Brennan Benson 6835b9b4e3 fix(mobile): paired clients re-derive a kept terminal after a cold restore (#23109)
* fix(mobile): paired clients re-derive a kept terminal after a cold restore

A renderer frame published before a cold-restored terminal's PTY registered
was fenced to an empty tab list and recorded as accepted, and the renderer
never resends unchanged content. When registerPty binds a surface the
accepted frame fenced out, re-merge that frame so the fence reads current
state.

* test(mobile): drive the live desktop window through the runtime's desktop seam

* test(mobile): the re-derive path never flushes the store synchronously

* test(mobile): a re-derived frame must not bring back a surface the host retired after accept

* fix(mobile): a re-derived frame changes membership only for the registering surface

The replay re-ran the whole accepted frame, so a surface the host retired
after accept (a phone close whose remote PTY is still exiting, or a closed
chat tab) came back. Every other surface now keeps the host's current
decision; the removal repair is extracted from the terminal retirement
helper so non-terminal tabs are removed the same way.

* test(mobile): a re-derived frame must not drop or disown a phone-created terminal the desktop has not published

* fix(mobile): a re-derived frame does not infer renderer retirements from its older frame

* revert(mobile): drop the replay of a fenced renderer frame

Reverts the production parts of a88e1eaa0a, f5b99d0003 and 5af1c6d97a: the kept
renderer frame, rederiveFencedRendererSurface and its registerPty call, and the
mergeRendererMobileSnapshot / removeMobileSessionSnapshotTabs extractions. The
fence will instead read the host's saved membership record. The test file stays
and is rewritten for that mechanism.

* fix(mobile): the paired-list fence admits a terminal the saved session still lists

After a cold restore the in-memory mobile snapshot and PTY table start empty,
so in a repo with host-authoritative terminal membership the fence dropped a
restored terminal whose renderer frame arrived before its PTY registered, and
paired clients never listed it. The fence now also admits a surface the host's
saved workspace session still lists (tab under the worktree, leaf in its
layout), and registerPty pushes the listing so pending-handle turns ready at
once. A restored pane whose PTY never returns is listed as pending-handle, as in
repos that are not host-authoritative.

* test(mobile): keep the desktop window stub's type assertion on its SAFETY line

* fix(mobile): coalesce the registration push for a listed restored terminal

registerPty pushed the paired list immediately on every registration that backs a
listed surface. The desktop's graph sync after a spawn already publishes the same
pending-handle to ready flip on the 50 ms coalescing window, so each restored pane
cost two pushes, and a restore of N panes cost N immediate full-list pushes per
client. The touch now rides the same coalescing window, which still covers a
registration no graph change follows.

The test's "unchanged" sync dropped the graph's tab, which is itself a change, and
its no-extra-push assertion ran before any coalesced push could fire; both are
fixed, and a restore of two panes is asserted to push once.

The fence comment no longer claims the new clause keeps pending leaves out of the
graph: once the surface is listed, its leaves pass the shared predicate through
that listing, as any listed surface's do.

* fix(mobile): read saved membership only from the worktree's own session partition

For a runtime-host workspace, emptying the owning partition re-routes session reads to a single
other partition that still lists the worktree. If that older copy lists a surface a retirement just
removed, a lagging renderer frame could re-admit it. The saved-membership check now reads only the
partition the worktree's host names, so it never trusts a fallback copy.

* test(mobile): pin the own saved partition for every workspace host kind

Also correct the immediate-emit comment: only an exit bypasses the window; a registration's ready flip coalesces.
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