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#1174 (the pane's inert ↑↓) is merged, and this PR was rebased onto it, so the diff below
contains none of #1174's commits. The first three are the feature —
4096c1e0 (the core narrowing), 89e1cc68 (the picker and the scope), aa3d8ac6 (the README).
Every later commit is a review round.

Two agents on a proxy and abctl went straight to the sessions pane, leaving the per-agent breakdown behind a key most operators never press.

The gate already existed

agentsPaneApplies — "fewer than two agents skips the pane" — was written, asserted, and called by nothing but its own tests. Its doc even said it "mirrors the Namespaces → Pods picker, which is likewise conditional". This gives it the caller it was written for.

The gate hangs off initSessionView, the one place every entry point converges on (--endpoint mode's Init, the pod picker's portForwardReadyMsg, and [l]'s local endpoint), so it re-runs when you back out and connect to a different pod — a different proxy has different agents on it. Batched like every other fetch, so the sessions pane paints and streams while the answer is in flight.

Nothing is remembered between runs. A second agent appearing is exactly when the picker becomes worth showing, so a remembered dismissal would go stale then.

It declines in silence, which is why agentRowsLoadedMsg.open became a three-value enum rather than staying a bool. An A press is owed an answer either way; this fetch was never requested, so flashing "only claude-code/2.1.270 has been seen" at every single-agent startup would be an unsolicited complaint about a normal deployment. A failed gate fetch is silent too, and recorded, so a later A reports it.

The scope

↵ scopes the usage pane to the row under the cursor and leaves: the pane is a picker. ↵ on the agent already scoped clears it: there is no "all agents" row, so one key goes both ways and the footer's label flips to say which, as the usage pane's [s] does for sessions. esc leaves the scope alone, because esc means "back out" on every other pane here.

scopeToAgent lived in cmd/abctl, package main, which no package can import — the same situation #1152 resolved for the series ranking. So it moves to core/cost/usage and both surfaces call it. It also had to do more than the CLI needed: it rewrote Totals and left Buckets alone, which is right for a command that prints window totals and wrong for a pane that renders a chart from the buckets. Hence BucketScope: KeepBuckets is the old behavior, NarrowBuckets additionally rewrites each bucket to that agent's share.

abctl cost is byte-identical: it passes KeepBuckets, the mode that changes nothing, and it prints window totals.

Four consequences, each stated where it bites

  1. [b] is inert and leaves the footer while scoped. The scope needs group=agent on the wire, so there is no second axis to break down by. m.usage.group is left alone rather than overwritten, so clearing the scope restores the axis the operator picked.
  2. Latency cannot be scoped. Bucket.Series is map[string]Counts and Counts holds no latency, so a bucket's LatMeanMs describes every agent that shared it. The narrowing zeroes the fields and the pane says "latency is not available per agent". renderWhiskers would otherwise have answered "no latency samples in this window" — true of the narrowed snapshot, false about the window, and it would send a reader hunting for traffic that is there.
  3. A scope that stops matching is reported, naming the agents that are in the window. The window moves while abctl runs, so this is reachable without anyone doing anything wrong.
  4. The spend band and drawer are NOT scoped and still show every agent — separate fetches with their own axes, and abctl cost --agent is a separate process. So the scope reaches the usage pane and nothing else: an operator pressing ↵ will see the most prominent money figure on screen stay put. Scoping those is its own change.

Both titles carry the scope, so no narrowed figure is unlabelled.

The now-false read-only claims, corrected

Several comments said the pane was read-only because /v1/usage takes no agent filter: the paneAgents enum comment, the [?] overlay note, and fetchAgentRowsCmd's own doc. That limit is real and unchanged — it now bounds which views can honour a scope rather than whether any can, since the narrowing happens client-side. No count in this heading on purpose: round 1's review caught it claiming "two" when it was three.

The overlay note is also shorter than the one it replaces, deliberately: the two new ↵/esc rows cost lines, and TestHelpOverlayScrollHint_AbsentWhenEverythingFits would otherwise demand helpNoScrollHeight be raised, making every reader of every other pane scroll for this pane's explanation.

Verification

  • core/cost/... green. cmd/abctl/... green except TestRunExec_BeforeFirstStartRunsAndSaysWhatIsLost, which fails identically on the base commit in a clean worktree — it requires ~/.cortex/ca/bundle.crt on the machine.
  • go vet ./... clean, gofmt -l clean, go mod tidy -diff clean on both modules.
  • Not verified end-to-end against a live two-agent proxy; the scope, the gate and the wire axis are covered by unit tests over httptest, not by a run against a real Cortex.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com


Review round 1

A strict review found 5 must-fix. Two were mutation survivors — the startup gate's
msg.err == nil guard and the gate's only call site, both of which stayed green with the
production line deleted — and are now pinned, with three killed mutants recorded in the commit
body. One was a real regression: the prose added to the keybinding table sat between rows, and a
blank line ends a GFM table, so the seven rows below it rendered as literal pipe text.

The other two were this description's own defect shape, and the fix was deletion rather than
restatement: a true conclusion resting on a false mechanism. Swept repo-wide rather than fixed at
the named lines — 6 overclaim sites, 1 impossible-flag-combination site, and 23 symbols named in
added prose checked for resolution. The claims delta measured +35/-35, net zero.

Those two false mechanisms also shipped in 8e5af300's commit message. That commit is no longer in
this PR: round 3's rebase replaced it with 4096c1e0, whose message retracts the enumeration.

Review round 3 (48b192ea)

Three must-fix, all in prose or guards that rounds 1 and 2 themselves wrote — the feature code has
not been touched since round 1. Fixed subtractively, with one replaced assertion (48b192ea is
+6/-16), after the loop's stop rule fired twice at 100% self-inflicted:

  • The guard round 2 added to stop "the scope covers cost" asserted the AGENTS note contains
    "spend band", which holds in either polarity — a note reading "scopes the usage pane and the
    spend band" passed it. Two mutants showed it, one scoped to the guard and one to the whole
    package. It now pins "not the spend band".
  • Two false mechanisms deleted rather than corrected: a comment claiming that re-invoking a
    tea.Batch command re-runs "every leaf with it" (with 7 leaves compactCmds returns the slice
    and runs none), and this description's own parenthetical about seriesForBreakdown, which is
    called on the --agent path but returns nil before reading any bucket.

The mutation harness now refuses to run against a dirty tree. run_one reverts with
git checkout -- <file>, which restores the committed state, so an uncommitted fix in any file it
mutates was silently destroyed and the mutant then measured pre-fix code and reported SURVIVED —
which happened three times in this loop before the guard existed.

History was rewritten once, with consent: rebased onto #1174's current tip (this PR had been
carrying a stale copy of its parent commit) and three commit messages reworded to drop the same
false claims. The trees before and after the rewrite are byte-identical, verified by git diff.

Known open, carried deliberately

Facts; no claims about why beyond what is checkable.

  • 89e1cc68's message says "Two claims" where the set is three. git grep -i read-only 9086f05c -- cmd/abctl returns app.go:45, help_overlay.go:385, agents_pane.go:147. The PR body above
    states it correctly. Left as-is rather than rewriting this branch's history a second time.
  • The advertised way to clear a scope can be unavailable. usage_pane.go tells an operator
    stuck on the latency view to press [A] then [enter], and A refuses below two agents
    (agentsPaneApplies). If the window narrows to one agent while a scope is set, that route is
    closed. Fixing it needs a surface this PR does not add.
  • abctl cost --agent discloses no avoided-cost residual. It renders an avoided-cost figure
    and no UngroupedAvoidedMicros beside it, the same shape as the cost residual fixed in round 4.
    cmd_cost.go's own comment records the absence as "a gap rather than a consequence". Fixing it
    changes abctl cost's output contract, which this PR does not otherwise touch.
  • A scoped agent idle for the usage window gets an error screen, not an empty chart. The
    picker lists today's agents; the usage pane has its own window, 10m by default. Whether the
    idle case should render empty instead is a design call left open.
  • A startup pick lands on Sessions, which the scope does not affect; it shows once the usage
    pane is opened. Landing a startup pick on Usage instead is a design call left open.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Scope the Usage pane to a selected agent with Enter; press Enter on that agent again to clear the scope. Esc returns to the opening pane without changing the scope.
    • The agent picker opens automatically once per connection when at least two agents have been seen. Otherwise, the Sessions pane opens without a message.
    • The active scope appears in the Usage and Agents pane titles. Scoped usage shows agent-specific totals and cost details, including ungrouped costs when available.
  • Usage
    • Per-agent latency is unavailable, and the breakdown control is hidden while a scope is active. The breakdown control is also unavailable for latency views.
  • Documentation
    • Updated keyboard help and usage guidance to explain agent scoping and its limits.

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Walkthrough

The TUI can open an agent picker at startup when at least two agents have been seen. Enter sets or clears a Usage-pane agent scope, and Esc preserves it. Shared snapshot-scoping logic supports the TUI and CLI --agent path. Scoped Usage requests use agent grouping and narrow buckets; the pane explains that per-agent latency is unavailable.

Changes

Agent-scoped Usage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Agent picker and scope selection
cmd/abctl/tui/agents_pane.go, cmd/abctl/tui/app.go, cmd/abctl/tui/keys.go, cmd/abctl/tui/agents_pane_test.go, cmd/abctl/tui/agents_scope_test.go, cmd/abctl/tui/help_overlay.go, cmd/abctl/tui/help_overlay_test.go, cmd/abctl/README.md
The TUI fetches agent rows asynchronously at startup and opens the picker when at least two agents are returned. Enter sets the Usage scope to the selected agent or clears it when that agent is already scoped. Esc returns to the caller pane without clearing the scope.
Shared snapshot scoping
core/cost/usage/scope.go, core/cost/usage/scope_test.go, cmd/abctl/cmd_cost.go, cmd/abctl/cmd_cost_test.go
ScopeToAgent derives agent totals and supports retaining window buckets or narrowing buckets to the selected agent. The CLI --agent path uses the helper with KeepBuckets.
Scoped Usage requests and display
cmd/abctl/tui/usage_pane.go, cmd/abctl/tui/agents_scope_test.go, cmd/abctl/tui/keys.go, cmd/abctl/tui/app.go, cmd/abctl/tui/help_overlay.go, cmd/abctl/README.md
Scoped Usage requests use agent grouping and narrow returned buckets. The pane suppresses breakdown controls, displays an explanation instead of a latency chart, and can disclose positive ungrouped window cost.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant AgentsPane
  participant UsagePane
  participant UsageAPI
  participant ScopeToAgent
  User->>AgentsPane: Select an agent with Enter
  AgentsPane->>UsagePane: Set agentScope
  UsagePane->>UsageAPI: Request usage with GroupAgent
  UsageAPI-->>UsagePane: Return usage snapshot
  UsagePane->>ScopeToAgent: Narrow snapshot to selected agent
  ScopeToAgent-->>UsagePane: Return scoped snapshot
  UsagePane-->>User: Render scoped usage
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Suggested reviewers: mrsabath

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1f7dc

Usage can remain scoped when the agent picker drops below two agents, requiring a session restart to reset it. Preserve access to the clearing control; otherwise mergeability risk is bounded.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1f7dc

Late picker results can be attributed to a different connection, weakening the reliability of displayed workload information. The demonstrated impact is confined to the local display and scope selection; no authorization bypass or additional write authority was established.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: A late agent-row reply can overwrite state after reconnection and potentially open the startup picker using the previous endpoint's rows. The new automatic startup caller expands an existing reply-ownership weakness, undermining cross-workload failure containment and display attribution. No server-side authorization bypass is established.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated ownership defect is bounded to one TUI instance switching between endpoints: previous rows or errors can affect current picker presentation and subsequent scope selection. Usage still fetches through the current captured client and rejects obsolete request IDs; broader tenant access or write exposure is not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Scope selection changes local presentation after retrieval. The request encodes window, resolution, session and grouping, but does not send the selected agent label as an authorization subject. Normal label ingestion and displayed titles provide separate sanitization controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The picker request has a five-second deadline, but its background context and reply format do not inherit connection cancellation or identity. In contrast, Usage explicitly invalidates replies at scope changes and reconnection. The concern is this inconsistent ownership control, not an unbounded request.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Sanitize endpoint-derived error text at the final terminal-rendering boundary as defense in depth. Scope errors include known labels, and Usage renders error text directly. Normal producer sanitization is strong counterevidence to an ordinary request-client exploit; introduced exploitability from a hostile endpoint was not established.
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Reviewed the narrowing, the gate and the scope against the description's claims. The refactor is careful and the test coverage is strong. One must-fix and one suggestion, both about the same gap; everything else checks out.

Must-fix: the scoped pane's COST figure omits the residual the CLI discloses

ScopeToAgent passes UngroupedCostMicros and UngroupedAvoidedMicros through untouched. They are whole-window residuals — the part of the total that no series entry carries — so under a scope they describe traffic belonging to no agent, sitting inside a snapshot titled with one agent's name.

The PR's own structure is what makes this reachable, because the CLI already solves it — outside ScopeToAgent, at cmd/abctl/cmd_cost.go:583:

if agent != "" && snap.UngroupedCostMicros != nil && *snap.UngroupedCostMicros != 0 {
    fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "  note  %s of this window is attributed to no agent, so per-agent figures do not sum to the window total\n", ...)
}

Its own comment says why: "without a word about it a reader who runs --agent for every agent and compares the sum against plain abctl cost finds a shortfall with nothing to explain it." The new TUI caller inherits none of that, because the disclosure was never in the shared function.

Verified reachable rather than theoretical:

  • GroupAgent is reconcilable. Group.Reconcilable() (core/cost/usage/snapshot.go:488-494) returns false only for GroupNone/GroupPlugin, so both producers compute the residual on exactly the group=agent path this pane forces at usage_pane.go:156.
  • The scoped pane renders a cost figure. renderUsageSummary calls renderCostSummary(snap) (usage_render.go:477), which prints COST <total> from snap.Totals.CostMicros (:492-511) — under scope, one agent's total. Both the latency branch and the default branch reach it.
  • Nothing in the TUI says anything about it. grep -rni 'ungrouped\|no agent\|attributed to no' cmd/abctl/tui/ turns up only GroupNone bar-chart wording. scope.go mentions Ungrouped zero times, and scope_test.go asserts nothing about either field.

This is the defect shape the description itself names as the thing to avoid — "silent, and wrong in the direction a reader cannot detect." Consequence #4 tells the operator the spend band stays unscoped, so the prominent money figure is accounted for; the pane's own COST cell is the one that narrows silently.

Either disclosure point works — a note in the scoped pane mirroring the CLI's, or moving the rule into ScopeToAgent so both surfaces get it from one place (which is the stated reason the function was moved into core: "no second implementation and no chance of the two drifting").

What I verified

Check Result
go build ./cost/... (core) clean
go test ./cost/usage/... ok — the 10 new tests pass
go vet ./... (abctl) clean
go test ./tui/... ok (27s)
gofmt -l on every changed Go file clean
Cost / scope / agent tests specifically all pass
KeepBuckets vs NarrowBuckets split as described — cmd_cost.go:214 keeps, usage_pane.go:172 narrows
README keybinding table intact, no blank line splitting it — round 1's fix holds
8 commits, all Signed-off-by yes
Assisted-By rather than Co-Authored-By correct per this repo's CLAUDE.md
PR title Feat: capitalized passes the case-sensitive check
CI (26 checks) all pass; Spellcheck skipped

On the disclosed test failure: cmd/abctl does fail here, but on TestSystemdUsable / TestServiceManagerUsable_Linux / the service tests — Operation not permitted on /private/var/select/sh and Linux-only paths on darwin, none of them touching this PR's files. Consistent with the description's account of environment-dependent failures, and separate from TestRunExec_BeforeFirstStartRunsAndSaysWhatIsLost.

The rest of the description holds up where I could check it: the gate does hang off initSessionView, the three-value open enum does keep a single-agent startup silent, the latency branch does say "not available per agent" rather than plotting the zeroes, and abctl cost's path really does pass the no-op bucket mode.

Areas reviewed: Go (core/cost/usage, cmd/abctl + tui), docs (README), tests
Commits: 8, all signed-off
CI: passing

// window moves past an agent's last request, and showing every agent under a scoped
// title is the one outcome a reader cannot detect. The error names the agents that
// are in the window.
snap, err = usage.ScopeToAgent(snap, scope, usage.NarrowBuckets)

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must-fix: this narrowing leaves UngroupedCostMicros and UngroupedAvoidedMicros on the snapshot, and the pane then renders a cost figure from the narrowed totals with nothing said about them.

They are whole-window residuals — the part of the total that no series entry carries — so after this call they describe traffic belonging to no agent, inside a snapshot the title attributes to one.

Reachable on this exact path:

  • Group.Reconcilable() (core/cost/usage/snapshot.go:488-494) returns false only for GroupNone/GroupPlugin, so the residual is computed for the group=agent this pane forces 16 lines up.
  • renderUsageSummary → renderCostSummary(snap) (usage_render.go:477, :492-511) prints COST <total> from snap.Totals.CostMicros, which this call has just replaced with one agent's figure. Both the latency branch and the default branch reach it.
  • grep -rni 'ungrouped\|no agent' cmd/abctl/tui/ finds no disclosure anywhere in the TUI.

The CLI already handles it, which is what makes the gap visible — cmd_cost.go:583 prints note <amount> of this window is attributed to no agent, so per-agent figures do not sum to the window total, gated on agent != "". That lives outside ScopeToAgent, so this caller inherits none of it.

This is the shape the PR description sets out to avoid: silent, and wrong in the direction a reader cannot detect. Consequence #4 tells the operator the spend band stays unscoped, so that figure is accounted for — the pane's own COST cell is the one that narrows without saying what it dropped.

Either a note here mirroring the CLI's, or moving the rule into ScopeToAgent so both surfaces get it from one place — which is the reason given for moving the function into core: "no second implementation and no chance of the two drifting."

Comment thread core/cost/usage/scope.go Outdated
// READ and the retention configuration, which are the same facts whichever agent is scoped
// to. Dropping them would hide a short sum behind a narrower question.
//
// SeriesOvershootMicros and SeriesAvoidedOvershootMicros stay too, and they are the two the

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suggestion: this field-by-field audit is the most useful thing in the file — it accounts for Totals, Priced, the three by-model maps, Degraded, DaysOutsideRetention, and both Series*OvershootMicros, each with a reason. Two Snapshot fields are missing from it: UngroupedCostMicros and UngroupedAvoidedMicros.

They are the only ones the comment does not reach, and they are not inert here — GroupAgent is reconcilable, so both producers populate them on this path (see the must-fix on usage_pane.go).

Worth noting the "every" on line 91 is already doing careful work: it flags SeriesOvershootMicros/SeriesAvoidedOvershootMicros as the two that sentence "has to account for rather than pass over." These two belong in that same reckoning — they are residuals about the breakdown too, but unlike the overshoot pair they are reachable on a correct producer, so the reasoning lands differently and is worth stating.

Whichever way the must-fix goes, a line here saying what happens to them and why would keep this comment's promise that "which fields do NOT survive, and why, is stated at each narrowing below." A test in scope_test.go alongside the PricedBy/DaysOutsideRetention assertions would pin it.

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cmd/abctl/tui/agents_scope_test.go (1)

101-104: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Do not call cmd() a second time in the failure message.

If the type assertion fails, the t.Fatalf argument runs cmd() again. That second call sends another HTTP request and can return a different message type. Capture the result once and report its type.

♻️ Proposed fix
-	msg, ok := cmd().(usageLoadedMsg)
-	if !ok {
-		t.Fatalf("fetchUsage produced %T, want usageLoadedMsg", cmd())
-	}
+	raw := cmd()
+	msg, ok := raw.(usageLoadedMsg)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("fetchUsage produced %T, want usageLoadedMsg", raw)
+	}
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Review comment at @cmd/abctl/tui/agents_scope_test.go around lines 101 - 104:
In the test’s fetchUsage assertion, capture the result of cmd() once, then
assert that captured value is a usageLoadedMsg and report its type on failure.
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Review comments at @cmd/abctl/tui/app.go:
- Around line 1360-1371: Update the startup-gate reply handling around
agentsPaneApplies to enter paneAgents only when m.pane is still paneSessions,
preserving any pane the operator opened meanwhile. Also reject replies belonging
to an older client connection, using a generation check or the existing
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- Around line 101-104: In the test’s fetchUsage assertion, capture the result of
cmd() once, then assert that captured value is a usageLoadedMsg and report its
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Comment thread cmd/abctl/tui/app.go Outdated
abctl's usage pane is about to scope itself to one agent, and the
narrowing it needs already existed — as scopeToAgent in cmd/abctl,
package main, which no other package can import. Same situation rossoctl#1152
resolved for the series ranking: two surfaces answering one question,
so the answer moves to core and both call it.

It also has to do more than the CLI needed. scopeToAgent rewrote
Totals and left Buckets alone, which is right for a command that
prints window totals and wrong for a pane that renders a chart from
the buckets themselves — narrowing only the totals would title a
whole-window chart with one agent's name. So the mode is a parameter:
KeepBuckets is the old behavior, NarrowBuckets additionally rewrites
each bucket to that agent's share of it.

Neither value is a safe default, hence no zero-argument form. Two
things NarrowBuckets cannot carry across, both documented at the
narrowing: Series is dropped, because a renderer that found it there
would stack every agent back on top of the scoped one; and latency is
ZEROED, because Series is map[string]Counts and Counts holds no
latency, so a bucket's LatMeanMs describes every agent that shared it.
A caller offering a latency view has to say it is unavailable under a
scope — there is no per-agent latency on the wire to offer instead.
Buckets the agent is idle in survive as zero buckets at their original
timestamps, since the chart reads Buckets positionally.

`abctl cost` keeps byte-identical behavior: it passes KeepBuckets, the
mode that changes nothing, and on its scoped path it reads only window
totals. An earlier revision of this message justified that by
enumerating the readers of snap.Buckets and got the enumeration wrong —
seriesForBreakdown reads them too, and is called on the --agent path,
though it returns nil there before reaching the read. The conclusion
held; the stated reason did not.

Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <haih@us.ibm.com>
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ne agent

Two agents on a proxy and abctl went straight to the sessions pane,
leaving the per-agent breakdown behind a key most operators never
press. The rule for when a picker is worth showing already existed —
agentsPaneApplies, "fewer than two agents skips the pane" — written,
asserted, and called by nothing but its own tests. This gives it the
caller it was written for.

The gate hangs off initSessionView, the one place every entry point
converges on (--endpoint mode's Init, the pod picker's
portForwardReadyMsg, and [l]'s local endpoint), so it also re-runs when
the operator backs out and connects to a DIFFERENT pod: a different
proxy has different agents on it. Batched like every other fetch, so
the sessions pane paints and streams while the answer is in flight.
Nothing is remembered between runs — the decision is a pure function of
what the window shows now, and a remembered dismissal would go stale at
exactly the moment a second agent appeared.

It declines in SILENCE, which is why agentsOpen is an enum rather than
the bool it replaces. An `A` press is owed an answer either way; this
fetch was never requested, so flashing "only claude-code has been seen"
at every single-agent startup would be an unsolicited complaint about a
normal deployment. A failed gate fetch is silent too, and recorded, so
a later `A` reports it.

Enter scopes the usage pane to the row under the cursor and
leaves — the pane is a picker, so staying on it would leave the
operator on the one surface the choice does not affect. Enter on the
agent already scoped clears it: there is no "all agents" row, and the
footer's label flips to say which way the key will go, as the usage
pane's [s] does for sessions. esc leaves the scope alone, because esc
means "back out" on every other pane here.

The scope is applied client-side, via the core narrowing: the pane
fetches group=agent whatever axis it is showing, then narrows totals
AND buckets. It reaches the usage pane and nothing else — the spend
band and its drawer fetch on their own chains and ignore it. Consequences, each stated where it bites:

  - [b] is inert and omitted from the footer, since the scope has taken
    the wire axis. m.usage.group is left alone rather than overwritten,
    so clearing the scope restores the axis the operator picked.
  - Latency says "not available per agent" instead of plotting the
    zeroes the narrowing leaves. renderWhiskers would have answered "no
    latency samples in this window" — true of the narrowed snapshot,
    false about the window, and it would send a reader hunting for
    traffic that is there.
  - A scope that stops matching (the window moves past an agent's last
    request) is REPORTED, naming the agents that are in the window.
    Showing every agent under a scoped title is the one outcome a
    reader cannot detect.
  - Both titles carry the scope, so no narrowed figure is unlabelled.

The spend strip and drawer are NOT scoped and still show every agent.
They are separate fetches with their own axes; scoping them is its own
change.

Two claims that are now false are corrected rather than left: the
paneAgents enum comment and the [?] overlay note both said the pane was
read-only because /v1/usage takes no agent filter. The endpoint's limit
is real and unchanged — it now bounds WHICH views can honour a scope
rather than whether any can.

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The keybinding table had the `A` key and its two-agent refusal, and now
owes three more facts: ↑↓ move a cursor that used to be inert, ↵ sets
and clears the scope, and the picker opens itself at startup under the
same two-agent rule.

Also says what a scope does NOT reach, because the answer is not
guessable from the pane: sessions and events carry no agent at all, and
the spend band and drawer are separate fetches that keep showing every
agent. And the two things that change on the usage pane while a scope
is active — [b] leaving the footer, latency reporting itself
unavailable — since a reader who met either without warning would take
it for a bug.

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Two classes, swept repo-wide rather than fixed at the lines the review
named.

FALSE-REASON — a true conclusion resting on a false mechanism, in five
layers. Fixed by DELETING the reason rather than restating it, which is
the fix style that does not regenerate the class:

  - cmd_cost.go claimed "the only reader of them here is
    writeCostBreakdown, reachable only under --by, which the check at
    the top refuses alongside --agent". seriesForBreakdown reads
    snap.Buckets too, and IS called on the --agent path via
    writeCostJSON; it returns nil at its own `if by == ""`, not because
    of the flag refusal. The enumeration is dropped, not corrected:
    what this caller needs is that it prints window totals.
  - agents_pane.go said the startup gate "passes paneSessions". It
    passes paneNone, as the same file says 70 lines down. Clause
    deleted; the value is documented where it is chosen.
  - agents_pane.go still said "this pane is read-only — there is no
    server-side agent scope". This PR falsified that. Deleted.
  - scope.go and scope_test.go said the TUI "re-derives a scoped view"
    from one held snapshot. It re-fetches. Mechanism deleted; the copy
    rule it was justifying is correct and stays.
  - scope_test.go justified KeepBuckets with `--agent --by <axis>`, a
    combination cmd_cost.go refuses outright.

OVERCLAIM — "usage and cost views" names two surfaces where one honours
the scope. Swept 8 sites, 6 in scope, 6 fixed (README, keys.go,
help_overlay.go, app.go x2, agents_scope_test.go). The spend band and
its drawer fetch on their own chains and ignore agentScope, and
`abctl cost --agent` is a separate process. The help overlay was the
unqualified one — the README disclosed the spend-band exclusion and it
did not.

GEOMETRY-INVARIANT — the two prose paragraphs I added to the keybinding
table sat BETWEEN rows, and a blank line ends a GFM table, so the seven
rows below them (`e`, `y`, `N`, `r`, `Esc`, `Esc`, `q`) rendered as
literal pipe text. Verified against base: at 67021e3 that table was
contiguous. Prose moved below the last row; now 44 contiguous rows.

Sweeps: 23 symbols named in added prose, 0 unresolved. 135 quantifier
hits triaged. Claims delta measured at +35/-35, net 0 — a claims round
that adds prose is writing the next round's findings.

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Both were mutation survivors: the package stayed green with the
production line deleted.

TestAgentsPane_StartupFetchFailureIsSilent set no agents, so
agentsPaneApplies(nil) was already false and carried the assertion
alone — deleting `msg.err == nil` from the gate changed nothing. The
fixture now seeds two rows, standing for a previous pod's, so the error
is the only thing that can hold the pane back. That state is reachable
rather than theoretical: m.agents survives a failed fetch and the gate
re-runs per connection, so without the guard the picker opens showing
another proxy's agents.

The gate's only call site was unasserted. Replacing
`m.startupAgentsGateCmd(),` in initSessionView with a no-op left the
whole package green, so this PR's headline behaviour — the picker opens
itself at startup — had no test that it is ever reached in production;
all four startup tests inject agentRowsLoadedMsg straight into Update.
TestInitSessionView_ArmsTheStartupAgentsGate runs the real batch against
an httptest server and asserts the message's MODE, not just its
arrival: a gate armed with agentsOpenOnPress would flash a refusal at
every single-agent startup.

The batch is fanned out concurrently with a deadline because its leaves
include a 1s tick and an SSE pump that never return on their own.

| New assertion | Mutation | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| StartupFetchFailureIsSilent | dropped `msg.err == nil` | killed |
| InitSessionView_ArmsTheGate | gate call -> nil | killed |
| InitSessionView_ArmsTheGate | mode -> agentsOpenOnPress | killed |

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Round 1 fixed its false-claim class by deletion, and in two places the
deletion took the QUALIFIER rather than the claim. The surviving
sentence was shorter, stronger and false:

  "KeepBuckets is the mode `abctl cost` asks for: it prints window
   totals and reads no buckets"

`abctl cost --by` does read buckets — writeCostBreakdown folds
snap.Buckets, and the tree's own TestRunCost_By pins that it does, so
the claim is refutable by this repo's existing tests rather than by
another comment. Deleting a claim is safe; deleting a condition
strengthens whatever survives.

Fixed by RESTORATION, not by composing a third wording: scope.go
already carries the correctly qualified sentence 85 lines up in the same
package ("reads only window totals on its scoped path"), untouched by
this PR and therefore already reviewed. cmd_cost.go's copy had the same
dropped qualifier, rescued only by sitting inside `if *agent != ""`;
it now says "on this path" so it is true read alone.

Two unpinned mechanisms from round 2's own delta, both found by mutants
the reviewer appended:

  - Both startup fixtures hard-coded previousPane: paneNone, the same
    value the production arm assigns — so the fixture supplied the
    mechanism the comment credited, and deleting that assignment or
    setting it to paneSessions both survived. Seeded with panePipeline,
    which the arm must overwrite; both mutants now die.
  - TestInitSessionView_ArmsTheStartupAgentsGate could not tell a served
    fetch from a failed one, because fetchAgentRowsCmd's error return
    carries the same `open`. Blanking the fixture's agents left it
    green. It now also asserts err == nil and the two fixture rows, and
    invokes cmd() once rather than twice.

The PR title said "scope usage and cost" — the exact phrasing the norm
added at app.go:739 by round 1 forbids, and the one surface a
file-scoped sweep structurally cannot reach. Retitled; it is also what
lands as the merge commit's subject.

Sweeps: 4 sites of the dropped-qualifier shape, 3 in scope, 3 fixed.

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…closure

Two mutants the review appended still survived after the round-2 fix,
for different reasons.

R2_startup_records_caller set the startup arm's previousPane to
paneSessions instead of paneNone. Seeding the fixture with panePipeline
killed the DELETED-assignment mutant but not this one: both values land
esc on Sessions — one through a recorded caller, one through
leaveAgentsPane's fallback — so an assertion on where esc goes cannot
separate the mechanism the comment credits from the other one. The test
now asserts previousPane == paneNone directly, which is the field the
arm sets and the claim the comment makes.

R2_help_note_base_text reverted the [?] overlay's AGENTS note to the
pre-round-1 "the scope reaches usage and cost" wording and survived the
whole package: nothing pinned it. This PR has now re-broken that same
claim twice — six prose sites in round 1, the PR title in round 2 —
because it is the natural thing to write and no check contradicted it.
app.go's agentScope doc states the norm, and a norm in a comment is not
a guard.

The new guard asserts the DISCLOSURE rather than the absence of a word:
that the note names the spend band, the surface the scope does not reach
and the one an operator is looking at when they press the key. Banning
"cost" would fire on a site that had become correctly qualified, which
is how a guard becomes a nuisance instead of a check.

Two survivors are left deliberately, neither a gap:

  - R2_cost_agent_narrowbuckets (KeepBuckets -> NarrowBuckets on the
    --agent path) is equivalent by construction — nothing on that path
    observes buckets, which is the comment's own claim, so its survival
    is evidence for the comment rather than against it.
  - R2_by_reads_buckets is inert: its `-run TestCost` regex does not
    match TestRunCost_By. It does run about ten other tests, none of
    which reads the mutated fold. Its _wide twin, with the correct
    regex, is KILLED and carries the property.

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No new explanatory prose this round: every fix is a deletion or a
one-line assertion change. Rounds 1 and 2 each corrected a claim by
writing a replacement claim, and each replacement was the next round's
only must-fix.

The guard round 2 added to stop "the scope covers cost" did not stop it.
It asserted the AGENTS note CONTAINS "spend band", which holds in either
polarity — a note reading "scopes the usage pane and the spend band"
passed it, and that is the exact claim app.go:739 forbids. Two mutants
demonstrated it, one scoped to the guard and one to the whole package,
so nothing else in cmd/abctl/tui was sensitive either. The assertion now
pins "not the spend band". That is a substring pin and will go red on a
correct reword; the comment says so and claims nothing more.

Deleted, rather than corrected:

  - "calling cmd() again would re-run tea.Batch's closure, and every
    leaf with it" — false on both shapes. compactCmds returns the slice
    for 7 leaves and runs no leaf; the one-leaf collapse re-runs one,
    not every. The single invocation is visible in the code.

The harness now REFUSES to run on a dirty tree. run_one reverts with
`git checkout -- <file>`, which restores the committed state, so an
uncommitted fix in any of the six files it mutates was destroyed and the
mutant then measured pre-fix code and reported SURVIVED. That happened
three times in this loop. The skill's harness template ships
require_clean_tree for this reason and this hand-rolled runner omitted
it; the guard is proven by making the tree dirty and watching it exit 2.

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…ves out

Round 4 (mrsabath, CHANGES_REQUESTED): one must-fix and one suggestion, both
about usage.Snapshot's two whole-window residual fields.

CLASS: a surface that renders a scoped money figure without saying what that
figure leaves out. UngroupedCostMicros and UngroupedAvoidedMicros are
whole-window residuals — the part of a total that no series entry carries — and
they survive ScopeToAgent, so under a scope they describe traffic belonging to
no agent inside a snapshot whose Totals describe one.

Swept every consumer of ScopeToAgent's result and every money figure each one
renders: two callers, cmd_cost.go's --agent path and the usage pane. One gap
fixed, one deferred.

- tui.costUngroupedRow states the residual beside the pane's COST cell,
  mirroring writeCostSummary's --agent note, and is called from BOTH branches
  that render the summary — the default one and the latency one. The pane is the
  surface that gained a scope in this PR and had nothing to say about this.
- scope.go's field-by-field audit now accounts for both fields, and for why they
  are KEPT rather than dropped: abctl cost reads UngroupedCostMicros off the
  snapshot this function returns, so nilling them here would retract a
  disclosure already being made.
- The "every" sentence no longer claims the two overshoot fields are the only
  ones it has to account for. The count is dropped rather than corrected, since
  accounting for these two makes it four.

MEASURED, because the comment was going to claim the opposite: nilling
UngroupedCostMicros in ScopeToAgent fails two cmd/abctl tests
(TestRunCost_AgentDisclosesCostNoAgentCarries and
TestRunCost_JSONScopedToAnAgentNarrowsProvenanceAndNamesTheAgent), while nilling
UngroupedAvoidedMicros failed nothing at all. Every guard either field had lived
a module away in the consumer, which is why the survival is now pinned in core
by TestScopeToAgent_KeepsTheWindowResidualsForTheCallerToDisclose.

The helper's name also makes an existing citation resolve: cmd_cost_test.go has
referred to tui.costUngroupedRow as "the pane's form of it" while it existed
nowhere in the tree. Pre-existing and outside this diff; the new helper is named
to match rather than repaired separately.

DEFERRED, not fixed here: abctl cost renders an avoided-cost figure and
discloses no UngroupedAvoidedMicros beside it. That gap is pre-existing — this
PR only moved scopeToAgent into core, leaving the --agent path's output
untouched — and cmd_cost.go's own comment already records it as a gap rather
than a consequence. The usage pane renders no avoided figure at all, so it has
no counterpart gap. See the PR body.

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Class GEOMETRY-INVARIANT. Round 4 added the scoped residual note as a
new row after the summary. usagePaneChromeRows does not count it, and
the chrome test renders unscoped, so it could not see it: a scoped
pane with a residual came out one row past the terminal at 80x26 and
120x26.

Fixed by subtraction rather than by budget arithmetic:

- The note now takes the blank row above the summary instead of adding
  a row, so the scoped pane spends exactly what the unscoped one does.
  Subtracting the note from the chart's budget was tried first and
  changed nothing at these sizes: the chart grows in steps (13 rows, or
  14 with its caption), and at these sizes a body of bodyHeight rows
  already overflows the terminal by one.
- The pane's note drops its trailing clause ("so per-agent figures do
  not sum to the window total"). At 107 columns it wrapped at 80 and
  stole a second row. abctl cost keeps the full sentence; stdout has no
  width budget.

Swept: every row renderUsage writes conditionally, in both branches
that render the summary. 2 sites, fixed 1. The latency branch appends
the note too, and measures 16 rows of an 80x24 terminal, so it has no
budget to break.

New guard: TestUsagePane_TheScopedNoteFitsWhereTheUnscopedPaneDoes
(assertFits on a scoped pane with a residual at 80x26 and 120x26).

| Mutation | Verdict |
|---|---|
| the note adds a row again (round 4's shape) | killed |
| the deleted clause restored, wrapping at 80 | killed |
| the note never rendered (fixture-reach check) | killed, on its Fatalf |

Two round-4 mutants lost their targets to this move and are retargeted
in the harness; the full prior suite shows no new survivor.

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…n, gate on Sessions

Round 7 was the whole-diff confirmation pass. Its two must-fix were
round-1 misses rather than repairs of repairs: both lines blame to the
feature commit or to code older than the PR.

UNFAILABLE-ASSERTION (probabilistic). The only guard on the sorted
"seen:" list made one ScopeToAgent call over a two-label map, so with
sort.Strings(known) deleted the map walk still came out sorted in 21 of
200 runs. The test now repeats the call 64 times. Swept: every sort and
every range over a map that the PR adds in production code; both are
this site.

SELF-CONSISTENCY. Under an agent scope the usage header still printed
"by <group>" from the persisted setting while the chart was ungrouped,
breaking the rule the comment above it states. The
breakdown arm now requires no scope, so the header falls through to
"ungrouped", a string TestUsageScopeMax_CoversTheWidestHeader already
lists. Swept: every read of m.usage.group outside tests; the header's
was the only one wrong under a scope.

GUARD-REACHABILITY. The startup gate entered AGENTS whatever pane its
reply found, although its comment says it interrupts the sessions view:
an operator who had moved inside the fetch's latency was pulled into
the picker, and esc then landed on Sessions. The gate now also requires
m.pane == paneSessions. Every initSessionView caller puts the model on
Sessions before the fetch goes out, so the condition only declines for
an operator who has left.

FALSE-REASON, fixed by deletion. Swept every "the one <x> a reader
cannot <y>" reason the PR adds, reading wrapped lines rather than
grepping them, and deleted the false ones:
- usage_pane.go, agents_scope_test.go: "showing every agent under a
  scoped title is the one outcome a reader cannot detect"
- keys.go, agents_scope_test.go: "the one surface the choice does not
  affect" (Sessions, where a startup pick lands, is another)
- app.go: "the one direction a reader cannot check", which claims the
  opposite direction to scope.go's, and "not only in the footer": the
  usage footer does not show the agent scope
The first two are deleted from the PR body as well. The library's
empty-window message drops "--agent", a CLI flag the TUI was printing
to operators who never typed it.

Left open as design calls, listed in the PR body's deferred section:
an idle scoped agent gets an error screen rather than an empty chart,
and a startup pick lands on Sessions rather than Usage.

| New assertion | Mutation | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| the repeated unknown-agent call | sort.Strings deleted, -count=200 | killed 200/200 |
| TestUsageHeader_ClaimsNoBreakdownWhileScoped | breakdown arm ignores the scope | killed |
| same test, fixture reach | breakdown arm never fires | killed, on its Fatalf |
| TestAgentsPane_StartupLeavesAnOperatorWhoHasMoved | gate ignores the pane | killed |
| the existing startup tests (inverse) | gate fires only from the usage pane | killed |
| TestScopeToAgent_EmptyWindowSaysSoRatherThanListingNothing | "--agent" restored | killed |

G1_err_conjunct, tui_startup_gate_always and tui_startup_gate_errignored
lost their target line to the gate edit; each has a retargeted twin,
killed. Otherwise the full prior suite matches round 7's run, except
scope_sort, which now dies.

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Class UNFAILABLE-ASSERTION, the "counts known names" variant, in round
7's own test. TestAgentsPane_StartupLeavesAnOperatorWhoHasMoved says
the gate interrupts Sessions and nothing else, and checked three panes
it named. Detail was not among them: a gate widened to admit Detail,
or one excluding exactly the three tested panes, passed the whole tui
package.

The loop now walks every paneID from 0 to lastPaneID except Sessions,
the form spend_drawer_test.go already uses, and asserts how many panes
it visited so the skip cannot hide an empty loop.

Swept: the tests round 7 added; this is the only one that iterates a
set of panes.

Also re-wraps the gate comment round 7 left at 116 columns. Its words
are unchanged.

| Mutation | Verdict |
|---|---|
| gate also admits Detail (R8a, survived at f1aca5e) | killed |
| gate excludes only the three panes the old test named (R8b, survived) | killed |
| the test's loop visits nothing (R8c) | killed, on the visit count |

The full prior suite matches round 8's run.

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Rebasing onto main brought three comments from the billing-unit work
that cite scopeToAgent for why Currencies is carried over under an
--agent scope. This branch moved that function into core as
usage.ScopeToAgent, and the rebase carried main's explanation there
with it, so the references follow.

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🟡 Minor · Keep A available for an active scope. · keys.go:876

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Keep A available for an active scope.

When the manual A fetch later returns only the currently scoped agent, enterAgentsOrRefuse rejects the AGENTS pane. Enter cannot clear the scope because it is only handled inside that pane. Esc preserves the scope. This leaves the Usage view scoped until another agent appears or the session restarts.

Bypass the refusal for manual opens while agentScope is active. Keep the two-agent gate for unscoped opens and startup.

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 func (m *model) enterAgentsOrRefuse(from paneID) (entered bool, refusal string) {
-	if why := agentsPaneRefusal(m.agents); why != "" {
-		return false, why
+	if m.agentScope == "" {
+		if why := agentsPaneRefusal(m.agents); why != "" {
+			return false, why
+		}
 	}
 	m.previousPane = from
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Re-reviewed at 1f7dc02. Both of my findings from the 2026-09-29 review are properly addressed, and CodeRabbit's is too. Approving.

My round

must-fix (the scoped pane's omitted residual) — fixed in round 4 (92bb952). costUngroupedRow (usage_pane.go:432-441) mirrors writeCostSummary's disclosure, and it went further than I asked: the negative case routes through the shared negativeCost rather than a local comparison, with the reasoning recorded for why leaving it to formatUSDTotalMicros would have printed "$-0.1500 of this window is attributed to no agent" — prose asserting a negative residual. Called from both branches that render the summary, which is the part I'd have been most likely to see missed, since the latency branch is the easy one to forget.

suggestion (the field-by-field audit) — scope.go:99-119 now reaches UngroupedCostMicros and UngroupedAvoidedMicros, states the duty-transfer explicitly rather than just listing them, and names the pinning test. The measurement is honest about the asymmetry: dropping UngroupedCostMicros fails two cmd/abctl tests, dropping UngroupedAvoidedMicros failed nothing at all. Recording the second one as unguarded is more useful than quietly adding a test that makes the sentence true.

CodeRabbit's startup-gate race

Also fully closed, and I checked both halves rather than just the suggested diff. The m.pane == paneSessions guard is at app.go:1363. For the stale-connection half — their concern that a reply from an old client could open AGENTS in the picker with m.client nil — backing out to the picker sets m.pane = panePods (app.go:1738), so the same guard covers it and no generation counter is needed. The comment at the arm explains the paneNone choice and why msg.from is deliberately not read there.

What I verified on this round

Check Result
scopeToAgent fully removed from cmd/abctl yes — head calls only usage.ScopeToAgent, no second implementation
#1153 interaction (merged 2026-09-29 23:13Z into the same function this PR moves) handled by 1f7dc02; the Currencies carry-over reasoning is intact in scope.go
Stale narrowed snapshot after a scope change not reachable — every entry to paneUsage (openUsage, resumeUsagePolling) routes through beginFetch, which nils snap and bumps reqSeq; m.usage.snap is read only inside renderUsage, and snap == nil renders "Loading…"
In-flight scope mismatch handled — scope captured with the request at usage_pane.go:150, replies discarded on reqSeq
Enter on an empty agents table handled — selectedAgentLabel bounds-checks the cursor, Enter is a no-op
NarrowBuckets narrows every bucket including absent-agent ones (zero Counts for a missing key and a nil Series), zeroes all three latency fields, preserves At so the time axis does not shift
README keybinding table intact — the new prose sits after the table ends, so round 1's fix holds
New tests 34, no t.Skip, every one carries an assertion
Commits 13, all signed-off, all subjects ≤72 chars, Assisted-By per this repo's CLAUDE.md
CI 26 checks passing, Spellcheck skipped

I specifically went looking for a stale-render bug on the scope toggle — the toggle mutates m.agentScope and exits through leaveAgentsPane, which only refetches when returning into the usage pane, so returning to Sessions leaves a narrowed m.usage.snap in the model. It is not a defect because nothing renders that field from another pane and re-entry always refetches. Worth knowing the invariant it rests on, though: if a future change ever renders usage content from outside renderUsage — a summary row in the spend band, say — that becomes live. The beginFetch doc is the right place for that to be written down, and it already is.

One judgment call, not a finding

This branch is 13 commits behind main and mergeStateStatus is BLOCKED. The merge is clean and the Currencies carry-over is correct, but #1153 merged into the very function this PR relocates, so the three-way merge is resolving a file that changed on both sides. I'd rebase and re-run cmd/abctl before merging rather than trusting that — cheap insurance on the one file where both PRs overlap.

The five "known open" items in the description are all genuinely design calls or separately-scoped, and each is checkable as written. Filing them rather than fixing them here is the right call for a PR this size.

if micros == 0 || negativeCost(micros) {
return ""
}
return fmt.Sprintf(" note %s of this window is attributed to no agent\n",

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nit — formatUSDTotalMicros emits an unconditional $ (prune_saving.go:147), so on a credits-billing deployment this note reads $0.08 of this window is attributed to no agent.

Not introduced by this PR and not worth blocking on: it is the same class as the five hard-coded $ sites that open issue #1182 already tracks, and cmd/abctl/tui reads Snapshot.Currencies in zero places today — so the pane's existing COST cell has the same problem with or without this line. Labelling it needs Currencies threaded through the pane state, which is #1182's job.

Flagging only so the count on that issue stays right: this adds a sixth site, and it is the one whose wording asserts a currency in prose ("of this window is attributed to") rather than just prefixing a glyph, which is marginally harder to spot when someone sweeps for $.

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huang195 merged commit 7b01767 into rossoctl:main Sep 30, 2026
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huang195 deleted the feat/abctl-agents-startup-picker branch September 30, 2026 12:23
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