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Closes #1064 (chain 2 of 2; depends on #1557 — do not merge before it)

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  • Maintenance/tooling
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Label request: type:feature (fork PR cannot self-label)

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Field Value
Chain #1064 session-bound profiles, slice 2
Tracker PR Not needed (stacked to main)
Position 2 of 2
Base main (temporarily; see stacking note)
Depends on #1557 (bind + panel)
Follow-up Later #1064 slices: reload/edit/delete semantics, orchestrator/default handling, lens/reviewer routing, resume persistence, concurrent store-write hardening
Review budget 73 / 400 (73+/12−) for this slice; 421 while stacked on main until #1557 merges
Starts at feat/1064-session-bind (#1557 head)
Ends with The approved slice-1 scope complete end to end: Enter binds, children inherit, status and Usage follow

Chain Overview

main
 └── #1557 bind + panel (merged first)
      └── 📍 #1558 This PR (launch/status/usage consumption)

Stacking note

Cross-fork stacking is not possible for pull-only contributors (a PR base must exist upstream), so this PR temporarily targets main and shows both slices (421 changed lines) until #1557 merges; the diff then auto-collapses to the 73-line slice under review here. Merge order is enforced by draft status: do not merge before #1557.

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File Change
extensions/gentle-agents.ts Launch resolution reads the session binding at task-request creation and feeds sessionOrPinModelProfiles ahead of the pin
extensions/gentle-shell.ts createActiveProfileReader gains the session layer (name (session), ahead of pin and global) with bind(cwd, resolver, sessionId); activeRoutingModels reads the binding first so the usage scope meters its providers
tests/gentle-shell.test.ts Reader precedence: bound session outranks global, stable label, refresh falls back after clear, reset keeps global reads; a different session's binding never leaks

Test Plan

  • gentle-shell reader slice: 2 new tests green (250/250 in the file)
  • Full suite on the stacked head: pnpm test — unit-tests, provider-contract, runtime-harness all PASS
  • gentle-agents 141/141 (launch resolution change is the three-line composition with the already-tested pure helpers)
  • No shell scripts modified (shellcheck n/a)

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  • Linked an approved issue (Closes #1064, status:approved)
  • Exactly one type:* label — requested above (fork PR cannot self-label)
  • No shell scripts modified (shellcheck n/a)
  • Docs updated if behavior changed (status/usage label spellings follow the approved issue text)
  • Conventional commit format
  • No Co-Authored-By trailers

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Profiles can now be bound to the current session with Enter, without changing the global default or repository pins. Use a to set a global default.
    • The selected session profile is labeled in the profile panel and takes precedence for that session’s launches and model routing.
    • If no session is available, the panel warns that the profile wasn’t bound and leaves settings unchanged.

Slice 1/2 of Gentleman-Programming#1064: Enter in /gentle:profiles binds the selected profile
to the current parent session as in-process state keyed by the session
id. It writes nothing — no store marker, no models.json, no materialized
stores, no agent frontmatter, no Pi settings, and no pin or declaration
layer, pin or not — and the legacy global apply moves to the explicit a
key with its semantics unchanged.

The binding is visible in the panel itself: the bound profile is listed
and detailed as "name (session)", outranking the pin marker. The launch
resolver, the shell status, and the usage scope consume the same store
in the follow-up slice.
…usage

Slice 2/2 of Gentleman-Programming#1064: the parent-session binding from feat/1064-session-bind
resolves ahead of the pin layers everywhere the effective profile is
consumed (session -> p -> P -> global):

- subagent launch routing reads it at task-request creation, so queued
  and running children keep the routing frozen into their requests even
  if the session rebinds;
- the shell status reader labels it "name (session)" ahead of the pin
  and global active spellings;
- the usage scope meters the binding's providers alongside the live
  provider, through the same activeRoutingModels seam the pin uses.
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The profiles panel now supports session-bound profile selection without writing global routing files. The binding is stored in process memory by parent session ID. Task requests and shell profile status use the session binding before repository pins and the global profile.

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Session-bound profiles

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session binding storage
lib/session-profile-binding.ts, tests/session-profile-binding.test.ts
A process-wide registry stores a copied routing snapshot for each session ID. Reads return copies, and bindings can be replaced or cleared per session.
Profile panel binding and display
extensions/gentle-ai.ts, lib/agent-profiles.ts, tests/gentle-ai.test.ts, tests/agent-profiles.test.ts
Enter binds the selected profile to the current session when a session ID is available. The a action sets the global default. The panel displays the session binding and labels it in the profile list.
Launch routing and shell status
extensions/gentle-agents.ts, extensions/gentle-shell.ts, tests/gentle-shell.test.ts
Task requests use session routing before repository pin routing. The shell profile reader receives the session ID and displays a matching binding before the global profile.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ProfilePanel
  participant BindingStore
  participant buildRequest
  participant AgentConfig
  User->>ProfilePanel: Select profile for this session
  ProfilePanel->>BindingStore: Store profile and routing snapshot by session ID
  buildRequest->>BindingStore: Read binding for current session
  BindingStore-->>buildRequest: Return session routing snapshot
  buildRequest->>AgentConfig: Apply session routing before pin routing
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Suggested reviewers: alan-thegentleman

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4ffe4

The session-binding changes are mergeable after normal checks; no concrete blocking issue remains.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4ffe4

Profile selection remains an explicit user action, and session binding does not overwrite shared routing files. Existing repository authorization checks remain in the launch path. The main uncertainty is how bindings behave across session replacement, reload, and recovery.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A binding influences subsequent subagent provider/model selection from its parent session, including launches into separately authorized foreign repositories. Its reach is therefore the parent session’s permitted launch scope, not just one repository pin. Separate processes do not share this in-memory registry.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The changed entrypoint uses a selected saved profile and host-provided session identity rather than command-supplied identity. Routing precedence does not remove the inspected workspace validation, foreign-repository consent, identity revalidation, or pre-spawn authorization checks.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Launch rejection or cancellation does not undo the separately selected session binding in the inspected request-construction path. Existing requests retain their captured routing. Isolation across session replacement or recovery still depends on session-ID ownership and reuse guarantees that were not verified; stale cross-session routing was not demonstrated.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define binding ownership and lifetime against the host’s session contract, distinguishing reload, replacement, fork, and recovery. Verify ID reuse behavior and decide when bindings should be retained or cleared, without unexpectedly changing already-created requests.
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning [#1064] The session binding supplies a copied routing snapshot to launch resolution, status, Usage, and the profile panel. The lib/session-profile-binding.ts implementation stores bindings only in a… Persist each session's bound profile name and routing snapshot with the parent session, restore them on resume, and add automated coverage for restoration.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 77.78% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 18 functions across 9 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: resolving session profile bindings for launches, status, and usage.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reported changes to the profile panel, launch routing, shell status, Usage routing, shared binding store, and tests all implement or validate [#1064]. The reviewed evidence shows no unrelated chan…
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[#1064] The session binding supplies a copied routing snapshot to launch resolution, status, Usage, and the profile panel. The lib/session-profile-binding.ts implementation stores bindings only in a process-wide in-memory Map; its comments state that a resumed session starts unbound and that persistence is a follow-up. The issue requires restoring the bound profile and snapshot on resume. The rest of the reported changes support session isolation, launch-time routing stability, and effective-profile display.

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readProfilesFileResult returns a status union, so the new panel tests
access .file through a helper that narrows to the valid variant instead
of a non-null assertion the type ratchet rejects.
Six docstrings on the functions slice 1 touches without one: the
snapshot copier, the list-item builder, the three panel entry points,
and the test store reader.
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Thanks for putting this chain together. I reproduced a provider-scope mismatch in a real Pi TUI at bdd8a5c6 with isolated configuration. With alpha as the global profile (explore → nan/glm5.3), Usage lists nan. After selecting beta (explore → openai-codex/gpt-5.6-terra), /gentle:profiles confirms beta (session), but /gentle:usage still lists nan rather than openai-codex, even after reopening it and pressing r.

I also loaded two small Pi extensions independently, both importing session-profile-binding.ts: one wrote and read beta, while the other read missing in the same Pi session. Pi's extension loader creates a Jiti instance per entrypoint with moduleCache: false, which is consistent with the module-local Map not being shared between these consumers.

Could you check how the binding is made visible across extension entrypoints and add an integration test that loads them separately? Host-owned session entries are one possible way to share a snapshot without relying on a module singleton, but I'm not suggesting adopting our broader local implementation or its persistence semantics for this slice. I have not exercised a real child launch, so I cannot claim that routing is affected too.

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Native review provenance

Native review approved for this slice's exact candidate: lineage review-0cb9827ae718d863 (high tier, lenses risk/resilience/readability/reliability, 4/4 reviewers admitted), closure approved and acknowledgement burned. The reviewed candidate is precisely this PR's own 73-line delta on top of #1557's approved head (base tree 0fbbaf75, candidate tree fcb41079, tip bdd8a5c), not the stacked combined diff, so nothing already reviewed in #1557 is re-reviewed here.

Thirteen advisory findings, all informational and non-blocking. The notable ones, recorded as follow-up work: routing-freeze and session-over-pin precedence have no dedicated tests yet (reliability WARNINGs), and the refresh-path session read is unguarded if the binding store is ever cleared concurrently (resilience WARNING). None opened a correction; the receipt stands.

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I ran the requested two-parent manual test at bdd8a5c6, with two Pi TUI processes in the same clone and isolated temporary configuration. Parent A showed alpha (session) and parent B showed beta (session). Each launched one real probe child, and both children completed.

The child task records and session logs show openai-codex/gpt-5.5 · medium for both children. The bound profiles instead specify opencode-go/glm-5.3-flash · minimal for A and openai-codex/gpt-5.6-terra · minimal for B. So the session labels stayed separate, but child routing did not follow either selected profile. I made no repository changes.

Usage still showed the global-profile provider in B; that mismatch is already documented in the earlier comment, so I am not treating it as a second finding here. Could you check the binding read at child-request creation across the extension entrypoints?

…points

Pi loads every extension entrypoint with its own Jiti instance and
`moduleCache: false` (loader.js loadExtensionModule), so a module-local
Map gave the panel entrypoint one copy of the binding store while the
launch, usage, and status readers each held their own empty copy: child
requests kept the default routing and usage kept metering the global
profile after a session rebind (report on Gentleman-Programming#1558).

Move the store behind a `Symbol.for` key on globalThis: every evaluation
of this module in one process resolves the same symbol and therefore
shares one Map. Process isolation and the deliberate
no-persistence-on-resume contract are unchanged.

The regression test reproduces the loader's isolation with a second,
distinct module record (query-string import) standing in for a second
entrypoint, and asserts writes, clears, and defensive-copy semantics
hold across the two instances.
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Confirmed, and your two-parent test pinned it exactly. Root cause: the binding store was a module-local Map. Pi loads every extension entrypoint with its own Jiti instance and moduleCache: false (loader.js loadExtensionModule), so each entrypoint re-evaluated session-profile-binding.ts and kept its own empty copy. The panel wrote one copy; the child-request read in gentle-agents.ts, the usage scope, and the footer reader each held another. That explains every observation: children kept the default routing, usage kept metering the global profile, and the panel still showed beta (session) because it reads through the same instance that wrote it. Your two-extension probe is exactly this mechanism.

Fixed in c4dee0e: the store now lives behind a Symbol.for key on globalThis, so every evaluation of the module in one process resolves the same symbol and shares one Map. One root cause, all three readers now see the binding. Process isolation and the deliberate no-persistence-on-resume contract are unchanged; host-owned session entries would flip that contract to persistent bindings, so I kept them for the follow-up slice where reload and resume semantics get decided together.

The regression test reproduces the isolation the way your experiment did: a second, distinct module record (a query-string import) that must observe writes and clears from the first instance and still receive defensive copies. Thank you for the isolated-config reproductions, they made this a one-look diagnosis.

…ee0e

c4dee0e wrote its cross-entrypoint regression tests into
tests/session-profile-binding.test.ts believing the file was new; slice 1
had added it with nine unit tests (roundtrip, per-session isolation,
rebinding, snapshot immunity, defensive copies, undefined session, scoped
clear, precedence, reset), and the overwrite deleted them.

Restore the original nine verbatim and keep the four cross-entrypoint
tests below them, so one file holds the whole store contract: unit
semantics plus the multi-entrypoint sharing the fix exists for.
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Native review approved for the fix candidate: lineage review-be19b9bba9ba35f3 (medium tier, lens review-reliability, 1/1 reviewer admitted, 82 changed lines, correction budget unused), closure approved and acknowledgement burned. The reviewed candidate is the committed range bdd8a5c6..e272303d (base tree fcb41079, candidate tree 6a567f6f): the shared-store fix plus the restored slice-1 tests, not the chain's earlier slices already reviewed in #1557 and the previous receipt on this PR.

One advisory finding, informational and non-blocking: the globalThis registry slot is not validated as a Map, so a foreign value parked under the same Symbol.for key would surface as runtime errors on read. Recorded as follow-up work alongside the reload/resume semantics slice.

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The cross-entrypoint fix passes my re-check at 6774a28e with Pi 0.99.1. Thanks for addressing the isolated-store reproduction.

  • Two real Pi TUI parent processes in the same clone selected different session profiles, with a competing clone-local pin. Their real child processes recorded the expected runtime model/thinking: alpha/fixture · low and beta/fixture · high.
  • Header/Status and Usage agreed with each session's profile. Nine shared configuration, routing, settings, frontmatter, and pin files remained byte-identical after Enter.
  • All 688 tests in the nine focused test files passed, with zero skips. The 13 store tests pass on this head; against the old bdd8a5c6 store, the four cross-entrypoint tests fail as expected while the original nine pass.
  • Five additional temporary probes passed for Jiti module isolation, parent-session isolation, session-over-pin/declaration precedence, queued-request freeze after rebinding, and Status/Usage readers. These probes are not committed regression coverage.

Limits: the TUI runs used local offline mock providers, not authenticated external providers or real quotas. Queue-freeze and session-over-repository-declaration checks used mocked spawning, not real children. No persistence/resume or independent #1557 validation is claimed.

One separate presentation inconsistency remains: reopen /gentle:profiles after selecting a session profile, and the panel correctly shows the session label and its profile routing, but Current routing (effective) still shows the shared/pinned route. Launch, Status, and Usage are correct. The rows still come from the shared reader in gentle-ai.ts:4676–4689. Could that section use the same session-effective routing so the picker agrees with execution?

# Conflicts:
#	extensions/gentle-ai.ts
Main's Gentleman-Programming#1349 apply-dialog hardening made runProfilesPanelAction call
ctx.ui.confirm before every global apply, so the slice-1 legacy-semantics
test stub now needs an approving confirm.
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- Line 3784: Update the buildProfileListItems call in refreshListItems to pass
this.sessionBoundName, matching the constructor call so refreshed labels retain
the session marker.
- Around line 4773-4782: Update the profile-panel flow around sessionBoundName
and showProfilesPanel so the current routing uses the active session binding’s
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Address the two CodeRabbit findings on the session-bound panel:

- refreshListItems rebuilds list items without this.sessionBoundName, so a
  snapshot (s) dropped the (session) marker from the bound profile's label;
  pass it so refreshed labels match the constructor's.
- The panel's "Current routing (effective)" table read
  readEffectiveModelConfigAsync unconditionally, so a bound session compared
  profiles against the shared global routing instead of the binding snapshot
  its launches actually resolve; resolve the binding's modelProfiles first
  and fall back to the effective config for unbound sessions, in both
  showProfilesPanel calls.

Also model a stable session id in the routing-consumer fixture so panel-flow
tests can exercise a binding.
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Ready for another pass whenever you are.

Both slice branches were conflicting with main after it moved past the 09-30 refresh, so I merged main into each: the only content conflict was the additive __testing export block, resolved as the union of both sides. The legacy panel test stub also needed an approving ctx.ui.confirm after the #1349 apply-dialog hardening landed.

On the CodeRabbit findings: both are addressed in 4ffe4f9 with regression tests, panel refresh keeps the (session) marker and the panel's "Current routing (effective)" table now reads the session binding snapshot for a bound session. Full suite green, all checks green, draft lifted.

Merge order stays #1557 first, then this one.

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