runtime-console.md

Runtime Console navigation

Open /runtime and connect with an existing runtime credential.

The workspace start page offers Find a project, Runtime overview, and Durable Agents. Press Command+K on macOS or Ctrl+K on Windows/Linux while connected to open Projects & Sessions and focus project search. On narrow screens this also opens the navigation drawer. These shortcuts navigate only; they do not create Sessions or send messages.

• Projects & Sessions is the collaboration workspace. Select a Project and Workflow Session in the sidebar. Recent Sessions starts expanded and can be collapsed when more room is needed.
• Context opens the selected Session's context. Overview shows work, attention, validation, and model-reported progress directly. Activity shows retained events and the existing follow-latest control. Details shows identity, lifecycle, mode, timestamps, and workspace information.
• Runtime & Agents provides four separate destinations: Overview, Runner fleet, Windows, and Durable Agents. Selecting a destination shows its full content and updates the navigation highlight. Switching destinations keeps existing forms mounted so unsent input is retained.
• Windows is an observability view for ChatGPT/WebCodex call correlation. It lists hashed ClientWindow identities, current in-flight WebCodex requests, bounded durable call history, linked Workflow Sessions, and explicit recorder continuity gaps. It never shows the raw host window value, tool arguments or outputs, and it cannot observe model reasoning or determine whether a host UI is frozen. Window/Session links are many-to-many evidence only: they do not select a Workflow Session, grant Project authority, or make a Window an execution/continuity owner.

For ordinary non-streaming tools/call, Window activity can project three timing facts from canonical adapter timestamps: service_ms is request-observed to response-handoff time, next_call_gap_ms is response handoff to the next meaningful same-Window/same-principal request, and cycle_ms is request start to the next meaningful request start. The gap is explicitly outside-WebCodex time; it may include network, host scheduling, model inference, user interaction, or other unobservable work and is never presented as model think/reasoning time. Status/discovery calls and MCP App controller/polling calls (including Goal Plan state and Agent continuation bind/state/acquire/prepare/finish/recovery/unbind traffic) remain ordinary Window-seen evidence but do not count as meaningful business activity or break the meaningful sequence. Model visibility is not the classifier: real read/search/edit/Git/process/validation/work calls remain meaningful. Overlapping calls are classified as overlap rather than producing a negative serial gap. Streaming handoff is not stream completion, and a Server restart loses process-local prior completion state, so both cases leave ordinary next-call timing unavailable. A meaningful request consumes its predecessor at arrival; cancellation and hard timeout also break continuity until a later eligible response establishes a new anchor. Legacy ActionAudit window_ended_at_ms remains the audit-record boundary and is not used as the HTTP response-handoff performance timestamp.

The context panel still adapts between a docked rail, popover, and mobile sheet. Closing it leaves a labeled Context entry in the header. Context navigation uses ordinary keyboard-focusable buttons, with the current choice announced as pressed. Mobile operation navigation closes after selection and focuses the destination.

These are presentation changes. Workflow Session and durable Agent identities, credential scopes, refresh behavior, and mutation handling keep their existing contracts. Model-reported progress remains informational.

The Windows list and detail routes require runtime:read. Non-admin callers are first principal-filtered and then re-projected through current canonical Project authority, so revoked Project access cannot leave a Window timestamp, Session count, gap count, timing projection, or direct-key existence oracle. Session detail itself keeps its existing Project-read contract; without runtime:read it reports Window activity as unavailable instead of elevating the whole Session read to a runtime-wide permission requirement. Durable terminal history is backed by ActionAudit, while currently-running requests are process-local and intentionally disappear on Server restart. The dedicated Windows refresh is three seconds only while that view is selected and the page is foregrounded; the normal Runtime Console refresh cadence is unchanged.

Each selected Project/workspace has its own keyboard-accessible disclosure below its Runner. Closing it hides that workspace's Sessions without clearing the selected Session or composer; its preference survives refresh. Selecting another workspace opens its Session list.

At widths of 1280px and above, Context docks beside a narrower conversation, with more room for readable status and progress. Its Overview starts with the latest retained Agent-authored message. Resolution text is also visible directly below the original message, rather than only in a tooltip.

Project search continues to query authorized Projects by name, id, Runner, or workspace path. Separate searches filter the loaded Sessions by title/id/lifecycle and retained messages by body, resolution, id, or author Session. Match counts refer only to loaded results; these controls do not search unretained history or host transcripts and do not change the selected Session. Expand Search retained messages above the board to filter messages. Its match count stays visible when collapsed; closing the search keeps the current filter.

The Session board is not a mirrored host chat transcript. An observed ACK records an explicit model-context acknowledgement, not a reply, read receipt, or completed work. Model replies appear only when explicitly posted to the Session; reported progress is separately labeled as informational. An empty latest-message card means no Agent message exists in the currently retained window.