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 - Keep medium-width group panes focused on count/date/age/name instead of repeating the group kind on every row.
 - Bring shared TUI detail and sort behavior closer to `gitcrawl`: archives open newest-first, group count headers sort like `cnt*`, selected chat messages render before surrounding conversation context, document previews appear before metadata, and detail fields use `key: value` labels.
 - Keep split-width member tables readable by rendering compact dates instead of truncated ISO timestamps.
+- Open chat and document TUIs on the densest group by default, matching `gitcrawl`'s count-first startup so the middle pane is populated immediately.
 - Prioritize gitcrawl-style footer muscle-memory controls in compact tmux panes before app-specific extras.
 - Render selected chat message bodies with the same transcript marker as their speaker line so detail panes read more like chat.
 - Show chat reply counts in detail metadata when apps provide thread/reply counts.