feat: migrate session metadata storage from frontend overlay to backend (#8769)

Signed-off-by: Matt Toohey <contact@matttoohey.com>
Co-authored-by: Bradley Axen <baxen@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

ui/goose2/src/shared/api/acp.ts

@@ -95,7 +95,13 @@ export async function acpSendMessage(
     `[perf:send] ${sid} acpSendMessage → prompt(len=${prompt.length}, imgs=${images?.length ?? 0})`,
   );
   const tPrompt = performance.now();
-  await directAcp.prompt(gooseSessionId, content);
+  const meta: Record<string, unknown> = {};
+  if (personaId) meta.personaId = personaId;
+  await directAcp.prompt(
+    gooseSessionId,
+    content,
+    Object.keys(meta).length > 0 ? meta : undefined,
+  );
   const tDone = performance.now();
   perfLog(
     `[perf:send] ${sid} prompt() resolved in ${(tDone - tPrompt).toFixed(1)}ms (total acpSendMessage ${(tDone - tStart).toFixed(1)}ms)`,

ui/goose2/src/shared/api/acpApi.ts

@@ -17,8 +17,14 @@ export interface AcpSessionInfo {
   sessionId: string;
   title: string | null;
   updatedAt: string | null;
+  createdAt: string | null;
+  archivedAt: string | null;
+  userSetName: boolean;
   messageCount: number;
   projectId?: string | null;
+  providerId: string | null;
+  modelId: string | null;
+  personaId: string | null;
 }
 
 const DEPRECATED_PROVIDER_IDS = new Set(["claude-code", "codex", "gemini-cli"]);
@@ -50,8 +56,14 @@ export async function listSessions(): Promise<AcpSessionInfo[]> {
     sessionId: info.sessionId,
     title: info.title ?? null,
     updatedAt: info.updatedAt ?? null,
+    createdAt: (info._meta?.createdAt as string) ?? null,
+    archivedAt: (info._meta?.archivedAt as string) ?? null,
+    userSetName: info._meta?.userSetName === true,
     messageCount: (info._meta?.messageCount as number) ?? 0,
     projectId: (info._meta?.projectId as string) ?? null,
+    providerId: (info._meta?.providerId as string) ?? null,
+    modelId: (info._meta?.modelId as string) ?? null,
+    personaId: (info._meta?.personaId as string) ?? null,
   }));
 }
 
@@ -78,7 +90,14 @@ export async function forkSession(sessionId: string): Promise<AcpSessionInfo> {
     sessionId: response.sessionId,
     title: (response._meta?.title as string) ?? null,
     updatedAt: null,
+    createdAt: (response._meta?.createdAt as string) ?? null,
+    archivedAt: (response._meta?.archivedAt as string) ?? null,
+    userSetName: response._meta?.userSetName === true,
     messageCount: (response._meta?.messageCount as number) ?? 0,
+    projectId: (response._meta?.projectId as string) ?? null,
+    providerId: (response._meta?.providerId as string) ?? null,
+    modelId: (response._meta?.modelId as string) ?? null,
+    personaId: (response._meta?.personaId as string) ?? null,
   };
 }
 
@@ -137,6 +156,24 @@ export async function updateSessionProject(
   });
 }
 
+export async function archiveSession(sessionId: string): Promise<void> {
+  const client = await getClient();
+  await client.extMethod("_goose/session/archive", { sessionId });
+}
+
+export async function unarchiveSession(sessionId: string): Promise<void> {
+  const client = await getClient();
+  await client.extMethod("_goose/session/unarchive", { sessionId });
+}
+
+export async function renameSession(
+  sessionId: string,
+  title: string,
+): Promise<void> {
+  const client = await getClient();
+  await client.extMethod("_goose/session/rename", { sessionId, title });
+}
+
 export async function cancelSession(sessionId: string): Promise<void> {
   const client = await getClient();
   await client.cancel({ sessionId });
@@ -146,6 +183,7 @@ export async function newSession(
   workingDir: string,
   providerId?: string,
   projectId?: string,
+  personaId?: string,
 ): Promise<NewSessionResponse> {
   const tClient = performance.now();
   const client = await getClient();
@@ -159,6 +197,7 @@ export async function newSession(
   const meta: Record<string, string> = {};
   if (providerId) meta.provider = providerId;
   if (projectId) meta.projectId = projectId;
+  if (personaId) meta.personaId = personaId;
   if (Object.keys(meta).length > 0) request.meta = meta;
 
   const tCall = performance.now();
@@ -192,7 +231,8 @@ export async function loadSession(
 export async function prompt(
   sessionId: string,
   content: ContentBlock[],
+  meta?: Record<string, unknown>,
 ): Promise<PromptResponse> {
   const client = await getClient();
-  return client.prompt({ sessionId, prompt: content });
+  return client.prompt({ sessionId, prompt: content, _meta: meta });
 }

ui/goose2/src/shared/api/acpNotificationHandler.ts

@@ -415,11 +415,7 @@ function handleShared(sessionId: string, update: SessionUpdate): void {
         if (session && !session.userSetName) {
           useChatSessionStore
             .getState()
-            .updateSession(
-              sessionId,
-              { title: info.title as string },
-              { persistOverlay: false },
-            );
+            .updateSession(sessionId, { title: info.title as string });
         }
       }
       break;
@@ -456,11 +452,10 @@ function handleShared(sessionId: string, update: SessionUpdate): void {
             currentModelId;
 
           const sessionStore = useChatSessionStore.getState();
-          sessionStore.updateSession(
-            sessionId,
-            { modelId: currentModelId, modelName: currentModelName },
-            { persistOverlay: false },
-          );
+          sessionStore.updateSession(sessionId, {
+            modelId: currentModelId,
+            modelName: currentModelName,
+          });
         }
       }
       break;

ui/goose2/src/shared/api/acpSessionTracker.ts

@@ -102,7 +102,12 @@ export async function prepareSession(
 
   if (!gooseSessionId) {
     const tNew = performance.now();
-    const response = await acpApi.newSession(workingDir, providerId, projectId);
+    const response = await acpApi.newSession(
+      workingDir,
+      providerId,
+      projectId,
+      personaId,
+    );
     gooseSessionId = response.sessionId;
     perfLog(
       `[perf:prepare] ${sid} tracker newSession done in ${(performance.now() - tNew).toFixed(1)}ms (goose_sid=${gooseSessionId.slice(0, 8)})`,

ui/goose2/src/shared/types/chat.ts

@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ export const INITIAL_SESSION_CHAT_RUNTIME: SessionChatRuntime = {
 export interface Session {
   id: string;
   title: string;
-  agentId?: string;
   projectId?: string | null;
   providerId?: string;
   personaId?: string;