chore: surface underlying errors when session history fails to load

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ version with its date and start a fresh empty `[Unreleased]` above it.
 - Startup session restore no longer fails silently: when the tab
   layout, an individual tab, session metadata, or conversation history
   cannot be read, Qoderian now shows a single notice with the issue
-  count and logs per-stage details to the developer console.
+  count and logs per-stage details to the developer console, including
+  the underlying file error (such as a permission denial) for each
+  session history file that fails to load.
 
 ## [1.0.4] - 2026-08-12
 

src/qoder/history/qoder-conversation-history-service.ts

@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ export class QoderConversationHistoryService {
     let missingSessionCount = 0;
     let errorCount = 0;
     let successCount = 0;
+    const loadErrors: string[] = [];
 
     const currentSessionId = isPendingFork
       ? state.forkSource!.sessionId
@@ -404,6 +405,7 @@ export class QoderConversationHistoryService {
 
       if (result.error) {
         errorCount++;
+        loadErrors.push(`${sessionId}: ${result.error}`);
         continue;
       }
 
@@ -415,7 +417,8 @@ export class QoderConversationHistoryService {
     if (errorCount > 0) {
       reportRestoreIssue(
         'history',
-        `Conversation "${conversation.id}": ${errorCount} of ${allSessionIds.length} session file(s) failed to load.`,
+        `Conversation "${conversation.id}": ${errorCount} of ${allSessionIds.length} session file(s) failed to load. `
+          + `Errors: ${loadErrors.join('; ')}`,
       );
     } else if (allSessionsMissing) {
       reportRestoreIssue(

tests/unit/qoder/history/qoder-conversation-history-service.test.ts

@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ describe('QoderConversationHistoryService restore diagnostics', () => {
       stage: 'history',
       detail: expect.stringContaining('conv-1'),
     });
+    // The underlying error and session id must surface for diagnostics.
+    expect(issues[0].detail).toContain('sess-1: read failed');
   });
 
   it('reports a history issue when session files are missing on disk', async () => {