feat(edit-history): edit history panel for local claude sessions

Part 1 of #643 (local sessions only; remote follows as its own PR). An
opt-in, per-device header button opens a panel with the active session's
edits, newest first: every Edit/Write/MultiEdit/NotebookEdit of the main
agent and its subagents with its diff, plus images a Bash call rendered or
the agent sent. Remote, Docker and non-claude sessions answer `unsupported`.

- Reads only on request: `?sync=1` when the panel opens; while it is open on
  that session it re-reads after an edit-capable `transcript:tool_end` or a
  `transcript:complete` from the existing transcript watcher. No hook, timer,
  second watcher or new SSE event; a wiring guard pins it.
- Main transcript: the path the transcript watcher follows (hook-reported),
  else `<id>.jsonl` under the session's own CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR override or
  the server's config dir. A config dir set outside Codeman is found with
  the next hook; until then the panel says so.
- Store: dataPath('edit-history')/<id>.json, 0600 via tmp+rename, capped at
  500 entries and 4 MiB of diff text per session, deleted with the session,
  blocked in isSensitivePath, never fed to /api/search. Every route goes
  through findSessionOrFail with req.
- Images only through existing file surfaces: file-raw inside the
  workspace, the attachment route with notify:false outside it.
- textContent rendering, bounded byte-offset reads, marker-class header
  button, hidden on phones (locked in the mobile policy test).

Docs: Working-With-Files, Settings-Reference, architecture invariants, API
reference, CLAUDE.md key pattern.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ supervised by systemd or launchd; npm installs report as non-updatable. See
Chips for every optional header control, with a live preview of the resulting header:
Run, Font Size, System Stats, Redraw Terminal, Response Viewer, Away Digest, Session
Manager, Attachments, File Viewer, Multi-monitor, Split, Tiles, Plan Usage, Lifecycle Log, Monitor,
Manager, Attachments, Edit history, File Viewer, Multi-monitor, Split, Tiles, Plan Usage, Lifecycle Log, Monitor,
Project Insights, File Browser, Subagents, Approvals Inbox, Read My Mind, Ultracode Agents,
Ultracode Windows, Cron.
@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ several projects. **Git status: git timeout** (per device, 5 to 120 seconds, def
long one git command may run before that repository is reported as unreadable; raise it for
repositories on a slow network share.
**Edit history** (per device, off by default, never on phones) adds a header button for the
active session's edit history: every edit the agent and its subagents made, with its diff, and
images it produced. Local Claude sessions only. Nothing is read until you open the window, and it
stores those diffs (secrets included) under `~/.codeman/edit-history/`; see
[Working With Files](Working-With-Files#edit-history).
Most default to off. The stock desktop header is system stats, File Viewer, Tiles, and the gear.
**Header Stats Style** picks how the system stats and plan usage are drawn: *Compact*
(default; two pills with a ring beside every value), *Tiles* (label over value with a bar underneath) or *As before* (the bars and the `5H · 7D` chip). Desktop only, per device.
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@@ -253,6 +253,52 @@ that repository's own configuration on the host). The
data comes from `GET /api/sessions/:id/git-status` and `GET /api/sessions/:id/git-diff`
(see the [API reference](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/api-reference.md)).
## Edit history
The Git panel shows what is different now. The edit history shows what the agent did, one edit
at a time, including edits that were later undone or committed. Turn on **App Settings → Header &
Panels → Header → Edit history** (per device, off by default) and a clock button appears in the
header next to Attachments. It is not shown on phones.
Click it for a draggable window listing the active session's edits, newest first:
- One row per Edit, Write or MultiEdit, with `new` for a file the agent created, `edit` otherwise,
and the lines added and removed. **Click a row** to see that edit's diff inline, coloured like the
Git panel; a diff over 64 KB is cut short. **Click the path** to open the file in the preview.
- Edits made by subagents carry a chip with the subagent's task; hover it for the agent type and
its worktree branch. **Main agent only** hides them. **Group by file** puts the edits under
their file, with the totals on the file's row.
- Images an agent produced with a shell command (a render, a plot, a screenshot) appear as rows with
a thumbnail: a `.png`, `.jpg`, `.gif`, `.webp` or `.avif` path named in the command or its output
counts when the file's modification time falls within that command's run. Images the agent sent
you count as well. Click one to open it in the preview.
- **Load older** reads further back in the conversation.
It works for local Claude sessions only. Remote (SSH), Docker and other CLIs' sessions say so instead.
How it reads:
- **Only while you look.** The history is read from the session's Claude transcript when you open
the window, and again after each edit while it stays open on that session. A closed window reads
nothing, and Codeman does no work in the background for sessions nobody looks at.
- **The transcript is found through the session's hooks.** Each prompt tells Codeman where the
session's transcript is. Right after a server restart, before the next prompt, Codeman looks in
the session's `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` if you set one for it in Codeman, else in the default config
directory. A `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` set outside Codeman (in a shell profile or a wrapper script)
is only known after the next prompt; until then the window says "No transcript found for this
session yet".
- **The history is stored, and it holds secrets.** Every diff an agent wrote is copied to
`~/.codeman/edit-history/<session-id>.json`, including API keys or `.env` contents it edited. The file is
readable by your user only, capped at 500 edits and 4 MiB of diff text per session (the oldest
are dropped), never part of search, blocked from every file route, and deleted with the session.
- **Images go through the existing file routes.** A thumbnail inside the workspace uses the File
Viewer's route; one outside it is registered like a clicked path (no notification, same
file-type allowlist and sensitive-file blocklist). No new route serves a file.
The data comes from `GET /api/sessions/:id/edits`, `GET /api/sessions/:id/edits/:entryId` and
`POST /api/sessions/:id/edits/older` (see the
[API reference](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/api-reference.md)).
## Gotchas
- **The viewer follows the active session's workspace.** Switching tabs changes what you are