fix(panel): make Restart start a fresh agent session#184
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Previously, clicking "Restart" on a Claude/Codex/OpenCode panel relaunched the agent with `--resume <bound-session-id>`, which surprised users after running `/clear`: the cleared conversation came back. The button labelled "Restart" was effectively "Resume". Restart now always launches with a fresh session id, except when the panel was explicitly rebound via "Rebind Session" (where `PanelResume::Session` encodes the user's intent to keep that specific session). The stored binding is also cleared on fresh restart so the dynamic rebinder picks up the new session as soon as it shows activity. Users who want to resume a prior session still have the "Rebind Session" submenu, so the resume path is preserved as an explicit action.
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Summary
--resume <bound-session-id>. After/clear, the cleared conversation reappeared, so the button labelled "Restart" effectively behaved like "Resume".PanelResume::Session { .. }), Restart still resumes that specific session, since the user encoded that intent.The "Rebind Session" submenu remains the explicit way to bring back a prior session, so the resume path is not lost, just no longer the default.
Test plan
/clear, click Restart from the panel context menu, confirm a fresh session (no prior conversation) is shown.resumeargs.