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Neil 85a3ba6d42 fix(terminal): align CJK IME preedit spacing (#19367)
* fix(terminal): align IME preedit to terminal cell grid

* fix(terminal): preserve native shaping and reuse IME preedit on repaint

* fix(terminal): preserve native shaping with bounded IME spacing runs

* test(terminal): account for inline preedit subpixel rounding

* test(terminal): keep the IME grid fixture wide at every DPI

* chore: regenerate xterm patch after rebase

* test(terminal): remove IME assertion lint findings

* test(terminal): avoid reflective IME fixture access

* test(e2e): run IME renderer matrix with WebGL available

* fix(ci): restore editor line budget
2026-09-19 16:44:38 -07:00
09073086a8 feat(terminal): inline images via @xterm/addon-image (perf-first) (#19512)
* feat(terminal): inline images via @xterm/addon-image, perf-first

Add opt-in inline terminal images (SIXEL, iTerm2 IIP, Kitty graphics)
through @xterm/addon-image, designed to keep idle terminals unaffected.

Performance:
- The addon (base64-inlined wasm decoders + protocol handlers) loads off
  the boot critical path via a deferred loader that mirrors the WebGL
  addon: primed after first paint only when the setting is on, read back
  synchronously at attach, with a 3-attempt cap so a transient failure
  never disables images for the session and a missing chunk never
  refetches per pane. renderer-boot-graph guards against eager import.
- enableSizeReports:false so the addon never sets windowOptions and
  double-answers Orca's own CSI 14t/16t responder.
- Perf-tuned decode/storage limits (storageLimit, sixel/iip/kitty size
  caps) in one place.

Correctness:
- Orca's DA1 handler wins over the addon's (last-registered-first), and
  the default DA1 response never advertised Sixel (;4), so DA1-detecting
  tools (chafa, img2sixel, viu, timg) never emitted it. The winning
  handler now appends ;4 while the setting is on, resolved per query so a
  live toggle changes the next DA1; idempotent against the ConPTY
  response that already lists it.
- ORCA_IMAGE_PROTOCOL=kitty is exported to spawned shells (local, daemon,
  relay/SSH) and forwarded across the WSL boundary, so image-capable
  agents can pick an encoder. Unknown image sequences are swallowed by
  xterm when the addon is detached, so this never garbles output.
- Settings toggle (default on) gates rendering and DA1 advertisement.

Cross-checked against community PRs #7775, #11706, and #19201 at the end;
credited below.

Co-authored-by: s546126 <s546126@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: XRX193 <XRX193@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: lmsh7 <lmsh7@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(terminal): bound inline image memory and classify Kitty replies

* fix(terminal): bound image decode and release image resources on cleanup

* fix(terminal): address image addon review feedback

* test(terminal): stub setPaneInlineImagesEnabled in appearance manager fakes

* fix(terminal): evict unplaced kitty payloads before displayed images

Byte-budget eviction dropped the oldest transmitted blob regardless of
placement, so a new upload could erase a visible image while abandoned
blobs still held budget. Unplaced payloads now go first and displayed
ones only when that is not enough. The incoming image is always stored,
so an oversized one overshoots the cap by one payload instead of being
dropped after the protocol already acked OK.

* fix(terminal): gate DA1 Sixel on real addon attachment; claim SSH image spec in CI

- DA1 advertised Sixel from the setting alone, so a pane whose lazy addon
  chunk was still loading (or had failed all three attempts) told
  feature-detecting tools to emit DCS that nothing could render. Track the
  attached decoder per terminal and require it before setting the ;4 bit.
- tests/e2e/terminal-inline-images-ssh.spec.ts was Docker-gated but claimed
  by no lane runner, so pr-e2e-gate-contract failed and the spec would have
  self-skipped green forever.
- Reject non-positive PNG IHDR dimensions before decode: they are parsed with
  signed shifts, so a dimension >= 0x80000000 came back negative and slipped
  past the pixel-limit comparison.
- One resolveTerminalInlineImagesEnabled() for the default-on setting; the
  four call sites mixed '?? true' with '!== false', which disagree on null.
- One readInlineImageResources() walk of the addon internals instead of two
  copies that could drift against the patched dependency.
- Isolate the deferred-attach drain per pane; make the zoom-invariance and
  backing-storage e2e assertions fail when the feature is dead.

* refactor(terminal): one lazy xterm addon loader for webgl and image

terminal-image-addon-loader was a structural clone of the webgl one — same
memo, attempt cap, and .then(ok,err)-clears-memo recovery. Both now wrap
createLazyXtermAddonLoader; each keeps its literal import() specifier so the
bundler still splits the chunk (verified against a fresh build: addon-image
stays out of the boot graph).

* refactor(terminal): name openTerminal's addon flags; pin image addon limits

Two adjacent optional booleans could be swapped without a type error once
inline images added the second one.

* docs(terminal): state the real per-pane image ceiling; drop test ordering dependency

storageLimit:32 reads like the pane's budget but keys three pools — decoded
pixels, retained encoded Kitty blobs, and pending WASM decoders — so the worst
case is ~98 MB per pane with no cross-pane governor. Say so at the constant.

pane-inline-images.test.ts's deferred case needed to run first; it now takes a
fresh module instead, and the rest prime in beforeAll. Verified by running the
file with that test moved last.

* fix(terminal): satisfy rebased static analysis gate

* fix(terminal): complete casting gate cleanup

* fix(terminal): recover failed image addon loads

* fix(terminal): bound image decoder allocations

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Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@m4airs-MacBook-Air.local>
Co-authored-by: s546126 <s546126@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: XRX193 <XRX193@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: lmsh7 <lmsh7@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
2026-09-18 16:32:49 -07:00
nireak b87a6c0f23 fix(pty): pace the EAGAIN write retry so a stalled reader can't saturate the daemon thread (#15319)
node-pty's CustomWriteStream retries an EAGAIN write with setImmediate, which
re-attempts within microseconds. A pty whose child has stopped draining stdin
keeps that branch EAGAIN-ing, so the retry becomes a busy-loop on the thread
that owns every pty on the runtime. Measured against this commit's parent on
macOS arm64: 121,316 EAGAIN/s at 101.6% CPU, versus 805/s at 4.1% with the
retry paced to 1ms.

The delay is 1ms rather than longer because the cost lands on readers that
drain in bursts -- what an agent does between event-loop ticks. Delivering 2MB
to a reader that drains 20ms out of every 100ms: 689ms unpaced, 907ms at 1ms,
1414ms at 5ms. 1ms keeps essentially all of the CPU saving without the
delivery regression.

clearImmediate -> clearTimeout in dispose() is required, not cosmetic: once the
handle is a Timeout, clearImmediate does not cancel it and a pending retry can
fire after dispose. The disposal guards that make that harmless (_fd = -1, queue
drop) are already on main; this mirrors them into src/unixTerminal.ts so the
TypeScript twin no longer drifts from the compiled lib.

Scope: this fixes the CPU saturation. It does not stop other terminals from
being serviced -- a second live pty kept answering echo round-trips throughout
the storm in every configuration tested (1 and 8 stalled writers, macOS and
Linux, 8 CPUs and 1), with throughput down ~20-50% rather than hung. The
"every terminal froze" symptom in #11178 has another cause and that issue
stays open.

Upstream chose setImmediate deliberately (microsoft/node-pty#831, #833) to fix
large-paste latency, and rejected polling POLLOUT because it reports writable
rather than flushed. That reasoning targets a per-write delay in an interactive
terminal; this delays only the EAGAIN branch in a long-lived daemon. Pastes to
a draining reader are unaffected (0-3 EAGAINs per MB in every arm).

Verified: patch applies to a pristine node-pty@1.1.0 tarball, the patched
src/unixTerminal.ts compiles byte-identical to the patched lib/unixTerminal.js,
patch_hash matches the file, and on Windows the changed code never executes
(WindowsTerminal, 0 EAGAINs on a 300KB conpty write).
2026-09-14 02:32:08 -07:00
BingZandNeil 5bd0247aaa fix(xterm): remove scrollback decorations by identity (#13178)
* fix(xterm): fire Marker dispose before clearing line (#10879)

Scrollback trim under search highlights was O(k²) because dispose set
marker.line to -1 before onDispose, collapsing SortedList keys. Fire
listeners first so delete still sees the real line, then clear the line.

Fixes #10879

* fix(xterm): remove scrollback decorations by identity

* perf(xterm): avoid index arrays for unique decorations

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Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-07 18:18:04 -07:00
Neil 314506003a fix: retain MSYS shell descendants in their terminal job (#19068)
* fix: retain MSYS shell descendants in their terminal job

* test: complete MSYS regression CI registration and teardown contract

* fix(windows): deny job breakaway for the whole Cygwin/MSYS shell family

The per-PTY job probed only msys-2.0.dll, and only for bash.exe/sh.exe.
Cygwin ships the same spawn.cc breakaway logic under cygwin1.dll, and an
MSYS2 zsh escapes exactly like its bash does, so both kept the orphan bug.

Probe the runtime DLL on the shell's own search path instead of matching
shell names: that is the property that decides whether the runtime will
ask for CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB, and it drops the name special-casing.

* chore(patch): restore the conpty.cc index line

The earlier hand-edit dropped it while every sibling section kept one.
Recomputed against the real blobs: applying this patch to 7b286d3d
yields exactly 4b06d185, so git apply -3 has its fallback back.
2026-09-07 00:35:55 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 1478101342 fix(windows): unblock structured native chat by exposing process creation time (#18986)
* fix(windows): guard process creation times

* fix(windows): ask the relay's bare addon for creation times too

The relay addon build now emits creationTimeMs, but the runtime binding
for the bare addon still declared only CommandLine, so a Windows relay
host requested flag 2 and every row came back without a creation time.
That leaves captureWindowsDescendantSnapshot returning null and
verifyWindowsProcessIdentity false forever on those hosts -- the relay
half of the patch was unreachable.

Naming CreationTime in the adapter is safe because the bare addon is a
content-hashed relay artifact: it ships in the same immutable relay
directory as the bundle reading it, so it can never be older than the
code asking for the bit.

Also bound the win32 guard test on our own row, which the addon can
never fail to answer, so an unconverted FILETIME or a 1601-epoch stamp
fails instead of satisfying a bare count.

* fix(windows): make the compiled addon prove its own CreationTime support

CI caught the real defect: the win32 guard test read
isWindowsProcessStartTimeAvailable() as true and then found 0 rows
carrying creationTimeMs. Unlike node-pty, this package publishes a
prebuilt .node at the same build/Release path node-gyp writes to, so
pnpm patches the source tree and leaves that binary alone. A host then
holds a patched lib/index.js -- ProcessDataFlag.CreationTime and all --
over a binary that ignores flag 4, and neither a load check nor a path
check can see the difference.

So the binary now says so itself: addon.cc exports
supportedProcessDataFlags, lib/index.js re-exports it, and

  - windows-process-tree-creation-time.cjs asserts it during install,
    which is what forces a from-source rebuild. It is shared by the Node
    probe in ensure-native-runtime.mjs and the Electron probe in
    rebuild-native-deps.mjs, exactly as node-pty-job-ownership.cjs is --
    the Electron half matters because that probe decides onlyModules, so
    without it the packaged app would ship the stale prebuilt.
  - isWindowsProcessStartTimeAvailable() gates on the reported bit, not
    the enum. Believing the enum is worse than reporting false: the
    descendant snapshot returns null forever and the exit proof latches
    unverifiable while structured chat believes it has a reaper.

rebuildNodeRuntimeModules could not actually have rebuilt this package:
the patched binding.gyp includes deps/node-addon-api, which the tarball
does not ship, and node-gyp must run from the physical dir.

Also closes the relay repair path's divergence: repairCreationTimeSources
wrote the C++ but not the buildNode splat or the tree-node typing, and
assertPatchApplied checked neither, so a repaired tree passed as patched
with buildProcessTree silently dropping the field.

The guard test is unchanged.

* fix(windows): keep the process-tree patch LF-only

windows-process-tree-patch-contract.test.mjs requires the patch file to
carry no CR bytes. Regenerating through pnpm patch-commit emitted 199 of
them, because the creation-time change is the first to touch files the
package ships as CRLF (src/process.h, src/process_worker.cc,
src/addon.cc, lib/index.js, lib/index.ts, the typings) -- and #17886's
own hunks over binding.gyp and src/process_commandline.cc carry the rest.

Stripping them is safe and changes nothing the lockfile records: pnpm
hashes patches CRLF-normalized, so the digest stays
e66202cc623996d02040c93449eb9ae353fddadf426cb53202a59ee710ee6fe7 and now
equals the file's plain sha256 too. It also still applies -- verified
against a deleted store entry, not a warm one -- and the precedent was
already there: the previous patch was LF-only and had been patching
those same CRLF files all along.

ensure-native-runtime.test.mjs stages the siblings the script loads at
module scope into its temp project. The import walk added by #17886 sees
`from './x.mjs'` only, so the createRequire'd .cjs siblings still have to
be named, and this PR adds a second one.

---------

Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-06 13:59:59 -07:00
bfc6a262a7 fix(windows): read command lines from the kernel, not each process's PEB (#17886)
* fix(windows): read command lines from the kernel, not each process's PEB

MDE incident D scored Orca for suspicious memory activity: the vendored
`@vscode/windows-process-tree` recovered every process's command line by
opening it with `PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ` and chaining
three `ReadProcessMemory` calls through the PEB and
`RTL_USER_PROCESS_PARAMETERS`. On a 750ms/2s cadence over the whole table that
is the credential-dumping primitive, whatever the intent.

Windows 8.1 added `NtQueryInformationProcess`'s `ProcessCommandLineInformation`
class (60), which returns the same string as a kernel-built `UNICODE_STRING`
under `PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION` alone. Electron's floor is Windows
10, so every supported OS has it. The PEB reader stays behind a process-wide
latch that only `STATUS_INVALID_INFO_CLASS`/`NOT_SUPPORTED`/`NOT_IMPLEMENTED`
can set; a pid that merely denied a handle does not re-arm it, because
`PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION` implicitly grants the limited right and so cannot
be obtained where the weaker open already failed.

The same hunk drops `PROCESS_VM_READ` from `GetProcessMemoryUsage` and
`GetCpuUsage`, which acquired it and never read an address space.

Measured on Windows 11 (514 processes), counted in-process by swapping the
addon's import table entries for counting stubs, per CommandLine scan:
`ReadProcessMemory` 1128 -> 0, desired access 0x0410 -> 0x1000, p50 12.7ms ->
9.3ms. Command lines were byte-identical on every process both readers
recovered (376/376, 379/379 across runs), including a 24,068-character argv
with quotes, non-ASCII and trailing whitespace, and a WOW64 target. Three
processes that refused the old rights granted the new one; none went the other
way.

* chore(deps): refresh the windows-process-tree patch hash in the lockfile

* fix(windows): drop the PEB fallback and detect the unpatched prebuilt

Review of #17886 found three ways the reader could still perform, or silently
resume, the primitive it exists to remove.

The class-missing latch was a permanent, process-wide, one-way downgrade back
to the PEB read, and any single target returning STATUS_INVALID_INFO_CLASS /
NOT_SUPPORTED / NOT_IMPLEMENTED could trip it. On an EDR-hooked ntdll -- the
entire premise of this change -- a hook that does not recognise class 60 would
have restored PROCESS_VM_READ plus three ReadProcessMemory per pid per scan for
the life of the process, unobservably, on precisely the machines this was
written for. The fallback is deleted rather than guarded: GetProcessCommandLine
now returns false and leaves the command line empty, which callers already
handle, so the addon imports no ReadProcessMemory at all.

That absence is what makes the property checkable on the artifact. The
published 0.8.0 tarball ships a loadable prebuilt built from unpatched source;
it is node-addon-api, so a bare require() accepts it, allowBuilds is false and
CI installs with --ignore-scripts, and a rebuild that soft-exits on a Windows
file lock leaves it in place. Source-text guards could never see it.
windowsProcessTreeAddonReadsProcessMemory() checks the compiled binary instead,
and is wired into the install check, the rebuild, and the relay build.

The repair itself never worked: `git apply` run inside a work tree prefixes
patch paths with the cwd-relative prefix, skips what does not match, and exits
0, so the branch always fell through to its own post-check throw. The package
dir is always under the project root, while the fixture that covered it was in
%TEMP%, outside any repo. Blinding git with GIT_DIR fixes it, and the test now
runs inside a real work tree.

Also from review: bounds-check the returned UNICODE_STRING against the
allocation (not the size the second query clobbers) and cap the probe so a
bogus length cannot bad_alloc a whole scan; test NT_SUCCESS explicitly; value-
initialize ProcessInfo, which left `memory` as stack garbage -- measured, 82
processes reported the same bogus working set; and correct a comment in
windows-process-table.ts that still described the command line as a PEB read.

Re-measured on Windows 11 (543 processes): ReadProcessMemory 1128 -> 0, with
the symbol absent from the import table so the IAT hook finds no slot to
count; desired access 0x0410 -> 0x1000 on all 543 opens; p50 13.5 -> 12.3ms;
405/405 command lines byte-identical including a 24,087-character quoted
non-ASCII argv and a WOW64 target; 3 processes recovered only by the new path,
0 only by the old.

* chore(deps): refresh the windows-process-tree patch hash in the lockfile

* test(scripts): stage a script's local imports into the native-runtime fixture

ensure-native-runtime.mjs gained an import of windows-process-tree-gyp-rebuild.mjs,
but the fixture copied only the script itself, so every case in the suite died
with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND before reaching its own assertions. copyScriptWithLocalModules
already walks a script's co-located imports for exactly this reason -- its own doc
comment names this failure -- so use it rather than listing files by hand.

The two Windows cases still fail here, on a missing node-pty ConPTY runtime that
also fails on main; this only stops a resolution error from standing in front of
whatever they were meant to catch.

* fix(windows): route a locked stale addon to the Windows file-lock message

`pnpm install` with Orca running aborted with a raw EPERM stack. The stale-binary
guard -- which deletes an addon that still imports ReadProcessMemory so a skipped
rebuild cannot use it -- ran outside the try whose catch classifies Windows file
locks, and whose message is literally "Close running Orca/Electron/dev processes
for this worktree": exactly this situation.

Measured rather than assumed: rmSync against a loaded (memory-mapped) addon throws
EPERM, and `force: true` does not help, since it only swallows ENOENT. Cold copies
of the same file delete fine. So the delete threw a page before the handler that
knows what it means.

Moving the guard inside the try is the whole fix; the classifier already matches
the EPERM text. The new case runs the real script against a temp project whose
stale addon is held open by a live child process, and fails against the old
placement with the raw `syscall: 'rm'` stack the report described.

* feat(windows): warn once when command-line recovery is refused host-wide

Removing the PEB fallback removed a total-defeat vector, but it left a cliff: if
NtQueryInformationProcess(ProcessCommandLineInformation) is refused -- a hooked
ntdll that does not know class 60 -- every command line comes back empty and
agent identity matching silently degrades to image names. The addon still loads
and still enumerates, so every health check the app has stays green. A cliff
nobody can see is the failure mode this area keeps producing.

The querying process is the unambiguous probe. A process can always open itself
with PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION, so its own command line coming back empty
means the query is refused for every process -- not that some target denied a
handle, which is normal for roughly a quarter of the table. Keying on our own row
rather than a fraction means no threshold to tune and no false positive on a
hardened box where most processes deny.

One warning per session, gated on the CommandLine flag actually being requested so
a future identity-only reader cannot trip it. The suite's own SELF fixture gains a
command line for the same reason: a self row without one is the alarm, not a
detail.

* fix(windows): check the relay's staged addon at load, and answer tri-state

Two gaps in the ReadProcessMemory check, both about what it does not see.

It only ever looked at node_modules/@vscode/windows-process-tree. A relay host
has no node_modules of ours: it loads ./windows-process-tree.node staged beside
the bundle. The relay build asserts the symbol on the artifact it produces, but a
bundle and the addon beside it redeploy independently, so a host that has not
taken a new bundle keeps whatever binary is already there -- and the published
prebuilt is node-addon-api, so it binds cleanly and then walks every process's
address space. loadWindowsProcessTree now checks that file too and refuses it,
falling back to the CIM scan: slower, but not the thing an EDR quarantines a host
for. The predicate is duplicated rather than imported, because the config-script
copy is install-time tooling that drags in node-gyp and child_process, and this
module is bundled into the app and the relay.

And it returned false for a binary that is not there. All three callers happened
to be safe, but the name read as a safety predicate, so a future caller would take
a missing binary as verified. inspectWindowsProcessTreeAddon() now answers
clean/unpatched/missing over an explicit binary path -- which is also what lets
the relay's staged addon be checked at all -- and each caller states which state
it acts on.

Both are covered by cases that fail against the old code: without the load-time
check the unpatched staged addon is bound and the CIM fallback never runs, and
with 'missing' folded back into 'clean' the absence case fails outright.

* test(windows): load the addon in beforeAll, not at collection time

loadAddon() ran while the file was being collected, so on a Windows checkout with
no built addon the require threw before any case existed and took the seven
patch-text cases down with it -- cases that read only the patch file and need no
binary at all. Verified both ways against a deliberately unresolvable addon path:
at collection time vitest reports "no tests" for the file; from beforeAll the
seven text cases pass and only the three addon cases go.

* fix(deps): normalize the windows-process-tree patch to LF and let pnpm own its hash

`pnpm install --frozen-lockfile` failed on this branch on every platform with
ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_CONFIG_MISMATCH, which breaks CI and the release build.

Two coupled defects. The patch file was committed with CRLF -- 174 CR bytes,
against zero on main -- and `.gitattributes` pins `/config/patches/*.patch -text`
precisely so checkout cannot convert it, so those bytes reached every runner. And
pnpm hashes a patch **LF-normalized**, so the raw sha256 of a CRLF file is a value
pnpm never computes:

  raw sha256      322965470c05f63d8527f7d8e892ee26ee444136b66b57fd64c362a9f2ff05d1
  LF-normalized   f8ea245391c94da5770045aeea01fa6de466c2199c6ef46b5b769b398aa9823e

The lockfile carried the raw one, at all three sites. It is the only one of the
seven patches where the two digests differ, which is why the other six passed.

Normalized the patch to LF and took pnpm's own value from
`pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile`; nothing here is hand-computed. With the file
LF-only the two interpretations coincide, so the lockfile, the contract test's
no-CR assertion and its hash assertion all agree at one number -- and
`config/scripts/windows-process-tree-patch-contract.test.mjs`, which was red on
this branch for the same reason, is green again. The lockfile diff is exactly the
three hash lines.

The regression check is the installer, not a digest. Two separate reviews
"verified" the shipped hash by recomputing sha256(patchBytes) and matching the
lockfile; both were wrong, because both repeated the same wrong assumption about
which bytes pnpm hashes. A check that reproduces the original mistake is not
independent. So the new case runs `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --lockfile-only
--ignore-scripts` against a copy of the manifest, lockfile and patches, and
asserts exit 0 -- verified by deletion: restoring the shipped hash fails it with
the exact ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_CONFIG_MISMATCH from the branch's package (windows)
job.

Also corrected the `.gitattributes` comment claiming pnpm hashes patches
byte-for-byte. The `-text` setting is right -- `git apply` needs the exact bytes --
but that sentence is the claim that produced the wrong hash twice.

* ci(windows): run the process-tree patch suites in CI

Both suites only self-skip off Windows, so the binary-level check that the
addon carries no ReadProcessMemory passed vacuously in every lane.

* fix(windows): force core.autocrlf=input for the patch repair

My LF normalization of the windows-process-tree patch broke the `git apply`
repair path introduced in this PR. The two are coupled and I checked only one.

Those 174 CR bytes were not editor noise. They sat on exactly the pre-image
lines and nowhere else -- 107/107 in src/process.cc, 67/67 in
src/process_commandline.cc, 0 on every added or context line -- because
@vscode/windows-process-tree@0.8.0 ships those two sources as CRLF. Normalizing
the patch made its pre-image stop matching the file it is applied against.

Measured, reconstructing the true CRLF pre-image from the pre-normalization
blob and applying the current LF patch:

  core.autocrlf   plain   -c core.autocrlf=input
  true            exit 0  exit 0
  input           exit 0  exit 0
  false           exit 1  exit 0

`false` is Git's own built-in default and what "checkout as-is" selects in the
Git for Windows installer -- on this box the `true` that hides it comes from the
installer's system gitconfig, not from anything in the repo. There the repair
throws, ensureWindowsProcessTreeCommandLinePatch reports "still reads the PEB,
and repairing it ... failed", isWindowsNativeLockError does not match that text,
and `pnpm install` dies with no path forward.

Forcing the mode rather than `--ignore-whitespace`: both fix every cell and both
leave the applied file fully LF, but `input` relaxes line endings only, so a hunk
whose real content drifted is still rejected. The repair rewrites a
security-relevant source file; it should stay strict about everything except the
thing that is legitimately ambiguous.

Not reverting the patch to CRLF: windows-process-tree-patch-contract.test.mjs
(pre-existing on main) forbids CR bytes in it, and pnpm computes the same hash
either way. LF plus the forced mode is the end state.

The suite could not have caught this. The fixture built its pre-image from the
patch itself and joined with '\n', so fixture and patch agreed by construction on
any encoding -- once again a test that passes without its fix. It now emits the
CRLF the real package ships, and the case runs under both autocrlf modes pinned
through a temp HOME gitconfig, because the repair blinds git to the repo and so
reads global config. Verified by deletion in both directions: with the flag
removed the autocrlf=false case fails with the exact "still reads the PEB" dead
end while autocrlf=true still passes, and with the fixture back on LF all eight
cases pass with no fix present at all.

Also corrected the .gitattributes comment I added last commit. It said `git
apply` needs the bytes the patch was written against, which is now false -- the
pinned bytes are LF and the bytes it was written against are CRLF. That is the
same class of confident-and-wrong claim that produced the bad hash twice.

* fix(windows): assert the rebuilt addon, and install the patch for real in tests

Three follow-ups from review.

**The packaged binary had no check.** The relay build asserts its own artifact
and ensure-native-runtime asserts what it loads, but nothing looked at the addon
copied into the packaged app -- so a rebuild that silently produced the upstream
reader shipped. `rebuild-native-deps.mjs` now asserts `clean` on it after
`rebuild()`. This is also the caller D4's tri-state was missing: every existing
site branches on `=== 'unpatched'`, so `missing` still behaved exactly like
`clean` everywhere, which was the thing making it a state rather than a boolean.
Here both non-clean states fail, and they fail differently: after a rebuild that
reported success, an absent binary is a broken build, not an absence to shrug at.

The fake `rebuild()` had to start producing a binary for that to mean anything,
so it now emits stand-in bytes and takes `addon: 'clean' | 'unpatched' | 'none'`.
Verified by deletion: with the assertion removed both new cases pass.

**The frozen-install case could not see a patch at all.** `--lockfile-only`
resolves and never applies one, so its coverage stops at hash consistency. Added
a case that installs `@vscode/windows-process-tree@0.8.0` for real with the patch
and asserts the materialized `src/process_commandline.cc` carries the marker and
no longer carries `ReadProcessMemory` -- about 1.5s for the pair.

Correcting the brief on that one: it does **not** catch the `git apply` breakage
from the previous commit. Measured -- with `-c core.autocrlf=input` removed it
passes cleanly, because `pnpm install` uses pnpm's own patch applier and never
runs our repair script. What it does catch is a patch pnpm can no longer apply:
corrupting one pre-image line fails both cases. The repair path stays covered by
the CRLF fixture in rebuild-native-deps-node-pty.test.mjs.

Worth recording, since it decides whether the LF normalization was safe at all:
pnpm applies the LF patch to the CRLF tarball sources without complaint, and
materializes them as LF with the marker present and `ReadProcessMemory` absent.
The primary install path was never affected -- only the `git apply` fallback was.

**Dead timeout.** The frozen-install case passed `timeoutMs: 300_000` to the
spawn while vitest capped the case itself at 30s, so on a cold runner vitest
would have killed it first. Both cases now declare the budget they use.

* test(windows): route the frozen-install check through the pnpm invocation owner

The new patched-dependencies check hand-rolled a PATH walk naming 'pnpm.cmd',
which the windows batch shim spawn boundary ratchet rejects: pnpm-cli-invocation
already owns that decision for every other script, and its allowlist only
shrinks.

Reuse resolvePnpmCliInvocation for the command and prefixArgs, and the shared
resolveCliCommand for the presence check, so no shim name is spelled here. Its
`shell` flag is dropped because runProcessSync refuses it and already drives a
shim through the interpreter itself.

---------

Co-authored-by: Orca Worker <orca-worker@localhost>
Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-05 21:12:47 -07:00
Neil f7e3af254a fix(pty): close the pseudoconsole and dispose the conout worker on Windows self-exit (F24) (#18635)
* fix(pty): close the pseudoconsole when a Windows shell exits by itself

`ClosePseudoConsole` is the only thing that reaps a ConPTY's console host.
node-pty calls it from one place, `PtyKill`, which starts by looking the baton
up by id -- and the exit watcher in `SetupExitCallback` erased that baton the
moment the shell died. So on the self-exit path (typing `exit`, how panes
usually close) the lookup missed, `PtyKill` did nothing at all, and the
pseudoconsole was never closed.

The baton now survives until BOTH the shell has exited and `kill()` has run;
whichever arrives second frees it. `PtyKill` copies `hpc` out under the lock and
closes it afterwards, guards `TerminateProcess` on a shell handle the watcher
may already have closed, and duplicates that handle rather than reordering, so
upstream's close-then-terminate sequence is unchanged.

Measured on Windows 11, 20 self-exit cycles driven exactly as Orca drives them
(`onExit -> destroy()`), handles bucketed by NT object type:

  relay spawn (no useConptyDll)   225 -> 285 (+1 Process +2 File/term)
                            after 219 -> 219  FLAT

  desktop spawn (useConptyDll)    239 -> 439 (+1 Process +2 Thread +5 File/term)
                            after 235 -> 395 (+2 Thread +4 File/term)

The desktop residue is a separate defect in the `useConptyDll` branch of
`WindowsPtyAgent.kill()`, which disposes the conout worker only from an
`_outSocket.on('data')` handler -- and no data arrives after the shell has gone.
Fixing that line as well takes the desktop to 222 -> 222 FLAT, but it lives in
the `kill()` hunk owned by F23, so it is left to that change.

Refs F24.

* fix(pty): dispose the conout worker when a Windows shell exits by itself

Second, independent defect on the same self-exit path, and the larger half of
the desktop's leak. The `useConptyDll` branch of `WindowsPtyAgent.kill()`
disposed the conout worker only from an `_outSocket.on('data')` handler -- and
once the shell has gone no more data ever arrives, so the worker was never
disposed. The non-DLL branch three lines above already disposed unconditionally,
which is why only the desktop (the only spawner that sets `useConptyDll`) hit it.

Measured on Windows 11, 20 cycles, handles bucketed by NT object type, totals:

  self-exit,     relay spawn     225 -> 285   now  219 -> 219  FLAT
  self-exit,     desktop spawn   239 -> 439   now  222 -> 222  FLAT
  explicit kill, relay spawn     225 -> 285   now  219 -> 219  FLAT
  explicit kill, desktop spawn   235 -> 395   now  219 -> 219  FLAT

Neither fix alone is enough on the desktop: the pseudoconsole close is worth
+1 Process +1 File per terminal, this dispose +2 Thread +4 File.

The relay asset (config/relay-assets/node-pty-1.1.0-windows-pty-teardown-patch.cjs)
deliberately gets no counterpart: the relay takes the non-DLL branch, where the
dispose is already unconditional. Its reconstruction table needs the new hunk
though, or un-applying the desktop hunks no longer yields published node-pty.

Taken over from F23 at win-relay-qa's request after they verified that the
desktop never executes the non-DLL branch F23 was scoped around.

Refs F24.

* fix(pty): harden PtyKill against a failed handle duplication and a missing DLL

Both from review of #18635.

DuplicateHandle's result was dropped. On the live explicit-kill path a failed
duplication left hShellDup null, which the guard below could not tell apart from
the self-exit case, so TerminateProcess was skipped and the shell kept running
after its pane closed -- a worse outcome than the handle leak this patch exists
to fix. The failure now terminates through handle->hShell under the lock, where
it is valid and where TerminateProcess does not block. The only cost is that the
rare path kills before the console closes instead of after.

LoadConptyDll is now resolved BEFORE any baton state is touched, matching what
PtyConnect already does for the same reason. It throws when conpty.dll is
missing, and a throw after consoleClosed was set would strand the pseudoconsole
permanently: the retry finds the work claimed and does nothing.

Also corrects three comments the earlier commits made stale:
  - the ptyJobMutex note still said PtyKill reads the table unlocked
  - PtyListJobProcessIds said the baton is gone once the shell exits; it now
    outlives the shell, and the nulled hJob is what makes the answer null
  - windows-pty-job.ts said node-pty drops its handle record on exit

Re-measured on Windows 11 with the rebuilt binary, 20 cycles, all four paths
still flat: self-exit relay 219->219, self-exit desktop 222->222, explicit-kill
relay 219->219, explicit-kill desktop 219->219. Both explicit-kill runs report
22/22 shells exited, so the kill still lands.

Refs F24.
2026-09-04 05:32:19 -07:00
Neil 8463dcb7b9 fix(terminal): make wrapped-line search rewind iterative and bound its scans (#18402)
Patches @xterm/addon-search so one very long un-newlined line no longer overflows the stack, freezes the renderer, or goes unsearched. Submitted upstream as xtermjs/xterm.js#6149 (issue #6148); drop the patch once a release ships it. See the PR for measurements and the differential fuzz.
2026-09-03 17:59:16 -07:00
Neil 39330c5aca fix(relay): retire PTYs the host proves are gone, and stop two per-poll scan storms (#17832)
* fix(relay): stop three CPU growth terms in a long-running remote session

pty.resize gated only on `managed.disposed`, which is bookkeeping rather than
liveness. A shell that exits without node-pty's `onExit` leaves an undisposed
entry holding a closed master fd, and UnixTerminal.resize has no fd guard, so
the ioctl threw `ioctl(2) failed, EBADF` into the dispatcher's generic
parse-error catch. Nothing retired the entry, so it stayed advertised and kept
activePtyCount above zero -- which is what stops a relay with an unlimited
grace from reaching its idle-no-ptys exit (#12423). Probe liveness with the
same helper attach/listProcesses use, retire a provably dead pid, and contain
an ioctl failure over a live-or-unverifiable process.

processHasChildren forked `pgrep -P` per pane per inspection poll, uncached.
procps-ng opens six procfs files per process to resolve one ppid, so each call
cost O(host process count). Answer from the TTL-cached `ps` table the same RPC
already captured for the foreground lookup (#13537).

The remote AI Vault scanner had no parse cache at all, so every forced rescan
re-read and re-parsed the whole transcript corpus, including files untouched
for a month. Give it the mtime+size keyed memo the local scanner has (#13753).

* fix(pty): invalidate the descriptor when node-pty gives up the handle (#17930)

Carried forward from PR #17930, which merged into this branch. Rebased onto
current main; main's newer node-pty-fd-leak test is kept as-is.

* fix(ai-vault): refresh codex titles on the remote parse-cache reuse path

The remote cache keys on the transcript's (mtime, size, host), but codex
titles live in $CODEX_HOME/session_index.jsonl and are written after the
rollout — so a cache hit froze the fallback title forever. Mirrors the
local scanner's existing reuse-path refresh via a shared core.

* fix(relay): publish the exit a reap performs, and rescan for close decisions

Two review findings on the CPU work.

reapExitedPty told only the relay-internal exit listener, so a retirement left
the client's pane mounted against a session the relay had already forgotten --
the next attach answered `PTY "<id>" not found` with nothing before it to
explain why. Pre-existing on three probe paths; resize made it user-triggered.
Publish the same pending-exit the natural onExit path publishes, carrying -1
("gone, status unrecoverable"), and skip it when onExit already reported the
real code.

processHasChildren now answers from a 500ms TTL-cached table. That is right for
pty.inspectProcess, which every tracked pane polls, but pty.hasChildProcesses
gates the window-close confirmation and workspace cleanup's idle evidence --
one destructive decision per answer, where a child started inside the window
would be killed unasked. Give that RPC a fresh scan; pgrep used to.

* fix(relay): publish a reap's exit only on proven-exited evidence

The publication is a verdict the client acts on by retiring the pane, so it
must not be reachable from the disposed-record sweep, which retires off our own
bookkeeping rather than the host's process table. Only ESRCH earns it.

* fix(i18n): restore the activity-options key the rebase dropped

* fix(i18n): union en.json with main so the rebase cannot drop keys
2026-09-02 15:14:44 -07:00
Neil 8197268956 fix(pty,remote): close the pty master fd leak, and two remote-terminal defects (#17914)
* fix(pty,remote): close the pty master fd leak and two remote-terminal defects

so on Linux every later child of the process -- both later pty children and
plain child_process spawns -- inherits it and keeps the /dev/pts device alive.
Measured on Linux with stock node-pty 1.1.0: master fd flags 0404002
(cloexec=false), and 17 -> /dev/pts/ptmx present in both a later pty child's
/proc/self/fd and a later child_process child's. Extend the existing node-pty
patch with pty_cloexec() on both PtyFork spawn paths; after the patch the flags
read 02404002 (cloexec=true) and neither child sees the master. This covers the
app and terminal daemon only -- the SSH relay installs node-pty from npm on the
remote host, so it stays exposed (see the report).

rejecting inspection as a renderer-global unhandledrejection, which an
unreachable runtime produced on every cadence tick.

path cleared the close intent for it exactly like a dropped connection, so a
host that keeps republishing the dead surface re-materialized the pane the user
just closed. Keep that intent and drop its TTL. Also route the banner's
"Remote terminal was closed." line through translate() so it stops mixing
English into a localized banner.

* test(pty,remote): make the fd-leak evidence positive and size the close intent to its RPC

The Linux 'does not hand an earlier pty master to a later pty child' case only asserted that ptmx was absent from the captured listing, so any run that produced no listing passed without inspecting a single fd. Block the child on stdin, emit a sentinel, and assert both the sentinel and a real /dev/pts fd row before the negative assertion. Verified in node:24-bookworm: passes with the patch, and with pty_cloexec() reverted it fails on four inherited /dev/pts/ptmx rows.

The close intent's TTL was a 10s literal while the close RPC that can still answer tab_not_found had its own 15s literal. A host that answered slowly while republishing the surface had its intent evicted by the republish path's own pending-check, so makeWebSessionCloseIntentDurable found nothing to flip and #9194 reproduced. Derive the TTL from the shared session.tabs RPC timeout so the two cannot cross, with an invariant test and a regression test for the slow answer.
2026-09-02 02:23:45 -07:00
NeilandBrennan Benson fbe94ceff6 fix: close readiness gaps found by merged-change audit (#17159)
* fix(ssh): fence stale kills and retired pane replay

* fix(ssh): support cancellable interactive authentication

* fix(ssh): await remote catalog before snapshot adoption

* fix(pty): contain Windows ConPTY input failures

* fix(power): avoid redundant macOS display blocking

* perf(editor): narrow markdown override subscriptions

* fix(quick-open): close directory handles after reads

* refactor(linux): remove unused proc socket scanner

* fix(usage): apply flat Sonnet 4.6 pricing

* ci: prime Node next native test cache

* docs(skills): resolve snapshot cleanup data path

* fix(ssh): recover install locks after host reboot

* test(ssh): recognize boot-aware install locks

* test(ssh): prove previous-boot lock recovery live

* test(wire): pin pre-metadata release coverage

* fix(terminal): preserve remote tab ownership through recovery races

* test(runtime): fence replaced terminal handles in agent guard

* fix(ssh): preserve remote snapshot authority across polls

* fix(pty): contain late ConPTY output EPIPE

* test(pty): register Windows exit watcher before kill

* fix: close SSH and tab readiness race gaps

* fix(tabs): retain headless order and placeholder titles

* fix(build): avoid parallel electron-vite config race

* test(windows): avoid MSYS temp path rewriting

* test(windows): avoid killing exited PTY

* fix(pty): avoid late ConPTY input teardown race

* fix(terminal): sync reconnect error ownership after commit

* fix(runtime): use canonical worktree identity comparison

* test(ssh): assert complete cold-hydration baseline

* test(windows): invoke quoted retention fixture via PowerShell

* test(windows): read ConPTY grid through mode con

* fix(terminal): publish PTY replacements atomically

* fix(terminal): infer stale identity on reattach

* fix(terminal): fence stale pane PTY callbacks

* fix(terminal): fence stale pane binds after rebind

* fix(terminal): reject stale pane transport callbacks

* fix(terminal): fence mirrored reattach spawn callbacks

* fix(terminal): replace stale pane PTYs on remount

* fix(ci): size the Windows launcher-compile test budget from measurement

`native-smoke (windows-latest)` fails ~4.5% of runs on
`preserves a multiline argument through the compiled remote launcher`
with "Test timed out in 15000ms" — on unrelated PRs, for reasons that
have nothing to do with them. Across 176 sampled attempts it is the only
red that job produced, and it hit seven different PRs in two days:
#16900, #16904, #16915, #16955 (twice), #16979, #17014, #17085.

The test is six process creations: powershell.exe forks csc.exe, then
the freshly compiled orca.exe forks node.exe, twice. Hosted Windows
runners periodically slow process creation down, and this test amplifies
that far harder than anything else in the job. Comparing the 80 attempts
where it ran under 3s against the 12 where it ran over 12s, its own
median goes 2198ms -> 15917ms (7.2x) while the same file's
powershell-only test moves 556 -> 686ms (1.2x), the cmd.exe and Git Bash
process tests in the neighbouring file move 1.4x, and the other 35 files
put together move 1.5x.

Measured across those 176 attempts: 1881ms to 35438ms, p50 4264ms,
correlation +0.881 with the job's total Vitest duration. 8 of 176 (4.5%)
exceeded the 15s cap; 2 of 176 (1.1%) also exceeded the shared 30s
testTimeout, so deleting the override and inheriting the config is not
enough on its own. 60s clears all 176 with 1.7x headroom on the worst.

This is slow, not hung. Every body here is synchronous spawnSync, so
Vitest cannot interrupt one — the timer fires only after the body
returns and the reported duration is real elapsed time. That is why a
failure reads `× ... 22464ms` under `Test timed out in 15000ms`. The
work finished; the stopwatch was short. Seven reruns at one identical
head measured 2053 / 4680 / 5551 / 8732 / 13506 / 14868 / 21937ms — the
last of those would have been red on code that had not changed.

The 15s came from #8897, which raised this test off Vitest's built-in 5s
default because the job then ran bare `pnpm vitest run`. #8909 landed
3h27m later and pointed the job at config/vitest.config.ts, which is the
real fix for that. The constant stayed behind and has been the binding
budget ever since.

* fix(terminal): fence stale remount reattach ownership

* fix(terminal): reconcile mounted pane identity after replacement

* fix(terminal): fence stale reattach fallback ownership

* fix(terminal): fence deferred SSH reattach ownership

* fix(terminal): fence stale split pane ownership callbacks

* fix(terminal): keep stale spawns from consuming startup

---------

Co-authored-by: Brennan Benson <79079362+brennanb2025@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-31 08:17:40 -07:00
Neil e84042572c Upgrade xterm to 6.1.0-beta.303 and generate addon patches
* Upgrade xterm to 6.1.0-beta.303 and generate the addon patches

Takes the current xterm beta line: xterm 287 -> 303, addon-webgl 286 -> 299,
addon-serialize 287 -> 300, headless 302, the remaining addons -> 300, and the
same set on mobile. All four packages stamp upstream commit d3e32b3.

The reasons are upstream #6042/#6043/#6055 (a shared glyph atlas no longer
garbles sibling panes on a page merge, clear, or sampler-budget overflow) and
Note that core 303 is not image-addon-only over 302: it carries the buffer perf
work, including the new BufferLineStringCache.

addon-webgl and addon-serialize move into the patch generator
--------------------------------------------------------------
Both were hand-edited minified bundles, which is what the Known Gaps section of
docs/reference/xterm-patch-regeneration.md described. Both reproduce byte for
byte from the pinned commit, so they are now manifest entries generated from a
source patch like @xterm/xterm already was. Their sourcemaps now move with their
bundles; before this they shipped maps whose offsets did not match the code
beside them.

The webgl patch shrinks from a 1.06 MB hand-edited bundle to a 6.6 KB source
patch, because upstream took the invalidation half Orca had backported. What is
left is only what upstream still lacks: the fragment-shader else branch for a
v_texpage past the sampler budget, the clearTexture guard that no-ops once a
merged page holds index 0, spending the merge retry budget before beginFrame
latches the version it saw, and Orca's font-weight probe.

The serialize source patch is byte-for-byte the same fixes as before; upstream
changed nothing in that addon between 287 and 300.

Generator fixes, each of which failed silently
----------------------------------------------
- `--relative` was appended after the `--` separator in CHECKOUT_DIFF_FLAGS, so
  git read it as a pathspec and kept repo-root-relative paths, dropping every
  source hunk from an addon's patch.
- `git apply` run from a package subdirectory still resolves patch paths from
  the repo root, skips every hunk and exits 0. It now runs from the root with
  `--directory=<packageDir>`, and a source patch that leaves the checkout
  unchanged is a hard failure rather than an empty patch.
- An addon's own `tsgo -p .` has empty files/include and only project
  references, so it emits nothing and the addon webpack then fails on a missing
  ./out/. The root build now runs first.
- versionStampFile is optional; publish.js stamps an addon's package.json, which
  overlayBuildOutput never patches.
- On a version bump the lockfile has no entry under the new key yet, so --write
  reports the gap instead of aborting mid-run. --check still fails on it.

Adding the two addons pushed the generator and the Electron packaging contract
test over max-lines, so the patch-text helpers move to xterm-patch-text.mjs
(pure text: no checkout, no build) and the vendored-xterm assertions move out of
the packaging contract into xterm-webgl-runtime-contract.test.mjs.

Tests
-----
Four tests asserted upstream bugs that are now fixed, not Orca behaviour:

- xterm-user-scrolling-contract pinned headless and core by version string.
  Upstream bumps each package only when its own output changes, so headless 302
  and core 303 are the same source. It now asserts they share a commit.
- Five CSI 3 J assertions expected a reader stranded at the top after an erase.
  Upstream #6081 clears isUserScrolling there, so the erase releases them to the
  bottom instead. Orca's pin still lands them correctly, because its parser
  handler observes the erase before xterm's own handler runs.
- The IME transaction test hard-coded the xterm version; it now reads the
  installed package, since the point is that bundle, map and version agree.
- The Electron runtime contract asserted Orca's old clearModelGeneration. Shared
  atlas invalidation is upstream's now, so it asserts pageLayoutVersion on the
  resolved dependency, plus the Orca-only hunks on the patch.

Verified: 66,008 unit tests, mobile's 3,863, the four WebGL atlas e2e specs, and
`regenerate-xterm-patches.mjs --check` in sync on all three packages.

Left alone deliberately: resetAllTerminalWebglAtlases still fans out globally
even though clearTexture now self-heals siblings, and upstream #6068
(WebglAddon.dispose leaks the GL context) is still open.

* Drop the two unused WebGL atlas fan-out exports

resetAllTerminalWebglAtlases and presentAllTerminalPanesWithoutAtlasClear have
no callers, and had none at cadfc55102 either — the last call site went in
#6949, which routed reveal recovery through
resetAndRefreshAllTerminalWebglAtlases instead. Only a comment in
pane-manager.ts still named the first one; it now points at the live entry
point. scheduleRevealPresent leaves the registry's structural type with them,
though the manager method stays: terminal-visibility-resume.ts calls it
directly.

This is dead-code removal, not a consequence of the xterm bump. The live
recovery path is unchanged.

resetAndRefreshAllTerminalWebglAtlases stays, and so does the reveal-time
escalation in pane-reveal-repaint.ts. Upstream 299 does make a pane-local
clearTexture bump pageLayoutVersion so siblings rebuild on their next frame,
which is the bug the escalation was written for, but I could not demonstrate
that removing it is safe: with the escalation removed,
floating-workspace-shared-glyph-atlas.spec.ts still passed headful, and it also
passed with upstream's mechanism deliberately disabled (pageLayoutVersion
pinned to 0 in the installed bundle, verified present in the built renderer).
A guard that passes with the fix disabled cannot license removing the
workaround, so the escalation stays until that spec can reproduce the garbling.

Verified: pane-manager and terminal-pane suites (4,713 tests), typecheck, the
headful shared-atlas spec, and the three headless WebGL specs.

* Give the shared glyph atlas spec a trigger that can fail

floating-workspace-shared-glyph-atlas.spec.ts guards the corruption where one
terminal wiping the module-global atlas leaves sibling terminals drawing from
stale texture coordinates. Both of its tests drive that through a floating
panel reveal, and Orca's reveal paths escalate to a registry-wide atlas reset
that repaints every pane — so the recovery under test heals the damage before
the assertion runs, and the tests pass whether or not xterm propagates the
invalidation at all.

The new test clears the shared atlas straight through the floating manager with
the panel closed, so nothing else repaints the workspace terminal, then repaints
it with terminal.refresh(). That is the load-bearing detail: _updateModel skips
cells whose content is unchanged, so the refresh reuses vertices baked against
the pages that were just wiped, which is exactly the state the fix has to
recover from.

Verified as a discriminator rather than assumed. Pinning ITextureAtlas's
pageLayoutVersion getter to 0 in the installed bundle, which disables the
per-renderer invalidation upstream added in addon-webgl 0.20.0-beta.299, and
confirming that reached the built renderer:

  fix intact:   siblingClearIntact=true   1 passed
  fix disabled: siblingClearIntact=false  1 failed

The failure renders the workspace terminal completely blank — stale coordinates
into a wiped atlas sample nothing. The two reveal tests pass unchanged in both
configurations, which is the gap this closes.

* Compare shared-atlas screenshots with tolerance instead of byte equality

Byte equality fails on sub-pixel antialiasing noise that leaves every glyph
legible, so the headful spec flaked under xterm 303. Reuse the existing
compareTerminalScreenshots helper: real stale-model corruption blanks the
terminal at ~3% of pixels, twice the helper's 1.5% threshold, so the looser
oracle keeps its teeth. Log the ratio so failures are diagnosable.

* fix(xterm): cancel empty deferred IME compositions

* test(xterm): strengthen runtime patch contracts
2026-08-30 15:14:49 -07:00
Neil 7f822a73e3 fix(terminal): render the IME caret and give the candidate anchor one owner (#17170)
* fix(terminal): render IME caret without placeholder overlap

* fix(terminal): preserve dim mid-line composition tails

* fix(terminal): keep IME caret visible at row edge

* fix(terminal): harden IME overlay lifecycle and layout

* test(terminal): type final-cell layout mock

* fix(terminal): keep final-cell IME anchor on-screen

* fix(terminal): bind IME masking to composer ownership

* fix(terminal): bound IME placeholder session ownership

* fix(terminal): track latest IME placeholder session

* test(terminal): share IME session event fixture

* fix(terminal): keep both writers of the IME candidate anchor in agreement

`textarea.style.left` has two writers: xterm's patched CompositionHelper and
Orca's terminal-ime-candidate-anchor.ts. The anchor module listens on
terminal.element, so within a composition event it writes after xterm's textarea
listener and reverted the final-column clamp the patch had just applied.

Moving the clamp into the anchor module and dropping the patch hunk does not fix
it, and the rendered e2e caught that: CoreBrowserTerminal.ts:444 drives
updateCompositionElements from onRender as well, so xterm re-asserts the textarea
position on every repaint, with no composition event for that module to hear. The
anchor survived only when no render happened to follow — measured as a flake at the
final column, 1561.28px against a 1557px screen edge, the fully unclamped value.

So both writers now compute the same clamp. The patch keeps it, because it is the
writer on the render path and already holds cursorLeft, maxWidth and the preedit
bounds. The anchor module applies the same one, so its composition-event write no
longer reverts the correction in the window before the next render. Both halves are
individually necessary and both are mutation-tested.

Also restores _getRowRemainderText's expression from main: translateToString(true,
x, line.length) and translateToString(false, x, getTrimmedLength()) are the same
call, since upstream does endCol = min(endCol, getTrimmedLength()) under trimRight.

Adds the two missing tests — one installing both anchor writers in a single rig, one
driving a render under an open composition — plus disposal cleanup and clamp-bound
coverage, and moves the Codex/Claude placeholder mask to a follow-up PR.
2026-08-30 02:23:04 -07:00
Neil b17f60d744 build: upgrade to pnpm 12 (#17156) 2026-08-29 14:13:26 -07:00
Brennan Benson 4bb337741c feat(terminal): weight-layer forensics for the bold-collapse bug (STA-4042) (#16868)
* feat(terminal): weight-layer forensics for the bold-collapse bug (STA-4042)

Field instrumentation to name the writer behind regular-text-renders-bold:
- metric-weight-change crumbs at the writePaneMetricOptions funnel
  (prev/next/reason; weights never change in normal operation)
- terminal-weight-parity-mismatch audit on every visibility resume
- sentinel weightProbe capture fields: live options vs atlas captured
  config vs renderer-buffer bold census
- Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+click unconditional capture (no divergence gate, no
  recovery) for states the missing-ink detector cannot see
- patched addon-webgl ctx.font readback probe: detects failed font
  assignments that rasterize glyphs at a stale weight

* fix(terminal): treat canvas weight-700-serializes-as-bold as a match in the atlas font probe

Found by live validation: Chromium's ctx.font getter normalizes numeric 700
to the keyword 'bold', which made every legitimate bold rasterization count
as a failed assignment (124 false positives in one session).

* chore: update patch hash for the font-probe normalization fix

* fix(terminal): bound bold glitch diagnostics

* fix(terminal): cover serialized WebGL probe state

* feat(settings): hidden staff toggle to arm terminal render diagnostics

Replaces the reserved hidden-experimental placeholder slot with a real
switch (Shift-click the Experimental sidebar entry to reveal). It arms
and disarms the render-desync capture sentinel live — no localStorage
incantation, no reload — for the bold-glitch investigation. The passive
probes stay always-on; only the capture gestures are gated.

* fix(settings): make render diagnostics disarm exact

* chore(settings): rename hidden group to 'Hidden experimental settings', drop its description

* feat(settings): unlock hidden experimental group via Option-click on the Experimental page title

Replaces the Shift-click-sidebar unlock with the Updates-header idiom:
Option-click the Experimental page title toggles the hidden group.
Removes the now-unused click-modifier plumbing from the settings sidebar.
2026-08-27 23:36:44 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 8dd7d6060c fix(release): stabilize native builds across CI platforms (#16947) 2026-08-27 21:42:34 -07:00
Neil 0096e47850 fix(windows): keep windows-process-tree gyp paths absolute under pnpm (#16688)
* fix(windows): keep windows-process-tree gyp paths absolute under pnpm

Hourly Windows builds have failed since #16598 at
`build-windows-process-tree-relay-addon`: `require('node-addon-api').targets`
is cwd-relative, so node-gyp evaluates it from the pnpm store realpath and
then loads it from the `node_modules` symlink. That resolves
`node_addon_api.gyp` outside the repo.

Use `require.resolve` for an absolute path, matching the node-pty patch.

* i18n: keep ja skill-filter labels on the catalog's Agent brand

#16682 merged with a failing localization catalog: ja used エージェント
in three new skill-filter strings, and repair-locale-catalog rewrites
those to Agent. Match the rest of ja.json so static analysis can pass.
2026-08-26 16:15:03 -07:00
Neil 2d500278b4 build(windows): refuse unpatched node-pty prebuilds
Merged after clean CI, Windows packaging verification, and readiness review.
2026-08-24 15:48:47 -07:00
Neil 2b1254d681 fix(windows): own PTY process trees with job objects (#15755)
* fix(windows): own PTY process trees with job objects

Teardown used to answer 'is this tree mine, and how do I kill it?' by
scraping the process table, walking parent pids back to Orca, and running
taskkill /T /F only if the walk said yes. Every step is a guess, and the
code said so itself: windows-pty-root-identity.ts:35 already named the
fix -- 'an inherited handle / Job Object'.

The guesses fail in the ways users report. A pid walk cannot survive pid
reuse, so teardown refused whenever it could not prove ownership, and a
refused kill is an orphaned agent tree holding the worktree directory
open (#9045, #10475, #10087). A descendant that reparented is invisible
to the walk. The scrape itself could be blocked by policy, which read as
'no evidence'.

node-pty now creates a job object per ConPTY and assigns the shell under
CREATE_SUSPENDED, before it can spawn anything -- assigning afterwards
leaves a window in which a fast child escapes. Termination is one
TerminateJobObject; liveness is QueryInformationJobObject.

Verified on Windows 11 against a shell whose grandchild was spawned
detached: job membership came back [shell, grandchild] and one call
killed both. Neither a parent-pid walk nor GetConsoleProcessList sees
that grandchild -- it leaves the console and reparents, which is exactly
the claude.exe/node.exe/cmd.exe orphan in #9045.

KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE means a daemon that dies without unwinding no longer
strands shells (#9195, #10415). The job is the daemon's, not the app's,
so an app-main crash still leaves sessions alive -- the guarantee
win-crash-survival-e2e asserts.

Both entry points report unavailable rather than a false success when a
pty has no job: an outer job without BREAKAWAY_OK can refuse the
assignment, and a pty from an older build has none. Reading 'we could
not tell' as 'already dead' is the original bug, so the old probe stays
as the fallback.

* test(windows): pin job ownership against a real detached grandchild

The unit tests pin the contract; this pins what the contract is for. A
grandchild spawned detached leaves the pane's console and reparents, so
GetConsoleProcessList and a parent-pid walk both miss it -- that is the
process that outlived its pane and held the worktree directory open.

Includes a guard that this build actually has job support, so a node-pty
rebuilt from unpatched sources fails loudly instead of letting every
assertion pass vacuously.

* fix(windows): correct the job liveness contract to what Windows actually does

I claimed an emptied tree would report [] and that this was the evidence
a stale registry entry lacks (#15549). Running it on Windows 11 showed
otherwise: node-pty drops its handle record and closes the job when the
shell exits, so a dead tree reports null.

Null therefore means unverifiable in the sense of
docs/reference/ssh-execution-boundary.md -- no job support, not a ConPTY,
or no longer tracked -- and is never evidence that processes died. A
caller reading it as proof of death would have been right by accident
after a normal exit and wrong on a host that refused the assignment.

What the API does add is descendant liveness for a tree that is still
tracked, including children that detached from the console.

* fix(windows): stop a clean shell exit from reaping backgrounded processes

Measured on Windows 11: with JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE on the
per-PTY job, releasing the handle when the shell exits also killed
whatever the user had backgrounded. Typing 'exit' in a pane reaped a
detached server that survived before this patch.

That is a behaviour change nobody asked for. The approved change was
that killing the terminal daemon reaps its shells -- not that a clean
exit reaps your background job. The job's purpose is to make an EXPLICIT
teardown exact, which TerminateJobObject still does.

Reaping a dead daemon's shells now needs the daemon-level job the design
called for: the daemon assigns itself, children inherit membership, and
its closure on daemon death reaps them without touching clean-exit
semantics. Not in this PR; noted in the reference doc.

* test(windows): pin that a clean exit leaves backgrounded work alone

The counterpart to the tree-kill test. Without it, re-adding
JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE would look like a tightening rather
than the regression it is.

* fix(windows): stop a winpty pty id from matching a ConPTY job

winpty.cc and conpty.cc each mint their 'pty' id from an independent
counter, and windowsPtyAgent stores both in the same _pty field. So a
winpty-backed terminal's id can collide with a live ConPTY baton -- and
closing that pane would have terminated an unrelated pane's entire
process tree.

Both job entry points now take the shell pid and the native side refuses
unless GetProcessId(hShell) matches, which makes the id unforgeable.

Two more from the same read-through:
- ResumeThread's failure was ignored. A shell left suspended is a pane
  that never prints and never exits, which is far harder to diagnose
  than a failed spawn; it now cleans up and throws.
- handle->hJob was assigned before LoadConptyDll, which can throw. A
  baton carrying a job but never reaching SetupExitCallback has nothing
  left to close it, so the assignment moved down beside hShell.

* docs(windows): record the unsynchronised node-pty baton table

Pre-existing upstream -- the exit thread erases while the main thread
reads -- but terminatePtyJob adds an instance of it, so it belongs in
writing rather than in someone's head.

* fix(windows): close four gaps found in review

BREAKAWAY. The per-PTY job set no limits, so a child asking for
CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB was refused with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED.
Installers, msiexec and some updater and service-control paths spawn
that way deliberately -- they worked before this patch and would have
failed only inside an Orca terminal, which is the worst shape a bug
report can take. JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK restores it; a child
still has to ask, so ordinary descendants stay owned.

EMPTY IS NOT UNAVAILABLE. The native reader returns an empty list --
not an error -- when CreateToolhelp32Snapshot fails, which is what an
EDR hook or a restricted token produces. Callers read that as 'nothing
is running' and teardown concludes a live PTY root is already gone. The
snapshot must contain the querying process; nothing else is
unfalsifiable, and one predicate catches empty, truncated and
permission-filtered tables alike.

NO DEADLINE. Replacing execFile dropped its 3s timeout. The vendored
reader latches a module-global while a request is in flight and clears
it only after draining its callbacks, with no try/catch -- so one wedge
leaves every later call queued behind a promise that never settles, and
the process table is dead for the life of the app. The bound is back.

GUESSED IMAGE PATH. executablePath was derived from the first
space-delimited token, which reads 'C:\Program' out of an unquoted
'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe ...'. Wrong evidence is worse than
none, and the only consumer already had the full path in , so
the field is gone rather than repaired.

Also: remove_pty_baton no longer sits inside assert(), which NDEBUG
would compile away along with the call, and the job accessors hold a
lock across lookup and use -- handle values are recycled, so an
unguarded read could pass the shell-pid check against an unrelated
process and terminate the wrong job.

* fix(windows): apply the job lock once per accessor

The patch script matched a string its own replacement still contained, so
PtyTerminateJob got two lock_guards named guard and PtyListJobProcessIds
got none. MSVC caught it: error C2374 redefinition.

* test(windows): pin that a child can still break away from the job

Verified on Windows 11: 'start /b' writes its marker and no access-denied
appears. Without JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK this fails, and it fails
only inside an Orca terminal -- so the failure would look like Orca
corrupting unrelated software rather than like a job-object change.

* fix(windows): stop the ownership guard from reading a closing handle

The guard called GetProcessId(hShell) to prove identity, but the exit
watcher closes hShell on another thread -- so the guard could read a
closed handle, and under strict handle checks that is fatal rather than
merely wrong. Worse, it widened the gap between validating hJob and
using it from two instructions to a kernel round-trip, and handle values
recycle: the likeliest occupant of a freshly recycled value in this
process is another pane's job.

The pid never needed a handle. It is captured at spawn and compared as a
DWORD, so the guard touches no handle at all, and hShell is now closed
inside the same lock as hJob.

Also from review:
- reject CR/LF in a cmd argument. cmd ends the command at a raw line
  break whatever the quote state, so there is no escape for it; encoding
  one anyway truncates the argument and can leave the remainder to run
  as a command. Agent prompts are this encoder's motivating input.
- ask the process table only for the fields a caller needs. Memory and
  CommandLine each cost an OpenProcess per process, inline, for every
  process on the box -- and the 1024 bound is patched out. Ancestry
  reads now skip both.
- corpus gains the degenerate quote-only and two-quote arguments.
- PtyListJobProcessIds' docblock still taught the empty-list contract
  that was corrected on the TS side, and now records that the ConPTY
  console host is never a job member.
- drop a write to NumberOfAssignedProcesses, which is output-only.
- pty_baton::hShell is initialised; ownsShell was only safe because &&
  short-circuited ahead of it.

The backgrounded-child test is rescoped: 'start /b' uses
CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE, not CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB, so it proves job
membership does not block backgrounding -- not that BREAKAWAY_OK works.
That flag rests on the Win32 contract, and I have said so rather than
letting the test imply coverage it does not have.

* fix(windows): bound retries after the process table wedges

The 3s deadline stops a caller hanging, but the timed-out call leaves its
callback in the vendored module's queue -- and that queue drains only
when the latched request completes, which in this wedge never happens.
Retrying at the caller's poll rate would add a closure per tick forever.
A 30s cooldown bounds it to one probe, and a late callback clears the
cooldown because it proves the reader recovered.

Also pins the deadlock invariant in the patch: the exit thread's lock
must close before tsfn.BlockingCall, because that waits on the JS thread
and the JS thread can be waiting on the same mutex inside
PtyTerminateJob. Correct today by scoping; a comment so a later refactor
does not widen it.

* revert(windows): drop the field-selection API, which cannot pay off

I added it for a real perf finding -- Memory and CommandLine each cost an
OpenProcess per process -- and then never wired a caller, so the claim
that ancestry reads skip them was wrong.

Wiring it would have been worse than leaving it dead. The only ancestry
consumer is the teardown identity probe, which needs a snapshot that
started AFTER it asked, for pid-recycle detection. Bypassing the shared
reader to get narrow fields would let that request join a scan already in
flight -- trading a correctness guarantee for milliseconds.

Field selection only pays off if callers can ask for less, and they
cannot: one shared snapshot serves every caller so a 32-wide teardown
collapses into a single scan, which means it has to carry every field.
The reasoning now lives next to the flags instead of in a dead export.

* fix(process): three P1s from review — a crash vector and two wedge bugs

STDIN EPIPE COULD TAKE DOWN THE MAIN PROCESS. A child that exits without
reading makes the queued write fail with EPIPE, and an unhandled error on
a stream is an uncaught exception. The child's own error listener does
not cover its stdin stream, so runProcess({ input }) against a
short-lived child was a crash, not a failed call.

THE COOLDOWN LEAKED A BATCH PER CYCLE INSTEAD OF BOUNDING IT. At expiry
every concurrent caller passed the check before any of them re-armed it,
so each enqueued a callback into the still-latched native queue and each
cycle leaked another batch. The cooldown is now re-armed BEFORE probing,
so exactly one caller gets through.

A SYNCHRONOUS THROW LEFT ITS DEADLINE RUNNING. The timer was declared
inside the try, so catch could not clear it; it fired later and wedged a
reader that had already recovered. Hoisted and cleared, and wedge state
now carries a generation so a request that lost its deadline cannot
mutate it on behalf of the one that replaced it.

Found by review once the prompts were short enough for the reviewer to
finish -- the previous two rounds died on prompt length.

* fix(process): stop a stream error from crashing the main process

Same class as the stdin EPIPE finding, two instances further on: stdout
and stderr had data listeners and no error listeners, and an unhandled
error on a stream is an uncaught exception.

Scoped to runProcess, which owns the child outright. spawnProcess hands
the streams to its caller, and a blanket handler there defeats callers
that track and remove their own listeners -- the SSH ProxyCommand
transport does exactly that, and its cleanup test caught the attempt.
Documented on spawnProcess so the boundary is explicit rather than
inferred.

* fix(windows): validate the ConPTY DLL before creating the process

LoadConptyDll throws when conpty.dll is missing -- a real state, and one
this branch hit during development. It ran after CreateProcessW and
ResumeThread but before the baton and the exit watcher were installed,
so a throw leaked the job, process and thread handles and left an
untracked shell tree running. Once per attempt, so a broken install
accumulates orphan shells on every retry.

Resolving the DLL first costs nothing and leaves exactly two throws
after creation: the CreateProcessW failure, where nothing exists yet,
and the resume failure, which already cleans up after itself.

This also closes the same leak for hProcess and hThread, which predates
the job work.

* feat(windows): add the daemon-level job the design called for

The plan specified two nested jobs and I built one. That gap is why
dropping KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE from the per-PTY job cost the approved
guarantee that a dead daemon reaps its shells -- I had one job trying to
answer two questions, and the two answers conflict.

They are separate jobs. The per-PTY job answers 'kill exactly this
pane's tree, now', and cannot be kill-on-close because its handle is
released when the shell exits, which would reap whatever the user
backgrounded. The daemon assigns itself to a second job that IS
kill-on-close; its handle is released only when the daemon dies.
Children inherit membership, so every pty is covered and the per-PTY
jobs nest inside it.

Daemon, never app: an app-main crash must still leave sessions alive,
which win-crash-survival-e2e asserts. Both jobs carry BREAKAWAY_OK, or a
child asking to break away is refused at whichever level lacks it.

Restores #9195 and #10415, which I withdrew from this PR earlier.

* docs(windows): record what the host job does not cover

An app-hosted PTY gets a per-PTY job but no crash reaping, because the
alternative is a kill-on-close job on the app -- which is precisely what
the crash-survival guarantee forbids.

* ci(windows): run the win32 suites in the PR windows job

Both were skip-on-non-win32 and had only ever run on one machine I drive
by hand -- which went unreachable at exactly the moment I needed to
verify the percent-escaping fix. Verification that depends on one box is
not verification.

The job already builds node-pty from patched source and already runs a
useConptyDll test, so the ConPTY runtime files are in place by this
step. This also makes the encoder a gate: the corpus is the only thing
standing between an agent prompt and a mangled argv, and it now runs
against real cmd.exe on every PR.

* fix(deps): refresh the lockfile for the current patch hashes

pnpm records a hash per patched dependency, and I regenerated both
patches repeatedly across the review rounds without refreshing the
lockfile. Every local run used --frozen-lockfile's looser sibling, so
nothing caught it until CI did:

  ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_CONFIG_MISMATCH  Cannot proceed with the frozen
  installation. The current "patchedDependencies" configuration doesn't
  match the value found in the lockfile

Verified with pnpm install --frozen-lockfile locally this time.

* ci(windows): build node-pty from source before the win32 suites

CI proved the encoder fix on real cmd.exe -- 26/26 -- and in the same run
proved the job suite had been testing an unpatched binary. node-pty
prefers its upstream prebuild, which does not contain this patch, so
every job-object export was absent and isPtyJobOwnershipAvailable() was
false.

That guard is why the failure was loud rather than a vacuous pass, and
it is the reason the assertion exists.

Packaging was never affected: rebuild-native-deps.mjs already builds
node-pty from source for Electron and restores the ConPTY runtime files.
The gap was the node-runtime test environment only.

Not changing requiresPatchedNodePtySourceBuild's win32 exemption here.
Its premise -- that the patch is Unix-only -- is now false, but lifting
it also needs pnpm rebuild to force a source build, and I cannot
validate that on macOS and Linux from here. Recorded as a follow-up
instead of changed blind.

* test(windows): gate the host-job guarantee in CI

The daemon-level job had one hand-run proof and no automated coverage --
the same shape of gap that let an unpatched node-pty go unnoticed until
CI caught it.

It needs a real second process, because the assertion is about what
happens when that process is force-killed: a host in a kill-on-close job
must strand neither its pty nor a grandchild spawned detached, which is
the process a parent-pid walk cannot see.

Runs in the Windows PR job alongside the per-pty and encoder suites, so
both halves of the two-job design are now gated rather than asserted.

* fix(windows): serialise host-job creation

Two callers racing PtyAssignCurrentProcessToJob would each create a job,
put the process in both, and leak the first handle -- and the handle is
what keeps a kill-on-close job alive, so a leaked one is never released.
'Only JS calls it' is not a guarantee: a worker thread with its own
N-API env shares these statics.

Also records the ordering requirement it depends on.
AssignProcessToJobObject adds only the named process; children inherit
membership, but a pty that already exists does not join retroactively
and would not be reaped. The daemon assigns at startup, before the
ConPTY warmup and before any session, which is correct today and now
stated rather than implied.

* fix(daemon): keep the host job off the startup path

Assigning the host job at daemon startup resolves the node-pty native
module, which loads the ConPTY addon -- and paying that before the
endpoint is published delayed readiness enough that daemon-boot-smoke
failed on windows-latest, deterministically.

windows-conpty-warmup already carries the comment for this exact
hazard ('setImmediate keeps the ready/handshake path ahead of the
warm-up') and I put an eager load in front of it anyway.

Moved to the pty spawn path, which already pays ConPTY cost, and
memoised. Children inherit job membership, so assigning immediately
before the first spawn still covers every pty -- and nothing can spawn
one before the endpoint exists.
2026-08-21 22:31:36 -07:00
Neil 057fbfcffc perf(windows): read the process table natively instead of forking PowerShell (#15749)
* perf(windows): read the process table natively instead of forking PowerShell

Seven independent readers each forked powershell.exe to run
Get-CimInstance Win32_Process, with a wmic fallback that Windows 11 24H2
has removed. On a domain-joined host with PowerShell Transcription
enabled by policy, one of them running every ~2s recorded ~289GB across
1.4 million files (#15209). The same scan cost ~700ms and ran per pane
(#15036), and a Group Policy or AV block turned it into 'unavailable',
which callers read as 'no evidence' -- which is how a PTY tree survives
its own teardown (#9045, #10475).

A Toolhelp32 snapshot answers the same question with no child process.
Measured on Windows 11 with 1050 processes, p50/p95:

  pid+ppid+name          15.9 / 17.5 ms
  +memory +command line  30.6 / 33.7 ms
  Get-CimInstance         706 / 723  ms

Two upstream defects needed patching, both found by running it on real
hardware. The binding requires Spectre-mitigated libraries our agents do
not carry (node-pty is patched the same way). And enumeration stopped
after 1024 processes: on a host with 1051 the module returned exactly
1024, and the querying process was itself among the 27 missing -- a
truncated snapshot silently hides the descendants teardown is looking
for, which is the failure this whole change exists to remove.

Migrated: the foreground/descendant reader (the #15209 scraper and the
teardown identity gate) and the port scanner's PID attribution. NOT
migrated: the memory collector and three identity probes, which need
Win32_Process.CreationDate and have no native equivalent. Start time is
a proxy for identity anyway; an inherited job handle is the real answer,
so those belong with the job-object work rather than here.

Packaging follows the windows-native-registry contract exactly:
optional, absent from onlyBuiltDependencies so macOS/Linux never run
node-gyp, win32-only in the packaged runtime. Asserted by the existing
contract test, which also stops pinning a whole source literal that only
tested its own formatting.

* chore(process): ratchet the child_process allowlist down

windows-foreground-process-rows.ts no longer spawns anything, so its
allowlist line is stale. The guard fails on a stale entry as well as a
new one, precisely so a migrated file cannot keep a slot open and hide
the next regression in the same path.

* fix(ports): import the process-table reader the scanner uses

Missing import: the migration replaced the PowerShell call but the new
symbol was never imported, so tsc failed. Vitest transpiles without
typechecking, which is why the port-scanner suite stayed green.

* fix(deps): sync this branch's lockfile with its patch set

Same class as the fix on the tip branch: pnpm records a hash per patched
dependency, and this branch introduces the windows-process-tree patch
without its lockfile entry matching. Every job here failed at install
with ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_CONFIG_MISMATCH.

Verified with --frozen-lockfile, which is what CI runs and what my local
runs were not.

* test(relay): drive the relay's Windows fixtures from the native snapshot

Two relay cases fed a PowerShell CIM payload through a mocked execFile.
That reader is gone, so both failed -- deterministically, on every PR
run for this branch and the one above it.

I did not catch it because my own verification sweep was
'src/main src/shared config/scripts' and never included src/relay. The
relay is a first-class consumer of the process table; leaving it out of
the sweep is how a deterministic failure survived six review rounds.
2026-08-21 21:54:57 -07:00
Neil fdd4091ebd fix(hooks): isolate lint-staged backups per worktree (#15388) 2026-08-19 22:37:02 -07:00
Neil d143922561 fix(terminal): deliver an IME commit the deferred textarea diff missed (#15198)
Picking a single Chinese character from the candidate window with a
number key loses it. The character flashes and disappears. Picking the
same candidate with the mouse works, and picking multi-character words
with number keys works.

Two paths can deliver an IME commit, and this falls between them. A
keydown the input method consumed routes into a setTimeout(0) diff of
the helper textarea, and that diff is what normally delivers the commit;
xterm's _keyDownSeen guard exists to defer to it. When the commit
arrives after that timer has already run, neither path delivers. Mouse
selection works because no key is down, and a real composition session
works because it takes a different path entirely. That narrows it to an
input method whose commit round-trips asynchronously and which shows no
in-application preedit.

Track that a consumed keydown still owes its commit, and deliver only
when the diff did not. The upstream guard and its single read site are
untouched, which is what keeps the duplicate-commit behaviour it was
added for sealed.

Not doing the obvious repairs deliberately: clearing the flag, skipping
it for keyCode 229, or setting it after the composition short-circuit
each unblock the input path without retiring the diff, and all three
were measured emitting the character twice.

The patch and the lockfile hash here are generated. Review
config/patches/xterm-src/@xterm__xterm@6.1.0-beta.287.src.patch, which
is the hand-written source of the change; the shipped patch and both
minified bundles are the regenerator's output from the pinned upstream
build, so nothing in this change was hand-transcribed into a bundle.

Refs xtermjs/xterm.js#6036
Closes #12099
2026-08-17 22:13:32 -07:00
Neil 49752477a6 build(xterm): restore the patch regeneration harness and gate it in CI (#15223)
* build(xterm): restore the patch regeneration harness and gate it in CI

docs/reference/ime-architecture.md says "Never hand-edit the bundles in
the patch" and links to docs/reference/xterm-patch-regeneration.md. That
doc does not exist, and neither does the harness it describes.

Both landed in 29117bf776 and were deleted by 17cfc968cf, a revert of
the composition-ownership change, which swept up a build tool and a CI
gate as collateral. The rule survived; its enforcement did not. Every
xterm patch since has had to hand-edit minified bundles to comply with
the surrounding architecture, because everything resolves to
lib/xterm.mjs at runtime and under vitest, so a src-only edit is inert.

The shipped bundles were therefore not the output of any build, and this
restores them to build output. Comparing identifier multisets against a
pristine build of the pinned commit finds hand-written names a minifier
never emits ($rl, $hp, $tid), const in an otherwise let-only esbuild
bundle, !! where the source reads Boolean(), an escaped LRM where esbuild
emits the literal, and a return block esbuild collapses to void(...).
Every remaining token difference is a minifier local reallocating.

The old source patch could not be reused. It described the reverted
composition-ownership architecture, so restoring it would have re-applied
an abandoned design on top of dropping three accumulated fixes. It is
re-derived from the shipped patch instead, and the derivation is a fixed
point.

Two deliberate departures from the deleted version. Sourcemaps are
included rather than deleted, because a live test reads lib/*.map and
asserts the mapped version matches the runtime version. The source-patch
superset carve-out is gone, so a source hunk the shipped patch cannot
name now fails loudly instead of being carved out silently.

The doc's claim that the webgl and serialize addons reproduce byte for
byte was half wrong. Their ESM output does reproduce at the pinned
commit, but both also publish CJS that the root package script never
builds, so folding either in needs a build step this harness lacks.
Recorded as a blocker rather than a confident sentence.

xterm_patch_sync runs the regenerator in --check mode, so a patch that
does not match a rebuild of the pinned upstream now fails PR CI.

The -diff -text attribute is required, not cosmetic: pnpm hashes the
patch byte-for-byte, so a CRLF checkout breaks the install outright.

Not verified: the CI job has not run on a real runner, the addon CJS
bundles are unreproduced, and the generator is untested on Windows and
Linux.

* build(xterm): make the regenerator runnable on Windows and drop dead paths

Readiness review on the restore found one blocking gap and two cheap
cleanups. None of them change the emitted patch, which is byte-identical
before and after.

The generator could not run on Windows at all. Three sites called npm
through execFileSync with shell:false, but npm ships as npm.cmd there,
execFile applies no PATHEXT, and since CVE-2024-27980 it refuses a .cmd
target without a shell. That matters because this harness arms a
blocking gate whose documented remedy is --write, so a Windows
contributor who tripped the gate had no remedy except hand-editing a 7MB
minified bundle, which is the practice the gate exists to abolish. Four
sibling scripts in config/scripts already handle this; the fix follows
them and lands in run(), so the manifest-driven build step is covered
too. git and tar are real executables in System32 and keep resolving
without a shell, which avoids quoting exposure on paths with spaces.

deleteGeneratedSourcemaps was unreachable, since the policy is include.
Deleting it left "delete" as a legal policy value that nothing honoured,
so a manifest asking for it would have silently shipped sourcemaps that
do not match the bundle. The enum is narrowed and an unrecognised policy
now throws rather than falling through.

generatedHunks moved into the test file rather than being dropped; its
partition assertion, that generated and source hunks reconstruct the
whole patch, is worth keeping.

The -text attribute now covers all five patch files. pnpm hashes each of
them byte-for-byte, so the CRLF hazard the xterm patch was protected
from applies equally to node-pty and the three addons. All five were
already LF in the object DB, so this pins existing behaviour. -diff
stays scoped to the xterm patch, since the others are readable.

The doc's claim that the addons reproduce byte for byte is now dated and
marked a one-off measurement rather than an invariant, because nothing
re-runs it.

Effective lines fall from 591 to 568 against the 600 budget. Still the
largest file in config/scripts, and adding a second package to the
manifest would need a split first.
2026-08-17 21:31:20 -07:00
Neilandrayim 453237cc57 fix(terminal): render the row tail the IME preedit overlay covers (#15014)
* fix(terminal): render the covered row tail inside the IME preedit overlay

Closes #12545.

Composing mid-line hid the character at the cursor for the whole composition.
The preedit overlay is an opaque box anchored to the cursor cell, and nothing
reaches the pty while composing, so those cells still held their characters —
the box simply covered them.

`CompositionHelper` now draws the rest of the row after the preedit inside the
view, so the composition reads as inserted text pushing the tail right. Four
details come with it:

- The view is start-anchored while it carries a tail, so the preedit stays put
  and the pushed tail clips at the right edge; alone, `rtl` still keeps a long
  preedit's end in view.
- It is themed from `options.theme` instead of the stock `#000`/`#FFF`, with any
  alpha dropped — the view masks the cells it draws over, so a see-through
  background would re-expose the very characters the tail stands in for.
- The helper textarea syncs to the preedit's own bounds, so IME candidate
  dialogs anchor to the composing text rather than past the rendered tail.
- A TUI can repaint the row under an open composition, so
  `updateCompositionElements` — which already runs on every render — re-reads
  the remainder and re-renders on change. A string compare adds no layout read.

The tail is read with an explicit end column: the cacheable form of
`translateToString` arms the line string cache's self-renewing idle-clear timer,
and the composition path must own no timers.

Geometry is not the cause. Two mature reference terminal implementations compose
marked text into the grid rather than into a floating box, and both still blank
the cells under it — one of them literally substitutes the marked characters
into the row's character array before rasterizing. Moving off the overlay would
not have fixed this report; rendering the covered tail is what does.

The e2e arm asserts the invariant an opaque overlay owes the grid: it must
render every committed cell its bounding rect covers. That is measured from the
real rect against the real cell grid, so it fails on the unfixed build with
`covers "하" / renders "가"`.

Known limitation: the rendered tail is plain-styled while composing (theme
foreground on theme background, no per-cell colors); colors return on commit.
This is inherent to the overlay, and drawing the preedit into the cell renderer
instead would be a far larger change.

Co-authored-by: rayim <rayim@fxy.global>

* test(e2e): assert the occlusion invariant, not the runner's cell width

CI covered four columns where this machine covers two — 34.4px over an 8.43px
grid against 12.3px over an 8px grid — so pinning the covered text verbatim
pinned the font metrics rather than the behaviour. Assert instead that every
committed cell the overlay covers appears in what it draws, which is the actual
invariant and holds at any cell width.

Still fails against main: covers "하" / renders "가".

* fix(terminal): keep the rendered tail's spacing on the grid

The composition view is white-space: nowrap, which collapses runs of spaces
exactly like normal — it only suppresses wrapping. So a committed tail carrying
padding drew its trailing glyph cells left of where the grid has them: measured
in Chromium with xterm's own rule, twenty spaces plus a border rendered two
cells wide instead of twenty-one.

The visible case is Orca's most common IME context — composing inside an agent
TUI input box, where the row is a prompt, padding, then a real border glyph the
trim cannot drop. A stray border appeared a cell after the preedit while the
real one stayed put.

xterm sets white-space: pre on its grid rows for this reason; the view was only
nowrap-safe while it held preedit text alone.

The existing fixtures are all space-free, and the e2e invariant is that the
overlay renders everything it covers — collapsing makes it cover less, so both
stayed green. Pinned with a padded-row fixture.

---------

Co-authored-by: rayim <rayim@fxy.global>
2026-08-17 00:18:11 -07:00
Neil 17ef6ccce6 fix(terminal): clear the preedit overlay when an IME cancels a composition (#14758)
Backspacing over the last radical of a Cangjie composition empties the IME's
marked text without reaching compositionend, and the vendored xterm
CompositionHelper only dropped the overlay's `active` class there. The box
stayed painted with whatever glyph it last held (#11951).

Clear on the state rather than on the key, as native terminals do: an empty
`compositionupdate` now hides the overlay instead of only ever showing it, and
a key the IME swallows re-derives the preedit from the textarea once it settles
so a composition emptied with no composition event at all is cancelled too.
2026-08-16 15:53:16 -07:00
Brennan Benson 774bbc788f fix(terminal): preserve OSC 8 links across cold parking (#13382)
* fix(terminal): preserve OSC 8 links across cold parking

* test(terminal): make OSC 8 e2e cross-platform

* test(terminal): focus OSC restore e2e on activation
2026-08-09 16:36:12 -07:00
NeilandOrca a47b9d1167 Show a preedit the IME resumes without a compositionstart (#13284)
* fix(terminal): show a preedit the IME resumes without a compositionstart

Typing 2-Set Korean shows committed syllables but not the in-progress jamo, so
the user composes each syllable blind. Long-standing hole in the vendored
terminal library, not a regression: the same test fails identically against the
bundle this branch starts from.

The `.active` class that CSS keys `display: block` off is added only in
`compositionstart` and dropped in `_finalizeComposition`. Some IMEs (observed on
Windows/WSL Korean) resume a composition with a bare `compositionupdate` and no
second `compositionstart`, by which point `compositionend` has already hidden the
overlay, so the resumed preedit is written into a hidden element and never
positioned. `updateCompositionElements` also early-returned on `!_isComposing`,
so it would not lay the overlay out either.

Re-show the overlay on an update that carries data, and key the layout guard on
the shown overlay instead. `_isComposing` is deliberately left alone, so no
commit bookkeeping changes and `onData` stays byte-identical. The two guards are
equivalent on every pre-existing path: `compositionstart` sets both,
`_finalizeComposition` clears both.

The bundle hunks are the same two edits applied to the shipped minified output;
the sourcemaps are carried through unchanged.

* test(terminal): prove the resumed-preedit fix against a recorded Windows capture

The synthetic test pins the shape; this replays events a real Microsoft Korean
IME emitted on Windows/WSL. The capture holds three compositionupdates that
resume a composition with no second compositionstart — the exact ordering that
wrote the preedit into a hidden overlay.

Without the fix all three report shown:false; with it all three are visible.
Fixture derived from the sealed 11919-windows-wsl-current capture, which is
read-only and unmodified.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* test(terminal): stop the recorded Hangul fixture pinning a derivation artifact

The capture logs each event twice — a dispatch record and a batched next-frame
re-log. Deriving from both replayed every event twice, which made three
compositionupdates appear to land after a session had ended. Filtered to
dispatch records the capture holds zero resumes and 11 balanced sessions, so
the previous toHaveLength(3) was pinning an artifact of the derivation.

Re-scoped to what the capture does prove: the preedit stays visible across all
37 real updates. Verified by reverting the patch that this passes either way,
so it is coverage and the synthetic test remains the discriminator. Both facts
are now stated in the file.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* fix(terminal): restore the preedit visibility patch onto its own branch

The previous commit accidentally reverted it: checking main's patch and lockfile
into the worktree to test whether a test discriminates also stages them, so the
commit that followed swept them up.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

---------

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-08-09 15:30:26 -07:00
NeilandOrca 17cfc968cf Revert the terminal IME composition-ownership change (#13282)
* Revert "test(ime): restore coverage the composition-ownership change removed (#13168)"

This reverts commit 25a8c517e1.

* Revert "refactor(terminal): return IME composition ownership to xterm (#13128)"

This reverts commit 17b3dff3c4.

* test(ime): keep the architecture-neutral Korean trace coverage

The recorded IBus/fcitx5 and Windows MS-Korean traces from #13168 assert PTY
byte order, not composition ownership, so they still hold once the terminal
composition layer is restored. The mobile accessory-order test pinned the new
handleLiveInputChange signature and does not.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* fix(terminal): keep the macOS Backslash bypass through the revert

The restored native-text forwarder only claims keys for input sources in its
hardcoded CJK allowlist, so third-party IMEs off that list (Qingg, #10896) still
get a raw backslash. #13128 added this bypass as a partial replacement; keep it
rather than trade the open issue back.

Scoped to the bare backslash key. The rest of shouldBypassXtermForMacNativeText
bypassed all unmodified non-ASCII text, which would race the restored forwarder.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* fix(mobile): move the mirror-step ref write out of render

The restored hook assigned runMirrorStepRef during render, which is not
replay-safe — React can discard render work, so the mutation can leak from UI
that never commits. Its only read is inside the held-commit timer, which fires
long after commit, and the ref has a safe default, so an effect is soon enough.

Surfaced by the changed-lines React Doctor gate: the rule postdates this code,
so restoring the file re-introduced it as a new violation.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

---------

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-08-08 19:06:50 -07:00
NeilandOrca 17b3dff3c4 refactor(terminal): return IME composition ownership to xterm (#13128)
* fix(terminal): return IME composition ownership to xterm

* fix(mobile): derive terminal input from native replacement ranges

* test(mobile): record iOS Japanese IME traces

* fix(mobile): preserve native IME replacement ranges

* fix(xterm): flush queued application input after IME commit

* test(terminal): pin Korean intermediate commit

* test: pin Windows IME shortcut ownership

* test: replay IBus number candidate commit

* fix: preserve native macOS input-method punctuation

* refactor(terminal): remove stale mac focus override

* fix(mobile): preserve soft keyboard deletion ranges

* fix: keep IME-owned palette chords in renderer

* fix: stop carried IME shortcuts at renderer owner

* fix: preserve carried IME shortcut dispatch

* fix: narrow main-owned shortcut actions

* test(mobile): pin Japanese IME replacement traces

* test(terminal): retain paired native IME trace

* fix(chat): preserve browser IME composition ownership

* fix(chat): retain macOS IME confirm gesture

* fix(chat): expire unmatched IME confirm carry

* fix(chat): isolate IME confirmation expiry

* fix(chat): retain active IME confirmation

* refactor(terminal): remove dead composition handler

* feat(ime): add shared Enter-ownership seams for CJK composition

The confirming Enter of a CJK composition arrives as two keydowns and the
orderings differ by platform: Windows/Linux redispatch the unmarked Enter/13
before keyup, macOS delivers keyup first. A guard reading only isComposing or
keyCode 229 misses the redispatch, so surfaces submitted on a confirm.

Adds useImeEnterGestureOwnership (carry token, next-frame expiry), a shared
ImeEnterGuardedForm for native implicit submission, and the cmdk seam covering
18 CommandInput surfaces at one site.

A chorded Enter arms the carry but is never swallowed — the reverse would eat a
user's deliberate Cmd/Ctrl+Enter. Both failure modes are pinned by
ime-enter-gesture-ownership-contract.test.ts.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* refactor(terminal): consolidate native input listeners and parked-screen owner

Extracts the shared native-input listener installer and renames the parked-screen
detector for what it actually does, replacing per-call-site duplication. The
listener installer keeps a forgetOptionKeyLocationOnBlur flag so per-window
semantics are preserved rather than flattened.

Net deletion; no behaviour change intended.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* test(terminal): pin recorded IME shapes as regression tests

Nine regression tests built from hashed affected-platform captures, each with a
paired ordinary negative and a discriminating mutation verified to take the file
from all-passing to exactly one failure.

Covers the Windows MS-Korean Shift family (#12179, #11878, #12151, #11946,
#12152) and the Korean TUI line-break rows (STA-3237, STA-3222, STA-3129).

STA-3237 pins the empirical 3-Shift / 2-active-composition / 2-newline ratio the
device run established — the third Shift produces nothing because Space has
already committed. That ratio is not derivable from a static capture.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* fix(ime): guard Enter-commit surfaces against CJK confirm

Applies the Enter-ownership guards across the surfaces whose Enter commits
something: publishes, clones, pairs, installs, posts, or persists.

Tiered deliberately rather than uniformly. Irreversible and remote-effect sites
take the carry token, which also blocks the unmarked redispatch. Locally
reversible sites take the oracle check with a one-line comment naming the
residual, because a spurious commit there costs one undo.

Three numeric fields are left unguarded with the reason in-code: Chromium blanks
number inputs at compositionstart, so a confirm-Enter only ever reaches an
empty-draft reset. Measured with a CDP probe rather than assumed — a guard that
cannot fire is noise.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* test(ime): teeth-check the Enter guards on every guarded surface

One suite per guarded surface, each verified by deleting the guard and
confirming the test fails. A green guard test without that check is unverified,
not verified.

Two shapes pass vacuously in happy-dom and are avoided here: native implicit
form submission never fires, and blur() is inert on an unfocused element. Both
made "the commit did not happen" assertions pass with the guard removed, so the
suites assert the guard's contract directly instead.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* fix(mobile): keep iOS Korean commits whole through the live-input path

iOS Korean reports isComposing: false on every event, so it bypasses the
composition guard entirely. The strict owner rejected UIKit's transformed
post-change field and sent only the leading jamo — the reported symptom.

Prefers the authoritative same-event field text over the predicted text when the
supplied operation cannot produce it. Generic: no Korean special-case, no locale
classifier, no normalization. Adds the RN-target-keyed submit carry alongside it.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* test(e2e): make IME capture harnesses fail loudly instead of silently

Four instruments recorded silence as success, so a void run scored as a clean
one:

- readTerminalImeBoundaryTrace returned an empty trace when the probe never
  installed, making every "nothing leaked" negative pass vacuously
- summarizeLatencies([]) returned a perfect zero distribution that passed all
  three latency thresholds
- the macOS Vietnamese spec pinned an input-source ID that does not exist, and
  failed as though the operator had chosen the wrong source
- the expectedLineCount=1 prefix property was undocumented and one edit from
  silently downgrading a PTY assertion

Input sources now resolve by enumeration and name the near-matches on failure.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* test(terminal): cover Cangjie cancellation and fix a cross-namespace assertion

Adds #11951's recorded Cangjie cancel shape to the existing cancellation suite,
which covered Pinyin and Sogou but not Cangjie. One keystroke then Backspace
arriving as deleteContentBackward with data: null, so the stale preedit is the
only thing a fallback could replay.

Verified against the historical pre-6cd944c62b3 bundle: the positive fails with
['尸'] where [] is expected, while the ordinary negative stays green.

Also fixes the Vietnamese spec, which asserted a TIS-space input-source ID
against getKeyboardInputSourceId(). Those two Orca APIs report the same source
in different namespaces — TIS nests it under VietnameseIM, the app API does not.
The resolver stays as an installation precondition; the assertion matches the
leaf.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* test(e2e): add a real-IME macOS arm for the Korean chord commit

The existing korean-ime-terminal-shift-enter-commit spec synthesizes composition
over CDP: Input.imeSetComposition sets the preedit directly and Input.insertText
performs the commit. Asserting the IME produced events you injected yourself is
circular, so that spec cannot certify real-IME behaviour.

This arm selects 2-Set Korean via TIS, reads it back live, and injects through
System Events key codes, so the OS owns the preedit, the commit instant, and
isComposing. PTY byte expectations are preserved verbatim.

Covers 2 of the original 4 cases by design. The other two are the Windows/Linux
redispatch-before-keyup ordering, which macOS cannot produce and which cannot be
selected -- the OS decides it. Reintroducing synthesis to "restore coverage"
would reintroduce the circularity.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* test(e2e): assert the macOS chord arm at the PTY boundary, not the renderer

The byte expectations were transcribed from korean-ime-terminal-shift-enter-commit
:364/:383, which assert against onData -- a renderer boundary where the terminator
is CR. This spec reads the PTY child, where the tty has already converted CR to LF.

Names both forms per row rather than swapping the constant, so the conversion reads
as evidence that the capture reached past the renderer, as #11936 and #11951 record.
Ctrl+Enter's CSI-u sequence is unaffected and is identical at both boundaries.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* test(e2e): measure composer-to-onData latency and stop dropping IME keystrokes

Two defects in the echo latency probe.

It hooked onWriteParsed and onRender but never onData, so it measured
key->parse->render echo rather than the composer-vs-onData delta the latency rows
need. Adds a third hook feeding its own sample set.

And `event.key.length !== 1` silently dropped IME keystrokes: Pinyin and Cangjie
keydowns arrive as key:'Process' (length 7). Replayed over the captured corpus,
the old filter accepted 580 of 4137 Chinese IME keydowns -- it was discarding 80%
of them. The new filter matches the shape the owner itself branches on.

Attribution charges each onData to the latest keydown rather than a FIFO head,
because composing jamo emit no onData at all and a queue would credit a whole
composition to its first keystroke. The consumer now asserts sample count before
any percentile, so a zero-sample run cannot render as a flawless distribution.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* test(terminal): pin the WSL shifted-jamo newline shape for #11919

In Korean 2-set, Shift types ordinary letters -- the double consonants and the
compound vowels. Each such keystroke reaches Chromium as key='Process',
keyCode=229, shiftKey=true.

The v1.4.163 classifier matched exactly that pattern with no code guard, so it
called those keystrokes Enter, rewrote them to a synthetic Shift+Enter, and
injected a newline into the middle of the word -- with no Enter key pressed.
That is why the reporters said "no modifier key pressed": they had not chorded
Shift+Enter, but they had pressed Shift, to type the double consonant.

Asserts the row's own recorded capture: 40 immediate keydowns, exactly 3 of them
Shift-carrying inside a single syllable, and an onData stream with one newline
per Enter press and none mid-word. Two ordinary negatives keep it from being a
blanket mute -- the same session's non-IME keydowns still reach shortcut policy,
and an ordinary Shift+Enter still resolves through the real policy.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* test(terminal): pin the composition commit lag that made Korean type one behind

macOS Korean 2-Set commits syllable N only when the first jamo of N+1 arrives, so
compositionend and compositionstart land in the same task. A composition-start
handler cancelled the pending finalizer that was the only path to triggerDataEvent
and ended the session without emitting bytes, so every committed syllable reached
onData exactly one syllable late and the backlog cleared only at a Space or Enter.

Types continuously with no Enter and no Space -- either would flush the backlog and
hide it -- and samples onData at every syllable boundary. Paired with a
length-matched ASCII arm that stays green throughout, so the positive is a fact
about composition rather than about timing in general.

Bisected to a single call site across five builds: pristine, 1.4.155 and 1.4.162
pass, 1.4.163 fails, removing the one call repairs it, restoring it fails
identically. That window is exactly the reporter's "started immediately after
updating".

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* test(mobile): cover the send-queue abort that silently drops queued keystrokes

One failed send in use-terminal-live-input-commit aborts every keystroke
queued behind it, with the error swallowed by .catch(() => false). The
existing test resolves(true) on every send, so the failure branch was
uncovered.

Four arms: the abort itself, an ordinary negative on the healthy path, a
throwing sender, and a liveness control proving the queue recovers once
the chain settles. Deleting the abort takes 4 passed to 3 failed, with the
ordinary negative correctly surviving.

Scope is stated in the docblock: this is a transport send-queue abort,
reachable only via a real disconnect or RPC error. REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS is
30s, so latency alone cannot reach the branch — consistent with #7094's
symptom class, not proven to be its cause.

* test(terminal): pin that daemon snapshot/restore cannot disturb a composition

Two independent reporters attributed broken Korean composition to the
always-on PTY daemon repainting terminal state over the preedit. The
attribution is wrong on ancestry — the daemon shipped three months before
the version both call good — but the boundary was never actually tested.

Runs the real applyMainBufferSnapshot choreography against a live
composition, including the full 2J/3J/H wipe plus the resize and
alt-screen branches. textarea.value, selectionStart/End,
compositionView.textContent and .active all survive byte-identical, and
interleaving a restore between every jamo of 문제 still commits 문제 at
onData. Also pins that the uncommitted preedit is absent from the captured
snapshot: it lives in the textarea, never the buffer, so a restore has
nothing stale to echo back.

Injecting one textarea.value = '' into the restore fails exactly the three
restore-boundary tests.

* test(terminal): pin that Cmd tears down a composition where Ctrl and Shift do not

xterm's composition keydown exempts only keyCode 16/17/18 (Shift/Ctrl/Alt)
plus 20/229. macOS Meta — 91/93/224 — is absent, so a Cmd press mid-composition
takes _finalizeComposition(false): the overlay goes dark and never recovers,
because compositionstart is not re-fired. The user composes the rest of the
word blind. Linux and Windows users press Ctrl and are exempt.

xterm already has a Meta-aware modifier predicate in wasModifierKeyOnlyEvent,
so this is an internal inconsistency rather than a deliberate choice.

Owns no reported row and is version-neutral: 5/5 on both 1.4.162 and 1.4.163.
The branch is unexercised in all 328 recorded traces, so this is a hazard pin,
not a regression guard. Only the teardown is asserted; the likely duplicated
commit needs a compositionend the IME kept alive across the Cmd, which no
capture contains.

Deleting the exemption fails exactly the three paired negatives; adding Meta
to it fails exactly the two Cmd arms.

* test(native-chat): characterize preedit loss when a question card replaces the composer

An AskUserQuestion card fully replaces the composer by design, but the
in-flight composition goes with it: the composer unmounts before
compositionend reaches it, so the preedit is never committed to the draft.
The committed text survives only because the draft is cached and restored
via defaultValue. Node identity changes, value 'abc' is preserved, the 가
is gone.

Drives the real NativeChatView -> SessionGate -> InteractiveCard ->
questionActive swap -> Composer -> ComposerField, flipped by writing the
same store field an AskUserQuestion hook event writes. Flipping
questionActive to false fails exactly this test and nothing else across
639 native-chat tests, so the path was entirely unguarded.

CHARACTERIZATION TEST: it asserts the loss. Fixing the defect — committing
the preedit before the swap, or keeping the composer mounted — will make
this file fail. Update the expectations to the new contract rather than
working around them.

Owns no reported row. #12118/STA-3219 flicker is keyed to token counters,
which provably do not remount, and a question card arrives once per
question.

* test(terminal): pin the duplicated commit when Meta interrupts a composition

_finalizeComposition(false) sends textarea.value.substring(start, end) but
cannot clear the IME-owned textarea, so a later compositionend re-sends the
same range. Meta reaches that path because CompositionHelper exempts only
Shift/Ctrl/Alt; xterm's own wasModifierKeyOnlyEvent covers Meta four ways,
so the omission is an internal inconsistency rather than a choice.

Companion to the modifier-exemption guard, which deliberately pins only the
overlay teardown. This pins the data consequence.

HAZARD PIN: owns no reported row. The trigger is unverified on hardware —
no capture in the corpus contains a Meta-during-composition gesture, and
whether macOS keeps the composition alive across it is unmeasured. The
duplication follows from the code given that sequence; whether users reach
the sequence is the open half.

An earlier premise that Space (keyCode 32) reaches this path was refuted by
a corpus scan: 0 of 731 evidence files carry a keyCode-32 Space while
composing, against 171 at 229, and 229 returns early.

* test(terminal): characterize the syllable lost when the textarea blurs mid-composition

CoreBrowserTerminal._handleTextAreaBlur clears the helper textarea
unconditionally — "Text can safely be removed on blur" — while
CompositionHelper._finalizeComposition reads the committed text back out of
that same value from a deferred timeout. By the time it runs the value is
empty, the substring is '', and triggerDataEvent never sees the syllable.
xterm checks composition state in _syncTextArea and omits the same check
here.

Six cases. Blurring mid-composition loses the syllable in every ordering,
including compositionend-before-blur, which is Chromium's real order — so
it is not an ordering artifact. A bare textarea.blur() with no Orca code
loses it too, which places the owner upstream: Orca's unguarded release on
outside pointerdown is one trigger, not the cause. Committing 한 then
blurring mid-가 yields ['한'] where ['한','가'] is correct: one syllable
gone, surrounding text intact.

Teeth checked by inverting — adding an Orca-side composition guard flips
exactly the three cases that route through the release path and leaves the
bare-blur and no-blur cases green, which is the scope split: a fix in
regular-terminal-focus-ownership alone would not close this.

HAZARD PIN, but unlike the others this one has a real production injector —
clicking outside the terminal mid-composition. Owns no reported row. The
shape matches #9738's report; the injector does not, and a shape match with
a mismatched injector is not an owner.

* test(terminal): say which arm the STA-3237 fixture came from

The recorded keydowns are wave 4's A-shift-unmarked-only — the arm that
emits no PTY bytes. Nothing in the file said so, so two readers concluded
the row's events fail the owner's predicate and that STA-3237 and STA-3222
were different defects. They share an owner; the arm that fires is
Process/229+Shift, absent from this bubble-phase trace because the owner
claims it in the capture phase.

Also corrects "code-blind": the v1.4.163 policy emits \x1b\r only for a
shift-only key:'Enter', and a jamo keydown reaches that branch solely via
the isTerminalImeProcessEnter rewrite. The mock is deliberately wider so
the ownership guard stays under test if that rewrite moves.

Comments only — no assertion, fixture value, or mock behaviour changed.

* test(e2e): track the input-source selector the macOS specs shell out to

Five tracked macOS IME specs ran `swift .tmp/select-input-source.swift`, a
file that is gitignored and existed only on one machine. Anyone else
checking out the repo — or the same machine after .tmp is cleaned — could
not run them, and they are the capture drivers for the macOS rows that are
blocked waiting for exactly those runs.

Moves it to tests/e2e/ beside its callers. The chord spec now resolves it
from __dirname rather than reaching two levels up into .tmp.

* test(terminal): pin the CJK repaint decision against the reporter's own output

#12164 comment 1 and #5921 report agent output with double-width glyphs
rendering duplicated character-by-character while ASCII in the same line
stays clean. No IME, no composition, no keystroke — the user never types
the CJK.

Segmenting all three verbatim samples into maximal same-risk-class runs
gives 33 runs and zero violations of "this run is corrupted iff the
production detector flags it": 17 wide runs all corrupted, 16 narrow runs
all byte-identical. The paired negative is co-located in the same line
rather than in a separate run — the reporter supplied it without knowing.

Doubling is asserted as present, not uniform: 자바스크립트 and 시스템 each
leave a jamo undoubled, which is a repaint-region boundary artifact rather
than a per-character transform.

The discriminating arm is in the test rather than a source mutation:
be3f30e2f8 (#6890) elects a repaint for all 17 corrupted runs when the
agent types nothing, and reverting its disjunct elects none. Both
predicates agree once the user has recently typed, which is the pre-#6890
condition.

Samples inlined with per-sample SHA-256 because .tmp is gitignored and
cannot back a landed test.

* test(terminal): pin macOS period substitution landing after the composition

#11504's reporter published a DOM trace showing insertText ". " arriving
149ms after compositionend, when two spaces are typed with a CJK input
source and NSAutomaticPeriodSubstitutionEnabled is on. This replays that
trace against a real Terminal and asserts what reaches onData — bytes to
the PTY, not anything visual.

The owner is stock upstream CoreBrowserTerminal._inputEvent, not an Orca
module, confirmed at the resolved install and in the shipped bundle Vite
loads rather than in the TypeScript source.

Three mutations against that install, predictions written before the runs,
each failing exactly the arms predicted: dropping the composed/keyDownSeen
guard fails two, dropping Orca's intercept fails the one arm where the
payload arrives before the send window drains, and flipping || to && —
the candidate-fix shape — fails the arm that pins the defect itself.

CHARACTERIZATION: arm 1 asserts the broken behaviour and will fail the
moment #11504 is fixed. Update it to the new contract rather than working
around it.

composed is absent from every recorded bundle, so composed: true is the
spec-required value rather than a captured one; the test asserts it before
dispatching so a harness that dropped the field fails loudly.

* test(terminal): replay the recorded Windows Shift sessions through the IME guard

STA-3179 reports a Shift release sending Enter; #12171 reports delayed
Hangul plus doubled newlines. Both replay their own recorded Windows
MS-Korean keydowns through resolveTerminalKeyboardShortcutAction with the
shortcut policy mocked, so the assertions are about which events reach the
policy and what reaches terminal input.

STA-3179's held-Shift gesture yields exactly one newline, from the unmarked
Enter alone; its release arms nothing for the next composition, asserted
after a precondition check that the release really is keyups with shiftKey
already dropped; and an ordinary Shift press-and-release still routes every
keydown, which is the paired non-IME negative.

Teeth, verified by mutation: bypassing the isImeOwnedKeyboardEvent guard in
keyboard-handlers takes STA-3179 from 3 passed to 2 failed / 1 passed — the
survivor being the ordinary-session negative, which is correct, since a
non-IME session should not depend on that guard — and #12171 from 2 passed
to 2 failed. Source restored byte-identical.

Recorded shapes are inlined and the bundles cited in comments; nothing is
imported from .tmp, which is gitignored.

* test(native-chat): correct 61977d4517 — the preedit survives the question card

61977d4517 claimed a composed syllable vanishes silently when an
AskUserQuestion card replaces the composer, and characterized that loss.
The claim was false. Its premise was an artifact of the harness: the test
simulated a preedit with a silent textarea.value assignment and no input
event, which no IME does.

Real composition fires input with insertCompositionText on every keystroke
— the shape this repo already records in its own observed-event capture —
and React's change handler returns on input/change with no composition
gate, so onChange runs for each frame. The draft cache is written
synchronously inside the updater, so the preedit is already committed
before the card can arrive. Driven that way, it survives.

Renamed to match the contract that actually holds, and extended: Hangul
jamo-per-frame, Japanese kana accumulation followed by per-segment
conversion asserting the candidate the user was looking at survives, and a
pin on the mechanism itself — the draft cache holds the preedit while the
card is up.

Teeth: there is no fix to revert, so the mutation is the plausible wrong
one — gating onChange on isComposing(). That takes 4 passed to 3 failed,
with the English negative correctly surviving, since it has no composition
to gate.

Two consequences remain, recorded rather than fixed: the OS aborts the
composition when the field disappears, so a lone jamo returns as a
compatibility jamo the user cannot compose onto, and the remounted
composer is unfocused because the card owned focus.

* docs(native-chat): name the corrected commit and the degraded-jamo consequence

Records in the file itself that 61977d4517 is pushed and wrong, quoting
the two claims that are false, so a reader who finds it in git log reaches
the correction from the file that replaced it.

Also states the residual as a consequence rather than a curiosity: a lone
leading jamo returns as a standalone compatibility jamo (U+3131), which is
not a composable state — the user cannot resume the syllable, only delete
and retype. Preserved, but degraded into something unusable. That is the
note to find if a reporter ever describes exactly that.

The invariant these tests pin is not "the composer commits on unmount" but
"composition input events must reach React" — which is what a future IME
change would break, and is not visible from the swap site at all.

* test(terminal): replay the recorded macOS Telex commit boundaries

#6905 reports Vietnamese composed characters breaking in the terminal.
Replays the retained macOS built-in Simple Telex capture — recorded
selection and value set before each dispatch, since that is what the
commit range reads — and asserts what reaches onData: the first commit
alone, then through the real Enter, then the ASCII tail of the same run.
A code-point count would catch NFD normalisation.

ENGINE CAVEAT, stated first in the docblock: this is macOS built-in Simple
Telex, Telex only. The reporter's three named engines cannot run on the
platform they declared, and which macOS Vietnamese engine they used is
unconfirmed. This file certifies no engine, and does not imply VNI.

The owner is upstream's — CompositionHelper._finalizeComposition's
waitForPropagation branch — so the arms are copies under .tmp aliased by a
scratch config, with node_modules verified unchanged by shasum after every
run. Collapsing the range end onto its start fails all three; collapsing
the start to zero re-emits the first word into the second commit, which is
the reporter's "duplicated" direction. Different failure sets, so the
mutants are distinguishable rather than merely detectable, and the ASCII
assertion passes under both.

Falsifiability here is by mutation, not by a defective build: #6905 does
not reproduce at HEAD, so this has never been watched going red on a real
reproduction.

* docs(terminal): lead the #6905 test with its engine caveat

Comment-only. Moves the caveat above the source line so a reader meets what
the file does NOT establish before what it does — the capture is macOS
built-in Simple Telex, the reporter's named engines cannot run on the
platform they declared, and which engine they used is what gates this row.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* docs(terminal): record that the swallow eats a keystroke after Japanese conversion

This pin framed the swallowed insertText around Cmd interrupting a
composition. A differential through Japanese multi-segment conversion shows
it is broader: type a segment, convert, then press `a`, and the `a` is
lost. No modifier, no exotic gesture. Korean surfaced it first only because
2-Set composes on nearly every keystroke.

Also records why it cannot simply be fixed. The suppression de-duplicates
IMEs that deliver their commit a task after compositionend, which a sibling
test pins; this swallow is that dedup's false positive, and the two events
differ only in payload, so no flag-timing change separates them. Both a
smaller redesign and a content-aware variant were built and measured — the
first duplicates on IBus, the second costs a reported row's test and is
blocked while the patch cannot be regenerated.

The Japanese arrays behind this are authored, not observed: no Japanese DOM
composition trace exists in the corpus.

* docs(terminal): a Japanese capture does exist — correcting dbeecb11be

That commit said no Japanese DOM composition trace exists in the corpus.
False. One does, filed under the Linux bundles rather than the bundle named
for Japanese: 30 DOM events, two にほんご->日本語 conversions, with full
selection state per event. It is retained byte-identically in three further
bundles — one capture copied four times, not four observations, checked by
hash rather than by counting files.

The claim came from checking the bundle named for Japanese, finding nothing,
and generalising to the corpus without querying the rest of it.

Replaying it emits 日本語日本語 under both sequencing extremes on all four
arms, matching its own recorded onData. So "repeated conversion is
undisturbed" is now captured rather than authored. It carries no
post-compositionend insertText, so it cannot speak to the swallow: the
a-after-conversion figure stays authored and unobserved.

Also rewords the paragraph opener. It claimed to broaden a Cmd framing, but
hazard 2 was never Cmd-framed — the lines above already say Cmd does not
reach it. The real gap was that hazard 2 named no trigger at all, which
reads as exotic when it is ordinary.

* build(xterm): land the patch regeneration harness

The five dependency patches under config/patches/ shipped with no tracked
way to regenerate any of them. The xterm one is the hard case: it is derived
from an upstream build, so no fix could be made without rebuilding, and the
tooling to rebuild lived only in one machine's scratch directory. That
blocked a measured fix for a live keystroke-loss bug, and the EditContext
reduction an OSS survey identified as the only real one available.

Adds the regenerator, the upstream pin, the hand-written source patch the
bundle hunks derive from, tests, docs, and a PR job that verifies the
shipped patches still match the pinned build. The job caches the shallow
clone keyed on the manifest, so a cold run is minutes and a warm one under
one. Round-trip verified: regenerating from a clean checkout reproduces the
shipped patch byte-for-byte.

Marks the emitted patch -diff -text. pnpm hashes it byte-for-byte, so a
CRLF checkout would break install on Windows, and its minified bundle lines
make a diff nobody can read — review the source patch instead.

Also rejects unknown flags. --check was the fallback for any unrecognised
argument, so a typo, or --help, silently triggered a full upstream build
instead of what the caller asked for.

* fix(xterm): stop swallowing a keystroke typed after an IME commit

Type a Japanese segment, convert it, then press a key one macrotask later
and that key was lost. No modifier, nothing exotic — every user who keeps
typing straight after converting. Korean surfaced it first only because
2-Set composes on nearly every keystroke.

handleCompositionInput discarded the payload unconditionally in the window
after the deferred send: _isSendingComposition stays true for one macrotask
after the timer cleared _pendingCompositionStart, and the branch substituted
'' for whatever arrived. The suppression is not itself wrong — it
de-duplicates IMEs that deliver their commit an event-loop turn late, which
terminal-stock-composition.test.ts pins. It just could not tell a duplicate
from new input, because the two events are identical apart from payload.

Now it compares against _sentComposition, the text the deferred send
actually emitted, and discards only a match. A flag-timing redesign was
measured first and rejected: it fixed this and duplicated on IBus, because
no timing change can separate events that differ only in content.

Edited in config/patches/xterm-src/ and regenerated through the harness, so
the emitted patch and the lockfile hash are derived, not hand-written.

The commit-overlap pin's swallow arm now asserts the repaired contract —
the value its own comment already named as correct and as what stock
beta.287 emits. #11504's arm at :184 flips too; it never covered that
report, as its own prior note recorded, and the reporter's +149ms arm is
untouched and still asserting the defect. Provenance hashes in three test
docblocks are updated, since regenerating changes the patch hash and with it
the resolved install directory.

* docs(terminal): re-measure the #6905 mutation citations against the new bundle

Regenerating the patch moved the resolved install, so this docblock's
patch_hash, line count, two line numbers and three mutation outcomes all
described a bundle that no longer exists. The deferred branch is one the
fix writes into, so the outcomes could not be re-pointed on reasoning.

Line numbers read off both files by diffing anchors rather than derived by
arithmetic: 201 to 205, 159 to 163. Outcomes re-run through the retained
rig, which re-resolves through the module loader and re-derives each arm
from a unique minified anchor: pristine 3 passed, m1 3 failed, m2 2 failed,
m3 3 passed — identical to the old bundle. Guard controls in both
directions exit 1, so the counts are falsifiable.

Comment-only; the assertions and expectations are unchanged.

* fix(xterm): size the preedit overlay to the cells its text will occupy

updateCompositionElements computed the overlay's left edge from the grid
but never its width, so the preedit rendered at the font's natural advance
while the committed text takes two cells per wide glyph. Measured in
Chromium 150: 가나다라 drew 48.45px as a preedit and 69.20px once committed
— the same characters, same font, 30% narrower, and drifting further with
each syllable. Every macOS mono font carrying Hangul measured 0.49–0.72 of
two cells; never 1.0.

Deriving the width from wcwidth and the cell measure moves Korean, Japanese
and Chinese to 1.000 and leaves ASCII at 1.000, which it already was:

  한        12.125 -> 17.297   (17.30 expected)
  가나다라   48.453 -> 69.188   (69.20)
  안녕하세요 60.563 -> 86.500   (86.50)
  日本語     42.000 -> 51.906   (51.90)
  abcdefgh  69.234 -> 69.203   (69.20, unchanged)

Edited in config/patches/xterm-src/ and regenerated through the harness, so
the emitted patch and lockfile hash are derived rather than hand-written.

The unit test asserts the arithmetic, which is what CI can run. The pixel
consequence was measured on macOS with SF Mono in an Electron harness, not
on the Windows font stack STA-3232 reports from — so this demonstrates the
mechanism and does not stand as that row's platform evidence.

* test(e2e): pin the macOS Korean preedit as visible only while composing

#11914 reports the composing text invisible until Space. Its c3 was recorded
as unobtainable, and the reason on file was wrong: the boundary IS
assertable, but not in happy-dom, which reports display:block in BOTH the
active and inactive states and zeros for every rect. A test there passes
with the defect present.

Captured on real hardware instead: hidden and 0x0 before, .active with
display:block, a 15.84x16 rect and checkVisibility() true while composing
그, hidden again after. 39 DOM events, 2 composition starts, onData
["한","그","\r"].

Two mechanism findings are carried in the setup because both are invisible
in the result and fatal if removed. The input source must be selected AFTER
the app takes focus — focusing resets it to ABC. And the IME must be warmed
until an observed keyCode 229; typed cold it emits raw QWERTY (g k s r m)
with no composition at all, which is indistinguishable from an IME that is
not installed. Two runs were voided on exactly that signature before the
warm-up was found.

The has229 and compositionStarts assertions exist to make such a run fail
loudly rather than pass as a clean negative.

Gated on darwin plus ORCA_E2E_NATIVE_MACOS_KOREAN, like its siblings. The
final spec form has not itself been executed — the machine became
unavailable — so it carries the probe's measured values as literals rather
than a run of its own.

* docs(e2e): correct 19a8d133db — the Korean preedit spec has been executed

That commit said the landed form had never run and carried the probe's
values as literals. It has now run on real hardware: 1 passed, 9.1s, rc=0,
with the capture and log sealed under a verified hash manifest.

The teeth check was also run rather than reasoned about, and it changes
which assertion matters. Forcing the active overlay to max-width:0 with
overflow:hidden — invisible on screen — leaves the active class, the
textContent, display:block AND checkVisibility() all passing. Only
during.rect.width fails. checkVisibility() is not sufficient against this
defect; the bounding rect is the single load-bearing assertion, which the
docblock already said and this run confirms.

An earlier teeth attempt injected the CSS mid-run and tripped the
hasActiveClass poll instead, failing at the wrong assertion. It is
inconclusive and excluded from the seal rather than counted.

* test(terminal): add #12171's ordinary-English arm from a real Windows capture

c4 was recorded as unmet and the ledger sourced its control to
evidence/windows-current/, which holds 12 captures and not one English one.
The arm here comes from windows-9803-final instead — same probe, same host
geometry, same injector, en-US with no IME, replayed keydown for keydown.

Two limits are stated in the file rather than left for a reader to find. It
is a different bundle and a different run about 3.6 hours later, so it is
not a same-run arm. And it is #9803's range-active MUTANT arm: ordinary
English stays byte-exact even with that saved-range mutation live, which is
why it reads as a negative rather than as a baseline.

Bundle cited by directory with its file SHA-256; MANIFEST.sha256 verifies
21/21, rc=0. Nothing imported from .tmp.

* docs(terminal): correct #12164's grounds — the cited comments say no such thing

The rejection of #12164 from this file's family was recorded as resting on its
comment 1 (output doubling) and comment 2 (filed against 1.4.163). Checked
against the API: the issue has exactly two comments, neither of which says
that, and the string 1.4.163 appears nowhere in the thread.

The conclusion survives on better grounds. The issue BODY's repro is "Run any
CLI agent (Codex, AGY, Claude, etc.) that outputs Korean text into the Orca
terminal" — untyped output, no keystrokes, no composition — so excluding
CompositionHelper is right, and the input-path hunt was looking in the wrong
place. The body is also LLM-authored (it still contains a literal
"## 5. GitHub Submission Draft (Ready to Post)") and its Root Cause section
blames a CJK IME preedit buffer its own repro never engages, so it should not
be read as observation.

Comment-only; suite unchanged at 5/5.

* test(native-chat): make composition frames carry isComposing, not just inputType

This suite's comment claimed "Gating onChange on `isComposing` breaks here."
It did not. composeFrame() fired `input` with `inputType` but never set
`isComposing`, so a gate on `isComposing` passed all four tests untouched —
the suite asserted a discriminator it did not exercise.

Composition frames now carry both, so neither gate is exempt. Verified by
pointing the mutant at it: with an `isComposing` gate on the composer's
onChange, this suite now fails 3 of 4 (it passed 4 of 4 before), and the
ordinary-English arm correctly survives, since a composition gate should not
touch it. Production code is unchanged and stays gate-free; the mutation was
applied, measured, and reverted.

Found while excluding NativeChatView's question-card remount as the owner of
#12118 / STA-3219: the remount is real, but the preedit survives it precisely
because this write path has no composition gate.

* fix(mobile): ship the patched xterm build, matching desktop

mobile pinned @xterm/xterm 6.1.0-beta.285 while the patch is keyed to
6.1.0-beta.287, so mobile shipped stock xterm and neither IME defect fix
reached it: the swallowed keystroke after an IME commit (9506039de7) and
the preedit sized to the font rather than the grid (e04e0c88da).

Bumps the three xterm packages to the desktop versions and adds the patch
to mobile's own pnpm.patchedDependencies. No copy of the patch: pnpm
accepts the parent-relative path and records it in the lockfile against
hash 8d63166272e9040a…, byte-identical to what desktop resolves, so the
two stay in step by construction rather than by a drift check.

The workspace separation is untouched — root pnpm-workspace.yaml still
declares `packages: []` and mobile keeps its own lockfile, which is what
keeps the root's patches from failing as ERR_PNPM_UNUSED_PATCH.

Verified in the generated webview bundle rather than at the install:
alignPreeditToGrid 0->2, sentComposition 0->3, pendingInput 0->11, and the
stock-only _handleAnyTextareaChanges 2->0 and dataAlreadySent 4->0. pnpm
applies patches during linking before postinstall regenerates the bundle,
confirmed by a revert/reinstall/re-apply cycle in both directions.

Mobile suite 2971 passed, 3 skipped — identical before and after. Bundle
+1,514 B (+0.24%). Lockfile churn is xterm-only; --frozen-lockfile passes.

mobile/src/ime/ime-submit-carry.ts is NOT made redundant and is untouched:
it handles iOS firing onSubmitEditing on a React Native native TextInput
after unmarking a composition, which is outside the WebView entirely.

Known divergence left alone: desktop also patches @xterm/addon-webgl and
mobile now runs that version unpatched. That patch is glyph/texture-atlas
rendering with nothing IME-related, so it affects neither fix.

* test(terminal): pin the preedit overlay against already-committed cells

STA-3132 (arm A), STA-3170 and STA-3232 report a Korean preedit painted on
top of text already on screen. Builds v1.4.163-v1.4.166 cancel the pending
finalizer in compositionstart, so a committed syllable reaches onData one
syllable late and buffer.x is stale — the overlay lands on the cell the
flushed syllable is about to occupy.

Replays a recorded hardware trace rather than an authored one: the ordered
DOM event stream captured on Windows + MS Korean (wave5-r2 evidence, 64
events), echoing onData back as PTY output.

The load-bearing assertion is deliberately not the obvious one. Comparing
overlay style.left against cursorX is tautological — left is computed from
buffer.x. This counts committed syllables from the compositionend events
the IME fired, so the two sides are independently derived.

Discriminated by a historical re-add across seven real bundles, since the
owner is deletion-shaped: pristine beta287, v1.4.155 and v1.4.162 pass;
v1.4.163 fails; v1.4.163 with that single call removed passes; the byte
identical baseline restored fails again; head passes. Every failing arm
fails only this case — the ordinary negative stays green in all seven.

The negative asserts its own category rather than claiming it: zero
composition events, zero isComposing, zero keyCode 229, exactly 16 events,
paired against the Korean arm's 4 starts / 3 ends / 11 updates / 64 events.

Scope: cell indices, not pixels. happy-dom has no layout, so the recorded
8x16 cell metrics are supplied to the render service. This makes no claim
about pixels visually overlapping; that is affected-OS confirmation and
stays open. Covers the overlap arm only — STA-3132's auto-line-break arm
and STA-3232's half-line-capacity and a11y arms are untouched.

* test(e2e): matrix macOS period substitution against the OS preference

#11504 reports macOS inserting ". " after a Hangul Space commit. This
sweeps six arms across both states of NSAutomaticPeriodSubstitutionEnabled,
reading the preference live per run rather than asserting a literal.

Two results worth having on record.

The reporter's stated trigger did not reproduce. Their words are "There is
no second press at all. One space is enough", but korean-single-space emits
zero insertText with the preference on or off. So does word-space-word-space.

Their timing does reproduce, with different content. korean-double-space and
korean-longer-word-double-space emit a delayed insertText at +122.5-122.7ms
after compositionend — squarely the reported +149ms — but the payload is a
space, never ". ". Consistent with the double-space rule seeing two slots
under ABC and only one under Korean, where the IME commit consumes the first.

The substitution itself is real and preference-bound: latin-double-space
gives "ab . " with the preference on and "ab  " with it off, on one build
with the preference as the sole variable, reproduced across two runs.

That also refutes a claim in PR #11506, which states the substitution "is
enforced outside the renderer and never reproduces in dev builds, so changes
here must be verified against a packaged app". It reproduced in the dev build
twice and did not reproduce on the signed packaged app. That claim should not
be used as a verification gate.

Gated @headful behind ORCA_E2E_NATIVE_MACOS_PERIOD, same shape as the Korean
preedit spec, so it does not run in ordinary CI. Evidence is onData and DOM
only — the PTY-child reader aborted and no packaged-app arm was stable.

* test(terminal): actually enforce the recorded jamo progression

The preedit assertion compared sample.overlayText against sample.overlayText
— the same expression on both sides. A lane proved it by mutation: corrupting
seven of the eight recorded preedit values left the suite fully green. So the
docblock's ㄱ→가→간→나→낟→다→달→라, which the matrix also cites as this row's
recorded shape, was cited and unenforced.

The first attempt at a fix was insufficient and is worth recording. Threading
stroke.preedit through to the expectation still passed on a corrupted fixture,
because that value both drives the rig and was the expectation — corrupting it
moved both sides together. Same tautology, one level down.

The expectation is now an independent literal. Verified by mutation rather
than by reading: corrupting two recorded values fails one arm; restoring them
passes 3/3.

overlayCell was never affected — it is compared against a count derived from
the compositionend events, not from the buffer, and remains the load-bearing
assertion for the overlap.

* fix(e2e): select the selectable input source, not the first match

TISCreateInputSourceList can return several entries for one input source
id. A third-party IME publishes a non-selectable parent alongside the
selectable mode, and taking sources.first can return the parent — after
which TISSelectInputSource fails with paramErr (-50) while the caller
reports success from the enable step.

Found with Qingg (com.aodaren.inputmethod.Qingg), which exposes exactly
that pair under one id. Its mode id equals the bundle id, so filtering by
name would not have helped; selectability is the discriminator.

Now filters on kTISPropertyInputSourceIsSelectCapable and falls back to
the old behaviour when nothing advertises it, so single-entry sources are
unaffected. Also enables every entry for the id rather than only the one
being selected: selecting a mode whose parent is still disabled fails the
same way.

Compile-checked, and selecting com.apple.keylayout.ABC still exits 0.

Unrelated to the enable path: on macOS 26.5.2 third-party IMEs are gated
behind a consent sheet in System Settings. TISEnableInputSource returns
noErr immediately regardless, and the enable only lands if that sheet is
answered while the requesting process is still alive.

* test(terminal): discriminate #12171 against the real shortcut policy

The prior candidate mutation for this row was correctly refused: its suite
mocked shortcut policy so Process/229 became actionable, while the real
resolveTerminalShortcutAction has no Process branch — so the kill measured
the mock. This does not mock it.

Replays a capture of this row's own gesture (d, l, Shift+T, e, k, Space,
Enter under MS Korean, committing 있다) taken on Orca 1.4.164, through the
real useTerminalKeyboardShortcuts hook, capturing bytes at terminal.input.
The earlier capture could not discriminate at all because it recorded no
shiftKey; this one records it on 10 of 10 keydowns with code populated.

One physical Shift+T produces two shifted Process/229 keydowns. Under the
pre-#12265 classifier each synthesizes {key:'Enter', shiftKey:true}, which
the real policy resolves to sendInput '\x1b\r' — twice, giving 1b0d1b0d,
the two escapes the known-bad ed96881b0d1b0d contains.

Mutation is the retained pre-12265-process-shift.patch applied to HEAD, not
an authored one: patch -p1 applies clean and diffs identical to the mutant
copy. Arms are copies; shared source hashes the same before and after.

The English arm stays clean under both modules, so the mutation
discriminates by language rather than by harness — and a real Shift+Enter
through the same rig yields exactly ['\x1b\r'] in every arm, so a silent
pristine result means the code is quiet rather than the harness dead.

Scope: 1b0d1b0d is measured at the renderer boundary. The capture recorded
no PTY bytes — window.api.pty is frozen on shipped builds and the onData
channel needs a build-time flag — so this shows the renderer producing the
two escapes that payload contains, not a re-observation of the payload.

* docs(native-chat): narrow this file's disclaimer to what is now true

It said "THIS OWNS NO REPORTED ROW". Half of that is stale: the remount site
is now the attributed owner of #12118 and STA-3219. On real Windows TSF the
questionActive swap aborts a live composition — the old node gets only a
blur and no compositionend, the text returns as committed, and the next jamo
yields 아ㄴ rather than 안.

The other half holds. This file pins the opposite property, that the text
survives, which is the half those reporters already agree with. Mutation
shows the gap rather than asserting it: deleting the unmount entirely leaves
three of four tests green, because every substantive assertion is
after.value === … and a composer that never unmounts keeps its value.

Also records why the abort cannot be asserted here. The DOM exposes no
observable separating committed text from a live preedit — value is the same
string either way, there is no EditContext, and the only composing-ness
state is a per-instance ref discarded with the node. A test pinning "no
compositionend fires" would be an anti-guard: red the day it is fixed.

The cadence objection is kept, since it is now the open question rather than
the reason for exclusion.

* refactor(terminal): drop the unread isComposing field from XtermBypassEvent

Added by #6396 for terminal IME candidate handling that this branch has since
removed. No production or test code reads it, and the policy is safe without it:
during composition `key` is 'Process', so the non-ASCII printable checks that
would care never match.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* fix(native-chat): keep the composer mounted through an in-flight IME composition

A question card replaced the composer outright
(`{questionActive ? null : <NativeChatComposer/>}`). Unmounting the field
mid-composition aborts the composition in the OS: the node is detached before
`compositionend` can fire, the preedit returns as committed text, and a resumed
Hangul syllable degrades — 아 then ㄴ yields `아ㄴ`, never `안`.

Confirmed in rasterised pixels on Windows with a real MS Korean IME, at both
v1.4.171 and the reporter-era v1.4.164 (the swap block is byte-identical
across them): the preedit underline present before the swap, the composer
visibly absent during it, and the same glyph back afterwards WITHOUT the
underline — committed, not composing.

The swap is now deferred while a composition is in flight, which is what
editors that survive IME do: ProseMirror gates DOM work on `view.composing`,
CodeMirror protects the composing subtree from redraws. Hiding instead of
unmounting does not work — `display:none` and `visibility:hidden` both blur the
focused element and abort the composition the same way.

The hold releases on `compositionend`, which browsers also fire on blur, so
clicking into the card's own answer input yields the input region immediately;
with nothing composing the card still replaces the composer at once, so no
stray "Send a message" appears beside a question.

The existing characterization test flips to a regression guard: it pinned the
node being destroyed, which was the defect. Node identity is the load-bearing
assertion — value-only checks are trivially satisfied by a composer that never
unmounts and cannot tell a held composition from a destroyed one.

The typing-redirect handler moves to its own hook. That is not cosmetic: both
touched files sat at the 400-line cap, and `max-lines` suppressions are
forbidden, so the room had to come from a real extraction.

* fix(macos): opt Orca out of AppKit automatic period substitution

macOS "Add period with double-space" (`NSAutomaticPeriodSubstitutionEnabled`,
on by default) is applied by AppKit's text input system. Native terminals never
join that system; Chromium text fields do, so xterm's helper textarea inherits
it and a double space arrives as `". "` — a period nobody typed, handed straight
to the PTY (#11504).

Chromium answers AppKit for quote and dash substitution and defaults both off,
but declares no period accessor at all, so AppKit applies that one without
asking. This user default is the only lever: there is no per-field or
per-webContents opt-out to prefer over it. Writing the key into Orca's own
defaults domain overrides the global value for this app alone and leaves the
user's system-wide setting untouched. It necessarily covers every Orca text
field, not only terminals — AppKit offers no narrower scope, and that tradeoff
is deliberate rather than accidental.

Measured on the reporter's own build v1.4.161: with the preference ON, typing
a,b,space,space yields `onData ["a","b"," ",". "]`; with it OFF the same arm
yields two spaces.

Note the issue's causal model is wrong and this fix does not follow it. It
claims the substitution only fires with a CJK input source and never with ABC.
The measurement is the inverse — every Korean arm is clean and the ABC arm is
the one that fires — so the fix is not conditioned on input source.

NOT YET VERIFIED ON HARDWARE. The unit tests inject the writer, so they prove
the call is made on darwin and skipped elsewhere; they do not prove AppKit
honours an app-domain override for this key. That check is outstanding.

* fix(xterm): keep a live composition across a lone Cmd press on macOS

CompositionHelper.keydown exempted keyCodes 16/17/18 from tearing a composition
down, which covers Shift/Ctrl/Alt but not macOS Meta — 91/93 in Chromium, 224 in
Firefox. A lone Cmd press mid-composition therefore reached
_finalizeComposition(false), which dropped the preedit overlay's `active` class
and committed the live syllable early. macOS keeps the marked text alive across
that press, so no later compositionstart re-arms the overlay and the rest of the
word composes invisibly.

Measured on hardware (m4air, macOS 26.5.2, Apple M4, 2-Set Korean) with the Cmd
posted as a CGEventType.flagsChanged, which is what a physical modifier emits.
AppleScript `key code 55` posts nothing a browser can see — a bare `key code 56`
for Shift is equally silent — which is why no capture in the corpus ever reached
this branch. Three arms, same build otherwise: overlay live throughout with the
exemption, dark and prematurely committed without it, live again with it
restored. Evidence under
.tmp/ime-handoff/swarm-scratch/wave31-cmd-preedit/evidence/.

The fix cannot widen past a lone modifier: only a standalone press reports these
keyCodes, and a Cmd chord during composition is reported by Chromium as 229,
which was already exempt. Cmd+A still ends the composition, via the IME's own
compositionend. Ghostty draws the same line, returning early from flagsChanged
under hasMarkedText() for every modifier including Super.

Orca's terminal pane was never affected — shouldSuppressTerminalModifierKeyboardEvent
drops a standalone Meta keydown before xterm sees it, and deleting only 'Meta'
from that set is what flipped the hardware arm to broken. The popout preview
terminal and mobile's webview install no such guard and did reach the teardown.

terminal-ime-xterm-composition-commit-overlap.test.ts asked its fixer to update
the two Cmd arms to the values it named as correct; both now emit a single ['한'].

* test(native-chat): drop two byte-identical duplicate cases

`4632b86919d` copy-pasted two cases twice into the same describe block:
`retains carry across a same-frame non-Enter keyup before redispatch` and
`expires carry before a deliberate Enter after the next frame`. Each pair is
byte-identical — same title, same body — so the copies asserted nothing the
originals did not.

This is what has been failing `static analysis` on this branch since 2026-08-06:
`oxlint vitest(no-identical-title)` reports both under `--deny-warnings`, and
`verify` fails solely because it requires static analysis to pass. Every other
gate in `verify` was already green, including typecheck, xterm patch sync, the
full test shard set, and both package jobs.

12 cases still pass in the file.

* test(e2e): skip the WebGL arm when no WebGL renderer exists

The #12164 probe runs two arms, webgl and dom, and closes by asserting the
active renderer is the requested one. That assertion is right for the dom arm —
it is what proves the pane actually left WebGL, without which the arm is
meaningless — but headless CI has no GPU, xterm falls back to DOM silently, and
the webgl arm then fails.

The failure reads as a Korean rendering defect and is not one, so the webgl arm
now skips with the active renderer named. The dom arm keeps the assertion
unchanged.

This is the third of three checks that have been red on this branch since
2026-08-06. `static analysis` and `verify` were fixed in c51c6b5837e; the CI log
shows this job as 1 failed / 1 passed, the pass being the dom arm.

* chore(lint): drop five unused no-console disable directives

`check-changed-code-quality` reports unused eslint-disable directives as errors,
and these five sat above diagnostic `console.log` calls in IME test and spec
files where `no-console` is not enabled — so each suppressed nothing.

This is the second of the two static-analysis steps. `c51c6b5837e` fixed
"Enforce focused code-quality plugins" (duplicate test titles); this fixes
"Enforce changed-code quality". Both had been red on this branch since
2026-08-06, and I mistook the first for the whole job.

The diagnostic logs themselves are kept — they are what a failing IME arm prints
for a reader to inspect.

* test(e2e): cover #12164 under fractional device scale factor

Fractional display scaling was #12164's last unexplored branch, and the reason
is worth recording: earlier attempts were BLOCKED, correctly, because they
proposed mutating the Windows display scale on a remote physical machine with no
console recovery. `--force-device-scale-factor` reaches the same renderer state
per process, so nothing outside the Electron instance changes and there is
nothing to restore.

The hypothesis was specific: `프프로로젝젝트트` is what a half-pixel cell boundary
could produce on a 2-column glyph, and nothing else in the suite varies dpr.

Measured at 1.25 and 1.5, both under WebGL: ink extents 25/21/16 with identical
ink groups, matching the scale-1 run. No doubling.

The arm self-certifies before asserting — if the flag does not take, the test
fails rather than silently measuring at dpr 1. That matters here: the sibling
spec's WebGL arm went two days reporting a missing GPU as a Korean rendering
defect precisely because a silent fallback looked like a result.

* fix(terminal): match Mod+letter shortcuts by physical key, not IME-rewritten key

With a CJK input source active, macOS and Windows report the physical key through
`code` but rewrite `key` to the layout's character: Korean 2-Set turns Cmd+C into
`{ key: "ㅊ", code: "KeyC", metaKey: true }`. Every `key.toLowerCase() === 'c'`
match misses it, so the shortcut is not recognised and xterm encodes the chord as
PTY input instead — issue #13033 reports `ESC[12618;9u` and a terminal that jumps
to the bottom, because user input scrolls the viewport.

This is the same key-vs-code confusion that owned #12171, where a `Shift+T`
typing ㅆ was read as Enter for want of a `code` guard, so the fix is the same
shape: trust `code` when it is present, fall back to `key` and then the legacy
`keyCode` when it is not (Chromium omits `code` on synthetic and some keypress
events, and `keyCode` keeps its US value even when `key` is rewritten).

Applied to the four terminal-side sites, including the dashboard pop-out, which
#13033 called out specifically as having its own key handler:
  pty-connection.ts            Cmd/Ctrl+C copy guard
  keyboard-handlers.ts         Cmd+G search navigation
  agent-interrupt-inference.ts interrupt inference
  preview-terminal-key-handler.ts  pop-out paste

Nine further `key.toLowerCase()` letter matches exist outside the terminal
(TaskPage, editor, GitHub composer, browser markup). They have the same defect
and are deliberately left for a separate change rather than widening this one.

An existing case, `matchSearchNavigate > returns null for wrong key`, overrode
only `key` and left `code: 'KeyG'`, so it began passing for the wrong reason. It
now overrides both — which is what "wrong key" means once matching is physical —
and a companion case pins the Korean-rewritten chord still matching.

#13033 was closed NOT_PLANNED; the reporter's event shapes drive the new test.

* fix(renderer): match every Mod+letter shortcut by physical key, not IME-rewritten key

Completes the previous commit. A CJK input source rewrites `event.key` while
`event.code` keeps the physical key, so `key.toLowerCase() === 'z'` and friends
silently stop matching — the shortcut is not recognised and the keystroke falls
through to whatever handles unclaimed input.

The helper moves to `@/lib/ime-latin-shortcut-key` first: it now serves the
editor, GitHub composer and browser markup, and importing terminal-pane
internals into those would be the wrong direction. `lib/` already hosts
`ime-composition-keyboard-event` for the same reason.

Nine remaining sites, all previously unreachable under Korean/Japanese/Chinese/
Vietnamese input:
  TaskPage, ActivityPrototypePage, ProjectViewWrapper   Cmd+F search
  useMarkupKeyboardShortcuts                            Cmd+Z undo
  GitHubMarkdownComposer, RichMarkdownLinkBubble,
    rich-markdown-link-shortcut                         Cmd+K link
  native-chat-shortcut                                  Cmd+J
  rich-markdown-key-handler                             Cmd+Shift+X

Six of the nine test `!== 'letter'` as early-return guards and three test
`=== 'letter'`; the negation is applied per site, since a blind substitution
would have inverted six of them.

Full suite: 4249 files pass. Three files fail locally and none is caused by this
change — the branch touches no file under `src/main/` or `src/relay/`, all four
failures reproduce on an unmodified tree or pass in isolation (the worktree
poller passes 21/21 alone, so it is full-suite parallelism), and all 16 CI test
shards are green.

* docs(ime): scope the IME composition rules to the terminal-pane directory

#11893 proposed adding these to the root `AGENTS.md`, which every agent loads on
every task regardless of what it is doing. They only bind keyboard handling, the
composer and the terminal input path, so they belong next to that code —
`tests/e2e/AGENTS.md` already establishes the nested convention here.

Kept from #11893: range-derived commits, guarding above the key dispatch,
the `attachCustomKeyEventHandler` / `CompositionHelper` interaction, no
normalization at commit, and the recorded-trace evidence bar.

Added from defects found since it was written:
- match shortcuts on `event.code`, not `event.key` (#12171, #13033)
- `keyCode === 229` means an IME owns the press
- do not unmount a field mid-composition, and hiding is not a fix because
  `display:none` blurs and aborts it too (#12118, STA-3219, #11332)

The evidence bar now also names the mutation check, since a test that survives
deleting the code it guards is guarding nothing — a failure this effort hit more
than once.

* fix(terminal): gate Ctrl+Enter CSI-u on a negotiated pane, porting #12462

Found while scoping the rebase onto `main`: #12462 landed on 2026-08-06 and
fixes a real defect this branch does not carry. Ctrl+Enter emitted
`\x1b[13;5u` unconditionally, so a pane that never negotiated the kitty
keyboard protocol — local Windows ConPTY, plain shell — printed the escape
verbatim into the prompt.

This branch deletes `terminal-ime-deferred-newline.ts`, which is one of the
files #12462 touched, so a rebase resolving those conflicts by taking our side
wholesale would silently reintroduce the defect. Porting it forward now means
the fix survives the rebase however the conflicts are resolved.

Mirrors the Shift+Enter guard already here: local ConPTY falls back to the
legacy CR every emulator sends, and a negotiated pane keeps the chord, so the
fallback is scoped to panes that cannot receive CSI-u rather than to Windows.

NARROWER THAN #12462 BY ONE CONDITION, deliberately. `main` also allows CSI-u
via `hasCtrlEnterCsiUAuthority()` (trusted consumer evidence, #12329); that
helper and its plumbing do not exist on this branch. Omitting it is the
conservative direction — an authorised pane gets `\r` instead of the chord,
rather than an unnegotiated pane printing an escape — but it should be restored
when the two histories are reconciled.

Test covers both directions and is mutation-checked: forcing the gate open
fails it, so it cannot pass by construction.

* fix: reconcile two more fixtures main moved while the stack waited

Both caught by CI, not locally, and the reason the local run missed one is
worth recording:

1. `browser-toolbar-profile-dialogs.ime-enter.test.tsx` did not pass
   `useNativeUserAgent` / `onUseNativeUserAgentChange`, which `main` added to
   `BrowserToolbarProfileDialogsProps`.

   Local `pnpm typecheck` reported 0 errors on the same commit CI failed. The
   cause was a stale `config/*.tsbuildinfo` — tsc reused an incremental cache
   from before the merge. Deleting it reproduced CI's error exactly. Any
   "typecheck clean" during this merge should be treated as unverified unless
   the cache was cleared first.

2. Localization keys for `SshDisconnectedDialog` were absent from `en.json`:
   the merge took this branch's component alongside `main`'s catalog.
   Regenerated with `pnpm run sync:localization-catalog` rather than hand-added.

* fix(mobile): regenerate the lockfile the merge resolved by taking one side

CI's `verify` failed with `ERR_PNPM_OUTDATED_LOCKFILE` on `mermaid (lockfile:
11.16.0, manifest: 11.16.1)`. The mismatch was in `mobile/`, not the root — the
root lockfile was consistent throughout, which is why inspecting it (and even
GitHub's merge ref) found nothing wrong.

Cause: during the merge I resolved `mobile/pnpm-lock.yaml` by taking this
branch's side wholesale rather than merging it, so it kept `mermaid 11.16.0`
while `mobile/package.json` came from `main` at `11.16.1`. Taking one side of a
lockfile is only safe when the corresponding manifest comes from the same side.

Regenerated with `pnpm install --lockfile-only`; `--frozen-lockfile` now passes
in `mobile/`. Verified the xterm patch entry survives intact — same hash
`4f1b42d268f3964d…` and the parent-relative path into `config/patches/`, which
is the desktop/mobile coupling that would silently break the mobile build.

Two earlier diagnoses of this failure were wrong and are worth recording: it was
not the root lockfile, and it was not a stale merge ref (a rerun reproduced it
exactly).

---------

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-08-07 22:58:40 -07:00
Brennan Benson 49dc113a0f Fix terminal corruption after restored snapshot replay (#12363)
* fix(terminal): preserve restored snapshot fidelity

* test(terminal): align legacy history handoff snapshot expectation

* fix(terminal): keep legacy snapshot panes mounted

* fix(terminal): refresh snapshot capability after startup

* fix(terminal): refresh snapshot capability in degraded startup

* fix(terminal): await snapshot provider authority
2026-08-03 20:00:28 -07:00
f82d4100b7 fix(terminal): flush Hangul syllables before the next composition (#12278)
Co-authored-by: OrcaWin <293788423+OrcaWin@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Hyunggyun Lyou <hg.lyou@miraeasset.com>
2026-08-03 02:45:08 -07:00
Him188andClaude Fable 5 8e9640cb1d fix(terminal): stop cancelled IME compositions replaying stale preedit
Backspacing away an entire Pinyin preedit ended the composition with
empty data, no textarea residue, and no input/keypress events — yet
_sendPendingComposition fell back to the last non-empty
compositionupdate data and typed its first character into the PTY.
Only trust that fallback when observed input evidence corroborates it;
a composition with no evidence in any channel was cancelled.

Fixes the macOS Pinyin regression from #11293 (stray letter left after
deleting a preedit); same fix covers IBus/fcitx Backspace cancellation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 01:53:02 -07:00
fe6f929c6e fix(terminal): reconcile cross-platform IME composition lifecycle (#11293)
Co-authored-by: Jinjing <6427696+AmethystLiang@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: JeongUk Park <jeongph.dev@gmail.com>
2026-07-29 16:12:20 -07:00
Neil 2b244fa0ea fix(terminal): clear search highlights when the find bar closes (#10872)
Closing Ctrl+F left one match highlighted until the window was minimized
and restored.

xterm's DecorationService keys its SortedList on `decoration.marker.line`,
but `SortedList.delete()` only records an index and defers compaction,
while `Marker.dispose()` sets `line = -1` — mutating that same sort key.
After the first disposal the array is no longer sorted, so the binary
search inside `delete()` can miss a decoration that is present. It returns
false, `onDecorationRemoved` never fires, and the decoration stays live and
keeps painting. Repaints don't help; they faithfully re-paint a live
decoration, which is why only a window cycle appeared to fix it.

`clearDecorations()` disposes the active match before the match
highlights, which is exactly the order that trips this.

Patch `delete()` to retry once after compacting pending deletions, on the
miss path only, so the common bulk delete keeps its O(log n) search and
deferred batching. A 3000-trial randomized differential against upstream
semantics shows no behavior change for well-ordered lists.
2026-07-27 00:10:04 -07:00
Neil a0944cc129 fix(linux): restore Ubuntu 20.04 launch — pin node-pty glibc symbols + add glibc/libstdc++ packaging gate (#9902) (#10019)
* fix(linux): restore Ubuntu 20.04 launch by pinning node-pty glibc symbols (#9902)

The bundled node-pty pty.node is compiled from source in release CI on
ubuntu-latest (glibc 2.39). glibc's 2.32-2.34 libpthread/libutil merge
relocated openpty/forkpty (GLIBC_2.34) and pthread_sigmask (GLIBC_2.32)
into libc under new symbol versions, so the from-source build bound to
versions absent on Ubuntu 20.04 (glibc 2.31). The main process imports
node-pty at startup, so the app crashed on launch. pty.node is the sole
blocker (Electron needs GLIBC_2.25; other native modules <= 2.17).

- Patch node-pty: a .symver shim pins the 3 symbols to their pre-merge
  version (GLIBC_2.2.5 x64 / GLIBC_2.17 arm64), and Linux-only ldflags
  force libutil.so.1/libpthread.so.0 back into DT_NEEDED. Guarded to
  Linux; macOS/Windows untouched.
- Add a packaging gate (verify-linux-glibc-floor.cjs, afterPack): reads
  each bundled native binary's objdump -p version needs and fails the
  Linux build if any strong GLIBC_/GLIBCXX_/CXXABI_ node exceeds stock
  Ubuntu 20.04 (glibc 2.31 / GLIBCXX_3.4.28 / CXXABI_1.3.12). Catches
  GLIBC_ABI_DT_RELR, rejects GLIBC_PRIVATE, skips weak needs, fail-closed.
- Docs + tests; the lazy sherpa-onnx speech prebuilt (GLIBCXX_3.4.29,
  never loaded at launch) is a documented libstdc++-floor exemption.

* fix(linux): assert DT_NEEDED provider deps in the glibc-floor gate

Harden the packaging gate (flagged in adversarial re-eval): the version-floor
check alone can false-pass if the patch's forced `-l:libutil.so.1` ever silently
drops — the pinned openpty@GLIBC_2.2.5 still resolves from libc's compat alias at
build time, but fails to load on Ubuntu 20.04 where openpty/forkpty live only in
libutil. The gate now also asserts that any binary importing openpty/forkpty
keeps libutil.so.1 in DT_NEEDED. Validated on a real symver-pinned .so with
libutil dropped (now fails) vs. present (passes). Documents the recommended
real-host smoke-test follow-up.
2026-07-22 19:11:44 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandOrca 360b2423ea Fix duplicate and lost IME terminal commits (#9235)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-17 18:29:44 -07:00
Brennan Benson 7c0b84f2b6 fix(terminal): invalidate cached glyphs when WebGL atlas changes (#8899)
* feat(terminal): add flag-gated render-desync sentinel for WebGL panes

Detects the buffer-clean/render-stale glyph garble class in the field: per
visible WebGL pane, compare the cells the xterm buffer says hold glyphs
against the ink actually present on the canvas, sampled in the same task as
a forced synchronous redraw so a divergence proves the render model/atlas is
wrong rather than a missed present. A trip requires the same screen cells to
stay divergent across three samples (real desync is pinned; scroll lag moves),
then records a webgl-render-desync breadcrumb, stashes evidence (canvas PNG +
buffer text) for bug reports, and runs the same shared-atlas recovery a tab
reveal performs, so a stuck-garbled pane self-heals within seconds.

Off by default; arm on any build via
localStorage.setItem('orca:render-desync-sentinel', '1') and reload.

* fix(terminal): invalidate glyph cache on atlas replacement

Reproduce the WebGL atlas identity mismatch with two live terminals and force cached geometry to rebuild whenever a different shared atlas is attached. Persist flag-gated render-desync evidence and retain the investigation tooling used to validate the field signature.

* fix(terminal): harden render desync diagnostics

* docs(reliability): clarify Linux WebGL evidence gap
2026-07-17 16:16:17 -07:00
Brennan Benson 59a7fffcd6 fix(terminal): keep WebGL glyph atlas pages within the shader sampler budget (#8672)
* fix(terminal): keep WebGL glyph atlas pages within the shader sampler budget

The fragment shader has sampler slots for maxAtlasPages (16 on most Macs)
and leaves outColor uninitialized for any higher page index, so glyphs
rasterized onto pages past the budget render as garbled pixels. Long
sessions grow past the budget via the merge fallback, and the previous
wipe fix re-activated those unbindable pages, so every atlas wipe
re-allocated glyphs onto them (post-wipe allocation prefers the last,
highest-index active page) and garbled whole panes mid-stream.

Fix, matching the direction xterm.js maintainers are pursuing upstream
(xtermjs/xterm.js#6043): a shared _evictAllPages resets the atlas to one
fresh page, called from clearTexture and from the two allocation paths
that could otherwise push a page past the budget (merge fallback and
oversized-glyph page creation), so the page count can never exceed the
renderer's texture capacity. Defensive backstops: a one-time warn plus
bind-loop clamp, and an else branch in the generated shader so an
unexpected overflow renders blank instead of undefined pixels.

* test(terminal): cover WebGL atlas sampler budget

* fix(terminal): align WebGL atlas invalidation source
2026-07-14 14:48:21 -07:00
Jinjing 969c0ef147 fix: strip trailing whitespace from xterm webgl patch (#8330)
Blank context lines in the @xterm/addon-webgl patch had trailing spaces,
which made git diff --check fail. Strip only that whitespace and refresh
the pnpm patchedDependencies hash so the lockfile stays consistent.
2026-07-11 17:43:02 -07:00
e84a8ddec9 Terminal performance initiative: pipeline fixes + term-speed-2 revival + PTY flow control (integration branch) (#7214)
* Skip legacy hidden skip grammar assertions

* Fix hidden TUI snapshot test setup

* Fix sleep wake history test contract

* Fix hidden delivery startup gate helper

* Fix hidden Latin skip branch predicate

* Fix hidden synchronized split-boundary replay

* Stabilize remote runtime mixed subscription test

* Keep hidden startup query parser active during window

* Stabilize raw emoji golden restore width

* Stabilize raw emoji golden fixture completion

* Keep terminals responsive under agent output load

* Add frozen-terminal repro harness and silent-drop regression tests

Investigation harness for the frozen-terminal reports (Discord
#performance, issue #2836): pane shows content, shell alive, daemon
output.log flat while typing.

- e2e: renderer crash -> auto-reload recovery and three restart/restore
  shapes (live daemon, SIGSTOP-wedged daemon, daemon killed between
  launches), each probing input at both drop layers. Post-crash phases
  drive the renderer from the main process because a crashed target
  severs Playwright's CDP session even though the app recovers.
- e2e helpers: layer-discriminating probes (direct pty.write vs
  transport input, plus pty:listSessions ownership-rebuild revival).
- unit repro: vendored xterm 6.1.0-beta.287 WriteBuffer permanently
  wedges when a sync throw escapes a write-completion callback or a
  custom parser handler (xterm-write-buffer-stall.repro.test.ts).
- unit repros for both silent input-drop layers: main drops writes for
  a live PTY once ptyOwnership loses the id (revived by listSessions),
  and the renderer transport stays unbound after a failed connect.
- pty.test.ts: unregister every leaked SSH provider id in afterEach so
  module-level provider state cannot leak across tests.

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* Harden xterm write pipeline against sync-throw wedge that freezes panes

A synchronous exception escaping xterm's WriteBuffer loop permanently
wedges that terminal: _innerWrite has no try/catch around the parse
action or the write-completion callback, the tail re-schedule never
runs, and write() only re-arms on an empty buffer. The pane stops
rendering and, if a replay was in flight, the replay guard latches and
pty-connection's onData silently eats every keystroke — matching the
field reports (Discord #performance, issue #2836: content visible,
shell alive, daemon output.log flat). Both vectors verified against
vendored xterm 6.1.0-beta.287 in xterm-write-buffer-stall.repro.test.ts.

Three layers of defense:
- Guard every write-completion callback Orca hands xterm at the two
  choke points (writeForegroundTerminalChunk, writeBackgroundTerminalChunk),
  with settle and onParsed guarded separately so a WebGL/renderer
  failure during viewport settle cannot starve the replay-guard release.
- Guard all throwing-capable custom parser handlers (DA1, OSC 10/11,
  CSI ?h/?l mode reports, OSC 52 clipboard, OSC 7 cwd), degrading a
  throw to "not handled" — same escape class as
  terminal-link-provider-guard.ts.
- Replay-guard watchdog: each engagement releases exactly once, from
  xterm's completion or a 10s watchdog, so a lost completion (wedged
  pipeline, disposed-terminal race) cannot latch the guard on a live
  pane; replayIntoTerminalAsync resolves on either path so restore
  chains cannot hang. Force-releases record a crash breadcrumb.

All guard trips record rate-capped crash breadcrumbs, so the next field
occurrence names the throwing stack instead of failing silently.

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* Cap unbounded terminal output buffers in main and the foreground queue

Field evidence (Discord #performance / #2836): renderer memory climbs to
~1.5 GB and terminals freeze; a force reload does not help until memory
recovers. Two unbounded buffers matched that shape:

- Main-process pendingData grew by string concatenation without bound
  while the renderer could not receive (frozen, starved, mid-reload) —
  main-heap bloat a renderer reload cannot clear. Now capped at 2 MB per
  PTY: past the cap the buffered bytes are dropped and the entry stays
  O(1) until the renderer ACKs again, then a droppedOutput sentinel is
  delivered and the pane repaints from the authoritative main-owned
  buffer snapshot (existing hidden-output restore path) instead of
  continuing a stream with a silent gap.
- The renderer output scheduler capped only hidden-pane backlogs; the
  foreground path could queue a visible pane's flood without bound when
  the drain could not keep up. The 2 MB cap now applies to every
  foreground enqueue branch too, with a foreground-specific skip notice.

Verified: new main-side cap test (starve → flood → sentinel → normal
flow resumes), renderer sentinel-to-snapshot-restore test, two
foreground scheduler cap tests; full pty/terminal-pane/pane-manager
suites (1981 tests) and typecheck pass.

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* Make replay-guard stall release probe-certified instead of time-based

The previous stall watchdog blindly released the input guard after 10s.
If a replay were genuinely still parsing on a starved machine, that
early release could leak xterm's auto-replies into the shell — and into
agent TUIs, where a leaked ESC reads as the user pressing Escape.

Replace the blind release with a probe: when a completion looks
overdue, enqueue an empty write behind the replay. xterm parses writes
in order, so every outcome is provably safe:
- probe parses after the replay completion ran: normal release already
  happened; probe is a no-op.
- probe parses but the replay completion never ran: all replay bytes
  have parsed, no further auto-replies can exist — the completion was
  genuinely lost. Release + breadcrumb.
- probe never parses (bounded wait): the pipeline is wedged, and a dead
  parser can never emit auto-replies, so releasing cannot leak input.
  Release + breadcrumb naming the pane as needing recovery.
While the probe is pending — a slow-but-alive replay — the guard now
HOLDS instead of releasing early; that case is pinned by a regression
test.

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* Scale output backlog caps with the scrollback setting and breadcrumb drops

The 2 MB pending-output caps were flat, which risked dropping lines a
50k-row scrollback user would have retained. Both caps (main pendingData
and the renderer output queue) now derive from one shared policy:
max(2 MB, scrollbackRows x 120 chars) — 2 MB at the 5k default, 6 MB at
the 50k max. The main side reads the setting live via getSettings; the
renderer scheduler is configured where the terminal lifecycle already
reads the scrollback setting.

Every drop now records a rate-limited crash breadcrumb with dropped and
cap sizes (terminal_output_backlog_dropped in the renderer,
terminal_pending_output_dropped in main — no pty ids, session ids can
embed workspace paths). Field drop frequency and size decide whether the
cap constants need raising, replacing theory with data (#2836, #7017).

Backlog skip notices are now cap-agnostic since the limit varies.

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* Extract breadcrumb recording into a collection-safe leaf module

Playwright loads spec imports at collection time, and e2e specs import
terminal-module constants (e.g. terminal-attention.spec.ts pulls
POST_REPLAY_MODE_RESET from layout-serialization, whose chain reaches
replay-guard). The breadcrumb import added to the terminal modules made
that chain reach crash-diagnostics.ts, whose top-level import.meta.hot
and webview-registry import crash Playwright's transform
("ReferenceError: exports is not defined in ES module scope") — every
e2e shard failed at collection before running a single test.

Move recordRendererCrashBreadcrumb into crash-breadcrumb-recorder.ts
(type-only imports, no import.meta) and point the terminal modules and
their test mocks at it; crash-diagnostics re-exports for existing
callers. Full e2e suite collects again (262 tests / 94 files); unit
suites, typecheck, lint green. No runtime behavior change.

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* Add cross-terminal pipeline benchmark (DSR-fenced throughput + latency probe)

Run inside any terminal (Orca pane, iTerm2, Ghostty, Terminal.app, VS Code)
to measure its full byte path. DSR round-trip latency at idle and under a
paced agent-TUI load, plus fenced throughput over four deterministic
fixtures. The DSR fence forces 'all bytes parsed' before the clock stops so
xterm.js-class ingest queues can't flatter the result.

First piece of the terminal performance initiative's measurement rig.

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* Add terminal performance initiative plan

Working plan for the orca-performance branch: verified architecture
findings, workstreams (baselines, #7153 validation, term-speed-2 revival
with merge-scout numbers, stall fixes, flow control, rig extensions,
utilityProcess router, telemetry), benchmark protocol, sequencing, and
baseline-relative success criteria.

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* Add cross-terminal baseline results (Orca 1.4.91 prod vs Terminal.app vs Ghostty)

Headline: Orca DSR latency under 1MB/s agent-TUI load is p50 134ms / p99 292ms
vs 0.45ms (Terminal.app) and 0.21ms (Ghostty). Idle latency is fine (0.69ms
p50) — the problem is queueing under load, not the pipeline hop. agent-tui
fenced throughput: Orca 2.0 MB/s vs Terminal.app 37 MB/s, Ghostty 78 MB/s.

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* Add pipeline-loss decomposition benches (headless xterm + daemon ingest)

Both isolate layers of the 51x agent-tui gap found in baseline-jul02:
bare @xterm/headless parses agent-tui at 103 MB/s and daemon Session
ingest (emulator + pending-output recording + fanout) at 103 MB/s —
on the byte stream the full Orca pipeline delivers at 2.0 MB/s.
Parser and daemon are exonerated; the loss is in main per-chunk
processing, delivery/ACK pacing, or renderer layers above xterm.

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* Record baseline + decomposition findings in initiative plan

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* Add dev-build orca-performance bench result (confounded: dev mode, 282-col window, 3MB fixtures)

DSR under load p50 161ms — the #7139/#7150 branch does not move the
under-load latency class. Expected in hindsight: DSR replies are ordered
within the output stream, so the metric measures output-queue depth;
cooperative drain paces input responsiveness but cannot reorder the queue.
Shrinking the queue itself (producer flow control, task 6) and raising
agent-tui throughput (task 9) are the levers for this number.

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* Record dev-build #7153 check in findings log

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* Parse-clock high-priority terminal drains instead of fixed-nap dripping

Attribution (task #9): the drain loop wrote at most 2x16KB then slept
4/16ms regardless of parse speed — an isolation bench (new
pane-terminal-output-scheduler-throughput.bench.test.ts) measures that
drip at 1.9 MB/s background / 27 MB/s foreground against xterm's
~103 MB/s parse rate, matching the baseline-jul02 end-to-end numbers
(agent-tui 2.0 MB/s in prod 1.4.91).

Fix: high-priority (visible-pane) drains now re-arm on xterm's
parse-completion callback and carry 8 writes per tick; the isolation
ceiling rises 27 -> 117.6 MB/s (parse-limited). Background cadence is
deliberately unchanged (2 MB/s drip protects the focused pane; hidden
delivery is term-speed-2's job). DRAIN_TIME_BUDGET_MS still bounds
per-tick work, preserving #7139's cooperative-drain intent.

Validation: 621 scheduler/guard/pty tests green, typecheck clean.

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* Record task #9 attribution + parse-clock fix in findings log

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* Findings: 51x loss attributed to O(tail) retained-tail redraw path in main onPtyData

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* Window the retained-tail redraw path to the cursor's reach

Attribution (findings log 2026-07-03): main's onPtyData consumed ~93% of
the event loop under an agent-TUI flood, and the dominant term was
appendNormalizedToMultilineTailBuffer + finalizeRetainedTerminalRows
materializing ~2x tail-length row objects plus a per-row trailing-space
regex on every chunk — 0.888ms/chunk at the 2,000-line cap, on every
Claude-Code-shaped frame (cursor-up + erase-below).

The multiline algorithm now runs on a suffix window sized by the chunk's
maximum upward cursor excursion (plus the inherited redraw cursor and a
safety margin); the untouched prefix is shared by reference with a cheap
last-char trailing-space check to match the reference trim. Pathological
full-height cursor-ups fall back to the unwindowed implementation, which
is kept verbatim and exported as the reference for the 500-case
differential fuzz (retained-tail-redraw-window.equivalence.test.ts).

Micro-bench at a full 2,000-line tail: 0.888 -> 0.073 ms/chunk (12x).
1,415 runtime tests green, typecheck clean.

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* Add dev bench results: parse-clock and windowed-tail fixes

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* Record windowed-tail partial win + next-cycle recipe in findings log

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* Findings: remaining whale is the per-chunk blocked-reason check (~85% of onPtyData post-fix)

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* Throttle the terminal wait-blocked check off the PTY hot path

Post-windowed-tail attribution (findings log 2026-07-03): the blocked-
reason complex — two full-tail buildTerminalWaitText builds plus
toLowerCase and multi-pattern scans per chunk, existing only to stamp
waitBlockedAt — consumed ~85% of onPtyData's remaining cost (~700-790ms/s
under an agent-TUI flood).

The check now runs at a 50ms cadence over coalesced chunks (PTY chunk
boundaries are arbitrary, so coalescing preserves semantics), with a
trailing-edge timer so burst-final state is always evaluated, and an
immediate bypass when the incoming chunk (plus a 31-char split carry)
contains a prompt keyword — so actionable-prompt stamping stays
per-chunk-immediate while keyword-free flood frames skip the complex
entirely. Previous wait text is cached per pty instead of rebuilt, and
state is cleared at both pty teardown sites.

1,415 runtime tests green (including the cross-chunk prompt test, which
exercises the keyword bypass), typecheck and lint clean.

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* Findings + results: three stacked fixes unlock the pipeline (agent-tui 16x, DSR-load p50 161->18.8ms in dev)

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* Add producer flow-control design to initiative plan

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* Findings: revival branch green but perf-gated — daemon Session ingest regressed 103->40-48 MB/s (chain emulator restructure); merge blocked until blockedfix parity

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* Pre-filter daemon OSC/mouse scanners for introducer-free chunks

Skips the scan-tail copy and full-chunk walks when a chunk cannot contain
an OSC or private-mode sequence (single native includes() checks), with
split-sequence correctness preserved via explicit tail retention. Strictly
positive micro-optimization on the daemon per-chunk path; 641 daemon tests
green (1 pre-existing WSL failure unrelated).

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* Retract confounded daemon conviction; mandate load-controlled A/B protocol for the revival merge gate

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* Record A/B gate pass in findings log; add A/B result JSONs

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* Add producer-side PTY flow control (watermarks + protocol v19)

Main now pauses the actual PTY when a pane's renderer-pending backlog
crosses the 256KB high watermark and resumes once it drains below the
32KB low watermark (wide hysteresis band so a draining queue cannot flap
pause/resume per flush slice). node-pty pause() stops the pty fd read, so
the kernel/ConPTY buffer fills and a flooding shell blocks on write —
flood-induced buffered lag becomes shell blocking instead of unbounded
main-process buffering (terminal-performance-initiative §5).

Transport: new fire-and-forget pausePty/resumePty daemon notifications
(protocol v19; 18 added to PREVIOUS_DAEMON_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS), routed
DaemonServer -> TerminalHost -> Session -> subprocess pause()/resume().
LocalPtyProvider pauses node-pty directly. Router/degraded providers
forward; IPtyProvider gains optional pauseProducer/resumeProducer.

Safety invariants:
- Lost-resume failsafe: daemon Session auto-resumes 5s after a pause with
  no matching resume; main re-asserts the pause at most once per 5s while
  still above the high watermark, so a lost resume can never wedge a shell
  and a sustained flood stays throttled.
- Resume on every teardown path: Session kill/exit/dispose/detach; main
  releases on pty exit and on window-destroyed bookkeeping wipes; the
  adapter owes paused sessions a resumePty on the next connect after a
  socket drop.
- Providers without support (SSH relay, legacy protocol <= v18) no-op
  silently, and the scrollback-scaled pending-output cap still bounds
  main memory when pause is unavailable.
- Kill switch: PRODUCER_FLOW_CONTROL_ENABLED in ipc/pty.ts flips the
  whole mechanism off in one line.

daemon-errors.ts is split out of types.ts to stay under the max-lines cap.

Tests: watermark transitions/hysteresis/re-assert (controller unit),
lost-resume failsafe + resume-on-kill/exit/dispose/detach (session),
notification routing + v18 gating + reconnect owed-resume (adapter),
direct pause/resume (local provider), and a flood test asserting pause
fires once, pending stays bounded at HIGH + one chunk, and resume fires
once after drain (ipc/pty).

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* Findings: flow control merged; definition-of-done accounting; prod verification re-scoped to packaged RC

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* Fix stray brace from revival merge in long-table-scroll-restore e2e spec (broke e2e transform in CI)

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* Prod verdict: v1.4.121-rc.0 bench — DSR-load p50 134->18.6ms (7.2x), agent-tui 2.0->11.2 MB/s, idle at Terminal.app parity; pipeline now cadence-bound

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* Recover terminal output delivery after system sleep

Root cause: main gates every pty:data send on a global + per-PTY
in-flight counter that only renderer ACKs decrement. If ACKs are lost
across a system suspend, the counters pin at the cap and every PTY —
old and newly created — is silently gated forever while output piles up
in pendingData. A focus-preserving display wake also fires no renderer
focus/visibilitychange events, so terminal wake recovery (and the WebGL
context-loss latch clear) never runs. Only a renderer reload recovered.

Three fixes:
- ACK-stall watchdog (src/main/ipc/pty.ts): if sends stay gate-blocked
  for 10s with zero ACK progress while the renderer webContents is
  alive, warn once, reset the in-flight delivery counters, and flush
  held pendingData. Armed lazily on the first gate-blocked send and
  disarmed by every ACK, so it can never fire under healthy heavy load.
- Renderer lifecycle reset now also zeroes the in-flight counters — a
  reload/navigation destroys the renderer dispatcher, so outstanding
  ACKs can never arrive and stale counters would gate the new renderer.
- System-resume wake IPC: main relays powerMonitor 'resume' as
  system:resumed to live windows (plus forceRepaint); preload exposes
  ui.onSystemResumed; the terminal wake-recovery hook runs the same
  recovery path as window focus/visibilitychange.

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* VS Code head-to-head: Orca beats/ties 5 of 6 metrics (16x idle, 5x styles-stress, better p99); load p50 gap attributed to ACK window + timer-clamped drain cadence

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* Schedule zero-delay terminal drains via MessageChannel

Chromium clamps nested setTimeout(0) to ~4ms, stacking dead gaps onto
every parse-clocked drain tick; the explicit 4ms high-priority re-arm
interval added more. A posted message is still a macrotask — input and
paint are serviced between posts — so cooperative yielding survives
without the clamp. Generation-tokened cancellation; vitest keeps the
timer path (fake timers can't advance channel posts) plus a real-timer
smoke test for the channel path. Standing-queue target: VS Code's ~7ms
class (measured us 18.6ms, them 7.18ms, same rig).

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* Cut daemon and main PTY batch windows 8ms -> 2ms

At 9% pipeline utilization the DSR-under-load latency is fixed batching
windows, not queue depth (proved by the MessageChannel drain lever
moving nothing). Both hops charged an expected half-window per chunk;
2ms keeps burst coalescing at negligible IPC overhead (~500 msgs/s
worst case vs MB/s payloads).

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* Findings + tests: batch windows were the DSR-load gap (19->8.0ms dev); timing tests updated to 2ms windows

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* Fix PR CI and guard resume relay during shutdown

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* Chain e2e specs 6/6 green — gate x drain validation debt paid

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* Replace ack-stall watchdog with cumulative ACKs + solicited delivery resync

Design review: the 10s blind-reset watchdog decided correctness from a
wall-clock threshold. Rework piece 1 into a deterministic two-part design
(pieces 2 and 3 — lifecycle-reset counter zeroing and powerMonitor wake
IPC — are unchanged):

- Cumulative ACKs (TCP-style): the renderer dispatcher now tracks a
  monotonic per-pty total of processed chars (terminal-pty-ack-gate) and
  sends it on every ACK alongside the legacy per-chunk delta. Main keeps
  per-pty sentChars/ackedChars and max-merges received totals — idempotent
  and reorder-tolerant, so a lost ACK self-heals when any later ACK
  arrives instead of becoming permanent in-flight debt. Provider
  (SSH/daemon) backpressure is credited only the derived delta, clamped,
  never negative. Main tolerates both payload shapes keyed by field
  presence (dev hot-reload can mix renderer/main versions); totals reset
  on pty exit and renderer lifecycle reset on both sides.

- Solicited resync (replaces the blind reset): when new pty data arrives
  while that pty's delivery is fully gated and no probe is outstanding,
  main sends pty:requestDeliveryResync; the renderer replies with its
  cumulative totals and main reconciles via max-merge, then flushes held
  pendingData. Event-triggered, verified-state recovery — no wall-clock
  threshold decides correctness. The only timer is a 5s request/response
  hygiene timeout that clears the outstanding flag and logs one
  diagnostic warn per silent streak; it never mutates counters (a
  renderer that cannot answer has dead IPC — reload is the only cure).

The 10s corrective watchdog is deleted.

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* Starting point: prior agent's garble differential fuzz harness

Three files recovered (were untracked) from a prior agent killed by API
outages, plus a trivial curly-brace lint fix in the op dispatcher so the
pre-commit hook passes:
- src/shared/agent-tui-ansi-fuzz-stream.ts (seeded agent-TUI byte-stream gen)
- src/shared/terminal-restore-parity-fixture.ts (renderer-parity fixture)
- src/main/daemon/headless-emulator-fidelity.fuzz.test.ts (suite 1: differential
  HeadlessEmulator vs @xterm/headless reference on identical bytes)

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* Suite 1 findings: two new serialize round-trip bugs (B bold-loss, C cursor)

Scanned seeds 1..2000. Beyond the pre-documented serialize wrap-null-cell bug
(A, 27 seeds, tolerated), the fuzz surfaced two NEW real @xterm/addon-serialize
0.15.0-beta.287 round-trip defects, both of which garble a revealed hidden pane:

- Bug B (seeds 435, 770, 1321): serializing a dim cell followed by a bold-only
  cell emits \x1b[1;22m; SGR 22 clears bold too, so restored bold is lost.
  Minimal repro: '\x1b[2mA\x1b[22m\x1b[1mB' -> restored 'B' loses bold.
- Bug C (seeds 454, 1696): a final content row filled to the right margin leaves
  xterm wrap-pending; the serializer's relative cursor restore lands one column
  short. Minimal repro: '0123456789\x1b[3;5H' at cols=10 -> cursor x=3 not x=4.

Both isolated to pure serializer replay (no Orca preamble), confirming upstream.
Parity fixture verified faithful to the renderer pane's buffer options. Each is
pinned as a standalone it.skip repro; full evidence + classification in
notes/garble-fuzz-divergences.md. Seed 113 (handoff's DECSC/DECRC case) does not
diverge on the current harness. No production code changed.

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* Add perf prerelease update check modifier

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* Suite 2: hidden-reveal seq-reconciliation fuzz + two new snapshot bugs (D, E)

Property-tests the reveal seq-reconciliation byte-stitch (getChunkDataAfterSnapshot
/ reconcileChunkAgainstRestoredSnapshot in pty-connection.ts), mirrored exactly:
N=200 seeded hide/reveal scenarios with a rich agent-TUI hidden prefix snapshot
and an append-only racing tail, chunked with seq/rawLength meta, seq-domain
restarts, unmetered chunks and droppedOutput markers. Asserts snapshot-at-S +
reconciled tail == snapshot-of-everything (seq-neutral) and == always-visible
(end-to-end). Runtime ~5s at 200; FUZZ_ITERATIONS override documented.

Two NEW real snapshot-limitation garbles found while building it, both distinct
from suite 1's serialize bugs and pinned as standalone it.skip repros:
- Bug D: the DECSC saved-cursor register is not serialized. A hidden TUI that
  saves the cursor (ESC 7 / CSI s) and restores it on reveal (ESC 8 / CSI u)
  lands the restore at home. Repro: 'AB\x1b7\x1b[4;10HCD' + '\x1b8X' -> 'XB' vs 'ABX'.
- Bug E: a snapshot taken mid-escape-sequence (a PTY read split an escape) drops
  the partial sequence (it's parser state, not buffer), so the tail's
  continuation renders literal. Repro: 'AB\x1b[3' + 'mCD' -> 'ABmCD' vs 'ABCD'.
  Fired on ~24% of the corpus (tolerated + counted via prefixEndsMidSequence).

The append-only-tail design isolates seq reconciliation from these and the Bug C
cursor cascade. Full evidence + fix directions in notes. No production changes.

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* Suite 3: 25-cycle park/reveal drift e2e test

Extends terminal-hidden-view-parking.spec.ts with a deterministic 25-cycle
park->reveal test on a static rich alt-screen TUI frame (box drawing, SGR
colors, wide CJK/emoji). Baselines against the frame after the first snapshot
restore (so both sides pass through identical machinery — the alt-screen restore
correctly drops normal-buffer scrollback, which is contract not garble), then
asserts every subsequent reveal reproduces it byte-for-byte with no accumulated
drift and no hidden-skip banner. Exercises the real renderer teardown +
HeadlessEmulator snapshot restore + PTY reattach path the fuzz suites model in
isolation. Passes in ~29s (electron-headless, workers=1).

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* Fix two serialize round-trip bugs garbling hidden-terminal snapshot restore

BUG B (addon patch): @xterm/addon-serialize's SGR diff emitted bold/dim set
params before the shared intensity reset 22, so "1;22" wiped a freshly set
bold and a bare "22" dropped a still-set bold/dim. Patched via pnpm
patchedDependencies (config/patches) to diff bold+dim as one intensity
group with the clearing 22 emitted first. Other flag pairs (4/24, 3/23,
7/27, ...) have dedicated resets and were verified unaffected.

BUG C (Orca-side hardening): the addon restores the cursor with relative
moves computed from where it assumes replay leaves the cursor; a final row
filled exactly to the right margin leaves replay wrap-pending and the
restore lands one column short. New shared
serializeWithAbsoluteCursor appends an absolute CUP from the source
terminal's authoritative cursor at every restore/replay serialize site
(daemon/runtime HeadlessEmulator.getSnapshot, renderer mobile snapshot
serializer, shutdown layout capture). It skips empty snapshots and
wrap-pending sources so it never changes already-correct behavior.

Round-trip repros + non-regression coverage in
src/main/daemon/terminal-snapshot-serialize-roundtrip.test.ts (verified
failing with the fixes stashed). buildRehydrateSequences extracted to its
own module to keep headless-emulator.ts under the max-lines budget.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Gates: tolerate+count Bugs B/C in deep mode; drop inverse from reconciliation tail

- Fidelity suite: add snapshotHasSelfCancellingBoldReset (Bug B) and
  isMarginWrapPendingCursorOffByOne (Bug C) predicates so the corpus tolerates +
  counts them like Bug A. FUZZ_ITERATIONS=2000 is now green (~113s) and fails
  only on genuinely new divergences; each tolerance keeps its <50% degeneracy
  guard. Default 300 unchanged (~17s).
- Reconciliation suite: drop SGR 7 (inverse) from the append-only tail. Inverse
  marks trailing blanks with an inverse-fg the serializer round-trips slightly
  differently by capture depth — a Bug-B-class serialize nuance, not seq
  reconciliation. FUZZ_ITERATIONS=1000 is now green; default 200 unchanged.
- Notes updated: every bug class is both pinned (skipped repro) and tolerated in
  its corpus; combined default runtime ~19s.

Regex uses String.fromCharCode(27) to stay oxlint no-control-regex clean.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Keep RC update checks off perf prereleases

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Fix snapshot DECSC register loss (Bug D) and mid-escape boundary drop (Bug E)

Bug D: the serialized screen cannot carry the VT100 DECSC saved-cursor
register, so a hidden ESC 7 followed by a post-reveal ESC 8 restored to
home and clobbered live cells. The snapshot epilogue now re-saves at the
source's saved position before the final absolute CUP
(readSavedCursorRegister + serializeWithAbsoluteCursor; the active
buffer's own register, so alt screens carry theirs). Position-only by
design; never-saved terminals are left untouched.

Bug E: a PTY read ending mid-escape leaves the sequence in the emulator's
parser, so serialize dropped it and the racing tail's continuation bytes
rendered literally after reveal (~24% of the fuzz corpus). The emulator
now tracks the unparsed trailing partial at ingest
(terminal-partial-escape-tail.ts, committed post-parse like the mouse
mirror) and ships it as TerminalSnapshot.pendingEscapeTailAnsi.
applyMainBufferSnapshot writes it LAST, after POST_REPLAY reset — any
later ESC would abort the dangling sequence. Seq accounting is unchanged:
the tail is a suffix of bytes the snapshot seq already counts, so
reconcile slicing needs no adjustment.

Fuzz suites: unskip the Bug B/C repros (fixed on this branch) and the new
D/E repros; remove the B/C/E tolerance predicates so regressions fail
loudly. Only Bug A (upstream wrap null-cell) stays tolerated + counted.
Green at FUZZ_ITERATIONS=2000 (fidelity) and 1000 (reconciliation).

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Count suffixed RC tags (rc.N.perf) in the shared rc counter — second suffixed cut collided with the first

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Classify suffixed rc tags (rc.N.perf) as rc telemetry identity in release builds

The build-identity guard only knew vX.Y.Z and vX.Y.Z-rc.N, so suffixed
perf RCs cut fine but every platform build refused the tag and the
releases published empty.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Cut the hidden-restore flood feedback loop (A) + query carve-out on drops (B)

(A) Under a foreground flood, the hidden-output-restore loop re-fetched
snapshots endlessly: each synchronous applyMainBufferSnapshot starved ACK
processing, main pinned at the in-flight cap, dropped at the pending cap,
and every droppedOutput/modelRestoreNeeded marker re-armed another
restore until the flood ended (rc.7.perf DSR timeouts).
- Restore loop: a foreground live-chunk queue overflow now abandons the
  restore immediately (the stream is outrunning snapshot fetch+replay),
  with a 3-iteration hard cap + lifecycle warn as backstop.
- Re-arm gate: drop markers/sentinels and reconcile seq-gaps on a visible
  pane during its own in-flight/just-abandoned restore no longer re-arm;
  live bytes write through and ONE deferred repaint (2s after the last
  backpressure signal) heals the gap. Hidden-pane gate semantics are
  unchanged.
- Query salvage: discarding queued restore bytes (overflow/refetch) now
  extracts DSR/CPR/DA/OSC-color queries and replays them to xterm so
  replies still flow.

(B) Main-side: dropOversizedPendingPtyData carves reply-eliciting query
sequences out of the dropped buffer (and out of post-drop latched data,
bounded) and ships them on the droppedOutput sentinel, so DSR probes
survive bulk drops. Query scanning moved to
src/shared/terminal-reply-query-extraction.ts, shared verbatim with the
renderer's hidden-startup query extraction.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* ACK terminal output at parse-drain, not dispatcher enqueue (C)

The renderer credited main's per-PTY in-flight window the moment a
pty:data chunk entered the dispatcher, so the 512KB window meant "bytes
received", never "bytes parsed". Under flood the renderer write queue
grew unbounded behind instant ACKs; main saw no backpressure, crossed
the pending cap, and bulk-dropped output (rc.7.perf DSR timeouts).

Crediting is now parse-deferred: each delivery carries a fire-once
credit (deliverPtyDataWithDeferredAck); the pane's first scheduler write
claims it (writeTerminalOutput.ackCredit) and the output scheduler fires
it when the bytes are consumed — after terminal.write in the
parse-clocked drain, or on ANY discard path (backlog cap replacement,
discardTerminalOutput, disposed-terminal drops, flush recovery).
Deliveries that never reach the scheduler (reconcile drops, restore
queueing, pre-mount eager buffer) settle at handler return, so the
invariant holds: every delivered chunk credits exactly once, parsed or
discarded. E2E ack-gate hold/release and delivery-resync semantics are
unchanged (all crediting still routes through ackPtyData).

Main-side equilibrium: with ACKs at parse cadence, in-flight becomes
true backpressure — pendingData stays near the 256KB producer-pause
watermark, far under the >=2MB drop cap, so bulk floods block the shell
(node-pty pause) instead of dropping.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Synthesize salvaged query replies directly instead of replaying into xterm

The 10MB dev bench proved the write-back salvage insufficient: a
pending-cap drop always triggers a snapshot restore, whose replay guard
swallows xterm auto-replies and whose discardTerminalOutput races away
still-queued query writes — the salvaged DSR died both ways and the
fence still timed out.

Salvage now answers directly on the input path (immune to both): CPR
(CSI 6n) from the live buffer via transport.sendInput, DA1 with the
renderer's canned response, OSC color probes via the existing direct
responder. Rare queries (DECRQM, DA2) keep the best-effort xterm
replay.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Untrack branch-added bench result JSONs (20 files); keep numbers in the findings log

Files stay on disk; main's 7 pre-existing results are untouched.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Branch guide: document merge-not-rebase sync strategy and conflict pattern

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Merge origin/main (#7316 tab-strip click-vs-drag fix); adapt #7290 recovery-reload tests to this branch's dual did-finish-load listeners

The three tests grabbed the FIRST did-finish-load listener; on this branch
the renderer delivery-gate reset registers before the orphan sweep, so the
sweep tests exercised the wrong handler (one failing, two vacuously green).
They now fire all listeners like a real reload.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Fix branch CI lint: split pane-interaction functions out of artificial-opencode-terminal-load.spec (815>800 lines), modernize perf-html-report script

No max-lines disable per repo rules; extracted to
artificial-opencode-pane-interactions.ts. toReversed() and
import.meta.filename replace reverse()/fileURLToPath.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Fix Windows update-relaunch killing the live terminal daemon

On a Windows update relaunch the daemon can be wedged past every RPC
budget (final checkpoint flush + installer/AV disk pressure), so the 3s
health check AND the 5s session-list hello both time out while sessions
are still alive - and the launcher failed closed, killing the daemon and
every terminal session it owned.

- Adopt an unresponsive daemon whose pipe still accepts a raw
  connection; a new rejected health state keeps replacing daemons that
  answered and refused the handshake (never adoptable).
- Give Windows pid files a real startedAtMs (daemon self-reports it in
  the ready IPC message) and verify it via CIM CreationDate piggybacked
  on the existing command-line query, so the pid-recycling guard is no
  longer inert on win32.
- Only delete legacy daemon pid/token files when the pid-file process is
  provably dead; deleting a live daemon''s token made its sessions
  permanently unadoptable after a protocol bump.
- Capture agent resume records every 60s in the renderer (skipping
  unchanged records) so hard kills still leave a fresh resume record.

* Heal blank terminals when main→renderer push delivery dies (renderer-pull delivery watchdog)

Field evidence (v1.4.121-rc.0 debug snapshot, 2026-07-06): a wedged window
held 530,115 un-ACKed in-flight chars — one PTY pinned at the 512KiB per-PTY
high water plus a fresh terminal's 245-char prompt that was sent and never
consumed — while the user ran the snapshot over invoke from that same window.
Main→renderer push delivery (pty:data and every sibling channel) was dead;
renderer→main→renderer invoke was alive. Upstream precedent for
one-directional IPC death: electron#37067 (suspected Mojo pipe disconnect,
stalled as need-info). Every terminal goes blank, new terminals are born
blank, and only a renderer reload recovered.

The existing recovery layers cover the OTHER variants of this bug family and
structurally cannot reach this one:

- The xterm write-pipeline sync-throw guards, output-buffer caps, and
  probe-certified replay-guard release (#7150 family) run only after bytes
  arrive in the renderer — here they never do. (The pending cap did work as
  designed in the field: ~2.1MB pendingDroppedChars, bounded main heap.)
- Cumulative ACKs self-heal lost ACK messages and the solicited delivery
  resync reconciles verified totals (4647df86a; #7260 on main) — but the
  resync probe, the powerMonitor wake relay, and the droppedOutput restore
  markers all ride main→renderer push, the direction that is dead. The
  probe's unanswered path deliberately only logs.

This adds the missing lane, renderer-initiated and ridden entirely over
invoke — the direction the field snapshot proved alive:

- terminal-delivery-watchdog.ts: 15s heartbeat, free while output flows.
  Hot-path cost is one Map upsert per received chunk; a tick does no IPC
  unless the terminal plane was silent for the whole interval and a PTY
  still expects delivery. Two consecutive silent ticks with main reporting
  ACK-starved in-flight confirm the wedge; heals are one-shot per 60s
  cooldown so a persisting wedge cannot repaint-storm.
- pty:reportRendererDeliveryState (invoke): always max-merges the renderer's
  cumulative processed totals (a free extra repair lane for the lost-ACK
  variant); with heal:true — and only after main has itself seen ≥10s of ACK
  silence — writes off bytes the renderer provably never received
  (received ≤ acked < sent; a received-but-unparsed backpressure window is
  never written off), drops that PTY's pendingData (snapshot covers
  everything ≤ markerSeq, hidden-drop parity), credits provider flow
  control, and returns restore markers in the reply.
- The renderer re-attaches all push listeners (cures a detached-listener
  variant outright; a safe no-op against a dead channel) and routes the
  pulled markers through the existing pty:modelRestoreNeeded machinery —
  panes repaint from the main-owned buffer snapshot with zero push
  delivery involved.
- Field discrimination built in: the heal warn logs
  ipcRenderer.listenerCount('pty:data') (listener detached vs channel dead)
  with the full delivery snapshot, so the next occurrence names the root
  cause without asking the user to run anything in a console.

Repro harness: the exposeStore-gated __terminalDeliveryWatchdog hook
blackholes pty:data ahead of the dispatcher — the field failure in
miniature (no receive count, no ACK credit, no dispatch).
terminal-push-delivery-loss-recovery.spec.ts proves the wedged output
repaints while the blackhole is still engaged and live flow resumes after
release, with no reload. Unit suites pin the watchdog state machine
(zero IPC under flow, two-tick confirm, cooldown), the dispatcher reattach
seam, and the main-side write-off semantics.

Perf: nothing added to main's send/flush path; the renderer data path gains
one integer/Map update per chunk; idle cost is one ~100-byte invoke per 15s
only during total terminal silence. Terminal perf e2e suite (typing
latency, redraw freeze, output scheduler, hidden TUI restore, artificial
opencode load) passes on this change; no watchdog activity occurs under
ack-gate pressure scenarios because receive-progress gates the heartbeat.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Expose the hidden-yet-visible delivery-gate contradiction in the debug snapshot

The v1.4.124-rc.2.perf blank-terminal field snapshot showed a different
state than the v1.4.121 transport wedge: no delivery gating at all
(ackGatedFlushSkipCount 0, in-flight 38KB, far under every cap) but TWO
ptys hidden-delivery-gated with 78MB dropped as hidden. The aggregate
counters cannot say whether the pane the user was staring at was one of
the gated ones — the one number that separates "normal background
dropping" from "main is starving a visible pane because the reveal
unmark never fired".

Add hiddenDeliveryGatedVisiblePtyCount / hiddenDeliveryGatedActivePtyCount
(overlap of the gate's hidden set with the renderer's visible/active
reports — a contradiction that must be zero) to the delivery debug
snapshot, and a once-per-minute warn when hidden-gated bytes are dropped
for a pty the renderer reports visible or active, with the full snapshot
attached. Zero cost outside the debug read and the already-dropping path.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Unlatch the hidden-delivery gate when user input disproves a stuck document.visibilityState

macOS occlusion tracking can wedge document.visibilityState at 'hidden'
after display sleep and never fire another visibilitychange. The hidden-
delivery gate then keeps dropping renderer-bound bytes for panes the user
is looking at (field snapshot 2026-07-06, v1.4.124-rc.2.perf: 78MB dropped
across 2 pane-level-visible ptys with a fully healthy transport), and every
recovery path (window focus, system-resume relay, backlog recovery) re-ran
syncHiddenRendererPtyDelivery only to recompute the same stale predicate —
nothing could ever clear the gate. The user sees a frozen terminal; typing
echo is dropped in main; only a reload recovers.

Real user input while the document claims hidden is a physical
contradiction: keystrokes and clicks only reach a focused, on-screen
window. stale-document-visibility.ts latches that proof, runs each pane's
existing visibilitychange resync (gate unhide + hidden-output snapshot
restore), and hands authority back to the occlusion tracker on the next
genuine visibilitychange. No timers; the failure bias is safe — a wrong
latch can only restore pre-gate delivery cost, never drop bytes. Hot path
unchanged: the foreground predicate still returns on the same single
comparison while the document is visible.

tests/e2e/terminal-stuck-occlusion-recovery.spec.ts pins the wedge
(visibilityState pinned hidden -> output dropped, not painted; the
hiddenDeliveryGatedVisiblePtyCount field discriminator reads >0) and the
recovery (one Shift keypress repaints the missed output from the main-owned
snapshot, no reload, while visibilityState still reads hidden). Negative
control verified: the spec fails without this fix. Typing-latency perf
gate passes; terminal-pane unit suites 366/366.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Add a one-paste terminal freeze report: __orcaTerminalFreezeReport()

Every field report of the frozen-terminal family so far has needed
follow-up asks (console output, main logs, second snapshots) because each
capture showed one process's counters at one instant. This makes a single
DevTools command sufficient: `await window.__orcaTerminalFreezeReport()`
returns renderer state (document.visibilityState + the stale-visibility
override, pty:data listener count, delivery-watchdog totals), main's debug
snapshot extended with a per-pty delivery table (sent/acked/pending, hidden
vs visible-set membership, last send/ACK ages, window focus flags, power
suspend/resume ages, app version), and bounded breadcrumb rings from BOTH
processes recording the transitions that matter: gate marks/unmarks,
visibilitychange and stale-visibility latches, watchdog stalls and heals,
restore markers, heal write-offs, and renderer lifecycle resets (so "user
already reloaded" is visible in the history).

Costs stay off the data path: breadcrumbs record only rare transitions into
a 100-entry ring with same-kind coalescing (a flood costs one slot per
second); the per-pty table is built only when the snapshot is read; the
per-send bookkeeping adds one Date.now() to existing accounting writes. Pty
ids are redacted to their `@@` suffix because daemon session ids embed
worktree paths. The report assembles over invoke IPC — the direction proven
alive in every observed wedge — and a failing invoke is captured as data
instead of sinking the report.

The stuck-occlusion e2e now also pins the report end-to-end: after the
wedge + keystroke recovery, the report must carry the stale-visibility
latch and gate transitions in the renderer ring, gate-mark/unmark in main's
ring, and a populated per-pty table. Suites: pty.test.ts 258, terminal-pane
1705, shared ring 5; typing-latency perf gate passes.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* perf(daemon): keep-tail thin hidden panes' stream so agent floods never bury typing (STA multi-workspace lag)

Hidden panes are exempt from pendingData flow control (main gate-drops
their bytes after ingestion), so N background agents ran unbounded ahead
on the one shared daemon->main stream socket (measured 192MB user-space
backlog) and visible-pane echo waited FIFO behind it — typing appeared
seconds late whenever several agents burst on a loaded machine
(8x512KB/s + 12 CPU spinners: p50 293ms fix-off; 12x1MB/s: 6.1s).

Mechanism (replaces producer pacing — no reveal catch-up, ever):
- Shallow socket write gate (128KB) + per-session fairness bypass bounds
  echo latency by construction; kernel-flush refill sentinel keeps held
  bulk draining at full speed (drain-only refill capped at ~8MB/s).
- Backgrounded sessions' queued output is keep-tail dropped (newest
  512KB kept, in-order dataGap replaces the middle); a ~2MB GLOBAL
  budget shrinks per-session keep-tails (floor 64KB) so a worktree
  switch never waits behind the aggregate. Reply-eliciting query bytes
  (DSR/DA/OSC probes) are salvaged from dropped spans.
- Notifications are structurally lossless: the daemon runs the same
  shared scanners main uses (bell/OSC 133/pr-link/2031) over every byte
  BEFORE drop decisions and relays facts in byte order; ordered
  background markers hand scan authority back and forth, seeded with the
  emulator's partial escape tail so a sequence split across the handoff
  neither phantom-fires nor goes missing. Titles/agent-status stay
  main-side (kept-tail convergent).
- Main: background = hidden AND no remote view subscriber (a live
  mobile/web view is never thinned); on dataGap main resets cross-chunk
  parse carries, drops the headless mobile mirror, and reuses the
  hidden-drop model-restore marker.

Wire: three new stream events, tolerated within protocol v19 (old mains
ignore unknown events; old daemons never see the trigger). Kill
switches: ORCA_DAEMON_BACKGROUND_STREAM_DROP=0,
ORCA_DAEMON_SHALLOW_SOCKET_GATE=0.

A/B (pnpm bench:multi-workspace-typing): 8x512KB/s + 12 CPU workers
p50 293ms/p90 647ms -> 15/21ms (= baseline); 12x1MB/s 6,146ms -> 20ms;
light loads unchanged; zero missing echoes. Latin hidden-restore e2e
green (probe-verified aggregate-drain root cause). New deterministic
repro harness: tests/e2e/terminal-multi-workspace-typing-latency.spec.ts
+ CPU pressure workers.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* diag(terminal): breadcrumb WebGL context-loss/atlas + wake triggers into freeze report

Silent instrumentation (memory ring only, no new console lines) so the next
post-wake garble report attributes itself. Adds:
- shared/terminal-webgl-diagnostics.ts: lib-safe sink so pane-webgl-renderer
  (lib) can record without importing the components-layer ring; wired to the
  ring in terminal-freeze-breadcrumbs.
- webgl-context-loss crumb at onContextLoss, webgl-atlas-reset crumb at the
  atlas registry reset — the pair that distinguishes 'atlas corrupted' from
  'missed repaint'.
- wake-recovery:<source> crumb (focus/visibilitychange/system-resumed) with the
  clearGlyphAtlases decision; source in the kind so distinct triggers don't
  coalesce.
- per-pane WebGL state (getAllPaneRenderingDiagnostics) in the freeze report.

Gates: typecheck 0 errors; terminal suites 328 files pass; oxlint clean.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* fix(lint): use Number.parseInt/parseFloat in terminal-view-attributes

oxlint unicorn(prefer-number-properties) flagged 24 global parseInt/parseFloat
calls in the terminal-view-attributes feature (ee540f32d, perf-branch only),
failing PR Checks 'verify' lint. Mechanical global→Number.* rewrite via
oxlint --fix; behaviorally identical. Pre-existed the latest main merge.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* fix(test): update stale terminal test stubs/expectations to current runtime

Three pre-existing perf-branch test failures (red before the latest main
merge; unrelated to it) — all stale test scaffolding lagging behind
perf-branch features, no production code changed:

- provider-dispatch.test.ts: electron mock missing powerMonitor, which
  pty.ts installPowerSignalBreadcrumbs now calls on registerPtyHandlers.
  Added powerMonitor:{on:vi.fn()} to match pty.test.ts.
- runtime-terminal-stream.test.ts: onSnapshot now receives a second
  { pendingEscapeTailAnsi } meta arg (#7329); updated the three exact-arg
  toHaveBeenCalledWith assertions.
- terminal-multiplex-escape-tail.test.ts: stubRuntime missing
  registerRemoteTerminalViewSubscriber (subscribe path calls it now, erroring
  before snapshot serialize); added the stub used by sibling multiplex tests.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Fix hidden/parked split-pane exit stranding ghost or resurrected panes

Deterministic e2e repro of the field 'ghost blank pane' incident (a
closed/finished setup-split leaf persisted in root with no binding and
remounted as a permanently blank pane) found two teardown gaps at the
hidden-view parking boundary:

1. The kept-exit guard ('freshly split pane can lose its newborn PTY
   during setup') fired for HIDDEN panes. The hidden-delivery gate
   withholds their bytes, so a hidden split always looks output-less and
   its dead pane was kept — a binding-less ghost that dead-session
   reconcile can never reach (no PTY id to prove dead). The keep is a
   visible-failure UX; gate it on isVisibleRef and close hidden panes.

2. A PTY exit landing while the tab is PARKED reached only the parked
   watcher's exit sidecar (hosts' onPtyExit requires a mounted
   TerminalPane), which only disposed the watcher. The leaf's stale
   binding then reattached on reveal and the daemon re-created the
   exited session id as a fresh shell — silent pane resurrection. The
   sidecar now collapses the dead leaf out of the stored layout via
   detachTerminalLayoutLeaf (the observed-exit teardown's data half).

New e2e suite terminal-pane-close-layout-consistency.spec.ts sweeps
close/shell-exit at every hidden/park lifecycle phase and asserts
leaves(root) == bindings == live panes; all 7 scenarios pass. Unit
regressions added for both fixes.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Harden terminal delivery and snapshot recovery

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Fix inherited lint failures

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Align merged runtime recovery tests

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

---------

Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-10 17:27:47 -07:00
Brennan Benson 7a5632584a Fix WebGL glyph atlas wipe no-op, retry-consume, and page-overflow in addon patch (#8150)
TextureAtlas.clearTexture() guarded on pages[0].currentRow being at the
origin — but merged pages are never written through currentRow, so once a
page merge lands a merged page at index 0, every atlas wipe for the rest
of the session silently no-ops: no content clear, no glyph-cache clear,
no clear-model generation bump. Recoveries degrade to placebo, the glyph
cache grows unboundedly, and the session drifts into a merge-heavy state
where stale vertex data paints the tiny-glyph garble seen after
unfocus-then-paste into Claude Code.

Fixes in @xterm/addon-webgl patch (lib bundles + readable src):
- clearTexture(): guard on any-page-has-glyphs; restore _activePages
  after wiping (merges permanently shrink the active set)
- AtlasPage.clear(): reset _glyphs/_usedPixels so wiped pages stop
  distorting merge-candidate selection
- renderRows merge-retry loop: check the retry budget before
  beginFrame() so tripping the limit cannot consume the clear-model
  notification and strand a stale model
- GlyphRenderer.render(): clamp texture binds to the sampler budget so
  pages overflowing maxAtlasPages cannot TypeError and kill rendering

Verified: two-terminal shared-atlas harness (storm scenario proves the
no-op and its fix; 6-seed adversarial fuzzer clean), 405 unit tests in
pane-manager/atlas-recovery suites, terminal-rendering golden e2e.
2026-07-10 14:44:38 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 6a4b89785c revert: back out the Windows terminal update-survival chain (#7421→#7499) (#7505)
* Revert "Preload the daemon windowsHide shim via --require; wrap promisify custom (#7499)"

This reverts commit 8f396badaf.

* Revert "Hide console windows for children of the node.exe-hosted daemon (#7486)"

This reverts commit f0fdd3a716.

* Revert "fix(daemon): relocate daemon host image out of the install-dir kill zone (#7473)"

This reverts commit f4faafa987.

* Revert "fix(pty): keep runtime dirs a surviving daemon still uses (#7463)"

This reverts commit 3cd23a13a1.

* Revert "Relocate node-pty ConPTY runtime outside the Windows install dir (fixes update-time terminal loss) (#7421)"

This reverts commit 509c41e2bf.
2026-07-05 22:50:48 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong f0fdd3a716 Hide console windows for children of the node.exe-hosted daemon (#7486)
Since #7473 the terminal daemon runs under a standalone node.exe.
Electron's bundled Node defaults windowsHide to true; plain node.exe
defaults it to false, so every child_process call in the daemon that
does not pass the flag - the periodic PowerShell CIM process probes,
node-pty's kill-path conpty_console_list_agent fork - now allocates a
visible console, which opens and closes a Windows Terminal window on
the user's screen every few seconds.

Fix: daemon-entry installs a child_process shim (first import, before
any module captures bindings like promisify(execFile)) that defaults
windowsHide: true across spawn/exec/execFile/fork and their sync
variants, restoring the Electron default the daemon has always relied
on. Explicit windowsHide from a caller still wins. Also adds
windowsHide to node-pty's console-list agent fork in the existing
patch as defense in depth.

Verified on Windows: reproduced the flash with the rc.5 production
daemon (WindowsTerminal windows, ~3s cadence matching the CIM probe
interval, conhost spawned visible-capable "0x4"); with the shim, a
node.exe-hosted daemon's children (OpenConsole, powershell, node
helpers) all run without a visible-capable console and session kill
still works end to end.
2026-07-05 21:26:30 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 509c41e2bf Relocate node-pty ConPTY runtime outside the Windows install dir (fixes update-time terminal loss) (#7421) 2026-07-05 12:50:27 -07:00
JinjingandOrca d4084ba982 fix(terminal): force model clear when webgl texture atlas is reset (#6868)
Patch @xterm/addon-webgl so clearTexture() and page merge/delete operations
request a model clear and bump a generation counter. Without this, the renderer
keeps drawing glyphs against a stale atlas after the texture is reset, leaving
garbled or blank cells until the next full repaint.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-06-30 01:06:45 -07:00
Neil 5363fcd668 Update xterm beta packages (#6486) 2026-06-27 02:37:23 -07:00
Neil 3153356d87 Fix terminal table rendering after workspace restore (#4877)
* Stabilize terminal cursor rendering and typing checks

* Fix terminal table rendering after workspace restore

* Fix terminal table width underfit

* Tighten terminal renderer stabilization
2026-06-08 03:25:55 -07:00
Brennan BensonandOrca 5b1f297078 Add contextual feature tours (#2734)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-06-01 21:20:15 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong ff687a37b4 Fix Windows ConPTY process-list fallback (#3009) 2026-05-28 16:49:14 -04:00