The settings section gains the conversational authoring entry beside
copying: a dashed add-card (the Models page's affordance) that stages the
self-referential cordis preset and starts a new session on it, closing the
settings panel through the shell's new section owner-prop `close` — the
one shell affordance a section receives, for flows that leave settings.
The seat learns the difference between picking and staging: `select()`'s
immediate apply meets the still-current running session and drops the
stage as unservable, so the entry uses `stage()` and leaves the apply to
the list-change applier that fires when the started session becomes
current. `load()` stops regressing the display when its reply lands after
an applied stage was consumed — staged pick first, then the composition
the current session already carries, then the deployment default.
The authoring lane connects a workspace and drives the gesture to a
composed host session; the section goldens gain the entry.
Yichen Jiang
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