Stop means stop

• Stop did not stop. Clicking it asked the agent to stop and then reported success on having asked — so the session carried on working in the background, still writing to the transcript you were watching, and replies kept arriving from a chat you had ended. Under the terminal daemon, which deliberately keeps running when the app closes, a stop that was never applied left a process nothing could reach any more. Stop now waits for the agent to actually be gone before it tells you it stopped, keeps the tab open when it cannot, and says which of the two happened.
• Every agent has a Stop button now. The button was only ever drawn when Aura knew a turn was running, and it only ever knew that on one particular wire — Claude Code’s. Codex, Gemini, OpenCode and Pi had no way to interrupt a turn from the chat at all.
• Ending a chat ends it for good. The transcript Aura keeps on disk was filed under the agent and the project rather than the session, and nothing ever cleared it, so the next chat you opened on the same project replayed the one you had killed. That is the part that made it feel haunted, and it is gone.
• Escape is tried twice, and the answer is honest. The chat’s Stop used to send one Escape and assume it worked. It now watches for the agent to genuinely go quiet, tries again, and if that CLI simply ignores Escape it says so and puts its own terminal one click away instead of a button that does nothing.
• Aura asks, once, for a star. It is free and open source and it had never asked for anything back. There is one screen on first run, one nudge after Aura has actually done some work for you, and permanent links in Settings. At most twice per install, and never again once you answer.