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Brennan Benson 419e3b4496 Fix terminal reads that flatten composer drafts into output (#16711)
* fix(terminal): separate composer drafts from read output

Rendered screen reads treated cursor-line suggestion overlays as PTY output. Detect composer-owned text from cell attributes and cursor context, remove it from tail, and expose it as structured draft metadata.

* fix(terminal): handle wrapped composer overlays

* fix(terminal): preserve draft wrapping and tail alignment

* fix(terminal): preserve composer wrap boundaries

* fix(terminal): preserve draft continuations with middle dots

* fix(terminal): recognize configurable Codex status lines
2026-08-27 15:28:09 -07:00
Neil 3ffab9a6b3 feat(terminal): read the rendered screen with terminal read --screen (STA-4792) (#15380)
* feat(terminal): read the rendered screen with `terminal read --screen` (STA-4792)

`terminal read` returns accumulated pty output with escape sequences stripped.
That is the right answer for "what happened over time" and the wrong one for
"what is on screen": any program that repaints a line comes back as stacked
fragments, so one `clear` typed key by key reads as `cclclecleaclear`, and a
prompt that draws a space by moving the cursor loses it. Nothing in the output
said which question had been answered, so it was used as rendering evidence and
produced false conclusions.

The runtime already knew how to render — it replays the byte stream through a
headless emulator — but only as a fallback for blank reads, alternate screen,
and never-attached ptys. A normal attached terminal never reached it. `--screen`
asks for it directly.

Every read now reports its source, which also surfaces the pre-existing
snapshot fallback that until now swapped rendered lines into an ordinary read
with no indication. `screen-unavailable` distinguishes "asked for a screen,
none could be rendered, here is the stream" from a stream the caller asked for,
and an absent source means the host predates the field. Because an older host
strips the unknown param and answers with its ordinary read, `--screen` against
one fails with that explanation rather than passing the stream off as a screen.

`--screen` and `--cursor` are mutually exclusive: a screen is the current frame
and has nothing behind it to page.

* refactor(terminal): stamp the screen source where rendered lines enter the read

Inferring it from tail array identity worked but made a load-bearing contract
out of reference equality; any later path spreading the read would silently
mislabel. Rendered lines only enter through one builder, so it stamps there and
anything still unlabelled is the stream.
2026-08-18 22:51:37 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 79be5b7fde feat(orchestration): report a worker blocked on a human prompt (STA-4513, STA-3714) (#15261)
* feat(orchestration): report a worker blocked on a human prompt (STA-4513, STA-3714)

A lane parked on an approval, trust, or permission prompt looked exactly like a
lane that was thinking or inside a long tool call. On origin/main, driving a real
cursor-agent through Orca:

  surface                        running `sleep 60`   awaiting approval
  worktree ps agents[].state     working              working
  terminal show / list           no such field        no such field
  terminal wait --for tui-idle   satisfied: true      satisfied: true
  worker-show                    no agent state       no agent state

The runtime already fuses hook state, OSC title, and matched prompt text into a
`permission` verdict inside getTerminalAgentStatus — it was reachable only from the
renderer, and it was blind to cursor-agent approvals. Two gaps, one boundary.

Exposure: getTerminalInteractiveWait publishes that same fusion, minus the async
foreground probe, as `agentWait` on `terminal show` and on `worker-show`'s
observation. It carries the evidence that proved the wait (hook, prompt-text, or
title) so a coordinator can weigh it. Null means no proof; a missing field means
the host predates it — absence is never read as "not waiting".

Detection: cursor-agent's hook set has no approval event and beforeShellExecution
fires identically for auto-allowed commands, so its rendered menu is the only
authority. Matched on the key-bound choices rather than the prose, requiring two,
and self-clearing when the follow-up input line returns. Its live spinner title is
exempted from the staleness rule that clears startup modals, because cursor keeps
spinning while it waits.

Falls out of routing it through the shared verdict: `dispatch --inject` into a
cursor pane on an approval now refuses with agent_prompt_blocked instead of typing
the preamble into the dialog.

Fixtures are captured verbatim from cursor-agent 2026.08.11-e8db854 driven through
Orca; the same case matrix was replayed live against a built runtime.

terminal list stays untouched: its rows would each need a full tail scan, and
STA-4694 owns the one-call-per-run aggregate.

* fix(orchestration): only call a Cursor approval live while it owns the screen

Independent review found the approval detector trusted one dismissal string, so
any later output that did not contain cursor's follow-up line left the menu
reading as a live wait. Reproduced: a tail of the real menu followed by two lines
of ordinary output returned agent-approval-prompt, which fails tui-idle and
refuses prompt injection on a healthy lane.

Replaced with the structural property the string was standing in for: a live
dialog owns the bottom of the screen, so the last choice may sit at most one line
above the end of the retained tail. That tolerates a status footer or a partial
line mid-redraw without admitting scrollback, and it drops the vendor prose.

Being bottom-of-screen is also the dating this reason needed, so it no longer
requires waitBlockedAt. A tail restored from terminal history carries none, and a
lane parked on a prompt emits no bytes — so before this, an Orca restart made
exactly the lane both issues are about go quiet for good. The startup modals keep
the timestamp rule: their text lingers in scrollback with nothing to say whether
it was answered.

Also from review:
- worker-show and federationShow reuse the verdict showTerminal already computed
  rather than rescanning the tail, so the two can no longer disagree.
- The worker-show test now drives a real runtime, real PTY tail, and the real
  detector; it previously mocked getTerminalInteractiveWait, so it would have
  passed with detection permanently returning null.
- The guard claim is now asserted against the guard: a blocked pane rejects both
  assertTerminalAgentSendable and sendTerminalAgentPrompt, and a working pane
  still passes.
- Added a non-local (connectionId) pane case, since the verdict is derived from
  retained tail and title state on every host.

* fix(agent-status): stop a hook wait from outliving its agent

A third reviewer caught that the hook branch proved agent ownership from the pane
title alone, while the shared verdict it claimed to reuse also probes the
foreground process. A shell that takes a pane back usually sets something like
`user@host: ~/repo`, which no title rule recognizes, and a hook row stays fresh
for AGENT_STATUS_STALE_AFTER_MS — so a dead agent could be reported as waiting on
a human for half an hour.

Hook evidence now goes through getTerminalAgentStatus, which is the only thing
that can answer whether an agent still owns this PTY. The two prompt branches skip
it: a matched prompt is on the pane's screen now, so it proves itself. That makes
the probe cost fall exactly where correctness needs it, and getTerminalInteractiveWait
async, which only showTerminal had to absorb.

Also trims the comments the same reviewer flagged as longer than the repo's rule.

* test(agent-status): pin that a dead pane stops reporting a human wait

A fourth reviewer noted the approval menu sits at the bottom of a dead pane's tail
forever, and that no test covered process exit with no trailing output. The
snapshot already refuses an exited pane, and worker-show gates agentWait on proven
identity — this pins both so neither can drift into reporting a worker that needs
intervention as one that needs an answer.

* fix(orchestration): never report an unchecked worker as not waiting

Automated review caught that the three worker paths which return before the wait
is ever evaluated — unattached, missing, and identity_changed — then had their
undefined coerced to null by the emitters. A worker whose process was replaced was
reported as `agentWait: null`, which reads as "Orca looked and nobody is waiting"
when Orca never looked. That is the false negative this field exists to remove.

The field is now emitted only when it was evaluated, so a present null is a claim
about the pane and an absent one means nobody looked — because the host predates
the field, or the worker's identity could not be verified. The CLI and the
worker-show note say that rather than blaming an old host.

Covered on the context-only path, where the regression test fails against the
previous behavior; the supervised and federated emitters take the identical
one-line change.

Also trims the two test-file headers to one statement of purpose.

* fix(agent-status): tighten the Cursor menu match and stop guessing on unknowns

Fourth review round, three findings, each reproduced before acting.

Matching each choice marker with an independent lastIndexOf let text outside the
menu carry the anchor. An agent narrating "next time I'll suggest Run Everything"
after the menu was answered pulled the match down to the bottom of the screen and
revived it. The match is now confined to the last lines of the tail, and a choice
is a line that ends in the key that picks it — prose writes the same words but not
the same shape.

The one line of slack under the dialog went with it. It was a guess; every capture
of a live dialog ends on its last choice, and one line is exactly enough room for
that narration. A redraw caught mid-flight now reads as no wait until the next
poll, which is the safe way to be wrong.

The hook branch awaited a foreground probe that reaches a PTY controller which may
be a remote host, so a wedged probe stalled every caller of showTerminal — a path
that never probed before. It is bounded now, and a timeout leaves the wait
unevaluated rather than claiming there is none.

Which is the same distinction the previous commit only fixed one level up:
getTerminalInteractiveWait itself turned an unreadable pane into `null`, so
showTerminal published "looked, nobody waiting" for a pane it could not read. It
returns undefined there, showTerminal omits the key, and worker-show's text output
prints unknown rather than rendering it the same as none.

* fix(agent-status): bound the wedged probe's cost and stop matching prose keys

Fifth review round. No correctness defects in the shipped behaviour this time; two
robustness holes and the documentation of the contract.

The bounded probe abandoned the wait but not the request, so a coordinator watching
a wedged remote host added one live probe on every poll. It is single-flighted per
PTY now, the way the leaf-absence probe already is.

The trailing-key rule that separates a menu row from the agent narrating a choice
was written as a character class, and any lowercase run up to twelve characters
satisfied it — "…suggest Run Everything (as before)" passed. Spelled out as key
names instead, which also lets the glyph forms of those keys through.

The contract wording said an absent agentWait meant an old host or an unverifiable
identity. It also covers an unreadable pane and a probe that did not answer, and a
reader diagnosing an old peer from that would be wrong. Corrected on the type, the
worker-show note, and in docs/reference/remote-wire-compatibility.md, which had no
entry for a field whose absent and null states mean different things.

Also strengthens the worker-show agreement test, which compared the terminal and
observation payloads without asserting either held the expected wait, so it passed
when both were absent.
2026-08-18 14:19:20 -07:00
Brennan Benson 7afce2ea41 fix(ssh): stop reporting a confirmed kill when the SSH provider is gone (#14977)
* fix(ssh): stop reporting a confirmed kill when the SSH provider is gone

A detached relay PTY is designed to outlive the provider that addressed it
(it ignores SIGHUP and ships with an unlimited grace), so "the SSH provider
is no longer registered" is lost contact, never evidence the remote process
stopped. Both stop primitives in the PTY controller returned `true` from
that branch, and every caller downstream reported the fabricated success:
the CLI printed "PTY killed.", worker-stop settled the dispatch as stopped,
and — because the stop "succeeded" — the unstopped-PTY gate never ran, so
worktree removal walked straight past a live remote agent.

`kill`/`stopAndWait` now still tombstone the local lease but report an
unconfirmed stop and record why, using the three-verdict vocabulary the
worktree teardown gate already spoke (`live` / `unverifiable` / `exited`),
promoted out of that module into `src/shared/pty-liveness-verdict.ts`.
The close receipt, the CLI wording, worker-stop and the removal gate all
read that verdict instead of inferring an exit from silence.

The same rule fixes the mirror-image defect: the aggregate inventory only
enumerates registered providers, so a dropped relay clears `connected` for
every remote PTY at once. The sweep now separates the provider answering
"absent" (an exit) from no provider being able to answer (lost contact), so
worker-stop stops claiming `exited` from a disconnect.

The `connected` wire field is unchanged in meaning and shape.

* fix(orchestration): apply the same honesty to the federation stop path

The federation host runs its own copy of the worker observation and stop
logic, with the same two defects: `inspectRemoteAttachment` read a dropped
relay's `connected: false` as `exited`, and `federationStop` settled the
dispatch as stopped from a close it never confirmed — relaying a fabricated
success all the way home to the coordinator.

Two guards also had to move so the honest verdict does not become a new
refusal. `federationRead` gated on `status !== 'running'`, which would have
rejected a connected terminal the moment a stop lost contact with it; it now
gates on `status === 'exited'`, which is equivalent for every pre-existing
status given the two guards beside it. Local `workerStop` likewise still
attempts the close when the verdict is `unverifiable` — losing contact is a
reason to report the outcome honestly, never a reason to stop trying.

The show observations now carry the reason alongside the status, so a bare
`unverifiable` is actionable. Both are new optional fields.

* fix(ssh): preserve unconfirmed stop verdicts across consumers

* fix(ssh): use canonical live verdict wording

* fix(ssh): refuse wrong-host teardown verification

* test(orchestration): confirm worker release teardown

* fix(orchestration): negotiate honest worker stop receipts

* fix(agent-teams): fence uncertain teammate respawns

* fix(ssh): avoid duplicate missing-provider teardown

* fix(orchestration): preserve archives across release retries

* fix(ssh): preserve verdicts across synthetic kill exits

* fix(ssh): preserve liveness evidence across teardown

* fix(agent-teams): replace panes only after confirmed stop

* fix(ssh): distinguish host exits from relay loss

* fix(ssh): narrow concurrent inventory verdicts

* fix(orchestration): serve archives after uncertain release

* fix(orchestration): expose unverifiable read liveness

* test(ssh): align liveness assertions with verdicts

* fix(ssh): preserve host scope across inventory failures
2026-08-17 00:11:19 -07:00
Brennan Benson 8ca4ed945e feat(terminal): report execution host and listing scope in terminal list (#14973)
* feat(terminal): report execution host and listing scope in terminal list

`orca terminal list` returned rows with no host identity and no statement
of what the listing covered, so a scoped listing that saw nothing read as
"nothing exists anywhere" — an agent reported a live remote worker dead.

Each row now carries an optional `executionHostId` derived from the PTY id
(SSH and paired-runtime ids embed their owner), and the result carries an
optional `hostScope` naming the hosts covered and the known hosts skipped.
Both are surfaced in `--json` and in the human-readable CLI output, where
an absent field renders as `unknown` rather than `local`.

Both row builders route through one resolver, so the rule lives in one place.

* fix(terminal): preserve unverifiable host scope

* fix(terminal): fail closed on unverifiable hosts

* test(terminal): name unverifiable scope explicitly

* perf(terminal): keep graph hydration host scans narrow

* fix(terminal): reject blank foreign host owners

* fix(terminal): validate inferred inventory hosts

* fix(terminal): preserve paired folder host scope

* fix(terminal): keep inventory host inference typed

* fix(terminal): disclose paired folder hosts
2026-08-16 22:13:03 -07:00
Neil 339045b150 fix(runtime): coalesce concurrent host terminal focus (#11841)
Bound exclusive host navigation to a generation-aware latest-wins
single-flight so bulk open and switch fan-out stay responsive on large
remote fleets. Add freeze repro harnesses and navigated settlement.
2026-08-03 02:18:05 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandOrca 319ae4e9ea fix(terminal): make whole-tab close durable (#8958)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-07-15 22:09:37 -07:00
Jinjing 49c0917dbe Prevent background terminal sessions from auto-activating (#6686)
* Support background and focused terminal presentation modes

* Add `presentation` field ('background' | 'focused') to terminal
  creation to control focus behavior.
* Prevent terminal creation from stealing UI focus by default.
* Return discoverability warnings when default terminal presentation
  fails, unless explicit background mode is selected.
* Update orchestration SKILL.md to clarify review-only worker
  completion rules and named owner handoffs.

* Prevent background terminal sessions from auto-activating

Ensure that terminal tabs created with 'background' presentation (such
as background agent sessions or locally backed renderer transports) do
not automatically activate or get selected as the active tab on remote
or mobile sessions.

- Add a selectIfNoActiveTab option to control auto-activation on mobile
- Set presentation to 'background' for remote runtime transports and
  agent background sessions
- Skip tab auto-selection when the presentation is background

* Keep background terminal create payloads focused
2026-06-28 19:52:04 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandOrca 3afed388fc fix: expose terminal visual layout and copyable handles (#5845)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-06-19 15:42:13 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandOrca 76cb846d68 Harden computer use runtime and CLI (#4705)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-06-07 17:49:01 -07:00