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Summary

Adds a conversation tab to the TUI's vertical view. Select an agent and press c to see its recent turns in one place: the request it got, the tools it used, and its reply. Works for local agents and for agents on other relay devices, and the header shows which account (tool and login email) the agent runs under.

When a Claude agent is blocked on a choice question or a permission prompt, the tab shows the prompt and lets you answer it with a digit key. The answer is sent only if the prompt on the agent's screen is still exactly the one that was read.

Usage

1. Open the TUI (hcom) and press \ to switch to the vertical view.
2. Move to an agent with ↑/↓ and press c. Press c again to go back to the activity tab.
3. In the tab:

Key	Action
c	toggle between activity and conversation
R	refresh the conversation now
e	show the full text of every turn (collapsed: latest turn expanded, older turns one line each)
enter	message the agent
1-9	answer the question the agent is waiting on

The tab also shows the agent's live state under the latest turn: what it is doing, or what it is blocked on.

Answering a choice question

Options that need typing (Type something., Chat about this) are shown but not offered; answer those in the agent's terminal. Multi-select questions use digits to toggle and enter to move to the next tab.

Answering a permission prompt

The command, diff or file content shown is what the agent's screen shows. Before sending the key, hcom reads the screen again and sends nothing if the prompt changed.

What's in it

• Conversation tab (src/tui/transcript_view/): turn model, transcript conversion, markdown rendering (headings, lists, code, tables with wide-character alignment), collapsed/expanded turns, local and remote readers.
• Remote transcripts: read through the existing relay transcript RPC. handle_remote_transcript is unchanged, so older devices keep working; a failing remote read retries with a smaller request.
• Account display: tool and config dir per agent; the email is read locally and only shared over relay when relay_share_account is turned on (off by default, and it cannot be turned on remotely). Tokens are never stored or logged.
• Answering prompts (Claude only): parse_screen reads the choice/permission prompt from the PTY screen, and term::answer_on_screen checks the screen again right before injecting the key. Keys are held while an answer is in flight.

Fix to existing code

src/relay/control.rs: remote config set guards compared field names case-sensitively, so a mixed-case name (e.g. Relay_Enabled) slipped past the guard for secret fields and relay_enabled. Field names are now uppercased before comparison, with tests for mixed case.

Behavior notes

• Existing keys (t, r, Space, \) are unchanged. In the conversation tab, Enter, e and digit keys are new. No periodic polling was added.
• Prompt reading fails closed. The tab will not offer an answer when:
  • the command or file content is taller than the agent's screen and the prompt's top has scrolled off,
  • a dashed line from earlier output is still visible above the prompt,
  • the terminal width changed and the prompt re-wrapped between reading and answering.
    In these cases, answer in the agent's terminal.
• Questions with option previews: Claude Code draws the options beside a preview box, where a digit only moves the cursor and Enter confirms. The tab lists the options without the box, sends the digit, waits for the screen to show the cursor on that option, then sends Enter. If the question's notes field is open or has text, the tab does not answer and says to answer in the terminal.
• The help screen gains one line: answer a waiting question.

Testing

• cargo test --locked: 2899 passed, 0 failed, 19 ignored
• cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --locked -D warnings, cargo +1.89 check --locked --all-targets (MSRV), scripts/typecheck.sh, dist generate --check
• just ci real-tool steps: real_tool_codex, real_tool_claude, test_relay_roundtrip all pass
• Live test with Claude Code 2.1.309 in an isolated HCOM_DIR (the screenshots above): answered a choice question, an Edit prompt and Bash prompts from the tab, and the agent continued each time. Also checked Bash prompts that are short, wrapped, multi-line and taller than the screen, and Write/Edit prompts. Command lines inside the dashed frame are drawn with a │ prefix, so a command cannot draw a fake prompt frame.
• Preview questions, live: a single question, the cursor already on the picked option, two preview questions in one call, a preview question next to a plain one, and the notes field open (no key sent). Answering in the terminal first and then pressing a digit in the tab sends nothing.

Not covered

• Windows build: not run locally, left to CI.
• MCP and WebFetch permission prompts: not seen live yet, so their screen layout is untested.
• Relay across several real devices: covered by test_relay_roundtrip only, not by day-to-day use.

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📝 Walkthrough

This pull request adds a TUI conversation tab for local and remote transcripts, with Markdown rendering, refresh and expansion controls, and guarded responses to Claude prompts. It also adds optional relay sharing of agent account emails, with configuration, account lookup, and display support.

Changes: Conversation tab and account sharing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure and publish account emails src/config.rs, src/accounts.rs, src/instance_binding.rs, src/commands/config.rs, src/commands/help.rs, src/relay/*, src/main.rs, README.md, CHANGELOG.md	Adds the default-off relay_share_account setting and account-email lookup for Claude and Codex. Captured launch context supplies account-directory paths. When sharing is enabled, relay state can include a resolved email. Remote configuration rejects attempts to set this key. Documentation describes the setting and conversation controls.
Load and shape conversation data src/tui/state.rs, src/tui/db.rs, src/tui/transcript_view/model.rs, src/tui/transcript_view/convert.rs, src/tui/transcript_view/local.rs, src/tui/transcript_view/remote.rs	Adds local and remote account maps, transcript data structures, conversion from local exchanges and remote rows, and background workers for local and remote transcript loading.
Validate and answer terminal prompts src/commands/term.rs, src/tui/transcript_view/prompt.rs, src/tui/transcript_view/mod.rs, src/tui/input.rs, src/tui/rpc_async.rs, src/tui/actions.rs	Adds prompt parsing and screen matching before key injection. The TUI sends answer steps through an asynchronous RPC operation and displays error feedback.
Integrate and render the conversation tab src/tui/app.rs, src/tui/mod.rs, src/tui/input.rs, src/tui/render/*, src/tui/transcript_view/mod.rs, src/tui/transcript_view/markdown.rs, src/tui/transcript_view/render.rs, README.md, CHANGELOG.md	Adds conversation-tab selection, app polling, transcript rendering and Markdown formatting, keyboard controls, and blocked-recipient notices.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant App
  participant TranscriptView
  participant LocalTranscriptWorker
  participant RemoteTranscriptWorker
  participant RelayRPCDispatcher
  participant ConversationRenderer
  User->>App: Select agent and conversation tab
  App->>TranscriptView: Poll selected conversation
  alt Local agent
    TranscriptView->>LocalTranscriptWorker: Read or refresh transcript
    LocalTranscriptWorker-->>TranscriptView: Return transcript snapshot
  else Remote agent
    TranscriptView->>RemoteTranscriptWorker: Request transcript
    RemoteTranscriptWorker->>RelayRPCDispatcher: Dispatch relay request
    RelayRPCDispatcher-->>RemoteTranscriptWorker: Return transcript response
    RemoteTranscriptWorker-->>TranscriptView: Return transcript snapshot
  end
  TranscriptView->>ConversationRenderer: Render snapshot
  ConversationRenderer-->>User: Display conversation

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Possibly related issues

• aannoo/hcom#172 — The change adds remote-agent conversation display through relay state. It does not bound the state snapshot described in the issue. A fix for the reported oversized-state behavior is not evident.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0270e

Unreadable transcripts now report a failure instead of appearing empty. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the reviewed changes.

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Title check		The title "feat(tui): add a conversation tab to the vertical view" names the main change. The changeset adds a conversation tab to the TUI vertical view, with transcript loading, markdown rendering, a…
Description check		The description covers the conversation tab, its keys, remote transcript reads, account display gated by relay_share_account, prompt answering with a screen re-check, the case-insensitive remote confi…
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The description covers the conversation tab, its keys, remote transcript reads, account display gated by relay_share_account, prompt answering with a screen re-check, the case-insensitive remote config guard fix, and the testing performed. It matches the changeset closely.

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Summary

Adds a conversation tab for local and remote agents, account labels, and screen-checked answers to Claude prompts.

• The vertical view brings each agent’s recent conversation into a Chat tab.
• The Chat tab can answer supported Claude prompts while they are still on screen.
• Agent headers can show the tool and login email for each account.
• Remote config checks now treat field names with different casing the same.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
    A[Selected agent] --> B{Local or remote?}
    B -->|Local| C[Read transcript and waiting prompt]
    B -->|Remote| D[Read transcript through relay]
    C --> E[Conversation tab]
    D --> E
    E -->|Answer a local prompt| F[Read screen again]
    F --> G{Prompt still matches?}
    G -->|Yes| H[Send answer key]
    G -->|No| I[Stop without sending]

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🟡 Minor · Preserve filesystem errors instead of treating them as a missing transcript. · local.rs:105-107

src/tui/transcript_view/local.rs:105-107
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Preserve filesystem errors instead of treating them as a missing transcript.

metadata(...).ok() and Path::exists() both convert permission and other filesystem errors into “missing.” A failed metadata check can therefore reuse a cached None stamp and return Ok(Vec::new()), so the UI shows an empty conversation and never records Entry.failure.

Preserve NotFound as an empty transcript, but propagate other errors. Use a result-aware stamp and try_exists().

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Update the transcript filesystem checks that build the metadata stamp and test
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Treat NotFound as an empty transcript, but propagate other filesystem errors so
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@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff finding on src/tui/transcript_view/local.rs (filesystem errors read as a missing transcript): fixed in 0270e35. read_turns uses try_exists(): only a missing file is an empty conversation, other errors are reported as a failure. The cache stamp keeps the io::ErrorKind, so an error no longer matches a cached empty read. Test: unreadable_path_is_a_failure.

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