Confusing archive/delete UI elements across chat surfaces

[lflores-ms]

Type: Bug

Agent Sessions Sidebar shows a button to "Archive (Delete)" sessions when hovering over a session. It is unclear why "(Delete)" is in the button alt text, since pressing the button will archive the session.

In the top bar menu to "Search agent sessions by name" there are separate buttons for "Delete" and "Archive", which indicates these are in fact different actions.

I think there are two issues:

• The archive button in Agent Sessions Sidebar is confusing
• Agent Sessions Sidebar should have a button to delete a session

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Extension version: 0.37.6
VS Code version: Code 1.109.4 (c3a2684, 2026-02-16T15:35:57.932Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
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[cwebster-99]

This is very related to the discussion we had offline @bpasero a while back

I think having both options in the sessions quick pick is confusing and we should converge on leading with one.

[lflores-ms]

@cwebster-99 as long as there is a way to delete sessions from either UI, I think "leading with one" is fine. I just realized "Delete" shows up in the context menu for a session in Agent Sessions Sidebar. I think I found another issue though, where the most recent session can't be deleted, despite not being the active one: prompt and confirmation seem to work but nothing happens, the session will remain listed.

[bpasero]

"Archive" is the name of the action, "Delete" is the name of the keybinding to trigger it.

I am up for ideas how to do this differently, but that is what we do in our UI: show the name of the action and the keybinding.

[bpasero]

Learned something: "Del" is what we should be using, Windows does it too. Nice!