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Closes #598.

Problem and evidenced root cause

Long Codex/provider descriptions could include an entire multiline command in the Working activity. That activity had no width or line constraint. Unknown tool titles also became the complete action label, while existing tool, reasoning, and Goal ellipses only took effect at the far edge of the window. The transcript projection discarded the provider's separate title even when canonical tool identity was available.

Resulting behavior

  • One-line summaries shrink with their container and stop at an intentional readable measure: 24 rem for combined tool/live/activity/reasoning/Goal summaries and 20 rem for tool/window headings. Existing narrower session rail and deck constraints remain intact.
  • Display-only previews collapse whitespace and stop at 80 grapheme clusters (existing non-command input summaries retain their 60-cluster limit). Unicode clusters remain intact. Exact tool names and documented hosted-MCP identities keep their action; free-form unknown descriptions use a truthful generic tool identity, even when the description starts with a known name such as Bash investigation. Identity is never inferred from a prose prefix.
  • Working keeps its elapsed time and agent indicators. Live/Working summaries and window titles provide keyboard/pointer disclosures. Tool titles and Goal objectives have complete detail views.
  • The original provider title passes through the transient transcript projection. Detail, copy, and find consume originals, including title/name matches in running tools. Expanded payloads and ordinary assistant messages are unchanged.

Verification

The production session composition was exercised in Chromium using existing Storybook/MSW fixtures containing sanitized heredocs, Unicode, unbroken paths, long objectives, and concurrent tools. No private command payloads are used.

  • Working measured 75.25 px before at a 1600 px viewport and 22 px after at 360, 860, and 1600 px. Document width equaled viewport width; the composer and stop control remained reachable. The baseline screenshot captures original layout behavior after the settled tool's generic wording had already been normalized.
  • At 200% CSS zoom with reduced motion, Working measured 44 rendered pixels. Keyboard disclosure, Escape focus restoration, and exact multiline activity copy passed at all three widths.
  • Three concurrent calls, including a long agent prompt, passed narrow/wide disclosure and overflow checks. Shared window titles passed keyboard disclosure at 360 and 1600 px.
  • Full-payload find opened a tail omitted from the collapsed summary; a distinct live-title query opened the complete title while its tool was still running.
  • Extended the canonical tool-label, visual-state, thread, tool-card, reasoning, Goal, navigation, and shared Topbar tests. The two long-summary stories and the long window-title story include browser interaction assertions, rather than CSS-string assertions. The domain disclosure is covered by the existing thread composition test and these production-composition stories; no duplicate isolated suite was introduced.

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Sanitized before/after captures are retained in the repository's ignored QA evidence directory. Reproduce the rendered contract with SessionsStability/Working/LongSummaries, LongSummariesParallel, and shared Topbar/LongTitle.

Impact and limits

The QA report and change-impact record and owning scenario document the policy and walkthrough.

This changes Web presentation and shared UI components only. No native tool IDs, CLI/HTTP/UDS schemas, configuration, hooks, extensions, database state, persisted transcripts, or workspace/profile isolation contracts change. The existing public title field is consumed without a wire change. No migration or compatibility shim is needed. The official skills/compozy/ runtime guidance is unaffected.

The local browser evidence uses fixture I/O and does not establish live Codex, Linux, or Electron behavior. No active host daemon was restarted or modified.

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The change adds bounded previews and full-text disclosures across session summaries, tool titles, working status, reasoning, goals, and the topbar. Tool titles now flow through session state, detail views, copy payloads, and transcript search.

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Session summary presentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Summary policy and tool labels
web/src/systems/session/lib/session-summary.ts, web/src/systems/session/lib/tool-labels.ts, web/src/systems/session/lib/session-tool-visual-state.ts, web/src/systems/session/lib/session-working-status.ts, web/src/systems/session/types.ts, web/src/systems/session/lib/__tests__/*
Long summaries are normalized and grapheme-truncated. Tool identity is separated from descriptive titles. Tool activity uses the bounded display text.
Live tool title propagation and reveal
web/src/systems/session/lib/session-thread-repository.ts, web/src/components/assistant-ui/timeline-message-parts.ts, web/src/components/assistant-ui/session-timeline.logic.ts, web/src/components/assistant-ui/session-live-tool-row.tsx, web/src/components/assistant-ui/session-timeline-render.tsx, web/src/components/assistant-ui/__tests__/session-thread.test.tsx
Optional tool titles flow from stored records into timeline messages and live rows. Live rows expose tool details and navigation reveals for single and parallel tools.
Disclosure, transcript, and session surfaces
web/src/systems/session/components/session-summary-disclosure.tsx, web/src/systems/session/components/session-thinking-row.tsx, web/src/systems/session/components/thinking-block.tsx, web/src/systems/session/components/goal/*, web/src/systems/session/components/tool-call-card.tsx, web/src/systems/session/components/__tests__/*, web/src/systems/session/components/stories/sessions-stability-story-routes.ts, web/src/systems/session/lib/session-navigation-transcript.ts
Activity, reasoning, goal, and tool-call rows use bounded previews with accessible full-text disclosure. Tool titles are included in copied payloads and searchable fields. Title and tool-name matches open the tool body.
Topbar and tool-row bounds
packages/ui/src/components/custom/topbar.tsx, packages/ui/src/components/custom/__tests__/topbar.test.tsx, packages/ui/src/components/custom/tool-call-row.tsx
Topbar titles use a popover for full-title access. Tool-row labels use readable maximum widths.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StoredToolRecord
  participant SessionTimeline
  participant LiveToolRow
  participant SessionSummaryDisclosure
  participant ToolCallCard
  StoredToolRecord->>SessionTimeline: provide toolTitle
  SessionTimeline->>LiveToolRow: pass title and reveal state
  LiveToolRow->>SessionSummaryDisclosure: show bounded summary
  SessionSummaryDisclosure->>ToolCallCard: open full tool details
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 90b4e

This change bounds session and tool summaries while preserving full details. Merge readiness is low risk but incomplete because required component coverage and canonical test ownership metadata remain to be added.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 42.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 38 functions across 29 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check ❓ Inconclusive The reviewable changes address the main coding objectives in issue #598, including bounded summaries, canonical tool identity, full-title disclosures, copy and search preservation, keyboard access, Un… Provide or review the excluded files docs/qa/reports/2026-09-10-session-summary-truncation.md, docs/qa/scenarios/ET-web-session-transcript-calm-grammar.md, packages/ui/src/components/custom/stories/topbar.stories.tsx, and web/src/systems/se…
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are related to issue #598. They modify session summaries, tool labels, disclosures, window titles, supporting data flow, and tests for the stated presentation and detail-preservation objec…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main changes: bounding session summaries and preserving complete details.
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Explanation

The reviewable changes address the main coding objectives in issue #598, including bounded summaries, canonical tool identity, full-title disclosures, copy and search preservation, keyboard access, Unicode and multiline handling, and expanded tests. Full compliance is inconclusive because QA documentation and story files were excluded by path filters, and the provided summary does not verify browser-layout evidence or repository gate results.

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Provide or review the excluded files docs/qa/reports/2026-09-10-session-summary-truncation.md, docs/qa/scenarios/ET-web-session-transcript-calm-grammar.md, packages/ui/src/components/custom/stories/topbar.stories.tsx, and web/src/systems/session/components/stories/sessions-stability-working.stories.tsx. These files were excluded by !/*.md and !/*.stories.tsx. Also provide evidence for required browser verification and repository-root Turbo and make checks.

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React Doctor found 3 new issues in 3 files · 3 warnings · score 93 / 100 (Great) · 2 fixed · vs main

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src/components/custom/tool-call-row.tsx

  • ⚠️ L102 React function has high control-flow complexity no-high-complexity-react-function

src/systems/session/components/goal/session-goal-strip.tsx

  • ⚠️ L109 React function has high control-flow complexity no-high-complexity-react-function

src/systems/session/components/tool-call-card.tsx

  • ⚠️ L230 React function has high control-flow complexity no-high-complexity-react-function

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Greptile Summary

The PR bounds session and window summaries while preserving complete provider titles and payload details for disclosure, copy, and find.

  • Adds grapheme-safe compact session summaries and truthful generic labeling for unknown tools.
  • Propagates provider titles through transient transcript and navigation models.
  • Adds accessible detail disclosures for live activity, tool calls, goals, reasoning, and window titles.
  • Extends component, transcript, navigation, Storybook, and QA coverage.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The behavioral changes appear sound, but the outstanding public-barrel repository requirement must be satisfied before merging.

The previously reported tool-identity issue was manually resolved and the current exact-identity handling addresses it. The barrel-import finding is only partly fixed: SessionToolCallRow, SessionSummaryDisclosure, and visual-state labels now use @/systems/session, but session-live-tool-row.tsx still imports getToolIcon and resolveRegisteredToolName directly from @/systems/session/lib/tool-labels, so the cross-system boundary violation remains.

Files Needing Attention: web/src/components/assistant-ui/session-live-tool-row.tsx

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
web/src/systems/session/lib/session-summary.ts Introduces whitespace-normalized, grapheme-safe display summaries without changing original content.
web/src/systems/session/lib/tool-labels.ts Separates exact canonical tool identity from free-form provider descriptions.
web/src/systems/session/components/tool-call-card.tsx Uses bounded previews while retaining exact titles and payloads in expanded and copy surfaces.
web/src/components/assistant-ui/session-live-tool-row.tsx Adds live-tool disclosures and fixes several barrel imports, but the existing cross-system internal import remains.
packages/ui/src/components/custom/topbar.tsx Bounds window titles and provides an accessible full-title popover while retaining the heading focus target.

Flowchart

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flowchart LR
  A[Provider transcript part] --> B[Timeline projection]
  B --> C[Canonical tool identity]
  B --> D[Original provider title and payload]
  C --> E[Bounded summary]
  D --> F[Disclosure, copy, and find]
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In `@web/src/systems/session/components/__tests__/thinking-block.test.tsx`:
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