""
 fi
+# Every Claude Code hook payload carries its own conversation id (#161).
+# Constrained to a safe charset for the same reason as "detail" above: it is
+# spliced into the JSON body unescaped.
+session_id=$(printf '%s' "$payload" | sed -n 's/.*"session_id"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"\([A-Za-z0-9_-]*\)".*/\1/p')
+if [ -n "$session_id" ]; then
+    fields="$fields,\"session_id\":\"$session_id\""
+fi
+body="{$fields}"
 curl -fsS --connect-timeout 1 --max-time 2 \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d "$body" \

crates/maestro-hooks/src/tests.rs

@@ -128,6 +128,41 @@ fn script_reports_the_error_spelling_as_detail() {
     assert!(request.contains(r#""detail":"rate_limit""#), "{request}");
 }
 
+/// #161: the payload's own `session_id` — the agent's conversation id — is
+/// parsed out and forwarded in the activity body, so the daemon can persist
+/// it on the session.
+#[test]
+fn script_forwards_the_payloads_session_id_in_the_activity_body() {
+    let request = capture_request(|url| {
+        sh(
+            HOOK_SCRIPT,
+            &["Active"],
+            &owned_envs(&session_envs(&url)),
+            br#"{"session_id":"conv-abc123","hook_event_name":"PreToolUse"}"#,
+        )
+    });
+    assert!(request.contains(r#""state":"Active""#), "{request}");
+    assert!(
+        request.contains(r#""session_id":"conv-abc123""#),
+        "{request}"
+    );
+}
+
+/// A payload without a `session_id` (or one with an unexpected shape) must
+/// never produce a broken body — no `session_id` field is posted.
+#[test]
+fn script_posts_no_session_id_when_the_payload_has_none() {
+    let request = capture_request(|url| {
+        sh(
+            HOOK_SCRIPT,
+            &["AwaitingInput"],
+            &owned_envs(&session_envs(&url)),
+            br#"{"hook_event_name":"Stop","stop_hook_active":false}"#,
+        )
+    });
+    assert!(!request.contains("session_id"), "{request}");
+}
+
 /// An `error` value that is not a plain enum spelling (or a payload without
 /// one at all) must never produce a broken body — no detail is posted.
 #[test]

crates/maestro-protocol/src/display.rs

@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            agent_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 

crates/maestro-protocol/src/lib.rs

@@ -116,6 +116,13 @@ pub struct Session {
     /// sorts a never-focused session after every session that has one.
     #[serde(default)]
     pub last_focused_at: Option<DateTime<Utc>>,
+    /// The conversation id the agent running in this session reported for
+    /// itself (#161), parsed from a hook's `session_id` field. Written once,
+    /// from the first activity report that carries one, and left alone after
+    /// — an agent's own session id does not change mid-session. `None` for
+    /// sessions that never run an agent (plain shells) or predate the field.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub agent_session_id: Option<String>,
 }
 
 /// Default for [`Session::last_activity_at`] when an older payload omits it.
@@ -123,10 +130,38 @@ fn epoch() -> DateTime<Utc> {
     DateTime::from_timestamp(0, 0).expect("unix epoch is a valid timestamp")
 }
 
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+/// Lifecycle of a session as the daemon knows it.
+///
+/// Deserializes leniently, like [`ActivityState`] (#162): an unknown spelling
+/// from a newer daemon reads as [`SessionStatus::Dead`] instead of failing the
+/// whole `Session`. `Dead` is the safe degrade — an unrecognised session is
+/// one this client must not treat as having a live pane to type into.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize)]
 pub enum SessionStatus {
     Running,
     Dead,
+    /// Known from its sidecar, with no tmux session behind it (#162). The
+    /// daemon registers these at recovery time for every sidecar tmux had
+    /// nothing to adopt — after a host reboot, that is every session there
+    /// was. There is no pane and no PTY bridge: a dormant session is a record
+    /// of what was running, listed so the operator still has it, and the only
+    /// thing that can be done to it is dismissing it.
+    Dormant,
+}
+
+impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for SessionStatus {
+    fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
+    where
+        D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
+    {
+        let s = String::deserialize(deserializer)?;
+        Ok(match s.as_str() {
+            "Running" => Self::Running,
+            "Dormant" => Self::Dormant,
+            // Known or not, any other spelling degrades to the inert variant.
+            _ => Self::Dead,
+        })
+    }
 }
 
 /// Inferred session activity, orthogonal to [`SessionStatus`] (NAP-340). The
@@ -184,6 +219,11 @@ pub struct ReportActivityRequest {
     /// The daemon caps its length server-side.
     #[serde(default)]
     pub detail: Option<String>,
+    /// The agent's own conversation id (#161), forwarded from the hook
+    /// payload's `session_id` field. `None` for hook events that don't carry
+    /// one, or hooks predating this field.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub session_id: Option<String>,
 }
 
 /// Reject an unknown [`ActivityState`] spelling instead of degrading it to
@@ -489,8 +529,34 @@ impl ApiError {
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct SpawnPreset {
     pub id: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
     pub label: String,
     pub command: String,
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub resume_command: Option<String>,
+}
+
+/// Placeholder a preset's `resume_command` may carry for the agent's own
+/// conversation id (#165), substituted from [`Session::agent_session_id`].
+pub const AGENT_SESSION_PLACEHOLDER: &str = "{agent_session}";
+
+impl SpawnPreset {
+    /// The command that resumes a session spawned from this preset, with
+    /// [`AGENT_SESSION_PLACEHOLDER`] filled in from `agent_session`.
+    ///
+    /// `None` when the preset has no `resume_command` — a plain shell has
+    /// nothing to resume — and also when the template asks for an agent
+    /// session id the session never reported: `claude --resume` with an empty
+    /// id resumes nothing, so the caller is better off respawning the original
+    /// command than running a broken one.
+    pub fn resume_command_for(&self, agent_session: Option<&str>) -> Option<String> {
+        let template = self.resume_command.as_deref()?;
+        if !template.contains(AGENT_SESSION_PLACEHOLDER) {
+            return Some(template.to_string());
+        }
+        let id = agent_session.filter(|s| !s.is_empty())?;
+        Some(template.replace(AGENT_SESSION_PLACEHOLDER, id))
+    }
 }
 
 /// Build provenance of the running daemon: the commit it was compiled
@@ -742,6 +808,47 @@ pub enum ClientControl {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    fn preset(resume: Option<&str>) -> SpawnPreset {
+        SpawnPreset {
+            id: "claude".into(),
+            label: "Claude".into(),
+            command: "claude".into(),
+            resume_command: resume.map(str::to_string),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn resume_command_substitutes_the_agent_session() {
+        let p = preset(Some("claude --resume {agent_session}"));
+        assert_eq!(
+            p.resume_command_for(Some("abc-123")).as_deref(),
+            Some("claude --resume abc-123")
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn resume_command_without_a_placeholder_ignores_the_agent_session() {
+        let p = preset(Some("opencode --continue"));
+        assert_eq!(
+            p.resume_command_for(None).as_deref(),
+            Some("opencode --continue")
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// A template that wants an id the session never reported would run
+    /// `claude --resume` against nothing; the caller respawns instead.
+    #[test]
+    fn resume_command_is_none_without_the_id_it_asks_for() {
+        let p = preset(Some("claude --resume {agent_session}"));
+        assert!(p.resume_command_for(None).is_none());
+        assert!(p.resume_command_for(Some("")).is_none());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_preset_without_a_resume_command_has_none() {
+        assert!(preset(None).resume_command_for(Some("abc")).is_none());
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn version_compatibility_is_major_only() {
         assert!(is_compatible(PROTOCOL_VERSION));
@@ -862,6 +969,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: Some(PathBuf::from("/home/naps62/projects/maestro/crates")),
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            agent_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 
@@ -1031,6 +1139,7 @@ mod tests {
         let full = ReportActivityRequest {
             state: ActivityState::AwaitingInput,
             detail: Some("waiting on permission".into()),
+            session_id: Some("conv-abc123".into()),
         };
         assert_eq!(full, round_trip(&full));
 
@@ -1059,6 +1168,33 @@ mod tests {
             serde_json::to_value(SessionStatus::Dead).unwrap(),
             serde_json::json!("Dead")
         );
+        assert_eq!(
+            serde_json::to_value(SessionStatus::Dormant).unwrap(),
+            serde_json::json!("Dormant")
+        );
+    }
+
+    // #162: a session with no tmux behind it still rides the wire whole.
+    #[test]
+    fn dormant_session_round_trips() {
+        let mut s = sample_session();
+        s.status = SessionStatus::Dormant;
+        assert_eq!(s, round_trip(&s));
+    }
+
+    // #162: a `SessionStatus` this client does not know must degrade to the
+    // inert variant, not fail the whole `Session` the way a derived
+    // `Deserialize` would.
+    #[test]
+    fn unknown_session_status_degrades_to_dead() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            serde_json::from_value::<SessionStatus>(serde_json::json!("Hibernating")).unwrap(),
+            SessionStatus::Dead
+        );
+        let mut value = serde_json::to_value(sample_session()).unwrap();
+        value["status"] = serde_json::json!("Hibernating");
+        let s: Session = serde_json::from_value(value).expect("session survives unknown status");
+        assert_eq!(s.status, SessionStatus::Dead);
     }
 
     #[test]

crates/maestro-protocol/src/routes.rs

@@ -66,6 +66,12 @@ pub fn session_focus(id: Uuid) -> String {
     format!("{SESSIONS}/{id}/focus")
 }
 
+/// `POST /api/sessions/:id/resume` (#166): respawn a dormant session under its
+/// own id, keeping its sidecar, name, worktree and `created_at`.
+pub fn session_resume(id: Uuid) -> String {
+    format!("{SESSIONS}/{id}/resume")
+}
+
 /// `WS /api/attach/:id` — raw PTY bytes.
 pub fn attach(id: Uuid) -> String {
     format!("{API_PREFIX}/attach/{id}")
@@ -79,6 +85,7 @@ pub mod patterns {
     pub const SESSION_INPUT: &str = "/api/sessions/:id/input";
     pub const SESSION_PROMPT: &str = "/api/sessions/:id/prompt";
     pub const SESSION_FOCUS: &str = "/api/sessions/:id/focus";
+    pub const SESSION_RESUME: &str = "/api/sessions/:id/resume";
     pub const ATTACH: &str = "/api/attach/:id";
 }
 
@@ -202,6 +209,10 @@ mod tests {
             session_focus(id()),
             "/api/sessions/6f1a7c0e-0f5e-4a2b-9a3d-6b1c2d3e4f50/focus"
         );
+        assert_eq!(
+            session_resume(id()),
+            "/api/sessions/6f1a7c0e-0f5e-4a2b-9a3d-6b1c2d3e4f50/resume"
+        );
         assert_eq!(
             attach(id()),
             "/api/attach/6f1a7c0e-0f5e-4a2b-9a3d-6b1c2d3e4f50"
@@ -236,6 +247,10 @@ mod tests {
             patterns::SESSION_FOCUS.trim_end_matches(":id/focus"),
             session(id()).trim_end_matches(&id().to_string())
         );
+        assert_eq!(
+            patterns::SESSION_RESUME.trim_end_matches(":id/resume"),
+            session(id()).trim_end_matches(&id().to_string())
+        );
         assert_eq!(
             patterns::ATTACH.trim_end_matches(":id"),
             attach(id()).trim_end_matches(&id().to_string())

crates/maestro-testing/src/lib.rs

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ pub fn session(id: Uuid, cwd: &str, command: &str) -> Session {
         current_cwd: None,
         blocked_work: None,
         last_focused_at: None,
+        agent_session_id: None,
     }
 }
 

crates/maestro-tui/src/app.rs

@@ -1898,6 +1898,7 @@ mod tests {
                     current_cwd: None,
                     blocked_work: None,
                     last_focused_at: None,
+                    agent_session_id: None,
                 })
                 .collect(),
         });
@@ -2079,6 +2080,7 @@ mod tests {
                 current_cwd: None,
                 blocked_work: None,
                 last_focused_at: None,
+                agent_session_id: None,
             }],
         });
         app.dispatch(Action::SidebarNext);
@@ -2106,6 +2108,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            agent_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 
@@ -3214,6 +3217,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: focused,
+            agent_session_id: None,
         };
         let older = Utc::now() - chrono::Duration::seconds(60);
         app.catalog.apply_event(CatalogEvent::Snapshot {
@@ -3492,6 +3496,7 @@ mod tests {
                 current_cwd: None,
                 blocked_work: None,
                 last_focused_at: None,
+                agent_session_id: None,
             }],
         });
         app.dispatch(Action::KillHighlighted);
@@ -3527,6 +3532,7 @@ mod tests {
                 current_cwd: None,
                 blocked_work: None,
                 last_focused_at: None,
+                agent_session_id: None,
             }],
         });
     }

crates/maestro-tui/src/catalog.rs

@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            agent_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 

crates/maestro-tui/src/command_bar.rs

@@ -194,7 +194,9 @@ pub enum BarOutcome {
 pub fn order_sessions_for_bar(sessions: &[Session]) -> Vec<&Session> {
     let mut ordered: Vec<&Session> = sessions.iter().collect();
     ordered.sort_by(|a, b| {
-        let dead = |s: &Session| u8::from(s.status == SessionStatus::Dead);
+        // docs/COMMAND-BAR.md: anything with no live pane — dead or dormant
+        // (#162) — sorts after the sessions you could actually attach to.
+        let dead = |s: &Session| u8::from(s.status != SessionStatus::Running);
         dead(a)
             .cmp(&dead(b))
             .then_with(|| {
@@ -319,7 +321,7 @@ impl CommandBar {
             .map(|s| BarEntry {
                 candidate: MatchCandidate::Session(session_candidate(s, home_dir)),
                 target: BarTarget::Session(s.id),
-                dead: s.status == SessionStatus::Dead,
+                dead: s.status != SessionStatus::Running,
                 chords: Vec::new(),
             })
             .collect();
@@ -809,6 +811,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            agent_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 
@@ -889,6 +892,23 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(bar.rows()[1].dead);
     }
 
+    /// #162: docs/COMMAND-BAR.md ranks by whether you could attach, not by
+    /// which way the pane went away — a dormant session sorts with the dead.
+    #[test]
+    fn dormant_sessions_sort_after_live_ones_however_recent() {
+        let mut dormant = named(1, "dormant");
+        dormant.status = SessionStatus::Dormant;
+        dormant.last_focused_at = Some(at(99));
+        let live = named(2, "live");
+
+        let bar = CommandBar::new(&[dormant, live], &[], "/home/me");
+        assert_eq!(
+            ids(bar.rows()),
+            vec![Uuid::from_u128(2), Uuid::from_u128(1)]
+        );
+        assert!(bar.rows()[1].dead);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn typing_ranks_through_the_matcher_and_returns_ranges() {
         let mut bar = CommandBar::new(

crates/maestro-tui/src/draft.rs

@@ -1705,6 +1705,7 @@ mod tests {
             id: "aider".into(),
             label: "Aider".into(),
             command: "aider".into(),
+            resume_command: None,
         }]);
         assert_eq!(
             draft.command(),
@@ -1727,11 +1728,13 @@ mod tests {
                 id: "claude".into(),
                 label: "Claude".into(),
                 command: "claude".into(),
+                resume_command: None,
             },
             SpawnPreset {
                 id: "aider".into(),
                 label: "Aider".into(),
                 command: "aider".into(),
+                resume_command: None,
             },
         ]);
         assert_eq!(draft.command(), "aider");
@@ -1751,6 +1754,7 @@ mod tests {
             id: "claude".into(),
             label: "Claude".into(),
             command: "claude".into(),
+            resume_command: None,
         }]);
         assert!(draft.is_custom());
         assert_eq!(draft.command(), "bash -l");

crates/maestro-tui/src/fast_forward.rs

@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ mod tests {
             id: id.into(),
             label: id.into(),
             command: command.into(),
+            resume_command: None,
         }
     }
 

crates/maestro-tui/src/sidebar.rs

@@ -268,6 +268,8 @@ impl Sidebar {
     fn name_row(&self, s: &Session, width: usize, focused: bool) -> Vec<Span<'static>> {
         let glyph = match (s.status, self.attached.contains(&s.id)) {
             (SessionStatus::Dead, _) => "✗",
+            // #162: known from its sidecar, nothing running behind it.
+            (SessionStatus::Dormant, _) => "◌",
             (SessionStatus::Running, true) => "●",
             (SessionStatus::Running, false) => "○",
         };
@@ -322,6 +324,7 @@ impl Sidebar {
         // on line 1; the kill confirm names the specifics.
         let blocked = s.blocked_work.filter(|b| !b.is_clear());
         let dead = s.status == SessionStatus::Dead;
+        let dormant = s.status == SessionStatus::Dormant;
         let highlighted = self.highlight == Some(SidebarItem::Session(s.id));
         let fill = self.card_fill(s, focused);
         let base = card_base(fill, focused);
@@ -361,6 +364,9 @@ impl Sidebar {
         if dead {
             tail.push(Span::styled(" exited", muted));
         }
+        if dormant {
+            tail.push(Span::styled(" dormant", muted));
+        }
         // docs/SIDEBAR.md: the card names the program, never its arguments.
         let command = Span::styled(format!(" {}", command_program(&s.command)), muted);
 
@@ -500,6 +506,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            agent_session_id: None,
         }
     }
 
@@ -1068,6 +1075,39 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// #162, docs/SIDEBAR.md: a dormant session is known but not running —
+    /// its own glyph on line 1 and the muted `dormant` fragment on line 2, so
+    /// it never reads as something that exited.
+    #[test]
+    fn dormant_session_reads_as_known_but_not_running() {
+        let mut s = session_named(1, "claude");
+        s.status = SessionStatus::Dormant;
+        s.activity_since = Utc::now() - Duration::seconds(5);
+        let sb = Sidebar {
+            sessions: vec![s],
+            highlight: None,
+            attached: Default::default(),
+            pane_session: None,
+        };
+        let all = rows(&draw(&sb, 28, 8));
+        let idx = all.iter().position(|l| l.contains("claude")).unwrap();
+        assert!(
+            all[idx].contains('\u{25cc}'),
+            "expected the dormant glyph in: {:?}",
+            all[idx]
+        );
+        assert!(
+            all[idx + 1].contains("dormant"),
+            "expected dormant fragment in: {:?}",
+            all[idx + 1]
+        );
+        assert!(
+            !all[idx + 1].contains("exited"),
+            "a dormant session never reads as exited: {:?}",
+            all[idx + 1]
+        );
+    }
+
     /// docs/SIDEBAR.md: line 2 names the program, never its arguments.
     #[test]
     fn meta_line_drops_the_commands_arguments() {
@@ -1266,6 +1306,7 @@ mod tests {
             current_cwd: None,
             blocked_work: None,
             last_focused_at: None,
+            agent_session_id: None,
         };
         let sb = Sidebar {
             sessions: vec![s],

docs/COMMAND-BAR.md

@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ client opening `/api/attach/:id`, and a client reporting focus explicitly at
 `POST /api/sessions/:id/focus` when it refocuses a pane that is already open.
 
 **A session that has never been focused sorts after every session that has**,
-and among those, most recently created first. Dead sessions sort after live
-ones regardless of recency: a session you cannot attach to is not where you
-just were.
+and among those, most recently created first. Sessions with no live pane —
+`Dead`, and `Dormant` (#162) — sort after live ones regardless of recency: a
+session you cannot attach to is not where you just were.
 
 Under `>` an empty query lists every command in registry order. Under `~` it
 lists recent dirs, most recent first, then the project list.

docs/RESTART.md

@@ -68,6 +68,46 @@ resolves, so a blocked client is never a trapped one. It clears itself the
 moment a probe succeeds — there is no "retry" button, because the client is
 already retrying.
 
+## What survives, and what comes back dormant
+
+A daemon restart leaves tmux alone, so recovery re-adopts every
+`maestro-<uuid>` session tmux still holds and the operator sees no change
+beyond the reconnect above.
+
+A **host reboot** is different: it kills the tmux server, so there is nothing
+to adopt while every session's sidecar is still on disk. Recovery makes a
+second pass over those sidecars and registers each as a `Dormant` session
+(#162) — id, name, cwd, command, worktree and `created_at` intact. A dormant
+session has no pane and no PTY bridge: it cannot be attached to, typed into or
+resized, and neither watcher pass touches it.
+
+A dormant session is brought back with `POST /api/sessions/:id/resume` (#166),
+which respawns tmux under the **same** uuid and sidecar — `metadata.name`,
+`created_at`, `env` and worktree ownership all survive, and only the tmux
+session and the PTY bridge are new. The command is the matching spawn preset's
+`resume_command` with `{agent_session}` filled in from the session's own
+`agent_session_id`, so an agent comes back inside its old conversation; a
+session with no matching preset, no `resume_command`, or no reported
+conversation id is respawned on the command it was created with. `Session::command`
+always keeps that original command, so a second resume resolves the same preset.
+Resume is refused with `409` for a session that is already running
+(`already_running`) and for one whose `cwd` has disappeared (`cwd_missing`) —
+neither is something a respawn could fix. The other thing to do with a dormant
+session is dismiss it, which removes the sidecar so the next recovery does not
+bring it back.
+
+Attaching to a session that has no bridge answers `409 not_attachable`, not
+`404 unknown_session`: the session exists, and a client that cannot tell "gone"
+from "not running" cannot offer the resume.
+
+`SessionStatus` is a wire type, so from this build forward it deserializes
+leniently on both clients: a spelling the client does not know reads as `Dead`
+rather than failing the whole session. That leniency lives in the client's own
+binary, so it covers spellings added *after* this build, not this one — a CLI
+or TUI still running an older build fails to parse a `Dormant` session, and
+with it the whole session list, until it is upgraded. Clients render a dormant session as known-but-not-running —
+see `docs/SIDEBAR.md` for the card and `docs/COMMAND-BAR.md` for how it ranks.
+
 ## Timing
 
 - **Grace window** — 1200 ms between the socket dropping and the overlay

docs/SIDEBAR.md

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ itself is not.
 Line 2 reads left to right:
 
 ```
-[<duration>] [<detail>] <command> [<diff stat> | exited]
+[<duration>] [<detail>] <command> [<diff stat> | exited | dormant]
 ```
 
 Its minimum content is therefore just the command.
@@ -104,8 +104,14 @@ fragment; it no longer decides whether line 2 exists.
 while an agent-reported state is in force (see Precedence): when the report
 lapses at its TTL or is replaced, the detail goes with it. The detail
 truncates with `…` ahead of the trailing fragments — a long detail never
-pushes `<command>`, `<blocked work>`, or `exited` off the line, and neither
-client ever lets it wrap.
+pushes `<command>`, `<blocked work>`, `exited` or `dormant` off the line, and
+neither client ever lets it wrap.
+
+`dormant` (#162) is the counterpart of `exited` for a session the daemon knows
+only from its sidecar: recovery found no tmux session behind it, so it has no
+pane, no scrollback, and nothing to attach to. It is not an exit — nothing was
+observed ending — so the two fragments never both show. The TUI marks the same
+state on line 1 with `◌`, next to `✗` for exited and `●`/`○` for running.
 
 `<diff stat>` is the blocked-work breakdown (#83) in diff notation, replacing
 the spelled-out `⚠ 3 uncommitted files, 2 unpushed commits`. It renders only
@@ -209,7 +215,7 @@ the cursor's fill while the pane holds the keyboard, and the web's ring on a
 highlighted **folder** row — a folder previews nothing, so it has no fill to
 step up to.
 
-The duration text inherits its state's colour; the exited and command
+The duration text inherits its state's colour; the exited, dormant and command
 fragments use the surface's `muted` role, as do the diff stat's `~`, `?` and
 `↑` fragments. Only `+` and `-` step outside the surface's muted role, and they
 take the `active` and `error` roles of the same surface.

web/src/catalog.test.ts

@@ -414,6 +414,19 @@ describe("session cards (#107)", () => {
     expect(line2?.textContent).toContain("exited");
   });
 
+  // #162: a session recovered with no tmux behind it is known but not running,
+  // and never reads as something that exited.
+  it("shows dormant on line 2 for dormant sessions", () => {
+    const s = session({
+      id: "aaaaaaaa-0000-0000-0000-000000000118",
+      status: "Dormant",
+    });
+    const el = renderSidebar(storeWith([s])).el;
+    const line2 = rowFor(el, s.id)?.querySelector<HTMLElement>(".card-line2");
+    expect(line2?.textContent).toContain("dormant");
+    expect(line2?.textContent).not.toContain("exited");
+  });
+
   it("carries the state word only in tooltips and aria labels, never as text", () => {
     const s = session({
       id: "aaaaaaaa-0000-0000-0000-000000000019",

web/src/catalog.ts

@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ function activityRailMarkup(slug: string, stateWord: string): string {
 
 function metaLine(s: Session, now: number): string {
   const dead = s.status === "Dead";
+  // #162: known from its sidecar with nothing running behind it — a distinct
+  // fragment, since it never exited.
+  const dormant = s.status === "Dormant";
   const blockers = sessionBlockers(s);
   const slug = activityColorSlug(s.activity ?? "Idle");
   const held = activityHeldMs(s.activity_since, now);
@@ -127,6 +130,7 @@ function metaLine(s: Session, now: number): string {
     commandFragment(s.command),
     blockers ? blockedFragment(blockers) : "",
     dead ? `<span class="card-flag">exited</span>` : "",
+    dormant ? `<span class="card-flag">dormant</span>` : "",
   ];
   return `<span class="card-line2" data-activity="${slug}">${fragments.join("")}</span>`;
 }

web/src/commandBar.test.ts

@@ -99,6 +99,20 @@ describe("empty-query ordering", () => {
     ]);
   });
 
+  // #162: docs/COMMAND-BAR.md ranks by whether you could attach, not by which
+  // way the pane went away.
+  it("sorts dormant sessions after live ones, like dead ones", () => {
+    const dormantRecent = session("dormant", {
+      status: "Dormant",
+      last_focused_at: "2026-06-01T00:00:00Z",
+    });
+    const liveStale = session("live", { last_focused_at: "2020-01-01T00:00:00Z" });
+    expect(orderSessionsForBar([dormantRecent, liveStale]).map((s) => s.id)).toEqual([
+      "live",
+      "dormant",
+    ]);
+  });
+
   it("treats a null last_focused_at as never focused", () => {
     const nulled = session("nulled", { last_focused_at: null });
     const stamped = session("stamped", { last_focused_at: "2020-01-01T00:00:00Z" });

web/src/commandBar.ts

@@ -142,8 +142,10 @@ function createdAt(s: Session): number {
  *  matcher's last tie-break preserves. */
 export function orderSessionsForBar(sessions: readonly Session[]): Session[] {
   return [...sessions].sort((a, b) => {
-    const deadA = a.status === "Dead" ? 1 : 0;
-    const deadB = b.status === "Dead" ? 1 : 0;
+    // docs/COMMAND-BAR.md: anything with no live pane — dead or dormant (#162)
+    // — sorts after the sessions you could actually attach to.
+    const deadA = a.status === "Running" ? 0 : 1;
+    const deadB = b.status === "Running" ? 0 : 1;
     if (deadA !== deadB) return deadA - deadB;
 
     const focusA = focusedAt(a);
@@ -350,7 +352,7 @@ function renderRow(result: BarResult, index: number): HTMLElement {
   row.dataset.kind = candidate.kind;
   if (candidate.kind === "session") {
     row.dataset.sessionId = candidate.session.id;
-    if (candidate.session.status === "Dead") row.classList.add("is-dead");
+    if (candidate.session.status !== "Running") row.classList.add("is-dead");
   } else if (isActionCandidate(candidate)) {
     row.dataset.actionId = candidate.action.id;
   } else if (candidate.kind === "command") {

web/src/types.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ import { escapeHtml } from "./html.js";
 export type Uuid = string;
 export type IsoTimestamp = string;
 
-export type SessionStatus = "Running" | "Dead";
+/** `Dormant` (#162) is a session the daemon knows only from its sidecar —
+ * recovered after the tmux server died under it, so there is no pane behind it
+ * and nothing to attach to. Listed, never live. */
+export type SessionStatus = "Running" | "Dead" | "Dormant";
 
 /** Daemon-inferred activity dimension, orthogonal to `SessionStatus` (NAP-340).
  * Absent on payloads from daemons that predate the field. `Error` is only set