📛 feat(notes): show agent author in inline notes and popovers

The AgentAnnotation schema has carried an optional `author` field
end-to-end (sidecar JSON, session daemon, wire protocol) but the TUI
never surfaced it. Render it in the note title bar and the matching
agent popover so reviewers can tell which agent left which note when
multiple agents annotate the same diff. Falls back to "AI note" when
author is absent for backward compat.

Author: sdougbrown

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ All notable user-visible changes to Hunk are documented in this file.
 
 - Added Windows x64 prebuilt artifact publishing to the release workflow.
 - Added Nix flake app outputs for `nix run` and a named `hunk` package output.
+- Surfaced the agent author name in inline notes and the matching agent popover so multi-agent reviews are readable at a glance, with a fallback title when an annotation has no author.
 
 ### Changed
 

examples/3-agent-review-demo/agent-context.json

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
         {
           "newRange": [1, 3],
           "summary": "Adds one normalization helper for whitespace, case, and dashed shortcut terms.",
-          "rationale": "This lets the search layer reason about one normalized token shape instead of repeating slightly different cleanup logic in multiple places."
+          "rationale": "This lets the search layer reason about one normalized token shape instead of repeating slightly different cleanup logic in multiple places.",
+          "author": "sonnet"
         }
       ]
     },
@@ -20,7 +21,14 @@
         {
           "newRange": [15, 35],
           "summary": "Prefix and exact keyword matches now outrank weaker substring hits before the result list is sorted.",
-          "rationale": "The old behavior made every match look equally good, which was fine for filtering but weak for command-palette ranking where the top result should usually be the most obvious intent."
+          "rationale": "The old behavior made every match look equally good, which was fine for filtering but weak for command-palette ranking where the top result should usually be the most obvious intent.",
+          "author": "sonnet"
+        },
+        {
+          "newRange": [20, 27],
+          "summary": "Worth checking the score floor — could mask edge cases.",
+          "rationale": "The scoring thresholds (4, 3, 2, 1) look good but validate that zero-score items are properly filtered out.",
+          "author": "prism"
         }
       ]
     },
@@ -31,7 +39,8 @@
         {
           "newRange": [1, 8],
           "summary": "The preview now shows only the top three ranked commands.",
-          "rationale": "Once ranking is reliable, the preview can stay compact and let the best results carry the review without flooding the UI."
+          "rationale": "Once ranking is reliable, the preview can stay compact and let the best results carry the review without flooding the UI.",
+          "author": "prism"
         }
       ]
     },
@@ -42,7 +51,8 @@
         {
           "newRange": [1, 8],
           "summary": "The test covers a dashed query form so the new normalization helper has a visible behavioral contract.",
-          "rationale": "Without a test that exercises `short-cuts` specifically, it would be easy to regress the helper and still pass on simpler substring-only cases."
+          "rationale": "Without a test that exercises `short-cuts` specifically, it would be easy to regress the helper and still pass on simpler substring-only cases.",
+          "author": "sonnet"
         }
       ]
     }

src/ui/components/panes/AgentCard.tsx

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export function AgentCard({
   summary,
   theme,
   width,
+  author,
 }: {
   locationLabel: string;
   noteCount?: number;
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ export function AgentCard({
   summary: string;
   theme: AppTheme;
   width: number;
+  author?: string;
 }) {
   const popover = buildAgentPopoverContent({
     summary,
@@ -29,6 +31,7 @@ export function AgentCard({
     noteIndex,
     noteCount,
     width,
+    author,
   });
   const titleWidth = Math.max(1, popover.innerWidth - (onClose ? 4 : 0));
 

src/ui/components/panes/AgentInlineNote.tsx

@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ import { annotationRangeLabel } from "../../lib/agentAnnotations";
 import { fitText, padText } from "../../lib/text";
 import type { AppTheme } from "../../themes";
 
-function inlineNoteTitle(noteIndex: number, noteCount: number) {
+function inlineNoteTitle(noteIndex: number, noteCount: number, author?: string) {
+  if (author) {
+    return noteCount > 1 ? `${author} ${noteIndex + 1}/${noteCount}` : author;
+  }
   return noteCount > 1 ? `AI note ${noteIndex + 1}/${noteCount}` : "AI note";
 }
 
@@ -83,7 +86,7 @@ export function AgentInlineNote({
   width: number;
 }) {
   const closeText = onClose ? "[x]" : "";
-  const titleText = `${inlineNoteTitle(noteIndex, noteCount)} · ${annotationRangeLabel(annotation)}`;
+  const titleText = `${inlineNoteTitle(noteIndex, noteCount, annotation.author)} · ${annotationRangeLabel(annotation)}`;
   const splitWidths = splitColumnWidths(width);
   const canDockRight = layout === "split" && anchorSide === "new" && width >= 84;
   const canDockLeft = layout === "split" && anchorSide === "old" && width >= 84;

src/ui/components/ui-components.test.tsx

@@ -1285,6 +1285,147 @@ describe("UI components", () => {
     expect(lines[4]?.trimStart().startsWith("└")).toBe(true);
   });
 
+  test("AgentInlineNote shows author name in title when author is set", async () => {
+    const theme = resolveTheme("midnight", null);
+    const frame = await captureFrame(
+      <AgentInlineNote
+        annotation={{
+          newRange: [2, 4],
+          summary: "Summary line",
+          author: "sonnet",
+        }}
+        anchorSide="new"
+        layout="split"
+        theme={theme}
+        width={96}
+        onClose={() => {}}
+      />,
+      100,
+      5,
+    );
+
+    const lines = frame.split("\n");
+    expect(lines[1]).toContain("sonnet");
+    expect(lines[1]).not.toContain("AI note");
+  });
+
+  test("AgentInlineNote falls back to 'AI note' when author is absent", async () => {
+    const theme = resolveTheme("midnight", null);
+    const frame = await captureFrame(
+      <AgentInlineNote
+        annotation={{
+          newRange: [2, 4],
+          summary: "Summary line",
+        }}
+        anchorSide="new"
+        layout="split"
+        theme={theme}
+        width={96}
+        onClose={() => {}}
+      />,
+      100,
+      5,
+    );
+
+    const lines = frame.split("\n");
+    expect(lines[1]).toContain("AI note");
+  });
+
+  test("AgentInlineNote includes index when multiple notes share a hunk", async () => {
+    const theme = resolveTheme("midnight", null);
+    const frame = await captureFrame(
+      <AgentInlineNote
+        annotation={{
+          newRange: [2, 4],
+          summary: "Summary line",
+          author: "sonnet",
+        }}
+        anchorSide="new"
+        layout="split"
+        noteCount={2}
+        noteIndex={0}
+        theme={theme}
+        width={96}
+        onClose={() => {}}
+      />,
+      100,
+      5,
+    );
+
+    const lines = frame.split("\n");
+    expect(lines[1]).toContain("sonnet");
+    expect(lines[1]).toContain("1/2");
+  });
+
+  test("AgentInlineNote preserves special characters in author", async () => {
+    const theme = resolveTheme("midnight", null);
+    const frame = await captureFrame(
+      <AgentInlineNote
+        annotation={{
+          newRange: [2, 4],
+          summary: "Summary line",
+          author: "prism (arbiter)",
+        }}
+        anchorSide="new"
+        layout="split"
+        theme={theme}
+        width={96}
+        onClose={() => {}}
+      />,
+      100,
+      5,
+    );
+
+    const lines = frame.split("\n");
+    expect(lines[1]).toContain("prism (arbiter)");
+  });
+
+  test("AgentCard shows author in title when set", async () => {
+    const theme = resolveTheme("midnight", null);
+    const frame = await captureFrame(
+      <AgentCard
+        locationLabel="alpha.ts +2"
+        rationale="Why alpha.ts changed"
+        summary="Annotation for alpha.ts"
+        author="sonnet"
+        theme={theme}
+        width={34}
+        onClose={() => {}}
+      />,
+      40,
+      12,
+    );
+
+    const lines = frame
+      .split("\n")
+      .slice(0, 8)
+      .map((line) => line.trimEnd());
+    expect(lines[1]).toContain("sonnet");
+    expect(lines[1]).not.toContain("AI note");
+  });
+
+  test("AgentCard falls back to 'AI note' when author absent", async () => {
+    const theme = resolveTheme("midnight", null);
+    const frame = await captureFrame(
+      <AgentCard
+        locationLabel="alpha.ts +2"
+        rationale="Why alpha.ts changed"
+        summary="Annotation for alpha.ts"
+        theme={theme}
+        width={34}
+        onClose={() => {}}
+      />,
+      40,
+      12,
+    );
+
+    const lines = frame
+      .split("\n")
+      .slice(0, 8)
+      .map((line) => line.trimEnd());
+    expect(lines[1]).toContain("AI note");
+  });
+
   test("DiffPane renders all visible hunk notes across the review stream", async () => {
     const bootstrap = createBootstrap();
     bootstrap.changeset.files[1]!.agent = {

src/ui/lib/agentPopover.ts

@@ -50,7 +50,10 @@ export function wrapText(text: string, width: number) {
 }
 
 /** Build the framed agent-popover title shown in the card header. */
-function agentPopoverTitle(noteIndex: number, noteCount: number) {
+function agentPopoverTitle(noteIndex: number, noteCount: number, author?: string) {
+  if (author) {
+    return noteCount > 1 ? `${author} ${noteIndex + 1}/${noteCount}` : author;
+  }
   return noteCount > 1 ? `AI note ${noteIndex + 1}/${noteCount}` : "AI note";
 }
 
@@ -62,13 +65,15 @@ export function buildAgentPopoverContent({
   rationale,
   summary,
   width,
+  author,
 }: {
   locationLabel: string;
   noteCount: number;
   noteIndex: number;
   rationale?: string;
   summary: string;
   width: number;
+  author?: string;
 }) {
   const innerWidth = Math.max(1, width - 4);
   const summaryLines = wrapText(summary, innerWidth);
@@ -78,7 +83,7 @@ export function buildAgentPopoverContent({
     1 + summaryLines.length + (rationaleLines.length > 0 ? 1 + rationaleLines.length : 0) + 1 + 1;
 
   return {
-    title: agentPopoverTitle(noteIndex, noteCount),
+    title: agentPopoverTitle(noteIndex, noteCount, author),
     summaryLines,
     rationaleLines,
     footer,