Notification History (past toasts and dismissed alerts)

What it is

What it is

Notification History is the one combined place to look back at notifications you may have missed. It opens from a single "Notification History" row in the sidebar's System group and works the same on desktop and mobile. It has two tabs:

• Toasts — the pop-up notifications that appear briefly in the corner (e.g. "Settings saved", a session finishing, an error). They normally vanish after a few seconds; this tab keeps the recent ones (newest first) so you can re-read one you missed. The list is saved on your device and survives an app restart.
• Alerts — agent-raised inbox alerts you have dismissed. The Alerts screen's "Recently dismissed" section only shows the last 7 days; this tab shows the full archive (most recent ~200), and each row can be restored back into your active alerts.

Where to find it

The Notification History row in the sidebar's System group — the same entry on desktop and on a phone.

How it behaves

Reading one — tap to expand in place

Every row expands in place: tap it to reveal the full notification right there, tap again to collapse it. One row is open at a time, and there is no separate screen to drill into — so nothing to get lost in and no back button to hunt for. It is the same gesture on desktop and mobile.

• A toast expands to its full message (untruncated), its kind (success / error / warning / info), and the exact time it fired — so a toast that was cut off in the row is always readable.
• A dismissed alert expands to its content (read-only), which session raised it, a Go to session link, and its Restore button — so you can see exactly what it said and, if you want, bring it back.

Why

Toasts are deliberately ephemeral — they auto-dismiss so they don't pile up. On both desktop and mobile they stack behind each other as a compact deck (newest in front, older ones peeking behind as layers, with a "+N more" badge for the rest) instead of filling the screen, so you can see at a glance how many arrived without reading each one. On desktop, hover over the stack (or tab into it) to fan the layers out into a full list; move away and it folds back up. Notification History is the durable record so a toast you missed — or a dismissed alert you want back — is never truly lost, and now it can be read in full without leaving the list.

How it works

• Toasts tab reads the in-app fired-toast trail (firedToasts), capped at the 50 most recent and persisted to localStorage so it survives a relaunch. It is read-only — opening the history never re-fires a toast. (The same trail also powers Settings → Notifications → "Recent notifications", where you can mute a category on the spot.)
• Alerts tab reads the dismissed (archived) agent alerts from the database. Archived alerts are never purged, so the full history is available; the panel requests it with the allTime flag on the existing dismissed-alerts lookup and caps the payload at the 200 most-recently-dismissed. Restore un-archives an alert — the same action as the Alerts screen's "Recently dismissed" Restore, and it's undoable with Ctrl+Z.
• Self-contained + read-only (the invariant). The panel renders each expanded notification inline from the already-loaded data — it never opens a dismissed alert in the inbox reading pane. That reading pane (AlertInboxViewer) resolves the selected alert only from your active inbox, so a dismissed alert (which lives in the archive, never the active list) used to leave it stuck forever on a "Loading alert" spinner. Rendering inline instead means a past notification opens instantly and can never hang. The Agent Alerts screen shows a dismissed alert through the same shared read-only detail (in the reading pane beside its list) for the same reason.

Related

Related

• Inbox Alerts — the agent-raised persistent inbox rows whose dismissed history this surfaces.