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New 'idle' status for background sessions and the remote-control bridge

Sessions now have an explicit idle status, both in status reporting and in the remote-control bridge lifecycle

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Sessions now have an explicit idle status, both in status reporting and in the remote-control bridge lifecycle

What

  • A new status reporter maps session state (running, requires_action, idle) to a coarser status of busy, waiting, or idle, and for waiting sessions adds a detail string of either "input needed" or "permission prompt" depending on what the session is waiting on. Repeated identical updates are no longer re-sent.
  • The remote-control bridge session lifecycle now recognizes a distinct 'idle' exit status, separate from completed, failed, or interrupted. An idle session is parked rather than torn down or archived, and the server re-queues it the next time a message arrives.

Why This gives a clearer, de-duplicated picture of whether a background or remote-controlled session is actively working, waiting on the user, or simply idle, and keeps idle sessions available to resume instead of ending them.

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