chore: v2.8.56 — new tab / split pane starts in the Session defaults

newTabBody sent only prompt/tool/model, so a Claude tab opened from the tab
bar + or a split menu always started in auto mode even with Bypass
permissions set as the default; a Codex one ignored its sandbox, approval
and YOLO defaults. It now sends the same defaults the workspace home's
prompt box starts from.

CLAUDE.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Claude Code Working Guide
 
-_Last synced: v2.8.52 (2026-11-02) — git: shelves, branches & tags, history graph + multi cherry-pick, merge editor, rebase/reset/force-with-lease (47 actions)._ A change that makes any statement in this file, `AGENTS.md`, or a README wrong — a moved path, a new or changed extension point, a retired rule — updates that file in the same change-set and bumps this marker. **Bump = replace the version/date and a ≤ 1-line summary; never append a changelog here** — details belong in the commit message and `docs/`, because this whole file is loaded into every session.
+_Last synced: v2.8.56 (2026-11-02) — a new tab or split pane starts in the account's Session defaults (bypass included)._ A change that makes any statement in this file, `AGENTS.md`, or a README wrong — a moved path, a new or changed extension point, a retired rule — updates that file in the same change-set and bumps this marker. **Bump = replace the version/date and a ≤ 1-line summary; never append a changelog here** — details belong in the commit message and `docs/`, because this whole file is loaded into every session.
 
 ## Project mission
 - Maintain a reliable local-first dashboard for Claude Code session monitoring.

client/src/components/run/ChatAddMenu.tsx

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
  * puts `/<name>` (`/<plugin>:<name>`) at the front of the message — the same
  * text the `/` autocomplete inserts, so the CLI runs it as typed. Both lists
  * are read when the menu first opens (`GET /api/cc-config/skills|plugins`),
- * and Manage opens the Claude config page on that tab.
+ * and Manage opens the Claude config page on that tab. The menu opens
+ * downward when the box sits too near the top to fit it above.
  * @author Nguyễn Ngọc Trí Vĩ <vinnt@smartgift.vn>
  */
 
@@ -77,7 +78,36 @@ function loadLists(cwd: string): Promise<Lists> {
 }
 
 const PANEL =
-  "absolute w-60 rounded-xl border border-border bg-surface-1 py-1 shadow-lg animate-fade-in";
+  "absolute z-40 w-60 rounded-xl border border-border bg-surface-1 py-1 shadow-lg animate-fade-in";
+/** Room the menu and its tallest submenu (Project files: search + list) need. */
+const MENU_ROOM = 380;
+
+/** The visible band the button sits in: the viewport, narrowed by any
+ * scrolling/clipping ancestor (the page body scrolls inside the layout). */
+function clipBand(el: HTMLElement): { top: number; bottom: number } {
+  let top = 0;
+  let bottom = window.innerHeight;
+  for (let p = el.parentElement; p; p = p.parentElement) {
+    const o = getComputedStyle(p);
+    if (/(auto|scroll|hidden|clip)/.test(o.overflowY + o.overflow)) {
+      const r = p.getBoundingClientRect();
+      top = Math.max(top, r.top);
+      bottom = Math.min(bottom, r.bottom);
+    }
+  }
+  return { top, bottom };
+}
+
+/** Open downward when there is not room above but more below. */
+function opensDown(el: HTMLElement | null): boolean {
+  if (!el) return false;
+  const r = el.getBoundingClientRect();
+  const band = clipBand(el);
+  const above = r.top - band.top;
+  const below = band.bottom - r.bottom;
+  return above < MENU_ROOM && below > above;
+}
+
 const ROW =
   "flex w-full items-center gap-2.5 px-3 py-1.5 text-left text-sm text-fg-secondary hover:bg-surface-3 hover:text-fg-primary";
 
@@ -195,6 +225,7 @@ export function ChatAddMenu({
   const { t } = useTranslation("run");
   const navigate = useNavigate();
   const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+  const [down, setDown] = useState(false);
   const [sub, setSub] = useState<Sub | null>(null);
   const [context, setContext] = useState<Attachment[] | null>(null);
   const [recent, setRecent] = useState<Attachment[]>([]);
@@ -286,6 +317,8 @@ export function ChatAddMenu({
         />
       ))
     );
+  // A submenu lines up with the menu's edge nearest the button.
+  const edge = down ? "top-0" : "bottom-0";
   const shownPlugin = lists?.plugins.find((p) => p.name === plugin);
 
   return (
@@ -296,13 +329,17 @@ export function ChatAddMenu({
         aria-label={t("chat.add")}
         title={t("chat.add")}
         aria-expanded={open}
-        onClick={() => (open ? close() : setOpen(true))}
+        onClick={() => {
+          if (open) return close();
+          setDown(opensDown(ref.current));
+          setOpen(true);
+        }}
         className="flex h-8 w-8 items-center justify-center rounded-full text-fg-muted transition-colors hover:bg-surface-3 hover:text-fg-primary"
       >
         <Plus className="h-4 w-4" />
       </button>
       {open && (
-        <div role="menu" data-testid="chat-add-menu" className={`${PANEL} bottom-full left-0 mb-2`}>
+        <div role="menu" data-testid="chat-add-menu" className={`${PANEL} left-0 ${down ? "top-full mt-2" : "bottom-full mb-2"}`}>
           <Row
             icon={<Paperclip className="h-4 w-4" />}
             label={t("chat.upload")}
@@ -376,13 +413,13 @@ export function ChatAddMenu({
           )}
 
           {sub === "project" && (
-            <div role="menu" className={`${PANEL} bottom-0 left-full ml-1 w-72 pt-2`}>
+            <div role="menu" className={`${PANEL} ${edge} left-full ml-1 w-72 pt-2`}>
               <ProjectFiles cwd={cwd} onPick={(rel) => attach(projectAttachment(rel))} />
             </div>
           )}
 
           {(sub === "context" || sub === "recent") && (
-            <div role="menu" className={`${PANEL} bottom-0 left-full ml-1`}>
+            <div role="menu" className={`${PANEL} ${edge} left-full ml-1`}>
               <div className="max-h-72 overflow-y-auto">
                 {(sub === "context" ? context : recent)?.length ? (
                   (sub === "context" ? context! : recent).map((it) => (
@@ -405,7 +442,7 @@ export function ChatAddMenu({
           )}
 
           {sub === "skills" && (
-            <div role="menu" className={`${PANEL} bottom-0 left-full ml-1`}>
+            <div role="menu" className={`${PANEL} ${edge} left-full ml-1`}>
               <div className="max-h-72 overflow-y-auto">{entries(lists?.skills ?? [], "")}</div>
               <div className="my-1 border-t border-border" />
               <Row
@@ -417,7 +454,7 @@ export function ChatAddMenu({
           )}
 
           {sub === "plugins" && (
-            <div role="menu" className={`${PANEL} bottom-0 left-full ml-1`}>
+            <div role="menu" className={`${PANEL} ${edge} left-full ml-1`}>
               <div className="max-h-72 overflow-y-auto">
                 {lists && lists.plugins.length === 0 && (
                   <p className="px-3 py-1.5 text-xs text-fg-muted">{t("chat.none")}</p>
@@ -443,7 +480,7 @@ export function ChatAddMenu({
                 onClick={() => manage("plugins")}
               />
               {shownPlugin && (
-                <div role="menu" className={`${PANEL} bottom-0 left-full ml-1`}>
+                <div role="menu" className={`${PANEL} ${edge} left-full ml-1`}>
                   <div className="max-h-72 overflow-y-auto">
                     {entries(
                       shownPlugin.items,

client/src/components/run/ConsoleTabs.tsx

@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
  * keys, Home and End move between tabs (one tab stop, APG). Errors are
  * toasts. The `+` menu opens a new tab in the free slot the server picks
  * (`slot: "auto"`) — a plain shell (`POST /api/lanes/:id/start {shell: true}`)
- * or an installed, enabled AI tool started bare on its default model, no
- * prompt (a prompt, proxy or worktree is still the workspace home's prompt
+ * or an installed, enabled AI tool started bare on its default model and
+ * the account's Session defaults (permission mode, Codex sandbox/approval/
+ * bypass), no prompt (a prompt, proxy or worktree is still the workspace home's prompt
  * box) — plus a link to Settings → Agents. Ten sessions is the server's limit
  * (`MAX_PANE_SLOT`). The bar is the console's only header: Home (the
  * workspace's home) at its left end, `actions` (the single pane's split menus)
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@ import {
   type GroupsUpdate,
 } from "./PaneGrid";
 import { insertionIndex } from "../../lib/laneOrderStorage";
+import { readCodexDefaults, readDefaultMode } from "../../lib/sessionDefaults";
 import {
   type PaneGroups,
   MAX_PANES,
@@ -140,15 +142,21 @@ export function newTabTools(lane: Lane, aiTools: AiToolsState): string[] {
   ];
 }
 
-/** The start body of a bare tool on its default model, no prompt. Only a
- *  different tool is named, as the home does: the workspace's own keeps
- *  starting even once disabled. */
+/** The start body of a bare tool on its default model, no prompt, in the
+ *  account's Session defaults (Claude's permission mode, Codex's sandbox,
+ *  approval and bypass) — the same ones the workspace home's prompt box starts
+ *  from. Only a different tool is named, as the home does: the workspace's own
+ *  keeps starting even once disabled. */
 export function newTabBody(id: string, lane: Lane, aiTools: AiToolsState) {
   const model = aiTools.byId(id)?.defaultModel;
+  const codex = id === "codex" ? readCodexDefaults() : null;
   return {
     prompt: "",
     ...(id !== lane.tool ? { tool: id } : {}),
     ...(model ? { model } : {}),
+    ...(id === "claude" ? { permissionMode: readDefaultMode() } : {}),
+    ...(codex ? { sandbox: codex.sandbox, approval: codex.approval } : {}),
+    ...(codex?.bypass && aiTools.byId(id)?.bypass ? { bypass: true } : {}),
   };
 }
 

client/src/components/run/PaneChat.tsx

@@ -689,8 +689,11 @@ export const PaneChat = memo(function PaneChat({
     // another dashboard on the same database, or the socket dropped) would
     // otherwise leave Stop up after the turn ended.
     intervalMs: working || waiting ? 5000 : undefined,
+    // The transcript growing re-reads it too: a hook that reached another
+    // dashboard on the same database sends this one no agent_updated, and
+    // without a poll Stop never showed for a turn the chat calls Thinking….
     match: (msg) =>
-      msg.type === "agent_updated" &&
+      (msg.type === "agent_updated" || msg.type === "transcript_changed") &&
       (msg.data as { session_id?: string } | undefined)?.session_id === sessionId,
   });
 

client/src/lib/__tests__/panePaste.test.ts

@@ -432,6 +432,14 @@ describe("readRunBusy", () => {
     let rows = ["✻ Thinking… (4s · ↓ 120 tokens · esc to interrupt)"];
     const off = registerPane("agenthub-lane-8", () => {}, () => true, undefined, undefined, () => rows);
     expect(readRunBusy("agenthub-lane-8", "claude")).toBe(true);
+    // Claude's spinner with the footer's hint gone (a narrow pane, a tip).
+    rows = ["✶ Skedaddling… (41s · ↓ 2.8k tokens · thought for 2s)", "  ⏵⏵ auto mode on"];
+    expect(readRunBusy("agenthub-lane-8", "claude")).toBe(true);
+    rows = ["✻ Thinking… (1m 3s)"];
+    expect(readRunBusy("agenthub-lane-8", "claude")).toBe(true);
+    // The line a finished turn leaves is not.
+    rows = ["✻ Cooked for 1m 2s", "❯ "];
+    expect(readRunBusy("agenthub-lane-8", "claude")).toBe(false);
     // Claude's permission footer is not a turn at work.
     rows = ["Esc to cancel · Tab to amend"];
     expect(readRunBusy("agenthub-lane-8", "claude")).toBe(false);

client/src/lib/panePaste.ts

@@ -368,10 +368,15 @@ function typeRow(options: PaneMenuOption[]): number {
 /** The status line a tool's TUI shows only while a turn runs, read off its
  *  binary's own strings: Claude's and Codex's `esc to interrupt`, agy's
  *  `Thinking… (3s · esc to cancel)` — in parentheses after an ellipsis, so
- *  Claude's permission footer (`Esc to cancel · Tab to amend`) is not it. A
- *  tool missing here (omp, Cursor) has no line we know. */
+ *  Claude's permission footer (`Esc to cancel · Tab to amend`) is not it.
+ *  Claude ≥ 2.1.3xx keeps `esc to interrupt` only in its footer, which a
+ *  narrow pane, a tip or a notice replaces, so its spinner line counts too:
+ *  a verb, an ellipsis and the turn's time in parentheses
+ *  (`✶ Skedaddling… (41s · ↓ 2.8k tokens)`) — the line a finished turn leaves
+ *  (`✻ Cooked for 1m 2s`) has neither. A tool missing here (omp, Cursor) has
+ *  no line we know. */
 export const BUSY_LINE: Readonly<Record<string, RegExp>> = {
-  claude: /\besc to interrupt\b/i,
+  claude: /\besc to interrupt\b|…\s*\(\s*\d+[smh]\b/i,
   codex: /\besc to interrupt\b/i,
   antigravity: /…\s*\([^)]*\besc to cancel\)/i,
 };

client/src/pages/__tests__/Workspace.test.tsx

@@ -1053,7 +1053,28 @@ describe("split panes", () => {
     const user = userEvent.setup();
     await user.click(screen.getByTestId("pane-split-right-1"));
     await user.click(screen.getByTestId("pane-split-new-right-1-claude"));
-    expect(api.lanes.action).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, "start", { slot: "auto", prompt: "" });
+    expect(api.lanes.action).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, "start", {
+      slot: "auto",
+      prompt: "",
+      permissionMode: "auto",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("a new AI pane starts in the account's Session defaults (bypass included)", async () => {
+    localStorage.setItem("agenthub.permissionMode", "bypassPermissions");
+    lanesToReturn = lanesToReturn.map((l) => ({ ...l, tool: "claude" }));
+    withRuns([live(0), live(1)]);
+    await open("/workspace?lane=1&run=agenthub-lane-1");
+    await ctrlClick(screen.getByTestId("console-tab-1"));
+    const user = userEvent.setup();
+    await user.click(screen.getByTestId("pane-split-right-1"));
+    await user.click(screen.getByTestId("pane-split-new-right-1-claude"));
+    expect(api.lanes.action).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, "start", {
+      slot: "auto",
+      prompt: "",
+      permissionMode: "bypassPermissions",
+    });
+    localStorage.removeItem("agenthub.permissionMode");
   });
 
   it("with one pane, the split menus sit beside Tools and split it", async () => {

client/src/pages/__tests__/__snapshots__/screens.snapshot.test.tsx.snap

@@ -7316,7 +7316,7 @@ exports[`screen snapshots > Settings — about 1`] = `
                 <span
                   class="text-status-warning/90"
                 >
-                  UI build v2.8.52 (rebuild client to match)
+                  UI build v2.8.56 (rebuild client to match)
                 </span>
               </p>
             </div>

package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "agenthub",
-  "version": "2.8.52",
+  "version": "2.8.56",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "agenthub",
-      "version": "2.8.52",
+      "version": "2.8.56",
       "hasInstallScript": true,
       "license": "UNLICENSED",
       "dependencies": {

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "agenthub",
-  "version": "2.8.52",
+  "version": "2.8.56",
   "bin": {
     "agenthub": "bin/agenthub.js"
   },