From e025dfd9ea485beb477849daa71c2f33e6ee29e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brennan Benson <79079362+brennanb2025@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:36:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(agent-status): require spinner for working labels

---
 src/shared/agent-title-evidence.test.ts | 13 ++++++++++++-
 src/shared/agent-title-evidence.ts      |  6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.test.ts b/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.test.ts
index e01778da781..c6032f974ef 100644
--- a/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.test.ts
+++ b/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.test.ts
@@ -195,6 +195,14 @@ describe('collectAgentTitleEvidence', () => {
     expect(reasonFor(title)).toBe('anchored')
   })
 
+  it.each(['Droid', 'Hermes', 'Devin'])(
+    'does not treat a bare working label as synthetic identity: %s',
+    (title) => {
+      expect(agentFor(title)).toBeNull()
+      expect(reasonFor(title)).toBe('free-text-only')
+    }
+  )
+
   it.each([
     'Claude Code ready',
     'Claude thinking',
@@ -221,7 +229,10 @@ describe('collectAgentTitleEvidence', () => {
   it.each([
     ['⠋ Cursor Agent', 'cursor'],
     ['⠋ Pi idle', 'pi'],
-    ['⠋ OMP done', 'omp']
+    ['⠋ OMP done', 'omp'],
+    ['⠋ Droid', 'droid'],
+    ['⠋ Hermes', 'hermes'],
+    ['⠋ Devin', 'devin']
   ] as const)('recognizes the decorated identity frame %s', (title, agent) => {
     expect(agentFor(title)).toBe(agent)
     expect(reasonFor(title)).toBe('anchored')
diff --git a/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.ts b/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.ts
index c454865b6fb..85790cbc52c 100644
--- a/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.ts
+++ b/src/shared/agent-title-evidence.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
   GEMINI_SILENT_WORKING,
   GEMINI_WORKING,
   HERMES_AGENT_NAME_RE,
+  containsAgentSpinnerGlyph,
   isClaudeIdentityFrameSegment,
   isClaudeManagementTitle,
   isCursorNativeAgentTitle,
@@ -196,7 +197,10 @@ function agentForSyntheticTitle(text: string): TuiAgent | null {
     const profile = SYNTHETIC_AGENT_TITLE_PROFILES[agent]
     const emittedLabels = [profile.permissionLabel, profile.idleLabel]
     if (profile.synthesizeWorkingTitle !== false) {
-      emittedLabels.push(profile.workingLabel)
+      // Working labels are emitted only as spinner frames; a bare name is free text.
+      if (containsAgentSpinnerGlyph(trimmed) && normalized === profile.workingLabel.toLowerCase()) {
+        return agent
+      }
     }
     if (
       profile.synthesizeTerminalTitle !== false &&