fix inbox lifecycle downstream contracts

.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-22-docked-web-goal-bar.md

@@ -16,13 +16,13 @@ Visibility drives the label and actions: active shows "Ongoing Goal" with pause/
 
 `GoalBarActions` lives in ui-goal's slot contract (`packages/client/ui-goal/src/client/slots.ts`) and carries exactly the rendered verbs: `onEdit`/`onPause`/`onResume`/`onClear`. Each callback asynchronously returns an explicit success/failure result so `GoalBar` owns its transitions and error display. `apply.ts` wires them to the runtime session methods; the runtime session resolves the current goal's compare-and-set ref internally, so the UI passes no ref.
 
-The runtime session gains the goal surface the strip (and future UI) needs: `fetchGoal` populates the snapshot on open, and a live `context/message` carrying `goal/change` meta triggers a coalesced refetch — concurrent triggers share the in-flight `goal.get`, while a trigger received during that read schedules one coalesced trailing read so independently ordered notifications and GET responses cannot leave stale state. Window replays never refetch, and matching the meta kind (rather than a goal key) also catches clear tombstones written by other clients. The six mutation verbs fold transport failures into `{ ok: false }` results like every sibling session method, and a get result older than a mutation response that landed mid-flight is dropped.
+The runtime session gains the goal surface the strip (and future UI) needs through the host-computed `goal` projection. The history tail seeds its whole current value, and `session/projection` frames update it when durable `agent/inbox/spliced` insertions commit goal snapshots or clear tombstones; later context admission is irrelevant to UI freshness. The four rendered mutation verbs fold transport failures into `{ ok: false }` results like every sibling session method.
 
 The strip's background is `--dsw-alias-interactive-bg-hover` rather than the mock's literal `#F5F6F7`: the translucent hover gray resolves to that value over the white light-theme base and lifts the strip off the composer card in dark mode, where a static light token would sink. All colors are `--dsw-*` tokens.
 
 ## Testing
 
-`packages/client/ui-goal/tests/goalbar.spec.tsx` pins the behavior through props alone: loading/absent/complete render nothing, the active strip renders label/objective and fires clear, the edit form prefills, rejects empty, saves on Enter, cancels on Esc, and resets when the goal's identity changes, the active strip fires pause, the paused strip fires resume, and the blocked strip exposes the reason tooltip. Component failure-path cases prove that a failed edit preserves its draft and that edit/resume/clear errors remain visible in the bar. The skeleton specs mount `ConversationRoot` with and without `goalActions`; the undefined case is seeded with an active goal, so the missing gate — not the missing goal — is what hides the strip. Runtime session specs pin the folded-error results, the live-only in-flight-plus-trailing refetch, and the stale-read guard. A keyless real-browser smoke boots the assembled application through `boot → RPC → runtime → GoalBar` and records an inline snapshot of the rendered label, objective, and actions.
+`packages/client/ui-goal/tests/goalbar.spec.tsx` pins the behavior through props alone: loading/absent/complete render nothing, the active strip renders label/objective and fires clear, the edit form prefills, rejects empty, saves on Enter, cancels on Esc, and resets when the goal's identity changes, the active strip fires pause, the paused strip fires resume, and the blocked strip exposes the reason tooltip. Component failure-path cases prove that a failed edit preserves its draft and that edit/resume/clear errors remain visible in the bar. The skeleton specs mount `ConversationRoot` with and without `goalActions`; the undefined case is seeded with an active goal, so the missing gate — not the missing goal — is what hides the strip. Runtime session specs pin folded-error results and projection updates. A keyless real-browser smoke boots the assembled application through `boot → RPC → runtime → GoalBar` and records an inline snapshot of the rendered label, objective, and actions.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ The strip's background is `--dsw-alias-interactive-bg-hover` rather than the moc
 ## Consequences
 
 - Goal presence in the web UI is a standalone composer-context strip: sparkle, phase label, truncated objective, and pause/edit/clear (resume replacing pause when paused) — the browser client's first goal surface.
-- The runtime session exposes the goal verbs over RPC with folded transport errors, and refreshes the snapshot's goal on open and on live goal-change meta (coalesced, guarded against stale reads).
+- The runtime session exposes the goal verbs over RPC with folded transport errors and consumes the host's durable whole-goal projection on open and live updates.
 - Objective editing is reachable from the UI for the first time, through `goal.edit` with the runtime-owned ref; complete remains available to other surfaces (`/goal`, model tools).
 - `goal === null` renders nothing; the composer carries no persistent create affordance — creation is the `/goal` command's job.