diff --git a/web/claw/README.md b/web/claw/README.md
index 7037157..f29eb09 100644
--- a/web/claw/README.md
+++ b/web/claw/README.md
@@ -119,9 +119,11 @@ Two consequences worth knowing before changing this code:
 - **Sessions are created in place.** The sidebar's `+` form posts
   `POST /v1/sessions` with a client-validated name
   (`[A-Za-z0-9._-]{1,64}`), switches the chat to the new key, and
-  lets 400/409 land in the error banner. The phone client's status
-  keys (`phone:…`) stay out of the inventory; the full list stays on
-  the wire.
+  lets 400/409 land in the error banner. The inventory lists only the
+  resident prefixes (`interactive:`, `task:`, `calendar:`) — the ones the
+  message, event and history routes answer for. The phone's status keys
+  (`phone:…`), the coding jobs' `job:<instance>#<id>` keys and forge keys
+  stay out, and the full list stays on the wire.
 - **Deleting a session is a decision, not a click.** The row's delete
   button only names the key; the shell's dialog spells out that the
   turn history goes with it, and `DELETE /v1/sessions/{key}` runs on
diff --git a/web/claw/app/app.vue b/web/claw/app/app.vue
index f56fe40..f0d56ee 100644
--- a/web/claw/app/app.vue
+++ b/web/claw/app/app.vue
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // state is in-memory; only the token and the active session persist.
 // The claw owns the conversation and the config, so this page is a
 // mirror, not a store.
-import { ClawError, clawHealth, isInteractive, useClaw } from '~/composables/useClaw'
+import { ClawError, clawHealth, isInteractive, isResidentKey, useClaw } from '~/composables/useClaw'
 import type {
   AgentIdentity,
   AgentImageKind,
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ function closeDeleteSession(): void {
  * empty key opens no stream (see `resubscribe`). */
 function nextActiveKey(gone: string): string {
   const remaining = sessions.value.filter((session) => session.key !== gone)
-  const next = remaining.find((session) => isInteractive(session.key)) ?? remaining[0]
+  const next = remaining.find((session) => isResidentKey(session.key))
   return next?.key ?? ''
 }
 
diff --git a/web/claw/app/components/SessionsSidebar.vue b/web/claw/app/components/SessionsSidebar.vue
index ec23550..1602234 100644
--- a/web/claw/app/components/SessionsSidebar.vue
+++ b/web/claw/app/components/SessionsSidebar.vue
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 // new key lands in the inventory. The delete button asks nothing itself
 // — the confirmation, which names the transcript that goes with the
 // session, is the shell's.
-import { SESSION_NAME_PATTERN } from '~/composables/useClaw'
+import { SESSION_NAME_PATTERN, isResidentKey } from '~/composables/useClaw'
 import type { ClawSession } from '~/composables/useClaw'
 
 const props = defineProps<{
@@ -32,10 +32,15 @@ interface Group {
 
 const groups = computed<Group[]>(() => {
   const byKey = (a: ClawSession, b: ClawSession) => a.key.localeCompare(b.key)
-  // `phone:<device>:<topic>` keys carry the phone client's status
-  // reporting (battery, network, dnd), not conversation; the inventory
+  // Only the resident prefixes are chat sessions: `interactive:` is the
+  // live chat surface, `task:` a scheduled task's own turn, `calendar:` a
+  // reminder's. The rest of the inventory has no transcript to open —
+  // `phone:<device>:<topic>` is status reporting, `job:<instance>#<id>`
+  // is the coding jobs' bookkeeping, a forge key is a thread the handler
+  // reports on — and the daemon's message, event and history routes
+  // refuse those prefixes, so a row for one is a dead end. The inventory
   // hides them rather than the API narrowing.
-  const conversable = props.sessions.filter((session) => !session.key.startsWith('phone:'))
+  const conversable = props.sessions.filter((session) => isResidentKey(session.key))
   const interactive = conversable
     .filter((session) => session.key.startsWith('interactive:'))
     .sort(byKey)
diff --git a/web/claw/app/composables/useClaw.ts b/web/claw/app/composables/useClaw.ts
index 6aebaab..c9ea681 100644
--- a/web/claw/app/composables/useClaw.ts
+++ b/web/claw/app/composables/useClaw.ts
@@ -248,6 +248,18 @@ export function isInteractive(key: string): boolean {
   return key.startsWith(INTERACTIVE_PREFIX)
 }
 
+/** The prefixes the chat surface answers for: the daemon's
+ * `is_resident_key` (`crates/rhema-claw/src/interactive.rs`). Every other
+ * key in the inventory — `phone:` status reporting, `job:<instance>#<id>`,
+ * a forge thread — has no transcript: the message, event and history
+ * routes 400 on it. */
+const RESIDENT_PREFIXES = ['interactive:', 'task:', 'calendar:']
+
+/** Whether `key` is one the transcript surface can open. */
+export function isResidentKey(key: string): boolean {
+  return RESIDENT_PREFIXES.some((prefix) => key.startsWith(prefix))
+}
+
 /** The session name `POST /v1/sessions` accepts; the key becomes
  * `interactive:<name>`. Anything else is a 400. */
 export const SESSION_NAME_PATTERN = /^[A-Za-z0-9._-]{1,64}$/