fix(ui): show all configured chat picker sessions

Remove the chat picker recency/current-agent filters while preserving the bounded configured-agent refresh, and add the changelog credit for @amknight.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 
 - Agents/Copilot: drop unsafe GitHub Copilot Responses reasoning replay items before send so Telegram direct sessions no longer fail on overlong replay IDs. Fixes #85197. (#85198) Thanks @galiniliev.
 - fix: constrain Windows task script names [AI]. (#85064) Thanks @pgondhi987.
+- Control UI: keep the chat session picker from hiding older or cross-agent configured conversations while preserving the bounded configured-agent refresh. (#85211) Thanks @amknight.
 - Agents/Anthropic: preserve unsafe integer tool-call input values in streamed Anthropic tool-use JSON, preventing Discord-style IDs from being rounded before dispatch. Fixes #47229. (#83063) Thanks @leno23.
 - Agents/hooks: wait for local one-shot CLI and Codex `agent_end` plugin hooks before process cleanup so terminal observability flushes reliably. (#85007)
 - CLI/agents: allow `openclaw agent --session-key` to target explicit session keys, including agent-scoped legacy keys. (#85121) Thanks @Kaspre.

ui/src/ui/app-chat.test.ts

@@ -229,9 +229,11 @@ describe("refreshChat", () => {
       "sessions.list",
       "sessions list payload",
     );
-    expect(sessionsListPayload.agentId).toBe("main");
+    expect(sessionsListPayload).not.toHaveProperty("activeMinutes");
+    expect(sessionsListPayload).not.toHaveProperty("agentId");
     expect(sessionsListPayload.includeGlobal).toBe(true);
     expect(sessionsListPayload.includeUnknown).toBe(true);
+    expect(sessionsListPayload.limit).toBe(100);
     expect(request).toHaveBeenCalledWith("commands.list", {
       agentId: "main",
       includeArgs: true,
@@ -578,8 +580,8 @@ describe("refreshChat", () => {
         "sessions.list",
         "sessions list payload",
       );
-      expect(sessionsListPayload.activeMinutes).toBe(120);
-      expect(sessionsListPayload.agentId).toBe("main");
+      expect(sessionsListPayload).not.toHaveProperty("activeMinutes");
+      expect(sessionsListPayload).not.toHaveProperty("agentId");
       expect(sessionsListPayload.includeGlobal).toBe(true);
       expect(sessionsListPayload.includeUnknown).toBe(true);
       expect(sessionsListPayload.limit).toBe(100);

ui/src/ui/app-chat.ts

@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ export type ChatAbortOptions = {
   preserveDraft?: boolean;
 };
 
-export const CHAT_SESSIONS_ACTIVE_MINUTES = 120;
+// Chat pickers need recency-free session rows so older channel chats remain selectable.
+export const CHAT_SESSIONS_ACTIVE_MINUTES = 0;
 export const CHAT_SESSIONS_REFRESH_LIMIT = 100;
 export {
   handleChatDraftChange,
@@ -784,7 +785,6 @@ export async function refreshChat(
       limit: CHAT_SESSIONS_REFRESH_LIMIT,
       includeGlobal: true,
       includeUnknown: true,
-      agentId: resolveAgentIdForSession(host) ?? undefined,
     }),
     refreshChatAvatar(host),
     refreshChatModels(host),

ui/src/ui/app-gateway.sessions.node.test.ts

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ describe("handleGatewayEvent sessions.changed", () => {
     vi.useRealTimers();
   });
 
-  it("scopes post-chat final session refreshes to the run's agent", () => {
+  it("refreshes the full chat session list after a completed chat run", () => {
     loadSessionsMock.mockReset();
     handleChatEventMock.mockReset().mockReturnValue("final");
     const host = createHost();
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ describe("handleGatewayEvent sessions.changed", () => {
 
     expect(loadSessionsMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(host, {
       activeMinutes: 10,
-      agentId: "ops",
       limit: 25,
     });
   });
@@ -557,7 +556,6 @@ describe("handleGatewayEvent session.message", () => {
     expect(loadChatHistoryMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(loadSessionsMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(host, {
       activeMinutes: 10,
-      agentId: "qa",
       limit: 25,
     });
     await Promise.resolve();

ui/src/ui/app-gateway.ts

@@ -690,7 +690,6 @@ function handleTerminalChatEvent(
     if (state === "final") {
       void loadSessions(host as unknown as SessionsState, {
         activeMinutes: CHAT_SESSIONS_ACTIVE_MINUTES,
-        agentId: resolveChatEventSessionListAgentId(host, payload),
         limit: CHAT_SESSIONS_REFRESH_LIMIT,
       });
     }
@@ -720,27 +719,6 @@ function isEventForDifferentActiveRun(
   return Boolean(activeRunId && payload && payload.runId !== activeRunId);
 }
 
-function resolveChatEventSessionListAgentId(
-  host: GatewayHost,
-  payload: ChatEventPayload | undefined,
-): string {
-  return resolveSessionListAgentIdForSessionKey(
-    host,
-    payload?.sessionKey?.trim() || host.sessionKey,
-  );
-}
-
-function resolveSessionListAgentIdForSessionKey(host: GatewayHost, sessionKey: string): string {
-  const parsed = parseAgentSessionKey(sessionKey);
-  if (parsed?.agentId) {
-    return parsed.agentId;
-  }
-  const snapshot = host.hello?.snapshot as
-    | { sessionDefaults?: SessionDefaultsSnapshot }
-    | undefined;
-  return normalizeAgentId(snapshot?.sessionDefaults?.defaultAgentId);
-}
-
 function handleChatGatewayEvent(host: GatewayHost, payload: ChatEventPayload | undefined) {
   if (payload?.sessionKey) {
     setLastActiveSessionKey(
@@ -861,7 +839,6 @@ function handleSessionMessageGatewayEvent(
     const runIdBeforeRefresh = host.chatRunId;
     void loadSessions(host as unknown as SessionsState, {
       activeMinutes: CHAT_SESSIONS_ACTIVE_MINUTES,
-      agentId: resolveSessionListAgentIdForSessionKey(host, sessionKey),
       limit: CHAT_SESSIONS_REFRESH_LIMIT,
     }).finally(() =>
       replayDeferredSessionMessageReloadAfterSessionsRefresh(

ui/src/ui/app-render.helpers.node.test.ts

@@ -775,7 +775,6 @@ describe("createChatSession", () => {
         includeGlobal: true,
         includeUnknown: true,
         showArchived: false,
-        agentId: "ops",
       },
     );
     expect(state.sessionKey).toBe("agent:ops:dashboard:new-chat");
@@ -977,7 +976,6 @@ describe("switchChatSession", () => {
       includeGlobal: true,
       includeUnknown: true,
       showArchived: false,
-      agentId: "main",
     });
     expect(
       (state as unknown as { announceSessionSwitch: ReturnType<typeof vi.fn> })

ui/src/ui/app-render.helpers.ts

@@ -705,7 +705,6 @@ export async function createChatSession(state: AppViewState): Promise<boolean> {
       includeGlobal: true,
       includeUnknown: true,
       showArchived: state.sessionsShowArchived,
-      agentId: resolveAgentIdFromSessionKey(previousSessionKey),
     },
   );
   if (
@@ -738,7 +737,6 @@ async function refreshSessionOptions(state: AppViewState) {
     includeGlobal: true,
     includeUnknown: true,
     showArchived: state.sessionsShowArchived,
-    agentId: parseAgentSessionKey(state.sessionKey)?.agentId,
   });
 }
 

ui/src/ui/chat/session-controls.ts

@@ -202,16 +202,9 @@ async function refreshSessionOptions(state: AppViewState) {
     includeGlobal: true,
     includeUnknown: true,
     showArchived: state.sessionsShowArchived,
-    agentId: resolveSessionOptionsAgentId(state),
   });
 }
 
-function resolveSessionOptionsAgentId(state: AppViewState): string {
-  return (
-    parseAgentSessionKey(state.sessionKey)?.agentId ?? normalizeAgentId(state.agentsList?.defaultId)
-  );
-}
-
 async function refreshVisibleToolsEffectiveForCurrentSessionLazy(state: AppViewState) {
   return refreshVisibleToolsEffectiveForCurrentSession(state);
 }