Desktop: Runs panel auto-opens on every routine-backed session and the closed state is never remembered

What happens

On the Claude desktop app, opening a session that belongs to a scheduled routine always opens with the Runs panel expanded on the right-hand side. Closing it works fine — but the closed state is never remembered. The next routine-backed session I open, or the same one reopened later, has it expanded again.

As far as I can tell it only affects routine-backed sessions; ordinary chat sessions don't show the panel at all.

Why this is worth fixing

• It's a surface with nothing new to say. The panel is a list of past run timestamps, nearly all reading "Completed" (see #78632 for the separate problem that they have no per-run title). It's a "check this when something went wrong" surface, not a "read this every time" one — but it's the default view on every single open.
• It costs about a quarter of the window width. On a 1920px window it takes roughly 490px, which squeezes the conversation column that I'm actually there to read.
• It compounds. I run a fair number of scheduled routines, so this isn't one panel one time — it's the default state of most sessions I open, and I'm dismissing it several times a day.

Dismissing something repeatedly and having it come back is the specific thing that makes it irritating rather than trivial. Once the app knows I closed it, that should mean something.

What I'd expect

Either of these would resolve it:

1. Persist the state. If I close the Runs panel, keep it closed the next time — per-session or globally, either is fine.
2. Expose a setting — "Open the Runs panel by default: on/off" — which is the same ask #75523 makes for the left sidebar.

Closed seems the better default of the two, given the panel is diagnostic rather than something you read on every visit. But a remembered state solves it either way.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a routine on the desktop app and let it run at least once so it has run history.
2. Open one of its sessions from the sidebar — the Runs panel is expanded.
3. Close the Runs panel.
4. Open another routine-backed session, or reopen the same one — it is expanded again.

Environment

• Claude desktop app 1.30096.5.0, Windows 10 (19045)
• Claude Code CLI on the same machine: 2.1.233 (mentioned only to date the build; the behaviour is in the desktop UI)

Related issues

• #75523 — the same class of request for the left sidebar: persistent open/closed state, with no setting currently exposed
• #52763 (closed) — Claude Preview auto-launching "even after being dismissed"; same underlying complaint that a dismissal doesn't stick
• #78632 — the content of the Runs panel itself (timestamps with no per-run title)

None of these cover the Runs panel's default open state, which is what this issue is about.