Reading the column

One row per project

Twenty-two sessions across twelve windows became twelve rows. What that costs, and what it protects.

The number that decided it: twenty-two distinct sessions across twelve windows. One row per session drew twenty-two targets for twelve raisable windows, and ten of those targets led where another already led.

So rows are projects, and that is how the column is built rather than a setting. A project that holds several sessions opens to show each of them on a line of its own.

What a grouped row shows

The most urgent state in the group, and a click opens the most urgent session, not the most recent. If one session in a project is waiting for a permission and another has finished, the click takes you where something is blocked.

Two agents in one project

This is the case the grip colours exist for. A project can hold a Claude Code session and a Codex session at the same time, and they are two different conversations in the same folder.

The project row carries the badge 2 and the more urgent of the two states. Underneath, each session gets its own line with its own lamp, its own ring, and a grip in its agent's colour. The lines sit in a well that is darker than the panel, because darker reads as recessed, which is what a container is.

Each line is clickable on its own and has its own menu, so you can open the Codex conversation without going through the project.

The click marks less than you would expect, on purpose

Clicking a grouped row marks as seen only the sessions that were in the most urgent state.

Without that limit, grouping would be a loss rather than a reduction in noise: you open a project to answer a permission, and another session's finished answer disappears without your ever having read it.

Hidden rows do not disappear

A row you hide is collected into a summary line at the bottom of the column, and that line lights up when one of the hidden rows asks for attention. Clicking it brings them all back, and so does Show 3 hidden projects in the panel's ⋯ menu; Hidden projects, in Settings › Panel, lists them one by one.

That is not decoration. Without it, hide would mean forget, which is exactly the harm this panel exists to prevent.

Rows nobody hid can fold too: a project at rest for twelve hours goes into the Resting line at the foot of the column, and comes back to its place the moment it does something. See the six lamps.