feat(mobile): kilo remote hint, Live now slots, and remote remap

[iscekic]

Summary

The new-session screen now shows a muted hint under the "Run on" picker. The hint names both CLI entry points: kilo remote for a dedicated process, and /remote inside a running CLI session.

Submitting a pull-request review now pre-fills the summary with a footer that names the Kilo app and links to the App Store on iOS or the Play Store on Android. The new "Add app attribution to PR reviews" preference is on by default, and its toggle appears in Preferences under "Keep screen on".

Home's session list now shows only what is live. The section heading changed from "Agent sessions" to "Live now", offline stored sessions no longer appear, and when nothing is live a single card reads "Nothing running right now". The earlier "Kilo Agents" promo card is gone, so "New coding task" now renders for every account.

After a computer reboot reconnects the CLI, the "Run on" list shows that computer once, and starting a session now reaches the restarted process instead of failing on the old connection.

The sign-in email field centers its placeholder and its text. Every screen built on the shared FormField gets the same fix.

The mobile and extension composers no longer cut a long prompt at 4000 characters. The real cloud-agent cap is 100000, and all three clients now read it from one place.

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The session-ingest connection Durable Object closes a stale same-host CLI socket when a heartbeat carries an instance name and project name already owned by another connection. Pending commands on the stale socket fail durably, and session ownership is preserved so the replacement socket re-claims the sessions in its first heartbeat. Legacy CLIs that never report an instance identity skip the close, so the path is invisible to pre-spawner clients.

Files

• services/session-ingest/src/dos/UserConnectionDO.ts — adds closeStaleSocketsForInstance and calls it from handleHeartbeat only when the heartbeat carries an instance identity.

Starting a remote session now refetches the instance list and resolves the tapped selection onto the live instance row through a new resolveLiveInstance contract before spawning. The helper matches by connection id first, then by instance name and project name, which remaps a rebooted host that reconnected with a new connection id; it returns null when the host is gone and the flow shows the retryable toast. The Start button stays disabled for the duration of the refetch and resolution.

Files

• apps/mobile/src/lib/resolve-live-instance.ts — new helper that matches by connectionId first and then name plus projectName.
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/use-remote-spawn-dispatch.ts — refetches, resolves the live row, remaps the selection, and reports isResolvingInstance so Start stays disabled.

The Home sessions section renders only live rows — active sessions plus cloud-agent sessions that are currently live — capped at three. Offline stored sessions no longer occupy a row. When no session is live, the section renders one muted, non-interactive card that reads "Nothing running right now"; the loading skeleton is one slot, so the common empty case loads without a shift and later growth is downward. The first-use "Kilo Agents" promo card is deleted along with its hasDisplayableAgentSessions gate, so the "New coding task" button renders for every account and stays the single start-task control. buildRows and the shared slot min-height class become exports.

An earlier revision of this PR filled the empty space with three dashed "+" placeholder cards. On a device that read as a broken or half-loaded screen, and it repeated the "New coding task" button three times, so it was replaced by the one-card empty state.

Files

• apps/mobile/src/components/home/agent-sessions-section.tsx — drops offline stored rows, adds the LiveNowEmpty card, and exports HOME_LIVE_SLOT_MIN_CLASS and buildRows.
• apps/mobile/src/components/home/home-screen.tsx — removes the promo gate, renders the section and the New coding task button unconditionally, and uses a one-slot loading skeleton.
• apps/mobile/src/components/home/agents-promo-card.tsx — deleted.

The shared FormField now sizes itself with min-h-[44px] and no vertical padding, because iOS insets the already-centered text rect of a single-line input by vertical padding (RCTUITextField.textRectForBounds), so py-2.5 drew the sign-in placeholder and the typed email about 5pt below the middle of the field. The 44pt height centers the text and meets the touch floor; an earlier min-h-11 resolved to 38.5pt under NativeWind v5 (rem ≈ 14), under the 44pt floor, so min-h-[44px] uses the repo's existing single-line input convention. min-h (not a fixed h) still lets large Dynamic Type grow the field, and three other single-line inputs carry the same defect and are left for a separate PR.

Files

• apps/mobile/src/components/ui/form-field.tsx — height from min-h-[44px], no vertical padding.
• apps/mobile/AGENTS.md — records the rule for single-line inputs.

A new default-on secure-store preference controls the "Reviewed via Kilo" attribution footer that the PR review submit sheet pre-fills into the summary. The preference is keyed as pr-review-footer-enabled, parsed so only the stored literal false disables it, and cleared on sign-out alongside the other preferences. The footer itself comes from a new buildReviewFooter contract that picks the iOS App Store link on iOS and the Play Store link on every other platform.

Files

• apps/mobile/src/lib/hooks/use-pr-review-footer-preference.ts — new secure-store preference hook; default on; exports the sign-out clear function.
• apps/mobile/src/lib/pr-review/review-footer.ts — new buildReviewFooter returning the platform-specific markdown footer.
• apps/mobile/src/lib/storage-keys.ts — adds PR_REVIEW_FOOTER_KEY.
• apps/mobile/src/lib/auth/auth-context.tsx — clears the new preference during sign-out.
• apps/mobile/src/components/pr-review/pr-review-submit.tsx — seeds the summary body from the preference once it loads and shows a skeleton while it loads.
• apps/mobile/src/components/pr-review/pr-review-pending-comment-row.tsx — the summary field accepts a defaultValue and places the caret at the start on first focus.
• apps/mobile/src/components/preferences-screen.tsx — adds the toggle row under Keep screen on.

The new-session form renders a muted hint under the Run-on block: run kilo remote on the computer, or /remote in a running CLI session, to control a local kilo process. Both commands enable remote control, so the hint names both. The copy comes from a new agentChat.newSession.remoteHint translation key.

Files

• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.tsx — adds the hint line below the run-target block.

The cloud-agent prompt cap now lives once in @kilocode/cloud-agent-sdk/limits at 100000 characters, matching Limits.MAX_PROMPT_LENGTH in services/cloud-agent-next. The web constant re-exports it, and mobile and the extension import it in place of a copied 4000 literal. On mobile that cap sat on the native TextInput, so a long paste silently lost its tail. (PR #5475, merged into this branch.)

Files

• packages/cloud-agent-sdk/src/limits.ts — new single source for the prompt cap.
• apps/web/src/lib/cloud-agent/constants.ts — re-exports the shared cap.
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/chat-composer.tsx, chat-composer-input-row.tsx, new-session-prompt.tsx, apps/mobile/src/lib/share-payload.ts — read the shared cap.
• apps/extension/entrypoints/sidepanel/agents-new-session.tsx — reads the shared cap.

Every one of the 87 language catalogs adds the two new preference strings, the new-session remote-run hint, and the new home.noLiveSessions empty-state line as English fallbacks. All catalogs drop the six keys retired with the promo card and the placeholder cards, including home.startNewAgentSession. The English catalog additionally renames the Home heading from "Agent sessions" to "Live now"; the other catalogs keep their existing translated heading until translation sync lands. The i18n check reports every catalog matching the English key set.

Files

• apps/mobile/src/i18n/locales/en.json — renames the Home heading to "Live now"; adds four keys; removes six retired keys.
• apps/mobile/src/i18n/locales/*.json (86 more) — add the four new keys as English fallbacks and remove the same six retired keys.

Tests: 13 test files changed — 10 updated, 3 new.

Generated: none — no lockfiles, build output, or generated artifacts changed.

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Verification

Checks on apps/mobile: typecheck, lint, check:unused, check:i18n, and test (572 files, 5918 tests) all pass. services/session-ingest unit tests cover the same-host socket replace.

Five rounds ran all six cases on iOS.

Case	What it proves	Platform	Result
S1	Home shows one muted empty-state card under LIVE NOW and one start control.	iOS	passed
S2	The new-session hint under Run on names kilo remote and /remote.	iOS	passed
S3	Preferences lists the attribution row with a switch under the Keep screen on row.	iOS	passed
S4	The submit-review summary starts prefilled with the Reviewed via Kilo footer.	iOS	passed
S5	The Run on selector lists the remote host once, and Start opens the session on that host.	iOS	passed
S6	The sign-in email field centers its placeholder and typed text and is at least 44pt tall.	iOS	passed after the fix in round 5

The sign-in email field measured about 38.7pt, under the 44pt check; e2e-r4 reproduced it on the unfixed build. Commit 47cc336 fixed it; e2e-r5 measured 44.0pt, so it no longer reproduces.
No recording exists.

Visual Changes

Home, Live now empty state. The user sees one muted card that reads "Nothing running right now" under LIVE NOW. The card sits between the LIVE NOW header and the New coding task button.

New session, remote hint. The user sees a hint under Run on that names kilo remote and /remote. The hint sits directly below the Cloud Agent selector, above the Repository heading.

Preferences, attribution row. The user sees an "Add app attribution to PR reviews" row with its switch on. The row sits under the "Keep screen on" row; the green switch is at the right of the row.

Submit review, footer prefill. The user sees the Summary field prefilled with the attribution footer. The footer text fills the Summary field under the selected Comment chip.

New session, Run on selector. The user sees one remote host in Run on, then the Start session button. The selector shows Igor-MacBook.local on mobile-batch-1154; Start session sits below the hint.

Sign-in, email field. The user sees a 44pt-tall email field with the placeholder centered. The you@example.com placeholder sits in the vertical middle of the bordered field.

Reviewer Notes

No manual step is needed before or after merge — the change adds no new environment values, secrets, migrations, flags, or deploy-order requirements.

Two behaviours were set by the PR author after seeing the built screens, and are deliberate:

1. Home's empty Live now state is one worded card, not three dashed "+" slots.
2. FormField sizes itself with min-h-[44px] and no vertical padding.

PR #5475 is merged into this branch, so its prompt-cap change ships here.

[kilo-code-bot]

Code Review Summary

Status: No Issues Found | Recommendation: Merge

Executive Summary

Incremental review of the 44pt form-field height, Live now empty card, same-host replaced socket close, and merge-adaptation call sites; no high-confidence defects in changed code.

Files Reviewed (98 files)

• apps/mobile/AGENTS.md
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/chat-composer.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-prompt.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/use-remote-spawn-dispatch.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/components/home/agent-sessions-section.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/components/home/agent-sessions-section.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/home/home-screen.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/pr-review/pr-review-submit.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/ui/form-field.tsx
• services/session-ingest/src/dos/UserConnectionDO.test.ts
• services/session-ingest/src/dos/UserConnectionDO.ts
• apps/mobile/src/i18n/locales/* (87 locale catalogs)

Previous Review Summaries (3 snapshots, latest commit 5f9e024)

Current summary above is authoritative. Previous snapshots are kept for context only.

Previous review (commit 5f9e024)

Status: No Issues Found | Recommendation: Merge

Executive Summary

Incremental review of the shared 100k cloud-agent prompt cap across mobile, extension, and web plus matching preference-test mocks; no high-confidence defects in changed code.

Files Reviewed (11 files)

• apps/extension/entrypoints/sidepanel/agents-new-session.test.ts
• apps/extension/entrypoints/sidepanel/agents-new-session.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/chat-composer-input-row.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/chat-composer.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-prompt.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/preferences-screen.mounted.test.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/lib/auth/credentials.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/lib/share-payload.ts
• apps/web/src/lib/cloud-agent/constants.ts
• packages/cloud-agent-sdk/src/limits.ts

Previous review (commit 1abf041)

Status: No Issues Found | Recommendation: Merge

Executive Summary

Incremental review of the /remote hint copy update across locale catalogs and the matching new-session form test; no high-confidence defects in changed code.

Files Reviewed (88 files)

• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/i18n/locales/* (87 locale catalogs)

Previous review (commit 6c53f2b)

Status: No Issues Found | Recommendation: Merge

Executive Summary

Reviewed the session-ingest same-host socket replace, mobile live-instance remap, Home Live now slots, and PR-review attribution footer; no high-confidence defects in changed code.

Files Reviewed (111 files)

• services/session-ingest/src/dos/UserConnectionDO.ts
• services/session-ingest/src/dos/UserConnectionDO.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/lib/resolve-live-instance.ts
• apps/mobile/src/lib/resolve-live-instance.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/use-remote-spawn-dispatch.ts
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/use-remote-spawn-dispatch.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/components/home/agent-sessions-section.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/home/agent-sessions-section.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/components/home/home-screen.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/home/home-screen.mounted.test.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/home/agents-promo-card.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/pr-review/pr-review-submit.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/pr-review/pr-review-submit.test.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/pr-review/pr-review-pending-comment-row.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/lib/hooks/use-pr-review-footer-preference.ts
• apps/mobile/src/lib/hooks/use-pr-review-footer-preference.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/lib/pr-review/review-footer.ts
• apps/mobile/src/lib/pr-review/review-footer.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/lib/storage-keys.ts
• apps/mobile/src/lib/auth/auth-context.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/lib/auth/auth-context.test.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/preferences-screen.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/i18n/locales/* (87 locale catalogs)

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