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l0ng-ai 48d712143e fix(cli): answer wait --until free on remote and SSH panes (#840)
`pane_is_free` read the pane's local process tree and folded two very
different answers into one `false`. On a pane that is only the near end
of a connection that tree describes the tunnel: a pane routed to a
remote daemon has no local pty at all, so `DaemonPane::procs` returned
`Default::default()` and the tree came back empty; a pane whose shell is
running `ssh` has a tree whose depth-1 process is the `ssh` itself, busy
for exactly as long as you are logged in. Either way `free` was
unreachable structurally, `seen_busy` was set on every poll — which
suppressed the one hint that would have pointed at the gap — and the
wait rode the whole `--timeout` before recommending `--until free`, the
flag that had just failed.

Freeness is now three-valued: free, busy, or "nothing here can answer",
and the last one carries its reason.

On a remote pane freeness is the far shell's own OSC 133 prompt marks.
That is sound because the near shell cannot be at a prompt while the
connection owns its pty, so a prompt mark on such a pane can only have
come from the far side. Two things had to change for the daemon to be
able to say it. The reader suppresses relayed prompt marks so a
foreground program cannot engage the local line editor — right for the
editor, and precisely wrong here — so `ShellState` now keeps the mark's
own unsuppressed reading beside the editor's. And "not at a prompt" on a
remote pane means nothing until the far shell has proved it reports at
all, since the newest mark is otherwise the near shell's own "I started
`ssh`", which nothing will ever supersede; a latch records the first
prompt mark that arrives while the pane is remote, and is cleared on
every hop. `PaneProcs` carries all of this to the CLI in a new optional
`context` — remote target, whether this machine holds the pty, the
mark's reading, the latch — so the answer still costs one request per
poll and an older server, which omits the field, keeps today's
tree-only behaviour.

When the far host has no shell integration the honest answer is that
this machine cannot tell an idle remote prompt from a running remote
command. `wait` says so — exit 1, `status: unknown`, a `free_unknown`
string naming the host — after one poll of grace for a handshake still
in flight, and only when `free` was the only state that could still
answer, so `--until done,free` keeps waiting on `done`. Without that it
would hang forever on a wait with no `--timeout`. The `no-agent` timeout
hint now fires only for a caller who did not already pass `--until
free`, and the reason freeness never resolved is printed and put in the
JSON in its place.

Deliberately left alone: on a local pane the process tree still holds
the verdict. A prompt mark can only turn a busy tree into free — which
is what fixes a plain `ssh` pane on Windows, where the daemon has no way
to name the pane as remote — never the other way round, so no pane that
reads busy today can start reading free because an integration went
quiet. `free` therefore now means "will take input" rather than strictly
"back to the bare shell": a pane sitting at a nested shell's prompt is
free, and the reference says so. The handoff record is unchanged, so a
pane mid-`ssh` that survives an exec comes back reporting "cannot
determine" until the far side's next prompt rather than guessing.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UUyWQXzcBAoBzaSX8pc7nU
2026-09-10 11:54:46 +08:00
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