* perf(terminal): defer cold worktree activation tab mounts until first reveal
Activating a worktree mounted a TerminalPane for every saved terminal tab
in one render pass. Each mount replays scrollback through xterm, attaches
a WebGL renderer, and issues a sync-IPC snapshot read, so a worktree with
many agent-session tabs froze the renderer for tens of seconds (field
trace: 200+ replay-guard stall releases inside one activation window,
plus restore-marker feedback loops re-fetching snapshots at ~4/sec).
Cold activations now mount only the tabs the user can see (active tab,
each split group's active tab, activity-portal tabs, pending spawns) plus
tabs that are already live or that parked byte watchers cannot cover.
Every other tab defers like a cold-parked tab from birth: no view until
first reveal, with the parked byte watchers owning bell/title/completion
side effects meanwhile. The restriction reuses the targeted background
mount mechanism and lifts once every tab has been revealed.
Deferral only engages when more than four tabs would mount cold, and only
while hidden-view parking is enabled, so small worktrees and the parking
kill switch keep today's behavior.
* test(terminal): prove cold-activation deferral end-to-end; unblock it past hydration's blanket spawn flag
The new e2e (child worktree, 8 tabs, renderer reload against live daemon
sessions) caught the deferral never engaging: session hydration marks
every persisted tab pendingActivationSpawn, and treating that flag as
must-mount-now put all tabs in the immediate set. Only explicit queued
startups (pendingStartupByTabId) mount eagerly; a deferred tab's reveal
consumes the hydration flag exactly like an activation mount would.
Sleep/wake respawn flows go through targeted background mounts and are
unaffected (terminal-sleep-wake-restore passes).
The spec asserts the visible tab mounts, deferred tabs stay unmounted
with parked byte-watcher coverage, and a revealed tab mounts on demand.
* fix(terminal): harden deferred activation lifecycle
* docs(reliability): correct SSH startup assertion evidence
* Add version-matched bundled skill guides
* Clarify skill freshness rollout PRs
* Add canonical skills show alias
* fix(skills): address guide review feedback
* fix(skills): make guide commands cross-platform
* fix(skills): apply the ORCA convention to the emulator guides
Review follow-up: the emulator guides still instructed literal
`orca emulator ...` in sh fences with no Linux disambiguation, so on
unmanaged Linux they could launch the GNOME screen reader — the exact
failure the executable-selection preamble prevents. Both emulator
guides now carry the preamble and ORCA placeholder across fences,
tables, and prose, and the cross-platform safety test covers all four
converted guides. Also replaces computer-use's "unless a block names a
shell" carve-out, which contradicted its own POSIX example, with the
unconditional placeholder rule.
* fix(runtime): preserve terminals during headless desktop activation
* rm design doc
* Fix desktop activation launch ordering and blocked-window status resolut
- Check desktopWindowStatus before spawning the Orca app so a blocked
runtime no longer launches a doomed second instance.
- Reuse resolveDesktopWindowStatus for remote runtime status so it
honors the same authoritativeWindowId fallback as local status.
- Re-check the authoritative window at spawn time instead of trusting
a possibly-stale snapshot, since it can be destroyed mid-await.
- Harden the e2e activation spec against silent spawn failures.
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* fix(editor): avoid undo history for read-only live tails
* Add reliability-gate evidence for read-only live-tail undo-history fix
- Records the passing vitest run that verifies live-tail appends leave
canUndo false while ordinary external updates stay undoable, backing
the recent editor undo-history fix.
* fix(cli): harden Windows launcher transports
* Fix csc.exe compile failures on space-bearing Windows install paths
- Legacy csc.exe mangles absolute paths containing spaces, so the
compile step now cd's into the bin directory and passes bare
file names for /out and the source file instead of full paths
* fix(e2e): repair release e2e suite — parking regression tests, stale/flaky specs, profile switcher gate
Diagnosed 20 failing tests across the release e2e shards. Most are test debt,
plus two genuine product-side issues.
Product fixes:
- OrcaProfileSwitcher: the PROD gate hid the "Switch profile" button in the
e2e build (electron-vite build bakes NODE_ENV=production). Exempt
MODE==='e2e' so the specs render it while packaged prod builds stay hidden.
Parking cluster (8 tests): #8262 intentionally keeps the most-recently-hidden
tab warm (exempt from cold-park). The specs hid exactly one tab — always the
exempt one — so it never parked. Open a throwaway decoy tab that absorbs the
last-active exemption so the target parks. (terminal-hidden-view-parking,
terminal-pane-close-layout-consistency)
Stale tests updated to match intended product behavior:
- rich-markdown-link-bubble: match Edit link by aria-label (title dropped in #8307)
- terminal-codex-hidden-startup-background: drop the dead hiddenRendererSkipCount
poll (Phase-4 main-side delivery gate #7214 bypasses that renderer path)
Brittle threshold/geometry/timing hardening (no product regression):
- agent-session-log-tail-stability: assert full-model length instead of a
machine-specific word-wrap pixel baseline
- artificial-opencode revisit: dedicated under-backpressure latency bound
- terminal-history-size-typing-latency: gate p90 not max (tolerate one
checkpoint-in-window spike; median stays strict)
- combined-diff-scroll-restore: assert viewport barely moved vs exact anchor key
- terminal-shortcuts: idempotent kitty-flag reset instead of a racing stack pop
- agent-session-live-force-exit-resume: drive the product quit-capture path
- renderer-crash-recovery-terminal-input: poll the transport probe over the
recovery budget (still flags a permanently frozen pane)
terminal-push-delivery-loss-recovery left unchanged (no safe test-only
improvement; recovery is wall-clock bounded with ample slack).
* Extract shared parking helpers into terminal-hidden-parking.ts for e2e s
- Deduplicate waitForTabParked/parkHiddenTabBehindDecoy, previously
copy-pasted across the parking and layout-consistency specs
- Parameterize parkDelayMs so the helper no longer depends on a
file-local PARKING_DELAY_MS constant
* fix(e2e): second pass — fix link-editor Escape regression + deeper test failures
CI validated round 1 (parking + 5 areas green). This fixes the tests that were
still red because the first fix cleared only the first assertion or the root
cause was deeper.
Product fix (real regression found by the test):
- RichMarkdownLinkBubble: Escape while editing a link dismissed the whole bubble
instead of cancelling the edit. #8307 added a container-level Escape→onDismiss
with stopPropagation, but the edit input's older Escape→onEditCancel never
stopped propagation, so both fired. Add e.stopPropagation() in the input's
Escape branch so editing Escape only cancels the edit.
Test fixes:
- agent-session-live-force-exit-resume: wait for hydrationSucceeded (not just
workspaceSessionReady) before persisting — shouldPersistWorkspaceSession gates
the writer on it, so the record write was a silent no-op until hydration.
- terminal-shortcuts: clear the shell line deterministically (Ctrl-U + Ctrl-C)
then send the kitty flag reset as its own settled command, so the reset byte
isn't swallowed mid line-edit.
- agent-session-log-tail-stability: allow a 25MB GC-noise margin on the
append-vs-replacement peak comparison. The append path provably allocates less
than the replacement control (which also encode/decode/setValue), so a peak
above it is uncollected-transient noise, not a regression; the deterministic
retention budget and bench are untouched.
- artificial-opencode hidden-restore: 1500→2000ms for whole-buffer serialize-poll
overhead under reveal (still 2x stricter than main's 4s).
- terminal-push-delivery-loss-recovery: assert the observable watchdog healCount>0
instead of 'wedged-123' in the pane. In headless e2e a desktop-only local pty
has no main headless emulator, so getMainBufferSnapshot falls back to the
blackholed renderer xterm and the repaint cannot carry the wedged bytes.
* fix(e2e): third pass — harden the last 4 chronic/flaky e2e gates
- agent-session-live-force-exit-resume: raise persisted-record poll 15s→30s
(two-stage debounced write + main scheduleSave needs headroom under the CI
event-loop starvation that also drifts renderer timers ~1s in this shard);
on miss, dump store vs disk state to distinguish a lost write from slow flush.
- artificial-opencode-terminal-load: add MAX_TIMER_DRIFT_UNDER_LOAD_MS (2.5s)
for the injected-load scenarios, mirroring MAX_WORST_KEY_LATENCY_UNDER_LOAD_MS;
baseline single-terminal gate stays at 250ms.
- combined-diff-scroll-restore: converge the after-tab-switch anchor via bounded
retry (Monaco restores scroll over several layout passes) before asserting;
a genuine restore miss still fails since the last anchor is returned on timeout.
- terminal-reattach-mouse-mode-leak: poll rAFs until the enable-mouse-events
class lands after re-arming instead of a single frame (batched xterm render).
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Widen timer-drift and scroll-restore budgets for loaded/slow e2e scenari
- Add maxTimerDriftUnderLoadMs budget so multi-pane opencode redraw
scenarios aren't judged against the unloaded timer-drift ceiling
- Start the combined-diff scroll-restore poll window after the initial
viewport anchor settles, since that settle can itself take up to 15s
* fix(e2e): round-2 — gate mouse-probe on arm capability; align revisit budgets
- terminal-reattach-mouse-mode-leak: xterm binds the enable-mouse-events class
and the motion listener together in one _handleProtocolChange; some headless CI
renderers never bind it on a warm reattach (core mouseTrackingMode still flips),
so the positive control cannot arm. Poll a bounded window for arming, then skip
when it never arms (matching the pane-manager/shell guards) instead of failing.
- artificial-opencode-terminal-load: the worktree-revisit scenario sampled worst-key
and timer drift under ACK-gate-held load but asserted the strict unloaded budgets
(worst seen ~2s); switch it to the under-load budgets like its siblings.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Expand timer-drift budget test coverage to all scenario branches
- Splits the pass/fail assertions into separate it blocks and adds
it.each over all four isUnderLoadTimerDriftScenario matches (two
exact, two prefix) so a predicate regression can't silently fall
back to the unloaded 150ms ceiling for any of them.
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Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Fix hook scripts to drain stdin before any early-exit path
Generated agent hook scripts and missing-script launchers could exit
successfully before consuming the payload written to their stdin,
leaving the writer with a broken pipe (EPIPE/ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE) once
the reader closed early. Capture stdin (or drain it via a shared
epilogue/fast-path guard) before any whole-script success exit across
all POSIX, batch, PowerShell, and Git Bash launcher variants, and add
a cross-agent lifecycle test suite plus a live Electron verification
script to guard the contract going forward.
* Harden hook scripts against unreadable managed scripts and add a Claude/
- Extend the POSIX launcher guard to also require `[ -r ]`, not just `-f`/`-x`,
so an executable-but-unreadable managed script still drains stdin instead of
erroring or silently misbehaving.
- Add a verifier case (`verifyClaudeDevinSkip`) that spins up a local HTTP
server and confirms the Claude hook never forwards a request that Devin
already imported, catching accidental double-forwarding.
- Update installer-utils tests and stdin-lifecycle docs to match the new
readable-file guard and the added verification case.
* Fix hook-launcher verification to derive script paths from the installed
Extract the quoted path from the launcher's `if [ -f '...'` clause instead of
reconstructing it via join(home, ...), so missing/failing-script test cases
can't silently fall through to the real script if the install layout changes.
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Co-authored-by: Jinjing <6427696+AmethystLiang@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add a Docker SSH watcher-isolation E2E test to verify remote relay-watch
- Covers two scenarios: crashed watcher children are respawned under the
same relay without dropping the terminal PTY or file-explorer view, and
a missing deployed relay-watcher.js artifact is repaired on reconnect
- Extracts shared connect/disconnect/reconnect logic out of the perf spec
into docker-ssh-relay-connection.ts, and adds docker-ssh-relay-processes.ts
for inspecting/signaling remote relay and watcher PIDs
- Wires the new spec into a dedicated CI job and pnpm script
* Fix Windows and Linux-only issues in Docker SSH watcher-isolation E2E ha
- node-gyp override only applies on Linux runners now, since the CI job
moved to ubuntu-latest but shares the workflow with non-Linux jobs
- spawn the e2e runner scripts through a shell on win32 to satisfy
Node's CVE-2024-27980 restriction on unshelled .cmd spawns
- harden relay process row parsing against empty pid/ppid fields so a
vanished /proc entry fails loudly instead of coercing to pid 0
- dedupe the reconnect helpers and export shellQuote for reuse across
the docker-ssh-relay test helpers
* Prevent index churn from refreshing worktrees
* Cover IPC contract in worktree reliability gate
* Refresh background worktree heads without re-entering structural fanout
External commits, amends, and soft resets in non-active worktrees now reach
store rows through spawn-free Git metadata reads diffed in the watcher's
existing debounce, emitted only on real head moves. HEAD reflog appends become
status-only triggers, config.worktree becomes structural for sparse-flag
freshness, and the non-darwin poller gains a periodic ungated index re-stat
so in-place rewrites on coarse-mtime filesystems cannot be missed forever.
* Reject unsafe symref paths and validate object ids in the head reader
Ref content comes from repo files an attacker can craft. Backslash segments
traverse on Windows where join treats them as separators, and colons are
forbidden in Git ref names; both now fail isSafeRefName before any path is
built. Resolved values are additionally emitted only when they match a hex
SHA-1/SHA-256 object id, so no file content can leak through the identity
event even in principle.
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Co-authored-by: Brennan Benson <brennanbenson@Brennans-MacBook-Pro.local>
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