Stop AI-generated titles overwriting user-renamed session names#46
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PR doctly#42 (b88b19f) wired ai-title entries into the customTitle field returned by readSessionFile via `customTitle: customTitle || aiTitle`. session-cache.js then calls setName(sessionId, customTitle) on every index pass, which writes to session_meta.name — the same column that stores user renames done via the Switchboard UI (rename-session in main.js). So every re-index of a file that contains an ai-title entry clobbers the user's manual rename. The PR description claimed "User-set customTitle still takes precedence", but that only holds for JSONL custom-title entries (Claude `/title`), not for in-app UI renames. Fix: separate the two title sources end-to-end. - read-session-file.js now returns customTitle and aiTitle as separate fields. - session_cache table gains an aiTitle column; v3 migration adds the column and clears the cache so a fresh index repopulates it. - session-cache.js carries aiTitle through to the API output. setName is now only ever called with a JSONL customTitle — ai-title never touches the DB. - Sidebar/grid/dialog/jsonl-viewer display priority is now: user rename (session.name) > AI title (session.aiTitle) > raw first prompt. doctly#33's original intent (AI titles displayed in the sidebar instead of raw prompts) is preserved through session.aiTitle, but the DB session_meta.name column reverts to being user-only — manual renames are now durable. Note: pre-fix DB pollution (existing rows where ai-title was already written into session_meta.name) is not auto-cleaned — those sessions will keep their AI-title-as-name until renamed manually.
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Merge upstream changes from doctly/switchboard including: - v0.0.27: WebGL terminal renderer - v0.0.28: CI republish fixes - v0.0.29: Sidebar duplicate fix, cursor blink reduction - v0.0.30: Merge duplicate project groups, AI title support - doctly#46: Stop AI titles overwriting user renames Conflicts resolved: - build.yml: Rewrote with proper release creation - package.json: Keep fork version (0.0.34), upstream deps merged - package-lock.json: Regenerated
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Fixes regression introduced by #42 / #33.