fix(sessions): hide automated sessions in every list; halve search latency

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Session lists (TUI sessions view, web /api/history, aimux sessions --list) showed every session file, and ~94% are automated: claude -p
runs from cron, hooks and scripts (session analyzer, discovery refresh,
news feed...). Only the search index knew how to recognise them.

• history.IsAutomated is now the single definition (sdk-* entrypoint,
  temp-dir cwd, known prompt prefixes), used by both the session parser
  (new Session.Automated) and internal/search. On real data the two agree
  on every session; 3,344 of 3,499 are automated. Scan cache version
  bumped so sessions are re-parsed once.
• TUI: automated sessions are hidden with subagents; the header shows
  "(+N automated, H to show)" and H reveals them.
• Web: /api/history hides them unless ?automated=1.
• CLI: aimux sessions --list hides them unless --include-automated.

Search latency (keyword ~190ms -> ~90ms per query, hybrid ~430 -> ~320ms):

• Snippets are built in Go only for returned results, from text the query
  already read, instead of FTS5 snippet() for every candidate.
• 200 BM25 candidates instead of 600: same ranking on the eval set
  (keyword MRR 0.66 unchanged; hybrid 0.83 -> 0.82).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Automated sessions are now hidden by default in session lists across the command line, terminal interface, and web history. Use --include-automated in the command line or the H key in the terminal interface to show them.
  • Search results now display highlighted matching text in concise snippets.

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• cmd/aimux/cmd/sessions.go
• cmd/aimux/cmd/sessions_test.go
• internal/frontend/tui/views/sessions.go
• internal/frontend/tui/views/sessions_search_test.go
• internal/history/automated_test.go
• internal/history/history.go
• internal/history/scancache.go
• internal/search/index.go
• internal/search/index_test.go

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Walkthrough

The changes add shared automated-session detection and default filtering in the CLI, TUI, and web history. They also change search snippet generation to use matching text retained for returned results.

Changes

Automated Session Detection and Visibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classify automated sessions internal/history/automated.go, internal/history/history.go, internal/history/automated_test.go, internal/history/scancache.go, internal/search/extract.go	History scanning records entrypoint and working-directory values and uses a shared classifier to mark automated sessions. Search extraction uses the same classifier. The scan cache version changes from 1 to 2.
Filter automated sessions in command and web history cmd/aimux/cmd/sessions.go, cmd/aimux/cmd/sessions_test.go, internal/frontend/web/handlers.go, internal/frontend/web/search_test.go	The sessions command and web history omit automated sessions by default. The command-line flag and the web query parameter enable their inclusion.
Filter automated sessions in the TUI internal/frontend/tui/views/sessions.go, internal/frontend/tui/views/sessions_search_test.go	The TUI hides automated sessions when subagent visibility is off and no search is active. Its header reports hidden automated sessions, and pressing H reveals them.

Search Result Snippets

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Generate snippets from matching text internal/search/index.go, internal/search/snippet.go, internal/search/snippet_test.go	Search reduces the candidate limit from 600 to 200 chunks. It retains matching text until result limiting, then generates snippets with highlighted prefix matches.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant JSONL
  participant scanSession
  participant IsAutomated
  participant SessionViews
  JSONL->>scanSession: session entries
  scanSession->>IsAutomated: entrypoint, cwd, first prompt
  IsAutomated-->>scanSession: automated classification
  scanSession-->>SessionViews: session with Automated field
  SessionViews->>SessionViews: filter automated sessions by default

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Suggested labels: needs-tests

Merge Risk

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ae4ad

Default exports can silently omit automated sessions, so that behavior should be corrected before merging. The classification, TUI, and search-result inconsistencies are narrower but also warrant fixes or explicit acceptance.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ae4ad

The changes primarily affect which sessions appear by default and how search previews are generated. No newly introduced permission bypass or executable-content path was established. Classification differences and export completeness warrant attention, while external-client and deployment exposure remain incompletely established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The established propagation scope is discovered session records and indexed transcript previews consumed by CLI, web, and TUI surfaces. The new inclusion switches select records previously available through history rather than establishing a new privilege grant. Tenant and deployed-service exposure are not established by the supplied topology evidence.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — No newly expanded snippet-injection path was established by the base/head comparison. The base FTS5 snippet operation already considered overflow text. The head keeps retained text private, returns previews through existing JSON or text consumers, and the inspected web component renders snippets as React text rather than raw HTML. Existing terminal formatting remains a pre-existing behavior, not a newly verified protection.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — Control over classifier input strings can influence whether a session is hidden. Because explicit inclusion bypasses that hiding and no authorization consumer was established, Automated should be understood as a presentation and indexing heuristic, not a confidentiality or identity boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The cache transition does not establish a new stranded partial-publication state: incompatible caches rebuild, publication is atomic, and missing or stale entries rescan. Concurrent writers can still replace one another's cache snapshots, but that pre-existing limitation affects cache efficiency and freshness rather than granting authority through Automated.

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Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Actionable comments posted: 5

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internal/search/index.go (1)

313-313: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the bounded recall of the 200-candidate search.

coverageMatch limits BM25 rows before coverage filtering and session deduplication. The search can therefore return fewer than opts.Limit sessions when the first 200 rows contain rejected or duplicate chunks. The previous cap was already 600, so lowering it increases this recall tradeoff.

The code documents 200 as a measured latency/ranking budget, and the inspected API does not promise full recall. This is not a major correctness defect by itself. Document and test the approximate behavior. If Search must fill opts.Limit, fetch additional ranked chunks until enough distinct qualifying sessions are collected.

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Review comment at @internal/search/index.go at line 313:
Document that candidateChunks bounds BM25 rows before coverage filtering and
session deduplication, so Search may return fewer than opts.Limit qualifying
sessions; add a test that verifies this approximate behavior. Keep the existing
200-candidate budget unless Search is required to fill opts.Limit, in which case
extend retrieval until enough distinct qualifying sessions are collected.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @cmd/aimux/cmd/sessions.go:
- Around line 82-84: Update the `s.Automated` filter in the sessions command to
skip automated sessions only in browsing and list modes, not when `--export` is
active. Preserve the current default filtering for non-export modes so exported
JSONL includes automated sessions.

Review comments at @internal/frontend/tui/views/sessions.go:
- Line 875: Update the remaining session filters in the H-toggle flow, including
isHookSession and the near-empty filter, so automated sessions are retained when
showSubagents is enabled; keep their existing filtering behavior when the reveal
setting is off.
- Line 874: Move the session visibility policy and hidden-session count into a
shared controller or core helper, then use it from both visibleSessions and the
header. Ensure the shared policy counts matching automated sessions as visible
during search, keeping the TUI view as a thin adapter.

Review comments at @internal/history/history.go:
- Line 282: Update history first-prompt extraction so it continues until it
finds the first meaningful user prompt, even after JSONL line 10; keep
`IsAutomated` classifying `s.FirstPrompt` with the same extraction rule used by
search.

Review comments at @internal/search/index.go:
- Line 440: Update the `matchText` selection used by `coverage` and
`makeSnippet` so snippets include the field that supplied the match, including
title-only matches and matches split between the title and body. Add search-test
coverage for both cases.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @internal/search/index.go:
- Line 313: Document that candidateChunks bounds BM25 rows before coverage
filtering and session deduplication, so Search may return fewer than opts.Limit
qualifying sessions; add a test that verifies this approximate behavior. Keep
the existing 200-candidate budget unless Search is required to fill opts.Limit,
in which case extend retrieval until enough distinct qualifying sessions are
collected.

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📒 Files selected for processing (14)

• cmd/aimux/cmd/sessions.go
• cmd/aimux/cmd/sessions_test.go
• internal/frontend/tui/views/sessions.go
• internal/frontend/tui/views/sessions_search_test.go
• internal/frontend/web/handlers.go
• internal/frontend/web/search_test.go
• internal/history/automated.go
• internal/history/automated_test.go
• internal/history/history.go
• internal/history/scancache.go
• internal/search/extract.go
• internal/search/index.go
• internal/search/snippet.go
• internal/search/snippet_test.go

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