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xarmian c84cf7437c feat(sessions): announce session identity on the event stream (PLAN-2558 S2, TASK-2560) (#1094)
* feat(sessions): announce session identity on the event stream (TASK-2560)

PLAN-2558 S2. S1 gave the presence registry a count of anonymous
uuids; this makes each row nameable, which is what S3 needs for an
honest empty state and S5 needs for a target picker.

A monitor now announces itself when it opens the stream:
X-Pad-Session-Label (the working directory's basename) and
X-Pad-Session-Pid. The server sanitizes both and stores them on the
LiveSession; GET /api/v1/sessions returns them.

TRANSPORT. The task body sketched "the stream connect carries it"
without picking a mechanism and explicitly left the call open. Headers,
because a query param would put the label and pid into every access-log
line (this server logs path= for each request) and any proxy log in
front of it — which is the same "don't let local detail travel further
than it needs to" the privacy line below is about — and a separate
registration POST would need its own correlation to the connection it
describes, plus a matching lifecycle, when the registry entry already
lives and dies with the stream. Headers ride the request that exists
and sit alongside Last-Event-ID, already doing this job on this
endpoint. Cost, written into the code rather than discovered later: a
browser EventSource cannot set headers, so a future web-tab consumer
needs a deliberate query-param fallback or a fetch-based SSE reader.

PRIVACY. The basename crosses, never the full cwd — "/home/dave/Dev/
docapp" additionally hands over a home directory and usually an account
name for no gain — and messaging_socket_path never leaves the machine.
Pinned by a test rather than by the implementation being one line.

WHAT THIS DELIBERATELY DOESN'T DO: read ~/.pad/sessions/. The task
framed S2 as giving `pad session register` its first consumer, and the
monitor cannot honestly be one. Registry entries are written by
whatever process ran that command — a different pid — and the only
matchable fields are pid and cwd, so two agent sessions in one checkout
are indistinguishable and "pick the newest" is a coin flip that would
put a confident wrong name in the S5 picker. Process ancestry settles
it exactly and is platform-specific (this binary ships for macOS and
Windows). The monitor's own cwd basename and pid are never wrong and
answer the question the label exists to answer; correlating a stream to
the agent session that spawned it needs an identifier the harness
passes down, which is worth doing when something needs it and worth not
faking until then.

Also moves S1's STALENESS doc block, which sat above LiveSession.Label
where it read as documenting the name rather than the whole entry.

Tests: sanitizer units (whitespace collapse, control-char stripping,
rune-not-byte truncation), header wiring, the end-to-end labelled
session, the unannounced-client compatibility leg (a pre-S2 monitor
must still register and still stream), a hostile-input leg over the
wire, the client's omit-when-unset behaviour, and the basename promise.

Measured rather than assumed: Go's server answers 400 to a header value
containing a control byte before any handler runs (verified with a raw
socket, since Go's own client refuses to send one and the two refusals
are indistinguishable from a normal client test). So that arm of the
sanitizer is unreachable over HTTP; it stays as defence in depth for
the next caller in, and both the comment and the wire test say so
instead of the test quietly passing because the transport refused the
input.

Mutation-tested four ways, each revert grep-verified: handler ignoring
the parsed identity, monitor sending the full cwd, dropping the
truncation, and the client always setting the headers.

Refs TASK-2560, PLAN-2558

* fix(cli): sanitize the session label client-side per Codex review (round 1)

Codex round 1's only finding, and it is a bigger deal than a missing
label. Unix directory names may contain control bytes — "doc\napp" is a
legal directory — and Go's http.Client REFUSES to send a request whose
header value holds one: Do returns "invalid header field value" and
nothing is transmitted. In the monitor that is indistinguishable from
an unreachable padd, so the retry loop backs off and tries again,
forever, printing nothing by contract. A user who named a directory
that way would simply stop receiving notifications, with no signal
anywhere. The server cannot defend against a request that never
arrives.

Reproduced before fixing, with a real directory and a real client,
rather than reasoned about from the error message.

Sanitizing in NewWatchEventsStreamRequest rather than in
monitorSessionIdentity: the invariant is "this function never builds an
unsendable request", which belongs at the point where a value becomes a
header, not at one caller. The client's cap (256 runes) is deliberately
looser than and independent of the server's (64): the server decides
what a label should look like, the client only has to keep the request
sane, and neither has to track the other to stay correct.

The regression test does the ROUND TRIP instead of inspecting the
header, because the header contents were never the bug — http.Header.Set
stores anything, so an assertion on the value passes against the broken
version too. Only attempting the request tells the two apart.
Mutation-verified: reverting the sanitizer fails the test with exactly
the "invalid header field value" error from the field report.
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