docs: describe the notification that stays and the answers it offers

The table of what a notification answers was out of date: the limit prompt and
the batch confirm now offer their own answers, and a skill write distinguishes
"once" from "this chat". The desktop section now says what actually keeps the
notification up (no expiry, urgency at the default) instead of naming `critical`,
and the follow-up rule — announced at once, past the grace period — is written
where a reader looks for why a prompt appeared without waiting.
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@@ -32,18 +32,25 @@ a prompt answered inside the grace period is never announced at all.
| Prompt | Notification offers |
|---|---|
| tool confirm (single / a round's batch) | Allow once / Deny / Go to terminal |
| command denylist, `fetch_local` private host | same three |
| directory-access request, skill write | same three |
| tool confirm (single) | Allow once / Deny / Go to terminal |
| a round's batch of confirms | Allow all / Review one by one / Deny / Go to terminal |
| command denylist, `fetch_local` private host | Allow once / Deny / Go to terminal |
| directory-access request | same three (the level asked for, not a lower one) |
| skill write | Allow once / This chat / Deny / Go to terminal |
| limit-continue | Continue / Continue, stop asking / Stop here / Go to terminal |
| `ask_user_line` | a reply field — the answer *is* the text you type |
| `ask_user_choice`, `ask_user_form`, PTY secrets | nothing (terminal only) |
| limit-continue | nothing (terminal only) |
Each prompt says which answers it accepts (`prompt_wait(..., choices=…)`), and
those are the buttons; one that names none gets Allow once / Deny / Go to
terminal. "Go to terminal" is always the last button: it withdraws the
notification and leaves the prompt waiting.
An answer read from the notification is treated exactly like a typed one —
`allow` is the `y` the prompt accepts, `deny` is `n` — and it never records a
session grant: the button means "this once". "Go to terminal" withdraws the
notification and leaves the prompt waiting. A secret is never asked for in a
notification, and never echoed into one.
session grant: the button means "this once", which is why a prompt with an
extra answer (this chat, stop asking) offers it as a button of its own. A secret
is never asked for in a notification, and never echoed into one.
A prompt that can be answered from the notification reads both surfaces while it
blocks, from the first moment — the notification itself only shows up after
@@ -51,6 +58,11 @@ blocks, from the first moment — the notification itself only shows up after
terminal alone. Typing at the terminal always wins; a readline-only convenience
(Tab completion on `ask_user_line`) is what a question gives up in exchange.
A prompt that *follows* an answer given on the notification — the "why denied"
comment, the per-call prompts after "Review one by one" — is announced at once,
with no grace period and past the burst throttle: the human is looking at the
notification, and the follow-up is the next thing they must answer.
## Desktop channel
The desktop channel needs the optional extra:
@@ -70,6 +82,16 @@ Notifications are shown from the library's async API on a loop that runs in a
daemon thread, because callbacks only fire while the loop that owns the
notification is running.
The notification stays on screen: it is sent with no expiry (`timeout = 0`, the
freedesktop value for "until dismissed"), so the server does not slide it into
the tray a few seconds later. That is the point of it — the turn is blocked
until the prompt is answered, and a collapsed notification is one the human
would find only on coming back anyway. Urgency stays at the library default: on
KDE Plasma, `critical` keeps the notification up just the same but paints the
popup as urgent, and on every platform it asks the Focus mode to let it through
— which a prompt has no business doing. Once the prompt is answered, the
notification is dismissed.
## Terminal channel
No dependency and no extra: the CLI writes an escape sequence to `/dev/tty`