* fix(terminal): return IME composition ownership to xterm * fix(mobile): derive terminal input from native replacement ranges * test(mobile): record iOS Japanese IME traces * fix(mobile): preserve native IME replacement ranges * fix(xterm): flush queued application input after IME commit * test(terminal): pin Korean intermediate commit * test: pin Windows IME shortcut ownership * test: replay IBus number candidate commit * fix: preserve native macOS input-method punctuation * refactor(terminal): remove stale mac focus override * fix(mobile): preserve soft keyboard deletion ranges * fix: keep IME-owned palette chords in renderer * fix: stop carried IME shortcuts at renderer owner * fix: preserve carried IME shortcut dispatch * fix: narrow main-owned shortcut actions * test(mobile): pin Japanese IME replacement traces * test(terminal): retain paired native IME trace * fix(chat): preserve browser IME composition ownership * fix(chat): retain macOS IME confirm gesture * fix(chat): expire unmatched IME confirm carry * fix(chat): isolate IME confirmation expiry * fix(chat): retain active IME confirmation * refactor(terminal): remove dead composition handler * feat(ime): add shared Enter-ownership seams for CJK composition The confirming Enter of a CJK composition arrives as two keydowns and the orderings differ by platform: Windows/Linux redispatch the unmarked Enter/13 before keyup, macOS delivers keyup first. A guard reading only isComposing or keyCode 229 misses the redispatch, so surfaces submitted on a confirm. Adds useImeEnterGestureOwnership (carry token, next-frame expiry), a shared ImeEnterGuardedForm for native implicit submission, and the cmdk seam covering 18 CommandInput surfaces at one site. A chorded Enter arms the carry but is never swallowed — the reverse would eat a user's deliberate Cmd/Ctrl+Enter. Both failure modes are pinned by ime-enter-gesture-ownership-contract.test.ts. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * refactor(terminal): consolidate native input listeners and parked-screen owner Extracts the shared native-input listener installer and renames the parked-screen detector for what it actually does, replacing per-call-site duplication. The listener installer keeps a forgetOptionKeyLocationOnBlur flag so per-window semantics are preserved rather than flattened. Net deletion; no behaviour change intended. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * test(terminal): pin recorded IME shapes as regression tests Nine regression tests built from hashed affected-platform captures, each with a paired ordinary negative and a discriminating mutation verified to take the file from all-passing to exactly one failure. Covers the Windows MS-Korean Shift family (#12179, #11878, #12151, #11946, #12152) and the Korean TUI line-break rows (STA-3237, STA-3222, STA-3129). STA-3237 pins the empirical 3-Shift / 2-active-composition / 2-newline ratio the device run established — the third Shift produces nothing because Space has already committed. That ratio is not derivable from a static capture. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * fix(ime): guard Enter-commit surfaces against CJK confirm Applies the Enter-ownership guards across the surfaces whose Enter commits something: publishes, clones, pairs, installs, posts, or persists. Tiered deliberately rather than uniformly. Irreversible and remote-effect sites take the carry token, which also blocks the unmarked redispatch. Locally reversible sites take the oracle check with a one-line comment naming the residual, because a spurious commit there costs one undo. Three numeric fields are left unguarded with the reason in-code: Chromium blanks number inputs at compositionstart, so a confirm-Enter only ever reaches an empty-draft reset. Measured with a CDP probe rather than assumed — a guard that cannot fire is noise. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * test(ime): teeth-check the Enter guards on every guarded surface One suite per guarded surface, each verified by deleting the guard and confirming the test fails. A green guard test without that check is unverified, not verified. Two shapes pass vacuously in happy-dom and are avoided here: native implicit form submission never fires, and blur() is inert on an unfocused element. Both made "the commit did not happen" assertions pass with the guard removed, so the suites assert the guard's contract directly instead. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * fix(mobile): keep iOS Korean commits whole through the live-input path iOS Korean reports isComposing: false on every event, so it bypasses the composition guard entirely. The strict owner rejected UIKit's transformed post-change field and sent only the leading jamo — the reported symptom. Prefers the authoritative same-event field text over the predicted text when the supplied operation cannot produce it. Generic: no Korean special-case, no locale classifier, no normalization. Adds the RN-target-keyed submit carry alongside it. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * test(e2e): make IME capture harnesses fail loudly instead of silently Four instruments recorded silence as success, so a void run scored as a clean one: - readTerminalImeBoundaryTrace returned an empty trace when the probe never installed, making every "nothing leaked" negative pass vacuously - summarizeLatencies([]) returned a perfect zero distribution that passed all three latency thresholds - the macOS Vietnamese spec pinned an input-source ID that does not exist, and failed as though the operator had chosen the wrong source - the expectedLineCount=1 prefix property was undocumented and one edit from silently downgrading a PTY assertion Input sources now resolve by enumeration and name the near-matches on failure. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * test(terminal): cover Cangjie cancellation and fix a cross-namespace assertion Adds #11951's recorded Cangjie cancel shape to the existing cancellation suite, which covered Pinyin and Sogou but not Cangjie. One keystroke then Backspace arriving as deleteContentBackward with data: null, so the stale preedit is the only thing a fallback could replay. Verified against the historical pre-6cd944c62b3 bundle: the positive fails with ['尸'] where [] is expected, while the ordinary negative stays green. Also fixes the Vietnamese spec, which asserted a TIS-space input-source ID against getKeyboardInputSourceId(). Those two Orca APIs report the same source in different namespaces — TIS nests it under VietnameseIM, the app API does not. The resolver stays as an installation precondition; the assertion matches the leaf. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * test(e2e): add a real-IME macOS arm for the Korean chord commit The existing korean-ime-terminal-shift-enter-commit spec synthesizes composition over CDP: Input.imeSetComposition sets the preedit directly and Input.insertText performs the commit. Asserting the IME produced events you injected yourself is circular, so that spec cannot certify real-IME behaviour. This arm selects 2-Set Korean via TIS, reads it back live, and injects through System Events key codes, so the OS owns the preedit, the commit instant, and isComposing. PTY byte expectations are preserved verbatim. Covers 2 of the original 4 cases by design. The other two are the Windows/Linux redispatch-before-keyup ordering, which macOS cannot produce and which cannot be selected -- the OS decides it. Reintroducing synthesis to "restore coverage" would reintroduce the circularity. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * test(e2e): assert the macOS chord arm at the PTY boundary, not the renderer The byte expectations were transcribed from korean-ime-terminal-shift-enter-commit :364/:383, which assert against onData -- a renderer boundary where the terminator is CR. This spec reads the PTY child, where the tty has already converted CR to LF. Names both forms per row rather than swapping the constant, so the conversion reads as evidence that the capture reached past the renderer, as #11936 and #11951 record. Ctrl+Enter's CSI-u sequence is unaffected and is identical at both boundaries. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * test(e2e): measure composer-to-onData latency and stop dropping IME keystrokes Two defects in the echo latency probe. It hooked onWriteParsed and onRender but never onData, so it measured key->parse->render echo rather than the composer-vs-onData delta the latency rows need. Adds a third hook feeding its own sample set. And `event.key.length !== 1` silently dropped IME keystrokes: Pinyin and Cangjie keydowns arrive as key:'Process' (length 7). Replayed over the captured corpus, the old filter accepted 580 of 4137 Chinese IME keydowns -- it was discarding 80% of them. The new filter matches the shape the owner itself branches on. Attribution charges each onData to the latest keydown rather than a FIFO head, because composing jamo emit no onData at all and a queue would credit a whole composition to its first keystroke. The consumer now asserts sample count before any percentile, so a zero-sample run cannot render as a flawless distribution. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * test(terminal): pin the WSL shifted-jamo newline shape for #11919 In Korean 2-set, Shift types ordinary letters -- the double consonants and the compound vowels. Each such keystroke reaches Chromium as key='Process', keyCode=229, shiftKey=true. The v1.4.163 classifier matched exactly that pattern with no code guard, so it called those keystrokes Enter, rewrote them to a synthetic Shift+Enter, and injected a newline into the middle of the word -- with no Enter key pressed. That is why the reporters said "no modifier key pressed": they had not chorded Shift+Enter, but they had pressed Shift, to type the double consonant. Asserts the row's own recorded capture: 40 immediate keydowns, exactly 3 of them Shift-carrying inside a single syllable, and an onData stream with one newline per Enter press and none mid-word. Two ordinary negatives keep it from being a blanket mute -- the same session's non-IME keydowns still reach shortcut policy, and an ordinary Shift+Enter still resolves through the real policy. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * test(terminal): pin the composition commit lag that made Korean type one behind macOS Korean 2-Set commits syllable N only when the first jamo of N+1 arrives, so compositionend and compositionstart land in the same task. A composition-start handler cancelled the pending finalizer that was the only path to triggerDataEvent and ended the session without emitting bytes, so every committed syllable reached onData exactly one syllable late and the backlog cleared only at a Space or Enter. Types continuously with no Enter and no Space -- either would flush the backlog and hide it -- and samples onData at every syllable boundary. Paired with a length-matched ASCII arm that stays green throughout, so the positive is a fact about composition rather than about timing in general. Bisected to a single call site across five builds: pristine, 1.4.155 and 1.4.162 pass, 1.4.163 fails, removing the one call repairs it, restoring it fails identically. That window is exactly the reporter's "started immediately after updating". Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * test(mobile): cover the send-queue abort that silently drops queued keystrokes One failed send in use-terminal-live-input-commit aborts every keystroke queued behind it, with the error swallowed by .catch(() => false). The existing test resolves(true) on every send, so the failure branch was uncovered. Four arms: the abort itself, an ordinary negative on the healthy path, a throwing sender, and a liveness control proving the queue recovers once the chain settles. Deleting the abort takes 4 passed to 3 failed, with the ordinary negative correctly surviving. Scope is stated in the docblock: this is a transport send-queue abort, reachable only via a real disconnect or RPC error. REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS is 30s, so latency alone cannot reach the branch — consistent with #7094's symptom class, not proven to be its cause. * test(terminal): pin that daemon snapshot/restore cannot disturb a composition Two independent reporters attributed broken Korean composition to the always-on PTY daemon repainting terminal state over the preedit. The attribution is wrong on ancestry — the daemon shipped three months before the version both call good — but the boundary was never actually tested. Runs the real applyMainBufferSnapshot choreography against a live composition, including the full 2J/3J/H wipe plus the resize and alt-screen branches. textarea.value, selectionStart/End, compositionView.textContent and .active all survive byte-identical, and interleaving a restore between every jamo of 문제 still commits 문제 at onData. Also pins that the uncommitted preedit is absent from the captured snapshot: it lives in the textarea, never the buffer, so a restore has nothing stale to echo back. Injecting one textarea.value = '' into the restore fails exactly the three restore-boundary tests. * test(terminal): pin that Cmd tears down a composition where Ctrl and Shift do not xterm's composition keydown exempts only keyCode 16/17/18 (Shift/Ctrl/Alt) plus 20/229. macOS Meta — 91/93/224 — is absent, so a Cmd press mid-composition takes _finalizeComposition(false): the overlay goes dark and never recovers, because compositionstart is not re-fired. The user composes the rest of the word blind. Linux and Windows users press Ctrl and are exempt. xterm already has a Meta-aware modifier predicate in wasModifierKeyOnlyEvent, so this is an internal inconsistency rather than a deliberate choice. Owns no reported row and is version-neutral: 5/5 on both 1.4.162 and 1.4.163. The branch is unexercised in all 328 recorded traces, so this is a hazard pin, not a regression guard. Only the teardown is asserted; the likely duplicated commit needs a compositionend the IME kept alive across the Cmd, which no capture contains. Deleting the exemption fails exactly the three paired negatives; adding Meta to it fails exactly the two Cmd arms. * test(native-chat): characterize preedit loss when a question card replaces the composer An AskUserQuestion card fully replaces the composer by design, but the in-flight composition goes with it: the composer unmounts before compositionend reaches it, so the preedit is never committed to the draft. The committed text survives only because the draft is cached and restored via defaultValue. Node identity changes, value 'abc' is preserved, the 가 is gone. Drives the real NativeChatView -> SessionGate -> InteractiveCard -> questionActive swap -> Composer -> ComposerField, flipped by writing the same store field an AskUserQuestion hook event writes. Flipping questionActive to false fails exactly this test and nothing else across 639 native-chat tests, so the path was entirely unguarded. CHARACTERIZATION TEST: it asserts the loss. Fixing the defect — committing the preedit before the swap, or keeping the composer mounted — will make this file fail. Update the expectations to the new contract rather than working around them. Owns no reported row. #12118/STA-3219 flicker is keyed to token counters, which provably do not remount, and a question card arrives once per question. * test(terminal): pin the duplicated commit when Meta interrupts a composition _finalizeComposition(false) sends textarea.value.substring(start, end) but cannot clear the IME-owned textarea, so a later compositionend re-sends the same range. Meta reaches that path because CompositionHelper exempts only Shift/Ctrl/Alt; xterm's own wasModifierKeyOnlyEvent covers Meta four ways, so the omission is an internal inconsistency rather than a choice. Companion to the modifier-exemption guard, which deliberately pins only the overlay teardown. This pins the data consequence. HAZARD PIN: owns no reported row. The trigger is unverified on hardware — no capture in the corpus contains a Meta-during-composition gesture, and whether macOS keeps the composition alive across it is unmeasured. The duplication follows from the code given that sequence; whether users reach the sequence is the open half. An earlier premise that Space (keyCode 32) reaches this path was refuted by a corpus scan: 0 of 731 evidence files carry a keyCode-32 Space while composing, against 171 at 229, and 229 returns early. * test(terminal): characterize the syllable lost when the textarea blurs mid-composition CoreBrowserTerminal._handleTextAreaBlur clears the helper textarea unconditionally — "Text can safely be removed on blur" — while CompositionHelper._finalizeComposition reads the committed text back out of that same value from a deferred timeout. By the time it runs the value is empty, the substring is '', and triggerDataEvent never sees the syllable. xterm checks composition state in _syncTextArea and omits the same check here. Six cases. Blurring mid-composition loses the syllable in every ordering, including compositionend-before-blur, which is Chromium's real order — so it is not an ordering artifact. A bare textarea.blur() with no Orca code loses it too, which places the owner upstream: Orca's unguarded release on outside pointerdown is one trigger, not the cause. Committing 한 then blurring mid-가 yields ['한'] where ['한','가'] is correct: one syllable gone, surrounding text intact. Teeth checked by inverting — adding an Orca-side composition guard flips exactly the three cases that route through the release path and leaves the bare-blur and no-blur cases green, which is the scope split: a fix in regular-terminal-focus-ownership alone would not close this. HAZARD PIN, but unlike the others this one has a real production injector — clicking outside the terminal mid-composition. Owns no reported row. The shape matches #9738's report; the injector does not, and a shape match with a mismatched injector is not an owner. * test(terminal): say which arm the STA-3237 fixture came from The recorded keydowns are wave 4's A-shift-unmarked-only — the arm that emits no PTY bytes. Nothing in the file said so, so two readers concluded the row's events fail the owner's predicate and that STA-3237 and STA-3222 were different defects. They share an owner; the arm that fires is Process/229+Shift, absent from this bubble-phase trace because the owner claims it in the capture phase. Also corrects "code-blind": the v1.4.163 policy emits \x1b\r only for a shift-only key:'Enter', and a jamo keydown reaches that branch solely via the isTerminalImeProcessEnter rewrite. The mock is deliberately wider so the ownership guard stays under test if that rewrite moves. Comments only — no assertion, fixture value, or mock behaviour changed. * test(e2e): track the input-source selector the macOS specs shell out to Five tracked macOS IME specs ran `swift .tmp/select-input-source.swift`, a file that is gitignored and existed only on one machine. Anyone else checking out the repo — or the same machine after .tmp is cleaned — could not run them, and they are the capture drivers for the macOS rows that are blocked waiting for exactly those runs. Moves it to tests/e2e/ beside its callers. The chord spec now resolves it from __dirname rather than reaching two levels up into .tmp. * test(terminal): pin the CJK repaint decision against the reporter's own output #12164 comment 1 and #5921 report agent output with double-width glyphs rendering duplicated character-by-character while ASCII in the same line stays clean. No IME, no composition, no keystroke — the user never types the CJK. Segmenting all three verbatim samples into maximal same-risk-class runs gives 33 runs and zero violations of "this run is corrupted iff the production detector flags it": 17 wide runs all corrupted, 16 narrow runs all byte-identical. The paired negative is co-located in the same line rather than in a separate run — the reporter supplied it without knowing. Doubling is asserted as present, not uniform: 자바스크립트 and 시스템 each leave a jamo undoubled, which is a repaint-region boundary artifact rather than a per-character transform. The discriminating arm is in the test rather than a source mutation:be3f30e2f8(#6890) elects a repaint for all 17 corrupted runs when the agent types nothing, and reverting its disjunct elects none. Both predicates agree once the user has recently typed, which is the pre-#6890 condition. Samples inlined with per-sample SHA-256 because .tmp is gitignored and cannot back a landed test. * test(terminal): pin macOS period substitution landing after the composition #11504's reporter published a DOM trace showing insertText ". " arriving 149ms after compositionend, when two spaces are typed with a CJK input source and NSAutomaticPeriodSubstitutionEnabled is on. This replays that trace against a real Terminal and asserts what reaches onData — bytes to the PTY, not anything visual. The owner is stock upstream CoreBrowserTerminal._inputEvent, not an Orca module, confirmed at the resolved install and in the shipped bundle Vite loads rather than in the TypeScript source. Three mutations against that install, predictions written before the runs, each failing exactly the arms predicted: dropping the composed/keyDownSeen guard fails two, dropping Orca's intercept fails the one arm where the payload arrives before the send window drains, and flipping || to && — the candidate-fix shape — fails the arm that pins the defect itself. CHARACTERIZATION: arm 1 asserts the broken behaviour and will fail the moment #11504 is fixed. Update it to the new contract rather than working around it. composed is absent from every recorded bundle, so composed: true is the spec-required value rather than a captured one; the test asserts it before dispatching so a harness that dropped the field fails loudly. * test(terminal): replay the recorded Windows Shift sessions through the IME guard STA-3179 reports a Shift release sending Enter; #12171 reports delayed Hangul plus doubled newlines. Both replay their own recorded Windows MS-Korean keydowns through resolveTerminalKeyboardShortcutAction with the shortcut policy mocked, so the assertions are about which events reach the policy and what reaches terminal input. STA-3179's held-Shift gesture yields exactly one newline, from the unmarked Enter alone; its release arms nothing for the next composition, asserted after a precondition check that the release really is keyups with shiftKey already dropped; and an ordinary Shift press-and-release still routes every keydown, which is the paired non-IME negative. Teeth, verified by mutation: bypassing the isImeOwnedKeyboardEvent guard in keyboard-handlers takes STA-3179 from 3 passed to 2 failed / 1 passed — the survivor being the ordinary-session negative, which is correct, since a non-IME session should not depend on that guard — and #12171 from 2 passed to 2 failed. Source restored byte-identical. Recorded shapes are inlined and the bundles cited in comments; nothing is imported from .tmp, which is gitignored. * test(native-chat): correct61977d4517— the preedit survives the question card61977d4517claimed a composed syllable vanishes silently when an AskUserQuestion card replaces the composer, and characterized that loss. The claim was false. Its premise was an artifact of the harness: the test simulated a preedit with a silent textarea.value assignment and no input event, which no IME does. Real composition fires input with insertCompositionText on every keystroke — the shape this repo already records in its own observed-event capture — and React's change handler returns on input/change with no composition gate, so onChange runs for each frame. The draft cache is written synchronously inside the updater, so the preedit is already committed before the card can arrive. Driven that way, it survives. Renamed to match the contract that actually holds, and extended: Hangul jamo-per-frame, Japanese kana accumulation followed by per-segment conversion asserting the candidate the user was looking at survives, and a pin on the mechanism itself — the draft cache holds the preedit while the card is up. Teeth: there is no fix to revert, so the mutation is the plausible wrong one — gating onChange on isComposing(). That takes 4 passed to 3 failed, with the English negative correctly surviving, since it has no composition to gate. Two consequences remain, recorded rather than fixed: the OS aborts the composition when the field disappears, so a lone jamo returns as a compatibility jamo the user cannot compose onto, and the remounted composer is unfocused because the card owned focus. * docs(native-chat): name the corrected commit and the degraded-jamo consequence Records in the file itself that61977d4517is pushed and wrong, quoting the two claims that are false, so a reader who finds it in git log reaches the correction from the file that replaced it. Also states the residual as a consequence rather than a curiosity: a lone leading jamo returns as a standalone compatibility jamo (U+3131), which is not a composable state — the user cannot resume the syllable, only delete and retype. Preserved, but degraded into something unusable. That is the note to find if a reporter ever describes exactly that. The invariant these tests pin is not "the composer commits on unmount" but "composition input events must reach React" — which is what a future IME change would break, and is not visible from the swap site at all. * test(terminal): replay the recorded macOS Telex commit boundaries #6905 reports Vietnamese composed characters breaking in the terminal. Replays the retained macOS built-in Simple Telex capture — recorded selection and value set before each dispatch, since that is what the commit range reads — and asserts what reaches onData: the first commit alone, then through the real Enter, then the ASCII tail of the same run. A code-point count would catch NFD normalisation. ENGINE CAVEAT, stated first in the docblock: this is macOS built-in Simple Telex, Telex only. The reporter's three named engines cannot run on the platform they declared, and which macOS Vietnamese engine they used is unconfirmed. This file certifies no engine, and does not imply VNI. The owner is upstream's — CompositionHelper._finalizeComposition's waitForPropagation branch — so the arms are copies under .tmp aliased by a scratch config, with node_modules verified unchanged by shasum after every run. Collapsing the range end onto its start fails all three; collapsing the start to zero re-emits the first word into the second commit, which is the reporter's "duplicated" direction. Different failure sets, so the mutants are distinguishable rather than merely detectable, and the ASCII assertion passes under both. Falsifiability here is by mutation, not by a defective build: #6905 does not reproduce at HEAD, so this has never been watched going red on a real reproduction. * docs(terminal): lead the #6905 test with its engine caveat Comment-only. Moves the caveat above the source line so a reader meets what the file does NOT establish before what it does — the capture is macOS built-in Simple Telex, the reporter's named engines cannot run on the platform they declared, and which engine they used is what gates this row. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * docs(terminal): record that the swallow eats a keystroke after Japanese conversion This pin framed the swallowed insertText around Cmd interrupting a composition. A differential through Japanese multi-segment conversion shows it is broader: type a segment, convert, then press `a`, and the `a` is lost. No modifier, no exotic gesture. Korean surfaced it first only because 2-Set composes on nearly every keystroke. Also records why it cannot simply be fixed. The suppression de-duplicates IMEs that deliver their commit a task after compositionend, which a sibling test pins; this swallow is that dedup's false positive, and the two events differ only in payload, so no flag-timing change separates them. Both a smaller redesign and a content-aware variant were built and measured — the first duplicates on IBus, the second costs a reported row's test and is blocked while the patch cannot be regenerated. The Japanese arrays behind this are authored, not observed: no Japanese DOM composition trace exists in the corpus. * docs(terminal): a Japanese capture does exist — correctingdbeecb11beThat commit said no Japanese DOM composition trace exists in the corpus. False. One does, filed under the Linux bundles rather than the bundle named for Japanese: 30 DOM events, two にほんご->日本語 conversions, with full selection state per event. It is retained byte-identically in three further bundles — one capture copied four times, not four observations, checked by hash rather than by counting files. The claim came from checking the bundle named for Japanese, finding nothing, and generalising to the corpus without querying the rest of it. Replaying it emits 日本語日本語 under both sequencing extremes on all four arms, matching its own recorded onData. So "repeated conversion is undisturbed" is now captured rather than authored. It carries no post-compositionend insertText, so it cannot speak to the swallow: the a-after-conversion figure stays authored and unobserved. Also rewords the paragraph opener. It claimed to broaden a Cmd framing, but hazard 2 was never Cmd-framed — the lines above already say Cmd does not reach it. The real gap was that hazard 2 named no trigger at all, which reads as exotic when it is ordinary. * build(xterm): land the patch regeneration harness The five dependency patches under config/patches/ shipped with no tracked way to regenerate any of them. The xterm one is the hard case: it is derived from an upstream build, so no fix could be made without rebuilding, and the tooling to rebuild lived only in one machine's scratch directory. That blocked a measured fix for a live keystroke-loss bug, and the EditContext reduction an OSS survey identified as the only real one available. Adds the regenerator, the upstream pin, the hand-written source patch the bundle hunks derive from, tests, docs, and a PR job that verifies the shipped patches still match the pinned build. The job caches the shallow clone keyed on the manifest, so a cold run is minutes and a warm one under one. Round-trip verified: regenerating from a clean checkout reproduces the shipped patch byte-for-byte. Marks the emitted patch -diff -text. pnpm hashes it byte-for-byte, so a CRLF checkout would break install on Windows, and its minified bundle lines make a diff nobody can read — review the source patch instead. Also rejects unknown flags. --check was the fallback for any unrecognised argument, so a typo, or --help, silently triggered a full upstream build instead of what the caller asked for. * fix(xterm): stop swallowing a keystroke typed after an IME commit Type a Japanese segment, convert it, then press a key one macrotask later and that key was lost. No modifier, nothing exotic — every user who keeps typing straight after converting. Korean surfaced it first only because 2-Set composes on nearly every keystroke. handleCompositionInput discarded the payload unconditionally in the window after the deferred send: _isSendingComposition stays true for one macrotask after the timer cleared _pendingCompositionStart, and the branch substituted '' for whatever arrived. The suppression is not itself wrong — it de-duplicates IMEs that deliver their commit an event-loop turn late, which terminal-stock-composition.test.ts pins. It just could not tell a duplicate from new input, because the two events are identical apart from payload. Now it compares against _sentComposition, the text the deferred send actually emitted, and discards only a match. A flag-timing redesign was measured first and rejected: it fixed this and duplicated on IBus, because no timing change can separate events that differ only in content. Edited in config/patches/xterm-src/ and regenerated through the harness, so the emitted patch and the lockfile hash are derived, not hand-written. The commit-overlap pin's swallow arm now asserts the repaired contract — the value its own comment already named as correct and as what stock beta.287 emits. #11504's arm at :184 flips too; it never covered that report, as its own prior note recorded, and the reporter's +149ms arm is untouched and still asserting the defect. Provenance hashes in three test docblocks are updated, since regenerating changes the patch hash and with it the resolved install directory. * docs(terminal): re-measure the #6905 mutation citations against the new bundle Regenerating the patch moved the resolved install, so this docblock's patch_hash, line count, two line numbers and three mutation outcomes all described a bundle that no longer exists. The deferred branch is one the fix writes into, so the outcomes could not be re-pointed on reasoning. Line numbers read off both files by diffing anchors rather than derived by arithmetic: 201 to 205, 159 to 163. Outcomes re-run through the retained rig, which re-resolves through the module loader and re-derives each arm from a unique minified anchor: pristine 3 passed, m1 3 failed, m2 2 failed, m3 3 passed — identical to the old bundle. Guard controls in both directions exit 1, so the counts are falsifiable. Comment-only; the assertions and expectations are unchanged. * fix(xterm): size the preedit overlay to the cells its text will occupy updateCompositionElements computed the overlay's left edge from the grid but never its width, so the preedit rendered at the font's natural advance while the committed text takes two cells per wide glyph. Measured in Chromium 150: 가나다라 drew 48.45px as a preedit and 69.20px once committed — the same characters, same font, 30% narrower, and drifting further with each syllable. Every macOS mono font carrying Hangul measured 0.49–0.72 of two cells; never 1.0. Deriving the width from wcwidth and the cell measure moves Korean, Japanese and Chinese to 1.000 and leaves ASCII at 1.000, which it already was: 한 12.125 -> 17.297 (17.30 expected) 가나다라 48.453 -> 69.188 (69.20) 안녕하세요 60.563 -> 86.500 (86.50) 日本語 42.000 -> 51.906 (51.90) abcdefgh 69.234 -> 69.203 (69.20, unchanged) Edited in config/patches/xterm-src/ and regenerated through the harness, so the emitted patch and lockfile hash are derived rather than hand-written. The unit test asserts the arithmetic, which is what CI can run. The pixel consequence was measured on macOS with SF Mono in an Electron harness, not on the Windows font stack STA-3232 reports from — so this demonstrates the mechanism and does not stand as that row's platform evidence. * test(e2e): pin the macOS Korean preedit as visible only while composing #11914 reports the composing text invisible until Space. Its c3 was recorded as unobtainable, and the reason on file was wrong: the boundary IS assertable, but not in happy-dom, which reports display:block in BOTH the active and inactive states and zeros for every rect. A test there passes with the defect present. Captured on real hardware instead: hidden and 0x0 before, .active with display:block, a 15.84x16 rect and checkVisibility() true while composing 그, hidden again after. 39 DOM events, 2 composition starts, onData ["한","그","\r"]. Two mechanism findings are carried in the setup because both are invisible in the result and fatal if removed. The input source must be selected AFTER the app takes focus — focusing resets it to ABC. And the IME must be warmed until an observed keyCode 229; typed cold it emits raw QWERTY (g k s r m) with no composition at all, which is indistinguishable from an IME that is not installed. Two runs were voided on exactly that signature before the warm-up was found. The has229 and compositionStarts assertions exist to make such a run fail loudly rather than pass as a clean negative. Gated on darwin plus ORCA_E2E_NATIVE_MACOS_KOREAN, like its siblings. The final spec form has not itself been executed — the machine became unavailable — so it carries the probe's measured values as literals rather than a run of its own. * docs(e2e): correct19a8d133db— the Korean preedit spec has been executed That commit said the landed form had never run and carried the probe's values as literals. It has now run on real hardware: 1 passed, 9.1s, rc=0, with the capture and log sealed under a verified hash manifest. The teeth check was also run rather than reasoned about, and it changes which assertion matters. Forcing the active overlay to max-width:0 with overflow:hidden — invisible on screen — leaves the active class, the textContent, display:block AND checkVisibility() all passing. Only during.rect.width fails. checkVisibility() is not sufficient against this defect; the bounding rect is the single load-bearing assertion, which the docblock already said and this run confirms. An earlier teeth attempt injected the CSS mid-run and tripped the hasActiveClass poll instead, failing at the wrong assertion. It is inconclusive and excluded from the seal rather than counted. * test(terminal): add #12171's ordinary-English arm from a real Windows capture c4 was recorded as unmet and the ledger sourced its control to evidence/windows-current/, which holds 12 captures and not one English one. The arm here comes from windows-9803-final instead — same probe, same host geometry, same injector, en-US with no IME, replayed keydown for keydown. Two limits are stated in the file rather than left for a reader to find. It is a different bundle and a different run about 3.6 hours later, so it is not a same-run arm. And it is #9803's range-active MUTANT arm: ordinary English stays byte-exact even with that saved-range mutation live, which is why it reads as a negative rather than as a baseline. Bundle cited by directory with its file SHA-256; MANIFEST.sha256 verifies 21/21, rc=0. Nothing imported from .tmp. * docs(terminal): correct #12164's grounds — the cited comments say no such thing The rejection of #12164 from this file's family was recorded as resting on its comment 1 (output doubling) and comment 2 (filed against 1.4.163). Checked against the API: the issue has exactly two comments, neither of which says that, and the string 1.4.163 appears nowhere in the thread. The conclusion survives on better grounds. The issue BODY's repro is "Run any CLI agent (Codex, AGY, Claude, etc.) that outputs Korean text into the Orca terminal" — untyped output, no keystrokes, no composition — so excluding CompositionHelper is right, and the input-path hunt was looking in the wrong place. The body is also LLM-authored (it still contains a literal "## 5. GitHub Submission Draft (Ready to Post)") and its Root Cause section blames a CJK IME preedit buffer its own repro never engages, so it should not be read as observation. Comment-only; suite unchanged at 5/5. * test(native-chat): make composition frames carry isComposing, not just inputType This suite's comment claimed "Gating onChange on `isComposing` breaks here." It did not. composeFrame() fired `input` with `inputType` but never set `isComposing`, so a gate on `isComposing` passed all four tests untouched — the suite asserted a discriminator it did not exercise. Composition frames now carry both, so neither gate is exempt. Verified by pointing the mutant at it: with an `isComposing` gate on the composer's onChange, this suite now fails 3 of 4 (it passed 4 of 4 before), and the ordinary-English arm correctly survives, since a composition gate should not touch it. Production code is unchanged and stays gate-free; the mutation was applied, measured, and reverted. Found while excluding NativeChatView's question-card remount as the owner of #12118 / STA-3219: the remount is real, but the preedit survives it precisely because this write path has no composition gate. * fix(mobile): ship the patched xterm build, matching desktop mobile pinned @xterm/xterm 6.1.0-beta.285 while the patch is keyed to 6.1.0-beta.287, so mobile shipped stock xterm and neither IME defect fix reached it: the swallowed keystroke after an IME commit (9506039de7) and the preedit sized to the font rather than the grid (e04e0c88da). Bumps the three xterm packages to the desktop versions and adds the patch to mobile's own pnpm.patchedDependencies. No copy of the patch: pnpm accepts the parent-relative path and records it in the lockfile against hash 8d63166272e9040a…, byte-identical to what desktop resolves, so the two stay in step by construction rather than by a drift check. The workspace separation is untouched — root pnpm-workspace.yaml still declares `packages: []` and mobile keeps its own lockfile, which is what keeps the root's patches from failing as ERR_PNPM_UNUSED_PATCH. Verified in the generated webview bundle rather than at the install: alignPreeditToGrid 0->2, sentComposition 0->3, pendingInput 0->11, and the stock-only _handleAnyTextareaChanges 2->0 and dataAlreadySent 4->0. pnpm applies patches during linking before postinstall regenerates the bundle, confirmed by a revert/reinstall/re-apply cycle in both directions. Mobile suite 2971 passed, 3 skipped — identical before and after. Bundle +1,514 B (+0.24%). Lockfile churn is xterm-only; --frozen-lockfile passes. mobile/src/ime/ime-submit-carry.ts is NOT made redundant and is untouched: it handles iOS firing onSubmitEditing on a React Native native TextInput after unmarking a composition, which is outside the WebView entirely. Known divergence left alone: desktop also patches @xterm/addon-webgl and mobile now runs that version unpatched. That patch is glyph/texture-atlas rendering with nothing IME-related, so it affects neither fix. * test(terminal): pin the preedit overlay against already-committed cells STA-3132 (arm A), STA-3170 and STA-3232 report a Korean preedit painted on top of text already on screen. Builds v1.4.163-v1.4.166 cancel the pending finalizer in compositionstart, so a committed syllable reaches onData one syllable late and buffer.x is stale — the overlay lands on the cell the flushed syllable is about to occupy. Replays a recorded hardware trace rather than an authored one: the ordered DOM event stream captured on Windows + MS Korean (wave5-r2 evidence, 64 events), echoing onData back as PTY output. The load-bearing assertion is deliberately not the obvious one. Comparing overlay style.left against cursorX is tautological — left is computed from buffer.x. This counts committed syllables from the compositionend events the IME fired, so the two sides are independently derived. Discriminated by a historical re-add across seven real bundles, since the owner is deletion-shaped: pristine beta287, v1.4.155 and v1.4.162 pass; v1.4.163 fails; v1.4.163 with that single call removed passes; the byte identical baseline restored fails again; head passes. Every failing arm fails only this case — the ordinary negative stays green in all seven. The negative asserts its own category rather than claiming it: zero composition events, zero isComposing, zero keyCode 229, exactly 16 events, paired against the Korean arm's 4 starts / 3 ends / 11 updates / 64 events. Scope: cell indices, not pixels. happy-dom has no layout, so the recorded 8x16 cell metrics are supplied to the render service. This makes no claim about pixels visually overlapping; that is affected-OS confirmation and stays open. Covers the overlap arm only — STA-3132's auto-line-break arm and STA-3232's half-line-capacity and a11y arms are untouched. * test(e2e): matrix macOS period substitution against the OS preference #11504 reports macOS inserting ". " after a Hangul Space commit. This sweeps six arms across both states of NSAutomaticPeriodSubstitutionEnabled, reading the preference live per run rather than asserting a literal. Two results worth having on record. The reporter's stated trigger did not reproduce. Their words are "There is no second press at all. One space is enough", but korean-single-space emits zero insertText with the preference on or off. So does word-space-word-space. Their timing does reproduce, with different content. korean-double-space and korean-longer-word-double-space emit a delayed insertText at +122.5-122.7ms after compositionend — squarely the reported +149ms — but the payload is a space, never ". ". Consistent with the double-space rule seeing two slots under ABC and only one under Korean, where the IME commit consumes the first. The substitution itself is real and preference-bound: latin-double-space gives "ab . " with the preference on and "ab " with it off, on one build with the preference as the sole variable, reproduced across two runs. That also refutes a claim in PR #11506, which states the substitution "is enforced outside the renderer and never reproduces in dev builds, so changes here must be verified against a packaged app". It reproduced in the dev build twice and did not reproduce on the signed packaged app. That claim should not be used as a verification gate. Gated @headful behind ORCA_E2E_NATIVE_MACOS_PERIOD, same shape as the Korean preedit spec, so it does not run in ordinary CI. Evidence is onData and DOM only — the PTY-child reader aborted and no packaged-app arm was stable. * test(terminal): actually enforce the recorded jamo progression The preedit assertion compared sample.overlayText against sample.overlayText — the same expression on both sides. A lane proved it by mutation: corrupting seven of the eight recorded preedit values left the suite fully green. So the docblock's ㄱ→가→간→나→낟→다→달→라, which the matrix also cites as this row's recorded shape, was cited and unenforced. The first attempt at a fix was insufficient and is worth recording. Threading stroke.preedit through to the expectation still passed on a corrupted fixture, because that value both drives the rig and was the expectation — corrupting it moved both sides together. Same tautology, one level down. The expectation is now an independent literal. Verified by mutation rather than by reading: corrupting two recorded values fails one arm; restoring them passes 3/3. overlayCell was never affected — it is compared against a count derived from the compositionend events, not from the buffer, and remains the load-bearing assertion for the overlap. * fix(e2e): select the selectable input source, not the first match TISCreateInputSourceList can return several entries for one input source id. A third-party IME publishes a non-selectable parent alongside the selectable mode, and taking sources.first can return the parent — after which TISSelectInputSource fails with paramErr (-50) while the caller reports success from the enable step. Found with Qingg (com.aodaren.inputmethod.Qingg), which exposes exactly that pair under one id. Its mode id equals the bundle id, so filtering by name would not have helped; selectability is the discriminator. Now filters on kTISPropertyInputSourceIsSelectCapable and falls back to the old behaviour when nothing advertises it, so single-entry sources are unaffected. Also enables every entry for the id rather than only the one being selected: selecting a mode whose parent is still disabled fails the same way. Compile-checked, and selecting com.apple.keylayout.ABC still exits 0. Unrelated to the enable path: on macOS 26.5.2 third-party IMEs are gated behind a consent sheet in System Settings. TISEnableInputSource returns noErr immediately regardless, and the enable only lands if that sheet is answered while the requesting process is still alive. * test(terminal): discriminate #12171 against the real shortcut policy The prior candidate mutation for this row was correctly refused: its suite mocked shortcut policy so Process/229 became actionable, while the real resolveTerminalShortcutAction has no Process branch — so the kill measured the mock. This does not mock it. Replays a capture of this row's own gesture (d, l, Shift+T, e, k, Space, Enter under MS Korean, committing 있다) taken on Orca 1.4.164, through the real useTerminalKeyboardShortcuts hook, capturing bytes at terminal.input. The earlier capture could not discriminate at all because it recorded no shiftKey; this one records it on 10 of 10 keydowns with code populated. One physical Shift+T produces two shifted Process/229 keydowns. Under the pre-#12265 classifier each synthesizes {key:'Enter', shiftKey:true}, which the real policy resolves to sendInput '\x1b\r' — twice, giving 1b0d1b0d, the two escapes the known-bad ed96881b0d1b0d contains. Mutation is the retained pre-12265-process-shift.patch applied to HEAD, not an authored one: patch -p1 applies clean and diffs identical to the mutant copy. Arms are copies; shared source hashes the same before and after. The English arm stays clean under both modules, so the mutation discriminates by language rather than by harness — and a real Shift+Enter through the same rig yields exactly ['\x1b\r'] in every arm, so a silent pristine result means the code is quiet rather than the harness dead. Scope: 1b0d1b0d is measured at the renderer boundary. The capture recorded no PTY bytes — window.api.pty is frozen on shipped builds and the onData channel needs a build-time flag — so this shows the renderer producing the two escapes that payload contains, not a re-observation of the payload. * docs(native-chat): narrow this file's disclaimer to what is now true It said "THIS OWNS NO REPORTED ROW". Half of that is stale: the remount site is now the attributed owner of #12118 and STA-3219. On real Windows TSF the questionActive swap aborts a live composition — the old node gets only a blur and no compositionend, the text returns as committed, and the next jamo yields 아ㄴ rather than 안. The other half holds. This file pins the opposite property, that the text survives, which is the half those reporters already agree with. Mutation shows the gap rather than asserting it: deleting the unmount entirely leaves three of four tests green, because every substantive assertion is after.value === … and a composer that never unmounts keeps its value. Also records why the abort cannot be asserted here. The DOM exposes no observable separating committed text from a live preedit — value is the same string either way, there is no EditContext, and the only composing-ness state is a per-instance ref discarded with the node. A test pinning "no compositionend fires" would be an anti-guard: red the day it is fixed. The cadence objection is kept, since it is now the open question rather than the reason for exclusion. * refactor(terminal): drop the unread isComposing field from XtermBypassEvent Added by #6396 for terminal IME candidate handling that this branch has since removed. No production or test code reads it, and the policy is safe without it: during composition `key` is 'Process', so the non-ASCII printable checks that would care never match. Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai> * fix(native-chat): keep the composer mounted through an in-flight IME composition A question card replaced the composer outright (`{questionActive ? null : <NativeChatComposer/>}`). Unmounting the field mid-composition aborts the composition in the OS: the node is detached before `compositionend` can fire, the preedit returns as committed text, and a resumed Hangul syllable degrades — 아 then ㄴ yields `아ㄴ`, never `안`. Confirmed in rasterised pixels on Windows with a real MS Korean IME, at both v1.4.171 and the reporter-era v1.4.164 (the swap block is byte-identical across them): the preedit underline present before the swap, the composer visibly absent during it, and the same glyph back afterwards WITHOUT the underline — committed, not composing. The swap is now deferred while a composition is in flight, which is what editors that survive IME do: ProseMirror gates DOM work on `view.composing`, CodeMirror protects the composing subtree from redraws. Hiding instead of unmounting does not work — `display:none` and `visibility:hidden` both blur the focused element and abort the composition the same way. The hold releases on `compositionend`, which browsers also fire on blur, so clicking into the card's own answer input yields the input region immediately; with nothing composing the card still replaces the composer at once, so no stray "Send a message" appears beside a question. The existing characterization test flips to a regression guard: it pinned the node being destroyed, which was the defect. Node identity is the load-bearing assertion — value-only checks are trivially satisfied by a composer that never unmounts and cannot tell a held composition from a destroyed one. The typing-redirect handler moves to its own hook. That is not cosmetic: both touched files sat at the 400-line cap, and `max-lines` suppressions are forbidden, so the room had to come from a real extraction. * fix(macos): opt Orca out of AppKit automatic period substitution macOS "Add period with double-space" (`NSAutomaticPeriodSubstitutionEnabled`, on by default) is applied by AppKit's text input system. Native terminals never join that system; Chromium text fields do, so xterm's helper textarea inherits it and a double space arrives as `". "` — a period nobody typed, handed straight to the PTY (#11504). Chromium answers AppKit for quote and dash substitution and defaults both off, but declares no period accessor at all, so AppKit applies that one without asking. This user default is the only lever: there is no per-field or per-webContents opt-out to prefer over it. Writing the key into Orca's own defaults domain overrides the global value for this app alone and leaves the user's system-wide setting untouched. It necessarily covers every Orca text field, not only terminals — AppKit offers no narrower scope, and that tradeoff is deliberate rather than accidental. Measured on the reporter's own build v1.4.161: with the preference ON, typing a,b,space,space yields `onData ["a","b"," ",". "]`; with it OFF the same arm yields two spaces. Note the issue's causal model is wrong and this fix does not follow it. It claims the substitution only fires with a CJK input source and never with ABC. The measurement is the inverse — every Korean arm is clean and the ABC arm is the one that fires — so the fix is not conditioned on input source. NOT YET VERIFIED ON HARDWARE. The unit tests inject the writer, so they prove the call is made on darwin and skipped elsewhere; they do not prove AppKit honours an app-domain override for this key. That check is outstanding. * fix(xterm): keep a live composition across a lone Cmd press on macOS CompositionHelper.keydown exempted keyCodes 16/17/18 from tearing a composition down, which covers Shift/Ctrl/Alt but not macOS Meta — 91/93 in Chromium, 224 in Firefox. A lone Cmd press mid-composition therefore reached _finalizeComposition(false), which dropped the preedit overlay's `active` class and committed the live syllable early. macOS keeps the marked text alive across that press, so no later compositionstart re-arms the overlay and the rest of the word composes invisibly. Measured on hardware (m4air, macOS 26.5.2, Apple M4, 2-Set Korean) with the Cmd posted as a CGEventType.flagsChanged, which is what a physical modifier emits. AppleScript `key code 55` posts nothing a browser can see — a bare `key code 56` for Shift is equally silent — which is why no capture in the corpus ever reached this branch. Three arms, same build otherwise: overlay live throughout with the exemption, dark and prematurely committed without it, live again with it restored. Evidence under .tmp/ime-handoff/swarm-scratch/wave31-cmd-preedit/evidence/. The fix cannot widen past a lone modifier: only a standalone press reports these keyCodes, and a Cmd chord during composition is reported by Chromium as 229, which was already exempt. Cmd+A still ends the composition, via the IME's own compositionend. Ghostty draws the same line, returning early from flagsChanged under hasMarkedText() for every modifier including Super. Orca's terminal pane was never affected — shouldSuppressTerminalModifierKeyboardEvent drops a standalone Meta keydown before xterm sees it, and deleting only 'Meta' from that set is what flipped the hardware arm to broken. The popout preview terminal and mobile's webview install no such guard and did reach the teardown. terminal-ime-xterm-composition-commit-overlap.test.ts asked its fixer to update the two Cmd arms to the values it named as correct; both now emit a single ['한']. * test(native-chat): drop two byte-identical duplicate cases `4632b86919d` copy-pasted two cases twice into the same describe block: `retains carry across a same-frame non-Enter keyup before redispatch` and `expires carry before a deliberate Enter after the next frame`. Each pair is byte-identical — same title, same body — so the copies asserted nothing the originals did not. This is what has been failing `static analysis` on this branch since 2026-08-06: `oxlint vitest(no-identical-title)` reports both under `--deny-warnings`, and `verify` fails solely because it requires static analysis to pass. Every other gate in `verify` was already green, including typecheck, xterm patch sync, the full test shard set, and both package jobs. 12 cases still pass in the file. * test(e2e): skip the WebGL arm when no WebGL renderer exists The #12164 probe runs two arms, webgl and dom, and closes by asserting the active renderer is the requested one. That assertion is right for the dom arm — it is what proves the pane actually left WebGL, without which the arm is meaningless — but headless CI has no GPU, xterm falls back to DOM silently, and the webgl arm then fails. The failure reads as a Korean rendering defect and is not one, so the webgl arm now skips with the active renderer named. The dom arm keeps the assertion unchanged. This is the third of three checks that have been red on this branch since 2026-08-06. `static analysis` and `verify` were fixed in c51c6b5837e; the CI log shows this job as 1 failed / 1 passed, the pass being the dom arm. * chore(lint): drop five unused no-console disable directives `check-changed-code-quality` reports unused eslint-disable directives as errors, and these five sat above diagnostic `console.log` calls in IME test and spec files where `no-console` is not enabled — so each suppressed nothing. This is the second of the two static-analysis steps. `c51c6b5837e` fixed "Enforce focused code-quality plugins" (duplicate test titles); this fixes "Enforce changed-code quality". Both had been red on this branch since 2026-08-06, and I mistook the first for the whole job. The diagnostic logs themselves are kept — they are what a failing IME arm prints for a reader to inspect. * test(e2e): cover #12164 under fractional device scale factor Fractional display scaling was #12164's last unexplored branch, and the reason is worth recording: earlier attempts were BLOCKED, correctly, because they proposed mutating the Windows display scale on a remote physical machine with no console recovery. `--force-device-scale-factor` reaches the same renderer state per process, so nothing outside the Electron instance changes and there is nothing to restore. The hypothesis was specific: `프프로로젝젝트트` is what a half-pixel cell boundary could produce on a 2-column glyph, and nothing else in the suite varies dpr. Measured at 1.25 and 1.5, both under WebGL: ink extents 25/21/16 with identical ink groups, matching the scale-1 run. No doubling. The arm self-certifies before asserting — if the flag does not take, the test fails rather than silently measuring at dpr 1. That matters here: the sibling spec's WebGL arm went two days reporting a missing GPU as a Korean rendering defect precisely because a silent fallback looked like a result. * fix(terminal): match Mod+letter shortcuts by physical key, not IME-rewritten key With a CJK input source active, macOS and Windows report the physical key through `code` but rewrite `key` to the layout's character: Korean 2-Set turns Cmd+C into `{ key: "ㅊ", code: "KeyC", metaKey: true }`. Every `key.toLowerCase() === 'c'` match misses it, so the shortcut is not recognised and xterm encodes the chord as PTY input instead — issue #13033 reports `ESC[12618;9u` and a terminal that jumps to the bottom, because user input scrolls the viewport. This is the same key-vs-code confusion that owned #12171, where a `Shift+T` typing ㅆ was read as Enter for want of a `code` guard, so the fix is the same shape: trust `code` when it is present, fall back to `key` and then the legacy `keyCode` when it is not (Chromium omits `code` on synthetic and some keypress events, and `keyCode` keeps its US value even when `key` is rewritten). Applied to the four terminal-side sites, including the dashboard pop-out, which #13033 called out specifically as having its own key handler: pty-connection.ts Cmd/Ctrl+C copy guard keyboard-handlers.ts Cmd+G search navigation agent-interrupt-inference.ts interrupt inference preview-terminal-key-handler.ts pop-out paste Nine further `key.toLowerCase()` letter matches exist outside the terminal (TaskPage, editor, GitHub composer, browser markup). They have the same defect and are deliberately left for a separate change rather than widening this one. An existing case, `matchSearchNavigate > returns null for wrong key`, overrode only `key` and left `code: 'KeyG'`, so it began passing for the wrong reason. It now overrides both — which is what "wrong key" means once matching is physical — and a companion case pins the Korean-rewritten chord still matching. #13033 was closed NOT_PLANNED; the reporter's event shapes drive the new test. * fix(renderer): match every Mod+letter shortcut by physical key, not IME-rewritten key Completes the previous commit. A CJK input source rewrites `event.key` while `event.code` keeps the physical key, so `key.toLowerCase() === 'z'` and friends silently stop matching — the shortcut is not recognised and the keystroke falls through to whatever handles unclaimed input. The helper moves to `@/lib/ime-latin-shortcut-key` first: it now serves the editor, GitHub composer and browser markup, and importing terminal-pane internals into those would be the wrong direction. `lib/` already hosts `ime-composition-keyboard-event` for the same reason. Nine remaining sites, all previously unreachable under Korean/Japanese/Chinese/ Vietnamese input: TaskPage, ActivityPrototypePage, ProjectViewWrapper Cmd+F search useMarkupKeyboardShortcuts Cmd+Z undo GitHubMarkdownComposer, RichMarkdownLinkBubble, rich-markdown-link-shortcut Cmd+K link native-chat-shortcut Cmd+J rich-markdown-key-handler Cmd+Shift+X Six of the nine test `!== 'letter'` as early-return guards and three test `=== 'letter'`; the negation is applied per site, since a blind substitution would have inverted six of them. Full suite: 4249 files pass. Three files fail locally and none is caused by this change — the branch touches no file under `src/main/` or `src/relay/`, all four failures reproduce on an unmodified tree or pass in isolation (the worktree poller passes 21/21 alone, so it is full-suite parallelism), and all 16 CI test shards are green. * docs(ime): scope the IME composition rules to the terminal-pane directory #11893 proposed adding these to the root `AGENTS.md`, which every agent loads on every task regardless of what it is doing. They only bind keyboard handling, the composer and the terminal input path, so they belong next to that code — `tests/e2e/AGENTS.md` already establishes the nested convention here. Kept from #11893: range-derived commits, guarding above the key dispatch, the `attachCustomKeyEventHandler` / `CompositionHelper` interaction, no normalization at commit, and the recorded-trace evidence bar. Added from defects found since it was written: - match shortcuts on `event.code`, not `event.key` (#12171, #13033) - `keyCode === 229` means an IME owns the press - do not unmount a field mid-composition, and hiding is not a fix because `display:none` blurs and aborts it too (#12118, STA-3219, #11332) The evidence bar now also names the mutation check, since a test that survives deleting the code it guards is guarding nothing — a failure this effort hit more than once. * fix(terminal): gate Ctrl+Enter CSI-u on a negotiated pane, porting #12462 Found while scoping the rebase onto `main`: #12462 landed on 2026-08-06 and fixes a real defect this branch does not carry. Ctrl+Enter emitted `\x1b[13;5u` unconditionally, so a pane that never negotiated the kitty keyboard protocol — local Windows ConPTY, plain shell — printed the escape verbatim into the prompt. This branch deletes `terminal-ime-deferred-newline.ts`, which is one of the files #12462 touched, so a rebase resolving those conflicts by taking our side wholesale would silently reintroduce the defect. Porting it forward now means the fix survives the rebase however the conflicts are resolved. Mirrors the Shift+Enter guard already here: local ConPTY falls back to the legacy CR every emulator sends, and a negotiated pane keeps the chord, so the fallback is scoped to panes that cannot receive CSI-u rather than to Windows. NARROWER THAN #12462 BY ONE CONDITION, deliberately. `main` also allows CSI-u via `hasCtrlEnterCsiUAuthority()` (trusted consumer evidence, #12329); that helper and its plumbing do not exist on this branch. Omitting it is the conservative direction — an authorised pane gets `\r` instead of the chord, rather than an unnegotiated pane printing an escape — but it should be restored when the two histories are reconciled. Test covers both directions and is mutation-checked: forcing the gate open fails it, so it cannot pass by construction. * fix: reconcile two more fixtures main moved while the stack waited Both caught by CI, not locally, and the reason the local run missed one is worth recording: 1. `browser-toolbar-profile-dialogs.ime-enter.test.tsx` did not pass `useNativeUserAgent` / `onUseNativeUserAgentChange`, which `main` added to `BrowserToolbarProfileDialogsProps`. Local `pnpm typecheck` reported 0 errors on the same commit CI failed. The cause was a stale `config/*.tsbuildinfo` — tsc reused an incremental cache from before the merge. Deleting it reproduced CI's error exactly. Any "typecheck clean" during this merge should be treated as unverified unless the cache was cleared first. 2. Localization keys for `SshDisconnectedDialog` were absent from `en.json`: the merge took this branch's component alongside `main`'s catalog. Regenerated with `pnpm run sync:localization-catalog` rather than hand-added. * fix(mobile): regenerate the lockfile the merge resolved by taking one side CI's `verify` failed with `ERR_PNPM_OUTDATED_LOCKFILE` on `mermaid (lockfile: 11.16.0, manifest: 11.16.1)`. The mismatch was in `mobile/`, not the root — the root lockfile was consistent throughout, which is why inspecting it (and even GitHub's merge ref) found nothing wrong. Cause: during the merge I resolved `mobile/pnpm-lock.yaml` by taking this branch's side wholesale rather than merging it, so it kept `mermaid 11.16.0` while `mobile/package.json` came from `main` at `11.16.1`. Taking one side of a lockfile is only safe when the corresponding manifest comes from the same side. Regenerated with `pnpm install --lockfile-only`; `--frozen-lockfile` now passes in `mobile/`. Verified the xterm patch entry survives intact — same hash `4f1b42d268f3964d…` and the parent-relative path into `config/patches/`, which is the desktop/mobile coupling that would silently break the mobile build. Two earlier diagnoses of this failure were wrong and are worth recording: it was not the root lockfile, and it was not a stale merge ref (a rerun reproduced it exactly). --------- Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
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xterm Patch Regeneration
Scope
Orca ships @xterm/xterm with four source changes it needs and upstream has
not taken: the IME composition hooks, the xterm-composition-* custom events
they raise, the ITerminal surface those events widen, and a SortedList
fix. pnpm applies them through config/patches/@xterm__xterm@<version>.patch.
That patch touches eight files. Four are hand-authored source
(src/browser/CoreBrowserTerminal.ts, src/browser/Types.ts,
src/browser/input/CompositionHelper.ts, src/common/SortedList.ts) and four
are the build output those sources produce (lib/xterm.js, lib/xterm.mjs,
and both sourcemaps). The bundle half is 7.3 MB of minified code. It is
generated, and this document exists so nobody edits it by hand.
The source patch carries a fifth file, src/browser/TestUtils.test.ts, which
the shipped patch does not and cannot; see
The Source Patch Is a Superset.
config/patches/xterm-src/@xterm__xterm@<version>.src.patch is the source of
truth. Everything else is derived from it by
config/scripts/regenerate-xterm-patches.mjs, which is pinned to the exact
upstream commit the published tarball was built from.
This policy covers @xterm/xterm only. The addon patches
(@xterm/addon-webgl, @xterm/addon-serialize) are still hand-edited bundles
and are tracked separately; see Known Gaps.
Rules
- Never edit
config/patches/@xterm__xterm@<version>.patch. Edit the source patch and regenerate. - Never edit
lib/inside a patchednode_modulestree and re-runpnpm patch-commit. That is how bundle hunks stop matching their sources. - Every source change must land together with the regenerated bundle hunks and
the
pnpm-lock.yamlhash bump, in one commit. - The upstream commit lives in
config/patches/xterm-upstream.json, not in a comment. A version bump that leaves it stale fails the generator, it does not silently patch the wrong tree. - Sourcemaps are deleted, not patched and not silently omitted. The patch moves
the bundle, so a retained map would have to move with it; dropping only the
map hunks ships offsets that point at the wrong code. Deletion is the honest
form of that saving, and
sourcemaps.policyin the manifest controls it. --checkis the authority on the lockfile, notpnpm install. pnpm writes the patch hash in two places —patchedDependenciesand every resolution key that depends on the patched package — and on a warm store it will leave the resolution keys at their previous value while reporting success. That installs locally and drifts on CI's cold store. Always finish on step 4, and if it reports a stale hash after an install, rerun--write.
Workflow
# 1. Edit the source hunks.
$EDITOR config/patches/xterm-src/@xterm__xterm@6.1.0-beta.287.src.patch
# 2. Rebuild the bundle hunks, the full patch, and the lockfile hash.
node config/scripts/regenerate-xterm-patches.mjs --write
# 3. Reinstall so node_modules picks up the new patch hash.
pnpm install
# 4. Confirm the tree is self-consistent.
node config/scripts/regenerate-xterm-patches.mjs --check
Editing a patch file by hand is awkward for anything larger than a one-liner. For a substantial change, work in the generator's own checkout instead — after any run it is left at the pinned commit with the source patch applied:
node config/scripts/regenerate-xterm-patches.mjs --check --work-dir=/tmp/xterm
$EDITOR /tmp/xterm/upstream/src/browser/input/CompositionHelper.ts
git -C /tmp/xterm/upstream diff -- src/ > config/patches/xterm-src/@xterm__xterm@6.1.0-beta.287.src.patch
node config/scripts/regenerate-xterm-patches.mjs --write --work-dir=/tmp/xterm
--write rewrites the source patch into the canonical form it would emit on a
re-diff, so a hand-produced git diff gets normalized on the first run rather
than fighting --check forever.
Run the checkout outside this repository. A build tree underneath it makes
tsgo walk up into Orca's own node_modules and fail with TS2300: Duplicate identifier, which is a symptom of where the tree sits and not of the patch.
How the Commit Is Known
Upstream bin/publish.js sets packageJson.commit before npm publish, so
each published tarball names the commit that built it. The generator asserts
that stamp against xterm-upstream.json and then compares the tarball's src/
against the checkout file by file. Only src/common/Version.ts may differ,
because publish.js rewrites the version immediately before packaging; the
generator applies the same stamp.
That pair of checks is what makes the rebuild trustworthy. Without them a wrong commit would still produce a plausible-looking 7 MB patch.
The Source Patch Is a Superset
Patching ICompositionHelper widens an interface, so every implementor has to
follow — including MockCompositionHelper in upstream's
src/browser/TestUtils.test.ts. Without that hunk the patched checkout does not
type-check and npm run package never reaches webpack, so the generator cannot
build the patched bundles at all.
Upstream's .npmignore strips *.test.ts, so that file is not in the published
tarball. The shipped patch is a diff against the published tarball, and it
therefore cannot name the file — correctly, since pnpm has nothing there to
patch.
That is why the source patch is derived from the upstream checkout
(git diff -- src/) and not from the emitted patch. Deriving it from the
emitted patch is the trap: --write would filter the hunk out through the
published file set and delete it, so the fix that makes the build work would
erase itself on the first run that used it.
The two derivations are still cross-checked. assertSourceDerivationsAgree
requires them to be byte-identical on every file the tarball publishes, so the
carve-out stays confined to files upstream does not ship rather than becoming a
place where the source patch and the shipped patch can quietly disagree. The
checkout diff uses pnpm's own formatting flags minus --no-index, which is what
makes that byte comparison meaningful.
Build Order
Upstream's publish path is npm ci → stamp Version.ts → npm run package.
npm run package runs webpack for lib/xterm.js and then, via postpackage,
bin/esbuild_all.mjs --prod for lib/xterm.mjs.
Do not run npm run setup after the packaging build. setup is the
development esbuild pass with minify: false. Running it afterwards overwrites
lib/xterm.mjs with an unminified bundle and a map that no longer matches, and
the resulting patch is silently wrong — the failure mode is a .mjs that is
50% larger than the published one, which is easy to miss inside a 7 MB diff.
forbiddenBuildScripts in the manifest encodes this and the generator refuses
to run a build step that names one of those scripts.
The generator also builds the unmodified commit first and asserts that it
reproduces the published lib/ byte for byte before it emits anything. A
toolchain or build-order problem therefore surfaces as an explicit "did not
reproduce the published bundles" error rather than as 7 MB of mystery diff.
The Lockfile Moves With the Patch
pnpm derives the patchedDependencies hash in pnpm-lock.yaml — and the
.pnpm/@xterm+xterm@<version>_patch_hash=<hash>/ store directory name — from
the sha256 of the patch file itself. A regenerated patch without the lockfile
bump fails pnpm install --frozen-lockfile on every machine except the
author's. --write makes that edit; --check fails if it is missing.
config/scripts/regenerate-xterm-patches.test.mjs asserts the same thing
without a network or a build, so the ordinary test job catches lockfile drift
in milliseconds even though the full rebuild runs in its own CI lane.
Toolchain Pin
toolchain in the manifest records what upstream's package-lock.json resolves
at the pinned commit, and the generator fails if npm ci produces something
else. The entry that matters is @typescript/native-preview
(tsgo), which upstream pins to a dated development build —
7.0.0-dev.20260521.1 at the time of writing. It is a real published version
and npm does not prune old releases, but it is the one dependency of this scheme
that is not a stable release.
If that version ever becomes unresolvable the generator fails with a toolchain
error naming it. Recovery is to move the pin to the next upstream commit whose
package-lock.json resolves, re-verify that the rebuild still reproduces the
published bundles, and regenerate. The committed patch keeps working the whole
time — only regeneration is blocked, so this is never an outage.
Version Bumps
Bumping @xterm/xterm is:
- Update the version in
package.jsonand runpnpm install. - Rename both patch files to the new version and update
patch,sourcePatch, andversioninxterm-upstream.json. - Update
upstream.committo thecommitfield of the new tarball'spackage.json, andtoolchainto whatever the newpackage-lock.jsonresolves. node config/scripts/regenerate-xterm-patches.mjs --write.
Step 4 is where a real upstream conflict shows up: git apply of the source
patch fails against the new tree. Resolve it in the checkout, re-diff, and
rerun. The bundle hunks need no attention at any point.
Why Not Vendor a Fork
A vendored @xterm/xterm fork removes the patch entirely, but it moves Orca off
the published package, so every upstream beta becomes a merge rather than a
version bump, and Orca inherits responsibility for building and publishing a
package it does not own. The patch is four small source hunks against a commit
that reproduces byte for byte; a fork is a much larger standing cost for the
same result.
Why Not Handle Composition at Runtime
CompositionHelper hooks four private call sites upstream of onData, and
SortedList has no public surface at all. There is no supported extension point
that reaches either, so a runtime shim would mean reaching into _core
internals that upstream renames freely between betas. The patch is the smaller
risk.
CI Contract
xterm_patch_sync in .github/workflows/pr.yml runs
regenerate-xterm-patches.mjs --check on every PR and is part of the verify
aggregate. It clones the pinned commit, installs upstream's toolchain, builds
twice, and byte-compares the result against the committed patch. A warm run is
about eight seconds of work around the clone and install.
config/scripts/regenerate-xterm-patches.test.mjs covers the pure pieces —
pnpm's diff flags and normalization, hunk splitting, round-trip stability, the
commit and build-order assertions, and lockfile coupling — with no network and
no build, so they run in the ordinary test shards.
Known Gaps
@xterm/addon-webgl and @xterm/addon-serialize are still hand-edited minified
bundles. Their patches carry a literal /* PATCH(orca): ... */ comment inside
minified code and parser round-trip artifacts, and neither patch touches its
.map file, so both addons currently ship sourcemaps whose offsets do not match
the shipped bundle — the defect sourcemaps.policy now avoids for @xterm/xterm
and which folding them into this manifest would also fix. Both addons build from
the same pinned commit and reproduce
byte for byte, so they can be folded into this manifest as additional packages
entries; that change needs e2e sign-off because, unlike @xterm/xterm, it will
not be a byte-for-byte no-op.