Grant-time presence notice renders as a quiet info line

surfaces/gui/src/itemsFromMessages.test.ts

@@ -132,4 +132,19 @@ describe("itemsFromMessages mcp failure", () => {
     ] as any);
     expect(items[0]).toEqual({ kind: "notice", tone: "warn", text: "something opaque went wrong" });
   });
+
+  it("renders a project_presence notice as one quiet info line, never an error", () => {
+    const items = itemsFromMessages([
+      {
+        role: "notice",
+        kind: "project_presence",
+        text: "“notes” already has project memory (3 entries) — bind it by name or start a session there to use it.",
+      },
+    ] as any);
+    expect(items[0]).toEqual({
+      kind: "notice",
+      tone: "info",
+      text: "“notes” already has project memory (3 entries) — bind it by name or start a session there to use it.",
+    });
+  });
 });

surfaces/gui/src/itemsFromMessages.ts

@@ -85,7 +85,11 @@ export function itemsFromMessages(messages: ConversationMessage[]): Item[] {
                   // the `server` field existed) recover the name from their own text, so old
                   // transcripts collapse too instead of keeping the wall of stderr.
                   mcpNoticeItem(m)
-                : { kind: "notice", tone: "warn", text: "Error: " + (m.text || "unknown"), retriable: true },
+                : m.kind === "project_presence"
+                  ? // Grant-time pointer (pass 20): the granted folder already has
+                    // memory/board — informational, one quiet line.
+                    { kind: "notice", tone: "info", text: m.text || "" }
+                  : { kind: "notice", tone: "warn", text: "Error: " + (m.text || "unknown"), retriable: true },
       );
     }
     // system messages are omitted; tool-result messages are folded into the tool row above