@volter/supercode-frontend-vscode 0.1.54 → 0.1.56

package/README.md

@@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ the pinned workbench's [first-send materialization](https://github.com/volter-ai
 and [draft acceptance](https://github.com/volter-ai/code-oss/blob/f16dc165c0dffe701a7bbf59aefb1c662b206cee/src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/chatWidget.ts#L3493)
 paths. A failed startup leaves the draft available to retry.
 
+New Chat highlights the agent from the focused conversation (or an already
+chosen draft) before opening the blank chat. With no matching choice it keeps
+the host/native default. This is a source correction with
+[real Chat qualification still open](../../docs/evidence/chat-agent-picker-focus-2026-10-09.md).
+
 The pending agent/model choice belongs to that blank chat's untitled resource
 and is retired when another conversation opens. Cancelling or opening sign-in
 does not choose an agent. Readiness polling continues to discover
@@ -403,7 +408,13 @@ request is resolved. Standalone requests use the explicit runtime-history marker
 instead of reopening an earlier answer. A new conversation sends its first input
 before trying to save its native identity: the harness creates its transcript
 from that input. Identity saves run after input acceptance, retry with later
-native events until one succeeds, and run again when a turn ends. After reload,
+native events until one succeeds, and finish at the end of a turn. A successful
+host save acknowledges that exact runtime connection, native id and catalogue
+identity; completion skips another save while all three still match. A reload
+or replacement connection must obtain its own acknowledgement. Completion
+refreshes the host before that comparison; a changed/cleared binding or failed
+refresh invalidates the local acknowledgement and retains the save attempt.
+After reload,
 the exact runtime's user history/events recover that save obligation; restored
 snapshots, later events and response completion retry through the same host
 checks without sending input. A busy state or standalone request alone does
@@ -420,6 +431,9 @@ candidate reload and approval click remain unmeasured.
 The [first-input regression investigation](../../docs/evidence/chat-first-input-binding-2026-10-08.md)
 records the 0.1.52 binding-order failure, the correction and its outstanding
 product reading.
+The [identity-save investigation](../../docs/evidence/chat-identity-save-acknowledgement-2026-10-08.md)
+names the repeated host lookup removed at completion; candidate latency and
+real-editor qualification remain open.
 
 The pinned Code-OSS host needs a resource-scoping repair in its input-state change
 routing: stock code broadcasts changes to all input states of a provider. The

package/dist/extension.js

@@ -435,6 +435,14 @@ export async function activate(context) {
             || connection.session.replay.some(event => event.kind === 'user_message');
         return save;
     };
+    const identitySaved = (connection, nativeId) => {
+        const save = identitySave(connection);
+        save.remembered = true;
+        const identity = controls?.state.sessions.find(session => session.id === connection.id)?.identity;
+        // Only a successful host save acknowledges this runtime/native-id pair.
+        // A restored catalogue identity alone is not a save receipt for a new connection.
+        save.acknowledged = identity ? { nativeId, identity } : undefined;
+    };
     const rememberIdentity = (connection, submitted = false) => {
         const save = identitySave(connection);
         save.submitted ||= submitted;
@@ -453,7 +461,7 @@ export async function activate(context) {
                 save.again = false;
                 try {
                     await controls.remember(connection.id, nativeId);
-                    save.remembered = true;
+                    identitySaved(connection, nativeId);
                 }
                 catch (error) {
                     log.warn(`Could not yet save conversation identity: ${String(error)}`);
@@ -468,10 +476,24 @@ export async function activate(context) {
         if (!controls || attachedIds.has(connection.id))
             return;
         await save.pending;
+        // The host may have cleared a binding since its last lifecycle reply.
+        // Read it before treating a local acknowledgement as satisfied.
+        const refreshed = await controls.refresh().then(() => true, error => {
+            log.warn(`Could not refresh chat identity: ${String(error)}`);
+            return false;
+        });
         const nativeId = connection.session.descriptor?.session_id;
-        if (nativeId)
+        const identity = controls.state.sessions.find(session => session.id === connection.id)?.identity;
+        const acknowledged = save.acknowledged;
+        const satisfied = Boolean(refreshed && nativeId && acknowledged
+            && acknowledged.nativeId === nativeId && acknowledged.identity === identity);
+        if (!satisfied) {
+            save.acknowledged = undefined;
+            save.remembered = false;
+        }
+        if (nativeId && !satisfied)
             await controls.remember(connection.id, nativeId).then(() => {
-                save.remembered = true;
+                identitySaved(connection, nativeId);
             }, error => {
                 log.warn(`Could not save conversation identity: ${String(error)}`);
                 if (save.submitted && !save.remembered && !save.warned
@@ -480,7 +502,6 @@ export async function activate(context) {
                     void vscode.window.showWarningMessage('Your prompt was submitted, but Chat could not save this conversation for reopening. Keep this chat open; do not send the prompt again.');
                 }
             });
-        await controls.refresh().catch(error => log.warn(`Could not refresh chat identity: ${String(error)}`));
         controlsChanged.fire();
     };
     context.subscriptions.push(frontends.onDidChange(() => {
@@ -927,7 +948,9 @@ export async function activate(context) {
         quick.title = title;
         quick.placeholder = placeholder;
         quick.items = items;
-        quick.activeItems = items.filter(item => item.id === currentId);
+        // Agent choices can also contain a model-configuration row with the same
+        // harness id. The ordinary agent row comes first; activate only that row.
+        quick.activeItems = items.filter(item => item.id === currentId).slice(0, 1);
         return new Promise(resolve => {
             quick.onDidAccept(() => resolve(quick.selectedItems[0]));
             quick.onDidHide(() => resolve(undefined));
@@ -1155,6 +1178,15 @@ export async function activate(context) {
             return;
         }
         await controls.refresh();
+        // Capture the conversation's agent before opening the blank chat clears
+        // focus. A saved conversation need not be the host's active runtime yet.
+        const previousId = focusedResource ? boundId(focusedResource) : controls.state.activeSession;
+        const previousAttachment = focusedResource && attachedIds.has(focusedResource.authority)
+            ? frontends.get(focusedResource.authority) : undefined;
+        const previousHarness = previousAttachment?.session.descriptor?.source_harness
+            ?? draftSelection()?.harness
+            ?? controls.state.sessions.find(session => session.id === previousId)?.selection.harness
+            ?? controls.state.selection.harness;
         const agents = setupAgents(controls.state);
         const localChoices = agents.map(agent => ({ label: agent.name, id: agent.harness,
             description: agent.harness === 'codex' ? (agent.signedIn ? 'Signed in with ChatGPT' : 'Sign in with ChatGPT…')
@@ -1171,7 +1203,7 @@ export async function activate(context) {
             return;
         }
         await chooseNewChat(async () => {
-            const harness = await vscode.window.showQuickPick(choices, { title: 'New chat', placeHolder: 'Choose your coding agent' });
+            const harness = await pickWithCurrent(choices, 'New chat', 'Choose your coding agent', previousHarness);
             if (!harness)
                 return { kind: 'cancelled' };
             if (harness.configure) {

package/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@volter/supercode-frontend-vscode",
   "displayName": "Volter Harness",
-  "version": "0.1.54",
+  "version": "0.1.56",
   "type": "module",
   "description": "VS Code chat-view frontend for an existing Volter Harness SDK runtime",
   "publisher": "volter-ai-dev",