- entry.tsx no longer writes bootBanner() to the main screen before the
alt-screen enters. The <Banner> renders inside the alt screen via the
seeded intro row, so nothing is lost — just the flash that preceded it.
Fixes the torn first frame reported on Alacritty (blitz row 5 #17) and
shaves the 'starting agent' hang perception (row 5 #1) since the UI
paints straight into the steady-state view
- AlternateScreen prefixes ERASE_SCROLLBACK (\x1b[3J) to its entry so
strict emulators start from a pristine grid; named constants replace
the inline sequences for clarity
- bootBanner.ts deleted — dead code
- normalizeStatusBar: trim/lowercase + 'on' → 'top' alias so user-edited
YAML variants (Top, " bottom ", on) coerce correctly
- shift-tab yolo: no-op with sys note when no live session; success-gated
echo and catch fallback so RPC failures don't report as 'yolo off'
- tui_gateway config.set/get statusbar: isinstance(display, dict) guards
mirroring the compact branch so a malformed display scalar in config.yaml
can't raise
Tests: +1 vitest for trim/case/on, +2 pytest for non-dict display survival.
- normalizeStatusBar collapses to one ternary expression
- /statusbar slash hoists the toggle value and flattens the branch tree
- shift-tab yolo comment reduced to one line
- cursorLayout/offsetFromPosition lose paragraph-length comments
- appLayout collapses the three {!overlay.agents && …} into one fragment
- StatusRule drops redundant flexShrink={0} (Yoga default)
- server.py uses a walrus + frozenset and trims the compat helper
Net -43 LoC. 237 vitest + 46 pytest green, layouts unchanged.
The heart was rendered as a literal space when inactive. Because it's
absolutely positioned at right:0 inside the composer row, that blank
still overpainted the rightmost input cell. On wrapped 2-line drafts,
editing near the boundary made the final visible character appear to
jump in/out as it crossed the overpainted column.
When inactive, render nothing; only mount the heart while it's actually
animating.
The 'columns' prop passed to TextInput was cols - pw, but the actual
render width is cols - pw - 2 (NoSelect's paddingX={1} on each side
subtracts two cols from the composer area). cursorLayout thought it
had two extra cols, so wrap-ansi wrapped at render col N while the
declared cursor sat at col N+2 on the same row. The render and the
declared cursor disagreed right at the wrap boundary — the last
letter of a sentence spanning two lines flickered in/out as each
keystroke flipped which cell the cursor claimed.
Also polish the /help hotkeys panel — the !cmd / {!cmd} placeholders
read as literal commands to type, so show them with angle-bracket
syntax and a concrete example (blitz row 5 sub-item 4).
Previous revision added marginTop={1} to the input which stacked as a
phantom gap BETWEEN status and input. The breathing row should sit
ABOVE the status-in-top cluster, not inside it.
- StatusRulePane at="top" now carries its own marginTop={1} so it
always has a one-row gap above (separating it from transcript or,
when queue is present, from the last queue item)
- Input Box marginTop flips: 0 in top mode (status is the separator),
1 in bottom/off mode (input itself caps the composer cluster)
- Net: status and input are tight together in 'top'; input and status
are tight together at the bottom in 'bottom'; one-row breathing room
above whichever element sits on top of the cluster
Three bugs rolled together, all in the composer area:
- StatusRule was measuring as 2 rows in Yoga due to a quirk with the
complex nested <Text wrap="truncate-end"> content. Lock the outer box
to height={1} so 'top' mode actually abuts the input instead of
leaving a phantom blank row between them
- FloatingOverlays (slash completions, /model picker, /resume, /skills
browser, pager) was anchored to the status box. In 'bottom' mode the
status box moved away, so overlays vanished. Move the overlays into
the input row (which is position:relative) so they always pop up
above the input regardless of status position
- Drop the <Text> </Text> fallback in the sticky-prompt slot (only
render a row when there's an actual sticky prompt to show) and
collapse the now-unused Box column wrapping the input. Saves two
rows of dead vertical space in the default layout
'top' and 'bottom' are positions relative to the input row, not the alt
screen viewport:
- top (default) → inline above the input, where the bar originally lived
(what 'on' used to mean)
- bottom → below the input, pinned to the last row
- off → hidden
Drops the literal top-of-screen placement; 'on' is kept as a backward-
compat alias that resolves to 'top' at both the config layer
(normalizeStatusBar, _coerce_statusbar) and the slash command.
Default is back to 'on' (inline, above the input) — bottom was too far
from the input and felt disconnected. Users who want it pinned can
opt in explicitly.
- UiState.statusBar: boolean → 'on' | 'off' | 'bottom' | 'top'
- /statusbar [on|off|bottom|top|toggle]; no-arg still binary-toggles
between off and on (preserves muscle memory)
- appLayout renders StatusRulePane in three slots (inline inside
ComposerPane for 'on', above transcript row for 'top', after
ComposerPane for 'bottom'); only the slot matching ui.statusBar
actually mounts
- drop the input's marginBottom when 'bottom' so the rule sits tight
against the input instead of floating a row below
- useConfigSync.normalizeStatusBar coerces legacy bool (true→on,
false→off) and unknown shapes to 'on' for forward-compat reads
- tui_gateway: split compact from statusbar config handlers; persist
string enum with _coerce_statusbar helper for legacy bool configs
- input wrap: add <Text wrap="wrap-char"> mode that drives wrap-ansi with
wordWrap:false, and align cursorLayout/offsetFromPosition to that same
boundary (w=cols, trailing-cell overflow). Word-wrap's whitespace
reshuffle was causing the cursor to jump a word left/right on each
keystroke near the right edge — blitz row 9
- shift-tab: toggle per-session yolo without submitting a turn (mirrors
Claude Code's in-place dangerously-approve); slash /yolo still works
for discoverability — blitz row 5 sub-item 11
- statusline: lift StatusRule out of ComposerPane to a new StatusRulePane
anchored at the bottom of AppLayout, below the input — blitz row 5
sub-item 12
Pull duplicated rules into ui-tui/src/lib/subagentTree so the live overlay,
disk snapshot label, and diff pane all speak one dialect:
- export fmtDuration(seconds) — was a private helper in subagentTree;
agentsOverlay's local secLabel/fmtDur/fmtElapsedLabel now wrap the same
core (with UI-only empty-string policy).
- export topLevelSubagents(items) — matches buildSubagentTree's orphan
semantics (no parent OR parent not in snapshot). Replaces three hand-
rolled copies across createGatewayEventHandler (disk label), agentsOverlay
DiffPane, and prior inline filters.
Also collapse agentsOverlay boilerplate:
- replace IIFE title + inner `delta` helper with straight expressions;
- introduce module-level diffMetricLine for replay-diff rows;
- tighten OverlayScrollbar (single thumbColor expression, vBar/thumbBody).
Adds unit coverage for the new exports (fmtDuration + topLevelSubagents).
No behaviour change; 221 tests pass.
- delegate_task: use shared tool_error() for the paused-spawn early return
so the error envelope matches the rest of the tool.
- Disk snapshot label: treat orphaned nodes (parentId missing from the
snapshot) as top-level, matching buildSubagentTree / summarizeLabel.
- List rows: pad the status dot with space before (heat-marker gap or
matching 2-space filler) and after (3 spaces to goal) so `●` / `○` /
`✓` / `■` / `✗` don't read glued to the heat bar or the goal text.
- Gantt rows: bump id→bar separator from 1 to 2 spaces; widen the id
gutter from 4 to 5 cols and re-align the ruler lead to match.
Four real issues Copilot flagged:
1. delegate_tool: `_build_child_agent` never passed `toolsets` to the
progress callback, so the event payload's `toolsets` field (wired
through every layer) was always empty and the overlay's toolsets
row never populated. Thread `child_toolsets` through.
2. event handler: the race-protection on subagent.spawn_requested /
subagent.start only preserved `completed`, so a late-arriving queued
event could clobber `failed` / `interrupted` too. Preserve any
terminal status (`completed | failed | interrupted`).
3. SpawnHud: comment claimed concurrency was approximated by "widest
level in the tree" but code used `totals.activeCount` (total across
all parents). `max_concurrent_children` is a per-parent cap, so
activeCount over-warns for multi-orchestrator runs. Switch to
`max(widthByDepth(tree))`; the label now reads `⚡W/cap+extra` where
W is the widest level (drives the ratio) and `+extra` is the rest.
4. spawn_tree.list: comment said "peek header without parsing full list"
but the code json.loads()'d every snapshot. Adds a per-session
`_index.jsonl` sidecar written on save; list() reads only the index
(with a full-scan fallback for pre-index sessions). O(1) per
snapshot now vs O(file-size).
- createGatewayEventHandler: remove dead `return` after a block that
always returns (tool.complete case). The inner block exits via
both branches so the outer statement was never reachable. Was
pre-existing on main; fixed here because it was the only thing
blocking `npm run fix` on this branch.
- agentsOverlay + ops: prettier reformatting.
`npm run fix` / `npm run type-check` / `npm test` all clean.
The Write tool that wrote the cleaned overlay split the `if` keyword
across two lines in 9 places (` i\nf (cond) {`), which silently
passed one typecheck run but actually left the handler as broken
JS — every keystroke threw. Input froze in the /agents overlay
(j/k/arrows/q/etc. all no-ops) while the 500ms now-tick kept
rendering, so the UI looked "frozen but the timeline moves".
Reflows the handler as-intended with no behaviour change.
Adds a live + post-hoc audit surface for recursive delegate_task fan-out.
None of cc/oc/oclaw tackle nested subagent trees inside an Ink overlay;
this ships a view-switched dashboard that handles arbitrary depth + width.
Python
- delegate_tool: every subagent event now carries subagent_id, parent_id,
depth, model, tool_count; subagent.complete also ships input/output/
reasoning tokens, cost, api_calls, files_read/files_written, and a
tail of tool-call outputs
- delegate_tool: new subagent.spawn_requested event + _active_subagents
registry so the overlay can kill a branch by id and pause new spawns
- tui_gateway: new RPCs delegation.status, delegation.pause,
subagent.interrupt, spawn_tree.save/list/load (disk under
\$HERMES_HOME/spawn-trees/<session>/<ts>.json)
TUI
- /agents overlay: full-width list mode (gantt strip + row picker) and
Enter-to-drill full-width scrollable detail mode; inverse+amber
selection, heat-coloured branch markers, wall-clock gantt with tick
ruler, per-branch rollups
- Detail pane: collapsible accordions (Budget, Files, Tool calls, Output,
Progress, Summary); open-state persists across agents + mode switches
via a shared atom
- /replay [N|last|list|load <path>] for in-memory + disk history;
/replay-diff <a> <b> for side-by-side tree comparison
- Status-bar SpawnHud warns as depth/concurrency approaches caps;
overlay auto-follows the just-finished turn onto history[1]
- Theme: bump DARK dim #B8860B → #CC9B1F for readable secondary text
globally; keep LIGHT untouched
Tests: +29 new subagentTree unit tests; 215/215 passing.
Restore the old-CLI contract where only complete failures tint Activity
red. Everything else is still visible for debugging but no longer
commandeers attention.
- gateway.stderr: always tone='info' (drops the ERRLIKE_RE regex)
- gateway.protocol_error: both pushes demoted to 'info'
- commands.catalog cold-start failure: demoted to 'info'
- approval.request: no longer duplicates the overlay into Activity
Kept as 'error': terminal `error` event, gateway.start_timeout,
gateway-exited, explicit status.update kinds.
Reverts the auto-expand-on-new-error effect added in 93b47d96. The
effect overrode the user's chosen detailsMode and visually interrupted
every turn. Red/yellow chevron tint remains as the passive signal —
click to read, just like Thinking and Tool calls.
After the prior inline-diff fix, the gateway still prepends a literal
" ┊ review diff" line to inline_diff (it's terminal chrome written by
`_emit_inline_diff`). Wrapping that in a ```diff fence left that header
inside the code block. The agent also often narrates its own edit in a
second fenced diff, so the assistant message ended up stacking two
diff blocks for the same change.
- Strip the leading "┊ review diff" header from queued inline diffs
before fencing.
- Skip appending the fenced diff entirely when the assistant already
wrote its own ```diff (or ```patch) fence.
Keeps the single-surface diff UX even when the agent is chatty.
When tool.complete already carries inline_diff, the assistant message owns the full diff block. Suppress the tool-row summary/detail in that case so the turn shows one detailed diff surface instead of a rich diff plus a duplicated tool-detail payload.
Avoid duplicate diff rendering in #13729 flow. We now skip queued inline diffs that are already present in final assistant text and dedupe repeated queued diffs by exact content.
Follow-up for #13729: segment-level system artifacts still looked detached in real flow.\n\nInstead of appending inline_diff as a standalone segment/system row, queue sanitized diffs during tool.complete and append them as a fenced diff block to the assistant completion text on message.complete. This keeps the diff in the same message flow as the assistant response.
Follow-up on multiline arrow behavior: Up/Down now fall back to queue/history whenever there is no logical line above/below the caret (not only at absolute start/end character positions). This makes Up from the end of the top line cycle history, matching expected readline-ish behavior.
Follow-up on #13729 from blitz screenshot feedback.\n\n- When tool.complete carried inline_diff but no buffered assistant text existed, pending tool rows were still in streamPendingTools, so diff rendered above the tool row section. appendSegmentMessage now emits pending tool rows as a trail segment before appending the diff artifact.\n- Strip ANSI color escapes from inline_diff payloads so we don't render loud red/green terminal palettes in the transcript.
Follow-up on #13726 from blitz feedback: Up/Down history cycling should only trigger when the caret is at the start/end boundary (or the input is empty).\n\nPreviously useInputHandlers intercepted arrows whenever inputBuf was empty, which still stole Up/Down from normal multiline editing. textInput now publishes caret position through inputSelectionStore even with no active selection, and useInputHandlers gates history/queue cycling on those boundaries.
Reported during TUI v2 blitz retest: code-review diffs from tool.complete
appeared at the top of the current interaction thread, out of sequence
with the agent's messages and tool rows below them.
Root cause — `sys(inline_diff)` appends to `historyItems`, which sits
above the `StreamingAssistant` pane that renders the active turn.
Until the turn closed, the diff visually floated above everything
else happening in the same turn.
Route the diff through `turnController.appendSegmentMessage` instead
so it flushes any pending streaming text first, then lands in the
segment stream beside assistant output and tool calls. On
`message.complete` the segment list is committed to history in emit
order (diff → final text), matching what the gateway sent.
Adds a regression test that exercises tool.complete → message.complete
with an inline_diff payload and asserts both the streaming and final
placement.
Reported during TUI v2 blitz retest: `/history` in the TUI only shows
prompts from non-TUI Hermes runs and can't scroll the window. Root
cause is the slash-worker subprocess: it's a detached HermesCLI that
never sees the TUI's turns, so its `conversation_history` starts empty
and `show_history` surfaces whatever was persisted from earlier CLI
sessions — not what the user just did inside the TUI.
Intercept `/history` as a local slash command so it dumps
`ctx.local.getHistoryItems()` — the TUI's own transcript — routed
through the pager (which scrolls after #13591). Accepts an optional
preview-length argument (default 400 chars per message).
Adds createSlashHandler coverage.
Reported during TUI v2 blitz retest: typing a multi-line message with
shift-Enter and then pressing Up to edit an earlier line swapped the
whole buffer for the previous history entry instead of moving the
cursor up a line. Down then restored the draft → the buffer appeared
to "flip" between the draft and a prior prompt.
`useInputHandlers` cycles history on Up/Down, but textInput only
checked `inputBuf.length` — that only counts lines committed with a
trailing backslash, not shift-Enter newlines inside `input` itself.
Fix: detect logical lines inside the input string and move the cursor
one line up/down preserving column offset (clamp to line end when the
destination is shorter, standard editor behavior). Only fall through
to history cycling when the cursor is already on the first line (Up)
or last line (Down).
Adds unit coverage for the new `lineNav` helper.
- Drop the outer no-op capture group from INLINE_RE and restructure the
source as an ordered list of patterns-with-index-comments so each
alternative is individually greppable. Shift group indices in MdInline
down by one accordingly.
- Inline single-use helpers (parseFence, isFenceClose, isMarkdownFence,
trimBareUrl) and intermediate variables (path, lang, raw, prefix, body,
depth, task body, setext match, etc.).
- Hoist block-level regexes used inside MdImpl (FENCE_CLOSE_RE, SETEXT_RE,
BULLET_RE, TASK_RE, NUMBERED_RE, QUOTE_RE) to top-level consts so
they're compiled once instead of per-line.
- Collapse the duplicate compact-vs-normal blank-line branches into one
if/!compact gap call.
- Move Fence and MdProps types to the bottom per house style.
- Shorten splitTableRow → splitRow and use optional chaining in a few
match sites.
No behavior change; 162/162 tests pass. Net -22 LoC.
The inline markdown regex had `~([^~\s][^~]*?)~` for Pandoc-style subscript
(H~2~O, CO~2~). On models that decorate prose with kaomoji like `thing ~!`
and `cool ~?` — Kimi especially — the opener `~!` paired with the next
stray `~` on the line and dim-formatted everything between them with a
leading `_` character, mangling markdown output.
Tighten the pattern to short alphanumeric-only content (`~[A-Za-z0-9]{1,8}~`)
since real subscript never contains punctuation, spaces, or long runs.
Same tightening applied to stripInlineMarkup so width measurement stays
consistent. Classic CLI was unaffected because it renders these literally.
Two bugs that allow dangerous commands to execute without informed user consent.
TUI (Ink): useInputHandlers consumes the isBlocked return path, but Ink's
EventEmitter delivers keystrokes to ALL registered useInput listeners. The
ApprovalPrompt component receives arrow keys, number keys, and Enter even
though the overlay appears frozen. The user sees no visual feedback, but
keystrokes are processed — allowing blind approval, session-wide auto-approve
(choice "session"), or permanent allowlist writes (choice "always") without
the user knowing.
Discovered while replicating #13618 (TUI approval overlay freezes terminal).
Fix: in useInputHandlers, when overlay.approval/clarify/confirm is active,
only intercept Ctrl+C. All other keys pass through. This makes the overlay
visually responsive so the user can see what they are selecting.
CLI (prompt_toolkit): _callback_tls in terminal_tool.py is threading.local().
set_approval_callback() is called in the main thread during run(), but the
agent executes in a background thread. _get_approval_callback() returns None
in the agent thread, falling back to stdin input() which prompt_toolkit
blocks. The user sees the approval text but cannot respond — the terminal is
unusable until the 60s timeout expires with a default "deny".
Fix: set callbacks inside run_agent() (the thread target), matching the
pattern already used by acp_adapter/server.py. Clear on thread exit to avoid
stale references.
Closes#13618
Models frequently emit bare codepoints like U+26A0 (⚠), U+2139 (ℹ),
U+2764 (❤), U+2714 (✔), U+2600 (☀), U+263A (☺) which, per Unicode, have
Emoji_Presentation=No and render as monochrome text-style glyphs in
terminals unless followed by VS16 (U+FE0F). Agent output leaked through
the TUI like `⚠ careful` instead of `⚠️ careful`.
Added `ensureEmojiPresentation` (lib/emoji.ts): scans for the curated
set of text-default codepoints and appends VS16 when the next char is
not already VS16, ZWJ, or a keycap-enclosing mark. Idempotent and
fast-pathed by a Unicode-range regex so ASCII-heavy text is untouched.
Applied once at the top of `Md`'s line parse. Hermes-ink's stringWidth
already accounts for VS16, so cursor/layout stays correct.
interruptTurn only flushed the in-flight streaming chunk (bufRef) to
the transcript before calling idle(), which wiped segmentMessages and
pendingSegmentTools. Every tool call and commentary line the agent had
already emitted in the current turn disappeared the moment the user
cancelled, even though that output is exactly what they want to keep
when they hit Ctrl+C (quote from the blitz feedback: "everything was
fine up until the point where you wanted to push to main").
Append each flushed segment message to the transcript first, then
render the in-flight partial with the `*[interrupted]*` marker and its
pendingSegmentTools. Sys-level "interrupted" note still fires when
there is nothing to preserve.
The pager overlay backing /history, /toolsets, /help and any paged slash
output only advanced with Enter/Space and closed at the end. Could not
scroll back, scroll line-by-line, or jump to endpoints.
Adds Up/Down (↑↓, j/k), PgUp (b), g/G for top/bottom, keeps existing
Enter/Space/PgDn forward-and-auto-close, and clamps offset so
over-scrolling past the last page is a no-op.
The completion popup (e.g. typing `/model`) grew from 8 rows at
compIdx=0 up to 16 rows at compIdx≥8 — the slice end was `compIdx + 8`
so every arrow-down added another rendered row until the window filled.
Reported during TUI v2 retest: "as i scroll and more options appear,
for some reason more options appear and it expands the height".
Fixed viewport (`COMPLETION_WINDOW = 16`) centered on compIdx, clamped
so it never slides past the array bounds. Renders exactly
`min(WINDOW, completions.length)` rows every frame.
A6 added a fixed-height grid (Array.from({length: VISIBLE})), but the
row <Text> itself had no wrap prop so Ink defaulted to wrap="wrap".
A sufficiently long model or provider name would wrap to a second
visual line and bounce the overall picker height right back — which
is exactly what reappeared during the TUI v2 blitz retest on /model.
Pin every picker row (and the empty-state / padding rows) to
wrap="truncate-end" so each slot is guaranteed one line. Applies
across modelPicker, sessionPicker, and skillsHub.
Selected rows in the model/session/skills pickers and approval/clarify
prompts only changed from dim gray to cornsilk, which reads as low
contrast on lighter themes and LCDs (reported during TUI v2 blitz).
Switch the selected row to `inverse bold` with the brand accent color
across modelPicker, sessionPicker, skillsHub, and prompts so the
highlight is terminal-portable and unambiguous. Unselected rows stay
dim. Also extends the sessionPicker middle meta column (which was
always dim) to inherit the row's selection state.
Warning row, "↑ N more" / "↓ N more" hints, and the items list were all
conditionally rendered, so the picker jumped in size as the selection
moved or providers without a warning slid into view.
Render every slot unconditionally: warning falls back to a blank line,
hints render an empty string when at the edge, and the items grid always
emits VISIBLE rows padded with blanks. Height is now constant across
providers, model counts, and scroll position.
/tools' local handler silently returned for anything other than enable
or disable, so /tools list and friends looked broken even though the
Python CLI already implements them (hermes_cli/main.py registers
tools_sub for list/enable/disable).
Keep the client-owned enable/disable path (which has to run
session.setSessionStartedAt + resetVisibleHistory locally) and route
every other sub through slash.exec, matching createSlashHandler's
page/sys split for long vs short output.
textInput treated the platform action-mod (Cmd on macOS, Ctrl on Linux)
as the sole word-boundary modifier. On Linux that meant:
- Ctrl+A selected all instead of jumping to line start (contra standard
readline and the hotkey doc in README.md which says `Ctrl+A` = Start
of line).
- Alt+B / Alt+F / Alt+Backspace / Alt+Delete were dropped, because
`key.meta` was never consulted — the README already documented
`Meta+B` / `Meta+F` as word nav.
Gate select-all to macOS Cmd+A (`isMac && mod && inp === 'a'`), route
Linux Ctrl+A through `actionHome`, and broaden every word-boundary
predicate (b/f/Backspace/Delete and the modified arrow keys) from `mod`
to `wordMod = mod || k.meta` so Alt chords work on Linux and Mac while
existing Ctrl/Cmd chords keep working.
