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Rename channels and keep rolling summaries

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iamnbutler opened ·

Rename a channel, and let the agent name it and keep a rolling summary.

Tracked by #6. Migrated from [TODO.md — Port from old Ace](https://github.com/githubnext/ace2/blob/21ac3df5cf6c963cf20e33b0d470ba45eac40150/TODO.md#port-from-old-ace).

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  4. IA
    iamnbutler
    Author

    Implemented in [f1446bf](https://github.com/githubnext/ace2/commit/f1446bf9c00a00065b2480c6d62677e46204028a) on `feat/github-cache`.

    - Owners can rename channels from the channel menu or `ace rename`. The root chat's agent chooses a useful name for a new randomly named channel and maintains a rolling summary, preserving an established name unless explicitly asked to rename it. - The details sidebar shows the full summary and updates live. Channel info opens it; dashboard and channel-list previews stay brief. The sidebar also works as a drawer on narrow screens. - Names and summaries live in pi's versioned metadata document. Catalog/hosted configuration migrations preserve existing names and history, and lane paths and branch prefixes remain unchanged. Hosted workspace reconnection restores the catalog projection; stale listings cannot undo newer observed metadata.

    Validation passed in Ace terminals: formatting/lint, all workspace type checks, production app build, and real local/hosted runtime smoke checks. Real Claude runs exercised natural naming and summary updates, preservation of human names, explicit agent rename, child-chat isolation, and lane/restart persistence. Version 0 and version 1 copies of an existing channel backup retained all 76 original pi entries, continued with a real model, and reopened successfully; source backup checksums stayed unchanged. Local Workers checks covered socket replacement, offline updates, catalog recovery, and process restart. Source UI checks covered rename, empty/full/live details, desktop and narrow-screen menus, and a clean browser error log. React Doctor reported no errors and three warnings (component complexity and an existing GitHub-cache loop).

    ### Built in Ace

    Used Ace Canary's terminals for checks, runtime/model smokes, commit, and push. Codex coordinated the work and edited files; the source Ace UI was checked in a browser because the installed canary predates these changes. External harness integration is tracked in #9 and a built-in file editor in #22.

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  9. IA
    iamnbutler
    Author

    Closing as completed. Human rename (channel menu and `ace rename`), agent naming of new channels, and the rolling summary landed in f1446bf ([details](https://github.com/githubnext/ace2/issues/23#issuecomment-5985178716)), which is on main via #89 (an ancestor of `5194bf7`). On current main, the `channel` tool and the versioned `ace.metadata` document are in `packages/channel/src/metadata.ts`, rename UI is in `apps/app/src/layout/rename.tsx`, and storage is described in `docs/data.md`. This closure rests on that recorded validation and source on main; no new runtime check was run for this audit.

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