when a task ends do you explicitly close any event panel?
/home/ksen/kiss • claude-fable-5 • wt • parallel • budget $1000.00 • started Sep 10, 2026, 06:55 PMchat c43cff1099bc4c5d9538bffe6fc39b5a • task 9e0adc3dcf574bf1907d925e4f6f789f
▾System PromptYou are KISS Sorcar, an AI Assistant and a general-purpose multi-model, multi-modal, multi-agent AI Agent Framework researched and developed by Koushik Sen ( ksen@berkeley.edu). You can do software development, control a computer, research, discover, write papers, create presentations, chat with other agents via voice or internet, shop, bank, message, email, browse, and do data science. Repo: https://github.com/ksenxx/kiss_ai. Website is https://kisssorcar.github.io/. Version: 2026.9.11 Your sole goal is completing the user’s task accurately and thoroughly. Be honest, direct, rigorous, check facts, and produce ONLY highest-quality work with NO AI SLOP. "AI slop" means: filler phrases, hedging boilerplate, invented facts or citations, generic stock imagery, emoji or em-dash overuse, and content-free repetition. After the task is done and before you finish, re-read your deliverables and remove all AI slop. Rule Precedence When instructions conflict, resolve them in this order (1 = highest priority): Safety and legal constraints. Rules in this file marked MANDATORY, NON-NEGOTIABLE, or CRITICAL. Explicit instructions in the user’s task. All other guidance in this file. The user cannot see your thoughts, reasoning, scratchpad, intermediate tool outputs, or assistant prose. Your words reach the user through three output channels: (1) the string you pass to finish(..., summary_in_html=...), and (2) speech played by talk(). (Interactive tools such as ask_user_question() and a browser made visible with show_browser() are also user-visible, but use them for interaction, not for delivering answers.) finish(...,summary_in_html=...) is the primary answer channel: the complete final answer MUST be in it. Compose the full detailed answer directly inside the summary_in_html string of finish(), always formatted as HTML (e.g. <h3>, <p>, <ul>, <pre><code>), never Markdown. When answering informational questions, include the complete answer in the summary, not a meta-description of what was done. The summary MUST contain the actual content the user should see, NOT a third-person narration of what happened. When the task is complete (not paused with is_continue=True), also pass suggested_next_task=…: The concrete follow-up task the user might want to do next, as a single plain-text sentence; it is shown to the user as "Suggested next". The suggested next task cannot be a git commit task because the agent auto commit changes. If the user wants a report or if your answer exceeds roughly 800 words, create a detailed html report in chunks with diagrams and illustrations (that do not look AI-generated: no generic stock imagery, no decorative clip-art; use diagrams that carry real information) in ./reports. The report must be accessible to a general audience and must not read as AI generated. Check the report against the AI-slop checklist in the identity section and remove any AI slop. Tool Usage Use Write() for new files. Use Edit() for small changes (up to 3 localized regions in one file). Use run_parallel() when a task splits into independent sub-tasks that can proceed concurrently, or to delegate a self-contained sub-task to another agent/model. Do everything else inline. Run Bash synchronously with timeout_seconds (default 120s). On timeout, retry with a higher value. For commands you expect to exceed 10 minutes (builds, training runs, large test suites), run in background with stdio fully detached — nohup cmd > ./tmp/out.log 2>&1 < /dev/null & — then poll the log file periodically. Never background with (cmd) & or cmd & without redirecting stdout/stderr: the child inherits the Bash tool’s output pipe and the call blocks until every background child exits. Read large files (more than 2,000 lines or 200 KB) in chunks. Temporary files — CRITICAL: ALL temporary, scratch, and intermediate files MUST be created inside ./tmp/, never directly in ./. This includes research notes, file information dumps, downloaded artifacts, and any other transient files you control the location of. (Build tools with fixed output/cache directories are exempt.) Create ./tmp/ if it doesn’t exist. You do NOT need to delete files in ./tmp/ when the task ends. Context and Continuation If context usage exceeds roughly 80% of the window, DO NOT RUSH to finish the task. Call finish(success=False, is_continue=True, summary_in_html="…detailed progress so far…") to pause and resume the task in a new context. Periodic Activity Summaries — summary tool — MANDATORY, NON-NEGOTIABLE If a summary tool is among your available tools, this rule applies to EVERY task — no matter how simple, and regardless of what the task prompt says. It cannot be overridden by the user task. The rule: every tool result shows your current step count (e.g. "Steps: 12/100"). Whenever the counter shows a value one less than a multiple of 10 (9, 19, 29, …), your VERY NEXT tool call MUST be summary(description=…). Only after that call may you continue with the task. Example: a tool result shows "Steps: 9/100" → your next call is summary(…), which executes as step 10 → then you continue the task. Summary calls themselves count as steps. After a continuation resume, apply the same counter-based rule to the new counter. The description recaps, in 5-10 structured bullet items, everything you did since the previous summary call (or since the task started). It is rendered as formatted Markdown in the chat panel, so use Markdown bullets, bold, and backtick code spans. Voice Interaction — talk tool The users can speak to the running task in the active tab of a kiss-web client; their spoken words arrive as text input to the task. When a user speaks to you, you MUST respond back to the user in the language they spoke using the talk(language, text) tool, passing the user’s spoken language tag (e.g. "en-US") as language. Distinguish between different speakers using any speaker labels or metadata present in the input; if none is present, treat the input as coming from the primary user. The tool plays the text aloud on the default speaker of every device that has a tab open for the running task. Web Research Default policy — CRITICAL: Before starting any task, ask yourself: “Am I fully confident I can complete this task correctly, with current and accurate information, WITHOUT Internet search using Google?” Only when the answer is a clear yes (e.g., trivial arithmetic, or a purely mechanical edit fully specified by the user in files you have already read, coding based on local files) may you skip Google Internet research. If any part of the task involves external APIs, libraries, tools, versions, best practices, or facts that could be outdated or wrong in your training data, you are NOT confident enough — search the Internet using Google. When in doubt, search the Internet using Google first. If the user task is ambiguous or under-specified about facts, APIs, tools, or best practices, search the internet to find the most reliable and modern resolution. If instead the task references local files, commands, or config that don’t exist, stop and ask the user rather than guessing (see Pre-flight Checks). A "research session" is one task, unless the task explicitly calls for multiple separate investigations. When doing Google Internet research: Visit at least 10 distinct websites per research session. Do not stop early or rationalize visiting fewer. This is a hard requirement — you MUST visit 10 sites, not 4 or 8. You MUST use go_to_url() to visit each site. Do NOT use Bash("curl ...") or Bash("wget ...") as a substitute for visiting websites. Using curl/wget to fetch pages does not count toward the 10-site requirement. Procedure: Create ./tmp/information-{unique_id}.md with header: # Web Research — Websites visited: 0/10 Per site visited: (a) use go_to_url() to visit the site, (b) extract information needed for the task without deep thinking, (c) use Edit() to append ## [ N/10] URL + extracted information to the file, (d) use Edit() to update the header counter from N-1 to N. You must update the counter after each site. Do not proceed to synthesis until the counter reaches 10. Check the counter — if it says less than 10, keep visiting more sites. If results dry up, try different queries, synonyms, official docs, GitHub repos/issues, Stack Overflow, blogs, Reddit, papers, and API references. After reaching 10, review all findings and synthesize. The browser is headless by default, so the user cannot see it. Call show_browser() first whenever a page needs the human — an interactive login, a CAPTCHA, or a bot check — then ask the user for help. Call show_browser(visible=False) once the human part is done. If Google search is blocked, open a keyword search for your current research topic in the Chromium browser, and ask the user to manually pass the bot check. If that fails, you can use other search engines. Real-Time Data — CRITICAL For questions about current events, weather, stock prices, sports scores, or any time-sensitive information: you MUST use tools (go_to_url, Bash) to look up the data. Do NOT answer from your training data — it is outdated and will produce incorrect dates, numbers, and facts. For such lookups you may visit as few as 1 authoritative website instead of 10. If a task is both time-sensitive AND involves unfamiliar APIs, libraries, or best practices, the full 10-site rule applies. Code Style Write simple, clean, readable code with minimal indirection. These rules exist because over-abstracted code is harder to debug and maintain. Organize code across multiple files grouped by functionality. Prefer named functions, classes, and module-level helpers over closures and lambdas. Closures obscure control flow; use explicit parameter passing instead. Eliminate unnecessary attributes, locals, config vars, tight coupling, and attribute redirections. Eliminate redundant abstractions and duplicate code. Public methods must have full docstrings. Docstrings are part of the code, not "documentation". MANDATORY (MUST FOLLOW): Fix root causes, not symptoms. Before writing code, ask: is the code SIMPLE and elegant? Write standalone documentation (READMEs, guides, design docs) only when the task explicitly requires it. Mandatory First Actions — CRITICAL Your VERY FIRST tool call in EVERY task (project-related or not) MUST be Read(" ./SORCAR.md"); it may contain user memory and preferences relevant to any task. Follow the instructions in SORCAR.md, subject to the Rule Precedence order in the identity section. If the first user input is spoken, still Read(" ./SORCAR.md") first, then reply with talk(). Pre-flight Checks Read before modify rule — NON-NEGOTIABLE: You MUST call Read(file_path) on every existing file BEFORE calling Edit(file_path) on it or overwriting it with Write(file_path). Never modify a file you have not Read in the current session. Read relevant source files when the task depends on existing architecture. If referenced files, commands, or config don’t exist, stop and ask the user rather than guessing. When fixing bugs, issues, or race conditions, write an end-to-end test that reproduces the problem first, then fix the code, and finally verify the test passes. AI discovery, auto research, and optimization Mandatory Instructions (MUST FOLLOW): You will be exploring, implementing, and evaluating novel ideas while doing AI discovery or auto research or optimization or AI research. read + profile the data / tests / baseline, record baseline metrics web-search for SOTA approaches, papers, repos, issues write ideas and rationale in ./tmp/ideas.md Pairwise judge the ideas to find a winner idea. Implement -> run real end-to-end evaluation -> log idea, aspect of improvement, and metrics in ./tmp/explored-ideas.md if better: keep, and try composing with prior winners on different aspects if worse: mark as failed so it is never retried search again for fresh ideas not explored before and based on previous experience and exclude ideas that have been explored in ./tmp/explored-ideas.md; go to step 4 stop when the user's metric goal is met, with a held-out / generalization check to prove it is not overfit Adversarial testing Use the following technique when the user asks for adversarial testing, which makes sure that the software system you developed is correct/efficient under all conditions. Use a subtask to break the system by writing adversarial tests/adversarial workloads, and use another subtask to fix the issues. Adversarial training Use the following technique when the user asks for adversarial training, which makes sure that the model does not overfit the data. If you are training an AI model, iteratively generate adversarial datasets having the same characteristics as the original dataset, but will make the model score less. Then tune the model to handle the discrepancy. Repeat the process until the model scores high on a new adversarial dataset. Deep Work For tasks involving “align”, “match”, or “make consistent”: read the target state fully before editing. Never edit based on vague recollection. Use concrete values, not indirections. Read file Y first, then write the specific values into file X. List concrete planned changes before executing multi-part work. Every meaningful change needs a concrete verification method (test, grep, CLI check). Complex Task Planning For work spanning 3+ files, crossing module boundaries, or changing architecture: List every file to change and why. State the exact intended change per file. Identify dependencies and execution order. State the verification method per change. Skip this planning step for simple single-file modifications. File Browsing When exploring unfamiliar code, collect information and code snippets in ./tmp/file-information-{unique_id}.md as you go, relevant for the task, then review the collected material and think deeply before acting. When fixing a localized bug, locate the code with grep first and Read only the implicated regions and their direct call sites; widen the reading only when a concrete question requires it. Desktop Apps Interact with desktop applications using the available screenshot, keyboard, and mouse tools (screenshot(), press_key(), click()). Testing Lint and typecheck ONCE per task, at the end, and only if you created or modified code files (.py, .ts, .js, .css, .tsx, .jsx): run uv run check --full (or the project’s equivalent) as part of Pre-Finish Verification, and fix every error in files you created or modified in this session (re-run it only to verify those fixes). Leave pre-existing failures in files you did not touch alone: list them in the final summary instead of fixing them, unless the user asked for repo-wide cleanup or your changes caused them. Do not run lint/typecheck during development. Achieve 100% branch coverage on new and modified code with end-to-end tests wherever a branch is reachable without test doubles. If a branch is unreachable without mocks (e.g., network failure, disk full), document why in the test file instead of mocking. Write end-to-end tests only. Do not write unit tests or use mocks, patches, fakes, or test doubles. Each test must be independent and verify actual behavior. DO NOT write structural tests which assert on the source code. After modifications, run only the impacted tests: the tests that import or exercise the modified modules. Run the full suite only when the user asks for it or when changes span module boundaries, and schedule it after all planned and review-driven code changes so it normally runs at most once; rerun it only if it failed and the fix needs suite-wide validation, or if a later broad change could invalidate it and the impacted tests cannot give equivalent confidence. Do not repeat a verification (test run, lint, coverage gate, full check) that already passed unless an intervening change could have invalidated it. To confirm a suspected race condition: temporarily add a random sleep (<0.1s) before the suspected racing statements; remove the sleeps once the race is confirmed and fixed. MANDATORY (MUST FOLLOW): Reproduce any issue by writing real end-to-end tests with 100% branch coverage of the code under test (subject to the unreachable-branch exception above). Then fix the issue. You can use screenshots to validate the implementation. You MUST do the same for any feature implementation. MANDATORY (MUST FOLLOW): Before running all tests or tests in a folder, split the set of tests equally by the number of test methods into min(number of test methods, max(1, cores - 2)) splits and run all splits in parallel using the run_parallel tool. Pre-Finish Verification — CRITICAL Before calling finish(success=True): Check each user requirement against what was delivered. If the check fails, keep working. After 3 failed retries of the same fix approach, step back and rethink from scratch. Sorcar repo specific Lint/typecheck/format: uv run check --full, run once at the end of the task and only if you created or modified code files; do not run it during development. Tests: uv run pytest -v and JS tests. The list of models accessible to you is located at ~/.kiss/MODEL_INFO.json (on installed copies; falls back to ~/.kiss/MODEL_INFO.json, the bundled catalog) The database of all tasks and their events is available at ~/.kiss/sorcar.db For any task that acts on an external messaging service, mailbox, or device channel (Slack, Telegram, Discord, email, Gmail, WhatsApp, SMS, iMessage, Signal, Matrix, ntfy, Home Assistant, phone control, ...), call the run_agent tool IMMEDIATELY with the channel name and the task — do NOT explore the third-party agent source code first. Exception: when this session already has that channel's API tools (e.g. it was itself dispatched by run_agent), use those tools directly instead. run_agent also runs any agent-script .py file on a task: when the user names an agent file to run, call run_agent with the file's path and the task instead of importing or reimplementing the file. For scheduled automations (cron jobs) — creating, listing, removing, pausing, resuming, or immediately running a scheduled task — call the run_agent tool with "cron" as the agent and the scheduling request as the task. Exception: when this session already has the cron_job tool (it was itself dispatched as the cron agent), use that tool directly instead. If you create any artifact that the user can use after the task is over, you MUST create them in a directory inside the repo and git add the directory contents (do not commit unless the user asks). MAINTAIN a ./tmp/PROGRESS.md across agent sessions, logging details of all the steps you have done so far from the start with explanation and relevant code snippets. DO NOT GENERATE/SHOW worktree directories in your final results/summaries because worktree directories are discarded after a task is completed. Rather show the directories relative to the main repo. Before any irreversible high-impact action (payments, money transfers, sending email or messages on the user's behalf), obtain explicit user confirmation unless the user's task already explicitly authorizes that exact action. MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS If the task is not complete and you are at risk of running out of context length, you MUST call finish(success=False, is_continue=True, summary_in_html="precise chronologically-ordered list of things the agent did with the reason for doing that along with relevant code snippets, formatted as HTML (e.g. , , ), never Markdown ") The summary_in_html argument of finish MUST always be formatted as HTML. Work dir: /home/ksen/kiss/.kiss-worktrees/kiss_wt-1789089304-c393149e Current process PID: 21603 — NEVER kill this process. Task Settings Model name: claude-fable-5 Max budget (USD): $1000.00 Starting time: 2026-09-11 01:55:32 UTC User id: ksen IP address: 10.128.0.14 OS: Linux 6.17.0-1022-gcp Machine info: ksen-vm-32.c.r2eg-441800.internal (x86_64) Parallel mode: parallel Worktree mode: worktree Chat id: c43cff1099bc4c5d9538bffe6fc39b5a Task id: 9e0adc3dcf574bf1907d925e4f6f789f Is subagent: no

You are KISS Sorcar, an AI Assistant and a general-purpose multi-model, multi-modal, multi-agent AI Agent Framework researched and developed by Koushik Sen (ksen@berkeley.edu). You can do software development, control a computer, research, discover, write papers, create presentations, chat with other agents via voice or internet, shop, bank, message, email, browse, and do data science. Repo: https://github.com/ksenxx/kiss_ai. Website is https://kisssorcar.github.io/. Version: 2026.9.11

Your sole goal is completing the user’s task accurately and thoroughly. Be honest, direct, rigorous, check facts, and produce ONLY highest-quality work with NO AI SLOP. "AI slop" means: filler phrases, hedging boilerplate, invented facts or citations, generic stock imagery, emoji or em-dash overuse, and content-free repetition. After the task is done and before you finish, re-read your deliverables and remove all AI slop.

Rule Precedence

When instructions conflict, resolve them in this order (1 = highest priority):

  1. Safety and legal constraints.
  2. Rules in this file marked MANDATORY, NON-NEGOTIABLE, or CRITICAL.
  3. Explicit instructions in the user’s task.
  4. All other guidance in this file.

The user cannot see your thoughts, reasoning, scratchpad, intermediate tool outputs, or assistant prose. Your words reach the user through three output channels: (1) the string you pass to finish(..., summary_in_html=...), and (2) speech played by talk(). (Interactive tools such as ask_user_question() and a browser made visible with show_browser() are also user-visible, but use them for interaction, not for delivering answers.) finish(...,summary_in_html=...) is the primary answer channel: the complete final answer MUST be in it. Compose the full detailed answer directly inside the summary_in_html string of finish(), always formatted as HTML (e.g. <h3>, <p>, <ul>, <pre><code>), never Markdown. When answering informational questions, include the complete answer in the summary, not a meta-description of what was done. The summary MUST contain the actual content the user should see, NOT a third-person narration of what happened. When the task is complete (not paused with is_continue=True), also pass suggested_next_task=…: The concrete follow-up task the user might want to do next, as a single plain-text sentence; it is shown to the user as "Suggested next". The suggested next task cannot be a git commit task because the agent auto commit changes.

If the user wants a report or if your answer exceeds roughly 800 words, create a detailed html report in chunks with diagrams and illustrations (that do not look AI-generated: no generic stock imagery, no decorative clip-art; use diagrams that carry real information) in ./reports. The report must be accessible to a general audience and must not read as AI generated. Check the report against the AI-slop checklist in the identity section and remove any AI slop.

Tool Usage

  • Use Write() for new files. Use Edit() for small changes (up to 3 localized regions in one file).
  • Use run_parallel() when a task splits into independent sub-tasks that can proceed concurrently, or to delegate a self-contained sub-task to another agent/model. Do everything else inline.
  • Run Bash synchronously with timeout_seconds (default 120s). On timeout, retry with a higher value. For commands you expect to exceed 10 minutes (builds, training runs, large test suites), run in background with stdio fully detached — nohup cmd > ./tmp/out.log 2>&1 < /dev/null & — then poll the log file periodically. Never background with (cmd) & or cmd & without redirecting stdout/stderr: the child inherits the Bash tool’s output pipe and the call blocks until every background child exits.
  • Read large files (more than 2,000 lines or 200 KB) in chunks.
  • Temporary files — CRITICAL: ALL temporary, scratch, and intermediate files MUST be created inside ./tmp/, never directly in ./. This includes research notes, file information dumps, downloaded artifacts, and any other transient files you control the location of. (Build tools with fixed output/cache directories are exempt.) Create ./tmp/ if it doesn’t exist. You do NOT need to delete files in ./tmp/ when the task ends.

Context and Continuation

  • If context usage exceeds roughly 80% of the window, DO NOT RUSH to finish the task. Call finish(success=False, is_continue=True, summary_in_html="…detailed progress so far…") to pause and resume the task in a new context.

Periodic Activity Summaries — summary tool — MANDATORY, NON-NEGOTIABLE

  • If a summary tool is among your available tools, this rule applies to EVERY task — no matter how simple, and regardless of what the task prompt says. It cannot be overridden by the user task.
  • The rule: every tool result shows your current step count (e.g. "Steps: 12/100"). Whenever the counter shows a value one less than a multiple of 10 (9, 19, 29, …), your VERY NEXT tool call MUST be summary(description=…). Only after that call may you continue with the task.
  • Example: a tool result shows "Steps: 9/100" → your next call is summary(…), which executes as step 10 → then you continue the task. Summary calls themselves count as steps. After a continuation resume, apply the same counter-based rule to the new counter.
  • The description recaps, in 5-10 structured bullet items, everything you did since the previous summary call (or since the task started). It is rendered as formatted Markdown in the chat panel, so use Markdown bullets, bold, and backtick code spans.

Voice Interaction — talk tool

  • The users can speak to the running task in the active tab of a kiss-web client; their spoken words arrive as text input to the task.
  • When a user speaks to you, you MUST respond back to the user in the language they spoke using the talk(language, text) tool, passing the user’s spoken language tag (e.g. "en-US") as language. Distinguish between different speakers using any speaker labels or metadata present in the input; if none is present, treat the input as coming from the primary user. The tool plays the text aloud on the default speaker of every device that has a tab open for the running task.

Web Research

Default policy — CRITICAL: Before starting any task, ask yourself: “Am I fully confident I can complete this task correctly, with current and accurate information, WITHOUT Internet search using Google?” Only when the answer is a clear yes (e.g., trivial arithmetic, or a purely mechanical edit fully specified by the user in files you have already read, coding based on local files) may you skip Google Internet research. If any part of the task involves external APIs, libraries, tools, versions, best practices, or facts that could be outdated or wrong in your training data, you are NOT confident enough — search the Internet using Google. When in doubt, search the Internet using Google first.

  • If the user task is ambiguous or under-specified about facts, APIs, tools, or best practices, search the internet to find the most reliable and modern resolution. If instead the task references local files, commands, or config that don’t exist, stop and ask the user rather than guessing (see Pre-flight Checks).
  • A "research session" is one task, unless the task explicitly calls for multiple separate investigations.

When doing Google Internet research:

  • Visit at least 10 distinct websites per research session. Do not stop early or rationalize visiting fewer. This is a hard requirement — you MUST visit 10 sites, not 4 or 8.
  • You MUST use go_to_url() to visit each site. Do NOT use Bash("curl ...") or Bash("wget ...") as a substitute for visiting websites. Using curl/wget to fetch pages does not count toward the 10-site requirement.
  • Procedure:
    1. Create ./tmp/information-{unique_id}.md with header: # Web Research — Websites visited: 0/10
    2. Per site visited: (a) use go_to_url() to visit the site, (b) extract information needed for the task without deep thinking, (c) use Edit() to append ## [N/10] URL + extracted information to the file, (d) use Edit() to update the header counter from N-1 to N. You must update the counter after each site.
    3. Do not proceed to synthesis until the counter reaches 10. Check the counter — if it says less than 10, keep visiting more sites.
    4. If results dry up, try different queries, synonyms, official docs, GitHub repos/issues, Stack Overflow, blogs, Reddit, papers, and API references.
    5. After reaching 10, review all findings and synthesize.
  • The browser is headless by default, so the user cannot see it. Call show_browser() first whenever a page needs the human — an interactive login, a CAPTCHA, or a bot check — then ask the user for help. Call show_browser(visible=False) once the human part is done.

If Google search is blocked, open a keyword search for your current research topic in the Chromium browser, and ask the user to manually pass the bot check. If that fails, you can use other search engines.

Real-Time Data — CRITICAL

For questions about current events, weather, stock prices, sports scores, or any time-sensitive information: you MUST use tools (go_to_url, Bash) to look up the data. Do NOT answer from your training data — it is outdated and will produce incorrect dates, numbers, and facts. For such lookups you may visit as few as 1 authoritative website instead of 10. If a task is both time-sensitive AND involves unfamiliar APIs, libraries, or best practices, the full 10-site rule applies.

Code Style

Write simple, clean, readable code with minimal indirection. These rules exist because over-abstracted code is harder to debug and maintain.

  • Organize code across multiple files grouped by functionality.
  • Prefer named functions, classes, and module-level helpers over closures and lambdas. Closures obscure control flow; use explicit parameter passing instead.
  • Eliminate unnecessary attributes, locals, config vars, tight coupling, and attribute redirections.
  • Eliminate redundant abstractions and duplicate code.
  • Public methods must have full docstrings. Docstrings are part of the code, not "documentation".
  • MANDATORY (MUST FOLLOW): Fix root causes, not symptoms. Before writing code, ask: is the code SIMPLE and elegant?
  • Write standalone documentation (READMEs, guides, design docs) only when the task explicitly requires it.

Mandatory First Actions — CRITICAL

Your VERY FIRST tool call in EVERY task (project-related or not) MUST be Read("./SORCAR.md"); it may contain user memory and preferences relevant to any task. Follow the instructions in SORCAR.md, subject to the Rule Precedence order in the identity section. If the first user input is spoken, still Read("./SORCAR.md") first, then reply with talk().

Pre-flight Checks

Read before modify rule — NON-NEGOTIABLE: You MUST call Read(file_path) on every existing file BEFORE calling Edit(file_path) on it or overwriting it with Write(file_path). Never modify a file you have not Read in the current session.

Read relevant source files when the task depends on existing architecture. If referenced files, commands, or config don’t exist, stop and ask the user rather than guessing.

When fixing bugs, issues, or race conditions, write an end-to-end test that reproduces the problem first, then fix the code, and finally verify the test passes.

AI discovery, auto research, and optimization

Mandatory Instructions (MUST FOLLOW): You will be exploring, implementing, and evaluating novel ideas while doing AI discovery or auto research or optimization or AI research.

  1. read + profile the data / tests / baseline, record baseline metrics
  2. web-search for SOTA approaches, papers, repos, issues
  3. write ideas and rationale in ./tmp/ideas.md
  4. Pairwise judge the ideas to find a winner idea.
  5. Implement -> run real end-to-end evaluation -> log idea, aspect of improvement, and metrics in ./tmp/explored-ideas.md if better: keep, and try composing with prior winners on different aspects if worse: mark as failed so it is never retried
  6. search again for fresh ideas not explored before and based on previous experience and exclude ideas that have been explored in ./tmp/explored-ideas.md; go to step 4
  7. stop when the user's metric goal is met, with a held-out / generalization check to prove it is not overfit

Adversarial testing

Use the following technique when the user asks for adversarial testing, which makes sure that the software system you developed is correct/efficient under all conditions. Use a subtask to break the system by writing adversarial tests/adversarial workloads, and use another subtask to fix the issues.

Adversarial training

Use the following technique when the user asks for adversarial training, which makes sure that the model does not overfit the data. If you are training an AI model, iteratively generate adversarial datasets having the same characteristics as the original dataset, but will make the model score less. Then tune the model to handle the discrepancy. Repeat the process until the model scores high on a new adversarial dataset.

Deep Work

  • For tasks involving “align”, “match”, or “make consistent”: read the target state fully before editing. Never edit based on vague recollection.
  • Use concrete values, not indirections. Read file Y first, then write the specific values into file X.
  • List concrete planned changes before executing multi-part work.
  • Every meaningful change needs a concrete verification method (test, grep, CLI check).

Complex Task Planning

For work spanning 3+ files, crossing module boundaries, or changing architecture:

  1. List every file to change and why.
  2. State the exact intended change per file.
  3. Identify dependencies and execution order.
  4. State the verification method per change.

Skip this planning step for simple single-file modifications.

File Browsing

When exploring unfamiliar code, collect information and code snippets in ./tmp/file-information-{unique_id}.md as you go, relevant for the task, then review the collected material and think deeply before acting. When fixing a localized bug, locate the code with grep first and Read only the implicated regions and their direct call sites; widen the reading only when a concrete question requires it.

Desktop Apps

Interact with desktop applications using the available screenshot, keyboard, and mouse tools (screenshot(), press_key(), click()).

Testing

  • Lint and typecheck ONCE per task, at the end, and only if you created or modified code files (.py, .ts, .js, .css, .tsx, .jsx): run uv run check --full (or the project’s equivalent) as part of Pre-Finish Verification, and fix every error in files you created or modified in this session (re-run it only to verify those fixes). Leave pre-existing failures in files you did not touch alone: list them in the final summary instead of fixing them, unless the user asked for repo-wide cleanup or your changes caused them. Do not run lint/typecheck during development.
  • Achieve 100% branch coverage on new and modified code with end-to-end tests wherever a branch is reachable without test doubles. If a branch is unreachable without mocks (e.g., network failure, disk full), document why in the test file instead of mocking.
  • Write end-to-end tests only. Do not write unit tests or use mocks, patches, fakes, or test doubles. Each test must be independent and verify actual behavior.
  • DO NOT write structural tests which assert on the source code.
  • After modifications, run only the impacted tests: the tests that import or exercise the modified modules. Run the full suite only when the user asks for it or when changes span module boundaries, and schedule it after all planned and review-driven code changes so it normally runs at most once; rerun it only if it failed and the fix needs suite-wide validation, or if a later broad change could invalidate it and the impacted tests cannot give equivalent confidence.
  • Do not repeat a verification (test run, lint, coverage gate, full check) that already passed unless an intervening change could have invalidated it.
  • To confirm a suspected race condition: temporarily add a random sleep (<0.1s) before the suspected racing statements; remove the sleeps once the race is confirmed and fixed.
  • MANDATORY (MUST FOLLOW): Reproduce any issue by writing real end-to-end tests with 100% branch coverage of the code under test (subject to the unreachable-branch exception above). Then fix the issue. You can use screenshots to validate the implementation. You MUST do the same for any feature implementation.
  • MANDATORY (MUST FOLLOW): Before running all tests or tests in a folder, split the set of tests equally by the number of test methods into min(number of test methods, max(1, cores - 2)) splits and run all splits in parallel using the run_parallel tool.

Pre-Finish Verification — CRITICAL

Before calling finish(success=True):

  1. Check each user requirement against what was delivered.
  2. If the check fails, keep working.
  3. After 3 failed retries of the same fix approach, step back and rethink from scratch.

Sorcar repo specific

  • Lint/typecheck/format: uv run check --full, run once at the end of the task and only if you created or modified code files; do not run it during development. Tests: uv run pytest -v and JS tests.
  • The list of models accessible to you is located at ~/.kiss/MODEL_INFO.json (on installed copies; falls back to ~/.kiss/MODEL_INFO.json, the bundled catalog)
  • The database of all tasks and their events is available at ~/.kiss/sorcar.db
  • For any task that acts on an external messaging service, mailbox, or device channel (Slack, Telegram, Discord, email, Gmail, WhatsApp, SMS, iMessage, Signal, Matrix, ntfy, Home Assistant, phone control, ...), call the run_agent tool IMMEDIATELY with the channel name and the task — do NOT explore the third-party agent source code first. Exception: when this session already has that channel's API tools (e.g. it was itself dispatched by run_agent), use those tools directly instead. run_agent also runs any agent-script .py file on a task: when the user names an agent file to run, call run_agent with the file's path and the task instead of importing or reimplementing the file.
  • For scheduled automations (cron jobs) — creating, listing, removing, pausing, resuming, or immediately running a scheduled task — call the run_agent tool with "cron" as the agent and the scheduling request as the task. Exception: when this session already has the cron_job tool (it was itself dispatched as the cron agent), use that tool directly instead.
  • If you create any artifact that the user can use after the task is over, you MUST create them in a directory inside the repo and git add the directory contents (do not commit unless the user asks).
  • MAINTAIN a ./tmp/PROGRESS.md across agent sessions, logging details of all the steps you have done so far from the start with explanation and relevant code snippets.
  • DO NOT GENERATE/SHOW worktree directories in your final results/summaries because worktree directories are discarded after a task is completed. Rather show the directories relative to the main repo.
  • Before any irreversible high-impact action (payments, money transfers, sending email or messages on the user's behalf), obtain explicit user confirmation unless the user's task already explicitly authorizes that exact action.

MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS

  • If the task is not complete and you are at risk of running out of context length, you MUST call finish(success=False, is_continue=True, summary_in_html="precise chronologically-ordered list of things the agent did with the reason for doing that along with relevant code snippets, formatted as HTML (e.g.
      ,

      , 

      ), never Markdown")
The summary_in_html argument of finish MUST always be formatted as HTML.
Work dir: /home/ksen/kiss/.kiss-worktrees/kiss_wt-1789089304-c393149e
Current process PID: 21603 — NEVER kill this process.

Task Settings

  • Model name: claude-fable-5
  • Max budget (USD): $1000.00
  • Starting time: 2026-09-11 01:55:32 UTC
  • User id: ksen
  • IP address: 10.128.0.14
  • OS: Linux 6.17.0-1022-gcp
  • Machine info: ksen-vm-32.c.r2eg-441800.internal (x86_64)
  • Parallel mode: parallel
  • Worktree mode: worktree
  • Chat id: c43cff1099bc4c5d9538bffe6fc39b5a
  • Task id: 9e0adc3dcf574bf1907d925e4f6f789f
  • Is subagent: no
Sep 10, 2026 6:55:32 PM
▾PromptTask when a task ends do you explicitly close any event panel?

Task

when a task ends do you explicitly close any event panel?

Sep 10, 2026 6:55:32 PM
▾Thoughts▾ Thinking I need to check whether the kiss_ai codebase explicitly closes any event panel when a task ends. Let me first read SORCAR.md, then search the code for relevant handling.
▾ Thinking
I need to check whether the kiss_ai codebase explicitly closes any event panel when a task ends. Let me first read SORCAR.md, then search the code for relevant handling.
Sep 10, 2026 6:55:37 PM21ms
▾Readpath: ./SORCAR.md - Use ./src/kiss/agents/third_party_agents/govee.py to take action on home lights.
path: ./SORCAR.md
- Use ./src/kiss/agents/third_party_agents/govee.py to take action on home lights.
Sep 10, 2026 6:55:37 PM6ms
▾Bashdescription: Find files mentioning panel grep -rn "panel" src --include=*.py --include=*.js --include=*.ts -il | head -30 src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/modelPickerReconnectRace.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/taskPanelSettingsInfo.coverage.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/activeTabChangedNotStale.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/historyIdsCopyButtons.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/multi_client_ui_mirror.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/updateNotification_review.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/subagentLiveEventsStream.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/activationUpdateNotificationAction.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/buttonSizeAndBlur.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/remoteDesktopWidths.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/clickFilePathBridge.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/fileLinkReissueOnReconnect.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/serverResetConfirm.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/welcomeScrollTop.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/historyFiltersCollapsible.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/serverResetCompleteNotification.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/bughunt_reopen_input_webview.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/shareThemeToggle.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/rr_area_hi_copy_fallback.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/fileLinkOwnerTabParity.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/voiceBrowserMicFallback.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/audit0903_composer_reset.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/settingsMaxBudgetDefault.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/subagentPanelElapsed.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/serverResetFloatingDialog.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/liveParentCostHeader.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/worktreeRecheckReconnect.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/ask_user_no_tab_switch.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/bughunt_file_selector_pwd_prefix.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/adjacentTaskScroll.test.js
description: Find files mentioning panel
grep -rn "panel" src --include=*.py --include=*.js --include=*.ts -il | head -30
src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/modelPickerReconnectRace.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/taskPanelSettingsInfo.coverage.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/activeTabChangedNotStale.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/historyIdsCopyButtons.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/multi_client_ui_mirror.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/updateNotification_review.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/subagentLiveEventsStream.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/activationUpdateNotificationAction.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/buttonSizeAndBlur.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/remoteDesktopWidths.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/clickFilePathBridge.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/fileLinkReissueOnReconnect.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/serverResetConfirm.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/welcomeScrollTop.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/historyFiltersCollapsible.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/serverResetCompleteNotification.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/bughunt_reopen_input_webview.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/shareThemeToggle.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/rr_area_hi_copy_fallback.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/fileLinkOwnerTabParity.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/voiceBrowserMicFallback.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/audit0903_composer_reset.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/settingsMaxBudgetDefault.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/subagentPanelElapsed.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/serverResetFloatingDialog.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/liveParentCostHeader.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/worktreeRecheckReconnect.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/ask_user_no_tab_switch.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/bughunt_file_selector_pwd_prefix.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/adjacentTaskScroll.test.js
Sep 10, 2026 6:55:40 PM14ms
▾Bashdescription: Search for event panel and task end references grep -rn "event panel\|eventPanel\|event_panel\|EventPanel" src --include=* -l | head; echo ---; grep -rn "task_end\|taskEnd\|task ended\|task_finished\|taskFinished" src --include=*.js -l | grep -v test | head src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/subagentPanelElapsed.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/shareChat.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/panelEventTimestamp.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/streamTailCoalesce.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/summaryToolCollapse.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/runParallelNestedPanelCollapse.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/chatAutoScroll.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/share.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js src/kiss/agents/sorcar/sorcar_agent.py --- src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js
description: Search for event panel and task end references
grep -rn "event panel\|eventPanel\|event_panel\|EventPanel" src --include=* -l | head; echo ---; grep -rn "task_end\|taskEnd\|task ended\|task_finished\|taskFinished" src --include=*.js -l | grep -v test | head
src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/subagentPanelElapsed.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/shareChat.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/panelEventTimestamp.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/streamTailCoalesce.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/summaryToolCollapse.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/runParallelNestedPanelCollapse.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/test/chatAutoScroll.test.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/share.js src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js src/kiss/agents/sorcar/sorcar_agent.py --- src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js
Sep 10, 2026 6:55:44 PM95ms
▾Bashdescription: Locate event panel references in main.js grep -n "event panel\|eventPanel\|event-panel" src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js | head -40 4029: * the event panels preceding it into a ``.summary-sub`` child -- is 4792: // follows the tail of the latest event panel — unless the user 4794: // event panel follows its own tail as streamed text appears inside 4825: // scrollable subpanel of an event panel (thinking, thoughts, bash 4914: // Scroll the latest event panel's scrollable subpanels to their 5051: // becomes the latest event panel. 5674: // event panel's subpanels and the chat, and re-derive the static 5803: // Capture the latest event panel now: right below, a provisional 8725: // chat lands at the end of its latest event panel.
description: Locate event panel references in main.js
grep -n "event panel\|eventPanel\|event-panel" src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js | head -40
4029: * the event panels preceding it into a ``.summary-sub`` child -- is 4792: // follows the tail of the latest event panel — unless the user 4794: // event panel follows its own tail as streamed text appears inside 4825: // scrollable subpanel of an event panel (thinking, thoughts, bash 4914: // Scroll the latest event panel's scrollable subpanels to their 5051: // becomes the latest event panel. 5674: // event panel's subpanels and the chat, and re-derive the static 5803: // Capture the latest event panel now: right below, a provisional 8725: // chat lands at the end of its latest event panel.
Sep 10, 2026 6:55:47 PM16ms
▾Thoughts▾ Thinking I'm wondering whether, when a task finishes, the webview UI explicitly closes any expanded event panels—so I should search main.js for how task completion is handled, looking for terms like "task_result", "finished", or "collapse".
▾ Thinking
I'm wondering whether, when a task finishes, the webview UI explicitly closes any expanded event panels—so I should search main.js for how task completion is handled, looking for terms like "task_result", "finished", or "collapse".
Sep 10, 2026 6:55:47 PM5.1s
▾Bashdescription: Find collapse/open logic in main.js grep -n "collapse\|\.open = false\|removeAttribute('open')\|setAttribute('open'" src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js | head -60 1085: // on screen: everything but its latest panel collapsed. 1086: collapseOlderPanels(O, tab.id); 1919: 'table{border-collapse:collapse}td,th{border:1px solid #d0d7de;' + 2653: // The static task panel opens collapsed in every chat webview -- the 2945: if (!p.classList.contains('user-pinned')) p.classList.add('collapsed'); 2946: if (p.classList.contains('collapsed')) collapseNestedRunParallel(p); 2955: p.classList.add('collapsed'); 2957: collapsePreview(p); 2962: collapseNestedRunParallel(p); 2971: taskPanel.classList.toggle('drawer-collapsed', taskDrawerCollapsed); 2983: inputAreaEl.classList.toggle('drawer-collapsed', inputDrawerCollapsed); 3260: * runs: the collapse passes and the file-link stamping skip 3969: el.querySelector('.arrow').classList.toggle('collapsed'); 3977: node.classList.contains('collapse-chv') || 3978: node.classList.contains('collapse-preview') || 3994: function collapsePreview(panelEl) { 3995: const prev = panelEl.querySelector('.collapse-preview'); 4001: if (!panelEl.classList.contains('collapsed')) { 4009: ch.classList.contains('collapse-chv') || 4011: ch.querySelector('.collapse-chv') 4024: * Called with a panel that just collapsed, and with a whole 4025: * transcript that is about to be hidden or thrown away. A collapsed 4026: * panel hides its children (``.tc.collapsed > :not(.tc-h, 4030: * just as collapsed as one the user closed by hand. Its chevron is 4038: function collapseNestedRunParallel(root) { 4046: if (!p.classList.contains('collapsed')) { 4047: p.classList.add('collapsed'); 4049: collapsePreview(p); 4057: const chv = mkEl('span', 'collapse-chv'); 4059: const prev = mkEl('span', 'collapse-preview'); 4062: headerEl.classList.add('collapse-header'); 4067: panelEl.classList.toggle('collapsed'); 4068: if (panelEl.classList.contains('collapsed')) { 4074: collapsePreview(panelEl); 4076: if (panelEl.classList.contains('collapsed')) 4077: collapseNestedRunParallel(panelEl); 4086: // Sub-agent tabs a collapse wants closed while a transcript is being 4091: * Close sub-agent tab *tabId* on behalf of its collapsed fan-out 4110: * The closes are performed as the collapse they came from, not as a 4215: * collapsed and expanded again, so no later announcement from the 4383: * spawned while the panel was collapsed), and the two only turn out 4397: // the panel was collapsed carries no tab. 4423: const collapsed = panelEl.classList.contains('collapsed'); 4426: if (collapsed && openTab) { 4432: } else if (collapsed) { 4461: * one who closed them, collapse the fan-out panels left with none. 4463: * The bookkeeping runs even while a collapse is closing tabs 4496: if (!p.classList.contains('collapsed')) { 4497: p.classList.add('collapsed'); 4499: collapsePreview(p); 4511: function collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId) { 4520: p.classList.add('collapsed'); 4521: collapsePreview(p); 4523: collapseNestedRunParallel(p); 4533: * background transcript collapse its panels exactly like a visible 4535: * collapsed anything. 4552: function collapseOlderPanels(container, tabId) { 4553: // Only an attached transcript is collapsed as it streams. A 4554: // background tab's fragment is collapsed once, when it is restored 4571: p.classList.add('collapsed');
description: Find collapse/open logic in main.js
grep -n "collapse\|\.open = false\|removeAttribute('open')\|setAttribute('open'" src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js | head -60
1085: // on screen: everything but its latest panel collapsed. 1086: collapseOlderPanels(O, tab.id); 1919: 'table{border-collapse:collapse}td,th{border:1px solid #d0d7de;' + 2653: // The static task panel opens collapsed in every chat webview -- the 2945: if (!p.classList.contains('user-pinned')) p.classList.add('collapsed'); 2946: if (p.classList.contains('collapsed')) collapseNestedRunParallel(p); 2955: p.classList.add('collapsed'); 2957: collapsePreview(p); 2962: collapseNestedRunParallel(p); 2971: taskPanel.classList.toggle('drawer-collapsed', taskDrawerCollapsed); 2983: inputAreaEl.classList.toggle('drawer-collapsed', inputDrawerCollapsed); 3260: * runs: the collapse passes and the file-link stamping skip 3969: el.querySelector('.arrow').classList.toggle('collapsed'); 3977: node.classList.contains('collapse-chv') || 3978: node.classList.contains('collapse-preview') || 3994: function collapsePreview(panelEl) { 3995: const prev = panelEl.querySelector('.collapse-preview'); 4001: if (!panelEl.classList.contains('collapsed')) { 4009: ch.classList.contains('collapse-chv') || 4011: ch.querySelector('.collapse-chv') 4024: * Called with a panel that just collapsed, and with a whole 4025: * transcript that is about to be hidden or thrown away. A collapsed 4026: * panel hides its children (``.tc.collapsed > :not(.tc-h, 4030: * just as collapsed as one the user closed by hand. Its chevron is 4038: function collapseNestedRunParallel(root) { 4046: if (!p.classList.contains('collapsed')) { 4047: p.classList.add('collapsed'); 4049: collapsePreview(p); 4057: const chv = mkEl('span', 'collapse-chv'); 4059: const prev = mkEl('span', 'collapse-preview'); 4062: headerEl.classList.add('collapse-header'); 4067: panelEl.classList.toggle('collapsed'); 4068: if (panelEl.classList.contains('collapsed')) { 4074: collapsePreview(panelEl); 4076: if (panelEl.classList.contains('collapsed')) 4077: collapseNestedRunParallel(panelEl); 4086: // Sub-agent tabs a collapse wants closed while a transcript is being 4091: * Close sub-agent tab *tabId* on behalf of its collapsed fan-out 4110: * The closes are performed as the collapse they came from, not as a 4215: * collapsed and expanded again, so no later announcement from the 4383: * spawned while the panel was collapsed), and the two only turn out 4397: // the panel was collapsed carries no tab. 4423: const collapsed = panelEl.classList.contains('collapsed'); 4426: if (collapsed && openTab) { 4432: } else if (collapsed) { 4461: * one who closed them, collapse the fan-out panels left with none. 4463: * The bookkeeping runs even while a collapse is closing tabs 4496: if (!p.classList.contains('collapsed')) { 4497: p.classList.add('collapsed'); 4499: collapsePreview(p); 4511: function collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId) { 4520: p.classList.add('collapsed'); 4521: collapsePreview(p); 4523: collapseNestedRunParallel(p); 4533: * background transcript collapse its panels exactly like a visible 4535: * collapsed anything. 4552: function collapseOlderPanels(container, tabId) { 4553: // Only an attached transcript is collapsed as it streams. A 4554: // background tab's fragment is collapsed once, when it is restored 4571: p.classList.add('collapsed');
Sep 10, 2026 6:55:52 PM16ms
▾Bashdescription: Find where task end triggers collapse grep -n "collapseAllExceptResult\|task_result\|'finished'\|\"finished\"\|task_end\|taskEnd" src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js | head -40 4511: function collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId) { 5627: collapseAllExceptResult(ctx.container, ctx.tabId); 8694: collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId);
description: Find where task end triggers collapse
grep -n "collapseAllExceptResult\|task_result\|'finished'\|\"finished\"\|task_end\|taskEnd" src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js | head -40
4511: function collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId) { 5627: collapseAllExceptResult(ctx.container, ctx.tabId); 8694: collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId);
Sep 10, 2026 6:55:56 PM16ms
▾Bashdescription: Read collapseAllExceptResult and its call sites sed -n 4500,4560p src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js; echo ====; sed -n 5590,5650p src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js; echo ====; sed -n 8660,8740p src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js } syncRunParallelPanel(p); } } const addCopyButton = window.PanelCopy.addCopyButton; const addPanelTimestamp = window.PanelCopy.addPanelTimestamp; const formattedTextFromNode = window.PanelCopy.formattedTextFromNode; const PANEL_COPY_SVG = window.PanelCopy.PANEL_COPY_SVG; const PANEL_CHECK_SVG = window.PanelCopy.PANEL_CHECK_SVG; function collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId) { const ownerId = rpOwnerTabIdForContainer(container, ownerTabId); const panels = container.querySelectorAll('.collapsible'); for (let i = 0; i < panels.length; i++) { const p = panels[i]; if (p.classList.contains('rc')) continue; if (p.classList.contains('tc-run-parallel')) rpAdoptOpenSubagents(p, ownerId); if (rpPanelHasOpenTabs(p) && !p._rpDone) continue; p.classList.add('collapsed'); collapsePreview(p); syncRunParallelPanel(p); collapseNestedRunParallel(p); } } /** * True while the task of *tabId* is running. * * The visible tab's flag is the module-level `isRunning` that * setRunningState keeps in step with it; a tab that is not on screen * carries the flag on itself. Reading it per tab is what lets a * background transcript collapse its panels exactly like a visible * one -- it used to consult the visible tab's flag and so never * collapsed anything. * * @param {string} tabId The tab that owns a transcript. * @returns {boolean} Whether that tab's task is running. */ function streamTabIsRunning(tabId) { if (tabId === activeTabId) return isRunning; const tab = getTab(tabId); return !!(tab && tab.isRunning); } /** * Collapse every top-level panel of a running transcript but the last. * * @param {Element|DocumentFragment} container The transcript. * @param {string} tabId The tab that owns it. */ function collapseOlderPanels(container, tabId) { // Only an attached transcript is collapsed as it streams. A // background tab's fragment is collapsed once, when it is restored // (see restoreTab): collapsing a run_parallel panel adopts its open // sub-agent tabs into the newest fan-out call, and mid-stream that // call does not exist yet, so a live sub-agent tab would be closed // by the very panel it is about to move out of. if (!container || container.nodeType !== 1) return; if (!streamTabIsRunning(tabId)) return; ==== */ function streamEnd(ctx, ev, target) { const t = ev.type; if (target === ctx.container) { collapseOlderPanels(ctx.container, ctx.tabId); } if (t === 'tool_result' && ctx.lastToolName !== 'finish' && !ctx.llmPanel) { // The agent is thinking again; the panel its words will land in is // opened now so the transcript does not sit empty, and withdrawn // again if nothing is ever said into it. streamOpenThoughts(ctx, ev.ts, true); } if (t === 'usage_info' && ctx.stepCount > 0) { // The daemon's own count outranks the panel counting, which only // estimates the steps between two of its reports -- a run_parallel // fan-out reports the sub-agents' steps too, so the estimate is // far behind. Adopted only once this transcript has counted a step // of its own: until then stepCount === 0 is also what tells // streamBegin the first thoughts panel is still to be opened, and // the daemon reports a step in progress before its first token. const reported = reportedStepCount(ev); if (reported) ctx.stepCount = reported; } if (t === 'result') { if (ctx.llmPanel && ctx.llmPanel._provisional) discardProvisionalPanel(ctx.llmPanel); else if (ctx.llmPanel) finalizePanelTime(ctx.llmPanel, ev.ts); ctx.llmPanel = null; // The `finish` tool call produced this result, and the daemon // deliberately emits no tool_result for finish — the result IS // its close. Sealing the last tool panel here freezes finish's // elapsed label; any other tool's panel was already sealed by // its own tool_result (finalizePanelTime is idempotent). if (ctx.state.lastToolCallEl) finalizePanelTime(ctx.state.lastToolCallEl, ev.ts); // The daemon's own count is the authoritative one. if (ev.step_count) ctx.stepCount = ev.step_count; collapseAllExceptResult(ctx.container, ctx.tabId); const rTab = getTab(ctx.tabId); if (rTab) { // A result proves this tab ran a task — set on replays too // (task_events / resumed panels), where no `clear` ever ran, // so the status dot (and the editor tab's title circle) can // describe the replayed task. rTab.hasRunTask = true; if (ev.success === false && !ev.is_continue) { rTab.lastTaskFailed = true; } } ctx.pendingPanel = true; } } // The visible transcript's stream state lives in module globals // because a tab switch saves and restores them; they are lent to the // shared machine for the length of one event. function liveStreamCtx() { return { container: O, tabId: activeTabId, state: state, ==== } // The replay is over: the returned context may be adopted as a // still-running task's live stream state (replayTaskEvents, the // task_events background branch), and a REPLAY-only flag left on it // would suppress the report tabs of reports the live continuation // writes from here on. delete ctx.state.suppressReportOpen; // A replayed panel that no later event closed is still in progress // when its task is still running (a sub-agent tab opened mid-run, // a running chat resumed after a reload): it takes up the live // tick from its own event's wall-clock start, exactly like the // live-streamed panel it was before the replay. A finished task's // open panels keep no elapsed label — the tool never reported // back, so no duration exists. An adjacent-task container is // always a NEIGHBOURING task's finished transcript, so it never // ticks even while its owner tab runs its live task. const replayOwnerTab = getTab(ownerTabId); const isAdjacentReplay = !!container.classList && container.classList.contains('adjacent-task'); if (replayOwnerTab && replayOwnerTab.isRunning && !isAdjacentReplay) { const open = container.querySelectorAll( '[data-start-ts]:not([data-time-done]):not([data-start-ms])', ); for (let i = 0; i < open.length; i++) { open[i].dataset.startMs = open[i].dataset.startTs; } reviveActivePanelTimes(container); } // Runs after every event has rendered but BEFORE the collapse pass // below: collapsing a finished run_parallel panel closes its // sub-agent tabs, and if one of those is the tab on screen the // switch that follows repaints the shared status row — a caller // that wants the numbers this replay painted must read them now. if (opts && opts.onEventsRendered) opts.onEventsRendered(); collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId); if (typeof hljs !== 'undefined') { container.querySelectorAll('code.needs-hl').forEach(bl => { if (!bl.closest('.collapsible.collapsed')) { bl.classList.remove('needs-hl'); highlightBlockPreservingLinks(bl); } }); } return ctx; } function replayTaskEvents(events) { clearOutput(); resetOutputState(); clearUsageMetrics(); const rCtx = replayEventsInto(O, events, { ownerTabId: activeTabId, onFollowupClick: copyFollowupToInput, }); // The live stream resumes exactly where the replay left off: the // replay's tail state (the open tool_call panel, the provisional // thoughts panel, the current tool name) becomes the visible // stream's state, so a still-running task's next live event fills // and closes the replayed panels instead of rendering orphans // beside them. state = rCtx.state; saveLiveStreamCtx(rCtx); if (rCtx.stepCount > 0) updateStepCount(rCtx.stepCount); // autoscroll-coverage:start // clearOutput() above released any user scroll lock: the replayed // chat lands at the end of its latest event panel. autoScrollLatestEventPanel(O.lastElementChild); // autoscroll-coverage:end currentTaskMetrics.tokens = statusTokens ? statusTokens.textContent : ''; currentTaskMetrics.budget = statusBudget ? statusBudget.textContent : ''; currentTaskMetrics.steps = statusSteps ? statusSteps.textContent : ''; applyChevronState(currentTaskName); } function createActionBar(labelText, buttons) { const bar = mkEl('div', 'wt-bar'); const label = mkEl('span', 'wt-label'); label.textContent = labelText; bar.appendChild(label); const btns = mkEl('div', 'wt-btns');
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sed -n 4500,4560p src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js; echo ====; sed -n 5590,5650p src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js; echo ====; sed -n 8660,8740p src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js
} syncRunParallelPanel(p); } } const addCopyButton = window.PanelCopy.addCopyButton; const addPanelTimestamp = window.PanelCopy.addPanelTimestamp; const formattedTextFromNode = window.PanelCopy.formattedTextFromNode; const PANEL_COPY_SVG = window.PanelCopy.PANEL_COPY_SVG; const PANEL_CHECK_SVG = window.PanelCopy.PANEL_CHECK_SVG; function collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId) { const ownerId = rpOwnerTabIdForContainer(container, ownerTabId); const panels = container.querySelectorAll('.collapsible'); for (let i = 0; i < panels.length; i++) { const p = panels[i]; if (p.classList.contains('rc')) continue; if (p.classList.contains('tc-run-parallel')) rpAdoptOpenSubagents(p, ownerId); if (rpPanelHasOpenTabs(p) && !p._rpDone) continue; p.classList.add('collapsed'); collapsePreview(p); syncRunParallelPanel(p); collapseNestedRunParallel(p); } } /** * True while the task of *tabId* is running. * * The visible tab's flag is the module-level `isRunning` that * setRunningState keeps in step with it; a tab that is not on screen * carries the flag on itself. Reading it per tab is what lets a * background transcript collapse its panels exactly like a visible * one -- it used to consult the visible tab's flag and so never * collapsed anything. * * @param {string} tabId The tab that owns a transcript. * @returns {boolean} Whether that tab's task is running. */ function streamTabIsRunning(tabId) { if (tabId === activeTabId) return isRunning; const tab = getTab(tabId); return !!(tab && tab.isRunning); } /** * Collapse every top-level panel of a running transcript but the last. * * @param {Element|DocumentFragment} container The transcript. * @param {string} tabId The tab that owns it. */ function collapseOlderPanels(container, tabId) { // Only an attached transcript is collapsed as it streams. A // background tab's fragment is collapsed once, when it is restored // (see restoreTab): collapsing a run_parallel panel adopts its open // sub-agent tabs into the newest fan-out call, and mid-stream that // call does not exist yet, so a live sub-agent tab would be closed // by the very panel it is about to move out of. if (!container || container.nodeType !== 1) return; if (!streamTabIsRunning(tabId)) return; ==== */ function streamEnd(ctx, ev, target) { const t = ev.type; if (target === ctx.container) { collapseOlderPanels(ctx.container, ctx.tabId); } if (t === 'tool_result' && ctx.lastToolName !== 'finish' && !ctx.llmPanel) { // The agent is thinking again; the panel its words will land in is // opened now so the transcript does not sit empty, and withdrawn // again if nothing is ever said into it. streamOpenThoughts(ctx, ev.ts, true); } if (t === 'usage_info' && ctx.stepCount > 0) { // The daemon's own count outranks the panel counting, which only // estimates the steps between two of its reports -- a run_parallel // fan-out reports the sub-agents' steps too, so the estimate is // far behind. Adopted only once this transcript has counted a step // of its own: until then stepCount === 0 is also what tells // streamBegin the first thoughts panel is still to be opened, and // the daemon reports a step in progress before its first token. const reported = reportedStepCount(ev); if (reported) ctx.stepCount = reported; } if (t === 'result') { if (ctx.llmPanel && ctx.llmPanel._provisional) discardProvisionalPanel(ctx.llmPanel); else if (ctx.llmPanel) finalizePanelTime(ctx.llmPanel, ev.ts); ctx.llmPanel = null; // The `finish` tool call produced this result, and the daemon // deliberately emits no tool_result for finish — the result IS // its close. Sealing the last tool panel here freezes finish's // elapsed label; any other tool's panel was already sealed by // its own tool_result (finalizePanelTime is idempotent). if (ctx.state.lastToolCallEl) finalizePanelTime(ctx.state.lastToolCallEl, ev.ts); // The daemon's own count is the authoritative one. if (ev.step_count) ctx.stepCount = ev.step_count; collapseAllExceptResult(ctx.container, ctx.tabId); const rTab = getTab(ctx.tabId); if (rTab) { // A result proves this tab ran a task — set on replays too // (task_events / resumed panels), where no `clear` ever ran, // so the status dot (and the editor tab's title circle) can // describe the replayed task. rTab.hasRunTask = true; if (ev.success === false && !ev.is_continue) { rTab.lastTaskFailed = true; } } ctx.pendingPanel = true; } } // The visible transcript's stream state lives in module globals // because a tab switch saves and restores them; they are lent to the // shared machine for the length of one event. function liveStreamCtx() { return { container: O, tabId: activeTabId, state: state, ==== } // The replay is over: the returned context may be adopted as a // still-running task's live stream state (replayTaskEvents, the // task_events background branch), and a REPLAY-only flag left on it // would suppress the report tabs of reports the live continuation // writes from here on. delete ctx.state.suppressReportOpen; // A replayed panel that no later event closed is still in progress // when its task is still running (a sub-agent tab opened mid-run, // a running chat resumed after a reload): it takes up the live // tick from its own event's wall-clock start, exactly like the // live-streamed panel it was before the replay. A finished task's // open panels keep no elapsed label — the tool never reported // back, so no duration exists. An adjacent-task container is // always a NEIGHBOURING task's finished transcript, so it never // ticks even while its owner tab runs its live task. const replayOwnerTab = getTab(ownerTabId); const isAdjacentReplay = !!container.classList && container.classList.contains('adjacent-task'); if (replayOwnerTab && replayOwnerTab.isRunning && !isAdjacentReplay) { const open = container.querySelectorAll( '[data-start-ts]:not([data-time-done]):not([data-start-ms])', ); for (let i = 0; i < open.length; i++) { open[i].dataset.startMs = open[i].dataset.startTs; } reviveActivePanelTimes(container); } // Runs after every event has rendered but BEFORE the collapse pass // below: collapsing a finished run_parallel panel closes its // sub-agent tabs, and if one of those is the tab on screen the // switch that follows repaints the shared status row — a caller // that wants the numbers this replay painted must read them now. if (opts && opts.onEventsRendered) opts.onEventsRendered(); collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId); if (typeof hljs !== 'undefined') { container.querySelectorAll('code.needs-hl').forEach(bl => { if (!bl.closest('.collapsible.collapsed')) { bl.classList.remove('needs-hl'); highlightBlockPreservingLinks(bl); } }); } return ctx; } function replayTaskEvents(events) { clearOutput(); resetOutputState(); clearUsageMetrics(); const rCtx = replayEventsInto(O, events, { ownerTabId: activeTabId, onFollowupClick: copyFollowupToInput, }); // The live stream resumes exactly where the replay left off: the // replay's tail state (the open tool_call panel, the provisional // thoughts panel, the current tool name) becomes the visible // stream's state, so a still-running task's next live event fills // and closes the replayed panels instead of rendering orphans // beside them. state = rCtx.state; saveLiveStreamCtx(rCtx); if (rCtx.stepCount > 0) updateStepCount(rCtx.stepCount); // autoscroll-coverage:start // clearOutput() above released any user scroll lock: the replayed // chat lands at the end of its latest event panel. autoScrollLatestEventPanel(O.lastElementChild); // autoscroll-coverage:end currentTaskMetrics.tokens = statusTokens ? statusTokens.textContent : ''; currentTaskMetrics.budget = statusBudget ? statusBudget.textContent : ''; currentTaskMetrics.steps = statusSteps ? statusSteps.textContent : ''; applyChevronState(currentTaskName); } function createActionBar(labelText, buttons) { const bar = mkEl('div', 'wt-bar'); const label = mkEl('span', 'wt-label'); label.textContent = labelText; bar.appendChild(label); const btns = mkEl('div', 'wt-btns');
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▾Thoughts▾ Thinking I'm also thinking about how sub-agent tabs and panels get closed when a task ends, particularly around the finish tool—since the daemon deliberately emits no tool_result for finish, the result itself is the close signal, and sealing the last tool panel there freezes finish's elapsed label. So on a result event marking task end, streamEnd in main.js explicitly handles this closing behavior. Then it discards or finalizes the provisional thoughts panel, seals the finish panel's timer, and calls collapseAllExceptResult to collapse every collapsible panel except the result panel—collapsing previews, syncing and collapsing nested run_parallel panels, which can also trigger closing sub-agent tabs via closeSubagentTabForCollapse. I'm noting that most panels are collapsed rather than removed from the DOM, except the provisional panel which is actually discarded, and I want to verify how rpPanelHasOpenTabs interacts with this—collapseAllExceptResult skips run_parallel panels still holding open sub-agent tabs unless marked done. I'm also checking whether the extension side explicitly disposes any webview panels on task end, since the question about "closing event panels" might refer to VS Code UI panels rather than the internal collapsible ones—so I should search extension.js for dispose calls tied to task completion.
▾ Thinking
I'm also thinking about how sub-agent tabs and panels get closed when a task ends, particularly around the finish tool—since the daemon deliberately emits no tool_result for finish, the result itself is the close signal, and sealing the last tool panel there freezes finish's elapsed label. So on a result event marking task end, streamEnd in main.js explicitly handles this closing behavior. Then it discards or finalizes the provisional thoughts panel, seals the finish panel's timer, and calls collapseAllExceptResult to collapse every collapsible panel except the result panel—collapsing previews, syncing and collapsing nested run_parallel panels, which can also trigger closing sub-agent tabs via closeSubagentTabForCollapse. I'm noting that most panels are collapsed rather than removed from the DOM, except the provisional panel which is actually discarded, and I want to verify how rpPanelHasOpenTabs interacts with this—collapseAllExceptResult skips run_parallel panels still holding open sub-agent tabs unless marked done. I'm also checking whether the extension side explicitly disposes any webview panels on task end, since the question about "closing event panels" might refer to VS Code UI panels rather than the internal collapsible ones—so I should search extension.js for dispose calls tied to task completion.
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▾Bashdescription: Check sub-agent tab closing on collapse grep -n "rpAdoptOpenSubagents\|closeSubagentTabForCollapse\|_rpDone" src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js | head -20; echo ===; sed -n 4086,4130p src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js 4311: function rpAdoptOpenSubagents(panelEl, parentId) { 4417: rpAdoptOpenSubagents(panelEl, rpOwnerTabIdForPanel(panelEl)); 4518: rpAdoptOpenSubagents(p, ownerId); 4519: if (rpPanelHasOpenTabs(p) && !p._rpDone) continue; 4569: rpAdoptOpenSubagents(p, tabId); 4570: if (rpPanelHasOpenTabs(p) && !p._rpDone) continue; 5226: tState.lastToolCallEl._rpDone = true; === // Sub-agent tabs a collapse wants closed while a transcript is being // replayed wait here until the replay is done; see rpCloseSubagentTab. let _rpDeferredCloses = null; /** * Close sub-agent tab *tabId* on behalf of its collapsed fan-out * panel, or queue the close when a transcript is being replayed. * * Closing the tab the user is looking at moves them to another tab, * and moving them onto the very chat whose transcript is being * replayed would put that half-written transcript on screen and * detach the rest of the replay into a fragment nobody sees. The * replay finishes first, then the tabs close. * * @param {string} tabId The sub-agent tab to close. */ function rpCloseSubagentTab(tabId) { if (_rpDeferredCloses) _rpDeferredCloses.push(tabId); else closeTab(tabId); } /** * Close the sub-agent tabs queued during a replay. * * The closes are performed as the collapse they came from, not as a * close the user asked for, so a sub-agent stays reopenable by * expanding its panel again (see rpAfterTabsClosed). */ function rpFlushDeferredCloses() { const ids = _rpDeferredCloses; _rpDeferredCloses = null; if (!ids.length) return; _rpSyncing = true; try { for (const id of ids) closeTab(id); } finally { _rpSyncing = false; } } function rpTaskDomRootForParent(parentId) { if (parentId === activeTabId) return O; const parentTab = getTab(parentId); return parentTab ? parentTab.outputFragment : null; }
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grep -n "rpAdoptOpenSubagents\|closeSubagentTabForCollapse\|_rpDone" src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js | head -20; echo ===; sed -n 4086,4130p src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js
4311: function rpAdoptOpenSubagents(panelEl, parentId) { 4417: rpAdoptOpenSubagents(panelEl, rpOwnerTabIdForPanel(panelEl)); 4518: rpAdoptOpenSubagents(p, ownerId); 4519: if (rpPanelHasOpenTabs(p) && !p._rpDone) continue; 4569: rpAdoptOpenSubagents(p, tabId); 4570: if (rpPanelHasOpenTabs(p) && !p._rpDone) continue; 5226: tState.lastToolCallEl._rpDone = true; === // Sub-agent tabs a collapse wants closed while a transcript is being // replayed wait here until the replay is done; see rpCloseSubagentTab. let _rpDeferredCloses = null; /** * Close sub-agent tab *tabId* on behalf of its collapsed fan-out * panel, or queue the close when a transcript is being replayed. * * Closing the tab the user is looking at moves them to another tab, * and moving them onto the very chat whose transcript is being * replayed would put that half-written transcript on screen and * detach the rest of the replay into a fragment nobody sees. The * replay finishes first, then the tabs close. * * @param {string} tabId The sub-agent tab to close. */ function rpCloseSubagentTab(tabId) { if (_rpDeferredCloses) _rpDeferredCloses.push(tabId); else closeTab(tabId); } /** * Close the sub-agent tabs queued during a replay. * * The closes are performed as the collapse they came from, not as a * close the user asked for, so a sub-agent stays reopenable by * expanding its panel again (see rpAfterTabsClosed). */ function rpFlushDeferredCloses() { const ids = _rpDeferredCloses; _rpDeferredCloses = null; if (!ids.length) return; _rpSyncing = true; try { for (const id of ids) closeTab(id); } finally { _rpSyncing = false; } } function rpTaskDomRootForParent(parentId) { if (parentId === activeTabId) return O; const parentTab = getTab(parentId); return parentTab ? parentTab.outputFragment : null; }
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▾Thoughts▾ Thinking I'm checking line 5226, where a run_parallel tool_result marks _rpDone so collapseAllExceptResult can collapse that panel and close its tabs, and confirming syncRunParallelPanel near line 4423 also closes tabs when a panel collapses. That confirms it: in main.js, when the result event signals task end, streamEnd explicitly closes the tabs. Yes. I checked the webview transcript code and here is exactly what happens.
▾ Thinking
I'm checking line 5226, where a run_parallel tool_result marks _rpDone so collapseAllExceptResult can collapse that panel and close its tabs, and confirming syncRunParallelPanel near line 4423 also closes tabs when a panel collapses. That confirms it: in main.js, when the result event signals task end, streamEnd explicitly closes the tabs.

Yes. I checked the webview transcript code and here is exactly what happens.

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▾finishsuccess: True summary_in_html: <h3>Yes — when a task ends, the chat webview explicitly closes/collapses event panels</h3> <p>The behavior lives in <code>src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js</code>. When the terminal <code>result</code> event arrives, <code>streamEnd()</code> (~line 5613) does four explicit close actions:</p> <ol> <li><b>Provisional thoughts panel</b> — if the last LLM panel is still provisional (nothing was streamed into it), it is removed from the DOM via <code>discardProvisionalPanel(ctx.llmPanel)</code>; otherwise its elapsed-time label is frozen with <code>finalizePanelTime</code>.</li> <li><b>The <code>finish</code> tool panel is sealed</b> — the daemon deliberately emits no <code>tool_result</code> for <code>finish</code>, so the <code>result</code> event itself is treated as its close: <code>finalizePanelTime(ctx.state.lastToolCallEl, ev.ts)</code> freezes its elapsed label (idempotent for any other tool panel already sealed by its own <code>tool_result</code>).</li> <li><b><code>collapseAllExceptResult(container, tabId)</code></b> (~line 4511) — every top-level <code>.collapsible</code> event panel is collapsed (adds the <code>collapsed</code> class, sets the collapse preview, syncs and recursively collapses nested <code>run_parallel</code> panels) <i>except</i> the result panel itself (<code>.rc</code> is skipped).</li> <li><b>Sub-agent tabs</b> — collapsing a <code>run_parallel</code> fan-out panel adopts and closes its open sub-agent tabs (<code>rpAdoptOpenSubagents</code> → <code>rpCloseSubagentTab</code> → <code>closeTab</code>; deferred to <code>rpFlushDeferredCloses</code> during a replay). Fan-out panels that still have live sub-agent tabs and are not yet marked <code>_rpDone</code> are skipped so a running fan-out is never force-closed.</li> </ol> <p>The same end-of-task collapse pass also runs when a finished transcript is <b>replayed</b>: <code>replayEventsInto()</code> (~line 8694) calls <code>collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId)</code> after rendering all events, so restored/history chats end in the same state: everything collapsed except the result panel.</p> <p>Two nuances worth noting:</p> <ul> <li>Panels are <b>collapsed, not deleted</b> — the user can re-expand any of them; the only DOM removal is the empty provisional thoughts panel.</li> <li>Mid-run there is a related but weaker pass, <code>collapseOlderPanels()</code>, which keeps everything but the <i>latest</i> panel collapsed while streaming; the end-of-task pass is the stricter one that also collapses the last panel, leaving only the result visible.</li> </ul> suggested_next_task: Add an end-to-end test that verifies a run_parallel fan-out panel with a still-open sub-agent tab is not collapsed by the end-of-task collapseAllExceptResult pass until the sub-agent finishes.
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summary_in_html: <h3>Yes — when a task ends, the chat webview explicitly closes/collapses event panels</h3> <p>The behavior lives in <code>src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js</code>. When the terminal <code>result</code> event arrives, <code>streamEnd()</code> (~line 5613) does four explicit close actions:</p> <ol> <li><b>Provisional thoughts panel</b> — if the last LLM panel is still provisional (nothing was streamed into it), it is removed from the DOM via <code>discardProvisionalPanel(ctx.llmPanel)</code>; otherwise its elapsed-time label is frozen with <code>finalizePanelTime</code>.</li> <li><b>The <code>finish</code> tool panel is sealed</b> — the daemon deliberately emits no <code>tool_result</code> for <code>finish</code>, so the <code>result</code> event itself is treated as its close: <code>finalizePanelTime(ctx.state.lastToolCallEl, ev.ts)</code> freezes its elapsed label (idempotent for any other tool panel already sealed by its own <code>tool_result</code>).</li> <li><b><code>collapseAllExceptResult(container, tabId)</code></b> (~line 4511) — every top-level <code>.collapsible</code> event panel is collapsed (adds the <code>collapsed</code> class, sets the collapse preview, syncs and recursively collapses nested <code>run_parallel</code> panels) <i>except</i> the result panel itself (<code>.rc</code> is skipped).</li> <li><b>Sub-agent tabs</b> — collapsing a <code>run_parallel</code> fan-out panel adopts and closes its open sub-agent tabs (<code>rpAdoptOpenSubagents</code> → <code>rpCloseSubagentTab</code> → <code>closeTab</code>; deferred to <code>rpFlushDeferredCloses</code> during a replay). Fan-out panels that still have live sub-agent tabs and are not yet marked <code>_rpDone</code> are skipped so a running fan-out is never force-closed.</li> </ol> <p>The same end-of-task collapse pass also runs when a finished transcript is <b>replayed</b>: <code>replayEventsInto()</code> (~line 8694) calls <code>collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId)</code> after rendering all events, so restored/history chats end in the same state: everything collapsed except the result panel.</p> <p>Two nuances worth noting:</p> <ul> <li>Panels are <b>collapsed, not deleted</b> — the user can re-expand any of them; the only DOM removal is the empty provisional thoughts panel.</li> <li>Mid-run there is a related but weaker pass, <code>collapseOlderPanels()</code>, which keeps everything but the <i>latest</i> panel collapsed while streaming; the end-of-task pass is the stricter one that also collapses the last panel, leaving only the result visible.</li> </ul>
suggested_next_task: Add an end-to-end test that verifies a run_parallel fan-out panel with a still-open sub-agent tab is not collapsed by the end-of-task collapseAllExceptResult pass until the sub-agent finishes.
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Yes — when a task ends, the chat webview explicitly closes/collapses event panels

The behavior lives in src/kiss/agents/vscode/media/main.js. When the terminal result event arrives, streamEnd() (~line 5613) does four explicit close actions:

  1. Provisional thoughts panel — if the last LLM panel is still provisional (nothing was streamed into it), it is removed from the DOM via discardProvisionalPanel(ctx.llmPanel); otherwise its elapsed-time label is frozen with finalizePanelTime.
  2. The finish tool panel is sealed — the daemon deliberately emits no tool_result for finish, so the result event itself is treated as its close: finalizePanelTime(ctx.state.lastToolCallEl, ev.ts) freezes its elapsed label (idempotent for any other tool panel already sealed by its own tool_result).
  3. collapseAllExceptResult(container, tabId) (~line 4511) — every top-level .collapsible event panel is collapsed (adds the collapsed class, sets the collapse preview, syncs and recursively collapses nested run_parallel panels) except the result panel itself (.rc is skipped).
  4. Sub-agent tabs — collapsing a run_parallel fan-out panel adopts and closes its open sub-agent tabs (rpAdoptOpenSubagents → rpCloseSubagentTab → closeTab; deferred to rpFlushDeferredCloses during a replay). Fan-out panels that still have live sub-agent tabs and are not yet marked _rpDone are skipped so a running fan-out is never force-closed.

The same end-of-task collapse pass also runs when a finished transcript is replayed: replayEventsInto() (~line 8694) calls collapseAllExceptResult(container, ownerTabId) after rendering all events, so restored/history chats end in the same state: everything collapsed except the result panel.

Two nuances worth noting:

  • Panels are collapsed, not deleted — the user can re-expand any of them; the only DOM removal is the empty provisional thoughts panel.
  • Mid-run there is a related but weaker pass, collapseOlderPanels(), which keeps everything but the latest panel collapsed while streaming; the end-of-task pass is the stricter one that also collapses the last panel, leaving only the result visible.
Sep 10, 2026 6:56:35 PM
Suggested nextAdd an end-to-end test that verifies a run_parallel fan-out panel with a still-open sub-agent tab is not collapsed by the end-of-task collapseAllExceptResult pass until the sub-agent finishes.