Brennan Benson 29c7d5d983 fix(mobile): start AI-button agents through agent.launch, never a bare shell (#22762)
* fix(mobile): start AI-button agents through agent.launch, never a bare shell

"Fix checks with AI", "Resolve conflicts with AI", commit-failure recovery and
diff review's "New Agent Session" created a terminal with no agent and typed the
multi-line prompt into the shell, so each line ran as a shell command.

They now call agent.launchReplay into the existing workspace with the prompt;
the host picks chat or terminal from the user's default and delivers the prompt.
Hosts without the launch capabilities get the buttons disabled with update copy.

The agent comes from the desktop's own resolution (moved to src/shared). The
replay loop and capability read are shared with the workspace-create launch.

* test(mobile): repin bridged-parity tallies for the AI-button launch goldens

The corpus goes from 787 to 790 goldens: five shell-path goldens are removed and
eight agent.launch ones added; one lands in identical and two in
result-absent-settlement.

* test(mobile): re-record goldens for AI-button launches through agent.launch

Repinned baseline to 514ab7f868 and re-recorded all goldens. Against the branch
point: 781 header-only (baseline on all; adapterSha256 on the 48 goldens whose
adapter module changed; scenarioSha256 on 3), one body moved
(pr-triage-launch: createTerminal + terminal.send becomes agent.launchReplay),
eight added (the new launch outcomes and their reply matrices) and five deleted
(the shell-path scenarios and their matrices).

* fix(mobile): show review notes' agent launch progress and failures, once

"New Agent Session" left the sheet open with no progress for the whole launch
(up to a minute while a terminal agent readies), so a second tap started a
second agent, and a launch that never started or could not be confirmed
rejected an unobserved promise, showing nothing. The sheet now closes on tap,
the review screen says "Starting an agent...", one launch runs at a time, and
every outcome lands in the review screen's status line.

Marking notes sent now reads the screen state when the launch settles, so a
note written during the wait is not dropped by the whole-list save.

* test(mobile): re-record goldens for review notes' launch outcome on the review screen

Repins the corpus to 6f3018576d. One golden body moves:
review-create-agent-refused now fulfils with "Workspace not found" in the
review screen's status line and the sheet closed, where it previously
rejected an unobserved promise and left the status line empty. The other
789 goldens move only their baseline header.

* test(agent-status): drop the retired PR-triage terminal send from the identity inventory

The phone's AI buttons no longer create a terminal and send the prompt into it
(`createTerminalAndSendPrompt` is gone); the host's agent launch delivers it.
There is no terminal action consumer left in that file to pin.

* fix(runtime): publish saved source-control launch recipes to paired clients

settings.get is an allowlist and omitted sourceControlAi, so the phone never
saw an agent saved globally for "Fix checks", "Resolve conflicts" or commit
recovery and always fell back to the default agent. The host now publishes
the launch actions' recipes (agent, prompt template, agent args), normalized
so legacy saved defaults are already migrated. A new optional reply field:
older clients ignore it, and a client talking to an older host sees none and
keeps using the default agent.

* fix(mobile): ask to update Orca only when the host answered without agent launch

An unread or failed status read settles with no capabilities, which the AI
buttons read as an old host and showed "Update Orca on your computer". The
update copy now needs a status the host actually returned; an unread one keeps
the buttons disabled without blaming the desktop's version.

* fix(mobile): send an AI button's saved agent arguments with its launch

The desktop's direct launches for "Fix checks", "Resolve conflicts" and commit
recovery pass the action's saved agent arguments to agent.launch; the phone
honoured the saved agent but dropped its arguments. It now sends them the same
way: absent when none are saved, so the host keeps the user's configured
defaults. A host that predates the field ignores it.

* test(mobile): repin the RPC recording corpus after the launch recipe and availability fixes

Repins to fe85e0346f. All 790 goldens move only their baseline header: no
scenario saves agent arguments or reads an unreadable status, so no recorded
behaviour changes.

* fix(mobile): say the host status is unreadable instead of nothing when it is

With the update copy now reserved for a host that answered without agent
launch, an unread status left the AI buttons disabled with no explanation.
They now say "Could not read this host's status. Go back and reopen it.", the
words the mobile web shell already uses for the same failure; leaving the host
re-reads its status.

* fix(mobile): wrap an AI button's prompt in the action's saved template

The desktop renders every source-control launch's prompt through the action's
saved template (buildSourceControlRecoveryAgentCommandInput); the phone sent
its built-in prompt as is. Now that the host publishes the recipes, the phone
renders through the same shared function, refuses an empty result as the
desktop does, and offers the rendered text when it could not be delivered.
Review notes have no recipe and are unchanged.

* test(mobile): re-record goldens for the templated AI-button prompt

Repins to 7fd1555d20. One golden body moves: pr-triage-prompt-not-delivered
now carries the prompt as sent (rendered through the action's template) on its
prompt-not-sent result, which is what Copy prompt offers. The other 789
goldens move only their baseline header.

* fix(mobile): re-read a host status that failed while the connection stayed up

A status.get that timed out or was cut over settled the host's gates closed
and was never asked again until the connection state changed, so the phone's
AI buttons stayed disabled behind "Could not read this host's status" on a
link that was working. The gate still settles closed at once, so a failed
read never holds the host screen, but it now re-asks in the background with
the same backoff the runtime capability probe uses, and opens once a status
lands. A reply this app cannot decode is not re-asked.

* test(mobile): repin the RPC recording corpus after the host status re-read

The status gate change moves no recorded behavior: every golden's body is
unchanged and only its baseline header moves to the new pin.

* fix(mobile): show a launch's host warning as a note, not an error

A launch that went ahead can carry a host warning (a structured chat ignores saved agent
arguments, including the '' a template-only save writes). The AI buttons rendered it in the red
error line beside a success haptic. The notice now carries it separately as secondary text, and
review notes keep saying they were sent. Commit recovery also takes the synchronous in-flight lock
the PR triage buttons use, so two taps before a re-render start one agent.

* chore(mobile): record the host status re-read timer for React Doctor

The status re-read arms one retry timer from inside its read and clears it in the effect's
cleanup. React Doctor reports that self-rescheduling shape even in its minimal form, which failed
both changed-lines gates. Suppressed the same way as the session startup timers.

* fix(mobile): say review notes are waiting for the desktop instead of doing nothing

With no live connection, New Agent Session threw from a handler whose promise the sheet drops, so
the tap did nothing visible while the button stayed enabled (proven capabilities survive a drop).
It now closes the sheet and shows "Waiting for desktop..." as the other AI buttons do.

* fix(mobile): stop sending an AI button's saved agent arguments

Whether saved arguments apply depends on the route and shell the host settles after the request
(a chat ignores them and warns; malformed ones fail after admission), and the desktop sends them
only when they apply. The phone cannot know that, so it now leaves them out and the agent's default
arguments apply, as before this series. The saved agent and prompt template still apply.

* fix(mobile): mark review notes sent through the latest save

The sent marks after an agent launch went through the save callback captured at tap time, whose
rollback restores the screen from that moment, so a failed save could drop notes written during
the launch. It now uses the latest render's save, as it already did for the screen state.

* refactor(mobile): own the host status re-read outside the effect

The re-read loop lived inside the effect body, so React Doctor could not see its cleanup and
needed an inline suppression plus a config allowlist entry. The loop is now a plain function that
returns its stop handle, and the effect returns that handle, the same shape every caller of the
runtime capability probe uses. Both suppressions are removed; behaviour is unchanged.

* test(mobile): record the host descriptor from a background status re-read

Pins that the status read records the host descriptor when a re-read succeeds after a failed first
read, not only on the first answer.

* fix(mobile): show a PR AI launch notice only under the button that launched it

Fix checks and Resolve conflicts shared one error, warning and undelivered prompt, so a Fix checks
launch whose prompt was not sent also offered "Copy prompt" under Resolve conflicts, copying the
fix-checks prompt. Notices are now kept per button. The host availability notice stays under each
disabled button, since it explains why that button cannot be tapped.

* fix(mobile): say the host status is being retried instead of asking to reopen it

The host status gate now re-reads a failed status in the background, so "Go back and reopen it"
asked the user for a step that is no longer needed. The review sheet hint uses the same words.
The mobile web shell keeps its own copy.

* refactor(mobile): run the host status gate on the shared status probe

The gate had its own copy of the status probe's retry loop (same delays, same cutover and backoff
split, same stop on an undecodable status). The probe now takes an optional callback for each
failed attempt, which the gate uses to settle closed on the first failure, and the duplicate loop
and its now-unused reader are removed. Existing probe callers are unchanged.

* test(mobile): repin the RPC recording corpus after merging main

Re-records every golden against the merge commit and drops the three goldens whose
scenarios this branch removed, which the merge had restored from main.

* test(mobile): re-record the RPC goldens on the merge with main

Conflicted goldens were seeded from main and re-recorded against the merged
tree; every value either side recorded survives except main's terminal.send in
the PR triage launch, which this branch removes. Drops three goldens main still
had for scenarios this branch deleted.

* feat(mobile): confirm an AI button's agent started, naming the workspace

Fix checks, Resolve conflicts and commit recovery now show "Agent started in
<workspace>" under the button once the host started the agent with its prompt,
so a tap is no longer silent. The workspace label comes from the Source Control
panel and falls back to the branch.

* test(mobile): repin the recording baseline to the success-confirmation commit (header-only)

* fix(mobile): name the workspace in the diff review's AI-button confirmation

The diff review screen mounted the PR sidebar without a workspace label, so
"Agent started in ..." under Fix checks and Resolve conflicts named the branch
while the screen header named the workspace. The sidebar now requires the label
so no screen can drop it, and the diff review passes the one its header shows.

* test(mobile): re-record the RPC goldens on the merge with main

Repins baseline to the merge commit, the last commit to touch a fenced
path. Against this branch before the merge, only header fields move:
baseline on every golden, and adapterSha256 on the 14 review-action goldens
whose adapter main now drives through the review sheet state. No recorded
body changed.

* test(mobile): re-record the RPC goldens on the merge with main

Repins baseline to the merge commit, the last commit to touch a fenced
path. Against this branch before the merge only the baseline header moves,
on every golden; no recorded body changed.

* test(mobile): give the send-sheet stacking test the review controller's host status inputs

The merge with main brought in #22951's stacking test, which builds the review
controller without the host capability and status inputs this branch made
required, so the mobile test typecheck ratchet failed.

* test(mobile): re-record the RPC goldens on the merge with main

Repins baseline to the merge commit 03995ae29d, the last commit to touch a
fenced path. Against this branch before the merge only headers move: baseline
on every golden, and adapterSha256 on the 14 goldens recorded through the
terminal adapter main changed in #23080. No recorded body changed, and the
merged corpus differs from main exactly as this branch did before.
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