simplify agents view and compact chat headers

[kevinjosethomas]

Simplifies the agents list and shares a compact butterfly header with chat. Global agents headers show title/version, counts, and cwd; nested headers show title/version, counts, and numeric depth, with the back breadcrumb below. Chat retains its model line.

• Adds spacing around search and shared column headings, quiets secondary metadata, and gives idle/inactive sessions the same status circle distinguished by color.
• Hides abandoned empty saved sessions consistently during search and removes the details panel and expand carets while retaining the expansion keybinding.
• Removes duplicate startup prompt suggestions and preserves readable headers in narrow terminals.

Validated with focused agents-view and startup tests and npm run check.

Fixes ENG-5999.
Design: Prime Agent UI/UX Improvements.

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Low Risk
Changes are TUI presentation and session-list filtering in the coding-agent package; BrandSplashHeader’s constructor/options changed but callers in-repo were updated.

Overview
Polishes the agents view and aligns chat/agents splash headers around a smaller butterfly mark and quieter list hierarchy.

The agents roster now filters out abandoned empty saved sessions via filterEmptyAgentsViewSessions (while keeping anchors, scopes, heartbeats, and hierarchy), uses distinct empty vs no-search-match copy during reply/rename, and drops the shortcuts “actions” panel and inline expand carets—subagent expand/collapse stays on its keybinding. Row chrome is simplified: one shared status bullet for idle/inactive (color-coded), bare model names in the model column, bold shared column headers, and muted section titles; nested scopes show a back breadcrumb and depth in the header instead of global scope/cwd noise.

BrandSplashHeader is reworked to use PRIME_COMPACT_BUTTERFLY_LOGO, optional getModelId metadata (chat keeps the model line; agents header focuses on counts and cwd or depth), no duplicate “type to search” hints, and text-only title on narrow terminals. Startup wiring drops startupModelId for the agents view. Logo tooling adds quadrants/braille render styles in render-logo.py.

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Remove agents-view actions panel and add compact chat splash headers

• Removes the separate actions panel from the agents view, including its renderer, shortcut keybinding, and footer hint. Adds a nested-scope breadcrumb and a single bold shared legend with muted section headings.
• Adds filterEmptyAgentsViewSessions in agents-view-state.ts to hide abandoned empty inactive catalog entries while retaining live, scheduled, named, subagent, explicitly preserved, and ancestor records.
• Replaces the large default logo with a compact butterfly in BrandSplashHeader, placing it beside width-bounded runtime metadata and falling back to text-only metadata in narrow terminals.
• Updates row status markers: idle and inactive rows use bold color-coded bullets; running rows keep the animated icon. Removes inline expand/collapse glyphs from parent rows.
• Risk: AgentsViewModeOptions no longer accepts a startup model identifier; main.ts updated accordingly. Nested agents scopes no longer supply a working directory to the splash, and splash rendering no longer obtains a model identifier from the selected row.

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