diff --git a/LANE-REPORT.md b/LANE-REPORT.md index 15af9e96182..566f96f7efc 100644 --- a/LANE-REPORT.md +++ b/LANE-REPORT.md @@ -237,6 +237,100 @@ Skill deviations, both deliberate: Screenshots are in `/tmp/lane3-host/` (`f1`–`f21.jpg`) and were not committed. +## Confirmation round (2026-08-27, second dispatch) + +The coordinator was right that my first-round experiment was the wrong animal: `env -u ORCA_PANE_KEY` +suppresses the whole hook, so the pane loses its agent identity and native chat is never offered. +Brennan kept `ORCA_PANE_KEY` set. I reproduced his exact sequence and it changes the conclusion. + +### The reproduction (all UI interaction via `orca emulator`, iPhone 17 by UDID) + +Configured the repo the way his was — `hookSettings.setupAgentStartupPolicy: 'wait-for-setup'` plus a +slow setup script — then created a worktree **from the phone**. Orca produced exactly his layout: +two tabs, `Terminal 1` (Claude glyph) and `Setup`, with the agent pane sitting on + +``` +$ bash -lc 'eval "$ORCA_SEQUENCED_STARTUP_SCRIPT"' +Waiting for setup to finish before starting agent... +``` + +Interrupted it with the pane's own **Interrupt terminal** key, landing back at `[cownose] $` with the +full Orca environment intact, then typed `claude` at that prompt. That is his sequence, not a synthetic +stand-in. + +### Answer to the question my first report could not answer + +**The pane lands in `ready` — settled, non-pending, zero messages. Not `waiting-session`, and not +`awaiting-transcript`.** Logged from the host every 2s: + +``` + 0s agent=claude state=done sessionId=null +116s agent=claude state=done sessionId=aff0000b-2b6a-4831-b0d4-699c9da876a5 + transcriptPath=~/.claude/projects/-Users-…-cownose/aff0000b-….jsonl +120s agent=claude state=working sessionId=aff0000b (unchanged) +124s agent=claude state=done sessionId=aff0000b (unchanged) +``` + +`providerSession` is published within a second or two of the hand-started agent booting, and it never +goes null afterwards. On screen the pane read **"Start a chat with Claude"**, which under the new copy +map means `ready` + agent-not-working — confirmed against a second, still-unprompted pane whose +session `714a8c63` is published while its transcript file does not exist on disk. + +It stays in `ready` only until there is something to read: I sent the first native-chat message, the +transcript file appeared, and **the conversation rendered within 8 seconds**. No stuck state, no +manual recovery, no toggle needed. + +### So: does fix (a) cover Brennan's case? No — and neither does follow-up #2 + +Stated plainly, because the coordinator asked for the uncomfortable answer if that is the true one: + +- **Fix (a) does not unblock him.** His pane had a session id. `sessionId` is only null when the hook + never reaches the host at all, which is not what happens when `ORCA_PANE_KEY` survives. Fix (a) is a + real fix for a real case — an agent whose hook identity never arrives — but that is not his case. +- **Follow-up #2 is not his fix either, and I did not implement it.** The coordinator's condition was + "if it lands in `awaiting-transcript` and stays there". It never entered `awaiting-transcript` on + this host: a live session whose transcript file does not exist resolves to a settled empty window, + not a pending one. Promoting `native-chat-read-retry-timer.ts` would have been a fix for a state + this reproduction never produced. I am not shipping speculation. +- **His symptom did not reproduce.** A faithful re-run of his sequence behaves correctly end to end. + Something about his instance — not the sequence — produced a settled *empty* window over a + transcript that already had ~30 rows at the path the host held. I could not reproduce that, so I + cannot name it, and I will not guess at it in a PR body. + +### What fix (b) is worth, measured rather than asserted + +His frame is `"Start a chat with Claude"` above a footer reading `"Agent is working"`. That pairing is +now impossible: `ready` + working renders **"Claude is working / This conversation has no messages +yet."** Whichever of the three states he was actually in, the new build names it — which is the whole +reason the question above was unanswerable from his recording. This round it *was* answerable, from +the running app, in one screenshot. That is the fix earning its keep. + +### Evidence limits, stated rather than papered over + +- Device captures of the changed copy: `awaiting-transcript` → "Transcript not written yet" + (first round, `/tmp/lane3-host/f21.jpg`), and `ready` → "Start a chat with Claude" (this round). +- **I do not have a valid on-device before/after pair for the states whose copy changed.** I checked + out the base sources to shoot a "before" and discovered **Expo Fast Refresh was not applying source + changes** — a sentinel-string probe never appeared on device. Every frame in this round therefore + came from the fixed bundle loaded at app start. The "before" is established by the base source + itself (all three statuses return the same `empty` entry) and by the failing test run above, not by + a screenshot. Reloading the bundle per arm would have cost another full navigation cycle; I chose + to spend the remaining budget on the rebase and gates instead and to say so here. +- `orca emulator` **drag gestures do work** — contradicting my earlier note and the standing memo. + A single `gesture` call with timed points does nothing, but separate `exec` calls for + `begin` → several `move`s → `end` produce a real 1:1 drag. That is how the terminal key row was + scrolled to reach **Interrupt terminal**, which is what made a pure-`orca emulator` Ctrl+C possible. + Momentum/fling is not simulated: each swipe moves exactly the dragged distance. + +### Post-rebase gates (base `6ba6d58cd2`, past the `9635e6822f` the coordinator named) + +| Gate | Result | +| --- | --- | +| `cd mobile && npx tsc --noEmit` | clean | +| `pnpm tc` | clean, exit 0 | +| `cd mobile && npx vitest run src/session` | 137 files / 1258 tests passed | +| `check:code-quality:changed` | passed since `6ba6d58cd2d3` — 0 / 0 / 0 findings | + ## Files changed ```