Bot Mode's group chats spawned one per-member session per room, and those
"Group: ..." rows (plus canonical Bot Chats when the old eye-toggle pref was
off) flooded the global Sessions sidebar — a 6-bot room dumped six identical
rows into recents (reported with screenshot, Aug 17).
Plugin (apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/plugin.js):
- session.create now passes hidden:true UNCONDITIONALLY for both canonical
Bot Chats and group-room member sessions; the $hideBotChats pref, its eye
toggle, and its storage hydrate are removed (Bot Mode sessions are plumbing
or plugin-owned forever-chats, never scratch conversations).
- hideOwnedBotSessions(): idempotent reconciliation sweep over every owned
session id (bot meta canonical chats + each room's member sessions) via
session.set_hidden, run on plugin load and on each gateway reconnect, so
rows born visible under the old pref get cleaned up.
- The Bots session browser and canonical-chat recovery scan pass
include_hidden:true so they still see the rows they own.
Gateway (tui_gateway/methods_session.py):
- session.list honors an include_hidden param (default off — the resume
picker and all global callers keep dropping hidden rows).
- session.set_hidden gains a durable fallback: when no LIVE runtime session
matches, resolve the stored session id in the target profile's state.db
(via resolve_session_id) and flip the flag there. The sweep holds stored
ids for chats that aren't live; the old live-only lookup 4001'd them.
Validated E2E with real imports against a temp HERMES_HOME: born-hidden row
(hidden=1), profile-scoped session.list default vs include_hidden (0 vs 1),
and stored-id sweep on a non-live legacy row (hidden=1). Plugin suite
167/167; new RPC regression tests in tests/tui_gateway/test_session_hidden_rpc.py.
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