Agent sessions: foreground, background, remote, extensions

[bpasero]

For the agent sessions view I am asking for icons for:

• local chats (foreground)
• local chats (background)
• remote chats (padawan)
• extensions (Codex, Claude)

Here is what I use today: a mix of window, windowServer, cloud and terminal:

[mrleemurray]

cc davidhosejr

[davidhosejr]

Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Lee Murray (@mrleemurray)

Wasn't completely familiar with these concepts (and context) however I generated some icons for discussion below:
Figma

note: for extension (Codex, Claude), I'm suggesting we use existing codicon 'extensions'

[bpasero]

Thank you. I am actually quite happy with the existing icon for remote: the ☁️ because that seems to be an acceptable icon for something that runs online.

As for foreground vs. background I wonder if the difference is a bit too subtle?

[davidhosejr]

Thanks for the feedback Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) and Lee Murray (@mrleemurray), here are the latest suggestions:

[mrleemurray]

The foreground & background icons look almost inverse - I would expect the solid color to be the active chat

[davidhosejr]

Lee Murray (@mrleemurray) does this read better:

[mrleemurray]

To me that looks better & aligns with the remote chat modifier. Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) what do you think?

[rebornix]

I like the cloud one a lot, however by just viewing the icons

I don't know which one is foreground or background

[mrleemurray]

What about a solid chat bubble for foreground & a dashed outline chat bubble for background?

[mrleemurray]

Or a laptop / computer / vscode icon with a chat bubble for background?

[bpasero]

Yeah love the ideas for background, agree it needs to be more distinct, please keep ideas coming here and then we can move to trying out in the real build!

[rebornix]

Or a laptop / computer

some district affordances like these can help, which can help users understand it's different from the other by a glance

[davidhosejr]

Here's several additional options: