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Vasanth T a78c6c357e fix(acp): three defects a desktop ACP client hits (#915)
* fix(acp): four defects a desktop ACP client hits

Found by driving `zero acp` from ZeroApp and comparing both sides of the
wire. None of them fail loudly — they produce a blank transcript, a
silent denial, a spurious crash, or two buttons nobody can tell apart.

session/load restored the conversation into the agent's own memory and
sent nothing. The turns were read from the store and used to build every
later prompt, but not one notification went out, so a client that resumed
opened an empty transcript against a model that remembered everything.
Ask a follow-up and ZERO answers correctly, about a question no longer on
screen. It now replays the loaded turns as user/agent message chunks
before returning, so a client rendering on the reply already has them.
Whole messages rather than per-token deltas: this is a transcript, not a
stream.

A permission option we offered could not be accepted. The fallback list
for a request with no AvailableDecisions lived inside
buildPermissionOptions, while requestPermission validated the client's
answer against the raw field — so whenever ZERO did not enumerate, the
client was sent Allow and Reject and its reply was checked against an
empty slice. Every button it could possibly show failed closed to deny
with "permission option was not offered". The user clicked Allow and ZERO
recorded a denial, and nothing surfaced it, because a denial is a
legitimate answer. One resolver now feeds both, so they agree by
construction. The narrowing this validation exists for is unchanged: an
unoffered broader grant is still refused.

Cancelling a permission prompt came back as an internal error. Only
context.Canceled was recognised, so errPermissionApprovalCanceled fell
through to -32603 carrying the sentinel text, and clients render that as
a failed turn — declining a tool looked like ZERO falling over. For
apply_patch, dismissing the dialog is the only refusal a client is
offered. It maps to StopCancelled now. The sentinel is exported so the
surfaces can recognise it; a genuine failure is still an error.

request_permissions labelled two different decisions "Allow". The label
is the only thing an ACP client shows, and plain allow and strict-review
allow are offered together, so the panel had two identical buttons where
one silently enabled strict auto-review of what was granted. The
distinction cannot live in the option id, which is opaque to the client,
so it is in the name.

Eleven tests, each confirmed to fail without its fix.

* refactor(acp): drop the session/load replay, superseded by #914

gnanam's #914 lands the same fix and does more with it: the replayed
messages carry stable ids derived from the store's event ids, session/load
replays while session/resume deliberately does not, and both are
capability-gated. Keeping a second, weaker replay here would have meant a
conflict in handleSessionLoad and translate.go for no gain.

translate.go is back to its state on main. What remains are the three
defects #914 does not touch: the permission option that could not be
accepted, the cancel that arrived as an internal error, and the two
options labelled the same.

* fix(acp): validate a permission reply against the options that were sent

CodeRabbit caught a hole on the same seam this PR already fixes, in the
other direction.

buildPermissionOptions drops PermissionDecisionCancel, because ACP
expresses cancellation through the outcome rather than an option. But
ZERO enumerates cancel in AvailableDecisions for shell commands and
apply_patch — the two commonest prompts — so validating against the
decisions accepted {"outcome":"selected","optionId":"cancel"}: an
identifier no client was ever shown, aborting the whole turn.

Rather than reject cancel by name, decisionFromOutcome now takes the
[]PermissionOption that were actually sent, and requestPermission builds
that list once and uses it for both halves. "What we offered" and "what we
accept" become the same slice instead of two things kept in step, so
anything optionKindFor declines to render is excluded structurally — the
next such action is covered the day it is added.

The regression test is written over every option-less decision rather
than over cancel specifically, for the same reason. Cancelling through
the outcome still works, which is asserted separately: closing the
selected-id route must not close the real one.

Also adds the cancellation coverage CodeRabbit asked for on the two
sandbox-retry paths. Both wrap ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled and each is
reached by a different denial, and the ACP mapping in this PR depends on
them producing something recognisable. They also assert the escalated
retry does not run: a cancelled prompt that still ran it would run the
command the user had just declined.
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