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Internal PR for local CI verification. The canonical upstream PR is doctly/switchboard#47.

Subagent transcripts written by Claude CLI live at
<folder>/<parentSessionId>/subagents/agent-<agentId>.jsonl alongside a
.meta.json sidecar holding { agentType, description }. Surface them as
first-class rows in session_cache, keyed by sessionId 'sub:<parent>:<agentId>'.

- adds parentSessionId, agentId, subagentType, description columns
- migration v4 clears the cache so a re-index repopulates everything
- adds idx_session_cache_parent for hierarchy lookups
- new query getCachedByParent + widened cacheGetByFolder
Adds helpers for the on-disk subagent layout:
- enumerateSessionFiles(folderPath) walks top-level + <uuid>/subagents/*.jsonl
  + legacy <uuid>/*.jsonl fallback
- subagentSessionId(parent, agentId) gives the synthetic 'sub:<p>:<a>' id
- resolveJsonlPath(projectsDir, row) reconstructs the absolute path
- readSubagentMeta reads the .meta.json sidecar

readSessionFile now accepts opts.parentSessionId. When set, it requires
isSidechain on at least one entry (defensive guard), reads the sidecar for
agentType/description, falls back to filename for agentId if absent in entries.

Adds 10 unit tests covering both branches, the sidecar guard, the legacy
fallback path, and the synthetic-id format.
Both scanners (synchronous refreshFolder + worker scan-projects) now use
enumerateSessionFiles instead of a flat top-level readdir, so subagent
transcripts get cached as first-class rows with parentSessionId set.

FTS indexing inherits this for free: subagent summaries land in search_fts
the same way top-level sessions do, with type='session' and folder=<parent>.
Full-text search now finds anything an Agent call discussed.
Clicking an Agent tool_use block in the JSONL viewer now loads the matching
subagent transcript and renders it nested below the block. Re-click collapses
without refetching.

- main.js: new IPC read-subagent-jsonl(parentSessionId, agentId) and
  list-subagents(parentSessionId)
- preload.js: window.api.readSubagentJsonl / listSubagents
- jsonl-viewer.js: clickable Agent block, caret indicator, recursive nested
  render. Identical (description, subagentType) pairs are disambiguated by
  occurrence ordinal so parallel fanout calls each open their own transcript.
- style.css: subtle hover + left-border indent for nested transcripts
Runs `npm ci && npm test` on ubuntu-latest against Node 20 and 22.
Triggers on pull requests targeting main and on direct pushes to main.
Migrations that clear session_cache (v2, v3, v4) leave the cache empty on
first launch. The previous get-projects handler returned [] immediately and
fire-and-forgot the worker scan, relying on a later 'projects-changed' IPC
to trigger a reload — but app.js only reloads on that event when the user
happens to be on the Sessions tab. If they were on another tab (or
hadn't navigated to Sessions yet), the list stayed empty until they
manually switched tabs.

Make populateCacheViaWorker return a Promise that resolves when the scan
finishes. Concurrent callers share the same Promise. get-projects awaits
that Promise when the cache is empty, so the response carries the freshly
populated cache and the renderer paints immediately.
buildProjectsFromCache was projecting only the pre-PR#1 columns onto the
session object sent to the renderer. The renderer's hierarchical sidebar
(introduced in PR#2) reads parentSessionId/agentId/subagentType/description
from each session and silently flattens to top-level when they're missing —
which is what happened: all subagents appeared as siblings of their parent
instead of nested under it.

Add the four subagent columns to the projection. No DB or wire change.
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JeanBaptisteRenard merged commit 6db1951 into main May 21, 2026
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