Re-fronting the Bots home tab is a close followed by a re-open, which
tears down and rebuilds the entire Bots view. `openBotsHomeWorkspace`
took that path on EVERY passive reconcile that found the tab open but
not holding its zone's active slot, with nothing bounding the retries.
That condition is not always transient. `revealTreePane` returns early
for a pane in `$hiddenTreePanes` without ever activating it,
`isPaneVisible` is false for a minimized zone, and a pane the tree
never adopted has no group to be active in. Pinned in any of those
states, every signal that reaches a surface sync — sidebar visibility
flips, focus churn, group changes — bought one more full remount, and
the view visibly strobed.
A passive reconcile now gets one attempt. The reveal has already
granted or refused the active slot by the time `openWorkspace` returns,
so the budget settles on that answer directly instead of waiting for a
visibility notification that is not coming: a computed store stays
silent when the value does not change. Retiring the tab starts a fresh
budget, and an explicit gesture is never blocked.
Giving up keeps the surface rather than closing it — a closed home
drops the Bots tab through to the ownerless Sessions composer, which is
the hole the home exists to plug.
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