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When a remote terminal tab is hidden the host stops sending its output and discards what it queued, so the only way to recover the gap on reveal is to ask the host to serialize its buffer. That request answered with an ambiguous empty result for several unrelated situations, so the client inferred loss from elapsed time using budgets sized for local IPC (4 nulls in ~150ms, a 750ms deadline). Over a network that guess was routinely wrong: users saw "[Orca skipped hidden terminal output because main recovery was unavailable.]" on a healthy pane and got a permanent hole in scrollback — worst exactly when an agent was streaming heavily, i.e. when there was the most to lose. There is no provable-absence case. A pane with genuinely no retained output returns a SUCCESSFUL snapshot whose data is empty, because the host serialized fine and found it empty. The real defect was that when no serializer answered at all, the host sent an untagged empty reply — reporting an unprovable failure as proven emptiness. Everything the host merely could not do right now is retry-worthy. The host now states why a snapshot is unavailable through a strictly additive `unavailable` field on the snapshot frame, so mixed client/host versions keep working in both directions and old clients see a byte-identical frame on the success path. The client acts on the reason: a snapshot, even an empty one, is success with no banner; retry-worthy retries and is bounded by reported-outcome count (7 attempts) rather than by elapsed time, then banners; permanently-unavailable banners immediately after one request with no re-arm; an untagged reply latches the pane as legacy and falls back to the existing timer heuristic, which is retained for exactly that purpose. Local panes are unchanged — a null local snapshot is still an authoritative answer. Separately, the self-heal repaint discards the buffer and replays a snapshot, which repositions the viewport. It no longer runs while the user is scrolled back reading: it registers a one-shot waiter and repaints when the terminal returns to following output, so the heal is deferred rather than dropped. Closes STA-3457.
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The AI Orchestrator for 100x builders.
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Parallel WorktreesFan one prompt across five agents, each in its own isolated git worktree — compare the results and merge the winner. |
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Terminal SplitsGhostty-class terminals with WebGL rendering, infinite splits, and scrollback that survives restarts. |
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