From 53b213571f46e67cca3997dd6c98520e86321c15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kit Langton <kit.langton@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 10:38:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(tui): hide synthetic session context rows

---
 packages/tui/src/routes/session/rows.ts       |  2 +-
 .../tui/test/cli/tui/session-rows.test.ts     | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/tui/src/routes/session/rows.ts b/packages/tui/src/routes/session/rows.ts
index 3a15d6bc14..9fddd669d7 100644
--- a/packages/tui/src/routes/session/rows.ts
+++ b/packages/tui/src/routes/session/rows.ts
@@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ export function createSessionRows(sessionID: Accessor<string>) {
   const subscriptions = [
     data.on("session.next.prompted", message),
     data.on("session.next.context.updated", message),
-    data.on("session.next.synthetic", message),
     data.on("session.next.shell.started", message),
     data.on("session.next.agent.switched", message),
     data.on("session.next.model.switched", message),
@@ -158,6 +157,7 @@ export function createSessionRows(sessionID: Accessor<string>) {
 
 export function reduceSessionRows(messages: SessionMessage[]) {
   return messages.reduce<SessionRow[]>((rows, message) => {
+    if (message.type === "synthetic") return rows
     if (message.type !== "assistant") {
       completePrevious(rows)
       rows.push({ type: "message", messageID: message.id })
diff --git a/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/session-rows.test.ts b/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/session-rows.test.ts
index d6a804625f..9af8a38a84 100644
--- a/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/session-rows.test.ts
+++ b/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/session-rows.test.ts
@@ -62,6 +62,25 @@ test("keeps non-exploration tools as individual part rows", () => {
   ])
 })
 
+test("skips synthetic context messages", () => {
+  const messages: SessionMessage[] = [
+    { type: "user", id: "user-1", text: "Run background shell", time: { created: 0 } },
+    assistant("assistant-1", [{ type: "tool", id: "shell-1", name: "shell", state: pending(), time: { created: 1 } }]),
+    {
+      type: "synthetic",
+      id: "synthetic-1",
+      sessionID: "ses_1",
+      text: "Shell command completed.\n\nOutput:\nok",
+      time: { created: 2 },
+    },
+  ]
+
+  expect(reduceSessionRows(messages)).toEqual([
+    { type: "message", messageID: "user-1" },
+    { type: "part", ref: { messageID: "assistant-1", partID: "shell-1" } },
+  ])
+})
+
 test("groups across empty assistant reasoning parts", () => {
   const messages: SessionMessage[] = [
     assistant("assistant-1", [