The session view reads live agent state from a workspace manager

Press Release

abcd's session view shows the live state of each agent session (working, blocked, done, idle) that a terminal workspace manager the person installed reports, alongside the native session view. The adapter is read-only and opt-in: abcd never installs, starts, configures or depends on such a tool, never lets it place worktrees, and falls back to the native view when none is present. Reframed from a private ideate verdict of 2026-10-24 that rejected making such a tool the default environment for abcd-managed repos.

Why This Matters

A person running many agent sessions on one repository cannot tell which are working, which are waiting on them, and which have stopped. On 2026-10-24 eight sessions ran against this checkout at once. A branch sweep could not tell a live session's new worktree from an abandoned one, because nothing links a worktree to its session (iss-2608220750029993).

The native central view (itd-2610170634394993) answers this across computers and accounts. A workspace manager the person already runs knows more about the sessions on one computer: the live state of each agent's terminal. Reading that state when it is present makes the view sharper for those people, and costs nothing for everyone else.

Mechanism

Prompted (the claim-recording gradient): why the authors expect this to work, as a falsifiable "we expect X because Y" — not the outcome restated. Replace this line with the claim, or with the exact token None stated. alone on its line to record the claim as considered and declined.

Scope Conditions

Required (the claim-recording gradient): the population, platform, scale, or assumptions this claim holds under, one per top-level bullet — abcd intent plan stamps each with a persistent identity. Replace this line with those bullets, or with the exact token None stated. alone on its line.

Acceptance Criteria

Required (the itd-1 discipline): add at least one Given-When-Then bullet describing the verifiable bar for "shipped" before this draft can be planned.

Open Questions

None recorded yet.

Audit Notes

Empty. Populated by intent-auditor when intent moves to shipped/.