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S on a session row (and agentop server move <session-id> <server|own>) moves a running session to another inference server — the one deliberate exception to "nothing moves a running conversation," an explicit user instruction the router does not second-guess. A sessions: map in the inference-router's config names the moves; it beats the session's pin and settles it, so removing the entry later does not move the session back.

What makes the moved history acceptable is a format-level strip: on a request whose target differs from the server that produced its reasoning, the artifacts only their producer can validate are dropped — thinking/redacted_thinking blocks (Anthropic) and reasoning items (responses). Chat-completions bodies are never touched; their reasoning fields are plain text every server measured accepts. Provenance is one per-session record with the pin's TTL; once a session's target has differed from its recorded origin, the origin is (foreign) for good, because the client re-sends its own unstripped history however many turns pass. No per-server knowledge, no error-text matching.

Why it is safe (measured, 2026-10-16)

Cross-server continuation was probed directly against ete-int, ete-ext, glm and ollama in all three wire formats. Every path continues the conversation correctly once producer-bound reasoning is dropped; the only failures without the strip are Bedrock refusing foreign signatures (403) or missing ones (400), and vLLM refusing encrypted_content. Anthropic thinking text is empty (encrypted), so dropping it loses nothing; glm/ollama reasoning text is readable and its loss was measured harmless to continuation. The spec records the full matrix.

The pieces

  • routerconfig: the sessions map and its validation (synthetic ids refused; values must name a listed server or be "").
  • The router: the override beats pin and unpinned rules; pin: moved in the timeline; modify/reasoning_stripped {blocks: N} per strip; the capture gate admits an override an unrouted agent's session would otherwise strand.
  • agentop: server move with the uncached-context cost line and a prune of dead entries (from the archived session list, so a resumed session keeps its override); the TUI's S on the sessions pane with the same cost confirmation; server remove refuses while a sessions entry names the server (the config could not reload — or start).
  • Docs: inference-router-plugin.md (the field, the move, the strip), agents/claude-code.md, plugin-catalog.md, cmd/agentop/README.md, laptop-service.md.

Review

A fresh whole-branch review found 1 Critical, 6 Important and 4 Minor. All Critical/Important findings are fixed, each with a test that failed first:

  • Critical: own wrote a removal instead of "", which the session's pin would route right back — the entry now stays, inert once the pin matches.
  • An unrouted agent's session could not be captured, so its move silently did nothing.
  • A session that ran unrouted before its move never stripped (the origin seeded with the target), 403ing forever on a strict server.
  • server remove left a dangling entry → a config the proxy cannot reload or boot from.
  • The refusal notice was invisible on the sessions pane (a modal eating keys).
  • The picker opened on "own provider" for a pinned session.
  • The prune read the live list only.
  • Under on_error: observe, an override destroyed the session's existing pin.

Deferred minors (not fixed, listed for the record): the picker title carries the full session id rather than the first 8 characters; the in-flight footer says "switching → …" during a session move; the picker offers the session's current server (the spec's same-server no-op sentence); a thinking-only assistant turn dropped between two user turns would leave user,user (no real turn is thinking-only).

Verification

  • core: 67 packages green; cmd/agentop: 11 packages green; go vet clean on every touched module; gofmt clean; go mod tidy -diff empty.
  • The forwardproxy end-to-end test moves a live session mid-run, asserts the new server received it with its key and no thinking blocks, that the pin survives the override's removal, and that own unrouts it.
  • Not live-verified against the real servers — the plan's live-verification steps (a real Claude Code session moved glm→ete-int, the code-word round trip, and a move to ete-ext keeping off the Bedrock 403) restart the shared proxy, so they wait for a coordinated make dev-install.

Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-10-16-session-server-switch-design.md; plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-16-session-server-switch.md.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com

Fix round 1 (838a810)

A two-session review of the branch found two further must-fixes, both fixed with failing-first tests: a session that ran on its own provider holds no pin, so its move seeded the reasoning origin with the target and never stripped (the origin now also reads the session's recorded history, so a reasoning-free one-shot cannot hide a prior life); and an own ("") override moved the session's pin under on_error: observe (the not-routed branch now reads the policy itself, via the new pctx.Observing()). A second two-session delta review of the round returned APPROVE from both sessions, 0 must-fix.

Deferred from the reviews (not fixed): the picker title carries the full session id rather than the first 8 characters; the in-flight footer says "switching → …" during a session move; the picker offers the session's current server; a thinking-only assistant turn dropped between two user turns would leave user,user; serverMove omits the routerInactive note under observe/off; S on the sessions pane is absent from the ? overlay and the pane footer; Observing() is missing from docs/plugin-reference.md's pctx table; the plan document still carries the pre-round first-request sentence (the spec is corrected); SyntheticSessionID duplicates synthetic()'s rule without a parity test; two TUI test Errorf format strings render a literal \n; a failed read of the origin record is taken for no record, so a pinned session seeds its pin's server over a recorded (foreign); docs/inference-router-plugin.md and the spec's provenance rules omit that a pinned session with no origin takes its pin's server and that a move to own marks the origin (foreign); pruneFrom's doc comment does not mention the empty-listing return or the spared moved session; own is refused only by server add, while routerconfig accepts a hand-written server named own; with no pin store wired, serverFor returns the agent's choice before applying a sessions: override; the docs' YAML example abbreviates the session id with …, which CheckSessionID refuses; plugin-catalog.md's opt-in sentence does not mention that a sessions: override routes an unlisted agent's session; openSessionServerPicker sits between applyServerChoice's doc comment and its func.

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  • New Features
    • Move a running session to another inference server or back to its own provider using the command line or the sessions pane.
    • See when a move will resend the session’s context uncached on its first turn at the destination.
    • Per-session routing overrides let you direct sessions independently of agent routing rules. Reasoning the destination server cannot verify is removed from supported request formats.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Server removal is blocked while configured sessions still use that server, helping prevent broken routing.

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own writes a value, not a removal, so the pin cannot route the session
right back; the capture gate admits an override an unrouted agent's
session would otherwise strand; a session with a pin strips on its first
routed request, so a strict target cannot 403 it forever; server remove
refuses while a sessions entry names the server, which would leave a
config the proxy cannot reload or start from; the notice renders on the
sessions pane; the picker opens on the server the session uses; the
prune reads the archived list; under observe an override moves no pin.

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📝 Walkthrough

The router now supports per-session server overrides and tracks reasoning origin when requests move between servers. agentop server move and the sessions-pane picker can set those overrides. The change also adds session ID and destination validation, stale-entry pruning, tests, and documentation.

Changes: Session server switching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session override routing and pin updates
core/plugins/inferencerouter/routerconfig/*, core/plugins/inferencerouter/plugin.go, core/plugins/inferencerouter/plugin_test.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/inferencerouter_test.go, core/pipeline/context.go, core/plugins/inferencerouter/pins.go, core/plugins/inferencerouter/store_test.go, docs/superpowers/specs/*, docs/superpowers/plans/*
The router validates session overrides and applies them before existing pin and routing rules. Pin state reflects routing outcomes. Tests cover overrides for pinned and unrouted sessions, empty destinations, observe policy, and proxy requests.
Reasoning provenance and stripping
core/plugins/inferencerouter/strip.go, core/plugins/inferencerouter/strip_test.go, core/plugins/inferencerouter/models_test.go, docs/inference-router-plugin.md, docs/laptop-service.md, docs/superpowers/plans/*, docs/superpowers/specs/*
The router records reasoning origin for eligible sessions. When the origin becomes foreign, it strips Anthropic thinking blocks and Responses reasoning items from routed requests. Chat Completions bodies remain unchanged.
CLI moves and config updates
cmd/agentop/cmd_server.go, cmd/agentop/cmd_server_write.go, cmd/agentop/servers/*, cmd/agentop/README.md, cmd/agentop/cmd_server_write_test.go, docs/inference-router-plugin.md, docs/superpowers/plans/*, docs/superpowers/specs/*
agentop server move writes a session override and can prune overrides for sessions absent from available session listings. Server removal is refused while a session override names that server.
Sessions-pane server picker
cmd/agentop/tui/*, cmd/agentop/README.md, docs/agents/claude-code.md, docs/plugin-catalog.md, docs/superpowers/plans/*, docs/superpowers/specs/*
The sessions pane’s S action opens a session-specific picker. The picker writes session routing without changing agent routing and displays context-token information when available.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant Agentop
  participant InferenceRouter
  participant TargetServer
  Operator->>Agentop: Select destination for session
  Agentop->>InferenceRouter: Write session override
  InferenceRouter->>TargetServer: Forward request to selected server
  TargetServer-->>InferenceRouter: Return response
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A session move may not take effect when pin storage is unavailable, so the router could keep sending that session to its original server. The remaining open items are minor: a documentation inaccuracy, an invalid YAML example, and misleading progress text in the sessions pane. Resolve the override bypass before merging.

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cmd/agentop/tui/server_picker_test.go: 1

776-780: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Fix the escaped newlines in the failure messages.

In a Go interpreted string, "\\n" prints a literal backslash and n. These messages put the config on one line, so failures are hard to read. Line 828 uses \n correctly.

Proposed fix
-		t.Errorf("config:\\n%s", f.config(t))
+		t.Errorf("config:\n%s", f.config(t))
...
-		t.Errorf("the move must not touch agents:\\n%s", f.config(t))
+		t.Errorf("the move must not touch agents:\n%s", f.config(t))

The same escaping appears at Line 793 and Line 808.

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Review comment at @cmd/agentop/tui/server_picker_test.go around lines 776 - 780:
Update the failure messages in the server picker tests to use newline escapes
that produce actual line breaks, not literal backslash-n text. Apply this to the
config diagnostics in the shown assertions and the same escaped messages nearby,
matching the existing correctly formatted message at line 828.

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Review comments at @cmd/agentop/cmd_server_write.go:
- Around line 585-586: Update the change assembly in WritePluginConfig so
pruneFrom does not remove the sessions path for sid after SessionChanges sets
it; preserve pruning for other sessions and add a test covering an existing
override for sid absent from the archived listing.
- Around line 558-560: Update the server-name validation used by serverMove so
configured server names cannot collide with the literal `own`, which serverMove
interprets as an empty destination. Reject `own` during name validation while
preserving its special meaning as the provider destination.

Review comments at @cmd/agentop/tui/server_picker.go:
- Around line 216-221: Update serverSwitch.text() to render progress using the
session name whenever session is nonempty, including sessions that have an
agent; retain the existing agent-based wording when no session is set.

Review comments at @core/plugins/inferencerouter/plugin.go:
- Line 485: Update serverFor so it selects and applies the session override
before returning when pinsFor yields nil. In that no-storage path, preserve
override-based routing while disabling only pin persistence; retain the existing
agent-choice behavior when no override applies.

Review comments at @core/plugins/inferencerouter/strip.go:
- Around line 167-175: Update the no-prior-pin branch in the code using
p.hasPriorPin so a missing router pin does not imply the session has no earlier
history. Check available session history before seeding the origin with server;
when prior history cannot be excluded, preserve stripping behavior for the first
request overridden to another server.
- Around line 162-165: Update the origin-state handling in the code around
`p.origin` so a session moved with `server move <id> own` records the client’s
provider as its origin before a later target can match the stale origin and take
the early return. Preserve the existing early-return behavior when the target
genuinely matches the current origin.

Review comments at @docs/inference-router-plugin.md:
- Line 41: Replace the abbreviated session ID in the YAML example with a
complete printable-ASCII ID that passes CheckSessionID, keeping the example’s
routing configuration unchanged.

Review comments at @docs/plugin-catalog.md:
- Around line 99-100: Update the routing opt-in sentence in the plugin catalog
to clarify that agents not listed in `agents` remain unrouted unless a
`sessions:` override selects a server for their session.

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Review comments at @cmd/agentop/tui/server_picker_test.go:
- Around line 776-780: Update the failure messages in the server picker tests to
use newline escapes that produce actual line breaks, not literal backslash-n
text. Apply this to the config diagnostics in the shown assertions and the same
escaped messages nearby, matching the existing correctly formatted message at
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  • cmd/agentop/servers/servers.go
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  • cmd/agentop/tui/keys.go
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  • core/listener/forwardproxy/inferencerouter_test.go
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  • docs/agents/claude-code.md
  • docs/inference-router-plugin.md
  • docs/laptop-service.md
  • docs/plugin-catalog.md
  • docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-16-session-server-switch.md
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Comment on lines +216 to +221
agent := "unknown"
if summary != nil && summary.Agent != "" {
agent = summary.Agent
}
router, _ := m.activeRouter()
p := &serverPicker{agent: pipeline.AgentName(agent), session: id, entries: []serverChoice{{}}}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not label an agentless session's in-flight write as unknown.

When a session has no Agent, the code sets the picker's agent to "unknown". applyServerChoice copies that value into serverSwitch. serverSwitch.text() then renders the in-flight footer as "switching unknown → ete…" instead of naming the session. The final flash is correct because sessionSwitchedText keys on session. Only the progress text is wrong. The same text names the agent even when a session with an agent is moved. That wording suggests the agent's routing is changing. Render the session in serverSwitch.text() when session != "".

Proposed fix
func (s *serverSwitch) text() string {
	to := "its own provider"
	if s.server != "" {
		to = sanitizeLabel(s.server)
	}
	if s.session != "" {
		return "moving session " + sanitizeLabel(s.session) + " → " + to + "…"
	}
	if s.server == "" {
		return "switching " + s.agent + " to its own choice…"
	}
	return "switching " + s.agent + " → " + sanitizeLabel(s.server) + "…"
}
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Review comment at @cmd/agentop/tui/server_picker.go around lines 216 - 221:
Update serverSwitch.text() to render progress using the session name whenever
session is nonempty, including sessions that have an agent; retain the existing
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// unpinned rule, and the pin follows it, so removing the entry later does not
// move the session back. pinMoved tells the record this request moved a session
// that already held a pin; pinNew is a session that held none.
if over, ok := p.overrideFor(pctx); ok {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Apply session overrides when pin storage is unavailable.

When pinsFor returns nil, serverFor returns the agent choice before it reaches this override check. An explicit move therefore does not route the session. For an agent without a route, Line 314 can admit the captured request, but serverFor then leaves it at the client-selected host. Select the override before the no-store return; disable only pin persistence when storage is unavailable.

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Review comment at @core/plugins/inferencerouter/plugin.go at line 485:
Update serverFor so it selects and applies the session override before returning
when pinsFor yields nil. In that no-storage path, preserve override-based
routing while disabling only pin persistence; retain the existing agent-choice
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claude-code: glm # only agents listed here are routed
opencode: glm
sessions:
8e298f11-8bf1-…: ete # one running session, moved ("" to stop routing it)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use a valid session ID in the YAML example.

The … character makes this session ID fail CheckSessionID. Replace the abbreviated ID with a complete printable-ASCII example so readers can use the configuration without a validation error.

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Replace the abbreviated session ID in the YAML example with a complete
printable-ASCII ID that passes CheckSessionID, keeping the example’s routing
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beyond going through the proxy. A `sessions:` entry moves one running session to
another server, dropping the reasoning only its old server can verify. Routing is opt-in per agent: an agent not listed

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Qualify the opt-in rule for session overrides.

The following sentence says that an agent absent from agents is not routed. A non-empty sessions: override does route that agent’s named session, as TestRouter_ASessionsOverrideRoutesAnUnroutedAgentsSession demonstrates. State that unlisted agents remain unrouted unless a session override selects a server.

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Review comment at @docs/plugin-catalog.md around lines 99 - 100:
Update the routing opt-in sentence in the plugin catalog to clarify that agents
not listed in `agents` remain unrouted unless a `sessions:` override selects a
server for their session.

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…ries reasoning

Fixes review: a session that ran on its own provider holds no pin, so its move seeded the origin with the target and never stripped
Fixes review: an own ("") override moved the session's pin under on_error: observe
Fixes review: a reasoning-free one-shot could seed a moved pinless session's origin with the target
Files:
- core/listener/forwardproxy/inferencerouter_test.go
- core/pipeline/context.go
- core/plugins/inferencerouter/plugin.go
- core/plugins/inferencerouter/plugin_test.go
- core/plugins/inferencerouter/strip.go
- core/plugins/inferencerouter/strip_test.go
- docs/inference-router-plugin.md
- docs/superpowers/specs/2026-10-16-session-server-switch-design.md

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This adds sessions: overrides to the inference-router, plus the reasoning strip that makes a moved history acceptable to the new server. The override and pin handling are careful and well tested. The origin record that gates the strip has two holes, each confirmed with a failing test at 838a810:

  1. A session that was never moved, but has a pin and no origin record, goes (foreign) for good and strips its own reasoning every turn. That covers every routed session running at upgrade, and any session whose origin expires (30-day TTL) while its pin keeps being renewed.
  2. A move to own and back leaves the origin stale, so the own provider's signed thinking goes to the target unstripped. That is the Bedrock 403 the strip is meant to prevent.

Both fixes are small; suggestions are inline. Of CodeRabbit's other items I'd also take the reserved-word one: CheckName accepts a server named own, which server move <id> own can't reach. The rest overlap the PR's deferred list.

Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go (core router, routerconfig, pipeline; agentop CLI, servers, TUI), Docs
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 12, all signed-off: yes
CI status: passing. Touched packages also pass locally at 838a810.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com

// capture gate, and the one a reasoning-free one-shot would otherwise hide.
// Seeding the origin with the target for any of them would never strip, and
// a target that cannot verify foreign blocks would refuse it for good.
if !p.hasPriorPin(pctx, key) && dropped == 0 && !p.hasPriorRequests(pctx, prior) {

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must-fix — An unmoved session with a pin and no origin record goes (foreign) and strips its own reasoning on every turn.

hasPriorPin is true for every routed session, so when the origin record is missing this branch always picks originForeign. There are two ways to get here without any move:

  • Upgrade. Every routed session already running when this ships has a pin and no origin/ key. Its next request goes foreign for good, and from then on it strips its own server's thinking on every turn.
  • Expiry. keepOrigin writes with pinTTL, and the steady state (origin == server, line 178) never rewrites it. store.keep renews the pin on every request, though, so after 30 days of continuous use the origin expires under a live pin and the same thing happens.

That contradicts the spec's steady-state rule ("records and keeps origin == target and strips nothing"), and it records modify/reasoning_stripped on sessions nobody moved. Repro (fails at 838a810):

func TestRouter_APinnedSessionWithNoOriginKeepsItsOwnReasoning(t *testing.T) {
	store := newStore(t)
	p := build(t, routerConfig(`"claude-code": "glm"`))
	first := request(store, eteHost, claudeUA, "s1")
	first.Body = []byte(`{"model":"claude-opus-5-5","max_tokens":8,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}`)
	run(t, p, first)
	store.Delete(originPrefix + "s1") // pre-upgrade, or expired under a renewed pin
	second := request(store, eteHost, claudeUA, "s1")
	second.Body = anthropicBodyWithThinking()
	run(t, p, second)
	assertNoInvocation(t, second, "reasoning_stripped") // fails: blocks=1, origin (foreign)
}

Suggested fix: a pin from this agent that names the target is provenance. Overrides now always write an origin, so a session pinned to server with no origin record has only ever run on server. Seed the origin with server there (prior.state == pinExisting), and renew the origin's TTL wherever the pin is renewed.

return
}
origin := p.origin(pctx, key)
if origin == server {

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must-fix — Moving a session to own and back leaves its origin stale, so the own provider's signed thinking reaches the target unstripped.

stripForeign runs only on redirected requests, so the not-routed branch in OnRequest never touches the origin. Take a session that starts on ete: its origin is ete. server move <id> own sends its turns to the client's provider, which signs its own thinking, and the origin stays ete. server move <id> ete brings it back, and this line sees origin == server and returns. Every later turn sends the provider's signatures to ete, and a Bedrock-backed target 403s them on every turn. That is the failure the strip exists to prevent, and the session stays stuck until it is moved again. CodeRabbit flagged the same path. Repro (fails at 838a810: no reasoning_stripped on the return):

func TestRouter_AMoveToOwnAndBackStripsTheProvidersReasoning(t *testing.T) {
	store := newStore(t)
	first := request(store, "api.anthropic.com", claudeUA, "s1")
	first.Body = []byte(`{"model":"claude-opus-5-5","max_tokens":8,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}`)
	run(t, build(t, routerConfig(`"claude-code": "ete"`)), first) // origin = ete
	mid := request(store, "api.anthropic.com", claudeUA, "s1")
	mid.Body = anthropicBodyWithThinking()
	run(t, build(t, sessionsConfig(`"claude-code": "ete"`, `"s1": ""`)), mid) // unrouted
	last := request(store, "api.anthropic.com", claudeUA, "s1")
	last.Body = anthropicBodyWithThinking()
	run(t, build(t, sessionsConfig(`"claude-code": "ete"`, `"s1": "ete"`)), last)
	assertAnyRecord(t, last, pipeline.ActionModify, "reasoning_stripped", map[string]string{"blocks": "1"})
}

Suggested fix: in the not-routed branch (plugin.go:328), when pin.state == pinMoved and the router is not observing, set the origin to originForeign. That is the request that moves the session off a server. Because the sentinel is sticky, one write covers the rest of the session.

Comment thread cmd/agentop/cmd_server_write.go Outdated
sessionsURL = dialURL(cfg.Listener.SessionAPIAddr)
}
changes := servers.SessionChanges(sid, server)
changes = append(changes, pruneFrom(sessionsURL, c)...)

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suggestion — The prune can remove the entry this move just set.

SetPluginConfig applies the changes in order. When sid already has a sessions: entry and the archived listing doesn't hold it (archive off, or the session not seen since a restart), PruneSessions emits a removal for sid after SessionChanges sets it. The net write deletes the entry, but the report still says Session <id> → <server>.

The PR body lists this as deferred. The fix is one line, and it stops the report claiming the opposite of what was written: pass sid to pruneFrom and set live[sid] = true before calling PruneSessions. CodeRabbit raised the same thing.

//
// context.Background(), not m.ctx: the write is bounded by edit.LocalPollDeadline, and cutting
// it off when the reader leaves the connection would report a timeout for a write that landed.
// openSessionServerPicker is S on the SESSIONS pane: the same picker over the

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nit — openSessionServerPicker was inserted between applyServerChoice's doc block (lines 180–195) and its func. The doc comment is one contiguous block, so godoc now gives openSessionServerPicker all of applyServerChoice's text and leaves applyServerChoice undocumented. Moving this function and its comment above line 180 fixes it.

Fixes review: a session pinned to its target with no origin record went (foreign) and stripped its own reasoning
Fixes review: a move to own and back left the origin stale, so the provider's thinking reached the target unstripped
Fixes review: the origin could expire under a pin its session kept renewing
Fixes review: agentop server add accepted a server named own, which server move cannot reach
Fixes review: server move's prune could remove the entry the move had just set
Files:
- cmd/agentop/cmd_server_write.go
- cmd/agentop/cmd_server_write_test.go
- core/plugins/inferencerouter/models_test.go
- core/plugins/inferencerouter/pins.go
- core/plugins/inferencerouter/plugin.go
- core/plugins/inferencerouter/store_test.go
- core/plugins/inferencerouter/strip.go
- core/plugins/inferencerouter/strip_test.go

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
Fixes review: seeding the live set with the moved session defeated the guard against a blind prune
Files:
- cmd/agentop/cmd_server_write.go
- cmd/agentop/cmd_server_write_test.go

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>

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