diff --git a/config/tsconfig.tc.web.json b/config/tsconfig.tc.web.json
index a534df96414..442cca7e353 100644
--- a/config/tsconfig.tc.web.json
+++ b/config/tsconfig.tc.web.json
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
     "../src/main/gitlab/mappers.ts",
     "../src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-clock.ts",
     "../src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-temporal-owner.ts",
+    "../src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/producer-revision.ts",
     "../src/main/jira/adf-markdown.ts",
     "../src/main/jira/adf-text-marks.ts",
     "../src/main/jira/adf-media-destination.ts",
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/orca-runtime.ts b/src/main/runtime/orca-runtime.ts
index 8a04e231a8a..70a259b50ad 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/orca-runtime.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/orca-runtime.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ import { RepoIconDataUrls } from './sidebar-inputs/repo-icon-data-urls'
 import { getMainHttpClient } from '../network/http-client'
 import { getRuntimeDesktopSurface } from './runtime-desktop-surface'
 import { CollapseWriteOrder } from './workspace-view-collapse-writes'
+import { SidebarInputsFeed } from './sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed'
+import { sidebarInputsFeedDomains } from './sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-domains'
+import { requireSwitchedOn } from './sidebar-inputs/require-switched-on'
 import { HEADLESS_RUNTIME_WINDOW_ID } from '../../shared/runtime-session-contracts'
 import { getHostDisplayLabelOverrides } from '../../shared/host-setting-overrides'
 
@@ -55,13 +58,14 @@ class OrcaRuntimeService extends OrcaRuntimeSidebarBase {
   get sidebarFacts() {
     return sidebarFactsRuntime(this)
   }
-  // Switch point. Idle until relay hosts attach; the fallback refresh runs while a window shows the sidebar.
+  // Switch point. Idle until relay hosts attach; the fallback refresh runs while a window shows the sidebar or a phone reads the feed.
   readonly pairedServerRows = ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_IS_MAIN
     ? new PairedServerRowsProducer({
         hasDemand: () =>
-          this.authoritativeWindowId !== null &&
-          this.authoritativeWindowId !== HEADLESS_RUNTIME_WINDOW_ID &&
-          this.store?.getUI?.().sidebarOpen !== false,
+          this.sidebarInputsFeed?.subscribed === true ||
+          (this.authoritativeWindowId !== null &&
+            this.authoritativeWindowId !== HEADLESS_RUNTIME_WINDOW_ID &&
+            this.store?.getUI?.().sidebarOpen !== false),
         hostLabelOverrides: () => getHostDisplayLabelOverrides(this.getClientSettings())
       })
     : null
@@ -81,6 +85,20 @@ class OrcaRuntimeService extends OrcaRuntimeSidebarBase {
     : null
   // Switch point: the per-writer ordering behind ui.setCollapsed.
   readonly collapseWriteOrder = ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_IS_MAIN ? new CollapseWriteOrder() : null
+  // Switch point: the phone's feed of the producers above; idle until this host's own phone reads.
+  readonly sidebarInputsFeed = ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_IS_MAIN
+    ? new SidebarInputsFeed(
+        () =>
+          sidebarInputsFeedDomains({
+            facts: requireSwitchedOn(this.sidebarFacts),
+            pairedServerRows: requireSwitchedOn(this.pairedServerRows),
+            workspaceCreations: requireSwitchedOn(this.workspaceCreations),
+            store: () => this.store,
+            onClientEvent: (listener, options) => this.onClientEvent(listener, options)
+          }),
+        (event) => this.emitClientEvent(event)
+      )
+    : null
 
   private async selectReferenceCatalogWorkspace(selector: string, cwd?: string) {
     const catalog = listReferenceWorkspaces(
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/sidebar-inputs-read.test.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/sidebar-inputs-read.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ab934698908
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/sidebar-inputs-read.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+import '../unused-default-rpc-methods.test-fixture'
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { MOBILE_BRIDGE_MAX_FRAME_BYTES } from '../../../../shared/mobile-bridge-frame-bytes'
+import { SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MAX_BYTES } from '../../../../shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
+import type { OrcaRuntimeService } from '../../orca-runtime'
+import { SidebarInputsFeed } from '../../sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed'
+import { testDomain } from '../../sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed.test-fixture'
+import type { RpcRequest } from '../core'
+import { RpcDispatcher } from '../dispatcher'
+import type { RpcDispatchStreamingOptions } from '../dispatcher-stream-options'
+import { SIDEBAR_INPUT_METHODS } from './sidebar-inputs'
+
+function makeHost() {
+  // Rows far larger than one page, so the first reply is a full page.
+  const rows = testDomain(
+    'rows',
+    Object.fromEntries(
+      Array.from({ length: 3_000 }, (_, index) => [`row-${index}`, 'r'.padEnd(300, '中')])
+    )
+  )
+  const feed = new SidebarInputsFeed(
+    () => [rows.domain],
+    () => {}
+  )
+  const cleanups = new Map<string, () => void>()
+  const fake = {
+    getRuntimeId: () => 'test-runtime',
+    sidebarInputsFeed: feed,
+    registerSubscriptionCleanup: (id: string, cleanup: () => void) => cleanups.set(id, cleanup)
+  }
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/consistent-type-assertions -- SAFETY: sidebarInputs.read reads only the members above.
+  const runtime = fake as unknown as OrcaRuntimeService
+  const dispatcher = new RpcDispatcher({ runtime, methods: SIDEBAR_INPUT_METHODS })
+  let requestId = 0
+  const read = (context: RpcDispatchStreamingOptions) => {
+    const request: RpcRequest = {
+      id: `req-${++requestId}`,
+      authToken: 'tok',
+      method: 'sidebarInputs.read',
+      params: { maxBytes: SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MAX_BYTES }
+    }
+    return dispatcher.dispatch(request, context)
+  }
+  return { rows, read, cleanups }
+}
+
+describe('sidebarInputs.read', () => {
+  it('serves the host’s own phone a page that fits its bridge frame with the RPC envelope', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const response = await host.read({ clientKind: 'mobile', connectionId: 'conn-1' })
+    expect(response).toMatchObject({
+      ok: true,
+      result: { kind: 'snapshot', next: expect.any(String) }
+    })
+    const frame = Buffer.byteLength(JSON.stringify(response), 'utf8')
+    expect(frame).toBeGreaterThan(SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MAX_BYTES * 0.9)
+    expect(frame).toBeLessThanOrEqual(MOBILE_BRIDGE_MAX_FRAME_BYTES)
+  })
+
+  it('refuses a delegated phone, a paired desktop and a caller without a connection', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    for (const context of [
+      { clientKind: 'mobile', connectionId: 'conn-1', pairedDeviceParentId: 'desktop-device' },
+      { clientKind: 'runtime', connectionId: 'conn-1' },
+      { clientKind: 'mobile' }
+    ] satisfies RpcDispatchStreamingOptions[]) {
+      expect(await host.read(context)).toMatchObject({ ok: false, error: { code: 'forbidden' } })
+    }
+    expect(host.rows.reads()).toBe(0)
+  })
+
+  it('subscribes a connection on its first read and releases it when the connection closes', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    await host.read({ clientKind: 'mobile', connectionId: 'conn-1' })
+    await host.read({ clientKind: 'mobile', connectionId: 'conn-1' })
+    expect([...host.cleanups.keys()]).toEqual(['sidebar-inputs-feed-conn-1'])
+    expect(host.rows.watchers()).toBe(1)
+    host.cleanups.get('sidebar-inputs-feed-conn-1')?.()
+    expect(host.rows.watchers()).toBe(0)
+  })
+
+  it('does not subscribe a connection that closed before its read ran', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const closed = new AbortController()
+    closed.abort()
+    const response = await host.read({
+      clientKind: 'mobile',
+      connectionId: 'conn-1',
+      signal: closed.signal
+    })
+    expect(response).toMatchObject({ ok: false })
+    expect(host.cleanups.size).toBe(0)
+    expect(host.rows.watchers()).toBe(0)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/sidebar-inputs.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/sidebar-inputs.ts
index e59ced9849a..35e161ad128 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/sidebar-inputs.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/sidebar-inputs.ts
@@ -1,19 +1,14 @@
 import { defineMethod } from '../core'
-import { getRegisteredSshState, listRegisteredSshTargets } from '../../../ssh/ssh-target-registry'
-import { getWslHostService } from '../../../wsl/wsl-host-service-instance'
-import { readDesktopSidebarFacts } from '../../sidebar-inputs/desktop-sidebar-facts'
+import { requireSwitchedOn } from '../../sidebar-inputs/require-switched-on'
+import { readRuntimeDesktopSidebarFacts } from '../../sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-domains'
+import { isHostOwnPhone } from '../host-own-phone'
+import { SidebarInputsReadParams } from '../../../../shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
 import { SidebarSessionBeginParams } from '../../../../shared/rpc-contract/sidebar-session-params'
 import { RepoIconDataUrlsParams } from '../../../../shared/sidebar-list/repo-icon-data-urls-contract'
 import { SetCollapsedParams } from '../../../../shared/rpc-contract/workspace-view-collapse-params'
 import { setCollapsedSection } from '../../workspace-view-collapse-writes'
 
 // Registered only with ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS=main, so the producers below always exist.
-function requireSwitchedOn<Producer>(producer: Producer | null): Producer {
-  if (producer === null) {
-    throw new Error('sidebar inputs are off in this build')
-  }
-  return producer
-}
 
 export const SIDEBAR_INPUT_METHODS = [
   defineMethod({
@@ -33,13 +28,7 @@ export const SIDEBAR_INPUT_METHODS = [
     name: 'sidebarInputs.desktopFacts',
     permission: 'workspace',
     params: null,
-    handler: async (_params, { runtime }) =>
-      readDesktopSidebarFacts({
-        store: runtime.requireStore(),
-        sshTargets: listRegisteredSshTargets(),
-        sshStateOf: getRegisteredSshState,
-        wslStatuses: getWslHostService()?.getStatuses() ?? []
-      })
+    handler: async (_params, { runtime }) => readRuntimeDesktopSidebarFacts(runtime.requireStore())
   }),
   defineMethod({
     name: 'sidebarInputs.pairedServerRows',
@@ -61,6 +50,35 @@ export const SIDEBAR_INPUT_METHODS = [
     handler: async (_params, { runtime }) =>
       requireSwitchedOn(runtime.sidebarFacts).getSidebarTemporalSnapshot()
   }),
+  defineMethod({
+    name: 'sidebarInputs.read',
+    permission: 'workspace',
+    params: SidebarInputsReadParams,
+    // The feed is this host's own view. A delegated phone lists through its own desktop's feed,
+    // which carries this host's rows; other desktops and web clients build their own view.
+    handler: async (params, context) => {
+      const feed = requireSwitchedOn(context.runtime.sidebarInputsFeed)
+      const { connectionId } = context
+      if (!isHostOwnPhone(context) || connectionId === undefined) {
+        throw Object.assign(new Error('Only this host’s own phone reads its sidebar feed.'), {
+          code: 'forbidden'
+        })
+      }
+      // A connection already closed has run its cleanups; subscribing it now would never release.
+      if (context.signal?.aborted) {
+        throw new Error('client_disconnected')
+      }
+      // Subscribed from a connection's first read until it closes.
+      if (feed.acquire(connectionId)) {
+        context.runtime.registerSubscriptionCleanup(
+          `sidebar-inputs-feed-${connectionId}`,
+          () => feed.release(connectionId),
+          connectionId
+        )
+      }
+      return feed.read(params)
+    }
+  }),
   defineMethod({
     name: 'sidebarSession.begin',
     permission: 'workspace',
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/runtime-rpc/runtime-rpc-mobile-paired-desktop-methods.ts b/src/main/runtime/runtime-rpc/runtime-rpc-mobile-paired-desktop-methods.ts
index 176f138093a..1b2062024c2 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/runtime-rpc/runtime-rpc-mobile-paired-desktop-methods.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/runtime-rpc/runtime-rpc-mobile-paired-desktop-methods.ts
@@ -108,6 +108,6 @@ export const PAIRED_DESKTOP_METHODS = [
   'settings.updateTerminalQuickCommands',
   'terminal.getAutoRestoreFit',
   'terminal.setAutoRestoreFit',
-  // Switch point: the per-section collapse write exists only with ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS=main.
-  ...(ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_IS_MAIN ? (['ui.setCollapsed'] as const) : [])
+  // Switch point: the per-section collapse write and the sidebar feed exist only with ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS=main.
+  ...(ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_IS_MAIN ? (['ui.setCollapsed', 'sidebarInputs.read'] as const) : [])
 ] as const
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/orca-runtime-sidebar-inputs-feed.test.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/orca-runtime-sidebar-inputs-feed.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..236d6445d55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/orca-runtime-sidebar-inputs-feed.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+// Runs on plain Node, as orcad does: the feed reads the runtime's own producers.
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import type { RuntimeClientEvent } from '../../../shared/runtime-client-events'
+import { OrcaRuntimeService } from '../orca-runtime'
+import { requireSwitchedOn } from './require-switched-on'
+import { TestPhone } from './sidebar-inputs-feed.test-fixture'
+
+vi.mock('../../../shared/sidebar-inputs-switch', () => ({ ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_IS_MAIN: true }))
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  vi.useFakeTimers()
+  vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => {})
+})
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.useRealTimers()
+  vi.restoreAllMocks()
+})
+
+describe('the runtime sidebar inputs feed', () => {
+  it('publishes the producers’ snapshots and announces a change on the client-event bus', async () => {
+    const runtime = new OrcaRuntimeService(null)
+    const feed = requireSwitchedOn(runtime.sidebarInputsFeed)
+    const events: RuntimeClientEvent[] = []
+    runtime.onClientEvent((event) => events.push(event))
+    const phone = new TestPhone(feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.view().temporal).toEqual({ sessionId: null, sortSnapshot: null, retention: null })
+
+    const creation = requireSwitchedOn(runtime.workspaceCreations).open({
+      creationId: 'c1',
+      repoId: 'repo-1'
+    })
+    await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(60)
+    const notice = events.findLast((event) => event.type === 'sidebarInputsChanged')
+    expect(notice).toEqual({
+      type: 'sidebarInputsChanged',
+      generation: feed.generation,
+      revision: expect.any(Number)
+    })
+    if (notice?.type !== 'sidebarInputsChanged') {
+      throw new Error('no change notice')
+    }
+    phone.notice(notice)
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.at(-1)).toMatchObject({
+      kind: 'delta',
+      domains: { creations: { upserts: { c1: { repoId: 'repo-1' } } } }
+    })
+    creation.close()
+    phone.disconnect()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/orca-runtime-sidebar-temporal.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/orca-runtime-sidebar-temporal.ts
index c2963df9877..d2ef7946c4b 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/orca-runtime-sidebar-temporal.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/orca-runtime-sidebar-temporal.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ export abstract class OrcaRuntimeWithSidebarTemporal extends OrcaRuntimeWithWork
 
   constructor(...args: ConstructorParameters<typeof OrcaRuntimeWithWorkspaceReviewFacts>) {
     super(...args)
-    this.workspaceActivityFacts.onChange(() => this.sidebarTemporal.noteActivityChange())
+    this.workspaceActivityFacts.revision.onChange(() => this.sidebarTemporal.noteActivityChange())
     this.store?.onUIChanged?.(() => this.sidebarTemporal.noteViewChange())
     // Every catalog change, from IPC or the runtime, reaches clients through this one bus.
     this.clientEvents.on(
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ export abstract class OrcaRuntimeWithSidebarTemporal extends OrcaRuntimeWithWork
     return this.sidebarTemporal.snapshot()
   }
 
+  onSidebarTemporalChange(listener: () => void): () => void {
+    return this.sidebarTemporal.revision.onChange(listener)
+  }
+
   beginSidebarListSession(sessionId: string): void {
     this.sidebarTemporal.beginSession(sessionId)
   }
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/paired-server-rows-producer.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/paired-server-rows-producer.ts
index d788d282d95..567e080c26b 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/paired-server-rows-producer.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/paired-server-rows-producer.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { ProducerRevision } from './producer-revision'
 import { toRuntimeExecutionHostId, type ExecutionHostId } from '../../../shared/execution-host'
 import { describePairedServerHosts } from '../../../shared/paired-server-hosts'
 import type { MobileRelayServerWorktreeRow } from '../../../shared/mobile-relay-hosts-contract'
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ type ServerEntry = {
 export class PairedServerRowsProducer implements ServerWorktreeRows {
   private readonly servers = new Map<string, ServerEntry>()
   private hosts: MobileDesktopRelayHosts | null = null
-  private revision = 0
+  readonly revision = new ProducerRevision()
 
   constructor(
     private readonly options: {
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ export class PairedServerRowsProducer implements ServerWorktreeRows {
       }
       this.servers.clear()
       this.hosts = null
-      this.revision += 1
+      this.revision.bump()
     }
   }
 
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ export class PairedServerRowsProducer implements ServerWorktreeRows {
       if (fences.get(environmentId) !== entry.fence) {
         entry.watch?.close()
         this.servers.delete(environmentId)
-        this.revision += 1
+        this.revision.bump()
       }
     }
     // Why the shown hosts: a managed server reached over its SSH host's relay is not in contact here.
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ export class PairedServerRowsProducer implements ServerWorktreeRows {
           refreshing: null,
           refreshAgain: false
         })
-        this.revision += 1
+        this.revision.bump()
       }
     }
     for (const entry of this.servers.values()) {
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ export class PairedServerRowsProducer implements ServerWorktreeRows {
       if (inContact !== entry.inContact) {
         entry.inContact = inContact
         entry.confirmed = false
-        this.revision += 1
+        this.revision.bump()
       }
       // Why current(): a replaced transport can end the stream without telling it.
       if (inContact && !entry.watch?.current()) {
@@ -173,7 +174,7 @@ export class PairedServerRowsProducer implements ServerWorktreeRows {
       ])
     )
     return {
-      revision: this.revision,
+      revision: this.revision.value,
       servers: [...this.servers.values()].map((entry) => {
         const hostId = toRuntimeExecutionHostId(entry.environmentId)
         return {
@@ -209,7 +210,7 @@ export class PairedServerRowsProducer implements ServerWorktreeRows {
   private unconfirm(entry: ServerEntry): void {
     if (entry.confirmed) {
       entry.confirmed = false
-      this.revision += 1
+      this.revision.bump()
     }
   }
 
@@ -245,6 +246,6 @@ export class PairedServerRowsProducer implements ServerWorktreeRows {
     entry.rows = stampServerWorktreeRows(entry.environmentId, reply.data.worktrees)
     entry.confirmed = entry.inContact
     // Every answer moves the revision: rows carry activity that changes without a catalog event.
-    this.revision += 1
+    this.revision.bump()
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/producer-revision.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/producer-revision.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4fd0deebe4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/producer-revision.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/** A producer's revision. Listeners hear each bump synchronously, possibly mid-change, so they read later. */
+export class ProducerRevision {
+  private count = 0
+  private readonly listeners = new Set<() => void>()
+
+  get value(): number {
+    return this.count
+  }
+
+  bump(): void {
+    this.count += 1
+    for (const listener of this.listeners) {
+      listener()
+    }
+  }
+
+  onChange(listener: () => void): () => void {
+    this.listeners.add(listener)
+    return () => {
+      this.listeners.delete(listener)
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/require-switched-on.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/require-switched-on.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..25fabe29819
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/require-switched-on.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+/** A producer that exists only with ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS=main, read where that build is certain. */
+export function requireSwitchedOn<Producer>(producer: Producer | null): Producer {
+  if (producer === null) {
+    throw new Error('sidebar inputs are off in this build')
+  }
+  return producer
+}
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-domains.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-domains.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0fa23c6f561
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-domains.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+import { getRegisteredSshState, listRegisteredSshTargets } from '../../ssh/ssh-target-registry'
+import { getWslHostService } from '../../wsl/wsl-host-service-instance'
+import type { RuntimeClientEvent } from '../../../shared/runtime-client-events'
+import type { DesktopSidebarFacts } from '../../../shared/sidebar-list/desktop-sidebar-facts'
+import type { RuntimeStore } from '../runtime-store-contract'
+import type { OrcaRuntimeWithSidebarTemporal } from './orca-runtime-sidebar-temporal'
+import type { PairedServerRowsProducer } from './paired-server-rows-producer'
+import type { WorkspaceCreationRegistry } from './workspace-creation-registry'
+import type { SidebarInputsFeedDomain } from './sidebar-inputs-feed'
+import { readDesktopSidebarFacts } from './desktop-sidebar-facts'
+
+/** This host's store and connection registries, read the way sidebarInputs.desktopFacts reads them. */
+export function readRuntimeDesktopSidebarFacts(store: RuntimeStore): DesktopSidebarFacts {
+  return readDesktopSidebarFacts({
+    store,
+    sshTargets: listRegisteredSshTargets(),
+    sshStateOf: getRegisteredSshState,
+    wslStatuses: getWslHostService()?.getStatuses() ?? []
+  })
+}
+
+// The bus every catalog, view and SSH change reaches clients through.
+const CATALOG_EVENTS = new Set<RuntimeClientEvent['type']>([
+  'worktreesChanged',
+  'reposChanged',
+  'workspaceViewChanged',
+  'sshStateChanged'
+])
+
+export type SidebarInputsFeedSources = {
+  facts: OrcaRuntimeWithSidebarTemporal
+  pairedServerRows: PairedServerRowsProducer
+  workspaceCreations: WorkspaceCreationRegistry
+  store: () => RuntimeStore | null
+  onClientEvent: (
+    listener: (event: RuntimeClientEvent) => void,
+    options: { consumesTerminalSideEffects: false }
+  ) => () => void
+}
+
+/** Every merged producer's snapshot, keyed per entity: a change re-sends only what it touched. */
+export function sidebarInputsFeedDomains(
+  sources: SidebarInputsFeedSources
+): SidebarInputsFeedDomain[] {
+  const { facts, pairedServerRows, workspaceCreations } = sources
+  const watchCatalog = (changed: () => void): (() => void) =>
+    sources.onClientEvent(
+      (event) => {
+        if (CATALOG_EVENTS.has(event.type)) {
+          changed()
+        }
+      },
+      { consumesTerminalSideEffects: false }
+    )
+  const requireStore = (): RuntimeStore => {
+    const store = sources.store()
+    if (!store) {
+      throw new Error('no store')
+    }
+    return store
+  }
+  return [
+    {
+      name: 'activity',
+      read: () => facts.getWorkspaceActivityFacts().facts,
+      watch: (changed) => facts.workspaceActivityFacts.revision.onChange(changed)
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'temporal',
+      read: () => {
+        const { sessionId, sortSnapshot, retention } = facts.getSidebarTemporalSnapshot()
+        return { sessionId, sortSnapshot, retention }
+      },
+      watch: (changed) => facts.onSidebarTemporalChange(changed)
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'creations',
+      read: () => workspaceCreations.snapshot().creations,
+      watch: (changed) => workspaceCreations.revision.onChange(changed)
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'pairedServerHosts',
+      read: () =>
+        Object.fromEntries(
+          pairedServerRows
+            .snapshot()
+            .servers.map(({ hostId, freshness, host }) => [hostId, { freshness, host }])
+        ),
+      watch: (changed) => pairedServerRows.revision.onChange(changed)
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'pairedServerRows',
+      read: () =>
+        Object.fromEntries(
+          pairedServerRows
+            .snapshot()
+            .servers.flatMap(({ rows }) => rows.map((row) => [row.key, row]))
+        ),
+      watch: (changed) => pairedServerRows.revision.onChange(changed)
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'desktop',
+      // Each field its own entity; the WSL registry announces no change.
+      read: () => readRuntimeDesktopSidebarFacts(requireStore()),
+      watch: (changed) => {
+        const store = sources.store()
+        const detaches = [
+          watchCatalog(changed),
+          store?.onUIChanged?.(changed),
+          store?.onWorkspaceSessionWritten?.(changed)
+        ]
+        return () => detaches.forEach((detach) => detach?.())
+      },
+      rereadOnRead: true
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'review',
+      read: async () => (await facts.getWorkspaceReviewFacts()).facts,
+      // The window's PR cache saves announce no change.
+      watch: watchCatalog,
+      rereadOnRead: true
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-log.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-log.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..07141c3a89e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-log.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+import type { FeedChange, FeedEntity } from './sidebar-inputs-feed-pages'
+
+export const FEED_LOG_MAX_REVISIONS = 256
+export const FEED_LOG_MAX_BYTES = 2 * 1024 * 1024
+
+/** Per domain, each changed key's new entity, or null when it was removed. */
+export type FeedRevisionChanges = Map<string, Map<string, FeedEntity | null>>
+
+type LogEntry = { revision: number; changes: FeedRevisionChanges; bytes: number }
+
+/** The last revisions' changes, bounded by count and bytes; older cursors read a snapshot. */
+export class FeedChangeLog {
+  private readonly entries: LogEntry[] = []
+  private bytes = 0
+
+  /** `floor` is the revision the log starts from: the oldest cursor it can bring current. */
+  constructor(private floor: number) {}
+
+  covers(cursor: number, revision: number): boolean {
+    return cursor >= this.floor && cursor <= revision
+  }
+
+  append(revision: number, changes: FeedRevisionChanges): void {
+    let bytes = 0
+    for (const changed of changes.values()) {
+      for (const [key, entity] of changed) {
+        bytes += key.length + (entity?.bytes ?? 0)
+      }
+    }
+    this.entries.push({ revision, changes, bytes })
+    this.bytes += bytes
+    while (this.entries.length > FEED_LOG_MAX_REVISIONS || this.bytes > FEED_LOG_MAX_BYTES) {
+      const dropped = this.entries.shift()
+      if (!dropped) {
+        break
+      }
+      this.bytes -= dropped.bytes
+      this.floor = dropped.revision
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Every key changed after `cursor`, in its latest form. */
+  *since(cursor: number): Iterable<FeedChange> {
+    const merged: FeedRevisionChanges = new Map()
+    for (const entry of this.entries) {
+      if (entry.revision > cursor) {
+        for (const [name, changed] of entry.changes) {
+          const into = merged.get(name) ?? new Map<string, FeedEntity | null>()
+          merged.set(name, into)
+          for (const [key, entity] of changed) {
+            into.set(key, entity)
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    for (const [name, changed] of merged) {
+      for (const [key, entity] of changed) {
+        yield [name, key, entity]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-pages.test.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-pages.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b34ce5b05c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-pages.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import {
+  SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MAX_BYTES,
+  SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MIN_BYTES,
+  SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SCHEMA_VERSION,
+  SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SEMANTICS_VERSION
+} from '../../../shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
+import {
+  feedEntityFromJson,
+  paginateFeedChanges,
+  type FeedChange
+} from './sidebar-inputs-feed-pages'
+
+const feedEntity = (value: unknown) => feedEntityFromJson(JSON.stringify(value))
+
+// Worst cases for escaping: quotes, backslashes, 3-byte and 4-byte characters.
+const NASTY = '"\\é中\u{1f600}
'
+
+function encodedPages(changes: FeedChange[], budget: number) {
+  return paginateFeedChanges(changes, budget).map((body, index, bodies) =>
+    JSON.stringify({
+      generation: '00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000',
+      revision: Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER,
+      schemaVersion: SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SCHEMA_VERSION,
+      semanticsVersion: SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SEMANTICS_VERSION,
+      kind: 'snapshot',
+      from: Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER,
+      domains: body.domains,
+      next: index + 1 < bodies.length ? `${'f'.repeat(36)}.${index + 1}` : null
+    })
+  )
+}
+
+describe('paginateFeedChanges', () => {
+  for (const budget of [SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MIN_BYTES, SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MAX_BYTES]) {
+    it(`keeps every encoded page within ${budget} bytes and rejoins oversized entities`, () => {
+      const changes: FeedChange[] = [
+        ['rows', 'small', feedEntity({ name: NASTY })],
+        ['rows', `huge${NASTY}`, feedEntity({ text: NASTY.repeat(budget / 4) })],
+        ...Array.from({ length: 500 }, (_, index): FeedChange => [
+          index % 2 ? 'rows' : `domain${NASTY}`,
+          `key-${index}${NASTY}`,
+          index % 7 ? feedEntity({ index, text: NASTY.repeat(index) }) : null
+        ])
+      ]
+      const pages = encodedPages(changes, budget)
+      expect(pages.length).toBeGreaterThan(2)
+      for (const page of pages) {
+        expect(Buffer.byteLength(page, 'utf8')).toBeLessThanOrEqual(budget)
+      }
+      const joined = pages
+        .map((page) => JSON.parse(page).domains.rows?.parts?.[`huge${NASTY}`] ?? '')
+        .join('')
+      expect(JSON.parse(joined)).toEqual({ text: NASTY.repeat(budget / 4) })
+    })
+  }
+
+  it('sends one empty page for no changes', () => {
+    expect(paginateFeedChanges([], SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MAX_BYTES)).toEqual([
+      { domains: {}, bytes: 0 }
+    ])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-pages.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-pages.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3bfb40771d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-pages.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+import type { SidebarInputsDomainChange } from '../../../shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
+
+/** One published entity: its value and that value's JSON, which the feed diffs and measures. */
+export type FeedEntity = { value: unknown; json: string; bytes: number }
+
+/** An entity's change: its new form, or null when it was removed. */
+export type FeedChange = readonly [domain: string, key: string, entity: FeedEntity | null]
+
+export type FeedPageBody = { domains: Record<string, SidebarInputsDomainChange>; bytes: number }
+
+/** Room left in every page for the reply's other fields; a page token is under 100 bytes. */
+export const FEED_PAGE_ENVELOPE_BYTES = 512
+// `"name":{"upserts":{},"removals":[],"parts":{}},` less the name.
+const DOMAIN_SHELL_BYTES = 44
+// Each entry's quotes, colon and comma.
+const ENTRY_SHELL_BYTES = 4
+// JSON text holds no raw control characters, so a code unit escapes to at most 3 UTF-8 bytes.
+const MAX_ESCAPED_BYTES_PER_CODE_UNIT = 3
+
+export function feedEntityFromJson(json: string): FeedEntity {
+  return { value: JSON.parse(json), json, bytes: Buffer.byteLength(json, 'utf8') }
+}
+
+function jsonBytes(text: string): number {
+  return Buffer.byteLength(JSON.stringify(text), 'utf8')
+}
+
+/**
+ * Splits changes into pages of at most `budgetBytes` encoded, envelope included. An entity too
+ * large for any page travels as JSON text parts, each filling its own page.
+ */
+export function paginateFeedChanges(changes: Iterable<FeedChange>, budgetBytes: number) {
+  const room = budgetBytes - FEED_PAGE_ENVELOPE_BYTES
+  const pages: FeedPageBody[] = []
+  let page: FeedPageBody = { domains: {}, bytes: 0 }
+  const domainOf = (name: string): { change: SidebarInputsDomainChange; cost: number } => {
+    const existing = page.domains[name]
+    return existing
+      ? { change: existing, cost: 0 }
+      : {
+          change: { upserts: {}, removals: [], parts: {} },
+          cost: jsonBytes(name) + DOMAIN_SHELL_BYTES
+        }
+  }
+  const place = (
+    name: string,
+    cost: number,
+    write: (change: SidebarInputsDomainChange) => void
+  ) => {
+    let domain = domainOf(name)
+    if (page.bytes + domain.cost + cost > room && page.bytes > 0) {
+      pages.push(page)
+      page = { domains: {}, bytes: 0 }
+      domain = domainOf(name)
+    }
+    page.domains[name] = domain.change
+    page.bytes += domain.cost + cost
+    write(domain.change)
+  }
+  for (const [name, key, entity] of changes) {
+    const keyBytes = jsonBytes(key) + ENTRY_SHELL_BYTES
+    if (entity === null) {
+      place(name, keyBytes, (change) => change.removals.push(key))
+    } else if (keyBytes + entity.bytes + jsonBytes(name) + DOMAIN_SHELL_BYTES <= room) {
+      place(name, keyBytes + entity.bytes, (change) => {
+        change.upserts[key] = entity.value
+      })
+    } else {
+      const partRoom = room - keyBytes - jsonBytes(name) - DOMAIN_SHELL_BYTES - 2
+      for (const part of splitJsonText(entity.json, partRoom)) {
+        place(name, keyBytes + jsonBytes(part), (change) => {
+          change.parts[key] = part
+        })
+        // Why: a page holds one part of an entity, so the reader joins parts in page order.
+        pages.push(page)
+        page = { domains: {}, bytes: 0 }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  if (page.bytes > 0 || pages.length === 0) {
+    pages.push(page)
+  }
+  return pages
+}
+
+/** Cuts text into pieces whose JSON string form fits `maxBytes`, never inside a surrogate pair. */
+function splitJsonText(text: string, maxBytes: number): string[] {
+  const units = Math.max(2, Math.floor(maxBytes / MAX_ESCAPED_BYTES_PER_CODE_UNIT))
+  const parts: string[] = []
+  for (let start = 0; start < text.length;) {
+    let end = Math.min(text.length, start + units)
+    const last = text.charCodeAt(end - 1)
+    if (end < text.length && last >= 0xd800 && last <= 0xdbff) {
+      end -= 1
+    }
+    parts.push(text.slice(start, end))
+    start = end
+  }
+  return parts
+}
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-pins.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-pins.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7fcc46e0ec5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed-pins.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import type { SidebarInputsReadResult } from '../../../shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
+
+/** A multi-page batch stays readable this long after its last page read. */
+export const FEED_PIN_IDLE_MS = 30_000
+export const FEED_PIN_MAX_BYTES = 16 * 1024 * 1024
+export const FEED_PIN_MAX_BATCHES = 8
+
+type Pin = { pages: readonly SidebarInputsReadResult[]; bytes: number; expiresAt: number }
+
+/**
+ * Batches whose later pages a reader fetches by token, unchanged and shared by every reader.
+ * They stay within their bounds, except one batch larger than them all, pinned alone.
+ */
+export class FeedPins {
+  /** By batch key, oldest first. */
+  private readonly pins = new Map<string, Pin>()
+
+  /** The batch pinned under `key`, if still readable. */
+  find(key: string): readonly SidebarInputsReadResult[] | null {
+    const pin = this.live(key)
+    return pin ? pin.pages : null
+  }
+
+  /** The page a token names; null once its batch expired or was evicted. */
+  page(token: string): SidebarInputsReadResult | null {
+    const split = token.lastIndexOf('#')
+    return this.live(token.slice(0, split))?.pages[Number(token.slice(split + 1))] ?? null
+  }
+
+  add(key: string, pages: readonly SidebarInputsReadResult[], bytes: number): void {
+    const now = Date.now()
+    let total = bytes
+    for (const [existing, pin] of this.pins) {
+      if (pin.expiresAt <= now) {
+        this.pins.delete(existing)
+      } else {
+        total += pin.bytes
+      }
+    }
+    for (const [existing, pin] of this.pins) {
+      if (total <= FEED_PIN_MAX_BYTES && this.pins.size < FEED_PIN_MAX_BATCHES) {
+        break
+      }
+      this.pins.delete(existing)
+      total -= pin.bytes
+    }
+    this.pins.set(key, { pages, bytes, expiresAt: now + FEED_PIN_IDLE_MS })
+  }
+
+  private live(key: string): Pin | null {
+    const pin = this.pins.get(key)
+    if (!pin || pin.expiresAt <= Date.now()) {
+      return null
+    }
+    pin.expiresAt = Date.now() + FEED_PIN_IDLE_MS
+    return pin
+  }
+}
+
+/** The token of a pinned batch's page. */
+export function feedPageToken(key: string, index: number): string {
+  return `${key}#${index}`
+}
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed.test-fixture.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed.test-fixture.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..41e9ada923d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed.test-fixture.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+import type {
+  SidebarInputsChangedEvent,
+  SidebarInputsReadResult
+} from '../../../shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
+import {
+  INITIAL_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_FEED_STATE,
+  refreshSidebarInputs,
+  sidebarInputsChanged,
+  sidebarInputsReplied,
+  type SidebarInputsFeedRequest,
+  type SidebarInputsFeedState,
+  type SidebarInputsFeedStep
+} from '../../../shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-installer'
+import type { SidebarInputsFeed, SidebarInputsFeedDomain } from './sidebar-inputs-feed'
+
+/** A domain whose entities a test edits; counts its reads and live watchers. */
+export function testDomain(
+  name: string,
+  initial: Record<string, unknown> = {},
+  options: { rereadOnRead?: boolean } = {}
+) {
+  let entities: Record<string, unknown> = { ...initial }
+  const watchers = new Set<() => void>()
+  let reads = 0
+  let failing = false
+  let gate: Promise<void> | null = null
+  const domain: SidebarInputsFeedDomain = {
+    name,
+    rereadOnRead: options.rereadOnRead,
+    read: async () => {
+      reads += 1
+      await gate
+      if (failing) {
+        throw new Error('read failed')
+      }
+      return { ...entities }
+    },
+    watch: (changed) => {
+      watchers.add(changed)
+      return () => watchers.delete(changed)
+    }
+  }
+  const announce = (): void => watchers.forEach((changed) => changed())
+  return {
+    domain,
+    entities: () => entities,
+    set(key: string, value: unknown) {
+      entities = { ...entities, [key]: value }
+      announce()
+    },
+    remove(key: string) {
+      entities = Object.fromEntries(
+        Object.entries(entities).filter(([existing]) => existing !== key)
+      )
+      announce()
+    },
+    fail(next: boolean) {
+      failing = next
+    },
+    /** Edits without announcing, as a source with no change event does. */
+    setQuietly(key: string, value: unknown) {
+      entities = { ...entities, [key]: value }
+    },
+    /** Holds every read until the returned release runs. */
+    hold(): () => void {
+      let release = (): void => {}
+      gate = new Promise((resolve) => {
+        release = () => {
+          gate = null
+          resolve()
+        }
+      })
+      return release
+    },
+    reads: () => reads,
+    watchers: () => watchers.size
+  }
+}
+
+/** A phone driving the shared installer against one feed, one reply at a time. */
+export class TestPhone {
+  state: SidebarInputsFeedState = INITIAL_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_FEED_STATE
+  pending: SidebarInputsFeedRequest | null = null
+  readonly replies: SidebarInputsReadResult[] = []
+
+  constructor(
+    public feed: SidebarInputsFeed,
+    readonly connectionId: string
+  ) {
+    feed.acquire(connectionId)
+  }
+
+  private apply(step: SidebarInputsFeedStep): void {
+    this.state = step.state
+    this.pending = step.request ?? this.pending
+  }
+
+  refresh(): void {
+    this.apply(refreshSidebarInputs(this.state))
+  }
+
+  notice(event: Pick<SidebarInputsChangedEvent, 'generation' | 'revision'>): void {
+    this.apply(sidebarInputsChanged(this.state, event))
+  }
+
+  /** The host answers the pending read now; the phone sees the answer only when `deliver` runs. */
+  async serveOne(): Promise<{ reply: SidebarInputsReadResult; deliver: () => void }> {
+    const request = this.pending
+    if (!request) {
+      throw new Error('no read pending')
+    }
+    this.pending = null
+    const reply = await this.feed.read(request.params)
+    return {
+      reply,
+      deliver: () => {
+        this.replies.push(reply)
+        this.apply(sidebarInputsReplied(this.state, request.id, reply))
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  async answerOne(): Promise<SidebarInputsReadResult> {
+    const { reply, deliver } = await this.serveOne()
+    deliver()
+    return reply
+  }
+
+  async settle(): Promise<void> {
+    while (this.pending) {
+      await this.answerOne()
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** The connection closed with whatever was in flight; the next ready supersedes it. */
+  disconnect(): void {
+    this.feed.release(this.connectionId)
+    this.pending = null
+  }
+
+  view(): Record<string, Record<string, unknown>> {
+    const view: Record<string, Record<string, unknown>> = {}
+    for (const [name, entities] of this.state.installed?.domains ?? []) {
+      if (entities.size > 0) {
+        view[name] = Object.fromEntries(entities)
+      }
+    }
+    return view
+  }
+}
+
+/** What a phone should hold: every non-empty domain's current entities. */
+export function truthOf(...domains: ReturnType<typeof testDomain>[]) {
+  const truth: Record<string, Record<string, unknown>> = {}
+  for (const domain of domains) {
+    if (Object.keys(domain.entities()).length > 0) {
+      truth[domain.domain.name] = domain.entities()
+    }
+  }
+  return truth
+}
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed.test.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6ab3a01da2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,390 @@
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import type {
+  SidebarInputsChangedEvent,
+  SidebarInputsReadResult
+} from '../../../shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
+import { sidebarInputsReplied } from '../../../shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-installer'
+import { SidebarInputsFeed } from './sidebar-inputs-feed'
+import { FEED_LOG_MAX_REVISIONS } from './sidebar-inputs-feed-log'
+import { FEED_PIN_IDLE_MS, FEED_PIN_MAX_BATCHES } from './sidebar-inputs-feed-pins'
+import { TestPhone, testDomain, truthOf } from './sidebar-inputs-feed.test-fixture'
+
+// Three ~100 KiB entities: a snapshot of them spans two 256 KiB pages.
+const BIG = 'x'.repeat(100 * 1024)
+
+function makeHost(initial: Record<string, unknown> = { a: 1 }) {
+  const rows = testDomain('rows', initial)
+  const view = testDomain('view', { sort: 'name' })
+  const events: SidebarInputsChangedEvent[] = []
+  const feed = new SidebarInputsFeed(
+    () => [rows.domain, view.domain],
+    (event) => events.push(event)
+  )
+  const lastEvent = (): SidebarInputsChangedEvent => {
+    const event = events.at(-1)
+    if (!event) {
+      throw new Error('no change notice yet')
+    }
+    return event
+  }
+  return { rows, view, feed, events, lastEvent, truth: () => truthOf(rows, view) }
+}
+
+/** Lets the feed coalesce and publish what the domains announced. */
+const flush = () => vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(60)
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  vi.useFakeTimers()
+})
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.useRealTimers()
+})
+
+describe('sidebar inputs feed', () => {
+  it('installs a snapshot, then a delta after a change', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.at(-1)?.kind).toBe('snapshot')
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+
+    host.rows.set('b', 2)
+    host.rows.remove('a')
+    await flush()
+    phone.notice(host.lastEvent())
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.at(-1)).toMatchObject({
+      kind: 'delta',
+      domains: { rows: { upserts: { b: 2 }, removals: ['a'] } }
+    })
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+  })
+
+  it('installs a paged snapshot whole, then catches up a change made while paging', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost({ a: BIG, b: BIG, c: BIG })
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    const first = await phone.answerOne()
+    expect(first.next).not.toBeNull()
+    expect(phone.state.installed).toBeNull()
+
+    host.rows.set('d', 'late')
+    await flush()
+    phone.notice(host.lastEvent())
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.map((reply) => reply.kind)).toEqual(['snapshot', 'snapshot', 'delta'])
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+  })
+
+  it('ignores a duplicate or late notice, and reads on a newer one', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    host.rows.set('a', 2)
+    await flush()
+    const notice = host.lastEvent()
+    phone.notice(notice)
+    await phone.settle()
+
+    phone.notice(notice)
+    phone.notice({ ...notice, revision: notice.revision - 1 })
+    expect(phone.pending).toBeNull()
+    phone.notice({ ...notice, revision: notice.revision + 1 })
+    expect(phone.pending?.params).toMatchObject({ cursor: notice.revision })
+  })
+
+  it('coalesces notices into one read in flight and one more after it', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    const served = await phone.serveOne()
+    for (let value = 2; value < 5; value += 1) {
+      host.rows.set('a', value)
+      await flush()
+      phone.notice(host.lastEvent())
+    }
+    expect(phone.pending).toBeNull()
+    served.deliver()
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.map((reply) => reply.kind)).toEqual(['snapshot', 'delta'])
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+  })
+
+  it('needs no second read when the reply already covers a notice', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    host.rows.set('a', 2)
+    await flush()
+    phone.refresh()
+    phone.notice(host.lastEvent())
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies).toHaveLength(2)
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+  })
+
+  it('drops a reply to a request it no longer waits on', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    const stale = phone.pending
+    phone.disconnect()
+    phone.feed.acquire(phone.connectionId)
+    phone.refresh()
+    if (!stale) {
+      throw new Error('expected a read')
+    }
+    const reply = await host.feed.read(stale.params)
+    expect(sidebarInputsReplied(phone.state, stale.id, reply).state).toBe(phone.state)
+  })
+
+  it('reads a snapshot when a delta does not start at the installed revision', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    host.rows.set('a', 2)
+    await flush()
+    phone.notice(host.lastEvent())
+    const request = phone.pending
+    if (!request) {
+      throw new Error('expected a read')
+    }
+    const reply = await host.feed.read(request.params)
+    const step = sidebarInputsReplied(phone.state, request.id, {
+      ...reply,
+      from: (reply.from ?? 0) - 1
+    })
+    expect(step.state.installed).toBe(phone.state.installed)
+    expect(step.request?.params).toEqual({ maxBytes: expect.any(Number) })
+  })
+
+  it('reads a snapshot once the cursor fell out of the log', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    for (let value = 0; value <= FEED_LOG_MAX_REVISIONS; value += 1) {
+      host.rows.set('a', value)
+      await flush()
+    }
+    phone.notice(host.lastEvent())
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.at(-1)?.kind).toBe('snapshot')
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+  })
+
+  it('starts over when a pinned snapshot expired mid-paging', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost({ a: BIG, b: BIG, c: BIG })
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.answerOne()
+    await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(FEED_PIN_IDLE_MS + 1)
+    expect((await phone.answerOne()).kind).toBe('reset')
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+  })
+
+  it('keeps what it installed across a disconnect and reads a snapshot from a new session', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost({ a: BIG, b: BIG, c: BIG })
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    const installed = phone.state.installed
+
+    host.rows.set('d', 1)
+    await flush()
+    phone.notice(host.lastEvent())
+    expect(phone.pending).not.toBeNull()
+    phone.disconnect()
+    expect(phone.state.installed).toBe(installed)
+
+    // The last subscriber left: the session's state and watches are gone.
+    expect(host.rows.watchers()).toBe(0)
+    host.rows.set('e', 1)
+    expect(host.rows.reads()).toBe(2)
+
+    phone.feed.acquire('conn-2')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.at(-1)?.kind).toBe('snapshot')
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+  })
+
+  it('reads a delta over a re-paired connection while the session lives on', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const other = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-other')
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    phone.disconnect()
+    host.rows.set('a', 2)
+    await flush()
+
+    phone.feed.acquire('conn-repaired')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.at(-1)?.kind).toBe('delta')
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+    other.disconnect()
+  })
+
+  it('serves two phones from one session, which ends with the last of them', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const first = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    const second = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-2')
+    first.refresh()
+    second.refresh()
+    await Promise.all([first.settle(), second.settle()])
+    expect(host.rows.reads()).toBe(1)
+
+    first.disconnect()
+    host.rows.set('a', 2)
+    await flush()
+    second.notice(host.lastEvent())
+    await second.settle()
+    expect(second.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+
+    second.disconnect()
+    expect(host.rows.watchers()).toBe(0)
+  })
+
+  it('replaces everything after a runtime restart, whose generation is new', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+
+    const restarted = makeHost({ z: 1 })
+    phone.feed = restarted.feed
+    restarted.feed.acquire('conn-1')
+    phone.notice({ generation: restarted.feed.generation, revision: 1 })
+    expect(phone.pending?.params).toMatchObject({ generation: host.feed.generation })
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.at(-1)?.kind).toBe('snapshot')
+    expect(phone.state.installed?.generation).toBe(restarted.feed.generation)
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(restarted.truth())
+  })
+
+  it('sends an entity larger than a page as parts, and a large revision as a paged delta', async () => {
+    const rankedIds = Array.from(
+      { length: 10_000 },
+      (_, index) => `runtime:env-${index}::/w/${index}`
+    )
+    const host = makeHost({ order: { rankedIds } })
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.length).toBeGreaterThan(2)
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+
+    for (let index = 0; index < 2_000; index += 1) {
+      host.rows.set(`row-${index}`, { name: `workspace ${index}`.padEnd(300, '.') })
+    }
+    await flush()
+    phone.notice(host.lastEvent())
+    const before = phone.replies.length
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.slice(before).every((reply) => reply.kind === 'delta')).toBe(true)
+    expect(phone.replies.length - before).toBeGreaterThan(1)
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+  })
+
+  it('keeps a domain as last published when its read fails', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    host.rows.fail(true)
+    host.rows.set('a', 2)
+    await flush()
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.view().rows).toEqual({ a: 1 })
+  })
+
+  it('bounds pinned batches, evicting the oldest', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost({ a: BIG, b: BIG, c: BIG })
+    host.feed.acquire('conn-1')
+    const firsts: SidebarInputsReadResult[] = []
+    for (let index = 0; index <= FEED_PIN_MAX_BATCHES; index += 1) {
+      // A different page size is a different batch.
+      firsts.push(await host.feed.read({ maxBytes: 200 * 1024 + index }))
+    }
+    const oldest = firsts[0].next
+    const newest = firsts.at(-1)?.next
+    if (!oldest || !newest) {
+      throw new Error('expected paged batches')
+    }
+    expect((await host.feed.read({ pageToken: oldest, maxBytes: 1 })).kind).toBe('reset')
+    expect((await host.feed.read({ pageToken: newest, maxBytes: 1 })).kind).toBe('snapshot')
+  })
+
+  it('reads nothing and announces nothing until a phone subscribes', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    host.rows.set('a', 2)
+    await flush()
+    expect(host.rows.reads()).toBe(0)
+    expect(host.rows.watchers()).toBe(0)
+    expect(host.events).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('re-reads a quiet source on every read, and joins concurrent reads into one flush', async () => {
+    const quiet = testDomain('quiet', { a: 1 }, { rereadOnRead: true })
+    const feed = new SidebarInputsFeed(
+      () => [quiet.domain],
+      () => {}
+    )
+    feed.acquire('conn-1')
+    await feed.read({ maxBytes: 1 })
+    quiet.setQuietly('a', 2)
+    const release = quiet.hold()
+    const reads = [feed.read({ maxBytes: 1 }), feed.read({ maxBytes: 1 })]
+    release()
+    const [first, second] = await Promise.all(reads)
+    expect(quiet.reads()).toBe(3)
+    expect(first).toMatchObject({ kind: 'snapshot', domains: { quiet: { upserts: { a: 2 } } } })
+    expect(second.revision).toBe(first.revision)
+  })
+
+  it('answers reset to a read whose session ended while it waited', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    host.feed.acquire('conn-1')
+    const release = host.rows.hold()
+    const read = host.feed.read({ maxBytes: 1 })
+    host.feed.release('conn-1')
+    release()
+    expect((await read).kind).toBe('reset')
+  })
+
+  it('refuses a page token from a session that ended', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost({ a: BIG, b: BIG, c: BIG })
+    host.feed.acquire('conn-1')
+    const first = await host.feed.read({ maxBytes: 1 })
+    host.feed.release('conn-1')
+    host.feed.acquire('conn-2')
+    if (!first.next) {
+      throw new Error('expected a paged snapshot')
+    }
+    expect((await host.feed.read({ pageToken: first.next, maxBytes: 1 })).kind).toBe('reset')
+  })
+
+  it('reads a snapshot past a revision larger than the whole log', async () => {
+    const host = makeHost()
+    const phone = new TestPhone(host.feed, 'conn-1')
+    phone.refresh()
+    await phone.settle()
+    for (let index = 0; index < 30; index += 1) {
+      host.rows.set(`big-${index}`, BIG)
+    }
+    await flush()
+    phone.notice(host.lastEvent())
+    await phone.settle()
+    expect(phone.replies.at(-1)?.kind).toBe('snapshot')
+    expect(phone.view()).toEqual(host.truth())
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7128ddfb182
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-inputs-feed.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,322 @@
+import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto'
+import {
+  SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MAX_BYTES,
+  SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MIN_BYTES,
+  SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SCHEMA_VERSION,
+  SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SEMANTICS_VERSION,
+  type SidebarInputsChangedEvent,
+  type SidebarInputsReadParams,
+  type SidebarInputsReadResult
+} from '../../../shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
+import {
+  feedEntityFromJson,
+  paginateFeedChanges,
+  type FeedChange,
+  type FeedEntity
+} from './sidebar-inputs-feed-pages'
+import { FeedChangeLog, type FeedRevisionChanges } from './sidebar-inputs-feed-log'
+import { FeedPins, feedPageToken } from './sidebar-inputs-feed-pins'
+
+/** One producer's snapshot, as entities keyed so that none is needlessly large. */
+export type SidebarInputsFeedDomain = {
+  name: string
+  read: () => Record<string, unknown> | Promise<Record<string, unknown>>
+  /** Calls `changed` after anything `read` depends on may have changed; returns the detach. */
+  watch: (changed: () => void) => () => void
+  /** Some of its sources announce no change, so every phone read re-reads it first. */
+  rereadOnRead?: boolean
+}
+
+// One revision per burst of producer changes.
+const FLUSH_COALESCE_MS = 50
+
+/**
+ * The phone's copy of the sidebar inputs, served from the producers' own snapshots. Everything
+ * here (published entities, log, pinned pages) exists only while a phone is subscribed; the
+ * producers run regardless, since the desktop reads them too.
+ */
+export class SidebarInputsFeed {
+  readonly generation = randomUUID()
+  private lastRevision = 0
+  private readonly subscribers = new Set<string>()
+  private session: FeedSession | null = null
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly domains: () => readonly SidebarInputsFeedDomain[],
+    private readonly emit: (event: SidebarInputsChangedEvent) => void
+  ) {}
+
+  get subscribed(): boolean {
+    return this.session !== null
+  }
+
+  /** True when `subscriberId` was not yet subscribed, so its caller owns the matching release. */
+  acquire(subscriberId: string): boolean {
+    if (this.subscribers.has(subscriberId)) {
+      return false
+    }
+    this.subscribers.add(subscriberId)
+    // The empty set is a revision of its own, so a cursor from before this session reads afresh.
+    this.session ??= new FeedSession(
+      this.domains(),
+      this.generation,
+      this.lastRevision + 1,
+      this.emit
+    )
+    return true
+  }
+
+  release(subscriberId: string): void {
+    if (this.subscribers.delete(subscriberId) && this.subscribers.size === 0 && this.session) {
+      this.lastRevision = this.session.dispose()
+      this.session = null
+    }
+  }
+
+  async read(params: SidebarInputsReadParams): Promise<SidebarInputsReadResult> {
+    const session = this.session
+    if (!session) {
+      throw new Error('sidebar inputs feed has no subscriber')
+    }
+    return session.read(params)
+  }
+}
+
+function feedReply(
+  generation: string,
+  kind: SidebarInputsReadResult['kind'],
+  revision: number,
+  from: number | null,
+  domains: SidebarInputsReadResult['domains'],
+  next: string | null
+): SidebarInputsReadResult {
+  return {
+    generation,
+    revision,
+    schemaVersion: SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SCHEMA_VERSION,
+    semanticsVersion: SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SEMANTICS_VERSION,
+    kind,
+    from,
+    domains,
+    next
+  }
+}
+
+class FeedSession {
+  private readonly published = new Map<string, Map<string, FeedEntity>>()
+  private readonly dirty = new Set<string>()
+  // Counts dirty marks; `flushedMarks` is the count the last finished flush had taken.
+  private marks = 0
+  private flushedMarks = 0
+  private readonly log: FeedChangeLog
+  private readonly pins = new FeedPins()
+  private readonly detaches: (() => void)[]
+  private timer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | null = null
+  private flushing: Promise<void> | null = null
+  private disposed = false
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly domains: readonly SidebarInputsFeedDomain[],
+    private readonly generation: string,
+    private revision: number,
+    private readonly emit: (event: SidebarInputsChangedEvent) => void
+  ) {
+    this.log = new FeedChangeLog(revision)
+    for (const domain of domains) {
+      this.markDirty(domain.name)
+    }
+    this.detaches = domains.map((domain) => domain.watch(() => this.invalidate(domain.name)))
+  }
+
+  /** Returns the last revision, which the next session continues from. */
+  dispose(): number {
+    this.disposed = true
+    if (this.timer) {
+      clearTimeout(this.timer)
+    }
+    for (const detach of this.detaches) {
+      detach()
+    }
+    return this.revision
+  }
+
+  async read(params: SidebarInputsReadParams): Promise<SidebarInputsReadResult> {
+    const { generation } = this
+    const reset = (): SidebarInputsReadResult =>
+      feedReply(generation, 'reset', this.revision, null, {}, null)
+    if (params.pageToken !== undefined) {
+      return this.pins.page(params.pageToken) ?? reset()
+    }
+    for (const domain of this.domains) {
+      if (domain.rereadOnRead) {
+        this.markDirty(domain.name)
+      }
+    }
+    await this.flushDirty()
+    // A release during the flush discarded what this read would serve.
+    if (this.disposed) {
+      return reset()
+    }
+    const budget = Math.min(
+      SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MAX_BYTES,
+      Math.max(SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MIN_BYTES, params.maxBytes)
+    )
+    const { cursor } = params
+    // Generations have no order: any other one, or a cursor the log no longer reaches, reads afresh.
+    if (
+      params.generation === generation &&
+      cursor !== undefined &&
+      this.log.covers(cursor, this.revision)
+    ) {
+      return this.batch(`delta:${cursor}`, cursor, budget, () => this.log.since(cursor))
+    }
+    return this.batch('snapshot', null, budget, () => this.everything())
+  }
+
+  private invalidate(name: string): void {
+    if (this.disposed) {
+      return
+    }
+    this.markDirty(name)
+    this.timer ??= setTimeout(() => {
+      this.timer = null
+      void this.flushDirty()
+    }, FLUSH_COALESCE_MS)
+  }
+
+  private markDirty(name: string): void {
+    this.dirty.add(name)
+    this.marks += 1
+  }
+
+  /** Resolves once everything dirty at the call is published, waiting on at most two flushes. */
+  private async flushDirty(): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.timer) {
+      clearTimeout(this.timer)
+      this.timer = null
+    }
+    const marks = this.marks
+    // A flush already running may have taken its domains before this call's marks.
+    while (this.flushedMarks < marks && !this.disposed) {
+      this.flushing ??= this.flush().finally(() => {
+        this.flushing = null
+      })
+      await this.flushing
+    }
+  }
+
+  private async flush(): Promise<void> {
+    const marks = this.marks
+    const due = this.domains.filter((domain) => this.dirty.has(domain.name))
+    this.dirty.clear()
+    const reads = await Promise.all(due.map((domain) => readDomain(domain)))
+    this.flushedMarks = marks
+    if (this.disposed) {
+      return
+    }
+    const changes: FeedRevisionChanges = new Map()
+    due.forEach((domain, index) => {
+      const changed = this.publish(domain.name, reads[index])
+      if (changed.size > 0) {
+        changes.set(domain.name, changed)
+      }
+    })
+    if (changes.size > 0) {
+      this.revision += 1
+      this.log.append(this.revision, changes)
+      this.emit({
+        type: 'sidebarInputsChanged',
+        generation: this.generation,
+        revision: this.revision
+      })
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Replaces a domain's published entities; returns what changed. A failed read changes nothing. */
+  private publish(name: string, read: Map<string, string> | null): Map<string, FeedEntity | null> {
+    const changed = new Map<string, FeedEntity | null>()
+    if (!read) {
+      return changed
+    }
+    const before = this.published.get(name) ?? new Map<string, FeedEntity>()
+    const after = new Map<string, FeedEntity>()
+    for (const [key, json] of read) {
+      const kept = before.get(key)
+      if (kept?.json === json) {
+        after.set(key, kept)
+      } else {
+        // Parsed from its own JSON, so a producer's later in-place edit cannot reach a page.
+        const entity = feedEntityFromJson(json)
+        after.set(key, entity)
+        changed.set(key, entity)
+      }
+    }
+    for (const key of before.keys()) {
+      if (!after.has(key)) {
+        changed.set(key, null)
+      }
+    }
+    this.published.set(name, after)
+    return changed
+  }
+
+  private *everything(): Iterable<FeedChange> {
+    for (const domain of this.domains) {
+      for (const [key, entity] of this.published.get(domain.name) ?? []) {
+        yield [domain.name, key, entity]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** The batch at this revision, pinned for its later pages; a reader at the same place shares it. */
+  private batch(
+    startsFrom: string,
+    from: number | null,
+    budget: number,
+    changes: () => Iterable<FeedChange>
+  ): SidebarInputsReadResult {
+    const key = `${startsFrom}:${this.revision}:${budget}`
+    const pinned = this.pins.find(key)
+    if (pinned) {
+      return pinned[0]
+    }
+    const bodies = paginateFeedChanges(changes(), budget)
+    const pages = bodies.map((body, index) =>
+      feedReply(
+        this.generation,
+        from === null ? 'snapshot' : 'delta',
+        this.revision,
+        from,
+        body.domains,
+        index + 1 < bodies.length ? feedPageToken(key, index + 1) : null
+      )
+    )
+    if (pages.length > 1) {
+      this.pins.add(
+        key,
+        pages,
+        bodies.reduce((sum, body) => sum + body.bytes, 0)
+      )
+    }
+    return pages[0]
+  }
+}
+
+/** Each entity's JSON; null when the read failed. */
+async function readDomain(domain: SidebarInputsFeedDomain): Promise<Map<string, string> | null> {
+  try {
+    const entities = new Map<string, string>()
+    for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(await domain.read())) {
+      // What JSON cannot hold (undefined, a function) is absent, as it would be on the wire.
+      const json: string | undefined = JSON.stringify(value)
+      if (json !== undefined) {
+        entities.set(key, json)
+      }
+    }
+    return entities
+  } catch (error) {
+    // The domain keeps what it last published; its next change or read tries again.
+    console.warn(`[sidebar-inputs-feed] could not read ${domain.name}`, error)
+    return null
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-temporal-owner.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-temporal-owner.ts
index adad22ec416..c04c20e47db 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-temporal-owner.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/sidebar-temporal-owner.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { ProducerRevision } from './producer-revision'
 import type { Repo } from '../../../shared/repo-types'
 import type { Worktree } from '../../../shared/worktree/types'
 import { getWorktreeHostIdentity } from '../../../shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity'
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ const RETENTION_DEADLINE = 'sleeping-retention'
  * compared against it and never persists ranks. It stays idle until a window begins a session.
  */
 export class SidebarTemporalOwner {
-  private revision = 0
+  readonly revision = new ProducerRevision()
   private sessionId: string | null = null
   private disposed = false
   private settleState = INITIAL_SORT_SETTLE_STATE
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ export class SidebarTemporalOwner {
 
   snapshot(): SidebarTemporalSnapshot {
     return {
-      revision: this.revision,
+      revision: this.revision.value,
       sessionId: this.sessionId,
       sortSnapshot: this.sortSnapshot,
       retention: this.retention
@@ -102,7 +103,7 @@ export class SidebarTemporalOwner {
     // Until the new session's first sample lands, a reader must not take the old warm ranks.
     this.sortSnapshot = null
     this.retentionState = createSleepingSweepRetentionState()
-    this.revision += 1
+    this.revision.bump()
     this.retentionPass()
     this.settleNow()
   }
@@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ export class SidebarTemporalOwner {
     this.identityById = new Map(
       sample.worktrees.map((worktree) => [worktree.id, getWorktreeHostIdentity(worktree)])
     )
-    this.revision += 1
+    this.revision.bump()
     this.scheduleCreateGraceBoundary(ranking.sorted, now)
   }
 
@@ -265,7 +266,7 @@ export class SidebarTemporalOwner {
       this.clock.cancel(RETENTION_DEADLINE)
       if (this.retention !== null) {
         this.retention = null
-        this.revision += 1
+        this.revision.bump()
       }
       return
     }
@@ -289,7 +290,7 @@ export class SidebarTemporalOwner {
     const previous = this.retention?.retainedIds
     if (!previous || previous.length !== ids.length || previous.some((id, i) => id !== ids[i])) {
       this.retention = { retainedIds: ids, retentionDecidedAt: now }
-      this.revision += 1
+      this.revision.bump()
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/workspace-activity-facts-producer.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/workspace-activity-facts-producer.ts
index 6fc48d8d16b..2dc7e5c3a23 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/workspace-activity-facts-producer.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/workspace-activity-facts-producer.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { ProducerRevision } from './producer-revision'
 import {
   AGENT_STATUS_STALE_AFTER_MS,
   isFreshNonDoneAgentStatus,
@@ -43,8 +44,7 @@ export class WorkspaceActivityFactsProducer {
   private readonly agentPanes = new Map<string, AgentPane>()
   private readonly agentPanesByWorktree = new Map<string, Map<string, AgentPane>>()
   private agentStore: AgentStatusStoreView | null = null
-  private readonly changeListeners = new Set<() => void>()
-  private revision = 0
+  readonly revision = new ProducerRevision()
   private expiryAt = Infinity
 
   constructor(
@@ -55,14 +55,8 @@ export class WorkspaceActivityFactsProducer {
     }
   ) {}
 
-  /** Told after every new revision. */
-  onChange(listener: () => void): () => void {
-    this.changeListeners.add(listener)
-    return () => this.changeListeners.delete(listener)
-  }
-
   snapshot(): WorkspaceActivityFactsSnapshot {
-    return { revision: this.revision, facts: Object.fromEntries(this.facts) }
+    return { revision: this.revision.value, facts: Object.fromEntries(this.facts) }
   }
 
   /** Re-reads the workspace's surfaces; the runtime calls this per publication. */
@@ -195,10 +189,7 @@ export class WorkspaceActivityFactsProducer {
       }
       this.facts.set(worktreeId, next)
     }
-    this.revision += 1
-    for (const listener of this.changeListeners) {
-      listener()
-    }
+    this.revision.bump()
   }
 
   // One deadline for the earliest lease; a renewed lease only moves later, so an early fire re-arms.
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/workspace-creation-registry.ts b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/workspace-creation-registry.ts
index e2dfc82fad9..2240c62ccac 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/workspace-creation-registry.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/sidebar-inputs/workspace-creation-registry.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { ProducerRevision } from './producer-revision'
 import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto'
 import type {
   WorkspaceCreation,
@@ -14,27 +15,27 @@ export type WorkspaceCreationHandle = {
 /** Every creation this host is running, whoever asked: its own window, a phone, the CLI. */
 export class WorkspaceCreationRegistry {
   private readonly creations = new Map<string, WorkspaceCreation>()
-  private revision = 0
+  readonly revision = new ProducerRevision()
 
   /** Opened once the project is known. A caller without an id gets one, so a CLI create is listed. */
   open(start: { creationId?: string; repoId: string }): WorkspaceCreationHandle {
     const creationId = start.creationId ?? randomUUID()
     const entry: WorkspaceCreation = { repoId: start.repoId }
     this.creations.set(creationId, entry)
-    this.revision += 1
+    this.revision.bump()
     // Identity, not id: a concurrent retry under the same id owns the entry from then on.
     const owns = (): boolean => this.creations.get(creationId) === entry
     return {
       named: (worktreeId) => {
         if (owns() && entry.worktreeId !== worktreeId) {
           entry.worktreeId = worktreeId
-          this.revision += 1
+          this.revision.bump()
         }
       },
       close: () => {
         if (owns()) {
           this.creations.delete(creationId)
-          this.revision += 1
+          this.revision.bump()
         }
       }
     }
@@ -45,6 +46,6 @@ export class WorkspaceCreationRegistry {
     for (const [creationId, entry] of this.creations) {
       creations[creationId] = { ...entry }
     }
-    return { revision: this.revision, creations }
+    return { revision: this.revision.value, creations }
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/runtime-client-ipc-bridge.ts b/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/runtime-client-ipc-bridge.ts
index 4fd0f8fb5a4..3ce59b73613 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/runtime-client-ipc-bridge.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/runtime-client-ipc-bridge.ts
@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@ export function registerRuntimeClientIpcBridge(
         })
       return
     }
+    // This window builds its sidebar from its own store, never from a host's phone feed.
+    if (event.type === 'sidebarInputsChanged') {
+      return
+    }
     // Older hosts broadcast local/CLI activation without an address; that is not this viewer's intent.
     if (!event.navigation || !navigationTargetsClients(event.navigation)) {
       return
diff --git a/src/shared/rpc-contract/rpc-params-catalog.generated.ts b/src/shared/rpc-contract/rpc-params-catalog.generated.ts
index f844d9a97fc..f6c9d9a82ab 100644
--- a/src/shared/rpc-contract/rpc-params-catalog.generated.ts
+++ b/src/shared/rpc-contract/rpc-params-catalog.generated.ts
@@ -625,6 +625,7 @@ import {
 } from './worktree-params'
 import { WorktreeAdoptProvisionedRoot } from './worktree-provisioned-root-params'
 import { RepoIconDataUrlsParams } from '../sidebar-list/repo-icon-data-urls-contract'
+import { SidebarInputsReadParams } from '../sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
 import { SkillBundleInstallRequestSchema } from '../skill-bundle-install-contract'
 import { SkillDeleteRequestSchema } from '../skill-delete-contract'
 import {
@@ -1254,6 +1255,7 @@ export const RPC_PARAMS_BY_METHOD = {
   'sidebarInputs.activityFacts': null,
   'sidebarInputs.desktopFacts': null,
   'sidebarInputs.pairedServerRows': null,
+  'sidebarInputs.read': SidebarInputsReadParams,
   'sidebarInputs.repoIcons': RepoIconDataUrlsParams,
   'sidebarInputs.reviewFacts': null,
   'sidebarInputs.temporal': null,
diff --git a/src/shared/runtime-client-events.ts b/src/shared/runtime-client-events.ts
index af26fb90a1a..4c2a58fe1fb 100644
--- a/src/shared/runtime-client-events.ts
+++ b/src/shared/runtime-client-events.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import type { TerminalSideEffectBatch } from './terminal-side-effect-facts'
 import type { RuntimeNativeChatLaunchDraftResolution } from './runtime-types'
 import type { RuntimeNavigationTarget } from './runtime-navigation'
 import type { WorktreeSortOrderUpdate } from './worktree/sort-order-update'
+import type { SidebarInputsChangedEvent } from './sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
 
 export type RuntimeClientEvent =
   | { type: 'reposChanged' }
@@ -23,6 +24,8 @@ export type RuntimeClientEvent =
     }
   | ({ type: 'nativeChatLaunchDraftResolved' } & RuntimeNativeChatLaunchDraftResolution)
   | { type: 'terminalSideEffects'; batch: TerminalSideEffectBatch }
+  /** Only while this host's own phone reads the sidebar feed; every other reader drops it. */
+  | SidebarInputsChangedEvent
   // Why: SSH connections live on the runtime host; paired clients have no IPC
   // channel for ssh:state-changed, so without this event their reconnect
   // overlays never learn the host connected (STA-1468).
diff --git a/src/shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract.ts b/src/shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8ca0b7bf471
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import { z } from 'zod'
+import { openEnum } from '../zod-salvage'
+
+/** The reply's shape; an added optional field keeps it. */
+export const SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SCHEMA_VERSION = 1
+/** What the inputs mean: bumps whenever the same inputs would build a different list. */
+export const SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SEMANTICS_VERSION = 1
+
+/** A page's encoded ceiling. A phone's bridge frame (640 KiB) holds it with the RPC envelope. */
+export const SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MAX_BYTES = 256 * 1024
+export const SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MIN_BYTES = 16 * 1024
+
+/**
+ * With no pageToken: a delta from `cursor` when it is still in this generation's log, else a
+ * snapshot. A pageToken continues the batch whose page named it.
+ */
+export const SidebarInputsReadParams = z.object({
+  generation: z.string().optional(),
+  cursor: z.number().int().nonnegative().optional(),
+  pageToken: z.string().optional(),
+  maxBytes: z.number().int().positive()
+})
+
+export type SidebarInputsReadParams = z.infer<typeof SidebarInputsReadParams>
+
+/** One domain's entities as the batch changes them. */
+const SidebarInputsDomainChangeSchema = z.object({
+  upserts: z.record(z.string(), z.unknown()),
+  removals: z.array(z.string()),
+  /** Pieces of entities too large for one page, as JSON text joined across the batch's pages. */
+  parts: z.record(z.string(), z.string())
+})
+
+export const SidebarInputsReadResultSchema = z.object({
+  /** A new id each time the runtime starts; ids have no order. */
+  generation: z.string(),
+  /** The revision this batch brings the reader to; a reset names the current one. */
+  revision: z.number().int(),
+  schemaVersion: z.number().int(),
+  semanticsVersion: z.number().int(),
+  // A kind this build has not heard of reads as a reset: re-read from what is installed.
+  kind: openEnum(['snapshot', 'delta', 'reset'], 'reset'),
+  /** A delta applies only on exactly this revision; null otherwise. */
+  from: z.number().int().nullable(),
+  domains: z.record(z.string(), SidebarInputsDomainChangeSchema),
+  /** The batch's next page; null on its last. A batch installs only once it is whole. */
+  next: z.string().nullable()
+})
+
+export type SidebarInputsDomainChange = z.infer<typeof SidebarInputsDomainChangeSchema>
+export type SidebarInputsReadResult = z.infer<typeof SidebarInputsReadResultSchema>
+
+/** Carries no data: a reader re-reads through sidebarInputs.read. */
+export type SidebarInputsChangedEvent = {
+  type: 'sidebarInputsChanged'
+  generation: string
+  revision: number
+}
diff --git a/src/shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-installer.test.ts b/src/shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-installer.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cd26db9341e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-installer.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import {
+  SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SCHEMA_VERSION,
+  SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SEMANTICS_VERSION,
+  type SidebarInputsReadResult
+} from './sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
+import {
+  INITIAL_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_FEED_STATE,
+  refreshSidebarInputs,
+  sidebarInputsChanged,
+  sidebarInputsReadFailed,
+  sidebarInputsReplied,
+  type SidebarInputsFeedStep
+} from './sidebar-inputs-feed-installer'
+
+function page(
+  fields: Partial<SidebarInputsReadResult> & Pick<SidebarInputsReadResult, 'kind' | 'revision'>
+): SidebarInputsReadResult {
+  return {
+    generation: 'g1',
+    schemaVersion: SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SCHEMA_VERSION,
+    semanticsVersion: SIDEBAR_INPUTS_SEMANTICS_VERSION,
+    from: null,
+    domains: {},
+    next: null,
+    ...fields
+  }
+}
+
+const rows = (upserts: Record<string, unknown>, removals: string[] = []) => ({
+  rows: { upserts, removals, parts: {} }
+})
+
+function reply(
+  step: SidebarInputsFeedStep,
+  result: SidebarInputsReadResult
+): SidebarInputsFeedStep {
+  if (!step.request) {
+    throw new Error('expected a read')
+  }
+  return sidebarInputsReplied(step.state, step.request.id, result)
+}
+
+/** Installed at g1 revision 3 with rows {a: 1}. */
+function installed(): SidebarInputsFeedStep {
+  return reply(
+    refreshSidebarInputs(INITIAL_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_FEED_STATE),
+    page({ kind: 'snapshot', revision: 3, domains: rows({ a: 1 }) })
+  )
+}
+
+const rowsOf = (step: SidebarInputsFeedStep) =>
+  Object.fromEntries(step.state.installed?.domains.get('rows') ?? [])
+
+describe('sidebar inputs installer', () => {
+  it('installs a snapshot, then applies a delta from exactly its revision', () => {
+    const base = installed()
+    expect(base.request).toBeNull()
+    const read = sidebarInputsChanged(base.state, { generation: 'g1', revision: 4 })
+    expect(read.request?.params).toMatchObject({ generation: 'g1', cursor: 3 })
+    const next = reply(
+      read,
+      page({ kind: 'delta', from: 3, revision: 4, domains: rows({ b: 2 }, ['a']) })
+    )
+    expect(rowsOf(next)).toEqual({ b: 2 })
+    expect(next.state.installed?.revision).toBe(4)
+  })
+
+  it('supersedes a read in flight on a stream ready and drops the stale reply', () => {
+    const first = refreshSidebarInputs(INITIAL_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_FEED_STATE)
+    const second = refreshSidebarInputs(first.state)
+    const stale = first.request
+    if (!stale) {
+      throw new Error('expected a read')
+    }
+    const dropped = sidebarInputsReplied(
+      second.state,
+      stale.id,
+      page({ kind: 'snapshot', revision: 1 })
+    )
+    expect(dropped.state).toBe(second.state)
+    expect(
+      rowsOf(reply(second, page({ kind: 'snapshot', revision: 2, domains: rows({ a: 1 }) })))
+    ).toEqual({ a: 1 })
+  })
+
+  it('reads once more after a notice its reply does not cover, and not after one it does', () => {
+    const base = installed()
+    const read = sidebarInputsChanged(base.state, { generation: 'g1', revision: 4 })
+    const covered = sidebarInputsChanged(read.state, { generation: 'g1', revision: 5 })
+    expect(covered.request).toBeNull()
+    expect(
+      reply({ ...read, state: covered.state }, page({ kind: 'delta', from: 3, revision: 5 }))
+        .request
+    ).toBeNull()
+    const uncovered = sidebarInputsChanged(read.state, { generation: 'g1', revision: 6 })
+    expect(
+      reply({ ...read, state: uncovered.state }, page({ kind: 'delta', from: 3, revision: 5 }))
+        .request?.params
+    ).toMatchObject({
+      cursor: 5
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('forgets a failed read, so the next notice or ready reads again', () => {
+    const base = installed()
+    const read = sidebarInputsChanged(base.state, { generation: 'g1', revision: 4 })
+    const noticed = sidebarInputsChanged(read.state, { generation: 'g1', revision: 5 })
+    if (!read.request) {
+      throw new Error('expected a read')
+    }
+    const failed = sidebarInputsReadFailed(noticed.state, read.request.id)
+    expect(failed).toMatchObject({ inFlight: null, staged: null, noticed: null })
+    expect(
+      sidebarInputsChanged(failed, { generation: 'g1', revision: 5 }).request?.params
+    ).toMatchObject({
+      cursor: 3
+    })
+    expect(refreshSidebarInputs(failed).request?.params).toMatchObject({ cursor: 3 })
+  })
+
+  it('stages pages and installs them only once the last lands', () => {
+    const first = reply(
+      refreshSidebarInputs(INITIAL_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_FEED_STATE),
+      page({ kind: 'snapshot', revision: 2, domains: rows({ a: 1 }), next: 'p#1' })
+    )
+    expect(first.state.installed).toBeNull()
+    expect(first.request?.params).toMatchObject({ pageToken: 'p#1' })
+    const done = reply(first, page({ kind: 'snapshot', revision: 2, domains: rows({ b: 2 }) }))
+    expect(rowsOf(done)).toEqual({ a: 1, b: 2 })
+  })
+
+  it('joins an entity’s parts across pages', () => {
+    const json = JSON.stringify({ rankedIds: ['x', 'y'] })
+    const part = (text: string) => ({ rows: { upserts: {}, removals: [], parts: { order: text } } })
+    const first = reply(
+      refreshSidebarInputs(INITIAL_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_FEED_STATE),
+      page({ kind: 'snapshot', revision: 2, domains: part(json.slice(0, 5)), next: 'p#1' })
+    )
+    const done = reply(first, page({ kind: 'snapshot', revision: 2, domains: part(json.slice(5)) }))
+    expect(rowsOf(done)).toEqual({ order: { rankedIds: ['x', 'y'] } })
+  })
+
+  it('reads a snapshot on a delta from elsewhere, a page from another batch, or unjoinable parts', () => {
+    const base = installed()
+    const read = sidebarInputsChanged(base.state, { generation: 'g1', revision: 5 })
+    const mismatch = reply(read, page({ kind: 'delta', from: 2, revision: 5 }))
+    expect(mismatch.state.installed).toBe(base.state.installed)
+    expect(mismatch.request?.params).toEqual({ maxBytes: expect.any(Number) })
+
+    const paging = reply(read, page({ kind: 'delta', from: 3, revision: 5, next: 'p#1' }))
+    expect(reply(paging, page({ kind: 'delta', from: 3, revision: 6 })).request?.params).toEqual({
+      maxBytes: expect.any(Number)
+    })
+
+    const broken = reply(
+      read,
+      page({
+        kind: 'delta',
+        from: 3,
+        revision: 5,
+        domains: { rows: { upserts: {}, removals: [], parts: { a: '{"unterminated' } } }
+      })
+    )
+    expect(broken.state.installed).toBe(base.state.installed)
+    expect(broken.request?.params).toEqual({ maxBytes: expect.any(Number) })
+  })
+
+  it('re-reads from what is installed on a reset, and on a notice from a new generation', () => {
+    const base = installed()
+    const read = refreshSidebarInputs(base.state)
+    expect(reply(read, page({ kind: 'reset', revision: 9 })).request?.params).toMatchObject({
+      cursor: 3
+    })
+    const restarted = sidebarInputsChanged(base.state, { generation: 'g2', revision: 1 })
+    expect(restarted.request?.params).toMatchObject({ generation: 'g1', cursor: 3 })
+    const next = reply(
+      restarted,
+      page({ generation: 'g2', kind: 'snapshot', revision: 1, domains: rows({ z: 1 }) })
+    )
+    expect(next.state.installed?.generation).toBe('g2')
+    expect(rowsOf(next)).toEqual({ z: 1 })
+  })
+
+  it('never installs a snapshot older than what it has', () => {
+    const base = installed()
+    const late = reply(refreshSidebarInputs(base.state), page({ kind: 'snapshot', revision: 2 }))
+    expect(late.state.installed).toBe(base.state.installed)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-installer.ts b/src/shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-installer.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..552f3baf5c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-installer.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+import {
+  SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MAX_BYTES,
+  type SidebarInputsChangedEvent,
+  type SidebarInputsDomainChange,
+  type SidebarInputsReadParams,
+  type SidebarInputsReadResult
+} from './sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
+
+/** The inputs a reader has installed whole: every domain's entities at one revision. Its consumer
+ *  compares the versions with its own and shows "Reopen to update" outside its range. */
+export type InstalledSidebarInputs = {
+  generation: string
+  revision: number
+  schemaVersion: number
+  semanticsVersion: number
+  domains: ReadonlyMap<string, ReadonlyMap<string, unknown>>
+}
+
+type StagedBatch = Pick<SidebarInputsReadResult, 'generation' | 'revision' | 'kind' | 'from'> & {
+  pages: readonly SidebarInputsReadResult['domains'][]
+}
+
+type FeedPosition = Pick<SidebarInputsChangedEvent, 'generation' | 'revision'>
+
+/**
+ * A phone's feed reader for one host connection. One read is awaited at a time and a refresh
+ * supersedes it; a notice the read may not cover, during paging included, costs one more read.
+ */
+export type SidebarInputsFeedState = {
+  installed: InstalledSidebarInputs | null
+  /** The pages of the batch being read, installed only once its last page lands. */
+  staged: StagedBatch | null
+  /** The read in flight; a reply to any other request is stale and dropped. */
+  inFlight: number | null
+  /** The newest notice that arrived after the read in flight was sent. */
+  noticed: FeedPosition | null
+  lastRequestId: number
+}
+
+export type SidebarInputsFeedRequest = { id: number; params: SidebarInputsReadParams }
+
+export type SidebarInputsFeedStep = {
+  state: SidebarInputsFeedState
+  /** The read to send now, if any. */
+  request: SidebarInputsFeedRequest | null
+}
+
+export const INITIAL_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_FEED_STATE: SidebarInputsFeedState = {
+  installed: null,
+  staged: null,
+  inFlight: null,
+  noticed: null,
+  lastRequestId: 0
+}
+
+function covers(position: FeedPosition | null, notice: FeedPosition): boolean {
+  return position?.generation === notice.generation && position.revision >= notice.revision
+}
+
+function send(
+  state: SidebarInputsFeedState,
+  params: Omit<SidebarInputsReadParams, 'maxBytes'>
+): SidebarInputsFeedStep {
+  const id = state.lastRequestId + 1
+  return {
+    state: { ...state, inFlight: id, lastRequestId: id },
+    request: { id, params: { ...params, maxBytes: SIDEBAR_INPUTS_PAGE_MAX_BYTES } }
+  }
+}
+
+/** A fresh read: the host serves it at its current revision, past every notice so far. */
+function readFromInstalled(state: SidebarInputsFeedState): SidebarInputsFeedStep {
+  const { installed } = state
+  return send(
+    { ...state, staged: null, noticed: null },
+    installed ? { generation: installed.generation, cursor: installed.revision } : {}
+  )
+}
+
+/** On every stream ready and return to the foreground; supersedes a read in flight. */
+export function refreshSidebarInputs(state: SidebarInputsFeedState): SidebarInputsFeedStep {
+  return readFromInstalled(state)
+}
+
+/** A change notice; one this reader already has or is fetching is a duplicate or arrived late. */
+export function sidebarInputsChanged(
+  state: SidebarInputsFeedState,
+  notice: FeedPosition
+): SidebarInputsFeedStep {
+  if (covers(state.staged ?? state.installed, notice) || covers(state.noticed, notice)) {
+    return { state, request: null }
+  }
+  return state.inFlight === null
+    ? readFromInstalled(state)
+    : { state: { ...state, noticed: notice }, request: null }
+}
+
+/** The read failed; the next ready, foreground or notice reads again. */
+export function sidebarInputsReadFailed(
+  state: SidebarInputsFeedState,
+  requestId: number
+): SidebarInputsFeedState {
+  return requestId === state.inFlight
+    ? { ...state, inFlight: null, staged: null, noticed: null }
+    : state
+}
+
+export function sidebarInputsReplied(
+  state: SidebarInputsFeedState,
+  requestId: number,
+  reply: SidebarInputsReadResult
+): SidebarInputsFeedStep {
+  if (requestId !== state.inFlight) {
+    return { state, request: null }
+  }
+  const settled = { ...state, inFlight: null }
+  if (reply.kind === 'reset') {
+    return readFromInstalled(settled)
+  }
+  const { staged, installed } = state
+  const continues = staged
+    ? staged.generation === reply.generation &&
+      staged.revision === reply.revision &&
+      staged.kind === reply.kind &&
+      staged.from === reply.from
+    : reply.kind === 'snapshot' ||
+      (installed?.generation === reply.generation && reply.from === installed.revision)
+  if (!continues) {
+    // Not the batch this reader asked for: only a whole snapshot is safe now.
+    return send({ ...settled, staged: null, noticed: null }, {})
+  }
+  const batch: StagedBatch = {
+    generation: reply.generation,
+    revision: reply.revision,
+    kind: reply.kind,
+    from: reply.from,
+    pages: [...(staged?.pages ?? []), reply.domains]
+  }
+  if (reply.next !== null) {
+    return send({ ...settled, staged: batch }, { pageToken: reply.next })
+  }
+  // A batch older than what is installed (a late snapshot) installs nothing.
+  const stale = installed?.generation === batch.generation && batch.revision < installed.revision
+  const next = stale ? installed : installBatch(installed, batch, reply)
+  if (!next) {
+    return send({ ...settled, staged: null, noticed: null }, {})
+  }
+  const done = { ...settled, staged: null, installed: next }
+  return done.noticed && !covers(next, done.noticed)
+    ? readFromInstalled(done)
+    : { state: { ...done, noticed: null }, request: null }
+}
+
+/** Applies a whole batch as one step; null when an entity's joined parts are not JSON. */
+function installBatch(
+  installed: InstalledSidebarInputs | null,
+  batch: StagedBatch,
+  last: Pick<SidebarInputsReadResult, 'schemaVersion' | 'semanticsVersion'>
+): InstalledSidebarInputs | null {
+  const domains = new Map(batch.kind === 'snapshot' ? [] : (installed?.domains ?? []))
+  const touched = new Map<string, Map<string, unknown>>()
+  const parts = new Map<string, Map<string, string>>()
+  const entitiesOf = (name: string): Map<string, unknown> => {
+    let entities = touched.get(name)
+    if (!entities) {
+      entities = new Map(domains.get(name) ?? [])
+      touched.set(name, entities)
+    }
+    return entities
+  }
+  for (const page of batch.pages) {
+    for (const [name, change] of Object.entries(page)) {
+      applyDomainChange(entitiesOf(name), change, parts, name)
+    }
+  }
+  for (const [name, texts] of parts) {
+    for (const [key, text] of texts) {
+      try {
+        entitiesOf(name).set(key, JSON.parse(text))
+      } catch {
+        return null
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  for (const [name, entities] of touched) {
+    domains.set(name, entities)
+  }
+  return {
+    generation: batch.generation,
+    revision: batch.revision,
+    schemaVersion: last.schemaVersion,
+    semanticsVersion: last.semanticsVersion,
+    domains
+  }
+}
+
+function applyDomainChange(
+  entities: Map<string, unknown>,
+  change: SidebarInputsDomainChange,
+  parts: Map<string, Map<string, string>>,
+  name: string
+): void {
+  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(change.upserts)) {
+    entities.set(key, value)
+  }
+  for (const key of change.removals) {
+    entities.delete(key)
+  }
+  for (const [key, text] of Object.entries(change.parts)) {
+    const texts = parts.get(name) ?? new Map<string, string>()
+    parts.set(name, texts)
+    texts.set(key, (texts.get(key) ?? '') + text)
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tests/e2e/sidebar-inputs-feed.spec.ts b/tests/e2e/sidebar-inputs-feed.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a5566301a60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/e2e/sidebar-inputs-feed.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+import { test, expect } from './helpers/orca-app'
+import { SIDEBAR_INPUTS_BUILD } from './helpers/sidebar-shadow'
+import { waitForActiveWorktree, waitForSessionReady } from './helpers/store'
+import { createDesktopMobilePairingOffer } from './helpers/paired-electron-client'
+import { pairMobileClient, type PairedMobileSocket } from './helpers/paired-mobile-client'
+import type { SidebarInputsReadResult } from '../../src/shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-contract'
+import {
+  INITIAL_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_FEED_STATE,
+  refreshSidebarInputs,
+  sidebarInputsChanged,
+  sidebarInputsReplied,
+  type SidebarInputsFeedState,
+  type SidebarInputsFeedStep
+} from '../../src/shared/sidebar-list/sidebar-inputs-feed-installer'
+
+/** Sends each read the installer asks for over the phone's one socket until none is left. */
+async function settle(socket: PairedMobileSocket, step: SidebarInputsFeedStep) {
+  const kinds: string[] = []
+  let { state, request } = step
+  while (request) {
+    const frameId = `feed-${request.id}`
+    socket.send(frameId, 'sidebarInputs.read', request.params)
+    await expect.poll(() => socket.frames.some((frame) => frame.id === frameId)).toBe(true)
+    const frame = socket.frames.find((candidate) => candidate.id === frameId)
+    expect(frame, JSON.stringify(frame?.error)).toMatchObject({ ok: true })
+    // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/consistent-type-assertions -- SAFETY: an ok sidebarInputs.read frame carries its result.
+    const reply = frame?.result as SidebarInputsReadResult
+    kinds.push(reply.kind)
+    ;({ state, request } = sidebarInputsReplied(state, request.id, reply))
+  }
+  return { state, kinds }
+}
+
+function pinned(state: SidebarInputsFeedState): unknown {
+  return state.installed?.domains.get('desktop')?.get('pinnedWorkspaceIds')
+}
+
+test.describe('switch on', () => {
+  test.skip(
+    !SIDEBAR_INPUTS_BUILD,
+    'sidebarInputs.read exists only in an ORCA_SIDEBAR_INPUTS=main build'
+  )
+
+  test('the host’s own phone reads a whole snapshot, then a delta after a change', async ({
+    orcaPage
+  }) => {
+    await waitForSessionReady(orcaPage)
+    const worktreeId = await waitForActiveWorktree(orcaPage)
+    const phone = pairMobileClient(await createDesktopMobilePairingOffer(orcaPage))
+    try {
+      const socket = await phone.openSocket()
+      socket.send('events', 'runtime.clientEvents.subscribe', null)
+
+      const first = await settle(socket, refreshSidebarInputs(INITIAL_SIDEBAR_INPUTS_FEED_STATE))
+      expect(first.kinds.every((kind) => kind === 'snapshot')).toBe(true)
+      const installed = first.state.installed
+      expect(installed?.domains.get('temporal')?.has('sortSnapshot')).toBe(true)
+      expect(pinned(first.state)).not.toContain(worktreeId)
+
+      await orcaPage.evaluate(
+        (id) =>
+          window.api.runtime.call({
+            method: 'worktree.set',
+            params: { worktree: `id:${id}`, isPinned: true }
+          }),
+        worktreeId
+      )
+      const notice = (): { generation: string; revision: number } | undefined =>
+        socket.frames
+          .map((frame) => frame.result)
+          .findLast(
+            (
+              result
+            ): result is { type: 'sidebarInputsChanged'; generation: string; revision: number } =>
+              typeof result === 'object' &&
+              result !== null &&
+              'type' in result &&
+              result.type === 'sidebarInputsChanged' &&
+              'revision' in result &&
+              typeof result.revision === 'number' &&
+              result.revision > (installed?.revision ?? 0)
+          )
+      await expect.poll(() => notice() !== undefined).toBe(true)
+      const event = notice()
+      if (!event) {
+        throw new Error('no change notice')
+      }
+      const second = await settle(socket, sidebarInputsChanged(first.state, event))
+      expect(second.kinds).toEqual(['delta'])
+      expect(second.state.installed?.generation).toBe(installed?.generation)
+      expect(pinned(second.state)).toContain(worktreeId)
+    } finally {
+      phone.dispose()
+    }
+  })
+})
+
+test.describe('switch off', () => {
+  test.skip(SIDEBAR_INPUTS_BUILD, 'checks the shipped method set')
+
+  test('a switch-off build refuses sidebarInputs.read to the phone', async ({ orcaPage }) => {
+    await waitForSessionReady(orcaPage)
+    const phone = pairMobileClient(await createDesktopMobilePairingOffer(orcaPage))
+    try {
+      const response = await phone.request('sidebarInputs.read', { maxBytes: 262_144 })
+      expect(response).toMatchObject({ ok: false })
+    } finally {
+      phone.dispose()
+    }
+  })
+})