# Session Tree Navigation

The `/tree` command provides tree-based navigation of the session history.

## Overview

Sessions are stored as trees where each entry has an `id` and `parentId`. The "leaf" pointer tracks the current position. `/tree` lets you navigate to any point and optionally summarize the branch you're leaving.

### Comparison with `/fork`

| Feature | `/fork` | `/tree` |
|---------|---------|---------|
| View | Flat list of user messages | Full tree structure |
| Action | Extracts path to **new session file** | Changes leaf in **same session** |
| Summary | Never | Optional (user prompted) |

## Tree UI

```
├─ user: "Hello, can you help..."
│  └─ assistant: "Of course! I can..."
│     ├─ user: "Let's try approach A..."
│     │  └─ assistant: "For approach A..."
│     │     └─ [compaction: 12k tokens]
│     │        └─ user: "That worked..."  ← active
│     └─ user: "Actually, approach B..."
│        └─ assistant: "For approach B..."
```

### Controls

| Key | Action |
|-----|--------|
| ↑/↓ | Navigate (depth-first order) |
| Enter | Select node |
| Escape/Ctrl+C | Cancel |
| Ctrl+U | Toggle: user messages only |
| Ctrl+O | Toggle: show all (including custom/label entries) |

### Display

- Height: half terminal height
- Current leaf marked with `← active`
- Labels shown inline: `[label-name]`
- Default filter hides `label` and `custom` entries (shown in Ctrl+O mode)
- Children sorted by timestamp (oldest first)

## Selection Behavior

### User Message or Custom Message
1. Leaf set to **parent** of selected node (or `null` if root)
2. Message text placed in **editor** for re-submission
3. User edits and submits, creating a new branch

### Non-User Message (assistant, compaction, etc.)
1. Leaf set to **selected node**
2. Editor stays empty
3. User continues from that point

### Selecting Root User Message
If user selects the very first message (has no parent):
1. Leaf reset to `null` (empty conversation)
2. Message text placed in editor
3. User effectively restarts from scratch

## Branch Summarization

When switching branches, user is presented with three options:

1. **No summary** - Switch immediately without summarizing
2. **Summarize** - Generate a summary using the default prompt
3. **Summarize with custom prompt** - Opens an editor to enter additional focus instructions that are appended to the default summarization prompt

### What Gets Summarized

Path from old leaf back to common ancestor with target:

```
A → B → C → D → E → F  ← old leaf
        ↘ G → H        ← target
```

Abandoned path: D → E → F (summarized)

Summarization stops at:
1. Common ancestor (always)
2. Compaction node (if encountered first)

### Summary Storage

Stored as `BranchSummaryEntry`:

```typescript
interface BranchSummaryEntry {
  type: "branch_summary";
  id: string;
  parentId: string;      // New leaf position
  timestamp: string;
  fromId: string;        // Old leaf we abandoned
  summary: string;       // LLM-generated summary
  details?: unknown;     // Optional hook data
}
```

## Implementation

### AgentSession.navigateTree()

```typescript
async navigateTree(
  targetId: string,
  options?: {
    summarize?: boolean;
    customInstructions?: string;
    replaceInstructions?: boolean;
    label?: string;
  }
): Promise<{ editorText?: string; cancelled: boolean }>
```

Options:
- `summarize`: Whether to generate a summary of the abandoned branch
- `customInstructions`: Custom instructions for the summarizer
- `replaceInstructions`: If true, `customInstructions` replaces the default prompt instead of being appended
- `label`: Label to attach to the branch summary entry (or target entry if not summarizing)

Flow:
1. Validate target, check no-op (target === current leaf)
2. Find common ancestor between old leaf and target
3. Collect entries to summarize (if requested)
4. Run default summarizer if needed
5. Switch leaf via `branch()` or `branchWithSummary()`
6. Update agent: `agent.replaceMessages(sessionManager.buildSessionContext().messages)`
7. Return result with `editorText` if user message was selected

### SessionManager

- `getLeafUuid(): string | null` - Current leaf (null if empty)
- `resetLeaf(): void` - Set leaf to null (for root user message navigation)
- `getTree(): SessionTreeNode[]` - Full tree with children sorted by timestamp
- `branch(id)` - Change leaf pointer
- `branchWithSummary(id, summary)` - Change leaf and create summary entry

### InteractiveMode

`/tree` command shows `TreeSelectorComponent`, then:
1. Prompt for summarization
2. Call `session.navigateTree()`
3. Clear and re-render chat
4. Set editor text if applicable

## Error Handling

- Summarization failure: cancels navigation, shows error
- User abort (Escape): cancels navigation
- Hook returns `cancel: true`: cancels navigation silently
