Merge pull request #1125 from thedotmack/feat/session-start-system-message

feat: SessionStart systemMessage + cleaner defaults

src/cli/adapters/claude-code.ts

@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ export const claudeCodeAdapter: PlatformAdapter = {
   },
   formatOutput(result) {
     if (result.hookSpecificOutput) {
-      return { hookSpecificOutput: result.hookSpecificOutput };
+      const output: Record<string, unknown> = { hookSpecificOutput: result.hookSpecificOutput };
+      if (result.systemMessage) {
+        output.systemMessage = result.systemMessage;
+      }
+      return output;
     }
     return { continue: result.continue ?? true, suppressOutput: result.suppressOutput ?? true };
   }

src/cli/handlers/context.ts

@@ -37,7 +37,12 @@ export const contextHandler: EventHandler = {
     // Note: Removed AbortSignal.timeout due to Windows Bun cleanup issue (libuv assertion)
     // Worker service has its own timeouts, so client-side timeout is redundant
     try {
-      const response = await fetch(url);
+      // Fetch both markdown (for Claude context) and colored (for user display) truly in parallel
+      const colorUrl = `${url}&colors=true`;
+      const [response, colorResponse] = await Promise.all([
+        fetch(url),
+        fetch(colorUrl).catch(() => null)
+      ]);
 
       if (!response.ok) {
         // Log but don't throw — context fetch failure should not block session start
@@ -48,14 +53,23 @@ export const contextHandler: EventHandler = {
         };
       }
 
-      const result = await response.text();
+      const [contextResult, colorResult] = await Promise.all([
-      const additionalContext = result.trim();
+        response.text(),
+        colorResponse?.ok ? colorResponse.text() : Promise.resolve('')
+      ]);
+
+      const additionalContext = contextResult.trim();
+      const coloredTimeline = colorResult.trim();
+      const systemMessage = coloredTimeline
+        ? `${coloredTimeline}\n\nView Observations Live @ http://localhost:${port}`
+        : undefined;
 
       return {
         hookSpecificOutput: {
           hookEventName: 'SessionStart',
           additionalContext
-        }
+        },
+        systemMessage
       };
     } catch (error) {
       // Worker unreachable — return empty context gracefully

src/cli/types.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ export interface HookResult {
   continue?: boolean;
   suppressOutput?: boolean;
   hookSpecificOutput?: { hookEventName: string; additionalContext: string };
+  systemMessage?: string;
   exitCode?: number;
 }
 

src/shared/SettingsDefaultsManager.ts

@@ -95,15 +95,15 @@ export class SettingsDefaultsManager {
     CLAUDE_CODE_PATH: '', // Empty means auto-detect via 'which claude'
     CLAUDE_MEM_MODE: 'code', // Default mode profile
     // Token Economics
-    CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_SHOW_READ_TOKENS: 'true',
+    CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_SHOW_READ_TOKENS: 'false',
-    CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_SHOW_WORK_TOKENS: 'true',
+    CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_SHOW_WORK_TOKENS: 'false',
-    CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_SHOW_SAVINGS_AMOUNT: 'true',
+    CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_SHOW_SAVINGS_AMOUNT: 'false',
     CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_SHOW_SAVINGS_PERCENT: 'true',
     // Observation Filtering
     CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_OBSERVATION_TYPES: DEFAULT_OBSERVATION_TYPES_STRING,
     CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_OBSERVATION_CONCEPTS: DEFAULT_OBSERVATION_CONCEPTS_STRING,
     // Display Configuration
-    CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_FULL_COUNT: '5',
+    CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_FULL_COUNT: '0',
     CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_FULL_FIELD: 'narrative',
     CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_SESSION_COUNT: '10',
     // Feature Toggles