Rename channels and keep rolling summaries #23

Activity

1. iamnbutler

   added a parent issue on Oct 4, 2026

   • [Meta] Restore features from old Ace #6
2. iamnbutler

   added a commit that references this issue on Oct 4, 2026

   feat(channel): add names and rolling summaries

   ...

   f1446bf
3. iamnbutler commented on Oct 4, 2026

   

   iamnbutler

   on Oct 4, 2026

   ContributorAuthor

   More actions

   Implemented in f1446bf on feat/github-cache.

   • Owners can rename channels from the channel menu or ace rename. The root chat's agent chooses a useful name for a new randomly named channel and maintains a rolling summary, preserving an established name unless explicitly asked to rename it.
   • The details sidebar shows the full summary and updates live. Channel info opens it; dashboard and channel-list previews stay brief. The sidebar also works as a drawer on narrow screens.
   • Names and summaries live in pi's versioned metadata document. Catalog/hosted configuration migrations preserve existing names and history, and lane paths and branch prefixes remain unchanged. Hosted workspace reconnection restores the catalog projection; stale listings cannot undo newer observed metadata.

   Validation passed in Ace terminals: formatting/lint, all workspace type checks, production app build, and real local/hosted runtime smoke checks. Real Claude runs exercised natural naming and summary updates, preservation of human names, explicit agent rename, child-chat isolation, and lane/restart persistence. Version 0 and version 1 copies of an existing channel backup retained all 76 original pi entries, continued with a real model, and reopened successfully; source backup checksums stayed unchanged. Local Workers checks covered socket replacement, offline updates, catalog recovery, and process restart. Source UI checks covered rename, empty/full/live details, desktop and narrow-screen menus, and a clean browser error log. React Doctor reported no errors and three warnings (component complexity and an existing GitHub-cache loop).

   Built in Ace

   Used Ace Canary's terminals for checks, runtime/model smokes, commit, and push. Codex coordinated the work and edited files; the source Ace UI was checked in a browser because the installed canary predates these changes. External harness integration is tracked in #9 and a built-in file editor in #22.
4. iamnbutler

   added a commit that references this issue on Oct 5, 2026

   fix(host): keep replayed terminal queries out of the shell's input (#60)

   ...

   2e4ce34
5. iamnbutler commented on Oct 6, 2026

   

   iamnbutler

   on Oct 6, 2026

   ContributorAuthor

   More actions

   Closing as completed. Human rename (channel menu and ace rename), agent naming of new channels, and the rolling summary landed in f1446bf (details), which is on main via #89 (an ancestor of 5194bf7). On current main, the channel tool and the versioned ace.metadata document are in packages/channel/src/metadata.ts, rename UI is in apps/app/src/layout/rename.tsx, and storage is described in docs/data.md. This closure rests on that recorded validation and source on main; no new runtime check was run for this audit.
6. iamnbutler

   closed this as completedon Oct 6, 2026