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Brennan Benson a4606ccae3 fix(cli): orca file open no longer moves your view unless you pass --focus (#24244)
* docs(cli): file open/diff/open-changed say they switch the user's view and are for user requests only

Refs #9944

* fix(cli): file open/diff/open-changed leave the user's view alone unless --focus

`orca file open`, `file diff` and `file open-changed` always switched the
desktop to the target worktree, selected the tab and revealed it in the
sidebar. An agent skill that opens its answer pulled the user out of whatever
they were typing in (#9944), and a phone opening a file moved the desktop too.

The commands now add the tab in its worktree without changing anything on
screen, including when that worktree is the one being viewed: the new tab is
added to the tab bar but the active tab, tab type and focus stay put. In a
worktree the user is not viewing, the tab becomes that worktree's selection so
it is in front when they go there. `--focus` keeps today's behavior.

files.open / files.openDiff take an optional `navigation` target (the existing
RUNTIME_NAVIGATION_TARGETS vocabulary); the CLI sends 'all' for --focus, like
`worktree create --activate`, and nothing otherwise. The renderer moves the
host view only when the target reaches the host; a missing field (phones,
older CLIs) leaves it still. Editor opens for a worktree other than the
on-screen one no longer write the global activeFileId/activeTabType.

Refs #9944

* test(cli): justify the window and runtime stubs in the file-open notification test

* fix(cli): keep phone file opens switching the desktop; the CLI asks for 'caller'

Phone opens send no `navigation` field, and the phone's diff-review "Open in
session" relies on the desktop selecting the diff it opened. A missing field
now keeps the original switch exactly; the CLI says what it wants instead:
'caller' (no host move) by default and 'all' for --focus. Older CLIs, which
send nothing, keep switching as they always have.

Refs #9944

* fix(cli): background file opens select the tab without counting as a visit

A CLI open into a worktree the user is not viewing selected the new tab with
the same activation a user click uses, which stamps lastFocusedAt and the
group's recency list. The worktree jump palette sorts recent tabs by that
time, so every agent `orca file open` into another worktree jumped to the top
of the user's recent tabs.

Editor opens now take a selection mode: 'focus' (default, unchanged),
'background' (select within its worktree without recording focus or recency)
and 'none' (add only). createUnifiedTab and activateTab gain recordFocus:false
for the background case.

Also: tests for reopening an already-open file or diff without --focus, a
comment that file opens move only the host window ('all' acts as 'host'),
root help lines back under 100 columns, and an accurate remote test title.

Refs #9944

* fix(tabs): a background-selected tab still joins its group's tab history

recordFocus:false skipped both the focus-time stamp and the group's
recentTabIds append while still making the tab the group's active tab. Ctrl+Tab
looks the active tab up in that history, so after a background CLI open it
did nothing (or went to the wrong tab) once the user switched to that
worktree, and hydrate kept the broken history across a restart.

Only the focus-time stamp is skipped now; the jump palette's recent rows sort
by that alone, so the palette fix stands.

Refs #9944

* fix(cli): file open/diff/open-changed --focus help says it brings the user to the file

The three commands borrowed the shared --focus line written for terminal
create ("Reveal the created terminal session in Orca"). They now use the
per-command flag help table; terminal create's line is unchanged.

Refs #9944
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