Auto-reply: add verbose session hint

src/auto-reply/reply.ts

@@ -524,12 +524,8 @@ export async function getReplyFromConfig(
 			});
 			const payloadArray = runResult.payloads ?? [];
 			const meta = runResult.meta;
-      const normalizedPayloads =
+			let finalPayloads = payloadArray;
-        payloadArray.length === 1 ? payloadArray[0] : payloadArray;
+			if (!finalPayloads || finalPayloads.length === 0) {
-      if (
-        !normalizedPayloads ||
-        (Array.isArray(normalizedPayloads) && normalizedPayloads.length === 0)
-      ) {
 				return undefined;
 			}
 			if (sessionCfg && sessionStore && sessionKey) {
@@ -560,7 +556,21 @@ export async function getReplyFromConfig(
 			if (meta.agentMeta && isVerbose()) {
 				logVerbose(`Agent meta: ${JSON.stringify(meta.agentMeta)}`);
 			}
-      return normalizedPayloads;
+			// If verbose is enabled and this is a new session, prepend a session hint.
+			const sessionIdHint =
+				resolvedVerboseLevel === "on" && isNewSession
+					? sessionId ??
+					  meta.agentMeta?.sessionId ??
+					  templatingCtx.SessionId ??
+					  "unknown"
+					: undefined;
+			if (sessionIdHint) {
+				finalPayloads = [
+					{ text: `🧭 New session: ${sessionIdHint}` },
+					...payloadArray,
+				];
+			}
+			return finalPayloads.length === 1 ? finalPayloads[0] : finalPayloads;
 		} finally {
 			cleanupTyping();
 		}

src/index.core.test.ts

@@ -750,6 +750,42 @@ describe("config and templating", () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it("prepends session hint when new session and verbose on", async () => {
+    const runSpy = vi.spyOn(index, "runCommandWithTimeout").mockResolvedValue({
+      stdout: "ok",
+      stderr: "",
+      code: 0,
+      signal: null,
+      killed: false,
+    });
+    vi.spyOn(crypto, "randomUUID").mockReturnValue("sess-uuid");
+    const storeDir = await fs.promises.mkdtemp(
+      path.join(os.tmpdir(), "warelay-session-"),
+    );
+    const storePath = path.join(storeDir, "sessions.json");
+    const cfg = {
+      inbound: {
+        reply: {
+          mode: "command" as const,
+          command: ["echo", "{{Body}}"],
+          agent: { kind: "claude" },
+          session: { store: storePath },
+        },
+      },
+    };
+
+    const res = await index.getReplyFromConfig(
+      { Body: "/new /v on hi", From: "+1", To: "+2" },
+      undefined,
+      cfg,
+      runSpy,
+    );
+
+    const payloads = Array.isArray(res) ? res : res ? [res] : [];
+    expect(payloads[0]?.text).toBe("🧭 New session: sess-uuid");
+    expect(payloads[1]?.text).toBe("ok");
+  });
+
   it("treats directive-only even when bracket prefixes are present", async () => {
     const runSpy = vi.spyOn(index, "runCommandWithTimeout").mockResolvedValue({
       stdout: "ok",