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+import { createElement } from 'react'
+import { act, create, type ReactTestRenderer } from 'react-test-renderer'
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import type { BridgeInitRoute } from '../mobile-web-shell/bridge/bridge-envelope'
+import type { MobileSessionTab } from './mobile-session-route-types'
+
+type RouteUpdateListener = (route: BridgeInitRoute | null) => void
+
+const bridge = vi.hoisted(() => {
+  const held: {
+    route: BridgeInitRoute | null
+    listeners: RouteUpdateListener[]
+  } = { route: null, listeners: [] }
+  return held
+})
+
+vi.mock('../transport/client-context.web', () => ({
+  usePageBridgeClient: () => ({
+    getShellSession: () => ({ route: bridge.route }),
+    onRouteUpdate: (listener: RouteUpdateListener) => {
+      bridge.listeners.push(listener)
+      return () => {
+        bridge.listeners = bridge.listeners.filter((held) => held !== listener)
+      }
+    }
+  })
+}))
+
+import { useNotificationPaneNavigation } from './use-notification-pane-navigation.web'
+
+/** A real leaf id: `parsePaneKey` refuses anything that is not one, so a made-up key parses to
+ *  nothing and every case below would read as "the pane closed". */
+const LEAF = '11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111'
+
+const TABS: MobileSessionTab[] = [
+  {
+    type: 'terminal',
+    id: 'first',
+    parentTabId: 'tab-a',
+    leafId: LEAF,
+    title: 'first',
+    terminal: 'pty-a',
+    isActive: true
+  },
+  {
+    type: 'terminal',
+    id: 'second',
+    parentTabId: 'tab-b',
+    leafId: LEAF,
+    title: 'second',
+    terminal: 'pty-b',
+    isActive: false
+  }
+]
+
+const switched: MobileSessionTab[] = []
+
+function Probe({ terminalsLoaded }: { terminalsLoaded: boolean }): null {
+  useNotificationPaneNavigation({
+    sessionTabs: TABS,
+    terminalsLoaded,
+    switchSessionTab: (tab) => switched.push(tab)
+  })
+  return null
+}
+
+function render(terminalsLoaded: boolean): ReactTestRenderer {
+  const rendered: { tree: ReactTestRenderer | null } = { tree: null }
+  act(() => {
+    rendered.tree = create(createElement(Probe, { terminalsLoaded }))
+  })
+  if (rendered.tree === null) {
+    throw new Error('the probe did not render')
+  }
+  return rendered.tree
+}
+
+/** What the shell does: re-send `init`, which the client publishes as a route that moved. */
+function deliver(paneKey: string): void {
+  act(() => {
+    for (const listener of bridge.listeners.slice()) {
+      listener({ pathname: '/h/host-1/session/wt-1', params: { paneKey } })
+    }
+  })
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  bridge.route = null
+  bridge.listeners = []
+  switched.length = 0
+})
+
+/**
+ * The page's pane hook, which has no route to read and no param to write back.
+ *
+ * Its native sibling reads `paneKey` off the app's route and clears it with `setParams`; inside
+ * the page the document is served at `/` with one history entry, so the request arrives as a
+ * re-sent `init` instead (ruling 33.1) and the shell clears the native param once this page has
+ * been handed one. The native file's test mounts the native file, and the bridge test stops at
+ * the client, so this is the only cover this half has.
+ */
+describe('the page pane hook', () => {
+  it('switches to the pane the page was opened on, which arrives in the first init', () => {
+    bridge.route = { pathname: '/h/host-1/session/wt-1', params: { paneKey: `tab-b:${LEAF}` } }
+    render(true)
+    expect(switched.map((tab) => tab.id)).toEqual(['second'])
+  })
+
+  it('holds that request until the terminals have loaded, rather than dropping it', () => {
+    bridge.route = { pathname: '/h/host-1/session/wt-1', params: { paneKey: `tab-b:${LEAF}` } }
+    const tree = render(false)
+    expect(switched).toEqual([])
+    act(() => {
+      tree.update(createElement(Probe, { terminalsLoaded: true }))
+    })
+    expect(switched.map((tab) => tab.id)).toEqual(['second'])
+  })
+
+  it('switches again for a repeat tap on the pane already showing', () => {
+    // The counter is why: the route is the one this hook last acted on, so a listener that
+    // compared values would read the second tap as nothing having changed.
+    render(true)
+    deliver(`tab-a:${LEAF}`)
+    deliver(`tab-a:${LEAF}`)
+    expect(switched.map((tab) => tab.id)).toEqual(['first', 'first'])
+  })
+
+  it('takes a different pane as its own request', () => {
+    render(true)
+    deliver(`tab-a:${LEAF}`)
+    deliver(`tab-b:${LEAF}`)
+    expect(switched.map((tab) => tab.id)).toEqual(['first', 'second'])
+  })
+
+  it('ignores the clear the shell posts after each delivery', () => {
+    // Load-bearing rather than defensive: the shell clears the native param once the page has the
+    // route, and that clear is itself a route that moved.
+    render(true)
+    deliver(`tab-a:${LEAF}`)
+    deliver('')
+    expect(switched.map((tab) => tab.id)).toEqual(['first'])
+  })
+
+  it('consumes a request for a pane that has since closed, so no later render serves it', () => {
+    render(true)
+    deliver(`gone:${LEAF}`)
+    expect(switched).toEqual([])
+    // A re-render with nothing new delivered must not go looking for it again.
+    deliver('')
+    expect(switched).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('does nothing at all when the page was opened on no pane', () => {
+    render(true)
+    expect(switched).toEqual([])
+  })
+})