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Jinjing 1def694e80 Add native chat skill picker with host-aware discovery (#9480)
* Add native chat skill and command picker with host-aware discovery

Adds a unified, keyboard-first skill and command picker to native chat that:

- Uses agent-native invocation syntax (slash for Claude/OpenClaude/Grok, dollar for Codex)
- Discovers skills only on the pane's execution host (local, WSL, SSH-unavailable, or runtime)
- Groups or separates commands and skills per agent configuration
- Deduplicates by canonical path but preserves visibility through all contributing roots
- Handles IME composition, loading states, and errors without claiming PTY-level control
- Records picker telemetry (open, item accepted, send classification, discovery outcomes)
- Extends shared agent profiles to define per-agent skill grammars and source ownership

* Remove obsolete reference and design documentation

Clean up stale design specs, implementation plans, and investigation notes from
docs/reference/. These documents predate the current implementation and are no
longer actively maintained or referenced by the codebase.

* Extract shared skill discovery utilities and add skill invocation envelo

- Move skill comparison and source classification to shared module for native/WSL reuse
- Extract display text sanitization to prevent control/zero-width character spoofing
- Add native-chat command envelope parser and surfacer for skill invocations
- Extend discovery timeout backstop to account for WSL metadata read sequence

* Localize skill picker UI for Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese

Translate skill picker UI strings including commands, skills, loading
states, error messages, and scope labels for the new skill picker feature
across four language locales.

* Fix skill picker bugs and improve code robustness

- Fix i18n plural handling: rename `count` to `sourceCount` to prevent unintended plural-key resolution in localized strings
- Fix skill discovery array mutations: copy `root.providers` to prevent bugs during dedup merge
- Fix image attachments being silently dropped when message text starts with /skill or agent prefix
- Extract `quoteBashString` utility for WSL command code reuse across builders
- Add line-separator safety characters (0x2028/0x2029) to skill display filter
- Remove stale doc reference links and clarify inline comments

* Add reference docs for git compatibility and headless Linux server setup

Track previously untracked operational guides in `docs/reference/` that
explain Git binary compatibility requirements across host types and how to
run `orca serve` on headless Linux. Update AGENTS.md and README.md to link
to these references.
2026-07-19 17:31:34 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong bbb54065e8 fix: preserve native PTY context on reattach 2026-07-19 16:04:05 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 01ce6db168 test: make WSL cwd fixture cross-platform 2026-07-19 16:04:05 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 3efc930908 fix: preserve WSL CWD across daemon sleep wake 2026-07-19 16:04:05 -07:00
Brennan Benson 764cadafc7 fix(terminal): confirm the agent from ConPTY console presence to avoid false exits (#9258)
* fix(terminal): confirm the agent from ConPTY console presence to avoid false exits

On Windows the foreground scan is a whole-process-table PowerShell fork
that, under load, exceeds its timeout or returns an incomplete snapshot —
the completion coordinator then reads the shell as the foreground and
fires a false "agent done" while the agent is still working.

While a recognized agent is still active, confirm it with a cheap ConPTY
console-membership read instead: a child process still attached to the
console means the agent is working, so keep it without the whole-table
scan. Fall through to the authoritative scan only when the console is
shell-only (the agent likely exited). No-op off Windows, and never worse
than the existing degraded-scan fallback.

* fix(terminal): apply the ConPTY console-presence check on the daemon foreground path

Windows PTYs are hosted by the terminal daemon, whose foreground-identity
refresh (not the local provider) is what runs by default — it retired the
cached agent on a timed-out or incomplete CIM scan, so foreground reads fell
back to the shell and fired a false "agent done" while the agent was working.

Mirror the local-provider fix on the daemon path: a degraded scan
(available:false) no longer retires the identity; an authoritative scan that
resolves no agent is confirmed against a ConPTY console-membership read before
retiring (an incomplete snapshot with a child still attached keeps the agent);
and the sync foreground read serves the cached agent across a shell fallback on
Windows (an unreliable exit signal under load) until the background refresh
authoritatively retires it. The membership read stays off the sync path.

* fix(terminal): exclude the console-list helper's own process from ConPTY membership

The console-membership helper attaches to the console to read it, so
GetConsoleProcessList counts the helper's own forked process. A bare shell
therefore read as [helper, shell] and looked like it still had a child, so a
genuine shell-only console (an exited agent) was never detected — the foreground
refresh held the exited agent's identity indefinitely. Drop the helper's own pid
before judging membership; a remaining set of only the shell (or the
AttachConsole-failure fallback) is not child proof. Fixes real-exit detection on
both the daemon and local foreground paths.

* fix(terminal): require conclusive ConPTY exit evidence

* fix(terminal): absorb delayed ConPTY helper errors
2026-07-19 15:20:54 -07:00
Brennan Benson bb71a3a991 fix(terminal): bypass rejected macOS login sessions (#9301)
* fix(terminal): bypass rejected macOS login sessions

* fix(terminal): bound macOS login preflight

* test(terminal): isolate macOS login preflight

* fix(terminal): avoid blocking macOS login preflight

* fix(terminal): cancel pending PTY preparation

* fix(terminal): cancel preparation on daemon shutdown
2026-07-18 10:16:21 -07:00
Brennan Benson 0532765b7f fix(pty): stop daemon reattach/kill race from orphaning restored terminals (#7742 sub-issue B) (#7836)
* fix(pty): stop daemon reattach/kill race from orphaning restored terminals

Two cold-start defects let a PTY kill silently orphan a live daemon session
after a renderer/app restart — the PTY-orphaning-on-restart half of #7742:

- DaemonPtyAdapter.shutdown() was the only session op that skipped
  ensureConnected(). The daemon client connects lazily, so a kill arriving
  before the first spawn (startup sleep/hibernation sweeps, closing a
  restored tab) threw "DaemonProtocolError: Not connected" against a
  HEALTHY daemon; the renderer swallows the rejection and the live session
  survives detached. Fix: connect first, like every other session op.

- pty:kill had no startup barrier while pty:spawn did. A kill issued before
  initDaemonPtyProvider swapped the provider resolved against the pre-daemon
  LocalPtyProvider, whose shutdown() silently no-ops on daemon ids; the
  handler then reported success and sent a synthetic pty:exit, permanently
  clearing the persisted tab->ptyId binding so the session never reattaches.
  Fix: pty:kill awaits the same getLocalPtyStartupPromise gate as spawn.

Both reproduced red-first (real DaemonServer socket rig for the adapter;
deferred-barrier IPC rig for the handler) and pass after the fix.

Scope: this restores the reattach/teardown invariant. It does NOT address
the renderer crash trigger or the daemon-process-death path that produces
the Windows PowerShell FailFast symptom (separate follow-ups).

* fix(pty): gate runtime shutdown on daemon startup

* fix(pty): keep shutdown independent of hook startup
2026-07-17 20:10:59 -07:00
slashdevcorpse ad206027b8 fix(terminal): replay cold restores at recovered grid (#9043) 2026-07-17 18:42:31 -07:00
OrcaWin f10c40591c fix(win): set UTF-8 console code page for Git Bash terminals (#9054)
Launch Windows Git Bash as `bash -c 'chcp.com 65001 >/dev/null 2>&1; exec "$BASH" --login -i'` so the ConPTY console is UTF-8 before a byte-writing UTF-8 TUI runs, matching what cmd.exe and PowerShell already do. Fixes CP437 mojibake for byte-writing agents in Git Bash tabs. Scoped to Git Bash; does not address PowerShell-reported mojibake.
2026-07-16 18:05:38 -07:00
Brennan Benson 64be819790 fix(runtime): harden watcher and PTY teardown ownership (#8661)
* fix(runtime): retain watcher and PTY teardown ownership

* fix(runtime): restore watchers after interrupted cleanup

* fix(runtime): prevent stale watcher revival

* test(runtime): cover watcher shutdown ownership

* test(daemon): model physical PTY exit

* fix(daemon): keep shutdown terminating when disposal cannot prove exit

A rejecting host.dispose() (unreapable child past its exit deadline) left
the shutdown RPC without its process.nextTick(shutdown) and skipped socket
cleanup in shutdown(), stranding the daemon as an unreachable orphan after
the stale-daemon replacement flow unlinks its socket. Log and continue:
daemon exit reparents the child to init instead of blocking on it.

* fix(runtime): keep local watching alive after an idle-kill deadline miss

An idle child that outlived the exit deadline set shutdownRequested on the
shared desktop supervisor, which has no retire-and-replace path — every
later subscribe rejected supervisor_disposed and the roots were cached
unwatchable, silently ending local file watching for the session. The idle
path owns zero records, so there is no double-watch hazard; the zombie
keeps its capacity reservation until physical exit and the next subscribe
gets a fresh child.

* fix(renderer): resync replayed paired-web file watches

Transparent replay removed the implicit resync the old close-and-rebuild
path provided: a replayed files.watch only reports changes from its own
native setup, so changes during the reconnect gap were silently lost.
Deliver a conservative overflow to consumers once the replayed watch is
ready, matching the overflow-after-interruption contract everywhere else.

* fix(runtime): address teardown review findings

* fix(runtime): retry watches after teardown deadlines

* Fix PTY descendant leaks on forced teardown

* Fix jitter-sensitive terminal lifecycle test
2026-07-15 15:23:35 -07:00
Brennan Benson 40d0159926 fix(terminal): kill agent descendant processes on session teardown (STA-1800) (#8706)
* fix(terminal): kill agent descendant processes on session teardown (STA-1800)

Agent CLIs spawn tool children in detached process groups that PTY
SIGHUP can never reach. Killing an agent session (tab close, retire,
sleep) left those children running as orphans — eight orphaned git
processes burned ~8 cores for up to 11.5h under the agents-running
keep-awake and drained a battery to 8%.

New pty-descendant-termination module: snapshot the ppid tree BEFORE
signalling (a dead root's descendants reparent to pid 1 and become
unfindable), SIGTERM the root group and every descendant, then after a
2s grace SIGKILL survivors gated on a pid+start-time identity re-check
so a recycled pid is never signalled. Snapshot is bounded and never
rejects; failures degrade to today's shell-only kill.

Wired for agent sessions only (plain terminals keep nohup semantics) at
all three POSIX kill sites: local provider shutdown, daemon
TerminalHost immediate kill (the pty:kill path — force-kill bypassed
Session.kill entirely), and daemon Session graceful kill.

Verified live in the built app: an agent pane with a detached-pgid
child; the child survived on the unwired build (three control runs) and
dies within ~5s with the fix. Windows ConPTY and SSH-hosted PTYs keep
the previous foreground-tree contract (documented follow-ups).

* fix(terminal): harden descendant teardown

* fix(terminal): require fresh process snapshots

* fix(terminal): close descendant teardown races

* refactor(terminal): preserve teardown line budget

* fix(terminal): keep descendant teardown fresh and identity-safe

* docs(reliability): record integrated descendant E2E

* fix(terminal): bound descendant teardown work

* fix(terminal): share descendant snapshot indexes

* docs(reliability): record descendant review evidence

* revert: remove speculative descendant hardening
2026-07-15 13:25:24 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandOrca f7926c11f1 fix(terminal): keep legacy daemon PTYs mounted (#8817)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-14 22:53:33 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandOrca 515bf2d6bb Fix restored terminals rendering blank on mobile (#8768)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-14 16:00:25 -07:00
Brennan BensonandBrennan Benson 1a6abc87d1 Suppress Git Credential Manager OAuth popup loop in Orca-run git — clone, terminals/agents, setup hooks (fixes #7652) (#7986)
* Suppress Git Credential Manager OAuth popup on git clone (fixes #7652)

Orca's git runner disables the interactive credential prompt on every git
call that goes through gitExecFileAsync/gitStreamStdout, but the two raw
'git clone' spawns (desktop repos:clone and the runtime clone path) passed
no env, so they inherited process.env with no guard. On Windows a clone
that needs GitHub auth then makes Git Credential Manager pop its
'Connect to GitHub' OAuth window, and in a network-restricted intranet the
browser/device flow never completes while git's credential retry re-pops it.

Apply nonInteractiveGitEnv() to both clone spawns so the prompt is
suppressed (GCM_INTERACTIVE=never, credential.interactive=false,
GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0). The credential *helper* is kept, so cached-token
clones for private repos still work; only the interactive fallback popup is
disabled and the clone fails fast with a clear error instead.

* Suppress GCM OAuth popup in agent terminals and setup hooks too (#7652)

The clone-spawn fix stopped Orca's own managed git from popping Git
Credential Manager, but git run in terminals and setup scripts inherited
process.env with no guard. That is the more likely source of the reported
loop: agents are told to run 'git pull --rebase'/'git fetch'/retry 'git
push' (preamble + conflict/push-failure prompts), and each retry re-pops
GCM's 'Connect to GitHub' window in a network-restricted intranet.

Apply the credential-prompt guard to:
- setup/archive/hook scripts (hooks.ts non-WSL exec env), which run
  unattended on worktree create/archive.
- the shared PTY host env (buildPtyHostEnv), via a small
  applyTerminalGitCredentialPromptGuard helper. Agent terminals are
  guarded unconditionally (they cannot dismiss a GUI popup); user
  terminals are guarded by default via the new
  terminalSuppressGitCredentialPrompt setting so power users can opt out.

The credential helper is kept, so cached gh auth still works; only the
interactive fallback prompt is disabled. Verified end-to-end in a real
Orca terminal (GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 + GCM_INTERACTIVE=never by default;
absent when the opt-out is set).

* Scope user-terminal credential guard to Windows, add settings toggle, forward guard into WSL (#7652)

* Retrigger PR checks (Actions dropped the synchronize dispatch for 57e7ce249)

* Keep shell locale out of the terminal/hook credential guard (#7652 review fix)

* Fix Fable review findings: guard WSL hook branch, wire settings search, catalog keyword keys, sparse-env askpass, one-shot agent classification (#7652)

* fix(terminal): harden Git credential popup guard

* test(pty): cover SSH credential guard setting

* fix(git): guard remote clones and setup runners

* fix(git): scope credential guards to unattended work

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Co-authored-by: Brennan Benson <brennanbenson@Brennans-MacBook-Pro.local>
2026-07-14 15:23:06 -07:00
NeilandOrca 840d3277d1 fix(daemon): replace a permanently wedged daemon instead of preserving it forever (#8689) (#8697)
* fix(daemon): replace a permanently wedged daemon instead of preserving it forever (#8689)

A daemon whose socket accepts connections but whose event loop never answers the
'hello' handshake was adopted by the launcher unconditionally and never re-evaluated,
so every terminal spawn failed with 'DaemonProtocolError: Hello response timed out'
with no recovery.

- daemon-init.ts: bound the launcher's 'preserve any unresponsive-but-connectable
  daemon' with a grace window. A transient wedge (Windows update-relaunch AV/disk
  pressure) drains within ~20s and is preserved WITH its live sessions; a permanent
  wedge exhausts the grace and is replaced. Stays well under the 60s local-PTY
  fail-open cap.
- daemon-pty-adapter.ts: isDaemonGoneError now treats 'Hello response timed out' as
  daemon-gone, so a runtime wedge triggers withDaemonRetry's respawn (re-entering the
  same grace-bounded launcher) instead of failing every spawn until app restart.

Tests pin the grace magnitude so it cannot be silently shrunk.

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

* fix(daemon): widen wedged-daemon grace window to ~60s

Bump WEDGED_DAEMON_GRACE_RETRIES 3 -> 11 (~20s -> ~60s) to keep live-session
loss on the transient-wedge (Windows update-relaunch) path as close to zero as
possible. A transient wedge drains early and stays under the 60s fail-open cap;
only a permanent wedge runs the full window. Export the constant and pin its
floor in tests so it can't be silently shrunk.

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

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Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-14 01:50:56 -07:00
9b3ed3997e fix(daemon): resolve Unix shell fallback before node-pty spawn (#8306)
* fix: resolve daemon shell before spawning

* fix(daemon): reconcile shell-ready barrier with the resolved fallback shell

The adapter computes shellReadySupported from the preferred shell before
spawn. When the daemon falls back (e.g. to /bin/sh), the session would
queue startup commands for the full 15s ready-marker timeout and wrap
multiline prompts in bracketed-paste markers the fallback shell cannot
parse. Expose the spawned shell on SubprocessHandle and downgrade the
barrier and paste wrapping in TerminalHost when the actual shell cannot
emit the marker.

Also apply the Unix shell fallback after the relay env scrub so a
scrubbed SHELL cannot drop the corrected value, and cover the resolve-
before-launch-config ordering, the no-shell throw, and candidate dedup
with tests.

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

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Co-authored-by: Vitus Apollo <zhzvitus@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-11 10:45:55 -07:00
dcfa91919f fix(automations): deliver Hermes prompts via native query (#7862)
* fix(automations): deliver prompt to Hermes TUI via process-ready signal

Hermes's prompt_toolkit TUI never emits the DECSET 2004 bracketed-paste
handshake that the default draft-paste readiness waiter gates on, so the
automation prompt was silently dropped and the agent sat idle (terminal
opens, nothing entered). Add a 'process-ready' DraftPasteReadySignal that
arms the quiet-window on first PTY output and pastes once the TUI settles,
and assign it to the hermes agent config.

Adds a Hermes unit test covering the no-handshake path.

Design for the follow-up PR/issue review loop lives in
docs/design/pr-issue-review-loop.md (not committed; gitignored).

* fix(automations): skip broken process-name fallback for process-ready

CodeRabbit: the process-ready fallback consulted waitForAgentReady, which
compares the foreground process basename via isExpectedAgentProcess. Wrapped
interpreter launches surface as 'python3 .../hermes', so the check can never
confirm readiness and only drops the paste. process-ready readiness is the
PTY-quiet window (handled by waitForAgentDraftInputReady); the process-name
fallback is dead for this signal. Skip it and return false on timeout instead.

* test(automations): assert single paste for Hermes quiet-window path

Guard against a duplicate paste in the no-handshake Hermes path by
asserting sendRuntimePtyInputVerified is called exactly once. Addresses
the CodeRabbit nitpick on PR #7862.

* fix(automations): skip broken process-name fallback on pty-bound paste path

pasteDraftToAgentPtyWhenReady (quick-create/work-item route) still ran the
python3-vs-hermes process-name fallback that can never match for
process-ready agents, burning ~1s and dropping the paste. Mirror the
process-ready guard from pasteDraftWhenAgentReady and surface onTimeout.

Adds regression tests for both the quiet-window happy path and the
fallback-skip on the pty-bound path.

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

* fix(automations): defer submit Enter until the Hermes TUI is interactive

Live-testing against Hermes v0.18.2 showed the fixed 50ms post-paste Enter
is swallowed: the node ui-tui takes 15s+ to boot, the paste fires ~1.5s in
(process-ready quiet window), and the cooked-mode line discipline turns the
early \r into \n, which the editor treats as newline-insert. The prompt
parked in the input box and the automation never executed.

For process-ready agents, defer the Enter until the TUI signals
interactivity (DECSET 2004 enable) or echoes the pasted content marker-free
(legacy prompt_toolkit), with a 120s best-effort cap. PTY input is FIFO, so
the deferred Enter always lands after the buffered paste text. The paste
echo of the content itself (raw or caret-notation markers adjacent) is
rejected so a cooked-mode echo can't release the Enter early.

Verified end-to-end in the dev app: automation prompt pasted, deferred
Enter released on tui-ready, Hermes submitted and ran the turn.

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

* fix(automations): use Hermes native startup query

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

* fix(automations): preserve quoted Hermes queries on Windows

* fix(agents): preserve invalid argument error message

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

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Co-authored-by: Brandon Bennett <brandonbennett@macbookair.myfiosgateway.com>
Co-authored-by: Jinwoo-H <jinwoo0825@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
Co-authored-by: Jinwoo Hong <73622457+Jinwoo-H@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-11 02:35:01 -07:00
b902f19b0d fix(terminal): send CSI-u Shift+Enter to Droid on Windows (#7620) (#7668)
* fix(terminal): send CSI-u Shift+Enter to kitty TUIs (droid) on Windows (#7620)

On Windows, Shift+Enter was always sent as the Alt+Enter byte ESC+CR (added in
#2418 for Codex, which reads win32-input-mode and ignores CSI-u). droid speaks
the kitty keyboard protocol, parses CSI-u directly, and treats ESC+CR as a plain
Enter — so Shift+Enter SUBMITTED the message instead of inserting a newline.
droid works in other terminals (Windows Terminal, Warp) because those honor
win32-input-mode / kitty; Orca (xterm.js) withholds kitty from local Windows
ConPTY panes and emits neither.

Make the Windows Shift+Enter byte pane-aware: latch whether a pane's program
advertised the kitty keyboard protocol (query CSI ? u, push CSI > .. u, or set
CSI = .. u) and send CSI-u (\x1b[13;2u) to those panes, keeping the
Codex-compatible ESC+CR for win32-input-mode-only TUIs. Non-Windows is unchanged
(always CSI-u).

Verified end-to-end against the real droid and Codex CLIs through the actual
production functions: droid now newlines, Codex still newlines.

* fix(terminal): route Windows Shift+Enter safely for Droid

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Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-10 21:00:31 -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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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* 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.

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* Keep RC update checks off perf prereleases

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* 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).

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* Count suffixed RC tags (rc.N.perf) in the shared rc counter — second suffixed cut collided with the first

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* 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.

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* 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
Jinwoo Hong 03a6737089 Fix Windows terminal daemon death after workspace close (#8140) 2026-07-10 13:50:38 -07:00
Brennan BensonandBrennan Benson da2c692d31 fix(terminal): forward Option hotkeys to kitty-keyboard TUIs on compose layouts (#8031)
* fix(terminal): forward Option hotkeys to kitty-keyboard TUIs on compose layouts

On macOS layouts where Option composes characters (ABC and all non-US, the
effective default), pressing Option+P in a TUI that negotiated the kitty
keyboard protocol made xterm's kitty encoder report the composed codepoint
(alt+pi, CSI 960;3u) instead of the physical key (alt+p, CSI 112;3u). No TUI
binds the composed form, so agent hotkeys like OMP's Alt+P / Alt+M neither
fired nor typed anything.

Fix: mirror each pane's application-negotiated kitty flags with a scan-based
tracker fed only from PTY output (immune to Orca's defensive renderer-side
kitty resets on Ctrl+C interrupts and reattach), and have the terminal
shortcut policy encode Option chords as kitty CSI-u from the physical key
when the pane's app opted in. Dead keys stay exempt so Option composition
still works, and panes without kitty negotiation (shells) are unchanged.
Alt+Arrow / Alt+Backspace now defer to xterm's native kitty encoding in
kitty panes instead of the legacy readline translations.

The daemon's headless emulator tracks the same flags and re-arms them via
the snapshot rehydrate preamble (CSI = flags ; 1 u), so the behavior
survives window reloads and reattaches; PTY exit and cold restore reset the
mirror.

Validated byte-for-byte against a real omp 16.3.15 in a pty: the policy's
emitted CSI-u opens the temporary-model selector (Alt+P) and agent hub
(Alt+A), identical to the legacy ESC-prefixed forms it parses.

* fix(terminal): harden kitty Option-chord mirror for soft resets, replay redelivery, and non-QWERTY layouts

Three review findings on the kitty keyboard mirror, each verified against a
live omp 16.3.15 pty session using the real production modules:

- DECSTR: xterm's soft reset (CSI ! p) clears its kitty flags and stacks for
  both screens without switching buffers; the tracker now mirrors that, so a
  soft-resetting TUI stops receiving kitty-encoded Option chords.

- Replay redelivery: relay reconnects can redeliver the retained replay
  window, and each scan of the app's one-time CSI > u push grew the mirrored
  stack while the renderer's post-replay reset drained xterm's copy. The
  TUI's single exit pop (omp emits a bare CSI < u on quit) then landed on a
  stale frame, leaving Option+B/F/D kitty-encoded in a plain shell. Replay
  paths now scan with scanReplay(), which applies pushes as idempotent sets
  so redelivery cannot grow the stack; the live-output funnel and the
  daemon's once-per-byte emulator keep full stack semantics.

- Layout-correct base keys: kitty CSI-u reports must carry the key's
  unshifted codepoint in the active layout, but the encoder resolved it from
  a US-QWERTY physical-code table — on Dvorak/Colemak/AZERTY-class layouts
  (exactly the population whose effective Option-as-Alt default activates
  this path) the wrong key's chord fired, e.g. Colemak Option+P sent alt+r.
  A new keyboard-layout module caches Chromium's KeyboardLayoutMap (fetched
  at terminal setup and on focus-in, like the option-as-alt probe) and the
  policy resolves through it before the US fallback. Verified live: the
  layout-resolved bytes open omp's model selector; the US-table bytes do not.

* fix(terminal): reset kitty mirror on fresh spawn to cover replaced-PTY late exits

The exit handler resets the per-pane kitty keyboard mirror, but a late exit
from a replaced PTY takes the stale-transport early return and skips it —
so a restart-in-place could leak the old TUI's kitty flags into the fresh
shell, kitty-encoding Option chords the shell cannot parse. A fresh spawn
is by definition a new process with kitty state at zero, so startFreshSpawn
now resets the reused tracker itself, alongside the other per-pane mode
state it already clears. Reattach paths are untouched, so a live TUI's
mirrored flags still survive reconnects.

---------

Co-authored-by: Brennan Benson <brennanbenson@Brennans-MacBook-Pro.local>
2026-07-10 13:45:33 -07:00
Jinjing c170866180 fix(terminal): clear leaked mouse-reporting modes on pane reattach (#7893)
* fix(terminal): clear leaked mouse-reporting modes on pane reattach

A TUI that enables mouse tracking (?1000/1002/1003 + SGR 1006/1016) and
dies uncleanly never emits the disable sequence, so the daemon's snapshot
records the mode and buildRehydrateSequences re-arms it on every reattach.
POST_REPLAY_REATTACH_RESET cleared cursor/focus/kitty state but not mouse
modes, so a plain shell in the reattached pane echoed every pointer-motion
report (`<35;col;rowM`) as literal text.

Add RESET_MOUSE_REPORTING (?9l ?1000l ?1002l ?1003l ?1006l ?1016l) to both
POST_REPLAY_REATTACH_RESET and POST_REPLAY_MODE_RESET. Live agent panes keep
mouse modes via POST_REPLAY_LIVE_AGENT_REATTACH_RESET, so agent scroll is
unaffected.

Verified against the real daemon serializer + real xterm: the old reset
leaves mouseTrackingMode armed, the new reset returns it to 'none'.

* test: add regression tests for terminal mouse mode leak on reattach

- Add an E2E test to verify that a warm reattach disarms mouse modes
  left armed by an uncleanly exited TUI.
- Add a test fixture that writes the mouse tracking enable sequence
  without a matching disable sequence.
- Ensure the reattached pane disarms mouse tracking and that actual
  mouse movement produces no reports.

* Add types to isMouseReport in terminal reattach leak test

Explicitly annotate parameter and return types for the isMouseReport
helper function inside the page.evaluate block.

* Refactor mouse-mode leak E2E test to use shell printf and live pane

Eliminate the external Node.js fixture file and streamline the E2E test
by using a POSIX printf shell builtin to arm the mouse tracking modes.

Additionally, verify the leak precondition by inspecting the active pane's
live terminal state (mouseTrackingMode) rather than querying internal
daemon buffer snapshots via window.api.pty.getMainBufferSnapshot.
2026-07-08 22:14:08 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 20832ef36f ci(daemon): fail builds, packaging, and CI when the terminal daemon cannot start — and stop failing silently (#7849) 2026-07-08 19:46:14 -04:00
Brennan BensonandOrca c8c5201145 perf(windows): relax whole-process-table scans for terminals with no agent evidence (#7607)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-08 16:41:21 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandOrca 79d0de9c33 fix(terminal): remote query-reply corruption (#7329) + snapshot grid-width repaint (#7279) (#7736)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-07 16:42:43 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong c256a5a417 Windows terminal update-survival (single consolidated PR) (#7538) 2026-07-07 19:21:07 -04:00
NeilandOrca e33b2006f4 Remove stale max-lines lint disables from files under the limit (#7548)
110 files carried an eslint/oxlint-disable max-lines directive but are
already under the default max-lines budget (300 .ts / 400 .tsx / 600 .mjs
/ 800 test), so the suppression is dead. Removing it restores real
max-lines coverage on these files with zero behavior change.

Each removed directive had max-lines as its only rule; verified via a
full oxlint run (0 max-lines violations, 0 new errors). Diff is pure
deletions (200 lines, 0 additions) — no code touched.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-06 02:12:32 -07:00
Brennan BensonandOrca 3826169c11 Keep Claude live-PTY refresh gate closed across restarts; recover wiped runtime credentials (STA-1246) (#7483)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-06 01:16:23 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 3b081c11e0 Revert "feat(daemon): Phase 0 update-survival groundwork — daemon file log + packaged-update proof harness (#7532)" (#7535)
This reverts commit e9b9836da5.
2026-07-06 01:12:37 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong e9b9836da5 feat(daemon): Phase 0 update-survival groundwork — daemon file log + packaged-update proof harness (#7532)
Two independent pieces, no behavior change to terminal handling:

1. Daemon lifecycle file log. The detached daemon runs with stdio
ignored, so field failures have zero daemon-side evidence. The daemon
now writes rotated NDJSON lifecycle events (startup/ready/hello
accept+reject/session create/attach/exit/kill/shutdown/uncaught
exceptions) to logs/daemon.log via a new optional --log-file fork arg.
Fail-open (any fs error disables logging), adoption-neutral (old
daemons without the arg keep working, protocol untouched), and the
diagnostic bundle collector now includes the file, bounded by the same
lookback window as trace spans.

2. tools/win-update-e2e: a packaged NSIS update proof harness. Installs
version N, drives the installed app (isolated userData), plants a
canary marker session, silently updates to N+1, relaunches, and
asserts an explicit expectations profile: --expect cold-restore
(today's behavior) or --expect survival (the Phase 1 target). Window
flashes are detected by baseline-diffed window enumeration with
canary-title attribution; daemons are identified by command-line
marker, never exe name. Refuses to run when a pre-existing Orca app is
running or (without --allow-existing-install) installed, and only
uninstalls an install it fully owns.
2026-07-06 01:09:54 -07:00
JinjingandOrca b47474b036 Fix terminal tab icon detection for foreground agents (#7476)
* Fix terminal tab icon detection for foreground agents

- Register with bash-preexec's preexec_functions array to prevent its
  DEBUG trap re-arming from silencing Orca's command-start signals.
- Serve the last-resolved identity past its cache TTL (stale-while-
  revalidate) while the active foreground process is a wrapper.
- Reschedule confirming reads on duplicate OSC 133;D sequences to
  prevent nested shells from prematurely clearing tab identities.
- Trigger self-limiting foreground sampling on visible PTY binding,
  Enter keystrokes, and pane focus changes.

* Fix terminal shell integration and DEBUG trap chaining in bash

Chain external DEBUG traps (e.g., starship, bash-preexec) dynamically
in a prompt epilogue rather than using static hooks. This ensures our
own DEBUG trap survives re-arming by third-party frameworks and reliably
emits OSC 133 sequences.

Additionally:
- Print the shell-ready marker inside the precmd hook to avoid modifying
  and displacing hooks at the end of PROMPT_COMMAND.
- Skip redundant foreground state checks in the PTY connection when a
  shell prompt is already active and no background agent is expected.

* Fix terminal shell integration and DEBUG trap chaining in bash

Chain external DEBUG traps (e.g., starship, bash-preexec) dynamically
in a prompt epilogue rather than using static hooks. This ensures our
own DEBUG trap survives re-arming by third-party frameworks and reliably
emits OSC 133 sequences.

Additionally:
- Print the shell-ready marker inside the precmd hook to avoid modifying
  and displacing hooks at the end of PROMPT_COMMAND.
- Skip redundant foreground state checks in the PTY connection when a
  shell prompt is already active and no background agent is expected.

* Remove debug artifacts from codex icon investigation

Drop temporary diff, handoff notes, and screenshot evidence that were
accidentally committed during debugging.

* Mirror upstream bash-preexec so preexec dispatch test reflects real command

The naive $BASH_COMMAND imitation captured Orca's chained
__orca_osc133_epilogue instead of the user command, failing on CI.
Read the command from history like real bash-preexec does.

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

* Fix promisify overload typecheck error in windowsHide wrapper test

The wrapper's static type (...args: unknown[]) => unknown makes
util.promisify resolve to its zero-arg callback overload, so calling the
promisified function with args tripped TS2554 under typecheck. Type the
promisified result to the variadic custom-symbol impl the wrapper copies
at runtime.

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

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Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-05 23:06:40 -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 8f396badaf Preload the daemon windowsHide shim via --require; wrap promisify custom (#7499)
The rc.6 shim shipped broken twice over:

1. Bundler ordering: rollup's CJS output hoists chunk requires above
   inlined module code, so daemon-entry's "first import" of the shim ran
   AFTER sibling chunks evaluated `promisify(childProcess.execFile)` at
   module scope. The shim is now its own self-contained bundle entry and
   the daemon fork preloads it with `node --require`, which runs before
   the module graph loads - immune to bundler ordering by construction.

2. promisify bypass: exec/execFile carry a util.promisify.custom
   implementation that calls the ORIGINAL function internally; copying
   the symbol verbatim onto the wrapper let every promisified call site
   (exactly what the daemon's CIM probes use) skip the injection. The
   wrapper now wraps each symbol-attached function with the same
   windowsHide-default injection.

Verified on Windows against the staged production Node 24 binary with
canary-titled probes (attributable amid ambient rc.6 flashing):
plain execFile and promisify(execFile) both flash 100% of trials
without the preload and 0% with it; promisify(execFile) under the
preload resolves to the injection wrapper; built preload bundle has
zero chunk requires; daemon boots and serves getForegroundProcess RPCs
end-to-end under --require.
2026-07-05 22:13:08 -07:00
Jinjing 2f52f0d665 fix(pty): deliver multiline agent-launch prompts via bracketed paste (#7487)
* fix(pty): deliver multiline agent-launch prompts via bracketed paste

Multiline agent-launch prompts (claude/codex/opencode argv injection) were
mangled when Orca typed the startup command into the interactive shell. The
command is single-quoted, but its literal embedded newlines survive quoting;
bash readline / zsh zle read every raw LF as accept-line (Enter), so the first
newline submits an unterminated single-quoted command, drops the shell into PS2
(>) continuation, and the rest executes piecemeal — backticks/$ evaluate, quotes
go unbalanced, and the agent never receives the intact prompt. Short single-line
prompts worked because they have no embedded newline.

Fix: when a startup command contains a newline, wrap the payload in
bracketed-paste markers (ESC[200~ … ESC[201~) before the trailing submit CR/LF
so the line editor inserts the multiline text literally and only the trailing
byte submits it. The single-line fast path is unchanged. Gated on the target
line editor having bracketed-paste mode active (Orca-wrapped bash/zsh) so shells
without it never echo the markers as garbage; Orca's bash rc wrappers now force
`enable-bracketed-paste on` (zsh has it on by default).

Applied consistently across every startup-command delivery path:
- src/main/providers/local-pty-shell-ready.ts (in-process / degraded local)
- src/main/daemon/terminal-host.ts (daemon host — primary local)
- src/relay/pty-handler.ts (SSH relay, remote host)
- src/renderer/src/lib/ssh-background-startup-delivery.ts (hidden SSH tab)
All share src/shared/startup-command-submission.ts. Windows cmd.exe and other
shells keep the current CR submit path (no regression); PSReadLine/POSIX
bash/zsh get the fix.

* Fix multiline detection for CRLF-terminated startup commands

Strip the entire CRLF terminator (or lone CR/LF) from startup commands
before checking if the body contains newline characters.

Previously, slicing off only the last character of a CRLF-terminated
command left a trailing CR in the body. This caused a single-line
command to be incorrectly categorized as multiline and wrapped in
bracketed paste.
2026-07-05 21:49:04 -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
f4faafa987 fix(daemon): relocate daemon host image out of the install-dir kill zone (#7473)
Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
Co-authored-by: Jinwoo Hong <73622457+Jinwoo-H@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-05 19:52:06 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 812f24bd19 fix(terminal): clear PTY-side buffers on Ctrl+K so the prompt stops repainting at a stale row (#7413) 2026-07-05 04:36:24 -04:00
JinjingandOrca 331a30b454 Harden rate-limit PTY working directory and abort background usage probes on stop (#7403)
* Harden rate-limit PTY cwd and abort background usage probes on stop

Resolve a runaway CPU incident where background Claude rate-limit usage
probes could inherit a root working directory (such as `/` or `C:\`) and
index the entire disk.

- Force hidden Claude and Codex usage PTYs to spawn inside a small,
  dedicated directory under user data or temp.
- Thread AbortSignal through rate-limit fetchers to immediately kill
  and reap in-flight PTY processes when RateLimitService stops.
- Harden daemon and local PTY defaults to reject root-like working
  directories for automated agent startups.

* Consolidate PTY path safety checks to prevent runaway CPU

Centralize `isRootLikePath` into a dedicated PTY path safety module
to prevent terminal launches and hidden usage probes from executing
in filesystem or drive roots, avoiding unbounded file discovery.

- Centralize path validation supporting POSIX, Windows, and UNC roots.
- Fail loudly if no safe default working directory is available.
- Enforce bounded directories for hidden usage PTYs and WSL probes.
- Check for aborted signals during rate-limit CLI repairs.

* Gate agent startup on the effective PTY cwd after default fallback

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

* test(repos): verify origin/HEAD target in SSH base-ref tests

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

* Pin HOME to assert exact default PTY cwd in spawn test

Pin `process.env.HOME` in the fallback test for LocalPtyProvider to
assert the exact resolved candidate rather than just checking that it is
non-root-like. This catches potential regressions where an unintended
home directory is picked, and uses a try/finally block to safely restore
the environment afterwards.

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Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-04 22:50:43 -07:00
Jinjing 0982882436 Exclude submodule worktree-only changes from Stage All action (#7298)
- Prevent the "Stage All" button from being enabled when only nested
  submodule worktree changes are present.
- Remove the disabled stage button on submodule worktree-only rows,
  replacing it with an explanatory tooltip.
- Fix WSL terminal environment assertion in daemon PTY tests to allow
  inherited agent-hook environment variables.
2026-07-04 00:21:55 -07:00
NeilandOrca 77a223a7e2 Fix macOS TCC attribution for terminal children via login(1) (#7003)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-03 19:04:16 -07:00
NeilandOrca fa94065a81 Recover exported terminal handles from live PTYs (#7162)
* Recover exported terminal handles from live PTYs

* Guard terminal-handle adoption: first-wins, no collisions

Discovery adoption of ORCA_TERMINAL_HANDLE is now skipped when the pty
already has a handle bound this session (re-keying would strand waiters
registered under the old handle) or when the reported handle is already
bound to a different pty (provider-reported values are not trusted to be
collision-free). Also adds the relay why-comment and PtyProcessSummary
type alias from review feedback.

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

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Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-02 23:06:32 -07:00
NeilandOrca 4caea00f16 Skip the synchronous cold-restore replay for live daemon sessions in doSpawn (#7105)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-02 22:04:05 -07:00
Brennan BensonandOrca c06507ee30 Open terminal file links on mobile (#7134)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-02 18:17:47 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 2ce9314acb Improve Windows terminal performance: retain WebGL contexts, warm first ConPTY (#7085) 2026-07-02 18:41:23 -04:00
Brennan Benson e44daf37a3 Match main terminal mirror character widths to the renderer (#7148) 2026-07-02 14:50:15 -07:00
NeilandOrca 9fc61aa7ca Bound hot-terminal full-snapshot checkpoints with a per-session cooldown (#7088)
* Bound hot-terminal full-snapshot checkpoints with a per-session cooldown

A streaming session (build logs, yes) re-triggered a full multi-MB
checkpoint.json tmp+rename on every 5s tick via pending-buffer overflow
or the 5MB log cap - hundreds of MB/min of disk writes from one busy
terminal, and the dominant Orca-generated filesystem event volume.

Cap/overflow-triggered full snapshots now honor a 45s per-session
cooldown: while cooling down the session's checkpoint work is deferred
entirely (no takePendingOutput RPC, no increment appends - appending
past a dropped range would leave a hole in the log, so the on-disk
state stays a consistent, merely stale, prefix) and the session stays
dirty so the timer retries until the cooldown expires. Final/teardown
checkpoints (quit, sleep, clean disconnect) bypass the cooldown, and a
session's first-ever snapshot is never delayed, so cold-restore
fidelity changes only for hot sessions mid-stream: at most 45s of
tail scrollback staleness after a hard crash.

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

* Harden checkpoint cooldown against crash-boundary and reuse edges

From adversarial review of the cooldown commit:
- Warm reattach by an adapter that was not already managing the session
  now forces a full-snapshot re-anchor: the previous adapter may have
  drained daemon records it never persisted (deferred hot-session tick),
  and appending past that unknown drain point would put a seq gap in the
  log, which the restore reader rejects wholesale. This also closes the
  pre-existing (previously ~ms-wide) drain-vs-persist crash window.
- Cold-restore re-anchor clears any cooldown inherited from the
  pre-crash generation (daemon respawn within one adapter), so the
  revived session's first snapshot is never deferred.
- Exit-event routing clears lastFullCheckpointAt (reused ptyIds must not
  inherit a dead session's cooldown); fanoutSyntheticExits now clears
  sessionsNeedingFullCheckpoint for consistency.
- Backward wall-clock jumps count as expired instead of extending the
  deferral.

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

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Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-02 01:33:51 -07:00
Neil 7c66f37632 Fix AppImage env leakage into Linux terminal shells (#7076) 2026-07-01 23:09:20 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandOrca 8afa84af82 Fix terminal switch input lag from daemon session listing (#7002)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-01 13:19:50 -07:00
Neil be3f30e2f8 Fix Windows CJK terminal repaint and ConPTY wrap markers
Fix native Windows CJK terminal repaint and ConPTY wrap metadata handling.\n\nNormalize filesystem realpath results before authorization so WSL UNC roots compare consistently in CI.
2026-06-30 03:50:30 -07:00
Brennan BensonandNeil 6cf52518e2 Fix explicit PowerShell 7 terminal selection on Windows (#6876)
* Fix explicit PowerShell 7 terminal selection

* Make WSL UNC readDir test portable

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Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
2026-06-30 03:48:25 -07:00