fix(sessions): stop counting session startup as work in progress

Startup progress rides the per-session activity channel with an "active"
phase, because a startup phase really is in progress. But isSessionActive()
treated any active activity as work, so a session that was merely *opening*
enabled "Stop Active Work", disabled "Reload from disk" with the misleading
"Stop current session activity before reloading" tooltip, showed the row's
active-work indicator, and — for any caller that hands a startup activity to
WorkspaceActivityService — reported the whole workspace as busy. Selecting an
archived, read-only session reported active work while it opened.

Starting is not working. publishStartupProgress now marks its reports with a
new optional SessionActivity.startup field, and isSessionActive() does not
count a marked activity. Every affected consumer — the session list, the core
actions, the app's activity-transition handling, and the server's workspace
aggregation — reads that one helper, so the correction lands in all of them at
once.

The marker is a new field rather than a new phase on purpose: six readers test
phase === "active" directly, including the pending row's "creating · " prefix,
the chat dock's active styling, and the daemon's own heartbeat re-publication.
It can only ever remove the activity-phase reason for being active, so
streaming, bash, compaction, and queued prompts still report as active through
the status even while a startup report is the latest activity. The chat dock
still shows the startup text; this changes what counts as work, not what is
shown.

The browser's own pending-create row keeps its previous appearance: it borrows
only the daemon's phase text and drops the marker, since that row stands for a
create the user is waiting on rather than a session the daemon is opening.

src/server/activity/workspaceActivityService.test.ts

@@ -32,6 +32,19 @@ describe("WorkspaceActivityService", () => {
     expect(events.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ type: "workspace.activity", activity: { cwd: "/repo", hasSessionActivity: false, hasTerminalActivity: false } });
   });
 
+  it("does not report a workspace active for a session that is only starting up", () => {
+    const events: RealtimeEvent[] = [];
+    const service = new WorkspaceActivityService({ publishRealtime: (event) => events.push(event) });
+
+    // Startup progress names a phase the daemon is inside; it is not work, so the
+    // workspace (and the project indicators and remote machines that read it)
+    // must not be reported as busy because of it.
+    service.applySessionActivity("/repo", { sessionId: "s1", phase: "active", label: "Opening session", detail: "Starting the Pi session", at: "now", startup: true });
+
+    expect(service.snapshot().workspaces).toEqual([]);
+    expect(events.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ type: "workspace.activity", activity: { cwd: "/repo", hasSessionActivity: false } });
+  });
+
   it("clears stale active activity when an idle status arrives", () => {
     const events: RealtimeEvent[] = [];
     const service = new WorkspaceActivityService({ publishRealtime: (event) => events.push(event) });

src/server/sessions/piSessionService.startupProgress.test.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import { PiSessionService, type PiSessionRuntime } from "./piSessionService.js";
 import { CapturingSessionEventHub, emptyArchiveStore, fakeRuntime, sessionGateway, sessionRecord, sessionRef, testModelRuntime } from "./piSessionService.testSupport.js";
+import { isSessionActive } from "../../shared/activity.js";
 import type { SessionActivity, SessionStartupProgressEvent } from "../../shared/apiTypes.js";
 
 const TEST_AGENT_DIR = "/tmp/pi-web-test-agent";
@@ -235,6 +236,34 @@ describe("PiSessionService session startup progress", () => {
     await service.dispose();
   });
 
+  it("reports startup progress as starting rather than as work in progress", async () => {
+    const { hub, service } = startupService();
+
+    await service.start("/workspace");
+
+    // Startup phases are published with an "active" phase so the waiting user
+    // sees them, but opening a session is not work: nothing that decides whether
+    // work is in progress may count them.
+    const phases = startupEvents(hub).filter((event) => event.activity.phase === "active");
+    expect(phases).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(phases.map((event) => isSessionActive(undefined, event.activity))).toEqual([false, false]);
+    await service.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("still reports a real activity published during startup as work", async () => {
+    const { hub, fake, service } = startupService();
+
+    await service.start("/workspace");
+    fake.emit({ type: "tool_execution_start", toolName: "bash" });
+
+    // The marker belongs to the startup channel alone; an ordinary activity for
+    // the same session still counts, or the fix would hide real work.
+    const running = activityUpdates(hub).filter((activity) => activity.phase === "active");
+    expect(running.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(running.every((activity) => isSessionActive(undefined, activity))).toBe(true);
+    await service.dispose();
+  });
+
   it("keeps startup reporting event-only, writing no session or workspace activity state", async () => {
     const recorder = recordingWorkspaceActivity();
     const failure = new Error("runtime unavailable");

src/server/sessions/piSessionService.ts

@@ -3039,10 +3039,15 @@ export class PiSessionService implements SessionRouteService {
    * Unlike {@link publishActivity} this deliberately records nothing: no
    * `activities` entry, no workspace activity, no unread observation. There is
    * no session to own that state, and a failed creation would leave it stranded.
+   *
+   * Every report is marked `startup`, which is what keeps a session that is
+   * merely opening from counting as one doing work. This is the only publisher
+   * that sets the marker, and because it writes no `activities` entry no later
+   * heartbeat re-publication can carry it.
    */
   private publishStartupProgress(sessionId: string, startupToken: string | undefined, label: string, phase: "active" | "idle", detail: string | undefined): void {
     const at = new Date().toISOString();
-    const activity = detail === undefined ? { sessionId, phase, label, at } : { sessionId, phase, label, detail, at };
+    const activity = detail === undefined ? { sessionId, phase, label, at, startup: true } : { sessionId, phase, label, detail, at, startup: true };
     this.events.publishGlobal(startupToken === undefined ? { type: "session.startup", activity } : { type: "session.startup", startupToken, activity });
   }