diff --git a/packages/app/e2e/performance/timeline/home-session-index-benchmark.spec.ts b/packages/app/e2e/performance/timeline/home-session-index-benchmark.spec.ts
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+import type { CDPSession, Page } from "@playwright/test"
+import { benchmark, expect } from "../benchmark"
+import { mockOpenCodeServer } from "../../utils/mock-server"
+import { APP_READY_TIMEOUT } from "../../utils/waits"
+import { fixture as stress } from "./session-timeline-stress.fixture"
+import { createHomeIndexFixture, type HomeIndexFixture } from "./home-session-index.fixture"
+
+// Home fetches the root-session index on mount. These cases hold the visible
+// output constant (newest 64 rows, same order) while the index size grows, so
+// bytes, main-thread work, time to actionable rows, and retained heap can be
+// attributed to index handling rather than to what the user sees.
+const sizes = (process.env.HOME_INDEX_SIZES ?? "500,5000,10000").split(",").map(Number)
+const churnSize = Number(process.env.HOME_INDEX_CHURN_SIZE ?? 10_000)
+const updates = Number(process.env.HOME_INDEX_UPDATES ?? 20)
+// Forced GC changes timing; retention runs stay separate from clean timing runs.
+const memory = process.env.OPENCODE_PERFORMANCE_MEMORY === "1"
+
+const rowContainer = '[data-component="home-session-row-container"]'
+const row = '[data-component="home-session-row"]'
+
+type Probe = {
+  expected: number
+  rows?: number
+  frame?: number
+  pending: Record<string, string>
+  titles: Record<string, number>
+}
+
+type ProbeWindow = Window & {
+  __homeIndexProbe?: Probe
+  __mockServerStream?: { push: (payloads: unknown[]) => void }
+}
+
+// Interaction-scoped tracing keeps the page-lifetime Chrome trace off unless a
+// scenario starts one; service workers stay out of the renderer measurement.
+benchmark.use({
+  viewport: { width: 1440, height: 900 },
+  video: "off",
+  trace: "off",
+  serviceWorkers: "block",
+  traceScope: "interaction",
+})
+
+benchmark.describe("performance: home session index", () => {
+  for (const count of sizes) {
+    benchmark(`loads home with ${count} root sessions`, async ({ page, report }, testInfo) => {
+      benchmark.setTimeout(180_000)
+      const fixture = createHomeIndexFixture({ count, now: Date.now() })
+      const network = await setup(page, fixture)
+      const cdp = await page.context().newCDPSession(page)
+      await cdp.send("Performance.enable")
+
+      await page.goto("/")
+      const rows = page.locator(row)
+      await expect(rows).toHaveCount(fixture.expected.visible, { timeout: APP_READY_TIMEOUT })
+      const first = page.locator(rowContainer).filter({ hasText: fixture.expected.newestTitle })
+      await expect(first).toHaveAttribute("data-session-id", fixture.expected.newestID)
+      await expect(first.locator(row)).toBeEnabled()
+      // Row order is part of the held-constant output: the DOM must list the
+      // newest session first.
+      await expect(page.locator(rowContainer).nth(0)).toHaveAttribute("data-session-id", fixture.expected.newestID)
+
+      const probe = await readProbe(page)
+      const metrics = await performanceMetrics(cdp)
+      const retained = memory ? await retainedHeap(cdp) : undefined
+      await network.settle()
+      if (testInfo.repeatEachIndex === 0) {
+        const path = testInfo.outputPath(`home-${count}.png`)
+        await page.screenshot({ path })
+        await testInfo.attach(`home-${count}`, { path, contentType: "image/png" })
+      }
+      report(
+        {
+          listRequests: network.list.requests,
+          listBytes: network.list.bytes,
+          rowsMs: probe.rows,
+          frameMs: probe.frame,
+          listEndMs: probe.listEnd,
+          processMs: probe.rows - probe.listEnd,
+          // ThreadTime is main-thread CPU time; ScriptDuration only covers
+          // Blink-invoked callbacks, so promise continuations are missing from it.
+          threadMs: metrics.ThreadTime * 1000,
+          scriptMs: metrics.ScriptDuration * 1000,
+          taskMs: metrics.TaskDuration * 1000,
+          layoutMs: metrics.LayoutDuration * 1000,
+          styleMs: metrics.RecalcStyleDuration * 1000,
+          heapUsedMB: metrics.JSHeapUsedSize / 1_048_576,
+          heapTotalMB: metrics.JSHeapTotalSize / 1_048_576,
+          nodes: metrics.Nodes,
+          ...(retained ? { retainedHeapMB: retained.usedSize / 1_048_576, retainedNodes: retained.nodes } : {}),
+        },
+        {
+          sessions: count,
+          directories: fixture.directories.length,
+          fixtureVersion: fixture.version,
+          fixtureListBytes: fixture.listBytes,
+          visibleRows: fixture.expected.visible,
+          gc: memory ? "explicit" : "none",
+          scope: "renderer main isolate; not total desktop RAM",
+        },
+      )
+      expect(probe.rows).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+      await cdp.detach()
+    })
+  }
+
+  benchmark(
+    `applies ${updates} background session updates on home with ${churnSize} root sessions`,
+    async ({ page, report }) => {
+      benchmark.setTimeout(180_000)
+      const fixture = createHomeIndexFixture({ count: churnSize, now: Date.now() })
+      const target = fixture.sessions[fixture.sessions.length - 1]
+      const network = await setup(page, fixture)
+      const cdp = await page.context().newCDPSession(page)
+      await cdp.send("Performance.enable")
+
+      // Home prefetches the two newest sessions, which makes them locally known
+      // and therefore part of every later index merge, like an open session.
+      const prefetch = page.waitForResponse(
+        (response) => response.request().method() === "GET" && response.url().includes(`/api/session/${target.id}`),
+      )
+      await page.goto("/")
+      await expect(page.locator(row)).toHaveCount(fixture.expected.visible, { timeout: APP_READY_TIMEOUT })
+      await prefetch
+      const titleLocator = page.locator(
+        `${rowContainer}[data-session-id="${target.id}"] [data-component="home-session-title"]`,
+      )
+      await expect(titleLocator).toHaveText(fixture.expected.newestTitle)
+
+      const before = await performanceMetrics(cdp)
+      const samples: number[] = []
+      for (let index = 1; index <= updates; index++) {
+        const title = `${fixture.expected.newestTitle} · update ${index}`
+        // The completed run bumps the session's updated time and title on the
+        // server; the client re-reads the session and re-merges the index.
+        target.title = title
+        target.time.updated += 1000
+        target.time.idle = target.time.updated
+        const pushed = await page.evaluate(
+          ({ id, title, event }) => {
+            const host = window as ProbeWindow
+            if (!host.__homeIndexProbe || !host.__mockServerStream) throw new Error("Missing Home index probe")
+            host.__homeIndexProbe.pending[id] = title
+            host.__mockServerStream.push([event])
+            return performance.now()
+          },
+          {
+            id: target.id,
+            title,
+            event: {
+              id: `evt_home_update_${index}`,
+              created: Date.now(),
+              type: "session.execution.succeeded",
+              data: { sessionID: target.id },
+            },
+          },
+        )
+        await expect(titleLocator).toHaveText(title)
+        const seen = await page.evaluate(({ title }) => (window as ProbeWindow).__homeIndexProbe?.titles[title], {
+          title,
+        })
+        if (seen === undefined) throw new Error(`Probe did not observe title: ${title}`)
+        samples.push(seen - pushed)
+      }
+      const after = await performanceMetrics(cdp)
+      await network.settle()
+      const sorted = samples.toSorted((a, b) => a - b)
+      report(
+        {
+          updates,
+          updateMs: sorted,
+          updateMedianMs: median(sorted),
+          updateP95Ms: sorted[Math.min(sorted.length - 1, Math.ceil(sorted.length * 0.95) - 1)],
+          threadMs: (after.ThreadTime - before.ThreadTime) * 1000,
+          scriptMs: (after.ScriptDuration - before.ScriptDuration) * 1000,
+          taskMs: (after.TaskDuration - before.TaskDuration) * 1000,
+          layoutMs: (after.LayoutDuration - before.LayoutDuration) * 1000,
+          sessionReads: network.get.requests,
+        },
+        {
+          sessions: churnSize,
+          directories: fixture.directories.length,
+          fixtureVersion: fixture.version,
+          event: "session.execution.succeeded",
+          scope: "renderer main isolate; latency from event push to row title update",
+        },
+      )
+      expect(samples).toHaveLength(updates)
+      await cdp.detach()
+    },
+  )
+})
+
+async function setup(page: Page, fixture: HomeIndexFixture) {
+  const primary = fixture.directories[0]
+  await mockOpenCodeServer(page, {
+    directory: primary.directory,
+    project: {
+      id: primary.projectID,
+      worktree: primary.directory,
+      vcs: "git",
+      name: primary.name,
+      time: { created: fixture.now - 400 * 86_400_000, updated: fixture.now },
+      sandboxes: [],
+    },
+    sessions: fixture.sessions,
+    pageMessages: () => ({ items: [] }),
+    provider: stress.provider,
+  })
+  await page.addInitScript(
+    ({ projects }) => {
+      localStorage.setItem(
+        "opencode.global.dat:server",
+        JSON.stringify({
+          projects: { local: projects.map((worktree, index) => ({ worktree, expanded: index === 0 })) },
+          lastProject: { local: projects[0] },
+        }),
+      )
+    },
+    { projects: fixture.directories.filter((entry) => entry.project).map((entry) => entry.directory) },
+  )
+  await page.addInitScript(
+    ({ expected }) => {
+      const host = window as ProbeWindow
+      const probe: Probe = { expected, pending: {}, titles: {} }
+      host.__homeIndexProbe = probe
+      const observer = new MutationObserver(() => {
+        if (probe.rows === undefined) {
+          const count = document.querySelectorAll('[data-component="home-session-row"]').length
+          if (count >= probe.expected) {
+            probe.rows = performance.now()
+            requestAnimationFrame((time) => {
+              probe.frame = time
+            })
+          }
+        }
+        for (const [id, title] of Object.entries(probe.pending)) {
+          const element = document.querySelector(
+            `[data-component="home-session-row-container"][data-session-id="${id}"] [data-component="home-session-title"]`,
+          )
+          if (element?.textContent !== title) continue
+          probe.titles[title] = performance.now()
+          delete probe.pending[id]
+        }
+      })
+      // Init scripts run before <html> exists; the document node itself is always observable.
+      observer.observe(document, { childList: true, subtree: true, characterData: true })
+    },
+    { expected: fixture.expected.visible },
+  )
+  const list = { requests: 0, bytes: 0 }
+  const get = { requests: 0, bytes: 0 }
+  const pending: Promise<void>[] = []
+  page.on("response", (response) => {
+    const request = response.request()
+    if (request.method() !== "GET") return
+    const url = new URL(response.url())
+    const isList = url.pathname === "/api/session"
+    const isGet = /^\/api\/session\/[^/]+$/.test(url.pathname)
+    if (!isList && !isGet) return
+    const bucket = isList ? list : get
+    bucket.requests += 1
+    pending.push(
+      response
+        .body()
+        .then((body) => {
+          bucket.bytes += body.byteLength
+        })
+        .catch(() => {}),
+    )
+  })
+  return {
+    list,
+    get,
+    settle: () => Promise.all(pending).then(() => {}),
+  }
+}
+
+async function readProbe(page: Page) {
+  const probe = await page.evaluate(() => {
+    const host = window as ProbeWindow
+    if (!host.__homeIndexProbe) throw new Error("Missing Home index probe")
+    // Resource timing marks when the last index page finished arriving, so
+    // rows - listEnd isolates parse, merge, and render from transfer and boot.
+    const listEnd = Math.max(
+      0,
+      ...performance
+        .getEntriesByType("resource")
+        .filter((entry) => new URL(entry.name).pathname === "/api/session")
+        .map((entry) => (entry as PerformanceResourceTiming).responseEnd),
+    )
+    return { rows: host.__homeIndexProbe.rows, frame: host.__homeIndexProbe.frame, listEnd }
+  })
+  if (probe.rows === undefined) throw new Error("Probe did not observe the expected Home rows")
+  return { rows: probe.rows, frame: probe.frame, listEnd: probe.listEnd }
+}
+
+async function performanceMetrics(cdp: CDPSession) {
+  const result = await cdp.send("Performance.getMetrics")
+  return Object.fromEntries(result.metrics.map((metric) => [metric.name, metric.value])) as Record<string, number>
+}
+
+async function retainedHeap(cdp: CDPSession) {
+  // GC is an explicit retained-heap measurement, not an application optimization or readiness wait.
+  await cdp.send("HeapProfiler.collectGarbage")
+  const heap = await cdp.send("Runtime.getHeapUsage")
+  const dom = await cdp.send("Memory.getDOMCounters")
+  return { usedSize: heap.usedSize, nodes: dom.nodes }
+}
+
+function median(sorted: number[]) {
+  if (sorted.length === 0) return undefined
+  const middle = Math.floor(sorted.length / 2)
+  return sorted.length % 2 === 0 ? (sorted[middle - 1] + sorted[middle]) / 2 : sorted[middle]
+}
diff --git a/packages/app/e2e/performance/timeline/home-session-index.fixture.ts b/packages/app/e2e/performance/timeline/home-session-index.fixture.ts
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+import { currentSession } from "../../utils/mock-server"
+
+export const HOME_INDEX_FIXTURE_VERSION = 1
+
+// Home shows the newest 64 root sessions; the fixture asserts that many rows.
+export const HOME_INDEX_VISIBLE_LIMIT = 64
+
+export type HomeIndexSession = {
+  id: string
+  projectID: string
+  title?: string
+  agent: string
+  model: { id: string; providerID: string; variant: string }
+  cost: number
+  tokens: { input: number; output: number; reasoning: number; cache: { read: number; write: number } }
+  outcome: "succeeded" | "failed" | "interrupted"
+  time: { created: number; updated: number; idle: number; viewed?: number }
+  location: { directory: string }
+}
+
+export type HomeIndexDirectory = {
+  directory: string
+  name: string
+  projectID: string
+  // Local project entries appear in the Home project list; the rest model
+  // sessions whose project was removed from the sidebar.
+  project: boolean
+}
+
+const repos = [
+  "opencode",
+  "storefront-api",
+  "billing-worker",
+  "design-system",
+  "mobile-app",
+  "infra-terraform",
+  "docs-site",
+  "analytics-pipeline",
+  "auth-service",
+  "legacy-admin",
+  "notebooks",
+  "dotfiles",
+]
+
+const verbs = [
+  "Fix",
+  "Investigate",
+  "Refactor",
+  "Add",
+  "Remove",
+  "Debug",
+  "Migrate",
+  "Implement",
+  "Review",
+  "Optimize",
+  "Document",
+  "Rename",
+  "Extract",
+  "Wire up",
+  "Stabilize",
+]
+
+const objects = [
+  "flaky retry in the session runner",
+  "memory growth in the Home index",
+  "i18n keys for the settings dialog",
+  "the review pane remount on tab switch",
+  "SQLite migration for session inbox",
+  "OAuth callback handling",
+  "terminal scrollback serialization",
+  "Playwright visual stability probes",
+  "the composer paste path",
+  "provider catalog normalization",
+  "the worktree preparation flow",
+  "CI cache keys for bun install",
+  "Markdown highlighting for large fences",
+  "the permission auto-approver",
+  "cursor pagination for /api/session",
+  "the desktop titlebar on Windows",
+  "the file tree lazy loading",
+  "event replay ordering",
+  "RTL layout in the sidebar",
+  "unread badges for background sessions",
+]
+
+const contexts = [
+  "",
+  "",
+  "",
+  " (#{n})",
+  " in packages/app",
+  " in packages/core",
+  " for v2",
+  " before release",
+  " — follow-up",
+  " · src/{file}.ts",
+  " after the Electron upgrade",
+  " with tests",
+]
+
+const files = ["controller", "index", "records", "store", "runtime", "layout", "timeline", "composer", "data", "sync"]
+
+const agents = ["build", "build", "build", "build", "plan", "general"]
+
+const models = [
+  { id: "claude-opus-4-6", providerID: "anthropic", variant: "default" },
+  { id: "claude-sonnet-4-6", providerID: "anthropic", variant: "default" },
+  { id: "gpt-5.3-codex", providerID: "openai", variant: "high" },
+  { id: "gemini-3-pro", providerID: "google", variant: "default" },
+]
+
+const DAY = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
+
+export function createHomeIndexFixture(input: { count: number; now: number; directories?: number }) {
+  const random = mulberry32(0x5eed_0000 + input.count)
+  const directoryCount = Math.min(input.directories ?? 12, repos.length)
+  const directories: HomeIndexDirectory[] = repos.slice(0, directoryCount).map((name, index) => ({
+    directory: `/Users/dev/repos/${name}`,
+    name,
+    projectID: `prj_${hex(random, 16)}`,
+    project: index < Math.max(1, Math.round(directoryCount * 0.66)),
+  }))
+  // Zipf-like spread: a few repositories hold most of the history.
+  const weights = directories.map((_, index) => 1 / Math.pow(index + 1, 0.9))
+  const total = weights.reduce((sum, weight) => sum + weight, 0)
+  const cumulative = weights.map((_, index) => weights.slice(0, index + 1).reduce((sum, w) => sum + w, 0) / total)
+
+  // Newest first; adding the index after sorting keeps offsets strictly
+  // increasing so no two sessions share an updated time.
+  const offsets = Array.from({ length: input.count }, () => {
+    const bucket = random()
+    // 5% today, 5% yesterday, the rest skewed toward recent months over 18 months.
+    if (bucket < 0.05) return Math.floor(random() * DAY * 0.9)
+    if (bucket < 0.1) return DAY + Math.floor(random() * DAY * 0.9)
+    return 2 * DAY + Math.floor(Math.pow(random(), 2) * 538 * DAY)
+  })
+    .sort((a, b) => a - b)
+    .map((offset, index) => offset + index)
+
+  const newestFirst: HomeIndexSession[] = offsets.map((offset, index) => {
+    const pick = random()
+    const directory = directories[cumulative.findIndex((edge) => pick <= edge)] ?? directories[0]
+    const updated = input.now - offset
+    const duration = 5 * 60_000 + Math.floor(random() * 6 * 60 * 60_000)
+    const tokens = {
+      input: 5_000 + Math.floor(random() * 400_000),
+      output: 500 + Math.floor(random() * 60_000),
+      reasoning: random() < 0.6 ? Math.floor(random() * 20_000) : 0,
+      cache: { read: Math.floor(random() * 900_000), write: Math.floor(random() * 120_000) },
+    }
+    const outcome = random() < 0.9 ? "succeeded" : random() < 0.6 ? "failed" : "interrupted"
+    return {
+      id: `ses_${base62(random, 26)}`,
+      projectID: directory.projectID,
+      ...(random() < 0.97 ? { title: title(random, index) } : {}),
+      agent: agents[Math.floor(random() * agents.length)],
+      model: models[Math.floor(random() * models.length)],
+      // USD at $3/M input, $15/M output, $0.30/M cache read, $3.75/M cache write.
+      cost:
+        Math.round(
+          (tokens.input * 3 + tokens.output * 15 + tokens.cache.read * 0.3 + tokens.cache.write * 3.75) / 100,
+        ) / 10_000,
+      tokens,
+      outcome,
+      time: {
+        created: updated - duration,
+        updated,
+        idle: updated - Math.floor(random() * 2_000),
+        ...(random() < 0.8 ? { viewed: updated } : {}),
+      },
+      location: { directory: directory.directory },
+    }
+  })
+  // The mock lists sessions in array order and reverses for `desc`, so keep
+  // the fixture ascending by updated time like the server's index order.
+  const sessions = newestFirst.toReversed()
+  const newest = newestFirst[0]
+  const encoded = JSON.stringify({ data: sessions.map((session) => currentSession(session)), cursor: {} })
+
+  return {
+    version: HOME_INDEX_FIXTURE_VERSION,
+    count: input.count,
+    now: input.now,
+    directories,
+    sessions,
+    // Bytes the mock serves for the complete index when it fits one page.
+    listBytes: Buffer.byteLength(encoded),
+    expected: {
+      visible: Math.min(HOME_INDEX_VISIBLE_LIMIT, input.count),
+      newestID: newest.id,
+      // The mock labels untitled sessions with their ID.
+      newestTitle: newest.title ?? newest.id,
+      perDirectory: Object.fromEntries(
+        [...Map.groupBy(sessions, (session) => session.location.directory)].map(([directory, items]) => [
+          directory,
+          items.length,
+        ]),
+      ),
+    },
+  }
+}
+
+export type HomeIndexFixture = ReturnType<typeof createHomeIndexFixture>
+
+function title(random: () => number, index: number) {
+  const verb = verbs[Math.floor(random() * verbs.length)]
+  const object = objects[Math.floor(random() * objects.length)]
+  const context = contexts[Math.floor(random() * contexts.length)]
+    .replace("{n}", String(1000 + Math.floor(random() * 45_000)))
+    .replace("{file}", files[Math.floor(random() * files.length)])
+  // Keep titles unique so row identity checks cannot match a sibling.
+  return `${verb} ${object}${context} [${index.toString(36)}]`
+}
+
+function mulberry32(seed: number) {
+  let state = seed >>> 0
+  return () => {
+    state = (state + 0x6d2b79f5) >>> 0
+    let t = state
+    t = Math.imul(t ^ (t >>> 15), t | 1)
+    t ^= t + Math.imul(t ^ (t >>> 7), t | 61)
+    return ((t ^ (t >>> 14)) >>> 0) / 4294967296
+  }
+}
+
+const alphabet = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
+
+function base62(random: () => number, length: number) {
+  return Array.from({ length }, () => alphabet[Math.floor(random() * alphabet.length)]).join("")
+}
+
+function hex(random: () => number, length: number) {
+  return Array.from({ length }, () => Math.floor(random() * 16).toString(16)).join("")
+}
diff --git a/packages/app/e2e/performance/unit/home-session-index-fixture.test.ts b/packages/app/e2e/performance/unit/home-session-index-fixture.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..534013b1835
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/app/e2e/performance/unit/home-session-index-fixture.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test"
+import { createHomeIndexFixture, HOME_INDEX_VISIBLE_LIMIT } from "../timeline/home-session-index.fixture"
+
+const now = 1_800_000_000_000
+
+test("generates a deterministic index ordered like the server", () => {
+  const fixture = createHomeIndexFixture({ count: 2_000, now })
+  const again = createHomeIndexFixture({ count: 2_000, now })
+  expect(again.sessions).toEqual(fixture.sessions)
+  expect(fixture.sessions).toHaveLength(2_000)
+  expect(new Set(fixture.sessions.map((session) => session.id)).size).toBe(2_000)
+  const updated = fixture.sessions.map((session) => session.time.updated)
+  expect(updated.every((time, index) => index === 0 || time > updated[index - 1])).toBe(true)
+  expect(updated.every((time) => time <= now)).toBe(true)
+  expect(fixture.sessions.every((session) => session.time.created < session.time.updated)).toBe(true)
+  expect(fixture.expected.newestID).toBe(fixture.sessions[fixture.sessions.length - 1].id)
+  expect(fixture.expected.visible).toBe(HOME_INDEX_VISIBLE_LIMIT)
+})
+
+test("spreads sessions across several directories with a skewed head", () => {
+  const fixture = createHomeIndexFixture({ count: 5_000, now })
+  const counts = Object.values(fixture.expected.perDirectory)
+  expect(counts.reduce((sum, count) => sum + count, 0)).toBe(5_000)
+  expect(fixture.directories).toHaveLength(12)
+  expect(fixture.directories.filter((entry) => entry.project)).toHaveLength(8)
+  const largest = Math.max(...counts)
+  expect(largest).toBeGreaterThan(5_000 * 0.15)
+  expect(Math.min(...counts)).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+  expect(fixture.sessions.some((session) => session.time.updated > now - 86_400_000)).toBe(true)
+  // Realistic serialized rows: hundreds of bytes each, not one-character stubs.
+  expect(fixture.listBytes / 5_000).toBeGreaterThan(300)
+})
diff --git a/packages/app/e2e/utils/mock-server.ts b/packages/app/e2e/utils/mock-server.ts
index a77852dd73b..45bef80164e 100644
--- a/packages/app/e2e/utils/mock-server.ts
+++ b/packages/app/e2e/utils/mock-server.ts
@@ -609,9 +609,12 @@ export function currentSession(session: { id: string } & Record<string, unknown>
     model: session.model ?? { id: "mock-model", providerID: "mock-provider" },
     cost: session.cost ?? 0,
     tokens: session.tokens ?? { input: 0, output: 0, reasoning: 0, cache: { read: 0, write: 0 } },
+    ...(typeof session.outcome === "string" ? { outcome: session.outcome } : {}),
     time: {
       created: "created" in time && typeof time.created === "number" ? time.created : 0,
       updated: "updated" in time && typeof time.updated === "number" ? time.updated : 0,
+      ...("idle" in time && typeof time.idle === "number" ? { idle: time.idle } : {}),
+      ...("viewed" in time && typeof time.viewed === "number" ? { viewed: time.viewed } : {}),
       ...(session.time && typeof session.time === "object" && "archived" in session.time
         ? { archived: session.time.archived }
         : {}),
diff --git a/packages/app/src/home/sessions/controller.tsx b/packages/app/src/home/sessions/controller.tsx
index 78ab88a7bbd..7596c4a40ab 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/home/sessions/controller.tsx
+++ b/packages/app/src/home/sessions/controller.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,12 @@ import { DateTime } from "luxon"
 import { type Accessor, createEffect, createMemo, type JSX, startTransition, untrack } from "solid-js"
 import { notifySessionTabsRemoved } from "@/shell/titlebar/session-events"
 import { useCommand } from "@/shell/commands/command"
-import { loadHomeSessionIndex, mergeHomeSessionIndex, retainHomeSessions } from "@/home/sessions/index"
+import {
+  HOME_SESSION_LIMIT,
+  loadHomeSessionIndex,
+  mergeHomeSessionIndex,
+  retainHomeSessions,
+} from "@/home/sessions/index"
 import type { LocalProject } from "@/shell/state/layout"
 import { useLanguage } from "@/runtime/i18n/language"
 import { ServerConnection } from "@/runtime/server/registry"
@@ -25,8 +30,7 @@ import { buildHomeSessionRecords, type HomeSessionRecord } from "./records"
 
 export type { HomeSessionRecord } from "./records"
 
-const HOME_SESSION_LIMIT = 64
-// Keep the large immutable result opaque so Solid Query does not recursively unwrap every session on mount.
+// Keep the immutable result opaque so Solid Query does not recursively unwrap every session on mount.
 const selectSessions = (sessions: SessionInfo[]) => () => sessions
 export type HomeSessionGroup = {
   id: "today" | "yesterday" | "older"
diff --git a/packages/app/src/home/sessions/index.test.ts b/packages/app/src/home/sessions/index.test.ts
index b83f475c020..c2dd2a5f186 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/home/sessions/index.test.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/home/sessions/index.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test"
 import type { SessionInfo } from "@opencode-ai/client/promise"
-import { HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT, loadHomeSessionIndex, parseHomeSessionIndex, retainHomeSessions } from "./index"
+import { SESSION_RECENT_LIMIT, SESSION_RECENT_WINDOW } from "@/runtime/server/global-sync/types"
+import {
+  HOME_SESSION_INDEX_LIMIT,
+  HOME_SESSION_LIMIT,
+  HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT,
+  loadHomeSessionIndex,
+  mergeHomeSessionIndex,
+  parseHomeSessionIndex,
+  retainHomeSessions,
+} from "./index"
 
 const session = (id: string, input: Partial<SessionInfo> = {}) =>
   ({
@@ -12,19 +21,65 @@ const session = (id: string, input: Partial<SessionInfo> = {}) =>
     ...input,
   }) as SessionInfo
 
+// The loader anchors its recent window on the wall clock, so fixtures do too.
+const now = Date.now()
+const minute = 60_000
+
+// One session per minute going back from `now`; index 0 is the newest, which
+// is the server's list order.
+const history = (directory: string, count: number) =>
+  Array.from({ length: count }, (_, index) =>
+    session(`${directory}-${String(index).padStart(5, "0")}`, {
+      time: { created: now - (index + 1) * minute - 1000, updated: now - (index + 1) * minute },
+      location: { directory },
+    }),
+  )
+
+const ids = (sessions: SessionInfo[]) => sessions.map((item) => item.id)
+
 describe("Home session index", () => {
-  test("loads all pages", async () => {
-    const first = Array.from({ length: HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT }, (_, index) => session(`session-${index}`))
+  test("follows cursors across pages and bounds the result per directory", async () => {
+    const all = history("/repo", HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT + 1)
     const calls: Array<{ cursor?: string; parentID: null }> = []
     const result = await loadHomeSessionIndex(async (input) => {
       calls.push(input)
-      if (!input.cursor) return { data: first, cursor: { next: "next" } }
-      return { data: [session("last")], cursor: {} }
+      if (!input.cursor) return { data: all.slice(0, HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT), cursor: { next: "next" } }
+      return { data: all.slice(HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT), cursor: {} }
     })
 
-    expect(result).toHaveLength(HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT + 1)
     expect(calls.map((call) => call.cursor)).toEqual([undefined, "next"])
     expect(calls.every((call) => call.parentID === null)).toBe(true)
+    // Newest rows in server order, plus the recent window beyond the limit.
+    expect(ids(result)).toEqual(ids(all.slice(0, HOME_SESSION_INDEX_LIMIT + SESSION_RECENT_LIMIT)))
+  })
+
+  test("folds pages so every directory keeps its newest sessions", async () => {
+    const busy = history("/busy", HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT + 300)
+    const quiet = history("/quiet", 3).map((item) => ({
+      ...item,
+      time: { created: item.time.created - 6000 * minute, updated: item.time.updated - 6000 * minute },
+    }))
+    // Server order is global by updated time: /quiet is older than all of /busy
+    // and only arrives on the second page.
+    const result = await loadHomeSessionIndex(async (input) => {
+      if (!input.cursor) return { data: busy.slice(0, HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT), cursor: { next: "next" } }
+      return { data: [...busy.slice(HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT), ...quiet], cursor: {} }
+    })
+    expect(ids(result.filter((item) => item.location.directory === "/quiet"))).toEqual(ids(quiet))
+    expect(ids(result.filter((item) => item.location.directory === "/busy"))).toEqual(
+      ids(busy.slice(0, HOME_SESSION_INDEX_LIMIT + SESSION_RECENT_LIMIT)),
+    )
+  })
+
+  test("drops archived sessions before they can occupy a retained slot", async () => {
+    const archived = history("/repo", 200).map((item) => ({ ...item, time: { ...item.time, archived: now } }))
+    const live = history("/repo", 10).map((item) => ({
+      ...item,
+      id: `live-${item.id}`,
+      time: { created: item.time.created - 300 * minute, updated: item.time.updated - 300 * minute },
+    }))
+    const result = await loadHomeSessionIndex(async () => ({ data: [...archived, ...live], cursor: {} }))
+    expect(ids(result)).toEqual(ids(live))
   })
 
   test("keeps only visible roots", () => {
@@ -38,7 +93,6 @@ describe("Home session index", () => {
   })
 
   test("preserves the per-directory retention limit", () => {
-    const now = Date.now()
     const result = retainHomeSessions(
       [session("a", { time: { created: 1, updated: 1 } }), session("b", { time: { created: 2, updated: 2 } })],
       1,
@@ -47,3 +101,58 @@ describe("Home session index", () => {
     expect(result.map((item) => item.id)).toEqual(["b"])
   })
 })
+
+// Home merges locally known sessions and pending removals into the fetched
+// index on every store change, then retains per directory for display and
+// search. The loaded subset must resolve to the same set as the complete index.
+describe("Home session index parity with the complete index", () => {
+  const complete = [...history("/a", 400), ...history("/b", 90), ...history("/c", 5)]
+  const view = (index: SessionInfo[], known: SessionInfo[], removed = new Set<string>()) =>
+    ids(
+      retainHomeSessions(
+        mergeHomeSessionIndex(index, known).filter((item) => !removed.has(item.id)),
+        HOME_SESSION_LIMIT,
+        now,
+      ),
+    ).toSorted()
+  const loaded = () => loadHomeSessionIndex(async () => ({ data: complete, cursor: {} }))
+
+  test("without local changes", async () => {
+    const result = view(await loaded(), [])
+    expect(result).toEqual(view(complete, []))
+    expect(result).toHaveLength(HOME_SESSION_LIMIT + SESSION_RECENT_LIMIT + 90 + 5)
+  })
+
+  test("with new, re-timed, and unlisted-directory local sessions", async () => {
+    const known = [
+      session("a-fresh", { time: { created: now, updated: now }, location: { directory: "/a" } }),
+      // A fetched session that fell outside retention but was updated locally.
+      { ...complete[300], time: { created: now - 1, updated: now } },
+      session("d-new", { time: { created: now, updated: now }, location: { directory: "/d" } }),
+    ]
+    const result = view(await loaded(), known)
+    expect(result).toEqual(view(complete, known))
+    expect(result).toContain("a-fresh")
+    expect(result).toContain(complete[300].id)
+    expect(result).toContain("d-new")
+  })
+
+  test("with pending removals up to the recent-window bucket size", async () => {
+    const removed = new Set(ids(complete.slice(0, SESSION_RECENT_LIMIT)))
+    const result = view(await loaded(), [], removed)
+    expect(result).toEqual(view(complete, [], removed))
+    expect(result).toHaveLength(HOME_SESSION_LIMIT + SESSION_RECENT_LIMIT + 90 + 5)
+    expect(result.some((id) => removed.has(id))).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  test("with a directory entirely inside the recent window", async () => {
+    const hot = history("/hot", 300).map((item, index) => ({
+      ...item,
+      time: { created: now - index * 1000 - 500, updated: now - index * 1000 },
+    }))
+    expect(hot.every((item) => item.time.updated > now - SESSION_RECENT_WINDOW)).toBe(true)
+    const index = await loadHomeSessionIndex(async () => ({ data: hot, cursor: {} }))
+    expect(index).toHaveLength(HOME_SESSION_INDEX_LIMIT + SESSION_RECENT_LIMIT)
+    expect(view(index, [])).toEqual(view(hot, []))
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/app/src/home/sessions/index.ts b/packages/app/src/home/sessions/index.ts
index 185d5f9d171..c81e77371db 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/home/sessions/index.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/home/sessions/index.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ import { pathKey } from "@/workspaces/path-key"
 import { SESSION_RECENT_LIMIT, SESSION_RECENT_WINDOW } from "@/runtime/server/global-sync/types"
 
 export const HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT = 5_000
+export const HOME_SESSION_LIMIT = 64
+// Rows kept per directory from the fetched index: the visible limit plus the
+// recent-window search bucket. Merging locally known sessions and pending
+// removals into this subset resolves exactly like merging into the complete
+// index, so Home shows the same rows, order, and search results while the
+// query cache and every per-update re-merge stay bounded by directory count.
+export const HOME_SESSION_INDEX_LIMIT = HOME_SESSION_LIMIT + SESSION_RECENT_LIMIT
 
 export async function loadHomeSessionIndex(
   list: (
@@ -16,7 +23,8 @@ export async function loadHomeSessionIndex(
   ) => Promise<SessionsResponse>,
   signal?: AbortSignal,
 ) {
-  const data: SessionInfo[] = []
+  const now = Date.now()
+  let retained: SessionInfo[] = []
   let cursor: string | undefined
 
   for (;;) {
@@ -29,8 +37,11 @@ export async function loadHomeSessionIndex(
       },
       { signal },
     )
-    data.push(...response.data)
-    if (response.data.length < HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT || !response.cursor.next) return parseHomeSessionIndex(data)
+    // Fold each page in as it arrives: pages are newest first, so later pages
+    // can only fill directories that still have room. Peak allocation is one
+    // page plus the retained subset, not the whole history.
+    retained = retainHomeSessions([...retained, ...parseHomeSessionIndex(response.data)], HOME_SESSION_INDEX_LIMIT, now)
+    if (response.data.length < HOME_V2_SESSION_PAGE_LIMIT || !response.cursor.next) return retained
     cursor = response.cursor.next
   }
 }