Seed the in-flight partial assistant message (text, thinking, and
in-progress tool calls) when opening or reconnecting to a session that is
mid-stream, then continue streaming live deltas on top of it. Replaces the
blocking "Catching up..." placeholder and the end-of-turn transcript reload.
Server stamps every per-session UI event with a monotonic seq at the
SessionEventHub publish choke point and exposes
GET /sessions/:sessionId/stream-snapshot returning { seq, partial }. The
client fetches the snapshot on join, seeds the normalized partial into the
in-memory transcript (never the history cache), and applies buffered/live
events using the seq watermark for exactly-once delivery.
The snapshot is a progressive enhancement: a 404 from an older remote
pi-web or a not-yet-restarted session daemon falls back to an empty seed
(seq 0, drops nothing), so sessions still open and stream normally. The
stream-snapshot route is registered in the federation allowlist for
remote-machine proxying.
Federico Jaramillo Martinez