Opening another session in the case you are already working in meant re-picking the case and the mode in the toolbar. An opt-in + now sits with each tab's gear and close icons (App Settings, Tabs, New Session Button on Tabs: per device, off by default everywhere). It opens a menu of the CLIs that tab's case can start, each shown with its logo and name as in the Run menus, and a pick starts one session in that tab's case, or the managed worktree it runs in, and in its named group, without changing the Run button's mode or case.
The CLIs offered follow the Run menu's own rule for the case, so a Docker case lists what its container has rather than what the host has. A tab outside any named group sends no group, so the case's default session group places the new session the way it places a toolbar Run. Wherever a tab has a row menu (the vertical rail, the sidebar) that menu gains "New session here…", the keyboard route to the same picker, since Enter on the + itself does nothing. On a phone the + joins gear and close on the active tab only, and the label reserve grows to 68px while the setting is on, so the tab's centre stays off the icons.
The shared tab layout menu no longer closes when focus leaves an item for nowhere: Safari never focuses a clicked button, so pressing an item blurred the focused one with no related target and the click was lost. This is the tile count menu's rule, and it fixes the named-group menu as well.
Merge-time fix for #676. The test for nit 7 changed the worker's real cwd,
which also throws under a threads pool; a process.cwd spy gives the route the
same case-folder cwd with nothing to restore by hand. It still fails without
the workingDir gate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merge-time fix for #676 (review nits 4 and 5). sessionCreated forgot a stale
case default inside the try whose catch rolls the registration back; it now
does so after the try, once the session is committed, so the cleanup can
never drop a committed session from the live map. caseDefaultGroup (behind
GET /api/cases/:name/default-group) no longer deletes a stale id as a side
effect: it reports Ungrouped and leaves the value for the next creation to
forget. The two tests that expected the read to clear it now expect it to
write nothing; the creation test still pins the cleanup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merge-time fix for #676 (review finding 1 and nit 7). The Git worktrees modal
launches Claude through POST /api/sessions with workingDir
<case>/.claude/worktrees/<name>, which inferLocalCaseName did not recognise,
so the session landed in Ungrouped while the same gesture for any other CLI
(quick-start with the case name) landed in the group. The inference now
strips a trailing .claude/worktrees/<name> lexically before its two checks,
reusing CLAUDE_WORKTREE_PATH (hoisted to module scope). It also runs only for
a named workingDir, never on the server's own cwd, as the hook and skill
injection above already do. Route tests for both, failing without the fix;
api-reference and architecture-invariants say so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Case settings gains a "Default session group" selector (Ungrouped plus every
named tab group of the owner). A new session of the case lands in that group
in the same versioned layout write that registers it, so it is drawn in place
with no Ungrouped-to-group jump.
- Stored per owner and case in state.json (caseDefaultGroups), as the group's
stable id or null for Ungrouped; read and written only through
TabLayoutService under the owner lock.
- Precedence in sessionCreated: explicit tabGroupId, then the parent
placement, then the case default, else Ungrouped. A deleted or foreign id
never fails a spawn and is forgotten only after the creating write lands.
- POST /api/quick-start (local, linked, remote, Docker) and
/api/ralph-loop/start pass their case; POST /api/sessions infers it
lexically from workingDir. The create response carries tabLayout when a
case default placed the session.
- GET/PUT /api/cases/:name/default-group; deleting a case (or an admin
deleting a user's case folder) forgets the value.
- The selector mirrors desktop and phone, reverts on a refused save, and is
redrawn from every adopted tab layout; zh-CN strings added.
JD