Look around the machine before deciding to talk about it

The terminal and the canvas both needed a Chat, so they were missing from the
one screen where you are choosing which machine to work on. A draft is the
smallest thing that fixes it: an id, and the three facts behind it.

The trick is that a draft resolves to a *transient* Chat -- constructed, never
added to a session. `canvas.agent_ready`, `_executor`, `_load_agent`, `_save_agent`
and `agent_session.resolve` read exactly four attributes between them and none
of them queries or writes the row, so all of it works unchanged and nothing had
to learn what a draft is. Proven against a real sshd rather than a stub: a
transient chat opens and saves a project file over the same SFTP path a real one
uses, and the database stays empty throughout.

Chats are still created lazily. A draft is not a chat and never becomes one;
when the first prompt makes the real one, the shell is re-keyed into it and the
open tabs are copied across. `terminal.rekey` moves the registry key *and*
`session.chat_id`, because close_for_profile, close_for_owner and the reaper all
pop by the field -- a stale one would leave a dead session that `get` keeps
handing out. The shell is only adopted when its profile and directory match the
chat as finally resolved, since `_new_chat` settles an empty directory to the
connection's own; otherwise it is left alone rather than transplanted onto a
chat that says it runs elsewhere.

Two canvas sources are refused on a draft, by name, and one of them is a hole
rather than an inconvenience. `_load_file` authorises with
`attachment.chat_id != chat.id`, and an upload made on the new-chat screen is
stored with `chat_id=None` -- so a draft whose chat carried no id would make that
comparison `None != None`, which is False, and open every unclaimed attachment
its owner has. `as_chat` does set an id, so it already fails; the refusal is
stated anyway, because a guarantee that lives in an id-shaped coincidence is one
the next change breaks without noticing.

Adoption needed almost no JavaScript: start_chat already answers with
HX-Redirect, so the page reloads and the canvas adopts by construction while the
terminal reconnects to the re-keyed session and replays its scrollback -- the "a
reload is indistinguishable from a second tab" property working for us. What
re-points them mid-screen is a `lembas:agent-target` event, dispatched from
`setDir` and the connection select because assigning to a hidden field's value
fires nothing on its own. Driven under a DOM stub before committing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ that would be expensive to revisit. Kept current as work lands; the detail of
**Status:** usable daily. Streaming chat, attachments, reasoning, tool calling
with web search, custom HTTP tools and MCP servers, agent chats that work on a
machine over SSH, a knowledge library, notes, memory and skills, speech in and
out, users and groups, model administration, installable as an app. 1513 tests,
out, users and groups, model administration, installable as an app. 1529 tests,
`ruff` clean.
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@@ -131,6 +131,10 @@ be a different project, not a refactor.
commands together. A deny pattern cannot either — so in Auto a compound
line runs, which is the trade for Auto not asking about `cd build && make`.
See CLAUDE.md; matching each segment would restore both and is not built
- [x] **The terminal and the canvas open before the chat exists** — on the
new-chat screen, against the connection and directory being chosen there,
and both re-point when that changes. The shell you opened and the files
you left open are adopted into the chat when you send the first prompt
- [x] **Background jobs are visible** — a chip in the composer row counting what
is still running, and a panel with each job's command, state, log tail and
a Stop button. Survives a restart, because the job does