Warn users before idle checks reclaim their sessions
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- Python
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Description
## Request
Sessions reclaimed by idle checks are terminated with no prior notice to their owner. Users lose in-progress work and get no chance to extend the session or wrap up what they were doing.
We would like an advance warning — "this session will be reclaimed in N minutes" — delivered before the reclamation actually happens.
## Desired shape
Ideally this rides on the existing notification feature in the Control Panel, so an admin can configure it as a notification rule like any other event, rather than as a one-off mechanism.
## Notes for whoever picks this up
- `NotificationRuleType` has no idle-related type today. Of its four values only `artifact.download.completed` and `endpoint.lifecycle.changed` are actually emitted; `session.started` / `session.terminated` are defined but no code publishes them.
- Notification channels carry a fixed recipient (`EmailMessage.to_emails`, or a fixed webhook URL) decided when the channel is created, so delivering to the session owner is not expressible today.
- `session_idle_checks.expire_at` is already persisted, so "how long until reclamation" is available.
JIRA Issue: BA-7274
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reading NotificationRuleType and the existing notification channel recipient handling, then trace how session_idle_checks uses the persisted expire_at value. Compare the emitted notification types with the idle-check lifecycle and determine what would be required for a configurable warning delivered to the session owner before reclamation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend-api-design
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100