feat(activity): report exact client app version, build, and channel

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Part of #630

Problem

The Activity page could not name the build a session was streaming from — and the more interesting half of that was self-inflicted.

Android has been sending X-Silo-Client-Version on every request, and the server stored it intact in playback_sessions_sync.client_version. But the UI renders client_label, composed by playbackClientDisplayName, which routed the version through shortPlaybackClientVersion: that strips every non-[0-9.] rune, truncates to two components, and drops a trailing .0. So a client reporting 1.0.0 rendered as Silo Android TV 1. The exact version was on the wire and in the database, just unreachable by the UI.

Separately, the Apple clients sent no client name or version at all (fixed in Silo-Server/silo-apple#153), and no platform had any build-number concept on the session path.

Approach

Two additive, opaque wire fields alongside the existing client headers — X-Silo-Client-Build (≤64) and X-Silo-Client-Channel (≤32) — with client_playback_context.app_build / app_channel as the v3 fallback. That fallback is also where the previously-received-and-discarded app_version finally gets used.

Why opaque, and why a separate header. Not folded into X-Silo-Client-Version because shortPlaybackClientVersion would eat any non-numeric suffix, and because build numbers are not semver components: Apple uses per-platform TestFlight sequences, Android a per-marketing-version counter. The server never parses, compares, or enum-validates build or channel, which is what lets both schemes coexist without inventing a shared one. The cost is real and worth stating: the server cannot sort or compare builds, so any future minimum-client-version gating must key on client_version, which is semver. Naming matches the diagnostics contract's existing app_version/app_build pair so the two admin surfaces read the same.

The label split. Only the named-client branch of playbackClientDisplayName stops truncating. The user-agent branch keeps shortPlaybackClientVersion, so browser labels stay Chrome 120 instead of becoming a full UA version string — there is a test pinning this. client_label therefore becomes Silo Android TV 1.0.0 (compact but exact), and the build lives in the new client_label_full.

Where it shows. The compact row is unchanged in width — getSessionClientLabel is shared with AdminDashboard, AdminStats, and HouseholdStreamsPanel, none of which are touched. The exact string lands in the row tooltip and a new Client card in the expanded panel.

Logging. client_name/version/build/channel on both playback plan decided lines and on session expiry. opslog stores an open attrs JSONB, so this surfaces at /admin/logs with no migration. activity_log is deliberately untouched — highest-volume table, and the value is constant per device.

v1 API compliance

Additive only. client_build, client_channel, client_label_full are all new and omitempty; no existing field changes type or meaning. GET /admin/sessions/capabilities advertises client_build/client_channel for feature detection, matching the existing effective_play_method / is_jellyfin_client pattern.

The one behavioral change is the truncation fix, which is a bug fix rather than a contract change — Silo Android TV 1 was never the intent.

Backward compatibility

• Older clients send no build; client_label_full degrades to Silo Android TV 0.3.11, and the UI renders the parenthetical only when present — no "(build unknown)" noise.
• Jellyfin compat clients keep an empty build. The MediaBrowser auth header vocabulary has Client/Device/DeviceId/Version and no build concept; synthesizing one from a user agent would be a guess, so internal/jellycompat/auth.go is untouched.
• Older servers, newer clients — the extra header is ignored, and the new JSON fields are safe: the v3 start decoder does not use DisallowUnknownFields (verified; the strict decoders are all elsewhere).
• Web sessions keep Chrome 120 — the UA branch is unchanged.

Verification

Docker was unavailable, so the migration was applied for real against a throwaway database on a scratch Postgres, and each hand-edited statement was then PREPAREd against the resulting live schema — the class of column/placeholder mismatch that fails at runtime rather than compile time:

playback_route_events   client_build    text  YES
playback_route_events   client_channel  text  YES
playback_sessions_sync  client_build    text  YES
playback_sessions_sync  client_channel  text  YES
goose_db_version: 20260813160942 | true

• Reconciler upsert (29 columns / 29 value slots / 28 placeholders + NOW()) — PREPARE OK
• Route-events insert — PREPARE OK
• Loader SELECT — PREPARE OK, 48 columns against 48 rows.Scan args

Then:

gofmt -l internal cmd        # clean
go build ./...               # OK
go test ./internal/api/handlers/ ./internal/worker/ ./internal/playback/planstore/
  ok  internal/api/handlers        87.644s
  ok  internal/worker               1.003s
  ok  internal/playback/planstore   1.192s

Label tests, including the regression guard:

--- PASS: TestPlaybackClientDisplayNameKeepsNamedClientVersionExact
--- PASS: TestPlaybackClientFullDisplayName
--- PASS: TestPlaybackClientDisplayNameAndroidDevices
      (incl. chrome_remains_browser_label)
--- PASS: TestSessionsCapabilitiesAdvertisesActivityFields

Web: tsc -b clean, prettier --check clean, vitest src/pages/adminActivityPresentation.test.ts 13/13 pass. golangci-lint run --new-from-rev=HEAD ./... reports 0 issues (a whole-tree run surfaces 167 pre-existing findings, none from this branch — CI runs --new-from-merge-base). make verify-local-paths passes.

Pre-existing failures, reproduced at pristine HEAD in a throwaway worktree and not caused by this branch: internal/jellycompat TestBeginWebOperation{RecoversDeadProcessLock,RejectsLiveProcessLock} (deterministic at HEAD), internal/playback gpudetect NVENC tests (flaky at HEAD, pass on rerun), and 4 localStorage-dependent web tests. Nothing was added to WEBTEST_KNOWN_FAILURES.

Risks

• The migration is two nullable ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS pairs — no rewrite, no default backfill, safe on a live table.
• Build/channel are set once at session creation; no stream-state update path clears them. SessionStreamState and RecipeCard were deliberately left alone (RecipeCard's client fields are populated only by jellycompat, which has no build concept).
• No v2 session-start log line exists to extend — the legacy start endpoint returns 426 and routes into v3 — so the attrs went to the v3 plan lines and session expiry instead.

Follow-ups

• The web app reports the literal "web" as its app version; teaching it a real version from the git tag is an easy separate change.
• SiloMac has no release lane, so Mac sessions will report 1.0.0 (build 1) — see Surface exact client app version and build on the Activity page #630.

Client-side companions

• feat(client-identity): report build number and release channel to the server silo-android#226
• feat(client-identity): report app name, version, build, and channel to the server silo-apple#153

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• Adversarial review: review of the diff caught two real defects before this landed. (1) In the Apple companion PR, the sideload build-number counter had been rewritten as a count of existing releases, which regresses if any release is deleted and lets two different IPAs ship as the same version+build — reverted to max-based and fixture-tested. (2) Unstamped Android builds would have reported a placeholder build 0, which the opaque-string contract means the server would render verbatim as "(build 0)"; fixed on the client so an unstamped build reports the build as absent. Review also specifically re-verified that shortPlaybackClientVersion survives on the user-agent path only, since collapsing both branches would have silently regressed browser labels.

Review follow-up (b43b7ef, 143a7e6, e61c705)

An independent review of this branch raised 14 findings; all are addressed in a
second commit. Full mapping in this comment.
Four of them revise claims made above, so they belong in the description:

• The body fallback now applies only to a client that sent X-Silo-Client.
  As originally written it took client_playback_context.app_version whenever
  the header was absent — and the web player sends the literal "web" there
  while sending no client-name header, so every browser session would have
  stamped client_version="web". That is the field this description reserves as
  the semver key for future minimum-version gating. client_playback_context
  carries no app name, so nothing in the body can identify a nameless client
  anyway.
• Over-long app_build/app_channel are clamped, not rejected.
  validateCapabilitiesV3 was failing the whole start request with 400 while the
  header route silently clamped the same value — an opaque diagnostic label could
  refuse playback. Both routes now use normalizeClientMetadataValue, which is
  what the settings-api doc already promised.
• The full label keeps build and channel for user-agent-labelled clients. It
  previously dropped both whenever the client reported no name, so the new Client
  card could never show a build for a browser or a Client-less jellycompat
  session. client_label (the compact one) is unchanged.
• replan-request.schema.json gained the same two properties.
  ReplanRequestV3 reuses ClientPlaybackContextV3 and validates the same
  bounds, so shipping them in the start schema alone left the replan contract
  describing a type the server no longer has. A new contract test asserts every
  $def the two request schemas share is identical.

Also in that commit: rune-safe clamping in normalizeClientMetadataValue (a
mid-rune byte cut yields invalid UTF-8, which fails the whole per-node session
sync transaction), route events completing their identity from the session,
ClientInfo.LogAttrs() as the single definition of the four log keys — omitting
fields the client did not report rather than writing empty keys into opslog —
client_label_full omitted when it would repeat client_label, a test for the
header/body precedence rule, and the Activity search matching the exact label so
a build number is findable.

A later bot-review round added two more fixes (summary):
the client identity is now clamped at the request boundary rather than only where
the session stamps it — the decision logs and playback_route_events are written
from the resolved value, so an oversized header reached both — and the clamp
counts runes, matching the maxLength the schemas publish. Separately, a JSON NUL
escape in the start body survived the UTF-8 repair (NUL is valid UTF-8) and would
have failed the whole per-node session-sync transaction on a text column;
control characters are now stripped outright.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Playback sessions now capture and display client build and distribution channel details.
  • Added full client identity labels, including exact versions, builds, and channels.
  • Playback requests accept optional app build and channel information.
  • Admin activity details now show expanded client identity and user-agent information.
  • Client metadata is included in playback events, session synchronization, and diagnostics.
  • Metadata values are safely limited to supported lengths.

• Documentation

  • Documented supported client identity headers, fallback behavior, and value limits.

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• internal/api/handlers/playback_v3.go
• internal/playback/session.go

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Walkthrough

Client build and channel metadata now flows from playback request headers or body context into sessions, route events, database synchronization, API responses, and the admin Activity interface.

Changes

Client identity propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Client identity input contract internal/playback/protocol_v3.go, web/src/player/protocol-v3.ts, docs/design/schemas/..., docs/settings-api.md, internal/api/handlers/playback.go, internal/api/handlers/playback_v3.go	Playback v3 accepts build and channel values from headers, with body-context fallbacks and length limits.
Session and route-event persistence internal/playback/session.go, internal/playback/protocol_store_v3.go, internal/api/handlers/playback_v3.go, internal/playback/planstore/postgres.go, migrations/sql/*	Sessions and route events carry build and channel metadata through creation, logging, and database insertion.
Database migration and session synchronization internal/worker/reconciler.go, cmd/silo/session_sync.go	Session upserts, snapshots, comparisons, and live synchronization include build and channel.
Playback session API and Activity presentation internal/api/handlers/playback_sessions.go, web/src/api/types.ts, web/src/pages/adminActivityPresentation.ts, web/src/pages/AdminActivity.tsx	Session responses expose full client identity. Activity displays full labels and user-agent details while retaining compact labels.
Identity formatting and validation coverage internal/api/handlers/playback_sessions_test.go, web/src/pages/adminActivityPresentation.test.ts, internal/playback/contract/contract_test.go	Tests cover exact versions, full-label composition, fallbacks, schema consistency, and advertised capabilities.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to b43b7

The PR adds optional build and channel details and exposes exact client versions in activity views. Alternate session-start implementations may lose the new metadata, and documented header length limits may not be enforced in every logging and persistence path. These are bounded risks requiring explicit owner follow-up, but the supplied evidence does not indicate a release-blocking impact.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant playback_v3
  participant Session
  participant PostgreSQL
  participant AdminActivity
  Client->>playback_v3: Send headers and start-request context
  playback_v3->>Session: Resolve and store client identity
  playback_v3->>PostgreSQL: Persist session and route-event metadata
  PostgreSQL-->>AdminActivity: Return client build, channel, and labels
  AdminActivity-->>Client: Render compact and full client identity

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Possibly related issues

• Surface exact client app version and build on the Activity page #630 — Directly covers client version, build, and channel propagation and Activity-page display changes.

Possibly related PRs

• Silo-Server/silo-server#398 — Extends the related Playback Protocol V3 client metadata flow and shared types.

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Persist build metadata through session reconstruction

When the server restarts and a client resumes through a durable recipe card, build and channel exist only on the fresh in-memory session created here: RecipeCard has no corresponding fields and ReconstructFromRecipe cannot restore them. The reconstructed session's next reconciliation therefore overwrites the live-session row with empty values, so Activity and expiry/replan diagnostics lose the exact build for the rest of that stream. Persist and restore these fields alongside the existing client metadata.

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Not changed — investigated and this is pre-existing and broader than build/channel, so fixing it here would be the wrong scope.

The only writers of a card's client fields are jellycompat: streams.go:1432-1433 and handlers_playback.go:555-556. Jellyfin clients have no build concept at all — the MediaBrowser auth vocabulary is Client/Device/DeviceId/Version — so adding ClientBuild/ClientChannel to RecipeCard would be dead fields on both paths.

Native sessions reconstruct from identityRecipeCard (playback.go:507), which sets no client metadata whatsoever. So a native session that resumes after a restart already loses client_name, client_version and client_user_agent too — build and channel are not specially dropped, they are dropped identically to the fields that shipped before this PR. That gap is real and worth its own issue, but it is not this PR's regression and closing it means deciding what a native card should carry, not appending two strings.

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• cmd/silo/session_sync.go
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• docs/settings-api.md
• internal/api/handlers/playback.go
• internal/api/handlers/playback_sessions.go
• internal/api/handlers/playback_sessions_test.go
• internal/api/handlers/playback_v3.go
• internal/playback/planstore/postgres.go
• internal/playback/protocol_store_v3.go
• internal/playback/protocol_v3.go
• internal/playback/session.go
• internal/worker/reconciler.go
• migrations/sql/20260813160942_add_playback_session_client_build_channel.sql
• web/src/api/types.ts
• web/src/pages/AdminActivity.tsx
• web/src/pages/adminActivityPresentation.test.ts
• web/src/pages/adminActivityPresentation.ts

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Automated review of this branch (xhigh recall pass). 14 findings, ranked most-severe first in the inline comments below.

Verification done while reviewing, for what it's worth: go vet is clean on every touched package, internal/playback/contract passes (the schema conformance gate), and the new label tests pass. I also hand-checked the three SQL statements — the reconciler upsert is 29 columns / 28 placeholders + NOW() / 28 args, the route-events insert is 17/17/17, and the loader is 48 SELECT columns against 48 rows.Scan args. All correct.

The one I would fix before merge is the first: the web player already sends app_version: "web", so the new body fallback writes the literal "web" into client_version for every browser session — the field this PR designates as the semver key for future version gating.

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All 14 review findings are addressed in b43b7ef. Mapping, in the order they were raised:

#	Finding	Fix
1	Web player's "web" lands in client_version	The body fallback now applies only to a client that sent X-Silo-Client. client_playback_context has no app-name field, so nothing in the body can identify a nameless client anyway — it is labelled from its user agent, and its app_version is a free-form platform string rather than the marketing version client_version promises. Two test cases pin the "web" case specifically.
2	Over-long app_build/app_channel 400s the start	validateCapabilitiesV3 clamps both with normalizeClientMetadataValue — the same helper the header path uses — instead of rejecting. An opaque identity label can no longer fail a playback start, and the doc's "trimmed and truncated" claim is now true on both routes.
3	Full label drops build/channel with no client name	playbackClientFullDisplayName now qualifies whatever the compact formatter resolved, so a user-agent-labelled session reads Chrome 120 (build 5, dev). This also deletes its duplicated name+version assembly. Test expectation updated, plus a case for the no-qualifiers path.
4	Route-event endpoint has no fallback	HandlePlaybackRouteEventV3 fills empty identity fields from the session the event belongs to (after the existing ownership check), matching what executeReplanV3 already did. All events of one attempt now agree.
5	replan-request.schema.json missing the properties	Added. Plus TestRequestSchemasShareIdenticalDefs, which asserts every $def the two request schemas share is byte-identical — they deserialize the same Go types through the same validator, so this cannot drift again. (Every shared $def was identical before this PR; client_playback_context was the only one that had diverged.)
6	playbackClientInfoForStartV3 untested	TestPlaybackClientInfoForStartV3: 6 cases covering header-wins, per-field fallback, the nameless-client rule, and whitespace-only headers.
7	Byte-wise truncation can break a node's session sync	normalizeClientMetadataValue clamps on a rune boundary via strings.ToValidUTF8. Fixes it for client_name/client_version/client_user_agent at the same time.
8	getSessionClientLabelFull duplicates getSessionClientLabel	Now one line delegating to it.
9	Four log attrs pasted at three call sites	ClientInfo.LogAttrs() is the single definition of those keys; all three sites use it. Added Session.ClientInfo() so the expiry path and the route-event fallback share one accessor.
10	Identity resolved twice per start	startPlannedPlaybackV3 takes the resolved clientInfo instead of re-parsing headers.
11	client_label_full duplicated on every row	Set only when it differs from client_label. Clients already fall through to client_label when it is absent.
12	Empty attrs persisted to opslog	LogAttrs() omits fields the client did not report, so browser and jellycompat decisions no longer write four empty keys.
13	Activity search can't match a build	The filter uses getSessionClientLabelFull.
14	Web ClientPlaybackContextV3 type missing the fields	Added as optional, documented as omitted by the web player.

Behavioural changes worth calling out for reviewers of the original PR, since they revise claims in the description:

• client_version stays empty for web sessions rather than becoming "web". The follow-up that teaches the web app a real version is still worth doing, but it is no longer load-bearing for the semver contract.
• The compact label for a nameless client is unchanged (Chrome 120); only the full label gained the qualifiers.
• client_label_full is now absent rather than duplicated when it would equal client_label — additive and omitempty, so no client sees a field change.

Verification

gofmt -l internal cmd                         # clean
go vet ./internal/... ./cmd/...               # clean
go test ./internal/api/handlers/              # ok   86.755s
go test ./internal/playback/...               # ok   (incl. contract, planstore)
go test ./internal/worker/                    # ok

Web (deps installed fresh in the worktree):

pnpm exec tsc -b                              # clean
pnpm run format:check                         # clean
pnpm run lint                                 # 0 errors (151 pre-existing warnings, all vendor/react-refresh)
pnpm exec vitest run \
  src/pages/adminActivityPresentation.test.ts \
  src/player/client-context-v3.test.ts \
  src/player/playback-info.test.ts \
  src/player/hooks/usePlaybackSession.test.ts # 65 passed
make verify-local-paths                       # clean

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internal/api/handlers/playback_v3.go (1)

622-629: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Require context-aware session starts.

Production uses *playback.SessionManager, which supports StartSessionWithFilesContext. Remove the fallback and require this method in SessionManagerInterface; otherwise alternate implementations silently lose clientInfo.

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In `@internal/api/handlers/playback_v3.go` around lines 622 - 629, Make session
starts context-aware by adding StartSessionWithFilesContext to
SessionManagerInterface and updating the playback handler to call it directly
with ctx, userID, profileID, file IDs, play method, and audio transcoding;
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In `@internal/api/handlers/playback_v3.go`:
- Around line 622-629: Make session starts context-aware by adding
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• docs/design/schemas/playback-v3/v3/replan-request.schema.json
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• internal/playback/session.go
• web/src/pages/AdminActivity.tsx
• web/src/pages/adminActivityPresentation.ts
• web/src/player/protocol-v3.ts

🚧 Files skipped from review as they are similar to previous changes (7)

• docs/settings-api.md
• web/src/pages/adminActivityPresentation.ts
• internal/api/handlers/playback.go
• internal/playback/protocol_v3.go
• internal/playback/session.go
• internal/api/handlers/playback_sessions.go
• web/src/pages/AdminActivity.tsx

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[Quick104]

Bot review round addressed — two more commits.

143a7e6 — the 64/32 clamp only ran where newSession stamped its fields, but the resolved ClientInfo is written straight to the plan-decision log and to playback_route_events, so a header-sized build reached both (raised by both Codex and CodeRabbit). ClientInfo.Normalized() is now the single definition of those bounds and runs at the request boundary. It also clamps by runes rather than bytes, which closes Codex's separate point that the published maxLength counts characters — a 32-character emoji channel was 128 bytes.

e61c705 — a JSON NUL escape in the v3 start body's app_version/app_build/app_channel decodes to a real NUL, which is valid UTF-8 and therefore survived both the UTF-8 repair and TrimSpace, and Postgres refuses NUL in text. Since the per-node session upserts share one transaction, one such start would have stopped every live session on that node from reconciling. Control characters are now stripped outright. Found independently by Codex and Cursor; headers were never exposed (net/http rejects bytes below 0x20), only the body path this PR introduced.

Two suggestions were not taken:

• Persist build/channel through recipe-card reconstruction. The only writers of a card's client fields are jellycompat (streams.go:1432-1433, handlers_playback.go:555-556), and Jellyfin clients have no build concept, so the fields would be dead on both paths. Native sessions reconstruct from identityRecipeCard, which sets no client metadata at all — so client_name/client_version/client_user_agent are already lost on that path today. Build and channel are not specially dropped; that gap is real but pre-existing and wants its own change. Thread left open for a maintainer call.
• Rune-count app_version's bound. Its byte-length rejection predates this PR; changing an existing accept/reject boundary belongs in its own change. The two fields this PR adds now clamp by runes and never reject.

Verification (at e61c705)

gofmt -l internal cmd                    # clean
go vet ./internal/... ./cmd/...          # clean
go test ./internal/api/handlers/         # ok   86.611s
go test ./internal/playback/...          # ok   (incl. contract, planstore)
go test ./internal/worker/               # ok
make verify-local-paths                  # clean

internal/jellycompat TestBeginWebOperation{RecoversDeadProcessLock,RejectsLiveProcessLock} fail — verified they fail identically at the merge base ebc99ac09, so they are pre-existing and unrelated, matching what the description already noted. golangci-lint is not installed on this machine; CI's --new-from-merge-base pass still gates lint.

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• Involvement: fully AI-generated. Each bot finding was verified against current HEAD before acting — two were already fixed by the earlier review pass, one was declined with reasoning above.

[Quick104]

CI Go failure fixed, plus the CodeRabbit nitpick.

4993d7b — the actual CI failure. golangci-lint --new-from-merge-base flagged two things on lines my earlier commit touched:

• goconst: reformatting the two decision-log calls into slice literals pulled their "component" key into the changed-lines window, where it collides with the existing logComponentKey constant. Both now use the constant. The file's other 16 occurrences are left alone — CI only requires the lines a branch touches to be clean, and rewriting them would bury this change in unrelated churn.
• misspell: labelled → labeled, in the Go comment and in docs/settings-api.md.

I have now installed golangci-lint v2.12.2 locally and run the exact command CI runs (--new-from-merge-base=origin/main ./..., with origin/main freshly fetched): 0 issues. That gap is what let the first failure through, and it is closed.

44f8474 — CodeRabbit's nitpick on startPlannedPlaybackV3. Taken. The type assertion on sessionStarterWithFilesContext fell back to the context-free StartSessionWithFiles, and the context is precisely how the reporting client's identity reaches the new session — so a non-conforming implementation would start sessions with no client name, version, build or channel, silently. SessionManagerInterface now requires the method, making that a compile error instead. Production already implemented it; the one test double gained a three-line method. It is pre-existing code, but it is this PR's data that the fallback drops, so it was worth taking rather than deferring.

The earlier Codex and Cursor NUL reports were already fixed in e61c705 and their threads replied to and resolved.

Verification (at 44f8474)

golangci-lint run --new-from-merge-base=origin/main ./...   # 0 issues (v2.12.2, same as CI)
gofmt -l internal cmd                                       # clean
go vet ./internal/... ./cmd/...                             # clean
go test ./internal/api/handlers/                            # ok  86.615s
go test ./internal/playback/... ./internal/worker/           # ok

internal/jellycompat TestBeginWebOperation{RecoversDeadProcessLock,RejectsLiveProcessLock} still fail — verified they fail identically at the merge base ebc99ac09, so pre-existing and unrelated.

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• Model(s): claude-opus-5
• Involvement: fully AI-generated.