NeilandOrca 62e02a3b4c feat(new-workspace): unified source picker + non-submitted URL drafts for agents (#1426)
* Fix new workspace composer focus restore

* Unify new workspace source selection

* WIP: selected source pill in smart workspace name field

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

* fix(new-workspace): truncate source pill so it doesn't expand the dialog

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* feat(new-workspace): add open-in-browser button to source pill, fix vertical alignment

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* refactor(new-workspace): drop redundant kind suffix, distinct PR/issue icons, tooltips on pill actions

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* fix(new-workspace): type linked URL into agent input without auto-submit

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* fix(new-workspace): use bracketed-paste for draft URL injection so it actually appears in the agent input

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* feat(agents): per-agent draft injection strategy (codex slow paste, pi/opencode type-chars)

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* fix(agents): smarter TUI-ready heuristic + bracketed paste for codex/pi/opencode

Replaces per-agent strategy guesswork with a measured readiness check:
title-idle / non-shell-foreground stable for 1.5s / 2.5s minimum floor.
Verified against codex, pi, opencode, claude in a node-pty + xterm-headless
test rig — bracketed paste lands in the input buffer for all four.

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

* refactor(agents): drop unused per-agent draft strategy abstraction

The TUI-ready heuristic in agent-paste-draft.ts works for every tested
agent (claude/codex/pi/opencode), so the AgentDraftInjectionStrategy
field, type-chars + bracketed-paste-slow code paths, and per-agent
overrides are dead. Keep the `agent` arg on pasteDraftWhenAgentReady
for future per-agent escape hatches without touching every call site.

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

* feat(agents): skip draft URL injection for copilot + cursor-agent

Both TUIs open with a 'Do you trust this folder?' menu on first launch
that consumes keystrokes as menu input — pasting a URL there either
selects an arbitrary option or quits the session. Mark them with
skipDraftUrlInjection so the workspace still opens cleanly; the user
types/pastes the URL themselves once past the trust menu.

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* feat(agents): native --prefill for claude, trust pre-write for cursor/copilot

Replaces the empirical TUI-ready waits with two deterministic mechanisms:

1) `claude --prefill <text>` flag — Claude launches with the URL already in
   its input box, no submit. Eliminates the readiness/paste race entirely
   for the most common agent.
2) DECSET 2004 (`\x1b[?2004h`) detection on the PTY data stream for every
   other agent. That escape is the protocol-level "input layer ready,
   accepting bracketed paste" handshake — emitted by claude/codex/pi/
   opencode/gemini/cursor-agent/copilot the moment the input box mounts.
   We tap it via a sidecar subscription on pty-dispatcher (no interference
   with the primary xterm handler) and paste as soon as it lands. The
   8s budget is now an upper bound, not a target.

Cursor-agent and Copilot's "Do you trust this folder?" menus are bypassed
by writing the same trust artifacts the CLIs themselves write after the
user accepts:
- Cursor: `~/.cursor/projects/<slug>/.workspace-trusted` (slug = abs path
  with leading `/` stripped, remaining `/` → `-`).
- Copilot: append cwd to `trustedFolders` in `~/.copilot/config.json`
  (the same array the bundled `addTrustedFolder` writes).

Verified against the cursor-agent CLI bundle (versions/2026.04.17-787b533/
index.js: `_=".workspace-trusted"`) and the @github/copilot 1.0.32 bundle
(`isFolderTrusted` / `addTrustedFolder` both read/write `trustedFolders`).
Both check via realpath() before string-comparing, so the trust preset
canonicalizes too.

skipDraftUrlInjection is dropped — both agents now get the draft URL
paste once the trust menu is pre-resolved.

Tests: 24 passing across tui-agent-startup, agent-trust-presets,
pty-dispatcher routing.

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

* fix(agents): wait for post-?2004h render burst to settle before paste

OpenCode emits DECSET 2004 at ~500ms during alt-screen setup, then runs
a 1.3s splash render with NO bytes on the PTY, then paints the actual
input box at ~1.85s. Pasting on the bare ?2004h signal lands during the
silent gap and the bytes are dropped.

The fix: take ?2004h as the necessary precondition, then wait for the
TUI's render burst to finish — defined as 1500ms of stream silence
after the most recent post-?2004h byte. This captures both the fast
TUIs (claude/pi/codex emit setup escapes in one burst then go quiet)
and the slow ones (opencode emits, sleeps for the splash, emits again,
then goes quiet).

Verified against opencode/claude/pi in a node-pty rig: paste lands on
the first try with the new strategy. The hard 8s timeout still caps
the wait when an agent fails to launch.

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

* fix(agents): guard agentTrust IPC so stale preload doesn't crash launch

If the preload bundle is older than the renderer (a real situation in
electron-vite dev because preload changes only apply on full restart,
not HMR), `window.api.agentTrust` is undefined and the launch crashes
with "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'markTrusted')"
before the worktree even opens.

Guard the call sites in launch-work-item-direct and useComposerState
to skip the trust pre-write when the IPC isn't exposed, and wrap the
invoke in try/catch so an IPC error never blocks the launch — the user
just sees the trust menu and accepts it manually, same as before this
feature shipped.

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

* feat(tasks): route 'Use' through the New Workspace dialog instead of yolo-create

The Use CTA on the Tasks page used to create+activate a worktree
synchronously, which surprised users — the worktree appeared in the
sidebar before they had a chance to confirm name / agent / setup. The
unified New Workspace dialog landed in this branch already supports
opening with a linked work item pre-filled (see openComposerForItem /
openComposerForLinearItem), so just route Use through it.

The launchWorkItemDirect helper stays exported for ProjectViewWrapper,
which has its own UX where the immediate-create flow is the right call.

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

* test(agents): include `agent` field in autohand startup-plan assertion

Merging main brought in the Autohand Code agent test (PR #1382), which
predated this branch's addition of `agent` to AgentStartupPlan.
Aligning the assertion fixes the lone CI test failure on this PR.

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

* refactor(agents): drop unused expectedProcess arg + snapshot sidecar set

Two minor follow-ups from self-review:

1. `pasteDraftWhenAgentReady` no longer reads `expectedProcess` — readiness
   is gated on DECSET 2004 alone now, not on PTY foreground process. Drop
   it from the signature and from the two callers (launch-work-item-direct,
   new-workspace).

2. The pty-dispatcher's sidecar fan-out iterates the live Set, which is
   safe against deleting the current element but not against a watcher
   that synchronously subscribes a sibling. Snapshot via Array.from
   before the loop. Cheap (Set is tiny) and removes the latent footgun.

No behavior change.

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

* test(e2e): match the unified smart-name input's new placeholder

The CreateFromTab refactor in this branch replaced the separate "Workspace
name" Input with a single SmartWorkspaceNameField whose default-mode
placeholder is "Type a name, #1234, branch, GitHub or Linear URL". The
worktree-create e2e test was still anchoring on the old "Workspace name"
text and could not find the input.

Update the placeholder regex to match the new copy. Free-form text typed
into smart mode is treated as a workspace name by submitQuick — same
contract the test used before.

Verified locally: targeted e2e passes in 2.2s.

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

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