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* sessions: quick chats — workspace-less single-chat sessions Adds quick chats to the Agents window: lightweight chats not scoped to a workspace, backed by an agent-host session. The host infers workspace-less from an absent workingDirectory (forks excluded) and assigns a stable scratch dir; the workspaceless tag rides the generic _meta bag. Quick chats are single-chat, use the normal session presentation (Done hidden), render in an always-visible in-list "Chats" section, and persist across reloads. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * sessions: New from a quick chat opens another quick chat (Round 23) The primary "New" action gated quick-chat routing on `isCreated && isQuickChat`, but a quick-chat draft is Untitled (isCreated=false), so it fell through to the workspace composer seeded with a throwaway scratch dir (no session-type picker, "No models available"). Route on `isQuickChat` alone so a quick chat — draft or committed — opens another quick chat mirroring its harness. Extract the routing into a pure, side-effect-free `openNewChatOrQuickChat` helper so it is unit-testable (chat.contribution.ts is not test-importable). Supersedes Round 14(2) and updates Round 22(3); the Round 14(2) discard branch and Round 17 picker re-parent are kept as internal defense. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * sessions: quick-chat list & layout polish (Round 22 items 1-2) - Suppress the redundant per-row chat icon when a quick chat is rendered under the always-visible "Chats" section (the section header already carries a chat icon); keep it in Pinned/custom/date groups where the chat identity is useful. - Disable the "Toggle Side Panel" command for quick chats via precondition IsQuickChatSessionContext.negate(), since a quick chat has no side pane (the empty aux bar is hidden and the chat is full-width). Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * agentHost: persist empty peer-chat catalog sentinel to avoid re-running legacy migration When a session has no legacy peer chats, write an empty catalog so _readPersistedPeerChatCatalog returns [] on subsequent restores and _migrateLegacyPeerChats never re-runs. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * sessions: Cmd+N always creates a new session; New Quick Chat gets Cmd+K Cmd+N (Round 24) Per user feedback, Cmd+N must always open a NEW SESSION — never a quick chat. Drop the context-aware quick-chat routing from NewChatInSessionsWindowAction (rename its title "New Chat" -> "New Session", keep the id) so it unconditionally calls openNewSession from the active session; the helper is renamed openNewChatOrQuickChat -> openNewSessionFromActive. Quick chats are created only via the Chats-section "+" (NewQuickChatAction), which now has a default Cmd+K Cmd+N chord. The peer-chat "+" (Cmd+T) is unaffected. Supersedes the Round 22(3)/23 mirror routing; the Round 14(2) discard branch and Round 17 picker re-parent are untouched. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * sessions: Cmd+N never inherits a quick chat's folder into the workspace composer (Round 25) New from a quick chat must always land on the clean New Session composer with a visible session-type picker. Gate openNewSessionFromActive's folder inheritance on isQuickChat so a quick chat never carries a (possibly leaked scratch) workspace URI into openNewSession. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * sessions: re-seed workspace draft when composer swaps out of quick-chat mode (Round 25b) Cmd+N from a quick chat reuses the new-session composer and only _activate(undefined), leaving it session-less. The session-type picker hides itself when it has no folder types (no active session), so no picker showed. Re-run the constructor's workspace-draft seed from an autorun when the composer transitions out of quick-chat mode with no active session, matching a freshly opened new-session composer (folder + visible picker). Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * sessions: quick-chat untitled title falls back to "New Chat" via shared helper (Round 26) An untitled quick chat's titlebar showed "New Session" because the empty-title fallback was hardcoded and not quick-chat aware. Add getUntitledSessionTitle(isQuickChat) to the common layer and route all 5 fallback sites (titlebar, session header x2, list hover, sessions picker) through it. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * sessions: track isQuickChat in titlebar re-render autorun (Round 27) The SessionsTitleBarWidget re-render autorun read the active session's title and workspace but not isQuickChat, which _render() consumes for the untitled title fallback. Track it as a reactive dependency for forward-safety and consistency with other reactive render sites. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * agentHost: move workspace-less marker ownership to the AH service Each agent used to persist and re-emit its own workspace-less (quick chat) marker (copilot.workspaceless / claude.workspaceless) in the shared session database, and agents that persist nothing (Codex) lost the marker on restart. Make the AH service the single owner: AgentService persists a single agentHost.workspaceless key at create/materialize (from the value it already infers in _buildInitialSummary) and overlays _meta.workspaceless onto every agent's summary in listSessions. Agents no longer write or namespace the marker; Copilot reads the shared key for its resume system prompt, and the now-dead workspace-less plumbing is removed from the Claude session. This fixes restored quick chats for every agent (including Codex) with no per-agent code. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * sessions/agentHost: address review feedback (naming + inline) - Rename the workspace-less launch-plan flag from isQuickChat to workspaceless in CopilotSessionLaunchPlan and IAgentHostPromptContext (and the disposeSession local) so the flag matches the workspaceless marker it flows from throughout the AH layer. Feature-descriptive names (COPILOT_AGENT_HOST_QUICK_CHAT_INSTRUCTIONS, _quickChatScratchDir) are kept. - Inline openNewSessionFromActive back into NewChatInSessionsWindowAction.run and remove the single-caller seam module + its test. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * agentHost: make the AH service the sole owner of the workspaceless marker Following the earlier ownership move, the agents still read + re-emitted _meta.workspaceless in their metadata projections, which was redundant on the listSessions path (AgentService overlays it centrally) and only load-bearing on the single-session restore path. Centralize the restore overlay in AgentService.restoreSession (reads agentHost.workspaceless in its existing batch metadata read and merges it into the restored summary _meta), then drop the per-agent re-emit: remove it from the Claude metadata store entirely (Claude has no runtime need) and from the Copilot listSessions/getSessionMetadata projections. Copilot keeps reading the AH key for its resume system prompt and scratch-dir cleanup. Codex is now covered centrally with no Codex code. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * sessions: inline openQuickChatAndFocus into NewQuickChatAction Single-caller helper folded into the action's run(). Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * sessions: make ISessionsProvider.createQuickChat mandatory Replace the optional createQuickChat with a mandatory method that throws when the provider does not support quick chats; callers now gate solely on the supportsQuickChats capability instead of probing for the method. Workspace-bound providers (Copilot chat, local chat) get an explicit throwing implementation. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * agentHost: use "workspace-less chat" terminology instead of "quick chat" Rename the agent-host-internal quick-chat identifiers, prompt tags, and prose to workspace-less: COPILOT_AGENT_HOST_QUICK_CHAT_INSTRUCTIONS -> COPILOT_AGENT_HOST_WORKSPACELESS_INSTRUCTIONS, the <quick_chat> system-message tag -> <workspaceless_chat>, and the scratch-dir helpers (_quickChatScratchDir/_ensure*/_cleanup*/_withQuickChatScratch). The workbench UI term "Quick Chat" is kept only where the agent host documents that mapping. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * sessions: address Copilot Code Review feedback on quick chats - sessionsList: select the row chat icon from isQuickChatSession(), not from workspace === undefined, so a workspace session with a transiently-undefined workspace no longer briefly shows the chat icon. - sessionContextKeys: correct the isQuickChat comment to reflect that the key is sourced from the isQuickChat tag, never inferred from workspace absence. - Agents window accessibility help: document the New Quick Chat command (Cmd/Ctrl+K Cmd/Ctrl+N) and the Chats section plus button, and note that the workspace picker does not apply and Toggle Side Panel is disabled for quick chats. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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