Simplify the agents view

[sethkarten]

Summary

• Kept the logo, startup metadata, and search.
• Added aligned Session, Model, Activity, Cost, and Age columns. Cost includes subagents. Activity shrinks first on narrow terminals.
• Removed token columns, separate agent/subagent costs, and repeated headers. Collapsed agents show a short N subagents running line only while subagents are working; expanded agents and idle subagent lists have no extra summary line.
• Collapsed inactive sessions by default. Search still includes them; Alt+I toggles the section.
• Added Alt+Right to expand subagents from their parent row. Enter and Right still open sessions. Ctrl+O still shows the spawn program.
• Moved less-used actions and the usage breakdown behind ?.

Model IDs use existing session metadata. Sessions without model metadata show -; full provider/model and reasoning level are available in details. No daemon protocol changes.

Validation

• npm run check
• npx tsx ../../node_modules/vitest/dist/cli.js --run test/agents-view-mode.test.ts (from packages/coding-agent)
• Covered compact columns at 60/80/120 columns, recursive costs, inactive navigation/search, inline expansion, program access, action details, and selection in a short viewport.

Rendered preview

Fixture sessions at 80 columns (logo, metadata, and search remain above the table):

Session                       Model         Activity                   Cost  Age
Running (2)
◇  BUN FORK                   glm-5.2-fast  Fixing GitHub authent   $259.84   4d
◇  sandbox                    gpt-5.6-sol   Analyzing runtime com  $2204.89   4d

Idle (1)
●  REVIEW                     gpt-5.6-sol   Review complete          $50.27   4d

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Note

Low Risk
UI-only changes in the agents view TUI with no daemon protocol changes; behavior shifts (hidden inactive sessions, Enter opens parents) are covered by updated tests.

Overview
Redesigns the agents view into a compact table while keeping the splash, startup notices, and search.

Layout and columns: Per-section token/$agent legends and subagent-summary rows are gone. One shared header (Session · Model · Activity · Cost · Age) sits above Running/Idle/Inactive blocks. Rows show model id, activity text, recursive cost (includes subagents), and age; token columns are removed. Collapsed parents with running subagents get a short “N subagents running” line instead of a summary row.

Navigation and keys: Inactive top-level sessions are hidden by default (compactSessionRows); Alt+I toggles them (search still surfaces matches). Alt+Right expands/collapses subagents from the parent row; Enter on a parent opens the session (no longer toggles a summary row). ? opens an actions overlay (shortcuts plus token/cost details for the selection) and closes on the next keypress.

Persistence: inactiveExpanded and split allRows / rows keep counts accurate while the visible list stays compact.

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Note

Simplify agents view with compact layout, collapsed inactive sessions, and actions panel

• Replaces the per-section token/cost usage layout with a single shared Session/Model/Activity/Cost/Age header across all status sections, showing recursive total cost and relative age instead of per-agent token counts.
• Collapses inactive sessions by default; Alt+I toggles their visibility and search queries reveal them automatically. Inactive state persists across rebuilds via AgentsViewPersistentState.inactiveExpanded.
• Moves subagent expansion from a separate summary row to the parent agent row; Alt+Right toggles descendants on the selected row, and Enter now opens the parent session directly.
• Adds an actions panel (?) that shows key commands plus selected-session metadata (model, thinking level, directory, token counts, session cost, recursive cost). The first input after opening the panel closes it.
• Inserts a running-subagent count line beneath collapsed parents that still have active subagents; the line disappears on expansion or when all children go idle.
• Behavioral Change: Enter on a parent agent no longer toggles a subagent-summary row (those rows are removed); targetHasSpawnCode and getAgentCountsText now read from allRows (the unfiltered set) rather than visible compact rows; the default footer advertises generic navigation/open/actions instead of context-specific commands. The single column header consumes one viewport row, shifting existing viewport/ellipsis expectations.

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🟡 Medium

prime-agent/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/agents-view/agents-view-mode.ts

Line 1333 in fa08be2

this.restoreSelection();

Clearing search after selecting an inactive session leaves Enter stuck on “Waiting for the selected session to load,” even though the saved catalog is already loaded. restoreSelection() sets selectionAnchorPending when compactSessionRows hides the selected row, and queryChanged() then skips syncSelectedRowState(), so the visible fallback row never becomes the active selection; clear the pending anchor when the catalog is settled.

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In file @packages/coding-agent/src/modes/agents-view/agents-view-mode.ts around line 1333:

Clearing search after selecting an inactive session leaves Enter stuck on “Waiting for the selected session to load,” even though the saved catalog is already loaded. `restoreSelection()` sets `selectionAnchorPending` when `compactSessionRows` hides the selected row, and `queryChanged()` then skips `syncSelectedRowState()`, so the visible fallback row never becomes the active selection; clear the pending anchor when the catalog is settled.

Evidence trail:
fa08be2; packages/coding-agent/src/modes/agents-view/agents-view-mode.ts:1296-1303, 1322-1334, 1402-1410, 2213-2270, 2319-2357; packages/coding-agent/src/modes/agents-view/agents-view-state.ts:715-727

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🟡 Medium agents-view/agents-view-mode.ts:2572

A parent matching the search renders ▸ even when none of its children remain in the filtered rows, and expanding it changes the marker to ▾ without revealing anything. row.descendantCount comes from the unfiltered computeRecursiveRollups(...); drive this control from the filtered hierarchy so it is shown only when visible children can actually be expanded.

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In file @packages/coding-agent/src/modes/agents-view/agents-view-mode.ts around line 2572:

A parent matching the search renders `▸` even when none of its children remain in the filtered rows, and expanding it changes the marker to `▾` without revealing anything. `row.descendantCount` comes from the unfiltered `computeRecursiveRollups(...)`; drive this control from the filtered hierarchy so it is shown only when visible children can actually be expanded.

Evidence trail:
Commit fa08be2. `packages/coding-agent/src/modes/agents-view/agents-view-mode.ts:1314-1320` passes filtered records alongside rollups from `this.unifiedRecords`; `:2572` renders the marker from `row.descendantCount`; `:980-983` toggles when that count is positive. `packages/coding-agent/src/modes/agents-view/agents-view-state.ts:408-424` filters records, and `:774-818` builds child relationships only from those filtered records while retaining the unfiltered rollup count.

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🟡 Medium agents-view/agents-view-mode.ts:916

When the actions view is visible, any key other than app.shortcuts or tui.select.cancel both dismisses it and continues into normal input handling. Pressing the delete shortcut therefore immediately starts the selected agent's stop/delete flow instead of merely closing the actions view. Return after dismissing showActions so the dismissal key is consumed.

-		if (this.showActions) {
-			this.showActions = false;
-			this.ui.requestRender();
-			if (this.keybindings.matches(data, "app.shortcuts") || this.keybindings.matches(data, "tui.select.cancel"))
-				return;
-		}
+		if (this.showActions) {
+			this.showActions = false;
+			this.ui.requestRender();
+			return;
+		}

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In file @packages/coding-agent/src/modes/agents-view/agents-view-mode.ts around lines 916-922:

When the actions view is visible, any key other than `app.shortcuts` or `tui.select.cancel` both dismisses it and continues into normal input handling. Pressing the delete shortcut therefore immediately starts the selected agent's stop/delete flow instead of merely closing the actions view. Return after dismissing `showActions` so the dismissal key is consumed.

Evidence trail:
Commit dc67428; packages/coding-agent/src/modes/agents-view/agents-view-mode.ts:917-922, 944-947, 1882-1891; packages/coding-agent/src/core/keybindings.ts:161; packages/coding-agent/test/agents-view-mode.test.ts:943-958

[sethkarten]

Included in #2068: #2068