fix: refresh session name in sidebar after rename (#9543)

Signed-off-by: Varun Nuthalapati <nuthalapativarun@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ui/desktop/src/components/Layout/NavigationPanel.tsx

@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ const SessionRow: React.FC<SessionRowProps> = ({ session, active, status, onClic
             path: { session_id: session.id },
             body: { name: newName },
           });
+          window.dispatchEvent(
+            new CustomEvent(AppEvents.SESSION_RENAMED, {
+              detail: { sessionId: session.id, newName, userInitiated: true },
+            })
+          );
           onRenamed();
         }}
         placeholder={intl.formatMessage(i18n.untitledSession)}

ui/desktop/src/components/sessions/SessionListView.tsx

@@ -458,11 +458,13 @@ const SessionListView: React.FC<SessionListViewProps> = React.memo(
     const handleModalSave = useCallback(async (sessionId: string, newDescription: string) => {
       // Update state immediately for optimistic UI
       setSessions((prevSessions) =>
-        prevSessions.map((s) => (s.id === sessionId ? { ...s, name: newDescription } : s))
+        prevSessions.map((s) =>
+          s.id === sessionId ? { ...s, name: newDescription, user_set_name: true } : s
+        )
       );
       window.dispatchEvent(
         new CustomEvent(AppEvents.SESSION_RENAMED, {
-          detail: { sessionId, newName: newDescription },
+          detail: { sessionId, newName: newDescription, userInitiated: true },
         })
       );
     }, []);

ui/desktop/src/hooks/useNavigationSessions.ts

@@ -146,11 +146,16 @@ export function useNavigationSessions() {
     };
 
     const handleSessionRenamed = (event: Event) => {
-      const { sessionId, newName } = (event as CustomEvent<{ sessionId: string; newName: string }>)
-        .detail;
+      const { sessionId, newName, userInitiated } = (
+        event as CustomEvent<{ sessionId: string; newName: string; userInitiated?: boolean }>
+      ).detail;
 
       setRecentSessions((prev) =>
-        prev.map((session) => (session.id === sessionId ? { ...session, name: newName } : session))
+        prev.map((session) =>
+          session.id === sessionId
+            ? { ...session, name: newName, ...(userInitiated && { user_set_name: true }) }
+            : session
+        )
       );
     };