Sidebar date dividers, growing pinned section, and opt-in stale-session auto-archive - #70822
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Group the flat recents list and entered-project lanes by recency: an unlabelled head of the newest run of sessions (cut at a real break in activity, sized toward the most recent handful), then one divider per coarse calendar range — Earlier today / Yesterday / Earlier this week / Last week / Earlier this month / month / month + year. Empty ranges are skipped, the first rendered group is never labelled, branch clusters never split, and hand-ordered lists / pinned / project previews stay divider-free.
The pinned list was hard-capped at max-h-44 with an invisible scrollbar; cap it at half the viewport instead so every pin is visible.
New sessions.auto_archive / auto_archive_days config: soft-hide (never
delete) sessions with no activity for N days, aging on last activity
rather than creation so an old-but-active chat is spared. Sweeps are
throttled through state_meta and fire from CLI startup, gateway startup
+ hourly housekeeping, and the serve/dashboard backend (opportunistic
on session list + an hourly lifespan ticker), so every surface honours
one setting.
A new pinned column (declaratively migrated) exempts sessions from the
sweep; PATCH /api/sessions/{id} accepts pinned and flips the whole
compression lineage as a unit, mirroring set_session_archived.
Sessions settings gain an "Auto-archive stale chats" toggle with a configurable idle threshold, persisted to sessions.* in config.yaml so the backend sweep owns the policy. Sidebar pins (localStorage) are mirrored to the backend pinned flag at boot and on every change — pre-existing pins migrate transparently — so the sweep can never hide a pinned chat.
…cape The gateway startup maintenance block gained a maybe_auto_archive call in the same provably-off-loop __init__ site as maybe_auto_prune_and_vacuum; bump the reviewed sync-escape count from 3 to 4.
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Summary
max-h-44with an invisible scrollbar; it now grows up to half the viewport.sessions.auto_archive/sessions.auto_archive_daysconfig (off by default): soft-hide — never delete — sessions with no activity for N days, aging on last activity rather than creation. Sweeps are state_meta-throttled and fire from CLI startup, gateway startup + hourly housekeeping, and the serve/dashboard backend (opportunistic on session list + an hourly lifespan ticker). A newpinnedcolumn (declaratively migrated) exempts sessions;PATCH /api/sessions/{id}acceptspinnedand flips the whole compression lineage as a unit. Desktop adds the settings toggle and transparently mirrors its localStorage sidebar pins to the backend flag so the sweep can never hide a pinned chat.Test plan
started_atfallback (session-date-groups.test.ts,time.test.ts)session-pin-sync.test.ts); desktop suite for touched areas (899 tests), typecheck, eslintset_session_pinnedlineage propagation,archive_stale_sessionsguards (pinned exemption, idempotence, compression tips),maybe_auto_archivethrottling, PATCHpinned, config-gated sweep on GET /api/sessions (scripts/run_tests.sh tests/test_hermes_state.py tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py)